Infinite Paradise
Chapter 67 - 57 Damn, I’m done dealing with them!

Chapter 67: 57 Damn, I’m done dealing with them!

"Fuck, I knew this house wouldn’t cut it. In the middle of last night, the plank behind me gave in, and now my whole back is still freezing cold."

"You’re still better off. Last night I was sleeping, and suddenly a huge rat crawled onto my face and bit me hard... What a cursed place, even the rats are vicious!"

"You’re a Third-tier player and you got bitten by a rat? Did you buy your level or what?"

"Snow Leopard, shut up!"

The next morning, the wilderness was filled with the men’s complaints. Edward, looking like an old man with arthritis, was making a fire while rubbing his back. Nabron was helping him pick up firewood while also rubbing his own nose with sympathy. No one expected that he, a Third-tier player, would be overwhelmed by a rat one day.

The two men’s complaints drew mockery from Alien Eye, but were quickly shut down by Nikun’s roar.

Apart from Alien Eye, these four people were not very resistant to the cold, which made them despise this godforsaken place.

Although each of these four men had their own quirks, overall, they weren’t too bad as people. Last night, they even gave up the only bed in the house for the two girls, grumbling but getting to work all the same.

"To be honest, I can’t stay in this damn place another day. I’d rather go back to Death City and fight those Nagou zombies for three days and three nights than spend another minute in this icy hell. How about we find an opportunity to launch an attack on the enemy?"

While eating breakfast, Nikun suddenly spoke up eagerly, being someone who’s always lived in warm regions, the cold was the last thing he wanted to bear.

"What are you talking about?" Edward gave him a look. "This is a Hell-level dungeon world, we don’t even know what we’re up against. If we attack rashly, we’d be putting our lives on the line. At least... let’s wait and see if Gai Baonan can bring back some useful intel."

Nabron said in disbelief: "You’re really counting on that newbie?"

Edward immediately retorted angrily: "If I’m not counting on him, should I be counting on you, a coward? Fucking hell, if you had the guts, you would have scouted the enemy last night, then we could have just gone with the flow and joined forces with Gawain, sooner or later we’d have blown them away!"

Nabron was cursed out but didn’t get mad, just smiled awkwardly.

He had always been a timid person. Whenever a murder happened in his city, he’d be too scared to leave his house for three days, and becoming a player hadn’t easily changed such a deep-seated characteristic.

Alien Eye knew that talking back would mostly just earn a scolding, so he decisively kept his mouth shut.

It was Jingxiang who suddenly became curious, "Gai Baonan really didn’t come back last night, could he have actually scored a home run? Yaya, what do you think?"

As the only two girls in the team, they got along fairly well. However, Yaya didn’t know how to respond to this question either.

Just then, the door was suddenly pushed open.

"What, thinking about me?"

They looked up and saw Le Cheng had returned.

As it turns out, both men and women are gossipy by nature. As soon as they saw Le Cheng return, they immediately surrounded him, neglecting their breakfast to barrage him with questions. When they learned that Le Cheng didn’t just spend the night at Caster’s house but also shared a bed with two people, they were all astounded.

In the dungeon world, players hooking up with girls wasn’t unheard of, but usually, those who managed it were powerful players who had plenty of time to develop relationships with NPCs... Of course, those who just went straight to brothels don’t count.

But what merits did Le Cheng have? A newcomer, and he’d snagged two in just one night, one of which was even a feminine boy. What gave him the right? Just because he was good-looking?

"It’s impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"Gai Baonan, you didn’t force them, did you?"

"Fuck off, do I look like that kind of person?" Le Cheng glanced at them, "Since you don’t believe it, then I’ll give you another piece of news. Have you heard of the legend of King Arthur?"

"The King Arthur from Celtic mythology?"

"The one who got cuckolded by his own wife?"

"The one who was killed by his own son?"

Everybody instinctively asked questions, clearly, the legend was well-known to most people.

"That’s right, Caster is this world’s King Arthur..." Le Cheng then recounted everything he had learned last night, but deliberately omitted Caster’s true gender.

"Holy shit, this world has King Arthur too?" Everyone was shocked. Nabron seemed a bit regretful, "Compared to King Arthur, this Briton, I would much rather meet my idol Napoleon, or even Saint Joan would be nice."

"Wait." Suddenly, Yaya seemed to remember something, her eyes sweeping across the crowd, and said with some excitement, "Perhaps, this time we could trigger a chain quest."

Upon hearing this, the other five were surprised and delighted, but Le Cheng was confused and didn’t understand.

"What chain quest?"

"A special kind of quest." Yaya explained, "Information about Paradise unlocks progressively as players level up, the higher your level, the more secrets and hidden information about Paradise you will know, such as chain quests, which are only accessible to players of the Third-tier and above."

"Chain quests only exist in dungeon worlds that are Hell-level and above, but unlike typical quest chains, triggering them requires a combination of players’ faction alignment and the dungeon world’s storyline characters... Um, before that, I would like to ask everyone about their faction alignment. To show my sincerity, I’ll start with myself. I lean towards Order, as a deity of wisdom. If I’m not mistaken, all of you should also be aligned with Order, right?"

Jingxiang nodded, "That’s right, I am Pure Beauty."

Since Yaya and Jingxiang had shared theirs, the others no longer concealed it. Indeed, they were all aligned with Order, Alien Eye with Eternal, Nabron with Wisdom, Edward and Nikun both were Justice.

When everyone looked at Le Cheng, he naturally raised his head, "As you can see, I’m obviously also Pure Beauty."

"Then the conclusion is quite clear." Yaya nodded and continued, "This world is under attack by the Chaos Evil God Khorne, and with the death of Sigma, the pillar of the Empire, the forces of Chaos will have an overwhelming advantage."

"Though Paradise doesn’t favor any side, providing a relatively fair gaming environment for both Order and Chaos players, a player’s faction also determines their stance in the dungeon world and the choice of teammates for team dungeons. Therefore, it may not be just a coincidence that the seven of us came to this world, but rather a result of our faction alignment. Conversely, if Khorne were the one at a disadvantage, then it might have been Chaos-aligned players who ended up here."

"The next point is about Caster, whether or not he is this world’s King Arthur, his significance should be very important, which is why our quest options include protecting Caster. Moreover, he is also an important NPC to us. If we could get his commission..."

Upon hearing this, people like Edward became restless, their breathing quickened.

A chain quest received from an NPC does not belong to the main story. It’s even more significant than the usual hidden quests; naturally, the rewards are also more generous.

For players, there’s nothing more attractive than generous rewards.

"Fuck it, let’s blow them up!"