Recaps

Lu Xiu celebrated taking first place in the battle merit rankings, then received a visit from Yan Fushou and asked the Coordination Bureau for a site and cooldown-reducing items to test her Placement Function. Meanwhile, defeated Franca players feared their faction—and the Nine Provinces—were doomed.

• Lu Xiu saw that she had taken first place in the battle merit rankings by a wide margin after eliminating Zane and gaining his battle merit.
• Jian Li comforted Lu Xiu, then touched her forehead and brushed a lock of hair behind her ear, leaving Lu Xiu flustered.
• Shen Nian brought tea and opened the door for Yan Fushou, who struggled to speak after seeing Lu Xiu.
• Lu Xiu asked Yan Fushou to find her a nearby site where she could test the Placement Function and provide powerful items that could reset skill cooldowns.
• In Franca, defeated players grieved over their occupied capital, while a woman with Fox Ears hoped they might join forces with the Nine Provinces after the Border Barrier disappeared.
• A dog-eared girl insisted that the Nine Provinces had also lost and cried that both factions and their world were finished.

Yan Fushou arranged a safe site for Lu Xiu’s Placement Function test, asked about her Lord of Cinder Domain skill, and left after she declined a meeting with the bureau’s leaders. At home, Lu Xiu teased Shen Nian over the forum’s gossip before the two watched the second-tier group battle, and Shen Nian fled when Lu Xiu drew Jian Li into the teasing.

• Yan Fushou told Lu Xiu that the Coordination Bureau had chosen an evacuated residential complex for her test and would search for an item that could reset her skill’s cooldown.
• Lu Xiu explained Burn to Ashes to Yan Fushou, declined to meet the bureau’s higher-ups, and advised him to stay alive and light bonfires in his upcoming group battle.
• After Yan Fushou left, Shen Nian discovered forum posts mocking her public behavior, while Lu Xiu laughed and went to shower.
• Lu Xiu watched the second-tier battle and saw Nine Provinces players cautiously contesting ordinary bonfires while the Prison Rock players showed little fight.
• Shen Nian reflected on how Lu Xiu had helped her recover from grief, then teased Lu Xiu about her pale legs.
• When Jian Li emerged from the shower, Lu Xiu asked why Shen Nian had commented only on her legs, and Shen Nian ran away.

As Prison Rock avoided Lu Xiu during the group battles, she visited Crossbreed Priscilla in the Painted World and learned that Priscilla recognized her as the Creator but was bound to guard a bonfire. The arena ended with Nine Provinces dominant, and a system announcement revealed that the upcoming expansion would open multiplayer dungeons and weaken regional barriers.

• Prison Rock's players began fleeing from Lu Xiu, while Cheng Xiu and the others went to seize Core Bonfires elsewhere.
• Lu Xiu met Crossbreed Priscilla on the tower and chose to talk with her instead of fighting for the bonfire.
• Priscilla told Lu Xiu about her imprisonment, her memories, and how a voice and new rules had made her guard the bonfire.
• Priscilla asked whether she could leave the Painted World, and Lu Xiu said that perhaps she might see the outside someday.
• The final group battle ended with Nine Provinces having overwhelmed Prison Rock, and the system announced the upcoming multiplayer dungeon mode and weakened regional barriers.

Lu Xiu studied the ceasefire settlement options and saw that Nine Provinces players overwhelmingly trusted her to negotiate with Prison Rock, with her signature required for any contract. As Prison Rock prepared to ransom Obsidian City, its leaders planned to send their Chosen Players and Architects to visit Nine Provinces and meet Lu Xiu.

• Lu Xiu examined the vague multiplayer dungeon announcement, then learned that a three-day ceasefire would allow visits and negotiations over Prison Rock's occupied territory.
• The system offered Nine Provinces players a choice between collective settlement and representative negotiations, with Lu Xiu's signature required for any contract under the latter option.
• Lu Xiu saw that many players supported representative negotiations because they trusted her, despite the authority the system had given her.
• Li Zhong regretted not acting sooner and resolved to seize the opportunity in any future event, even if that meant opposing the Strategy Group.
• In Prison Rock, Gallagher hoped the next multiplayer dungeon would not pit them against Nine Provinces, while the Imperial Prime Minister prepared to ransom Obsidian City and ordered the Chosen Players and Architects to visit Nine Provinces and seek a meeting with Lu Xiu.

