Prerequisite Dungeon Quest: Raid on Pearl Harbor

Lin Ye began designing [Raging Waves] at a feverish pace.

It was an enormous undertaking, and he would need to fill in its many details bit by bit.

It was definitely not a job that could be finished in a day or two.

Fortunately, Lin Ye currently had a 30-day exemption from challenges, so he had enough time.

The first step in designing a battlefield dungeon was to determine how many people could participate on the challengers' side.

This number was not fixed. Initially, the Dungeon Designer set it directly; afterward, the Firmament would adjust it according to the dungeon's difficulty.

Lin Ye had previously learned the basics online: the hardest dungeon in this world was currently a hell-difficulty dungeon called [Blood-Stained Marne River], with a capacity of 5,000 challengers.

[Battle of the Imperial Sea], which Lin Ye had cleared earlier, had a capacity of 2,000 challengers.

Any dungeon capable of accommodating more than a thousand challengers was considered among the best in this world.

But... for a Five Permanent Members dungeon, a scale of a thousand was nowhere near enough, and it couldn't do justice to the dungeon's appeal.

"Set the challenger capacity directly to ten thousand!"

This setting immediately triggered a warning from the Firmament.

[Dear Dungeon Designer, the Firmament reminds you that too many challengers will lower the dungeon's difficulty and affect its rating. Please choose carefully...]

[If the dungeon has too few participants, the Firmament can make real-time adjustments later. But if it has too many, the Firmament cannot make the corresponding adjustments...]

"Confirm the challenger capacity at ten thousand."

Lin Ye had his own judgment. With ten thousand challengers, all still at the S1 level of warfare, clearing this dungeon would be practically impossible.

The Firmament would surely raise the number of challengers later anyway, so there was no need for Lin Ye to deliberately keep it low.

That was because the number of challengers in each dungeon run was directly tied to the rewards Lin Ye received.

Each challenger who failed could earn Lin Ye a reward in points.

With the number set, the next issue was where to place the dungeon faction and where the challengers would start. This was another crucial step in dungeon design.

It directly determined the dungeon's difficulty and the outcome of the Firmament's subsequent review.

The logic people in this world used to distribute factions was actually still at the level of terrain warfare.

They relied on extreme terrain—snowfields, deserts, mountains, and the like—to increase a dungeon's difficulty.

Some designers even violated the logic of their constructions by forcing the difficulty up in this way, and their dungeons ultimately failed the Firmament's review...

But for Lin Ye, this was the simplest step.

Since he was designing a Five Permanent Members-level dungeon like [Raging Waves], there was no need to put much thought into the terrain.

That would be too low, and it might even cause the dungeon to fail review.

With Earth Online as the larger map, everything was already laid out. Lin Ye's faction's territory would follow his previous life exactly.

The challengers' faction could simply be based on the Shorties' islands.

The dungeon faction, meanwhile, would be placed where Eagle Sauce had been in his previous life.

As for the main battlefield, he set it at Pearl Harbor Military Base. Lin Ye gave it a different name, calling it Pearl Harbor.

The various arrangements from his previous life had all been tested. They were absolutely reasonable and logical.

Next, Lin Ye began transmitting information about Eagle Sauce Country into Creation Space.

Eagle Sauce Country was a multiracial nation, established after a war of independence broke out 250 years ago, so its people revered freedom...

A civil war broke out, and the white-skinned and black-skinned people fought a battle to the death. Afterward, Eagle Sauce Country's mixed makeup took shape.

The global wars of S1 and S2 both gave Eagle Sauce a taste of the benefits. It developed rapidly and soon became a superpower.

By now, Eagle Sauce Country had a population of more than 300 million and an annual GDP of 2.7 billion dollars...

All this information about Eagle Sauce Country came from Lin Ye's own knowledge. He couldn't claim it was absolutely accurate, but as far as Creation Space was concerned, it was already quite detailed.

As Lin Ye continued transmitting information, skyscrapers rose from the ground across the territory in the upper-right corner of the Earth in Divine Creation Space.

The Statue of Liberty, the Twin Towers, Los Santos, and so on all appeared in Eagle Sauce Country.

[Firmament notification: Model creation takes time. Please wait patiently, Dungeon Designer...]

The Firmament immediately displayed a notification.

This was also a considerable workload and needed some time to process.

But since it hadn't rejected the design outright, everything conformed to the Firmament's creation logic. From here on, it was just a matter of time.

That was already quite good. Probably no designer had ever created a dungeon on such a large scale before; it was a blessing that the Firmament hadn't crashed.

Leaving Eagle Sauce Country to be built at its own pace, Lin Ye began equipping the dungeon with its most crucial element: military weapons.

"Firmament, can I set up a prerequisite dungeon within the dungeon?"

"The prerequisite dungeon would be relatively simple. Only after it's completed would the real dungeon quest be triggered."

[The Firmament encourages Dungeon Designers to innovate in dungeon gameplay.]

Lin Ye let out a breath.

Since this sort of thing was allowed, there was nothing to worry about.

He planned to set a small prerequisite quest in [Raging Waves] called [Raid on Pearl Harbor].

It would be an appetizer before the main course.

For this prerequisite quest, Lin Ye would station Eagle Sauce's main naval force from S2 at Pearl Harbor—the TF58 Nation-Destroying Fleet!

The Nation-Destroying Fleet consisted of seven task groups, each with one or two aircraft carriers and several cruisers and destroyers.

Someone had once commented that, during World War II, this single fleet could have wiped out the entire Shorties' navy in an instant.

The key was that this was S2, while the understanding of warfare in this world was still at S1.

Although S1 and S2 were only twenty-one years apart, that period had seen an explosion in military technology.

Using World War II equipment against World War I-era challengers was already enough to crush them.

Now that he had a plan, Lin Ye began inputting information on aircraft carriers, destroyers, and other military equipment.

As a military researcher from a later era, he was quite familiar with these things from World War II.

He might not have been able to build them himself, but he understood their principles clearly.

This was where one of Creation Space's advantages came into play.

To some extent, Creation Space's backend was like a giant AI.

He didn't need to do everything himself. As long as he could explain the technical principles and provide a blueprint of the finished product, he could leave everything else to the backend.

With the information Lin Ye transmitted, construction of the TF58 Nation-Destroying Fleet had already begun at Pearl Harbor.

"Hmph... just one Nation-Destroying Fleet definitely won't be enough," Lin Ye murmured to himself.

The current military deployment was arranged solely for the prerequisite quest [Raid on Pearl Harbor].

At most, it represented Eagle Sauce's strength during S2.

But that kind of strength was nowhere near worthy of the name Raging Waves!

Why could Raging Waves be one of the Five Permanent Members dungeons?

This dungeon had Eagle Sauce's formation of eleven nuclear-powered submarines that roamed the seven oceans!

It had sanction debuffs from Eagle Sauce on multiple fronts, including the economy, oil, and the US dollar!

It had the world's most powerful aerial combat units, as well as the most terrifying nuclear threat.

Lin Ye didn't expect to squeeze all of that into the dungeon, because it would take too much time. He was still in his beginner protection period and couldn't afford to waste too much of it.

But since this was a dungeon focused on naval warfare, it definitely had to have the formation of eleven nuclear-powered submarines!