Piao Tianwen     There is a special area in "Zero", called the Nightmare Zone. This place is located at the junction of France and Germany, half in France and half in Germany. Originally, this area should be considered part of the national barrier between France and Germany, which is the special area specially used to block the connection between the two countries. However, this area has a characteristic, that is, you can easily enter this area from anywhere, but as long as you go in, you will not think of it.

If it is a general pure combat game, everyone only likes to fight, so no one may pay attention to this area. After all, the feature of this place is quite scary. However, since Zero has a wide range of user base, according to the theory that there are all kinds of birds when there are too many people, naturally everyone will have them when there are too many people. So, a group of extremely boring advanced players lost interest in leveling, and then they began to play adventures.

After all, the world in Zero is not as dull as the real world. It is full of mysterious unknown spaces and various treasures and monsters. This is a place tailor-made for explorers. So, these players who love adventure discover and explore everywhere. Finally, they thought of this overlooked area. Because as a national barrier, its range is too huge and easy to enter, it formed a dark effect under the light, which made the explorers ignore it. But in the end they still remembered this area and really walked in.

As mentioned earlier, there is no external barrier in the nightmare area, you can easily walk in. Its edge is a primeval forest hidden in the thick fog that never dissipates all year round. At its edge, you can also see the canopy of trees, and when it reaches the depths, you can see nothing. Whether you look from the ground or the sky, it is just a mysterious white fog.

It would be fine if it was just a forest covered with thick fog, but there was no shortage of such places in the game. However, as these explorers entered and eventually died, various situations in this area were brought back.

According to the description of the explorers, the area in the thick fog is an environment almost equivalent to the Forbidden Demon Realm. In their team, a mage of more than 1,200 levels used by a mage who could burn a small village, and finally only fired a small fire ball slightly larger than the lighter's flame. Even the leaves were not lit. Another super-range spell used by a water mage who was slightly lower than him landed in Tianhe, and finally only produced a glass of water. Its power was many times smaller than before.

In fact, in addition to spell skills, even the skills of warriors have failed here. In addition to some physical abilities, such as bloodthirst, madness, etc., it can barely take effect, most energy-related things will be in an extreme weakening state here. It’s not that they can’t be used, but that they have no power.

If it is just a sealing skill, players are not afraid of it. After all, the game mainly relies on ordinary attacks to fight. Unlike ordinary games, the characteristics of the skills in "Zero" are that they consume super high magic and have super powerful power. In other words, the skills are all very effective, but they consume a lot of money. Most people cannot use skills continuously, and can only use skills as killer moves. They interspersed in the process of ordinary attacks in order to obtain the maximum profit.

Because of these characteristics of skills, the players in Zero are not too dependent on skills, unlike other games that cannot fight without skills. However, this theory is valid in other areas, but after entering this fog, this phenomenon will be restored to the same as other games, and without skills, it will be completely impossible to fight. As for the reason... it is because of the monsters here.

According to the expedition team that had returned from death, they had only encountered one monster in this foggy area. At first, they thought they had encountered many monsters, but finally checked the battle briefing to find out that the creatures of different forms they fought with were actually one thing, because the names given by the system were all called "Mist Soul". According to the expedition team's inference, the body of this creature should be fog, or something without entity. They had encountered many attacks from this monster in the fog, and each time their shape was different, and they thought they would have killed them at that time.

There were few monsters, but later I found out that one of my monsters was not killed, because the wounds would be recovered immediately after being cut. Only by destroying more than one-third of their body structure at one time, or cutting off their heads, or cutting them in half or other major damage. Otherwise, ordinary cutting injuries would not affect them at all. Moreover, even if more than one-third of the damage was completed and their heads were cut off, the result would be that they suddenly burst into a pile of fog and disappeared into the thick fog around them, but you would not get any experience value because the other party was not dead at all.

