Amidst the fog, a monster with three faces revealed three faces with a bright smile on its face.
"Ah, congratulations, you finally passed the first round. But you are really too weak. It was only a simple maze, yet you took so long to walk out.
"But it doesn't matter, that was just an appetizer. I'll let you familiarize yourselves with your opponents, that's all.
"See, I'm being reasonable and benevolent, I'll let you familiarize yourselves with your opponents first.
"Now that you have familiarized yourselves with them, let's start the second round. I'll call this round the Dense Fog Swamp, I hope you like it.
"But don't let all of you die. If you die, wouldn't my later arrangements have been wasted …"
The three-faced monster let out a strange laugh before disappearing into the dense fog.
Byron's expression kept changing and he almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
The labyrinth they had just spent so much effort to break through was actually just an appetizer for them to familiarize themselves with their opponents?
That was only the first round? This was only the second round, and there was still a third round?
"I must get rid of you, get rid of you! Damn b * stard, this is all an illusion, it's all an illusion, you can't scare me!"
Byron's roar hadn't fallen when a large number of suppressed roars came from the surrounding dense fog.
Within the dense fog, pairs of green eyes suddenly appeared like a large group of fireflies.
"Whoosh …"
The dense and sharp sound of something tearing through the air could be heard. The dense fog seemed to have been cut into pieces by a sharp blade. Countless wind blades seemed to have formed a huge cyan wave, fiercely slapping towards everyone.
Byron used a Shadow Shield and released a dozen Shadow Arrows. A dozen popping sounds echoed as a dozen green eyes disappeared from the dense fog.
But there were still several hundred green eyes in the surroundings that were coldly attentively watching the group.
As the battle started, the dense fog also started dispersing a bit. At this time, everyone could see what those green eyes were.
A green snake with nine heads tightly surrounded them. As those heads swayed, Wind Blades kept shooting out of their mouths.
The numerous cyan Wind Blades formed a cyan wave that ruthlessly crashed towards Byron's group.
Byron gritted his teeth and roared. He waved his staff and kept releasing Shadow Arrows, blowing up the heads of those Nine-Headed Green Snakes.
The numerous Wind Blades slammed into everyone's shields, causing ripples to appear and rapidly depleting everyone's Mana.
Half an hour later, all the snakes that could still move around had disappeared. The last snake's body exploded and turned into a green hurricane element that disappeared into the swamp.
It was as if nothing had ever happened in the swamp, and the hundreds of strange nine-headed green beasts had never appeared.
Byron calmed his mana and felt like he was going crazy.
"This is all an illusion. You can't fool me. It's all fake. You want to scare me? Impossible!"
The fierce mana consumption made Byron somewhat suspicious. If it was just mana consumption, then why would his Shadow Shield consume so much mana when those mages hit it?
Those attacks were real, but if it wasn't an illusion, then why did those monsters disappear after being killed?
Similarly, he was wearing the Dark Cloak and his Magic Conducting Rune was Planar Shadow. Moreover, his Shadow Stealth had almost reached the Ultimate Spell Realm.
He could even merge with the Planar Path's shadows, but in this place, even Shadow Stealth was useless.
This was impossible. The only explanation was that there were no shadows here. What he saw was an illusion. Only shadows that didn't exist could make him unable to merge with them.
Byron was already somewhat crazy. He was very confident in his Shadow Stealth and had complete faith in it. As a Planar Infiltrator, he had every reason to believe that everything before his eyes was an illusion.
Byron gritted his teeth and walked towards the depths of the swamp with large strides, not encountering any danger.
By the time Byron was a dozen meters away, the mages behind him seemed to wake up from a dream and hurriedly followed.
Just as the group of mages stepped into the swamp, one of the mages at the back of the group disappeared into the mud with a plop.
A monster with a big mouth covered in mud poked its head out of the water and swallowed that mage.
The three-faced monster's mocking laughter echoed once again in the dense fog.
"What a foolish fellow. The benevolent me had specially given you guys a chance to understand your opponents. How could you have forgotten so quickly?
The idiot had to die, lest he dragged others down with him. Look, didn't he remember now?
"Don't disappoint me, your opponents are here. Don't die, it won't be fun if you die …"
The three-faced monster slowly disappeared into the dense fog. Byron could only stare blankly, he simply didn't dare to chase after it.
