With the fermentation of this series of events, coupled with the intentional or unintentional flaunting of wealth by the Adventurers returning to the village, Tidal Town instantly became a hot commodity.
Among them...
The most obvious reaction came from the villages corresponding to the area where Gourmet Town was located.
When those foods were brought out, those villages were in a state of complete frenzy.
There's no need to elaborate on how a group of people, who already had an absolute obsession with food, would react upon seeing these delicacies.
The most insane among them was a village that held a pot of leftover hotpot soup base like a sacred relic.
"Food!"
"This is the ultimate delicacy in the world!"
"Anything can be blanched in it, it truly can blanch anything; even this leftover soup base can be used to create so many delicious dishes."
"Village Chief, please grant me a spoonful, let me take it back to mix with my rice!"
Stimulated by such food, the reactions of these villages were even greater, especially when they heard that Tidal Town would prioritize accommodating Adventurers who were married couples.
The doorsteps of the Adventurers who had immigrated to Tidal Town were worn out.
In these few short days...
They felt like the princes and nobles mentioned in the Three Kingdoms Unrivaled story, completely in a state of choosing a consort.
Every day, several suitable young women or men would be brought to their homes.
Everyone wanted to form such a marriage alliance and then, using the marital relationship, successfully move to Tidal Town.
Even those without suitable young women or men in their families would do their best to help introduce others, hoping that after a successful introduction, they would be remembered and perhaps get to taste a little bit of the food themselves.
Those few hundred Adventurers at this time completely became sought-after individuals in the eyes of others.
A few days passed quickly.
The rating phase for the Adventurer World was also about to begin.
During these few days, the Adventurers didn't just return for enjoyment; more often, they returned to the Adventurer World to relieve their longing and to help out in the village, such as farming or patching up holes in houses.
After finishing these tasks, everyone reluctantly bid farewell to their families.
They prepared to return to the Adventurer World to participate in the rating.
This was also a very important event after the Dark Tide; during the rating period, all Adventurers would be randomly teleported to any Dungeon for evaluation.
The teleportation range covered the entire world.
Then, the emotional values they experienced in these Dungeons would directly serve as the evaluation standard.
The more emotional values collected in an area, the higher the score, and ultimately, the higher the rating the town would receive.
Before the Adventurer World's rating event began, in the Dark World, the Tidal had just concluded.
On this day, the Dungeon Lords in Chen Yu's area witnessed the gap between themselves and the true powerhouses.
It redefined what 'shocking' meant.
They were all at the same starting line, yet they ran for a long time and were still treading water.
They looked up and found that a certain powerhouse was no longer on the same track as them, having directly ascended to the heavens.
This psychological disparity could no longer be described as large; it was an insurmountable chasm.
Counterattacking the Dark Tide... Such a feat had been contemplated before, and some had even attempted it.
However, the strength of a Dungeon Lord was always linked to their area; the more powerful a Dungeon Lord, the higher their area's level, and the higher the area's level, the stronger the Dark Tide encountered.
This also led to those who wanted to counterattack always being limited by the even stronger Dark Tide, constantly on the defensive.
Even if they could eventually muster a tiny bit of strength, that mere handful of Adventurers and 'pheromones' could not make any impact on the Dark Void within the Dark Rift.
The final result was nothing more than the desperate becoming even more desperate.
Seeing the dense Dark Creaturess within the Dark Tide, not only did the Dungeon Lords feel despair, but the Adventurers who went to counterattack also felt despair.
Because at that moment, the enemies they saw before them were already enough to engulf them.
Even if the number of counterattackers at that time was several hundred times greater, they would not be able to advance more than a few steps, and every step would leave behind swathes of corpses.
Even if they consumed soul crystals without regard for the consequences, they could not cross that torrent-like flood.
In the end, they didn't even get to see the face of a Dark Superintendent, being directly submerged in the tide.
But even such a counterattack experience was used as positive teaching material in the Lord World, written into the Dungeon Lord's curriculum. Although it had no effect, at least the courage and ability were commendable.
Everyone in the Lord World consequently gave up on the dream of a so-called counterattack.
Anyway, the Dark Rift could only open so wide; no matter what, it wouldn't threaten the overall situation.
Counterattacking or not made no difference.
Given this, why bother counterattacking? They might as well just give up.
As long as those guys couldn't get out, that was fine.
In the current Lord World, most people basically held similar thoughts, feeling that being able to hold on was already quite good.
These newly appointed Dungeon Lords also felt this way; they even had some worries when they saw that Tidal Town was about to face the Dark Tide.
They were afraid that Tidal Town wouldn't be able to hold on, affecting them.
After all, it was very rare in history for a novice area to face a Dark Tide.
They themselves didn't have any Dungeons and couldn't provide any monster cards, although there were a few 'agents' for popular Dungeons.
But the Dungeons they represented couldn't provide pheromones, and the strength of the cards they created wouldn't be very strong.
In such a situation, they couldn't imagine what the consequences would be for a novice area directly facing the Dark Tide.
But the result...
When those 1 million soul crystals were placed in the central resurrection pool to be used as resurrection coins, the Dungeon Lords watching from various corners of the Dark World were already numb.
At the same time, they also felt secure!
A Level 1 Dark Tide would only encounter Dog Demons; even if they weren't transformed into cards, simply using the Adventurers' own strength would allow them to hold out, at most just spending a few more soul crystals.
At this point, they had already put their minds at ease.
The next moment, when they saw one massive Stone Golem after another, Minotaur Behemoths, and other creatures appear, their eyes were already filled with admiration, sighing that this Level 10 Dungeon Lord was indeed formidable, capable of creating such creatures and imbuing them with such powerful pheromones.
The next moment, when they saw Luolei Caesar standing at the crossroads, summoning bolts of lightning that instantly killed hundreds of Dog Demons, the admiration in their eyes turned into shock.
"Holy crap!"
"What kind of creature is this? It doesn't look very big, yet it's so strong..."
"Too awesome!"
Later, when Changjiao Luotesi appeared and was able to block a path of Dog Demons by himself, the shock in their eyes turned into pure awe.