activa-t Chapter 4149 Gold Market
Chapter 4149 Gold Market
Chapter 4149 Gold Market
As Shretta described it in detail, everyone gradually gained a basic understanding of the Golden City.
Golden Land is a checkpoint with no limit on the number of players.
However, not limiting the number of people does not mean that victory can be achieved by sheer numbers.
On the contrary, the more people there are, the more chaotic it becomes.
Sreita's squad consists of five members, all top-tier warriors of the Crystal Eye Clan. They are extremely confident in their ability to "attack strongholds," hence their name. This demonstrates that Sreita's squad is truly the elite of the elite.
Although they chose Golden Township with a bit of luck, they were confident of achieving good results even if Golden Township had nothing to do with Helasu.
But judging from Sreita's current state, the outcome is not as they expected.
……
At that time, after the assault team entered the Golden Land, they immediately received a notification from the fairy realm.
The information provided indicates that their mission objective is: "Hunt the Golden Phantom and ascend the throne!"
Since all information was currently unknown, they disregarded the mission for the time being and instead cautiously observed their surroundings.
They are currently in the ruins of an oasis in the desert.
The golden, barren desert contrasts sharply with the fertile oasis with abundant water.
They were on the edge of the oasis, but could see in the distance a tower-like ruin in the center of the oasis, but much larger than a regular tower.
The massive tower ruins gleamed golden in the sunlight.
From a distance, it looks as if it were cast in gold.
Such a conspicuous building, barring any unforeseen circumstances, suggests that their hunting target is inside.
However, instead of heading to the ruins immediately, they cautiously began exploring the surrounding area.
A large number of sea buckthorn trees have formed a forest, and these sea buckthorn trees have formed a defensive line to keep the yellow sand out.
They tried to leave the sea buckthorn oasis, but were blocked by a thin membrane. In other words, their current exploration area was within the oasis.
Aside from sea buckthorn trees, they found nothing else nearby.
After confirming that nothing was missing, they then entered the ruins of the tower that radiated golden light.
Looking up at it up close, the sheer scale of the tower ruins truly comes into view.
Although it only has three floors, each floor is as if it has been stretched by a huge force—it is at least ten zhang high, and looking up at it requires craning your neck to the limit; the horizontal spread is even more amazing, with the remaining broken walls extending to both sides like a winding mountain ridge. The area occupied by just one floor is comparable to that of Rabbit Town.
Even the nearby crooked pillar is so thick that it would take several people holding hands to encircle it.
While such magnificent and massive ruins cannot yet be called a "wonder", they are already very close to being a "spectacle" in the minds of the assault team.
They slowly arrived at the first level of the ruins.
The first floor is open, with no obstructions on the surroundings or any doors, only a series of crooked pillars.
Furthermore, there are people on the first floor.
Not only their assault team, but all the other teams that chose to attack Golden Township gathered here.
For example, Sreita saw a group from the Undying City, as well as a group of singers and the Feather Forest Clan, all here.
Seeing the other teams made everyone quite happy, since the Crystal Eye Clan had a good relationship with other races, and perhaps they could form alliances with other teams here.
However, once the Sritta team actually stepped into the first level, they discovered that the team alliance he had hoped for was basically impossible.
because--
"Golden Village, Level 1: Golden Market"
"Note 1: The Golden Market is an open market where all challenge teams will prepare for battle. However, starting from the second level, each team will enter a different space."
"Note 2: The Golden Market is a non-combat zone. Any act of harming other squads in this area will be considered provocation and will be punished with confinement and expulsion."
"Note 3: The Gold Market contains a large number of gold artifacts with incredible effects that may be helpful in your later challenges. However, each person can only choose one gold artifact to carry, and the chosen artifact can only be used in this level."
The rules of the Golden Market dictate that the teams can only talk on the first floor and cannot cooperate.
Although cooperation wasn't possible, exchanging information and intelligence was no problem. Srita spotted a few familiar faces among the various teams and went over to talk to them.
After a brief conversation, Sreita obtained a very important piece of information.
