Asude's explanation seemed plausible enough.
But the problem was...
Judging from the expressions on Ling Zhan's group after they came out, they did not look like they had failed the raid at all.
Ling Zhan still wore that calm, unruffled expression. Nothing could be read from the human's face.
Yet joy was written across the pretty faces of the four girls—Kuna, Yun Man, Changyue, and Meng Shuang.
They were even chattering away among themselves, the air brimming with cheer.
That truly did not look like the aftermath of a failed raid.
"What's going on here?"
"They aren't discouraged at all. Could they have cleared it?"
"But if they cleared it, does that mean this less-than-five-minute time is their result?"
"Wouldn't that be far too terrifying?"
"Exactly. The best record was over eighteen minutes, yet Ling Zhan broke it in less than five minutes. I wouldn't even dare imagine it."
"Let's wait and see. Once the rankings refresh, their results will be uploaded to the dungeon hall's backend system."
The Job-Changers outside discussed it fervently.
They simply could not figure out whether Ling Zhan's group had truly cleared the Thorn Hell dungeon.
"Don't worry! There's no way they cleared it with that result!"
"Clearing Thorn Hell in under five minutes is something even the top prodigies of the major SSS-rank cities couldn't accomplish at this level."
"What makes a human like him worthy?"
Asude stepped forward amid the surrounding discussion and declared this with utter certainty.
Upon hearing that, the many Job-Changers nodded one after another, finding it quite reasonable.
But just as everyone was talking...
Buzz!!
Ling Zhan's group appeared once again from the Teleportation Array in the side hall.
This time, they had taken a little longer than before—around six minutes.
But even so, seeing them teleport out at