A Second-Turn Legendary Relic!
After seeing the Relying on Heaven Sword's grade, Yaoshi Yuan became even more convinced of Ying Ru Shi's guess.
There were countless secret realms in the world, but in the end, none could escape the rule of receiving according to what one paid. No First Turn secret realm ever produced a grand prize, nor did any Fourth Turn secret realm reward trash. It was as if a supreme god existed, coldly and fairly assigning prices to all things and bestowing rewards and trials upon all living beings.
The Thieves' Den rewarding a Second-Turn Legendary Relic meant it recognized that the difficulty of this mission had increased. More importantly, it meant the Thieves' Den would indeed adjust mission difficulty. Future missions would only grow harder, and the rewards would naturally become more generous. Yaoshi Yuan had never heard of a secret realm that dynamically adjusted its difficulty, let alone one that bound Heralds to it. Only failure and death could let them leave this endless trial.
The four of them were like passengers aboard a ship sailing toward a raging sea, or a carriage rushing toward the underworld. Some might leave, and some might vanish, but as long as anyone remained, the Thieves' Den would take the survivors toward the summit—or toward death.
Yaoshi Yuan was not the only one who realized this. The others had also noticed the Thieves' Den's peculiar nature from the changing rewards. Shang Xin Lei could not help saying, "This time it's a Second Turn. Does that mean the next mission will reward a Third-Turn Legendary Relic? And the one after that a Fourth-Turn Legendary Relic? Will the Thieves' Den's rewards keep increasing? Fourth Turn, Fifth Turn, even Sixth Turn could be possible?"
"I don't know whether I should look forward to