Volume 6: Fighting for the World Chapter 7: Death of Daxiu (1)
The flame bone demon Kekexili alone cannot frighten . Even though it has completed its evolution earlier than Khufu, Khufu has accumulated strength for three hundred years and has experienced the life and death ordeal of the "magma cave|mouth" during its evolution. Its strength may not be lower than Kekexili. However, among the five-member team announced by Hades to participate in the group challenge in the form of "free combination", in addition to the fire bone giant lizard Silando, there are three other "new faces" who work hand in hand with Kekexili, and they are all volcanic undead with air combat or flying capabilities. According to the list announced by Hades, one is the terrifying four-winged fire dragon knight Thomas, one is the flaming flying snake Qitlei, and one is the lava blood bat Houston. What frightened me even more was that their ranking was actually before Silando, who ranked first in the immersion qualification. Although there was no explicit regulation, according to the usual practice, such an order of arrangement means that even if their strength is not stronger, at least it will never be weaker than Silando. A combination of volcanic undead with a strength that is definitely beyond level eight and four lower-order magical beasts with strength not lower than level eight will definitely be a severe test for Khufu, Guben and the other three. Even if they can win, if two or three of them unfortunately die, such a price is something I am unwilling to bear.
The other team of five with stronger strength is led by the two-headed skeleton fire ghost king Dizang and the fire skeleton general Gonzalez. The other three guys are obviously direct subordinates of Hades. The volcano black warrior leader Alexander who killed the little mummy and the terrifying fire crab knight Sham who has appeared in public are among them. There is also a fire wizard Veraman. The Centaur shooter Sampdoli and the long-arm fire corpse demon Tudu, who are ranked in the middle of the immersion qualification, were not selected. It is estimated that their strength is not enough to catch Hades' "eyes".
According to the registration of the volcanic undead who participated in the challenge, in addition to the single-player duel that most people chose, there are two other team battle modes: two-person combination and five-person combination. According to the rules formulated by Hades, for the sake of fairness, only one team of five-person team battles can win in the end and obtain the qualification for immersion, and the other seven places will be allocated to the two-person combination and the single-player duel final area. The challenge implements a single round-robin elimination mode. If you lose a game, you will lose the qualification. Of course, if the winning five-person combination suffers casualties in the battle, resulting in a shortage of personnel, the second or even third-ranked combination will be selected to make up for it to ensure that there are five immersion places.
Fortunately, probably to maintain its "fair" image, Hades did not decide the order of the challenge by itself, but let all the contestants draw lots to arrange the opponents for each round of the challenge, which greatly reduced the possibility of us fighting to the death in the first round of Kekexili. Taotao, who participated in the lottery, lived up to expectations and drew a "good lot". According to the challenge order arranged by this, if everything goes well, he will meet the Flame Bone Demon in the final round. Although he will face the combination of Dizang and Gonzalez in the second round, with the strength of Khufu and Taotao, the chances of challenging them should be quite high, so I don't worry too much.
In the first round, only one of the five opponents barely reached the strength of the eighth-level lower-level magic beast, and the other four were all equivalent to the seventh-level magic beasts, so they naturally won easily. However, their performance was quite tenacious, and could even be described as crazy. They attacked desperately and deliberately avoided the strongest Khufu and Taotao, and specifically targeted the slowest necromancer Hader. As long as they found an opportunity, they would not hesitate to exchange injuries or even their lives for injuries. Although before the game I also considered that Hader, who moved slowly and was not very strong, would be a "weak rib" and the opponent might focus on attacking it, but in my estimation, that was something that only Kekexili and Dizang would do. I really didn't expect that this group of guys who were obviously much weaker in strength and had no hope of winning would actually be fearless "desperate people". Looking at their posture, they were willing to pull Hader to be buried with them even if the whole army was wiped out. If it weren't for Khufu and Taotao who were quick to see the opportunity and were obviously much stronger than them, they would have almost succeeded. There was no grudge between them, and two of them were even acquainted with Hades. The reason for this must be the result of Hades' manipulation behind the scenes - if we lose combat personnel in the challenge, unless we are willing to withdraw voluntarily or find suitable candidates to replace us, the opponents in the next round will not make adjustments based on our actual number of players and will still fight with five people. Once they are forced to fight with a smaller number, they will never have any hope of winning against the Qilian Mountains.
Originally, I was "benevolent and righteous". Considering that these alien undeads were all strong and could be said to be the best in the "Hell Volcano", if they could be subdued in the future, they would be an aid to the fight against the Hades and Hades King. I did not intend to "kill them all". However, these guys were too "poisoned" and held on to the "failure or death". They struggled and chased Hades and refused to give up. Hades and his friends acted in "self-defense" but could not control the severity of their attacks. In the end, they "missed" and killed three of them and seriously injured two of them. Although they finally won the first round of challenges without any danger, such a result really made me feel regretful.
However, after learning the results of the first round of challenges, I found that the death of three opponents and the injury of two was actually a good outcome. The volcanic undead who chose to rely on Hades were only a small part, and there were not many alien undead with high IQs who were aware of Hades's sinister intentions. Most of them were in "ignorance" and blindly believed in Hades' arrangements, especially those "simple-minded and well-developed" guys, who were "ambitious" and wanted to seize this opportunity. They tried their best in the battle. In order to determine the winner, they were often either dead or injured. The losers rarely survived, and there was no intention of showing mercy. This is also the true meaning of "survival of the fittest" in the "Dead Soul Space", and I can't blame it, but it really hurts me to think that the losses may be the "alien elites" who will fight against the Nether Dragon in the future.
Perhaps, this is also one of the purposes of Hades's challenge. On the one hand, he wants to take the opportunity to "block" me, weaken and restrict my expansion of power in the "Hell Volcano"; on the other hand, if the situation continues to develop in this way, there will be twelve immersion places in the end. It is estimated that most of these alien elites will be lost in the challenge, and they will not be able to conquer enough strong people. Whether it is me or other undead wizards, if we want to continue to seek development in the "Hell Volcano" and intend to challenge the dominance of the Nether Dragon Clan and Hades, it will probably become more and more difficult.
