In the end, the Dragon Player agreed.
If Ji Yan missed this timeline, he might be endlessly "exiled" within the Tier 9 dungeon [Elysian Shore]...
Clearing one stage sector after another without end, Like a puppet controlled by strings on a stage, tirelessly performing for the [Audience] at every moment—this was far more terrifying and torturous than death!
He would rather take a gamble than remain in this hell!
If he failed, he would consider it a release...
In the end, the Dragon Player accepted this "private quest."
An illegal quest that betrayed the Tarot Cards and risked everything!
[Mysterious Audience]: "I await your good news."
"You won't disappoint me."
The Dragon Player could not help asking, "As an [Audience], how exactly did you exploit a loophole... evade Order's oversight, and issue illegal quests to players?"
[Mysterious Audience] fell silent for a moment before replying, "We are Audience members, but we are not machines."
"In the 10th-tier dungeon, we are permanently imprisoned. And where there is imprisonment... there will be resistance."
"Unlike the other [Audience], I refuse to be enslaved. I will do everything I can to tear open the cracks in the loophole. Even if I fail and am erased by 10th-tier Order, I will have no regrets."
Hearing this, the Dragon Player froze.
That fate was almost exactly the same as his current one!
The Dragon Player let out a faint, amused snort. "Then we really are birds of a feather."
[Mysterious Audience]: "That is why I believe in you."
"I saw my own shadow in you... That is also why I did not choose K first, and instead gave you priority for this 'fight-to-the-death' quest."
The Dragon Player's expression remained indifferent. "That 'K' was never worth my notice."
"He is just some little brat who borrowed The