How Level Zero Devil Destroys Player Experience

Sister Changan tapped my forehead and said with a smile.

I stuck out my tongue and was about to slip away before she started to lecture me, but suddenly I thought of something, "By the way, Sister Chang'an, has the group from the West Roselle Pure Land gone there?"

"I've already explored it. What's wrong?"

"It's okay. I have a mission in the Kazan Tomb. In that case, I'll go there by myself."

"Well, be careful."

Sister Changan nodded, but she wasn't too worried. After all, she knew very well how strong I was.

Leaving the Land of Craftsmen, we followed the path specially opened up by the Guild and arrived at the Tomb of Kazan.

This monster gathering point occasionally produces recipes for secondary occupations or some materials. Alice's team from Xirosel Pure Land comes to clean it up every few days.

When I stepped into the hall, compared with the bone mountain and sea at the beginning, the number of monsters inside was a bit large, obviously they had just been cleared out. For ordinary players, they needed to advance slowly, but for me, there was not so much trouble.

Summon Ahri to use Moonhide to achieve group invisibility.

Using the wizard's teleportation, flash and other displacement skills, as well as the hook on the Messenger Ring, I quickly approached a familiar secret room, where I took Pandora's Box from the treasure chest. This is also the purpose of returning to Kazan's tomb. This secret room that can produce Pandora's Box is obviously very special, and there must be some secrets waiting to be excavated.

I was delayed by various things before, and when Sister Chang'an reminded me to get the medicine, I suddenly remembered this matter. I might as well take the opportunity to check it out.

This secret room is square and has enough space to accommodate more than ten people to carry out activities together. Logically, nothing should be missed. However, when I carefully searched around the secret room with this idea in mind, I did not find any clues.

"Strange, did I guess wrong?"

I frowned and looked at the walls around the stone chamber in deep thought. When I caught a glimpse of Ahri holding her tail and spinning around, floating in the air and having a lot of fun, I suddenly thought of something, "Ahri, help me sense the surroundings."

Ahri, who was originally leisurely, heard that a task had come. This increasingly lazy little guy pouted immediately, but still used his telekinesis to scan the entire secret room.

It seemed to be hidden too deeply, causing Ahri to frown with a cute little face. She scanned for a long time before finally getting the answer.

"There, behind."

Following Ahri's instructions, they saw the stone wall facing the entrance of the secret room. Like the surrounding stone walls, it was made of golden square stones, with only some cracks and marks on it that had been caused by time.

Moreover, this wall was also my previous focus and I had already checked it carefully.

But looking at Ahri's serious expression, I thought about it, and using the climbing ability of the Messenger Ring, I finally found something unusual in the center of the stone wall, more than three meters above the ground.

It looks like nothing on the surface, but if you touch it carefully you can feel a very subtle groove.

"This world is really not very friendly to dwarfs."

I couldn't help but twitch my lips and reached out to press it down.

As a stone slab in the center of the stone wall fell down, a passage that could only accommodate two people soon appeared in front of me. Chanting the spell of illumination, controlling the light ball to float above my head, I called Ahri to follow and stepped into it first.

The passage stretched straight forward and there seemed to be nothing else. The only sound I could hear was the echo of my footsteps on the stone slabs.

Fortunately, I didn't walk far before mural-like patterns appeared on the stone walls on both sides to help me pass the time. Of course, my pace inevitably slowed down by half a beat.

However, games like Anno always bury a lot of plot details in the surrounding environment, using atmosphere to form unique scene interactions. These murals will definitely reveal more or less information about the scene and what you will encounter next. It is always better to be prepared.

But as the mural gradually became more coherent with the plot, I found that the protagonist in it seemed somewhat familiar.

"Evil spirits...summoning ritual...necromancer Kazan?"

I muttered to myself, suddenly shocked by the conclusion I had subconsciously reached. I quickly turned back to look at the mural again. The more I looked at it, the more this character fits my memory of Kazan's experience.

He was born into an ordinary family during the Third War of Light and Darkness, a figure who lived two eras earlier than the god of war Achilles and the great wizard Loblanche. After his parents died, he was adopted by a monastery in the Orwen Empire as an orphan of the war.

He spent three happy years in the monastery, made two good friends and his childhood sweetheart, Rosa, who was one of the few good memories in his life.

It all ended when he was fourteen years old.

Until that night, no one knew that this monastery was secretly controlled by the evil church, and the reason why it adopted a large number of war orphans of similar age was to prepare for the blood sacrifice ceremony.

Just as the bishop of the monastery, the leader of the evil church, was preparing to sacrifice these children to his most beloved god of the dead in order to obtain the divine power to revive the dead.

An accident happened.

Kazan, Rosa and others knew about the ceremony in advance, worked together to disrupt the ceremony, and successfully killed the weak bishop and other members of the evil church present.

Although it was still a step late and the ritual was halfway through, the holy object, the Pearl of the Dead, was summoned out, absorbing the blood and essence of a large number of children in the monastery, and forcibly chose Kazan as the host.

