Chapter 1 The Titan Holy City

The Titan Holy City was buried deep beneath the God's Domain, surrounded by a complex labyrinth of winding passages that easily disoriented players within this natural maze.

Despite being underground, the maze was illuminated by numerous blue, glowing crystals embedded in the cavern ceiling, providing decent visibility.

Shi Feng and his team were teleported to the entrance of this natural maze upon entering the portal.

"This is magnificent!"

The sight left Shuise蔷薇 and the others, who were visiting for the first time, utterly awestruck.

Even experts like You Baiye and 噬血风情 wore solemn expressions.

Aside from the grandeur, ten colossal Titan statues, each hundreds of meters tall, loomed on either side of the entrance. Each statue radiated immense power, making players feel like tiny boats adrift on a vast ocean, easily capsized.

Although they had anticipated the task Shi Feng assigned them would be challenging, witnessing this scene firsthand underscored its gravity.

Their keen instincts immediately registered the surrounding aura of impending death upon setting foot here.

The depths of the entrance resembled the gaping maw of a colossal beast, waiting for them to enter and meet their doom.

"They're just statues, how can they exert such powerful pressure? Are they alive?" Shuise 蔷薇 scanned the towering statues, her brow furrowed. She could sense that the oppressive aura emanated primarily from these ten statues, which would severely hinder their combat effectiveness.

"Don't worry, they are just statues. Their primary purpose is to deter monsters from approaching," Shi Feng explained.

These ten statues depicted the ten saints who originally founded the Titan Holy City.

According to legend, each of these ten saints possessed power rivaling that of gods. Before their deaths, they used their remaining strength to create the Titan Divine Armor to protect the Titan Holy City. It was said that whoever donned the Titan Divine Armor would wield power comparable to the gods. However, after several cataclysms befell the Titan Holy City, the Titan Divine Armor was scattered and lost.

In his previous life, Shi Feng had the good fortune to see one piece of the Titan Divine Armor. Although it was just a gauntlet, it was of Legendary rank, greatly enhancing the wearer's Strength attribute. The player who equipped the Titan Gauntlet could even go toe-to-toe with a player wielding a Legendary battle axe, using only a Fragmented Legendary weapon.

Weapons usually provide the greatest boost to a player's stats among all equipment. The fact that a single gauntlet from the Titan Divine Armor could contend with a Legendary weapon in terms of strength demonstrated just how powerful the Titan Divine Armor was.

Shi Feng believed that equipping a complete set of Titan Divine Armor to fight against a god was entirely possible.

Unfortunately, the Titan Divine Armor remained shrouded in mystery. Even after ten years, players had only discovered three pieces of the Titan Divine Armor, each claimed by a different person, who were subsequently targeted by countless assassins.

"Alright, let's all go in," Shi Feng clapped his hands, signaling everyone to adjust their formation and officially begin the entry trial of the Titan Holy City.

After several minutes of walking along the straight maze passage, everyone stopped.

"Guild Leader, there are four paths ahead. Which one should we take?" Shuise 蔷薇 asked Shi Feng, "Should we send someone to scout them out first?"

All four paths felt equally dangerous, making it difficult to decide.

"Which path did you take last time?" Although Shi Feng knew the way, he still asked Youlan.

"We explored all four paths last time. One was guarded by a Great Lord-ranked Boss, two were filled with traps and ambushing monsters, and another had many monsters guarding it. After we killed those monsters, we discovered that the path led to even more forks. So, we ultimately chose the path guarded by the Great Lord-ranked Boss. However, we didn't get far before being wiped out by three Great Lord-ranked Bosses," Youlan explained slowly.

Their previous adventure yielded no information whatsoever.

That's why Youlan wanted to find experts to try challenging the three Great Lord-ranked Bosses again.

The members of Yi Xiao Qingcheng couldn't help but shudder at the thought of the three Great Lords. A hundred-man team would struggle to fight a single Great Lord, because in addition to the Great Lord, there were many other monsters. Only a few players could truly focus on fighting the Great Lord, let alone three Great Lords.

Before they could even engage the three Great Lords, they were overwhelmed by the accompanying monsters…

"I see, then let's go check out the path with more forks," Shi Feng nodded.

"Generally speaking, the correct path should be the one guarded by a Boss. Taking a detour is just a waste of time," Youlan explained.

"Your reasoning might be correct in other virtual reality games, but in God's Domain, it's only half-right," Shi Feng said with a smile, "This is an entry trial, the ultimate goal is to get through the maze, not to defeat all the Bosses, isn't it?"

In fact, all four paths from the start lead to the exit of the maze, it just depends on what the players choose.

If their strength is sufficient, they can, of course, take the most difficult Boss route. This route is the most direct and saves the most time. Conversely, a place with many forks, as Youlan said, is very time-consuming, but the safest.

Youlan and the others were using a conventional mindset to clear the trial, choosing the most difficult path right from the start, so it's no wonder they were wiped out shortly after entering the maze.

The matter of these four paths is the hard-won lesson learned from the experience of countless players.

When Shi Feng and his team came here in the past, they were just as ignorant, insisting on killing all the guarding Bosses, only to be wiped out repeatedly, without any suspense. Fortunately, they would always have a priest stay far away. After they were killed by the Bosses, they would be resurrected to continuously challenge the Bosses. Luckily, this was the entry trial, so no matter how many times players died, they would not lose experience points after being resurrected, but they would lose skill proficiency.

Unlike Youlan who was so naive, rushing forward with everyone, without even a single person left to resurrect the others. They wasted their one opportunity and didn't even have a chance to collect information.

Youlan and the others suddenly realized after hearing what Shi Feng said.

Afterwards, Shi Feng led everyone along the path with the most forks, deliberately making many wrong turns, causing the team to fall into traps and difficult situations. However, with the team's strength, dealing with these traps and various level 40 or so elemental creatures was a piece of cake.

In less than two hours, everyone arrived at a large hall, which was the size of four or five soccer fields. At the end of the hall, a large iron gate was tightly closed, and a steel statue that was more than ten meters tall, with red light flashing in its eyes, was walking back and forth in front of the iron gate. In addition to this largest steel statue, there were also rows of smaller steel statues around, each holding a weapon, like well-trained troops.

Steel Slaughterer, High Lord, Level 44, HP 50,000,000.

Steel Guardian, Lord, Level 42, HP 7,000,000.

Steel Observer, Elite, Level 40, HP 120,000.

"Kele, you go tank the Slaughterer later, the other MTs each take a Guardian! Baiye, you go pull all the Elite monsters away first, all magic-based classes assist from the side and clear the small monsters first, let's go!"

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