Chapter 279: Chapter 180: The Hermit Valley of the Bamogo Mountain Range_2
"This is the difference between a top student and a bottom one."
The quality of the Law Knight’s shell is far inferior to that of the Earth Giant, as is the strength of their shells.
Fortunately, after he peeled off the Earth Giant’s full set of armor and gave it to the Law Knight, the Blood Bull Knight could hardly hold on, without being mobbed to death by monsters.
But the good times didn’t last long...
[You have defeated ’Unknown Star Monsters’...]
[...]
[You feel a little tired!]
"..."
Lin Xun wished he could throw the Law Knight into the sewers.
"The Earth Giant is overdrawn and cannot last, but what about you? You’re so quick even without using medicine?!"
He tried to switch between the Dancer shell and the rest of the shells.
The underworld game unsurprisingly refused his request.
It didn’t take long for the game text to indicate shell fatigue again.
Lin Xun estimated that it wouldn’t be long until the Law Knight passed out from exhaustion.
Although he was mentally prepared before the trial, he vaguely expected the trial would be extremely difficult.
But he didn’t expect that the ’persistence’ mentioned in the stele meant facing endless monsters on the battlefield.
"I must not give up! If I fail this battle and am eliminated, let alone whether the trial can be reopened."
"Just to find the ores to restore stamina, if the four ores are all there is in the cave, even if I can enter the trial again, there’s no hope of passing!"
Lin Xun opened the item list again to find usable items.
His gaze paused, and he saw the ’Tainted Red Orchid’ gathering dust in the corner.
The last ’Tainted Red Orchid’ purchased in the Blood Sun world can only alleviate the fatigue of ’fallen’ shells.
Seeing that the Law Knight was about to fall, he quickly switched shells.
[You are now in the shell of the ’Fallen Earth Giant’!]
[You used ’Bloody Red Orchid’, fully restoring the fatigue of the shell!]
[You pick up the ’Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace’ in your hand and stride forward again, rushing into the endless ocean of monsters...]
"I hope I can hold on until the end of the trial, it can’t be that I have to wipe out all the monsters on the battlefield to pass the trial."
"If that’s the case, no one could pass the trial!"
Lin Xun kept persevering, waiting for the right opportunity to emerge.
[...]
[After an unknown amount of time, the desolate horn sounded again on the battlefield.]
[You suddenly woke up, surrounded by monstrous corpses, and an endless stream of monsters was surging towards you from not far away.]
[You finally got the signal to retreat from the battlefield.]
[You look back and there were no soldiers left standing, in the entire Oath Corps, in the whole human battlefield, only you are left...]
[Soon, the horn sound drowned, and you were alone in an endless ocean of monsters.]
[Your joy turned into sorrow, you knew you were doomed.]
[You kneeled down with the giant club in your hand...]
[You feel very tired!]
[The star monsters surrounding you reflected the cold light with their sharp claws, approaching you!]
[Your body is exhausted, your strength was almost used up, the most lethal thing was the despair in your heart, not seeing your way out.]
[The cold light was flickering, the sharp claws were close at hand, you bit the bullet and swung the giant club, repelling the attackers, but more sharp claws were mercilessly lunging at you...]
[You barely held your ground, the side effects from consuming four ores consecutively were undeniably prominent.]
[Your strength greatly weakened, the powerful attack that could smash monsters into flesh was barely enough to repel monsters.]
[The scales you wore had blocked too many fatal attacks for you, and the self-repair speed was getting slower and slower.]
[Your body and spirit worn out, injured all over, facing countless monster claws, you were in danger of losing your life.]
Lin Xun knew it was the most critical moment.
He still has a trump card, that is, the epic+ level item - ’High-Energy Particle Shield Device’.
[The monsters surrounding you saw that you couldn’t support yourself, and they pounced on you, opening their menacing mouths.]
[You can no longer fight back and are waiting to be slaughtered...]
"After the trial is over, if underworld game won’t reward me a dragon, I’ll have an issue with you!"
Lin Xun clenched his teeth, ready to use his last resort...
[A dragon roar that reverberates in your ears echoes through the skies, and a jet-black fiendish flame pours down from the dome of the sky!]
[Monsters around you are instantly corroded and melted under such torrential breath, turning into a puddle of stenchy black water.]