Fortunately, with the support of his good friends and Rosa, and with his own strong faith, Kazan barely resisted the constant spiritual temptation of the Orb of the Dead and remained awake.

If it ended here, the story would still have a good ending in the eyes of the audience.

But reality is often more fate-driven than stories.

Chapter 96: The Temple of the Dead

Due to the sabotage by Kazan and others, the noise caused by the ritual leaked out from the barrier.

The strong smell of blood alone was enough to attract the attention of the surrounding residents, not to mention the evil aura summoned by the Orb of the Dead, which attracted the attention of the Church of Light stationed in a nearby town.

The church immediately dispatched a group of dozens of paladins and clergy to the monastery, where they ran into Kazan and others.

Touched by the powerful evil aura of the Orb of the Dead, and with the monastery at that moment controlled by the ritual like a purgatory on earth, these paladins and priests immediately launched an attack on Kazan, and those who tried to stop them, including Rosa and her friends, were regarded as companions and included in the attack list as members of the evil church.

He witnessed the death of his best friend and the death of his beloved Rosa in front of him to protect him.

Kazan completely collapsed and merged completely with the Orb of the Dead. He used the powerful force unleashed by the Orb of the Dead to defeat the cult and even killed more than a dozen church members before leaving with his friend and Rosa's body.

For the rest of his life, he traveled to many cities and was wanted by the Church of Light and the Empire.

Half of the time he was controlled by the Orb of the Dead and fell into madness, causing many sensational massacres.

When his other half woke up, he tried to find various ways to resurrect Rosa and her friends. He kept their bodies in ice coffins and used his own blood to nourish them and keep them alive.

However, he never fulfilled this wish until his death.

Looking back on Kazan's life, we can find that he is also a very sad and lamentable person.

Because of fate, he lost his parents, beloved and good friends one after another. In the second half of his life, he was wanted by major empires and could only hide like a rat. He had great power and could create a huge skeleton army, but he could not resurrect his loved ones. This pain can be felt from the scenes shown in the last few scenes of the mural.

But my focus is not here, but I got a guess.

"Could it be that Kazan is not dead?"

Kazan's burial place should have been on the stone platform in the center of the second floor of the tomb. However, there were murals recording his life experiences here, which was not normal no matter how you thought about it.

Speaking of abnormality, I thought of another thing.

In the previous life, during the discussion about Kazan, some people actually expressed doubts. Although Kazan's performance in the relevant records was not as good as that of a heroic figure like Achilles, he had the Pearl of the Dead after all, and his strength should not be that of an ordinary leader.

And given how much he valued Rosa and his friends, it made no sense that he would not bury their bodies with him. However, in his previous life, a dedicated player searched the tomb inside and out, but found nothing except the men summoned by Kazan.

Based on this speculation, there is only one conclusion.

The BOSS on the second floor of the tomb is actually a puppet created by the real body. Kazan is not dead, but uses the second floor of the tomb as a disguise and hides in another place in the tomb, looking for a way to resurrect Rosa and her friends.

And this place is most likely related to the secret room and this passage.

With this in mind, I quickened my pace and soon reached the end of the passage. A solid stone wall blocked my way, with a very conspicuous slot pattern on it. I had an idea after just one glance, and I took out Pandora's Box from my backpack and compared it with the corresponding size and outline.

But after I pressed Pandora's Box, there was no response. Just as I was confused and was about to take the box down to check it again, a prompt suddenly popped up on the screen in front of me.

System: Do you want to accept the legendary series quest [Kazan's Undead Prelude]?

Just as I thought, this place is related to the real Kazan.

After I accepted this task, strange changes suddenly took place on Pandora's Box. The color on the box flowed and merged into the stone wall.

Rumble.

The loud noise startled Ali, and she put her arms around my neck and looked around curiously.

To be honest, even I was shocked by this movement.

The entire passage, including the stone slab above the head, seemed to have been forcibly split apart by someone with tremendous force, but the crack was very smooth.

It was not until the space around me became wider that I discovered that this passage and the secret room behind me were actually part of a huge door. Now, as this huge door opened, I realized that I was actually on a high platform.

Below is an extremely spacious hall where groups of monsters are sleeping.

There are some slight differences. Most of them are monsters, and a few are summoned undead creatures. Moreover, they are all inhuman beings, or it is better to say that they are like monsters that have been given new life after death.

Mutated Three-Headed Dark Dog [Elite]: Level 140, HP: 140500/140500

Giant Horned Mammoth Skeleton [Boss]: Level 145, HP: 758000/758000

Evil Eye: Level 140, HP: 82400/82400

The health of most monsters seemed to be slightly higher than those of the same level and type, and with the loud bang of the giant door being opened, almost all monsters woke up from their slumber one after another.

At the same time, the monsters in the hall on the first floor of Kazan's tomb were also attracted by the movement here.

Oops, forgot about that.

I was startled and quickly switched to the profession of a great thief and hid in the dark.

Fortunately, Kazan seemed to have set up a ban at the entrance, and the undead outside could not enter. After wandering around for a while, they dispersed. The monsters in the hall approached this side, and when they found nothing unusual, they returned to their original positions.

