The Tower pined for him
Now, the five-person tower-climbing team has become a six-person tower-climbing team.
The Four-Colored Puppets, Su Luo, and the Blood Moon itself.
Su Luo took two steps to the side, increasing the distance between herself and the crimson mist.
It wasn't out of fear—he wasn't afraid of someone who had been slashed to pieces by Song Shige and then beaten down by Gao Fu —but because the aura of the Desolation Plague emanating from that thing was far too strong.
Dark red mist surged and boiled around the Blood Moon, almost solidifying and completely engulfing its outline.
The Machine Fortress stared expressionlessly at the red mist, then glanced at Su Luo, before choosing to distance itself from the two. It felt as if staying near Su Luo and Blood Moon would mean being crushed to death by the Tower.
"My God, I've never seen such a strong aura of Desolation Plague in my entire life."
The first boss of the third phase, as expected, is a monster floating in mid-air with a head that is exactly the same as the skull that Jingjing is wearing.
There were no eyeballs in the eye sockets, only two Burn flames. When the flames flickered, the light and shadow in the entire room distorted accordingly.
[Divine Punishment]
[Health Points: 948500/948500 (affected by Blight Shield)]
After reading it, Su Luo glanced at her own health bar.
[Health Points: 75/75]
I encountered a minor incident while climbing the tower, and my Health Points was reduced by five points.
Seventy-five points of health and over ninety-four thousand points of health... Is this even a game?
The numerical values had collapsed to an unbelievable degree, reminding Su Luo of her own Trait Dungeon, where the numerical values had also collapsed.
"Just how many layers of Desolation Plague did you layer?"
Su Luo turned her head and looked at the Blood Moon.
Blood Moon ignored him and everyone else, simply playing his cards silently.
As an outsider and a powerful figure like Su Luo, Blood Moon also has the right to imprint her own cards and can freely use her initial Relics.
It's safe to say that if Su Luo hadn't exploited the bug to take a shortcut in the previous playthrough and had been banished by the Tower, she would most likely have had the same level of Desolation Plague buff stacked up to an insane degree as Blood Moon now.
"Its mechanism," the Observer began, his voice still cold, "Is 'Judgment'."
"At the end of each round, it will 'Judgment' all tower climbers present. Those with debuffs will take half damage. Those with buffs will take extra damage. Those with both buffs and debuffs will be executed immediately."
"State?"
"... It seems like I'll be executed immediately if I play a card." Su Luo looked at her status bar. Playing cards would stack elemental statuses, which were buffs, but the Desolation Plague was a debuff.
"It doesn't matter who you're talking about." One of the androids in the Machine Fortress looked grim.
"If we can't kill the BOSS in the first round, we'll all die, because it will deal 15,000 damage."
"Steal... steal the young master?" The Machine Fortress was stunned as it took a Relic the monster's intent could not be seen.
"I will also be executed on the spot." Blood Moon spoke for the first time, his voice carrying an eerie echo.
Su Luo looked at the red mist. The Desolation Plague on Blood Moon was thicker than on him, but at the same time, the nine miniature monsters were also providing him with various buffs.
"Actually, there's still a chance," Jingjing suddenly spoke, her voice unusually calm. "We can simply die."
Everyone looked at her.
"The Scholar is invincible when not in combat—that's his [Outsider] stat." Jingjing said, "Once we're all dead, he can skip ahead to phase four and Resurrection us at the campfire."
"Is there a campfire in the fourth phase?" the Machine Fortress asked.
"There should be." Jingjing's tone was uncertain.
Are you sure?
"... I'm not entirely sure."
"What other rooms are available?" Su Luo asked.
"Uh..." Jingjing hesitated, Iron Guard also fell silent, and Machine Fortress was simply dumbfounded.
"The fourth stage," the Observer began, picking up the thread, "Is a room with a campfire, a shop room, then an Elite room, and finally the final boss."
The Observer seemed to know it very well, as if they visited it frequently.
While the group was talking, Blood Moon suddenly made his move.
Blood Moon plays [Moonlight], gaining 1 temporary energy. Then, play another card that inflicts Vulnerable, increasing the damage all enemies take by 50% this turn.
Then, one mini ghost story after another crawled out of the card, and the nine ghost story Vassal around it also Divine Abilities...
As the fifteenth card of Blood Moon fell, [Divine Punishment]'s Health Points dropped by 200,000, which even Su Luo couldn't deal that much damage, since she didn't have any initial Relics.
Fifteen cards is the limit.
[Time Maze: You cannot play more than fifteen cards per turn.]
Blood Moon may have attempted to build an infinite deck, but it was quickly countered.
The Observer then made their move, opening with a [Blasphemy (No Cost)], and using their [Foresight] ability to select their favorite cards from the deck.
A Hasty Scrawl sheet.
[Hasty Scrawl]: Draw cards until your hand is full.
Twelve [Flame Pattern] cards are played one by one: the next attack card deals 8 more damage.
With each card she played, another Flame Pattern appeared on her body, Spread and overlapping across her purple robes. Combined with the various buffs she received, her damage reached its peak.
Golden lightning bolts cleaved down from the Void, one after another, each carrying three times the damage, each striking the BOSS's skull with pinpoint accuracy.
BOSS HP decreased by 5,000.
If it were Observer solo climber, they would have already won, but now there are two outsiders nearby, Desolation Plague is particularly fond of them.
Iron Guard once again frantically Burn his cards; amidst the purple flames, his aura surged, and another blade of light slashed down.
Jingjing then unleashes all her cards simultaneously, attacking repeatedly until she runs out of cards.
Machine Fortress...
Finally, Divine Punishment's health points reached: [Health Points: 740045/948500].
All the Vassal myths surrounding Blood Moon went into hibernation, their buffs disappearing, clearly indicating that it intended to tank this round of attacks.
Su Luo sighed, and black flames suddenly ignited, climbing up the hideous skull.
A dozen seconds later, the monster roared and lay down.
It still has to be One-Shot Cheat.
This BOSS is closely related to Jingjing, and its strength is similar to that of the Devil corresponding to the Iron Guard. Su Luo is almost certain to win.
Blood Moon was stunned.
Holy crap, is this what a high-level player is like?
The dark red aura of Desolation Plague surged in from all directions like a flood bursting its banks, rushing to cling to Su Luo's body.
One layer, two layers, three layers... The concentration of the Desolation Plague on Su Luo's body soared at a visible rate, soon surpassing that of the Blood Moon.
There was no reward. After Jingjing possessed the BOSS, Su Luo moved forward again, and the door to the next room opened wide.
Behind the door was a Chaos Void, and in the depths of that Void, a colossal figure could be vaguely seen standing, holding a pocket watch in its hand.
Su Luo glanced at the Blood Moon, her Heartfire, but ultimately she didn't make a move.
As they entered the door, the ground beneath their feet suddenly vanished, replaced by an endless sense of falling. Space distorted, time spiraled out of control, and the surrounding scenery scattered like fragments of a shattered mirror.
Su Luo raised an eyebrow.
Not again?
The Tower.