Raging Waves
Global Dungeons: Giving the World a Little Taste of the P5's Might
- Original Name:
- 怒海狂涛 (nù hǎi kuáng tāo)
- Gender:
- Neutral
- Kind:
- Other
- Scope:
- Novel-specific
- Status:
- Active
- Source:
- AI
- Occurrences:
- 244
- Chapters:
- 41
- Context Up To:
- Ch. 50
- Wiki Model:
- GPT-6.1 Terra
- Updated:
Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Raging Waves (怒海狂涛) |
| Full name | Earth Online: Five Permanent Members’ Raging Waves 11 |
| Type | Dungeon / instance |
| Creator | Lin Ye 5 12 |
| Setting | Earth Online 12 |
| Difficulty | Purgatory 10 43 |
| Capacity | 1,000,000 challengers after review 43 |
| Status | Opened for a third assault; outcome not yet documented 50 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 5 |
Design and Setting
Lin Ye chose Raging Waves as his first dungeon to challenge the Great He Clan’s reputation for naval warfare. He built it on Earth Online, a reusable planetary map intended to support his future dungeons 5 6.
- Challenger territory: Dongying, also called Eastern Ocean Island. In the first two runs, challengers spawned at the Hiroshima Kure Naval Arsenal 12 28.
- Opposing faction: Eagle Sauce Country, whose territory is described as thirty times larger than Eastern Ocean Island and whose population is substantially greater 6 27.
- Main battlefield: Pearl Harbor, the target of the opening naval mission 6.
- Third-run deployment: Following the capacity increase, challengers were assigned to twenty military bases across Eastern Ocean Island. Emperor Xiaochuan was appointed commander-in-chief at the imperial palace in Edo 50.
Capacity and Difficulty
| Stage | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Initial design | 6 | Lin Ye set the capacity at 10,000 challengers. |
| First review | 10 | The Firmament approved the dungeon at Purgatory difficulty, above the previously known highest rating of Hell. |
| First capacity increase | 25 | Capacity doubled to 20,000; difficulty remained Purgatory. |
| National War level | 43 | Capacity rose to 1,000,000 after the first two attempts; difficulty remained Purgatory. |
Missions and Mechanics
Pearl Harbor mission
The naval route begins with a preliminary attack on Pearl Harbor. Its destruction completes the preliminary dungeon, called “The Sorrow of Pearl Harbor” in the Firmament’s announcement, and opens the main Raging Waves challenge; preliminary rewards are settled only after the main dungeon is completed 6 17.
- Challengers may surrender at the beginning, but cannot retreat or surrender after formally starting the mission 15.
- The first run’s attackers destroyed the base before discovering that it was only the preliminary objective 16 17.
Economic overtaking
The second mission challenges the participants to overtake Eagle Sauce Country economically. It activates Non-Combat Mode, freezing weapons and removing the fleet from play. The mode was unprecedented in the Firmament’s history of instances 27 30 31.
- Eagle Sauce can exert economic, technological, political and media pressure 31 34 35.
- In the second run, sanctions restricted energy, technology, trade and finance while supporting political unrest and hostile public opinion 34.
- The Firmament stated that the challengers’ actions triggered the sanctions and that orderly administration or concessions during the Eagle Sauce’s Anger event could have prevented the subsequent chain of reactions 34.
Penalties and special events
Ordinary failure penalties increase with progression but do not exceed 500 points, even at the final stage. Separate penalty mechanisms punish actions contrary to mission prompts and can impose substantially larger deductions 46.
During the second run, harming a friendly NPC triggered a special setting that kept surviving challengers inside after mission failure. They could not leave until Enemy of the World and People’s Uprising had concluded 39.
Forces and Defenses
- TF58 Nation-Destroying Fleet: The naval force associated with the Pearl Harbor scenario. In the first run, thirty aircraft carriers and more than a hundred escort ships emerged from the fog 6 21.
- Carrier aircraft: Hundreds of aircraft attacked the first run’s fleet with machine guns, rockets and torpedoes 19.
- Nuclear-powered forces: Lin Ye’s design describes eleven nuclear-powered carriers; other passages also refer to eleven nuclear-powered submarines 6 7 44.
- Expanded air and ground forces: For the million-person opening, Lin Ye added air and army forces, including F-16s, F-15s, B-2 bombers and F-22s 44.
- Nuclear arsenal: The Firmament approved Lin Ye’s nuclear-weapon principles, after which he arranged for 10,000 atomic and hydrogen bombs as a last-resort safeguard 44.
Challenge History
| Opening | Challengers and route | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| First | 10,000 deployed; 3,000 surrendered initially. Itō Hidetaka led the remaining 7,000 on the Pearl Harbor route 12 16 22. | The fleet destroyed Pearl Harbor but was overwhelmed by air and naval forces. The Firmament recorded 6,500 people erased, a 0% clear rate and 1% instance completion 19 21 22. |
| Second | 20,000 Great He challengers volunteered; Itō selected economic overtaking 28 29. | Sanctions and Itō’s repression led to the loss of Eastern Ocean Island. The Firmament recorded 19,930 eliminations and 2% completion; Itō lost 5,000 points and fell to LV1 35 36 39 41. |
| Third | Emperor Xiaochuan led a million-person Great He expedition into the expanded dungeon 48 50. | The challengers were deployed across Eastern Ocean Island; the outcome is not documented in the provided chapters 50. |
Impact
- The first opening’s aircraft carriers impressed the Great Xia First Instance Technology Research Institute, whose researchers sought to recruit Lin Ye 22.
- The second opening earned Lin Ye 1.9 million points, advancing him to LV3 and placing him 50th on the Heroes Ranking 43.
- The Firmament temporarily closed all other instances so challengers could watch the million-person assault on Raging Waves 48.