#2547 - Entrance key
Damn it!
Is that kid crazy?!
Even these old guys don't dare to expose themselves to such high-intensity dead realm aura.
As soon as he reverted to human form, the dead realm aura permeating the tomb instantly rushed towards Fang Heng!
Fang Heng was immediately affected by the corrosive effects of the dead realm aura!
He looks miserable, but Fang Heng doesn't seem to be greatly affected?
The crowd exchanged glances, their eyes filled with doubt.
...
[Hint: Player is affected by the current environment's undead corrosion effect, player's defense attribute is reduced by 50%, and health points are reduced by 3% of maximum value per second].
Fang Heng secretly breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the constantly refreshing game prompts.
Thank goodness!
The negative effect of the death aura in Empress Persephone's tomb is the weakening of defense and a loss of 3% of maximum health per second.
Ordinary players definitely couldn't withstand it.
Fortunately,
The Undying Body effect easily withstands it.
Only 3% per second.
The Undying Body regenerates 12% health every second.
Totally manageable.
Li Shaoqiang and Tan Shuo stood behind Fang Heng, ready to retreat at any time, looked at Fang Heng, and whispered, "Boss Fang, is everything alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine now."
As Fang Heng spoke, he directly reached into the central coffin.
Upon entering the solid form, his right hand directly penetrated a layer of undead aura, and he felt a rod-like object from the black mist.
What's this?
Almost the instant he touched the rod-like object, Fang Heng's pupils suddenly constricted.
That feeling from before came again!
Spiritual power passed through Empress Persephone's ice crystal in the sea of consciousness, and then was quickly sucked into the rod-like object.
Before he could even actively intervene, the feeling disappeared completely.
Fang Heng frowned, and lifted the rod out of the coffin.
A magnificent scepter!
[Hint: Player has discovered item - Scepter of Glory of the Dead Kingdom].
Item: Scepter of Glory of the Dead Kingdom.
Type: Quest Item.
Description: The former symbol of glory of the Dead Kingdom, usually used as Empress's decorative item, does not possess other additional attributes.
This scepter...
Fang Heng frowned as he looked at the game prompt.
Although obtaining the scepter didn't take much effort.
Isn't this thing a bit too perfunctory?
It really doesn't add any attributes at all?
However, at this time, after the high-level members of the Necromancer Council saw the scepter in Fang Heng's hand through the projection, the entire council hall was silent for a moment.
Immediately someone shouted.
"I've seen that! That's the Empress's Scepter of Glory! There's a similar pattern gap at the entrance seal to the next level!"
"That's right! That's it!"
"Maybe this is the key to opening the next level!"
For a time, the scientific researchers of the entire Necromancer Council couldn't control themselves again, and they immediately became noisy, and the scene was somewhat out of control.
"Everyone, please be quiet first." Georgie raised his hand to signal everyone to remain calm, "I know that we have made great breakthroughs in the exploration of the tomb, but please be calm. The road to undead research cannot be completed overnight. We need to remain calm."
Speaking, Georgie looked at the assistant next to him, "First tell Fang Heng about the news of the lower entrance, let Fang Heng take the scepter to the lower entrance to compare and try to confirm whether the scepter is a prop to open the lower level."
"Understood!"
...
Fang Heng and the other two were still studying what the newly acquired Empress's Scepter of Glory was for.
Suddenly, Fang Heng felt the stone slab he was carrying with him slightly heat up.
He opened the stone slab to check, and a line of small characters appeared on the stone slab.
"I see."
After Fang Heng finished reading, he nodded and looked at Li Shaoqiang and the other two who were approaching, and explained, "The Necromancer Council sent a message saying that they think this scepter may be related to the entrance to the next level of the tomb. Later, the Necromancer Council will guide us to try the lower entrance first to confirm the role of the scepter..."
Fang Heng stopped halfway through his words.
Game prompts appeared on the retinas of the three at the same time.
[Hint: Player has triggered the team task - Brave Explorers of the Tomb].
Task Name: Brave Explorers of the Tomb.
Task Difficulty: SSS.
Task Description: After the Necromancer Council's prompt, you discovered that you may have found the key to open Empress Persephone's Tomb in the tomb. You may be able to enter the tomb to investigate.
Task Requirements: Followers of Empress Persephone, please pick up the scepter guarded by Empress Persephone's guards, and pursue the exploration of the lower area of the tomb. Please keep the scepter safe during the task. If the scepter is discarded, the task will be defaulted to fail.
Task Reward: Next stage task.
Task Remaining Time: 12 hours.
Additional Notes: This task is a special task, and will not be triggered again after each player triggers it.
Huh?
A new task?
Noticing the abnormality of this task prompt, Fang Heng frowned.
That's not right!
He now has two tasks related to Empress Persephone's Tomb.
One is the ring task of assisting the Necromancer Council camp to explore the tomb, and the other is the Tomb Brave task that was just triggered.
What's the situation?
The newly triggered task line and the previous Necromancer camp task line are not together?
The three looked at each other and quickly exchanged glances.
Li Shaoqiang was completely dumbfounded and couldn't help but ask, "You two, what's the situation? What does this game prompt mean?"
"I don't know, it looks like a task given to us by the tomb." Tan Shuo took out the stone slab, "What does the Necromancer Council say? Is there any prompt?"
Fang Heng flipped through the stone slab in his hand and shook his head, "The Necromancer Council just thinks that the scepter is likely to be the key to the lower level, and guides us to go over to confirm it. They don't know that we have triggered the task."
Fang Heng shook his head and continued, "But I think this task is not that simple. Look at the task description, the scepter we just got is called the key to enter the tomb."
Tan Shuo also frowned and said, "So the previous exploration we did belonged to the periphery of the tomb and we didn't really enter the tomb?"
"Very likely, in short, let's follow the route on the stone slab to see the situation first."
"Okay, good."
While the few were discussing, a route reappeared on the stone slab that Tan Shuo was carrying.
The high-level members of the Necromancer Council discussed it and felt that the task of exploring the second underground floor was still too difficult for Fang Heng and the others. They could choose a more stable task route and take the scepter back.
After all, no one has been to the second underground floor area, and there may be extreme dangers.
But before that, confirm first to see if the newly excavated scepter is really a prop to break the door.
Fang Heng and the others saw that the two related tasks overlapped, and immediately did not think much, and set off again to explore along the route on the stone slab.
