How Level Zero Devil Destroys Player Experience

"Finally got it out. The drop rate is incredible."

Looking at the two complete Christmas letter papers in front of me against the light, I couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

There are cute Christmas trees, elk and snowmen on the stationery.

The shapes are similar, but it is hard to associate them with the monsters not far away.

He didn't care about the backlight and merged the two pieces together according to the description. As the light appeared, the two pieces of letter paper actually merged into an object similar to a ticket.

Christmas tickets.

Description: Can be used to teleport to hidden dungeons - Polar Snow Region, Antler Islands, and Gulliver Mine.

Number of times available: 3/3 times

"……That's it?"

Ni Guang couldn't help but twitch his lips. He originally thought that after so many brothers in the guild worked hard for a whole day, they could at least get something substantial in return, such as experience, equipment or rare items.

But I didn't expect that I only got a ticket for a copy, and it can only be used three times at most.

"Brother Guang, what should we do now?"

The deputy next to him was also dumbfounded and couldn't help asking.

"What else can we do? Let's go and give it a try. We can't let our brothers' efforts go to waste."

Ni Guang sighed.

Although what they gained from this gathering point was actually not much less than that from other places, the gap between the rewards of the imagined hidden activities created what they considered to be "sunk costs."

What Ni Guang didn't expect was that

These three hidden copies are actually super large copies, which can accommodate 100 people to enter the map to complete the game.

Ni Guang thought about it and finally called together the elite members of his team.

Although he was only leading an elite group ranked tenth or below in the Eternal Spire, the Eternal Spire was still a large guild after all, so it shouldn't be too difficult for it to deal with this kind of dungeon.

Normal, Hard, Expert.

The difficulty of these hidden copies is different from that of other copies.

And the next difficulty level will only be unlocked after clearing the previous one.

After getting everyone around ready, I went into the Gaoling Snowfield dungeon of normal difficulty against the light. The reason I chose this one out of the three was simply because I thought it matched the atmosphere of ice and snow around the valley.

And as the white light dissipated.

When he opened his eyes against the light, he found that he and other members of the elite group were already on a white ice field, with snow-capped ice forests next to them and mountains standing proudly in the distance.

Chapter 31 Dungeon Rewards

Snow valleys and hillsides crisscross through it.

It seems that you can still vaguely see the crystal ice lake, revealing its shape in the cracks of the valley.

"This should be the Taiyal Mountains. That's the hollyhock tree that's unique to the northern Slov region."

Someone in the team recognized the surrounding environment.

Ni Guang looked at this gentle young man with a little surprise. He was able to identify the location of the copy from the environment so quickly. It really took some skill for him to do so.

"Not bad, Cheese, you have some skills."

Unexpectedly, the mage named Cheese gave a helpless smile and said, "No, Brother Guang, I don't mean to show off. I just want to say that you can see that the snow and wind here are quite strong, and snow blindness may also occur on the snowfield."

I was stunned by the backlight.

After being reminded by the other party, I realized along with the people around me that my eyes seemed to be stinging.

Not only that, there is also a special debuff effect on the top of the head.

Snowfield Blindness: Visibility range decreases, attack hit rate decreases, and there is a chance of temporary dizziness, blindness, etc.

After Cheese's explanation, everyone realized that this was a symptom that often occurred in the northern snowfields.

"Tsk."

Ni Guang frowned and stretched out his hands to block in front of himself, "This era simulates the reality too thoroughly. There is obviously no need to create such a mechanism."

Or maybe the designer of this copy took this into consideration.

But in the end, they could only complete this dungeon under this effect.

"Normal difficulty, it shouldn't be too difficult. The ticket can only be used three times, so don't waste it." Ni Guang gave an order to the team, "Aliang and the others found a village ahead, let's go and see if we can dig out some information about the dungeon there."

The village is not far away, but it is hidden in the white ice and snow, making it difficult to detect.

But in the end, he couldn't escape the thief's keen insight.

Soon, Niguang and his friends came to the village under the guidance of the thief in the channel.

However, they learned from the thieves who arrived in advance and conducted some investigation that there was no news of a single person in the entire village.

The only good information was that Aliang and his friends found some papers in the house of what should be the village chief.

But I haven't waited to read it against the light yet.

Suddenly, there was a strange noise coming from the ground.

"Brother Guang, there are a lot of monsters coming to the vicinity of the village, they are all snowmen."

"Let everyone gather together and defend the center of the village!"

Ni Guang quickly gave orders.

As the elite group of the Eternal Spire, everyone's reaction was naturally quick. They immediately gathered in the center of the village according to Ni Guang's instructions, and with the help of a dozen houses, they started fighting the monsters outside.

Although everyone's skills and equipment levels are there.

However, due to the blinding effect of the snowfield, accidents occurred frequently during the battle.

For example, a warrior's field of vision is reduced, and he cannot see the monsters he missed; the output of shooters and mages drops from time to time due to their reduced hit rate; the priest suddenly becomes dizzy and blind, resulting in the inability to increase blood volume in time.

Among them, the thief is the most difficult. As a fragile profession coupled with close combat, if the blindness effect suddenly occurs, it will undoubtedly be a disaster.

