Chapter 156

Chapter 156: The Attack of the Protagonist (8)

Translator: Sigma Editor: Sigma

"Eh? That also works…" Invincible Hero was surprised .

"Good . Now we’ve just tested another FLAG to change the holder of the halo," Feng Bujue mused . "Anyway, this method doesn’t seem practical…"

"It’s only that to you," Ye Zhi looked at Feng Bujue with despising eyes . "I think it’s much better than your stupid speeches . "

Hearing that, Feng Bujue just spread his arm, shrugged and didn’t give any comment .

Copernicus and Galileo immediately walked to the front of the line to lead the way . They were a little bit distracted because of the unusual whereabouts of the Derivative . Thanks to Feng Bujue, they got the chance to go to the front of the team to pioneer .

GMs knew how to pass the scenario and the locations of FLAGs . At this point, Feng Bujue’s [Planned Victory From Thousand Miles Away] couldn't compete . When he had used the skill from his title, he had seen the BOSS of this scenario was the Aggrieved Well . It was because by the time he had observed this, Vahiru was in the other world that he couldn't track him down .

If there were no Derivative in this scenario and players had wanted to face the real BOSS, they would have had to satisfy some special conditions, and the way to clear the scenario didn’t require them to encounter Vahiru .

From the GM’s menu, they could see there were four ‘Seizing Soul Formations’; three scattered in the mountain and the major one was in the Aggrieved Well . According to the usual route, when players entered the mountain, they would see a normal Seizing Soul Formation . If they could survive the hallucination and destroy the formation, they would trigger the Main Quest, and the system would notify them that they just needed to destroy all four magic formations to seal the Aggrieved Well .

Then, players would only need to deal with three normal formations and one major formation to clear the scenario . Of course, the magic formation in the well would be more difficult to solve . No matter what, Vahiru would definitely not appear on this route .

After having entered the scenario, Feng Bujue’s team had walked the other way around, which was not different from finding a hidden reward . As they had followed that road, they found a Seizing Soul Formation drawn on a collapsed wall outside the mountain . Although destroying this formation didn't cause any FLAG, in fact, this could be added to the number of magic formations the Main Quest requested them to destroy . In other words, after they were done with this formation, when they got into the mountain and destroyed another one, it would update their Main Quest, and the progress would be 2/4 already . This meant players who had passed the test in the mansion didn’t need to deal with the major formation at the bottom of the Aggrieved Well since they just needed to solve four normal Seizing Soul Formations to finish the scenario .

The two said routes included one way to complete the scenario without thinking much and one way involving solving simple riddles . The first one was not very difficult, but they needed to fight more, which was more annoying .

Of course, there was the third route, which even GMs didn't want to take, the simplest and rudest . It was that they would regard nothing, just ignore all the illusions and FLAGs in the mountain, and kill everything along their way to the shrine . When they got to the shrine, they would just jump into the well, enter the other world and finish Vahiru .

Such kind of route, perhaps a team of six strong players from the same Studio could accomplish . Or, under the case that there were no Derivative and other dangers on the way to disturb them, the two GMs could directly jump into the well and risk their lives with the real BOSS . It would do, though . However, to ordinary players, using force to finish a scenario like that was an impossible task . Now, if they were running on the simplest route to finishing the scenario, but since the Derivative appeared and reappeared elusively, it had changed Copernicus and Galileo’s original plan . Right from the start, they had underestimated the players’ competencies that they didn't want to make things more complicated . They just wanted to take these people to the mountain using the normal route to destroy the four formations, and then make them leave . Anyway, now they had a chance to finish the scenario that didn't require going to the peak of the mountain . They should seize it and bring those visitors out of here .

After the six of them had been walking for a while, Galileo then deviated from the original path, leading the team from the mountain to the adjacent woods .

Feng Bujue, who was still watching these two’s moves, didn't have any comment . Only Ye Zhi asked something, which the two dear brothers ‘specialized in Investigating Specialty’ had echoed one another to explain, although their answers were just perfunctory .

Unwittingly, it was twenty minutes since they had entered the mountain . The vague forest with the unchanged slope gradually gave people some kind of mental depression and fatigue .

"This forest doesn’t have a boundary," Galileo spoke up like he was trying to explain something . "I think this whole mountain is going to enter a strange state, turning into a peculiar space on the night of October 31st . "

The information Feng Bujue got from his words was succinct in three words: please be patient .

"What if we don’t take seven or eight turns but walk straight up the slope? Wouldn't we get to the peak that way?" added Invincible Hero .

"Too naïve," said Feng Bujue, "he said ‘no boundary’ already… You can throw away your concept of direction . The reason why you think we’re walking around is because of the slope . " He turned his head . "So… let’s imagine this . We’re walking on flat ground, but all the trees grown on this ground are thriving in a skewed angle . And, the gravity applied to us is also at a skewed angle . Then you will have the feeling that this place is a mountain slope . "

"Umm . . . " Invincible Hero couldn't picture that .

"Besides, peculiar space means the actual area of this mountain can be infinite," continued Feng Bujue . "In such places like this, it’s 80% or 90% that people will be trapped holding the hope of ‘walking consistently towards one direction can lead to the outside’ . " He gestured ‘infinite' in the air with his arms . "If the end and start points of this place are connected with each other, this place will become an endless circle without an exit . Thus, ‘getting out of here’ doesn’t exist . Only if we can break the peculiar space can we find the way out . Anyway, from our situation, this should be another circumstance . "

The two GMs all turned around to look at Feng Bujue . Their eyes showed that Feng Bujue was correct .

"Current situation?" Ye Zhi asked suspiciously, "Please advise?"

"Never seen a repeat scene," Zen In Scary Dream suddenly opened his mouth and threw out one brief sentence with more meanings . Moreover, it hit the nail on the head .

"Haha! Awesome . Seems there’s someone who got it clearly," Feng Bujue smiled .

"I’m flattered . You too, man," Zen In Scary Dream said then took another sip from his bottle . This man was more reliable than he looked .

Feng Bujue continued, "From the beginning, have you seen something that you've met before or even your own footprints?"

"Argh… Nothing, indeed," said Invincible Hero . "Anyway, this mountain looks really big . It couldn't prove anything . "

Galileo turned around to explain for Feng Bujue, "Actually, the space we saw when we were outside the mountain and the space we are in now are two different spaces… Just like—"

Before he had finished, Copernicus suddenly raised his hand and signalled ahead . He then sighed and lowered his voice as he spoke, "Something’s there…"