When Zhang Shan ran to the northern wall of the royal city, the ninth demon god Lufaci was still chasing him closely.
The black sickle turned into a deadly weapon and slashed towards Zhang Shan.
At this critical moment, a loud shout came from the royal palace in the north of the city.
A golden figure rose from the palace.
As the most powerful NPC in the State of Chu, the King of Chu who lived in the palace finally took action.
The golden figure of King Chu stood in mid-air, and the long sword in his hand slashed towards the ninth demon god Lufasi behind Zhang Shan.
A golden light flashed across the sky, knocking Lufasi back.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Shan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Thanks to the intervention of the King of Chu, his life was finally saved. He no longer had to worry about dying and losing levels.
Zhang Shan stood in the distance, looking at the King of Chu in mid-air, swinging his sword continuously.
He forced Lucifer back with each sword move.
This scene made Zhang Shan's blood boil.
He wasn't even sure whether this could be considered a battle scene or just an animation GG.
To be honest, Zhang Shan has been playing the game New World for such a long time.
But it was the first time that he actually saw an NPC take action.
During the previous national war, the mayor of Dangyang City also took action.
With that kind of attack, Zhang Shan and the others couldn't see the specific situation of the battle at all.
They could only see red light in the sky in the distance, and the city lord and the siege boss were fighting in the distance.
The players can't see it at all.
Everyone just thought that it was the animation GG before the monsters attacked the city.
But this time, it can’t be considered the animation GG.
The King of Chu stood in front of Zhang Shan, swinging his sword continuously, chopping the Ninth Demon God back continuously.
Except that the King of Chu was flying in the air and no damage value appeared.
This is not much different from players fighting bosses.
Zhang Shan felt that this was a real battle scene.
But at this time, Zhang Shan could no longer care about so many things. He had to run away as soon as possible.
After Lufasi was blocked by the King of Chu, Zhang Shan immediately started reading the message to return to the city.
He didn't dare to continue watching the battle here. It was too dangerous.
You have finally managed to save your life, so don't lose it again just because of curiosity while watching the fight.
If that were the case, he would be at a great loss.
Moreover, even if the King of Chu killed the demon, there would be no benefit at all for Zhang Shan.
In battles involving NPCs, experience points will not be calculated and no items will be dropped.
He just wanted to follow behind and pick up a dead head, but he couldn't find one.
The game system does not have this loophole.
The most important thing is that Zhang Shan was afraid that the aftermath of the fight between the two big guys would overwhelm him.
Although the King of Chu beat the Ninth Demon God back step by step.
But the Ninth Demon is not a vegetarian either.
It kept swinging its sickle, slashing at the King of Chu, and countless black lights emanated everywhere.
If Zhang Shan still stayed here and was hit by the black light, wouldn't he be dead?
If that were the case, he wouldn't even know where to cry.
It is safer to run away early.
A few seconds later, Zhang Shan returned to Dangyang City by reading the bar.
As for the great battle between the King of Chu and the Demon God, he would never see it again.
Zhang Shan, who returned to Dangyang City, was still thinking.
He was wondering what kind of game mechanism this was, the King of Chu taking action to stop the demon.
As for the idea that Zhang Shan was a citizen of the State of Chu and that was why the King of Chu rescued him, this is pure nonsense.
The King of Chu is just an NPC in the game, not that complicated. This must be a special game mechanism.
In fact, when Zhang Shan was running towards the north of the city, he had been wondering whether the King of Chu would really take action.
In Zhang Shan’s opinion, as the NPC boss of the Chu State, the King of Chu had two reasons for taking action.
One is that the demon god was chasing Zhang Shan and had already chased him to the edge of the royal city.
In other words, the devil has already approached the royal palace of Chu.
It was equivalent to fighting at the doorstep of the King of Chu. At this point, how could the King of Chu not take action?
Unless the King of Chu is an NPC who cannot move or has no combat ability.
Otherwise, he would definitely have to take action.
As for the second reason, that is also very simple.
The King of Chu and the Ninth Demon God have been confronting each other for countless years, and there should be a red line between the two sides.
