Chapter 377 - 169: Divine Soldiers Descend, Worlds Connect
"Open it!"
"Open it in thirty seconds!"
"Once we lure this wave of monsters out, only about thirty percent should be left inside the Immortal Palace!"
"In thirty seconds, we’ll blast open the South Celestial Gate, cut down the Jade Emperor inside, and complete this Fifth Ring of the Heaven-Opening Gate quest!"
Hearing Huang Yi’s voice, Father Shen quickly gave out orders. As a team, of course, there had to be a leader, or rather, a captain. After being suddenly dragged into a special space to complete a mandatory quest, Father Shen didn’t refuse for long when the other four elected him as their captain.
It didn’t matter who was captain. What was important was to use the captain to issue unified commands. This would synchronize the five’s attack rhythm so they weren’t just fighting on their own.
WHOOSH.
As he deployed his Chessboard Array to fend off the wave of monsters with boosted Combat Power, Father Shen opened his personal status panel. He looked at the five-person mandatory quest on his panel.
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[Quest: Heaven-Opening Gate]
[Current Ring Skill: Fifth Ring (of Twelve Rings)]
[Quest Countdown: 6 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes, 7 seconds]
[Quest Objective: Kill the strongest boss or NPC in the Game World, break the Game World’s limitations, and connect this Game World with another Game World!]
[Description: Upon completion of each ring of the quest, monster strength will double!]
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Previously, after being pulled into the special space and seeing the quest objective appear on everyone’s panels, Father Shen and the others had been stunned. They never imagined they would be dragged into a Game World!
The so-called Heaven-Opening Gate quest was actually a task where the five of them were pulled into one Game World after another by the power of the Rules. Then, they had to kill the final boss or an NPC within the game—one who had been granted sentience—and use immense power to shatter the Game World’s barriers, linking two Game Worlds together!
This was the so-called "Heaven-Opening Gate."
Opening the Heaven-Opening Gate meant opening the Celestial Gate of a Game World!
All the abilities they possessed were inherited from games. Father Shen and the others had never expected that one day, not only could NPCs and bosses from games appear in reality, but they could also invade games in reverse, facing off against the NPCs and bosses who originally lived in the Game World!
Once they confirmed they had been pulled into a Game World, and after the initial shock wore off, Father Shen and his team quickly began their clear-run, following the game’s quest. The mandatory quest they were bound to had a time limit, after all.
Moreover, after clearing each ring, the monster strength in the next Game World would double. With such an exponential increase, the monster strength in the final ring would be several thousand times that of the first. Anyone who had studied math could quickly calculate this.
Therefore, although Father Shen and the others were utterly shocked that human players could be teleported into a Game World, all they could do was swallow their shock and grind monsters furiously, just as the Rules required. Since the Rules could pull them into a Game World, then the quest panel’s warning—that they would be instantly obliterated if they failed—would surely come true.
Driven by the mandatory quest, Father Shen’s group of five could only focus on completing the so-called Heaven-Opening Gate quest as quickly as possible.
Now, after more than ten hours of effort, they were on the verge of completing the Fifth Ring. However, deep down, Father Shen and his team were extremely tense because the strength of the monsters in the Fifth Ring was already at a point where they could no longer one-shot them.
And with even stronger monsters waiting for them later on, the team didn’t dare to slack off in the slightest.
Although, through the battles of the first four rings, Father Shen, Zhao Li, and Huang Yi had all demonstrated strength that lived up to their reputations. Furthermore, the other two teammates, [Succubus’s Tear] and [Young Master Void], were not weak either. But a sense of crisis and worry still surfaced in their minds, weighing heavily on their hearts.
They didn’t know if they could complete the so-called Twelfth Ring Heaven-Opening Gate quest. They also didn’t know why they had to open a Celestial Gate in a Game World. All they could do was complete the quest as quickly as possible, lest they be obliterated by the Rules.
WHOOSH.
He turned and nodded to the others, preparing for the powerful strike in thirty seconds that would shatter the Immortal Palace behind them. They would launch a surprise attack and take out the so-called Jade Emperor of this little Immortal-style game.
Father Shen’s gaze shifted again to the few items in his inventory. In his inventory were items like the [Array Flag], [Hundredfold Enhancement], [Greed], and [Disguise Technique] that his son, Shen Fei, had given him before he entered the Game World. He even had a large Divine Artifact Avatar in his hand—[Zu’an’s Kiss].
These were all things his son had forced on him before he entered the Game World. Father Shen hadn’t wanted to take them because he didn’t want to diminish his son’s Combat Power and resources by taking his things. But in the end, he couldn’t win the argument with his son and had no choice but to bring all these items with him.
Now, looking at the items in his inventory, Father Shen knew that he would probably, maybe, possibly have to start using them around the eighth or ninth ring. Otherwise, based on the current monster strength data, they really wouldn’t make it through the later rings!
I hope I can make it back alive! Father Shen thought to himself as he looked at the items in his inventory.
Upon entering the Game World, all their methods of communication had been completely cut off. Not only was the Forum inaccessible, but their cell phones and other devices had no signal. Father Shen had even specifically tried to use the built-in Divine Artifact connection to link with other Divine Artifacts, but that too was unsuccessful.