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Chapter 3036: Game Selection

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Since they had already come this far and even cracked the space Sealing, there was naturally no such thing as quitting halfway.

Without any hesitation, they stepped directly into the Paradise Land.

After entering, their first impression was silence.

There was no human clamor at all, like a quiet mountain village after lights-out at night; apart from the sparse sound of wind, no other sounds could be heard.

"Listen for any recent sounds," Angel instructed Speedy.

Speedy immediately used "Wind Sound," beginning to trace the sounds carried by the winds swirling nearby.

A few seconds later, Speedy gave an answer—

Within the last two minutes, there had been no strange sounds.

Angel wasn’t surprised by this; "Wind Sound" could only investigate sounds from the last two minutes, and that earlier "Let’s play a game" voice had already been half an hour ago.

The reason he had Speedy investigate was merely to gamble on a bit of luck.

"Probe the location of your Avatar; we’ll go directly to your Avatar," Angel continued to say to Speedy.

This time Speedy did give an answer. Though it couldn’t pinpoint the exact location of its Avatar, it could still grasp a rough direction.

Under Speedy’s guidance, the group began walking deeper into the Paradise Land.

Their pace was very slow, advancing purely by normal footspeed. It wasn’t that they were unwilling to speed up, but they feared that if they moved too fast, they might brush against a space trap.

After all, there was a Space Series Wizard within the Paradise Land; this was certain.

This Space Series Wizard might, out of some conscience, have refrained from setting traps near the outer space Sealing for those outside. But the fact that he had locked down the Paradise Land showed that he felt no attachment to those inside.

Who knew if he had laid a space trap halfway, or left behind a space fissure indistinguishable to the naked eye? So, for their own safety, keeping their spiritual power sight open, carefully Observing the surrounding details and slowly advancing, was the best option for them.

After about three minutes, they had thoroughly scouted the roughly two-hundred-meter area around them.

There were no traps, but beyond two hundred meters, there was a space barrier.

This barrier enveloped the entire nearby area. Just as Dox had said before coming in, this was like a new space Sealing.

It seemed that this Space Wizard really was performing a "matryoshka" act inside the Paradise Land.

There were likely multiple such barriers within the Paradise Land, using space Sealing to divide it into numerous zones.

This approach wasn’t unexpected. That Space Series Wizard should be in league with the attackers, and his strength probably wasn’t too great. Otherwise, when dealing with Bilun Tree Court, they wouldn’t have needed to wait until most of the Birlos Family had left before daring to strike.

Since he didn’t have crushing strength, that Space Wizard was likely within the level of a Second-level Wizard at best, and had probably not set foot on the path of True Knowledge.

And the Paradise Land was, after all, an open-air training ground under the Elysium Pavillion. The Elysium Pavillion had poured countless resources into creating the most suitable cultivation environment for Wizards of different Elements.

There was a threshold for patrons entering the Paradise Land, and the price to pay was not cheap. Ordinary Apprentices simply couldn’t afford it; it was basically peak Apprentices or Official Wizards who would come here to train.

Across such a vast Paradise Land, the number of Official Wizards might be no less than five or six.

That Space Series Wizard wanting to face several Wizards head-on was basically impossible. So his only real choice was "divide and conquer." By separating these Official Wizards via space Sealing and dealing with them one by one, things became much easier.

Therefore, the appearance of barriers inside the Paradise Land and the matryoshka-style space Sealing did not strike Angel as very surprising.

What he cared more about now was whether these barriers were connected to the external space Sealing.

With this question in mind, Angel began analyzing the space barrier.

After about half a minute, before Angel could reach even a rough conclusion, Kaier spoke up first: "I–I, I think I’ve found the entrance to the next zone!"

Following the sound, they saw Kaier standing beneath a gigantic banyan tree, pointing at its trunk.

On the banyan’s trunk was a clear human-face Pattern. The facial features were distinct, the eyes closed, as if slumbering.

Below the human-face Pattern was an archway, its opening pitch black, nothing visible within. The direction of Kaier’s finger was precisely this archway.

The reason Kaier took this Door to be the entrance to another zone was because this tree, by coincidence, stood right on the space barrier. This Door too was situated on the space barrier.

From these details, wasn’t this Door very likely a passage to another zone?

As they were pondering, the human-face Pattern on the banyan suddenly opened its eyes. Its eyes were dull, devoid of any vitality, like a preset Puppet, sweeping its vacant gaze over the group.

Immediately after, it emitted a mechanical voice: "Zone 1 Players have assembled. The game is about to begin."

"Game selection commencing. Five, four, three..."

"Two, one..."

As the countdown from the tree-face ended, its dull eyes suddenly began flashing with different words.

The flickering was so rapid that the naked eye could hardly Capture any useful information. But through spiritual power sight, they could make out some of the more frequently appearing words.

For example: Underwater Combat, Undersea Gold Rush, Bubble World, Highland Free-for-all, Forest Treasure Hunting, Dense Forest Adventure, Flame Scramble, Lava Lake Black-and-White Chess...

Judging from the literal meaning, these all appeared to be different "game titles," seemingly corroborating the "game selection" mentioned by the human-face Pattern.

Furthermore, from the descriptive modifiers preceding these games, they practically covered all kinds of elemental environments inside the Paradise Land.

This seemed to suggest that the person who created this game had already transformed every part of the Paradise Land into a different game?

The group couldn’t help but look at one another.

In each other’s eyes, they could all see the same doubt: could such earth-shaking modifications really be accomplished in such a short time?

"Whether it’s real or not, we’ll know if we go take a look." The speaker was Kaier. As he stared at that string of game names, a hint of curiosity flashed in his eyes.

Dox gave Kaier a glance, a trace of doubt flickering in his gaze; then, after pondering for a few seconds, he looked toward the human-face Pattern.

"How do we choose?"

The human-face Pattern said in a mechanical voice, "You may call ’stop’ at any time. The moment you call stop is when the game makes its choice."

Call stop? This method of selection was nothing unusual.

Having obtained the method, Dox didn’t immediately call stop, but instead turned to Kaier beside him: "Why don’t you be the one to call it?"

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