CEO Chen Really Gets It!

Song Ren advanced through the game bit by bit. Since he had chosen Normal Difficulty, he had encountered almost no setbacks.

The only relatively difficult part was helping the innkeeper at the gym take on the underground coliseum.

It was somewhat similar to the Challenge Mode in Xenoblade Chronicles. Cloud and Alice could fight in the arena to earn extra equipment, experience, money, and other rewards.

The earlier battles were not particularly difficult. The only thing Song Ren found challenging was the final opponent, Hell House.

Compared to the arena storyline in the remake from his previous life, Chen Xu had removed many unnecessary battles, preventing the game's pacing from being deliberately dragged out. He had also slightly balanced Hell House's health bar.

But even so, Hell House was mainly designed to make players understand the advantages different elements brought in combat.

To defeat Hell House easily, players needed to bring Materia magic with various elemental counters. If they simply charged in recklessly, they could only rely on overwhelming stats.

Furthermore, the player's party in this battle consisted only of Alice and Cloud. With one person missing, they could not form the classic warrior-mage-healer triangle.

At least for Song Ren, the battle left him somewhat exhausted. In the end, he quietly changed Normal Difficulty to Easy Difficulty.

Although he was an old Fire Keeper himself, he preferred to play this type of game cautiously.

After all, Soulslike games gave him no choice.

Besides, why else was Easy Difficulty there?

Wasn't it for players to choose?

After happily taking down Hell House, Song Ren switched the setting back through the system menu and resumed the story.

"Cloud, remember this."

"Beauty knows no gender."

After successfully preparing a dress for Alice, Song Ren felt a wave of emotion as he looked at