How Level Zero Devil Destroys Player Experience

I hesitated and asked.

Ezer just smiled but said nothing, obviously not intending to let me know in advance.

Although I didn't expect the situation to develop to this point, it sounds surprisingly good -

From the original two options of giving up the level and being crushed to death by the dragon, it has developed into a plot similar to the first clear of a difficult level. If you can't beat it, you can spend money to buy times. As long as you clear the level, all your points will be refunded and there will be a mysterious clearing reward.

And judging from what Azel said, the ultimate goal of this test is definitely not to be so difficult as to defeat him, otherwise there would be no need to add so many unnecessary things.

Looks perfect.

But if other players were standing here, most of them would probably choose to leave directly.

After all, even if you ignore the gambler's doomsday ending, the price of failing to pass the level is still the lowest level of experience. What's more, the test is set by a level 160 lord. Even if you don't defeat the latter outrageously, the last level of the trial is definitely not so easy to pass.

But the worries of ordinary players will not happen to themselves.

"I accept this test."

I took a deep breath, smiled slightly, and a light flashed in my eyes.

I can easily raise my level by modifying the template, and it doesn't cost anything. I am also very curious about what kind of test the other party will give me. If I miss it this time, I will probably care about it for a long time. The most important thing is that I still have a chance of success.

"Haha, that's right. I admire people like you who have courage."

Azer's huge dragon head nodded slightly, and finally told the content of the test.

"This test is that you have to withstand my attack for 70 seconds."

Surviving for 70 seconds sounds short and easy to do, but the target is a level 160 lord, and it will probably feel like every second is a year. But as I said just now, you have to try it no matter what, there is always a chance of success.

What he didn't expect was that Ezer hadn't finished speaking yet.

"I know this might be a little difficult, so if you have collected marks in the previous trials, then things will be much easier. Each mark can help you buy 10 seconds of time."

"Mark?"

I was stunned and immediately reacted. Could it be those marks?

And Ezel's next reaction also confirmed his guess, "Let me see, it's really surprising that you have collected six marks. Now you only need to stay here for 10 seconds."

"Wait, six marks, didn't I only collect five?"

After hearing what Ezer said, I subconsciously asked back.

Ezel smiled and said, "Once you accept this test, the Seal of Courage will be yours."

...So if you accept the test, you just have to last for 60 seconds?

I was speechless for a moment.

What I thought were just Easter egg designs turned out to be the special mechanism of the last level. What I didn’t expect was that there were Easter eggs in the Easter eggs.

"Oh, this is..." Ezel suddenly seemed to have discovered something. He bent down and looked at me carefully, with a hint of laughter in his tone. "Haha, unexpected luck, I'll just treat this as the Seal of Generosity."

Touched by the familiar description, I subconsciously glanced at the status bar and found that the snow sculpture's blessing had disappeared.

What is all this?

I was quite amused and confused, after all, the dramatic development of the plot was so unexpected.

"So that means..."

"Yes, congratulations on passing my test, then it's time for me to fulfill my promise."

Ezer smiled and waved his dragon claws. An ancient parchment floated into my hand. But before I could see what it was, a ball of light surrounded me and became increasingly brighter.

The only sound left in my ears was Ezer's hearty laughter.

"Goodbye, little one."

Chapter 125 Rest

"Hmm."

The bright sky and the refreshing sea breeze blew from the balcony into a spacious and elegantly decorated room. A petite and cute figure lingered in bed for a long time before slowly getting up accompanied by incomprehensible mumblings, and finished her lunch amid the mother's laughter and reproaches outside.

There is no doubt that the person who has the potential to evolve into a sloth bear is me.

Although it is normal to have no morning during holidays.

But actually I can still make an excuse. After all, it was already one in the morning when I finished all the levels yesterday. I hurriedly washed up and went to bed and slept until now. This is not much better than some self-disciplined adults.

After lying on the bed and listening to some songs to relax, I logged into the player forum through my handheld computer. Although I estimated my results when I went offline yesterday, I didn't feel relieved until I saw the ranking.

Completed 18 levels in 15 hours, 48 ​​minutes and 25 seconds.

This result ranked third, only behind Black King Caesar and President Rongzhe of Empire Epic, whose clearance times were 19 minutes and 8 minutes faster than his own respectively.

The top 17 players on the leaderboard have all passed the th level. Although each player's scene is random, the difficulty is the same. I encountered a boss-level BOSS, so the other players should be similar.

