Beating Instances through Words Left by the Dead

Chapter 344: Chapter 200: Management Bureau Director

Wu Chang wasn’t sure if the Surgical Knife’s head hurt, he only knew that the Surgical Knife’s head was quite fragile.

Nice, it’s a good head.

Crack.

With the crisp sound of bone shattering, the Surgical Knife’s head exploded just like the Poisonous Snake’s.

Except he didn’t have the local buff. The locals were protected by the rules, they could act recklessly with no consequences, but as a stinking outsider, taking an Iron Fist meant real death.

Wu Chang swallowed the vitality of the Surgical Knife in one gulp. As expected of an Abyss Second Layer Player, it instantly brought him 55 points of Power.

Wu Chang had anticipated the Power points brought by the Surgical Knife, but what he didn’t expect was that after absorbing its vitality, his Strength Value reached 234 instead of 224.

This change surprised him immensely. Could it be a hidden enhancement from the Sea Giant Bloodline?

The figure appeared to have only increased by 10 points of Power, but in reality, it significantly reduced the dimensional barrier’s suppression on him.

The so-called dimensional barrier comes both from the outside world and from oneself.

The external dimensional barrier refers to the plane barrier surrounding the Desolate Realm as a whole, isolating each layer of the Abyss.

With this barrier in place, the existence of the high-level Abyss cannot directly descend, and even if they do, they would be constrained by this barrier.

The external dimensional barrier permits exit but not entry.

Take Erin as an example; if she wants to leave the Desolate Realm, she wouldn’t be affected by the Desolate Realm Barrier. But once out, getting back in wouldn’t be so easy.

Since the external dimensional barrier of the Desolate Realm does not prevent Life from leaving, what prevents Players from entering the Abyss Second Layer?

The answer is simple: it’s the internal dimensional barrier from the Player themselves.

Those born in the Desolate Realm, it’s like they are born with a limiter, binding them within the Desolate Realm.

In the Abyssal Game, when a Player’s Level reaches Level 30, they begin to encounter the internal dimensional barrier.

Ascending from the Desolate Realm of the Abyss First Layer to the Realm of Reason in the Abyss Second Layer is not about leveling up from Level 30 to 31; it’s essentially about breaking through the self-imposed restrictions of the dimensional barrier.

When a Player breaks through the internal dimensional barrier of the Desolate Realm and harnesses enough Power to concentrate a dimensional barrier capable of entering the Realm of Reason, they can naturally enter the Abyss Second Layer.

Over ninety-nine percent of Players, their understanding of the internal dimensional barrier, at most, remains at the seeing stage.

When a Player reaches Level 30 and can see their own dimensional barrier, and knows of its existence, they receive the Abyssal Game’s advancement task. Fulfilling the task enables breaking through the internal dimensional barrier.

It’s rare for a Player to feel the limitations of the internal dimensional barrier while still in the Desolate Realm.

It’s even rarer for someone like Wu Chang to sense it so early.

The so-called internal dimensional barrier limitation refers to how, during Wu Chang’s initial Giant Whale Transformation, if he stacked Power over 200, further adding Attribute would see a 50% reduction in the increased value.

If it exceeded 300, then it would again see a 50% reduction on that basis.

After his Bloodline awakened as a Sea Giant, it not only changed his Skills but also reduced the internal dimensional limitation from 50% to 30%.

The value only decreased by 20%, but in essence, it represented a 40% reduction in the barrier’s restriction on him.

In simple terms, originally, stacking Power from 200 to 300 required 200 points of Power, now it only needed 143 points; stacking from 300 to 400, it originally needed 400 points, now it only required 204 points.

Viewing it this way, the improvement becomes extremely impressive.

As Wu Chang inspected the Sea Giant Transformation’s reduction in dimensional barrier limits, the area below the stage was silent until his inspection ended and the audience erupted in thunderous cursing.

”Damn it! Refund!”

”Fixed match, this is blatant match fixing!”

”Rematch! We must have a rematch!”

The Surgical Knife, who was so formidable before, suddenly became extraordinarily sluggish and hardly resilient, not even bothering to pretend.

This must be a conspiracy by the Broken Bottle Bar, tricking those who drink bad water to come and be killed!

But within a few sentences, the host calmed the crowd’s anger.

The content was simple, the Surgical Knife was an outsider.

Outsiders cannot rewind time, once they’re dead, they’re truly dead, no one would use their life to play a fixed match.

Excluding fixed matches, it could only have been Wu Chang’s manipulation, but as long as weapons aren’t used, any rule is permitted on the stage.

The audience couldn’t continue to nitpick and had to leave the stage area grumbling.

The real Gambler, who made a large profit, ordered flamboyantly at the bar, while the unlucky ones who lost a significant amount of money headed to the rooftop upon leaving.

The wind on the rooftop was strong, tomorrow after a good night’s sleep, just pretend nothing happened during this time.

Inside the bar, Wu Chang chose not to continue challenging He Yun and left through the front door of the bar.

Unlike yesterday, this time, it was He Yun who stopped him, with a tone of surprise laced with expectation, she asked:

”You actually still retain your memory?”

Wu Chang appeared bewildered, as if seeing He Yun for the first time, ”Miss, have we met before?”

Upon hearing Wu Chang’s response, He Yun immediately felt dejected. Indeed, no one would remember what happened in her time loop.

But why did this cycle of events begin from the moment she saw him?

Could he truly be the destined one?

He Yun took a deep breath, patted her cheeks with her hands, and decided that this time, she would be the one to push everything forward.

”I know it’s hard for new outsiders here to believe, but I can assure you, everything I say is true, without a single false word...”

Soon after, He Yun pulled Wu Chang to a corner, recounting everything that had occurred before.