This Text Adventure Game is Totally Poisonous

[Stepping through the blood-stained steps, you have come to the second floor of the Tower of the Brave. 】

[Three roads appear in front of you. There is a black shadow floating on the left road, maybe another monster is blocking the road; on the middle road, there is a shining treasure chest; the right road is empty, there is nothing, and it leads directly to the next intersection. your choice……】

【You choose to go to the treasure chest in the middle. 】

【You walked quickly to the treasure chest and opened it with excitement. 】

[Unfortunately, the box is empty, and the treasure inside has already been taken away by other brave men. You triggered the mechanism on the treasure chest, and you were stabbed in the palm of your hand by a poisonous needle, and your HP was -15...]

[Time flies, you go back to the entrance on the second floor. 】

[This time, you choose to go to the left. 】

[You have met a brave man! 】

[Your Omniscient Crystal automatically fed back the other party's detailed information: number 7, disciple of fire, 2 points of divine power, 3 points of divine defense, and 54/54 HP. The highest number of floors passed: 29 floors, progress ranking: No. 1. 】

[This is the first encounter with other brave men, but it makes you extremely vigilant. Although you are both brave men who are fighting against the Demon Lord, you are not comrades in arms, but a relationship of competition. 】

[So, meeting on a narrow road, what choice do you have to make? 】

【1. Attack. When encountering each other on a narrow road, it is most important to seize the opportunity. 】

[2. Try to communicate with the other party, maybe the other party is also a friendly person. 】

【3. Stand still and wait for the opponent's choice. 】

"Huh?"

Mu You was startled. I didn't expect to run into a player as soon as I came to the second floor, and he is currently the player with the most progress in climbing the tower!

No. 7, as can be seen from the serial number, this is one of the first players to start this mission. If he can stand out among thousands of players and rank first, his actual combat ability will definitely not be weak.

However, even for the first player, the number of clearance levels is only 29?

Mu You was a little relieved. He was worried that this mission would be cleared by others first. Now it seems that the difficulty of the subsequent stages of this tower should be quite high, and there are still many opportunities left for him.

As for the options in front of you, you don’t have to think about it, the other party will definitely do it. The number one player encounters a newcomer who has just entered the game, just like a person walking on the road and encounters an ant blocking the way. Other possibilities.

[The brave man No. 7 looks at you, his eyes are like a beast examining a sheep that has no power to resist. 】

[Before you make a choice, the opponent has already made a choice first, and confidently launched an attack on you. 】

[After a thrilling battle, you killed the No. 7 brave man, with -20 HP and 1/51 remaining HP. 】

[Warrior's Blood activates, your HP has recovered by 7 points, current HP: 8/51. 】

"Oh?" Mu You was slightly surprised.

I thought that with the restraint of the shadow pompom, he should be able to kill the opponent without injury, but in the end he was still depleted of blood, and the deduction was quite a lot. If he was hit more, he would be killed by the opponent.

It can only be said that as expected of the number one player, he really has two brushes.

Moreover, Mu You has discovered that the shadow pompom is far less useful in this tower than outside. The Shadow Binding can directly block a person's actions in the outside world, but in this tower, I don't know if the creatures here have a relationship with divinity, so they can only slow down their actions, but cannot completely restrain them.

After recovering, Mu You continued to look down.

[Hero No. 7 died tragically in front of you. Now, you can choose one of the following three items as your trophy! 】

【1. Obtain all unused divinity of the opponent. 】

[2. Randomly obtain a prop that the opponent has assembled. 】

[3. Steal one-tenth of the opponent's belief value. 】

Choose one of the three spoils, first exclude the third item.

This has just entered the second floor of the tower, and basically only single-digit beliefs, one-tenth of it is negligible.

The same is true for the first divinity, and there is generally not much divinity remaining at the current stage.

Mu You directly chose 2.

[You got the item 'Scythe of Fire': Whenever you ignite the opponent, burn the opponent's defense. 】

This is a fire-type special item, and it should be specially used to cooperate with the opponent's fire hero's magic, but it is basically useless against Mu You.