Neither side can cross the red line. As long as one side crosses the red line, fighting is inevitable.
The place where the demon god originally stayed was a short distance away from the northern wall of the royal city.
This distance may be the psychological distance between the two parties. As long as both parties do not cross the line, they can live in peace.
Once one side takes action, fighting will break out.
Zhang Shan ran towards the city wall with the intention of leading the Ninth Demon God outside the red line.
Bring the Ninth Demon God to the side of King Chu.
In fact, Zhang Shan made the right bet.
The King of Chu did take action and helped him block the ninth demon.
Actually, if you think about it carefully, it's just like that.
As a royal city in the game, when there is no activity, monsters cannot be allowed to reach the city wall or even enter the city.
Otherwise, how can the players play the game?
Zhang Shan thought.
This is actually a mechanism for beating bosses.
When everyone is fighting the demon and cannot defeat it, they can run to the city wall to escape.
It's impossible that we have to fight against all bosses head-on, right?
If you can beat him, just hold on to the end. If you can’t, just wait to be swept away by the Boss?
That doesn't make sense.
There has to be some technical mechanism.
Maybe this is where players’ tips on how to defeat the devil come from.
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Zhang Shan thought carefully about his fight with the ninth demon god Lucifer.
Although he only fired a few shots, he didn't even reduce Lucifer's health bar at all.
But no matter what, he is a man who has defeated the devil.
And he escaped alive.
After installing the batch, it can still run.
Thinking of this, Zhang Shan became a little excited.
Fortunately, he is not a ostentatious person, otherwise, he would probably be able to brag about this for half a year.
Zhang Shan looked through the screenshots he had just taken.
The ninth demon god, Lufasi, has a very cool appearance that makes people's hearts shake.
This must be posted on the forum so that other players can see how powerful the Demon God is.
At the same time, it also reflects Zhang Shan’s strength from the side.
If he wasn't strong, could he have attracted the devil?
The other players couldn't even see a single hair of the demon.
Zhang Shan was still able to fire a few shots. Although he couldn't defeat the demon, this was already very powerful.
This screenshot must be uploaded to the forum.
No , just screenshots are still missing something.
Zhang Shan thought about it and continued to look through the previous video records.
This is the good thing about the game New World.
Players can view all video records from the last fifteen days.
Zhang Shan kept looking forward, replaying the battle scene between him and Lufaci.
There are also the later battle scenes between the King of Chu and Lufasi, all of which were captured and combined into a short video.
Not only that, Zhang Shan also checked the attributes of the ninth demon god Lufasi and saved it in a screenshot.
Although he saw the attributes, they were all question marks.
But it is these question marks that demonstrate how powerful the demon is.
The data can no longer reflect the power of the demon god, and can only be expressed with a question mark. Is that not strong enough?
After Zhang Shan finished making the video, he opened the game forum, created a post, and uploaded the short video and the attributes of the demon to the forum.
Zhang Shan thought about it seriously for a while and decided that he must give the post an eye-catching title.
He thought for a while and came up with a title.
Demonic flames soar into the sky: The ninth demon god is so terrifying.
After choosing the title, Zhang Shan uploaded the video and screenshots together.
After the post is ready, you have to consider how to set the charging method for this post.
The posts published by players on the game forum can be divided into free posts and paid posts.
Free posts are available for everyone to view at will.
Players can set different charging standards for their charging stickers.
If other players want to view the post, they have to pay.
Logically speaking, Zhang Shan would not think highly of the small amount of money he earned from charging for posting.
He doesn't need that little money.
He can definitely post it and set it as a free post.
However, after thinking for a while, Zhang Shan decided to set the post to cost ten copper coins per view.
It’s not that he wants to make this little money, but Zhang Shan feels that free things are not attractive to everyone.
In everyone’s subconscious mind, only those that are paid have valuable information.
If he posted a free post, others would think that Zhang Shan was posting a free post.
If no one reads his posts, then wouldn’t it be a waste of time?
He also wants to have some influence.
After setting up all the post, Zhang Shan chose to confirm sending.
Done, closing the forum.
