185: Pattern and Upgrade

It took four or five days to tour the entire Rakshasa Empire, and the map exploration task was successfully completed.

Xu Shian then went and fully explored the map of Khmer Country!

Of course, he had to take a first kill from them before starting his map-running career.

At this Time, world announcements about hell difficulty Dungeons being conquered were coming out one after another across the globe.

On the vast Blue Star with its tens of billions of people, it was clear that many talents were emerging.

This greatly helped Xu Shian divert the world's attention away from himself.

After all, truth be told, Xu Shian had been intentionally avoiding attention these past few days, keeping an excessively low profile.

By the Time Xu Shian led his team back to the Ganpu Highlands to tackle a hell difficulty Dungeon again, it was already July 12th.

During these days, the guild finally saw its first team conquer a level 15 hell difficulty Dungeon... of course, this was the first team other than the five-person group including An Xixi.

The captain was Hu Wei, ID [Sorrow of Ending War], a Warrior.

Tao Xingyue, ID [Give You a Hammer], a Warrior.

Cheng Beiwang, ID [Looking North to the Land], a Paladin.

Xiao Yan, ID [Buddhas Wrath Earth Lotus], a Paladin.

Cheng Shi, ID [Ten Retribution Paladins], a Warrior.

When this team was first formed, people were very pessimistic about it.

Not because it was an all-male team, but because they were five physical damage players who all needed Mail Armor now and would all need Plate Armor in the future... how would they divide the gear?

Wouldn't other equipment go to waste?

Over Time, conflicts were bound to arise... unexpectedly, after nearly half a month, the team hadn't disbanded and had now cleared a level 15 hell difficulty Dungeon!

This caused quite a stir within the guild.

Additionally, they would list any extra equipment they found on the Auction House for money... gear was always in high demand and sold quite well.

Especially the internal guild Auction House, which was now connected to various Novice Villages.

Equipment in the main city had no level requirements, only attribute requirements.

gold equipment requirements were too high, so why not get some silver equipment instead?

Thus, this five-person group was now famous not only in the guild but throughout the entire gaming community.

After all, such a bizarre team composition was truly rare.

Naturally, after becoming famous, they faced more than just complaints about their unreasonable lineup, poor synergy, and gender imbalance.

It also led to many factions trying to poach them.

Fortunately, the few of them were sensible people.

They had enjoyed the guild's benefits and the advantage of entering the Bronze Rank so much earlier; would they leave now?

This wasn't the Blue Star era... if the guild leader blew his top, it would be a real disaster!

Besides this team.

While Xu Shian was busy these past few days, An Xixi's team had recruited War God Xingtian and cleared six level 15 hell difficulty Dungeons in Hai Province and Shu Province.

This left the players planning to settle in those two provinces full of complaints!

This kind of thing relied on strength; anyone unhappy could gather a group and clash... fortunately, they didn't plan to keep wreaking havoc in one place, deciding to move after each hit to equally weaken every neighbor.

Anyway, no matter where they went, they used teleportation circles. What was the difference in spending money? It was all the same!

As for other players being unhappy? If you have the ability, grab it yourselves; if not, keep your mouths shut.

After all, history tells us that while Xia Country people might show benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trust when fighting outsiders, they fight to the death in civil wars... additionally, the state machinery of Xia Country finally began to operate at full capacity after entering the main city.

Whether out of responsibility or some other consideration.

The Xia Country officials set their base in You Prefecture... perhaps drawing from Xia Country's history on Blue Star, they felt that if they were to conquer the world in the future, it would be easier to fight from north to south... of course, it was more likely that Xu Shian was being narrow-minded.

It was more likely the officials chose it because You Prefecture needed to resist the Rakshasa Empire to the north and Wozhou Island to the east.

It was also sandwiched between the Post-80s and the Little Xiba!

The strategic importance of You Prefecture forced the officials to personally guard it... they wouldn't feel safe leaving this piece of land to anyone else.

As for why they didn't choose Zhong Prefecture... Xu Shian could understand.

After all, Zhong Prefecture now gathered most of the nobles and powerful families of the East Dragon Empire.

Zhong Prefecture was suitable for those with some strength but no ambition; they could take shelter under the wings of the strong.

Why did taking shelter still require some strength?

Because living in the capital is not easy.

The prices in Changan City could be said to be quite staggering... put it this way, the three major chain inns didn't even have communal bunks!

Dirty and messy eateries had them for 50 copper coins a night—take it or leave it!

...And since the game's official strength was too great, it was very unsuitable for such large factions to occupy... but seeing the officials' choice, Xu Shian still admired them!

Xu Shian specifically made a rule for the guild players not to touch a single blade of grass in You Prefecture... but they could snatch whatever they wanted everywhere else!

Of course, if players not from Time snatched their first kills, then there was nothing to be done.

The officials had also trained two powerful teams that were currently tackling the level 15 Dungeons in You Prefecture.

Of course, this was still just a rumor; there was no confirmed news from the officials yet.

After all, they hadn't cleared them yet; once they did, there would naturally be world announcements to speak for them.

So for a while, no one knew if it was true or false!

They had indeed cleared two elite difficulty Dungeons.

A large group of official people had used the opportunity with Old Man Li to pass the Bronze Trial.

Of course, even more people failed to leech off the BOSS!

..."Are we going to grind the Dungeons in the Ganpu Highlands now?"

"Yes!"

Xu Shian's team assembled once again!

It was just hard on War God Xingtian, who had to be a lone wolf for a few days!

"Shian, have you fully explored the map of Khmer Country too? When are we going to grind the Khmer Country Dungeons? I really don't like Simple Village..."

"What a coincidence, I don't like it either! But after I finish grinding the entire Ganpu Highlands, I'll be level 16! When we get to Khmer Country, your team take Xing Sifang along... then I'll take the level 20 first clear, and you guys take the level 15 ones to maximize the benefits!"

Hu Beiyu was speechless; this boss was too much of a bully, but he liked it!

Why talk about sentiment with such bad neighbors?

He had a classmate who was tricked into going to Simple Village back in the Blue Star era... Hu Beiyu had no good feelings for this country at all, even thinking that if a national war started, he would have to destroy those bastards first... "Beiyu, has your family arrived?"

"They came to the main city with Old Man Li and the others!"

Xu Shian was a bit surprised.

"They passed the Bronze Trial?"

"They did. I got them several pieces of equipment specifically for saving their lives..."

So you see, no matter the era, you need connections!

Relying solely on one's own efforts to pass the Bronze Trial was simply a pipe dream... [Ding! World Announcement: Player 'Shi Chuan'... has completed the first kill of the level 20 Dungeon 'Silent Colonial Warship' on hell difficulty, receiving generous rewards. Players, please keep up the good work and reach new heights!]

...[Ding! World Announcement: Player 'Shi Chuan'... has completed the first kill of the level 15 Dungeon 'Independence Beach - Pirate Treasure Cave' on hell difficulty, receiving generous rewards. Players, please keep up the good work and reach new heights!]

Within just two hours, two announcements sounded in succession.

Why did it take so long to clear two Dungeons across four difficulties?

It must be said, Khmer Country really has a lot of mines... Xu Shian and Gamor were hopelessly addicted to Mining!

Especially various jade mines and Mithril mines.

Why were only five surging life amulets made? Was it because they didn't like them?

No! It was simply because of a lack of materials... there weren't many Jadeites for sale on the market now, and making one amulet required six Jadeites!

And Miandian Country in the Blue Star era was already world-famous for its Jadeite ore.

Now, corresponding to Ganpu, almost every mine had associated Jadeite stones...