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Chapter 418: The Great Demon Tribe Trial: A Hopeless Battle for Extinction
Chapter 418: The Great Demon Tribe Trial: A Hopeless Battle for Extinction
Without hesitation, Great Love Poet stepped through the familiar void teleportation portal, her body merging with the deep purple light as if sinking into water once more.
A strange and wondrous sense of weightlessness overcame her as her body and soul seemed to be pulled away from the real world.
This state of rapid descent didn't last long. After a dizzying moment, Great Love Poet felt the cold, hard ground beneath her.
She had landed face-first yet again.
She lay on the ground for several seconds, waiting for someone to help her up, but eventually, she had to struggle to her feet on her own.
Great Love Poet steadied herself against the floor, which felt like a mix of metal and stone, and stood up shakily, her hand gently smoothing her hair which had become disheveled from the fall.
She looked around and realized she was alone in the spacious entrance teleportation hall.
The others were nowhere to be seen.
From where she stood in the hall, she looked forward and saw mist descending from the wide corridor above, shrouding this strange and mysterious space.
It seemed like the starting point of a maze, with the high walls of the corridors inside the prison adorned with eerie indicators and flickering lights, and the floor glowing with a soft, deep blue radiance like a starry river in a dream or a distant, profound universe.
This was quite similar to the floor structure of Helrom Station, and stepping on it would undoubtedly trigger some kind of barrier spell.
The fifth basement level was extremely spacious, and according to the map displayed on the light curtain in the teleportation hall, it seemed to be a giant maze.
Its structure was constantly changing, and the entire level was in a state of space distortion similar to the old district of Helrom. Reaching certain areas would immediately teleport you to another location.
Among the five intern prison guards who had come to the fifth basement level, the fifth and eighth tiers seemed to have been unable to teleport accurately and had landed in random locations within the fifth basement prison. Only Great Love Poet, a first-tier, had successfully arrived at the entrance teleportation hall.
After all, Great Love Poet was much weaker than Cat Boss, so teleportation was not a burden for her.
"Now I have to make my way to the exit hall alone... Where are you, Mirian?"
The lonely figure with black hair and green eyes, her gaze carrying a hint of bewildered fatigue, muttered to herself.
Lanchi had grown accustomed to being led by Shubelian in this prison, and most of the time, he didn't need to pay attention to the Helrom Prison side.
Now he had to concentrate very hard, dividing his attention between chatting with Chief Warden Bakas and controlling Great Love Poet's actions.
He lowered his head helplessly and looked at the deep red light curtain on his wristband.
【In Helrom Prison's fifth basement level, survival and duty will earn you a large number of duty points.】
【Duty points can be exchanged for resources in prison, but you must meet all the conditions to proceed to the next level before you can activate the duty point trading authority for the current level.】
【Current location: Helrom Prison, fifth basement level, entrance hall.】
【Work content: Sweep the phantoms.】
【Note: After entering the fifth basement level, a phantom that is exactly like you will appear within a hundred-meter radius. This phantom will replicate your wisdom, personality, all items, and combat experience, and it will be stronger than you.】
【Note: The phantom can lock onto your position, and its only goal is to hunt down your true self and take your place.】
【Note: Each person will only summon one phantom per day. Entering the teleportation hall, office area, or cell will cause the phantom to temporarily disappear. Other people's phantoms will not take the initiative to attack you, but if you take the initiative to attack, they will shift their target to you.】
【Conditions for going to the sixth basement level: Sweep all the phantoms on this level, accumulate team duty points of more than 5000, and obtain the permission and evaluation of the fifth-level chief warden.
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Lanchi quickly flipped through the pages, and it wasn't much different from the fourth basement level, except for the "phantoms."
With the reminder from Chief Warden Selena on the fourth basement level and the information Shubelian had told him, he basically understood what this Great Demon Tribe Trial was about.
Allegedly, there was a Great Demon from the ancient times, tens of thousands of years ago, named Sathia the Hopeless. Her ultimate innate magic was the ability to summon a replica phantom of her opponent.
When facing this ninth-tier Great Demon, once one harbored battle intent or even hatred, she would preemptively summon a stronger replica, with the limit being the peak of the eighth tier.
And in legion battles, the ninth-tier Great Demon, Sathia the Hopeless, was an unbeatable opponent no matter how many eighth-tiers there were.
She was a super bully against weaker opponents.
Even in her final moments, she left behind this Great Demon Tribe Trial for the Demon Tribe—【The Hopeless Battle for Extinction】.
Depending on one's battle intent, the strength of the phantom would be determined.
When maintaining the lowest battle intent, the phantom would only be about as strong as the original; but when pushing battle intent to the extreme, the phantom would not only be stronger than the original but could even reach the eighth tier.
In other words, as long as one was willing, it was possible to face an eighth-tier limit version of oneself in the 【Hopeless Battle for Extinction】.
If one couldn't control their battle intent well, they might inadvertently attract an extremely terrifying phantom that could instantly annihilate them.
For the prison guards on this level, they had to constantly evade the phantoms' pursuit in the maze and try to reach a safe zone as soon as possible.
In most cases, being alone would result in a chase and kill situation, with one's own enhanced phantom locking onto them as its target.
The task for the intern prison guards, however, was to join forces with several fellow intern prison guards to defeat the phantoms one by one by ganging up on them.
"Wait, so my opponent is..."
Lanchi stroked his chin in thought, then looked at the body he currently possessed in Helrom Prison, and tentatively stepped out onto the ground outside the Teleportation Hall.
The chief warden's office should also be located not far from the entrance Teleportation Hall. He needed to find the chief warden first and obtain permission.
Usually, the area near the Teleportation Hall was a very safe position. One could always retreat back if the situation felt amiss, but correspondingly, they might also be blocked by phantoms at the intersection and would need someone to come to their rescue.
However, Lanchi's steps grew bolder and his light footsteps quickened, as if he had nothing to fear.
On both sides of the corridor, rows of huge prison cells with heavy doors were irregularly arranged. The black-haired, green-eyed figure strode forward, and the metal floor emitted a faint echo.
Each step stirred the surrounding environment's magic, breaking the silence with faint barrier operation sounds, as if welcoming or warning a new visitor.
Obviously, his phantom had already been born and had begun its hunt in the maze.
Lanchi was still unafraid. According to the dynamic map displayed on his wristband, he began to look for the path to the chief warden's office.
Because—this cage was copied from the body and not from the consciousness.
So, would he just need to beat up Great Love Poet later? Then he could easily and comfortably find the exit Teleportation Hall?
"Lanfu, I really don't want to beat you up, but I have no choice. I can only challenge your phantom..."
Lanchi muttered to himself, eager to embark on his journey!
Today there will be two chapters, and I'll rest my eyes. More chapters will come tomorrow. Also, there will be a black-haired, green-eyed illustration of Great Love Poet in the next few days.
PS: Promoting a friend's book~
(End of Chapter)
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