Zuo Lin'an read very carefully.
He had to commit these talents to memory, whether they were ordinary talents or special talents.
Furthermore, "repelling a specter" mentioned here actually meant dispersing it.
Once a specter was dispersed, it would turn into a blood mist and return to a fixed location, waiting to reform.
The more rules a specter had, the less time it took to reform.
Moreover, a single repel would clear all of the specter's previous Death Locks.
【Of course, most of them are special talents that evolved based on the player's own circumstances. As for the current martial arts world, I've already encountered a few rather unique talents.】
【For example, 'Buddha Heart'—as long as they chant Buddhist scriptures for ten seconds, they can stop a specter from attacking for one minute. The cooldown seems to be one day.】
【There's also 'Demon-Slaying Sword'. Its effect is similar to the Heavenly Thunder Talisman, allowing them to repel a specter with a single sword strike. While the Heavenly Thunder Talisman has a two-day cooldown, this Demon-Slaying Sword usually has a two-day cooldown as well. However, if the player can find a sword-type weapon, the cooldown can be reduced to one day!】
Someone replied below.
【Does that mean your dungeon has sword-type weapons?】
【Of course not!】
【But! That bastard is a martial artist who practices swordplay, and a Second-Rate martial artist at that. He literally picked up a withered branch and fashioned a wooden sword with his bare hands!! Then he cleaved me in half with one strike!! In the end, he cleared the dungeon while I was busy reforming!!】
【Hahahahaha!! Poster, you're so miserable!】
【My condolences, poster.】
【Don't worry, poster. I'll avenge you. What's his name? What does he look like? I've heard that those who practice swordplay in this kind of martial arts world are usually dashing, elegant swordsmen. No offense, I'm just curious. If I run into him in the future, I can be prepared.】
Ignoring them, the poster thoughtfully added a helpful tip below.
【Helpful Tip: Novice dungeon bosses usually have only one rule. If they are repelled, it might take three to five days to reform. You had better understand the players' talents before making a move on them.】
【Of course, the safest option is to set the main quest as a survival time, preferably for more than three days. That way, even if you are repelled, you'll have enough time to reform and make another move.】
Zuo Lin'an read through the post very carefully, gaining a rough understanding of the players' talents.
In short, all players possessed talents.
Talents were divided into three categories.
Ordinary talents were the most common, accounting for nine hundred and ninety out of every thousand players.
If they were special talents, they made up nine out of the remaining ten.
Only the very last one might possess a unique special talent.
Naturally, the rarer the special effect of a talent, the stronger it was.
However, what concerned him the most was the poster's final helpful tip.
“Once a specter with only one rule is repelled, it needs three to five days to reform.”
“So this is what they call the lowest One-Star difficulty? Just a transition for the players?”
Zuo Lin'an pondered for a long time before deciding to apply first.
He scrolled back to the top, found the application button, and tapped it.
In the next instant, a page popped up on his phone, requiring him to fill out a form.
The first item was the novice benefits.
After some thought, he directly wrote down time.
After all, his Death Rule was related to time.
Besides, even if they found out, there was nothing they could do about it.
The second item was the main quest.
Zuo Lin'an had many ideas, but recalling the post he had just read, he ultimately filled in five days.
As for food, he would spend some money to buy some in a bit.
The third item was the consumable specter item.
“How does this work?”
He tapped the explanation on the side.
【Note: You may select any item within the dungeon's range, infuse it with specter aura, and set the item's special effect according to your own ideas.】
【Helpful Tip: The current Daily Dungeon difficulty is One-Star. You can only craft one consumable specter item.】
Zuo Lin'an thought about it and sent his specter body out to search.
Since their consciousness was shared, it was practically the same as him searching himself.
As a result, after walking a lap outside, the most common things he saw were withered leaves scattered on the ground and withered trees covering the mountains.
Zuo Lin'an simply picked up an intact withered leaf and brought it back.
Inside the house.
He held the leaf and stared at it for a long time. Finally, following the phone's instructions, he infused his own specter aura directly into it. The process went exceptionally smoothly.
However, the moment he infused a sliver of specter aura, a feeling suddenly welled up in his heart, prompting him to set the type and special effect of the specter item.
Consumable specter item, of course.
How many uses?
After some thought, Zuo Lin'an decided on just one.
As for the special effect...
The special effect of the specter item... definitely couldn't be repelling specters.
Otherwise, he would be digging a hole for himself!
Then... how about blocking a specter's execution once?
That seemed a bit too simple.
Then let's add a bit more: ensuring that the specter's next attack would not target the user.
This effect should be decent enough, right?
Besides, such a specter item wouldn't be overly effective against him, so it wouldn't cause him too much trouble.
Once he finalized the details of the specter item, Zuo Lin'an realized he could continue infusing specter aura into it.
He immediately understood that the amount of aura infused was linked to the strength of the specter item's special effect.
He didn't know if his specter item's effect was considered strong or weak.
He lacked experience.
He had forgotten to browse the forum earlier.
Forget it. It wouldn't affect him anyway.
However, he soon realized that crafting a specter item was no easy task. He focused entirely, frantically pouring specter aura into the leaf for a full five minutes!
When he finished, the leaf had undergone a massive transformation.
The leaf, which was originally so dry that it would crumble at a pinch, was now extremely tough. No matter how he pinched or tore at it, it couldn't be destroyed.
Furthermore, the veins of the leaf had turned pitch-black and glossy. One could tell at a glance that it was different from other leaves.
“Specter items cannot be destroyed.”
Zuo Lin'an pinched the leaf, turning it over to inspect it repeatedly before putting it aside to continue the application process.
The final item was the number of players.
He could even decide the number of players himself?
Zuo Lin'an tapped the tip next to it.
【Note: The number of players in a One-Star dungeon cannot exceed twenty at most, and cannot be fewer than five at least. The more players there are, the weaker their abilities will be; the fewer players there are, the stronger their abilities will be!】
Zuo Lin'an could roughly understand this.
After all, every player possessed a talent. More players meant more talents, and it would take more time to kill them all, which increased the difficulty for the boss.
For the dungeon to maintain balance, it could only choose players with weaker abilities.
For instance, fools, novices, and bleeding hearts.
Of course, the actual situation probably wasn't as exaggerated as he imagined, but that was the general idea.
On the other hand, the fewer players there were...
For the dungeon boss, the number of players to kill decreased, which reduced the difficulty. To balance things out, the dungeon would select players with very strong individual capabilities.
After some thought, Zuo Lin'an set the player count to ten.
Since it was his first time opening the dungeon, he wanted to be slightly cautious.
If there were too many people, they would be hard to kill.
After all, these players might have specter items and special talents.
If there were too few, they would definitely be smart individuals, and he didn't want to face overly clever people just yet.
In that case, a middle ground was the only option.
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