"With that much health, and such absurd skills, can any party really beat it?"
Ciri stood atop the head of an enormous pitch-black dragon, the final boss of the Lava Abyss.
"It's fine if Hero Difficulty is a little harder. That's what makes it challenging."
Joshua's fingers continuously tapped at a translucent interface before him. He had already set up the dragon's combat patterns and was now making further fine adjustments.
Ciri leaped down from the black dragon's head, using magic circles as steps to hop her way over to Joshua.
"That is true..."
Ciri had not missed a single test of World Rift, but the first seven testers had been stuck on an elite Gnoll for three whole days. During those three days, the test party had constantly been wiped out, revived, and wiped out again.
In the end, Joshua had secretly tweaked the monster a little before they could barely defeat it.
At the moment they cleared it, Ciri had indeed felt an enormous sense of accomplishment, but the problem was...
"But can adventurers who get wiped out by a single breath from that black dragon really defeat the monsters in the Gray Mist?"
When Ciri had run Hero Difficulty dungeons with Galolie and the others in later tests, her most immediate feeling had been, The armor on my body is made of paper!
If anyone in the party made a positioning mistake, the entire team would face the brink of a wipe. If they made a second mistake, the dungeon boss could easily send the whole party flying.
"The monsters the Gray Mist creates in the World of Consciousness might not be as strong as these bosses." Joshua gave Ciri a very certain answer.
"You mean the Gray Mist Knight Order that Foya beat so badly they