The Gathering Is Complete, Winter Is Coming Officially Begins!
At the same time.
Lin Ye also received a notification from Firmament at the same time.
[Firmament Notification: The Raging Waves Instance will officially open!]
[A total of 5,000 people volunteered for this Instance, and one person was selected by the Dungeon Designer!]
[The remaining Challengers will be randomly selected by Firmament...]
Lin Ye glanced at the Challengers list in the Instance Backend. All five thousand people who had voluntarily signed up were either surnamed Kim or Park (meaning prostitute).
Many of his names, like Kim Geun-seok's, carry a strong sense of morbid humor.
"Hmph... They really did bring in a bunch of Koreans chaebols."
"You've come at the perfect time!"
Next comes the random selection of the Firmament.
On the Challengers list in the background, all sorts of names were extracted by the Firmament, and the whole process was completed in a second.
[The number of participants for the Instance has been reached. The Instance will begin shortly...]
[The Livestream Room "Instance Winter Is Coming" is now live. Dear Designers, you are welcome to watch at any time.]
Meanwhile, in the mansion, Kim Geun-seok also saw a notification barrage appear in front of him on the Firmament.
[Dear Dungeon Designer Kim Geun-seok, you have been assigned to enter Instance Purgatory-level Instance "Earth Online: The Five Permanent Members -Winter Is Coming" by its Designer. You will be transported to the Instance world in two minutes!]
Please prepare the skills and weapons you will bring into the Instance!
[Now entering the countdown phase, 119...]
[118...]
[117...]
[116...]
"Is that even a question? Of course, they'll bring all my weapons! Haha!"
Kim Geun-seok chuckled inwardly. In the challenge video with Lin Ye, he had said that the person who designed the Instance could not use the weapons from previous Instances, but he hadn't explicitly stated that the Challengers couldn't bring their own weapons.
This was a little trick Kim Geun-seok played. If Lin Ye chose to challenge his own Instance, he would definitely say that the Challengers could not bring his previous skills into the Instance, otherwise the challenge would be invalid.
Moreover, because he inherited his father Kim Chan-hoon's skills and weapons, many of the techniques and weapons Kim Geun-seok possessed were hidden in his personal Instance, unknown to outsiders.
Kim Geun-seok did bring it, and he guessed Lin Ye wouldn't be able to tell.
This time, he's determined to catch Lin Ye completely off guard!
Welcome to the Purgatory-level Instance: Winter Is Coming!
[The Instance has finished loading...]
[Deploying Challengers into the Virtual Battlefield, 10000/10000 deployed...]
Accompanied by the notification sound from the Firmament, Kim Geun-seok and 9,999 other Challengers were directly thrown into the Instance.
As the mosaic flickered back and forth, Kim Geun-seok felt a wave of white wash over him.
When his vision gradually returned, he found himself in a huge office.
The room was luxuriously decorated, giving it the feel of an official residence.
The table in front of him was covered with a telephone and a pile of documents.
Immediately afterwards, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in!"
Then, several men wearing suits that were distinctive to the Kim Company walked in.
"Young Master!"
"Young Master!"
"We have five thousand of the company's elites, all specially assigned by the old man to assist the young master in conquering the Instance."
"There are other people who were probably summoned randomly, and they're all in this building as well."
Kim Geun-seok waved his hand, signaling the company representatives to stop talking.
"You all go and organize yourselves, tell the other Challengers that we are from the Kim Family Conglomerate, and tell them not to surrender easily."
Kim Geun-seok breathed a sigh of relief as his subordinates from several companies immediately went to process the paperwork.
Listening to these people's rambling is useless; what he wants to hear is Firmament's mission briefing.
Sure enough, the prompt from the Firmament appeared.
Welcome, Challengers, to the Instance designed by Lin Ye: Winter Is Coming!
[This Instance is complex and quite difficult, so Firmament will provide all Challengers with a detailed quest description.]
Immediately afterwards, a huge Light Screen appeared in front of everyone.
This process is similar to the previous Raging Waves.
The video begins with an introduction to Earth Online, then the camera zooms in, focusing on the Challengers Faction.
The camera was fixed on a small area, which was highlighted and marked with the three large characters "Stick Country).
Kim Geun-seok glanced around; this area was right next to the Dragon Country, the third-party power that had been caught in the Raging Waves, and it was also very close to the Eastern Ocean Islands.
However, compared to the territory of the Dragon Country, this Challengers's sphere of influence is pitifully small, looking like a tiny bean.
[This is the base of all Challengers: Stick Country. It has a total area of 100,000 square kilometers, is surrounded by sea on three sides, and is adjacent to Dragon Country and Eastern Ocean Island. The country is divided into 1 special city, 4 special autonomous cities, 6 provinces, and 6 metropolitan cities...]
Immediately afterwards, a red dot was marked on the map.
[And this is where you were all born, the Black House in Hanseong, Stick Country! Also known as the Presidential Palace in Hanseong!]
Only 100,000 kilometers?
Kim Geun-seok was furious.
The former Eastern Ocean Island, with its Raging Waves, had at least 400,000 kilometers of territory. But now, the territory of this Instance is less than a quarter of Eastern Ocean Island. Putting everything else aside, this disparity in territory is simply disgusting.
I just don't know if Lin Ye is deliberately trying to disgust me.
Because on Azure Star, the South Korea Settlement are very small, which has always been a source of pain for the Goryeo people!
Then, on the Light Screen, the camera continued to move northwards.
It stopped on a vast expanse of white land to the north of the Dragon Country.
The land was then marked with a blue light, clearly displaying the three large characters "Bear Country".
[This is the enemy faction in this Instance: the Bear Country!]
[Bear Country, with a total area of 17 million square kilometers and a border length of 60,933 kilometers, including a coastline of 38,807 kilometers and a land border of 14,509 kilometers, is the largest country on Earth Online...]
The camera zooms in further to the west of this vast land, sweeping across the endless Snowfields where densely populated cities appear.
[This is the objective of this mission: the three main cities of Bear Country, Volgograd, Saint Petersburg, and Moscow.]
[The map for this Instance has now been introduced. Challengers can view the Instance on any computer in the Black House Command Center.]
[Next... Firmament will provide a detailed explanation of the quests for this Instance.]
Seeing this, Kim Geun-seok's anger intensified.
This Bear Country is twice the size of the previous Eagle Sauce Country! It's simply unbelievable!
Compared to Stick Country, it is simply too small to be worth mentioning.
Is this kind of Instance base setting in dungeons really reasonable?