"Is that so—"
Lu Xiu sighed, touched her ponytail, reflected on it a little, then said, "Then it looks like next time I construct a dungeon and design some mechanics, I'll need to take other people into consideration a bit—"
"No."
Yan Fushou cut her off decisively, shaking his head hard.
A flicker of surprise passed through Lu Xiu's clear eyes. "Huh? Why? Didn't you all think it was too hard just now?"
"We thought it was hard because we still aren't strong enough, not because there's anything wrong with your dungeon."
Yan Fushou said seriously, "What you said just now made sense. Once the special event is over, are we supposed to think Prison Rock isn't strong? That there's no need to be that extreme? Leaving aside whether Prison Rock would really be that weak, even if they were, in the future we're definitely going to be matched with higher-rated regions. What do we do then?"
"If even you compromise, will there still be top-tier dungeons by then?!"
"Lu Xiu, don't make yourself backward-compatible!"
"What you make are the very top dungeons! The pinnacle of all civilian-made dungeons! The goal every other constructor aims for."
"If you loosen the judgments and lower the difficulty, then sure, it really will become an excellent dungeon that wins widespread praise and lets everyone easily earn some survival points."
"But if that happens, it'll become just one more ordinary dungeon, and the players of the Nine Provinces will lose the chance to obtain miracle items like skill evolutions."
"A genius should do what a genius is supposed to do! Right now, the main thing is to make other players understand clearly that what you make are all top-tier dungeons, not those ABCDEF dungeons. They're S, they're SS, maybe even SSS. Clearing dungeons like