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Chapter 330 Rune Key
"Tell me, where is the Demon King? Otherwise I will not be able to help but penetrate your body with this knife."

After forcibly pulling the illusory existence back, Wang Zhifan pointed the extremely powerful Blade of Time at the confused creature, threatening it to reveal the required information.

"Human, although I am surprised that you can keep me, my principles will not change. I only do fair transactions..."

Perhaps he was shocked by the methods shown by Wang Zhifan. This guy seemed to be less angry than before, but he still showed an extreme hypocrisy and wanted to negotiate terms with Wang Zhifan.

"Fuck you!"

Wang Zhifan didn't have the patience to continue talking nonsense with it. Before it could finish speaking, he stabbed the illusory figure with a knife, causing the projection-like existence to suddenly distort its face and make a painful sound.

This reflects the power of the Blade of Time. The damage it has that is not immune to damage is not just about breaking defenses. It can also subvert conventional laws and cause damage. That's why Wang Zhifan uses it to attack this thing that doesn't look like its original body. The purpose of existence is to cause pain to the other party as much as possible, and now it seems that it has some effect.

"Say it or not! If you don't say it, I will let you enjoy it!"

Controlling the strength of the Blade of Time without breaking the phantom in front of him, Wang Zhifan threatened again after inflicting pain on the opponent.

"Ah! Why can you hurt me! Who are you!"

The illusory existence suddenly showed a frightened face. He could not understand how this human being could hurt its body through a projection. Although the amount of damage was not particularly high, this situation was really bizarre.

"I think you haven't suffered enough!"

When Wang Zhifan saw this, he naturally would not answer it. He used the Blade of Time to hit the illusory figure a few more times, causing the other party to scream in agony, and finally he was willing to reveal some information.

"The Demon King is in the seal! If you want to find it, you must collect runes to know the location of the seal!"

"Where are the runes!"

Wang Zhifan took the opportunity to ask. He was not sure whether what this guy said was true or false, but it was always good to know more.

"I have no idea……"

"You forgot about the pain again, right? Let me improve your memory!"

"Ah! I say... no one knows everything... but there is a star in this tower..."

As Wang Zhifan's oppression continued, the endurance of this illusory figure finally reached its limit. Even if Wang Zhifan deliberately controlled it, he could not prevent it from being disintegrated by the terrifying power of the Blade of Time and completely turning into nothingness.

"Sometimes a weapon that is too powerful is not always a good thing... If we can re-examine it, we will definitely be able to get more information."

The target had disappeared, and Wang Zhifan had no choice but to end the interrogation, because the backward ability of the Blade of Time in his hand was to turn the target back to its past position, and it could not rewind the time of the target and restore it to its state for repeated torture.

"The rune... the seal... I don't know if the information it reveals is true, but it sounds a bit like it..."

He thought about the latest information he had just obtained, and felt that there was still some progress, at least there was a possible direction of action.

"The clone also made some discoveries. Maybe I should go and take a look."

He then turned his attention to the clone that had previously been thrown into the dark hole under the stairs. He had not controlled that clone when dealing with the phantom existence before, and now that he was free, he found that there was also some progress there.

Turning his sight, he connected with the clone's field of vision and saw that it was a wide square. There was an inconspicuous statue in the center of the square, and a fierce group battle was taking place around the statue.

The two sides fighting were the twenty or so mercenaries he had seen outside the tower before and a group of giant bat monsters.

The monsters were very ferocious. They flew and attacked the people of the mercenary group from all directions. The mercenary group's response was a little chaotic. Several members had already fallen into a pool of blood. However, there were also some people who were very strong and successfully killed them together with the people around them. Kill several monsters and pull back the balance of victory little by little.

Wang Zhifan's clone was hidden in the darkness, and most of the time it even went underground, so that the two sides fighting fiercely here did not notice its existence, and it did not want to get involved in the battle here, but slowly approached the statue in the center of the square, trying to Found some unusual marks on it.

