44: Hidden boss in the Phantom Maze

Three hours later, Ye Xiao arrived at Phantom City, located in the level 60 area of theNovice Village.

Thirty li north of Phantom City was the entrance to the Phantom Labyrinth.

Phantom City was named after it.

However, this was not the peak season for second advancement.

There weren't many people in Phantom City.

Ye Xiao also had no time to spare for sightseeing, and soon arrived at the entrance of the Phantom Labyrinth.

To Ye Xiao's surprise, upon his arrival, he found that there were already people there, a total of ten, who appeared to be a small team.

Leading them was a young, beautiful woman dressed in magic-user equipment.

At this moment, the other party also saw Ye Xiao's appearance, and expressions of doubt and vigilance appeared on their faces.

Seeing this, Ye Xiao had no intention of interacting with them and directly entered the Phantom Labyrinth from the side.

After the team saw Ye Xiao leave, they all showed concern.

"Sister Yueyue, could it be that the news leaked?"

The leader of the women was named Shen Yue. Hearing her teammate's question, her eyes flickered as she pondered for a moment before shaking her head and saying,

"That shouldn't be possible. Only I know about this matter."

At this moment, someone else asked from the side,

"Shen Yue, now that we're here, it's time to tell us what it is, right?"

Upon hearing this, everyone in the team except Shen Yue perked up their ears.

Shen Yue knew that if she didn't tell them, these people probably wouldn't easily follow her inside.

So she had no choice but to say, "That item is called a phantom amulet. Its effect when worn should be able to condense a clone, and the clone can inherit some of the main body's attributes."

Everyone's eyes lit up with excitement upon hearing this.

But someone raised a question.

"Didn't you say beforehand that the item was on a hidden boss, and that boss was too strong for you to defeat? How do you know the item's name and effect?"

As soon as these words came out, the others also reacted, and their gazes towards Shen Yue were suddenly filled with doubt.

Everyone present, including Shen Yue, were newcomers who entered the Eternal World last year.

However, their Talent and resources were very ordinary.

After a year, they finally managed to reach level 90, but then got stuck on the third advancement promotion quest.

In fact, this was the normal state for most Professionals in the Eternal World.

After all, there were so many Professionals every year, and the resources in the novice area were basically fixed.

To be superior to others, besides one's own Talent, the rest could only rely on money.

With money, you could go to secret realms to level up.

With money, you could buy high-level equipment and powerful monster-grinding Skill Stone... In short, with money, you could do whatever you wanted.

Conversely, you would only struggle to survive, just like Shen Yue and her group.

Shen Yue was clearly not satisfied with this situation.

Before entering the Eternal World, she was a well-known campus beauty in the academy.

However, she came from an ordinary family and only awakened a C-grade Talent.

After a year, she gradually became one of the countless ordinary people.

This huge disparity made her feel extremely unbalanced.

Several times, she had already prepared herself mentally to exchange her beauty for promotion opportunities with the scions of powerful factions, like other beautiful women.

But coincidentally, when she and her teammates entered the Phantom Labyrinth to complete their second advancement promotion quest, she unexpectedly discovered a hidden area.

And the hidden boss inside gave her a glimmer of hope to escape her current situation.

For this reason, in the past few days, she had been slowly raising her level to 90 while looking for suitable candidates to join her team to raid the boss.

And that led to today's situation.

Shen Yue understood the doubts of these people and explained, "You also know that the monsters in the Phantom Labyrinth are good at illusions, and most illusions will make Professionals fantasize about the scene after killing them, including the dropped items, which will also appear in the illusion."

Everyone suddenly understood upon hearing this.

"You mean..."

Shen Yue nodded, "That's right, our team once all fell under the boss's illusion. In the illusion, I killed the boss and obtained the phantom amulet from him, thus knowing the amulet's ability."

"Unfortunately, at that time, the entire team hadn't completed their second advancement, and their strength was limited. In the end, I narrowly escaped by luck."

Shen Yue's calm narration also made the other nine realize, but at the same time, a sense of solemnity couldn't help but rise in their hearts.

Seeing this, Shen Yue comforted them, "Don't be too nervous. We are all level 90, and with precautions, as long as we can block that boss's illusion, we can definitely kill him."

"That's right, since Shen Yue is so frank, I have nothing more to say. Let's all work together to kill the boss."

The others responded one after another.

Suddenly, the male team member who had just spoken slapped his head and exclaimed, "Oh no, wasn't there someone who just went in? What if he also encounters that hidden boss, won't our treasure be snatched by him?"

Shen Yue shook her head.

"The location of that hidden boss is very special. We only accidentally entered it by chance back then; otherwise, it wouldn't have remained undiscovered for so many years. Don't worry."

"Besides, he's alone, so he probably won't get very far."

The others also reacted after hearing this and no longer worried.

As for the reason Ye Xiao entered the Phantom Labyrinth alone, the entire team, including Shen Yue, didn't care.

At this moment, all they could think about was killing the boss and seizing the treasure, so they had no time to pay attention to the actions of other strangers.

After giving a few more instructions, Shen Yue led the other nine people into the Phantom Labyrinth.

This Phantom Labyrinth, though called a labyrinth, was actually a vast forest-covered mountain range.

However, the entire mountain range was enveloped by a massive mist, and looking inside, one couldn't see their hand in front of their face.

Fortunately, he had purchased 10 Kaleidoscope Eye Techniques beforehand.

Through the enhancement of the Kaleidoscope Eye Technique, everything in the mist fell into Ye Xiao's eyes.

With his current combat power and 150,000 HP,

the Phantom Labyrinth, stripped of its mist and illusion effects, could not stop him.

At this moment, he had already left Shen Yue and her group far behind.

During this time, he also encountered the monsters here, but compared to the monsters in the cave, there was still some difference.

Ye Xiao had already reached the level cap, and coupled with his rush to complete his second advancement, he naturally didn't intend to waste time on killing monsters.

He cleared the way with Fireball all the way.

Relying on his nearly 7000 mental resistance and 150-meter super vision,

he quickly traveled over a thousand meters.

However, compared to the entire Phantom Labyrinth, these thousand meters were just the tip of the iceberg.

In addition, the trees inside the Phantom Labyrinth would move irregularly every once in a while.

Therefore, it was impossible to draw a map in advance.

However, the monsters killed by Ye Xiao during this period, thanks to his extremely high drop rate, dropped over a thousand eternal coins.

Don't think that over 1000 is a small amount.

If a Professional with a normal drop rate came in, getting one or two hundred would probably be good enough.

There are several types of monsters in the Eternal World.

Ordinary monsters in secret realms, for example, do not drop eternal coins and equipment; they only drop some Skill Stone and various strange and useless items.

Only elite-level monsters and above have a chance to drop equipment after being killed.

The same applies to monsters in the wild.

eternal coins, to put it simply, are crystals formed by the condensation of magic cores within monsters after their death.

These crystals require a certain amount of time to form within the monster's body, so only in places like the Phantom Labyrinth, which are not frequently visited by Professionals, will monsters drop eternal coins.

Moreover, many functions in the Eternal World require the consumption of eternal coins.

This keeps the overall quantity of eternal coins at a balance point.

Therefore, the Alliance designated eternal coins as the sole circulating currency.

"It's a good place to farm money."

After killing another Phantom Man-eating Flower and picking up the dropped eternal coins from its corpse, Ye Xiao couldn't help but sigh.

Unfortunately, he was in a hurry; otherwise, he would really like to farm some money here.

After all, he had always been poor.

(One more chapter will be added later)