Mu You went back and looked at other props.

Three props can be equipped in the believer stage, and the remaining two are 'Fire Shield' and 'Fire Windbreaker', which are also special fire props.

Mu You immediately understood why this person was ranked first. These three items are likely to be relics brought in by the other party, and they are very suitable for the fire hero, which greatly strengthens his initial combat power in the tower, so that he can stand out among thousands of players!

It's a pity that these three props are useless to him. Even if he takes one here, he will only get a temporary copy, which will disappear after leaving the tower.

Mu You shook his head, backtracked again, and chose the first item.

[You have gained divinity points*100. 】

"100 points?"

Mu You was surprised.

You must know that it is only the second floor now. The other party has only experienced three events like him before. How can there be so much divinity?

Mu You had just encountered a special event before, and sold blood to the limit, and only gained 19 points of divinity at one time. Even if the other party encountered three similar events in a row, it is impossible for him to exceed a hundred points, right?

Mu You frowned, and couldn't think clearly for a while, so he had to let go.

No matter what, it is always a good thing to be able to get so many divinities at once.

[You continue to set off, and a businessman with a crow face appears in front of you. 】

[The crow face warmly invites you to browse its products. It is a divine merchant. You can buy magic spells, props, potions and other commodities from him. In addition, you can also sell props you don’t need, but All transactions need to be paid with Divinity. 】

When the text suggested that divinity is equal to currency, Mu You guessed that there should be something like a store in the future, and now it really happens.

Muyou click to view.

[You walk towards Crow Face, and Crow Face shows you its wares. 】

[Potion of God's Power, Potion of God's Defense, Divine Art 'Raging Waves' (purchased only by Water Braves), Divine Art 'Bone Corrosion' (only available for purchase by Dark Braves), Divine Art 'Falling Rock' (only available to Earth Warriors) The brave buys)...the God of War armband, the shoes of the wind, the frozen pipe...]

There are more than 20 products listed in the store, including one for each of the nine types of magic arts, and two potions, which will increase the power of gods and the defense of gods after taking them. It is 50 gods, but it is limited to purchase, and each person is limited to one purchase, unless you meet other merchants later.

The rest are all props, which are also available in various departments. The first thing Mu You noticed was the 'God of War armband'.

[God of War Armband: An artifact used by God of War, which adds 100 points of God Defense, and enters a state of magic immunity when actively used, which lasts for ten seconds. (Only available to the Brave of the Earth) Price: 5000 divinity points. 】

Artifact! 5000 divinity points!

It was clearly something he couldn't afford.

The reason why Mu You noticed this was because he also had an item with the same name: the armband seized from Z World Walker before, but that was obviously just an imitation of the artifact, as can be seen from the effect, increasing The most important thing is ordinary defense, which is only useful in the astral world, so it didn't appear in the available items on the panel before.

But seeing this artifact, Mu You remembered another artifact he owned: the Scepter of the Moon.

In the description of the Scepter of the Moon, it was clearly stated that it was an artifact, so it must have belonged to the category of "real" artifacts. As a result, it did not appear in the inventory of his panel before.

Now that he saw the description of the armband, he understood it. It seemed that the Moon Scepter could only be used when he came in as the Moon Brave.

When he came back to his senses, Mu You took a look at the effects of all the props, but he didn't find anything eye-catching. Either they were too expensive for him to afford, or the effects were mediocre and he didn't like them.

As for the magic spells, the magic spells here should be magic spells that cannot appear in the normal promotion, so don't worry about repeating them, but the effect of the 'falling rock' of the earth system is mediocre, and it is not as easy to use as the Hammer of the God of War.

In the end, Mu You only bought a bottle of each of the two types of potions, and after improving his offense and defense, he left the store and continued to explore.

...

And just when Muyou's journey was going smoothly.

On the other side, in Indonesia, in a brightly lit villa.

A young black man with curly hair watched the message "You are dead" on his mobile phone, and he couldn't recover for a long time.

