Seizing the BOSS Template at the Start-Chapter 148 - 105: Nightmare World
Baiyi's terrifying spiritual power surged out in an instant, stabilizing the mechanical giant dragon.
The Old City Lord had already disappeared above the dragon's head, frantically slashing in the sky with rapid speed. This was a one-sided battle, and almost instantly, the Golden Middle Tier Griffin was covered in wounds.
Below, pairs of eyes looked up at the sky, but none attempted to help.
Baiyi, seeing this, just calmly observed the battle between the two Golds.
Clang~
With a flash of a sword light, one wing of the Griffin was severed instantly, thick blood continually dripped down, and the Griffin's eyes were filled with fear. Only five seconds had passed, and it felt as if it could die at any moment. How was this possible...
It desperately unleashed the power within its body, trying to escape, but the next moment, it was paralyzed high in the air.
Its whole body's wounds were rotting at an astonishing speed, as if something was swiftly erasing them.
Roar~
A desperate roar echoed, as the Griffin twisted in agony, the terrifying Power of Gold furiously bombarding the air. It bit down on its own wound, tearing at its own flesh, but this only caused it more pain.
Eric returned to the dragon's head, somewhat surprised: "Micromechanics?"
"Yes, Gold-devouring Insects." Baiyi nodded, calmly watching as the Gold gradually became nothing under the biting of the Gold-devouring Insects.
What is the concept of a micron level? A thousand micron-sized Gold-devouring Insects lined up end to end would only be a millimeter long.
A strand of hair is 100-150 microns in diameter. Coupled with the Gold-devouring Insects' powerful biting capabilities, any carelessness would turn Gold into nothingness amidst the storm.
[You used Gold-devouring Insects to kill the Level 64 Catastrophe Griffin boss. You gain 30,000 Experience Value, boss bonus 100%, you gain 60,000 Experience Value, plus 30,000 Extra Experience Points.
You defeated the boss by surpassing levels, skill points +1.]
Baiyi paused, somewhat surprised. Was this a boss?
But then he quickly understood. The Old City Lord is a Level 77 Demon Swordsman, and also the City Lord of the border city. How could he be weaker than a boss?
If not for failing to reach Legendary, Dongwu City could never be taken as long as he lived, unless the opponent also brought a Legendary, and it had to be Tier Three.
However, Baiyi noticed the significantly reduced Experience Value. Indeed, growing too rapidly isn't always a good thing.
Otherwise, the reward should include specialties, or double-digit skill points and attribute points. Now there weren't even any attribute points....
The unseen machinery quickly retracted, entering the Space Ring and quieting down.
Baiyi looked below; those Golds were still watching but only watching. There was no friendship among Ancient Gods, which is why the New Gods could easily overthrow them.
It's because they fought individually, while under the God of Destiny's guidance, the New Gods precisely assaulted one Ancient Gods' stronghold after another, implementing successive righteous beatdowns.
Therefore, these Divine Favored relations are more like strangers, even carrying some hostility.
But sometimes they unite against outsiders, like now, with all eyes expressing the same meaning, don't move.
It seemed they neither wanted to conflict with Baiyi and the Old City Lord nor let them leave. Among them, even two Golden Upper Tiers' auras faintly locked onto them.
"City Lord, why don't you go for reinforcements?" Baiyi was a bit helpless; he didn't know what these people were waiting for, but he never expected six Golds to show up in one day.
"You go..."
"Alright, let's wait together then. It's a pity the network hasn't reached us yet; otherwise, we could try contacting Lord Luo Men." Baiyi regretted, while the mechanical giant dragon hovered silently in the air under the gaze of many big shots.
Leaving was impossible; a speed of Mach five seemed fast, but for Golds, short bursts could catch up any time.
Even Golden Upper Tiers, in long-distance pursuits, could surpass such rapidity.
A near-odd balance continued, and in the distance, two more Golds appeared, entering the City of Calamity, and after they arrived, they also tacitly stared at the two humans high above.
To the current Ancient Divine Countries, the Federation was still overwhelmingly powerful.
The Calamity Divine Favored still hadn't appeared, seemingly unconcerned that their nation had already been overrun.
Within a thousand-mile radius, even the winds began to seem repressive.
The sunset's afterglow spilled on the earth as Baiyi and the Old City Lord sat with closed eyes on the dragon, adjusting their state. Seeing as they had already been exposed, when no action was viable, running was inevitable.
The sun tilted westward, moonlight rose from the east, and June's sweltering temperature slowly declined; the gentle moonlight gradually replaced the rising sun.
Finally, night enveloped the earth, bringing a sliver of gentleness to this ruined world.
Time slowly passed, and Baiyi didn't know when he ceased feeling those prying eyes.
He opened his eyes, about to speak to the Old City Lord, but was suddenly dumbfounded.
Wooden textures increasing, vague coughs, slight decay with the cheap smell of a bed; all seemed to indicate one thing.
He... no, the Level 77 Demon Swordsman vanished without noticing anything unusual!
The dragon was gone, the tens of thousands of meters high was gone, and even Eric was nowhere to be seen.
Is this what the Divine Favored pursue? When did it come? What happened?
A light flashed on the panel, and Baiyi reflexively looked.
[You have entered a super high-risk area, the Nightmare World.]
Baiyi paused, Nightmare?
[Searching, Nightmare World.]
Baiyi dared not act rashly; he seemed to recall reading about the Nightmare World in some books.
It is supposedly a specific kind of Marvel, incredibly fearsome, with an extremely high death rate. In Federation records, those who leave nightmares alive are exceedingly rare, with a death rate approaching 100%.
So why would these Divine Favored seek out nightmares? Collective suicide, or was there some vital information Baiyi missed, perhaps a high-value Marvel?
Zero: [Please hold on.]
Baiyi surveyed his surroundings. Outside seemed to have faint footsteps and voices, and as he listened intently, Zero began explaining the Nightmare World.
Hoarse male voice: "Cough... So, is there hope?"
Sharply female voice: "Not sure, but the mutant body c-306 has been contained, yet this mutation's specific data hasn't been deciphered."
Hoarse male voice: "Hopefully, it doesn't carry undying nature...."
Zero: [The Nightmare World is a subspace formed by the beings' consciousness of the Xiya Continent overlapping with some world's rules, creating this subspace, where time and space are loops. Once formed, it continously repeats the consciousness's spacetime.]
[The Nightmare World is also referred to by some scholars as: the Dark History.]
[Because each subspace formed represents an extremely dark, desperate history preserved.]
[Currently, among all known subspaces, none resulted from positive emotions creating a paradise on earth.]
[All beings entering such subspaces will experience the historical dark moments, which for any era's beings are the most desperate nightmares, thus named: the Nightmare World.]
[The Nightmare World appeared most frequently during the Ancient God Era; at that time, all beings were perpetually desperate, and Ancient Gods loved to create nightmares, with most nightmare worlds formed with Ancient God involvement.]
Shrill female voice: "Is there really still hope? What's the point of us doing this..."
The external sounds gradually diminished, finally disappearing.
Baiyi's eyes turned grave; the Nightmare World... seemed like a real game's quest? But players hadn't encountered a single one after so many years, no wonder there was no impression.
The most desperate times.....
Zero's explanation continued.
[According to survivors, there are three ways to exit the Nightmare World alive. Survive till time resets; typically, the Nightmare World's time ranges from one day to a hundred years....]