[An unfamiliar scent hits you, making you dizzy and unsteady on your feet.]
[You immediately cover your mouth and nose, holding your breath. You know the breath falling from the sky contains an extremely intense toxin.]
[Even if you carry the ’Light Moth’s Anti-Toxin Crystal Core’, even if you just slightly smell it, you cannot resist such a lethal poison.]
[The gale stirred by the flapping giant wings disperses the odor, and a howling hurricane presses down from above.]
[A huge shadow blocks the sunlight, and with a thunderous bang, a terrifyingly colossal creature, trampling on countless monster corpses, lands beside you.]
[Its ferocious skull is covered with countless black eyes, all focused on you.]
[You immediately feel chilled to the bone, your mind filled with a suffocating feeling of fear.]
[Monsters around you, cowed by the terrifying pressure of the dragon, dare not approach. Their fear, rooted in their instinct, prevents them from attacking.]
[The dragon opens its jaw full of fangs, and its poisonous black breath descends again. Centered on you, a sudden broad open space appears on the battlefield, with countless monsters turning into stenchy black water.]
[A figure stands erected on the dragon’s back. He’s clad in full-body metallic armor, with his bright silver helmet keeping his face hidden.]
[All you can see are a pair of sincere eyes and a large hand extended towards you.]
[A young voice resonates in your ear...]
[Come home, my comrade!]
[As the voice sounds, the illusions around you start shaking, and the image in front of you gradually fades...]
[You are being rejected by this world and are deviating from the ’remaining illusion of knowledge’...]
[In a blink, the surroundings change again, and you’re back in the ’cave leading to the Underworld Abyss’.]
[You have passed the ’trial of the Dark Dragon Knight’!]
[You have obtained the ’Memory of the Dark Dragon Knight’ (item)]
Lin Xun puts down his phone, taking a long breath.
After a while, he composes himself, picks up his phone again, and checks the item.
[’Memory of the Dark Dragon Knight’ it’s a patch of misty and elusive Light, within which brief clips of certain memories flicker intermittently. Judging from these clips, they seem to come from a deep place in a mysterious mountain range unknown to people.]
[With this item, you will be able to travel to the ’Hermit Valley’ in the Bamogo Mountain Range as guided by the memory.]
Lin Xun looks at the Bamogo Mountain Range and finds it somewhat familiar.
He suddenly recalls - isn’t this the mountain range where according to the inscription, the Dragon knight went in search for the ’Ancient Dragon of Darkness’?
The meaning of the name ’Hermit Valley’ also rings a bell.
’Hermit’ corresponds to the ’ancient hermit, Ancient Dragon of Darkness’.
"Is this telling me to go catch a dragon, tame it, and then become a dragon knight?"
Lin Xun revisits the text he saw earlier in the illusion. Just a mere eye contact with the still juvenile ancient dragon had sent ’chills down his spine’
If he really has to fight with an ancient dragon, he doesn’t know if he would know what death really means.
"Why not just straight up reward me a dragon."
Lin Xun only grumbles, for every time he experiences an illusion of knowledge, the award he gets is always XXX’s memory.
Memory isn’t a physical reward, but contains key information or skills waiting to be realized.
He conjectures that even if he arrives at the place suggested in the memory of the Dragon Knight and finds the legendary ancient dragon, he wouldn’t need to fight the ancient dragon to get the reward.
The ’Servant of God’ from the inscription said, what’s required is to earn the recognition of the ancient dragon.
The only worry he has is, he doesn’t know how many eons have passed since the death of the Dragon knight.
What if he arrives at the new map and can’t find the ancient dragon....
[You’re looking at the enormous stone tablet in front of you and vaguely feel something different about it.]
[You try to touch it again, but the stone tablet turns into a pile of stone chips and dust.]
[You realize, the power left by the ’Dark Dragon Knight’ on the stone tablet has vanished. You’ve taken a small step on the road to heritage.]
[You walk around the underground cave and apart from the remains of the ’ancient hermit, Ancient Dragon of Darkness’ and the ’Dark Dragon Knight’, you haven’t found anything valuable.]
[Those two sets of bones have become useless, eroded by the passage of eons.]
[Do you want to pass through the water curtain to return to the underground lake?]
After a thorough check to ensure that nothing is missed, Lin Xun taps ’yes’.