His name is Manohar, he is the No. 7 brave man in the game just now, and he is currently the first person to climb the tower.

Hal is the leader of a first-class local force in Indonesia, and one of the first to discover this tower-climbing task. On the day the task was triggered, he immediately organized his men to conduct a concentrated exploration of the Tower of the Brave, and also joined hands with two other local forces. After reaching a cooperation, they quickly figured out the mechanism of this task after collecting a lot of information from the three parties. At the same time, they also figured out many rules. For example, a businessman will be spawned on the second floor.

It is precisely because he knows this law that Hal has prepared a lot of divinity in advance and is ready to come here for a wave of shopping. According to previous experience, as long as the products here are refreshed well, this place is enough to greatly improve his early combat effectiveness, so as to have more High chance of impacting layers 30 and above.

He has followed this process for the last two days of tower climbing, and today is no exception. The only exception is that he met players before arriving at the store today.

[You have encountered brave man No. 2459, a follower of the earth, HP: 21/51. 】

"Rookie rookie?"

This was the first thought in Hal's mind when he saw the other party's number. As a "veteran player" of the Tower of the Brave, he still knows how many people have started the mission. The number 2459 is definitely a newcomer who just started the mission today.

Then he looked at the other party's life information and confirmed his thoughts even more: even the simplest first floor can lose 30 points of blood, what is it if you are not a rookie?

So Hal didn't hesitate at all, and chose to attack casually. He has encountered this kind of cute newcomer a lot when climbing the tower, and he has no resistance at all to a veteran with complete equipment like him.

It's the same at this time, after Hal finished the selection, he was already waiting to get the spoils and go to the store behind, and it turned out...

[After a hard battle, you gradually lost, and you were killed by the hero No. 2459! 】

【You are dead, all the upgrades obtained in the tower have been recovered...】

"???"

Hal almost thought that he had read it wrong. He read these two sentences over and over again, and still couldn't believe it: his majestic first-rate master was actually killed by a half-health rookie?

This must be a bug!

...

【...After a chaotic battle, with the help of the shadow pompom, you killed the mechanical monster (2 stars) and gained 5 divinity points. 】

[You found the 'energy box' at the place where the mechanical monster died: before the start of each battle, restore three points of energy. 】

[You have come to the exit of the ninth floor, a bright red step appears in front of you, do you want to step in? 】

After passing through the shops on the second floor, Mu You went all the way through and passed the ninth floor.

Starting from the sixth floor, there are two-star monsters among the monsters encountered. Their strength is much stronger than the one-star monsters, but the rewards are also much richer. Killing one will give you five points of divinity.

After fighting all the way, Mu You's current divinity stock has reached 112 points. In addition, his faith has also increased to 30, and he has been promoted to 'Earth Priest'. God's offense and defense have increased by one point, and his real life has increased by 20 points. Divine spell 'Earth Tremor', in addition to gaining a prop slot.

As for the promotion to the next level, the 'Earth's Secret Religion', the demand has increased by five times, and the belief value needs to reach 180 to be promoted.

"Yes." Mu You continued the game.

[You stepped onto the blood-stained steps and climbed to the tenth floor. 】

[Congratulations, your Tower of the Brave has reached the 10th floor! 】

[All heroes can choose a permanent reward to obtain when they first set foot on each tenth floor of the tower (this reward will not disappear because of leaving the tower of the brave). 】

[Please choose from the following four rewards. 】

[1, Gain 1 point of divine power. 】

[2. Gain 1 point of God's Defense. 】

【3. Gain 1 point of real life. 】

【4. Gain 50 divinity points. 】

"The rewards that can be brought out of the tower..."

Mu You stared blankly.

Seeing this reminder, he finally knew how the previous No. 7's divinity point came about. Rewards are obtained every tenth floor, and the opponent has already cleared to the 29th floor, and has received rewards twice. Obviously, the opponent chose 4 both times, bringing 100 divinity points back to reality.

As long as he doesn't use these 100 divinity outside, it will become his initial capital every time he enters the Tower of the Brave!