After uploading the video of the Ninth Demon God to the forum, Zhang Shan did not leave Dangyang City.
Zhang Shan did not go to kill monsters or do anything else. Instead, he stood there and opened the official website of the game.
Zhang Shan hasn't read the announcement about the advancement of artifacts carefully yet.
Although the various channels in the game have already exploded, everyone is discussing the issue of upgrading artifacts.
But listening to other people's talk is not as reliable as checking the official website yourself.
What other players say in the chat channel all contain personal opinions and will affect your own judgment.
If you want to know the specific situation, it is more reliable to visit the official website.
After all, the announcement on the official website is the real authority.
Zhang Shan stayed in Dangyang City and opened the official website to check.
A latest announcement is posted in the most conspicuous position on the official website.
Artifact advancement announcement.
Zhang Shan clicked on the announcement to view it.
The announcement contained a lot of content, and Zhang Shan read it carefully.
After he finished reading it, he finally understood what was going on with this advancement of the artifact.
According to the announcement, the artifact advancement here is roughly equivalent to adding stars to equipment in other games.
However, in the new world, artifact advancement does not require the use of various gems like in other games.
To upgrade the artifacts here, you need the relics of the saints.
Moreover, only artifact-level equipment can be upgraded.
Equipment below the level of artifacts does not meet the conditions for upgrading.
The announcement explained in detail how to upgrade the artifact.
The operation of upgrading artifacts is very simple. Players can do it themselves without having to find an NPC craftsman.
After the announcement comes out, a new equipment upgrade pool will be added to the player’s equipment panel.
Players only need to place artifacts and saint relics in the upgrade pool on the equipment panel and click OK to upgrade the artifacts.
Each time a magic weapon is successfully upgraded, its main attribute can be increased by 10%.
It should be noted that the main attribute mentioned here does not refer to attributes such as strength or agility.
Rather, it refers to the functional attributes of the equipment.
The main attribute of an offensive artifact is attack power.
The main attribute of defensive artifacts is defense.
For attacking artifacts, each successful upgrade can increase the equipment's attack power by 10%.
For example, Zhang Shan’s hand cannon now has an attack power of 12,000 if it is upgraded once.
The hand cannon's attack power can be increased to 13,200.
Every time an artifact is successfully upgraded, the main attribute improved may not be that much.
However, if the number of upgrades is increased, the increased attributes will be considerable.
If a magical weapon is upgraded many times, it can cause a qualitative change.
Each artifact can be upgraded a total of nine times.
After a divine weapon has been transformed nine times, it can be upgraded to a holy weapon.
Can a divine weapon be upgraded to a holy weapon?
That's very powerful.
Seeing this, Zhang Shan's eyes lit up.
You know, currently in the game, no player has ever obtained the holy weapon.
Zhang Shan used to think that in the game New World, the holy artifact might just be a background.
It's not something players can get.
After all, a master craftsman-level NPC can only create divine artifacts. Zhang Shan has never seen a master saint who can create holy artifacts.
If even NPCs can’t forge holy artifacts, then where can players get them?
There is absolutely no way.
Now it seems that this is not the case.
After the announcement of the artifact advancement, the channel for players to obtain the holy artifact has been opened.
As long as players continue to upgrade their artifacts, they can advance to holy artifacts.
Although Zhang Shan had never seen the holy weapon, he could imagine how powerful it was.
Throughout the entire game, the only holy weapons Zhang Shan had heard of were Emperor Zhou's Sword and Master Jiang's Magic-Destroying Wand.
As long as you can get the holy weapon, it means that your equipment is at the same level as Emperor Zhou and Master Jiang.
It is unimaginable how powerful such equipment would be.
The holy weapon is the top-level equipment in the game New World.
Zhang Shanyuan calls the holy weapon the strongest.
Of course.
It is not so easy to obtain the holy artifact.
Although it was stated in the announcement that as long as the artifact was transformed nine times, it could be upgraded to a holy weapon.
However, it is not that easy to transform the artifact into nine.
It's even possible, but only in theory.
It is almost impossible for players to truly make the artifact reach the ninth level.
