Free Web NovelChapter 59: Chapter 28: Choosing Superpower_2
Secretary Brown was already getting a little impatient.
He had participated in this type of competition instance several times before.
It was nothing more than going in to choose a superpower card and then fill in the code.
The whole thing took less than 3 minutes.
However, from the time the staff announced the start of the match until now, 20 minutes had passed.
As a result, the waiting screen was still displayed in their holographic glasses.
"It might be a technical issue."
Show Director didn’t have an answer either.
But, just as her words fell, the screen suddenly flashed.
"It’s here!"
Secretary Brown immediately perked up.
The instance screen appeared in their holographic glasses.
"Huh?" x2
But, just after three seconds, both of them were startled at the same time.
"The first eliminated player appeared?!"
"So fast!"
...
[Ding dong!]
[Princess Lady, OUT!]
[Princess Lady, OUT!]
Ree Shil had just stood up and hadn’t had time to check the surroundings when he heard the broadcast.
Which player was Princess Lady? She got eliminated too quickly.
While complaining inwardly, he started to look around.
He found himself in a closed prison cell.
A simple table and chair.
On the table, there were a few pieces of dry food, and next to it, a bucket of drinking water.
The dry food seemed to have been there for a while, and there were one or two tiny ants crawling on it.
Corner of the table, the drinking water was somewhat muddy, with unknown sediment suspended in it.
"..."
Although the conditions here were visibly poor, Ree Shil knew there was no alternative.
Even though a person can survive without food and water for three days, especially for card players.
However, considering the possibility of massive physical exertion, it is estimated that it is definitely not feasible without replenishing energy and water.
Dragging a soft body, one cannot defeat other competitors.
"It’s fine, let’s just bear with it."
He expressed indifference.
After all, once out of the instance, everything in the body would return to its original state, and there is no fear of getting sick from eating.
"The mission introduction said that it can be viewed in the instance, so let’s take a look first."
Sitting on the dirty and smelly bedding, he opened the mission panel.
[Instance Mission Introduction]:
As a superpowered freak, you have been imprisoned in a completely sealed ancient palace.
To escape the ancient palace, you must open the main gate of the palace.
The gate of the ancient palace is sealed by a powerful superpower, and to break the seal, you must rely on breaking seal curse scripts.
Your fellow people outside have used secret methods to transmit the curse scripts into the palace.
But to avoid attracting the attention of the guards, all the curse scripts have been scattered and sent.
Moreover, each curse script has independent movement and concealment capabilities and may appear anywhere in the ancient palace at any time or place.
Your mission is to collect as many curse scripts as possible within three days.
The more curse scripts collected and released, the weaker the gate seal will become.
Please feel free to act, limited by the curse of the ancient palace, the guards here cannot kill you.
However, be careful of the treacherous prisoners.
"The introduction is so long."
Ree Shil finished reading and furrowed his brows slightly.
Fortunately, below the introduction, there is a list of specific points.
[After three days, the top 32 releasers of curse scripts will advance]
[Curse scripts are randomly refreshed in the ancient palace]
[Ancient palace guards cannot eliminate players]
[Players can eliminate each other]
At this point, the instance introduction ended.
"Only players can eliminate players, so does that mean that ’Princess Lady’ who just got eliminated was eliminated by another player?"
However, he thought about it and felt that it wasn’t right.
Logically, everyone should be, like himself, locked in a cell individually.
The instance had just started less than 10 seconds ago, and it was impossible for anyone’s hand speed to be that fast.
So... was it suicide?
"Forget it, what I should be more concerned about now is how to get out of here."
He knew that collecting curse scripts would not be done in this small cell.
Standing up, he began to look around again.
This time, he didn’t even miss the ceiling. There was, of course, nothing on the ceiling, but he did see a floating number above his head: Contestant 99.
"Is it because I was the last one to choose a superpower?"
He smiled.
Finally, his gaze fell on the door of the cell.
