The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 220 - 153 Eyes

Chapter 220: Chapter 153 Eyes

Parting the fog, the silhouette of a building gradually appeared before everyone.

It was a tall tower, broad at the base and narrowing toward the top, consisting of five levels. The tower was made of blue stone and looked quite plain from the outside without any extravagant details. Around it, blue magical arrays shone, resisting the invasion of the toxic mist.

[Saixi’s Mage Tower]

A string of text displaying its name floated before everyone’s eyes.

"A mage tower, huh..."

"Inside this mage tower, you can obtain a martial monk’s exclusive Divine Artifact, a pair of gloves that enhance all stats and add four types of special damage to unarmed attacks: fire damage, thunder damage, dark corrosion damage, and radiant damage. It’s the end-game gear for the martial monk class in the game."

Will flipped through the strategy guide and said, "In addition, you can also get a perfect-quality light armor that enhances agility, and three potions that permanently increase strength.

But the mage tower is guarded by many high-level magical constructs, making it very difficult."

"Why would a mage tower have the end-game gear for a martial monk?" Jiang Wuming pointed out the inconsistency.

"Maybe it’s part of the mage tower owner’s collection of war trophies." Will shrugged.

"Approximately what level are those magical constructs?" Zhou Yuan asked, tempted by the valuable items inside.

The game guide only listed a few items, but one must remember, this place wasn’t a game; it was a real-world dimension!

How could the treasury of a mage who owned a tower contain only a few items!

Even if this mage was really a pauper, there would still have to be some spellbooks or similar items, right?

These books, containing knowledge from another world and another power system, were, in a certain sense, the true treasures.

Flipping through the guide, Will said, "The constructs range from level 61 to level 69, but there are too many of them. Their bodies are made entirely of arcane mithril, immune to all physical damage except blunt force, and they also have a certain resistance to magic damage."

Arcane mithril was a special metal unique to this game realm. It was extremely hard and had good magical conductivity, hence it was often used in the making of magical tools.

The magical constructs were a type of magical tool, basically large robots powered by magic.

There were different types, such as mining constructs, combat constructs, domestic constructs, and even sex constructs...

Zhou Yuan assessed their overall strength: "No problem, we can handle it."

"We can handle it, but this barrier is a bit troublesome."

Huo Yan Luo stood in front of the blue barrier, arms crossed, and rubbed her chin thoughtfully.

"This barrier is essentially the security gate of the mage tower. To enter, you need the key, which is a combination of the mage’s soul, spirituality, magic, and life aura.

If a stranger tries to enter or force their way in, the barrier will attack.

Bai Lang, can you break it?"

Bai Lang, the only magic class in their team, shook his head: "I have the brute force to break it, but I can’t handle such delicate work of dismantling barriers."

"Wait a moment."

Will then noticed a crucial issue, "The strategy guide didn’t mention this barrier magic in the mage tower..."

[Stop focusing only on what’s in front of you. Be careful, the thing that has been following you all this way is about to make its move.]

The prompt from the Eyes of Identification startled Zhou Yuan. They were being tracked?

"Scatter!" Instinctively, he jumped to one side.

The rest of the team hesitated for just an instant before rapidly spreading out.

At that moment, a terrifying roar emerged from the fog, sounding like massive waves. Suddenly, a beam of pale breath tore through the mist, transforming into a torrent of death that fiercely struck the barrier surrounding the mage tower.

The barrier shook violently.

The breath continued for several seconds before dissipating, in its place, a massive growth of rotting, deformed flesh and organs appeared out of nowhere on the ground, spreading, multiplying, and growing at an alarming speed, forming a forest of mutated rotten flesh in no time!

The high concentration of calamity and mutation pollution seemed to trigger the mage tower’s automatic defense mechanism. A turret slowly rose from the tower, firing a blue magic energy cannonball, obliterating the tainted land.

After an explosion, the forest of rotten flesh vanished.

Everyone, who had scattered, was sweating heavily. The pale breath contained terrifying decay and corruption power, enough to corrupt an entire city in the outside world!

They would have been in mortal danger if they had been hit.

The deadly mist was temporarily torn apart by the eerie breath, revealing, a kilometer away, a massive and hideous shadow that cast a malicious red glare.

Just a brief glance caused the mental protection barriers on everyone to crack.

The wings had no flesh, only bare bones remained, deathly pale, and sharp like a reaper’s scythe, exuding dangerous lethality.

The rotting body was covered in suppurating ulcers, oozing foul-smelling fluids. Thousands of scarlet eyes densely packed the body, blinking, like countless stars in the sky, shimmering with a mysterious and captivating light.

The twisted, decaying dragon’s face bore thirty-six different eyes.

[LV78·Rotting Dragon]

Damn... everyone cursed in their minds.

The Rotting Dragon was their next target to hunt. Originally, it was just a level 69 boss, but now, for unknown reasons, it had gone through a fierce evolution akin to taking a super fertilizer, skyrocketing to level 78!