Chapter 474: Chapter 452 Path to Ascension Begins! (Third Update)
Path to Ascension.
When this new instance was first updated, Caral took a flying mount straight to the entrance of the instance.
This instance was located in the central area of Biland Island, the Land of Crystals.
After the Magic Thief’s forces were completely destroyed, there was not much left to explore in the Land of Crystals, but perhaps the officials took the players’ complaints into consideration and conjured a towering tower right in the middle of the Land of Crystals.
By the ti Caral arrived, the Path to Ascension was already surrounded by a circle of players… The players were gathered around a short figure with a huge backpack.
The players were already familiar with the prefix of this NPC, and that was the Fairy rchant.
The Fairy rchant series of NPCs was where players exchanged various flashy outfits, and this new Fairy rchant’s role was the sa, except that the exchange materials ca from those produced by the Path to Ascension.
“Holy Spirits, welco to Season 2! Please prove your strength within this treacherous tower!” Speech bubbles with words like this continuously appeared above the Fairy rchant’s head.
Season 2? Was the previous simple Tower of Trial Season 1?
Caral did not fret over these details, he didn’t even look at what new outfits the Season 2 Fairy rchant had updated, and headed straight for the entrance of the Path to Ascension to check the chanics of this new instance.
‘Mighty ones, prove yourselves!’
A line of text burning with flas appeared before Caral, followed by a window for instance selection that also included a warning: ‘Warning: This instance is extrely difficult!’
How difficult is extrely difficult?
Caral had been able to complete the Tower of Trial with his eyes closed, but he believed in the ga Holy Spirits’ challenging NPC design—Thorne’s monstrous existence had taught Caral not to underestimate the power of AI any longer.
Could the Path to Ascension also be like this?
Caral saw an imprint of a hand on the window, below which read ‘Please press the palm of your hand against the imprint.’
He did as instructed… less than about two seconds after Caral’s palm touched the imprint, a plethora of instance options popped up before his eyes.
There were two lines of instance options in total.
The prefix of the first line of options was ‘standard.’
Path to Ascension – Civilian Level Difficulty
Standard: Path to Ascension (Solo) , Vanguard Army (Team) .
Exclusive Extension: Swordsmanship (combat profession addition), Blacksmith (crafting profession addition), Battlefield Healing (highest skill proficiency crafting addition)…
Caral chose the most common challenge for the powerful, where the challenge hinted that first-ti challengers could not select opponents corresponding to the Path to Ascension; after defeating the respective difficulty level, more options would appear.
Civilian difficulty of the Path to Ascension!
Starting the Civilian difficulty of the Path to Ascension required one Divine Power Crystal, while the Hunter difficulty required ten.
Caral entered the Path to Ascension with anticipation to see just how difficult this instance labeled ‘extrely difficult’ really was!
But the civilian difficulty ended up disappointing Caral.
One minute and twenty-one seconds—that was the speed at which Caral soloed the civilian instance. After acquiring the civilian qualification, he didn’t even wait before he started challenging the Hunter difficulty.
The challenge of the Hunter difficulty finally gave him a slight…trouble feeling, but it was just a slight feeling.
The challenge of the Hunter difficulty consisted of three separate stages, and Caral could take down one of them, rest a while, then challenge another.
Half an hour! That was the speed at which Caral completed the Hunter difficulty; he only rested five minutes halfway before taking down the three Guardians of the Hunter difficulty in one go.
“Congratulations, you’ve earned the title of Hunter!”
“Congratulations on clearing the Path to Ascension – Hunter Difficulty, clearing reward: Proof of the Strong X125, Fashion Crystal X300…”
Is that it?
When Caral defeated the Hunter level difficulty, he cared most about the reward called the Proof of the Strong!
The Proof of the Strong is both an exchange item and a crafting item that can be exchanged for Path to Ascension equipnt at the fairy rchant’s, but it also has another function, which is to act as a material in forging equipnt to lower the level requirent of the equipnt!
“Proof of the Strong
Exchange·Crafting item.
Item Description: Owning this item proves you are qualified to possess stronger equipnt and weapons. Infuse it into the equipnt, and the level requirent of the equipnt will be reduced!”
The Divine Power equipnt crafting system is very demanding, possibly the most demanding part of Divine Power.
Caral’s Moonlight Sword was originally a level fifty equipnt, but under Caral’s crafting, the level requirent of the equipnt had risen to sixty. Beyond that, it was impossible to continue enhancing the properties of the Moonlight Sword.
The reason was that the level had already reached its limit! But with enough Proof of the Strong! The level requirent could be reduced by as much as ten levels!
Ten levels!
If this attribute were fully added on, Caral’s character attributes could be boosted even further!
Demanding!
Caral started the Guardian level difficulty of the Path to Ascension challenge but failed.
The difficulty of the Guardian level challenge skyrocketed instantly, changing from a nearly guaranteed success in the Hunter level to a 70:30 situation in the Path to Ascension, Seven for the Guardian, Three for Caral.
After realizing the difficulty of the Guardian level, Caral did not stubbornly keep retrying the challenge like a fool.
He decided to first go back and continue playing the Hunter level difficulty to reduce at least… the level requirent of the Moonlight Sword by ten levels.
The civilian difficulty and the Hunter difficulty challenges unlocked a system for Caral called ‘Ascension Commission’.
Caral saw this system as designed to make players repeatedly play the sa level of Path to Ascension to craft it.
The system’s content is simple, a bit like a bulletin board filled with various NPC commissions, these NPCs hoping that Divine Power would assist them in ascending the Path to Ascension.
Due to the recently launched business expansion of adding milk without extra charge, Jiang Qiao had to use so friendly actors to play the role of those posting commissions.
So now, Caral could see a total of twenty-seven commissions, of which only three involved ascending the Path to Ascension through solo combat.
The highest reward among these three commissions was from one nad Cat lady Laxina.
What the heck?
As Caral was checking this proxy playing commission and reading the comnts of the commissioner, he slightly furrowed his brow.
“I must have been crazy to send you the commission emails and even give you my soul identifier code. I really hope this is a prank!”
Unfortunately, it was not a prank. Caral accepted this commission because defeating this Cat lady Laxina’s commission would yield double the reward of the Proof of the Strong.
The entrance to the Path to Ascension once again opened before Caral. Holding the commission, he walked through the portal, and the scene before him instantly transford into a gloomy street.
“Mission Objective: Defeat the Guardian of the Path to Ascension while ensuring the protection of the commissioner”
This line of text appeared in front of Caral…
What? The commissioner ca too?
Caral climbed up a tall building in the alley and saw a figure standing in the shadow of the building, shivering, wearing only a nightgown.
It seed that the commissioner had been… pulled into the Path to Ascension by Caral while sleeping.
The worst part was this Cat lady’s health point was only thirty thousand, which basically ant she could die from a re graze by the Guardian of the Path to Ascension!
Was this the reason behind the double reward for the commission? Caral felt a bit of a headache for a mont.
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