Chapter 419: New Season: Black Myth

【New Season: Black Myth】

Season Map: Floors 2~5 of the Death Tower.

Season Brief: Congratulations to players for escaping the novice period and officially stepping into the Polluted World. You will face the 【Fourth Tier】 faction of the Polluted World, 【Black Myth】. The scope of this faction includes 【Shuyao Laomu】, 【Heifengshan Dawang】, 【Zhizhu Daoguan】, 【Heishan Laoyao】, 【Guanyin Chanyuan】...

Special Season Rules:

【Black Fog】: The constantly spreading black fog results in extremely low visibility, causing most detection-type items and skills to fail.

【Samsara Niche】: There are no Safe Zones on the new season map. All players will be teleported to a unified location equipped with a 【Samsara Niche】. Players need to hunt Pollution Monsters and collect materials to build one themselves. Before the Safe Zone is built, five thousand Reward Points must be paid daily as fuel for the Samsara Niche.

【Huangquan Lu】: The number of deaths allowed per month on the 【Black Myth】 map is *3. After death, one cannot return to the city directly; instead, one will be teleported to the special map 【Huangquan Lu】. All means of communication are prohibited on this map, and one must complete the 【Yellow Springs Mission】 and collect enough Yellow Springs Flowers before being able to return to the human world.

【New Season Drops】: 【Black Myth (Dark Gold)】 series armor sets, jewelry sets, pets, gems...

【World Boss】: Level 2 World Boss (Black River City God), Level 3 World Boss (Centipede Daoist), Level 4 unknown, Level 5 unknown.

The pitch-black firmament, a blood-red moon like a curved blade hanging high.

All around was thick black fog; even with 【Siling Ganzi】 at Lv. 40 released, no aura could be sensed.

A massive niche cage, like a stone stele, was rooted in the center of the boundless black fog.

Inside was the mark of the Samsara Game.

It shed a soft white light, illuminating a space about the size of two soccer fields.

"Black Myth season, there are actually Dark Gold-tier items?"

Looking at the information regarding the new season, Orochimaru, who had been teleported to the edge of the Samsara Niche's light, had his slightly glowing snake pupils bloom with golden light.

【Siling Sheshi Lv. 45】, Orochimaru.

He squatted down, his palm pressed against the ground covered in pitch-black gravel,

pulled out his Necromancer Staff, and smashed his palm with a single strike.

Black blood flowed out, turning into countless spell-snakes with black smoke rising and tails twisting frantically, quickly swimming out of the area covered by the Samsara Niche's light.

Perspective appeared,

countless fields of vision appeared in Orochimaru's mind; silence, soundlessness, as if heaven and earth had fallen into deathly stillness.

This sense of death was actually even greater than the necromantic kingdom he had built himself.

Pfft.

Without the slightest anomaly,

the vision in his mind vanished abruptly, just like a popped soap bubble; hundreds of spell-snakes that had left the Samsara Niche were all killed.

At the final moment, Orochimaru caught a faint glimpse of the monster that killed the spell-snakes.

A bandit draped in tattered cloth, black fog seeping out of his skin as if draping him in black Armor, his arms' flesh and blood twisted and fused with a rusted machete, as if natural.

【Fallen Bandit (Black Wind Mountain) Lv. 55】.

"Bandit?"

Orochimaru's expression changed slightly; he was well-informed and naturally understood that in any world, bandits were at the very bottom of the food chain.

A common monster was actually Lv. 55; was this the 【Fourth Tier】 Black Myth map? Just at this moment,

several teleportation lights lit up.

"Grandma Tsunade, stop gambling on Forging, okay? Your luck is truly too terrible!"

"My luck is terrible?"

Dressed in pure white Armor, with exquisite features like a holy messenger, Tsunade sneered: "Since my luck is terrible, how could I cultivate a Bone-Rot Holy Guard, while you are just the worst Abomination Butcher?"

"I don't know..."

Uzumaki Naruto squinted his eyes, feeling very aggrieved.

Mature Stage zombie pets could evolve into various forms.