Although there are only 100, the effect of 100 in the early stage is very different from that of 100 in the later stage. This kind of initial resources can easily form a snowball effect. One step first, one step at a time. If it is only for climbing towers, this idea is indeed correct. of.

But the problem also lies in this: this tower climbing task is time-limited after all, it is right to choose divinity here to complete the task, but after the task is over, the value of divinity will depreciate rapidly, after all, this thing can be repeated by spawning monsters get something.

In comparison, the first three items are really limited things, such as the power of gods, which can only be exchanged once in a lifetime from each god, but how many gods do ordinary people have the opportunity to meet in a lifetime? What's more, it costs 1000 lifespan to exchange it once.

Therefore, for the sake of long-term value, the first three items should still be exchanged here.

In the power of gods, defense of gods, and real life, real life is excluded first. Although this thing is worth 10,000 points of life in the astral world, it will be beaten back to its original shape when it leaves the astral world, and it will be beaten by the power of god It will disappear, and its value will be completely exploded by God's defense.

The remaining power of God and defense of God, Mu You thought about it, and chose the power of God, because all the harmful magic spells he knows so far are directly linked to the value of the power of God. The level of power directly determines the overall offensive ability of the god. On the contrary, it is the defense of the gods. No similar correlation has been found so far. Even if there is, Mu You firmly believes that 'offense is the best defense'.

[Congratulations, you made a wise choice, your power of God +1, current power of God: 8 points. 】

[You continue to move forward and enter the central area of ​​the tenth floor. 】

[A hell three-headed dog (3 stars) intercepts in front of you! It is the general sent by the devil to guard the first ten floors, a nightmare that all brave men can't get around. 】

[After a fierce battle, you were bitten to death by the hell three-headed dog! 】

[You are dead, and the many upgrades obtained in the tower have been recovered...]

"?"

Mu You was taken aback for a moment, when a three-star monster suddenly appeared. From the description, it seemed to be the bottom boss of the 1-10 floor.

But even for the boss, such a sudden death was beyond Mu You's expectation.

Mu You hurriedly backtracked according to the table, and fought again.

However, it is still the same, no matter how many times you go back, the result is death, the only difference is the way of death, being bitten to death by a three-headed dog, scratched to death, trampled to death... Various fancy ways of dying and changing methods appear, but there is no When you can win once.

After going back dozens of times, Mu You also understood that it seems that the absolute gap in hard power cannot be made up by randomness and luck.

【You woke up outside the Tower of the Brave, with all your organs intact. 】

【Everything that happened in the tower just now is like a nightmare hovering in your mind, but you know that it is not a dream. You just experienced a failure in the Tower of the Brave, and you were defeated by monsters without even seeing the devil. , which makes you feel extremely ashamed and unwilling. 】

[You remember that there is another chance to enter the tower for trial today, do you want to enter immediately? 】

"no."

Mu You didn't rush to enter again, because he found that he still underestimated the difficulty of this tower.

Although he couldn't say that he was lucky that time just now, at least the whole thing went smoothly. Besides, he had more shadow pompoms and titles than others. Even so, he still failed to pass the first boss. There is a problem with his way of passing the level.

That No. 7 was not as powerful as him, but he was able to pass the level to the 29th floor, not because the other party was lucky, but because the other party formed a system between props and magic arts, and the other party had a complete set of ideas for building combat power. It's all the way to improve along the way, there is no linkage between the various methods, and no coordination can be formed, so the gap will naturally increase as it goes on.

Thinking of this, Mu You manipulated the characters to find the badge merchant he met at the door.

[The businessman was taken aback when he saw you approaching, and then greeted you in surprise, asking if you have figured it out and decided to exchange it for other brave badges? The businessman said that the previous promise is still valid, and you can replace all his badges for free! 】

【You agreed to the merchant's invitation, and then under the strange eyes of the merchant, you took out a 'Moon Badge' from his container that no one cares about. 】

[Are you sure to give up the status of "Hero of the Earth" and replace it with "Hero of the Moon"? 】