I asked you to be a mage, not to raise a nine-tailed fox

Chapter 494 It's so hard not to do raids~
Mina's standard challenge was over in less than an hour.

They cleaned it up completely, even digging out and fighting the hidden bosses underground.

Even the monsters hidden underground and several nearby volcanoes were all flattened by Mina.

Even so, Mina's points did not break through four thousand.

It got stuck at 3923.

"Slip away."

Mina was a bit disappointed, as she still had over 70 points to go before reaching 4,000, whereas in survival mode it would have been easy to reach 7,000 or 8,000.

But what Mina didn't know was that, based on the perfect score of 3,000, each mode actually had its own hidden upper limit.

Mina's highest score in this individual volcano challenge was only 3999.

Mina only learned about this limit score later when she and Olivia were talking about it.

As Mina emerged from the portal, wondering if her score was enough, Lucia and Ansana followed.

Lucia wore a gentle smile.

Ansana was both excited and nervous.

Upon seeing Mina and Lucia, he excitedly shouted.

"Mina, Lucia, I've reached max level again, I've reached max level once more."

Mina looked at Miss Run with a smile, never expecting that Miss Run, who used to only know the Gale Technique, would one day be able to break through to the maximum level on her own.

"me too."

Lucia laughed.

Not only Ansana and Mina, but she herself also reached the max level.

"Eh~"

Anshana blinked, thinking about it, and realized that Mina was already strong, and Lucia's strength was probably no less than hers.

For a challenge like that, maxing out the level is the normal approach.

So here comes the question.

The final score...

The three of them then revealed their badges together.

Open the scoring!
"Mina: 3923"

"Lucia: 3924"

"Ansana: 3878"

The moment she saw the score, Lucia gave a reserved smile.

"Oh dear, I'm sorry, I won by a small margin."

Mina was speechless. He was just one point short. He didn't know if it was because Lucia cleared the monsters faster or because she killed more than him.

The content, location, and even the types and numbers of monsters encountered in the challenge are all randomized.

Luck is also important.

The two exchanged a glance, and could clearly see each other's smiles. In fact, they were connected by a contract stone, and their hearts could often communicate.

Now the two of them can feel each other's joy.

But the problem is...

In the brief moment between the two, Mi Xiaohu could clearly see Anshana's crumbling face from her perspective.

How, how could it be...

how so……

She's clearly very strong...

She also cleared all the monsters in the secret realm, so why is her score so much lower than Mina's and Lucia's?

It's such a pity.

Seeing Anshana's listless appearance, Mina and Lucia both laughed.

One person on each side lifted her up.

"Let's go back and have some dinner, and spend some money."

"That's right, didn't you want to eat those little pastries from the third district of Void City a few days ago? I'll treat you!"

Lucia laughed, "I just spent seven thousand, that's all."

Ansana's eyes lit up immediately when she heard about eating pastries.

But when Lucia said that she had gained 7,000 virtual points, she immediately became unhappy.

Why? She only has six thousand!

o (╥﹏╥) o
Mina walked behind the two girls, watching their backs, a smile playing on her lips.

With these two girls by my side, life in the Void Tower is never boring.

"Personal Keystone"

Each of the three completed the game and received three keystones.

A standard, ordinary keystone.

One of them has blue patterns on it.

The third one has purple patterns.

The magical information is all personal keystones, and not personal challenge keystones.

So……

What's different about these stones...?

Could it be that... the patterns on it are merely decorative?
That can't be right!

Unearthing its own emblem and infusing it with magic, it discovered new functions within.

Magical Images.

Send the image, magically combined with a text message, to a designated contact.

This is the kind of phone Mina has always dreamed of!

Although this permission was an extra feature that Mina unlocked after arriving at the Void Tower, it cost ten Void Points, along with Magic Imprint.

But it was precisely these two functions that allowed Mina to truly find a sense of familiarity.

It was a magical image with three keystones on it.

Mina: "Miss Olivia, these are my spoils from this solo Tower of Fantasy challenge."

After a dozen or so breaths, Olivia resumed using three exclamation marks.

Olivia: "!!!"

Olivia: "Mr. Mina... ugh, Mina, how many points did you get this time?! How did you manage to get a Nightmare-level personal keystone?!"

