In the valley of Jinling City, the high-level members of the Cold Moon Pavilion were recently leveling up here. Suddenly, an urgent voice reached Cold Moon, saying, "Sis, sis, something big happened. Chen Feng has been killed three times in a row and has dropped off the rankings."
"Hmm?" Cold Moon frowned and quickly opened her friends list, only to see that Chen Feng's level had dropped to 20, a decrease of 6 levels. In other words, he had been killed 6 times. As she was looking, Chen Feng's avatar suddenly flickered, and his level dropped to 19.
Cold Moon quickly sent a message, asking, "What happened?"
However, there was no response from the other side. She then asked Cold Wind, "Has there been any major activity from the Proud Heroes recently?"
"No, not at all," Cold Wind shook his head. Their people had been keeping an eye on the Proud Heroes. Lately, they had been quietly developing.
This made Cold Moon furrow her brows even more. If there was anyone who held the deepest grudge against Chen Feng, it would be the Proud Heroes. If it wasn't them, which other guild had the ability to kill Chen Feng 6-7 times? Moreover, if they couldn't win, they could hide in the city. Just at that moment, she saw Chen Feng's avatar flicker again, and his level dropped to 18.
"How is this possible?" Cold Moon's cold face was filled with shock.
On the other side...
Su Muxue also looked at Chen Feng's avatar in her friends list, her face full of disbelief.
"What's wrong, Miss?" Liu Shu asked when he saw her expression.
"Chen Feng's level has been dropping continuously. It has now dropped to level 16."
"What!" Liu Shu was also shocked. He immediately contacted the members of the guild in Jinling City.
"Miss, everything is normal in Jinling City. No one has seen Chen Feng's figure at the resurrection point. Could there be a map with a respawn mechanism?" Liu Shu speculated.
"It's possible. Otherwise, his level wouldn't drop so quickly," Su Muxue said, then asked, "Liu Shu, do you think he was killed by someone or by a boss?"
"If there is such a map, the possibility of it being a boss is higher," Liu Shu analyzed.
Su Muxue nodded, looking at Chen Feng's level continuously plummeting in her friends list, her face revealing an indescribable expression.
Ten minutes later...
"He's level 0 now," Su Muxue sighed, then asked Liu Shu, "Wasn't it said that there's no level drop before level 10?"
"If I'm not mistaken, only in the newbie village will there be no level drop. If you die outside the newbie village, you'll still drop levels," Liu Shu analyzed.
Cold Moon Pavilion...
Cold Moon looked at Chen Feng, who had dropped to level 0, sighed, and muttered, "I owe you a favor. If you need it in the future, I will spare no effort to help you."
As the situation escalated, the news of Chen Feng dropping to level 0 spread like wildfire throughout the entire Oracle, bringing both joy and sorrow to different people.
Meanwhile, the protagonist of the story was still enduring the various tortures inflicted by the Dark Night Sovereign in the grand hall. Every touch from the Dark Night Sovereign meant certain death, but Wu Shaochen had grown accustomed to it. In less than half an hour, he had been brought down from level 26 to level 0. There was nothing he couldn't accept anymore.
This Dark Night Sovereign seemed to lack intelligence, or perhaps it was the lack of intelligence in the resurrected Dark Night Sovereign. Every time he killed Wu Shaochen, he would turn and leave. But Wu Shaochen would revive and come back to kill him, creating an endless cycle.
"This guy must be insane," Wu Shaochen muttered. Being level 0, he didn't bother dodging anymore. "Just kill me, I can't be bothered to hide anymore. Anyway, there's no escape." Although it hurt a bit, it was only 15% of the pain, and he could endure it.
What Wu Shaochen was focused on was the disappearance of the poison on this guy's body. He held a bunch of skills in his hands specifically for poisoning, and this guy didn't care about Wu Shaochen's attacks at all. It was like scratching an itch for him. So even though Wu Shaochen was being killed miserably, whenever he had the chance, he would strike a few times, keeping 5 layers of poison on him for over half an hour. Wu Shaochen estimated that by now, the poison had already drained nearly 20 million of his health.
