Super Righteous Player
Chapter 534 - 75 You’ve Arrived Just in Time_1

Chapter 534: Chapter 75 You’ve Arrived Just in Time_1

After the Sporogenesis Mill was taken care of, players’ task of building teleportation points would no longer face any obstacles.

Originally, purifying nightmares three times wasn’t a difficult condition.

Given the choice, players would definitely prioritize purifying the nightmares that were easiest to handle.

After all, most of them were at the bronze tier now.

They could get full rewards even from normal difficulty nightmares... until they advanced to silver and had to clear nightmares of hard difficulty or above to level up, which would not be so easy to gain experience from.

After Bernadino was killed, the players were no longer in the "newbie phase."

From Frostwater Harbor to the Royal Capital, the "dungeons" they used for leveling up and the enemies they killed were basically provided by Annan for free. Not only were there plenty to go around, and keys easy to obtain, but there was also no regulation.

It wasn’t until they left the Royal Capital and each set out on their own journeys that they gradually realized... finding high-quality nightmares was actually quite a challenge.

Generally speaking, unless they were highly intelligent players who were very familiar with this process, they would likely die once or twice when entering an unknown normal-grade nightmare before they could start clearing it.

And the rewards from such nightmares were usually very stingy.

For example, they might restrict you to only increasing the Swordsman class level or just the Stealth class level... Or they might give a useless skill or even inexplicably add a Curse Binding.

Mysteries within nightmares were not common, and durability would usually run out before the full mystery was solved—the nightmare might have been attempted by someone else who, finding the reward unsatisfactory, went away, leaving a remnant puzzle for others.

And the issue was that players couldn’t see how much durability was left in a nightmare.

Only the Ritualist specialized in nightmares could use rituals to precisely see how many times a nightmare had left.

The result was that after just clearing it two or three times, the decryption rate would hit over 60%, or even possibly 90%, and it seemed it would be fully decrypted soon.

Then there were no attempts left.

—This was incredibly frustrating for the players.

The person who played it earlier, if you’re going to fight, fight to the end, will you!

Who wants to see an incomplete puzzle!

But they couldn’t just avoid playing nightmares either.

The reason was simple...

...because murder is illegal.

And after reaching the bronze tier, common people stopped giving experience; while Transcendents were not so easy to take down, and actually killing one could easily provoke trouble.

In fact, there had already been players recklessly chased for miles by silver-tier Hunters. Currently, they had died twice, and the experience deducted upon death was more than ten times the experience gained from killing...

To this day, their "Being Chased Diary" is still being serialized in tears on forums and remains the second-highest daily read post. This friend, through their personal experiences, has entertained those players who dislike trouble and are more cautious. There was no need to court danger themselves to greatly enrich their experiences with death.

Incidentally, the post with the highest readership was written by Delicious Goose and recorded many simple rituals as practical tools.

Delicious Goose hadn’t gone far on the path of the Ritualist, and the knowledge he carried wasn’t heavy enough to have the ability to teach others. If he shared this knowledge with others, he would lose an equal amount of knowledge.

However, he found a workaround...

He drew some basic uses of ritual knowledge in the real world with a drawing program, using stick figure doodles.

He didn’t write it out in detail with pen and paper because that would certainly trigger forgetting—he had tried once, and indeed, writing down ritual knowledge on Earth would also trigger the forgetting mechanism. It scared him so much that he reviewed the knowledge again and then burned the paper.

Delicious Goose was initially very excited, thinking he might become a Ritualist on Earth—but not unexpectedly, these rituals seemed to be of no use on Earth.

Fortunately, when Delicious Goose recorded the rituals using "Soul Painter-level stick figure doodles combined with numbers," an abstract narrative method, he really didn’t trigger the forgetting mechanism.

—This seemed to be regarded as the creation of a "pseudo-canon."

Latter, Delicious Goose printed and took screenshots of this knowledge, uploading it to the Frostwater Harbor forums. He let players "interpret" by looking at those stick figures.

The result was that each post quickly gathered hundreds to thousands of views, with serious guesses, random musings, humorous takes... everyone was "expressing their own views."

Then Delicious Goose topped the posts of those who guessed the story right from the pictures. Thus, the players got the hint.

So, this ritual is performed like this.

—It was like the key to a pseudo-canon.

