Two peak Spirit Tier Walkers charged forward aggressively; such a momentous event could naturally not be kept secret. Through the holographic display, the girls gathered in the game space watched everything clearly.
"Is this why he locked us inside the game space?" Mikoto blurted out, realizing the sequence of events.
But Evangeline gritted her teeth and hissed, "Damn that brat, he dares to look down on me!"
"Two peak Spirit Tier Walkers. The situation is not optimistic. We should first find a way to get out of this place," Rin frowned and stated grimly.
"Yeah, we can't just stand here and watch. We can find trouble with Lin Luo anytime," Mikoto immediately proposed. "How about this: we meet up with the others first, and then do everything possible to gather equipment for Evange, striving to allow her to slay the Dragon as quickly as possible. Or, if the fight over there lasts long enough, we protect her so she survives for three hours."
"This method... is viable." Rin pondered briefly and immediately nodded.
Since Lin Luo sent them in here, it meant those two enemies were absolutely terrifying. Although they were unwilling to just be protected, if their combat power wasn't enough, going to help would only make things worse. The only one who could potentially offer real assistance was Evangeline, with her immortal body.
After quickly regrouping with the others, Rin explained her idea, which was met with unanimous agreement.
"Speaking of which, why didn't Lin Luo ask the Dragon Clan for help?" Nero suddenly raised this question a while later.
Everyone froze. Right, the might of the Dragon Clan was beyond doubt. Since Lin Luo himself had advanced to peak Spirit Tier and dared to fight two alone, he definitely wouldn't be at a disadvantage one-on-one. If he had called the Dragon Clan, they certainly wouldn't lose. Why didn't he do that?
...
Lin Luo intended to completely eliminate these two peak Spirit Tier Walkers to eradicate future trouble.
Truthfully, the incident with Queen of Mercury had deeply affected him. Back then, if he hadn't luckily comprehended the Inverse Rule ahead of time, Queen of Mercury would never have been saved. Such a thing absolutely could not happen again.
Two peak Spirit Tier Walkers might not threaten him, but they were definitely natural predators to the majority of Hosts. He couldn't do anything about the peak experts he didn't know existed, but... now that they had delivered themselves to his doorstep, they absolutely could not be allowed to leave alive.
With his current strength, plus the home-field advantage, if he exerted one hundred percent of his power, he was confident he could defeat any peer-level expert. Moreover, with the Guardian Dragons, if the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon made a move, these two peak Spirit Tier Walkers could be easily suppressed—but only suppressed.
After all, it was too easy for a peak Spirit Tier expert to escape, especially with existence-defying things like the Grand Way of Starlight... So, what Lin Luo had to do was weaken their combat effectiveness step by step, preventing them from even having a chance to summon the Grand Way of Starlight, and then kill them in one blow.
"They've arrived. Then, let the game begin." Standing in the center of the main hall on the first floor, Lin Luo smiled slightly as he watched the two Walkers rush in quickly.
"There really is a trap. Be careful..." Tang Jing said cautiously, but before she could finish, the surrounding environment suddenly shifted. The originally empty hall instantly transformed into a massive starry sky, and then she felt all strength leave her body as she began to fall rapidly downward.
"Damn it, what is happening?" Li Chen cried out in alarm, scrambling in panic.
"What is that?" Tang Jing was horrified to discover that she and Li Chen were hurtling toward a planet at extreme speed. At this moment, forget the power to fly; even the ability to fight was lost, turning them into utterly ordinary people. And facing such a situation, ordinary people were naturally... helpless.
Tang Jing and Li Chen were instantly scared stiff.
"Damn it, what did you do to us?" She looked up, glaring fiercely at Lin Luo, the previous ease gone from her eyes. Anyone who knew they were about to have intimate contact with a planet wouldn't be relaxed.
"Nothing much, just playing a little game," Lin Luo said casually, shrugging his shoulders. Like them, he was also falling rapidly, but there was no panic on his face.
This room was, of course, the "Vast Starry Sky" he had created. Originally, the Vast Starry Sky was on the eighth floor of the main hall, but in Lin Luo's design, every floor could be adjusted relative to others. The first floor could become the twelfth, and the thirteenth could become the second. The original intention for this adjustment function was to make the main hall more varied and dynamic, but now it seemed to be serving an unexpected purpose.
