T0 Gaming Guild Saves the World.

Chapter 262, Section 261: Another Double Boss
Dark red lava flows, volcanoes are accumulating and ready to erupt, muffled thunder rumbles, and red lightning can be faintly seen flashing in the distance. Between the flickering light and shadow, countless amorphous wisps of mist and wispy particles are writhing.

A sudden gust of wind swept across the parched, scorched earth, sending scalding sand and dust swirling through the air, obscuring everyone's view.

The heatwave roared and pounded against the barrier constructed of the Origin Elements, but anyone could see that the barrier would close sooner or later. Allowing players to observe the battle environment was the last act of kindness at this stage.

"Is this really the level of difficulty expected of the Underground Temple of the Clarities? It's way too much!"

Some players have already started complaining.

"Tearing apart space and collectively transferring into another dimension—this expressiveness is too exaggerated! What's the background of this tree?"

"Forget about their origins, all I want to know is, what makes these monsters from the first to seventh levels of the underground temple worthy of eating at the same table with it!"

Not only did the players lose their bearings while fighting on the boundary between reality and illusion, but the spectators were also getting goosebumps.

The frog-headed stitched monster and the puppet controlled by Nafiel, carrying a lantern on floors 1 to 3 to skip class, were difficult for players at the time. But if you still can't get past them now, you can only say you're hopelessly clumsy.

The fourth floor, featuring the Slime King, is a significant turning point in combat power. It's a forced bullet hell game, and the mechanism of having to seize damage output amidst the bullet hell has led many players to take the wrong path on their first attempt, relying on self-destruction and resurrection items to pass the level.

Because players can use their "ingenuity" to skip class, although it is powerful, it is not without hope.

The 5th level evil spirit aggregate is also a representative of the mechanic monsters. As long as you kill the spirit quickly, you can stop its combat power from soaring. I have hardly seen any players complaining that it is difficult. With proper equipment and items, it is equivalent to mowing grass.

Floors 6 and 7 are not yet open; they are a mining area, and the situation is unclear.

Starting from the 8th floor, the combat power of the floor guardians skyrockets.

The black cat's incredible magical ability to lure people into dreams.

An infinite combination of ever-changing doll nests.

Gorkaron and Nafiel's mixed doubles.

Today, the Origin Element's performance in actual combat has left players speechless.

There's a certain beauty in the image of Trisolarans and Homo sapiens sitting at the same table having a meal.

Is this really reasonable?

The boundary between reality and illusion had no time to consider whether it was reasonable or not; the Origin Elements began their activities once again.

The familiar flashing of the leaves foreshadows the impending elemental bombardment.

The fact that it wasn't an unfamiliar mechanism relieved everyone.

Each round of elemental bombardment reduces the safe zone by one, leaving only three in this round.

Stepping into the nearest fire elemental safe zone, only two seconds later, elemental light streams rained down on the area, accompanied by deafening explosions.

The crowd fell silent, showing signs of losing interest in communicating.

Maintaining concentration for extended periods of time is extremely taxing on everyone's brainpower.

Under intense pressure, people have no time to think and tend to act purely on instinct.

Jiang Heyi has played MMO games with other people.

When tackling challenging dungeons, it's common to have a great start and make up for the previous day's progress in one go, but then each subsequent run is worse than the last.

Regression is a classic element of this type of game, and most of the time, the deciding factor is mindset.

Jiang Heyi pondered for a moment, then smiled and asked the jailer, "How did you tell at a glance that Vanassis was a man?"

Even Gloria, who was experiencing a sun shower, turned her head and blinked curiously.

With his face and androgynous voice, Vannassus appealed to both men and women. Throughout his travels, very few people could determine his gender without getting to know him better.

Before the elemental bombardment had subsided, the jailer simply shouted an explanation: "Leg shape, toes, pelvic contour, skeleton."

Seeing the bewildered look on everyone's faces, he pursed his lips and said, "Forget it, I can't talk to people like you who don't observe carefully."

"Tea Master, you're a medical student, do you understand?" The bed blinked blankly.

"I studied veterinary medicine..."

“Maybe this is the jailer’s radar. Last time, he inexplicably saw through the nun’s core and realized that there was another monster beneath her,” Zhong Zemo said. “It’s the jailer’s strange superpower.”

"I can only say, he truly lives up to his reputation as the prison guard," Jiang Heyi concluded.

The jailer even stood up straight, looking quite proud.

The atmosphere in the team immediately lightened, everyone's tense nerves relaxed, and communication became smooth again.

As a team leader, observing teammates' condition and providing timely assistance and guidance is also an important part.

After the bombing ended, the Fire Element safe zone vanished without a trace.

There are only two spots to step on in the next round.

It's like a countdown to liquidation.

"Based on the pattern, there is a high probability that a fire elementalist will be generated."

No sooner had Jiang Heyi finished speaking than a majestic roar came from above the treetops.

