Early in the morning.
Lu Xiu and her group left the forest, officially setting out on their journey to Jade Capital.
Meanwhile, countless players across major regions such as Nine Provinces, Franca, and Red Tide who had woken up early had already rushed into the Monster Hunter dungeon to fight tooth and nail.
But in Old Sea, Nine Provinces, a small group of players was staring helplessly at the dungeon library window, because they had never been able to enter the civilian dungeon, Monster Hunter—
Old Sea.
The suburbs.
Inside an abandoned villa atop a mountain that overlooked half the city.
"Boss—"
A petite, lively-looking girl wearing cat-ear decorations on her head looked dejectedly at the mature woman before her and said helplessly, "I tried again. Still no good. Most of our high-sequence players can't enter the [Monster Hunter] dungeon. The system directly says we've been blacklisted."
On the sofa, a woman with silver hair identical to Jian Li's sat with her legs crossed. Hearing this, she casually closed the dungeon library page and replied, "That's normal. Back during the arena battle, Lu Xiu declared in front of everyone that we'd betrayed the country. We should have been prepared for this."
"And since we've betrayed the country, as Nine Provinces' Architect, of course she won't open her dungeon to us."
The cat-eared girl was unwilling to accept that. "But that Monster Hunter dungeon has a Mythical offline rating. What a waste... Boss, do you think we could apologize to Lu Xiu? Say it was all a misunderstanding? Ask her to let us in?"
Jian Ning raised her head and looked calmly at the cat-eared girl. "What do you think?"
The cat-eared girl recalled Lu Xiu's appearance, shuddered, and lowered her head.
Definitely not.
She might even get killed.
Even now,