sinovels Chapter 472 This time, she's truly broken through.
Chapter 472 This time, she's truly broken through.
The fifteenth resurrection.
The gray fog in the cave had been completely dispelled by the dense lightning and sword energy.
The frost on the ground had been plowed into deep furrows.
"Thump...thump..."
The dim light shone again.
Holm painstakingly reconstructed his body.
This time, he couldn't even hold the giant axe properly, and it fell to the ground with a "clatter".
He neither charged nor roared.
His massive body stood still, his empty eye sockets staring intently at Chen You.
Chen You raised his hand, his fingertips crackling with lightning.
"Wait!" Holm suddenly roared, his voice cracking slightly.
Chen You paused, "What? Last words?"
Holm took a deep breath, and the surrounding cold air trembled.
He pointed to the altar, his tone filled with disbelief and anger.
"Dude! That's not how you play this game!"
Chen You blinked.
Holm, in a fit of despair, clutched his bald, frost-covered head and cried out, "I'm a mechanic monster! A mechanic monster, don't you understand?!"
"My design is that they are immortal, to test the players' wisdom and observation skills!"
"If you can't break the altar, you should look for clues! Look at the surrounding walls, aren't there murals? Look in that corner, isn't there a strange lever?"
"I practically told you my weakness! Why didn't you try to find a solution? Why did you keep attacking me?!"
Holm became increasingly aggrieved as he spoke, and his massive body even became somewhat hunched.
Chen You rolled his eyes and casually tossed a Rejuvenation Pill into his mouth.
"Finding clues is too mentally taxing."
"And what if we find the wrong one and spend all that time working on it? Wouldn't that make us a laughingstock?"
Chen You stood up, dusted off his clothes, and said, "I'm an honest person."
"You say you're immortal, then I'd like to see just how many times you can be resurrected."
"Are you out of your mind?!" Holm snapped. "Do you know how painful it is to be sliced to pieces by sword energy? Do you know what it feels like to be struck by lightning and turned to dust? You're torturing me!"
"Oh." Chen You raised the Jade Emperor Sword expressionlessly. "Then let's continue."
"No, no, no!" Holm cried out in fright, backing away repeatedly.
Holm really cried.
Although what flowed from his bald eye sockets was all ice crystals.
He was a level 50 mutated lord, the gatekeeper of the Abyss Ice Mine, and once a figure that made countless beta testers tremble with fear.
He never imagined that one day he would be pinned to the ground and beaten like a stake, and repeatedly at that.
"You have no idea how powerful I used to be!" Holm pointed to his chest, his massive body constantly shedding ice shards.
"Those self-proclaimed pros were all taken down by my axe, one by one. They wore out their shoes from running back and forth in front of the altar!"
"They searched every corner of this place, checked guides, took notes, and died dozens of times before barely getting to the edge of my game mechanics!"
Chen You asked casually, "So?"
"So you should respect me!" Holm roared, his voice sounding somewhat comical due to the lisp. "I'm the examiner! You're tearing up the paper!"
Chen You stroked the hilt of the Jade Emperor Sword: "Tear it again?"
"Don't do this!" Holm's massive body suddenly shrank, and he waved his hands repeatedly, pointing to the ice on the ground.
"Brother, take a closer look at the ground. Are there any flickering lights?"
Chen You glanced down and saw that there were indeed several dark blue specks of light flickering in the ice.
Actually, he saw it as soon as he came in, but he was too lazy to care.
"Those are frost crystals!" Holm spoke rapidly, afraid Chen You would draw his sword again. "They can be collected! That's the mechanism!"
"If you collect ten crystals and place them on the Frost Heart of the altar, you can purify the pollution."
"It's that simple! Please, go and pick them!"
Chen You walked to a spot of light, squatted down, and used the hilt of his sword to break the ice, carving out a diamond-shaped ice crystal.
"That's it?" Chen You weighed the ice cube in his hand.
"Yes, yes, yes! That's it!" Holm rubbed his hands together excitedly. "Find nine more, make ten, and slap them on your heart, and my mission will be complete."
Chen You sighed: "Why didn't you say so earlier? You had to endure fifteen beatings."
Holm shut his mouth, feeling wronged.
I won't say anything? Does that mean I won't say anything?
Do you know how lazy you are?
Five minutes later, Chen You leisurely walked around the cave and picked out all ten frost crystals.
He walked to the black altar, looked at the dark red heart that was constantly spewing gray mist, and smashed all ten crystals onto it at once.
"Sizzle—"
A piercing purification sound rang out, and the dark blue light instantly swallowed the dark red.
The gray fog dissipated quickly, like snowflakes exposed to the blazing sun.
The Frostheart lost its eerie color and transformed into a crystal-clear blue gem, quietly floating in mid-air.
Holm let out a long breath, and his massive body began to dissipate into ice-blue specks of light.
"Brother, the pollution has been cleared." Holm's voice finally regained the deep tone befitting a lord, but it was filled with humility.
"You have successfully unlocked the level 50 raid dungeon 'Kabing Cavern'. You can now gather your team to run it."
Chen You nodded in satisfaction: "You're pretty savvy."
"Okay, I'll remember that. I'll come see you again when I have the chance."
"No!" Holm's dissipation accelerated threefold, his voice echoing desperately through the cave, "Please! Don't come back! Go and harm others!"
Before he finished speaking, Holm vanished completely.
Immediately afterwards, the black altar emitted a muffled rumble.
The hard rock cracked inch by inch, and finally shattered with a crash.
A massive, azure portal slowly rose from the site of the altar, its interior shimmering with starlight and exuding a chilling aura.
A system notification sounded in Chen You's ear.
[Ding! Mission complete. You have successfully removed the source of contamination from the bottom of the Abyss Ice Mine.]
[Ding! Aurora City public dimension has been connected.]
The entrance to the level 50 raid dungeon "Kabing Cavern" is now open.
A flash of white light, and the scene before Chen You's eyes distorted slightly.
The cave is still the same cave, and the portal is still the same portal.
But the difference was that the once empty cave was suddenly filled with a large, dark mass of people.
The cacophony of sounds flooded into Chen You's ears like a tidal wave.
"Kabing Cave group open, graduate from Kabing Cave!"
"It's so cold! Mage, give me some fire!"
"Level 50 newbie looking for someone to help me level up. Any experienced players willing to guide me?"
Clearly, the space Chen You was in just now was a mirrored task space that the system had allocated separately.
Now that the mission is complete and the mirror image has been removed, he was thrown back into the public channel.
Most importantly, Chen You is currently standing on the steps right in the center of the portal.
From its high vantage point, it commands the attention of all.
The once noisy cave suddenly fell eerily quiet the moment Chen You appeared.
Hundreds of eyes were fixed on the man who had suddenly appeared.