This was a lush green forest, home to brave gnolls.
The forest lay on a ridge three or four hundred meters high, with a very familiar name: Woodpaw Ridge.
The dungeon itself was also called Woodpaw Ridge.
The dungeon's spatial buffer was an outdoor camp extending ten meters around a bonfire. A crude tent stood in the camp, with a brand-new chest inside.
It looked just like the Novice Chest Shawn had seen when he first entered the Kobold Den.
Of course, this was no Novice Chest.
Shawn opened the chest and found only a bottle of green potion inside. A quick scan with Eye of Insight revealed all its basic information.
Doppelganger Potion No. 1, green-quality potion. After consumption, transforms your appearance into that of a Woodpaw Gnoll. Duration: three hours.
Three hours-that was also the dungeon's time buffer.
Within those three hours, Shawn had to clear the dungeon and return to this outdoor camp. Only then could he complete the dungeon quest, receive his rewards, and return to reality.
Unlike the Kobold Den and Murloc Shoal he had experienced before, Shawn received the dungeon quest the moment he entered.
Dungeon quest: Overpopulated Gnolls. The Woodpaw Gnolls have lived on Woodpaw Ridge for hundreds of years. Without powerful enemies, their population has continued to grow rapidly. Woodpaw Ridge now holds over one thousand gnolls, far exceeding its carrying capacity and causing severe damage to its ecosystem. Quest objectives: Kill 100 Half-blood Woodpaw Gnolls, 50 Woodpaw Brutes, 10 Woodpaw Raiders, 10 Woodpaw Trappers, and 3 Woodpaw Arcanists. Quest reward: Woodpaw Totem Pole.
Three hours to kill 173 gnolls on Woodpaw Ridge, which was crawling with over a thousand of them. That difficulty was... a little high.
Even if those gnolls lined up to fight Shawn one