69: The 8th level trial! The eternal battle!

“Hey, boss, did you see today’s news? Those bastards from Blue Flag Country have lifted the blockade!

They chickened out!” Xu Zhengyang said with a grin, polishing his beloved Flame Painted M4.

“As expected. If they didn't withdraw, I would continue to kill. I would kill until their high-ranking officials didn't dare to set foot in New Jeju.”

Lin Fei was currently checking the real-time intelligence displayed on Li Shun’s tablet.

“Blue Flag Country suffered such a huge loss this time; they probably won’t dare to make any big moves easily again in a short period.” Li Shun pushed up his glasses, his finger swiping across the tablet. “According to the internal communications I monitored, they have classified this incident as an ultra-high-risk super martial artist internal tester attack!

Their live capture plan has failed.”

Lin Fei chuckled, “Heh heh, investigating it as a martial artist attack is a good direction!”

“Them, wanting to capture the boss alive? They’re truly ugly and dreaming!” Xu Sanduo saidSaid naively.

Beside him, Zhou Kai, Li Feng, and Zhao Gang were also diligently cultivating.

During these three days, Lin Fei and his team did not stop entering the Node Tower.

Although the opponent could set up a blockade, it couldn't stop Lin Fei, who could teleport.

For these three days, Lin Fei did not slack off in the slightest.

He led Lin Mengzi and the others, like tireless machines, continuously clearing three layers of Node Tower trials, fighting their way from the fifth layer all the way to the seventh layer!

Each time, they chose the highest difficulty, Warrior-level trial!

Their level also skyrocketed to Lv18, like a rocket!

The fourth ice-element skill, Ice Dragon Twister, had already been learned. This is a crowd-gathering and freezing skill.

It’s especially effective for group attacks.

An Ice Dragon Twister gathers the monsters, and then an Infernal Meteor smashes them all.

Now, Lin Fei’s killing coins had accumulated to an astonishing number.

killing coins: 12.11 million!

This many killing coins was already a lot!

And the biggest gains came from those three precious “Ten Thousand Times Enhancement” opportunities!

The first time, Lin Fei chose the defensive skill book—Gold Bell Cover.

After ten thousand times enhancement, Gold Bell Cover directly transformed into Dragons Roar Gold Bell Cover (Great Red Epic Grade)!

Immediately after, he consumed 1.9 million experience points to max out the skill.

Dragons Roar Gold Bell Cover Lv10 (MAX):

Summons a Dragons Roar Gold Bell Cover that descends from the sky, enveloping the user, and causing ice crystal shock damage to the surroundings.

It can also trigger Dragon's Roar Deterrence, causing enemies to fall into temporary fear.

While the Gold Bell Cover exists, it can withstand a massive amount of damage and moves with the user.

Cost: 500 Mana.

Cooldown: 30 seconds.

This was simply a mobile super shield, and as long as it wasn't broken, it could exist indefinitely!

It greatly compensated for the mage's weakness in close-range defense.

However, Lin Fei's close-range defense didn't seem to have any weaknesses to begin with.

In short, having this skill could elevate Lin Fei's defense to a new level compared to before.

Even if he stood still and let the previous Infected Tyrant punch him hundreds of times, it might not be able to break through this layer of Dragons Roar Gold Bell Cover!

For the second enhancement, Lin Fei chose the golden treasure chest he had received as a reward for clearing the previous stage.

After enhancement, he obtained the Divine Wish Treasure Chest (Great Red Epic Grade).

This time, his luck was good!

It gave Lin Fei something unexpected, yet reasonable—

Second Talent Page (Divine Grace)!

This meant Lin Fei could allocate an additional complete magic talent tree!

Without any hesitation, he directly chose the fire-element skill talents!

Ice and Fire!

Extreme cold and scorching heat!

Two completely opposite ultimate elemental powers could be switched by Lin Fei, directly changing!

Then, Lin Fei allocated points to the fire-element skills in the skill tree: Explosive Fireball, Fiery Dragon's Breath, Infernal Meteor, and Fire Snake Coil!

Among them, Infernal Meteor had a fission effect called Meteor Fire Rain.

It changed from dropping one fire meteor to dropping ten small meteors, which was quite useful for Lin Fei.

Dual cultivation of ice and fire, a double heaven of ice and fire!

Finally, in the settlement rewards for the seventh-layer trial, Lin Fei obtained a Lv15 purple ultra-rare magic book weapon.

He decisively used his last ten thousand times enhancement opportunity to transform it into the Gemini Magic Book (Great Red Epic Grade)!

Gemini Magic Book: Equipping it increases spell power by 1500 points, shortens all spell casting times by 70%, and reduces the cooldown of Lv5-Lv20 skills by 70%.