The second level of Golden Land can be challenged repeatedly!
The second level of the Golden Land is called "Golden Illusion".
That's right, it's the golden phantom in the mission objective.
The golden phantoms come in various shapes and sizes, some are beast-like, some are human-like, and so on.
Once each team enters the second level, they will encounter an equal number of golden phantoms as their team. For example, if Srita's team has five members, then they will encounter five golden phantoms on the second level.
Golden Phantom is extremely powerful and possesses many instant-kill skills.
However, these skills are not insurmountable. If you are lucky enough to find a gold item on the first floor that can counter instant-kill skills, you can cope with them.
Additionally, Golden Phantom has a mechanic: whenever a member of your team dies, you can choose to temporarily return to the first level.
The “death” here refers to being killed by the Golden Phantom, but this death is not a real death. Instead, it means being eliminated from the level, returning to Dream Crystal Plains, and entering the challenge cooldown period.
The squad that Sreita asked about had just gone to the second floor, lost a teammate, and then the captain chose to temporarily return to the first floor to re-prepare for battle.
The so-called redoing of war preparations means... selecting new gold artifacts.
Then go up to the second floor again for the challenge.
Until the entire team was eliminated by the Golden Phantom.
……
Srita paused for a moment, then continued, "In short, that's how the first and second levels of the Golden City work: the first level is for pre-battle preparations, and the second level is for the actual challenge."
"As for what's going on on the third floor, nobody knows."
After briefly explaining the rules of Golden Country, Sreita then began to discuss the combat readiness of the assault team.
The task force arrived at the market and, just as the fairyland had predicted, found a large number of gold artifacts there.
They were scattered haphazardly, piled up like small mountains on thick, scarlet carpets, like cheap merchandise from street vendors. Others hung on crooked beams, making them look like golden trees. Still others were displayed on broken stone platforms, like a golden banquet.
The above items still have a sense of "display," but most gold items are simply left lying around.
For example, there are various gold artifacts floating in mid-air, gold threads emerging from cracks in the ground, and gold bricks peeking out from gaps in the floor... The sheer variety is overwhelming, and the sheer number of gold artifacts is so vast that even the air seems to be tinged with a heavy gold.
Upon closer inspection, each type of gold artifact in the market reveals its corresponding effect.
However, it is not perfect.
For example, the gold artifact chosen by Sreita is an oval hand shield, which has the effect of reflecting attacks.
However, after their team went to the second floor and fought the Golden Phantom, they discovered that the effects of each type of gold artifact had their limits, and there were also some side effects.
"My shield also has side effects. As long as it reflects an attack, it will enter the abnormal state of Golden Fear. The more times it reflects an attack, the more severe this abnormal state will become."
Sritta pointed to himself, “During my battle with the Golden Phantom, I deflected about ten attacks. The current situation is that even after leaving the Golden Land, the fear of the Golden Phantom remains deeply rooted in my mind.”
"I feel fear when I look at everything now. It's as if they could turn into flesh-devouring monsters at any moment and swallow me whole."
At this point, Srita smiled wryly: "If someone had said something like this to me before, I would most likely have slapped him to wake him up and told him: even if monsters really appear, just fight them, what's there to be afraid of?"
"But when I actually entered this abnormal state, I found that it was impossible to remain calm. It was an abnormality that could erode people's hearts. I even had a feeling that my personality had changed."
"They became fearful and afraid to look people in the eye..."
As Sreita was speaking, she suddenly felt a cool breeze on her face.
The next second, the fear in his heart lessened considerably. He looked up abruptly and found Angell raising his hand to cast a spell, his eyes filled with a kind of inquiry.
"That was just now..."
Angell: "Does a little trick, like a calming one, work?"
Srita nodded: "It worked. I felt like I suddenly became clear-headed. But when I reflected on myself in that moment of clarity, I realized that I didn't seem to have any problems at all..."
Sreita's expression turned somewhat fearful as she spoke.
He actually thought that being "cowardly" was not a problem. He was clearly a brave and skilled warrior who had never been "cowardly" before.