Mina: "Huh? Nightmare level?"

Olivia: "Where are you? I'm coming to find you."

Mina looked up and around, then gave him the coordinates.

About half an hour later, Olivia came down from the seventh floor.

"Sister Olivia~"

Ansana smiled and waved. Having enjoyed the dessert, Ansana had returned to her usual self, or at least she appeared to be.

"Let me see the spoils of war from the three of you."

"Ovilia said."

There are nine keystones in total.

Upon seeing the nine keystones, Olivia took a deep breath.

It seems my previous assumptions were wrong.

Not only Mina, but all three of them are very strong.

She pointed to the blue and purple patterned keystones and explained to the three of them, "The blue ones are the keystones that can unlock the hard difficulty level."

"The purple ones unlock the Nightmare difficulty challenge."

Ansana blinked. "Difficulties and nightmares?"

"Yes, higher difficulty challenges correspond to stronger monsters, and the rewards will be greater, with the score cap increasing by about three to five times. Also, because rare keystones are extremely difficult to obtain, they are very precious..."

After listening to Olivia's explanation, Mina and the other two had a pretty good understanding of the more difficult challenges ahead.

More challenging tasks will not allow Mina to advance directly to the next level, but the difficulty level is roughly the same.

The difficulty level is similar to the standard version on the second floor, while the nightmare level is comparable to the third floor.

There are even legends that there are epic-level challenges, comparable to the difficulty of level four.

However, obtaining those keystones is extremely difficult.

It's a normal difficulty challenge anyway, so it's impossible for it to drop.

However, there are some advantages as well.

This kind of high-difficulty challenge allows challengers to see how they perform at a higher level, and of course, it also makes earning money more efficient.

"Decided!"

Mina and her two companions have decided to target Nightmare difficulty.

The Nightmare difficulty level 1 is equivalent to the standard level 3.

So, naturally, Mina and her two companions set off again the next day.

But soon, the three of them realized that... it seemed that the so-called nightmare difficulty was just so-so.

They have about six times the troop strength. The final hidden boss is also a force of three half-step Stars, along with six mini-bosses.

This would be really difficult to resolve without some strength.

Fortunately, Mina still had some strength – she used several more super-powerful meteor spells to finally defeat the three half-step star-level monsters.

A portal to space lit up in front of Mina.

That's the gate to the camp.

"It took six hours to finish the battle."

They were all grouped together and attacked, but when the fight actually started, it took six times longer.

The key was the last three hidden bosses, who were really good at coordinating and took up a lot of his time.

But thankfully it's finally over.

Looking at her score, Mina's lips curled into a smile.

This time we'll surely come in first place.

When they came out, they found that Lucia had already come out.

"How about it?"

"not bad."

The two exchanged a smile, seemingly quite confident in their scores.

After waiting for about an hour, Ansana still hadn't come out.

After thinking for a moment, the two went out to find something to eat.

The camp at the foot of this miraculous tower offers a wide variety of local snacks and flavors.

Mina was particularly interested in the barbecue dish called Delicious Wind Snake.

It was already night, and the two had eaten and drunk their fill, but Ansana showed no sign of coming out.

"How to do?"

"I'll have to spend the night here for now."

"I'll go check out the campsite accommodations."

Lucia and Mina rented a nice manor outside the camp.

It has a small building and a hot spring. It's quite cost-effective to rent a room for a week for only five points.

There's just a minor issue: wild monsters might pass by. The shop owner is not responsible if you are attacked.

Mina, who loves being close to nature, naturally wouldn't care about these small details.

Soaking happily in the hot spring, feeling the hot water caressing my skin, and gazing at the tranquil night at the heart of this heritage site, I suddenly realized that it seems like it's been a long time since I've stopped to look around.

When did it start?
Having arrived at the Land of Heritage, or after setting off from Ernst Territory...

"Let me give you a shoulder massage."

Lucia swam over with a smile, while Mina rolled over and lay face down on the shore, looking up at the Milky Way.

Lucia gently placed her small hand on Mina's broad arm.

"You've grown up."

"Yes, we've all grown up."

