After filling it out, Zuo Lin'an tapped submit.
The page redirected, showing that it was under review.
The review process didn't take long, only about ten seconds.
Soon, a notification popped up.
【We are sorry, but your application has failed. The dungeon difficulty is too high and does not comply with the world rules. Please make the necessary modifications.】
【Helpful Tip: You can modify the novice benefits' hint, the difficulty of the main quest, increase the usage limit of consumable specter items, and so on.】
Zuo Lin'an paused slightly.
Difficulty too high?
Well, if he killed one person per hour, a five-day quest duration was indeed a bit exaggerated. But hadn't he taken the possibility of being repelled into account?
Forget it. Since the system required modifications, there was no getting around it.
He re-examined the form he had filled out.
Novice benefits?
He couldn't change that.
He could only start with the main quest and the usage limit of the specter item.
However, he still didn't really want to reduce the quest duration.
Afterward, Zuo Lin'an picked up the leaf again, changed the usage limit to twice, and poured quite a bit more specter aura into it before finishing up.
He applied once more.
The result was still a failure.
However, the tip changed this time.
【Helpful Tip: You can modify the main quest.】
Zuo Lin'an took a deep breath when he saw this.
Fine, it was so obvious now. It seemed five days really wouldn't work.
He either had to shorten the duration or simply change the main quest altogether.
After some thought, he changed the five days to three days.
The result was still a failure.
Two days?
Still no!
Refusing to accept defeat, Zuo Lin'an ultimately changed it to just one day!
This time, the application was successfully approved.
【Congratulations, your application has been approved! When midnight on Monday arrives, ten players will descend into your dungeon. Please be prepared, and we wish you success in wiping out all the players!】
【Note: Before the dungeon opens, please place your crafted specter item within the dungeon's range.】
Zuo Lin'an breathed a sigh of relief.
It was finally approved!
One day... twenty-four hours.
Although it was more than enough time to kill ten players, he had to ensure he wouldn't run into players with talents or specter items capable of repelling specters.
Or rather, he had to kill them before they could use their talents or specter items.
“Right, there's also the specter item.”
The leaf he had just made was still sitting on the table.
He estimated the distance between his house and the center of Zone Two...
It was so far away, with so many mountains in between...
“I'll let my specter body do it.”
A specter's speed was very fast; a round trip probably wouldn't even take half an hour.
The specter body sitting to the side stood up, took the leaf from the table, and quickly vanished outside the door.
Zuo Lin'an leaned back on the sofa and casually grabbed some snacks from the coffee table.
He ate while browsing.
There were still many valuable posts on the forum.
He needed to read more now, such as the experiences and encounters of other bosses, especially regarding those particularly troublesome players who had cleared dungeons many times.
Of course, these players would most likely not be assigned to the easiest One-Star dungeons, but some posts mentioned that many high-level players would actively carry novices.
If they were carrying novices, they would definitely go to One-Star dungeons most of the time.
Zuo Lin'an muttered to himself, “I shouldn't be that unlucky, right?”
But even if they did come, it was fine.
What will be, will be; there was no escaping it.
He would have to open his dungeon eventually.
Then again, with the difficulty of his dungeon combined with his Death Rule, wouldn't it be considered the absolute peak difficulty among One-Star dungeons?
Meanwhile, his specter body was rushing toward the center of Zone Two. Its figure flickered continuously through the mountain forests; it seemed to walk slowly, but with every step, it covered a vast distance.
In just about ten minutes, it had already crossed dozens of large mountains and stepped into the inner layer of white mist.
Once past the white mist, it was officially within the dungeon's boundaries.
Zuo Lin'an directly chose the tallest mountain inside and selected the tallest tree, placing the leaf on the highest branch of this withered tree.
The forum posts had explained that specter items had to be placed in specific, orderly, and predictable locations, or at key spots required to progress the plot.
His dungeon didn't have any bullshit plot for the time being, so he could only choose an eye-catching spot.
“This place should be obvious enough, right?”
Not to mention, out of all the trees in the entire dungeon area, this was the only leaf!
If anyone still claimed he hadn't placed it obviously enough, Zuo Lin'an would definitely make them find an obvious yet reasonable spot themselves.
Furthermore, this leaf was stuck there with his own specter aura; no matter how hard the wind blew, it wouldn't fall off.
Yet as long as someone tried to pluck it, they could take it down easily.
The specter body looked around.
The environment here was nothing special—just dead, gloomy, and completely devoid of life.
“I should set up an abandoned wooden cabin or something here...”
After all, in the middle of a barren wilderness, an abandoned wooden cabin or a ruined temple would be highly appropriate.
“Forget it, I don't have any money right now. I'll do it after I earn some.”
Once he had money in the future, he would definitely buy some corpses from that user who posted on the forum selling them.
When the time came, a ruined, collapsed house, paired with corpses hanging from trees and swaying in the wind, beneath a gloomy sky and amidst a dead, withered mountain forest...
That atmosphere would immediately be perfect!
“Right, there are also bounties...”
Perhaps he could do some bounties to earn Contribution points?
No, that wasn't right.
He probably couldn't do them.
After all, up until now, these bounties all required trading live players.
But his main quest was survival for an entire day; as long as the players survived for a day, they would automatically leave the dungeon.
Therefore, he couldn't capture any live players at all.
“To keep live players in the dungeon, I must have a quest to find the path of survival.”
However, when he was browsing the posts earlier, he had seen that once players found the path of survival, it would only remain open for five minutes.
As long as they didn't escape within five minutes, they would remain alive inside the dungeon.
But!
The path of survival quest wasn't that simple.
As a dungeon boss, if he wanted to set a quest to find the path of survival for his dungeon, he had to set a storyline within it.
This would require players to investigate events and deduce the location of the path of survival during their investigation.
Right now, his dungeon didn't meet the requirements.
Actually, Zuo Lin'an didn't plan on setting up a storyline for a One-Star dungeon. After all, his Death Rule was completely unsuitable for a plot-driven setup.
On the contrary, extending the dungeon's duration was his primary focus.
So, based on his thoughts, he would have to wait until he became a Two-Star dungeon boss to accept bounties, or simply find a different kind of bounty?
Like those bounty posts that didn't care whether the target was dead or alive?
“Let's search and see...”
Just as he was looking up the bounty posts, he suddenly felt someone approaching the edge of the white mist.
It couldn't be anyone other than Xu Youyou.
Rate on N.U.