Because not every upgrade can be successful, the success rate of artifact upgrade is very low.
According to the official website announcement.
The first upgrade of each artifact requires one saint's relic, and the success rate of the upgrade is 50%.
The second upgrade requires two saint relics, and the success rate of the upgrade is 25%.
The third upgrade requires three saint relics, and the success rate of the upgrade is 12.5%.
The fourth upgrade requires four saint relics and the success rate of the upgrade is 6%.
The fifth upgrade requires five saint relics, and the success rate of the upgrade is 3%.
The sixth upgrade requires six saint relics and the success rate of the upgrade is 2%.
The seventh upgrade requires seven saint relics and the success rate of the upgrade is one percent.
The eighth upgrade requires eight saint relics, and the success rate of the upgrade is 0.5%.
The ninth upgrade requires nine saint relics, and the success rate of the upgrade is 0.1%.
Zhang Shan couldn't help but feel overwhelmed when he saw the announcement on the official website about the success rate of the transfer.
With such a low success rate, is it possible for a human to accomplish this?
How good of luck does one need to be able to upgrade a divine weapon into a holy weapon?
This is fucking ridiculous. It feels like the announcement on the official website is just like drawing plums to quench thirst.
Although everyone can see the way to obtain the holy weapon.
But it will never be possible to truly obtain the holy weapon.
With such a low success rate, how is it possible to succeed in the transfer?
Especially when the artifact is at the eighth and ninth turns, the success rate is 5/1000 or 1/1000?
Are you serious?
It's simply exaggerated.
How many saints' relics are needed to accomplish this?
The key point is that Zhang Shan still doesn’t know whether these saints’ relics are easy to get.
However, Zhang Shan thought that things like the relics of saints should be difficult to deal with.
Although the system has opened up the City of Ruins, as long as players get a pass, they can go to the City of Ruins and get the relics of the saints.
But is something like that so easy to get?
There is also an explanation about the City of Ruins in the official website announcement.
This is an open public copy.
In other words, any player who gets a pass can enter the dungeon.
There are no grade or other restrictions.
Anyone can enter as long as they have a pass.
As for how to get a pass, the announcement also provides instructions.
All wild monsters, whether they are bosses or minions, have a certain chance of dropping a pass.
In addition, there is a high chance of getting a pass by killing monsters in the City of Ruins.
But the exact probability is, only God knows.
Anyway, the announcement did not give a specific explosion rate.
At least so far, the announcement has been out for more than an hour, and Zhang Shan has not heard of anyone who has obtained the pass to the City of Ruins.
You know, there are so many players in the game.
Logically speaking, as long as the drop rate of the pass is not too low, someone would have obtained the pass in more than an hour.
But it didn’t.
This shows that the pass to the City of Ruins is not so easy to get.
How can I get the Saint's relics without even a pass?
How can you upgrade a divine weapon without the saint's relics?
And the success rate of transfer is still so low.
Isn’t this just like painting plums to quench thirst?
This is like a vicious circle that traps the players.
The path to upgrading the artifact is clearly there, but no one can really figure it out.
At least Zhang Shan felt that this matter would not be simple.
This is not something that can be accomplished in a day or two, or a month or two.
If I think about getting the holy weapon, it will probably take years.
If you don't brush it for a few years, don't even think about it.
Unless the game is revised again to improve the success rate of upgrading, or increase the explosion rate of saint relics.
But is this possible?
It should be impossible.
Now that the game announcement has been released, it will definitely not change easily.
Zhang Shan read the announcement carefully and then closed the official game website.
He couldn't help but sigh.
It's very difficult.
So the question is, should he go to the City of Ruins and take a walk?
Other players have not yet obtained the pass to the City of Ruins, but Zhang Shan does.
After he obtained the full set of artifacts, the system rewarded him with five passes to the City of Ruins.
However, the passes to these relic cities are not like the dungeon scrolls, which allow you to bring others in.
Each pass can only allow one player to enter the City of Ruins.
He only has five passes , what should he do?
Do you want to share one with your friends so that everyone can go in together?
Or did he use one first to go in and explore the way? If he was inside, he would get a new pass.
