Chapter 26
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Chapter 26: The Mystery of the First Level!
The next morning, the third round of closed beta began.
One thousand players who had just received closed beta slots quickly logged into the game, wasting no time.
Ye Qiu was among them, using the same ID as in his previous life.
[Prayer Shixuan]
Just like the previous times, all the new players who joined the closed beta were so excited that they couldn’t help pinching their own faces when they first entered.
Some even lay on the ground and licked the soil, showing signs of madness.
Some experienced players shook their heads when they saw them, "The quality of these newbies is really low."
"Forget it, weren’t you just like them when you first entered the game?"
"Wow, there’s actually a girl this time!"
"What, a girl, where?!"
"A girl?!"
"Put your tongue away, can you please not embarrass the experienced players here?"
Yes.
There are indeed many female players in this group.
Also, because of the freedom in creating faces, some female players have very distinctive and captivating appearances.
In an instant, these female players became the center of attention.
However, Ye Qiu did not approach them to add as friends like the others, instead, he went directly to the Tower of Seals.
Ye Qiu felt deeply moved once again as he arrived at the Tower of Seals.
"I never thought I would be able to return here again."
Ye Qiu shook his head and looked around at the buildings, which looked very different from the last time he logged into the game.
When he logged into the game, the buildings around him were dense, like a large town.
And in the middle of the core area, there is a tall wall.
There are few buildings in the game now, the most noticeable one is a brick factory circled by thirty players in the distance.
The rest are some small buildings, the largest being a small guild building built by Fang Ze and others.
But now, it can’t be called a guild here, instead it has been developed by Fang Ze and others into a medium-sized trading post.
In a location close to the road, Fang Ze’s guild has opened two windows.
One is a window for selling items in the tower.
The other is a communication window prepared for guides.
Because Lu Qing now lives in the guild of Fang Ze and others, it is difficult for other players to meet him.
To prevent other players from rioting, Fang Ze deliberately opened such a window so that other players could contact Lu Qing at any time.
But to be honest, most players don’t think Lu Qing is very useful.
He can’t create tasks and only helps players identify items, while also charging a fee for identification.
But early players don’t have many things to identify, so only a few herbalists hang around Lu Qing all the time.
Over time, people started to ignore Lu Qing.
Other players thought he only had this one function, but Ye Qiu didn’t think so because he knew something!
Inside the guide is sealed a catastrophe-level monster!
In other words, the guide is actually a key, a key used to summon that monster.
But it’s too early to talk about all this, as the current players haven’t even solved the puzzles on the first floor of the Tower of Seals yet.
As Ye Qiu was about to enter the tower, but then!
A player wearing a black robe suddenly appeared in front of the guide!
His username was Night Song!
Seeing this name, Ye Qiu’s eyes narrowed into a dot!
"Cursed Cloak, Stagnant Energy Staff, Undead Calamity – this guy is the number one criminal on the infamous list, Red Named Player Night Song!"
"Indeed, he has already inherited the Necromancy Faction at this stage."
"Equipment weapons tainted with death energy can only be collected in tomb environments."
"In the later stages of the game, dead gas equipment doesn’t count for much, but in the earlier stages, it can give players a big advantage!"
Ye Qiu is right, the current players haven’t even used bronze weapons.
At most, they are just using some well-crafted bone weapons.
The clothes were only made of animal skin, unlike Night Song’s silk clothing, which could only be seen on NPCs.
Not to mention, this is cursed equipment!
Weapons contaminated with curses have a negative effect – wounds inflicted by these weapons will quickly become infected and hard to heal!
Especially for living creatures!
Looking at Night Song’s arms, in contrast.
Though his hands were hidden under the black robe, Ye Qiu still saw his pale and lifeless hands underneath the robe!
This was the result of ingesting a Death Gas Magic Drug!
Players have previously revealed the specific effects of the Death Gas Magic Drug.
The first stage of the Death Gas Magic Drug causes the user’s body to become unnaturally pale and lose sensory nerves, turning players into painless berserkers!
This is just a passive effect.
The active effect brought by the Death Gas Magic Drug is to arouse dead gas!
In other words, even if Night Song doesn’t have dead gas weapons, he can still produce the dead gas effect!
Ye Qiu didn’t know what Night Song was looking for in the guide, but he knew it was best to stay away from this former killer god.
Without hesitation, Ye Qiu plunged straight into the Tower of Seals.
But instead of entering the teleportation array on the ground floor, he wandered down the corridor of the Tower of Seals, studying the stone statues on either side.
"Because so much time has passed, I have forgotten some things, but the answers to the puzzles on each floor must be hidden within these stone statues."
Ye Qiu looked directly at the two statues closest to the entrance.
The statue on the left depicted a dwarf, while the one on the right showed a hunter.
The dwarf, wearing Viking pirate-style armor and holding a short hammer, his name is…
Forgemaster Hobbit.
In the description under the stone stele, it is mentioned that Hobbit once forged the legendary weapon that shot and killed the Sun and Moon Two Wolves.
He used roots of mountains, footsteps of cats, the breath of fish, the whiskers of women, the tendons of bears, and the saliva of birds!
These six rare things were forged into an invisible magic chain called "Gleipnir," sealing the origin demon beast Fenrir.
To prevent the chain from breaking, the dwarf once took out Fenrir’s heart to create a system comparable to sixteen great mountains, turning the giant wolf into a barrier.
The wolf made a deal with the dwarf, but it did not keep its promise; it deceived the dwarf.
The dwarf, furious, then found a giant snake as big as the wolf in the earth’s veins.
The snake was sometimes clear-headed, sometimes confused. The dwarf commanded the snake to entwine the wolf, not allowing the wolf to leave its original position.
But the snake was always confused and the dwarf was afraid that the snake would let the wolf go, so he brought a cunning giant bird among the stars on a night to poke the snake with its claws while the snake was in a daze.
The rest of the information was not important, Ye Qiu then turned to look at the hunter.
The hunter was a human, with a unique shaped bow on his back and a unique shaped sword in his hand.
There were two wolf head emblems on his chest, his name was…
Legendary hunter Larik!
There are very few records about him, it’s only written on the stone stele below that Larik’s two weapons are magical.
His bow was forged with the cold of the Moon Essence, arrows appear when he draws the bow.
His sword was forged with the heat of the Sun Essence, the sword always burns with eternal flames.
Larik once used these two weapons to shoot down the two beasts chasing the sun and the moon.
A dwarf once gave him an invisible chain, making him lock away a monster by losing one of his arms.
Ye Qiu pondered on a memory fragment, "If I recall correctly, Larik is the Guardian of the first level."
"The puzzle of the first level is that a deceiving wolf is bound by a sneaky snake, and the chaotic and blurred snake is grabbed by the cunning owl by seven inches."
"This puzzle initially puzzled many players, leaving them stuck in the first level for a whole five months."
"I remember, it seems like only the Holy Light big shot managed to unravel this mystery back then."
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