Special Effect: Dual Casting: When casting any single-target or area-targeted spell, there is a 100% chance to additionally duplicate the spell once. The duplicated spell’s power is 80% of the original spell’s, and it consumes no additional mana!

Dual Casting!

One fireball becomes two! One fire dragon becomes two!

One Ice Meteor becomes two!

This meant Lin Fei's instant burst capability doubled!

Even if he were to immediately go to the so-called “Nest” world now, Lin Fei would have full confidence.

But there was no other way, he still needed to proceed step by step.

The qualification for the tenth layer, who knows what it is, it's safest to improve hard power first.

“Boss!” Li Shun suddenly looked up, his eyes behind his glasses sparkling with excitement. “I found a Luo Country news report here!

Free Wings announced it through their secret channels half an hour ago!”

“Announce what?” Xu Zhengyang curiously leaned closer.

“They announced that the Gold Shine Hotel attack was carried out by Thousand Wings Guild, a branch of Free Wings!” Li Shun’s voice held a hint of excitement.

“Initially, some forces didn’t believe it, but then Free Wings released some key evidence.”

Lin Mengzi, hearing this, slightly furrowed her brows. She walked to Lin Fei’s side and whispered, “Feifei, won’t Free Wings doing this attract too much attention?”

Lin Fei, however, was very calm.

“Don’t worry!” He looked at Lin Mengzi and explained.

“Doing this maximizes benefits!

It can greatly enhance Thousand Wings' reputation among Luo Country players through this incident.”

“That’s right!”

Li Shun turned the tablet towards everyone.

It displayed some Luo Country forums and data released by the person in charge of Thousand Wings.

Within just half an hour after Free Wings released the news.

The number of players joining the Thousand Wings Guild surged like a geyser!

Numerous messages expressed hatred for the Blue Flag Country invaders.

And admiration for the mysterious hero, eager to join the organization and fight together.

“This... this is simply amazing!” Zhou Kai stared, dumbfounded, at the rapidly increasing number of applications.

“Now there are so many people resisting together, this is a good thing!”

“The timing is just right. Announcing this news just as Blue Flag Country retreated is like kicking a dog when it’s down,” Zhou Kai praised.

“This way, Thousand Wings can quickly absorb active forces and strengthen the resistance.

At the same time, the emergence of countless Thousand Wings members can, to some extent, divert Blue Flag Country’s attention from me,” Lin Fei analyzed.

“That’s indeed the case!” Xu Zhengyang shared the same opinion.

“Boss, are we still going to target Blue Flag Country’s garrison next?” Xu Sanduo asked.

“Improving our strength is the most important,” Lin Fei stood up, his gaze sharp.

“Blue Flag Country will never let this loss go unpunished.

They might lie low temporarily, but their next counterattack will only be more ferocious!”

He paused, then looked at everyone, “What we need to do is become stronger before they make their next move!”

“Node Tower Eighth Layer! I’m going to clear it today!”

“Understood, Boss!” Everyone responded in unison, their morale high.

Xu Sanduo was still driving, taking everyone to the Node Tower.

Now, players were freely entering and exiting around the Node Tower.

Lin Fei led his team.

They stepped into the eighth layer of the Node Tower.

The hall here was even more spacious, and the lighting was cooler, but besides Lin Fei's team, no one else had come up.

Not many could reach the eighth layer at this stage.

Lin Fei walked to the central trial information platform, touched the screen, and brought up the trial information for the eighth layer.

Large-Scale Confrontation Trial: Eternal Calamity War (Leigong Island)

Mode: Hundred Team Supremacy (Maximum 3 players per team, total 300 players)

Map: Leigong Island (includes abandoned Military Base, ancient Thunder God Temple, primeval dense forest, toxic swamp, island-circling beach, and other complex terrains)

Final Victory Condition: Eliminate all other teams and become the sole surviving team!

Evacuation Condition: When the number of remaining teams on the map drops to 20, evacuation beacons will refresh at random locations. Teams that successfully reach and activate a beacon can safely evacuate.

Special Environment: Frequent Thunderstorms! The map will randomly refresh high-intensity lightning strike areas (Thunderstorm Zones) periodically. All units within these zones will continuously take high lightning damage. Be sure to evacuate before the lightning strikes!

The map is enveloped by thunderclouds, and the thundercloud circle will continuously shrink. Outside the safe zone, the thunderclouds will cause players to continuously lose health!

Please always stay active within the safe zone. Before each thundercloud circle shrinks, a time reminder will be given in advance.

There are resurrection altars on the map that can summon back deceased teammates.

Main Output: Skill Runes (can be used to enhance skills and provide additional special effects for skills).

Entry Fee: 200,000 killing coins/person!

Confrontation-type instance, death does not reduce lifespan.