Chapter 208: Battle of the Two Alliances

"I can explicitly tell you, when you promote to Three-Star, the First Floor Master will definitely personally take the field to track the two of you down."

"There is no other possibility!"

"Furthermore, he will also bring three Four-Star players and one Three-Star player."

"Even if he has to sacrifice these four people, he will still screw you to death in the Instance."

"This was inherently a path of no return: either you fight out a bloody path, or you die in an unknown Instance."

"You thought that was it?"

"Taking ten thousand steps back, even if you can kill the First Floor Master, the Alliance Leader will continue to dispatch someone to serve as the First Floor Master. The newly appointed one will still continue to hunt the two of you down."

The underlying logic of the 18th Level was very simple.

You are a genius.

Being favored by a certain Floor Master and serving as a Reserve Teammate. Simply put, it was being used by the Alliance. Although Reserve Teammates were Cannon Fodder, they wouldn't necessarily die. As long as you eked out a living to the end, there was still hope to become a Floor Master.

This was a relatively safe path.

But if you refused the amnesty and enlistment, it meant you were denying the Alliance's rule.

Then, as long as you were still alive, the Alliance would dispatch the strongest players you could encounter to track you down and kill you.

The Alliance was like the imperial court, and genius players were like the bandits of Liangshan.

Amnesty or rebellion.

There was no third possibility. This system was the reason the Alliance had always survived to this day.

Some people might feel that the Liar-Slayer Alliance's system was very vicious.

But in fact...

You have to understand, everyone who came to Hell was a group of people who committed Heinous Crimes.

A gentle approach would instead turn the entire 18th Level into a true Hell.

One had to use iron-blooded methods to be able to suppress this group of extremely evil people.

The prerequisite for dealing with evil people was that you had to be even more evil than them.

Just imagine, if the Liar-Slayer Alliance didn't exist in Hell, and everyone was a fiendish high-IQ player, no one would submit to anyone, leading to an indiscriminate chaotic brawl.

It would simply be a disaster. At that time, the situation would definitely be hundreds of times worse than it is now.

But, it's still that same saying: the dragon-slaying youth will eventually become the evil dragon.

The Liar-Slayer Alliance's original intention of creation was definitely to benefit the entire 18th Level, but gradually it degenerated into the succeeding Leader's ruling tool.

Stifling the advancement space of Newbies. Only this way would the Leader continue to live on.

And now, Chen Ran and Qiu Yinong not accepting this kind of rule meant declaring war on the entire Alliance. What they would face could be imagined.

Of course, they could still make up for it. For example, after returning this time, submitting to the First Floor Master and serving as his Reserve Teammate.

But this way, their fate would be controlled in the hands of the First Floor Master...

'What a Hell!'

'Saying it like this, the significance of getting stuck at Two-Star is indeed not great. Without the Mental Cultivation Method, our strength cannot be improved. Getting stuck at Two-Star is just purely a waste of time.'

Chen Ran frowned and said, "If, I'm saying if, we hadn't been exposed in advance, could we have avoided this tribulation?"

From the surface, the reason they were targeted by the First Floor Master lay in the value of Qiu Yinong's Skill. This was a result the two intentionally created to verify the possibility of whether Hell was a virtual world.

If they hadn't been exposed...

Would they not have been targeted?

Diwu Zeyi smiled. He felt that there was a problem with Chen Ran's mentality to even be asking about things like [If].

"You're overthinking it. The Liar-Slayer Alliance has a set of evaluation criteria. Players who don't die in three normal Instances will receive attention. Players who don't die in five Instances will be targeted by the Floor Masters. If the target gets stuck at a Star Rating, they will dispatch the strongest players matched to them to offer amnesty and enlistment. If the amnesty fails, they will directly kill them in an Instance leaving no future troubles. If the amnesty succeeds..."

"What happens then?" Chen Ran asked.

"In the 18th Level, besides the Hundred Ghost Feast, there is also... the Battle of the Two Alliances."

"The Battle of the Two Alliances is a war between the Floor Masters of the two Alliances. And their Reserve Teammates are like their armies. Every Instance is basically two Liar-Slayer Alliance teams fighting against two Deceiver Alliance teams, in order to consume the daily increasing Reserve Teammates of the Floor Masters."

"If you are lucky and make it out alive, in the next Instance, you might catch the 18th Level's Battle of the Two Alliances."

"I have participated twice. That intensity is simply indescribable. Various Combo Skills, various god-tier coordinations, various unconstrained, untraceably brilliant ideas. Tsk, tsk, tsk, thinking about it now, it feels as if my soul is trembling."

Chen Ran: "..."

The Hundred Ghost Feast, specifically letting a group of Newbies fight against each other, in order to consume the increasingly numerous Newbies in the 18th Level.

The Battle of the Two Alliances was an all-out war of the entire Hell, using this to consume the players of all Star Ratings in the 18th Level.

Moreover, listening to the meaning in Diwu Zeyi's words, these two kinds of events seamlessly connected, giving Newbies absolutely no chance to catch their breath.

Chen Ran forced his body to sit on the surface, felt for his Cigarette Case, and wanted to take a drag.

But feeling that his current condition wasn't suitable for smoking, he chose to...

Light the Cigarette but not smoke it, just smell it.

"In the 18th Level, are there any organizations that resist the Alliance?"

"There shouldn't be."

"In the 18th Level, is there any method that can circumvent these two situations?"

"Become Death Row inmates."

Chen Ran: "..."

"I'm very curious, why hasn't any organization been born in the 18th Level? That is, the kind of collective that strives for some sort of belief?"

"They aren't stupid."

Chen Ran: "..."

True. With the Mental Cultivation Method existing, brainwashing a Three-Star player was harder than ascending to the heavens.

Naturally, it was impossible to give birth to that kind of player who strove by relying on belief.

An organization without a belief was just a sheet of loose sand. Therefore, in Hell...

There were no organizations that resisted the Alliance.

"If one wants to live longer in Hell, besides Heart Cultivation, what else needs to be paid attention to? Or rather, how should one cultivate the body?"

Cultivating the body: Improving oneself.

"Exercise the body, sleep early and rise early, avoid certain foods, meditate, abstain from sex..."

Chen Ran: "..."

At this time.

Qiu Yinong asked unexpectedly, "Do players need to carry out psychological construction to prevent themselves from getting lost amidst constant slaughter?"

Extreme battle of wits.

Extreme slaughter.

Extreme pressure.

Psychological problems would arise sooner or later. Qiu Yinong wasn't quite certain whether Heart Cultivation could truly resolve it.

"No need. The Mental Cultivation Method can resolve it. Unless you choose to stay stuck below Three-Star forever, only then will you need psychological construction."

Chen Ran didn't feel surprised. If the Mental Cultivation Method couldn't even prevent players from being eroded by slaughter, then the Mental Cultivation Method would be too trashy.

He brought the half-burned Cigarette to his mouth and took a small sip, asking the most critical question: "The First Floor Master..."

"What is his Skill?"

Although Eternal Kingdom countered everything, the premise was that he had to determine someone was lying, and he still had to be able to use it.

Like Turned Upside Down or Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back, these bizarre Skills made Chen Ran using Eternal Kingdom become abnormally difficult.

Diwu Zeyi thought for a moment. "First, it can be confirmed that it is a Superego Skill."

"Second, it can be confirmed that his Skill intensity is definitely very absurd."

"Finally, it can be confirmed that, in my memory, he hasn't used it in front of me."

Chen Ran: "..."

'Acting cheeky makes you very happy, does it?'