In the evening, Joshua found an empty room on the third floor of the Hearthstone Tavern as a testing location for the "new instance".
The testers are all members of the Fuya adventure group, and Joshua is also one of the members of this adventure group. However, due to the location restrictions, the only members in this room are Tailin and Ciri.
"Why... the attachment still fails!"
While Joshua was waiting to form a team, Ciri went to the main city of the tribe to strengthen her equipment.
As a result, when Ciri took the soul he got from the rift lord into the furnace, and was about to give the equipment of the rift lord's soul power, a cold failure message popped up.
Another hint made Ciri feel a chill in her heart: "The power of the Rift Lord's soul has destroyed your equipment".
"I forgot to mention this, you have two or more pieces of equipment that have been given the same soul, and when the third piece of equipment continues to add the same soul... there is a certain chance of failure."
At present, the top rift lord in the world's rift is the Fire Demon King, whose soul can greatly change the state of the equipment attributes.
But the power of the Fire Demon King is not so easy to control. Once a greedy adventurer wants to bless the souls of the three Fire Demon Lords, there is a high probability that it will collapse because the equipment can't bear it.
Of course... This is just the setting above, Joshua just wants players to make more use of the effects of other souls.
"Does it count even if I put all the equipment in the warehouse?"
Of course, Ciri also knew this mechanism, so she put all the equipment she built in the warehouse before strengthening.
"Forget it, Ciri, what have you broken?" Joshua asked.
"Helmets, do you think it's possible for me to find another one today?"
Ciri, like Joshua, has very little time to play games, and she spends most of her day learning illusions from the purple-robed man.
So now Ciri only has four pieces of heroic lava core graduation equipment, and one of these three pieces is broken... If it was an ordinary player, his heart would start to bleed.
"We won't be playing Molten Core today." Joshua told Ciri some unfortunate news.
More than half of the members of Fuya's adventure group are Fuya's own trumpet. Since Joshua gave Fuya the permission to play more, this little girl has started a single-player game by herself.
"Speaking of the new dungeon to be tested today, it's the strange grassland from last time." Ciri remembered the reason why she was sitting here.
"Prairie, Qiao Xiu... Are you going to the inside of the sacred tree of the dark elves?"
Taelin had been reading the news in the group chat since just now, and Carolrie was instructing her on how to play a priest well.
"Both are right, are you all online anyway?"
This sentence of Joshua was informed to all members of the Fuya Adventure Group through the voice chat of the text message. After receiving the confirmed reply, the game interface in front of Joshua entered the loading process.
When the loading was over, Joshua's game character, the Fireman, was already on a strange grassland, and other characters of the Fuya Adventure Group also appeared beside Joshua.
In addition to the proliferating versions of Foya A to K, Al, Caroline, and Sheier also participated in this test.
"This time the map is only grassland?"
Ciri ran around the map. From the perspective of an artist, the design of the game map was undoubtedly a failure.
"Because the entrance is different, this time I used... the world tree leaves held by the king of the seaside country as the entrance, where are you going, Foya?"
As soon as Joshua finished speaking, Faya controlled her characters and ran to another place, completely refusing to communicate with Joshua.
In desperation, Qiao Xiu had no choice but to follow his younger sister... Foya's army crossed a small hillside above the grassland, and Qiao Xiu followed them to the top of the hillside and saw the battlefield below.
It is still those monsters with deformed shapes, and each monster is like a deformed body of various creatures.
These monsters were besieging a rickety old man. The monster tore off the old man's arm, but then a new arm grew on his body.
The old man continued to repeat the process of being torn off his limbs by the monster, and then quickly recovering. He seemed to have given up resistance during the period, standing in place like a stone statue.
"Is he the king of the country near the sea?"
A dialog box popped up on the head of Sheier's character. She was still a little uncomfortable with using voice chat with strangers on the magic net, so Sheier was still using text boxes to communicate in the game.
