“Only the last two hours? It seems this No. 9 ancient civilization relic still has time before it opens,” Luo Feng thought to himself, while remaining silent as he entered the silver grey elevator together with the other seven God of War level experts.
The red robed elder pressed the elevator button.
Beep.
The elevator doors closed, and the silver grey elevator began to descend. With a hiss, the passageway rapidly sealed shut. This barren area deep in the Amazon rainforest returned to silence once more. Even so, the many monsters wandering in the Amazon rainforest still did not dare to approach this place.
Crash. The elevator doors opened.
What appeared before them was a black corridor made of alloy, lit by daylight lamps.
“Everyone, welcome to the human base station of the No. 9 ancient civilization relic,” the red robed elder said fluently in Chinese, then repeated it in fluent English. “We are all short on time, so I will not waste words. Everyone, follow me.”
The red robed elder walked in front, while Luo Feng and the other seven followed behind.
Along the black corridor, they passed through a total of nine checkpoints, and finally arrived at a vast empty hall of several hundred square metres. In the hall, nearly a hundred people from all over the world were gathered, most of them sitting in front of computers.
“Welcome, eight God of War level warriors.”
“God of War experts, we wish you all a safe return.”
“Go go go, when you come back, there will be champagne waiting for you.”
The personnel in the underground base were all extremely excited. Luo Feng and the others remained silent. The red robed elder smiled and said, “Ignore them. They have been underground for too long and rarely see outsiders, so they are a bit excited. Alright, are all eight of you ready?”
He spoke once in Chinese, then once in English.
Luo Feng and the other seven said nothing, only staring at him.
“Very well. Open the entrance passage,” the red robed elder called out loudly.
Click, click, click.
The curved alloy wall at the front of the hall suddenly split open, revealing a circular passage.
“What?”
“Oh my god.”
The eight God of War experts who had been silent all this time were all stunned as they looked at the circular passage, their eyes filled with shock. Even Luo Feng could not hide his surprise.
The first two to three metres of the passage were alloy, but further inside it became a strange dark brown colour, as if made of intertwined tree roots forming a tunnel.
At the end of the passage was a glowing mirror, or perhaps something like a mirror.
“Follow this passage forward and enter the glowing mirror. That is not actually a mirror, but the entrance to the No. 9 ancient civilization relic.”
“Once you enter, there is no turning back.”
“Eight God of War warriors, we wish you all a safe return,” the red robed elder said, looking at Luo Feng and the others. Everyone in the hall also watched them.
This journey, life and death were unknown.
The eight God of War experts were briefly silent.
“Everyone,” Luo Feng said as he walked towards the passage, “I will go in first.”
“Go.”
“Go!”
Luo Feng led the way, and the others followed one after another into the passage.
Click, click.
The alloy wall behind them closed, leaving no path back.
Stepping onto the strange passage formed by intertwined dark brown ancient tree roots, a faint unusual smell filled the air. Luo Feng sniffed and thought, “This smell comes from these roots? It feels similar to the Black God Set.”
The Black God Set only released a faint, lingering scent when you were very close to it.
A glowing mirror. The relic entrance.
“Brother Luo Feng, good luck,” Tuoba Yan called out beside him.
“You too.”
Luo Feng laughed and, without any hesitation, stepped directly into the glowing circular mirror. The mirror was like rippling water, easily swallowing him.
“I’ll go next.”
A black man muttered in his native language, gritted his teeth, and stepped in as well.
One by one, all eight entered.
This was a black hall, its ceiling shaped like a dome. The hall covered several hundred square metres. Dreamlike light beams shone down from above, making the entire space feel surreal and unreal.
“So this is the No. 9 ancient civilization relic?”
Luo Feng stood in the hall, looking around, his expression slightly changing. “Where are the others?”
At the same time, Tuoba Yan and the other seven God of War experts also appeared in separate black halls. Each hall had exactly the same structure.
“As expected of an ancient civilization relic.”
“The moment I stepped in, everything blurred and I ended up in this hall. And we were all separated.”
Tuoba Yan looked around curiously. They all knew beforehand that each God of War would experience something different inside, and the difficulty would vary as well.
Suddenly, a dreamlike coloured light enveloped Tuoba Yan.
A series of complex sounds echoed in the hall.
“Thank goodness I have a translation software,” Tuoba Yan said, looking down at his communication watch. Within two seconds, the watch translated it as, “Please enter Type A passage,” and the corresponding ancient language text was also displayed on the screen.
The black hall trembled slightly. About half a minute later, a black passage appeared, with complex writing beside it.
“This should be the A type passage. Anyway, there is only this one path.”
Tuoba Yan walked in. After he entered, the passage disappeared instantly.
At the same time, seven of the eight God of War experts had already entered deeper into the relic.
In Luo Feng’s hall, the dreamlike coloured light enveloped him.
“What is going on? This light has been on me for so long, over sixty seconds, and nothing has happened?” Luo Feng frowned and looked up.
Suddenly, a sharp, rhythmic sound echoed through the hall.
“Warning, warning, warning.”
Luo Feng looked down at his communication watch.
“Warning?” he froze.
The coloured light suddenly disappeared. Then, from the dome above, hundreds of crystal like ropes shot down like lightning, faster than anything Luo Feng had ever seen.
“Not good.”
He tried to dodge, but it was too fast.
In an instant, he was bound tightly, wrapped like a dumpling.
“What is going on?”
“Since when do people get tied up the moment they enter?”
He tried to control his throwing blades, and six blade fragments shot out like lightning, slashing at the crystal ropes.
But there was no damage at all.
“Break.”
He struggled violently.
Still useless.
At this moment, Luo Feng realised that in front of this ancient civilization relic, his strength was nothing.
The crystal ropes gradually transmitted streams of light upward, like a data transfer process.
About thirty seconds later, they suddenly retracted into the ceiling.
A long message echoed in the hall.
Luo Feng looked at his communication watch.
The screen displayed a message and then translated it into Chinese.
“Congratulations, your brain domain width is 21, greater than 18. You are qualified to enter the elite trial passage. As this is the first activation of the elite passage in five thousand years, please wait 15 minutes.”
Luo Feng stood in the black hall, his mind in chaos.
The guard named Yao Ruo had said there were only Type A and Type B passages in the entire No. 9 relic. So where did this elite passage come from?
And it had not been activated for five thousand years.
And brain domain width.
What is brain domain width?
His brain domain width is 21, greater than 18. That means 18 should be a minimum threshold. Judging by the relic’s tone, none of the God of War experts who entered before had ever triggered this elite passage.
Is this good or bad?
On the one hand, the elite passage sounds different from the standard A and B routes. It might contain unexpected rewards.
On the other hand, once he enters, all previous experience becomes useless.
Five thousand years without activation. No one knows what will happen inside.
Fifteen minutes passed slowly.
Luo Feng waited quietly.
Suddenly, a voice echoed again in the black hall, and the walls began to vibrate.
Luo Feng looked down at his communication watch. The translated message appeared.
“Please enter the elite passage.”
He looked up.
A deep, pitch black passage had already opened in the wall. Complex ancient text was engraved beside it, similar to what was shown on his watch.