"This statue contains a mysterious power, a very powerful mysterious power...it's a bit interesting."

After relying on the clone to conduct close inspection for a few seconds, Wang Zhifan confirmed this, and then observed the statue more carefully.

It is not big in size, only the height of an ordinary adult, so it is inconspicuous. The image of the statue should be that of a woman of unknown age. Her hands are held up, as if she is holding a flower, and her posture looks slightly... Seems strange.

"What does this action mean?"

Wang Zhifan, who was controlling it remotely, felt incomprehensible. He clearly knew that this statue was not an ordinary stone decoration, but he could not figure out its specific use. This was the disadvantage of the lack of text introduction information and the additional difficulty imposed by this copy.

"Protect the archers!"

"Watch your back! These guys like to sneak attack from behind!"

"Hold on! We are going to win!"

……

The battle in the square is still going on. Most of the surviving mercenaries cheered themselves up while fighting the bat monster. They paid some costs and gradually secured victory. Everyone's face was full of very firm will, and their eyes were filled with determination. There is also a look of hope.

Wang Zhifan's clone was hidden underground near the statue, silently observing their struggle. He didn't quite understand why they were fighting here one by one. There were obviously some passages connected around the square, and it would be better to lure the bat monster into a relatively narrow space. It is better to defeat them, rather than letting them take advantage of flexible flight in the square.

As more and more bat monsters were killed, the threat they posed became smaller and smaller. Several archer mercenaries were able to fire arrows more easily and eliminate the remaining bat monsters more quickly. , won this battle.

"Why don't those bats escape? Only two or three of them are dead and they still charge at people?"

Wang Zhifan observed this strange scene through his clone, and felt that these monsters also had low IQs, somewhat similar to the rigid monsters in the game.

But the victorious mercenaries quickly explained his doubts. They saw their injuries ranging from minor to severe and came to the central statue one by one. A leader saluted in front of the statue:

"Great goddess, we have completed the sacrifice, please give us a precious treasure." As soon as the man finished speaking, a small object appeared out of thin air in the hands held by the statue, which was a slightly old copper The key made the leader's eyes suddenly light up.

"We succeeded! The goddess approved our sacrifice! The copper key will bring us a good harvest!"

As the man spoke, he walked forward and took out the key from the statue's hand, showing it to the other mercenaries around for inspection.

"I thought I could get the silver key because the sacrificial ceremony wasn't enough..."

A female archer mercenary wearing leather armor next to him sighed slightly when he saw this, and seemed not very satisfied with the harvest after killing several companions.

"That's good. Sacrifice through battle rituals is not the best way."

The leader then spoke to her.

"Sacrificing items is what the goddess likes best, but we don't have high-quality things in our hands. Even if we did, we wouldn't be able to sacrifice them, haha..."

He smiled mockingly to himself, and quickly led all the mercenaries towards a passage at the edge of the square. While walking, some people were healing themselves by drinking potions or casting spells.

When these people were far away, the clone of the dream self hidden underground suddenly emerged from the ground. At the same time, Wang Zhifan's original self was also transferred here through entering the dream and breaking the dream, but before coming over, Wang Zhifan also stayed in the original place. I clone myself in a dream so that he can transfer back at any time.

"Since this place will not isolate me from controlling my clones, it means that although they are in different spaces, they are not far apart, and the connections between each space are relatively close. I can explore multiple routes together?"

This is something Wang Zhifan feels he needs to take advantage of. When he entered this tower, he was divided into a separate space to break through the levels. Others' experiences were different from his, which also led to his lack of information, but now he can have the opportunity to follow I continue to learn from others.

"Let's solve the problem here first."

Glancing at the direction in which the mercenaries disappeared, he did not rush to catch up, but stared at the statue in front of him, preparing to squeeze out the oil and water here.

"I want to start the battle sacrifice ceremony."

First, he was going to imitate those mercenaries and perform a ritual to get rewards, but unfortunately he didn't know how to start this ritual. He could only rely on himself to blindly say the spell he thought he wanted to the statue in front of him.

