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However, even with such damage, she was unable to kill the summoner, Tsuchima Yui, instantly, which made Suzuki Sonoko a little puzzled.

"Do you think I would tell you?"

The corner of Tsuchima's mouth twitched, and then she asked the elf archer to change the fire, and at the same time she summoned back the falcon on the other side.

She finally realized that the "Suzuki Sonoko" holding the shield was just her real body's taunting follower. Once her attention was drawn to her, Suzuki Sonoko would launch a surprise attack from behind.

Thinking back to the dangerous situation just now, and glancing at her own remaining health of only about 30, Tsuchima secretly thanked herself for using the Sharing Chain to link her summoned beast from the beginning, otherwise she would probably be dead by now.

Chapter 694: Advancing to the next stage, powerful stage rewards

If the assassin's surprise attack fails, the subsequent battle will become very difficult.

Suzuki Sonoko has a deep understanding of this right now.

Suzuki Sonoko failed to defeat Tsuchima Yui in the first place and was pulled by Tsuchima Yui's summoned beast, so she could only keep dodging.

She had said before that summoners were fragile, but wasn't she, an assassin, the same?

However, in the previous sneak attack, Suzuki Sonoko had already used up most of her skills, and now these skills are in CD state.

Even though she could easily shake off the slime's siege without any skills, the falcons in the sky and the elf archers could attack her from a long distance.

Finally, when the second set of skills was almost ready, Suzuki Sonoko endured the damage and came to the side of Tsuchima Yui, ready for a desperate fight.

But unfortunately, Doma Yui, who had already prepared, used slime to block Suzuki Sonoko's attack.

The defeated slime suddenly ran wild, came to Suzuki Sonoko's side, and then expanded rapidly~.

The next second, an explosion sounded, and Suzuki Sonoko, who was at the center of the explosion, lost all her health and lost the battle.

"Oh, this is so annoying! I had such a huge advantage at the beginning, why didn't I kill you in an instant? And why did your summoned beast self-destruct-?!"

The equipment on the defeated Suzuki Sonoko disappeared, and the system was asking her in her ear whether she wanted to quit.

But at the moment, Suzuki Sonoko doesn't want to quit just like that. She at least wants to know how she failed in this battle.

"Hey, I have an equipment that allows summoned beasts to take some damage for me. In fact, my health was only 30% in the previous wave. Luckily, I reacted quickly and used the magic shield."

"As for the explosion, it's a passive skill. When the summoned beast dies, it can launch a self-destruct attack."

With a look of joy on her face, Doma Mai shared the reason for her victory with Suzuki Sonoko.

"There's actually a prop like this? I'm so angry. I was so close to advancing. What a shame for my excellent skill set."

Suzuki Sonoko stamped her feet, looking unwilling.

Think about what you have gained, release a shield-holding clone to attract the opponent's attention, making the opponent think that you are a defensive person, then hide and go around behind, and launch a surprise attack when the opponent is relaxed and take him away.

With this fighting style, if you are lucky, it will be no problem to get to the back.

"hey-hey"

Looking at Suzuki Sonoko's unwilling look, Doma Mai smiled smugly again. Although it was fun to beat the weak players in the game, it was more fulfilling to defeat the masters of the same level than to beat the weak players.

At the moment, Suzuki Sonoko meets this condition, so Doma Mei, who defeated her, is now very satisfied.

After chatting for a while, with Suzuki Sonoko's encouragement, the other party left the activity space. At the same time, the system's virtual screen appeared again.

[Congratulations on successfully defeating a participant and completing the first stage of the event]

【Please participate in the stage reward of Doma Yui! 】

As these two paragraphs ended, the original virtual screen suddenly turned into three sides.

[Skill Enhancement], [Item Enhancement], [Attribute Enhancement].

Looking at these three options, Tsuchiya thought for a while and finally chose skill enhancement.

After passing the first stage of Tsuchimami, I now have seven skills, three items, and only one attribute bonus.

With this kind of distribution, you should choose skill enhancement no matter how you look at it. Other aspects are too low, so you can choose them later.

As Tsuchima Yui completed her selection, prompt sounds began to ring in her ears.

[Congratulations on successfully strengthening your Fireball skill. It has been upgraded to Explosive Flame, increasing its power. It also adds an effect: When attacking an enemy, there's a chance the enemy will be burned.]

