Chapter 377 Where the Nightmare Begins

"Don't tell me, the dark and scary atmosphere of this game is really good."

Liu Hao controlled the barbarian while cleaning up the monsters around him, while admiring.

"Isn't it? It's much better than the bright feeling in "Road to Heaven". This scene of blood and severed limbs splashing is so cool."

"Decompress!"

Since it was my first time to play, it was very fresh.

I want to visit here and stroll there.

In some packages scattered by travelers on the road, there are a lot of materials to complete the world view.

After clicking on it, a long and lengthy article did not pop up.

Instead, travelers record a scary or bizarre story in the form of a diary.

It will not affect the continued advancement of the plot, nor will it affect the battle.

"There is a cave here, go in and have a look."

I clicked in out of curiosity.

There is a cave in the cave, and the underground area is not small.

It was dark and damp, and the ground was covered with stagnant water.

There were also some rotting corpses lying in the pool.

As soon as the two of them passed by, the corpse in the pool suddenly stood up and walked towards them with unsteady steps.

"Fuck him!"

With that said, Liu Hao clicked the left button directly.

Originally there was still a short distance away from the rotting corpse, but the character was directly sucked towards it, saving the effort of frequently clicking to move.

The hammer of the ancestors slammed down.

However, the carrion did not fall to the ground as expected, and only lost a quarter of its health.

Look carefully again.

The color of the carrion walking at the front was a little different, and it was obviously a little bigger.

"Elite monster!"

This is the first one I've encountered.

The carrion waved his hand, and a "dented" wall appeared behind the two of them, blocking their escape route. Then he slapped it down, knocking off about 15% of the barbarian's health.

"Haha, isn't this drizzle?"

The two opened fire, and it didn't take long for the corpse to fall to the ground.

With a clanking sound, several items fell out.

"The sound is pretty cool to hear. Regardless of whether the thing is good or bad, at least the moment it pops up it's quite exciting."

"Yes, there are too few drops in Road to Paradise. You may not see one drop after playing for five or six minutes."

There are gold coins and equipment, two white and one yellow.

The yellow one is a breastplate.

What he has on him is still of white quality. The next level is blue magic equipment, and the next level is rare yellow equipment.

Looking at the green numbers followed by dozens of numbers after the armor, life, and strength, even though he didn't say it, he still felt a deep sense of satisfaction in his heart.

The effects of the equipment are immediate.

In the past, monsters that might still have some health remaining with one strike of the Hammer of the Ancestors can now be instantly killed with one strike.

Shen Zijun on the side looked envious.

"Don't throw away the good breastplate once you get it. I also want to have a good time."

"OK!"

A few minutes later, after defeating the last elite monster in the cave, a villager who had fled here was rescued.

A shining golden treasure chest appeared inside.

There is a nice golden light effect at the moment of clicking, and this time there are more tinkling sounds, and they sound more pleasant to the ear.

There are piles of gold coins in threes and fives. Although the total number is only a little over one hundred, the visual effect is full.

At the same time, the level continued to increase, reaching level seven.

Both characters can also learn AOE skills from the talent tree.

What the two of them didn't realize was.

Just after getting the AOE skill, the density of monsters increased significantly.

When a skill is activated, several numbers pop up instantly, and then disappear instantly.

There are white normal numbers, yellow critical hit numbers, and blue suppressed damage numbers.

Even during critical strikes, the sound effects will occasionally change to sound more powerful.

Moreover, when a critical hit occurs, the monster will also produce different effects following its physical characteristics.

If you are hit by the mystic's fire skill, your body will be ignited and your body will be charred.

If you are hit by ice-based skills, your body will be covered with frost. If you accumulate too much elemental damage, it will freeze. After you die, your body will break into pieces with the ice.

If killed by the hammer of ancestors, some corpses' heads will explode, and some corpses will have obvious dents.

When killed by sharp blade skills, the body will be cut into pieces of different sizes according to different slashing angles.