A sealed metal door, with a small window through which he could see a bit of the outside scene.
The ancient stone-paved hallway was quite wide, as wide as a road, but the light was rather insufficient.
The oil lamps on the walls were the source of light, and the flames flickered as they burned, making shadows dance.
With such a narrow view, he couldn’t see any figures and didn’t know if the guards mentioned in the mission briefing were nearby.
At this moment, he suddenly heard shouts from the hallway.
"Hey! Is there anyone? Help! I have claustrophobia!"
"Were you also detained? Before entering the instance, no one told me that I would be locked in a cell!"
"Has anyone drunk the water in the cell? My stomach hurts so much!"
"Stop the noise, just figure out a way to get out yourself!"
"Let me out! This is unfair!"
Several different voices echoed in the hallway.
It seemed that quite a few players were locked up next door.
"Breach the door by force?"
Ree Shil didn’t join in the shouting, but looked at the panel of the door.
So he held his breath for 10 seconds, and [Reverse Hypoxia Constitution] instantly took effect, making him feel strong all of a sudden.
He stepped back and kicked the door fiercely.
Boom!
As a result, the moment his foot touched the panel, a blue light pillar suddenly rushed into the sky.
"PVE scene?"
Ree Shil was already very familiar with this scene.
As expected, the blue light quickly spread out and formed a card table in front of him.
But this card table was quite unique.
He had 3x3 card positions, while there was only one card position across from him.
Whoosh...
Not waiting for him to figure it out, a wisp of white smoke emerged from the metal door.
The white smoke fell on the separate card position, forming a projection. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
[Clang clang clang!]
It was a metallic colored genie-like figure.
Its eyes were lifeless, but it had an imposing stance that blocked anyone’s way forward.
"What kind of setup this is?"
Ree Shil raised his eyebrows when he saw the card face.
[Lock Demon]
Determination, Attack: 0, ∞/∞, 0/999
[Cipher 1-Passive]: When Lock Demon is attacked by a card from the left column, Energy +100
[Cipher 2-Passive]: When Lock Demon is attacked by a card from the middle column, Energy +10
[Cipher 3-Passive]: When Lock Demon is attacked by a card from the right column, Energy +1
[Unlock-Passive]: At the end of the action phase, when Lock Demon reaches the designated energy value, the card game ends, and if the energy value is full, it resets to 0
[?-Passive]: ?
Obviously, this was a password lock presented in the form of a card game.
Through the left-middle-right attack method, the correct unlocking password needed to be constantly tried.
"From 001 to 998, there are a total of 998 combinations. It’s going to take some time to unlock."
He already imagined how big a headache the other players would get when faced with this card game.
Luckily, with the experience of the previous instance Boss battle, Ree Shil was not afraid of this thing.
His eyes concentrated, and under the influence of [Absolute Card Sense], that [?-Passive] began to gradually reveal itself.
[Correct Password-Passive]: This Lock Demon’s correct password is 631
...
In the Battle Observation Box, the Show Director and Secretary Brown’s vision were both fixed on Ree Shil.
Because the only two representatives who could enter this instance from their Card Club were Ree Shil and Slame.
Slame had already been eliminated.
Yes, she was the Princess Lady who was instantly eliminated at the start of the game.
So now, Ree Shil was the only remaining hope of their club.
"The Lock Demon password, it’s quite time-consuming."
The Show Director zoomed out the god’s perspective and saw that nearly eighty percent of the players had already started unlocking the card table.
"Yes, the passwords for each round are different, completely random."
"And it’s not a plot-related PVE, so the spacetime won’t pause."
"The unlocking process alone is going to consume a lot of their time."
Secretary Brown echoed.
"Well, I guess whoever unlocks it first will gain a significant advantage in this round of the competition."
The Show Director nodded, just as he was controlling the view to move back to Ree Shil’s side, he suddenly heard a crisp sound.
Click!
The card game ended, and the lock was opened.
"Huh?" x2
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