“What… exactly happened?!” A plume of yellow sand rode the wind and condensed into a woman draped in white veils, her figure exquisitely graceful.

She stared at the Mad King Building, which spat flames everywhere, her exotically beautiful blue eyes trembling.

The Yellow Sand Knight’s torches ignited the kindling, and towering flames roared outside the dormitory. One by one, the Yellow Sand Soldiers went mad, possessed, throwing caution to the wind as they charged into the inferno!

Even before they reached the building, their condition had already plummeted!

The towering walls of the Mad King Building were blood-red;under the blaze they looked even more grotesque and uncanny, like a gargantuan beast standing beneath a dark sky, devouring everything!

“I must notify the queen, don’t send any more troops!” the graceful woman wailed, then turned and dissolved into yellow sand as she left.

…

“It’s over.” Xu Lang murmured as he watched the corridor and saw no more monsters approaching.

Too weak.

After all, this was an endurance-type dungeon.

Originally he had wanted to feel some pressure and spend Nightmare Coins to upgrade the turrets, to see if he could roll even rarer turrets. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Instead he felt a little disappointed.

That’s fine — time to sleep well.

On the first day of the game, the Safe Zone wouldn’t drop anything great anyway, and he was too lazy to go searching.

He opened the door and, with the women in tow, began collecting the spoils.

The girls from the tenth floor came out one after another;seeing that long, mountain-high pile of supplies, their cheeks flushed with envy.

With just these resources, disregarding rarity, they could easily raise a whole Floor Leader team!

Xu Lang’s meals had indeed been hearty.

He used to pretend modesty and only take resources from the top few floors’ monsters. Now that he had a title, he couldn’t be bothered to pretend anymore.

“Lang Ge.” Zheng Kai and a group of players climbed up with scraps, and when they saw Xu Lang and the others, they immediately greeted them.

Xu Lang nodded in acknowledgment.

“Lang Ge, Lang Sisters, thank you for your hard work.” Zheng Kai said slickly.

There was no helping it;there were too many big sisters to greet one by one, and greeting just one would be disrespectful.

Cao Yaxuan tilted her mouth into a smile and waved, “Greater power brings greater responsibility!”

This was what members of the Mad King Building should do!

Didn’t the building’s first trait state Shared Glory and Shame?

Everyone was incredibly united!

Han Zhixiu looked at the supplies stacked in front of the door with extremely complicated feelings.

Then she glanced at the turrets in Xu Lang’s dorm.

Why were all these turrets’ stats so strong? Could their rarity all be above normal?

What she didn’t know was that Dorm 200’s turrets weren’t merely above normal;they had fused values from other turrets — the cream of the crop.

None of the items upgraded with Nightmare Coins were weak.

Otherwise Xu Lang wouldn’t have allocated Nightmare Coins to facility upgrades back then;he would have piled up his own strength using Copper Coins.

…

[Base Nightmare Coins 320, conversion rate 1769%, output in eight hours 5980 Nightmare Coins]

[Total Nightmare Coins: 54895]

On the second day of the game, Xu Lang woke and checked his gains, then started sweeping the Trading Network.

Woke up and immediately spent, what a life.

Yesterday’s intensity had been low, so he planned to use today’s Simulation runs for the Limit Break Trial.

If real danger arrived, he could always spend Nightmare Coins to upgrade the gate and turrets.

“If I play leisurely like this, I can upgrade the Nightmare Bed once more this round!” Xu Lang thought, unable to contain a smile.

…

Within the Fusion Dream, Xu Lang produced Nightmare Essence while his mind wandered through peripheral ideas.

“Enchantment Gems appeared in yesterday’s spoils. The guild warehouse’s Enchantment Gems can all be fused now.”

“Though I haven’t asked Li Wenwen to drill sockets in the equipment yet, no rush.”

“Once I lift facility rarity, then upgrade the Enchantment Gems’ rarity too, who knows who’ll win the dorm!”

In tower defense games, facilities are everything, but Xu Lang always remembered one thing: his own strength couldn’t be too weak.

Currently he only possessed two Spirit-type legendary skills: Madness Flame and Mind-Shattering Demon Eyes.

Although these two skills weren’t epic, their levels were high enough to clear the Mad King Trial, provided he fully tested the trial’s mechanics first.

He had already tested most of it;a few more simulations today and he could start the real Limit Break.

…

In a pitch-black space, three clusters of primordial life-fire burned wildly.

Xu Lang looked at the three flames and his mind automatically received their messages.

[Power and Will: Your will is above all, dominating all things. Spirit resistance increased by 300%, deterrent-type skill effects increased by 300%.]

[Mad Spirit: Soul capacity greatly increased. Learning one skill or one hundred skills is no different for you.]

[Light of Redemption: The soul is guaranteed perpetual wholeness and unity. If shattered, it will re-converge. No soul corruption, no lost memories, no altered nature.]

“Still these three talents, nothing changed.”

Xu Lang had already chosen among them several times during simulations.

Notably, in this Mad King Trial he hadn’t received a reward from the final boss, which was a bit regrettable.

Xu Lang had already made his choice;his hand reached for Light of Redemption.

Light of Redemption paired with the Golden Core Technique, left foot on right, and he shot upward.

Want to break my defense? Fine, if I die I can resurrect;and if I truly perish, my soul can still cling to the body, and even if the soul fragments, no matter — it will reassemble!

Although Xu Lang hadn’t been heavily wounded yet, that didn’t stop him from maxing his defenses.

Immortality had always been a pursuit of players.

Mad Spirit was appealing too, but Xu Lang had fusion ability;he didn’t need a massively expanded skill pool, and even passive skills he couldn’t actively use only delivered limited benefit. He was too lazy to level them one by one.

Mostly, he also didn’t have that many Nightmare Coins!