Lu Xiu declined to use her negotiation authority beyond requesting that Prison Rock players contribute Survival Points for Nine Provinces players, while the Coordination Bureau prepared to negotiate. After the representative model won the vote, Lu Xiu began testing the Placement Function at an abandoned residential complex, selecting her cleared version of [Witch].

• Yan Fushou contacted Lu Xiu on the Coordination Bureau's behalf, and she asked only that Prison Rock players pay thirty to fifty percent of their Survival Points for distribution among Nine Provinces players.
• Yan Fushou reported Lu Xiu's response to the Coordination Bureau, whose senior officials praised her restraint and instructed that her reasonable future requests be granted.
• The representative negotiation model won the vote with sixty-seven percent, granting the Nine Provinces governing body official representative status and opening exchange and visitation applications.
• Lu Xiu arrived at the Abandoned Residential Complex on Changfeng Road with Jian Li and Shen Nian to test the Placement Function, while the Coordination Bureau's team traveled to Obsidian City for negotiations.
• Lu Xiu activated the Placement Function and selected the [Witch] instance version she had personally cleared for verification.

Lu Xiu placed the Witch instance in the real world, where it transformed an abandoned complex into the Witch's House and a surrounding forest. After learning that Ellen remembered her past actions and that failing to clear the unrestricted instance could let it spiral out of control, Lu Xiu resigned herself to entering it.

• Lu Xiu fused and placed the Witch instance inside an unfinished high-rise on Changfeng Road, transforming it into the Witch's House and creating a forest that spread until a system barrier contained it.
• The system opened the offline instance, made its NPCs unique, changed its rating to SSS, and required Lu Xiu to clear it to obtain Creator authority.
• Jian Li and Shen Nian joined Lu Xiu as violent pounding came from inside the Mansion, where Ellen called Lu Xiu her best friend and said she had come to find her.
• Lu Xiu realized Ellen retained memories of the instance and considered abandoning the attempt to obtain Creator authority.
• The system warned that the unrestricted dungeon could spiral out of control and its scenarios might expand without limit if Lu Xiu failed to clear it, prompting her to agree to proceed.

Lu Xiu entered the deployed Witch dungeon expecting to clear it with her own body and weapon, but found that the story had evolved into one where Viola was a famed Witch Hunter. The Witch transported Lu Xiu into the Mansion, where Ellen embraced her as a long-awaited friend, while the forest began expanding outside.

• Lu Xiu entered the dungeon as herself, retaining Nameless Blade and her abilities instead of becoming a child in forced roleplay mode.
• An old hunter told Lu Xiu that Viola had sealed the forest and become the village’s greatest Witch Hunter after discovering a Witch there.
• Purple-black magic swallowed Lu Xiu before she could reach the hunter’s safe zone, transporting her into The Witch’s House.
• A black cat greeted Lu Xiu, and Ellen appeared and embraced her, saying she had found her best friend and would never let them be apart again.
• Outside the instance, Shen Nian noticed the forest expanding around the Mansion, and Jian Li saw it too.

Lu Xiu was trapped by Ellen, who confessed her attachment to Lu Xiu and tried to keep her in The Witch’s House forever. Viola arrived to free Lu Xiu and fought Ellen, while the system revealed that Lu Xiu had to host afternoon tea and keep them from fighting for half an hour to clear the instance.

• Ellen restrained Lu Xiu with purple-black magic and recalled their past encounters, insisting that Lu Xiu had cared for her and must stay with her forever.
• Lu Xiu rejected Ellen’s interpretation, but a golden glow from the hair tie on her wrist broke Ellen’s magical threads.
• Viola teleported into the entrance hall and attacked Ellen, beginning a fierce fight between holy runes and purple-black magic.
• After the fighters were blasted apart, Viola reunited with Lu Xiu and told her how worried she had been when Lu Xiu returned to The Witch’s House.
• Ellen’s jealousy reignited the battle, and the system announced that Lu Xiu had to hold afternoon tea with Ellen and Viola and keep them from fighting for half an hour.
• Lu Xiu raised the Nameless Blade and angrily asked the system if she could chop down the two NPCs—or the system itself.

Lu Xiu stopped Ellen and Viola’s battle with a powerful Sunlight Spear and tried to keep them from fighting again. In reality, the forest around the Mansion spread into the abandoned residential complex, where Jian Li fulfilled a chef phantom’s obsession and received a system reward.