A monster that cannot be killed by ordinary attacks and is in the area of ​​the Forbidden Demon Realm is definitely a nightmare for everyone. Although the expedition team advanced in the forest for a long time, it was not killed in the end, and it was unable to fight back until they were so tired that they could no longer fight back, and then they were surrounded by monsters. During this period, they also thought about using teleportation scrolls, but this area unfortunately restricted the flow of magic, so the scrolls and other things were basically scrapped. In addition, the magnetic field here is also messy. The navigation methods that can be found in the game will be invalid here, and various communication skills such as mind transmission will also be greatly weakened as the distance increases. In short, this place is a huge maze. No matter how well you prepare, as long as you go in, you don’t think of coming out again unless you die.

However, despite the harsh environment in this place and the monsters are a bit tricky, this place is currently one of the areas that players yearn for the most. As for the reason... it is because of the expedition team. Although they have returned, they have not gained nothing.

In the game, crises are always proportional to opportunities. Although this area is extremely difficult, many players think it is just an area that cannot be conquered, but the rich resources inside it are amazing. In fact, this expedition team is not a monster that has not been killed in the fog. A mage in their team was forced to use self-destruction. The mage's self-destruction consumes magic power in the body rather than in the environment, so the power intensity in the space has little effect on self-destruction.

The mage finally successfully self-destructed, but accidentally killed several monsters. It was not the kind of fake death that destroyed the monster's entity and turned it into a fog again. It was also the only time this team of explorers really killed the monster after entering the fog. Of course, the price was a little high, because the mage self-destructed not level one, but level ten, so ordinary mages would not self-destruct even if they died. However, when the mage returned to resurrection, he was surprised to find that he actually only lost nine and a half. Afterwards, he checked his detailed experience and found an amazing result. The monsters he killed actually gave him half-level experience. Killing a few monsters can get half-level experience. In this case, players have never experienced it since they passed the tenth level. How high is this experience worth it to be so powerful?

In fact, if you have high experience, it’s nothing. After all, it’s difficult to kill these monsters, so everyone will only think that this is a purely disgusting setting. After all, can’t you see it? However, the expedition team has indeed brought back the benefits that can be touched, that is, the magic crystal.

It's very ordinary, right? All over the world, there are magic crystal mines wherever there are players, and large corps like our Frost Rose Alliance can mine magic crystals based on tons of calculations. So it sounds like magic crystals are not very expensive.

In fact, the white magic crystal is not expensive. According to the actual resources, the value of the white magic crystal is probably similar to that of oil, at most a little higher. Although oil is soft gold, it is relatively a little bit higher than that of oil companies. As an individual, even if you give you a bucket for you to casually wear it, how much can you transport it? You are exhausted to death and just live a well-off life. So the white magic crystal is indeed very good. But if you want to mine in such a place, even if the white magic crystal is piled on the surface for you to pick it up, the input and output will be disproportionate. After all, if you die once in order to pick up a few white magic crystals, it will be a disadvantage in any way.

However, although you are at a disadvantage to picking up the white magic crystal, what if it is the colorful magic crystal or crystal core?

The colorful magic crystal is a high-level magic crystal that can automatically return to the demon and can be recharged continuously infinitely. Of course, its greatest value is not its automatic magic crystal, but its super high mass-energy output ratio. Compared with the white magic crystal, under the same volume, the colorful magic crystal can output more than tens of thousands of times the energy of the white magic crystal in the same time. According to reality, the output power is tens of thousands of times that of the white magic crystal. If the white magic crystal uses the same speed to output magic energy, let alone how long its own magic power can last, even if it has infinite energy, the white magic crystal itself

It will also explode due to overload. You should know that sometimes we use magic crystals as bombs. From this, you can imagine how unstable this thing is. However, the colorful magic crystals don’t have that many problems. This thing can not only use tens of thousands of times the output power of the white magic crystals, but it is also very stable and will not explode. It can be said that the colorful magic crystals are the essential core of top-level building creatures. Without this thing, it is equivalent to changing the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier into a coal-burning power system. Even if other things remain unchanged, the combat power will drop by a lot.

Compared with the colorful magic crystal, this crystal core is even more exaggerated. This thing is also called the crystal mother. It is the source of the growth of the magic crystal. Although the crystal mother cannot be used directly as a power, it can absorb magic power in the space and precipitate magic crystals in nearby areas and make it grow and grow. Although most of the ones grown are white magic crystals, sometimes they will grow red magic crystals, and even colorful magic crystals are directly emerging. Anyway, our guild basically understands the crystal mother as a solar panel. As long as it is placed there, it can generate energy by itself and will never dry up.

