Ansaelia overlooked the Adventurer Continent below.
With a clone working for her, she didn't need to directly face the Adventurers; she only needed to observe their development progress and confirm whether there were any bugs.
This was her job.
One Adventurer after another emerged from the Elf Hut, journeying through this vast world to the Grand Forest Dungeon area on the left for adventures.
Currently, some of the fastest-leveling Adventurers had reached the critical moment of class advancement.
They had also arrived at the most difficult checkpoint.
That was the checkpoint that even Contract Adventurer once found troublesome: Dark Thunderous Ruins, which also made ordinary Adventurers realize... what cruelty was.
"300 Zombies! 3 carrying 1!"
"Strong Gold Team, 2 carrying 2, bringing freeloaders, trade at the Boss entrance!"
"Looking for class advancement teammates, equipment viewable! Battle records verifiable!"
All sorts of top-tier fighters became active again due to class advancement.
At first, those fighters who formed groups might not have been fully aware of their capabilities; they were just following the trend.
They believed that as long as they had equipment, they could do it too.
This led to quite a few jokes.
However, after a day or two of settling in, the Adventurers who were following the trend had realized the gap in strength and quietly went about their own way.
Only truly strong Adventurers remained.
And they banded together to form Gold Teams.
Like Peak Gold Team.
Flowing Light Gold Team.
Mythical Gold Team.
...
One Gold Team after another rose.
Through the efforts of these top-tier fighters, the reputation of some Gold Teams was indeed established.
On the forums.
You could often see the names of these Gold Teams, as well as promotions and endorsements for them.
They also engaged in conflicts with each other, not just snatching clients but also poaching fighters and undermining each other, clearly exhibiting some corporate behavior.
This miraculous ecosystem made Ansaelia find it extremely interesting.
It was her first time seeing a profit-making organization born from the Dungeon's gameplay system.
Previously, those who brought new players were individuals, and they earned currency within the Dungeon.
However, these Gold Teams traded and collected happy coins.
These were tangible things that could be exchanged for food and money in reality.
Chen Yu also tacitly allowed the existence of these Gold Teams.
After all, this was considered a unique feature of this game. As for the other two major features, 【Studios】 and 【Merchants】, due to the absence of scripts and the system's built-in happy coins trading system, they were practically extinct.
This also meant that the gold output in the Dungeon of Dungeon and Eight Million Warriors had only one channel: Adventurers' self-production and self-consumption, making the gold system very stable, preventing situations where hundreds or thousands of machines and tens or hundreds of thousands of accounts suddenly furiously farmed, impacting the gold market.
This was, of course, beneficial to the overall ecological environment of the Dungeon.
When Adventurers farmed, the gold they obtained would retain its value, and selling gold would also be guaranteed, which would enhance their enthusiasm for farming.
However, low gold output would also lead to one result...
That was, the enhancement system would not be democratized.
Most ordinary Adventurers would at most enhance their weapons, stopping at +7.
Those who could reach +10 were extremely rare.
At this stage, owning a level 20 +10 blue weapon was the dream of countless Adventurers.
As for other armor and accessories, enhancing them didn't increase attack power, only strengthened defense and magic resistance, making them a bit more durable, so it was even less likely for them to be enhanced.
Those were things pursued by the wealthy.
Ansaelia couldn't help but shake her head; if the enhancement system was already like this, let alone the future amplification system.
Perhaps only some wealthy players could amplify their equipment!
Without highly enhanced weapons.
Facing the King-level Dark Thunderous Ruins, which was currently the class advancement zombie map, ordinary Adventurers were truly suffering immensely.
All four players needed to have strong combat abilities and equipment that had reached the Grand Forest graduation level to clear it.
This also forced weaker Adventurers to only choose to be carried.
The major Gold Teams in this stage also made a fortune, especially some Adventurers who had already completed their class advancement and still had highly enhanced weapons; carrying two players through this Dungeon was no difficulty at all.
Clearing one run not only exempted them from their ticket fees but also earned them 100 happy coins for free, and with infinite fatigue, they could earn infinite money.
Compared to ordinary Adventurers who were still struggling.
The Contract Adventurer had already moved far away from the deeply distressing Dark Thunderous Ruins and arrived at Sky City.
While the scenery of Grand Forest was beautiful, it was generally quite common.
Sky City was different.
Floating stones suspended in the sky, and towering buildings reaching into the clouds, created a beautiful landscape resembling a heavenly palace.
Standing at the edge of Sky City, one could overlook the entire town and see the Adventurers, as small as ants, walking within the town.
Looking up, the towering, sky-high tower, reaching deep into the clouds, stood majestically before their eyes, causing the Adventurers who saw it for the first time to be visibly moved.
Their hearts were filled with awe.
"As expected of the Lord, is this the design of Sky City?" Qi Maosong opened his mouth, looking up, seemingly wanting to see through the clouds into their depths.
"What kind of power makes these floating stones fly..."
"If we climb up, can we go deep into the clouds and see what exists in the sky?" Chu Ruoxue said with excitement.
Hearing this, Li Ruoshu looked strange, "What exists in the sky? Isn't that Ansaelia? If you really want to see her, do you need to go through so much trouble?"
"And from what it looks like now, once we enter, it's a Dungeon selection interface. We go to various Dungeon areas by selecting these Dungeons, so... your idea of climbing up probably can't be realized."
Li Ruoshu directly poured a bucket of cold water on them.
She urged them to start training quickly.
Admiring the scenery could be done however they liked once they had mastered their skills and transitioned into administrator roles.
"The Dungeon we're going to clear this time is... Dark Mysterious Corridor! Between levels 22 and 25, it shouldn't be as hellish as the Dark Thunderous Ruins, right?"
"Definitely, after all, we've already advanced our classes!" Wu Yue patted his chest.
"With class advancement skills, the Dungeons below are simple. Only the Puppet stage stumped me for a bit, but only for a bit... Really!"
"Alright, then let's enter the map."
The Contract Adventurer teams exchanged a few words.
Then chose to enter the map.
In their opinion, with their class advancement power, they could defeat any opponent.
But the next second after entering the map.
"!!"
"Holy crap, who turned off the lights?"
Unlike the Dark Mysterious Corridor in the game, the Dark Mysterious Corridor designed by Chen Yu was truly dark, not giving even a speck of light.
Everything relied on magic skills to illuminate the surroundings.
Adventurers needed to fight monsters in such darkness, fumbling around, and search for the light switch.
"Damn it!"
"I underestimated the Lord's hellishness; how did he even create a completely dark Dungeon?"
"Who's poking my butt?"
..."Holy crap, it's those statues from just now."
The monsters in the Dark Mysterious Corridor were knight statues holding long lances, excellent at backstabbing.
Without any preparation.
The Contract Adventurer once again experienced what torment was like.
They all shouted.
"Lord, this is too hellish!"