Chapter 1113 - 456: The Protagonist’s Plan That Ended Before It Began

Chapter 1113: Chapter 456: The Protagonist’s Plan That Ended Before It Began

Thirty miles outside Zhenyue City, Ma Jia emerged from the glow.

He looked at the dungeon entrance prompt before him, interlacing his fingers behind him and stretching backward. With the rapid trembling of his flesh and fascia, his body kept extending, accompanied by the sounds of bones rubbing and muscle fibers twitching within.

With a breath, his elongated body returned to normal.

He loosened up his body, full of energy, ready to tackle a grand mission.

From his personal space, he took out an invitation card. The card bore the number 19.

He felt very satisfied with this ranking. He acknowledged that getting this result in the Steam Phantom Plane partly owed to Peace’s efforts. Well, honestly, quite a lot.

But this didn’t affect his confidence in his ability to strategize dungeons. Even without Peace, purely based on his own hard work, he was confident of entering the top hundred.

His confidence stemmed from his Hidden Class—the Flesh Invader.

With the Flesh Invader, he can take over the bodies of dungeon plane natives and even temporarily seize the bodies of other players.

As long as he has this class, he can easily hide his true form, staying behind the scenes, and even effortlessly accomplish things other players cannot—integrating into the dungeon plane.

To ordinary players, taking over the body of a standard dungeon native may not seem impressive. But only in the eyes of truly powerful players is this ability recognized as immensely strong.

This is a formidable ability that combines hiding, infiltration, intelligence gathering, assassination, and manipulation into one.

If he disguises himself well enough, he can perfectly mimic a plane native, inheriting the other’s social relations.

The Flesh Invader is simply born to strategize dungeons. He believes that even ranked players might not necessarily surpass him in dungeon strategy.

It is this ability that earned him the interest of the True God, making him the first Breaker within the Revelation, invited to handle only the most crucial dungeons for the True God.

After the Steam Phantom Dungeon, he further grasped the Power of Flesh and Blood, so his direct combat capabilities are enough to compete against ranked players.

Simply put, in this World Dungeon, his stage will be vast, potentially becoming the main protagonist of the World Dungeon in one fell swoop.

Ma Jia followed the road and soon saw an inn to rest on the roadside.

As he entered, he scanned around, quickly locking onto a cultivator exuding intense blood energy.

He took out silver exchanged from Rotten Silver Coins, bought two jars of the inn’s finest wine, and sat opposite the cultivator with the wine jars.

The cultivator raised his head, somewhat displeased, but before he could speak, Ma Jia placed the wine on the table and said:

"I come from outside the Tianlan Province, seeking to join the Demon-breaking Army. Unfamiliar with this place, making actions difficult, I wish to inquire some matters from you, brother. As an apology for disturbing your quiet, this wine is on me today."

Upon hearing Ma Jia came to join the Demon-breaking Army, the cultivator’s expression changed, enthused:

"Since we’re both here to join the Demon-breaking Army, we are fellow travelers. No need to talk about disturbance. I also recently joined the Demon-breaking Army, just completed my trial assessment, and am about to return to Zhenyue City."

Unperturbed, Ma Jia poured a bowl of wine for the cultivator, and as he passed the wine, a small piece of flesh slipped from his fingertip into the bowl.

"What is this trial assessment about?"

The cultivator wasn’t much of a fighter, offering no resistance against Ma Jia’s methods, unknowingly affected by the flesh slip, revealing everything he knew.

This included details of trial tasks, related intelligence on seven Immortal Mansions, and how plane natives apply for the qualification to enter an Immortal Mansion.

Having gathered the desired information, Ma Jia snapped his fingers, activating the flesh piece within the cultivator’s brain, causing the cultivator to pass out as if drunk.

He took the trial token from the cultivator, got up, left the inn, and went to the stables to find the cultivator’s mount.

It was a tall chestnut horse, nearly two meters high at the shoulder, with exotic beast lineage, only allowing its master to ride. Seeing Ma Jia approach, it immediately entered a state of alert.

But this posed no problem for him. He stepped forward, before the horse could make a sound, thrusting his hand into its mouth.

Flesh-like blood infused into the chestnut horse’s body, moments later, the horse quietly nuzzled up to him affectionately.

Ma Jia mounted the horse, galloping toward Zhenyue City.

As he raced, he couldn’t help but let a smug smile appear on his lips—this is the advantage of the Flesh Invader. Other players could never so quickly grasp the world’s rules of a dungeon plane.

From what the cultivator revealed, he had roughly sketched out the strategy for the dungeon.

According to the main quest, activating the Celestial Array is the primary goal in the early phase, while players must complete the Demon-breaking Army trial and successfully explore the Immortal Mansion.

The Immortal Mansion is exceptionally challenging. The dungeon plane natives spent a whole year without breaking even one mansion, which indicates high rewards within.

The blessings within the Immortal Mansion mentioned in the main quest likely require acquiring them.

Ma Jia calculated the time, ranked nineteenth in the qualification dungeon, not much different from players ahead.

If he skips the Demon-breaking Army trial, finding a way to directly obtain the qualification to explore the Immortal Mansion, he might catch up to players who entered earlier.

Utilizing the Flesh Invader, he can quickly extract the experience of native strategists of the mansion, then use it to manipulate the natives, entering the mansion for trial and error. It won’t take long before he strategizes the Immortal Mansion.