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Chapter 507: Eileen's Unexpected Breakthrough Challenge Triggered
"You have encountered Iori Yagami, one of the Eight Heavenly Kings of Orochi, the Heavenly God Clan, and the Storm Bringer, Goeniko."
"Detection: You have completed your class advancement and possess the 'Windwalker' class—
"Detection: You have completed bloodline purification, reincarnated as an 'Elf' bloodline, and your elemental affinity is 'Wind Element'—
"Detection: Your Agility attribute is approaching its limit."
"The 'Breakthrough Challenge: Lacrima Ritual' has been triggered."
"If you accept the challenge, your personal reputation with 'Storm Bringer Goeniko' will enter an 'undying' state. The ritual will only be considered complete when one party is completely eliminated."
"Upon successful completion of the challenge, your Agility attribute will achieve a breakthrough ahead of schedule, removing the Agility limit barrier. Simultaneously, your 'Windwalker' class will gain advanced abilities related to the 'Storm Bringer'."
"Due to your current 'Twin Tiger Contract' team mode, you can choose to challenge alone or as a team."
"For a solo challenge, you and Goeniko will be teleported to an independent space for a mandatory one-on-one fight. Only the victor can be teleported out of the independent space."
"For a team challenge, you will remain in the current dungeon scenario, but you and your teammates will simultaneously enter an 'undying' Lacrima Ritual with 'Storm Bringer Goeniko', 'Dry Earth Yashiro', 'Raging Lightning Shermie', 'Flame of Fate Chris', and any potential future 'hostile Heavenly God Clan' units, until either side is completely eliminated."
"If you choose a team challenge, then the dungeon's native NPCs will also become a critical factor influencing the success of the ritual. Both sides can attempt to use any available power for the ritual confrontation."
"Additional tip: You can choose to abandon this breakthrough challenge, but a new challenge will only appear in your next main quest after reaching the Agility limit of 50 points, and it is highly unlikely to include any ability enhancements for the Windwalker class."
Since this entire challenge quest also involved Cheng, he also received the relevant information simultaneously.
Cheng and Eileen, who originally came to watch the excitement, clearly did not anticipate this situation. Eileen had already turned her head to look at Cheng Tian, with the words 'requesting assistance' clearly written on her face.
As her rank and strength increased, Eileen's accumulated spatial experience was naturally no longer sufficient, not to mention this was a special quest mixed with a breakthrough challenge to the limit. This was her first time experiencing something like this.
So at this moment, she could only look to the omnipotent Cheng Tian for his brilliant insights.
Actually, Cheng Tian did have some qualifications to comment on this Lacrima Ascension Ritual, because he had already participated in a Lacrima Ritual related to the struggle for the Sun God Gem Shards with Prince Allen in the Knights of the Round Table dungeon.
At that time, Cheng Tian and Prince Allen had a solo duel. They were forcibly teleported to the sacrificial altar at the top of the Feathered Serpent God Temple to fight, which ultimately ended with Cheng Tian's victory.
However, Eileen's situation presented an additional option for a team challenge.
If she chose a solo challenge, then Eileen and Goeniko would discard all external factors and engage in a life-and-death duel based purely on their respective strengths.
But there was a major prerequisite: Eileen had to be able to confidently defeat Goeniko.
In Cheng Tian's opinion, although this 'little Go' was certainly not as powerful as the original 'old Go', she was likely on par with a quasi-final BOSS, like the type guarding the entrance to the final BOSS.
This type of BOSS could sometimes be even more troublesome than the true final BOSS.
"Team challenge!"
Cheng Tian, driving Helion, approached Eileen and said decisively.
The option to abandon the challenge never even crossed his mind. Eileen had always been supportive of his life-risking challenges, so how could Cheng Tian allow Eileen to face the dangerous storm alone?
As the saying goes, too many debts are no burden, and too many lice don't bite. Since they were destined to offend at least one, given the Eight Heavenly Kings' 'pull one hair and the whole body moves' attitude, offending them all at once was actually less troublesome.
Eileen's eyes flickered with some hesitation.
She wasn't like Cheng Tian, who enjoyed playing recklessly, even going so far as to give a thumbs-up in a pool of hellish magma, impersonating the Terminator, even if it meant his own demise. She personally preferred to act cautiously.
Moreover, this special challenge would clearly affect Cheng Tian.
Although from the moment she teamed up with Cheng Tian, she had already prepared to share hardships and had already acted on it, which was her support for Cheng Tian's extreme breakthrough challenge.
However, when it came to causing trouble for Cheng Tian herself, and potentially even leading to the failure of Cheng Tian's extreme challenge quest, she inevitably hesitated.
Anyway, she still had a chance to trigger it later, so maybe she should just give up... Eileen, whose thoughts completely diverged from Cheng Tian's for the first time, had already moved her finger to the 'abandon quest' icon.
But at that moment, a peculiar fluctuation spread from Cheng Tian's body, completely enveloping Eileen.
In that instant, Eileen's conscious mind remained clear, but her body was no longer under her control. It was as if she was watching someone else control her through a first-person perspective—
Dominator Remote Teammate Mode!
Eileen, who was completely defenseless against Cheng Tian mentally, fell for the Dominator's trick. Cheng Tian, as the caster, had already intervened to control Eileen's movements.
Then, without giving Eileen any chance to resist, her slender fingers tapped on the team challenge option for the Lacrima Ritual!
"You—"
"You're welcome!"
Cheng Tian quickly retrieved Helion into the void garage, leaving only this sentence that made Eileen grit her teeth in frustration, then he deactivated the teammate remote control and began an un-parachuted bungee jump towards the ground.
And here, it was already near the sky above the church.
Cheng Tian was already at a level where he could pull off such a show-off move without a parachute or shock-absorbing boots!
As he approached the ground, the orange-gold world reappeared beside him. Without needing to be held by the collar, Cheng's descent speed had already plummeted to a safe range.
It was also at this moment that the triangular roof of the church was directly blown off by the fierce winds erupting from within.
Meanwhile, in a tall building further away from the church, a bald middle-aged man observing the church through a telescope, upon seeing this scene, first trembled all over, then silently shed two lines of tears—
He was Goenitz's friend in life, Goeniko's adoptive father, and also the owner of this roof-flying church and its mortgage: High Priest Terrence.
Goeniko, who had torn off the church roof, her facial features, which were soft to the point of almost being benevolent, had twisted into a sinister charm, like a man-eating giant snake.
Almost instinctively searching, Goeniko's gaze fixed on Cheng Tian, who was descending from the sky.
Then, after a halo enveloped her body, Goeniko's figure vanished into thin air, and in the blink of an eye, she appeared before Cheng Tian—
True Eight Maidens, Target!
Ch. 507 / 855