Heroes' Prison

Chapter 249 - 244 Bizarre Creatures

"Hmm?" Huang Yi exclaimed in surprise, never having imagined that there could be a creature within the liquid Fire Element housed in the metal block!

This creature was indistinct, and its specific form was unclear, but it was about the size of a tadpole. Most creatures exposed to such an environment would have died long ago, yet this little thing was obviously not of the same system as the creatures they usually encountered; it must be some kind of unidentified alien life form.

"What’s wrong?" Dugu Lengcang, seeing the look on Huang Yi’s face, became slightly interested.

Huang Yi looked at him and shook the metal block in his hand, saying, "Inside this, there is a strange little creature, but I don’t know what it is."

"A creature?" Dugu Lengcang frowned.

"Yes!" Huang Yi nodded, "It’s almost the size of a tadpole, and each time it moves, the Fire Element aura emitted by the metal block becomes wildly fierce. However, no matter what, this little creature is definitely not ordinary. We shouldn’t try to extract it without sufficient strength or until we understand what it is. Moreover, the Fire Element inside has become so dense that it’s in a liquid state, which is like an atomic bomb. If the aura leaks out, I estimate the entire Desolate Sands will be reduced to ashes."

Dugu Lengcang shrugged, "Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t break this metal open. It can withstand so much assault from the Fire Element, so it must be an extremely unusual metal that can’t be broken easily. But if we can’t break this metal block, then isn’t it useless?"

Huang Yi fell into thought; the little creature inside the metal block affected the intensity of the emitted Fire Element. If they could make the little creature move more fiercely, the Fire Element from the metal block would undoubtedly become even more violent. When it reached a certain degree of intensity, it would be able to cause damage, and thus it could be very useful.

"Dugu Lengcang, you are a Rare Class Holder, different from a common Ice-based Class. Do you have any special skills that produce a compressing effect?" Huang Yi suddenly asked.

"Yes!" Dugu Lengcang nodded, "I have a skill called Ice Compression. It wraps the target in ice and then compresses it towards the center with great force, causing massive damage to the enemy."

"Then try using this skill to compress this metal block, and see if the Ice Element can affect that little creature inside," Huang Yi said, handing the metal block over to Dugu Lengcang.

Dugu Lengcang nodded, placed the metal plate on the ground, and swung his longsword, pointing it at the metal block.

Immediately, a stream of ice-blue aura burst forth, rapidly enveloping the metal plate and forming a giant block of ice that compressed inwardly.

"Crack crack!" The sound of solidifying ice became intensely loud, yet the metal plate still emitted the Fire Element, and these two completely opposite elements fiercely clashed!

"Boom!" Eventually, the two elements seemed to have countered each other to the extreme and suddenly erupted in a blinding brilliance, exploding with great force!

That moment was like the birth of a universe right there, a vast shockwave sweeping everything away in an instant!

Huang Yi and Dugu Lengcang bore the brunt of it, directly pulverized to dust, without even leaving corpses behind. In the face of such an explosion, even someone with a high resistance to impact like Thunder God would have been unable to withstand it.

Huang Yi and Dugu Lengcang were resurrected at the entrance of the secret realm, who quickly looked forward.

In front of them, the region where the metal block had been was now completely gone, leaving only a deep crater. The surrounding earth had been sheared away, creating a scene of devastation. The secret realm’s wandering monsters had also vanished, evidently having been blasted to dust.

That explosion had been at least ten times stronger than Huang Yi’s self-destruction in his Agile Cat Form. Without any protective skills, even the strongest players wouldn’t be able to resist it.

"The power of that explosion was much stronger than my strongest skill!" Dugu Lengcang said, dropping his usual languid tone and clicking his tongue in amazement.

The two of them quickly ran over to the edge of the crater and looked down.

At that moment, the metal block still lay intact at the bottom of the crater, showing no abnormalities.

Huang Yi pondered for a while, then said, "Dugu Lengcang, you’ve got yourself another ace move for emergencies now. Whenever you’re outmatched, you can use Ice Compression to trigger the metal block and blow up your enemy."

Dugu Lengcang nodded, replying, "Hmm! Not bad, the metal block can be reused, so I can detonate it as many times as I want in the future. However, this can only be a surprise move. After all, the metal plate doesn’t explode immediately, it needs some time to brew before the explosion can happen. If the enemy is alert, they’ll quickly get away, and this thing doesn’t discriminate between friend and foe. It’s possible that I, too, might end up being blown up by it."

Dugu Lengcang, furrowing his brow, said, "This thing is clearly worth more than four Holy Crystal Stones. Why didn’t Black Serpent keep bidding for it?"

After thinking for a moment, Huang Yi speculated, "I guess there could be two reasons! First, he might not be fully aware of the true mystery of this metal block. He only knew that it contained a powerful Fire Element aura, which was exactly the treasure he needed. Moreover, he probably didn’t expect anyone to compete with him, thinking that three Holy Crystal Stones were already enough. He could only watch helplessly as you won the auction."

