The space on the fourth floor of Netherworld is different from the previous three floors. It is just a circular platform floating in the air.
There are no twists and turns, just a large stone platform. 14 obsidian fragments stand in the center of the platform, guarding the bronze throne in the middle and the man wearing the crown.
Although the air is filled with chaotic energy that constantly corrodes everyone, and everyone is covered with a layer of pink outer cover, but... those who can come up to the fourth floor are the best among them and can hold on for a while.
Especially with Susu as the little nanny, she can quickly heal everyone's injuries without affecting their combat effectiveness.
At this time, everyone looked at the man on the throne.
Fang Lang strode forward without fear.
"Who are you? Why are you imprisoned here?"
The man above smiled disdainfully: "Bugs don't deserve to know my name."
"Put them in my bowl!"
The man roared loudly, and 14 obsidian fragments flashed red. Black holes flashed by, and monsters of various shapes stood in front of him.
A 10-meter-tall black stone giant, a big-mouthed void demon holding a staff, a muscular monster as big as a hill, a pink brain monster... all kinds of strange, terrifying and hideous things.
They were all things they had never seen before!
The dangerous aura instantly enveloped everyone.
Shen Jin frowned and retreated behind the crowd.
"Not good. The energy aura of each monster is not weaker than ours. When combined... it's very difficult to defeat them."
When Cheng Shaofeng saw the monster that was as big as a hill, he suddenly remembered the parchment in his hand, and then he saw the red danger sign marked by the treasure hunting robot.
I understood it instantly!
"That's a level three void beast! Run!"
MD has three levels of evolutionary creatures!
How to fight this!
Cheng Shaofeng had come here expecting to crush everyone else in terms of realm. The competition required the highest-level first-level peak evolvers, and he thought he had it easy since he was at the second-level peak... but it turned out that the final level was a third-level evolver!
"I finally understand why people in the past never completed the mission... This is not an ordinary cross-level battle, this is asking us to fight two levels higher!"
Cheng Shaofeng was the first to escape, rushing down the stairs quickly.
Others followed suit.
After all, everyone has witnessed Cheng Shaofeng's ability to avoid danger and seek good fortune, and they have a high degree of trust in him.
A group of strange-looking void creatures followed behind, roaring.
A red light flashed above the pink brain, and everyone's speed slowed down instantly, as if they were stuck in a quagmire. Their muscles became weak, and everyone instantly became listless, as if their essence had been sucked away by several juicers in turn.
Everyone used their energy to resist the interference, and those who ran slowly bit their tongues to wake themselves up.
Because... the body of the void beast behind him started to move, causing the earth to shake.
Several 10-meter-tall black stone monsters were also walking towards the crowd, stepping on a magma-like substance, with a ball of flowing flame on their chests, as if something was about to be launched.
At this time, several contestants marked as Han Li seemed to have telepathic connection. They used their super displacement skills one after another, speeding up and leaving everyone behind with very skilled movements.
In the end, after 6 people died and were injured, everyone escaped back to the third level of Hades.
Among them, the five evolvers who discovered that they had been deceived by the organizer were all killed except the Christian turkey.
Fortunately, the monsters above did not chase down. It seems that the Chaos Stairs has some kind of isolation and restriction effect.
At this point, the team was down to 35 people.
These are also the most powerful people. They can't easily kill second-level evolvers by jumping levels, but at least they can fight with second-level evolvers. They are real elites.
Oh, except Susu.
She crawled out of the fat man's wounded body and pouted: "Uncle, your summon is dying... I can't save it anymore, its body tissues are too badly damaged."
Cheng Shaofeng raised his hand, and a level 12 plague demon with wounds all over and less than 1/10 of its health collapsed. A level 16 plague demon absorbed a large amount of filth on the ground and stood up.
I don’t know if it’s because he was in the Hades area or because the fat man rolled up multiple corpses of void monsters when he formed his body, but the fat man’s body turned slightly pink, and there seemed to be chaotic energy flowing in his body.
When the full-level plague demon appeared, everyone was shocked.
That authentic second-level aura made everyone feel terrified.
Several Xiao Yans also fixed their eyes, sensing a threat from the fat man.
Fang Lang said: "Brother Cheng's summoned creature is so powerful, but I have never seen such a creature in the dead soul heritage... Is it a newly researched skill?"
Cheng Shaofeng: "It's just a natural skill."
Fang Lang: "What a strong talent... This aura is even stronger than before, will it get stronger the more it fights?"
