Chapter 391 - 171: Soul Fighter, Bisector Foil, and a Creator God
The group quickly began voicing their opinions.
"So we can leave after we finish the 18th stage?" one person asked, buzzing with excitement and eager to finish the mission.
Although they had Shen Fei’s powerful one-shot kills to rely on, after going through so many stages, everyone knew they were being shuttled between different Game Worlds. They had even figured out that these Game Worlds were still in the process of granting game abilities to the real world. Granted, with the sheer number of games, none of them had yet entered the specific Game World from which they’d inherited their own powers. But this bizarre situation—humans being forced to operate inside Game Worlds—still worried them.
Everyone wanted to leave as soon as possible. Even Shen Fei wanted to leave quickly to gather information in the real world.
They might not have recognized all the Game Worlds they had just been through, but they remembered their distinct features very clearly. Therefore, after they left, they would inevitably investigate the dozen or so Game Worlds they had passed through and find out what had become of them after their battles.
With only one final stage left, the six-person squad communicated rapidly.
Meanwhile, Shen Fei, having determined that the next stage—the eighteenth—would likely require them to kill more than three bosses or NPCs, shifted his focus. He turned his gaze to the new item he had just obtained.
[Bisector Foil: A special conceptual item. Can convert an area no larger than 100km x 100km x 100km from three-dimensional to two-dimensional. Duration: 30 minutes. (Cannot be used in certain special locations!)]
The attributes of the item, his reward for clearing the 2D Game World, appeared before him.
"Holy crap!"
"The higher the stage, the better the reward!" Shen Fei gasped, looking at the new item in his hand.
The rewards from the sixteenth stage’s Game World had been powerful, but most of them were limited to use only within a Secret Realm. He hadn’t expected the reward from the seventeenth stage to have no usage restrictions at all.
Shen Fei’s eyes widened as he examined the new item’s attributes. Having just fought in a 2D Game World, he knew exactly what a dimensional reduction strike was like when a 3D being fought a 2D one. A 3D world, with its extra dimension, could utterly crush a 2D creature by leveraging that third dimension. From a place the 2D creature couldn’t see or touch, the 3D being could effortlessly toy with it.
Damn, this is too strong! It only lasts for thirty minutes, but this is a weapon more strategic than any strategic weapon! And this is just the reward for the seventeenth stage. The eighteenth...
Shen Fei sighed in amazement as he examined the reward. As for this mandatory group quest, setting other things aside, the rewards for clearing each stage truly delighted him.
And for every stage cleared, we get six of these kinds of rewards! Without me, a mandatory quest like this would be a death sentence... But if you can clear it, the rewards are incredibly powerful...
"Ready?"
"Ready!"
"Let’s go?"
"Let’s go!"
A few minutes later, the six-person squad finished their discussion. They exchanged a look and all gave a firm nod. Then, in unison, they struck the cylinder with the health bar standing in their midst.
BOOM!
After a violent explosion, everyone’s personal panels opened once more.
[Ding!]
[Key item for the seventeenth stage’s Game World has been destroyed!]
[Ding!]
[Heaven-Opening Gate Mandatory Quest: Seventeenth Stage Complete!]
[Ding!]
[Randomly entering the eighteenth stage’s quest Game World!]
As the six-person squad watched, a huge, oval-shaped void suddenly appeared above the 2D Game World of *Soul Fighter*.
WHOOSH!
The instant the void appeared, Shen Fei and the other five were immediately teleported away.
"Fuck!"
"Fuck!"
"Fuck!"
When their vision cleared, Shen Fei and his group found themselves in a new environment. He looked at the distant sea, at the massive floodgates nearby, at the towering city in the sky, and then at a certain item in his hand that had begun to glow.
Everyone lost their minds.
None of them had expected to be sent to *this* world for the final, eighteenth stage of the mandatory quest. Before the apocalypse, this game had the largest player base. Every gamer knew about it, even if they didn’t play it.
They exchanged a look, confirming in each other’s eyes that the scene before them was indeed from that famous game. Everyone’s heart skipped a beat.
This Game World was no ordinary place. It was a chaotic mix of various factions. Most importantly, in this Game World’s lore, the Combat Power ceiling was absurdly high—the very top was Creation Level.
With the several-hundred-thousand-times Combat Power multiplier for the eighteenth stage, how the hell were they supposed to fight that? No matter how strong Shen Fei was, he couldn’t defeat a Creator God, especially not one whose Combat Power had been boosted by a factor of several hundred thousand. And, according to the rule they’d learned from the seventeenth stage, the number of targets they needed to kill in this final stage wasn’t going to be just one.
This... This is going to be tough.
SHIMMER.
The instant he recognized the Game World and realized how difficult it would be, Shen Fei took an item from his inventory and used it immediately.
SHIMMER.
His face transformed. Having instantly used the [Disguise Technique], Shen Fei’s appearance changed completely.
"I’m going to scout ahead. You all wait here!" he said. "I need to check out the situation!"
After transforming himself into a specific NPC from the game’s lore, Shen Fei immediately blended into the crowd, heading toward the city before him—a place where technology and steam, wealth and glory, all coexisted.
"This...?"
"This...?"
"How are we supposed to fight this?!"
As Shen Fei left, the other five were stunned. They pulled up their collars to hide their faces and quickly retreated into a corner. They never imagined they would enter a world with such an immense and complex setting for the final stage. Furthermore, it was a mainstream game on Earth, boasting one of the largest player bases.
None of the Game Worlds they had experienced before were this vast. At most, they had only appeared on a single continent. The sixteenth stage, for instance, had a Game World with only three simple map areas. Now, arriving in this new world, thinking about its massive lore and all the powerful beings within that story, and then remembering that the Combat Power was multiplied by several hundred thousand, everyone started to grow anxious.
"What Game World is this?" As an older man, Father Shen didn’t recognize it. Seeing his son rush off and the worried expressions on everyone else’s faces, he couldn’t help but ask.
Then, he heard Huang Yi’s slow reply, "Rune Land. The main world of the game *League of Legends*! Brother Fei’s Divine Artifact, the [Zu’an’s Kiss], is named after a faction from this world."