The Minotaur, originally scorned by Yang Tao, was now acting as if he had a cheat enabled—no, more accurately, he was cheating.
The Battlesign was directly shattered by his battle-axe.
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Ten times the attack damage was terrifying.
Yang Tao swiftly swung the Yamato in his hand, using the "Draw Sword" skill to quickly lock onto the Minoshroom.
His body instantly passed through the Minoshroom, dealing a large amount of damage.
However, the Minoshroom clearly didn't want to die like this; a wide-range sweep struck Yang Tao's body.
This skill was an area-of-effect attack; anyone near the Minotaur would be hit.
Enduring the Minotaur's sweep, the Yamato accurately struck the Minotaur's body, clearing its remaining health.
"Ten times the attack, and health wasn't enough, and you even adjusted your speed? Did you join the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect?"
Watching the Minoshroom dissipate into smoke, Yang Tao shed his contempt.
The difficulty of this Battle Tower completely exceeded his expectations.
This was only the lowest-level Boss; who knew if the Ice Queen, currently the strongest Boss in the game, would turn into a real-life Boss wearing an ice-silk dress and white stockings, flying on ice to give out benefits?
If her health and attack really multiplied by ten...
Yang Tao felt he was in a bit of trouble.
...
Half an hour later.
Yang Tao stood blankly at the tower's entrance; once he came to his senses, he immediately looked up at the towering spire.
"No, I was one-shotted??"
[In-tower rebirths: 0]
Looking at the prompt that popped up in the bottom left corner, Yang Tao felt this Battle Tower was full of malice.
On the tenth floor of the Battle Tower, he saw the Twilight Boss, Hydra.
Just as he drank a bottle of fire resistance potion and charged forward, ready to deal with it, his body was bitten by the Hydra.
With the speed buff, the Hydra's weakness of slow movement was compensated for.
Bite.
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His two hundred-plus health was depleted before he even had time to react.
"How do you play this? Immune to ranged attacks beyond twenty meters, triggers bite, fire breath, and explosive fireballs within twenty meters, and it also has regeneration."
Yang Tao finally experienced the helplessness the Backrooms Entities felt when facing him; now he also experienced the malice of numerical superiority.
After much thought, Yang Tao only came up with the rogue tactic of throwing Cherry Bombs from a distance.
He immediately walked towards the Battle Tower.
However, as he was about to step into the tower, he was blocked by an invisible barrier.
[Time until next challenge: 22 hours 58 minutes]
"???"
He couldn't challenge continuously; wasn't this targeting him?
He tried to force his way into the tower using an ender pearl, but the ender pearl hit the transparent air wall and couldn't fly into the tower.
Seeing this, Yang Tao directly summoned his magic broom and flew high into the sky.
He took out a magic map from his backpack, located the Hydra's position, and flew towards it at full speed.
Since he had killed the Minoshroom on his previous visit, the fire barrier in the Fire Swamp had already been lifted.
Unlike the Twilight Forest terrain, the ground of the Fire Swamp was deep red.
This place was full of dangers, with fire pillars occasionally erupting from underground and magma hidden beneath black smoke.
Exposed magma pools were ubiquitous, and the air was filled with the smell of sulfur.
Controlling his magic broom, he flew straight towards the huge, hollow, hemispherical mountain in the distance.
That was the Hydra's nest, where the Twilight Boss, Hydra, was entrenched.
From afar, he could see the Hydra's massive body.
Its body was composed of blue-green scales, and it possessed three enormous dragon heads.
From a distance, it noticed Yang Tao, the uninvited guest, and raised its heads, six eyes staring intently at him.
Before Yang Tao could land, the three heads opened their massive mouths, and several explosive fireballs rapidly flew towards Yang Tao.
[Health: 360 / 360]
"If I can't beat you when you're cheating, and I still can't beat you when you're not cheating, then I'll just go home and farm!"
Yang Tao had no intention of dismounting his magic broom.
He flexibly dodged the Hydra's explosive fireballs, took out the Cherry Bombs he had prepared earlier, and threw them down.
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The Hydra had excellent explosion resistance, almost reducing explosion damage by 50%.
But if one wasn't enough, then two...
The instantly sluggish Hydra's health bar was cleared, its body emitting bursts of explosions, and its massive form fell to the ground, leaving behind a pile of experience orbs before disappearing.
He landed from the air into the Hydra's nest; the loot chest was where the Hydra's body had vanished.
Hydra loot, Hydra Steak x 35, Fiery Blood x 10.
The only useful item inside was the Fiery Blood; it could be combined with iron ingots to synthesize Fiery iron ingots, used to craft Fiery Iron Picks, Fiery Iron Swords, and the Fiery Armor set.
"10 bottles? That's probably the most you can get..."
The items in the loot chest were not affected by the 'Looting' enchantment; the quantity of items depended entirely on luck.
Having dealt with the Hydra.
Yang Tao rode his magic broom high into the sky, flying directly towards a patch of white in the distance—a forest covered in snow.
This was the habitat of the Boss, the Yeti Alpha.
After defeating it and obtaining the Yeti Alpha's Fur, he could then proceed to the glacial terrain; otherwise, going directly to the glacier would result in a 'Frozen IV' debuff.
A howling cold wind swept by, and dense snowflakes drifted down from the sky.
Yang Tao took out his map and glanced at it.
'The Yeti's nest is nearby...'
He scanned his surroundings and quickly spotted a bulge on the ground.
Yang Tao controlled his magic broom and flew into the raised cave.
The cave was dimly lit, and the ground was entirely composed of ice, appearing extremely smooth.
Aside from some exposed ores, the cave ceiling also had many hanging icicles.
Many Yetis resided within the cave; they looked somewhat comical.
Their white fur was draped over them like coats, and upon closer inspection, they even had blue cuffs.
However, this fur was indeed growing on their bodies.
A gaping maw, taking up half of their head, could not be closed, and their tiny black eyes looked quite adorable.
Upon seeing Yang Tao, they all started running after his magic broom with cheerful strides, arms outstretched.
Yang Tao paid no attention to these small Yetis; he knew that after dealing with the Hydra in the Battle Tower, he would naturally face these little guys again.
In the middle of the Yeti cave, there was a gigantic Yeti Alpha.
This creature looked similar to a regular Yeti overall, but it had three pairs of blue horns on its head.
Other than some minor details, it was simply a larger version of the regular Yeti.
[Health: 200 / 200]
"I wonder how distorted you'll be in the Battle Tower!"
Yang Tao said with emotion, then quickly flew towards the Yeti Alpha.
He wanted to finish it quickly and then go to the Aurora Palace on the glacier to meet the intelligent Ice Queen.
He took out Supernova from his backpack as a sign of respect.
Bang... Bang...
One shot hit the Yeti Alpha, and its health bar instantly dropped by two-thirds.
The second shot took away the Yeti Alpha's remaining life.
He didn't even give it a chance to attack.
Landing on the loot chest, he put the contents into his backpack.
Before the small Yetis could surround him, Yang Tao hopped on his magic broom and zipped away.