[Congratulations on successfully strengthening your passive Leader's Might. It has been upgraded to Passive King's Majesty. This skill's strengthening effect on summoned beasts is enhanced. Also added: When using summoning skills, there is a chance to summon a higher-level summoned beast.]

[Congratulations on successfully strengthening the skill Nature's Gift. The skill Nature's Gift has been upgraded to Nature's Blessing. This skill's strengthening effect on summoned beasts is enhanced. Also, an additional effect has been added: When blessing a summoned beast, it can restore its health.]

[Congratulations on successfully strengthening your passive Death Strike. Passive Death Strike has been upgraded to Passive Death Coil, increasing its power. It also adds an effect: When a summoned beast attacks an enemy, its resentment will linger on them, reducing their healing effects.]

[Congratulations on successfully strengthening the Slime Summon. The Slime Summon has been upgraded to the Elite Slime Summon. After releasing this skill, the summoned slime will become an Elite Slime. Elite slimes have more health and will split into five smaller slimes after being defeated.]

[Congratulations on successfully strengthening the Falcon Summoning skill. The Falcon Summoning skill has been upgraded to the Thunder Eagle Summoning skill. After releasing this skill, the summoned Falcon will transform into a Thunder Eagle, which can perform a discharge attack.]

[Congratulations on successfully strengthening the Elf Archer Summon. The Elf Archer Summon has been upgraded to Summon the Elf Combat Team. After releasing this skill, you will summon the Elf Archer, Elf Priest, Elf Elementalist, Elf Swordsman, and Elf Shield Warrior to fight together.]

“Hi… Awesome!!”

Looking at the effect of her upgraded skills, Tsuchima took a deep breath and then exclaimed that it was awesome.

This is an all-round strengthening of yourself!

"It's so powerful, worthy of being a stage reward. Luckily I chose skill enhancement. If I had chosen attribute enhancement, I would have definitely lost a lot of money."

The excited Tsuchima Yui secretly felt lucky that she had not chosen another enhancement before.

With this wave of enhancement, Tsuchiya instantly became full of confidence. As long as Tsuchiya can make up for the shortcomings in her attributes in the next levels and obtain some life-saving equipment, she will have the confidence to go far in the next levels.

Full of confidence, Tsuchima took a short rest and then continued her journey of breaking through the obstacles.

At the same time, participants in various environments completed the first stage.

Some of these players who passed the game had the same lucky start as Yui Doma, or were even luckier than Yui Doma.

There are also many unlucky but experienced people who rely on their talents and make good use of the skills and props in their hands to successfully defeat those participants who are much luckier than them.

After leaving the activity map, these eliminated participants immediately asked the system to open the screen of the participants who defeated them, and looked at the other party's action screen with unwillingness.

Even though they were unwilling to accept defeat, they still cursed inwardly, hoping that the other party could make it through a few more levels. If the person who defeated them was easily defeated, wouldn't it make them seem useless?

Chapter 695: Saitama: Why can’t I just have a fun fight when I participate in an event?

The activity is still going on.

Half of the participants are directly eliminated in the first stage, and the remaining half enter the second stage.

However, after entering the second stage, all participants discovered that the difficulty of the second stage suddenly increased by several levels compared to the first stage.

The puzzles that were almost fool-proof in the first level became much more difficult in the second level. At least many reckless characters were completely clueless when faced with the puzzles and could only rely on luck to solve them.

For combat levels, participants can no longer pass them by simply using two skills. They need to use their skills reasonably and avoid monster attacks.

The main reason for all this is that the number of monsters has skyrocketed in the second stage.

In the second stage, it is not uncommon to see dozens of monsters. If you encounter weaker monsters, their number will directly reach hundreds.

Of course, these are not the most important things. The most important thing is that the second stage also adds elite monster levels!

These elite monsters have attributes and levels far exceeding those of ordinary monsters, and they also have their own skills. They undoubtedly bring a lot of trouble to the participants. Many underdeveloped participants are directly killed by elite monsters after encountering them.

Of course, the increase in difficulty will naturally lead to an increase in rewards.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just talk about the number of gold coins you get at each level. In the first stage, you get 100 gold coins at each level, and in the second stage, it directly becomes 300 gold coins.

There are also skills, attributes, and equipment, all of which have been greatly enhanced.

The increase in rewards will naturally lead to a rapid increase in the strength of participants.

In a map of level 15.

There are tall buildings all around, but most of them are abandoned.