At this time, a contestant marked as Long Aotian 2 said: "There are many evolvers in the summoning system, but I roughly understand some rules. One of them is that the strength of the summoned creature cannot exceed the realm of the summoner. Then Brother Cheng..."
Everyone reacted and looked at Cheng Shaofeng.
Cheng Shaofeng: "I have never heard of this, so it doesn't work for me."
Long Aotian 2: “?”
Seeing that everyone wanted to talk, Fang Lang quickly got back to the main topic.
"Everyone, don't worry about these details. At this moment, the stronger we are, the better it is for us. Let's think about how to leave this damn place. There is definitely no way out up there. A level 3 monster is blocking the door, and we have no way out."
Long Aotian 2 also sighed: "Yes... Although I, Long, have always believed in my own strength, I dare to fight even if it is the peak of the second stage, but... The gap between the third stage is too big. Although it is not as fundamental as the fourth stage evolution, the gap in energy and body is not something that people like us can make up for. Damn it, if I can reach the peak of the second stage, I will definitely dare to draw my sword against it!"
Cheng Shaofeng still doesn't quite understand some of the evolutionary systems in this world, and the information in his area is very isolated.
At this time, he hurriedly asked: "Fourth-order evolvers... Why did a qualitative change occur? What is the limit of human evolution?"
At this time, everyone had no good solution for a while.
I sat down to heal my wounds and started chatting.
Coincidentally, the 'Long Aotian 2' marked by Cheng Shaofeng is actually named Long, Long Wenke, a fire evolver who majors in swordsmanship. His fire sword is extremely powerful, has extremely high attack power, and has a very fast burst speed.
This person is not a member of the nine inheritances in the Human Alliance, but a member of a relatively unpopular small organization: Demon Sword.
They also have their own set of inheritance, which was founded by the first generation of extraordinary people. Now more than 300 years have passed, and it is also very comprehensive. People of the Demon Sword lineage follow the teachings of their master to continuously strengthen their swords and use various energy sword skills. It is said that a master can produce a 40-meter-long sword energy with one sword, which is impossible to defend against.
Because of the inheritance, they also have documents to refer to for their classification of human evolutionists.
Ordinary humans can only evolve to the fifth level at most, but they can open up a new energy cycle through special methods, and then break through this upper limit and continue to evolve.
Long Wenke: "But this is not what we are thinking about now. It won't be too late to understand it after reaching level 5. After all, in the Human Alliance... Level 4 is already the pinnacle, and Level 5 is even rarer. Those who break through the upper limit only exist in vague descriptions in books. Even the Human Alliance rarely has records of this."
Fang Lang: "Indeed... The fourth level is already an extremely powerful force. Reaching this level can gain a very high status in the Human Alliance. If you don't have lofty ideals, you can already enjoy all the prosperity in the world."
Cheng Shaofeng: "So... why is the fourth level so strong?"
Long Wenke: "A transition of life form, becoming a true...professional!"
"In fact, people in the range of 0 to 3 were called crystal eaters a long time ago. This is a process of swallowing crystal energy to accumulate energy and improve the limits of one's body. When they reach the fourth stage, they will completely break free from the constraints of swallowing crystal energy evolution and become a professional. At that time, they will need to improve their abilities according to their profession."
Cheng Shaofeng: "Occupation? What occupations do you have?"
Long Wenke shook his head: "There are too many professions... In theory, everyone can get their own special profession. Painters, farmers, beast tamers, gangsters... Even criminals are all professions. There are countless professions. I haven't seen many of them. I just heard my master mention some. The abilities of various professions are strange and unpredictable."
Fang Lang: "But! The nine inheritances of the Human Alliance have their own exclusive professions. When the skills of this inheritance are cultivated to the peak of the third level, and the inheritance secret method is used to advance, the profession of this inheritance will be awakened directly. This is also the origin of the names of the nine inheritances."
"Soldier, Demolition, Mystic, Nightblade, Arcane, Shaman, Judgment, Necromancer, Oathkeeper."
"But... it's just the old job division. The judge job was lost 50 years ago. No fourth-level judge has been born in the past 50 years."
Cheng Shaofeng nodded: "I know this. They were ambushed and wiped out by the Crusaders."
At this time, Turkey sneered and said, "Do you really think that only our people from the Cross Church did it? 50 years ago, as one of the nine inheritances of the Human Alliance, we were able to wipe out the Inquisitor lineage?"
"Everyone only saw our sneak attack, but few people have thought about... Why did the masters of the Inquisitor lineage die outside one after another in the 10 years before that fatal attack? For such a large inheritance, there was not even a fourth-level evolver in the end. Is this reasonable?"
