Chapter 199: Hell Difficulty Appears, Surprised Lin Zhenzi

After dealing with two Flame Sprites, Jiang Chen intends to recall the Skeleton Warriors.

After all, without combat they need not endure damage pointlessly.

However, when he tries to recall the Skeleton Warriors, he finds he cannot retrieve them.

The Skeleton Warriors are engulfed in flame, taking continuous damage and cannot exit combat.

Fortunately, the damage is low, so the effect on the Skeleton Warriors is relatively limited.

Jiang Chen decides to stop trying to recall them and instead lets the Skeleton Warriors advance, clearing a path for him.

There are 16 Skeleton Warriors in total; they run forward in a fan shape and quickly encounter monsters in the Instance.

Jiang Chen orders that whenever they meet a monster, the Skeleton Warriors immediately launch an attack.

A level‑32 Instance monster, without any Control Skill, has almost no chance in a one‑on‑one against the Skeleton Warriors.

When besieged, the monster can hardly sustain combat and is quickly eliminated.

The flame‑shrouded Skeleton Warriors explore the map while battling monsters.

Soon, they grasp the overall situation of the Instance.

Jiang Chen realizes he is inside a massive lava cave.

All around, including the ceiling and floor, are surrounded by flame.

The lava cave has four Entrances, each guarded by two Flame Sprite Guards.

These Entrances look identical, making it impossible to tell which is the correct path.

For ordinary people, this is a vexing problem that requires trying each one.

But for Jiang Chen, it is far too simple.

He divides the 16 Skeleton Warriors into four groups, each of four entering a different Entrance.

Soon, Jiang Chen learns the interior situation of the lava cave.

Besides Flame Sprites, there are many other types of monsters inside.

"Kill

"Kill level‑33 Lava Giant Stone, Experience +660000"

"Obtain Flame Crystal Core"

"Kill level‑33 Flame Winged Snake, Experience +660000"

"Kill level‑34 Flame Lizard, Experience +680000"

"Obtain Flame Crystal Core"

Bits of information arrive, and Jiang Chen briskly follows inside.

After taking the Beginner Miracle Potion, All Attributes increase by 200, and his speed is a bit faster than before.

Entering the Cave, he quickly sees a monster corpse.

Joy flashes in Jiang Chen's eyes.

The monsters here are not entirely composed of fire elements.

There are also some monsters with physical bodies.

Although most of their life force vanishes after death, their corpses still remain.

Since there are corpses, it becomes easy.

At Jiang Chen's command, the Skeleton Warriors stop killing monsters and resume dragging them.

The Skeleton Warriors sprint through the Lava Cave, luring each monster out.

Then they begin carrying the monsters back toward Jiang Chen's location.

Through the mental map, Jiang Chen sees that this time at least hundreds of monsters have been drawn.

Each monster provides substantial experience, which further raises his experience.

Now he is not far from level 28; a few more waves like this will almost certainly level up.

As a crack sounds in his ears, the Skeleton Warriors rush back.

Red Light flickers in Jiang Chen's hand.

Skill: Slow Curse!

The curse's red surpasses the flame's red.

The pulled‑in monsters instantly become slow‑motion.

At this moment, the Skeleton Warriors turn and unleash their Skills.

Skill: Rage Power!

The Skill lands, and the foremost monster collapses amid a mournful scream.

"Kill level‑33 Flame Winged Snake, Exp

Experience +660000"

The next second, Jiang Chen lifts his palm.

Skill: Corpse Explosion!

The violent explosion instantly erupts in all directions.

A large number of monsters are blown up dead.

The entire Instance shakes, magma erupts and falls onto the ground.

The flames on the ground burn even more fiercely.

The Instance continues to tremble, as if Jiang Chen's actions triggered some mechanism.

The remaining monsters chasing over emit screams, their aura surging dramatically.

At this point, Jiang Chen can no longer control it.

Skill activates one after another.

In the blink of an eye, it blows up a massive amount of corpses.

