Chapter 71: The yground (2)
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"Back to the main topic,dies and gentlemen! The name everyone wants to know is spelled A-L-E-R-O-N. Aleron Rivenal!"
"And he will being to the yground, in the flesh!"
"Book your tickets and grab your popcorn! We are going past the horizon tonight with the first-time opening of the Dread-mode series!"
After thisst piece was broadcast, the entire city had an uproar in many ces as the public was thrilled! It could be felt throughout the city!
"Holy shit, Ipletely forgot about the Dread-mode difficulty!"
"Same!"
"Damn, so we''ll finally see the Dread mode series."
"Fuck, I have to book the tickets!"
"It''s gonna be packed as fuck tonight."
"Boys, our n tonight has changed. We gonna go to our special hill spot and watch the show with food and beer, hahaha!"
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After finishing the broadcast, Ben Frell flew down and entered an office room. Despite being fat and looking jolly, the perceived ones could feel a hint of intimidation and shrewdness beneath the butter.
"Oi, am I really going to do this? I''m scared shitless, Marcus," Ben pulled a long face as he walked towards the couch and sat rxed on it.
A middle-aged man in a dark blue suit sat at a table nearby, wearing a pair of transparent specs and oozing out a Legendary-rank aura.
Marcus Zural, the manager of the yground.
"You can back out if you want to," Marcus rimmed up as he inly said.
"Back out? Humph. Who else will do this aside from me?" Ben snorted before sighing. "So, when is heing?"
"Half an hourter."
"Alright. Also, I did announce that the Dread-mode series will open, but will it really open?" Ben wryly asked. "Mr. Melkern tried and also failed, and although Mr. Aleron is clearly more powerful, we don''t have the guarantee, right?"
Ben added, "We should have checked that first before announcing this piece."
"Mr. Melkern himself told me to announce this, so it should be fine."
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Spatial Adventure Cube-an item with a sort of technology that wasn''t avable in this Ardentia world.
This Cube had the power to send a person''s consciousness to strange, small dimensions with different difficulties - A virtual reality.
This cube was the crux that ran the yground.
People all over the continent would arrive here to be yers and participate in the daily yground challenges.
Spatial Adventure Cube had 5 difficulties to choose from-Easy, Normal, Hard, Challenging, and Hell.
The rewards arranged were not as important to many because the main fun was those strange dimensions, the ygrounds as people called them.
Once entered inside a yground, the yers would get certain tasks toplete while surviving within the time limit.
The cube had the function of streaming yers'' movements and actions, including the voices to a screen projected from it, which would be further broadcast by the staff of the yground all over the city.
However, the people in the Colosseum could wear special ck goggles distributed by the staff and feel as if they were inside the yground, watching and following yers.
They could enjoy a hyper-realistic show of the yer surviving andpleting tasks.
Of course, those special ck goggles were crafted here, but their technology was found through the Spatial Adventure Cube as well.
"So that''s the yground, eh? Sounds fun," Aleron said with a grin as Rias finished telling everyone about the yground.
Rias chuckled and said, "It''s more fun experiencing it."
"People can experience another world, fight, and have a challenging adventure without worrying about dying," Roxen wryly smiled. "This is both good and bad. Good for training if used moderately, and bad if you constantly go in and lose your sense of danger."
"You sound like it happened to people, eh?"
"Mhm," Roxen nodded. "The previous champion of yground, who has a record ofpleting all ygrounds up to hard difficulty with the best timing."
"Poor guy," Rias wryly smiled. "He was a rather talented person, a promising student of Lightdusk Academy twenty years ago. However, he got addicted to the yground and also became famous all over the continent."
Aleron was surprised, "What happened to him?"
"He almost died when he went into the Darkntbyrinth after a long time. After further tests, it became clear that he lost the sense of danger due to his unrestrained and reckless way of ying in the ygrounds where he died and revived many times."
Roxen continued, "He could y recklessly and boldly in the ygrounds, but doing the same instinctively in thebyrinth almost got him killed."
"Ouch," Aleron weakly smiled. "This shouldn''t have happened if he also went to thebyrinth regrly."
"True," Rias nodded. "This guy got mentally scarred afterward and quit being an adventurer.
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Aleron was dumbfounded, "How long did he y in the ygrounds?"
"Two years and he started living nearby for it. Since the Cube produces new and exotic ygrounds, it''s always fun."
Roxen smiled and said, "Everyone should finally witness the Dread-mode difficulty today since you should be able toplete the entry requirement. Nobody has ever managed to
open it yet."
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The group continued towards the yground while walking leisurely and finally arrived there half an hourter.
James Malkern met up with them and led them to a different entry passage into the stadium since the public was already arriving to sit inside. It was about to begin after half an hour.
A few pairs of eyes following them also reported their arrival to the yground. "So he is here," Ben stood up and took a deep breath before putting on his jolly smile.
"Perfect," Marcus gave a thumbs up with a smile. "Don''t hold back against him."
"Fuck you," Ben rolled his eyes and left.
Soon he arrived at gate no.3 of the stadium and saw a group walking inside.
Looking at the forefront of the group, he saw a white-haired young man mixed with a bit of
ck hair.
''Aleron Rivenal,'' Ben thought, feeling slightly overwhelmed and fearful, especially because of the task handed over to him.
''Am I really going to provoke this guy and live to see the sun the next day?'' Ben sighed as he looked up. The sun had set with only a bit of glimmer visible on the horizon.