In addition, almost every wave of monsters will drop something when they die, sometimes it is equipment, sometimes it is potions, sometimes it is red balls that replenish blood, and sometimes it is gold coins.

Liu Hao himself couldn't explain why this game was so fun.

But I just can’t help but want to keep playing.

Subconsciously, you will look forward to the next special attack effect, the next big golden critical hit number that pops up, and the next piece of equipment that can improve the character.

Not long after, we came to Tristram.

Without rushing to complete the task, the two of them split up and explored here.

"Hey, there was a little boy named White. His left leg was eaten by a demon, and he was later fitted with a prosthetic leg made by a blacksmith. White's prosthetic leg? This is an Easter egg."

"This witch named Adelia is not a good person at first glance. She lives in such a remote place and wears such burnt clothes."

"This guy named Daniel, holy shit, isn't this the treacherous guide in Road to Heaven 3? Why is he lame? His legs were broken because he was so treacherous?"

After meeting Kane, the village chief of Tristram, the two nephalem and prince Aidan walked into the church of Tristram that was filled with demons.

This place is called a church, but it is more like a dungeon.

It is bottomless and full of monsters.

The density of monsters inside is higher than outside.

Liu Hao's eyes lit up when he saw this, and he rushed up without hesitation with the Barbarian.

For small monsters, he killed them with Whirlwind Slash.

For elite monsters, he used the Hammer of the Ancestors.

With the powerful control skills and long-range firepower of the Mystic, he chopped melons and vegetables all the way.

There are more monsters and more things dropped.

I thought it would be troublesome to pick up the scraps after defeating the monsters, and then I encountered a small plot.

The two rescued a little demon, who could help them pick up some sundries.

Although the efficiency is not high, it is better than nothing.

Go down the dungeon.

The more you kill, the more fun it is, and the more you kill, the more addicted it is.

There are more and more skills, and all kinds of novel skills can't help but want to try.

There are more and more equipment, and every green number that improves the attribute stimulates the nerves.

The ugly but weak monsters are like troubles in life.

One hammer down.

Smoke vanished!

As the equipment became better and better, the monsters encountered became stronger and stronger.

From the little demons and skeletons at the beginning, to the various huge monsters holding weapons, charging and spitting fireballs.

When they went down to the third floor.

The two finally encountered the first monster worth challenging.

Butcher!

In a room that can be called a slaughterhouse, there were dismembered humans everywhere, and blood was everywhere.

At the moment of opening the slaughterhouse.

Holding a serrated bone chopping knife, with double horns on his head, bloated body, and bright red skin, the monster rushed over suddenly.

The speed was so fast that the two had no time to react.

With just one knife, the thick-skinned barbarian lost half of his blood.

In less than a second, the second knife was chopped down quickly.

Liu Hao didn't even have time to use the life-saving skills, and he died on the spot.

"Damn, what is this, it's too strong!?"

The mystic released an ice ring without hesitation.

Immune to control!

He hurriedly flashed to distance himself.

As soon as he threw an ice arrow, the bloated butcher caught up with a speed that was completely inconsistent with his body.

With just one knife, the mystic was killed instantly.

"Ah?! How to fight this thing?"

Liu Hao's face was a little excited.

"It's interesting only when there is a challenge. Isn't it always like this in the Road to Heaven series?"

Fortunately, this time the death was a plot kill.

Prince Aidan, who had been following him all the way, forced the butcher back with a strange force, and the two Nephalem retreated quickly.

In order to investigate the truth, the butcher must be defeated.

The witch Adria in the town was extremely excited when she learned about this.

From her, I learned that this power belongs to the High Heaven.

If you want to defeat the butcher, you must use this power to weaken it.

Set off on the journey again and enter a new map.

Find the power from the High Heaven that has disappeared in the Sanctuary for a long time.

Then the two discovered.

Tristram, which they had just visited for a long time, is just a corner of the map.

This is a large open world map.

After playing for more than an hour, the game has just begun.

From here, we have just walked out of the novice village and completed the novice mission!