The moment he entered the main hall, Lin Luo had already swapped the positions of two floors and activated this floor's function, immediately plunging the three of them into the endless freefall of the Infinite Void.
Lin Luo's calm composure was not shared by the other two. After all, a trap only works on the enemy; if one falls for it too, they're an idiot. At this moment, Tang Jing and Li Chen were filled with terror and regret. If they truly died like this, it would be too humiliating... The first batch of Walkers to fall to their deaths.
Of course, this terror didn't last long. Although their powers were gone, their insight remained. After a few minutes, they immediately realized this was an illusion. No matter how dangerous it seemed, they would never truly crash onto that planet.
"You dare to treat us like this?" Upon learning the truth, Tang Jing couldn't help but curse him out. Even if they couldn't die from the fall, the sensation was still extremely unpleasant.
"You little punk, I swear I'll tear you into a thousand pieces later!" Li Chen roared repeatedly.
But Lin Luo ignored them, smiling, "Unfortunately, in your current predicament, that is impossible."
"Aren't you the same? You probably can't kill us right now either," Tang Jing said grimly. Now that she was completely reassured, it seemed the opponent was not spared either. Thus, this situation wouldn't last forever; there was nothing to worry about.
"Indeed. I didn't intend to use this thing against enemies back then; it was purely to add some fun when playing. So I set it up so that even I would not be exempt. Otherwise, I could easily annihilate you right now," Lin Luo said, letting out a rather regretful sigh.
What he said was half-true and half-false. It wasn't that he deliberately set it up this way; it was inherently so. If he could be exempt, it would become an armed tool, whereas now it was just a game space of sorts.
After an unknown period, Lin Luo suddenly snapped his fingers. "Alright, the stargazing is concluded."
The surrounding environment instantly reverted to the original hall.
"Die!" The feeling of solid ground returned, and the two across from him rushed toward Lin Luo like lightning without hesitation, but Lin Luo was faster.
Before the two could reach him, the environment changed again. Countless seawater instantly submerged everyone. Tang Jing and Li Chen felt their bodies sink, and their powers were lost once more.
"The previous one was just an appetizer. Now it's time for the main course..." Lin Luo smiled and introduced them like a tour guide, "This is the underwater world. Be careful, there are many terrifying animals here."
The two looked around and saw countless sharks swimming not far away. Tang Jing immediately let out a disdainful cold laugh. "You want to kill us with these fish?" Even stripped of their powers and submerged underwater, ordinary creatures still couldn't harm them.
But Lin Luo shook his head. "No, no, no. These places won't kill anyone. There are only..."
At this moment, the school of sharks hundreds of meters away suddenly scattered as if they had encountered their natural predator. Tang Jing and Li Chen were startled, and then they saw two gigantic octopuses swimming rapidly toward them.
"Friendly reminder, the octopuses here are very lecherous, and they have dual functionality. I think you'll both enjoy this," Lin Luo said with an evil smile.
A bad premonition instantly rose in their hearts, and they instinctively tried to flee. However, having lost their powers, how could they possibly outswim the octopuses in the sea? In less than a few seconds, both were tightly ensnared by the ten tentacles of the octopuses.
"Damn it, you disgusting creatures, let me go!" Tang Jing immediately felt her scalp tingle and began to struggle. The scene that followed made her face turn ashen: the giant octopus sprayed a fluid that instantly corroded the clothes on her body, leaving her stark naked in a short time, her mature female figure fully exposed.
Of course, this wasn't actual corrosion, merely a visual illusion. After all, creatures projected by virtual data only had an effect on reality-based creatures, but even if it was a hallucination, it was infinitely close to reality.
"Hmm, quite a nice figure, a bit of a shame, though," Lin Luo remarked admiringly with a sigh. Although he couldn't be exempt from losing his power in this space, as the official GM of the game, adjusting his own standing was possible, so the octopuses wouldn't launch an... assault on him.
"Shameless scoundrel, you dare to insult us this way, I will never let you go—Ugh!" Tang Jing couldn't finish her sentence, as the giant octopus binding her tightly had just inserted one of its tentacles into her mouth.
