Demon Suppression Tower
I almost forgot, today is the Double Ninth Festival! Happy Double Ninth Festival everyone!
Tagore's withdrawal from the competition immediately increased the pressure on the remaining two.
Originally, Tagore and Clark were the main force in this battle, while Brog was slightly weaker and only played a supporting role. With Tagore gone, the attack intensity of the remaining two decreased by almost half.
However, the two had no choice but to suffer in silence, as Tagore's transformation time was limited, and without transformation, his strength was simply insufficient. Moreover, judging from the current situation, Tagore had also suffered severe damage from this battle and had fallen into a deep sleep, a situation that had rarely occurred before.
"Princess, we can't hold out much longer. You need to find a safe place to escape as soon as possible!" Brog suddenly shouted at Lolo Li.
Lolo Li frowned slightly. What she had feared had finally happened. She turned to look at Liliath, "What should we do now?!"
"Then let's run!" Liliath nodded and shouted towards the deep pit not far away, "Bigge, all of you come up, and carry Gu Ding up too!"
Gu Ding remained unconscious in the deep pit. Bigge picked him up and then leaped up.
Robert and the others followed.
"Let's go into the tower!" Liliath turned around and looked at the giant black tower.
"Go into the tower? Are you sure it's safe inside?" Lolo Li was a little uneasy. She felt that since the tower was Treasure Land, it must not be safe inside.
"It's definitely safer than outside!" Liliath still trusted the Sea Emperor's judgment. She was the first to walk towards the Black Tower. When she reached the entrance, she waved to Bigge and the others, and then stepped inside.
Bigge and his group followed suit and entered the tower one after another. Gale from P2 also followed behind the Gu Ding Team into the tower.
Lolo Li hesitated for a moment, then stepped in last.
Once inside the tower, the view is filled with towering rocks, and the boundaries of the surrounding area are invisible; it's like entering another world entirely.
Behind them, the door had vanished. Not far away stood a blue stone tablet with inscriptions carved on it.
Liliath and her group immediately surrounded the stone tablet.
This tower is called the Demon Suppression Tower, and it has twenty-one floors. A large number of demonic beasts inhabit the tower. Floors one through five are all one-star demonic beasts; floors six through ten are all two-star demonic beasts; floors eleven through fifteen are all three-star demonic beasts; floors sixteen through twentieth are all four-star demonic beasts. The twenty-first floor is home to a five-star Demon King.
Each floor of the tower has two doors: a real door leading to the next floor, and a fake door that might send you back to the First Level, or it might take you directly to the top floor. It might even teleport you to some location outside the tower. Even with the same fake door, different people have a 50% chance of being teleported to different locations.
There are only three ways to leave the Demon Suppression Tower. First, reach the twenty-first floor and find the correct door. Second, kill the strongest demon beast in the tower. Third, encounter a special teleportation portal and be teleported away.
"Starting from the eleventh floor, it's all three-star demonic beasts... Three-star demonic beasts are comparable to High-rank Gods. From the sixteenth floor upwards, they're all four-star demonic beasts. Four-star demonic beasts are as powerful as Peak-rank Gods. This tower is clearly more dangerous than outside..." Lolo Li regretted entering this tower. Outside, at least she had her Old Dad's will protecting her. If Aurora made a move, her Old Dad's Combat Strength was at the level of a four-star Peak-rank God; he could easily crush her with a single finger. But inside this tower, there were beings even stronger than her Old Dad. This made her want to cry.
"Although the mortality rate at the Helen is high, the survival rate is almost always above 10%, with only two or three instances where it falls below 10%," Liliath said dismissively. "Many of those powerful figures from the past must have survived and left this Demon Suppression Tower. There's no need to be too pessimistic."
"Little girl, the Demon Suppression Tower is not as simple as you think," Gale said, shaking his head. "There are six Demon Suppression Tower in the Liliath Helen. Five of them are used for the second round of assessments, while the Central Demon Suppression Tower is used for the third round of assessments."
"The Helen Ruins have existed for over 200,000 years and have been opened more than 200 times. According to official records, the mortality rate of the Central Demon Suppression Tower is 100%. In reality, the total number of people who have entered the third round of assessment is less than 30. The survival rate of the other five Demon Suppression Tower is higher because 99% of those who enter stop within the tenth floor. They simply wait for the ruins to close and are then teleported out. From the time the Helen Ruins have existed until now, less than 100 people have managed to leave the Demon Suppression Tower before the ruins close."
"If you don't want to die, my advice is to stay on the tenth floor. Then pray that the guy named Aurora is unlucky and gets teleported to the sixteenth floor or higher through the fake door, where he'll be crushed to death by those four-star monsters."
Although Gale looks mature, he is actually only seventeen or eighteen years old. No one knows where he learned his sarcastic and annoying way of chatting.
His negative remarks angered Liliath, who said, "If you don't speak, no one will think you're mute."