A corner of the story has finally been revealed.

With the Diablo LOGO appearing in the center of the screen, the adventure has just begun.

When the LOGO ends, the perspective returns to Tristram again.

There are no longer only two of them in the town.

Many players are running around busy, all of whom are players who have just passed the plot.

There are krypton gold players, who have already changed into a set of cool transmogrifications, and are barbarians with flames all over their bodies and holding skeleton hammers.

Some are gloomy and terrifying, and even the necromancers who summon skeleton soldiers have changed their appearance, and the skeletons' eyes are still burning with ghostly will-o'-the-wisp.

Some players who started playing the game early have reached level 39, and their equipment is obviously very strong.

Some players run back and forth between the enchantment shop and the blacksmith shop, as if they are washing the attributes of their equipment.

Such a lively Tristram shocked the two.

Liu Hao muttered to himself: "Jun'er, are you sure this thing is a spiritual sequel?"

Shen Zijun looked at the vast map, which had only explored less than 10%, and then took a look at the various activity icons on the map whose functions were not yet known, and the busy players in the town.

As he said this, Shen Zijun looked at this big brother who had grown up with him.

Don't like it?

It shouldn't be, isn't it quite fun?

"Lin Mo said yes."

Liu Hao's face was a little complicated, and he sighed and said: "It's not that I don't like it. I actually have been YYing for a long time. What would it be like if the road to heaven was presented with elements similar to the open world. It's just that this is Diablo. Although it looks better made than the road to heaven."

Just some?

Shen Zijun knew that this big brother was nostalgic again, and didn't say much.

He felt that, judging from the content that can be played at present.

It exceeded a lot.

But soon, the two stopped entangled in this matter.

Keep playing!

This type of game has a common problem, and the plot expression is generally average.

Because it is a top-down perspective, or at a slant of forty-five degrees.

The characters' plot performances basically rely on standing still dialogues, and the characters' body movements and facial expressions cannot be seen.

However, Diablo uses a stupid way to burn money to make up for this shortcoming.

That is, CG.

The key plot nodes basically have long or short CG animations to make up for the lack of emotional explosion points brought by the game type.

At the same time, although the Nephalem controlled by the player has powerful military force.

But force cannot defeat cleverness.

Sometimes you can save innocent villagers, but sometimes you can only watch the tragedy happen and be powerless.

Witness all kinds of people struggling to survive in this desperate world.

At the same time, the plot has been shrouded in dark clouds.

How will the sealed Diablo escape?

Who killed the dead King Leoric of Khanduras?

Where did the missing little prince of Khanduras, Albrecht, go?

What is the purpose of Adria, who is extremely fanatical about power in Tristram?

The footsteps of the two Nephalems have traveled all over the Kingdom of Khanduras.

After defeating the butcher, we were able to continue exploring the secrets of the church.

Defeat Leoric, who has become a skeleton king, and liberate the soul of this wise king in his lifetime.

Later, we found out that Archbishop Lazarus, who seemed to be a good man before, was actually a minion of Mephisto and the culprit who kidnapped the little prince.

After defeating Lazarus, we found out that his purpose was to use this body to let Diablo return to Sanctuary.

After defeating the Black Knight who assassinated Leoric halfway, we finally found the final BOSS Diablo.

The two Nephalem ushered in the most difficult battle in the entire game.

Extremely high damage, thick blood volume, flames burning all over the screen, and the battlefield that is constantly decreasing.

"You go eat blood balls, I'll kite first."

"Hide quickly, hide quickly! This move will kill instantly!"

"Hold on, I'll save you."

After a tense and exciting battle lasting ten minutes, the mystic whose life-saving skills were all on CD died first.

Liu Hao's barbarians held on to the end, and a hammer of the ancestors smashed out, taking away the last bit of Diablo's health.

"NICE!!!"

"Handsome brother Hao, fortunately, fortunately, I almost died."

Diablo wailed and fell to the ground, and a CG was played.