Mina suddenly turned around and whispered in Lucia's ear.

"Let me see if my little Lucia has grown up."

"Hey~ Mina, what are you doing? Ansana will be back in a minute~ Hey hey hey~~"

"Chirp chirp chirp ee~"

The little firebird soared high into the air, accompanied by a high-pitched dragon roar.

Speaking of which... wouldn't you call this a harmonious union of dragon and phoenix?
When Ansana returned, Mina and Lucia had already finished washing up and were sitting across from each other in the house drinking tea.

"Wow, you guys came out so fast!"

Anshana was drenched in sweat. Even though there was no immediate danger of death in the battle of the Tower of Miracles, there was still a threat of death, especially the last three hidden bosses, which were really difficult to defeat.

Even she felt the threat of death.

Fortunately, she persevered.

The final result satisfied her greatly.

"Come on, let's start."

Ansana's eyes were bright; this time, she was full of confidence.

This time, she turned the entire secret realm upside down, clearing out almost every demon she could see before emerging.

But... the confident Ansana was dealt a heavy blow.

She stared in astonishment at Mina and Lucia's scores.

"Mina: 5879"

"Lucia: 6845"

"Ansana: 5736"

Ansana: "..."

Ansana: "o(╥﹏╥)o"

Why am I in last place again?

Mina looked at Lucia with some surprise. Normally, even at the Nightmare level, the maximum score is only 5999.

Mina and Ansana both scored close to the maximum, but the difference was that Mina defeated the monsters faster, more than twice as fast as Ansana.

As for Lucia... why was she able to break through the limit...?

"A survival challenge!"

Lucia laughed.

Mina suddenly realized that even the most basic survival challenge had a maximum score of 9999.

Lucia is no longer the same as before; the fourth level of magical pressure has been integrated into her fourth level of dragon might.

It completely overwhelmed the entire arena.

"Finding their hideout took some effort; I could have gotten a higher score."

Lucia was somewhat disappointed.

The Nightmare difficulty level of the solo Tower of Fantasy survival challenge is almost higher than the team difficulty level.

There are quite a few monsters at the half-step Star Glory level.

Most importantly, one of the monsters, with a large eyeball covered in various tentacles, was completely unaffected by her dragon might.

She could even use mental interference to make the monsters around her resist her dragon might.

Although it doesn't completely eliminate her immunity, it has broken her momentum.

After being attacked, Lucia was seriously injured and there was no way to recover. Even so, Lucia still got the highest score among the three.

For skilled individuals, survival challenges are opportunities.

"So it seems we can easily complete even the third level of the challenge?"

"The fourth floor should be fine too."

Mina said directly.

The problem is that even with Lucia's score, she hasn't obtained the second Challenge Keystone. So if the group really wants to challenge the higher-ups a month from now, they'll have to directly challenge the group.

Compared to the individual challenge of the strongest monster being limited to the half-step Starshine level, the team challenge is much more difficult.

This was confirmed by the Mina team in the second week.

The next day, Mina, Lucia, and Ansana played through the normal difficulty team challenge.

Easy.

Pass directly.

It even received a perfect score of 3999.

As a result, Mina and her two companions obtained two Nightmare-level universal keys.

These keystones can be challenged solo or in teams.

Ansana was enthusiastic and wanted to continue, but the team challenge only had one chance per week.

This made Miss Paopao very sad.

In the following days, I gritted my teeth and sprinted, almost spending all the points I had.

Starting in the second week, Mina and her two teammates faced a team challenge that began at the Nightmare level.

The good news is that the Nightmare Level 1 team challenge was successfully completed, and the three members easily achieved a perfect score of 5999.

Because it's a standard challenge, the difficulty is lower than the survival challenge. The strongest hidden boss is still a monster comparable to the Starry Rhino, but there are three of them.

It's relatively difficult to solve.

The bad news is, I still haven't gotten an epic keystone...

I have to play Nightmare difficulty again next week.

and……

"It's so hard not to do raids~" Ansana lay on the table, feeling itchy all over.

Today is Saturday, and Ansana, who has completed two weeks of cooldown reduction, still hasn't gotten first place.

Sad o(╥﹏╥)o

(End of this chapter)