"We can only blame the fourth-level judges for being too strong and too nosy. If one person's success brings prosperity to the whole human alliance, the entire human alliance will have to live in fear every day..."
Many of them remained silent, and I don’t know whether they knew the reason or just didn’t care.
But Cheng Shaofeng nodded, and combined with the information that Agent Feng continued to provide, he seemed to understand something.
"Is the evolution of monsters the same?"
Long Wenke: "Same, but... not quite the same. When monsters reach the fourth stage, they will become intelligent. No matter what connection they had with humans before, whether they were tamed or controlled, it will be instantly resolved and they will become an independent intelligent being. But how they evolved to the fifth stage... I'm not sure. Our Demon Sword Heritage doesn't record it."
Everyone talked about some of the knowledge they knew, which gave Cheng Shaofeng some understanding of the level division, power division and combat effectiveness of this world.
Finally, Cheng Shaofeng clapped his hands, stood up, and was in high spirits.
"I roughly understand!"
"Combining the information everyone has given me, I can draw a conclusion: the gap between the second and third levels is not as big as that between the third and fourth levels. It can be made up by tactics, skills, numbers, etc., right?"
Chen Jin, who had been silent the whole time, said, "Yes, theoretically... yes, but we are far from enough. This thing is much larger than the average fourth-order evolver. If we replace it with 35 peak second-order humans, maybe it will work."
At this point, Cheng Shaofeng, who was about to show off his skills, became embarrassed and sat down again.
"Ah... is this so far away?"
He is only level 29, which is the peak of level 2 when calculated using the Human Alliance's combat power calculation method.
Fang Lang: "It's really far behind... All 35 of us can briefly burst out the combat power of the second stage, but it's just ordinary second stage, far from reaching the peak of the second stage. It's very difficult... almost impossible to accomplish."
"No wonder... all the previous contestants died here."
"They have kept it a secret for so long and no one has noticed, and they still hold it every year... How did they do it?"
Cheng Shaofeng looked at him as if he were a fool: "Do you know why the negative reviews for Parachute are 0?"
Fang Lang: “…”
Everyone: “… ”
Fang Lang: "That's right. Everyone who knew the inside story died here. All we need to do outside is to make up some information about the deaths. Anyway, we come from all over the world and our lives have no intersection. Everyone knows that it is normal for some people to die in this kind of competition. Their families or friends will think that it was their own people who died in the competition and others won the prize."
Long Wenke: "Damn! It turns out that their annual award ceremony is just a formality, and they arrange the recipients themselves!"
The more they thought about it, the angrier they got. They were extremely angry... and they were angry for an hour.
Cheng Shaofeng had nothing to do so he went back to the base to take a look.
"If Cheng Dafu and Shadow Guard die in there, then all the top-grade equipment I brought with me will be wasted. I'm so angry!"
“Is it possible to help those inside from outside?”
As Cheng Shaofeng was thinking...he began to feel sleepy and wanted to go to sleep.
While lost in the lake, Cheng Shaofeng suddenly had an idea.
"Oh my god!? Why am I so sleepy?"
"Could it be that the main body sleeps so often that it becomes muscle memory? This won't work! This is really a bug..."
Cheng Shaofeng quickly got up and walked around the natural disaster base. Even Uncle Tian was shocked. He thought that a new bug had appeared and quickly went over to support Cheng Shaofeng.
"Why did the Lord come down? Is the house not warm enough?"
Cheng Shaofeng: "Oh, I'll come down to relieve myself."
"Yo~ You also pee yourself?"
Cheng Shaofeng: “?”
"If you can't speak, then speak less."
Walk away in anger.
Cheng Shaofeng walked around the base and saw many Void Demons working.
Carrying ore, pushing carts, farming... they seemed to be free of the fierce and evil spirits of the underworld, and were completely good people.
This is the power of skill contracts.
After Cheng Shaofeng walked around, he had several ideas in his mind, but none of them were very definite strategies to resolve the Shadow Guard crisis.
Suddenly, he saw several players standing in front of the skill wall analyzing BD, and slapped his head.
"Why should I think of anything? There are 20 million cloud players. I don't believe there is no way to break the deadlock!"
Thinking of this, he sent out the situation encountered by the Shadow Guard in the name of the Sentinel, along with his attributes, equipment, skills, etc.
Opened a post:
"An interesting situation in the game. Whoever can find a way out will be rewarded with a spot in the internal beta test."