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Chapter 857 - 420 Server No. 2_3
Chapter 857: Chapter 420 Server No. 2_3
[The Demon King’s HP fell below 10%, and your HP fell below 40%...]
[The Demon King stopped hurting himself, gave you a cold sneer, and then quickly rushed to a dining table at the top of the tower. As soon as the Demon King sat down, the table suddenly filled with a myriad of delicacies...]
[The Demon King completely ignored you, began to eat voraciously, and his HP rapidly recovered...]
...
Sure enough, things began to develop as he had predicted.
Mu You could do nothing at this point, his attributes had dropped to the point that he was powerless to launch any attack, and could only watch desperately as the Demon King ate and regained health.
The question now was, was there enough time for the Demon King to complete his plan?
There were about 100 seconds left, Mu You quickly calculated in his mind.
The Demon King’s recovery speed from binge-eating was 1% per second, it only needed to recover to over 70%, and then it would be Mu You’s turn to lose HP. The greater the difference in their HP, the more fiercely the Flames of Jealousy would burn, and the faster Mu You would lose HP...
Mu You quickly realized calculations were useless since he did not know the subsequent speed at which the Flames of Jealousy would burn through life—at this point, he could only wait.
Soon, sixty seconds passed.
The countdown timer reached the final 42 seconds, and the Demon King’s HP restored to over 70%, causing Mu You’s HP to start burning again.
While the Demon King was still indulging in binge-eating at the table, continuing to recover health, looking to accelerate the blood burning speed of the Flames of Jealousy.
Mu You hurriedly rewound the pocket watch hundreds of times, at the same time noting down the specific numbers of HP loss during this period, and finally figured out the pattern of the Flames of Jealousy consuming life.
What relieved him was, even if the Demon King continued to binge-eat until fully healed, there just wasn’t enough time to burn off all his life, and in the end, he would likely have about 3% of his HP left!
"This should count as a pass, then..."
Mu You breathed a sigh of relief; now the countdown had only the last thirty seconds left, as long as the Demon King didn’t pull any more tricks...
"Damn it!"
Mu You cursed halfway through his thought because the text suddenly changed again.
[The Demon King suddenly became anxious again!]
[While binge-eating, the Demon King was keeping an eye on your HP and the changes of the moon in the sky. As the situation became clearer, it eventually realized that continuing to eat would not kill you, because it would be devoured by a Tengu before you!]
[The Demon King suddenly roared and overturned the table, stepping over the food scattered everywhere and quickly charging at you!]
"Damn it!"
Mu You’s eyecorner twitched, and he urgently made his character run away again.
However, the top of the tower was only so big; no matter how far he ran, he was just circling around with the Demon King, who could catch up with him in just over twenty seconds based on its previous speed.
That meant, before the eclipse ended, he would definitely be attacked by the Demon King again!
Thinking this, Mu You hurriedly clicked on the ’Cursed Doll’ in the text above, to check the current trigger probability of the curse.
The result...
[Cursed Doll is excited, current curse trigger probability: 0%.]
???
Mu You almost thought he read it wrongly, a probability of 0%? Can the probability really drop to zero?
After a brief moment of thought, he quickly realized: it was because his blood had been drained!
HP was the only attribute on Mu You’s panel that was relatively intact, but now it was drained to critical levels by the Demon King’s trickery, naturally widening the gap between him and the Demon King and ultimately leading to a qualitative change causing the probability to drop to zero...
Thinking this, Mu You hurriedly rewound time and equipped all possible attribute-enhancing items he could to try to pull the probability back up.
Unfortunately, items that directly added attributes were rare, and despite cycling through all higher-level equipment, the probability remained at 0.
It wasn’t until during Mu You’s trials, that he subconsciously swapped the ’Lucky Dice’ onto a piece of equipment, that the text of Cursed Doll finally changed.
Lucky Dice, within the Tower of Fools, must be equipped in the item slot to take effect. Mu You rarely wore it since its effects were too weak compared to a Divine Artifact or Hidden Relic.
Yet, in this desperate moment, this unremarkable item made a difference!
