79: Chapter 79 Rules Added

Lin Yan traveled alone through the wasteland, clad in dark gray tyrant armor. The cold, heavy metallic texture exuded a domineering aura that seemed to crush everything in the desolate world.

He used no flashy techniques and no skills; from start to finish, he relied solely on his terrifying physical body, which surpassed everyone else's, to continuously hunt the monsters spawning everywhere and steadily accumulate points.

Rock-skinned beasts with hard hides, lightning-fast shadow wolves, sharp-fanged Rend Claw Demons, bulky heavy-armored monsters... Wave after wave of monsters kept surging out from all corners of the wasteland, roaring and snarling as they pounced with bloodthirsty ferocity.

Facing the siege of all these monsters, Lin Yan remained calm and indifferent.

He raised his hand, swung his axe, stomped, and crushed.

Dull sounds of physical impact exploded repeatedly; every strike carried pure, extreme brute force.

The hard rock shells of the rock-skinned beasts were smashed and shattered, their bodies collapsing as they died on the spot; the rapidly charging shadow wolves were swatted away with a casual palm strike, their bones pulverized, never moving again after hitting the ground; even the heavy-armored monsters with decent defense couldn't withstand a single axe blow from him, their heavy armor caving in and shattering as they crashed to the ground.

As monsters died one after another, his system points kept jumping and rising.

His terrifying health pool of nearly 300,000 served as a solid foundation, combined with his terrifying defense. No matter how the monsters clawed or bit, they only left shallow white marks on his tyrant armor, unable to deal any effective damage.

Just as Lin Yan smashed an elite-level heavy-armored monster with an axe, [ Accumulated Points: 20,000; Bounty Points: 3,500 ], and was about to continue deeper into the wasteland to reap more points—

The entire world suddenly changed drastically!

Hum—!

A strange, sharp, piercing roar exploded out of thin air!

A terrifying, violent yellow gale swept across the entire wasteland without warning!

The wind speed was extreme, tearing through the air, crushing withered grass, and whipping up yellow sand, instantly filling the entire world.

It was so fast it made one's scalp tingle!

It was so fast that everyone on this battlefield had no time to react or dodge!

Even top prodigies whose reaction speeds far exceeded ordinary people were as good as immobilized in the face of this instantaneous disaster!

The biting, violent yellow gale instantly washed over the entire battlefield, with ferocious magical wind blades crushing every inch of land and every surviving Contestant.

[ Battlefield natural disaster gale detected ]

[ Forced to take 5% of current HP as magic damage ]

Pale red damage numbers popped up above countless heads simultaneously.

Countless Contestants on the wasteland who were fighting, hiding, sneaking, or searching for resources shuddered in unison, their blood surging as their bodies were ruthlessly torn and scoured by the violent magical gale.

Only Lin Yan stood in place, motionless.

His nearly 300,000 HP was instantly reduced by five percent; after defense mitigation, 11,872 HP evaporated into thin air.

But for his absurdly large health bar, this loss was a drop in the bucket, not even scratching the surface. Furthermore, he possessed the Bloodthirsty Pendant, and its 25% lifesteal allowed him to constantly replenish his HP during combat.

For the next full hour, the entire battlefield was plunged into a purgatory mode ravaged by gales.

The gales swept through repeatedly without pattern, interval, or warning.

At times, a breeze brushed against faces, only stirring up dust; at other times, world-destroying gales struck, with magical impacts crashing down to forcibly deduct a percentage of everyone's HP.

For those ordinary geniuses whose HP was only twenty or thirty thousand, 5% of their current HP seemed small, but the continuous blood loss was dangerous. Without healing methods and relying solely on items, every point of loss was a fatal overdraft.

All Awakened on this battlefield were forced into the most agonizing state of survival. They had to guard against enemies and monsters sneaking up from all sides, dodge sudden natural disaster gales, and endure the suppression of mana depletion brought by the [ Mana Depletion ] rule.

Time passed mercilessly, second by second. Two hours of extreme agony passed in the blink of an eye.

— Boom!!!

At this moment!

The space of the entire displaced battlefield suddenly trembled violently!

Scarlet patterns flickered across the world, spatial barriers fluctuated wildly, the firmament shook, and the earth sank. The massive battlefield, spanning ten thousand miles, began to undergo comprehensive, indiscriminate, and random reconstruction!

The first major global change to the battlefield!

A cold, ruthless, and absolutely impartial system notification rang through the minds of every Contestant.

[ First Global Battlefield Reconstruction Initiated ]

[ Terrain Reset, Tectonic Displacement, Area Random Reorganization, Monster Random Respawn ]

[ Battlefield transformation impact, forced 100 points of true damage to all surviving Contestants on the field! ]

Swish—!

Without exception!

Ignoring defense, ignoring resistance, ignoring physical strength, ignoring talent mitigation!

One hundred points of true damage instantly fell upon everyone!

Although this damage was very low, one had to know that this was true damage, and it would increase as the Dungeon progressed.

A damage number also popped up above Lin Yan's head, but he remained indifferent.

Immediately after, a new round of rule announcements flooded the entire field!

[ Remaining duration of the old battlefield rule [ Mana Depletion ]: two hours ]

[ New battlefield rule added and effective ]

[ New battlefield rule: Item Prohibition ]

[ Rule Effect: All items, potions, scrolls, buff items, mechanical parts, consumables, etc. are banned across the field. ]

[ All Contestants are prohibited from using any items for four hours ]

[ Current battlefield has entered a dual-rule overlapping phase ]

[ Currently effective rules: Mana Depletion + Item Prohibition ]

[ After two hours, the Mana Depletion rule will end, and a brand-new rule will be refreshed and added ]

The moment the two rules were fully imposed, the entire battlefield fell into absolute silence.

Countless Contestants' pupils constricted, their bodies turned cold, and extreme despair rose from the bottom of their hearts!

The previous two full hours of [ Mana Depletion ] had already tortured everyone on this battlefield to the point of collapse.

Mana was continuously draining from everyone, every second! And now, there were no means to restore mana!

All magic-type Awakened who needed to consume mana had already seen their mana bars hit zero! They had originally planned to use potions to restore mana when encountering battles, to prevent the situation where the mana restored by items was already exhausted before even encountering a fight.

But now—the Item Prohibition rule was weighing down on them again! No using health potions! No using mana potions! No using buff scrolls! No using recovery items! No using life-saving items! No using any external objects to save themselves!

It meant—no skills, no recovery, no items, no self-healing!

All Awakened on the field who relied on mana consumption were completely locked in a desperate situation! From now on, Awakened without special means could no longer cast any skill that required mana consumption!

Until they left this battlefield! Everyone could only rely on physical melee attacks, basic actions, and the most primitive methods to fight and survive.

Countless Awakened hiding behind broken walls or lurking in the shadows, hoping to endure these few hours, felt their bodies turn cold, and boundless despair welled up in their hearts. If they continued to stay on this battlefield, they would remain in an empty-mana state for the next four hours.

Many Awakened on this battlefield clenched their fists tightly, their eyes full of gloom and despair.

But Lin Yan was currently leisurely hunting monsters, his points steadily rising.