One SSS Card, One SS Card
Outside the entrance, the crowd fell silent for a moment, then erupted.
"Nightmare? They chose Nightmare directly?"
"That Ye Qingxue is an SSS-level Snow Queen, level twelve. But the other guy's information is blocked; we don't know his background."
"Two people farming Nightmare difficulty? The Nightmare Lair in the Land of Buried Bones is a place where even a normal level 20 five-person team has to be careful, and these two are doing it?"
"Didn't someone solo Nightmare difficulty yesterday? It was this same lair."
"That happened yesterday, and I don't even know if the call went through. These two today, one is level 12 SSS-rank, and the other I can't see, but I doubt he's much higher."
"Just wait and see. The Nightmare Lair is no joke."
Amidst the murmurs, Su Mu and Ye Qingxue stood in the nightmarish-level Land of Buried Bones.
A dark red sky loomed overhead, skeletal pillars stood like a forest, and mist billowed like molten liquid. In the distance, cracks were slowly tearing open.
Su Mu glanced at Ye Qingxue.
Even in open-world dungeons, the two can only choose the relay cooperative mode, going in one by one. Unlike trial dungeons, their levels are now above ten, and their core cards can enter the dungeons of teammates who are currently fighting to assist in the battle.
In other words, whoever's copy is at the forefront, the other person's core card can enter that copy as a "cooperative unit" to fight the enemy together.
However, Ye Qingxue probably wouldn't be able to beat the 15th Nightmare Lair, so Su Mu immediately started the dungeon.
And at this moment.
Ye Qingxue originally wanted to go first.
She was used to controlling the battlefield; the Snow Queen was at her strongest in her own instance, and setting up the field first was her rhythm. But she paused for a moment and glanced at Su Mu.
She wanted to see Su Mu's current strength.
With a thought, Su Mu activated the Dungeon Space.
It was at this moment that Ye Qingxue saw Su Mu's instance for the first time.
It's too big.
She had seen many Dungeon Spaces belonging to dungeon masters, including those of S-rank and double S-rank awakened individuals at the school.
Most people take a "simplified" approach in the early stages of dungeons, using a basic space of about one square kilometer to concentrate their Soul Power on creating the core area.
Because expanding the Dungeon Space by one square kilometer consumes ten points of Soul Power, and these Soul Power would be much more beneficial if used to strengthen core cards or build an environment related to the theme.
However, at a cursory glance, Su Mu's copy covers at least a dozen square kilometers.
The three mountains each occupy a region, separated by wide valleys and wilderness.
The gray sky hung low, the distant horizon was blurred, and the whole space exuded a desolate feeling of the beginning of time.
Ye Qingxue frowned.
She couldn't understand why Su Mu wanted to make the copy so large.
If the early stages of the dungeon are too large, it means that a lot of Soul Power will be consumed in terrain expansion, and the strengthening of core cards and key environments will not keep up.
Normally, at this point, you should try to streamline the dungeon and concentrate your Soul Power on what matters most.
However, she and Su Mu weren't close enough for her to offer advice casually, so she naturally wouldn't speak up.
She simply suppressed her doubts and continued to examine the three mountains.
The middle mountain is the tallest, and on its summit stands a gray stone with a warm, shimmering surface, and faintly visible rainbow patterns flowing across its surface.
That should be Su Mu's core card... the Stone Left Over from Mending Heaven.
She noticed that the stone had reached grade C, and its health seemed quite substantial.
Even at C-rank, it's still just a rock. It can't move, it can't be attacked, and its weaknesses are too obvious.
The mountain on the right is shrouded in demonic energy, with steep slopes and white skeletons scattered from its base to its waist.
Broken bones, skulls, bone dust, and remains were piled up layer upon layer. A cold wind blew, and the bone dust flew everywhere. From a distance, it looked like a demonic mountain buried under corpses. Ye Qingxue looked at the mountain, and a chill ran down her spine. The place exuded an indescribable ferocity, as if something was breathing in the pile of bones.
The mountain on the left is steep but relatively clean, and a girl in plain clothes stands on its summit.
Ye Qingxue's gaze lingered on the girl.
The girl appeared to be about sixteen or seventeen years old. She wore a plain, coarse cloth dress with a blue cloth belt around her waist. Her long hair was loosely tied up with a wooden hairpin. She had a beautiful face with delicate features, fair skin as white as snow, and very faint pink cheeks. She stood quietly on the mountaintop, her head slightly tilted, as if looking at something.
Ye Qingxue was taken aback.
She originally thought the creature cards in Su Mu's dungeon would be some kind of monster or spirit beast.
But the girl in front of me... looks like an ordinary village girl.
Is Journey to the West really related to tourism?
She instinctively unleashed an Appraisal.
[Name: Corpse Demon White Bone Spirit]
[Rank: SS]
[Level: 13]
[Blood:...]
[Attack:...]
[Defend:...]
[Agile:...]
[Skill:...]
[Note: Detailed information about the opponent's instance creatures is limited by instance access restrictions; only rank and level can be viewed.]
Ye Qingxue's pupils contracted.
SS-rank.
She then looked at the little demon on the demon mountain to her right.
It was a short and wiry monster with bluish-black skin, a pointed snout and monkey-like cheeks, a short knife at its waist, and a command flag stuck on its back. It looked somewhat formidable, but among dungeon creatures, it was just the appearance of an ordinary monster.
She unleashed an Appraisal.
[Name: Little Drill Wind]
[Rank: SSS]
[Level: 15]
[Blood:...]
[Attack:...]
[Defend:...]
[Agile:...]
[Skill:...]
[Note: Detailed information about the opponent's instance creatures is limited by instance access restrictions; only rank and level can be viewed.]
SSS level.
Ye Qingxue was stunned.
SSS level.
She thought she had misread it, so she checked it again. It was still SSS-level.
A little demon, SSS level?
Ye Qingxue felt her heart skip a beat.
One SSS card, one SS card.
None of them are core cards.
She Taiqing what this meant.
The rules of this world are clear: the amount of Soul Power required to embed non-core cards into a dungeon is directly linked to the card's quality.
F-level cards cost 10 points, E-level 30 points, D-level 70 points, C-level 150 points, B-level 300 points, and A-level 500 points. S-level cards require a full 1,000 points, SS-level 2,000 points, and SSS-level 5,000 points.
Five thousand points of Soul Power.
She has been awake for three days, meditating to recover each day, and has used less than 300 points of Soul Power in total. As for Su Mu, he embedded an SSS-level panel into one non-core card and an SS-level panel into the other.
This requires at least 7,000 points of Soul Power.
Three days.
7,000 points.
That's definitely not the method used.
But no matter what method is used, it's unbelievable.
Ye Qingxue tried her best to calm herself down.
She can't act like some naive girl. She's Ye Qingxue, after all.
She didn't ask any questions, suppressing her shock and turning her gaze to the battlefield.