"I don't believe the poison won't kill you," Wu Shaochen muttered.
The torment continued, and every time Wu Shaochen died, he would pick up the dropped equipment and put it back on after resurrection. This was the advantage of respawning in the same place. After all, equipment had no level requirements as long as it matched the class. Even at level 0, he remained an assassin, and it didn't affect his ability to wear equipment.
In this way, the two of them spent two and a half hours. Wu Shaochen had lost count of how many times he had died, but since his level couldn't drop anymore, it didn't matter. However, when he saw the Dark Night Sovereign with only one-tenth of his health remaining, Wu Shaochen became excited. "Kill him, kill him, and everything will be restored."
Calculating silently, this guy should have around one billion health. With the poison damage of 10,000 per second, that would be 36 million per hour. In two and a half hours, the poison had drained 90 million of his health, leaving only 10 million. Just a little more than ten minutes of persistence would do.
However, there was a puzzle in Wu Shaochen's mind that he couldn't solve. It was completely illogical for a boss like this to appear in such a place. Moreover, the fact that this map had a respawn mechanism was surprising. If someone else had come in instead of him, wouldn't they be trapped here forever?
This wasn't a setting that a normal game should have. And what about the encounter with Zi You? He could plant magic patterns on Wu Shaochen's body and control his life and death. All these signs didn't seem like a normal game. Even the most brainless game designer wouldn't do something like this. It was pushing the players into a dead end.
While Wu Shaochen complained, he looked around. And with a glance, he saw something that made his mouth twitch. In the place where the coffin used to be, there was a recess, and now there was a mechanism embedded there, the same as the one outside. It had been there all along, hidden beneath the coffin. When the coffin shattered and the Dark Night Sovereign emerged, this thing had already appeared. But because Wu Shaochen had been focused on killing the guy and not on escaping, he hadn't noticed it.
"Bang!" Wu Shaochen fell again.
"You damn it, I've let you torture me for hours, I won't let you get away with it today." Wu Shaochen exclaimed angrily. If he had discovered this mechanism earlier, it wouldn't have been difficult for him to open the door with his many life-saving skills. He believed that once he opened that door, he should be able to revive in the city, which means he had been killed many times for nothing.
"This guy probably doesn't know how to open the mechanism, right?" Wu Shaochen worried, afraid that he would run away. If he ran away, that would truly be a cause for despair. Then, after Wu Shaochen revived again, he would directly flash away from the mechanism. Sure enough, the other party instantly chased after him.
"It seems like I thought too much. How could this guy, with his intelligence, possibly open the mechanism?" Wu Shaochen thought to himself.
After being tortured for more than ten minutes again, the massive body of the Dark Night Lord finally crashed to the ground, and at the same time, Wu Shaochen received a system notification.
"Ding, congratulations on killing [Dark Night Lord], gaining 100,000 reputation and 10 million experience points."
"Ding, congratulations on leveling up..."
"Ding, congratulations on leveling up..."
"Ding, congratulations on leveling up..."
30 consecutive level-up notifications sounded, and golden light kept flashing on Wu Shaochen's body. His level directly soared from level 0 to level 30, with experience points lv30: 1,425,100/2 million.
"Haha, I'm back to this level." Wu Shaochen exclaimed happily. This leveling speed is truly fast, but why didn't he gain any talent layers or bonus attribute points?
"It seems like this isn't a normal boss, no wonder there's no boss realm display later." Wu Shaochen thought to himself. Just at this moment, a global announcement resounded.
"Global announcement: Due to a player reaching level 30, the first global event [Slaughter Battlefield] of the Oracle has been activated. Players can go to their respective main cities to learn about the event details!"
The global announcement left everyone stunned, as the number one on the leaderboard, Yu Fei, was only level 25, right? So everyone immediately opened the level rankings.
First place: Chen Feng, level 30 assassin!
"What's going on?" someone exclaimed.
"I want to know too, how did Chen Feng suddenly reach level 30?"
At this moment, everyone was dumbfounded, and the previous ridicule disappeared instantly. All that was left were various speculations.