"There, just up ahead."
Zhou Qiaoling pointed at the enormous creature on the vast plain below the mountain, her voice dropping a little despite herself.
Level 38, Forest Mammoth. A special Great Demon icon appeared beside its name.
"Bro, don't tell me this thing spawned near our starting point because you're here?"
Zhou Qiaoling narrowed her eyes and muttered under her breath.
"Pah! What's it got to do with me? You should know, I... uh, anyway, it has nothing to do with me!"
Zhou Yue's weathered face reddened.
He suddenly remembered spawning in the middle of an ocean the first time he played Minecraft, and his voice lost some of its conviction.
"All right, all right. The fellow cultivators in my livestream said everyone else has the same thing. We can't blame Old Zhou for this."
Zhong Yi hurriedly stepped in to smooth things over.
And that was indeed the case.
Without changing the settings, Boss spawn locations were fixed.
A level 38 Forest Mammoth lay along the route every player had to take to leave their starting area.
The design was probably a nod to the Tree Sentinel in Elden Ring.
"That big guy's level 38, and all four of us are level 8. That adds up to level 34, pretty close to it... how about we give it a try?"
Mu Yawen eyed the Forest Mammoth's hulking mass eagerly, rubbing her hands together.
"Leaving aside the fact that we don't add up to level 34... are you sure level differences work like that?"
Zhong Yi gave Mu Yawen a speechless look.
Anyone who had played Lu Ze's Illusion Realms knew that level differences were nowhere near as simple as adding numbers together.
Take Immortal-Demon Supremacy, for instance. With roughly equal equipment, four level 4 players together might not