Players could invite one another.
As long as one accepted someone else's invitation, it wouldn't count toward their active dungeon-opening limit.
Those players who intentionally limited their runs to two times did so to guarantee they could enter the National War Dungeon. As for why?
That was because one could only obtain a 【Talent Advancement Stone】 in a National War Dungeon.
Players could use it to slightly strengthen their talent once.
Every single National War Dungeon contained one.
Opening ten dungeon lines this time meant their world had prepared ten of them for this National War Dungeon!
Not to mention, this National War Dungeon targeted the entire Wuxia World.
The Lingyang First High School dungeon only corresponded to the Great Xuan Dynasty.
If they added it all up, the total number of 【Talent Advancement Stones】 prepared this time might exceed five hundred!
Zuo Lin'an pondered exactly how much cost this world had invested for this National War Dungeon. Once he calculated an approximate number, he couldn't help but suck in a cold breath of air.
Fortunately, the rate of information flow between nations in this ancient world was extremely low!
Therefore, while the Great Xuan Dynasty knew the secrets of the dungeon, the other nations were still in the dark. Otherwise, this crisis would probably escalate to a global scale.
However, the current situation was still urgent.
After all, if the Great Xuan Dynasty wiped out a large number of One-Star and Two-Star dungeons, they would have to draw from other nations anyway. The end result would be the same.
Zuo Lin'an sighed inwardly, hoping that this scheme targeting the countless veteran players of the Great Xuan Dynasty would not fail.
“I asked around. The novice benefit for this National War Dungeon is 【Obeying School Rules】.”
“School rules?”
“A school? That name is indeed fitting, though rather novel.”
“A strange yet familiar memory suddenly popped into my head. It feels incredibly bizarre. Is this the work of gods and ghosts?”
“What should we do now?”
“Look at those short-haired people. They seem different from us.”
“They must be the natives of this dungeon, similar to the ones we've encountered in previous Daily Dungeons.”
“Are they trustworthy?”
“Unclear. Based on past experience, some are trustworthy and some are not. Just to be safe, we shouldn't contact them recklessly.”
“As natives, they should be more familiar with this so-called school, right? If we make contact and build a good relationship, we'll surely be able to gather some secret information.”
“Just now, I saw several natives pull out something that glows with a single press. I wonder if we can ask to take a look.”
“The dungeon has only just begun. Let's not act rashly for now.”
“Fine.”
“Huh? Someone is walking away.”
“Can we leave this place?”
“They came back. As expected, even though this dungeon isn't surrounded by white mist, we still can't go too far.”
“The school is named 【Lingyang City First High School】. This Lingyang City must be a city. It's truly a pity we can only catch a glimpse of a corner of it from here.”
“Indeed. I never imagined there could be buildings dozens of stories tall. It's simply unheard of. I thought I had traveled across vast mountains and seas, but it turns out I was still just a frog at the bottom of a well.”
Zuo Lin'an and Xu Youyou quietly listened to these players talk.
They were either marveling at the architecture, lamenting their own ignorance, observing the NPCs, or trying to strike up a conversation with them.
In this manner, time quickly ticked away until five o'clock on the dot.
The school gate suddenly made a noise and slowly opened in front of them. Everyone fell silent and turned their gazes toward it.
Watching the retractable gate slowly slide open, Zuo Lin'an stepped forward and walked inside, with Xu Youyou following closely behind him.
As for the others outside the gate...
All the players were quite cautious. Although they followed, exchanging looks with one another, their pace was very slow.
On the other hand, the NPCs had no such concerns, so they all walked at the front.
Zuo Lin'an saw a bulletin board about ten meters ahead, with many brand-new lists of names posted on it.
He walked over and started looking from Class One.
Sure enough, he quickly spotted his and Xu Youyou's names.
Right at that moment, a sudden whim struck him.
In the next instant, under the astonished gazes of all the NPCs, he ripped the list for Class One off the bulletin board, turned around, and walked away.
Xu Youyou froze for a moment at the sight. Then, a smile of realization dawned on his face. He reached out, ripped off the list for Class Two, and quickly caught up with Zuo Lin'an.
“Hehehe, Brother An, you're awesome.”
This immediately woke up the other NPCs, who also understood why they had done this.
They were NPCs and didn't need to obey the school rules at all. Even without the lists, they would be fine. When the time came, they could just find any senior class and dormitory to stay in.
However, one thousand students were divided equally among twenty classes, with fifty people per class.
In other words, there were only twenty sheets of lists in total.
This tiny amount was far from enough to go around!
Thus, all the NPCs began to scramble and fight over them, even tearing the fragile papers into several pieces. For a moment, scraps of paper could be seen fluttering in the air.
At this moment, those top martial artist players, relying on their exceptional eyesight, noticed something amiss and spoke up.
“Oh no!”
“Those papers are lists! They have our assigned classes and specific dormitory addresses on them! Quick, snatch them back! Remember, do not harm anyone recklessly!”
The moment the words fell, those powerful martial artists sprang into action. Their figures flashed back and forth, and within a mere few seconds, more than half of the papers were snatched back.
However, many had already been torn to shreds.
By this time, Zuo Lin'an and Xu Youyou had already reached the riverside.
After entering the school gate, they were met with a wide expanse of paved concrete.
Further ahead was a circular flowerbed, and the bulletin board from earlier was nearby. Continuing a bit further toward the front right led to a river.
This river wound its way through the campus.
Zuo Lin'an and Xu Youyou were currently standing on a small stone bridge. Noticing someone approaching, Zuo Lin'an immediately and casually tossed the paper in his hand.
The paper fluttered down onto the river's surface and was instantly soaked through by the water, the handwriting on it turning blurry.
Right at that moment, a figure floated down and landed by the riverbank.
Zuo Lin'an's expression turned grim.
A specter aura.
This person was a Specter Master!
The person casually glanced at the paper floating on the river, then reached out and made a grasping motion through the air. The waterlogged paper actually flew up out of thin air and landed right in his hand.
Externalizing true qi!
This was a Xiantian Rank expert!
No wonder.
Ever since he first laid eyes on this person, Zuo Lin'an had noticed that the aura faintly emanating from him was stronger than any Houtian Rank expert he had met before.
Zuo Lin'an observed him carefully once more and found the person somewhat familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere before.
Oh, right!
He remembered.
Before, when he was browsing the forums, he had seen this person's posts more than once. It was just that the photos in those posts showed an old man, whereas the person standing before them now was a youth of seventeen or eighteen.
It was because of the dungeon; all players participating in this dungeon would revert to their youth.
Rate on N.U.
