Chapter 722: Naive Fool
[Instance: Radiant Secret Realm.]
[Level Requirement: 100-140.]
[Difficulty Options: None.]
[Participant Limit: 100,000.]
[Secret Realm Background: Welcome to the paradise of Professionals. Here, resources are abundant, monsters roam freely, and treasures such as heavenly materials, rare items, and the coveted profession-changing books await. How to obtain these precious resources? That depends on your own abilities.]
...…
As everyone stepped through the seven-colored gate,
an identical window interface appeared on their information panels, briefly introducing the secret realm.
Upon entering the gate, Ling Zhan could clearly sense the chaotic fluctuations within the spatial passage. As the holder of the SS-level talent "Space Domination," he was entirely immune to such spatial disorientation. He could even see countless individuals drifting past him, being sent into different spatial tunnels.
Adolphus and Ansely, who were beside him, were sent through the same spatial exit.
Avril and Ling Zhan, however, were sent through different spatial exits.
It was clear that
upon entering the gate, everyone—including one's companions—would be randomly teleported to a location within the secret realm.
Although Ling Zhan didn't lose consciousness like others during the teleportation, he couldn't freely choose his spatial exit either.
He could only let himself be transported elsewhere.
Buzz!!
Ling Zhan felt a slight weightlessness, then slowly opened his eyes to find himself in a vast, icy snowfield!
Scanning his surroundings, he confirmed that Avril, Ansely, and Adolphus were not by his side—they must have been teleported elsewhere.
Looking up, Ling Zhan noticed that he wasn't the only one teleported here; figures continued to arrive in the snowfield one after another.
The boundless expanse of this snowy region indicated its enormous size.
No wonder it could accommodate 100,000 participants; this super-large resource secret realm was truly vast.
Its sheer scale was breathtaking.
At this moment,
the Professionals who had been teleported here were cautiously observing one another, clearly wary because, like Ling Zhan, their companions had been sent to other locations.
Without resources to fight over,
no one was foolish enough to waste energy engaging in combat with others.
However, one thing caused everyone to frown…
This snowy region came with a rather frustrating environmental debuff.
[Snowy Wasteland (Environmental Debuff): All entities entering this area have their three speeds reduced by 50%.]
The "three speeds" referred to attack speed, movement speed, and casting speed.
Well, well!
This debuff turned less agile Professionals into crawling turtles.
Just as Ling Zhan prepared to take flight and survey the snowy region,
"Huh? What's that? Is it an Ice Mountain Snow Lotus?"
A loud-mouthed man couldn't help but shout.
To be honest…
this kind of person was the dumbest.
In a resource secret realm, if you discover a resource, you're supposed to quietly sneak over and pick it while no one notices.
Not shout loudly upon discovering something unusual, like this man did.
Sure enough…
Every Professional present turned their gaze toward the loud-mouthed man.
Fifty meters ahead of the man, on a small, low peak, clusters of pristine snow lotuses with crystalline petals emitting a radiant glow were growing.
These snow lotuses appeared unremarkable at first glance, but some Professionals immediately recognized them!
"Holy Snow Celestial Lotus!"
"Damn! It's an SS-grade spiritual herb—the Holy Snow Celestial Lotus!"
At this revelation,
the crowd erupted!
Holy crap!
It's the Holy Snow Celestial Lotus!?
[Holy Snow Celestial Lotus (SS): Consuming it permanently increases ice attribute damage by 40%. If combined with other SS-grade spiritual herbs to create a more potent pill, consumption can increase ice attribute damage by 60%.]
This was the ultimate medicine for ice-element classes!
It could boost their power by half!
Frost Archmages, Frost Swordmasters, and other ice-element Professionals would go mad for this!
Don't underestimate its SS-grade rating—its value was astronomically high!
Ice-element classes regarded it as a sacred elixir.
No doubt about it, this was the Radiant Secret Realm!
To find such a treasure so soon after entering was astonishing!
What's more…
There was a whole cluster of them! An entire cluster!
A rough estimate suggested there were at least a dozen of these flowers!
If all were harvested, it would be an instant fortune!
Selling them at auction would fetch at least five to six billion Holy Crystals per flower!
It was truly mind-blowing!
"Haha! These Holy Snow Celestial Lotuses were discovered by me, so logically, they're all mine!"
"None of you better try to take them!"
The loud-mouthed man burst into naive laughter.
He then joyfully ran toward the low peak.
As a heavy-armored Warrior, even at 50% reduced speed, he pushed himself to run as fast as he could, though he was still quite slow.
At least…
Whoosh!!
A ghostly figure dashed past him in an instant!
Clearly, it was an Assassin class!
The Assassin class boasted the highest agility among all classes, prioritizing agility as its main attribute.
This class had a passive skill that increased critical rate and critical damage based on agility.
Thus, with agility alone, Assassins could deal immense burst damage.
At present,
even under the Snowy Wasteland debuff, the Assassin's speed was far ahead of any other class.
"Damn it! I saw it first! How can you just take it?"
The loud-mouthed man roared in frustration.
"Hah! Naive fool! Is there a rule that whoever sees a resource first owns it?"
"Let me tell you, I'm taking all these Holy Snow Celestial Lotuses for myself—not leaving even one for you!"
The level-132 Shadow Master sneered mockingly.
He couldn't believe such naive people still existed here.
Whoosh!
The Assassin swiftly reached the low peak, letting out a maniacal laugh as he reached out to harvest the radiant Holy Snow Celestial Lotuses.
However.
He failed to notice…
The loud-mouthed man, whom he had mocked as naive, now wore a sinister smile on his seemingly simple face.
Boom!!
In the next moment,
from beneath the frozen lake, a massive snow-white figure broke through the ice!
Roar!!
Before everyone's stunned eyes, a gigantic maw devoured the Assassin whole in one bite!