The fiery red afterimage danced among the branches, causing the leaves to tremble and fall from the sky.

His whole body was engulfed in flames, burning fiercely.

The hair swayed gently in the flames, smooth and silky.

Like a majestic king, it paced around the boundary between reality and illusion with a disdainful gaze. Its tiger head, which was about the size of three or four basketballs, was tilted slightly, and its eyes revealed a human-like disdain.

Unlike the tigers we usually see, this one has a tail made up of six slender, reddish-brown snakes, which are now tilting their heads back and staring intently at the boundary between reality and illusion, just like the tiger's head.

The fire element distinguishes the design from the dark elements, making it even more oppressive.

Flames raged around him, and his claws, which had touched the ground, moved away, revealing clear scorch marks and a smoldering flame.

The scorching heatwave pounded on everyone at the boundary between reality and illusion, making their breathing heavy.

With a body twice the size of an adult Siberian tiger, there is a lot of space under its abdomen, perhaps allowing for a sliding tackle?

The brief standoff ended, and the fire elementalist suddenly turned his head and spewed flames mixed with azure towards the orange tea on the side of the group.

The zombie instantly spawned, shoved Orange Tea aside, and bravely endured the flames with his body before sacrificing himself.

The jailer has done a great service!

Fire elementals have extremely fast attack speeds, starting at 0 frames per second with no delay, providing a smooth and seamless experience.

When its first attack failed, it immediately jumped back to create distance and released another fireball in mid-air, which collided precisely with the fireball that the Primarch had predicted the landing point of, resulting in a violent explosion.

"I know the answer to this question. The Infernal Roar Tiger used Flamethrower," said the bed.

Zhong Zemo asked curiously, "You're not a Pokémon too...?"

The blanket turned around and blinked, overjoyed: "Oh, you're one too?"

Jiang Heyi was getting anxious: "What a load of rubbish! You guys need to focus! Blazing Flame, no, the Fire Elementalist is here!"

I thought it would jump back to create distance and then launch a long-range attack, but it turned into a blur the moment it landed, moving so fast that it was impossible to follow with the naked eye.

In an instant, it appeared behind Orange Tea, its claws flashing out, aimed straight at her throat.

"Pelicans, help me!"

The water-attribute pelican, who had previously enjoyed the orange tea and big fish set meal, leaped out and used its body to shield the Tea God from a fatal blow.

Despite their opposing attributes, the difference in strength was too great. The pelican's body was torn apart by a single claw, leaving only its large head flying to the side, its eyes stubbornly fixed on Orange Tea.

Orange Tea, who had already been pulled from the bed, quickly said, "I'll feed you to the fish when we get back!"

Only when it receives assurances can it rest in peace.

Gloria clicked her tongue in amazement: "This is the Elemental Realm, the origin of the elements, and there are still elemental spirits that dare to respond to your summoning. It's incredible."

The battle continued, and the speed of the fire elementalist was the most exaggerated he had ever seen since he began playing the Proof of the Stars at the boundary between reality and illusion.

Seeing the afterimage it left behind was the limit of everyone's visual perception. French fries relied on anticipating the landing point and swung their knife in advance, completing their first direct collision with it.

Claws and longsword clashed, sparks flying. The fire elementalist, inches from the blade, opened its gaping maw, a single burst of flame nearly sending the fries back into the oven. "Is that really a fire elemental?"

French Fries was sweating profusely, his head shaking uncontrollably as he tracked the other person's movements, his heart rate soaring.

The feeling is as if you are on an F1 racing track, where you need to predict the path of each car to reach the other end of the track.

The boundaries between the virtual and the real worlds are being forced to unite.

Only by banding together can they provide a comprehensive sense of security, forcing the fire element to carefully consider launching an attack.

“It’s an assumption, and it may not be correct,” Jiang Heyi said. “The elemental regions we step on will definitely generate corresponding elemental users, and the elemental regions we don’t step on will also randomly grant these elemental users some abilities.”

"What do you mean?" the jailer asked, bewildered.

"It may have received an acceleration from the wind element."

"so what should I do now?"

"Elements have mutual generation and restraint; we can exploit their weaknesses."

Jiang Heyi patted his waist, making a gesture as if touching his backpack, and everyone understood.

"Who will be the bait?"

"I come!"

Instead of a warm bed, it was orange tea.

"It's probably no coincidence that it targeted me twice in a row."

Everyone else was about to stop him, but Jiang Heyi nodded.

The Tea Master deliberately broke away from the group that was huddled together back to back, and before he had taken more than a few steps, a flash of fire appeared.

At first glance, the fire elementalist looked like he was using a palm strike that came down from the sky.

The Tea God's backpack lit up, and the Heart Scroll [Healing Water], which Ke Xia had given to Jiang Heyi, was instantly generated.

The moment the azure water rings touched the fire elemental claws, they coiled around them, extinguishing the raging flames on its forelimbs and seeping into its fur with a sizzling sound.