• The Black Cat told Lu Xiu that Ellen had devoured its soul and reshaped her body, leaving it as an extension of Ellen’s magic.
• Lu Xiu hurled a Sunlight Spear between Ellen and Viola, disrupting their fight and forcing them to stop.
• Ellen and Viola reacted to Lu Xiu’s power, and Lu Xiu tried to keep them calm long enough to satisfy the clear condition.
• Shen Nian, Jian Li, and a sergeant saw the expanding forest and a chef phantom chopping at an invisible block in the abandoned residential complex.
• Jian Li recognized the phantom as the chef from the Witch instance, obtained a teddy bear from the soldiers, and offered the chef its severed arms.
• The chef accepted the plush arms, fulfilling his lingering obsession, and Jian Li received Blade Cleaving Mastery as a reward.

Lu Xiu tried to keep Ellen and Viola from fighting by talking with Viola about her estrangement from her father and urging her to tell him what she had endured. Viola recognized Lu Xiu as a player who had once defied the dungeon’s cycle to save her, but Ellen’s mocking interruption threatened to reignite the conflict.

• Jian Li warned Shen Nian and the soldiers that dungeon bosses might emerge in reality and ordered them to expand the blockade until Lu Xiu returned.
• Lu Xiu sat between Ellen and Viola and stopped Ellen from mocking Viola when she asked about Viola’s father.
• Viola explained that she still resented her father for aiming his rifle at her when she had been trapped in Ellen’s body, and that they had argued over her decision to learn magic and become a demon hunter.
• Viola revealed that she knew Lu Xiu was a player from another world and had rebelled against the Deity’s cycle of players posing as her childhood sweethearts.
• Lu Xiu urged Viola to tell her father the truth about her experiences, and Viola agreed to speak with him.
• Ellen mocked Viola’s father-daughter reconciliation, leaving Lu Xiu worried that the two would start fighting again.

Lu Xiu kept Ellen and Viola from fighting long enough to clear the dungeon’s condition, while learning that the passage between their worlds was expanding. The system granted her control over the dungeon and its reality-overwrite area, naming her Lord of the Realm.

• Ellen accused Viola of being ungrateful, and Lu Xiu stopped their argument by reminding Ellen that her suffering did not excuse her atrocities.
• Lu Xiu told Ellen that she did not hate her, calming Ellen’s magic, then held Ellen’s and Viola’s hands to prevent another fight.
• Lu Xiu reassured Viola that she had entered the forest to save her, and told Ellen she had returned to the Witch’s House to accompany her and show her she could be loved.
• Lu Xiu kept both women talking as she counted down the minutes, asking about their lives and learning that the passage between worlds was opening but still lacked sufficient assimilation for them to cross.
• The system confirmed that Ellen and Viola had remained peaceful for thirty minutes, cleared Lu Xiu’s mission, and awarded her control of the dungeon and its reality-overwrite area as Lord of the Realm.

After clearing the Witch instance, Lu Xiu returned to reality and discovered that her authority had transformed the abandoned residential district into a forest she could control. The officer then asked how far her placed dungeon could expand, prompting Lu Xiu to suspect that he wanted her to deploy it at the front lines.

• Lu Xiu escaped the Witch instance after promising Viola and Ellen she would show them her world, then reunited with Shen Nian and Jian Li and embarrassed herself by instinctively taking their hands.
• Lu Xiu saw that the abandoned residential district had become a dense forest, then used her authority to make its trees grow larger and summon monsters and NPCs from the Witch instance.
• Lu Xiu told Shen Nian, Jian Li, and the soldiers that she controlled the area and its ordinary monsters, but could not reveal their obsessions or control core characters like Viola and Ellen.
• The officer asked how far Lu Xiu could expand her placed dungeon, and Lu Xiu realized he might want her to deploy it at the front lines.

After Lu Xiu explained how the Witch dungeon’s core characters had caused the forest to spread into reality, Li Shengkai and Wang Huai considered using placed dungeons to support the front lines. The chapter ended with Lu Xiu proposing Monster Hunter as a possible fit, especially with its multiplayer dungeon version about to arrive.