Scrapped cars covered in dust and rust are parked casually in the middle of the road. From the parked state of these vehicles, it is not difficult to see that some disaster must have occurred here.

Soon, a figure staggering out from the shadows explained everything. His ragged, hideous, and bloody appearance told everyone his identity.

Zombies!

That’s right, this is a city where a biochemical crisis has broken out, and the zombies wandering around the city are the monsters that need to be cleared out in this level.

And the challenger of this level.

stomping on...

"Really? Can't we have some difficult levels? If it's so easy, then I've participated in this event for nothing! Give me some tough opponents, you bastard!"

A shiny head, a yellow tights, a simple style to the extreme.

It’s Saitama from the world of One Punch Man!

Walking alone on the deserted street, occasionally punching a zombie that rushed towards him, Saitama looked around with an unhappy expression.

As an existence who was so invincible in his own world that he felt empty, lonely and cold, after becoming a member of the company, Saitama finally found a place where he could fight freely.

That's the company's virtual battle space.

In the virtual battle space, the company can match Saitama with opponents of similar strength and let him fight against them.

However, there are not many players who can give Saitama a truly satisfying fight.

Because among the strong people of the same level, Saitama can be considered an outlier.

Most strong people with ordinary strength at Saitama's level begin to learn more mysterious things, such as immortal spells and forbidden spells in magic that control fate.

Even a physical warrior who practices the same way as Saitama must have mastered many powerful martial arts at this stage.

Facing such an enemy, it is difficult for Saitama to experience the joy of fighting regardless of whether he wins or loses.

Because he enjoys the kind of fight where he can fight with his opponent on equal terms with real fists, and after the opponents simulated by the company realize how strong Saitama's body is, few of them will choose to fight him head-on.

In this situation, a normal battle often involves Saitama chasing madly and his opponent constantly kiting him. It would be strange if Saitama could enjoy such a battle.

As for forcing opponents to fight him in close combat, as mentioned before, Saitama is considered an outlier among those of the same level. His body is ridiculously strong. Letting those who use spells fight Saitama in close combat is no different from hitting a sandbag.

As for fighting with people who are higher in level than him, that is purely asking for trouble. Those people's methods are not only fierce, but also very strange. For example, one time, Saitama met a white-haired old man. At the beginning of the battle, the other party just glanced at Saitama, and Saitama was directly judged as a failure.

Such a battle is completely meaningless. It is for this reason that Saitama only fights strong people of the same level as himself.

However, it is a good thing to meet such a strong man. At least Saitama now has the desire to become stronger again.

Of course, there are unsatisfactory battles, and there are also satisfying battles. Although such battles are rare, he has indeed encountered several battles that were quite enjoyable.

Being able to achieve this result, Saitama felt that it was not in vain that he became a member of the Super Dimension Communication Company.

As for participating in the current activities, according to Genos.

“Since others cannot reach your level, why not let yourself reach their level?”

After entering the event, everyone's level will be reset to zero. Although whether you can become stronger depends entirely on luck, I think as long as your luck is not too bad, you will always meet a good opponent.

But when the event started, Saitama realized that he had underestimated himself.

What he underestimated was his luck.

Passive super growth, defeating enemies, solving puzzles, passing levels, all of these will make Saitama continue to become stronger, and this growth has no limit.

Passive defense is broken, and when attacking the enemy, you can continuously break the enemy's defense.

Passive abnormal resistance increases one's own resistance to abnormal states and reduces the probability of falling into abnormal states.

Passive critical hit: When attacking the enemy, there is an extremely low probability of launching a critical hit, causing triple damage.

……

In short, a series of passive skills will continuously strengthen Saitama, who has been reduced to zero with great difficulty, back to his original state.

When fighting with his opponent in level 10, 3.3, Saitama killed his opponent with just one punch.

Looking at the other person's incredulous eyes, Saitama was speechless.

Who did I offend?

In my own world, it doesn't matter if I'm stronger. After all, I trained with the determination to become stronger. With this strength, it's pretty good to fight monsters.

But I am participating in an event right now. Even if you want me to become stronger, you can change the way and let me learn magic and play with superpowers. Why do I still use my original way?

It's like always going to the same restaurant and becoming familiar with the taste. You want to try something new, so you go to a new restaurant. When the food is served and you take a bite, you find that it's basically the same as the previous one. You ask the chef, and wow, he's the apprentice of the chef from the previous restaurant.