Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 167 Want to learn new mechanisms?

The terrain of the fourth-floor corridor is much more complicated than that of the fifth-floor corridor. From here, there are some forked intersections. Sometimes you will find a lot of monsters lying in ambush at the end, and sometimes there is nothing there, and the way is blocked by cold walls, as if the only meaning of their appearance is to make people walk a more useless distance.

When she reached the end of the fork in the road for the third time and found that there was a dead end ahead, Olvera finally couldn't help but complain: "Why does this always happen? I remember there weren't so many forks in the road in the castle originally, right?"

It turns out there isn't one, so it must have been designed by someone.

The game developer felt a little guilty, and his voice was not so confident: "Well, I originally designed it according to the normal map design. I planned to put a few treasure chests here and add some practical props, so that it wouldn't be a wasted trip..."

Olvera then asked, "So, where is the treasure chest?"

"No."

Alice's words made us imagine her expression of throwing up her hands and ignoring the past: "After I designed the map, the game console reminded me that I didn't have the permission to modify the map elements. But the map was already made, and I couldn't spend a lot of energy to re-design it, right? So I just made the best of it."

A good person will make a mistake.

Not only was Avra ​​speechless, but even Ling Ge had a new understanding of the unreliability of this golden-haired maid. After a moment of silence, he said, "Next time you develop a new game, maybe you can refer to other people's opinions."

"Really?"

Alice snorted unwillingly.

She was very curious, but the conversation between the two had ended without revealing any more information. The princess thought that as an outsider, she did not seem to have the position or reason to get to the bottom of the matter. If she asked too many questions, it might cause their dissatisfaction, so she silently suppressed all her doubts.

Ling replied: “No.”

Is there any connection between this and what Lingge calls a “peaceful life”?

"whispering sound!"

"No need to lie to you."

Listening to the conversation between the two, Ovira suddenly remembered that Linger once said that the reason why they took such a huge risk to explore this castle sealed by darkness was to find an answer. But they never mentioned what the answer was.

"I am a talented player myself, why do I need to consult other people's opinions?" Alice was a little unhappy, thinking that he underestimated her ability: "Besides, haven't you always insisted on living a peaceful life? When did you become interested in this kind of thing? Did you... change your mind?"

Turn away from this fork and continue forward.

Fourth floor corridor, current progress: 65%.

...Compared to the fifth-floor corridor, the distribution and density of monsters in the fourth-floor corridor have increased significantly. Basically, you will encounter a group of monsters every few minutes. According to Alice, the fifth-floor corridor is a tutorial level for new players to get familiar with the game, and the real difficulty of the game begins from the fourth-floor corridor.

Although frequent battles have brought a lot of trouble to Olvera's progress, they have also intensively trained her operating skills, allowing her to gradually improve her ability to combine swordsmanship and magic in continuous battles and eventually reach a level of mastery.

Although she was only getting used to the operation of switching weapons, and was still in the stage of deep learning for those advanced game skills, such as calculating cooling time and estimating lead time, Linger's instructions were always very timely, which could make up for her disadvantages in this regard.

Perhaps because he was standing from the perspective of an observer, his control of the battle situation and timing were often more accurate than those of the actual operators. On several occasions, under his instructions, Olvera performed a series of wonderful operations, completely playing with the enemy in the palm of her hand. It didn't look like a battle, but more like a pleasing dance.

As for Alice, she seemed to have made no contribution except to exclaim that it was wonderful. After all, Ovira was already familiar with the operation of the holy sword and no longer needed her guidance. However, sometimes she had to spend a lot of extra energy to filter out those messy and strange words.

In addition to mastering skills, another benefit of frequent battles is that monsters drop a lot of items. In addition to the stereotyped [Embers of the Fire], there are also several beads. Three attribute beads, namely vitality, magic and defense, and a new type of bead.

[Status Orb - Agility: Feeling light and fluttery, like flying? Hey man, did you secretly take some prohibited substances? After equipping it, you will be granted the "Wind Without Trace" status, and after each melee attack, your movement speed will be increased by 50%, lasting for 1 second, with a cooldown of 5 seconds. ]

A very practical bead that can provide Olvera with smoother changes in combat. It can only be triggered in close combat, which is a small limitation, but it is just right for her who still uses the Holy Sword as her main output weapon.

Considering that she only used elemental magic as a link between sword combos and control effects, and did not need to rely on them for output, the magic power required to release magic was sufficient. So, under Alice's suggestion, Ovella removed the original attribute gem - magic power, and installed this new gem.

Her magic power is now capped at 500, which is still a lot.

After installing the new orb, Olvera continued to move forward, bypassing three forks in the road, destroying several waves of monsters, and finally, at an intersection, she ran into an elite monster that was patrolling back and forth.

Unlike the Harvest Shadow in the corridor on the fifth floor, the elite monster in front of him was a simple and heavy armor. After years of wind and rain, it was already rusty. The dullness of the surface was like the dead black tide at night. If you put your ear close to it, you might even hear the tide surging in its chest. It had an eagle helmet with a face covering, lion-head shoulder armor, hand and foot armor with sharp barbs, and a tattered and dirty cloak... It held a giant sword taller than a person and big enough to be used as a door panel in one hand, patrolling back and forth at the intersection of the two roads. When its footsteps stepped on the cold and hard stone floor, the rumbling sound was like a chariot rolling over, mixed with the low sound of the armor blades rubbing against each other.

Under the mask that completely covers the face, the eyes are also scarlet, but they are not actually eyes, but two balls of deep will-o'-the-wisp fire, flashing with evil colors like the mysterious planets in the universe.

[Shadow of Cruelty (Elite): HP2000/2000. It is said that it was once an armor worn by the strongest man. After death, its unwilling will still remains, driving this armor to pursue eternal battle. Although it is dead, some memories still remain. Therefore, in close combat, it can often completely crush its enemies with its advanced combat skills and rich combat experience. But at the same time, it also inherited the stubbornness of its life. It is only willing to defeat the enemy in an upright way, and regards power other than swordsmanship as a crooked way. This contempt may cause it to suffer setbacks. As the guard of the strong who occupies a dominant position among the shadow beasts, it guards the road to the rulers and will destroy any enemy who wants to break in. There is no weak damage type. The weak attributes are water, fire, thunder and wind. There is no shield coverage. 】

It appears again, the elite monster.

It seemed to be stronger than the Shadow of Harvest on the fifth floor. Olvera held her breath, and Alice comforted her, "It's okay, we have already defeated the BOSS, it's just an elite monster, it's nothing."

Ling Ge also said: "Its weaknesses have been clearly written. It can only use swordsmanship and crush the enemy at close range, but it has no defense against magic. Moreover, among the five elemental magics, except for the wind attribute, all are its weak attributes. So-"

He paused, and then continued, "Although I originally wanted to wait until you were more proficient before teaching you, this is a good opportunity for you to get used to the core mechanism of the Holy Scripture in advance."

"That is, element combination magic."

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(End of this chapter)