Chapter 31 (2/2)

The Tower of Trials was actually set to be a dungeon for guilds, because most of the equipment and loots from it were mainly Sacred Relics for guilds and manors.

Solo players that didn’t want to join any guilds could also place the Sacred Relics in their own manors to the same effect.

To increase the limit of the server quickly, Jiang Qiao didn’t set a limit on the number of times a player could challenge the Tower of Trials, while for normal dungeons the limit was five per day. Normal dungeons had boosted drop rates on equipment and EXP, while the Tower of Trials did not, in some ways similar to training at regular spots at the over-world.

That being said, the Tower of Trials had a rewarding system for players that passed levels to a certain degree, and so it could completely serve as a spot for players to test their skills and show their abilities.

Jiang Qiao used his free time to stay hidden as the GM, checking on how well the players did in the new dungeon.

There weren’t a lot of players that had entered the Tower of Trials since an hour ago. Most players that were actively playing the game were around Level 25, while the highest leveled players on the Level Leaderboard were already Level 32.

There were three dungeons for players in the range of Level 25~30, and clearing one would require around half an hour to an hour. Most players at this point were busy with those dungeons, and the only players that noticed the Tower of Trials were newbie players who were still active in the area of Lionheart City.

The first batch of players that attempted challenging the Tower of Trials had already appeared, and one of the first players was the streamer that Jiang Qiao had come into contact with before, the ModaoSwordsman.

He seemed to not have any real-life friends in Sacred Souls, so he only shouted in front of the Tower of Trials for more than ten minutes before he barely managed to enter the first floor of the dungeon with a ragtag four-person party.

The first level of the Tower of Trials was harder than what Jiang Qiao had expected, and in the party only ModaoSwordsman had passable skills. It was clear that he had switched off the Battle Support system and was using his own movements to activate skills, while the rest of the players used their minds to activate the skill using skill shortcuts.

Both of these ways had their pros and cons, and the party used an hour and twenty-four minutes before barely managing to scrape by the first level.

After they passed, the maximum number of players allowed on the server increased by around thirteen people.

As soon as ModaoSwordsman exited the Tower of Trials, he received a system notification.

[Your level-clear record is in the forty-third place among all challengers]

“We got on the leaderboard? We did so terribly though?”

ModaoSwordsman was stunned when he saw this system notification. After all, this makeshift team of his didn’t even have a healer, and even the last boss was defeated by stalling it out.

Normal dungeons had leaderboards too, but only the top ten players were shown.

“The dungeon clearing records are here… Wait, are these all NPCs?”

The Elemental Mage came to the first stone tablet from the guidance of the system, and the names displayed on the stone tablet were a bunch of western names.

These standard names were definitely not made by players.

“So the record that we broke was a record set by the system, and we’re even in last place…Why do I feel embarrassed?” A Lancer in the party said, scratching his cheek sheepishly.

They were feeling embarrassed because every record set by the system were all set to be easily broken by players. In other words, these records were what the system deemed to be easy.

“The highest limit of this dungeon is six people, and there’s a reward for breaking records too. Do any of you have Level 25 friends online? Should we invite them, or should we just find two more random players?”

ModaoSwordsman watched as another party entered the Tower of Trials, and he knew that they should move fast to break all the system records before all the strong players came in and swept the NPC records.