The pure water was like poison to him. The fire elementalist, disregarding the fact that he had already exerted his power, abruptly withdrew his attack to avoid being further eroded.

Another scroll was taken out, still containing healing water.

This scroll of Kesha is both offensive and defensive; when no defense is needed, it can unleash a torrent of water surrounding the body.

The fire elementalist dared not be careless, leaping backward several times until he reached the tree trunk, where he stopped and cautiously surveyed the area below.

"Potato Wife's scroll is so useful!"

The jailer regretted his words as soon as he finished speaking, but fortunately the battle was intense and the fries didn't react.

The scroll did not cause fatal damage to the fire elementalist, but it effectively deterred it.

Like the Dark Elementalist, as long as you seize an opportunity, the Boundary Between Reality and Illusion can kill in one move.

All it possesses is the right to fire at will and an advantage in speed.

The origin element shimmered with a fiery red light, and the leaves changed color in unison, as if a small flame had ignited within each leaf.

Gloria turned around sharply; she could no longer sense the barrier of the Origin Element enveloping this area.

The echoes of the elemental mist corroding the barrier have ceased to exist.

The tetra-primal body trembled, feeling a stinging pain on its skin.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Heyi asked quickly.

"There is... there is something, a very powerful elemental force approaching."

The elemental mage's talent allowed him to foresee danger.

But where does the danger come from? The originating element is causing the leaves to change color?
Gloria swallowed hard and shouted a warning: "Something from the Elemental Realm is coming!"

The players saw it clearly, and they all got goosebumps.

Amidst the thick fog that had permeated the platform where the Origin Element resided, a towering giant, its body flowing with dark red lava, appeared as if a demon god had descended, breaking through the fog.

The platform suspended in mid-air above the elemental realm was no wider than his shoulder, making one suspect that he could uproot the primordial elements with a single wave of his hand.

The platform was level with its neck, and its enormous head resembled a rising sun in the boundary between reality and illusion.

Dark red magma flowed in his eye sockets, casting a terrifying heat.

"Watch out for the tiger!"

Taking advantage of everyone's distraction, the fire elementalist leaped down, spitting fireballs, his claws ablaze, unleashing both magic and weaponry, aiming his sword at the fries.

It changed its target, seemingly identifying French fries as the most threatening member of the team.

French Fries activated the Healing Water Scroll and simultaneously launched a Spatial Slash based on his senses.

Its claws slammed against the water, but it did not go any further.

The fireball was extinguished by the azure water rings, and the shockwave was gradually reduced.

Enjoying the protection provided by Ksha, Fries felt a little awkward, but had to admit... it was quite useful.

Although fire elementals are fast, they cannot dodge instantaneous spatial slashes that are within arm's reach.

With a section of its hind leg cut off, it couldn't help but howl in pain and fled at top speed.

You can defeat me instantly, I can defeat you instantly, whoever shows a weakness dies!

Seemingly unwilling to harm the primordial element, the enormous lava giant did not use elemental magic, but instead stretched out its massive hand and slammed it down towards the group that had just retaliated against the elementalists.

The overwhelming, sky-covering palm strike in my field of vision filled me with despair.

"The gaps between your fingers are a safe zone!"

Jiang Heyi shouted, and everyone's brains, which were almost stopped, quickly changed their mindset from taking the damage head-on and scattered to avoid it.

"Oh!"

Everyone was jolted so hard that their feet left the ground and they fell to the ground with a thud.

The injured fire elementalist even shrank back in a more human-like manner, seemingly startled as well.

The slap was withdrawn, but the five-finger mark left by the lava giant was deep enough to reach above Jiang Heyi's knees.

Looking down, it saw seven tiny ants still jumping around, their dark red lava bodies glowing with heat.

The primal elements formed a barrier around themselves, foreshadowing the coming attack of the lava giants.

Jiang Heyi watched the giant's movements and realized that he would blow out heat waves from his mouth, scorching the entire area. He quickly calculated the angle.

"Vanarsis has prepared all the movement abilities we stole!"

Jiang Heyi's order came at just the right time, instantly clearing everyone's muddled minds.

The lava giant lowered its head slightly, took a deep breath, and a storm of flames erupted forth.

"Get to the edge of the platform!"

Once the giant's attack was fully launched, everyone from the Reality/Illusion Boundary teleported directly beneath the Lava Giant, perfectly avoiding the full-screen damage by using the angle.

The jailer was furious: "What a disgusting double boss battle! I'll kill you!"

With that, he summoned zombies to vent his anger on the lava giant.

With a deafening roar, the lava giant emerged unscathed, but instead spewed out a large amount of lava, nearly scorching everyone present.

"You fucking attacked friendly forces!" The four original bodies were closest and were caught off guard, almost getting burned.

Jiang Heyi was about to criticize the prison guard's dual nature when he took a closer look...

Is something pulsating in the lava fissure on the giant's chest?

(End of this chapter)