• Wang Huai and Li Shengkai arrived at the mutated forest, and Li Shengkai asked Lu Xiu why placing her dungeon had transformed the area.
• Lu Xiu explained that the dungeon’s core characters’ desire to enter reality drove the expansion, while ordinary monsters followed their influence.
• Lu Xiu told Li Shengkai that she controlled the mutated area and its monsters but could not control the core characters, who might cause further changes if they appeared.
• Wang Huai asked whether Lu Xiu could place a dungeon on the front lines, and Lu Xiu warned that aggressive, uncontrollable characters could endanger soldiers.
• Li Shengkai and Wang Huai described the kind of combat-focused, less hostile dungeon that could support the military, and Lu Xiu suggested Monster Hunter.

Lu Xiu demonstrated her power to reshape the forest, built a house for herself and her companions, and wondered whether the gamified world was itself an instance. Reassured by Jian Li, she set aside the theory for now and asked Jian Li to help test whether a monster created in the altered area could harm someone in reality.

• Lu Xiu proposed Monster Hunter as a possible instance but said she would wait for the new expansion before deciding on its details.
• After Wang Huai and Li Shengkai left to assess the situation, Lu Xiu stayed in the forest with Jian Li and Shen Nian and reshaped matter into a greatsword, then into tulips.
• Lu Xiu built a furnished, two-story wooden house and considered whether the Nine Provinces and its monsters operated by the same rules as an instance.
• Jian Li offered to stand by Lu Xiu despite the world's frightening unknowns, and Lu Xiu changed Jian Li's tulip into a white lily and tucked it into her hair.
• Lu Xiu asked Jian Li to fight a monster she planned to construct so she could test whether a monster in the altered Witch's House area could hurt someone in the real world.

Gallagher and the Prison Rock delegation toured Nine Provinces and discovered how securely its people lived, leaving them worried about the negotiations and asking to meet Lu Xiu. Lu Xiu agreed after Gallagher offered cooldown items, and the delegation was stunned to find her beside a sapphire-blue dragon, Xeno'jiiva.

• Cheng Xiu showed Gallagher, Helag, and the Prison Rock delegation Nine Provinces, where they saw ordinary elderly people living safely and learned that Nine Provinces stopped monsters at the front lines.
• Gallagher concluded that Prison Rock had little leverage in the negotiations and asked Cheng Xiu to arrange a meeting with Lu Xiu.
• Gallagher offered Prison Rock's cooldown items as a gift, and Lu Xiu sent word that the delegation could come to her.
• Cheng Xiu brought the delegation to a primeval forest near Chen Capital, where they found Lu Xiu standing beside Xeno'jiiva.
• Gallagher handed Lu Xiu the cooldown items, and Xeno'jiiva caught the box and returned it to her.
• When Helag demanded to know what Xeno'jiiva was, Lu Xiu smiled and refused to tell him.

Lu Xiu accepted Gallagher’s gift and learned that Alicia’s Crystal could reset a skill’s cooldown by borrowing against future use. Gallagher revealed that the crystals were among 131 items plundered from a region whose fallen Apostle was an Architect named Alicia, leaving Lu Xiu contemplating the powers of an Apostle and offering Prison Rock a chance to avoid being forcibly plundered.

• Lu Xiu inspected Alicia’s Crystal, stored the two crystals, and told Gallagher she would not interfere in the negotiations, advising Prison Rock to accept Nine Provinces’ conditions.
• Gallagher asked how Lu Xiu created her highly rated dungeons, and she explained that each dungeon’s theme and progression needed to be developed to an extreme.
• Gallagher revealed that Prison Rock had fought another region whose Apostle, chief Architect Alicia, died after its rating collapsed.
• Gallagher said Prison Rock had plundered 131 items left behind by Alicia, which may have been created or mass-produced using an Apostle’s authority.
• Lu Xiu recognized the possibility that an Apostle could create powerful items and told Gallagher that Nine Provinces would not forcibly plunder Prison Rock if it showed sufficient sincerity in the negotiations.

Lu Xiu’s experiments continued while Nine Provinces negotiated a sweeping victory over Prison Rock, earning major compensation but learning that the rest of the world had lost and its rating had fallen to VII. The chapter ended with the defeated Franca players pleading to meet Nine Provinces players and learn how to win.

