Chapter 1 Steel Fortress Balutia

After inserting the obsidian, the steel door didn't react at all, remaining motionless.

At this moment, Bai Qingxue sent a message, saying that the Mechanical Knight had suddenly stopped chasing her and was rapidly heading towards here.

"Damn it, no way, is the key really useless?" Shi Feng angrily punched the keyhole.

Since the simplest method wouldn't work, he could only enter using a more dangerous method.

*Beep beep beep...*

Suddenly, the keyhole of the steel gate emitted a dazzling golden light. Countless energy runes flickered on the two three-story high doors, and then slowly opened, making a creaking and ear-piercing sound.

Seeing that the Mechanical Knights were already arriving, and the gate had opened a gap just wide enough for one person to enter, Shi Feng didn't hesitate. He pulled out the key, causing the gate to instantly stop moving, and then slipped into the gap.

System: Discovered the steel fortress "Balutia."

The two-story tall Mechanical Knights wanted to rush into the gate, but the gap was too narrow, and the gate was too large and heavy. They could only bombard the gate from the outside, but it was useless.

"I'm already inside," Shi Feng sent a message to Bai Qingxue, then cautiously advanced along the huge steel passage.

On the other side of the Land of Fallen.

"Qingxue, how is he?" Zhao Yueru, who was waiting on the side, asked Bai Qingxue as she ran over.

"He's fine, he's already inside."

"But this quest is really dangerous. I just tested the strength of the Mechanical Knights a little, and found that these Mechanical Knights are completely different from other special elites. They can quickly resist my attacks and instantly launch a counterattack. If I hadn't reacted quickly enough, I probably would have been killed."

"Without a combo that can cause a lot of damage, even kiting won't do anything to these Mechanical Knights. Instead, you'll just get yourself killed." Bai Qingxue sat down and took out food and drink to start recovering. At this moment, she was still thinking about the battle scene just now. It was too thrilling. Just the shockwave from the spear shattering the ground made her lose more than two hundred health points. If she had been hit, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

After hearing this, Zhao Yueru seemed to breathe a sigh of relief for some reason.

"Okay, stop spacing out. Let's just farm Birdmen at Yixiantian (One Thread Sky). The drops and experience points here are very good, and we should be able to catch up with those top players soon." After recovering, Bai Qingxue stood up and directed.

Inside the steel fortress, Shi Feng carefully advanced. The steel-built passage was covered in rust, with only a few scattered lights illuminating the way.

He walked a long way and found no danger, only occasionally hearing the sound of dripping water and the roar of machinery operating. After a thousand years, most of the machinery could still operate normally, showing how advanced the dwarven civilization's technology was.

After passing through a huge corridor, he came to a huge furnace area. Steel stairs connected to the surrounding steel walls, and under the burning furnace was a bottomless pool of water.

Shi Feng didn't take the stairs to another exit, but instead jumped down, leaping into the pool of water.

Halfway down, Shi Feng activated Gravity Liberation, drastically reducing his speed, and slowly falling like a feather.

As he fell, Shi Feng suddenly saw a passage in the steel wall, barely wide enough for one person to enter. The information from his previous life didn't mention it, so Shi Feng slowly floated over and landed right in the hidden passage.

"There's a treasure chest here, didn't those people discover it in the last life?" Shi Feng found a large black iron box at the deepest part of the hidden passage, covered in many runes, which looked extraordinary.

After careful observation, Shi Feng determined that this was a Mysterious-Iron Treasure Chest. However, Shi Feng didn't rush to open it. Instead, he used Phantom Kill and sent a clone to check it out.

Just as the clone opened the treasure chest, countless flying arrows shot out from the surrounding iron walls, instantly killing the clone. Shi Feng broke out in a cold sweat, but fortunately he had developed a habit of being cautious in God's Domain, or he would have been killed.

However, this kind of trap was only good for one use, but Shi Feng wasn't in a hurry. Since the box wouldn't run away, he simply waited for the Phantom Kill skill to cool down and then used a clone to open the treasure chest.

This time, the clone safely opened the treasure chest without any danger. Shi Feng then walked over and took out the items in the treasure chest.

One was a Mysterious-Iron Black Stone Shield, equipment requirement 25 Strength, equipment level 10, Defense +69, Defense Rate 29%, Strength +7, Endurance +10, Health Points +200, reduces all frontal damage taken by 10% after equipping. It was definitely a top-quality level 10 shield.

The other was a Mysterious-Iron Mastery Book, which would randomly increase 10 to 50 free Mastery Points after use. This item was several times rarer than the Black Stone Shield, because these Mastery Points were permanent.

"Hopefully, my luck won't be too bad." Shi Feng prayed slightly and clicked to use the Mastery Book.

Then the system began to display a bunch of random numbers, ranging from 10 to 50. As long as Shi Feng shouted stop, the last number that appeared would be the Mastery Points he received. It was somewhat like Russian Roulette.

In his previous life, many experts collected Mastery Books to improve their weapon mastery, but Mastery Books were too rare and couldn't be bought even with money. They were all used by themselves, after all, it was extremely difficult to add even a little free Mastery.

Shi Feng had seen a lucky guy who obtained a Fine-Gold Mastery Book. Many people were envious after seeing it and were even willing to spend one million credits to buy it, but that person refused and used it himself. The random numbers ranged from 30 to 200, and everyone thought this guy was super lucky, but in the end, he only got 31 free Mastery Points, making everyone laugh at him, it was worse than a Mysterious-Iron Mastery Book.

Watching the numbers constantly spin, Shi Feng's heart was also pounding, wondering how much he would get.

"Stop!" Shi Feng shouted.

The number wheel suddenly stopped, and Shi Feng opened his eyes to look over.

32 points.

Not a bad number, he could get 32 free Mastery Points for free, equivalent to the free Mastery Points gained by leveling up to level 20.

Shi Feng clicked on the One-Handed Sword Mastery column.

Currently, One-Handed Sword Mastery was still 20 points, reaching the Elementary Swordsman level, increasing basic damage by 10%.

Adding the 8 points gained from leveling up to level 5 and the 5 points he had left, he had 13 points, and now adding 32 points, he had a total of 45 free Mastery Points.

Shi Feng directly added 30 Mastery Points to One-Handed Sword, instantly increasing One-Handed Sword Mastery to the Intermediate Swordsman level, increasing basic damage by 15%. It was still 50 points away from increasing to the Advanced level.

Don't underestimate the 5% increase in basic damage. This basic damage would be greatly amplified after skill bonuses. The difference between top experts and experts was often due to the difference in basic damage. By now, only a few experts had reached Elementary mastery, and he was already ahead of many by reaching Intermediate.

Just as Shi Feng was preparing to go deeper, the fortress's alarm sounded.