Dungeon Core Online 85 Chapter 85

"Are you sure this is going to work?" James was looking over everything once more, glancing nervously between the countdown timer, and his status screen.

Ever since Blank's message, and Xander's visit, James and Rue had been hard at work. He had been working tirelessly since that announcement, doing everything he could, to close the gap. James had no idea what BLANK was going to do, what the hell those dungeon gates even were, but he knew he needed to be prepared. BLANK apparently was Xander's trump card. The developer's way to influence indirectly his own experiment, and a way to get rid of James and Rue once and for all. Well, they weren't going to go down that easily.

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"It's the only possible way they could have jumped like that." Rue was sitting beside him, her eyes serious and focused. Gone was the carefree pixie. In its place, was a pissed off and determined pixie. James had to admit; he really enjoyed this side of her too. Though he was not keen to get on her bad side. If he considered all the work, he had been doing the past few days as hard work, what Rue had been doing was even more impressive. She had been not only helping him scan all of the forums and keep track of all the important data, she was also actively going over every little detail and aspect available to James and helping him formulate the perfect plan. Or at least, as perfect as they could find.

"Well, we are only going to get one shot at this, and it is dangerous." There was less than 1 day left in immersion, and currently James had only managed to climb to Rank 8. And that was barely. As the players grew, they became wiser. They were less likely to take foolish risks to lose large amounts of experience, and well, the reddit page also proved problematic. As gamers normally do, they post about everything. That meant the surprises James normally banked on for early experience gains from the adventurers were gone. People had posted maps, mob spawn areas, stats, everything. People were even working on breaking down percentages and planning out the perfect builds to try and take down various mobs and bosses. They were, after all, gamers.

That was all fine and well normally, because it made things challenging for James, and required him to adapt and play around them. But when he needed to gain levels fast, to face the unknown from BLANK, he didn't need players being cautious and efficient. He needed mass wipes, and he needed them now.

"Worse case scenario, everyone stops diving into your dungeon." Rue glanced at him and offered a serious smile. "But at least you'll be Tier 3, and somewhat ready for BLANK." What really worried James about this upcoming patch, was that Rue, an AI for the game, didn't even seem to know what was coming. And yet, BLANK had it figured out. If that wasn't an unfair advantage, James didn't know what was. Bunch of hypocrites.

"And, I'm sure a new floor will bring adventurers right on back." So far, the adventurers were still grinding out in preparation for second floor boss. During the past few days, even with his last 2 level ups, James hadn't updated his mobs. He needed adventurers to grow as well, so that they had an ample supply of experience when he and Rue enacted the final part of their plan. Honestly, James kind of hated himself for not thinking of this plan sooner. Sure, it was a shitty thing to do, but it was about to net him more experience than he could possibly have ever imagined, even playing as he had been.

"Oh, what if you get a water level?" Rue's eyes held her mischievous look for a moment, and James felt himself mentally blanche.

"Okay, that would doom us." No one, absolutely no one, liked water dungeons. A water floor as his third floor would see so many people leave DCO, it wouldn't even matter what BLANK did to him. Hell, from what he could tell, only one person had accepted a water theme for their dungeon element, and they were still at Tier 1.

"Probably, unless you know, it was something cool, with pirates and ship battles, and…" Rue started to trail off, before she shook her head to refocus herself.

"Okay, that would be cool." People hated exploring underwater dungeons. But a pirate themed floor, where players got their own pirate ships? James had a feeling he could get behind that. But maybe not for his third floor.

"Ah well, we can focus on that later." An alert had just popped up on James's screen. He had set the alert to show him when all of his…new level 1 instances were filled. Less than an hour earlier, he had manually increased the number of instances he could have, as well as their capacities, to max. At Rank 6 Instance research, that meant 40 instances for floor 1 and 40 for floor 2, both with a max amount of 50 players per. Obviously, his floor 2 instances weren't maxed, but that didn't matter. What did matter, was the 2,000 players currently occupying his first floor.

"Here goes nothing." James muttered, once again glancing over everything. He had his skill points available for his mobs still. He had an open slot of research ready, waiting for whatever new research options opened when he hit Tier 3, and his second research slot, for Event Research 6, had just under 8 hours to go, which was fine, because in 2 hours, players would once again be logged out of DCO, and he would be able to go about preparing for BLANKs attack in his final day in the game before he was logged out.

The plan James and Rue had concocted, was to essential do a mass game wipe, of the entire first floor. After browsing his options, James had found his world boss had the ability to be manually summoned across multiple instances if he wanted to. James was sure it was an option to try and do promotional or time-based events, especially since he was certain at later levels of research, he could greatly modify the loot table for his world bosses. It was honestly a nifty little tool, which used correctly, could bring in even more adventurers and excitement into a dungeon.

Misused, as James was about to do, and he was sure BLANK had done previously, it could be used to essentially wipe every player in an instance, depending on the boss. Of course, doing so would be seen as bad taste, and if it occurred multiple times, players would likely just stop playing. Gamers didn't like broken or unfair mechanics, after all. James was sure the only reason BLANK had done their wipe on the first day of the current immersion session, was to give themselves and edge for whatever the research options would be when they hit Tier 3. James would be behind in that instance, he knew that, but he was certain he would be able to at least catch up with Xander's kids on level basis. BLANK was a Tier 3 Rank 2 dungeon currently. If James managed to kill even half of the players across all of his instances, he was bound to gain upwards of at least 100,000xp. Which would put him nicely right in the same range as BLANK.

With one last breath, James looked at the prompt on his screen, the command he had been waiting to activate until his alarm had gone off. His alarm had been specific, he needed all 40 instances to be his new instances. Just in preparation for this wipe, James had created a new version of his first floor. One where every last mob point, had gone into summoning dickens. Now that all 40 instances each currently had 50 adventurers, and 200 dickens, there was only one last thing to do. One final nail in the coffin of 2,000 adventurers.

Summon Tier 1 World Boss across all (40) instances? Y/N

"Release the Dicken!" Rue exclaimed gleefully, and James did exactly that.

Chapter end