"No matter what, this investment was worth it; we got such a big treasure!" Dugu Lengcang said happily, "With this thing, we should be able to clear this floor of the Tower of Pantheons, right? If we can’t beat a boss, we’ll just blow it up!"

"Great!" Huang Yi jumped down into the deep pit, picked up the metal plate, and the two of them continued forward.

The secret realm they entered was the 49th floor of the Tower of Pantheons, where the highest-level boss was level 59, far surpassing the watershed of level 50 and incredibly formidable. Huang Yi’s current avatar had too low attributes and had not undergone a job change yet; he also hadn’t invested in the main attack spirit. Logically speaking, the two of them shouldn’t have been able to clear it, at most they could fight up to the fourth boss.

But this time, relying on the explosive feature of the metal plate, the two managed to kill the last boss, Rotten Dragon, Bart, and successfully cleared the floor.

Every explosion from the metal plate would take away about 15% of Rotten Dragon, Bart’s health points. Of course, sometimes the boss was quick to escape the blast range, making the metal plate useless, so its limitations were still quite substantial.

"With this metal plate, it will be much easier to tackle the Tower of Pantheons in the future. It’s a huge blessing for a lazy person like me!" Dugu Lengcang caressed the metal plate in his hand, feeling emotional.

"Too bad it can’t explode immediately; otherwise, even the bosses in the wilderness areas could be easily killed," Huang Yi lamented. The monsters in the wilderness areas were not like those in the Tower of Pantheons, which had very low intelligence and fixed dialogue. Against a powerful weapon like the metal plate, they couldn’t always dodge it.

After that, the two of them didn’t continue to grind; after all, this was just an incarnation and couldn’t gain experience points. Leveling up depended on the main body.

"I’m so sleepy, I’m going back to sleep," Dugu Lengcang yawned, looking sleepily at Huang Yi as he said goodbye and turned to walk towards the teleportation field.

Meanwhile, Huang Yi’s avatar strode out of the gates of Tiantai City and headed towards another city. He planned to activate all the teleportation circles in the surrounding cities.

...

Days passed by, and The Second World entered a relatively stable phase of development, smoothing out after the surge of effort for the annual festival.

That day, when Huang Yi logged back on, Xiao Chunzi had been waiting for him for a long time and immediately pounced on him, hugging him tightly.

"Brother, my War Soul reached the fifth layer!" Xiao Chunzi said excitedly. Her level had initially been very low, but with the leadership of Huang Yi and Qin Shiyu, she quickly broke through level 50 and awakened her first War Soul. She didn’t have the Eye of Time and couldn’t see the success judgment of the War Soul, so improving the War Soul was very slow, and she wasted a lot of experience points. She remained at level fifty until now, only reaching the fifth layer of the War Soul.

"That’s amazing!" Huang Yi pinched her soft little face and said, "Let me check my War Soul too." Saying this, he activated the Eye of Time and began to inspect his War Soul.

First was the Defense War Soul at the 9th stage, which had only a 2% success rate. He still failed today, something to which he had already become accustomed. A 2% success rate was not so easy to achieve.

Then, Huang Yi checked the Life Soul at the 3rd stage. He was trying to eliminate this layer, which had a success rate of 98%, and these past days, it had always shown success, never failure.

"Huh?" Just then, Huang Yi suddenly exclaimed in surprise. His Eye of Time had seen the system judgment for the third layer of the Life Soul!

Today, it finally showed failure!

He had finally encountered the 2% failure rate!

The next moment, Huang Yi immediately re-touched the third layer of the Life Soul, and the system judged it as a failure!

Following that, the third, second, and first layers of the Life Soul were all cleared!

The War Soul is divided into three phases, and if the improvement fails, all the War Soul progress in the current phase is erased. Now that the third layer of his Life Soul had failed, and since the third, second, and first layers all belonged to the first phase, these three layers were cleared to zero.

Huang Yi’s health points limit immediately dropped a little bit, and his strength also fell. However, he now had three layers of War Soul allocation free to use on other spirits.

At this point, his Life Soul finally met the requirements for a Perfect War Soul, leaving only the 7th, 8th, and 9th levels, the three highest levels, which cumulatively added 27% to his health points!

He immediately allocated the three free layers to the most important Attack Spirit, raising the first three layers of the Attack Spirit. This time, each layer of his Attack Spirit reached the maximum value, and his attack power increased by 9%!

Huang Yi’s Attack Spirit could finally start to play its role; after enduring so long, the path to a Perfect War Soul had finally reached a moment of harvest, a unique achievement in the entire Second World! (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, please come to Starting Point (qidian.com) to cast your Recommendation Tickets and Monthly Tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)