As high-end crystal minerals that all powerful guilds dream of, these two things can be said to be treasures with no market value. No matter whether any of these two ores appears in any place in the world, it will immediately attract a bunch of guilds to grab them. However, in this nightmare area, these priceless crystals have huge storage capacity. Although they cannot be said to be everywhere, they are quite common. If you have to think of a figurative concept, you can understand them as common as mushrooms in ordinary forests, and you can see a small piece of them almost nowhere to go. Of course, these two crystals will not appear as large pieces as mushrooms. But each place looks like one or two pieces.

Regarding the existence of these two crystals, the expedition team recorded the image with memory crystals, so the authenticity was fine. However, the entire team only brought a piece back in the end, and the price paid for it was that the whole team would be destroyed in groups, because all these crystals in the fog must be surrounded by dangerous areas where fog souls appeared in piles. The expedition team finally decided to fight for the death because they had no way out of ammunition and food. As a result, they got the things, but the team was destroyed.

What Ling said to me just now was very obvious. She just wanted me to go to this nightmare area. As for the reason... Of course, it's not for those crystal mines. Although this thing is valuable, Ling is my magic pet, and she is not the leader of the guild. She doesn't care about such things. What Ling really cares about is my personal interests. What she wants me the most is to use her current physical condition to quickly go there to kill some monsters and level up.

With my current level, most of the monsters in the leveling areas in various regions are no longer enough for me to kill. It’s not that their number is too low. After all, Zero has its own balance system, and you can kill it quickly and it can make up for it quickly, so it is impossible to kill all of them. The key is that the experience value of these monsters is too low. All I want to kill are bosses, and bosses cannot appear in piles like small monsters. Therefore, I can’t upgrade by killing the boss. It is precisely because there are too few places for me to upgrade.

So Ling has always been very troubled by this issue. After all, my strength is directly linked to the strength of these demon pets. Although with Ling's loyalty, my level will no longer suppress the demon pet's level, but the increase in my combat effectiveness against demon pets is still affected by the level. Therefore, whether for my strength or their own strength, Ling hopes that I can upgrade my level as soon as possible, and the higher the better. It is rare to have such a state, which is just right for leveling in the nightmare area.

It’s not that people cannot use skills in nightmare areas, but their power is too low. And I am in a short circuit state now, and the headache is that the power is too great. And being suppressed by the nightmare areas, I can just balance my magic attributes. In this way, I am returning to normal without any influence in the nightmare areas. The monsters there are actually not strong combat power at all. The only difficulty is that they are not afraid of physical attacks, and ordinary people cannot use magic there. This has caused the invincible combat effect of monsters there.

Since I understood Ling’s thoughts, I thought seriously, but I was still a little hesitant. “Well, although what you said is pretty good, what should we do when we talk to Poseidon?”

Ling looked at me with a smile and asked, "Is there any problem with postponing for one day?"

I thought about it and shook my head, "It should be no problem. Although this matter needs to be as soon as possible, Poseidon has been restricted for a day or two, and it's nothing to be late for a day."

"That's fine. It's also dangerous to see Poseidon in your current state. If you accidentally use magic power, even if it's passive, it's bad. So it's not only a matter of experience value, but also a sense of protecting your own safety when you stay in a nightmare area. Besides, you can also pick up gems by the way. I believe that if Rose and the others know this, they will definitely agree that you will go to the nightmare area first."

I didn't need to verify Ling's words at all to know that what she said was definitely correct. With Rose's wealth-loving personality, I heard that I can go to the nightmare area to pick up gems like nothing happened, and she would definitely kick me in without hesitation.

"Okay." I finally compromised.

