At night, Josiah found an empty room on the third floor of the Hearthstone Tavern to test his new dungeon.
The test takers were all members of the Fuya Adventurer Group, including Josiah. However, due to the limited location, only Taylin and Hiri were in the room.
"Why … did the attachment fail?!"
Hiri went to the Horde's main city to enhance her equipment while Josiah was waiting for the party to form.
As a result, when Hiri placed the soul she obtained from the Rift Lord into the furnace and was about to bestow the Rift Lord's soul into her equipment, a cold notification popped up.
Another notification sent a chill down Hiri's spine. "The power of the Rift Lord's soul has destroyed your equipment."
"I forgot to mention this. If you have two or more pieces of equipment that have been bestowed with the same soul, there's a certain chance that the fourth piece of equipment will fail."
Currently, the strongest Rift Lord in the World Rift was the Fire Demon King. His soul could greatly alter the attributes of equipment.
However, the Fire Demon King's power was not that easy to control. If a greedy adventurer tried to bestow three of the Fire Demon King's souls, there was a high chance that the equipment would collapse.
Of course … this was just a setting. Josiah only wanted players to make use of the effects of other souls.
"Does it still work even if I put all my equipment in the warehouse?"
Hiri was aware of this mechanism, which was why she had placed all the equipment she had crafted in the warehouse.
"It does. Hiri, what did you get broken?" Josiah asked.
"A helmet. Do you think I'll be able to loot another one today?"
Like Josiah, Hiri spent very little time playing the game. She spent most of her time learning illusions from the purple-cloaked figure.
That was why Hiri only had four pieces of equipment from the Hero Lava Heart, and one of them had been broken. If it were an ordinary player, their hearts would be bleeding.
"We're not going to the Molten Core today," Josiah told Hiri a piece of unfortunate news.
More than half of the members of the Fuya Adventurer Group were Fuya's smurf. Ever since Josiah granted Fuya the authority to open multiple accounts, she had been playing solo.
"Speaking of which, we're going to test a new dungeon today. It's that strange grassland from last time." Hiri recalled the reason she was sitting here.
"Grassland, Josiah … Are you going to the Dark Elves' sacred tree?"
Taylin had been reading the messages in the group chat since a while ago. Caroline was instructing her on how to play a priest.
"Both of you are correct. Anyway, are you all online?"
Josiah's words were sent to the members of the Fuya Adventurer Group through voice chat. After receiving confirmation, the game interface in front of Josiah began loading.
When the game finished loading, Josiah's character, the Fire Relayer, was already on a strange grassland. The other characters of the Fuya Adventurer Group also appeared beside Josiah.
Other than the multiplying versions of Fuya A to K, Ahr, Carolee, and Cheil were also participating in the test.
"There's only grassland in the map this time?"
Hiri ran around the map. From an artist's point of view, the design of the game map was undoubtedly a failure.
"Because the entrance is different. This time, we're using … the leaf of the World Tree that the king of the Waterfront Kingdom has as the entrance. Where are you going, Fuya?"
As soon as Josiah finished speaking, Fuya controlled her characters to run in another direction. She completely refused to communicate with Josiah.
Helpless, Josiah could only follow his sisters. The Fuya Adventurer Group crossed a small hill above the grassland. Josiah followed them to the highest point of the hill and saw the battlefield below.
It was still the same deformed monsters. Each of the monsters looked like a deformed combination of various creatures.
These monsters were surrounding an old man with a hunched back. The monster bit off the old man's arm, but then a new arm grew out from his body.
The old man continued to repeat the process of his limbs being torn off by the monsters and then quickly recovering. During this period, he seemed to have given up resisting and stood on the spot like a stone statue.
"She's the king of the Waterfront Kingdom?"
A chat box appeared above Cheil's head. She still wasn't used to using voice chat with strangers on the Mana Net, so Cheil continued to use the chat box in the game.
"Yes … uh … looks like I don't need to command anymore."
Josiah watched as the two Warriors, Fuya, charged at the monsters, while the Sorcerer, Fuya, began to cast Blizzard.
These attacks successfully attracted the attention of the monsters, and a chaotic battle began … Josiah looked at the chaotic situation and gave up on commanding.
"Everyone … let's rely on our own abilities."
After saying this, Josiah had his character pull out both swords and let out a roar as he charged into the crowd of monsters.
This time, Josiah's main goal was to determine the strength of these monsters.
If this place was to be used as a battlefield for players, the rewards for killing the monsters would definitely be needed.
However, the monsters Josiah was facing right now were probably only at the level of minions. Josiah's character's two swords cut through their bodies as easily as a heated knife cutting through butter.
"This reminds me of a game called Peerless."
Josiah glanced at the number on the bottom left corner of the screen. This was the number Josiah had asked Shiratori to add to the number of enemies killed.
This number was originally used by Josiah to record the average number of enemies a max level player could kill, but in the end, Josiah's character could kill one with a normal attack, and three to five with an AoE attack.
Josiah was playing as a Warrior. If he was playing as a Mage, the number of enemies killed in a short ten minutes would probably be over a hundred!
In reality, the monsters gathered on the plains were not enough for Fuya and the others to kill. Josiah had just finished dealing with a group of Giant Spiders. When he turned his head to look at the battlefield, the monsters around the old King had already been cleared.
"How many monsters did you guys kill? Let me count. "Josiah put away his weapon and asked the others.
"Twenty-seven … Speaking of which, are these all low-level monsters?" Hiri asked.
"It should be because the Grey Fog's strength is too weak … I only used my mouse to kill twelve of them."
At this time, Carolee should be hiding in her bed and secretly playing with the Mana Net.
"Twelve, isn't that a little too little?"
Cheil's character was a Thief, so he didn't have an advantage when it came to area of effect attacks.
"That doesn't matter. What about Taylin and Ahr?" Josiah asked the two Elves in the party.
"I've been helping you recover, so it's zero," Taylin said softly.
"Ahr has always been with Master Fuya, so the number should be calculated with Master Fuya."
This High Elf was actually quick-witted for a moment. Josiah opened up Ahr's data and saw that the number of monsters killed was in single digits. On the other hand, Fuya had 272.
In a short ten minutes, close to 300 monsters had been killed.
Just as Josiah was about to say that this world was far less challenging than he had imagined … the ground suddenly cracked without warning.
All the characters lost their gravity and fell into the hole underground. A row of scarlet numbers appeared above Josiah's head.
This world also had the existence of damage from falling!
Fortunately, Josiah's character still had 10% of his HP left. However, the others were not so lucky. Josiah instantly saw that two-thirds of his party members had died.
The hole was completely dark. Fuya's Hunter character used Illumination to illuminate the surroundings.
The Illumination not only illuminated the strange buildings in the hole, but also the various monsters entrenched in the surroundings …
"They seem to have become stronger." Josiah adjusted his view to look at the monsters in the hole. Just as Josiah was about to let his subordinate drink a potion …
A pure white light suddenly appeared on the ground in the hole, as well as … traces of pure white inscriptions.
A magic circle appeared on the ground … The scene on Josiah's Mana Net changed drastically. When the light faded, it turned into a space that looked like a cave.
"A hidden stage?"
Hiri's character was killed when she fell, so she forcefully left that world. She could only stand behind Josiah's screen and watch Josiah play.
"It doesn't look like it." Josiah scanned the surroundings of the cave. A figure in a white robe appeared in front of Josiah.
At this moment, Fuya had already controlled her surviving characters to walk forward with their weapons.
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