Bring your friends in to collect the Saint's relics?
When Zhang Shan was struggling, Feng Yun Yidao called him.
"Boss Liu Guan, what are you doing? Have you gone to the City of Ruins to get the Saint's relics?"
"Not yet. I'm still considering whether to go."
"Is there any need to consider this? Of course I have to go and grind. If I can get a Saint's Relic and upgrade my artifact, that would be awesome."
"It's not that simple. I'm afraid this city of ruins is not that easy to clear."
"Don't you have five scrolls? How about we go and get them together?"
Zhang Shan was very conflicted about Feng Yun Yidao's words.
He only has five scrolls in total. If everyone goes in together, what if they fail to get a new pass in the City of Ruins?
Then he would not be able to enter the City of Ruins until he got a new pass.
After entering once, he no longer has a pass. What should he do when he wants to swipe it next time?
Do I need to buy a pass?
I’m worried that it will be difficult to purchase the relic pass.
Even if you have money, you’re afraid you’ll have nowhere to buy it.
After all, they are not the only ones who have magical weapons, other big guys also have many magical weapons in their hands.
Zhang Shan believed that other big guys who had artifacts in their hands would definitely want to enter the City of Ruins to get some saint relics to upgrade the artifacts in their hands.
Zhang Shan must cherish and use the five passes in his hand.
He originally planned to go to the city of ruins alone to explore the way.
If possible, let's go together next time.
But Zhang Shan didn’t know what the situation was like in the City of Ruins.
What levels are the monsters in there?
If he goes in alone, will he be able to brush the brush?
This is the trouble with the game New World.
When opening up a new map, everyone was completely clueless and had no idea what to do.
There is no monster information for the City of Ruins on the game's official website.
Moreover, no players posted this kind of information on the forum.
Because no player has entered the City of Ruins yet.
Zhang Shan thought about it seriously for a while.
Why don’t we all go in together? It’s safer this way.
Otherwise, he would go into the city of ruins alone and find that the monsters there are all those he cannot defeat, which would be nonsense.
Although Zhang Shan is very confident in his own strength.
Zhang Shan felt that, apart from the Demon God, there was no wild monster in this game that he could not defeat.
But that is also relative.
What if the city of ruins is filled with level 100 monsters?
What if the city of ruins is full of boss-level monsters?
If that were the case, he might not be able to handle it alone.
At least we have to bring Boss Wu with us.
Without the support of auxiliary forces, his survivability would drop several levels.
Zhang Shan’s current damage is sufficient and very powerful.
The health point is also high, with more than 2.7 million health points.
It’s just that its battery life is a little lacking.
Even if he has a powerful blood-sucking ability, it is not enough.
Especially when dealing with a single powerful Boss, he still needs assistance to heal.
One person can't do it alone.
Thinking of this, Zhang Shan said to Feng Yun Yidao.
"Then let's go to the City of Ruins together."
After Zhang Shan finished speaking, he quickly pulled all his friends into the team, and then spoke on the team channel.
"Gather in Dangyang City and go to the City of Ruins to collect the Saint's relics."
"Brother Guanzi, you should have said it earlier. I have been wanting to try to get some saint relics and upgrade my artifact longbow a few times."
"Got it, I'll be right there."
At this time, Boss Wu said.
"Wait for me. Once I finish collecting these materials, I will return to Dangyang City."
The artifact molds in the hands of other people have already been made into artifacts, so they are all killing monsters to upgrade.
Only Boss Wu still lacks a mold for an artifact and is currently collecting materials for the mission.
So, he will come later.
After all, collecting materials for missions is a serious matter.
Boss Wu has already gone there, so naturally he has to get the material before coming back.
Otherwise, Boss Wu will have to run there again next time, which will be very troublesome.
"Okay, we'll wait in Dangyang City. Please hurry up."
"Um."
"Don't worry, Brother Daidao kills monsters very quickly now. It won't take him too much time to get a quest material."
After a while, everyone except Boss Wu returned to Dangyang City to gather.
As long as they wait for Boss Wu to come back, they can set off to the City of Ruins to collect the Saint's relics.