As he finished speaking, he did not notice any monsters appearing around him to attack him. There were still corpses of bat monsters and mercenaries left from the previous battle, which meant that his attempt to start the ritual failed.

"Start the ceremony!"

"Sacrifice!"

"Let me fight the monsters!"

……

After failing once, Wang Zhifan continued to use his imagination to try, but the reality is cold, and all his actions received no response, which shows how annoying the lack of intelligence can be.

Fortunately, he is not the kind of stubborn person. He changed his mind after several consecutive attempts failed, because he remembered that those people just said that sacrifice does not necessarily require a ceremony, and it is also okay to offer items.

"How should items be sacrificed...could it be put into the hand of this statue?"

After thinking about it, he felt that this approach was the most normal. He immediately took out a pair of fine-grade gloves from the portable space and placed them in the palm of the statue's hand.

In the first two seconds, he did not observe any changes in the gloves, but just when he was about to change to an unnecessary piece of equipment and try again, the gloves in the palm of the statue suddenly disappeared and were replaced by a key. , a rusty black iron key.

"It was successful...but does this rusty iron key mean that the quality is worse than the bronze keys that the mercenaries took away before? After all, this is also a sacrifice of sophisticated equipment. Is it possible that I have to sacrifice rare and outstanding ones to give it better? of?"

Wang Zhifan was not satisfied with this result. Although he no longer had access to sophisticated equipment, he still felt that it was quality equipment and could be sold for money. He wanted to sacrifice the excellent equipment. He felt that he might lose money if he exchanged the above equipment for something of unknown value.

"If the quality is not good enough and the quantity is not enough, try a few more."

After thinking about it, he took out another fine-grade wristband from his pocket, and also put it into the palm of the statue's hand. However, this time he waited for about ten seconds, and the fine-grade wristband did not disappear. , that is, the sacrifice failed.

"You have to force me to give you something better, right?"

In this situation, Wang Zhifan didn't know that there was a high probability that his fine-grade equipment was disliked, so he put away his fine-grade gloves and prepared to take out a rare-grade equipment to try. But before operating, he suddenly thought of the incident not long ago. A long bow that he found inconvenient to carry.

"That's right! I still have that bow with my clone, so it's just right to sacrifice it!"

He just did what he said. He immediately returned to the third floor where he belonged before through entering the dream and breaking the dream. He picked up the long bow that was thrown on the ground for the clone to guard. However, after picking up the long bow, his eyes glanced at the ground not far away. Two pieces of tattered parchment lay on it.

These two tattered parchments were the contracts that the illusory existence had taken out before. They originally looked good, but they were forcibly destroyed by him with the epic blade of time. At this time, they had lost the faint flame that once covered them. , there doesn’t seem to be anything magical about it.

"These two pieces of torn paper can be reused. The materials are certainly not ordinary."

Feeling that they could be dealt with conveniently, Wang Zhifan picked them up together, activated Dream Break and returned to the statue.

He then put the two pieces of torn parchment into the palm of the statue to see if there would be any reaction.

But I didn't expect the result to come quite quickly. Almost as soon as I put it on, the two pieces of torn parchment disappeared, replaced by a golden key lying in the palm of the statue!
"Holy shit! Just give me the golden key?! Are those two pieces of tattered paper so valuable?!"

Wang Zhifan immediately felt the disadvantages caused by lack of knowledge. He felt that he had lost a lot inexplicably. He could only hope that the golden key he received in exchange would be worthy of the value he paid.

Then he placed the long bow on the statue's hand. After a few seconds, the long bow disappeared and he obtained a slightly old bronze key.

"It seems that the quality of this longbow is higher than fine, and it should be rare... If you calculate it this way, the two torn parchments may be epic?! After all, the golden key is not connected to the bronze key. Why? There must also be a silver key...an epic thing, I actually threw them on the ground and ignored..."

The disadvantages of not having item labeling information became more clear. Wang Zhifan now felt that he had lost one billion.

(End of this chapter)