“Without any teleportation fluctuations, they're either dead or have withdrawn from the competition. Either way, it won't affect us.”

David exhaled a long breath.

He took out a magic potion from his backpack and drank it. Dragging his damaged body, he stood up unsteadily, forming a hand seal and chanting a spell to release a wide-area, indiscriminate healing skill called [Healing Rain].

Fine, silky green raindrops suddenly fell from the sky.

Paranoid Delusion's twisted arm uncoiled, muscles and skin rapidly healing, covering the ghastly white bone fragments.

Abel's severed elbow was also rapidly growing back, and it was estimated that it wouldn't be long before it was completely restored.

As for Agares...

David walked forward and saw Agares lying on his back on the ground.

The negative effects of the curse he released canceled each other out with the [Healing Rain], and his wounds continuously healed and tore open.

David bent down, trying to cast a single-target healing skill, but Agares, who was constantly coughing up pieces of internal organs, stopped him with his hand. "Cough, cough, no need."

Agares took out several props and equipment from his backpack and handed them to David. He didn't explain in detail, but just gestured with his eyes at the system detector that had been recording the entire process.

The curse he had just released could only be activated when the target's body was bleeding profusely.

Once activated, it would not only halve the opponent's healing effects, but also dull the opponent's five senses, slow down their speed, and greatly reduce their defense.

If it hadn't been for the curse taking effect, it would have been difficult for the Spear of Judgment alone to pierce the body of the short-faced demon.

Now that he had released the curse, Agares himself was also plagued by various negative effects, and his combat ability had been severely reduced for a long time. He had no choice but to withdraw from the competition—and before withdrawing, he conveniently left the non-binding props and equipment in his backpack to David and the others.

The players they had gathered before had either died or withdrawn. Hei An Xia Huo's life or death was unknown, and Agares had withdrawn from the competition,

In front of the elevator shaft, only David, Abel, Paranoid Delusion, and Ant King remained.

"..."

Ant King looked at David, who was putting away the equipment, canceled the chitinous armor on his body, and hesitated to ask, "What do we do now?"

Shortface's strength, if calculated according to the Earth's individual combat power rankings in the real world, would be at least fifth place or even higher.

If two more of the same level came,

In their current state, it would be difficult even to protect themselves.

David pursed his lips tightly and thought for a while, then raised his head and said to the air in a deep voice, "Tian JIng Huo Tu?"

"I'm here."

A translucent gray figure suddenly appeared in the void, wearing a pointed wizard's hat, making it impossible to see his face clearly.

It was Tian JIng Huo Tu, one of the vice presidents of the Demon Scientist Alliance.

He appeared in the form of a virtual projection, and his main body was still on a lower floor—the projection itself had no combat ability at all, and its defense was no different from a balloon, easily destroyed by an unknown area-of-effect attack, so it had not manifested just now.

"I just received news from my president, Truth's Side, that the alien players have opened the safety door on the 10th floor and seem to be performing some kind of ritual.

The accelerated collapse of the upper floors was caused by the opening of the door."

Tian JIng Huo Tu's phantom said quickly, "They are probably trying to use the collapsing floors to squeeze our living space and force us downwards, making it easier for them to eliminate us.

Closest to you are Dawn, Implant Isomer, Sesshoin, and Mistletoe on the 25th floor.

They have already joined forces.

You can go find them first, and then use the elevator to go to the 15th floor—Tai Hao and others just arrived there not long ago.

After arriving at the fifteenth floor, secretly use the passage to directly reach the 11th floor..."

Before he could finish speaking, Tian JIng Huo Tu's tone changed, "The alien players are coming up from the 10th floor."

"How many?"

"All of them."

————

Glug, glug, glug.

Leaning against the wall, Kuang Ran Huo chugged magic potions one bottle after another. The tips of her waist-length golden hair behind her petite body were constantly changing color due to the excessive energy contained in the potions.

"嗝~"

Kuang Ran Huo, like a middle-aged uncle addicted to drinking, squinted her eyes and hiccuped with a satisfied expression, completely lacking the image of a Syndicate's third seat disciple.

"That's why the Tribunal's ten-year-old vintage Saint Blood potion is so potent. Sweet, mellow, rich, fragrant, with a long finish and a strong aftertaste..."

Kuang Ran Huo put away the potion bottles while rambling. Seeming to feel a gaze, she turned her head and met Chi Xiao's cold gaze, smiling and saying, "What are you looking at me for? Go buy your own if you want to drink."

"Hmph."

Chi Xiao snorted coldly, her gaze clearly conveying the emotion of "Hoping you drink yourself to death soon."

The various magic potions in the game store and sold by the various guilds themselves cannot be drunk casually.

Although the system does not make accurate annotations,

Different magic potions, especially player-made magic potions, have hidden attributes.

Drinking multiple bottles of different types of magic potions at the same time will produce strange chemical reactions, achieving all sorts of bizarre effects—most of the time, these effects are negative.

For example, two medicinal effects cancel each other out, reducing the effectiveness,

Or worse—eyeballs grow out of the nostrils, and the skull suddenly becomes soft, popping like a water-filled balloon with a single poke.

Even system-produced magic potions cannot avoid this—taking Micro Life Potions as an example,

Drinking multiple bottles of Life Potions in succession will not only subtly decrease the healing effect, but also produce "negative healing" effects such as nail hyperplasia, thickening of bone diameter, thickening of the cornea, and hardening of the myocardium.

The more you drink in a short period of time, the more obvious the negative effects.

Chi Xiao didn't know that Kuang Ran Huo had a special skill that allowed her to digest any special substances without worrying about side effects.

But this did not stop her from continuing to look at Kuang Ran Huo with hostile eyes, wishing the other party bad luck—

Before, Kuang Ran Huo chased after Chi Xiao, Ju Que, Ding Zhensi and others,

Using strange flames, she burned Ju Que's skin, causing it to fester, and making his hair and beard disappear. Even if he withdrew from the competition in time to save his life, it might leave serious hidden dangers.

This hatred will be avenged sooner or later.

"After bypassing the road ahead, there will be a passage."

Compared with his subordinates, Zhan Lu's attitude was much more peaceful. Not many people from the Sword Court participated in this competition. There were only Zhan Lu himself, Chi Xiao, Ju Que, and Cheng Ying.

Ju Que was confirmed to have withdrawn from the competition,

And Cheng Ying, according to the life paper, was still doing well, so there was no need to worry too much—now that the upper floors were constantly collapsing, Cheng Ying was estimated to appear near Zhan Lu soon, and then they could find each other through the communication device.

"Mm,"

Tai Hao nodded and glanced at everyone's condition.

After this period of rushing, everyone replenished their consumption and healed their injuries, and their combat power had been restored...

Zheng——

A piercing sound came swiftly. Tai Hao's expression changed slightly, and he suddenly raised his arm and pushed forward with his palm,

A miniature tornado appeared in his palm, firmly sucking in a slender, hairpin-like short sword that had flown from an unknown location.