When the game's announcement ended, Ji Yan opened his eyes and reflexively bolted upright—
As his vision cleared, he found himself in an empty room with bare walls on all four sides.
Cold, damp air enveloped his body, while whale-like echoes reverberated in his ears as though he were standing in the Abyss.
As his muddled mind rapidly recalled and absorbed the game's announcement, Ji Yan got to his feet and pressed a hand to his forehead. "I entered... a 10th-tier dungeon?"
"Just like that?"
A second ago, he had still been falling into the Discarded Dungeon, thinking about how to climb back into an Order dungeon. Yet he had skipped that step entirely and entered the 10th-tier Time Dungeon!
The sheer whiplash of it all caught Ji Yan completely off guard. He could barely process it.
"That skeleton was a 10th-tier NPC. It carried the rules for a certain stage of the Time Dungeon. As long as it killed someone, it would trigger the Dungeon Order, revive them, and continue the stage..."
"In other words... Future Ji Yan used the rules of the 10th-tier dungeon to forcibly interfere with the Discarded Dungeon and drag me into the 10th-tier Time Dungeon!"
It ignored the discard rules, the matching rules, and the clearance route.
That was simply... overbearing!
Was that really something a Player could accomplish?
Retracting his gaze from the room, Ji Yan opened the game panel and took The Hanged Man from the Tool Bar.
This Tarot Card was already covered in countless cracks.
It could shatter and be destroyed at any moment...
Perhaps because he had entered the Time Dungeon, Future Ji Yan was now able to interact with him on his own through Omniscient Understanding—
Bloodstains emerged. Future Ji Yan: "Looks like... it went fairly smoothly."
"Though