Chapter 474: Chapter 259 Extreme Evil Erosion, The Hidden Plot of Tianming Divine Palace_2
The difficulty of the game in this Chapter has become extremely high at this point.
A boss that could have been defeated easily now requires help from story characters to just barely be taken down.
Declaring a bottleneck lockout penalty because all shell attributes are cut in half would not be surprising now.
Frankly, after the Netherworld game gave out the million reward package, it immediately wanted to send the Apostles packing... the typical Apostles would probably be thrilled, happily exiting the Chapter and choosing to restart.
Who is Lin Xun, though? He has never even tried to experience the punishment for restarting at the Chapter bottleneck.
Moreover, as each Chapter gets closer to the end, while the difficulty increases, the rewards also increase.
Situations like the ranges of Giant Beasts in the Blood Sun world or the Hermit Canyon in the Omniscient World only appear at the end of Chapters.
Right now, with half of the Chapter guide completed, for the Netherworld game to resort to such discouraging tricks is like finally confirming a relationship with a goddess you’ve been doggedly pursuing for ages.
Then suddenly a balding middle-aged man throws a wad of hundred dollar bills in your face and telling you to find someone else because you’re not good enough for his daughter...
How could he possibly give up when he was just getting into the swing of things after barely crossing over the Chapter’s beginner phase?!
"Why hasn’t the Old Dragon jumped out to save me... nevermind, the Old Dragon can’t even save himself at this point."
Lin Xun opened the shell panel to check... and was taken aback by what he saw.
At the top of the queen’s panel, the negative BUFF ’Extreme Evil Erosion’ was marked, and the attribute text was faintly surrounded by black air.
However, on other shell panels, whether the Earth Giant or the Direct-viewing President, or even the Little Dragon, none of them had the negative effect of ’Extreme Evil Erosion’. Only the queen’s shell, which was possessed at this time, was ’infected’ with ’Extreme Evil Erosion’.
He switched to other shells and tried to release skills, and everything was as always. There were no changes to the shell strength.
Overjoyed, he quickly realized, "The Netherworld game wants to forcefully persuade Apostles to leave, but I have more than one shell, so I easily bypassed the exit restriction!"
Ordinary Apostles don’t have a shell column and can only use one main shell. Encountering this situation would undoubtedly cause them to restart at the bottleneck.
But Lin Xun was no ordinary Apostle. Even if the queen’s shell was deprecated, he could still use other ones for combat.
Moreover, the queen was essentially a Yin Yang Master who fought with Shikigami. Even if she suffered from the negative effects of ’Extreme Evil Erosion’, it would only diminish her own strength and would not reflect on the Shikigamis.
This time, the Netherworld game’s discouragement trap had minimal effect on Lin Xun, just reducing the effects of several charms and barrier skills.
Getting this insight, Lin Xun was all smiles as he carefully searched through the mountains again. After confirming that nothing was overlooked, he summoned the Valkyrie to fly back to the Coin Palace.
Thinking about how the Netherworld game’s plan failed and they inadvertently gifted the million reward package left him feeling quite cheerful.
This kind of feeling was like quietly accepting the ten thousand dollars from the balding middle-aged man, and still secretly taking the goddess to the hotel at night. Unbeknownst to everyone, achieving a triple feat.
And also aiming right at the center of the target, throwing the insignia of a two-bar team leader onto the middle-aged man’s face. Watching his constipated expression was just like he swallowed a green fly, how refreshing and exhilarating.
In the dead of night, all the shrine personnel were asleep in their dormitories or offices.
Ordinary shrine workers, like the servants and the Blessing Department, were only considered minor creatures.
Positions like Mikonugi and Palace Master were considered elite creatures.
The good news was that all these shrine workers were fragile mage-type creatures.
If he was fighting in broad daylight, under the divine domain’s boost, Lin Xun would have had a tough fight to bulldoze the shrine.
But now it was the middle of the night, and only a few weak servants were patrolling while all the small mage creatures slept.
Lin Xun took advantage of the darkness to operate the ’Ninja Master’ shell and stealthily slink around.
The ’Golden Roc Fierce Bird Claw’ he carried also had a special effect on his weapon to maintain stealth after killing in one blow. While holding two weapons, killing an enemy with the ’Dragon Sword Masamune’ could still maintain the stealth effect.
The ’Ninja Master’ shell was so powerful that no small creature could withstand a single attack and not die. Even the elite monsters or the weaker bosses couldn’t withstand it.
After the creature couldn’t withstand an attack, the Ninja Master naturally wouldn’t reveal his form, smoothly advancing onwards.
In the entire shrine, only the High Priest (Master of God) was slightly more formidable. He could barely be considered a minor boss.
This mini boss had the same fate as the small creatures, dying tragically in his sleep.
The High Priest’s shell was far inferior compared to the Direct-viewing Chairman, so Lin Xun stripped off the equipment and chose to discard the shell.
He worked tirelessly through the night to plow through the entire shrine back and forth.
Until daybreak, the harvesting job was finally completed.
Looking at the result, although the harvesting didn’t increase his shell level, the spirit energy collected and the equipment stripped added up to nearly two hundred thousand, a considerable income.
Stripping the equipment required possession, and the action of possession would stop the little creatures from refreshing. In other words, when the sun came up and the pilgrims came up the mountain to worship, they would find a desolate, dead shrine.
[You quietly return to the main hall of the shrine...]
[You go to the depths of the main hall, and the Chief Shrine Maiden ’Moon City Purple Leaf’ is still unconscious...]
[You rashly pick her up and hurriedly go down the mountain before the sky is fully lit...]
[It is not yet time for the pilgrims to come up the mountain, so the mountain path is desolate and deserted.]
