"Does this hat suit you as a summoner? Then I’ll take this ring of his, it just so happens I’m also a mage."
The white mage didn’t argue with his companion and changed his target.
The tall female warrior remaining didn’t seem interested in any of the deceased’s equipnt. She glanced briefly and said:
"Give everything you don’t want, I’ll sell it all for money."
As the three discussed, several low growls ca from nearby, from the three elite monsters that the deceased hadn’t managed to clear.
These monsters were probably confused by the sudden event earlier, so it took them until now to emit threatening sounds, rembering their duties.
"Courting death!"
The female warrior, feeling slightly bored, imdiately got angry when she saw the monsters. She lifted her dual axes, intending to charge over and deal with these pests. She was very confident she could easily take down the three monsters.
However, the group didn’t realize Wang Zhifan was still watching them, ready to spice up their hunt.
"I have no objection to you killing other players in my territory, but isn’t it reasonable for you to pay so tax to as the host when you have gains?"
Thinking thus, he activated his power as the master of the Dark Tower, causing a sudden change on that level!
This change specifically happened to the remaining three monsters. With their original strength, it would have been impossible to survive against the approaching female player. But Wang Zhifan temporarily loaded them with an upgrade module, causing their strength to skyrocket dozens of tis, transforming them completely into a different level of monster.
Just as the eager white female warrior advanced with her axes, she suddenly noticed the three black monsters in front of her were rapidly growing in size, swelling from the size of large gray wolves to that of adult black tigers. Their teeth and claws also beca sharper, and more absurdly, two pairs of bat-like large wings sprouted from their backs, making them look like a completely different species!
"William! David! Why did these monsters suddenly mutate!"
Seeing this sudden change, the female warrior imdiately halted, taking a defensive stance, and loudly warned her two companions who were still discussing loot distribution.
The first to respond was Mage William, whose perception was probably the strongest among the three. He noticed the sudden occurrence earlier and imdiately raised his head to observe.
"Retreat quickly! There’s no need for us to provoke these monsters!"
He quickly made a decision, which was not to confront these suddenly empowered monsters. The wise choice was to flee and conserve energy.
"You take the loot and leave! I’ll hold them off!"
The white summoner David also agreed with his companion’s decision. He hurriedly stood up and said to the female warrior blocking the way, asking them to retreat first and take the player’s corpse, which was their loot.
As for his thod of containnt, he relied on various insects. Using insects against large targets is very suitable, as large targets have difficulty efficiently killing swarms, while the swarm can leverage its numbers to inflict continuous high damage.
After speaking, swarms of insects surged and danced around him, enveloping him like layers of thick fog. These were all prepared in advance for this hunt, and their use was not wasted, given the current situation.
"Alright! You hold them off! I’ll take the loot and leave!"
The female warrior facing the mutated monsters began to retreat step by step without feeling ashad of her retreat. In their long-ford team, who takes the lead in any situation was a precedent, and no one was belittled for not being the main force.
The skinny Mage William stepped forward, leaving the loot entirely to the female warrior, while his staff prepared magic suitable for the current situation.
"I’ll help you with so control."
He said, seemingly intending to restrict the movent of the mutated monsters ahead, reducing the risk for his companion who summoned the swarm.
This coordination, detailed as it might seem, actually unfolded within just a couple of seconds.
When the suddenly mutated, significantly empowered monsters flapped their large wings, diving towards the trio, the swarm summoner imdiately commanded his insect army to go up against them. anwhile, the skinny Mage William cast a spell resembling ethereal chains, attempting to bind these monsters.
But the situation that unfolded next caught them completely off guard!
As the winged monsters soared, they suddenly opened their mouths, spraying out large amounts of an unknown black liquid, akin to oil, covering most of the insects controlled by the insect swarm mage. These tiny creatures were instantly glued together, like mud, falling to the ground, temporarily losing mobility and attack power.
The ethereal chains cast by Mage William were even less effective. Before even binding the three monsters, they dissolved on their own as if affected by so counteracting force.
"Nova! Stop them! Forget about the corpse!"
Realizing the enemy’s power far exceeded their expectations, William quickly understood that this was no enemy they could handle by casually trying hard.
The greatest evidence was that the chain skill he used earlier had a higher power limit for binding targets. The fact they dissolved ant the enemy far surpassed that skill’s limit.
He hurriedly called out to Nova, the female warrior in retreat, to hold off the enemy.
But Nova was no fool easily ordered. Before her companion’s call, she had already noticed the abnormality and had quickly discerned that she couldn’t confront the enemies head-on. She dashed towards the spiral staircase leading to the lower level, shouting as she ran:
"Hurry, retreat! Reaching the second floor is safe!"
She was the first to rush into the spiral staircase, quickly followed by Mage William and summoner David, both enhanced by acceleration skills, running no slower than her as a warrior.
"We finally escaped... William, what on earth were those monsters just now?"
Descending from the third floor to the second, the trio found that the enemy had not followed them directly, as they expected, so they stopped to ponder this strange event.
Especially Mage William, who couldn’t comprehend what had just happened — why the sudden empowernt of the monsters. His companions hoped he would have an answer.
"I don’t know what’s going on either... Maybe we’ve intruded on soone else’s tower climbing space, being considered an allied force, causing the tower to up the challenge level?"
He could only offer such a flimsy speculation.
"That might be it... but I still have so gear left on the target we didn’t retrieve. If I’d moved a bit faster..."
The insect swarm summoner David replied, regretting not fully extracting the loot’s value.
"It doesn’t matter, the stuff on that guy isn’t that great, we’ll just find another target to make up for it."
Listening to this, Nova, the female warrior, quickly moved towards the spiral staircase leading to the first floor. This ordeal hadn’t frightened her; she was eager to strike hard.
As the trio walked towards the first-floor entrance while chatting, Wang Zhifan watched everything unfold. He wasn’t hesitant in his intention to increase the difficulty for these three, as his initial purpose wasn’t fulfilled. He had only forced them to leave a useless corpse and hadn’t successfully made them "pay taxes."
Thus, when the trio descended the spiral staircase to the first floor, what greeted them was not the grassland of the first floor, but the three familiar black-winged monsters in a dim palace, realizing they strangely re-entered the third floor in a loop.
"This is the third floor! We were clearly heading down! How could we return here!"
Faced with this bizarre situation, Mage William was shocked. He knew this tower was nowhere near as simple as they thought but hadn’t expected the Dark Tower to trick them — not allowing departure until they cleared the monsters.
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