Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

"But you all should know the rules of rock paper scissors by now—it activates its domain likely to prevent its true body from being touched."

While speaking, Zhou Baiyu had already led the group along the small town and had reached the entrance to the black dungeon.

Though the black dungeon in the game was vast, its entrance was very narrow.

Along the way, as they walked, the grand team of charmed monsters led by the snow spirit kept dying off from time to time.

Because when the charm duration ended, it was automatically judged as a zero life value.

So the majority of the snow spirit's army was now gone.

But Huan Liuyan, Sky Eye, and the waking dream of impermanence had all received a decent amount of equipment replenishment during this process.

Seeing the equipment that had dropped everywhere, Sky Eye truly realized the importance of the snow spirit.

The importance of the snow spirit lay not in the Sky Eye profession.

It was in the snow spirit itself!

He also realized that, as the only one who survived in Salvation mode, just how solid the snow spirit's luck really was.

However, the team of three became a team of six, and although their combat power was getting stronger and the diversity of their professions led to increasingly varied tactics—

After entering the black dungeon, the strength of the monsters increased instantly.

It was as if ordinary zombies had turned into tyrant zombies within the dungeon.

When everyone entered the dungeon, they encountered a wave of exceptionally high-level monster attacks.

Those zombies, already fast to begin with, grew even larger in size here.

In the dark and damp dungeon, one could see a strange red glow in the distance, as if some special experiment was being conducted.

On the outermost layer of the dungeon, about twenty of these "zombie kings" approached Zhou Baiyu and the others.

The six-person squad, previously accustomed to violent outputs, did not expect that not even one monster fell during their approach.

-1!

-1!

-1!

Everyone saw the damage numbers drop from the hundreds to a mandatory deduction of one point.

This meant that the monsters' defensive power far surpassed their current ability to inflict damage.

But luckily, the snow spirit could still inflict damage.

Piercing damage allowed the snow spirit to ignore armor, and almost every shot from the snow spirit was a critical hit.

"Change positions! Use every means to taunt these monsters and cover for the snow spirit!"

"No... I've thought of a method. Retreat, get back to the dungeon entrance and keep entering and exiting!"

Since the monsters' stats had become even more outlandish, Zhou Baiyu and his companions had to change their strategy.

What they could previously handle with focused firepower, they could now only kite continuously, exploiting terrain bugs... luring the enemies to the black dungeon entrance.

The monsters of the black dungeon would not venture outside of it.

Even if these monsters had intelligence, rules were rules.

Just like how the Long Xia region was filled with treasures, and the external Mutators had become extremely powerful... but they just couldn't enter the Long Xia region.

The entrance to the black dungeon at this moment was like a barrier.

Although the dungeon's monsters were powerful, they couldn't destroy the entrance.

Zhou Baiyu keenly caught onto this fact.

If there was a vast disparity in the strength of monsters inside and outside the dungeon, but no monsters outside, did that mean...

They couldn't leave the dungeon?

Or that they couldn't use the normal entrances and exits provided for players to leave the dungeon?

This also confirmed his suspicion, hence the scene of exploiting a bug occurred—

The snow spirit led five legendary pioneers, repeatedly entering and exiting, as if performing a cycle of seven entries and exits—

Until they finally annihilated the tyrant zombies of the blood ox level.

"There's plenty of equipment drops, but the quality hasn't changed much. This isn't a good sign..."

After all the monsters at the entrance of the black dungeon were killed by the snow spirit, a significant amount of equipment dropped.

Looking at the spoils, Zhou Baiyu realized the severity of the problem:

"If the spoils are only these, our improvements are minimal, and we'll hardly be able to damage the monsters ahead, with only the snow spirit able to inflict any damage."

"Then are we absolutely unable to clear the dungeon?" Liuyan said.

If the monsters in a game are too strong, it suggests a problem with the number design.

In the real world, the data planners from the Long Xia country seem to think this is a good strategy to force players to spend money.

It's not that my number design is unreasonable; it's that you're not spending money, so how can I strengthen you?

But this place is a half-real, half-fake game created by a Mutator, and there is no recharge portal here.

"If the minions are already like this... then what kind of strength does the warden actually possess?"

The waking dream of impermanence felt that the speed and strength of the monsters they had just fought had reached the limit they could handle at this stage.

And these were only the most peripheral gatekeeping monsters in the black dungeon.

"We can't just keep leveling up and grinding monsters here, leveling up dozens of times before we go fight, right?"

The snow spirit took a glance at its experience bar, which had indeed risen quite a bit.

"Leveling up is an option, but the efficiency is too low. Moreover, any strategy we can think of, the creators of the game world will also have considered."

"If the opponent dares to open a domain to deal with the enemies of this entire island... it naturally assumes that no one in this game can defeat the warden."

Zhou Baiyu's answer seemed extremely pessimistic.

But Sky Eye noticed—

Jiang Xianwu's expression had always been very calm, and his tone showed no sense of powerlessness.

Truth be told, without resorting to their trump card, Sky Eye could hardly imagine how they could defeat the warden.

Although they had already entered the black dungeon, they feared that with their mere scraping damage, they wouldn't even be able to reach the warden's side, let alone defeat the warden.