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Chen Miao was slightly hesitant, unsure if he should conduct the experiment here. After all, even though he wasn't certain about the actual effect of the skill, he had twenty thousand bullets in his magazine. If all that were turned into one bullet, it probably wouldn't be much different from a missile.
Could that still be considered a bullet?
The commotion might be a bit too much, and it seemed like he would be looking for trouble.
How about... finding a Secret Realm?
It was high noon, and he decided to just do it, too lazy to make another trip to the city. With his current strength, even an unclaimed Secret Realm shouldn't be able to stop him.
Soon—
He found a white vortex entrance behind a hill in the distance, white representing an F-level. Read latest chapters at m_v-l'e|-novelhall.net
And in the upper right corner of the vortex was the number 1.
This indicated that it was a single-player Secret Realm.
This time, he had done enough research to basically understand what different levels of Secret Realms signified. First off, the Secret Realm Introduction panel would never deceive, it wouldn't suggest that one could simply survive by doing nothing, yet imply that you must engage in slaughter.
Only Secret Realms of D-level and above would begin to feature plot-driven elements, testing not only the player's combat power but also their insight, logic, and teamwork.
For Secret Realms below D-level, even the unclaimed ones were relatively straightforward and brutal: just slay monsters.
As long as you had enough strength, you could clear them.
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「Secret Realm Name」: Apocalypse Paradise.
「Secret Realm Level」: F-level.
「Secret Realm Introduction」: This is a modern city where once, a man in order to save his beloved woman, signed a contract with a deity reviving her. She was brought back to life but became an undead carrying a highly contagious virus. Soon, the virus spread throughout the entire city, turning it into a living hell.
「Secret Realm Mission」: Kill 500 undead.
The entire city seemed to come alive!
Legions of the undead emerged from the shops, street trash bins, and windows of office buildings from various corners, their eyes locked firmly on him. Without any hesitation, they marched toward him with large strides!
Those undead from the office buildings couldn't even wait and leaped down directly, only to end up with maimed limbs and started to struggle painfully on the ground.
Their speed was not fast, though.
In Chen Miao's mind, he had almost instantly figured out how an ordinary person should complete the mission in this Secret Realm. These undead had physical abilities that were even inferior to those of players; it was just their fearlessness and numbers that made them a threat. All one had to do was to lead these undead to a spot where they would leap off buildings and get crippled, and then it would be a matter of ticking them off one by one.
Even as he thought this, he still stood his ground, indifferent. He even looked up at the crows flying in groups above him in the night sky, their cries piercingly harsh, casting an added layer of fear over the city.
The Secret Realm was indeed no place for normal people.
This was just an F-rank Secret Realm. Although he knew that a normal person, if they could overcome their inner fears and be smart enough, could complete it, that was all theoretical. Actually placing an ordinary person in such a situation, their brain might short-circuit in an instant. Where would they find the rationality to think of these things? They would probably just want to scream for their mothers and exit the Secret Realm.
The current number one in the Federal Ranking is Lord Miao, a Level 67 Holy Demon Envoy. But in fact, according to the information he had gathered in the past few days, six months ago, the number one player was at Level 74, and the fifth was at Level 68.
And now, these top five were all gone, vanished without a trace from the leaderboard.
It was not that they had regressed.
They had died.
The top five of the Federal Ranking had all died in the Secret Realm, a Hell-level Secret Realm, no less. The outside world didn't even know how they had died, nor did it know the specifics of the Secret Realm. No one came out with information for them; everyone who knew had perished within.
True, they had grown stronger, but to become even stronger, they had to seek breakthroughs in more powerful Secret Realms. Since they had ventured into stronger Secret Realms, they had to be prepared for death.
Even if you were the pinnacle of the Federation's combat power, there was no limit to the difficulty of the Secret Realms.
Your current power is your limit, not the limit of the Supernatural World.
This was not the first time such an incident had occurred. A saying circulated among the Supernatural, claiming that death was the ultimate fate for the Supernatural. According to official statistics, the mortality rate of the Supernatural was much higher than that of ordinary people; basically, no Supernatural had died of old age yet.
The world had only been Transcendentalized for a few decades; no need to wait for death by old age, anyone with elderly limbs who dared to enter a Secret Realm would someday die inside.
But... inside the Secret Realm were treasures that could cure diseases and prolong life. If you didn't have the money to buy them, would you enter and take the risk?
Sometimes, being an ordinary person running a bun shop wasn't so bad after all.