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Chapter 236: The Snow Leopard's Illusion Battle
Chapter 236: The Snow Leopard's Illusion Battle
However, as time passed, the players' activity area shrank, and the two remaining players were bound to meet eventually.
By the 35th minute of the battle, only two players remained on the map: Snow Leopard and Thousand Cups Unfazed.
All other players had been eliminated.
Under Snow Leopard's watchful gaze, Thousand Cups Unfazed, with his wine gourd slung over his shoulder, casually emerged from a nearby house.
Surprisingly, he didn't have the [Blood Aura] buff, nor was he wearing any of the equipment that dropped in the secret realm.
His state was almost exactly the same as when Snow Leopard had first encountered him.
Seeing this, the live stream chat exploded:
"Is Thousand Cups Unfazed up to something?!"
"Does he know he can't beat Snow Leopard and wants to forfeit?"
"Or is he so confident in his skills that he wants to challenge a Snow Leopard who is three times as strong as before?"
"That's impossible. The gap is too wide, no matter how skilled he is."
The players continued to debate.
only Su Yu in the Mage Tower could vaguely discern something.
If he remembered correctly, Thousand Cups Unfazed's wine gourd was yellow earlier, but now it had turned a dark red.
Perhaps the answer lay in this wine gourd.
Snow Leopard stared intently at Thousand Cups Unfazed. "You didn't kill any players in the past half-hour?"
"No, I didn't even touch any wild monsters," Thousand Cups Unfazed replied with an honest smile.
"Then what—"
"Actually, I was trying out a new strategy," Thousand Cups Unfazed said, pulling out the red plant they had eaten during their second meeting and waving it in front of Snow Leopard. "Do you know what this plant is? Do you know how I got it from the market stall owner when I had no money?"
Snow Leopard was silent, feeling like he had missed something crucial.
Thousand Cups Unfazed squeezed the red plant, extracting its juice, and poured it into his wine gourd.
As the red juice poured in, the wine gourd emitted an eerie red glow.
"Actually, this town isn't just a scene; it has many hidden elements that can be explored," Thousand Cups Unfazed said slowly. "When I first talked to the market stall owner, I discovered that players can interact with NPCs here, triggering some unique hidden quests."
"Completing these quests rewards players with extraordinary items, even better than the buffs you get from defeating other players multiple times!"
"So all this time, you were doing quests!" Snow Leopard realized.
He hadn't expected the map to have "hidden quests" and had indeed overlooked this.
"Exactly!" Thousand Cups Unfazed lifted his wine gourd and aimed the mouth at Snow Leopard. "Now, let me show you the rewards from those hidden quests. Absorb!"
From the mouth of the gourd, a stream of fiery red light shot out, enveloping Snow Leopard like a curtain.
Snow Leopard had no chance to resist. His form shrank within the red light, and he was uncontrollably sucked into the gourd.
By now, Snow Leopard's live stream had over a million viewers. Seeing this, the chat exploded:
"Uh-oh, he's been sucked in!"
"Is this the seventh son of the seventh son?"
"What kind of item is this? Is this even fair?"
"Who would have thought the illusion map would allow players to complete hidden quests to gain an advantage?"
"I've got it, I've got it!"
"The Snow Leopard Leader lost unfairly!"
After capturing the Snow Leopard, Qianbei Buzui weighed his wine gourd, muttering, "This upgraded gourd is really powerful! The only downside is that it can't be brought to the next round... Wait, something doesn't seem right. Why hasn't the reward been settled yet?"
Qianbei Buzui was a bit taken aback.
After he eliminated the last player in the first round, he immediately received a game notification for the mission settlement. Why didn't he get one this time?
Qianbei Buzui looked at the wine gourd in his hand.
Could it be that the gourd needs to digest the Snow Leopard for a while before it can completely kill it? Or maybe, like in The Snakes and the Gourd Brothers, it might release some kind of insect that could bite through the gourd?
While he was lost in thought, a golden leopard suddenly appeared behind him, its sharp claws swiping fiercely at his back.
It was the Snow Leopard!
"Watch out!" Qianbei Buzui tried to dodge to the side, but he couldn't avoid it.
The claws slashed at his back, and his health dropped by a third in an instant.
It turned out that what he had captured in the gourd was not the Snow Leopard itself, but a doppelganger!
The Snow Leopard's purple necklace, the Dream of Annalorica, had an additional skill—Dream Doppelganger.
Dream Doppelganger could summon a doppelganger identical to the original, which remained in stealth mode.
The doppelganger couldn't attack, but it could switch places with the original.
Before the wine gourd locked onto him, the Snow Leopard used the necklace to swap places with the doppelganger.
The doppelganger was sucked into the gourd, while the original Snow Leopard remained unharmed.
He then sneaked up behind Qianbei Buzui and struck his back with his sharp claws!
Caught off guard, Qianbei Buzui suffered a severe injury.
The wine gourd had a 30-second cooldown, so he couldn't use it again right away.
He quickly used the Northern Darkness Skill from the Free and Easy School, combined with the Golden Bell Shield from the Shaolin School and the Two Instruments Sword Technique from the Wudang School, trying to buy some time.
However, the attribute gap between him and the Snow Leopard was too large, far beyond what advanced martial arts could make up for.
In less than ten seconds, Qianbei Buzui was reduced to just 5% health, clearly unable to survive until the wine gourd was ready again.
Reluctantly, Qianbei Buzui leaped to the side and bowed to the Snow Leopard, saying, "You fought well, I admit defeat."
With that, he pressed his finger into the Shanzhong acupoint on his chest and vanished in a flash of white light.
Seeing the Snow Leopard emerge as the ultimate victor, the chat went wild with "666" messages, and some users even spammed hundreds of rockets.
With the value of real-world currencies declining, people didn't mind spending them on such moments.
After Qianbei Buzui disappeared in a flash of white light, the Snow Leopard let out a sigh of relief.
.
"Thankfully, my necklace's additional skill saved my life. Otherwise, I would have been in serious trouble."
"You truly can't underestimate these top players!"
"Congratulations on eliminating all your competitors and securing your place in the next round. The next round begins in 23:18."
"Battle settlement in progress."
"Your performance in this round is rated [S]. Rewards: 1 Thunder Lizard Egg (Epic), 2 World Renown points, and 10,000 Psychic Coins."
With the game notification, the Snow Leopard's figure gradually faded away from the ancient town's streets, returning to the Golden Finch Square.
(End of Chapter)
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