BXBX NOVEL Chapter 311: The Gate
As soon as Young Master Feiyu spoke, the NPCs standing next to him began to secretly curse in their hearts.
“If you want to be a good person, why don’t you use your own spot, but instead drive us away?”
However, when Qian Xiaohao’s gaze passed over them, the NPCs all showed ingratiating smiles on their faces and automatically moved to make room.
These were just the lowest-level adventurers, who, by sheer luck, had been randomly sent to this city by the system. In terms of strength, they didn’t dare to offend the son of a count from the City of Sin.
Qian Xiaohao laughed and walked with his group toward Young Master Feiyu: “Thank you very much, Young Master Feiyu.”
With Qian Xiaohao’s arrival, the abandoned factory became even livelier. Song Jian didn’t care; as long as these NPCs didn’t gang up on him, he would be in an unbeatable position.
The more people, the better. The more people there were, the easier it would be for him to take advantage of the chaos. These NPCs seemed to know much more about the Imperial Dragon Demon Palace than the surrounding players; even if they hadn’t entered it before, they had heard many stories about it.
Compared to the NPCs, the players seemed completely clueless, knowing only that there would be treasures inside; as for the specific situation inside the Imperial Dragon Demon Palace, they knew nothing.
Time passed little by little, and more and more people gathered around, but everyone was quietly waiting without showing any signs of impatience.
From the corner of his eye, Song Jian saw Young Master Feiyu seemingly whispering something to Qian Xiaohao, all the while glancing in his direction.
The way Qian Xiaohao looked at Song Jian was like a venomous snake eyeing its prey. Song Jian’s heart sank could it be that he had exposed his “Sword Finger” skill and had been recognized by this so-called Young Master Feiyu?
Just then, the cracks in the cave grew larger and larger. Suddenly, another surge of green light burst forth from within, and the entire ground began to shake.
The cave entrance finally split open enough to reveal a huge passage that could accommodate three people walking side by side, with a stone staircase appearing before everyone’s eyes.
All players received a joyful system message at the same time:
System: The Imperial Dragon Demon Palace is now open. Entry time is ten minutes; after ten minutes, entry will no longer be possible. The Imperial Dragon Demon Palace will exist for twelve hours; after twelve hours, all players inside will be forcibly teleported out.
Upon receiving the system message, everyone’s faces changed simultaneously, and they rushed chaotically toward the cave entrance. There were only ten minutes to enter if they missed this opportunity, wouldn’t their entire trip have been wasted?
As soon as the stone stairs appeared, the NPCs near the cave entrance all swarmed in. Song Jian didn’t rush to the front, but instead waited for Qian Xiaohao and the others to enter before leisurely walking toward the stone stairs.
No one knew what kind of monsters might be inside the Imperial Dragon Demon Palace, so it was better to let these familiar NPCs go in and scout ahead. Even if they found any treasures, Song Jian could just snatch them back later.
Walking down the stone stairs, everyone was surprised to find that they were incredibly long, spiraling down like a winding snake with no end in sight.
It took more than half an hour to walk down these stairs, and the surrounding area was quite dim. Everyone proceeded carefully, fearing that they might fall from the stone staircase and plummet into the bottomless abyss below; whether they were level 15 or level 20, such a fall would undoubtedly be fatal.
Fortunately, no monsters appeared along the way, and everyone safely reached the end of the staircase. At the very bottom, a colossal bronze gate appeared before them.
The bronze gate was adorned with two ferocious dragon heads, their lifelike expressions seemingly ready to devour anyone who approached. Surrounding the dragon heads was a series of intricate magic rune arrays, shimmering with the glow of the array, though their brilliance had become quite weak by this point.
A few fast-running NPCs had already reached the bronze gate and were pushing against it with all their might. However, the gate remained firmly in place.
Qian Xiaohao witnessed this scene and chuckled softly, saying, “The two bronze doors of the Imperial Dragon Demon Palace each contain the power of a dragon. One must possess an attribute of at least fifteen points of strength to possibly move them!”
As he spoke, Qian Xiaohao gestured to several people behind him. Soon, several heavily armored warriors arrived in front of the bronze gate, intending to open it.
All these warriors were level 15, with strength as their primary attribute. Qian Xiaohao had also spent a good amount of treasure to elevate their strength attribute to over 15.
In the end, their combined efforts only managed to slightly shake the bronze gate, leaving everyone present to change their expressions and direct their gazes at Qian Xiaohao.
“How could this be?” Qian Xiaohao furrowed his brows. He had also been to the Imperial Dragon Demon Palace before; on those occasions, the gate had always been opened by several people with strength attributes over 15. Why was it different this time?
Seeing the Imperial Dragon Demon Palace right in front of them but feeling unable to get in, people began to grow restless.
Qian Xiaohao’s face darkened, and he muttered under his breath, “Useless!”
At this point, one of his followers whispered in his ear, “Big brother, why don’t I give it a try?”
“Be careful, second brother!” Qian Xiaohao nodded his head and said.
The robust man smiled and walked one step at a time toward the bronze gate. With each step, he grew taller; by the time he reached the gate, he was over two meters tall, his whole body rippling with explosive power, and his armor seeming a size too small. He tore it off and threw it on the ground.
He roughly swept away the people in front of the bronze gate, let out a loud roar, and his vitality and muscles surged, causing him to grow even taller. His whole body was covered in dense veins, and he looked like a monster.
Song Jian drew in a sharp breath; this sturdy man was actually giving him a feeling of threatening his life. If they really fought, Song Jian would find it difficult to win.
Another one of Qian Xiaohao’s followers said excitedly, “It seems that second brother’s ‘Gods Descending’ skill has improved again…”
Qian Xiaohao also smiled faintly. These two followers were powerful with great potential. In order to win them over, Qian Xiaohao had even taken the oath of brotherhood with them.
At this moment, the muscular man let out a beast-like roar and pushed against the bronze gate with all his strength. The immovable gate, which many NPCs could not budge, began to creak open under his force.
However, as the gate opened, a cloud of black mist drifted out from within. It coalesced into the shape of a skull in the air, emitting a sharp howl as it pounced on the brawny man pushing the door.
The muscular man, focused on opening the door with all his might, hadn’t had time to defend himself and was quickly engulfed by the black mist, screaming horribly.
This mist turned out to have an intense corrosive effect – the man’s body visibly collapsed at an alarming speed, deflating like a punctured balloon.
All of the people present quickly retreated, looking at the black mist with terror on their faces.