Chapter 2: New Century (Epilogue)
**Chapter 2: New Century (Epilogue)**
[To boost player enthusiasm, four new game dungeons are now available for players to choose from.]
[Dungeon One: Clemon’s Trial – Recommended Level 25-30, Max Team Size 10, Difficulty: Normal. Dungeon Rewards: Experience Points, Equipment Draw Ticket (Guaranteed Drop), Equipment Enhancement Coupon (Guaranteed Drop), Equipment Coupon (Rare) (Roll Dice).]
[Dungeon Two: Besiege the Behemoth – Recommended Level 20-25, Max Team Size 10, Difficulty: Normal. Dungeon Rewards: Experience Points, Equipment Draw Ticket (Guaranteed Drop), Equipment Enhancement Coupon (Guaranteed Drop).]
[Dungeon Three: Black Sword and the Nun – Recommended Level 25-35, Max Team Size 10, Difficulty: Normal. Dungeon Rewards: Experience Points, Equipment Draw Ticket (Guaranteed Drop), Equipment Enhancement Coupon (Guaranteed Drop), Equipment Coupon (Rare) (Roll Dice).]
[Dungeon Four: Trial of the King of Winter (Maid Version) – Recommended Level 30-60, Max Team Size 10, Difficulty: Hell. Dungeon Rewards: Experience Points, Equipment Coupon (Guaranteed Drop), Venom Dragon Free Class Change Card (Guaranteed Drop), Equipment Enhancement +3 Coupon (Guaranteed Drop), Mount: Venom Dragon (Rare).]
[Note: Each player can challenge each of the four dungeons only once per day. Whether you succeed or fail, you will lose your chance for that day. Dungeon challenges require tickets, which can be exchanged from Connie using Icefire Magic Cores. One Tier 1 Icefire Magic Core can be exchanged for one ticket, Tier 2 for four tickets, and so on.]
[Dungeon gates are located in the castle’s backyard. For more details, consult the Crusaders in the backyard.]
After Xi Wei finished editing the system prompts, he double-checked them and clicked “Send All.”
It wasn’t that he didn’t want players to play more than once a day.
The main reason was that each dungeon activation consumed a certain amount of World Power. With the current level of the Illusion Prism, it could only support the current number of players challenging these four dungeons once a day before needing to recharge. The battle scene in Dragonflame City, facing Balda and Baser directly, was even more intense, consuming 100% of the World Power with a single activation.
Fortunately, the Illusion Prism could be upgraded, provided that exotic items containing World Power were found.
Having completed all this, Xi Wei suddenly hugged the little maid who was obediently leaning against him. Amidst her bewildered and adorable expression, he revealed a wicked smile.
Then, Xi Wei placed his hand on the Prism and activated his personal exclusive illusion: Xi Wei’s Room. This illusion was only visible to him and completely hidden from the players.
Quickly adjusting the desired scene in his mind, Xi Wei, with the stunned little maid in his arms, rushed into the illusion.
Inside the illusion, the battle from the previous evening was being replayed. Loli watched as a scantily clad girl with a seductive posture lay on the velvet bed – wasn’t that herself? So, her expression last night had been so alluring, and her soft moans of pleasure so tempting?
She whimpered, burying her face in Xi Wei’s chest, her pretty face burning, and shyly tried to hide. Yet, the suggestive sounds still echoed in her ears – those shameful words, the pleas during their intimate moments… could such explicit phrases have really come from her?
The little maid was practically steaming from embarrassment.
“Heh heh, now you know how seductive you were yesterday, my little maid~” Xi Wei grinned, placing the little maid, who was covering her face and blushing all over, onto the velvet bed, right next to the illusion of master and maid locked in combat. He could no longer resist. Within this illusion, he not only intended to conquer the little maid right then and there but also to make her watch as his illusory self was conquered by him!
***
Meanwhile, the players who had received the system prompts were in a completely different situation. Most of the Novice Players were currently in the forests near Winter City, grinding monsters and leveling up alongside veteran players. Of course, some veteran players were grouped together, not leading the Novice Players, but instead hunting Tier 3 Magical Beasts in the forest. These veteran players were all planning to Class Change into Venom Dragons.
Yan, the coolest among us, was one of them. Ever since he saw the Venom Dragon pulling the King’s chariot that day, he couldn’t think of anything else. His eyes were solely fixed on the Venom Dragon. Its broad wings, sharp spines, ferocious dragon head, and powerful body had deeply captivated him. In that moment, he finally understood how pure and epic the story of the Indian man was. The Venom Dragon was just too magnificent, too imposing, too beautiful. And it could fly, and it could spew poison mist. That was enough! All the Berserker classes were trash. From today onwards, Yan, the coolest, would strive to become non-human.
So, he gathered some players who were also tired of being human and formed a team. They specialized in hunting Tier 3 Magical Beasts in the forest, aiming to gather the materials as soon as possible. The Class Change NPC had mentioned that the Venom Dragon was different from other professions. Because it was a paid profession, it required Magic Cores and Magical Beast Meat. As a result, players who chose it would start at Level 38, and there was a queue.
However, obtaining the Tier 3 Magic Core was proving to be quite difficult. Firstly, Tier 3 Magical Beasts were sparsely populated. Secondly, not all Tier 3 Magical Beasts possessed Magic Cores. Moreover, fighting Tier 3 Magical Beasts was actually very strenuous for them. Just moments ago, while they were surrounding and killing a Tier 3 Dung Beetle, one of them made a mistake and was wiped out by the creature’s dung bomb attack, leaving them all smelling of feces.
A player emerged from the resurrection point, his face grim, complaining to Yan, the coolest beside him, “It’s no good, Frost Brother. Our current levels are still a bit weak for Tier 3 (Level 20-30) Magical Beasts. This Dung Beetle is Level 28, and our eight people are only averaging Level 23.”
“And it’s so stinky…”
“Yeah, but that thing is relatively easy to kill; it only knows how to use its dung bomb.”
“I heard the dungeons are open now. Shall we go level up?”
Yan, the coolest, stroked his chin and pondered for a moment before nodding in agreement. “Let’s level up. Sharpening the knife doesn’t hinder the woodcutting. We’ll deal with that Dung Beetle once we’re at a higher level!”
“Uh… but if we’re at a higher level, can’t we just kill something else?”
***
When everyone arrived at the castle’s backyard hand in hand, they found a bustling scene, reminiscent of the dungeon lobbies from when they used to play MMORPGs.
“Elite ten-person team, already have three Priests. Need two tank-focused Warriors!”
“Recruiting Priests. Any big brother Priests out there? We’re one person short!”
“Damn it, weren’t you guys the ones who looked down on us before, saying we only knew how to use shields and Healing? That we had no damage? Why are you so fawning now?”
A Priest player, holding a staff, spoke smugly. Before he could finish speaking, seven or eight team leaders with fawning smiles rushed over. “Priest Brother, want to run a dungeon? We five Warriors will protect you! Consider us?”
“Priest Brother, come to my team, and you’ll get the lion’s share of the rewards~”
“Priest Brother, I have a girl in my team, a busty girl! A pretty girl!”
In the end, the Priest player chose the team with the girl. In the past, Priests were the profession players regretted the most, as they had no damage skills before Level 30 and always needed someone to escort them. But things were different now. The Priest players had finally come into their own! Want to run a dungeon? Aren’t you seeking death if you don’t prepare a few healers?
