Chapter 154: Test Quest Opens! No One Has Passed!
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
After Jiang Bai and the others officially entered the Pula state region…
The other players finally arrived one after another.
When the soldiers of the kingdom’s royal family guarding the outer perimeter saw many players on the surface of the sea, they instantly became vigilant.
“Warning!
“Warning!
“You’re approaching the Pula state region!”
Just like what Jiang Bai and the others had encountered in the beginning, the soldiers of the kingdom’s royal family issued a warning.
“Hey! Look! There’s a large group of soldiers guarding the entrance of the Pula state region!”
“They’re warning us. Isn’t it better to stop first?”
“What’s there to be afraid of? It’s just a group of ordinary soldiers. We’ll just force our way through!”
“It’s not so, Bro. The opposite side is the level 65 imperial guard of the royal family! Do you really want to go over and look for trouble?”
“F*ck! If you hadn’t warned me, I would have charged over straight away!”
“Why are the guard of the royal family here? Isn’t the kingdom’s capital in the neighboring state region?”
“That’s right. Moreover, they’re guarding the outer perimeter of the state region. Could it be that they are looking for someone?”
The soldiers of the kingdom’s royal family guarding the outer perimeter of the Pula state region did not care what these players were discussing.
They sent a few small teams from the guard to the players’ ships to search for potentially dangerous people.
The restless players saw the words in black “Royal Family of the Kingdom – Imperial Guard Lvl 65” on the soldiers’ heads.
All of them were as quiet as kittens that had met a tiger. They did not look like the legendary Fourth Calamity at all!
The first team of players who had been inspected received the same test invitation as Jiang Bai when they passed by the guard.
The system’s announcement suddenly sounded at this moment.
[Ding! Reminder by the world of Sword and Magic to all the players. Maise the God, Snow Soft, Cloth Bag, Infinite Sin, and Singer Qiqi have completed the special test quest for the exchange meet.]
[The team selection quest for the exchange meet of the Pula state region’s outer perimeter is now open.]
[The team that has completed the test will be qualified to participate in the exchange meet on behalf of the Abu Haier Kingdom!]
Seeing the information in the system announcement, the players in the Pula state region were instantly excited!
“Maise the God has actually completed another special quest! As expected of a godly player!”
“The player team that has been inspected has now accepted the quest! I’m so envious that they can participate in the same quest as Maise the God!”
“The previous team function was activated here, wasn’t it? If I had come earlier, the one who had fulfilled the hidden conditions would not have been Maise the God!”
“Hey! It’s daytime now. Dream on!”
“That’s right. How can the hidden conditions be so easily triggered? Besides, do you have the strength of Maise the God?”
“Let’s not worry about that for now. Hurry up and let these soldiers finish their inspection. I’m going to accept the quest!”
…
However…
Although the test quest had been opened up because of Jiang Bai, the soldiers would not let the players participate in the test unconditionally.
They would select a team based on the conditions and send them to the arena for the test.
These selected teams would have a few common characteristics.
First, the teams had to be between four to six people.
Second, the average level of the teams was above 25.
Third, their strength was above average among the group of players.
The teams that met the conditions would receive the quest of the exchange meet under the interrogation of the soldiers.
“Wow! Platinum-level quest? I will only see gold-level quest at most!”
“Don’t make such a fuss. There are so many people around here. It shows that our team is so ignorant…”
Exclamations and excitements could be heard from the teams that accepted the platinum-level quest and that was about to participate in the same quest as Maise the God.
Following that, the mages behind the soldiers cast a teleportation spell to teleport the teams that met the requirements to the arena to fight against the imperial guard of the kingdom’s royal family.
Although the strength of the teams chosen by the soldiers was higher than the average players, most of them did not have a proper formation concept to restrain the enemy like Jiang Bai who could set a restraining formation based on the opponent’s situation.
After seeing the standard formation of the imperial guard, these teams also followed the traditional way of having the main tank in front, the DPS support class at the back, and the thief class at the flank to fight against the formation.
The result was just like what Cloth Bag had learned in the arena.
The moment a tank warrior did not quickly break through the imperial guard and cut into the rear row…
The summoner and Chaos Mage behind would tell the opponent.
If a mage in the rear row was given sufficient time, he would deal a lot of damage to the other party!
Chaos Mage’s huge colorless energy ball landed on the front row of the players.
The sudden decrease in HP shocked the main tank in the front row and the healer in the rear row!
After that, the summoner’s elemental elves bypassed their own tank warriors and rushed to the rear row of the other party!
The single guardian class of the other party could not stop so many summoned beasts at all. They could only watch helplessly as they ran past their line of defense, harassing and attacking the party’s class at the rear row.
Meanwhile, the assassin of the imperial guard followed the loophole in the line of defense and came to the side of the player’s healer.
One hand holding a dagger while the other hand a short sword, he directly stabbed them into the body of the player’s healer.
It directly cut through the healer’s HP and struck out the magic array shield!
Following that, there was a hidden figure spying on the mages and supporting the players in the dark.
The occult wizard of the imperial guard calmly restored the HP of the tank warrior, ensuring the front row of the party not to be shot down by the enemy’s concentrated fire.
Under this combo, a normal party would only be able to hold on for more than ten seconds before they were all struck out of the shield and teleported away.
However, some of the more powerful parties would come up with the same idea as Jiang Bai. They would ignore the tank warrior of the imperial guard and go straight to the rear row!
The party that carried out this strategy successfully reached the rear row of the imperial guard. However, under the interference of the resistance halo of Chaos Mage and the invisible assassin…
The imperial guard regrouped and quickly eliminated the party that the players had cut into the team.
Furthermore, the imperial guard’s tank warrior was experienced and would wait patiently when being held back.
Once a flaw was revealed, he would charge forward and return to the rear row of the mages that were guarding their party.
Most of the player teams could not find a character like Cloth Bag that could move quickly and pose a threat to the imperial guard’s tank warrior!
Furthermore, the team that could really stop the tank warrior and the steel golem would face the summoner!
A large number of player parties had fallen under the close cooperation of the imperial guard!
As the imperial guard continued to fight with the player parties, the relevant videos were also forwarded to the relevant player groups in the world of Sword and Magic.
“Is this the arena test quest at the outer perimeter of the Pula state region? The imperial guard looks so cool!”
“It’s the imperial guard of the kingdom’s royal family! Originally, they were at level 65. But in the arena, they would be reduced to the same level as the party that participated in the test!”
“Did Maise the God lead his team to pass such a test? Until now, not a single team has passed the test!”