Chapter 441: Shall We Cooperate, Orochimaru?

"Fortunately, the Demon Warlock's strength was sealed and could not be fully unleashed."

Aizen said with a wry smile upon returning to the Moonlight Tavern.

His white Haori was tattered and covered in scorched wounds, making him look particularly disheveled.

Tsunade's expression remained unchanged; such an outcome was obvious, as even the weakest Demon Warlock was not someone like Aizen, who had just become a player and was not skilled in combat, could defeat.

"Fifty thousand Reward Points, consider it the price of a lesson."

Tsunade turned her head to look at Shengzhu, who had been teleported to the Moonlight Tavern after the competition ended and had left without a word; she had no intention of seeking revenge.

It was also a good opportunity to dampen the arrogance of Aizen, this Leader of the Shadow Organization.

Aizen did not mind the aloofness and reprimand in her words, nodding with a smile: "That's right, it seems that in the future, not only do I need to study the Will of Fire, but training cannot be neglected either."

On the other side, the battle between Laipishe and Whitebeard came to an end.

Accompanied by his signature loud laughter, Whitebeard was teleported back into the tavern, with no other external injuries besides a purple scar added to his chest.

As for Laipishe, it was completely unscathed.

After the Arena battle ends, the fatal injuries of both parties are healed; Laipishe looked unscathed, but in reality, it had been cut in half at the waist by Whitebeard's Murakumogiri inside the Arena.

Even the newly molted Venom Dragon Scale had been crushed.

"Damn it..."

Laipishe raised its snake head but did not dare to continue provoking the burly Whitebeard.

The other party truly possessed the ability to kill it.

That kind of extreme power eruption, an attack force that shattered everything, was something even a true dragon could not achieve; it was a special ability the other party had obtained from the game.

Without communicating with anyone, it slithered away, tail twisting in a dejected manner.

"It was just luck that you were chosen by the Samsara Game first. Once I completely transform into a true dragon, I will definitely swallow you all into my belly."

The players gathered in the Moonlight Tavern soon dispersed.

The exchange between the young Ying Zheng and Terumi Mei also ended; she had not expected that the brat before her would be even more difficult to deal with than she, the Mizukage who had single-handedly overturned the Bloody Mist Village and led the rise of the Mist.

Although she achieved her goal and recruited him in the end, the price paid was equally huge, making her heart ache.

"What a ruthless little brat, though, he is quite to this big sister's taste."

Terumi Mei licked her rosy lips and giggled: "Wait a few more years, marry me directly, and by then, the entire Mist can be yours."

Levi ultimately still refused Whitebeard's recruitment and did not leave the Giant Town just because of the muscles Whitebeard displayed.

"The real wall has disappeared, but the illusory wall still exists."

Levi returned to the Giant Town, looking at the people within the walls who were gradually adapting to the rules of the Samsara Game, and gripped the newly acquired two-handed greatsword tightly.

In the past, the city wall was for defending against Giants.

Now that the wall is lost, while there seems to be no Giant threat, the pressure from Pollution Monsters and players from other factions is a hundred times more formidable and terrifying than the Giants.

Fortunately, although the gap in strength is still as vast as a chasm.

The humans in the Giant Town do not have the fear they once had when facing Giants, because anyone has the possibility of becoming stronger.

"Erwin, stop slacking off, come with me to hunt the monsters wandering in the wilderness!"

Levi grabbed his companion, and as a 【Berserker】, he easily dragged Erwin out of the house and toward the wilderness of the danger zone.

Death Tower, second floor.

It was still black mist, obscuring perception; no detection-type items could take effect.

The Samsara Niche emitted a faint fluorescence, like a campfire in the pitch-black night protecting a frail life from being attacked by wild beasts.

"Continuing like this is not a solution."

Orochimaru's face was grim as he stood at the very edge of where the light from the Samsara Niche could reach, the roars of monsters constantly ringing in his ears. The difficulty of the 【Black Myth】 map had far exceeded all previous game maps.

Until now,

He, who was hailed as the strongest player, had wasted a massive amount of resources to barely kill the weakest world boss, 【Heifengshan Dawang】.

A mountain king of ordinary bandits had transformed into a high-level monster of the second floor just because of a drop of Polluted Black Blood dropped by a third-floor boss.

The other players were even more scattered and slaughtered by the Black Myth monsters.

"If we still can't conquer the world boss, we won't be able to build a Safe Zone, and we have to consume a large amount of Reward Points every day as a stay fee."

Orochimaru had a splitting headache; in the past, when encountering powerful bosses, he could adopt human-wave tactics, but now he could only rely on his own strength to resist.

If one were to die due to a slight carelessness, one would still need to execute a Yellow Springs Mission to be resurrected.

He himself had been killed during his first battle with Heifengshan Dawang earlier and had to execute a Yellow Springs Mission.

A very strange world,

All extraordinary energy was actually concentrated on a basketball, and the condition for clearing the mission was to lead a team to win a college basketball game.

His own strength was sealed, and he could only exchange for various basketball skills.

Orochimaru had stubbornly relied on various bizarre skills exchanged with Yellow Springs Points, such as 【Blue Butterfly Cloud Swimming Step Lv. max】 and other basketball techniques, spending half a month in that strange basketball world before successfully resurrecting.

The time wasted even exceeded that of Jiraiya.

"The Death Penalty is too severe and easily wastes a lot of time for breaking through the black mist, so unless it is a necessary situation, one must absolutely not die."

Orochimaru's gaze was cold; he was not like that fool Jiraiya, who held the mentality of saving the world and redeeming the souls on the Huangquan Lu.

Just after teleporting away from the basketball world, he branded that basketball fool named Yuan Daying with a Cursed Seal, making him a slave of the Fire Empire.

Cultivation? Redemption? He did not have that kind of leisure; it was hard for a low-level world like basketball to produce talented players, so it was only fit to be his base for experimental materials.

What he wanted to do most right now was to hunt Pollution Monsters and obtain Dark Gold-level game items.

"I want to purchase a Giant Totem."

Orochimaru came to the side of the Samsara Niche and opened the exclusive Black Myth shop.

On the shelves, a few game items were placed in isolation.

At the very front is the 【Giant Totem】, which can summon a Giant that sees through the nearby black fog, preventing sneak attacks from dark monsters and allowing for slight navigation within the black fog.

As long as one enters the black fog world to explore, this is a must-buy game item.

Otherwise, even perception players as strong as the Hyuga Clan would get lost in the black fog and be swallowed by the tide of dark monsters.

Following that are several Golden-grade game items.

These are all sets from the Black Wind Mountain Bandit bosses already killed by Orochimaru; they have various attributes and are classified as Golden-grade items.

To most top-tier players, these Golden-grade 【Black Wind Mountain Bandit】 sets have no appeal whatsoever.

Figures like Tsunade, Terumi Mei, and Onoki from the Ninja World, or the Admirals and top-tier Pirates from the Pirate World, have long since collected full sets of Golden-grade items, complete with Forging, Reinforcement, and gem bonuses.

Changing equipment rashly would easily lead to a decrease in strength.

These game items are actually targeted at players who will subsequently qualify to enter the Heishenhua Ditu.

Therefore, the greatest role of vanguard players like Orochimaru and Uzumaki Naruto is to pioneer, clearing obstacles for the players who follow.

"Orochimaru, shall we cooperate?"

A voice rang out from behind.

Orochimaru turned his head and discovered it was his arch-rival, an Admiral of the Navy Alliance whom he had once killed.

Akainu.

(End of this chapter)