In the plot, it was not the Nephalem who defeated this demon king, but Aidan, the prince of King Leoric.

Aidan dragged his injured body forward and took the sealed soul stone from Diablo's forehead.

The huge red body gradually dissipated, and the body of the little prince appeared.

At this time, the seal could no longer hold on. Although Diablo was defeated this time, the immortal demon king would come back sooner or later.

As the child of the wise king Leoric, he resolutely inserted the soul stone into his forehead for the people of his kingdom, wanting to use his body to strengthen the seal and imprison the demon king in the soul stone forever.

Aidan returned to Tristram with this soul stone.

At this time, the prince was already in a trance, and even couldn't see clearly what was in front of him.

When he was about to faint, he saw Adria, who lived in a remote place, was wearing revealing clothes and posing at the door of the house.

Then, somehow, he subconsciously followed Adria and walked into the house.

The CG ended, and in the darkness, Aidan and Adria's low breathing came.

"Hiss, this ending, it's obvious that the story is not finished?"

"Damn, this Adria is really problematic."

"I really want to know the story behind it."

The CG ended a story, but left a tail.

Back to the game.

Here, Diablo's body fell to the ground.

On the body, a sky full of equipment potions popped out, occupying the entire battlefield.

There were white, blue, and yellow equipment.

Then, a golden light flashed, a weapon fell to the ground, an orange light shot straight into the sky, and a conspicuous five-pointed star appeared on the map.

"Fuck! What is this? It's glowing? What is it! A weapon?"

"Damn, I have one too. Damn, this thing looks awesome!"

The two couldn't wait to pick up the equipment.

Liu Hao's barbarian got a one-handed hammer called [Echoing Fury]. Not only is the damage high, but the key is that the attack speed is very fast.

He was so green when he saw it.

After the initial time, there are few equipment that can add so many attributes at one time.

Looking at the attributes that can be increased after replacing the equipment, a smile can't help but hang on his face.

It's the joy of seeing the treasure.

"What about you? What happened?"

Shen Zijun let out a long breath with a complicated look and said, "[Coward's Wedding Ring], a ring, the description on it says it is the transformation of a hero."

Liu Hao was stunned for a moment.

This is an impressive character in "Road to Heaven 3".

A man named Salit, nicknamed Coward.

The mission spent a lot of words describing his cowardice, just to escape the monster's pursuit and return home to propose to his beloved girl.

However, just before returning home and seeing the girl.

Salit discovered the evil plan of voodoo, intending to sacrifice all the people in the village to the evil god.

In order to protect his beloved girl and raise his village, he, who has always been timid, stood up for the first time and sacrificed himself to help the protagonist defeat the Voodoo Sect.

However, he never got to see the girl until his death, nor was he able to resolve the misunderstanding with her.

This character was created quite successfully at the beginning.

Salit is not a good person, but he is not a bad person either, just an ordinary person in troubled times.

A small character with a complete character arc.

Let these two veteran players of Road to Paradise 3 sigh.

Shen Zijun asked with a smile: "Do you still think Diablo is not a spiritual sequel? There is a photo of Salit's fiancée on this ring. Unless you have experienced the plot in depth, you cannot make such a heartfelt tribute. "

However, Liu Hao still shook his head.

Before Shen Zijun could be surprised, he took the lead and said: "Excellent works should not be viewed as spiritual sequels. This is unfair to Diablo, and in terms of production level, it far exceeds Road to Paradise 3. However, I still prefer the Road to Paradise series, and I will continue to support the sequel. I believe that the fourth sequel will be a classic and fun game, as good as Diablo.”

Shen Zijun couldn't help but smile.

Concepts need to change slowly.

The beauty in memory is not the beauty in reality.

Today's Baofeng Entertainment is no longer the company that only produced high-quality products.

"Are you coming to level up tomorrow? Accompany me to level up a set of equipment. There are still many dungeons that I haven't visited yet."

"Okay! I still have several days before my vacation." (End of Chapter)