Huh, what's that flashing?
The player looked closely with slight surprise. He was currently dozens of meters underground, and the beam of light clearly did not come from any rock crevices that might exist above.
So, that must be light that comes from underground?
Without thinking twice, he withdrew his arm that had forced its way through the hole and gouged out his other eye, attaching it to his wrist.
Seeing things with only one eye isn't three-dimensional enough. Now that there are two eyes, players are determined to observe the flickering light source more closely.
With the view provided by two eyes, the player once again reached his arm into the hole.
The player stared at the distant point of light for a few moments, and he could roughly make out some details.
It was glowing, and it seemed to be a large, angular rock.
While pondering, he suddenly thought of a possibility:
"What if it's radioactive material?"
However, he quickly overturned his idea.
What's the point of using radioactive materials in a chaotic online game World of Disorder"?
In this world where Psionic Energy exists, as long as you reach Low Tier in the Psionic Energy system, you can personally craft beads that are useless except for glowing. Everyone can make the glowing Little Green bottle that is all the rage in this other world.
Moreover, the Demonic Tide formed by the contaminated Psionic Energy itself will cause slow but continuous Aberration in living beings.
In other words, the niche of radiation sickness has already been occupied by Psionic Energy, so there is no need to add this kind of setting.
However, this made the players even more delighted.
"Maybe it's some very rare mineral... could it be energy amethyst?"
Filled with the excitement of discovering a new continent, the player quickly put his eyes back where they belonged, then reached for a miniature iron pickaxe that could be brought into the narrow cave, and began to tap along the edge of the cave entrance at high frequency.
The "clanging" sound echoed through the underground cave system. The player was panting heavily from exhaustion, thinking that the cave entrance had widened a bit, but when he reached out to touch it, he found that there was nothing but some stone dust.
The player in the darkness paused for a moment, then put his eyes inside his hand and stretched them out to confirm that he had indeed wasted his time.
But he was not discouraged. Instead, he grabbed a handful of stone chips and dust, stuffed them into his pocket, and began to wriggle back the way he came, like a worm.
Slow movement doesn't require much player attention. He opened his player panel and roughly checked the current Root Network status using the Pixel Blue Dragon's resolution.
He then opened the forum and began posting while moving around:
[Found some weird stuff that looks like obsidian from Minecraft, please tell me how to destroy it.]
He attached several pictures of stone chips and dust to the post, as well as some images of what he saw by sticking his eye into the cave. He also described the embarrassing situation of hitting a spot for ten minutes and only managing to knock down this little bit of material.
Given the proximity recommendation mechanism of the World of Disorder Forum, the post quickly attracted the attention of many nearby players as soon as it was published.
As his page views increased, his posts also began to receive more and more responses:
"You've already said it's obsidian, why don't you go dig out some diamonds?"
"I have an idea—why not just use a piston to push the obsidian aside?"
"Can the person upstairs speak like a human being? The original poster only said it looks like obsidian, not that it actually is obsidian. Besides, even if it were obsidian, there might not be any diamonds in this world, right? Isn't there a more reliable method?"
"I can only think of two truly useful methods. The first is to get some dragon breath from Seraphina, but there's no guarantee that it can melt this thing. Even if it can be melted, there's no guarantee that the treasure inside will be safe."
"And how much does it cost to hire Seraphina for one treatment?"
Five thousand gold coins.
"Forget it then, you couldn't raise that much money even if you sold the original poster."
"Hey buddy upstairs, what was your other method again?"
"Go find Ed. Doesn't Ed also offer hiring services?"
"It seems so. How much does Ed charge for a single transaction these days?"
"It seems that 1,000 gold coins can allow Ed to participate in a custom storyline once."
"Do you understand what I mean by saying there's no difference between Seraphina and me? We can't afford either. To poor people like us, what's the difference between ten million and fifty million?"
Upon hearing this, the comment section fell silent.
Clearly, the player on the last floor is right. The World of Disorder is not reality. In this game world where extraordinary powers exist, the enhanced gaming experience brought about by improving personal strength is certainly stronger than advancing through the technology tree.
Moreover, even if technology advances, it ultimately comes down to individual ability.
Just like in the metal smelting industry, some players who are engaged in related professions in reality have already taught the villagers of Dragonborn Village the blast furnace iron smelting technology.
Today, they are indeed able to multiply the efficiency of iron smelting through this method.
Even if the half-dragons pumped the bellows until sparks flew, they still couldn't smelt the mithril ore.
In contrast, the mithril ore, which is unattainable in the eyes of the Dragonborn, is actually just a snack for Seraphina to pass the time, with a strategic value not much different from that of sunflower seeds.
This is the difference that comes from absolute strength.
The group discussed the post in the comments section for a long time, but couldn't come up with any good ideas.
Some suggested using the small opening to sneak in and squeezing the player through the opening like toothpaste.
Putting aside the sheer amount of force required to squeeze a player through the hole like toothpaste, and whether it's even somewhat inhumane, the hole itself, barely thicker than a wrist, is simply not something that can be forced through.
When Ed, the Master of tunneling in the World of Disorder, escaped from prison, he needed a hole almost the size of his head. Now, players want to surpass him, which is clearly unlikely in every sense.
Soon, the player who discovered the cave entrance returned to the surface, added a message to the post's comments section saying "Let's meet!", and then went to the nearest Teleportation Tree to begin their anxious wait...
To show the Second Holy See's importance to this, Ed added some smaller tasks after Gray's "Where Did the Good Prince Go?" event started, including the classic road-laying quest from large-scale strategy games.
Players only need to carry an inactive Stability Anchor when setting off and plant it at a specific location on the way to the suspected sealed area to receive a reward of five silver coins.
Five silver coins may not seem like much, but this was a truly cost-free activity, and it was genuinely first-come, first-served.
So, a few days after the event began, the Stability Anchor Highway from the Second Holy See to the suspected sealed land was fully connected.