• Shen Nian praised Lu Xiu for intimidating Prison Rock’s negotiators, then Lu Xiu resumed testing Xeno'jiiva’s combat behavior with Jian Li.
• Lu Xiu spent two days generating monsters for Jian Li and Shen Nian to fight, while they realized she was investigating how to exploit the system’s kill mechanics.
• Lu Xiu approved and signed the final agreement, and the system announced that Prison Rock would surrender half its players’ Survival Points and grant every Nine Provinces player a random A-rank skill.
• The system named Lu Xiu first in Battle Merit and announced Nine Provinces’ victory, while lowering the world rating from V to VII because every other region had lost.
• Franca’s leaders reacted in disbelief to Nine Provinces’ victory, and a dog-eared girl burst into tears as the defeated players begged for advice and a chance to meet Nine Provinces players.

Lu Xiu tested her new Root Skill, Deconstruction, by fusing an Ancient Lord Soul Shard with a broken Mortal Blade fragment. The fusion created Judgment, a growable Miracle Armament with a deadly thirty-kilometer attack, leaving Shen Nian and Jian Li stunned by its power.

• Lu Xiu received the Root Skill Deconstruction as a reward for ranking first in Iron and Blood's preview battle contribution rankings.
• Lu Xiu used the Ancient Lord Soul Shard and a broken Mortal Blade fragment as compatible materials for her first creation.
• Lu Xiu chose to reshape the materials into a weapon, and they fused into the Miracle Armament Judgment.
• Lu Xiu inspected Judgment's attributes and learned that its active attack could target enemies within thirty kilometers at a cost of most of her health.
• Lu Xiu showed Judgment's stats to Shen Nian and Jian Li, and Shen Nian reacted with disbelief at the weapon's range and growth potential.

Lu Xiu discovered that her second leaderboard reward was the Mythical skill Power Accumulation, which could charge skills and attacks indefinitely, and discussed using her weapon-making skill to support the front lines. After multiplayer dungeons reopened, Lu Xiu and Jian Li prepared to investigate them while Franca desperately tried to match with someone from Nine Provinces.

• Lu Xiu told Shen Nian and Jian Li that she had used her root skill to create Judgment, and promised to look for materials to make Shen Nian a backup weapon.
• Jian Li warned Lu Xiu that Judgment's ultimate attack consumed 90% of her current health, then suggested the Coordination Bureau supply weapons and items for Lu Xiu to transform.
• Shen Nian reminded Lu Xiu that she had also placed first as an Architect, and Lu Xiu found her second reward: the Mythical skill Power Accumulation, which could charge skills and attacks without limit.
• Lu Xiu denied Shen Nian's guess that she was a goddess, and Shen Nian asked if she could cling to Lu Xiu before the server announced that dungeons, Architect functions, and multiplayer matchmaking had reopened.
• Lu Xiu and Jian Li decided to explore multiplayer dungeons and share information, while Franca frantically tried to match with a player from Nine Provinces.

Shen Nian and Jian Li entered the Fallen Ancient Dragon multiplayer instance with Liana from Franca, who questioned how Nine Provinces had won the arena battle. The instance pitted them against Lu Xiu’s Afterimage, and after seeing its overwhelming strength, Liana rushed to tell her princess what she had witnessed.

• Shen Nian and Jian Li matched into the Fallen Ancient Dragon instance with Liana from Franca and explained that Nine Provinces had won through Lu Xiu’s powerful Architect-made instances.
• The three entered a Firelink Shrine-like setting and found a single path leading into an underground cavern where a ghostly Ancient Dragon and Lu Xiu’s Afterimage awaited them.
• The mission instructed them to kill the dragon while ignoring the Afterimage, but the Afterimage instantly killed Shen Nian with a Sunlight Spear.
• Jian Li fought the Afterimage but was put under pressure as Liana watched, and the Afterimage then killed Liana with a halberd.
• After leaving the instance, Liana realized the Architect’s strength was real and ran off shouting for her princess.

After Liana reported that Nine Provinces’ Architects and instances had driven their victory, Princess Rosalind learned that multiplayer instances were matching players against regional top-ranked fighters and that the border barrier could be crossed. Meanwhile, Lu Xiu finished reviewing the new construction features and prepared to create an instance starring the Fifth Fleet’s strongest Hunter, the Sapphire Star that Guides the Way.