However, due to my disturbance, they all became energetic and did not continue to sleep but wandered around.

"Sin, sin, sin."

I stuck out my tongue and took a look at the newly added legendary series of quests on my quest list. After opening the giant door, there was already a first-stage goal, which was to find the entrance to the second floor of the Temple of the Dead.

It turns out that this place is called the Temple of the Dead, and it seems there are many floors underneath.

I thought about it, went into stealth, went down the large stairs from the platform into the hall, avoided the monsters around me, and slowly groped forward.

The entire underground courtyard is not much smaller than the hall outside. The courtyard is connected to the walls on all sides and there are many rooms where bosses are imprisoned. They are undoubtedly monsters, and all of them appear to have been modified, with traces of transplantation on some parts of their bodies.

Fortunately, I had the two phantoms on the Silver Wing Lawrence and the skill of transcendent thinking. With such an efficient search method, I soon found a special stone chamber on the east side of the hall.

The walls on the side of the stone chamber were glowing, as if connected to a fantasy or a copy, and right opposite the entrance to the stone chamber, one could see a large staircase leading to the lower level.

Through the light emitted by the ghost flames suspended on the walls on both sides, you can clearly see that there are five level 145 bosses and many elite monsters wandering inside.

Chapter 97: Griffin Glade

Corpse Monster [Boss]: Level 145, HP: 858000/858000

These leaders looked extremely creepy, like broken rag dolls, with almost no intact part of their bodies. Skin and limbs were pieced together everywhere, barely forming a huge human shape. The spiked sticks on their backs were covered with dried blood and minced meat, as if they had just experienced a carnival of corpses.

Think about the transformed BOSSes that you saw in the rooms around the hall before.

"It should be that Kazan is experimenting with methods of resurrecting living beings on these monsters."

I guessed secretly.

If it was an ordinary player team, they would probably have hesitated. Of course, it’s not just the underworld appearance, but also the number and strength of the boss.

But for me, passing through here is not a difficult task. Ahri's strength has greatly improved compared to before, her equipment has also been updated, and several holy objects are almost complete.

It's only a matter of time before these monsters are dealt with.

Outside the stone chamber, using the power of the Glorious Command in the Glorious Chapter, seven elite monsters were transformed into Holy Spirits. These elite monsters were all of the type that could withstand close combat. After being transformed into Holy Spirits, their health and defense were further improved.

At the same time, he took out Almonte's horn from his backpack.

After being forged in Pandora's Box, this special item has become even more powerful. It can now summon three level 120 sand and stone scarabs at the same time. Of course, the cost is the collected materials totaling more than gold coins, as well as a philosopher's stone.

A level 120 Sandstone Scarab is more than enough to be used as a meat shield at this stage.

Two sand and stone scarabs were summoned to resist the attacks from both sides, and seven holy spirits blocked the gap in the middle. After stepping into the stone chamber, I immediately led them to move to the corners of the stone chamber to reduce the range that needed defense. After letting Ahri add the defense BUFF, I focused my fire on the corpse monsters and other elites and ordinary monsters attracted into the stone chamber.

Of course, he did not rest and changed to the profession of Dark Word Mage, standing on the back of the Sand Scarab and casting various group spells.

These corpse monsters waved their spiked sticks frantically, but their attacking skills, which had always been effective, could only leave a few conspicuous scars on the hard shell of the sandstone scarab. With the blood recovery of the natural aura, it didn't take too long to heal.

And this battle has obviously proved that Ahri’s strength is not just in her auxiliary ability, her attack is even more amazing.

Although these monsters are of dark attribute and Ahri has not learned the corresponding light attribute spells to target them, the magic of various elements intertwined fell on the group of monsters, bringing up damage numbers that looked like a blood-red ocean, which still showed the extraordinary damage.

More than forty minutes passed, and under the continuous magic baptism of Ahri and me, the five bosses were torn into pieces like real tattered puppets, followed by the surrounding elite monsters and the ordinary monsters crowded on the periphery.

However, I underestimated the damage of these monsters. One of the Sand Scarabs died, and I could only summon another substitute at the last moment. The remaining one only had about 10% of its health left. If it weren't for Ahri's assistance, it would probably have ended up like its companions. The seven holy spirits at the beginning had already died one after another, and the rest were all temporarily converted by me in the middle of the battle.

But the effect is undoubtedly outstanding.

The equipment and materials all over the ground are the best proof.

After a simple count, there are about fourteen dark gold equipment and more than fifty gold equipment. Although I don't need them, I can leave them to the members of the guild.

At this stage, this kind of high-level equipment is relatively scarce for most guilds. As long as you fill up the gems that reduce the level requirements, even gold-level equipment can be comparable to low-level dark gold equipment. The difference in attributes is a qualitative improvement.

In addition to the equipment, what is surprising is that there are nine potion recipes in it. Although most of them are about blood recovery potions, and the Star-Moon Workshop has already included many of them, there are also two special potion recipes that are scarce in the workshop.