novel-books Chapter 76 The Ultimate Greed: The Temptation of Mythical Equipment Everywhere
Chapter 76 The Ultimate Greed: The Temptation of Mythical Equipment Everywhere
Hydra's health dropped below 40%. Before the ashes of the fourth clone had even completely dissipated, the behemoth's attack rhythm became noticeably disrupted.
It stopped spewing acid and its main body tumbled violently in place. Its thick tail swept across, snapping several load-bearing pillars on the outer side of the temple in half.
"Retreat! Create distance!" Xiao Qianyu flicked her spear and retreated accordingly.
Lei Zhan held up his shield, taking the brunt of the falling rocks. He glanced at the system panel and saw that Hydra's defense stat was plummeting.
Initially, it was thought that it would stack damage reduction shields, but further analysis of data fluctuations revealed that it abandoned defense and forcibly diverted energy to accelerate splitting.
The sixth snake head detached itself from the base. The speed was incredible, taking half the time it took for the fifth head to break.
No tissue fluid gushed from the wound. After the snake's head hit the ground, a large area of its blue scales quickly peeled off, revealing the dark golden muscle underneath.
It did not display any aggressive posture, but instead coiled its massive body, head to tail, forming a perfect spiral formation.
The serpent of greed.
The moment the system panel refreshed and displayed the name, the snake's mouth slightly opened. A dense cloud of golden mist silently billowed out. Unaffected by wind direction, the mist clung to the stone bricks, spreading outwards at an extremely constant rate.
A fog enveloped the entire arena. The instant the gas entered the respiratory tract, high-frequency noise appeared on everyone's retinas. The refraction of physical space was completely altered.
The ruins that were once covered with broken bricks and stones have disappeared.
Instead, a dark red halo covered the entire temple platform.
That's the unique color of mythical-level equipment.
Armor, weapons, and accessories were piled up haphazardly, in such large quantities that it was nauseating.
A panel displaying a dense array of top-tier attributes automatically pops up on the retina.
It is worth noting that this kind of psychological attack is not a simple visual deception, but rather directly reads the numerical model that the victim desires most in their subconscious.
It can accurately match each person's current career shortcomings and generate perfect customized attributes.
The formations of the seventh and eighth teams collapsed first. Several team members who had been roaming in low- to mid-level dungeons for years simply dropped their weapons.
They knelt on both knees, frantically grabbing at the air with their hands.
As their fingers touched the air, their faces showed an extremely infatuated and intoxicated expression, and they kept muttering about the beauty of the equipment.
Lei Zhan's breathing became heavy. Less than half a meter in front of him lay a tower shield emitting a dark red light.
The shield was engraved with intricate runes, and the words "Absolute Block" on the attribute panel precisely struck at his weakness as the main tank.
Reason whispered a faint warning deep within his mind. But his body had already bent over uncontrollably. He reached out, inching his hand toward that void.
Zhao Leiguang also stopped in his tracks. Before him stood a complete set of S-class legendary heavy armor.
Just as he was about to reach out and touch it, Lu Yan's voice suddenly flashed through his mind.
A few hours ago, Lu Yan stood in the cave filled with holy spirit stones, casually kicked aside a stone worth millions, and said lightly, "Standard procedure."
That strange, disregardful grin about wealth was magnified infinitely in Zhao Leiguang's mind.
The scene was incredibly impactful. Zhao Leiguang shuddered and forcefully pulled one leg out of the tempting mire. The air around him churned from his struggle, forcibly dispersing the golden mist within half a meter.
His vision cleared. He saw that all his comrades around him were touching and hugging the air, and Lei Zhan was even hugging a charred rock and grinning foolishly.
Cold sweat trickled down Zhao Leiguang's forehead. Undeniably, if it weren't for Lu Yan's usual disregard for money, which had left a psychological scar on him, he would now be one of those lunatics.
Lu Yan stood at the back of the line, watching the chaotic scene of the demons dancing wildly, and sighed helplessly.
His field of vision was completely clean.
There were only rubble scattered on the ground and a snake coiled up, exhaling mist.
Since he cleared the S-level secret realm Eden last time, his mental resistance seems to have undergone a qualitative leap.
What exactly happened in the Garden of Eden remains unknown...
"Wake up." Lu Yan pulled out a spare short-handled scepter.
He weighed the scepter in his hand.
Originally a silver-grade magic weapon that boosted intelligence, it's now conveniently used for physical tasks like ambushing people.