"A wise decision." Ling said with a smile: "Actually this is for your own good. Your current situation will not fade automatically. You must let the magic flow slowly through your body, and then wait until the magic flow time reaches twenty-four hours, you can return to normal. However, because you are currently short-circuited, you cannot use magic in general environments. You must use magic in a low magic space set by man to ensure that the riot magic will not evaporate you in the world. Instead of spending so much effort to create a low magic space by yourself, it is better to use ready-made ones. You can also upgrade and pick up money by the way. Why not do it without killing three birds with one stone?"

"Okay, okay, didn't I say I'll go?" After talking to Ling, I turned to Kameda and said, "You have also heard our conversation. My situation is quite dangerous now, so I have to go to the nightmare area to hide for a day. When it recovers, I will come back to talk to Poseidon as soon as possible. So please apologize to Poseidon."

When Kameda heard my words, he quickly expressed his politeness that he would convey my words and let me go with confidence. Although he had done bad things with kindness, my situation was caused by their twelve masters. So Kameda naturally would not make things difficult for me for the sake of time.

After briefly explaining the current situation to them, I took Ling and a bunch of magic pets to leave the room for the assimilation ceremony to the teleportation array. The reason I wanted to bring a bunch of magic pets was mainly because I can't use magic power now, and it's a bit dangerous to walk alone, so it's safer to bring a group of subordinates. Although this is a bit swaggering, you have to admit that most people with normal minds who see such a large number of high-level creatures coming towards me, their first reaction is to go by. Especially when there is a giant dragon at the front of the team.

Fortunately, the map on the Sea Temple was just opened. Except for Prometheus and the guild, no one knew that this place had been opened yet, so we did not encounter any other players along the way except NPC. After returning to the ground, I took them back to the ground from the newly opened main passage, and then directly replaced the bird and flew back. Of course, in order to ensure that the magic power was not activated, I dared not ride the bird directly. Instead, I asked Iphrit to combine it into a set of armor like power armor on me and wrapped it up. This was also impossible. The armor on my body contained a lot of self-starting defensive magic, some of which were self-energized, while others had to use my magic power. And once it was hit, they would activate themselves and I had no control at all. So, in order to avoid players all over the world discussing the news of "Purple Sun was instantly lost by a small fireball" tomorrow, I had to add a shell to myself.

It is obviously much safer to block outside. And when I don’t take the initiative to cause trouble, the speed and altitude of the bird are definitely not something that ordinary people can interfere if they want to.

Thanks to the super speed of the birds, I had reached the legendary nightmare area in more than an hour.

Just like I said before. The Nightmare Zone is currently one of the most popular topics in the game, so the outer area here is surrounded by many players. Some of them want to fight to death to try if they have the luck to pick up a piece of colorful magic crystal or a gambler of the crystal mother, while others are purely onlookers who are watching the party. Anyway, they are here to pay tribute to this legendary land. When bragging to others in the future, they can also say arrogantly: "The Nightmare Land? I have been to that place..." Anyway, I will be here for you to brag about it.

Because of the above reasons, when I arrived here, a group of players were standing on the edge of the nightmare zone and watching in. As for the reason... because a group of idiots just entered here. And those onlookers who never had a lot of fun were looking forward to seeing whether they could hear the screams of some unlucky guy before he died. Of course, it would be even better if they could see a guy being attacked by a monster in the fog that was not too thick and could barely see a figure. Anyway, the monsters here would not cross the line, so they would not be afraid.

However, just as these guys were looking forward to hearing the screams of the people in front of them, they suddenly heard a sound that was not right. This sound can actually be heard often in reality. It was the sound of a plane flying overhead. But the problem is that there are no planes in the game! There are many flying creatures. But is this sound clearly the sound of a jet engine?

The people attracted by the sound quickly shifted their attention from the fog to the top of their heads, and then everyone was stunned. Because they saw a burning thing that looked like a robot whistling from the top of the sky at an extremely fast speed. When this thing passed over their heads, it was a decomposition and combination, and then a human-shaped object full of armor was released from the human-shaped robot's body. The human-shaped robot was assembled to form another robot in another, and then two human-shaped objects were inserted into the fog and completely disappeared.

It was not until the two humanoid objects disappeared for a minute that someone suddenly shouted: "Damn, those two were not Transformers just now, are they? Are we playing magic games or science fiction games?"

