Xie De had cleared three Instances so far.
His first Instance, "Factory," had been B-rank.
His second Instance, "Cinema," had been B-rank.
His third Instance, "Monastery," had been S-rank.
"Wait, so I never even cleared an A-rank Instance, and now I'm going straight to SS-rank?"
Xie De stared at the copy of A General History of the World that had just been shoved into his hands, lost in thought. After a long while, he let out a despairing complaint.
"Are you kidding me? Isn't that a bit of a leap for a random selection? Do I look capable of clearing an SS Rank Instance?"
455 said, "I raised that issue with 730 too. I think we're still at the stage where we should be keeping our heads down and building ourselves up. Doesn't throwing us straight into an SS Rank mean it thinks a little too highly of us? This is completely out of line."
Xie De gave 455 a skeptical look. "You'd actually say that to 730?"
455 blushed. "I just used a different tone. Ahem, no big deal. 730 told me that the economy in the main world has been bad lately, and with all the years of war on top of that, there's been a huge buildup of resentment. Now that resources are plentiful, they need to clear out some of the old stock gathering dust. It's an objective factor. Nothing we can do."
"Big shots like us who can clear S-rank Instances all have to be thrown into this one. There are more than twenty people in total."
Xie De continued to despair. "What do you mean, big shots like us who can clear S-rank Instances? 455, tell me, which Instance didn't have the protagonist charging ahead and doing all the fighting? I still can't clear