The booming sound resounds like a never‑ending symphony.

The monsters die in swaths.

Jiang Chen, however, sensed something was off.

Why is the monsters' strength rising?

Although the monsters here, after death, have far less vitality because the fire element dissipates compared to when they were alive.

But the skill's explosion Amplify is 600%, still enough to kill same‑level monsters.

It was indeed like that at first.

But now, why does one blast no longer kill them; it takes two blasts.

Strange as it is, it hasn't stopped.

Corpse Explosion continues.

Later, it takes three or four blasts to kill same‑level monsters.

It seems their defense against Corpse Explosion is rapidly increasing.

The Instance's tremors grow increasingly violent, like an earthquake.

Lava keeps spewing, and the fire element becomes ever denser.

Outside the Instance, the vortex at the Entrance suddenly erupted flames, startling the professionals standing beside the Instance.

"What's happening!"

"How did it suddenly start spewing fire?"

"Huh, isn't this the Fire God Palace Instance?"

The Fire God Palace Instance is one of the Five Elements Instance, and it is said that with good luck you can obtain Element Fragments,

and five Element Fragments combine into one, granting unexpected benefits.

"Stop kidding, it's just a legend; no one has ever obtained it."

"Heavens, come quick, why does the Fire God Palace Instance now have a Hell Difficulty?"

With that, the entire Dungeon Hall was abuzz.

The Fire God Palace Instance has existed here for an unknown number of years.

It has always only had Normal Difficulty and Nightmare Difficulty.

Now, a third difficulty, Hell Difficulty, has suddenly appeared!

Chu Yao's eyes shone with a brilliant smile: "I knew you would succeed."

As the controller of the Dungeon Hall, Lin Zhenzi holds supreme authority here.

He knows every piece of information about the Dungeon Hall like the back of his hand.

When the Fire God Palace Instance showed abnormal changes, he was the first to learn of it.

Upon checking, he found Jiang Chen inside the Instance.

"I didn't expect it; he really did it."

"Could it really drop Element Fragments? Is the legend true?"

Lin Zhenzi naturally also knows the legend of the Element Fragments, but he knows more than others.

To obtain the Element Fragments, one must first activate the Instance's Hell Mode.

Element Fragments only drop in Hell Mode, and even then it depends on luck.

To activate the Instance's Hell Mode, a large number of monsters must be cleared in a short time, causing a fundamental impact on the Instance.

Only then can Hell Difficulty be activated.

All those conditions, Lin Zhenzi of course knows.

In this world, when it comes to knowledge of various Instances, he claims second, and no one dares claim first.

Even Hong Jishi can't!

It's not just the Fire God Palace Instance; many Instances work this way.

Lin Zhenzi tried it when he was young, but couldn't achieve it.

Later he organized the most elite squad to try, yet still failed.

The Fire God Palace Instance requires dual support; lacking one damage dealer, the team's attack power is greatly reduced.

If Hell Mode cannot be activated, naturally the Element Fragments cannot be obtained.

Unexpectedly, after several waves of blasting monsters, Jiang Chen inadvertently activated Hell Mode.

The Nightmare Dungeon difficulty he was in also instantly rose to Hell Difficulty.

The fire element boils, monsters grow stronger, and the continuous scorching of Flame intensifies rapidly.

The Flame on the Skeleton Warrior burns fiercely, growing ever stronger.

The Skeleton Warrior has become a walking mass of Flame.

Correspondingly, the damage it receives also increases.

Originally it took at least ten hours to burn a Skeleton Warrior to death; now it can be incinerated in as little as three hours.

Jiang Chen does not know that the Instance he is in has become Hell Difficulty.

He only knows that damage has increased and monsters have become tougher.

If time isn't seized, the Skeleton Warrior will truly be burned to death.

If we don't act quickly, the Skeleton Warrior will really be burned to death.

Go!

A stir rose in his heart, and he swiftly ran toward the deeper part of the Instance.