Although the players still didn’t possess this mysterious knowledge, by following the procedures, they could successfully conduct rituals—of course, only those that "don’t consume mysterious knowledge."

In this way, Delicious Goose roughly understood why such a thing as a pseudo-canon existed...

Because creating a pseudo-canon truly didn’t consume any knowledge!

As long as you don’t output "precise" knowledge completely, it won’t be judged as "teaching."

This strange ruling made Delicious Goose feel that something was a bit off... This didn’t seem like a natural rule but more like a constraint imposed by someone.

After all, he had never heard of Earth OL having any bugs to exploit...

Incidentally, the highest-rated ritual in Delicious Goose’s post was for preserving the "freshness" of influence.

Compared to those bizarre nightmares.

The nightmares obtained from influence could only be played once.

But at least the rewards were very generous.

Since it was a random selection, the rewards were guaranteed to be usable to oneself.

...Of course, the difficulty isn’t guaranteed.

After experiencing all sorts of messed-up nightmares, players have come to view nightmares as time-limited, attempt-limited dungeons with incredibly high returns.

With the mindset of "eat the free food first, then dig into our own provisions," Lin Yiyi and the others carefully preserved the "Low-level Influence: Breath of Leviathan" they received while passing through the underwater tunnel.

From this influence, they could spawn a random nightmare of hard difficulty.

It’d be most profitable to tackle it after advancing to silver-level.

Back when they were three bronzes, taking on a hard-level nightmare was simply wasteful.

The reason I say "back when"...

Is because Lin Yiyi has now smoothly advanced. The silver jewelry given by Naifertali was just in time to be put to use.

——It was the [Azure Holy Guard].

After getting used to her new Curse Binding and job abilities, Lin Yiyi was preparing to start taking on hard-level nightmares to continue leveling up.

"——You all are leaving for a while?"

Niusel was somewhat surprised.

But he quickly laughed and said, "That doesn’t really matter, the Sporogenesis Mill has been purified. We already owe you guys a big favor.

"If you’re leaving, it might be best to wait a few more days. Because the gifts are still being prepared..."

"We won’t be leaving too soon; we still have some nightmares to purify before we go. Others will come here later to continue our work."

Jiu’er explained.

Niusel appeared pensive.

"...Do you guys need to do some other things?"

He asked with concern, "Can I help in any way?"

"Perhaps you can,"

Annan answered with a smile.

He glanced at Jiu’er and the Four of a Kind, guessing their thoughts.

After Jiu’er and the Four of a Kind finished their teleport point missions and received the rewards...they’d be pretty much ready for their "promotion match."

That is, it was time to prepare the nightmares for advancing to silver-level.

And neither of them had decided on what to choose for their advancement yet.

Lin Yiyi had a specific advancement path and didn’t need to be overly distracted.

The Delicious Goose felt that Sword Saint was quite suitable, very much fitting his needs.

But neither Four of a Kind nor Jiu’er wanted to just advance to a common profession——

And Jiu’er wasn’t in a position to go traveling alone.

She was really small and looked like a little girl.

If she went out alone, she could definitely run into trouble...no, she would definitely find trouble!

So she would have to take Four of a Kind with her.

Since she was taking Four of a Kind, she might as well take Gang Sister along too. If she stayed here by herself, she’d definitely feel lonely.

They felt a bit embarrassed, having just said they’d stay to purify nightmares, only to talk about leaving now.

But this was something they had to bring up.

It wasn’t a big deal to come back after advancing.

Where else could have more dungeons than the Underworld?

Hearing Annan’s response, Niusel looked again at the silver jewelry on Lin Yiyi’s chest.

He tentatively replied:

"If you’re troubled about which profession to advance to...

"Why don’t you come with me and ask Nefer Tower?

"She’s a true sage. She’s read many books and is very knowledgeable. I think she could give you some help."

The golden retriever, with no psychological burden, just sold out his socially anxious childhood friend.

The players glanced at each other, then turned their gaze to Annan.

Annan’s face also looked somewhat quirky.

...What, you have a lot of information on advancement professions here?

It just so happens that I’m about to have the third wave of players coming...and when they do, there’ll be over two hundred people all at once, and I haven’t quite figured out what professions to guide them into.

Your timing couldn’t be better!

——What have you got, let me have a look (copycopy)!!

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