Tsunade's pet 【Bone-Rot Holy Guard】 was a very rare mutant species, and it was also a rare Holy Light Defense-type pet. As for himself, he only had the most common Abomination Butcher.

"It is indeed very strange."

To the side, Jiraiya lecherously glanced at the heroic-looking Tsunade, quickly withdrew his gaze when the other party didn't react, and said sternly: "Naruto's luck has always been very good, and you, Tsunade... called a 'fat sheep' by the gamblers of Tanzaku Town, now it's the other way around."

"Hmph."

Tsunade smiled confidently: "As a player, I long ago escaped my former fate; now, I am the God of Gamblers."

It could only be said that although Uzumaki Naruto was a favorite of fate, he could not withstand the blood-sucking of the Konoha Ninja Clans and the Shadow Organization; the luck converted from 【Tier 1】 Ninja World Origin simply could not hold up against 【Tier 2】 Item Drops.

And as for Tsunade...

"It's really lively here, Tsunade, you idiot Jiraiya."

At the abrupt voice, Tsunade and Jiraiya turned their heads almost simultaneously, looking at the figure slowly walking out from the shadows.

Orochimaru! A former close friend, now turned into an enemy who destroyed Konoha.

Tsunade's exquisite eyebrows knit together, her anger undisguised, and she said coldly: "Orochimaru, it really is a narrow road for enemies!"

Bang.

A thick cross covered in holy patterns was smashed into the earth by Tsunade like a stone Pillar.

Jiraiya first had a complex expression, then said with a face full of killing intent: "Orochimaru, I told you, no matter who betrays Konoha, I will kill them!"

"Just by relying on you?"

Orochimaru's golden snake pupils constantly scanned the flaws exposed by Jiraiya, his face showing disdain.

【Prophet Lv. 41】; the Fire Empire also had 【Prophets】 under its command, and most of their skill forms were to provide support to teammates, with very weak combat power.

Tsunade was a 【Holy Knight Lv. 43】; although the Holy Light attribute was a natural counter to his own Necromancer,

there was a limit to restraint relationships.

If they really were to fight, as long as he killed the weak Jiraiya first, the remaining Tsunade would be unable to hold up on her own and could not stop his offensive.

It's just that...

Orochimaru's peripheral vision landed on Uzumaki Naruto, who had an expression on his face as if he were constipated.

According to intelligence, the opponent is also a Holy Light-type 【Shendian Knight Lv. 42】, having bound Konoha as a 【Shendian】; the more severely Konoha is destroyed, the stronger their strength becomes.

It is quite troublesome.

However, he is not fighting alone either.

"Uzumaki Naruto, how have you been lately?"

With white bandages wrapped around his fists and pure Nen Qi swirling around him like mist, the current Clan Head of the new Hyuga Clan, who is regarded as a traitor, Hyuga Neji, appeared in Uzumaki Naruto's field of vision.

"Neji!"

Uzumaki Naruto's expression froze, his heart aching faintly; the feeling of seeing a close friend he once fought alongside betray Konoha and stand by the enemy's side was too painful.

He asked agitatedly, "Why did you betray Konoha?"

This was a question he had wanted to ask since the day Konoha was destroyed, and only now did he finally have the chance.

"Wasn't it you who told me?"

Neji said calmly, "Fate can be broken; a bird locked in a cage can also have a day where it soars freely."

Uzumaki Naruto said in disbelief, "In your eyes, are Konoha and our companions such unbearable things?"

He pointed at Orochimaru and said, "Are you going to defect to this guy who conducts human experiments, plants Cursed Seals on innocent people, and treats them as slaves?"

Although he is the strongest player, he is notorious and shunned by players in the Ninja World.

This is related to Orochimaru's cruel actions.

"Cursed Seals, slaves?"

A mocking arc curled at the corner of Neji's mouth as he shook his head and said, "That is why I say, Uzumaki Naruto, even though you and I have both obtained powerful strength from the Samsara Game, compared to me, you are more like a bird locked in a cage."

(End of this chapter)