Being able to appear on the list proves that they have the strength to fight the leader head-on.

This seems incredible to most players. After all, the strength of the BOSS is already deeply rooted in their minds, and it basically requires teamwork to solve it. But no matter how much energy and thought these players who passed the 17th level spent, these things really happened.

However, only a few people can pass all the levels, and there are only 13 people so far.

Obviously, for those players who have passed the 17th level and reached the final level, the test of the lord-level BOSS is still too difficult, or they did not collect enough marks in the previous level, or they may not even pay attention to it.

Among these 13 people, Alice accounts for 3 of them, me, Gray Flowing Years and Yiwen. Other large guilds only have one or two people. The Guild Alliance is even worse, with only Zunwang Rangyi and Xuehong squeezing in, ranking fourth and thirteenth respectively.

The list after the start of the knockout rounds completely disrupted and reorganized the points rankings from the previous qualifying rounds.

Even though many of the top players are still on the list, their rankings have changed dramatically, with some even disappearing from the rankings and many new names emerging.

Although this is only a temporary ranking, all results will not be finalized until the elimination round ends at 9 o'clock tomorrow, but I think the top rankings will not change much.

That's exactly what happened.

After the official final ranking was announced, the number of people on this list who ultimately completed all levels was only five more, and they were all ranked at the bottom, barely above those players who completed 17 levels.

After all, apart from specific strength, some things have already been determined in the previous levels. If you don't accumulate enough marks by the last level, no matter how hard you try, it will be a waste of energy.

Of the 98 players in the knockout round, only were eventually selected to compete for the top spots, with an elimination rate of %.

The number of contestants from various major guilds dropped dramatically. Under this rigid selection based on strength, Alice was also not immune. Only 236 out of more than people remained in the competition, but the promotion rate was significantly higher than that of other guilds.

In any case, the knockout round is over, and the subsequent top 1,000 and top 100 and finals will be officially held.

According to the information released on the official website, the first stage of the finals will adopt a duel points system, that is, the system will randomly draw each player. Each player will compete with 3 players, winning will earn 1 points, tying will earn point, and losing will earn no points.

In this way, the rankings of the two thousand people are determined to decide the title of the top thousand in the empire. What is special about this first stage is that the top fifty people in terms of points can directly advance to the top hundred, and the remaining nine hundred people will compete for the remaining fifty places and the related rankings of the top thousand. It can be said that the places for the top thousand and the top hundred are determined at the same time.

During this period, all events will be broadcast live simultaneously in reality and on the Internet.

The ranking match for this round-robin tournament will begin in two days, and will ultimately determine the fate of two thousand players.

Taking advantage of this free time, I also took the time to return to the Demon King's City and learned from Hill about the progress of the war in the Obenro Empire. The empire and the rebels are still in a stalemate, but the empire is obviously having a harder time. At the same time, it needs to deal with the private disturbances of the rebels and the royalists, causing the front line to shrink again and again towards the imperial capital.

The trend of war seemed obvious, so I asked Hill to contact Charlotte and Grantham to change the plan slightly.

The performance of being evenly matched is obviously no longer suitable for the current situation, and Berghead and Flor's battle line must also be changed a little bit, so that the performance can be more realistic. Of course, as for the more specific details, they need to be studied.

It seems that there will be a lot of things to keep me busy in the near future, including the guild alliance, the imperial war, and the treasure map of the Shadow of Anlunsa suit parts that I got from the golden dragon.

But let's leave these for later consideration after the competition is over.

The elimination round was over, but the city of Art was not much quieter.

Although nearly 100,000 players did not qualify for the finals, the official also gave them the right to choose whether to stay in Ater City during the finals, and the same was true for players from other empires, as a proof of honor for entering the knockout rounds. Being able to feel the atmosphere of the finals on site was a precious experience for them, not to mention that there were also suitable leveling points outside the five cities of the Sky Continent, so most players would choose to stay.

"I'm so exhausted. I'm so exhausted."

I stretched and successfully provoked a complaint from a certain young lady next to me.

"You're so tired, you just passed the last level without doing anything."

Yun Xian rolled her eyes.

It was not surprising that she looked so resentful. After all, she and Xiao Qian both reached the eighteenth level in the end, and they paid one level of experience, several pieces of equipment, and gold coins as the price of "buying times".