"I'm just stating the facts. Whether you listen or not, it won't change the established facts." Gale shrugged. Actually, he felt that he had already been quite restrained in his words. The reason he was restrained was because the entire Gu Ding Team was here. Although two of them had lost their fighting ability, the remaining five were not to be underestimated, and he would have a hard time dealing with them alone.
"What he said is indeed true, but this tower isn't actually that dangerous. Above the eleventh floor, the number of demonic beasts is much less than before, and most of them are in a dormant state, unlikely to awaken unless you get close. Above the sixteenth floor, the number of demonic beasts is even less. As for the twenty-first floor, there's practically nothing there. The Central Demon Suppression Tower, however, is much more dangerous; the number of demonic beasts there is equal to the total number in the other five towers, and they are all active." The Sea Emperor's words made Liliath breathe a slight sigh of relief.
"I have basically figured out the structure of this tower. You just need to follow my instructions." The Sea Emperor seemed very confident. "As for the teleportation gate, although the teleportation point has been covered up by a special method, I can still calculate the location of the landing point by tracing the spatial channel trajectory of the teleportation starting point."
"Now, keep walking in the three o'clock direction. I'll let you know when you need to turn," Sea Emperor commanded.
Liliath's gaze swept over the crowd, and she waved to them, "Follow me!"
Bigge and the others knew perfectly well that the Sea Emperor was giving Liliath directions. They immediately followed without hesitation.
"Sister Lily, why did you choose the right side?" Lolo Li asked curiously.
"A woman's intuition," Liliath answered decisively. "I've played maze games since I was a child, and I can easily navigate them by intuition."
In reality, Liliath wasn't telling the truth at all. When she was little, she would always get lost in maze games and couldn't find the exit. Whenever she got lost, she would sit there crying and wait for her parents to rescue her.
"So powerful? Is it some kind of special ability?" Lolo Li couldn't help but ask upon hearing this.
"It's not really a special ability, maybe it's just that my sixth sense is a bit stronger than the average person's." Liliath touched her nose somewhat guiltily.
Gale, standing behind, noticed this action. As a member of the top organization, he was trained in understanding the meanings of simple micro-expressions and subconscious gestures, which were even tested in written exams. Wiping one's nose meant the other person was guilty or lying. But he still followed behind Liliath and her group, just like Lolo Li.
"Lily, Gale knows you're lying. Stop explaining. The more you explain, the more obvious the lie will become," Sea Emperor whispered in Liliath's ear.
Liliath fell silent immediately, but thankfully Lolo Li didn't ask any more questions. Instead, she chatted and laughed with Elsa about food.
After walking for about an hour, Gale finally couldn't help but speak up, "Is this the right path? We haven't seen a single monster along the way. According to our official records, every gate is guarded by a pack of beasts."
"My intuition is never wrong. If you feel something is wrong, you can choose a direction to go. Nobody's forcing you to follow us," Liliath said, pursing her lips.
Gale didn't say anything more. He didn't believe Liliath's claim of intuition; he suspected Liliath might have a way of scouting the route and naturally wouldn't easily give up following her. So, he had no choice but to keep quiet and silently trailed behind Liliath's group.
"There are demonic beasts about fifteen kilometers ahead. They are all only one-star demonic beasts. You decide whether to fight them or go around them." After a long while, the Sea Emperor finally spoke again, "If you don't want to go around them, then keep going straight. If you want to go around them, then turn left now and head towards the nine o'clock direction."
Liliath said nothing and chose to continue on her way. She was rather frustrated that she couldn't communicate with the Sea Emperor when outsiders were present.
Fifteen kilometers, at everyone's walking speed, they arrived quickly.
The corpses and cores of one-star demonic beasts were indeed not valuable to Gu Ding and his group. Liliath chose to hunt them because she knew Gu Ding's Myriad Manifestations Emperor Body required a large amount of flesh and blood energy to replenish itself. Moreover, hunting such a group of one-star beasts wouldn't take long.
Upon seeing the horde, Gale charged forward, unleashing a frenzied slaughter; he had been holding back his pent-up energy all along and desperately needed to vent. Seeing Gale move, Bigge and the others followed suit, charging into the horde. Hundreds of thousands of giant beasts were wiped out in less than ten minutes.
Liliath and the others also put all the General Beast corpses into their Storage Ring.
Gale simply watched with disdain, completely disregarding the beast corpses and crystal cores. Besides, the top organization had an almost unlimited supply of cultivation resources, and he was already Mid-rank God; the beast corpses of one-star demonic beasts would offer no assistance to his cultivation.
"Hey, are you going to throw away all these monsters you killed?" Liliath looked up at Gale.
"The corpse of a one-star monster is of no use to me, and I don't need that little bit of pocket money." Gale was clearly a foul-mouthed guy.
Upon hearing his words, Liliath, who was about to say thank you, snorted coldly and unceremoniously put all the beast corpses into her Storage Space.
"Let's keep going!" Liliath then turned left, following the route taught by the Sea Emperor.