Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

The Nine-Life Cat Demon is a unique artificial intelligence, and its world is a massive network entity.

The creator of the Nine-Life Cat Demon Kingdom is the Nine-Life Cat Demon. To ensure smooth operation of the kingdom, the All-knowing Queen was endowed with extremely high computational power.

By comparing the changes in magic power before and after optimizing each skill and simulating Yang Yu using [Sky-shattering Dragon Roar] in various scenarios.

The All-knowing Queen quickly analyzed the optimization route for Yang Yu’s [Sky-shattering Dragon Roar]. As Yang Yu wished, she broke down the must-kill skill into several practical sub-skills, saving Yang Yu from spending a long time researching ways to improve [Sky-shattering Dragon Roar].

With the excellent computing power of the All-knowing Queen, others’ skills were also optimized to a certain extent.

But just these efforts are far from enough to win the final showdown that may arrive at any time.

Yang Yu moved the panel to the task bar, where there were several completed tasks.

He opened a collapsible task, and a grid-like column table appeared before Yang Yu’s eyes.

There were a total of twenty individual entry columns from top to bottom. The fifteenth entry column had the words [N0.15 Elf and Goddess], the font a dull gray, indicating it was incomplete.

[Hidden Task: [Elf and Goddess]

Task requirement: Uncover the true relationship between the elf and the goddess.

Task reward: Hidden Task [Stars Reflected in Eyes], Fragment of [Sky Lock], a chance for a legendary draw.

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Yang Yu looked up at Gao Yuanyi and asked, ”Yuanyi, have you ever received tasks starting with NO, with a total of twenty entries?”

Gao Yuanyi instantly got alert, ”What’s that? A task you unintentionally triggered while exploring this world?”

”Somewhat guided by such tasks, I wanted to understand this world.”

”I don’t think so.

If it were you, whether such tasks existed or not, I think you would seek the truth of this world and come to this point.

Your strategies have been meticulously astonishing from the beginning.

What are the triggering conditions?

You bring it up now, do you think the task yields considerable rewards and want me to get a share too?”

”It’s like, by just matching the answers, I could have a legendary draw.

The answers are within the history the Nine-Life Cat Demon showed us.

You could get it best.

Triggering this task requires achieving a trust relationship with special races.”

”...I see.” Gao Yuanyi’s tone was low, ”In the Demon World, I’ve been a lone wolf for a long time. It’s not that I don’t want to recruit partners, but when they hear I aim to defeat the Demon King, they think I’m crazy. In the end, only Wei followed me... she doesn’t have any special lineage, she’s a mixed-blood of the Mechanical Clan and the Bull-man Clan...”

As soon as the conversation turned to the girl named ”Wei,” Gao Yuanyi couldn’t help but babble incessantly.

Yang Yu really wanted to take a tape recorder and record everything Gao Yuanyi was saying now, to play it when the girl named Wei resurrects, and see if Gao Yuanyi could still remain calm.

Resurrection, then...

With the ability to resurrect partners, the tactics available will significantly increase.

However, if it’s discovered that ”tactical” death is the plan, the enemy might destroy the corpse, leaving nothing behind.

Even if one plans for tactical death, it has to be at a moment when victory is absolutely assured…

Listening to Gao Yuanyi’s endless prattle, Yang Yu clicked the task complete button.

A substantial amount of Experience Value flowed into Yang Yu’s Experience Bar, pushing his Level to the maximum.

[Attributes

Name: Yang Yu (ID: Rolling Potato)

Level: LV 200, Experience Value: -/-

Overload Level: +0, Overload Level Experience Value: 6241/1,000,000,

Race: Mixed Species (Human, Giant Dragon... => Expand)

HP: 423519/423519, MP: 218512/218512, Physical Strength: 184714/184714

Main Profession: Warrior

Secondary profession: Herbalist Apprentice (LV 2), Monster Tamer (LV 3)

Personal Attributes: Strength 7398, Defense 6251, Intelligence 3524, Special Defense 6421, Agility 8410, Charm 397, Endurance 9852, Luck 1

Free attribute points: 2014

Resistance: Drug Resistance +4%, Fire Attribute Resistance +20%, Ice Attribute Resistance +20%, Earth Attribute Resistance +20%, Wind Attribute Resistance +15%, Light attribute resistance +10%, Dark Attribute Resistance +10%

Status: [Magic Tide], influenced by the Magic Tide...

Special: [Power of Giant Dragon.LV6] - Damage received reduced by 12%, damage caused increased by 12%.

Evaluation: You are the second strongest human in the world, with the Hero ahead of you.

If you want to prove yourself as the world’s number one, it’d be best to duel the Hero.

After reaching level 200, one can enter the Overload Level and continue leveling up.

However, leveling up no longer provides any free attribute points, only temporary growth attributes.

In the Overload Level, experience gradually decreases over time until it completely zeros out.

At this stage, Yang Yu practically has little room for growth.

He can only rely on external aids, or the attributes provided by tasks to continue enhancing his strength.

[Broken Cocoon Butterfly] was not taken by Agares’s crocodile and was destroyed, swept into a warehouse as scrap by the Demon Clan that stormed the city.

Generally, in such dangerous situations, [Broken Cocoon Butterfly] should break from its cocoon into a butterfly, awakening a super skill that fits, if not to entirely rescue the situation, at least to turn it around to some extent…

But in the end...

After leaving the Nine-Life Cat Demon, Yang Yu and Ming Dalak reestablished contact, subtly indicating the next move, mentioning that broken shield.

If Ming Dalak and the others reclaim the city and find the shield’s remnants, they should find a way to get the shield to him.

If the shield’s progress hasn’t regressed, [Broken Cocoon Butterfly] can still immediately break the cocoon into a butterfly; otherwise, it’s practically useless.

Yang Yu cannot fully pin his hopes on [Broken Cocoon Butterfly]; he needs a new legendary shield.

Facing the system panel, Yang Yu disclosed the truth he obtained from the Nine-Life Cat Demon.

The Hidden Task [Elf and Goddess] slightly lit up, and Yang Yu gently clicked complete.

A legendary draw was added to the draw interface, and a silver-white ice-crystal-like fragment appeared in the noticeably emptier item bar.

This is the Fragment of [Sky Lock].

The so-called [Sky Lock] is a treasure map of Star Sky. Only those with Star Eye can understand the map on [Sky Lock] and determine directions based on the magic flow on the false starry sky to find the treasure.

According to the All-knowing Queen, fragments of [Sky Lock] can occasionally appear on the last level of large labyrinths, retrievable only by someone knowledgeable in labyrinths.

Once retrieved, the magic-congealed fragment of [Sky Lock] begins a countdown, eventually collapsing into magic after some time.

The ”treasure map” recorded by the [Sky Lock] isn’t constant, changing with time.

Thus, no matter how many times the Demon King comes to this world, they still need someone with Star Eye to decipher the map.