87: Solo Nightmare Class Change Instance
Lin Ling stretched, gently pulled open the curtains, and a ray of morning light hit his face, sweeping away all fatigue.
Seeing that it was already 9 o'clock, Lin Ling couldn't help but pat his forehead.
“Ugh, why is it so hard to wake up early?”
It was barely acceptable for him to stay up late, but asking him to wake up early was practically asking for his life.
After washing up and having breakfast as usual, Lin Ling headed straight for the Job Transfer Shrine.
Although he had already completed his second job transfer by taking the job transfer quest in advance, he could challenge the second job transfer dungeon after successfully completing it.
Inside, there was the holy light gem, which was essential for him to craft his exclusive weapon.
The Demon King would appear this afternoon; once he got the demon king's heart, he could completely perfect the Yaoguang Staff.
There were significantly more pedestrians on the street than yesterday.
Lin Ling used the illusionist mask to simply change his appearance.
However, his Wolf Tooth Hammer could not be stored in his inventory space, so he could only carry it on his shoulder.
Initially, Lin Ling was worried about the Wolf Tooth Hammer, but soon he became full of surprise.
What Lin Ling never expected was that people could be seen everywhere on the street wearing level 1 white-grade magic robes and carrying huge Wolf Tooth Hammers.
When he first saw this, Lin Ling was stunned on the spot, his face full of question marks.
The flesh on his face twitched wildly; he really hadn't expected so many fake Ye Xius to appear overnight.
While Lin Ling was sleeping soundly, Ye Xiu's supporters somehow got hold of some news.
They used AI to create wallpapers and promotional images of his likeness.
Some commercially minded individuals worked through the night to produce a batch of identical Wolf Tooth Hammers.
Even the level 1 monster zones suffered that night, with a sea of people no less than the second Undead Scourge.
Many Professionals carried kitchen knives and rushed into the level 1 zone, just to get a shiny white-grade item.
After a moment of speechlessness, Lin Ling could only continue forward, occasionally having one or two cosplay fans jump out and shout at him, “Miss, do you want to collect a stamp?”
As for the trolls attacking him in the public chat, Lin Ling simply chose to ignore them.
No one could steal Lin Ling's equipment.
For friends, there's good wine; for jackals, there's Forbidden Spell.
There were quite a few people at the Job Transfer Shrine.
Most of these people were Professionals in their twenties.
Most of them were solo players, and some were gold-farming teams from small guilds.
The mechanism of the Job Transfer Shrine dungeon was that each person only had one chance to clear it per day.
However, as long as they cleared it with three stars or more, they could continue clearing it without cooldown.
Once they failed, they could only wait until the next day.
Since the Job Transfer Shrine dungeon could be exited at any time, and it also dropped experience and items.
For many Professionals, farming the dungeon was much safer than farming monsters in the wild.
“Normal difficulty, 4 = 1, looking for a mage.”
“Normal difficulty, with a level 50 A-grade fire mage as leader, need one full-strength B-grade or higher Archer.”
“Hard difficulty, speed run team, no healers, two mages, two Archers, missing one high-defense MT.”
“Nightmare difficulty suicide squad, damage below 5000 get out, missing healer, missing high-tank, missing high-mage, missing high-Archer, 1 = 4.”
Shouts constantly came from the crowd; there were many Professionals without fixed teams.
Everyone who walked into the Job Transfer Shrine was immediately targeted by these incomplete teams.
If a strong player with excellent equipment appeared, they would swarm forward, vying to invite them.
If a newbie came, these people would definitely not spare a glance.
And the NPC Alice had long been neglected; people only remembered this beautiful Miss when they had a job transfer quest.
Normally, very few people would bother her.
At this moment, as Lin Ling walked into the Job Transfer Shrine, he immediately felt dozens of gazes.
However, these gazes quickly moved away from him, and some subtly different voices came from the crowd.
“I can't see this person's information, could it be a big shot?”
“Which big shot do you see having the leisure to play cosplay?”
“Can't I just meet a real big shot? Why is it another brain-dead fan?”
“Bro, go play somewhere else; this isn't where you should be.”
“In this short time, haven't seven or eight God Lin fans carrying hammers already shown up?”
Several incomplete teams made various mocking remarks, but Lin Ling merely glanced at them and continued walking deeper into the hall.
As he passed Alice, he politely said to her, “Praise Alice.”
Alice, hearing this, suddenly felt a sense of being flattered.
She gripped the hem of her Lolita dress with both hands, bowed slightly in return, “It's a pleasure to meet you, great Mage, I wish you good luck.”
[Alice's Favorability +30%]
[Congratulations! You have received Alice's Blessing. The drop rate of holy light gem has increased from one in ten thousand to one in one hundred.]
“Hmm?”
Lin Ling looked at the prompt that appeared before him, and his steps instantly halted.
This works too?
“Look at that silly kid, actually talking to Alice?”
“Kid, she's an NPC, and you're not even taking a job transfer quest. What are you talking about with an NPC?”
“Hahahaha… Newbies are just newbies.”
The jeering started again, but Lin Ling still had no intention of responding to these people.
“Thank you, Alice.”
Lin Ling bid farewell to Alice and turned to walk towards the dungeon portal deeper in the hall.
[Alice's Favorability +10%]
Lin Ling's lips curved slightly. Although he didn't know what effect these NPC favorability points had, it was certainly not a bad thing.
“That kid is really walking towards the portal.”
“Could this guy have already completed his second job transfer?”
“He looks so young, could he really be a master?”
“Can a mage carrying a hammer be a master? Do you think he's Ye Xiu?”
“Hahahaha…”
Laughter erupted again, and everyone's eyes fell on Lin Ling.
They seemed to want to see what kind of trick he was going to pull.
However, the next second they saw Lin Ling activate the portal.
[Adventurer, please select the dungeon difficulty you wish to challenge?]
[Normal] [Hard] [Nightmare]
“Nightmare.”
Lin Ling said softly, and the next second, a white light enveloped him, and his figure instantly disappeared.
“Holy crap, did I see that right?”
“That kid with the hammer went into the dungeon alone?”
“Oh no! A big shot walked past me and I didn't cherish it.”
“Are you sick? Didn't you see he entered the Nightmare difficulty dungeon?”
“Yeah, in a hundred years of the Great Fusion, no one has ever soloed a Nightmare difficulty dungeon.”
“Anyone want to bet? How long do you bet he can last?”
“I'll bet 10,000 dragon coins that he'll be out within a minute.”
“Do you think we're stupid? He's definitely coming out within a minute. He'll probably get weak in the knees the moment he sees a Goblin Sailor. Are you still expecting him to last five minutes?”
Everyone kept laughing and talking, many were already prepared to watch the show.
That little guy would surely be ridiculed by these people when he came out.
Sure enough, not long after, the white light lit up again.
Lin Ling walked out again, carrying his Wolf Tooth Hammer as if nothing had happened.
“Kid, how does it feel to spend one minute in the Nightmare difficulty dungeon?” Someone indeed spoke up to mock him.
Lin Ling was slightly startled, and for the first time, he replied, “It feels pretty good.”
“Hahahaha…”
“Look at him, how pretentious he is. It's great to be young; you don't have to pay taxes to show off…”
All the laughter and mockery suddenly stopped abruptly.
At this moment, it was as if their throats were stuffed with a handful of chicken feathers.
Everyone stood there with their mouths agape.
On the large screen of the dungeon portal, a line of prominent characters slowly appeared.
[Congratulations to the second job transfer adventurer Ye Xiu for clearing the Nightmare difficulty Job Transfer Dungeon, time taken: 46 seconds.]
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