Dungeon Review: One Stone Stirs a Thousand Waves

Lin Ye did not linger in the streets. He bought a few daily necessities and went straight back to his rented apartment.

In fact, Lin Ye had not turned down Ding Chang's invitation because he looked down on others.

He knew full well that joining an organization in this world would be a great help to his own survival.

But the procedures would undoubtedly be quite involved, and they would interfere with Lin Ye's dungeon creation.

Besides, at the current stage of this era, its level of military technology would not actually bring Lin Ye any substantial benefit.

Ding Chang's research institute was still proposing the concept of aircraft carriers, while Lin Ye had already put them into practice in his dungeon.

The gap was simply too wide. If Lin Ye went, he would only be wasting his time.

Of course, if the Great Xia people's technology managed to catch up in the future, he could still consider joining the First Research Institute...

Lin Ye glanced at the time. There were still about three hours before the dungeon was fully completed.

He set an alarm and dozed off for a while.

By the time Lin Ye woke up, the completion rate of the [Raging Waves] dungeon had reached one hundred percent!

Next, he had to submit it to the Firmament for review and rating.

This was actually the most crucial step. Whether a dungeon could see the light of day was ultimately up to the Firmament.

No matter how impressive a dungeon was, if it could not be put into use, it amounted to zero in the end.

[Dungeon review application submitted by Dungeon Designer Lin Ye received!]

[Dungeon review initiated! The Firmament will now conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the dungeon's plausibility, originality, foresight, and other aspects!]

[Due to the size of this dungeon, the review will take some time. Please wait patiently.]

With the system's response, Lin Ye's dungeon entered the review stage.

At the same time, announcements about dungeon progress began above the world's dome.

[The 300-person dungeon "Jungle Battle," designed by Dungeon Designer Andrew, has entered the review stage.]

[The 1,000-person dungeon "Church of Light," designed by Dungeon Designer Andō Nakao, has entered the review stage.]

[The 10,000-person dungeon "Earth Online: Five Permanent Members' Raging Waves ver1," designed by Dungeon Designer Lin Ye, has entered the review stage.]

Every dungeon that entered the review stage was publicly announced on the Firmament. That meant any challenger who cared to pay attention already knew the player capacities of some dungeons.

Lin Ye paid little attention to all that. There was no telling how long the Firmament's review would take, and he could not just sit around waiting.

The Creation System was available all the time anyway, so he might as well go in and refine the various details of the virtual Earth.

"Raging Waves" was only the beginning. "Winter Is Coming" and "The Great Wall Watch" would follow.

If he refined the details of Earth Online now, he would not have to waste time on them when he made other dungeons.

So Lin Ye went straight back into Creation Space and began outlining the territories of the Russian Bear and the Dragon Country.

Lin Ye was so absorbed in his work in Creation Space that he forgot to eat and sleep, but in the outside world, discussion of his dungeon had exploded!

A dungeon on the scale of ten thousand people had never existed in this world before!

As soon as the ten-thousand-person dungeon appeared on the Firmament, it immediately drew widespread attention.

Even though the dungeon had yet to pass review, major media outlets were already reporting on it in a frenzy.

[Newcomer designer of the Great Xia people suspected of creating Azure Star's first ten-thousand-person dungeon!]

[Ten-thousand-person dungeon?! A rising star of the era, or dust in the wind?]

[The designer of the ten-thousand-person dungeon is Lin Ye, the commander-in-chief who led the first clear of the hard dungeon Battle of the Imperial Sea the day before yesterday!]

[Shocking the Firmament! Shocking Azure Star!]

It was as if one stone had stirred up a thousand waves.

Experts of every stripe began heatedly discussing the matter online.

"This guy is a complete madman?! A ten-thousand-person dungeon? Does he know how much capacity that requires?"

"As far as I know, more than a hundred members of the Germanic people once tried to work together to create a ten-thousand-person dungeon, and even they failed!"

"Don't be so sure. What if this Lin Ye really is a genius?"

"A genius? I'd say this is suicide!"

"A ten-thousand-person dungeon means ten thousand people can enter it at the same time. His risk of failure will also increase dramatically!"

"Blindly expanding challenger capacity without sufficient technological support is the most foolish design approach."

Aside from a few who admired Lin Ye's courage, most experts were pessimistic.

Meanwhile.

On the island where the Great He people gathered.

Inside the Emperor's exceedingly luxurious residence.

Itō Hidetaka, the genius designer of the Great He people, was being called to account by the Emperor.

Several of the Great He people's most prominent figures were also standing in the room.

Among them were the Shogun Minamoto no Yorimitsu, Iga Ryūji, leader of the Ninja Corps, and Yamamoto Sanjūhachi, commander-in-chief of the Great He people's navy...

Although nations did not exist as such in this world, people did gather by race.

For inherently weak races like the Great He people in particular, settlements naturally formed.

When individual strength was lacking, only by gathering strength in numbers could they have the means to challenge more powerful races.

Although the Firmament did not permit war in the real world, it tolerated wars waged in the shadows within dungeons.

Causing people of other races to fall and be erased in one's own race's dungeons was, in fact, another form of invisible warfare.

These organizations of the Great He people each had their own duties.

The Shogun was the Great He people's suicide squad, fostering the Bushido Spirit.

It organized many Great He subjects to voluntarily attempt dungeons, even sacrificing themselves in exchange for dungeon intelligence.

The Ninja Corps was the Great He people's assassination organization. Its members would forcibly enter certain dungeons in organized groups and clear them, thereby erasing key figures of other peoples.

Now, in the presence of so many important figures, Itō Hidetaka was visibly trembling.

"Itō-kun, our people's naval research institute poured an enormous amount of effort into your Battle of the Imperial Sea dungeon, yet it was conquered so easily!" the Emperor said coldly from his seat.

"How are you going to take responsibility for the losses you've caused our people?"

Beside him, naval commander Yamamoto Sanjūhachi also gave a couple of awkward chuckles.

"We shared our most advanced cruiser technology with you, yet you designed such a weak dungeon..."

"Itō-san! I have serious doubts about your ability to design dungeons!"

Under the barrage of verbal attacks, Itō Hidetaka did not dare say a word. He only kept bowing to show his apology.

In truth, he felt deeply aggrieved himself.

The Battle of the Imperial Sea dungeon had caused him enormous losses!

During this time, challengers had kept clearing the dungeon, costing him half his points.

With no other choice, Itō Hidetaka had already temporarily shut down his dungeon.

By now, he could be said to hate that Great Xia man, Lin Ye, to death!