According to the records, the Lord of Evil had created this game using fragments of the Heart of Hell.
And the game's main components were, naturally, its individual Dungeon Instances.
The scattered fragments they needed to collect should indeed be something special, such as the keys that could open each exit door.
Cheng Cheng clapped his hands. "That's possible!"
Zhong Zixian had felt awkward looking at the contents of someone else's bag and had been listening quietly from the sidelines. Now he hurriedly said, "Take a look at that formation diagram!"
"This probably isn't a good place," Lu Mi said, glancing around. "Too many guards. We'd stand out."
They returned to Lu Mi's dorm room and spread the formation diagram on the floor.
It depicted a large circle filled with oddly shaped clusters arranged in no discernible pattern.
Cheng Cheng sat cross-legged and counted them. "Thirty."
"If the keys are the fragments, does that mean..." Lu Mi mouthed the words "Dungeon Instances." "...there are this many of those, too?"
"Possibly," Zhong Zixian said. "That would explain why players aren't allowed to reveal information about the Dungeon Instances."
The symbols on the formation diagram were crudely drawn. Some depicted a trident, others a skull.
Lu Mi pointed at one of them. "Look. Could this represent the Vortex?"
A single line curled into a shape like a snail's shell.
To people who had just emerged from a Dungeon Instance full of vortices, it was more than a simple symbol.
Lu Mi took the latest key he had obtained out of his bag and placed it on that symbol.
Nothing happened.
Roman watched from the side with his arms folded and added, "Every key was glowing back then."
"Back then..."
Without changing his seated posture, Lu Mi lifted his eyes. Beneath the shadows