"This is the tentacle type. Congratulations, you are the first person to enjoy this treatment. Although one of my girlfriends almost suffered this treatment before..."
"Wuwuwu..."
Tang Jing couldn't speak at all, tears streaming down her face under the octopus's rough movements. What terrified her even more was that after assaulting her mouth, the vile tentacle reached for her lower regions. She watched helplessly as two disgusting tentacles slipped unimpeded into her body, and then she felt three tentacles violently churning inside her body...
This was an unprecedented insult. At this moment, she almost wished for death, her sense of humiliation reaching its limit.
On the other side, Li Chen received the same treatment. An octopus fond of male companionship entangled his body and extended two tentacles... Lin Luo didn't look over there. Although this was indirectly his masterpiece, watching a man being assaulted was a bit nauseating.
He turned his gaze, full of appreciation, toward Tang Jing, who was being handled by the tentacles. A real-life tentacle scenario like this was a rare sight; it would be a pity to miss it.
But the look Tang Jing gave Lin Luo was filled with endless rage; she wished she could tear Lin Luo into countless pieces.
"Don't worry, don't worry, it will be over soon. This room's function pauses every half hour, so you'll be free after half an hour... Oh, this posture is nice," Lin Luo said, his eyes suddenly filled with approval.
That octopus was truly an expert in the tentacle style. After a triple climax, it switched to several other highly rated positions, and all ten tentacles took turns, almost without a moment's rest.
"You despicable fiend, I'm going to... Ugh!" Tang Jing was assaulted again just as she caught her breath.
This half-hour passed with the two being continuously ravaged. Finally, when the half-hour was up, the seawater and the octopuses vanished completely, and even their previously corroded clothes reappeared intact, though their expressions were much more withered than before.
"I'll kill you!" As soon as she was free, Tang Jing shrieked and lunged at Lin Luo. Of course, she couldn't succeed; after Lin Luo snapped his fingers lightly, the scenery of the room changed again.
"Welcome to the Natural Habitat. You will have the chance to witness the feeding habits of baby dinosaurs that went extinct millions of years ago."
"Damn you, you bastard..." Fire seemed ready to erupt from the eyes of the two, but they couldn't finish their sentences. It wasn't that land octopuses appeared, but rather... a dozen dinosaurs.
Each dinosaur was three to four meters tall, sprinting toward them with massive jaws open, revealing sharp fangs and ferocious eyes, as if announcing to Tang Jing and Li Chen: "We are carnivores."
"I previously set the realism level of this place to zero, but to accommodate you two new players, I specifically set it to one hundred," Lin Luo said, stepping aside to watch the two Walkers surrounded by a dozen dinosaurs.
Stripped of their powers, they had no means of resistance against a dozen dinosaurs. A single bite tore off a bloody arm, and then the dozen dinosaurs began tearing at their bodies, flesh flying everywhere. If the previous scene was sexually suggestive, this one was violent. Very sexually suggestive, very violent.
When the realism level was zero, the dinosaurs swallowing people was a direct gulp, just like the previous SABERs. But at one hundred percent realism, how real dinosaurs ate people was how they ate people here.
Watching their bodies being eaten bit by bit, did it hurt? No, of course not.
As mentioned before, virtual data only causes effects analogous to real creatures; its only function is visual illusion. So even watching their own hands and feet being bitten off caused no pain, the same applied to the previous tentacle scene—it was all a data projection, a visual distortion that caused no physical harm.
However, watching oneself being eaten, even without pain, had a huge impact on the spirit, and the spirit could influence the execution of the Rule Force.
A person whose spirit is tortured to the extreme, no matter how powerful their combat ability, will ultimately be vulnerable.
Thus, being eaten again and again, reviving countless times, the half-hour cycle finally passed, and the two finally escaped this hell.
"Very good, you've survived the third level. Next is the Mist Labyrinth." As the scenery shifted once more, the three arrived in a forest filled with fog.
"I will kill you! I must kill you!" Although they had lost all their powers, their basic stamina remained. The two roared and charged at Lin Luo. Even if they couldn't kill him here, they would at least beat him half to death.
"Two against one. This isn't fair. Since you plan to use numbers to bully the few, then I have no choice..." Lin Luo wasn't worried at all and shouted loudly, "Come on, my three hundred maids!"