He walked up to Xiao Qianyu, showing no mercy whatsoever, and smacked her on the back of the head.
Frankly speaking, in the heat of battle, pain is the most effective physical means of severing nerve hijacking.
"Thump."
The dull, resonant sound of hammering echoed through the empty temple.
Xiao Qianyu winced in pain and suddenly came to her senses. The illusion of divine equipment before her shattered, replaced by Lu Yan's disdainful face.
"Close your eyes and dispel the fog." Lu Yan said this and turned to walk towards his next target.
Xiao Qianyu reacted extremely quickly. Without asking what had happened, she swept her spear horizontally, creating a strong vortex that forcefully dispersed the surrounding thick fog.
Lu Yan's physical awakening method is extremely efficient. He hits each target with a single blow, never missing a beat.
After being hit hard with a club, Shen Xinglin immediately slammed his ever-changing lance into the ground.
The ground tremors caused by the skill shattered the mist that hung beneath their feet.
After being woken up, Lin Chuxue immediately unleashed a small blizzard on her head, using the low temperature to condense the fog into ice crystals.
The first squad was the first to recover their fighting strength. They quickly adjusted their positions, protecting Lu Yan in the middle, their weapons pointed directly at the serpent of greed in the distance.
The serpent of greed realized that the fog's effect was crumbling, and its coiled body contracted violently.
The concentration of the golden mist suddenly doubled. The illusion underwent a deadly upgrade.
The original dark red mythical aura disappeared completely, replaced by a white pillar of light shooting into the sky.
That was a unique radiance that transcended mythology and represented the highest quality. The entire temple platform was bathed in a pale white light.
The members of Team Seven went completely mad. They broke free from their teammates' grasp and scrambled towards the area with the densest concentration of light beams.
The serpent of greed had been waiting for this moment. Its tightly closed jaws suddenly opened, revealing its bottomless throat.
The snake's head transformed into a blur, directly biting at the two team members who were charging at the front.
The distance was too close; conventional rescue methods were too late.
At the critical moment, a long spear flew through the air. Shen Xinglin and his spear transformed into a streak of light, the ever-changing lance precisely wedged between the upper and lower jaws of the snake.
A scraping sound rang out, and the gun barrel was severely bent by the bite, but it managed to withstand the deadly grip.
"Smash it!" Shen Xinglin roared, pressing his hands firmly against the gun barrel, the veins on his arms bulging.
Zhao Leiguang had arrived. The Earth Pulse Twin Shields, imbued with immense force, slammed into the side of the Serpent of Greed. The massive serpent head was knocked to one side, and the two team members who had narrowly escaped death rolled to the ground, their faces filled with bewilderment.
"Close your eyes!" Xiao Qianyu gave the order.
When faced with such a purely mental monster, vision becomes the biggest hindrance.
As long as you look at it, the illusion will continue to penetrate your defenses.
The thirty people closed their eyes, relying entirely on the feedback from their skills hitting the physical targets to adjust their positions. Lin Chuxue's blizzard covered the area where the snake's body was located, and the sound of ice shattering became the best coordinates.
Wen Yue's crossbow continuously fired high-explosive grenades. She used the gaps in the bursting ice to precisely send the grenades into the gaps in the scales of the serpent of greed, triggering a series of explosions.
Without the cover of illusion, the Serpent of Greed was incredibly vulnerable. Under the precise concentrated fire of the first squad, its health bar was quickly depleted.
With a final, unwilling screech, the golden mist completely dissipated. The supreme equipment in the illusion turned into golden fragments, drifting away in the wind.
The team members who had just been scrambling for equipment opened their eyes, looked at their empty hands, and fell silent.
Lei Zhan stared at the charred stone in his hand, his face flushed red, and quickly tossed it aside. No one laughed at him; everyone knew what had just happened.
That kind of soul-searching, greedy temptation is more deadly than any physical harm.
"Don't just stand there, get cleaning!" Lu Yan's voice broke the somber atmosphere.
He walked toward the withered corpse of the serpent of greed.
Beneath the corpse lay a necklace radiating an orange glow. A genuine legendary item. Beside it lay a sixth fragment of unknown material.
Lu Yan bent down, picked up the fragment, and threw it into his storage space.
The moment the six fragments converged, an extremely dazzling light erupted from the spatial grid. On the system panel, a line of small text quietly refreshed.
[Fragment resonance level: 6/7]
One last piece is needed.
Lu Yan raised his head and looked at the Hydra in the distance, which still had four heads left.
The health bar is approaching the 20% red line.