82 Chapter 82 (1/2)

Chapter 82

James loved ranking up. Honestly, it was probably one of his favorite parts of the game, other than, of course, watching adventurers get eaten by mimics. That just never got old.

As was normal for rank ups, James watched as his tier 2 mobs, including the bosses, all leveled up. As a Tier 2 Rank 6 dungeon, his basic mobs on his second floor were now level 20, B.L.U. was level 25, and the Terminus had reached level 30. Given the fact Z's team was only level 24, it was still going to be a while before the adventurers were easily farming his second floor. Even longer if James left the second floor as it was, but he felt that just wouldn't be right.

For this reason alone, James resisted the urge to upgrade all of his tier 2 mobs with the skill points that unlocked for each of them. Sure, it would mean more death and destruction, but James needed adventurers to venture into the second floor, and at least feel like they had a chance. Otherwise, they would all just stick to the first floor and grind out as much as they could, which would severely limit the amount of experience James was gaining. And that just wouldn't do. He wanted to hit Tier 3 this immersion, and he knew it was possible.

Along with resisting the urge to upgrade his mobs, James looked at the primary version of his second floor and began tweaking it once more. The first thing he did, was decrease the amount of Philosoraptors roaming around the map. He didn't completely eliminate them, but he decreased the packs to a 3 and 1 split, so three velocity raptors and 1 Philosoraptors per pack.

James also moved the packs around a bit for their starting points. Of course, they would continue to have the ability to roam, as they seemed to really enjoy doing, but they would at least start further away from the other packs, meaning less likelihoods of the barrages like what the raid party faced.

Finally, when it came to his second floor, James used his additional 20 points to add in another two breakers. These mobs proved as good training enemies for the parties, in James's opinion, as they were not only massive and tough to damage, but there was always the opportunity for a roaming raptor pack to join in the fight as well. Add in the archeao-repairers that would do fly by healing, and adventurers would need to work on their teamwork and tactics to bring these mobs down. Of course, since they were the highest cost basic mob on the floor, the experience reward would help players attempt to level faster and give James a potential larger experience reward if or when they fell.

And, even with the nerfs to his floor, he was sure he would still average one or two deaths from each party that stepped foot on his second floor. Decent odds in his mind, and also odds that weren't so overwhelming players would outright avoid his floor. He found himself grinning with anticipation as he rubbed his tentacles together. He saved his changes and closed out of the optimization tools for his second floor.

With his mobs taken care of for his second floor, the next task with his rank up was to take a quick note of all his gains.

Glyax Tier 2 Rank 6 Dungeon

Mob Type: Random

210,060 xp

9,940 xp to next rank