As his voice fell, an elevator suddenly appeared in the forest. The elevator doors opened rapidly, and three hundred maids rushed out... Oh wait, it should be 297.
Tang Jing and Li Chen were instantly stunned.
"Come on, I accept your group challenge." With three hundred maids assisting, Lin Luo had absolutely no worries, looking aggressive.
Places like the Mist Labyrinth only restrict special abilities, reducing any expert to the level of an ordinary person. But these 297 maids did not possess any supernatural combat power, so they were naturally not restricted.
Normally, let alone three hundred, even three million would be easily eliminated by the two with a mere wave of their hands. But now, their combat power was only at the level of ordinary people, while the maids were all robots. How could an ordinary person fight against robots?
So the 297 maids split into two teams, 153 in one team, and began to fiercely beat the two peak Spirit Tier Walkers. As for the other one, she wasn't seen standing behind Lin Luo, watching the show while massaging his back?
Tang Jing and Li Chen were maddened with rage. At first, they could resist a little, but soon they were completely overwhelmed by the huge disparity in combat power and numbers, reduced to merely taking hits.
153 versus one—unless you activate your buffs, there's no fight.
"It seems this side will also take half an hour," Lin Luo knew that no matter how hard the maids fought, they couldn't kill these two Walkers. Although their powers were restricted, their existence hadn't changed. Peak Spirit Tier Walkers had undergone a qualitative change compared to ordinary life; mundane force couldn't kill people of that level.
It was like an Undine; even if you stab it ten million times with a knife, you couldn't kill it. Only the corresponding spell could achieve that. Moreover, people wouldn't die in these rooms either, as these places Lin Luo created were originally meant for his own people to play in. As a precaution, he set it up so that no matter what happened, when the function stopped, all data in that room would revert to the state before the function was activated.
So he didn't expect to kill the two Walkers in this place; weakening their mental fortitude was sufficient.
However, because the maids were not data projections, their strikes, in addition to causing mental impact, would also make Tang Jing and Li Chen feel pain.
"Time is almost up. Stop, everyone. You first go hide on the thirteenth floor. Don't come out until I call you," Lin Luo said quickly to the maids after checking his watch, as the half-hour limit was less than a minute away.
"Yes, Master." They replied respectfully, and in a flash, the maids were gone, leaving only Lin Luo and two bruised and battered people collapsed on the ground in the entire space.
"Then, the real show begins. I'll wait for you outside." As soon as the effect of the Mist Labyrinth dissipated, Lin Luo rushed out of the main hall quickly.
At the same time, the miserably battered appearance of the two Walkers instantly reverted to normal. Fire was about to spew from their eyes.
"Aaaaaahhhhh!" Endless rage completely consumed their rationality, and they chased after Lin Luo regardless of anything.
Outside the main hall.
"Lin Luo!" The girls still struggling in the game space shouted as they saw the person suddenly rush out of the main hall. However, Lin Luo ignored them and quickly flew toward one of the floating cities.
"Stop right there! I must kill you! I swear I will kill you!" Tang Jing and Li Chen chased out like lightning, their massive roars revealing infinite anger.
This scene instantly stunned the girls.
"They seem really angry."
"Did they go through something just now?"
"I have a feeling they experienced something worse than death..."
...
Lin Luo stopped in front of a floating city, turned to face the two chasing him, and then raised his hand. The twelve floating cities suddenly changed... Except for the one behind him, Treasure Mountain, and the three without dimensional transfer arrays, the other seven floating cities instantly gathered around him, completely surrounding the two Walkers.
"I knew you would follow. You didn't even bother looking at the environment around you. As expected, impulse is the devil," Lin Luo pointed forward, and one of the floating cities hurtled toward the two with immense power.
Tang Jing and Li Chen's expressions shifted instantly; almost by reflex, they darted away like lightning, narrowly evading the danger. Yet, their faces were etched with disbelief. "Impossible... the World King cannot possibly create armament-type artifacts!"
"Who told you only armament-type artifacts can kill?"
Lin Luo sneered, and the seven floating cities began to spin rapidly.
"Enjoy yourselves now, my Seven Star Formation."