Chapter 229: Chapter 217: Infighting in the Instance

Fleeting Blossom joined the team, and immediately caused an uproar at Bloodrose Studio.

“Big sis! What does Divine Emperor mean by this? We’re cooperating with them to pioneer the instance, but when did we become their little wage earners?”

“Exactly, it’s bad enough to carry someone, but to carry this jerk! They have several pioneering teams in their guild, why did they have to arrange for us to be with this team, what is he trying to do? Does he know we don’t get along with this jerk?”

“And what’s with this level 1 alt’s name Harem Beauty? Is there some hidden meaning here?”

“Ha! You still don’t know what men are thinking?”

Big sis Zhou Qing was busy with the Chamber of Commerce task at the harbor and was not in the team. Upon learning the situation, she was taken aback and then sneered coldly: “Shut up, pretend they don’t exist, just do what we have to do, don’t let jerks laugh at our studio’s professional level.”

The sisters grumbled: “Understood.”

Zhou Qing had roughly guessed Divine Emperor’s intentions. Supporting our rival right in front of us, hoping to make us feel the pressure? Ridiculous! He really thinks he’s the Emperor, wanting to turn us into concubines vying for favor in his harem? Men’s thoughts are so simple! How many wealthy tycoons couldn’t even do it, and just because he plays games?

Despite her disdain, Zhou Qing felt her mood deteriorate even further. It seems like since joining this game, there haven’t been many happy days!

Speaking of which, Fleeting Blossom should have had no entanglement with Bloodrose Studio, especially since one mingles in the harbor, the other in the mainland, one is a combat-focused team, and the other is a business-oriented individual. But there are always some players who love to stir trouble on forums with ulterior motives, posts like “Bloodrose acts so arrogant, Star Goddess Bu Feiyan alone could beat their entire studio, and independent Fleeting Blossom alone is worth their entire net worth”, and just like that, hatred was secured, shaking the entire Bloodrose Studio!

As for Bu Feiyan, no need to mention, with strong backing and numerous fans, Bloodrose can’t do anything to her, but what counts as a single player like Fleeting Blossom? Bloodrose’s fans blasted her on the forums.

But soon, Bloodrose found that things were getting seriously out of control. Some of the “fans” were bashing too harshly and without limits, affecting Bloodrose’s image. These were certainly not fans! These were definitely bad actors who borrowed the name of fans, attempting to tarnish Bloodrose’s image, so Bloodrose contacted the forum mods to urgently handle it. Although this issue was quickly resolved, it caused profound trauma to Fleeting Blossom’s pure, innocent, and kind heart.

The internet is like this, the low cost of wanton slander brings a lot of trouble for well-known figures.

If there was one celebrity who was not troubled, it was probably Da Fei, utterly unfazed by a forum full of curses. It seems freer to be the bad guy.

Now, after listening to Little Fang’s complaints, Little Li roughly knew what the conflict between both sides was, and a seed of shared enmity was planted in her young heart. But with Little Fang’s sharp and snarky personality, surely she’s not the kind to only be scolded without fighting back, right? To say that Little Fang had no fault in this, Little Li firmly didn’t believe it.

— Team Channel [Divine Flame]: Good, everyone is here now, let’s enter the instance.

— System Prompt: You have received the shared team instance mission “Grey Stone Town Mine Clearance.”

Little Fang said, “It’s starting, just stick with me and don’t go anywhere.”

“Got it.”

The team entered the cave, where a large door was tightly closed. After the team leader Divine Flame handed over the dungeon pass to the guard, the door opened, revealing a Space Gate that was pulsating within. Everyone entered in single file.

In this game, instances aren’t something you can just run whenever you want. You need to accept the quest, you need to use Gold Coins or reputation to exchange for dungeon passes, or you need to get dungeon keys from certain monsters in the wild, and some particularly high-end dungeon keys must be looted from particularly strong BOSSes. These rules effectively prevent traditional MMO studios from gold-farming in instances, and maintain a market for players, greatly enhancing the value of the dungeons.

At the same time, the number of people entering an instance is calculated by the number of heroes, not players. For example, this cave instance is a 50-hero team instance, meaning players including their Vice Heroes can only bring in a maximum of 50 people. Large guilds mainly aim to increase player levels when pioneering instances, and unless there are particularly strong Vice Heroes, team members are not allowed to bring Vice Heroes into the instance.

Instances are also divided into battle instances and adventure dungeons. Battle instances naturally have very large scenes, where the player’s team can bring as many soldiers as they have, so in the later stages, a hundred-player team with tens of thousands of soldiers densely spread out is quite common. And adventure dungeons, like the situation now, limit each player to bringing no more than 10 soldiers.

Now, the team has entered the instance, and a spacious underground cavern appears before the players. Even though each player can bring no more than 10 soldiers, the troops from a 50-person team add up to four or five hundred, a sight to behold.

Little Li, new to the game, couldn’t help but exclaim in awe. Of course, this was also Little Fang’s first time entering the instance, but as a veteran, naturally, she couldn’t be so visibly shocked.

Little Fang chuckled, “This is the instance, it looks like just a small hill from outside, but once you enter the Space Gate, it’s a whole new world, the space is far beyond your imagination.”