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Chapter 683: Chapter 683 Pantheon Battle Alliance

In Doomsday City, newcomers could establish their own safe houses step by step according to the system prompts. Even if an alliance expands in the future, as long as they didn’t oppose the alliance and chose to join, their safe houses would still be protected by the system.

However, in a city like the City of Sin, wanting to own a property required a significant investment. If you wanted to live more comfortably in a larger house, you would need to possess a noble rank within the city.

Ordinary players in such cities could only rent homes designated for civilians, and these were quite expensive. Moreover, the monsters surrounding the city were regularly cleared out by the city guard forces, and those who wanted to level up by fighting monsters had to travel far and engage in combat with higher-level monsters. This setting was in stark contrast with Doomsday City, so it wasn’t impossible for some players to choose to return to the latter.

“Oh, right, there’s also this. After the Transmission Array was activated, it automatically connected to an unowned Transmission Array located in a place called the Valley of the Undead,” said Wang Qi.

Once a Transmission Array is established, it will automatically search for other Transmission Arrays within a certain range. For cities like City of Sin and City of Hymns, their Transmission Arrays would give access rights. The owners of these cities would have to allow the connection for the Transmission Array to operate effectively.

But if the other party refused to link their array, then the newly created Transmission Array would only show the existence of the other party’s array in its listing, but would be unable to teleport anyone there.

However, there were some unowned Transmission Arrays that didn’t require access rights. As soon as they were discovered, they could be automatically linked. Most of these areas were uninhabited monster territories.

“The Valley of the Undead?” Song Jian looked up at Wang Qi, puzzled. “Is there anything peculiar about this place?”

“The entire valley is filled with poisonous mist. As soon as you enter, you continuously lose vitality. The longer you stay, the faster you lose vitality. And the valley is filled with monsters above level 30!” explained Wang Qi.

Song Jian looked at Wang Qi, waiting for him to continue speaking.

“However, this valley produces this…” Wang Qi took out a pitch-black stone, the size of a fist, from his pouch and laid it on the table.

“This is…” Song Jian picked it up and looked at it, surprise taking over his face. “A Shadow Stone? If used to craft a weapon, it has a certain chance of boosting shadow damage that ignores defense?”

“Shadow Stone (Low grade), forging material, usage effect: can be used to create weapons up to level 10, has a certain chance of adding the attribute ‘increase of shadow damage that ignores defense’; Requirement to use: Level 3 Forging Art.”

“There are a lot of these ores in the Valley of the Undead. They’re easy to gather, and the people from the City of Sin have said they would buy these ores. They’ve quoted a high price,” said Wang Qi excitedly.

Currently, they were the only guild in Doomsday City that had established a teleportation array. This means that only members of the Hope Alliance can access the valley and gather Shadow Stone. If successful in mining the ore, the Hope Alliance’s power within Doomsday City would no doubt grow exponentially within a short period.

“Are there only low-grade stones?” Song Jian asked. After all, weapons at level ten weren’t worth much money now, even those with attributes that ignored defense.

“There are high, medium, and low grades!” Wang Qi exclaimed, “According to explorers, there may even be Shadow Stones of higher grades, but the monsters there are too high-level and can nullify invisibility effects. They weren’t able to get close — they only caught a glimpse from afar.”

Song Jian nodded. If only low-grade ores were available, then the place wouldn’t be of much value. Level 10 weapons were only useful for newcomers to the game who didn’t possess a lot of Doomsday Coins. By now, the main player group of Doomsday City had already reached level 20, with many even achieving level 25 or higher. The current top ten players ranking revealed that they were all at level 30.

“Song Jian, somebody reached level 31,” Li Ker’er suddenly announced.

Everyone was startled, hurriedly checking the Level Honor List.

“It’s the leader of the Pantheon!” Wang Qi’s face fell, and he muttered, “That guy in the final stage of his delusions.”Nôv(el)B\\jnn

“The Pantheon? Another alliance?” Song Jian asked, curious.

“It’s a group of people who fancy themselves as a new breed of humans. No, not new humans, they actually consider themselves gods. They’re a bunch of lunatics!” Wang Qi grumbled.

“Oh? Gods?” Song Jian chuckled, suddenly interested in this alliance. “Tell me more about this alliance.”

Wang Qi began to thoroughly explain the organization dubbed The Pantheon.

Song Jian listened attentively, nodding his head periodically.

“… So, like I said, all the players who join The Pantheon have issues. They actually consider themselves gods. Childish!” Wang Qi exclaimed, clearly annoyed.

“You seem to have a lot of issues with this Pantheon alliance?” Song Jian looked at Wang Qi curiously.

Upon hearing this, Wang Qi was momentarily speechless.

“He dueled with one of the deputy leaders of The Pantheon in the arena and lost. He felt humiliated!” Li Ke’er laughed.

“The Pantheon is quite strong with many players joining. At least five of them are within the top ten ranks on the leaderboard!” Luo Tianyu suddenly added.

“So, it seems a lot of players want to become gods, huh!” Song Jian chuckled.

What is a god? Many people believe that gods are simply a group of stronger individuals. From this perspective, all the players who entered this game were gods!

The Pantheon has always used this as a selling point, attracting many players to join. They were now the second-largest alliance outside of the City of Hope Alliance. However, their territories were quite far from those of the City of Hope Alliance, so it would take some time before they could make contact.

Even so, The Pantheon continued to regard the City of Hope Alliance as their imagined enemy, always attempting to suppress them.

Song Jian opened the Level Honor List, and his expression turned curious.

“Did you guys just say the second person on the list is the leader of The Pantheon?” Song Jian looked at everyone and added, “This guy called Zeus, is his real name Zeus?”

Players entering the game would always use their real names. However, the second person on the Level Honor List had his name displayed as “Zeus”.

Which set of crazy parents would name their child “Zeus”?

“He didn’t always go by that name. We heard that he used a name change card and changed his name in the game to this,” Wang Qi explained.

“There sure are a lot of odd things in this game!” Song Jian laughed.

“Song Jian, I’ve heard that members of The Pantheon have been alternating turns to reduce monsters’ vitality to a sliver, then letting him, Zeus, deliver the finishing blow. This is to boost his leveling speed. They want to snatch the title of ‘Top Player’ on the leaderboard!” exclaimed Li Ke’er frantically.

“No need to worry about that. Let him snatch it if he wants to,” Song Jian nonchalantly replied. A smirk spreading across his face as he added, “Plus, this is something that you can’t necessarily snatch even if you want to.”

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