The Path of Ascension.
When the dungeon was first updated, Caramel rode his flying mount to the entrance of the dungeon.
The dungeon was located in the central area of Brandt Island, the Land of Crystallization.
The Land of Crystallization was left unexplored after the Spell Stealer's forces were completely destroyed. Perhaps the game officials had read the players' complaints, so they created a tower out of thin air in the Land of Crystallization.
When Caramel arrived, the Tower of Ascension was already surrounded by a group of players … The players were surrounding a short and small figure with a huge backpack.
The players were already familiar with the prefix of this NPC. It was the Fairy Merchant.
The Fairy Merchant series of NPCs were used by the players to exchange for all kinds of flashy clothing. This new Fairy Merchant was also responsible for the same, but the materials he exchanged for were materials produced in the Path of Ascension.
"Holy Spirits, welcome to Season S2!
Please prove your strength in this perilous tower! "Similar word bubbles kept popping up above the Fairy Merchant's head.
Season S2?
The simple Trial Tower from before was the S1 Season?
Caramel didn't think too much about it. He didn't even bother to see what new clothing the Fairy Merchant had in Season S2. He ran to the entrance of the Path of Ascension to investigate the mechanics of the new dungeon.
"Strong!
Prove yourself! "
A line of burning text appeared before Caramel's eyes, followed by a dungeon selection window. Behind the window was a warning: This dungeon is extremely difficult!
Extremely difficult?
How difficult?
Caramel had been able to clear the Trial Tower with her eyes closed, but the NPC design of the Holy Spirit was very difficult. Caramel believed in it. With the existence of a monster like Thorne, Caramel no longer dared to underestimate the power of the AI.
Could the Path of Ascension be like this too?
Caramel saw a palm imprint on the window. Below the imprint was a "Please place your palm on the imprint."
He did as he was told … Less than two seconds after Caramel placed his palm on the imprint, a bunch of dungeon options popped up before him.
There were two rows of dungeon options.
The first was prefixed with the word "General".
[Path of Ascension, Commoner Difficulty]
General: Path of Ascension (Solo) +, Vanguard (Team) +.
Exclusive Extensions: Swordsmanship (Additional for Combat Professions), Blacksmith (Additional for Life Professions), Battlefield Healing (Additional for Life Skills with the highest proficiency) … "
Caramel chose the most conventional Path of the Strong challenge. This challenge indicated that she could not choose an opponent corresponding to the Path of Ascension for the first time. After defeating the corresponding difficulty, more options would appear.
The Commoner Difficulty Path of Ascension!
Activating the Path of Ascension at the Commoner difficulty required one Divine Crystal, while the Hunter difficulty required ten.
Caramel entered the Path of Ascension with anticipation. She wanted to see just how difficult this Instance Dungeon, which was labeled as "extremely difficult", was!
However, the Commoner's difficulty disappointed Caramel.
One minute and twenty-one seconds. This was the speed Caramel took to clear the Commoner's Instance Dungeon alone. When he obtained the Commoner's Status, he did not wait any longer and immediately started the Hunter's Difficulty Challenge.
The Hunter difficulty finally made him feel a little … difficult to deal with, but only a little.
There were a total of three stages in the Hunter's Challenge. These three stages were independent challenges. Caramel could win one of them, then quit and regroup before challenging the other.
Half an hour!
This was the speed at which Caramel completed the Hunter difficulty. He had only rested for five minutes before he managed to kill all three Guardians in one go.
[Congratulations on winning the title of Tracker!
"
[Congratulations on clearing The Path of Ascension: Hunter difficulty. Clearing reward: Proof of the Strong x125, Fashion Crystal x300 …]
That's it?
After Caramel completed the Hunter difficulty, he looked at the pile of rewards the system had given him. What he cared about the most was the reward called Proof of the Strong!
The Proof of the Champion was an exchange tool and a forging tool that could be exchanged for equipment for the Path of Ascension from the Fairy Merchants. However, it also had another function, which was that it could be used as a material when forging equipment and could be used to reduce the level requirement of equipment!
Proof of the Strong
Exchange · Forging Items.
Item Description: Possessing this item proves that you are qualified to possess stronger equipment and weapons. By fusing the proof into the equipment, the equipment's level requirement will be reduced!
"
The Holy Spirit's equipment forging system was very diligent. It was probably the part that the Holy Spirit worked the hardest on.
Caramel's Moonlight Sword was originally a Level 50 equipment. However, under Caramel's forging, the equipment's level requirement had been raised to Level 60. The attributes of the Moonlight Sword could no longer be increased any further.
The reason was that the level requirement had reached the upper limit!
However, this Proof of the Champion only needed a large number of them!
At most, it could reduce the equipment requirement by a whole ten levels!
Ten levels!
If this attribute was fully attached, Caramel's current character's attributes would increase by another level!
Liver!
Caramel immediately started the Path of Ascension challenge on the Supervisor difficulty, but failed.
The difficulty of the Supervisor difficulty suddenly increased in an instant, going from a 90% chance of success in the Hunter difficulty to a 70% chance of success. The Guardian of the Path of Ascension had seven points, and Caramel had three points.
After realizing the difficulty of the Supervisor difficulty, Caramel did not repeat the challenge like a fool.
He decided to return to the Hunter difficulty and reduce the level requirement of his equipment, or at least the Moonlight Sword in his hand, by ten levels.
The Commoner difficulty and the Hunter difficulty had unlocked a system for Caramel called the Ascension Request.
From Caramel's point of view, this system was created to allow players to repeatedly challenge the Path of Ascension of the same level.
The content of the system was very simple. It was a little like a bulletin board, filled with requests from various NPCs. These NPCs hoped that the Holy Spirits could assist them in advancing the Path of Ascension.
As the business of increasing healing without increasing the price had just been launched, Jiang Qiao could only use some friendly actors to play the role of the person who issued the requests.
Therefore, there were a total of 27 requests that Caramel could see. Among them, there were only three requests that required players to advance the Path of Ascension through a solo battle.
Among these three requests, the one with the highest reward was from a person named Cat Lady Laxie.
What the hell?
When Caramel looked at the request, he frowned slightly when he saw the message from the person who asked for it.
"I must be crazy to send you a request email and even give you my soul signature code. I really hope this is a prank!"
Unfortunately, this was not a prank. Caramel had accepted the quest because the quest from Laxie would result in twice the number of powerhouses fighting each other.
The entrance to the Path of Ascension once again opened in front of Caramel. Caramel took the request and walked into the portal. The scene in front of him instantly changed into a gloomy street.
"Quest Objective: Defeat the Guardian of the Path of Ascension while protecting the person who asked for it."
This line of text appeared in front of Caramel …
What?
The person who asked for it was here?
Caramel climbed up a tall building in the alley and saw a figure trembling under the shadow of the building. The figure was only wearing pajamas.
It seemed that the person who asked for it had been … pulled into the Path of Ascension by Caramel while he was sleeping.
The worst thing was that this cat lady only had 30,000 HP. With the damage dealt by the Guardian of the Path of Ascension, she would basically die with a single scratch!
Was this the reason why the request was worth twice the amount?
Caramel felt a headache coming on.