Sleeping Player (Project Chrysalis Book 3) by John Gold (novel24 TXT) 📕

by, and we reach a point that most players take many years to reach.

Damage received: 34518020 (ignored: 25000000)

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Femida hits 100% resistance to physical damage, all smiles.

“Masochist! Pervert! You love the pain. Phew…who am I spending time with?!”

“Like you’re any better. Tree-lover!”

Femida logs out of the game, and I continue healing the mushroom we’re sitting on. Our resistance to physical damage is where we want it. Sure, we could go look for a different spot to work on our mental resistance, or we could risk staying here until Fem gets up to 50%. We might not live that long, however. Even I can’t heal 50 million waiting for her to get her resistance up to where it needs to be.

In a day or two, we’ll do an experiment, and the more mushrooms we have, the better. Really, I’m surprised they can even grow down here. We’re a good nine kilometers down, and they couldn’t care less. Notwithstanding the 34 million damage a second, all they need is their ecosystem to stay ahead of it. It was the same up where we were before. I’m not positive, but the cap on their resistance to physical damage may be higher than what mammals get.

For now, I only have to heal 34 million damage. The rest of my Life Magic goes to the new mushroom, and I’m going to spend two days working on it. Hopefully, that will pay off.

I was wrong about how long it would take. I end up spending two weeks on it, though the result is impressive.

Buff received: Small place of strength keeper

+125% to all attributes

Duration: No more than ten minutes or after damage stops being taken

The mushroom has grown to such gigantic proportions that we don’t take any mental damage underneath it. Of course, a quick trip lower is enough to dive back into the aura of death. Most importantly, I’m able to spend more strength growing the mushroom. Crazy! What kind of insane person do you have to be to grow a mushroom eight kilometers down in the ocean while you’re taking 34 million damage? Someone like me, I guess.

The cap reaches a hundred and fifty meters in diameter, and its edge is exactly that far over the slope of the underwater mountain. Azami doesn’t show up though. That could be because of the incredible damage, although it could also be because I don’t really fit the role of a natural god anymore.

As soon as Femida logs back into the game, I send her a message in our chat.

Hold this. An enormous boulder weighing several tons settles in Femida’s arms.

What am I supposed to do with it?

And now…off we go!

Leaping onto the boulder, I send us both shooting downward away from the mushroom. Femida is already wearing her armor, and the weight of the boulder sends us flying even faster.

You’re crazy! We’re going to die! The damage is so strong down there that we’ll die in less than a minute even with your magic mushroom. Wait a minute. Have you been eating it??

Hahaha!

Idiot! Let me go!

Don’t worry, fatty, I have everything figured out. With the keeper buff, I can restore up to 103 million health a second, so we have nine minutes until the mushroom collapses under the enormous damage.

With each second, we find ourselves going faster as the boulder settles into the most streamlined position. Pieces start flying off our “ship” four minutes later, and it slows down slightly, though we still can’t see the bottom.

I have to create boulders and hold them with my legs as we go. Femida does her best to help.

Why don’t we just stick our feet in cement and drop that way? Do you not have a better way to die?

Hey, my offer to paralyze you is still good.

Whatever.

Femida falls silent. The aura of death is wearing on her, though not as badly as it used to. I’m waiting for us to hit the bottom of the enormous trench. Finally, after another three minutes, the boulder hits the silty soil.

Achievement received: Otherworldly diver. First rank. Dive a kilometer down into the ocean.

Reward: +10 to all attributes

 

Achievement received: Otherworldy diver. Fourteenth rank. Dive fourteen kilometers down into the ocean.

Reward: +10 to all attributes

 

Achievement received: Aegis. Survive for one minute while taking 50 million continual damage.

Reward: +50 to all attributes

 

Note! You found the society of dead souls, a hidden location.

Note! You found the city of Cerani, a hidden location.

I don’t have time to read the chat. We have just two and a half minutes left, and then we’re going to need to get out fast.

After my visit to the Hashan Desert, it hit me that something like that red cliff in the center of the three sands can do strong mental damage. My theory is based on the fact that that something has to do mental damage exceeding the strength of multiple gods. But finding a city, an entire island at the bottom of the Sea of Madness? That’s just crazy.

We’re basically smack dab in the middle of the sunken city, surrounded by shattered glass, collapsed buildings, and stone benches. The recesses of a once-great palace are all around us, though time has not been good to it. Everything is covered in silt and distorted by the immense pressure.

Sagie, wake up. Minute and a half! Grab what you can find, and let’s get out of here.

Femida is right. I came here hoping to find a way to get to the world of the dead, as the name of the location and its whereabouts fit the bill, but it looks like I was wrong. There’s no river of souls flowing into a red cliff like in the Hashan Desert. The only thing down here that hasn’t been beaten down by