The game has become a real alternate world-Chapter 973 - 653: Reward
Within the arena, Kana ruthlessly stabbed [Frost Lord] into the opponent's heart.
The phantom of the Frost Giant Dragon loomed behind Kana, roaring furiously at the Fallen Blade Dragon, venting a millennium of vengeful fury.
"Roar!!"
Accompanied by the dragon's frost roar, large amounts of ice spread from the opponent's heart, a round hole appearing as its body crumbled away.
Through the hole, one could clearly see the massive beating heart of the dragon, still pulsing powerfully despite the sword's piercing.
Killing a Level 15 Fallen Blade Dragon is by no means an easy feat.
The Frost Giant Dragon's millennium-long resentment was channeled into the Fallen Blade Dragon through the sword.
The ice, imbued with vengeful feelings, froze layer by layer around the opponent's heart.
At this moment, the Blade Dragon could no longer speak, silently enduring the deserved punishment for past betrayal.
Its massive dragon head lifted, those blood-red dragon eyes fixed unyieldingly on Kana, as if containing the piercing blade of judgment.
Finally, the heart of the Fallen Blade Dragon was entirely frozen, forming a beautiful ice sculpture. Simultaneously, the power contained in its eyes transformed into an invisible spiritual blade that fiercely stabbed into Kana's chest.
However, all this was already meaningless.
The left arm that Kana severed earlier was now burning and dissipating, taking the hit in his stead.
In this immersive dungeon instance, this move was the hidden last phase mechanism of the Fallen Blade Dragon.
When its life value reaches zero, the spirit blade, formed by its own rule comprehension, is triggered at a certain cost.
The player delivering the final blow will be forcibly locked, their life value cleared, and the seized life value restored into the Blade Dragon, bringing it back to life.
This resurrection ability can happen three times, due to the Blade Dragon hiding an eye in its mouth, a filthy growth from when it fell into the abyss.
In other words, attempting a strategy in the dungeon would show the final BOSS of the second phase repeatedly revived like a "sit-up."
There are two strategic methods to tackle this mechanism.
The first is to brace through it, but each BOSS resurrection costs a member's battle strength.
Therefore, the final strike is crucial, requiring selective players to deliver the blow, then be sacrificed as an offering.
Meanwhile, the remaining players must exert strong and precise outputs to ultimately eliminate the opponent, averting its threefold revenge costs.
But this method is extremely difficult, achievable only by the most elite teams.
After all, it can't be that only a few elite teams qualify to clear this dungeon.
Soon after the dungeon launch, clues were found within the Abyss storyline.
Teams who had passed the Fallen Blade Dragon dungeon collaborated to correlate the items and information from the dungeon, eventually discovering a method to avoid the cost of death.
It turns out, the cost can be paid with part of the body.
This method of expense, derived from the Blade Dragon's rule comprehension combined with the Abyssal Contract content, does not necessarily require life sacrifices.
However, every time the opponent pays a cost, the judgment blade hidden in the Blade Dragon's eyes precisely pierces the enemy's fatal weakness, usually the heart area.
Through damage transfer and cost bearing, part of the body can pay this cost.
An arm's energy is insufficient to support the Blade Dragon's resurrection, so in the dungeon, players bring a player whose level does not meet the highest dungeon requirement to pay the cost.
This player's level hasn't reached Level 15, and they applied a [Disability] debuff on themselves through a ritual, creating a decoy doll constructed with runes. Thus, the so-called "sacrificial player" was born.
Returning to reality, the enemy's attack methods in the game won't be directly executed as in the game.
But only mechanisms, especially those critical mechanisms, will surely be the enemy's hidden powerful forces.
This was Kana's conclusion after countless battles in this world. Those deadly mechanisms in the game are often the enemies' trump cards in reality, just like this mechanism of the Fallen Blade Dragon.
"Boring, uninteresting battle." spoke the Blood God, his voice full of displeasure.
He had seen Kana's previous battles, where Kana, with his datafied body, fought tirelessly, unaffected by lethal attacks, creating scenes of frenzied slaughter he anticipated.
Unlike today's battle, where the stupid giant dragon was calculated to be powerless, failing to demonstrate its supposed value.
After this evaluation, the Blood God left disappointed.
Kana didn't care; he and the Blood God were enemies, and there was no sense in performing intense fights specifically for an enemy.
He had long been preparing, pursuing nothing but infallibility. The battle proceeded steadily according to the plan he had laid out from the start. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
If not for the Fallen Blade Dragon's cautious and timid nature, or if Kana didn't urgently need to gain experience from it, Kana's meticulous setup would have left the betrayed dragon dead without explanation, even solved by those dragons eager for revenge.
"Hehe, I'm getting more curious about you, Kana. Your ability to foresee the future surpasses ordinary prophets. Where exactly do you glimpse the future from? And what kind of future can you see? I eagerly await the answer."
Leaving these words, the shadow gradually dissipated.
As for the other two Evil Gods, they quietly departed as the battle ended.
Their attention to this battle was merely to see how much advantage Kana, a troublesome opponent for them, could gain in such a battle.
The outcome was just as they expected, though Kana won too easily, at the cost of merely one arm.
The Fallen Blade Dragon's dead body began to gradually dissipate, with the Blood God's blessing revealing itself. However, under the world's rule, everything translated into experience value.
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A whole 180,000 experience points, precise and accurate. These experience points perfectly filled Kana's experience bar.
Under the world's rule operation, the Blade Dragon mostly turned into experience value, yet some precious materials dropped down.
Kana waved, and these materials all floated before him.
Simultaneously, an insight into the rules, along with the Blood God's granting principle, the Abyssal Contract provisions, and the world's reward mechanics, surged into Kana's mind.
This was originally an insight into rules that should not exist or manifest, yet under the combined effects of these three forces, it became reality.
Because in this contest, the loser had to pay all costs.
If only a single force was at work, this insight into rules would have dispersed like the wind.
But luckily, involving a balance of three powers, it was eventually solidified and became part of the reward.
Just like that, Kana "freeloaded" a Blade Dragon and gained a profound insight into the rule of Sharp.
"Praise the world."
Kana earnestly exclaimed.
With the world's aid, the Blade Dragon was dissected and divided, all its useful parts transformed into Kana's strength.
