The player stood in the hall of Midra's Manor and looked around: crumbling walls, shattered floors, scattered rubble... Hmm, a new map. Time to loot!
It was a boss room, after all. Surely it couldn't have nothing?
The player began exploring Midra's Manor, but the haul... Well, it was better than nothing.
"That's it?"
Unwilling to give up, the player made another two circuits. Aside from some fatties and stat monsters, there was nothing here.
A discarded diary, Swollen Grape ×4, Nanaya’s Torch... That was about the extent of the haul from exploring Midra's Manor.
The player passed through the ruined corridor and pushed open the door hanging by a thread-beyond it lay another world.
The eerie Frenzied Flame Depths.
The ground was gray-black, split by countless fissures. Dark red light seeped through the cracks, as though flames beneath the earth were still clinging to life. Dead trees stood crookedly, their trunks charred and branches bare, like desperate hands reaching toward the sky.
The player took a few steps forward. Aging Untouchables, which wouldn't die unless parried, wandered beside the withered yellow grass.
As the saying went, newborn calves feared no tigers. On first encountering this monster, the player bravely charged up and tried slashing it, despite the spine-chilling BGM.
But the old man didn't even display a health bar. Instead, the player's madness meter shot up.
Afterward, the player learned their lesson. Just as the guide said, this monster only lost its invincibility after a parry.
That meant every Aging Untouchable had to be taken seriously, rather than casually hacked down like ordinary mobs.
Still, that wasn't such a big deal. If the player couldn't beat them, they could just hide.
But Xiao Gao must have felt empty inside when designing this map... Such an enormous map, and not