But at this point, after reflecting on himself, he surprisingly felt that there was no problem.
Does this mean... my personality has changed without me even realizing it?!
Sreita suddenly felt a little lost.
Angel then spoke up, "I only used a calming method to soothe you, but I didn't purify your golden fear... I don't know how to purify it."
Ifda then added, "That's right, you feel like your personality has changed, perhaps because your fear of gold hasn't been purified."
"You don't need to worry for now. Since the calming method is effective, it might have other purification effects that will also be useful. Besides, we can use some real-world methods to solve this problem after we log off."
Hearing Angel and Ifta's words of comfort, Sreita finally felt a little relieved.
However, after saying these words, Angel lowered his eyes: what he had just used was actually Nightmare's Tranquility.
The level of Nightmare Illusion is very high in Dream Crystal Plains, which undoubtedly put Sritta at ease.
However, Nightmare Illusion could only make Sritta no longer afraid, but his personality seemed to have really shifted slightly... Because personality issues are internalized, they are difficult to intervene in externally.
In other words, Sreita's guess may be correct; his personality has changed under the influence of the fear of gold.
This change might be something Angel could gradually correct by creating a large-scale overlapping illusion through Nightmare Illusion; however, this would take a very long time to rectify.
Moreover, since personality traits are internalized, completely reversing them doesn't necessarily require resorting to the Nightmare Illusion. Just as Ifda said, there are other ways to deal with it once he returns to reality.
Therefore, Angel also temporarily abandoned the idea of using Nightmare Illusion to help.
"continue."
Sritta nodded. After calming down, he felt a little more at ease and spoke more steadily.
"While gold artifacts are very effective, each type of gold artifact has some side effects."
Fear of gold is the most common side effect.
Sreita's behavior was: timid.
However, there are actually some side effects of the fear of gold: photophobia, fear, double vision, etc.
In addition to these, there are side effects that can cause extreme physical pain. This type of side effect is called "golden suppression."
Angell: "Therefore, the side effects of gold artifacts are either mental or physical."
Sreita nodded.
"However, the gold artifacts do increase our chances of conquering the Golden Phantom."
“The Golden Phantom is really too strong; you can’t beat it without using gold equipment.” Sritta paused, “Even with gold equipment, the probability of defeating the Golden Phantom is extremely small.”
At least before Sreita left, he had not heard of anyone who could defeat the Golden Phantom.
Gray Porcelain: "If you don't tell me, can I challenge repeatedly and change my gold equipment repeatedly?"
Srita gave a wry smile: "At first, I also thought this was a way to clear the game, but after actually fighting it, I realized that it was actually a huge trap."
The prerequisite for repeated challenges is that one's own side suffers casualties in order to retreat to the next level.
After they regrouped and went to challenge the second floor again, they found that the Golden Phantom had not suffered any casualties.
Their group went from five to four, but the Golden Phantoms group remained five.
Even after changing to more suitable gold equipment, he still couldn't win, and even performed worse than at the beginning.
“Most importantly, after switching to gold equipment, the fear or oppression we experience with gold also doubles…” Sreita: “For example, the other members of our team, after switching to gold equipment, then they experienced double the fear of gold.”
Ivyda nodded in confirmation: "Some people experience both fear and photophobia, and some even experience blurred vision and severe pain throughout their bodies at the same time..."
Only Stryker is slightly better.
Because his round shield was effective, he never replaced it, and therefore only had the "Fear" gold shield.
“With the Golden Phantom remaining intact and the gold artifacts causing a double disaster, repeating the challenge under these circumstances is a huge pitfall.” Sritta: “The best approach is to succeed in the challenge in one go. If our side suffers casualties, it’s better to strategically abandon the challenge than to force our way through.”
Then, Sreita recounted some details of the battle with the Golden Phantom.
Finally, everyone asked some questions, and then Eveda left the Word Manor with Sreita.
Now, only our own people remain in the garden.
“It seems that a new session of the ‘Stone Table Conference’ should begin.” Angell looked around at everyone and spoke slowly.