Secret Realm - Desperate Village 2 (Nightmare Level)
Minimum Participants: 8
Recommended Level: 30
Secret Realm Completion Condition: Defeat the Hatred of the Radiant, Current Progress 0/1
Description: Originally, the Desperate Village should have been relieved after the Desperate Undead was killed.
However, the Desperate Undead met its end by the holy light it most hated, and just before its hatred dissipated, it saw the staff and robe that had sealed it away in the past.
Memories from its life came rushing back like a spring, and the Desperate Undead's resentment refused to fade, ultimately coalescing into the Hatred of the Radiant.
Freed from the constraints of its rotting physical body, it has become even more powerful. The Desperate Village has fallen into deeper despair, eternal and unending…
Seeing this new task, everyone understood what had happened.
Sometimes, upon clearing a secret realm, hidden stages can be triggered under specific conditions, subjecting the participants to a second phase of the trial.
The chances of this occurring are extremely low, as secret realms are rare to begin with, and the conditions to trigger a hidden stage are usually very stringent, with few historical records.
Now, whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, Lufan's group had triggered the hidden stage and found themselves in the second phase of the Desperate Village secret realm trial.
Based on the description, Lufan guessed that the trigger condition was the Desperate Undead being defeated by a Light-attribute skill, while the rewards for clearing the secret realm included the Holy Light Seal and Twilight Holy Light Robe.
This trigger condition was indeed quite obscure, but who would have thought their team would have Qin Qiu, a Holy Light mage, who had actually obtained those two items?
At this moment, Lufan was still calm, but the expressions of Sun Ge, Qin Qiu, and the others had turned deathly pale.
Qin Qiu, drained of color, gripped the Holy Light Seal so tightly that her knuckles had turned white. "It seems… it's all because of my hidden class that we triggered the secret realm's hidden stage. If I hadn't attacked the Desperate Undead back then, maybe we wouldn't have been brought back here…"
Sun Ge sighed, "Who could have known this secret realm had a hidden stage?"
"This is a Nightmare-level secret realm, and the recommended level has increased to 30. Even with Lufan here, I'm afraid we can't handle it. I think we should just try to find the exit as soon as possible and avoid confronting the monsters."
"There's only one monster in the entire secret realm, and it's definitely a boss-level threat. If we run into it, our chances of survival are slim."
The others nodded in agreement, having no intention of attempting to clear the secret realm.
Come on, the Desperate Undead was already so powerful, and now the difficulty and level of the secret realm had increased by a whole tier. Who would dare to pursue the secret realm rewards?
Just as everyone was about to leave and search for the exit, the silent Lufan shook his head and said, "Leaving might not be that easy."
As soon as Lufan spoke, a deafening rumbling sound of rushing water filled the air. Looking over, they saw the nearby lake surging and churning, as if being kneaded by a massive hand. The foul-smelling lake water quickly rose into the air, shifting and reshaping.
Soon, the water coalesced into a humanoid form, standing about 5 meters tall - an oversized version of the Desperate Undead, but without the rusted chains.
The sole monster of the secret realm had appeared, less than 10 meters away from Lufan's group.
Trying to run would likely prove difficult.
Everyone quickly used their Identification skill to examine the monster's attributes, and a sense of despair immediately permeated all of them, except Lufan.
This was true despair.
Hatred of the Radiant: (Nightmare-level boss, aggressive)
Level: 25
Strength: 386
Agility: 249
Spirit: 435
Endurance: 398
Skills:
Body of Hatred (passive - Hatred of the Radiant has no physical form, immune to physical attacks)
Hatred of the Radiant (passive - Light-attribute attacks will increase its hatred and power)
Hatred's Cage (traps enemies with its hatred)
Hatred's Impact (unleashes devastating attacks with negative status effects)
Although the level remained the same, the Hatred of the Radiant had become a Nightmare-level boss, with its attributes doubling.
Moreover, the two passive skills made it almost impossible for Lufan and Qin Qiu to do anything against it.
If it was immune to physical attacks, rendering Lufan's attacks useless, then who among them could actually hurt it, with its sky-high Spirit and Endurance?
This boss was truly terrifying.
And even worse, upon appearing, it immediately released the hatred within it, forming a 100-meter diameter cage of hatred that sealed off the group's escape route.
Escaping the secret realm had become an elusive hope.
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