Just as the group of people outside were busy creating tomorrow's new version of the rumors "Transformers Arrived", Iphrit and I crashed into the fog one after another. Then we rolled into a row of big trees in a very embarrassing manner. After completely smashing them, they smashed into the soil and then bounced back and flew over a small bush. Then I seemed to see a group of people's stunned expressions flashed. Then Iphrit directly planted onions into the soil, and I was holding a big tree on my head and feet and stopped completely. Then, one second between, Iphrit flew past me, and was successfully stopped by the next big tree and stopped completely.

Under normal circumstances, our landing should not be so tragic. The reason why it turned out like this was completely an accident. Who would have thought that Feiniao was afraid of the birds in the air like a jet plane. As a result, when he landed, one of the jet combustion chambers sucked a small flying monster. Then the corpse of the monster blocked the exhaust port, causing the combustion chamber to explode and finally broke a wing.

Because Xiao Chun is there, this damage is nothing to the bird. The problem is that it is at a high speed at this time. Therefore, when the bird loses its ability to fly, Iphrit and I were so sad that they crashed into the woods like bombs thrown by the plane. Fortunately, because they are close to the target, the bird's speed has dropped a lot. If we keep a few times the speed of sound, we must be thrown into human cakes.

I supported the soil on both sides of my head with both hands. I pulled my head out of the ground with force, then turned over and flipped down from the tree trunk and stood on the ground. Iphrit got up at the same time as me, but after saying hello to me, he returned to the training space. This ghost place is basically forbidden to demons. Iphrit is like an ordinary devil here. So it is not very useful to stay.

After getting all the mess and soil on my body, I looked around for a moment and found that there were still a group of people standing not far away, and at this time they were staring at me with silly eyes.

It is certainly embarrassing to be discovered such an embarrassing thing, but I am not the kind of person with a very thin skin, so I coughed twice and pretended to be serious and walked towards the central area of ​​the nightmare area.

I was so stupid that I didn't realize it until I coughed, but before they could do anything, I turned around and walked towards the area where the fog was thicker.

Seeing that I actually ignored them and left, the group of people first looked at each other and exchanged their eyes, and then suddenly chased after them.

"Hey. Wait a minute!"

I wanted to leave, but I didn't expect to hear their shouts, which forced me to stop. I turned my head and looked at the direction of the visitor, and I could only see what they wanted to do first.

In fact, those people themselves didn't expect what they were going to catch up with them, so after running to me, they stopped there and didn't leave or speak, which made me feel depressed again. Finally, after staring at me with big eyes and staring for nearly thirty seconds, a female player on the opposite side finally came forward and said, "Hello, we are the adventure team here for adventure. Do you want to form a team with us? After all, you should also know the environment here, it will be safer for everyone to act together, right?"

The other party was obviously good at speaking, but unfortunately I was not interested in it. Shaking my head, I refused and said, "Sorry. I have my own business." After that, I turned around and wanted to leave, but the moment I turned around, I saw a bloody mouth biting towards my face. I was startled by the sudden appearance because I had never felt anything approaching before. With my ability to perceive airflow, sound and some faint mental fluctuations, it is actually very difficult to approach me quietly. Unless I was attracted by something and did not pay attention to the surrounding situation, I would not be quietly approached by something. However, this thing that rushed towards me actually avoided my perception, and was not completely relaxed.

"Be careful."

The moment I turned around and saw the monster, the reminder sounded behind me, but my movements were faster. Almost the moment the reminder was issued, I had already fallen with a sword, and the monster directly blasted into a ball of white smoke, but the smoke burned like natural gas as soon as it appeared. The purple flame almost flashed by, and in less than a second it completely burned the smoke completely. At the same time, a ball of black gas separated from the smoke and flew into my body. Obviously, the thing in front of me had been killed, because the dragon soul suit absorbed soul power, which can only be absorbed by the death of the enemy, so the appearance of soul power must represent the death of the target.

The people who just reminded me were all staring at this time. They originally thought I was going to be unlucky. Some of them were secretly happy, "I told you to refuse to form a team, are you unlucky now?" Of course, their pride also disappeared with the disappearance of the monster, replaced by endless fear. When they were suddenly attacked, they killed the monster in just a blink of an eye, and they were killed in one blow. This shows that both my attack power, reaction speed and combat intuition were far higher than them, otherwise it would be impossible to be so fast.

