Players are coming, fortunately I have a time travel simulator

Although he wanted to retreat, Zhou Ning still faced a very serious problem. The portal to the tomb was one-way. How should he get out?

According to his own knowledge of occultism, this place does not seem to belong to reality, nor to the spirit world or the elemental plane, but rather a separate small world opened up by the ancient elves. The dark and lightless night sky that can be seen everywhere from the window can give a glimpse of this.

This is also the reason why Zhou Ning wants to explore this tomb thoroughly. In the game "Apocalypse", the exits of many copies will only appear after defeating the BOSS, but basically each copy has a separate escape door. Now this BOSS is obviously too difficult, so he can only hope that the escape door is somewhere in the last corridor.

Otherwise, I have to try my best to see if Zhou Ning, the Pirate King for 15 minutes, can successfully defeat this opponent.

Of course, there is no need to worry about this problem for the time being. I currently have enough food and drinking water. There is a lot stored in the storage ring. There is plenty of time to slowly find a way out.

Zhou Ning shook his collar, forced himself to calm down, and walked towards the depths of the last corridor.

This corridor is not very long, and there are still a large number of murals on both sides recording the life of the Elf King Alfred. Zhou Ning slowly moved forward while dodging various trigger traps on the ground.

Just then, he heard a sharp friction sound, as if coming from far away.

Zhou Ning hurriedly stopped and looked ahead intently.

I saw a huge monster slowly flying over from the depths of the corridor ahead. It was over six meters tall, pitch black in color, with a large number of magic patterns engraved on its body. It had bat wings, goat horns and sharp fangs, and was made with extremely fine craftsmanship.

This monster held a spear of the same type as the Mithril Golem, and the tip of the spear dragged on the ground, leaving a streak of fire. It seemed that this was the source of the friction sound.

This is... a gargoyle, and it's an obsidian gargoyle.

Gargoyles are common guarding puppets in various ancient ruins. There are two rows of gargoyles standing at the inner ring entrance of Wick University.

But compared with the gargoyles inside the University of Wick, the gargoyles here are much larger, and the material is also extremely rare obsidian. The ancient elven kingdom is indeed wealthy!

Obsidian possesses the best balance of hardness and magical conductivity among all otherworldly materials. It's foreseeable that this gargoyle, in addition to its combat capabilities, also possesses the ability to cast magic. I absolutely cannot afford to be careless.

Wait, what is this?

Through his observation Haki, Zhou Ning keenly noticed a detail: there was a through mark on the wing of the gargoyle, which made the originally dark edges of the wings grayish-white.

Was this... a battle ever fought?

Zhou Ning's mind raced, he took a deep breath slowly, and ebony and white ivory leaped out of the palms of his left and right palms. He pulled the trigger at the gargoyle with lightning speed. An extraordinary bullet burning with flames flew across a distance of dozens of meters and hit the gargoyle's head accurately.

As he expected, the gargoyle was hit by the shot and its head tilted back uncontrollably, and it rushed towards him madly.

This shot, with the buff of [Rapid Pursuit] and [Armament Haki], was lucky enough to trigger a critical hit, and with the hit hitting the vital point, the actual damage inflicted reached a full 1500 points! This was his highest output to date.

However, the health of this gargoyle remained unchanged. Zhou Ning took a look at the panel and found that it was still the BOSS. Its real name was Obsidian Gargoyle. It was level 68 and had many template specialties of puppet monsters. Its health reached a terrifying 4.2. This shot seemed sharp, but in fact it was just a scraping, with an additional defense-breaking effect.

Zhou Ning slid backwards leisurely, firing continuously with the ebony and white ivory in his hands. Although he possessed extremely impressive melee ability, he would not rush forward at this moment. Through his powerful observation Haki, he did not need to look back at all, and naturally knew the surrounding terrain like the back of his hand, so he could concentrate on output.

After flying for a distance, the gargoyle finally approached within twenty meters.

At this moment, Zhou Ning saw the air flow swirling rapidly in circles, and suddenly a violent sound of wind rang in his ears. A tornado spewed out from the mouth of the obsidian gargoyle, rolling up the fine sand and gravel on the ground and rushing towards him.

Zhou Ning had already sensed danger from his Observation Haki, activated the Traveler's Ring, flashed, jumped twenty meters away, and raised his hand to continue shooting.

The tornado soon subsided. The obsidian gargoyle let out a deafening roar and tried to move forward, but Zhou Ning dodged it with a sliding step. He continued to distance himself and activated the talisman effect of the wooden eyeball.

"Wall of Thorns!"

Suddenly, a wall of thorns rose from the ground, separating Zhou Ning and the gargoyle. Zhou Ning shot and slid leisurely, playing with the gargoyle in the palm of his hand.

Three minutes passed like this, and then the gargoyle's head exploded and fell heavily into the dust.

[You killed the Obsidian Gargoyle (lv68) and gained 72000 experience points.]

[Kill or defeat 10 boss-level creatures above level 60: 8/10]

Zhou Ning came to the obsidian gargoyle with an expressionless face. If he didn't want to save energy to deal with the monster behind, the gargoyle would definitely not last more than 1 minute if he opened fire at full power.

He squatted down and pulled out a black obsidian core from its body. It was completely black, engraved with numerous profound alchemical formations. Someone at the Darkland Adventurer's Guild had posted a long-term quest for the gargoyle core, offering a high price. It couldn't be wasted.

After putting away the obsidian core, Zhou Ning carefully examined the wound on the gargoyle's wing. It should be a penetrating wound left by an arrow. On the other side of the gargoyle's wing, Zhou Ning also saw traces of residual powder, which looked a bit like the work of an alchemist.

Could it be that an adventure team had come here before?

Zhou Ning stroked the button on his sleeve, pondered for a moment, and decided to continue forward. After walking about 120 steps, Zhou Ning paused. Ahead was the end of the corridor, a place similar to a showroom.

As Zhou Ning had expected, the two corridors were perfectly symmetrical. The left display room held a variety of precious and extraordinary items, while the right corridor contained a large number of precious alchemical products and rare materials. On one counter, Zhou Ning even spotted a rideable alchemical armor. Zhou Ning remembered that the formula for this "Gundam" was available at the Earth Temple, and the finished product would cost at least several hundred thousand Vectra.

Unfortunately, the things in this exhibition room, like those in the corridor on the left, are hidden in other dimensions. Unless one can grasp the spatial coordinates, these things will always be just exhibits.

"The alchemy level of the Elven Kingdom is far higher than I imagined. No wonder the history books named the period of history nearly two thousand years ago the Elven Age," Jasmine said softly.

Zhou Ning was about to speak when his pupils suddenly shrank. He saw a skeleton of a human wearing weathered clothes on the ground not far ahead and hurried over.

The corpse was wearing a simple long gown similar to an alchemist's robe. Its face had been completely dried by the wind. It was lying on the ground, its finger bones were a bit thick, and in its hand was a small bag for holding medicinal powder.