"That's good!"
Clay nodded with satisfaction and said, "Don't worry, I'll lead you to the reward!"
With that, he summoned his Flame Contracted Spirit.
Clay learned that one key could carry four people,
but he didn't notify the geniuses in his family. Instead, he teamed up with strangers.
As a beast-taming family, the competition among them was too fierce, with everyone coveting the position of family head.
Who would want to strengthen their competitors?
Clay and his four companions stepped into the passage, ready to face the first round of assessment.
...
"Be careful, the assessment will probably be here soon!"
Chen Shu and his group had already walked through the passage and arrived at another sea of fire.
A Liang and the others nodded, wary of any potential situation.
Boom boom boom!
In an instant, the surrounding sea of fire surged and converged towards their location, the temperature skyrocketing! Da Feng Novel
"Roar roar roar!"
Chen Shu and the other three were protected by their mechanisms and felt nothing,
but the husky in Xiao Huang's mouth was having a hard time.
Its flame attribute was terrifyingly high, but its resistance was very low, not at the same level at all.
"I can only put it away for now!"
Chen Shu frowned and recalled the husky into his beast-taming space.
"Gu ji!"
Xiao Huang unleashed "Dream Kill," significantly increasing its resistance, and appeared to be handling the situation with ease.
"Is a fierce beast about to appear?"
Chen Shu's vision pierced through the fiery sea but found no trace of any living creature.
Boom boom boom!
The surrounding burning sounds grew increasingly intense, and the temperature of the flames also continued to rise.
However, Xiao Huang seemed to become even more relaxed.
"Gu ji!"
At this moment, it opened its large eyes and no longer needed the "Dream Kill" buff.
Wrapped in flames, it seemed to suffer no damage at all, even rolling around joyfully.
"Huh?"
Chen Shu was slightly taken aback, but then he remembered Xiao Huang's new talent, "Elemental Adaptation."
"Elemental Adaptation: Damage from skills of the same elemental attribute will gradually decrease. If no damage of the same attribute is received within thirty seconds, the effect will disappear."
It was with this talent that he had easily defeated Wang Sheng of the King Beast Taming Troupe.
"Are the surrounding flames skills?"
Chen Shu stroked his chin, a thoughtful expression in his eyes.
According to the talent's description, only skills would take effect; ordinary flames would not trigger the talent's effect.
"Could it be that the surrounding flames are skills left behind from a thousand years ago?"
A flicker of thought appeared in Chen Shu's eyes, and he had already vaguely understood the assessment for this round.
It was likely testing the flame resistance of contracted spirits!
Time gradually passed.
Xiao Huang became even happier. The continuous burning brought its resistance infinitely close to 100%, essentially giving it an invulnerable state.
Although it could withstand it easily, others were not so lucky.
In less than ten minutes, one team's contracted spirits had been wiped out.
When the last contracted spirit could no longer endure,
the sea of fire automatically receded, signifying the end of their assessment.
"It's over already?"
The five exchanged glances, not yet understanding the situation.
Just then, a message appeared in their minds:
"Reward: Flame Resistance +1%"
The five were shocked, and smiles appeared in their eyes.
Permanent attribute bonuses were extremely rare. Although it was only 1%, it was worth a fortune.
And this was only the first round; they expected to receive rewards in subsequent rounds as well.
Time gradually passed, and all four teams finished and received their respective rewards.
The longest only lasted twenty minutes.
While everyone was grinning,
Chen Shu and his group were bored and lounging around.
"When will this end?"
Chen Shu yawned. The surrounding flames raged, even obscuring his vision.
However, Xiao Huang was still rolling in the sea of fire, as happy as an idiot.
As hour after hour passed,
the group gradually sensed that something was wrong.
"Young Master Clay, is the ruin over already?"
Someone scratched their head and looked at the well-informed Clay.
"Impossible!"
Clay was also completely bewildered.
He had done his homework before coming. Although this was his first time experiencing it, his family had a long history, and there were many records about ruins.
Under normal circumstances, ruins had more than one round.
"It should be starting the second round."
A thoughtful expression appeared in his eyes, and he said, "Could there be a bug?"
"Young Master Clay, could it be that someone hasn't finished yet..."
"Do you take me for an idiot?"
Clay turned his gaze over and said coldly,
"It's been five hours now, and I could only last twenty minutes. Are you telling me there's a contracted spirit that can last this long?"
"If it were that bandit..."
"..."
Clay fell silent for a moment.
When they were chasing Chen Shu before, any skill was easily blocked by the slime. Its defense was indeed a bit monstrous.
"Impossible!"
He still shook his head with certainty and said, "Unless its defense reaches the Gold level!"
"But do you think such a heaven-defying thing exists?"
"Is that so..."
The four muttered, choosing to believe him.
As for the people from the other teams, they also fell into a state of bored waiting.
...
A Liang stretched and said, "Why don't we haggle for a bit?"
"Hm?"
Xiao Xing asked, "Haggle for what?"
"The birthday gift Chen Shu gave me last time, I'm only one cent away from getting it!"
"Forget it!"
Wang Jue curled his lips and said, "First, there's no signal in the ruin! Second..."
He paused and said,
"I'd rather believe you could cut off the 'Dragon Abyss' than haggle for that thing!"
"..."
A Liang was speechless, but he felt like he had no grounds to refute.
He glanced at the fierce bandit next to him, wondering why he was so generous with his gifts.
Another two hours passed.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
The flames in the entire ruin seemed to surge towards this place, as if something unusual had happened.
A Liang asked, "Chen Shu, you didn't break it, did you..."
"Probably... maybe... possibly not."
Chen Shu's mouth twitched. He had caused problems with the "Ice and Fire Forest" ruin last time.
And now this happened again?
Are ruins so fragile now?