As time passed, the city outline in the distance from Stormstone Keep became clearer, and Yang Tao, who had just finished his inspection, descended from the sky.
"The streets of the city opposite are densely packed with Entities…"
Worry was etched on Yang Tao's face, and then he looked at Lancelot and asked, "What would happen if I stayed to help you?"
"You would be infinitely teleported out of this level, and enemies of your equivalent strength would appear. Based on your current situation, a God would likely appear on the other side…"
Yang Tao: "…"
He completely abandoned the idea of secretly staying. Although he was confident that the Backrooms couldn't find an existence as miraculous as him, he couldn't withstand a 'God' appearing from the other side.
According to the Blue Knight and Red Knight's introductions, the most important thing about becoming a God was possessing immortality. Apart from beings of the same or higher rank, there was no way to truly kill them.
In Yang Tao's understanding, it meant there was no code kill; even the Final Sword couldn't kill such an existence.
No… there should be another method, which is to continuously decay the enemy's health limit and pull them down from their pedestal. However, he currently doesn't have the means to weaken an enemy's health limit.
Although the Weakness Curse is powerful, it is just a curse.
'I remember there's an interesting metal in Tinkers Construct additions… what was it called? Oh, right, Imperomite!'
Imperomite's modifier is 'Hollow.' After attacking an enemy, there's a very small chance to remove the enemy's AI, but it also causes drops to disappear.
Yang Tao didn't care about the drops, but he was very interested in the effect of being able to delete AI.
One strike, and the effect of making you forget whether you are male or female, human or ghost, must be very exciting.
Just as Yang Tao was considering whether to replace the longsword in the Blue Knight's hand with an Imperomite component, he heard Lancelot say, "It's starting."
Yang Tao looked up at the Stormy Plains bordering the city in the distance, where explosive Stormstones were everywhere. Dense explosions rang out, clearly indicating that the Entities from that city were fearlessly using their bodies to clear the path.
"Lancelot, find me after this is over. If you don't come…"
Before he could finish speaking, Yang Tao's figure disappeared from the Stormstone Keep level.
A plain, monochromatic, featureless wall appeared before him.
This was an extremely simple, dull room. The beige of the walls was evenly spread, and a brownish-gray concrete base formed the floor. This room had no furniture or unique features.
Yang Tao appeared out of thin air in the center of the room.
Looking at the unfamiliar environment, Yang Tao uttered the words he hadn't finished: "Then I'll destroy the entire level…"
"By the way, where is this?"
He looked around but didn't see the Red Knight. He had been standing with the Red Knight just now, but she hadn't been transported to this strange room with him.
There were no chaotic smells in the air. Yang Tao walked to the wall and reached out to touch it. The wall was covered in ordinary beige wallpaper.
No windows, no doors, it was completely a sealed concrete coffin.
Information about this level had already popped into Yang Tao's mind.
Level 363 'You Cheated!'
You cheated, and now you must face the consequences of the Backrooms' annoyance with your various tricks.
'Logically, isn't this level meant for the Speedrunners Association? Why did they send me here, an honest and law-abiding person?'
'It's definitely targeted!'
Level 363 'You Cheated!'
When continuously entering and exiting various levels in the Backrooms using 'cut-out' and 'cut-in,' there's a chance to arrive here.
And once here, the 'cut-in' and 'cut-out' methods will become ineffective, and similarly, warp berries and Hermes devices will also lose their original effects.
Yang Tao took a stool from his backpack and sat in the center of the room, waiting for a door to appear.
Just as he remembered from the information.
After about an hour, a white door grew out of the beige wall.
It truly grew out of the wall.
It slowly emerged from within the wall.
Seeing this pure white wooden door appear, Yang Tao immediately stuffed the skewers in his hand into his mouth, got up, put all the tables and chairs into his backpack, clapped his hands, and walked towards the wooden door.
He reached out and opened the wooden door.
Endless void.
Even with night vision enabled, Yang Tao could only see bodies floating in mid-air. They were remarkably lifelike, with no signs of decomposition.
He flew out of the room and approached a body, opening their carried backpack.
'Almond water, compressed biscuits, warp berry… Oh, and a Hermes device.'
It was obvious without thinking that those with warp berries and Hermes devices were the people from the Speedrunners Association.
The warp berry's ability is to teleport a person to the place where it was first discovered.
If this warp berry was found on Level 1, then after eating it, one would be teleported to Level 1.
Looking at the at least hundreds of bodies in the void, Yang Tao sighed: 'You cheated and got your account banned, didn't you?'
Since he was here, he might as well be a good person to the end.
Yang Tao used cobblestone, dirt, and grass blocks to forcibly create a tomb in the 'void,' a tomb large enough to hold hundreds of bodies.
After scavenging all the supplies from each body, he threw them into the graveyard.
For a time, Yang Tao was truly laden with rewards, and these 'banned' individuals finally didn't have to be exposed in the 'void.'
After finishing all this, Yang Tao let out a long sigh. Although these bodies showed no signs of decay, hundreds of them together gave a spine-chilling feeling.
He sealed the lid.
"Next time, remember to buy more powerful cheats, so you don't get banned again!"
Just as Yang Tao summoned the wooden door and prepared to leave, a white door identical to the one he arrived through appeared out of thin air not far from him.
A young woman, eyes closed, walked out from behind the door. She wore a white shirt, jeans, and gray sneakers, with a sports backpack on her back.
Although this type of backpack wasn't large, it was very sturdy. The reason Yang Tao knew this so clearly was that 80% of the bodies just now had this kind of backpack.
Clearly, this was standard equipment for the Speedrunners Association.
The other party opened her eyes, and the wooden door behind her had disappeared. There was nothing in the vast void. Without light reflection, she couldn't see anything at all.
She understood now; she hadn't won, and she would never win.
The woman walked forward, the void gradually consuming her sanity, and tears streamed down her cheeks.
Yang Tao had already flown in front of her. Even so, the other party didn't 'see' him. He reached out and waved his hand in front of her, confirming that she had completely lost her vision.
"Hey, miss, do you need help?"
The other party remained unresponsive.
Her hearing and vision had been completely deprived.
He reached out and grabbed the other party.
The woman's body trembled, and she instinctively tried to retreat, but with her strength, she couldn't break free from Yang Tao's grip.
"Consider yourself lucky to have met me."
Otherwise, the void would have one more body.