If she had understood correctly, Mei Ji meant that she had been waiting outside the Little Treasure Pagoda to give her a special reward?
Jeanne felt flattered, but also puzzled. "W-why?"
Mei Ji smiled. "There's no particular reason. I simply find you pleasing to the eye. Besides, as the first challenger, I'm giving you a little perk in my personal capacity."
At that point, Mei Ji suddenly changed the subject. "However, with my authority, I can't alter your personal reward pool, nor can I directly give you Wonderland items. The perks I can offer are very limited, so don't get your hopes up too high."
Hearing that, Jeanne calmed down a little. If Mei Ji had directly given her some so-called Wonderland item, she would instead have had no idea whether to accept it.
After not waiting long, Mei Ji began explaining the "special reward" she was offering.
"I mentioned before that every floor of the Little Treasure Pagoda is actually random. Even for the same floor's trial, different people may ultimately face different stages."
"However, what I said then wasn't entirely accurate. After your trial, I discovered that the Little Treasure Pagoda's trials aren't completely random either."
"It evaluates your performance on the previous floor and assigns you a score. That score determines the trials you may encounter next, as well as their difficulty."
"For example, this trial had a twelve-hour countdown, yet you resolved it in less than an hour. By the Little Treasure Pagoda's scoring standards, your score was exceptionally high. The difficulty of your next challenge will rise accordingly."
Jeanne: "???" The better I performed, the harder the next trial became? What kind of logic was that?
Mei Ji seemed to see Jeanne's confusion and explained with a smile, "It's actually not hard to understand. The