• Liana rushed to Princess Rosalind and explained that Nine Provinces had won through powerful Architects, unofficial instances, and strong players such as Lu Xiu.
• Rosalind considered Franca’s shortage of Architects, while Liana urged her to charm Lu Xiu into teaching her.
• A guard reported that multiplayer instances featured group-battle scenarios against regional first-ranked players, with Nine Provinces and Red Tide undefeated.
• The guard told Rosalind that people might now be able to squeeze through the national boundary barrier, alarming her.
• Lu Xiu reviewed the new multiplayer and construction options, then announced she would create an instance featuring the Fifth Fleet’s strongest Hunter, the Sapphire Star that Guides the Way.

Lu Xiu chose Monster Hunter: World as the template for her first multiplayer instance and began building its camp. When she tested her root skill by combining finished weapons with existing items, the results were junk, leading her to realize that Monster Hunter materials and crafting systems might be the key to successful fusion.

• Lu Xiu chose Monster Hunter: World for its deliberate, interactive combat and decided its instance would support both solo and multiplayer challenges.
• Lu Xiu built a harbor camp in the Construction Space as the starting point for the Monster Hunter setting.
• Shen Nian told Lu Xiu about the multiplayer instances and the nickname “mysterious one-shot girl,” while Yan Fushou asked whether her root skill could mass-produce weapons.
• Lu Xiu fused weapons with various items, but the low-compatibility combinations degraded the weapons or produced unusable junk.
• Lu Xiu realized that finished weapons were poor fusion materials and that Monster Hunter’s crafting system could provide a better approach, so she decided to wait for materials from the new instance.

Lu Xiu began constructing a multiplayer dungeon while Yan Fushou and Li Shengkai discussed using her dungeons to guard the Nine Provinces’ borders. Players eagerly anticipated Lu Xiu’s multiplayer dungeon, convinced that teaming up would make her notoriously difficult challenges easy.

• Shen Nian and Yan Fushou mistook Lu Xiu’s concentration for disappointment, but Lu Xiu explained that she was working on a multiplayer dungeon to solve weapon fusion and might need everyone to farm materials.
• Lu Xiu briefly saw a purple-haired figure emerge from the mist, suspected the Witch dungeon was nearing a point where its protagonist could appear, then entered the Construction Space to work on Monster Hunter.
• Yan Fushou learned from Li Shengkai that foreign players had begun appearing near the border, and they discussed screening arrivals and placing suitable dungeons along the Frontier.
• Li Shengkai proposed placing dangerous dungeons near hostile borders if their core characters could not leave their dungeon ranges, and Yan Fushou agreed to discuss the plan with Lu Xiu after her multiplayer dungeon was finished.
• Players complained on the forums that the system’s multiplayer dungeons were dull and looked forward to Lu Xiu’s new dungeon, expecting that cooperation would make her challenges easy.

The new expansion introduced attribute resets, professions, resistance attributes, and stronger monsters on the front lines, prompting concern at the Coordination Bureau and among Lu Xiu and her companions. Lu Xiu, Jian Li, and Shen Nian discussed their possible builds and the coming danger, then shared a quiet moment together before the new challenges began.

• The system announced multiplayer dungeons, attribute resets, professions, new resistance attributes, equipment changes, and stronger main-stage monsters, sparking excitement among players and worry at the Coordination Bureau.
• Lu Xiu, Jian Li, and Shen Nian discussed the new systems, considered possible attribute resets and professions, and noted that Lu Xiu’s multiplayer dungeon might offer plentiful equipment.
• Lu Xiu teased Jian Li about her reaction to Lu Xiu wanting to become a warrior, and the three joked about becoming a warrior, support, maid, and guard.
• Shen Nian voiced a wish that their peace could last, while Lu Xiu reassured her and Jian Li that they would face future front-line threats together.

Lu Xiu finished testing all fourteen weapons for her new Monster Hunter dungeon after weeks of exhausting hunts. Seeing players beg for the dungeon and boast about farming it, she decided to clear it herself and make a promotional video to lure them in.

• Players spent weeks grinding system dungeons and front-line battles but found no stat-reset items, class items, or rare equipment.
• Lu Xiu tested the dungeon by fighting monsters with different weapons and grew exhausted from mastering all fourteen weapon styles.
• After defeating Nergigante with the Charge Blade, Lu Xiu complained that players had not yet reached G-Rank quests and threatened to add Dire Miralis.
• Players flooded the forum with pleas for Lu Xiu to release her new dungeon, hoping to obtain special items and escape the unrewarding system dungeons.
• Lu Xiu completed her final weapon test, saw the players' posts, and decided to clear the dungeon and make a promotional video to lure them in.