46: The Dahe settlement where “wailing is everywhere”.
Lin Ye found some of these news reports somewhat amusing himself.
Especially the unreasonable and messy news coming out of the Da He Settlement.
If one were to say that the first time he actively designated people from the Dahe Clan to enter the dungeon, it was a bit of a provocation towards Ito Hidekazu.
But when the dungeon opened for the second time, he had absolutely no such intention.
He was very busy; where would he find the energy to focus on this group of Little Japan all day?
It was entirely the Dahe Clan's own decision to group up and attack the dungeon; how could this possibly be called intentional retaliation on his part?
As for that 5,000-point individual deduction, it ultimately came down to the wave after wave of brain-dead moves by Ito Hidekazu.
The Sky Curtain actually has limits on point deductions for failed dungeon missions.
As the Sky Curtain, it absolutely does not want the Challengers of Azure Star to be easily erased, because that would disrupt the balance of this world.
In the mission settings of Raging Sea, the penalty for a normal mission failure is actually not severe, generally following a rule where the points increase as one progresses further.
Even if one reached the very end of Raging Sea, the penalty for mission failure would not exceed 500 points.
Otherwise, this dungeon would never have received approval from the Sky Curtain.
It was just that Lin Ye had added a penalty mechanism to this dungeon, using a series of special events to punish Challengers who did not act according to the mission prompts.
The amplification of this penalty mechanism was particularly large.
Ito Hidekazu's actions perfectly demonstrated this set of penalty mechanisms.
He did all sorts of things against the mission instructions; after entering the dungeon, he ignored the threats from the Eagle faction twice and didn't even treat the NPCs inside as human beings.
He was always thinking about taking shortcuts and crooked paths, so naturally, the penalties were increased.
It's like being in a newbie village where the mission prompts tell you to kill chickens and pigs, but you insist on taking a boat to sneak into the capital city to challenge the final boss.
Naturally, you would die a miserable death...
To a certain extent, Lin Ye really should thank Ito Hidekazu properly.
If not for his contribution, in the previous dungeon, Lin Ye would have at most obtained a few tens of thousands of points, and leveling up to LV3 certainly wouldn't have been as fast as it is now.
All television programs were filled with his own content.
With nothing to watch on TV, Lin Ye could only lie on the sofa in boredom, resting and preparing to sleep until the dungeon opened tomorrow.
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The Tenglong Settlement was bustling and crowded.
The Da He Settlement, however, presented a completely different scene.
After the Raging Sea dungeon ended today, the entire Da He Settlement plunged into an incredibly heavy gloom.
There were very few vehicles on the road, and those who could be seen were pedestrians mourning those who were erased yesterday.
Among this wave of erased Dahe Clan members, a large portion were students from various colleges and universities in the Da He Settlement. Although their levels were not high, they had received the best dungeon design education in the Settlement and were the future of the Da He Settlement.
People wore black suits with dim expressions, and some were even wailing uncontrollably.
Nearly twenty thousand people were directly erased; for a Settlement, for a nation, this was a great humiliation!
It is worth knowing that before this, the Da He Settlement was one of the most prestigious Settlements. It had developed rapidly over the years and had produced many high-level Challengers on the Hero Ranking.
Many people from other races had voluntarily migrated to the Da He Settlement.
People here once believed that the Dahe Clan was the most noble race on Azure Star.
As a result, the slaughter in Lin Ye's dungeon directly damaged the reputation of the Dahe Clan severely. No matter what the future holds, this day will be remembered by history and has become a stain on the Dahe Clan.
The world would think that the Dahe Clan voluntarily grouped up to provoke him, only to be wiped out entirely—this was purely clownish behavior.
The prestige of the Dahe Clan would also plummet. Unless their own people could truly conquer Raging Sea, it would be difficult for their reputation to recover in the short term.
From time to time on the street, there would be Dahe people breaking down and crying out recklessly.
"Damn Lin Ye! Damn Daxia people!"
"May Amaterasu bless us! May Susanoo bless us! May Yamata no Orochi bless us! Please, gods, help us eliminate Lin Ye."
"Lin Ye! You devil!"
For these Dahe people, their confidence had been severely shaken; they no longer believed that their race truly had a way to conquer the Raging Sea dungeon.
Moreover, the result of nearly ten thousand people being erased at once left them with only fear in their hearts, and no fighting spirit remained.
The only thing they could rely on were the most illusory gods of their own race.
Of course, besides this impotent rage, some Dahe Clan citizens also vented their anger on Ito Hidekazu.
Who told him to be the commander-in-chief of the last dungeon!
Many people knelt at the intersections, holding up large signs with red characters on a white background.
Written on them were: "Expel Ito Hidekazu!"
"Ito Hidekazu is not a member of the Dahe Clan!"
"Ito Hidekazu is a Traitor!!!"
"Please, Sky Curtain, punish Ito Hidekazu!"
At this moment, no more Dahe people would shout that Ito Hidekazu was their genius Designer.
A piece of trash who dropped from LV2 to LV1 was not worthy of being the face of their Dahe Clan!
...
Inside the Emperors Residence, it was now full of people.
The Emperor, dressed in a yellow robe, sat at the desk with his brows furrowed tightly.
His complexion was gloomy, the veins on his forehead were bulging, and he gritted his teeth so hard it seemed they would shatter.
If not for the surveillance of the Sky Curtain overhead, the Emperor would have loved to kill someone.
"Lord Emperor, I have brought Ito Hidekazu to you!"
At this moment, Shogunate General Minamoto no Yorimitsu slowly walked into the residence, dragging the disheveled Ito Hidekazu in his hand.
Minamoto no Yorimitsu gave a push, and Ito Hidekazu stumbled, kneeling before the Emperor.
That feeling was just like dragging a dead dog.
The Emperor stared coldly at Ito Hidekazu and asked in a deep voice:
"Ito-kun, hiding? Can you really hide?"
Ito Hidekazu was trembling all over, kowtowing incessantly, his face already covered in tears.
From the moment he left the dungeon, he had completely lost his mind, to the point that when the Emperor sent people to contact him, they couldn't reach him.
Having no other choice, the Emperor had Shogunate General Minamoto no Yorimitsu make a special trip to bring him over.
"Lord Emperor, spare my life!"
"I was also acting according to your will, Lord Emperor; there was nothing I could do about those people being erased."
Ito Hidekazu cried out.
The Emperor's expression turned stern, and his gaze towards Ito Hidekazu carried a bit more murderous intent.
The other important figures of the Dahe Clan in the room were also staring fixedly at Ito Hidekazu at this moment.
In the Da He Settlement, the Emperor held the highest position, second only to the Sky Curtain.
The Emperor could absolutely not be wrong.
Daring to question the Emperor was a grave crime!
"Ito-kun, I didn't tell you to act recklessly in the dungeon; we saw your actions clearly from outside the dungeon."
"If you don't want to be erased, then don't say things like that."
Although Azure Star does not allow war, nor does it allow killing in reality.
But the Emperor and other high-level members of the Dahe Clan could completely clear a person's points through the dungeon.
Thereby achieving the effect of killing!
The Emperor had done this many times before.
"It is my incompetence, it is my incompetence... Please, Lord Emperor, show mercy."
Ito Hidekazu kowtowed so hard it made a loud thudding sound, and his forehead instantly became swollen and red.
"Get up; we don't have time to erase you right now." The Emperor waved his hand, signaling Minamoto no Yorimitsu to pull Ito Hidekazu up directly.
"The reason I called you here now is for the matter of attacking Raging Sea tomorrow!"