To be honest, I was a little surprised that these two little guys could pass the seventeenth level test, but I understood after I heard that their tasks were only treatment and escort, and they did not need to face the leader head-on like I did.

Emotional luck is also part of strength.

But if you think about it, it's true.

"It doesn't sound like I was tired of collecting marks before."

I curled my lips.

Ivan beside him also helped, "That's right, too bad, too bad, idiot who only made it to level 17~"

People's hearts have changed and the world is changing. Now even lolita is divided into different classes. Yun Xian was so angry that she gritted her teeth and said, "Hmph, then don't play with idiots. Xiao Qian Yaya, let's go somewhere else."

"Don't forget, idiot, Yaya also made it through level 18."

Yiwen reminded.

"Yaya is different from you smug people."

Yun Xian made a face.

Yes, Cecilia was among the five new people who appeared yesterday.

Cecilia, who was originally discussing the plot of the comic with Yun Qian, looked at the two sides arguing like elementary school students, and was confused as to why she had become the core protagonist of this quarrel.

I held my forehead with my hand, and just when I was about to pull these two embarrassing little guys away before everyone's attention was about to gather around me, a slightly panting voice suddenly came from behind me.

"Wait, you... stop!"

Chapter 126 Alola X Finals

I turned around and looked.

A petite figure was jogging towards me from not far away and stopped in front of me. She took a slight breath and looked up, revealing a cute face that was particularly familiar to me, with an exotic feel.

This was the Mecha Alchemist player I met during the Play-Ins.

"Humph, it's you. Don't try to hide. I already know that you are the president of Alice. No wonder you are so powerful that you can defeat me. My name is Alola, you must remember this name this time!"

The loli who called herself Alola raised her index finger and said with great interest.

"…Okay, Allura, so you came all the way here just for this?"

I don't believe in chance encounters, and from what the other party said, it seems very likely that he came here on purpose.

Apparently the little guys next to them thought so too.

Yun Xian immediately changed into an expression of someone who was eager to watch the fun and was almost about to take out some melon seeds. Cecilia and Yun Qian looked at each other curiously, but the former was more concerned about someone in the same profession.

As for Ivan, this guy was more direct. As if some kind of radar antenna had been triggered, his eyes vigilantly scanned Alola, and from time to time he looked in my direction, inexplicably making me feel like I was caught cheating... Ugh.

Allura didn't care about the looks around him at all, his eyes still shining, "Of course not, I'm here to remind you that I will definitely beat you in the finals!"

"You made it to the finals?"

I was slightly surprised. I originally thought that she had chosen to stay in the City of At like the other eliminated players, but I didn't expect that her name was among the two thousand places.

"Of course. Don't underestimate me. I didn't use my full strength before, which allowed you to win by chance!"

Allura seemed to have suddenly thought of something. "Oh, right, add my friend request now. Knowing yourself and your enemy will lead to victory in every battle. This is a proverb my mother taught me about this country. Well, that's what it says. Anyway, I will definitely try my best to defeat you!"

It would have been fine if I hadn't said anything. As soon as I said it, there was no reaction on my end, but Yiwen jumped up and down, grinning like a tiger protecting its food. If he hadn't seen my clenched hands, he would have come closer as more favorable evidence.

Of course, there is no need to say which aspect this proves, but it does not prevent her from making some kind of statement.

"Hehe, you really have no good intentions. Just give up, An An will always belong to someone else. I will never let you come between us..."

Before he could finish, Allura suddenly interrupted him and grabbed Ivan's hands, his eyes sparkling, "I understand, you two are destined to be rivals, right? Why don't we add each other as friends and exchange experiences?"

"???"

Before Yiwen could react, Alola went around to Yun Xian, Yun Qian and Cecilia behind him like a gust of wind, clenched his fists and encouraged them.

"Although your momentum is a little weak, I can see the fighting spirit in your hearts. Join me, let's work hard together and strive to defeat that guy one day."

Hey, don’t make me sound like a big devil… I’m pretty much the same… but there’s nothing wrong with that!

"Mission accomplished. I've taken another step towards my goal. Next, I'll just have to practice hard. If you have any good ideas, please let me know. And you, remember that I will definitely beat you next time. Stay tuned!"

After going around like this, Alola got the friend position from all of us, and immediately waved goodbye with satisfaction.

We were the only ones left standing there in a daze.