Chapter 17. Personal Streaming (2)
There’s a place called the Ancient Castle of Ghosts. It was the ruins of an ancient castle quite far away from Falcon City. Actually, it was closer to Minox, the next city after Falcon City where users would flock to, so it wasn’t a well-known hunting zone yet.
The users were currently grading the many hunting fields in EL, and currently, the Ancient Castle of Ghosts was graded D.
The popular hunting fields like the Valley of the Dead was graded A and so-so hunting zones were graded B or C. Grade D and below were practically a place no one went to. To be exact, the Ancient Castle of Ghosts was the least popular hunting fields of the ones that the users have discovered thus far.
EL was a game with many hunting zones that were wide, so less popular hunting fields became even less popular as time went.
At least this kind of bad cycle continued until one important fact was revealed.
‘Karma accumulation system. When was this known to the public again? It was so gradual that I don’t remember the exact time.’
Karma accumulation system. This was a system that only applied to fields (and not dungeons), and thanks to this system, there was no longer an ‘abandoned’ hunting field in EL. Even after the number of users decreased in low-level zones, there were no hunting fields that were completely abandoned.
‘Has it been around 3 weeks since Ancient Castle of Ghosts was discovered? This much should be enough for the accumulated karma to generate a karma singularity.’
What Sanghyuk aimed for was the ‘karma singularity’ that transformed the monsters and the field itself.
If the users did not periodically exterminate the respawning monsters, karma would accumulate in that region and would trigger a phenomenon known as the ‘karma singularity’ after some time.
There were many stages to karma singularity, and right now was about the time between the first stage, ‘bonus field generation’ and the second stage, ‘field boss appearance’.
If he waited any more time, his juicy jar of honey might be taken by other people so this was the perfect time to open the juicy jar of honey.
This Ancient Castle of Ghosts had a structure that went down underground in levels so even if a bonus field appeared, it would appear in the 7th or 8th floor below ground.
Sanghyuk knew about the karma singularity, but did not know who discovered the karma singularity that appeared in the Ancient Castle of Ghosts.
Even though he was someone who came to the past from the future, he couldn’t know everything, so he had to take care of the things that he was unsure about.
(T/N: Anyone else thinks he’s paranoid?)(E/N: He is paranoid in my opinion, too.)
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“Being recording. Perspective, tower!”
Sanghyuk was planning to record videos of his gameplay whenever possible so he set the video recording on before he entered the castle.
*Srrrr*.
Having set the video recording on, Sanghyuk unsheathed his Traveller’s Treasure Sword and slowly walked inside the Ancient Castle of Ghosts.
The monsters in the Ancient Castle of Ghosts were the skeleton series – skeleton soldier, archer, knight, and mage; and stronger skeletons would appear as he delved deeper.
The skeleton series appeared very frequently in various places of the planet of Treenark, so Sanghyuk also had a lot of experience in battling the skeleton series.
He even had numerous experience fighting the final boss of the skeleton series, the