"Yes... uh... It seems that I don't need my command."
Joshua saw that the two warriors, Foya, had already launched a charge against the monster group, and the mage, Foya, had already begun to release the blizzard.
These attacks successfully attracted the attention of those monsters, and a melee started right away... Joshua looked at the chaotic situation and gave up his command.
"Everyone... Let's do our part."
After Joshua left this sentence, he let the character pull out his double swords and let out a roar, rushing into the group of monsters.
This time, Qiao Xiu was mainly to determine the strength of these monsters.
If you want to use this place as a battlefield for players' activities, rewards after killing monsters are definitely needed.
But the monsters that Joshua is facing now may be... only at the level of miscellaneous soldiers. The double swords held by Joshua's character cut their bodies, as simple as a heated knife cutting through butter.
"It reminds me of a game called Wushuang."
Joshua glanced at the number in the lower left corner of the screen, which was the count of killing the enemy that Joshua entrusted Shiratori to add.
This number was originally used by Qiao Xiu to record how many enemies a full-level player can kill on average, but the final result is that Qiao Xiu's character can kill one with a normal attack, and a ranged attack can basically kill three to three Five.
Qiao Xiu is still playing as a warrior. If it were a mage, the number of kills in just ten minutes might have exceeded 100!
In fact, the monsters gathered on the grassland were not enough for Faya... They killed them. When Qiao Xiu had just finished killing a group of giant spiders, when he turned to look at the battlefield, all the monsters beside the old king had been emptied.
"How many monsters did you kill? Let me count." Joshua put away his weapons and asked the others.
"Twenty-seven... Are these low-level mobs?" Ciri asked.
"It should be because the gray fog's power is too weak... I killed twelve with just the mouse."
At this point in time, Caroline should hide in her own sheets and play the magic net secretly.
"Twelve, isn't it a bit small?"
Sheier plays the role of a thief, and is not dominant in group attacks.
"It doesn't matter, what about Taelin and Al?" Joshua asked the two elves in the team.
"I've been helping you recover, so it's zero." Taelin whispered.
"Al has been with Mentor Fuya all the time, so the number should be calculated with Mentor Fuya."
The high elf was witty for a while at this moment. Josh opened Al's data panel and saw the single-digit kills above, while Foya had 272 kills.
In just ten minutes, nearly 300 monsters were killed.
Just when Joshua was about to say that this world was far less challenging than he thought... The ground suddenly cracked open without warning.
All the characters fell weightlessly into the hollow underground, and a line of scarlet numbers appeared on Joshua's head.
Fall damage also exists in this world!
Fortunately, Qiao Xiu's character still had one-tenth of his HP remaining, but others were not so lucky. Qiao Xiu instantly saw that two-thirds of his teammates were killed in action.
There was darkness in the void, and Foya asked the hunter character to use the illumination technique to illuminate the surrounding scenery.
Illumination not only illuminates the weird buildings in the hollow, but also all kinds of monsters swarming around...
"They seem to be getting stronger." Qiao Xiu adjusted his perspective and looked at the monsters in the hollow, just when Qiao Xiu wanted his characters to drink a bottle of medicine.
A pure white light suddenly appeared on the ground inside the void, and… traces of pure white inscriptions.
A magic circle appeared on the ground... The picture on Qiao Xiu's magic net changed dramatically at this moment. When the light faded, it turned into a space that looked like it was inside a cave.
"Hidden level?"
Ciri's character was killed when she fell, so she forcibly exited that world, and now she can only stand behind Joshua's screen and watch Joshua play.
"It doesn't look like it." Qiao Xiu controlled his vision and glanced around the cave, and a figure in a white gown appeared in front of Qiao Xiu.
At this time, Fuya had already controlled her surviving character and walked up with a weapon.
"Wait a minute! Foya wait! He doesn't seem to be an enemy!" Joshua could only use his voice to stop Foya.