The group cautiously summoned Shadow Servants to follow in the back of the group in order to guard against the sudden ambush of monsters from the swamp.
They spent a lot of effort to leave the swamp with great difficulty, but two mages still fell inside.
Walking out of the swamp, they saw a world covered in ice and snow. The mages were all covered in mud and were exhausted. They didn't even dare to casually use Mana Shields in the swamp because the consumption of mana was too great.
"This is definitely an illusion, don't be afraid, how could there be such a clear dividing line between the swamp and the world of ice and snow? How could such a simple and crude illusion affect us? Let's keep going!"
Byron gritted his teeth as he encouraged his subordinates. They then stepped into this world of ice and snow. As they moved forward, the boundless ice and snow would form slow ice monsters from time to time. These ice monsters would spit out a large amount of ice spells, and if there were too many of them, the surrounding ice and snow would form an Ice Storm.
After forcing their way through, the group once again lost two mages.
After breaking through the world of ice and snow, they arrived at a land of flames and flowing magma. Monsters with big mouths that took up more than half of their bodies appeared in groups. Faced with the flames that these monsters spat out, a group of mages could only resist, and they also had to ensure that they killed the monsters fast enough.
Otherwise, there would be more and more flaming monsters with big mouths. Even the charred ground under their feet would crack open from time to time. Boiling lava would spurt out of the ground like a fountain, rapidly forming a magma pool on the ground.
Even the seemingly charred land would suddenly collapse when stepped on, just like a layer of ice condensing on the surface of the water. When stepped on the charred land, all that was underneath was boiling hot magma.
They couldn't fly, and many spells were restricted. In this kind of place, if they fell into the lava, they wouldn't be able to find them. Black smoke would rise up, and even their bones would disappear in the lava.
After going through many hardships, they finally rushed through all kinds of vile environments and encountered all kinds of strange monsters before arriving in front of a dark red palace.
At the top of the palace was a statue of a Purple Dragon. The Dragon statue had a dignified expression overlooking the front of the palace, and the Purple Dragon was holding a roulette-like symbol in its bosom.
In front of the palace, fifty mages wearing dark red robes were expressionlessly standing there. That three-faced monster was floating in the air with a mocking smile on its three faces.
"It really wasn't easy. You bunch of trash, you actually spent so much time to reach this place. This is the simplest test.
"Even such a simple checkpoint made me wait for so long, and we lost so many people, a group of idiots and trash …
"I originally thought that I could have some fun, but I didn't expect you to be so useless …
"Forget it, forget it, Kurumu, I've played enough, I'll leave the rest to you."
Byron looked at the palace before him and sneered as he looked at the expressionless mages.
"Hmpf, another illusion. Those stupid monsters are gone, so some puppet-like mages were created?
"I already saw through your tricks, Mafa Merlin, don't waste your time, I already saw through it!"
Byron raised his staff and led his subordinates to charge towards the group of mages. Shadow Arrows kept flying out and fiercely pressured the mages.
"Another group of created monsters, it's just that their appearances are different. But I already saw through everything, this is an illusion, everything we see is an illusion!
"After those monsters were killed, they would turn into the most basic elements and dissipate, leaving no corpses behind. These simple elemental lifeforms don't even have the most basic instincts, yet they want to keep us here.
"If not for the vile environment and the monsters' constant sneak attacks, how could we have fallen?
"But this is only a group of Archmages. The strongest of the fifty mages is only a 3rd Rank Archmage, while most of them are 1st Rank Archmages.
"You want to stop us with this kind of inferior power?
"I'm a 9th Rank Archmage, and the weakest of the remaining mages is a 7th Rank Archmage. There are close to ten of them, and fifty Low Rank Archmages can't even compare to those strange monsters.
"Mafa Merlin is rumored to be a bit powerful, he can only display the power of the Heaven Rank when bursting out, his subordinates are a group of weaklings.
"It would be pretty good for the country bumpkins of Andalusia to have a powerful mage appear, they are a small mage family after all."
Byron confidently led his subordinates to release Shadow Arrows. They had suffered losses before because of the surprise attack, but now that they were waiting for him, Byron was confident that he could get rid of everyone here within a minute.
Whether it was Byron or the other mages, they all felt that everything before their eyes was an illusion. They were full of confidence and were waiting for the group of statue-like mages to be eliminated.
The mage standing at the forefront raised his staff and in an instant, the fifty mages acted as if they were one person, making the exact same movements.
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