Fortunately, in the end, all the attacking monsters were killed safely.

Ni Guang breathed a sigh of relief and then opened the paper in the village chief's house and learned what had happened.

Probably, there was a mutated snowman in the snowfield, and the villagers of this village had no choice but to go to the nearest shelter under the leadership of the village chief.

The village chief left these papers to warn passing travelers not to stay in this area for too long to avoid being attacked by the snowman.

The paper also recorded the experience of the mutation and the source of the mutation, which was roughly in the snow valley northwest of the village. There were a large number of snowmen there, who would actively attack any creature that entered the range.

The village chief had good intentions, but after reading against the light.

However, he had already received the order to go to that valley to investigate the truth of the matter.

"Players are just exhausted."

Ni Guang couldn't help but complain.

But he did not dare to sit idle, and immediately led everyone out of the village and headed towards the northwest.

As expected, I saw that somewhat strange snow valley, where snowmen gathered everywhere, including many elites and leaders.

Fortunately, the complex terrain inside also allowed the people in the Eternal Spire to find points that could be used, and gradually cleared a path forward in the Snowman Valley.

It took them about two hours of effort, but they finally advanced to the center of the snow valley and fought against the mutant snowman king.

The level 90 leader, although weakened after the dungeon, is still not to be underestimated, but Ni Guang did not expect that the battle in the middle would be so difficult.

The Snowman King will summon an ice storm around him at regular intervals. If it stays there for too long, he will be frozen, and the ice damage he receives will increase by 50% during the freezing period.

This terrifying bonus amount means that for the front-row soldiers who are defending the Eternal Spire around the Snowman King, every time their health drops, it is an extremely thrilling process.

But this is not the most important.

"This is damn blindness."

The curse whispered in the backlight was probably the inner thoughts of all the members of the Eternal Spire present.

I don't know if it's because the boss battle is approaching, or if this negative state of blindness has a hidden effect that will become more serious over time.

During the battle with the Snowman King, everyone's field of vision was greatly reduced, causing some of the back row to be unable to react to the Snowman King's long-range attacks. The reduced hit rate also slowed down their output rhythm.

The most serious of these is the intermittent dizziness and blindness.

Combined with the fact that the temperature inside Snowman Valley is lower than outside, this leads to the frostbite effect.

The casualties on the Eternal Spire were particularly heavy, with almost everyone in the front row being killed at least three or four times, and the others were not much better, with an overall death toll of around two times.

Although the number of people was not equal, everyone still felt that it was more difficult to deal with than the level 100 leader they encountered outside.

In the end, he decided to go all out.

After sacrificing the front row and the back row giving their all, they finally killed the Snowman King before the whole team was wiped out.

"Hoohoo."

Ni Guang and others who returned from the copy couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after seeing that they had successfully passed the level.

But he soon fell silent because of the copy reward that popped up.

Although the attributes of the equipment dropped by monsters in the dungeon are good, they are not the best among the newly opened dungeons. If other expenses are added, the income may only be considered medium.

Originally they were expecting good rewards from the dungeon.

But I found that there were only two types of things in the output of the completed copy.

Blueprint fragments and crafting materials.

Chapter 32: The So-called Guild Involution

This drawing is——

[Primary maintenance tool drawings (1/3)]

Description: Collect three blueprint fragments to combine into [Primary Maintenance Tool Blueprint]

【Primary maintenance tools】

Attributes: Enhances war weapon attack by 10% for 30 minutes.

The description was simple, so simple that it immediately caused everyone in the Eternal Spire to go crazy.

"Fuck, I worked so hard and this is all I got."

"Increasing the attack power of war weapons by 10%, who cares..."

"Let alone the final effect of the prop, this is just a fragment of a blueprint."

"Do we have to clear two other hidden copies before we can get the complete version?"

They were all right. Although props related to war weapons were rare, they could only be used in fortress battles. Moreover, this was just a fragment of a blueprint.

It's simply not worth the cost they incurred.

"Brother Guang, let those brothers who are fighting monsters take a break. The rewards are too stingy."

The deputy sighed.

However, unexpectedly, Niguang, who had not spoken since completing the copy, shook his head.

"No, we have to continue, and we have to speed up. Look at what this is?"

I looked in the direction of the warning coming from the backlight.

Everyone then noticed that these three so-called hidden copies actually had rankings. Not only were there rankings for each copy, but there was also an overall ranking. Moreover, it was not a personal ranking, but a ranking in the name of the guild.

For example, they cleared the Polar Snow Region and ranked sixth under the name of Eternal Spire.

Normal difficulty, 3 hours, 37 minutes and 08 seconds.

There are currently only six guilds on the entire ranking list. The top ones are all well-known guilds, including Storm, Empire Epic, Ares, Star Myth, and Rose Heart.

There are rewards for ranking, and different amounts of materials are obtained according to the ranking.

Moreover, in the overall ranking, Storm has now actually cleared the Polar Snow Region and the Antler Islands, firmly occupying the first place, which is twice as fast as them. Of course, it is also possible that he got the ticket in advance.

But the problem is that this doesn't seem to answer their questions at all.