Rudra had suspicions about a total of 12 people present in the meeting. He included four in his party, three in the second and third parties that were going for the red-bordered dungeons, and the remaining two in the fourth and fifth parties.
The fourth party heading for the blue-bordered dungeon had Silvester Duncan and the League of Firefly Guild leader—Quinn Firefly, and Aryan Deva, the third rank Adventurer in Global Leaderboard.
They pulled out the rat that Admiral Rudra had put in their party and disabled him successfully.
The last rat was on the fifth party, which was headed by old monster Vladimir Kravchenko of the top 10 family and 4th-rank Ironclad guild master—Zayd Khalid. The Khalid family was also a top 20 family, though Zayd wasn’t related to them.
They pulled out the rat by playing mind tricks and each old monster was experienced enough in terms of perceptiveness and finding out lies.
As such, all 12 rats that Rudra had selected were confirmed to be the culprit. They were not killed because they were needed to get more information, but they were disabled and imprisoned with various skills.
Only after that, do these five parties begin clearing out the dungeons.
Meanwhile, the other seven parties in the seven dungeons were clearing the dungeon.
A-rank Dugeons had Platinum-rank monsters of up to Platinum level 150, which was the maximum level cap for platinum rank.
But S-rank dungeons had Epic-rank monsters. The difficulty was crazy high, but fortunately, these S-rank dungeons were just the initial ones and didn’t have that high of a density value.
Even the toughest one that Rudra’s party entered had a density value of 238.
Moreover, each party had an old monster, and each old monster had a powerful item or two because these old monsters had focused on exploring the 10th Floor and were the highest leveled among all, as well as acquiring a Legendary item or two each.
Some of them also had Relic-turned-Artifacts, which were like trump cards of the highest level due to their overwhelming effects.
Without these old monsters, it’d been impossible to clear the S-grade dungeons.
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‘So that’s the case…’ Almond slapped his thigh loudly. “Damn!”
“What happened?” Lily was startled as she turned to look at him to her left.
“Nothing,” Almond shook his head and wryly smiled. “I just thought of something about a skill.”
‘I will tell you about this secret, but not now,’ Almond internally sighed.
“Nice try, but it’s fine. I’ll wait for you to tell me the truth,” Lily smiled and leaned her head on his shoulder.
Almond weakly smiled. He forgot about Lily’s senses.
“Sorry,” Almond turned his head and kissed her on the lips before saying, “I’ll tell you later.”
It’d be really weird if he told them that he was getting his past life memories after clearing each floor.
Maya and Marcus looked away upon seeing Almond kissing Lily as they were sitting behind the duo.
Their eyes moved to look at each other at the same time coincidently, and they both became embarrassed, quickly moving their eyes away.
“Yo, I sense something spicy here,” Natalia suddenly said with a mischievous smile as she dragged her ass between them and looked at them one by one. “Feelings hots for each other, eh? I wouldn’t be surprised.”
“Mind your own business, you imp,” Maya rolled her eyes.
“That’s right,” Marcus said with a somber expression and looked at the islands. “Look at these islands, they are so beautiful.”
“Just like Maya, right?”
“Yeah,” Marcus answered Natalia in the flow, but then suddenly his eyes widened, “No, I mean yea, but I mean-“
“Hahahahahhaa,” Natalia burst out laughing, extracting her entertainment out of others’ misery.
Lily and Almond could only wryly smile as they experienced Natalia’s antics firsthand.
Maya’s ears turned red, but she looked away and was silent.
“Goddamnit!” Marcus clenched his fist with a red face. “I’ll remember this, Natawitch.”
“Hahaha, that’s such a bad name for an insult,” Natalia laughed even more. “Try better next time, Mr. Mucus.”
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‘So phase 1 will start once the 10th floor is cleared. That’s going to be such a massive change,’ Almond was internally very excited as he looked through his past life’s memories.
Apparently, once the 10th Floor is cleared, something called Phase 1 will begin.
The 10th Floor would undergo a massive change and would become a hub of events as it would have a huge safe area in the middle while the monsters and other dangerous areas would be pushed to the periphery.
The floor boss zone would be located in the center, and unlike other floors where people could enter the next floor without defeating Floor Boss once it was defeated by other people, everyone would need to defeat this floor boss in order to enter the 11th floor.
There would be monthly events on the 10th Floor with a leaderboard to give rewards every month.
But that was not all. The main thing was the Phase 1’s options.
A massive world-scale event would start out of multiple options that the Grand Abyss Labyrinth would decide purely based on luck.
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In his previous world, that world-scale event was the Grimworld Streaming Event, where people could enter special dungeons that people of other planets could also access.
Their runs would be streamed across multiple worlds that had the same Grimworld Streaming Event in their Phase 1, and the participants would get points. Apparently, these points were given by the audience.
Participants would get rewards based on points, and there was also popularity ranking.
But that world-scale event wasn’t kind or rewarding to all because, during each run, the person with the lowest points would be thrown into a dangerous solo dungeon where 99% of people always died.
Almond didn’t know what kind of world-scale event would appear once the 10th Floor of this planet Earth was cleared, but he knew it was bound to change the game board of this world.
Clenching his fist, Almond’s eyes showed a fiery blaze, ‘Whatever it is, I have to rise fast and above all. My previous world was destroyed on the 30th floor, but this will not happen again.’