When Strength Falls Short, Modifiers Make Up the Difference

Cheng Tian's fingers were rubbing the Knight Festival Invitation.

In his subjective sense of time, the dungeon missions related to the Knights of the Round Table had clearly come earlier than what he had actually experienced.

Back then, after killing Prince Alan and incidentally grabbing the Gem Shard for himself, it had nearly reached the time of the Knight Festival.

Put simply, Britain would hold a grand feast according to tradition while celebrating the successful campaign against Alan. And this so-called Knight Festival did not merely last a few days—it was an extraordinarily long celebration held for months, or even entire seasons.

Since it was being held directly at Prince Alan's castle, all kinds of knights and nobles from across Britain would travel great distances, bringing supplies of every sort to gather around the castle and celebrate together.

Naturally, this long-running celebration gave Prince Alan's older brother, the true evil leader of the Roman Empire faction, Archduke Garibaldi, the time and opportunity to receive the news and take action.

Although quite a few other players had been in the same dungeon as Cheng Tian back then and possessed the same save file, meaning that entering the dungeon a second time could theoretically affect later developments to some extent, for the overwhelming majority, defeating Prince Alan already amounted to clearing the dungeon.

Only those who had obtained a Knight Festival Invitation and could reach this special event point were qualified to access the subsequent missions.

The invitation in Cheng Tian's possession had been personally issued by Arthur of the Knights of the Round Table. Originally, Arthur had intended for Cheng Tian to bring two companions to the celebration and relax, but now it had become a distress flare.

Logically speaking, the gap in strength between the two sides should not have