"Thank you." I turned around and nodded to the group of people. Then I threw a piece of crystal to the woman I was talking to before. She just reminded me. Although I didn't help, at least I had this intention, and I must thank me.

The woman seemed quite surprised to catch the crystal I threw, because it was not a valuable crystal, but just a relatively ordinary piece of white crystal, which is a relatively common resource in the game. Although it also has demand, it is the same as cement and bricks in reality. Although it has the value of purchasing, no one will give anyone bricks or cement, right? Are such a cheap thing used as a gift?

Seeing that the other party didn't understand, I explained: "This is a signal transmitter. If you want to leave here, or you encounter trouble that cannot be solved, break it up. As long as I can receive the signal, I will come to save you. But I must explain first that I will only stay here for twenty-four hours, and if I leave, I will not come back. Also, the signal transmission distance of this thing outside is 300 kilometers. But it is said that it will interfere with the signal. I have not tested it, so I don't know how far it will be without the signal. It depends on your luck. In short, I will definitely arrive if I can receive the signal within twenty-four hours."

After explaining, I summoned Ye Ying and climbed up without waiting for the other party to react. Ye Ying waited for me to climb up and stomped forward slowly and trotted away from the scene. It was not until Ye Ying and I disappeared into the layers of fog that the group of people here suddenly reacted.

"Damn, that guy is so arrogant. Who is he?" A young player asked unhappily.

An older player next to him slapped the guy on the back of the head and said, "Don't talk nonsense. That guy is Zi Ri!"

"Purple Ri?" The young man who was beaten was also startled. "Are you talking about the purple Ri from the Frost Rose League?"

"Nonsense. Who else is there except him named Zi Ri who can be remembered by us?"

The young man was scolded and didn't know why he kept talking, but when he thought about it, he felt it was wrong, so he asked, "But it's not right. Zi Ri's equipment doesn't seem to be like this?"

"Idiot, Zi Ri's equipment is the only three full-scale growth artifact sets in the game. The appearance of that thing is not fixed. As long as Zi Ri continues to become stronger, the thing will continue to deform. The change of appearance now only means that Zi Ri must have been greatly strengthened again."

"But how do you recognize the equipment is not right?" the young man asked stupidly.

This time, the woman holding the crystal next to her said, "The equipment will become a magic pet, but it won't change. The four hooves float in the air, the feet on the hellfire, and the whole body is pitch black. The mount is clearly a nightmare. But have you noticed? The nightmare has a black crystal horn on its head. I don't know how many nightmare mounts there are in the game, but there are definitely not many. If you talk about a nightmare with horns, it is definitely a nightmare transformed by Zi Ri's shadow unicorn called Ye Ying. Although that thing is now acting as a mount, if we really fight, we can't beat that thing."

"Is that amazing?"

The captain who had never spoken proved: "Nightmare's attack power is average. But the skills are too evil. If you really want to fight, as long as the other party is patient, I will not be the opponent."

The young man stuck out his tongue and said, "Fortunately he didn't make him angry just now." He said this and looked at the crystal held by the woman and said, "You said that if we really use this thing, will he come to save us?"

"It should be." The captain said: "At present, Zi Ri's evaluations outside say that he is very cunning, but has a good reputation. He will find ways to fight for benefits before making a guarantee, but once he makes a promise, it will inevitably be executed without any discount. I think with his reputation, there is no need to damage his reputation for us kittens. Anyway, saving us with his strength is just a small task."

"But this is a nightmare area? If the demon is forbidden, is Zi Ri that strong?"

If that young man was still with me now, he would definitely answer without hesitation that he said, "It's indeed that strong", but unfortunately he is not with me now. Of course, in fact, he will probably be ruined if he wants to be here, because I am now surrounded by a large group of monsters, three layers inside and three layers outside. Although there are no corpses and blood, looking at the messy battle traces around me, you should know that there are definitely many dead monsters. Just...
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