Different Paths

This battle golem is indeed very simple. Apart from melee attacks (which are basically impossible to hit), it only has Arcane Ray. However, the Arcane Ray don't sweep very fast. As long as you pay a little attention to your positioning, you won't get hit. And even if you do get hit, it's okay. Although the Arcane Ray deal high damage, they are not enough to instantly kill the player. Just run away in time.

The only advantage of this battle golem might be its high health and defense, boasting a whopping 8000 HP. It took five people a long time to finally defeat it.

Treasure Guardian (Battle Golem): "Program error--, termination program cannot be executed, data corruption in progress..."

With a distorted, bizarre sound effect, the red light in the battle golem's eyes dimmed, and it collapsed.

"See? I told you this dungeon was easy."

As the leading knight spoke, he reached out and took the key from the neck of the battle golem.

"The next question is, which box should we open?"

There were quite a few boxes around, and they were all different kinds.

"Kaijin, Kaijin."

"No, the prettier the treasure chest, the worse the stuff inside. I think I'll just open the unremarkable ones. Hmm, I'll open the wooden one."

After discussing it for a while, the group finally chose a wooden treasure chest. When they opened it, they found three pieces of equipment and more than 50 gold coins.

"Damn, this dungeon is really awesome! Those 200 points were well spent." The group exclaimed excitedly.

Everyone gained something from this trip; they all got gold coins and equipment, and the battles were very easy—much more comfortable than struggling through those high-difficulty dungeons and getting wiped out.

With their respective equipment and gold coins in hand, the group happily left the dungeon, not even glancing at the iron cage in the corner.

Da Kui returned to the Boss Home. "System, revive my character, revive the Battle Golem, reset the dungeon."

He seemed quite familiar with the process and finished quickly. "Alright, let's continue playing chess."

While playing chess, Xiao Yu secretly calculated the gains and losses. Reviving the two BOSSes cost more than 80 points, and 50 gold coins were equivalent to 5 points. Reviving the four Defias Guardians only cost a little resources and was not worth much money. In total, he made about 100 points.

One hundred points may not seem like much, but it's just the cost for one adventurer team. If more people come, it can be quite profitable. The exact figure depends on the popularity of the dungeon.

In one afternoon, the Hidden Gold Vault received more than a dozen adventurer teams. Because the mirror dungeon function was enabled, there was no need to queue, and many people came to run the dungeon. However, surprisingly, not a single person activated the hidden boss, which frustrated Xiao Yu. He guessed that the impression left by the dwarf treasure hunter was too deep, or perhaps they didn't know that there was such a thing as a hidden boss in this dungeon. No one opened the cage, and they all took the drops from the boss to open chests.

Xiao Yu did the math: there were over a dozen adventurer teams in one afternoon, and he estimated there would be about thirty in a day. Each adventurer team earned 100 points, so thirty teams would earn 3,000 points. This was just one day's income, and a month's income would be 90,000 points, which wasn't much worse than his original Blazing Flame Temple.

Although the Blazing Flame Temple was a 40-player difficulty dungeon that wiped out many adventurer teams, Xiao Yu could only earn around 10,000 to 20,000 yuan by recycling the equipment after a raid. Because the dungeon was too difficult, only one team would attempt it every few days, so he could only earn 100,000 to 200,000 yuan a month.

Xiao Yu thought to himself that he should have sold dungeon keys too. After all, it was a level 60 difficulty dungeon, and the equipment that dropped was all epic, with even a certain chance of dropping legendary equipment. Selling dungeon keys for 10,000 or 20,000 points wouldn't be too much, right? He could just let himself be defeated and spend a few thousand to revive, so he could still make a profit.

Moreover, this will definitely lead to a huge number of people tackling dungeons, resulting in substantial income. Earning three to five hundred thousand a month is not a dream.

It's just really annoying. Being pushed and pushing someone are definitely different feelings. And if you get pushed down by players too often, your reputation will probably drop, making it hard to maintain your status as a three-skull-level boss.

Most importantly, wouldn't this completely change the essence of the game?

Xiao Yu became a professional gamer for several reasons. First, it was to earn money, but most importantly, he loved the profession. He loved the feeling of Fengyun the game and the freedom he had every day. Most importantly, the BOSS role satisfied his inner fanatic to some extent. Compared to heroic adventurers who defeated demon kings and saved the world, Xiao Yu's favorite was a great demon king who plotted to destroy the world.

Being forced to sell himself to players for money felt to Xiao Yu like selling himself into servitude, which was completely out of character for him.

Thinking about this, he couldn't help but chuckle to himself. Even if he could go back in time and choose again, he probably wouldn't do something like selling dungeon keys and then letting players win the boss battle—although that would indeed be very profitable, and probably half of the studios would do it.

At this moment, he realized that he and the game studio were ultimately not the same kind of people. Dark Rod's only goal was to make money, which was understandable, since that was the purpose of the studio's existence.

While making money through playing games is important, it's more about following one's heart. As the saying goes, those who walk different paths cannot make plans together, and even if the two forces a collaboration, it cannot be sustained in the long run.

(But it's alright, facing reality is a kind of relief. I'll hurry up and finish these few days, then go practice on my new account.) Xiao Yu thought to himself.

Just then, the alarm sounded again.

System notification: An adventurer team has broken into the Hidden Gold Vault and is about to engage in battle. If you do not log in, the system will manage your character for you.

"Hehe, another customer has come knocking. This month's sales figures are probably going to be pretty good!" the chubby guy said as he went out to greet customers again.

As Xiao Yu watched the adventurers through the monitor, his eyelids suddenly twitched, because after the adventurers' names was a familiar guild name.

"Light of Dawn, huh? What a small world!"

Although the members of Light of Dawn in front of him were only level 10 or so, and were obviously not the people who had taken him down back then, and might even just be peripheral members of the guild, the past grudges still made Xiao Yu feel a little annoyed. Since he hadn't had any activities all afternoon, he might as well use them as his targets.

PS: Thank you to Fantasy Immortality for the 10,000 Qidian Coins, and thank you to This Body Born for the Sword for the 1,888 x 3 Qidian Coins. Thank you also to everyone for your donations during this time. There will be four chapters tomorrow. I hope readers who like this book will recommend it and add it to their collections.