Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god.

Chapter 400: A Festival of Blood and Fire! The Scam Begins!

[Game Name: Festival of Blood and Fire]

[Clearance conditions: Obtain the "Warrior Medal"]

[Number of players in this game: 20]

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[We have detected that you will be undergoing the "Level Up Trial" in this game. We are now loading a special mission for you.]

[Upgraded Quest 1: Create a scam. Requires at least 50 NPCs or players to be influenced by the scam and take corresponding actions, while also gaining a share of "Trust" equal to 50 people's share.]

[Upgrade Mission 2: Use "Cheating" as a means to achieve the "Clearance Condition" of this dungeon. This means obtaining the final "Warrior Medal" not through combat or looting, but through methods that meet the definition of "Cheating."]

[Complete both tasks to unlock the "Personal Trial Dungeon." Completing the "Personal Trial Dungeon" will complete the "Level Up."]

【The task is not required to be completed.】

Lin Yu opened his eyes.

The strong smell of blood penetrated into the nostrils, which was a rare contrast to the bloody words in front of the eyes.

He stood at the entrance to a damp forest. The ground was wet black soil. Tall trees with hard-looking wood were stacked in layers, and the black mass looked like soldiers in formation.

In front of Lin Yu, there was an altar made of bones that looked like a human skull, but larger in size and with sharper teeth.

Next to the altar, a muscular man about two meters tall was wearing animal skins. His face and bare arms were smeared with bright red bloody paint, making his originally dark skin stained with blood.

He lowered his head to look at Lin Yu and whispered, "Are you here to participate in the 'Glory Festival'? From your appearance, you seem to be a human."

Lin Yu nodded and admitted: "Yes."

The burly man nodded: "I see, you're a little late! Hurry up!"

He patted the skull altar.

"Put your hand in here!"

Lin Yu took a look at the altar that seemed to be emitting some strange aura, and reached his hand into the mouth of the skull.

"Crack!"

The skull's mouth closed, and its hard, sharp teeth pierced Lin Yu's hand skin.

Blood oozed out and flowed into the skeleton's mouth, loosening its teeth.

"Pull your hand away!"

The sturdy man reminded him, and Lin Yu quickly pulled his hand out.

After he pulled his hand away, a fierce flame ignited under the altar.

His blood flowed into the flames and finally condensed into an irregular blood-colored crystal.

The flames then gradually died down. The sturdy man picked up the crystal and blew on it, breathing in a hissing sound from the heat.

"Hah, that's hot... Hey, this is your 'token'!"

"Number three hundred and eighty-five!"

Lin Yu took the crystal stone, looked at the number "385" inside, and fell into deep thought.

This token is too wild. Not only is it irregular, it's even a bit prickly!

Although I know that the entire Black Swamp world is barbaric and crazy, this is too barbaric.

And the strong man spoke again.

"If you continue walking forward for about a hundred meters, you'll come across a 'barrier'."

"Today, at sunset and moonrise, your token will flash and the barrier will drop briefly for a few minutes. Hurry and cross."

"When the barrier rises again, the 'Glory Festival' will begin again. Ten days later, when the barrier falls again, the festival will end."

"have you understood?"

The burly man asked slowly, and Lin Yu nodded.

"understood."

After the strong man's explanation and analysis, combined with the blood words he had seen before, Lin Yu has completely figured out the purpose of this [copy].

Just as Shen Bingmiao said, this is a very simple and crude copy with almost no hidden information and conditions, only the purest fighting and confrontation.

The information about the conditions for passing the level and the "Glory Festival" is also completely consistent with Shen Bingmiao's information.

"Thank you, President. You actually bet all the correct numbers. You are truly invincible."

Lin Yu silently praised Shen Bingmiao in his heart.

After making prior preparations, he was now full of confidence - there was no problem in passing the level.

However, the two task conditions for "upgrading" are still a bit tricky.

The second condition was relatively easy to solve. Lin Yu instantly thought of many solutions - stealing someone's "Warrior Medal", or using [fakes] and other things to forge "trophies" to obtain the "Warrior Medal", or even making up another condition that can be used to obtain the "Warrior Medal" to make it "come true"...

But the first mission condition...

"Not only do I have to converse and deceive these seemingly simple-minded but strong-limbed guys, but I also have to deceive fifty of them? It's such a headache!"

Lin Yu sighed and felt a slight pain in his head.

Although I have already prepared myself to face the enemy head-on, both tasks force me to have conversations and deceive those reckless people in such an activity where fighting will start as soon as I meet them.

"As expected, there's no easy 'level-up' mission."

After Lin Yu sighed inwardly, he looked at the strong man again.

No matter how difficult it is to "level up", he still has to do it.

So... take it one step at a time.

At least the burly man in front of him was obviously willing to communicate with him - such opportunities were rare.

So, after Lin Yu got the "token", he started talking to the other party again.

"Hey, I have another question... How many entrances like this are there?"

When the burly man heard Lin Yu's question, a puzzled look appeared on his face, as if to say, "How come you don't know this?" But he still gave Lin Yu an answer.

"Twelve, what's wrong?"

"Thank you."

Lin Yu said with a smile.

Since there are twelve entrances, it is normal for the twenty players to be evenly distributed and each have one entrance.

"If we assume there are players at every entrance, then at least eight people will be together... In the most extreme case, there should be two-by-two groups at all eight entrances, or nine people crowded at one entrance..."

"I don't know how many of these people came in as a group. Although the map is large, we are still at a disadvantage when encountering players in a group."

"Even if players aren't teamed up, they'll likely form natural alliances after being assigned together... At least if it were me, I'd temporarily form an alliance with the people around me."

"Of course, we can't rule out the possibility that one of them, the 'Order', and the other, the 'Predator', would have just started fighting..."

"I just hope that 'Twenty' doesn't have any 'teammates' around him."

After obtaining further information based on the strong man's words, Lin Yu also quickly completed the analysis and judgment of the situation.

However, he was not talking to the other party just to get information.

"So, you came to the Glory Festival, but you didn't know how many entrances there were?"

"Yeah, because I haven't been here for a long time." Lin Yu heard the other party couldn't help but speak again, and immediately said calmly, "Let me correct you, my friend, I am not a 'human'."

"The last time I attended the Glory Festival here, there was no such thing as an 'entrance' or an 'unentrance'."

Hearing Lin Yu's words, the strong man showed a surprised expression on his face.

"You... who are you? You're not human, are you an elf?"

"No, your tone sounds so dejected... Are you a monster?!"

Lin Yu shook his head.

"Wrong... I am 'Rakshasa'."