[Cursed Doll is excited, current curse trigger probability: 0.0001% (Base Probability)]
Bottom probability!
That is to say, adding this one die doesn’t just scale up to 0.0001, but rather because this is already the smallest non-zero number!
Mu You suddenly remembered the Heart of the Forest Spirit, the percentage values displayed by the Forest Spirit Core were also to four decimal places; it seemed this was the rule in the Star Spirit World, all statistical values could only go to four decimal places.
However, Mu You could not feel happy because 0.0001% meant one in a million...
A ten-second rewind, one in a million, meant that on average it would take 2777 hours, 115 days, nearly 4 months to trigger once!
Mu You suddenly recalled the fear he felt when dominated by the witch’s door lock!
Moreover, the difficulty of what lay before him was twenty times harder than initially unlocking the witch’s door...
Mu You didn’t know what to say, and he didn’t have time to hesitate, in a moment of hesitation, the Demon King’s attack had arrived.
[The Demon King has caught up to you! The Demon King raises his hand and launches an attack...]
[The curse doll is excited... Current probability of effect: 0.0001%.]
[Curse failed! The Demon King smashes you dead on the spot with one claw...]
"Rewind..."
Mu You sighed and pressed the pocket watch, starting a long journey of rewinding.
His life now was such that a mere brush from the Demon King meant death; only the curse doll gave him a slim chance to make it through.
However, Mu You didn’t just foolishly sit idle and mechanically rewind for four months; instead, he donned vampire skin, activated ’Godspeed’, and went to the study to grab a pile of miscellaneous books.
Since he was free during this time, he might as well use Godspeed to extend the time and read some books.
A ten-second rewind, whenever he got tired, he would enter ’Godspeed’ mode to read a book, rest a bit, and divert his attention.
One Godspeed lasted a whole eighteen minutes; Mu You also set an alarm, so he didn’t need to worry about missing the watch press due to getting engrossed in a book, nor about missing game results because his mind turned to mush from long-term mechanical operations.
With this tactic, the rewinding process became significantly more bearable.
Moreover, perhaps it was because of the blessing previously given by the Fairy Lady that doubled his luck; Mu You was quite fortunate this time; in fact, he did not need to rewind a million times. After about seventy or eighty thousand rewinds, a result came out.
Mu You closed the book in his hand and looked at the game screen.
[The Demon King has caught up to you! The Demon King raises his hand and launches an attack...]
[Curse succeeded! The Demon King’s claw swipe misses, his eyes bloodshot in frustration, and veins burst all over his body, while you seize the moment to widen the gap...]
Then, the Demon King started chasing him again, but time was running out, and the Demon King had no chance for a second attack.
Finally, the countdown on the desk finished the last second, completely returning to zero!
[The lunar eclipse ends; the sky above, the bright full moon releases a dazzling clear glow, illuminating the earth once again. Bathed in the moonlight, as a follower of the moon, you also regain your strength!]
[A Tengu shadow whistles by, biting the Demon King.]
[The Demon King howls in agony, his body crumbling bit by bit, he falls straight to the ground.]
[The Demon King is dead, the ’curse doll’ and ’Modesty Rule’ automatically leave his body and fly towards a certain floor beneath Hero’s Tower, waiting to be discovered by a hero next time.]
[Congratulations, you have successfully killed the Demon King and are the first to clear Hero’s Tower!]
[You have obtained the ’Fool’ status.]
[As the first person to pass through ’Fool’s Tower Server No. 2’, you have obtained admin rights for this server, and one of your karma lines is automatically connected to the Mountain of Creation.]
...
Meanwhile, a series of other prompts popped up below, as well as a server-wide announcement of someone clearing the game.
But Mu You didn’t have time to look at those cluttered prompts; his attention was focused entirely on the last one.
"Tower of Fools... server?"
Mu You looked at this prompt, somewhat surprised. So, is this tower essentially a ’server’?
What did they mean by ’admin’ later? And the Mountain of Creation, could it possibly be referring to the ’World-Creating Mountain’?
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