Chapter 583 - 188: Netherworld Cave (Happy New Year)
Compared to the fixed environments of the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, the Colorful Mist Coast, and the Frosty Winter Snowfield.
The environment inside the Netherworld Cave is full of randomness.
During the player’s exploration, they might encounter dangerous monsters or various treasures left by the Netherworld Crossing Clan for trial warriors.
After analysis was scanned, it was discovered that there were still Primordial Monsters inside the Netherworld Cave that refresh after death.
From both a profitability perspective and in terms of interest, the Netherworld Cave meets the requirements for establishing space nodes.
The only drawback is the lack of balance in monster strength.
Players might encounter very weak monsters or super monsters difficult for newbies to fight against, leaning more towards exploration by veteran players.
However, this issue can be improved by setting up the Newbie Village.
During the investigation of the cave, he also discovered that during the long years of the Netherworld Crossing Clan’s disappearance, numerous descending forces had settled here.
In order to compete for the cave’s wealth, these forces had engaged in endless wars here.
After many forces perished, they left clan land ruins in different spaces; some residual forces still obtain development resources by exploring trial spaces.
If the Newbie Village is set in the Netherworld Cave, these descending forces will also be player challenge targets.
Regarding the specific location of the Newbie Village, Qi Sheng chose the first layer of space in the Netherworld Cave.
Here lies a Mechanical Relics site, left by a destroyed descending force.
The monsters inside have been completely cleared by this force, leaving only a large number of mechanized lifeforms active, with generally low strength.
Players can use this as a starting point to explore the cave.
Qi Sheng’s consciousness descended into the first layer of the cave space in that time.
A vast mechanical relic appeared before his eyes, standing in the center of the wasteland, like a sleeping steel giant beast.
The relic’s exterior was made of rusted metal, the surface covered with complex gears and pipes.
The ground space was covered with glowing fluorescent minerals and shattered mechanical remnants, and there existed many low-level mechanical creatures, such as Mechanical Spiders or Mechanical Worms.
They sustain their life by gnawing on the soil and minerals within the space.
The munitions factory within the abandoned relics was still slowly operational, continually producing different types of mechanical life, but it was mostly in a semi-defunct state, unable to burst soldiers rapidly as it did at its peak.
In the entire first layer of space, the closer you got to the Mechanical Relics, the higher the probability of encountering powerful mechanical life.
His latest creation, a growth pet Mechanical Guardian, was found in this Mechanical Relics, based on a life template.
According to the guidance retrieved from relic information, the Mechanical Guardian was once the most powerful weapon of war within the now-extinct mechanical life tribe.
Even analysis of life structure strength shows it had surpassed their "creator".
Unfortunately, the super weapon had yet to unleash its power when this mechanical life tribe perished prematurely.
This is also a feature of the Cave World.
Many descending forces establish clan lands in the Cave Space; to acquire resources, they would explore other trial spaces, inevitably encountering other descending forces, sparking wars for resources.
The ironic part is that the wars in the Cave Space often lead to a situation where there’s no way back.
For instance, a descending force occupying space number 3 might initiate a war against a force in space number 19, only to find that after the war, as they prepared to return fully loaded, layered space movement causes them to completely lose their clan land coordinates, thus discovering they cannot return.
Therefore, the war mode in the Netherworld Cave is extremely brutal.
Descending forces generally choose to exhaust resources in the first layer of space before relocating their entire clan to the next random space. Upon discovering another force there, it’s immediately a life-or-death war.
As Qi Sheng’s consciousness explored deeper into the Cave World, information about different spaces appeared in his mind.
The first space’s sky was covered by billowing smoke, the ground a churning sea of lava, with massive craters continuously spewing magma and volcanic ash.
The entire space’s land area accounted for only 19.5%, the black rock surface composing the land was roasted red by high temperatures, continuously emitting scorching auras.
Space analysis information presented itself at this moment.
Molten Fire Space: An elemental space scenario created by the Netherworld Clan capturing numerous Fire Elemental Lives, burying many resources and treasures for the trial and growth of new-generation warriors.
The vision then shifted, revealing a space shrouded in thin green mist.
The land was a soft swamp, black mud constantly bubbling, emitting nauseous odors, with giant Mushrooms and twisted trees growing.
Inside lived a large number of poison fog crawlers.
Poison Fog Space: A toxic space created by the Netherworld Clan collecting numerous toxic creatures, burying a small number of treasures, for the trial and growth of new-generation junior warriors.
In this space, Qi Sheng also found clan land ruins left by a residual descending force.
After long years of neglect, the ruins had been overtaken by various toxic plants, vines with spotted surfaces covered the entire outer wall of the ruins.
The vision continued to shift, this time revealing a world of lightning and thunder to Qi Sheng.
Gigantic electromagnetic storms raged across the space, with thick lightning bolts incessantly striking the ground, where metal ores were exposed and distorted into various strange shapes by electromagnetic force, some resembling giant spikes, others spiral-shaped pillars, amidst intense electromagnetic interference in the air.
Even mining robots made by the Arms Merchant Guild struggled to work normally in such an environment due to intense electromagnetic interference.
Magnetic Storm Space: A special scene created by the Netherworld Clan capturing numerous Thunder Element Lives, burying many resources and treasures, including the Jiuyin Divine Gift Certificate (already lost), for ultimate warriors to trial and grow.
After successively reviewing a large amount of space information and confirming the feasibility of establishing a space node in this particular space, Qi Sheng’s consciousness returned to the first-layer space.
After leaving coordinate information in the first-layer space of the cave, his consciousness followed the guidance back to the Primordial Altar.
From the big map of the Pale Continent Region.
The location of the Netherworld Cave is positioned slightly eastward in the center of the region between the Colorful Mist Coast and the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, also covered by the Player Corridor.
It will also be a distinctively dense dungeon area within player territory in the future.
After contacting Yan Ming, the construction of the space node was initiated.
Accompanied by sacrificial power consumption, an invisible space orbit rapidly formed.
The fourth space node of the Player Corps, he named it: Cave World.
In terms of space area, it benchmarks the Frost Winter Snow Region.
Once the space node framework was completed and connected to the Imperial Tomb Village space, he would initiate a new round of player recruitment.
This time, he plans to consume 300 million sacrificial power, issuing 300,000 game qualifications through the Monster World official website.