Battle Online: My Luck Is So High It's Basically Cheating-Chapter 41: Different Dungeons

"What? Falling into the Human World actually ran to the Xuanming Pagoda? He still dares to appear now? We must send people over to surround and kill him immediately!"

The higher-ups of the major guilds had always been very focused on the Xuanming Pagoda. News like this didn’t stay quiet for long at that level — within minutes, the information had rippled through private channels and back-room discussions across every major organization in the city.

After all, this concerned whether or not they could clear the Hell difficulty.

They had spent a huge price to specifically find silver equipment sets, not just some scattered pieces of silver equipment. Sourcing complete sets had taken weeks of coordination, backroom deals, and no small amount of coin changing hands under the table.

The power of a set was far greater than that of scattered pieces. Every bonus, every synergy between matching equipment — it all stacked in ways that random drops simply couldn’t replicate.

And the leader was none other than the biological son of Caleb, a player with an S-rank talent, for whom a piece of gold equipment had been specifically crafted. There wasn’t a serious player in the game who didn’t know that name.

With such a luxurious lineup, how could they not be concerned?

But they didn’t expect that at this critical juncture, Falling into the Human World would also go to the Xuanming Pagoda.

"It seems Falling into the Human World is anxious; otherwise, he wouldn’t have suddenly gone to the Xuanming Pagoda. He is afraid that we will clear the Hell difficulty and he won’t be able to get the system rewards."

The guild leaders were extremely confident. They believed that once Lucien knew about the lineup they had formed, he had rushed over in a panic, wanting to clear the dungeon first. It was the only explanation that made sense to them — after all, why else would someone who had been deliberately staying out of sight suddenly resurface now, of all times?

No one would give up the chance to get the first clear of a Hell difficulty dungeon; there was no way around it, as the system rewards were simply too rich.

However, since the other party had been hiding for so long and had suddenly appeared now, they certainly couldn’t give up this opportunity.

But what they didn’t know was that Lucien going to the Xuanming Pagoda was just a coincidence.

He was there to complete two tasks. The first was the task from the blacksmith.

Although the blacksmith wanted him to help out in the future, the necessary procedures for changing to a sub-class could not be skipped. Agreements between people were one thing — the system’s requirements were another matter entirely.

The second was to complete the task for the Captain of the Law Enforcement Team.

Moreover, the other party had even lent him a magic artifact. From this, one could see that the Captain of the Law Enforcement Team placed great importance on that bracelet. You didn’t hand over a magic artifact to someone you didn’t trust, and you didn’t trust someone with something that trivial unless it wasn’t trivial at all.

The Xuanming Pagoda was different from the Goblin Forest dungeon.

When entering the Goblin Forest dungeon, you could directly choose the difficulty you wanted to challenge — Simple, Normal, Hard, or Hell, right there at the entrance.

But the Xuanming Pagoda was different; it was divided into a total of fifteen floors, and you climbed them from the bottom up whether you liked it or not.

The first to third floors were Simple Mode, and they only had level 20 monsters.

The fourth to sixth floors had level 25 monsters. Not only had the level increased, but the strength of the monsters had also increased, corresponding to Normal Mode.

The seventh to ninth floors had level 28 monsters, corresponding to Hard Mode.

The tenth to twelfth floors contained level 30 monsters, corresponding to Hell Mode.

The thirteenth to fifteenth floors were likely Purgatory Mode.

However, no one knew exactly what was on the final few floors. No one had made it far enough to bring back reliable information, and speculation had long since filled the gap.

Whoosh — A cold wind blew past.

Lucien couldn’t help but shiver. This wasn’t the usual kind of cold, but rather a chilling, eerie cold — the kind that passed through cloth and skin alike and settled somewhere deeper, as if the tower itself was making its presence known.

The first floor of the Xuanming Pagoda wasn’t particularly large; it was only about ten thousand square meters, and the height was about five meters.

This place severely restricted flying abilities. Anyone who relied on vertical movement would find themselves grounded before they even registered the disadvantage.

In this ten-thousand-square-meter area, the ground was covered with withered bones, layered thick enough in some corners that they crunched underfoot with every step.

And a group of about two hundred Skeleton Warriors were wandering around, drifting in slow aimless patterns between the bone-littered ground.

The moment Lucien entered, they immediately noticed him. Every hollow socket in the room swung his direction at once.

They immediately began to march toward Lucien to attack, the dry clatter of bone on bone rising into a rattling tide as they converged.

Lucien did not hesitate and first summoned six Five Elements Zombies.

Under the high attribute bonuses from Lucien, the attributes of the six Five Elements Zombies were much higher than those of the Skeleton Warriors here.

As for why he could summon six Five Elements Zombies every time, it was entirely because when he first cast Summon Zombie, he happened to trigger Multiple Spellcasting. A lucky proc at the worst possible moment to overthink it, and it had never been undone since.

And since these six zombies had never died, that was exactly why Lucien always summoned six Five Elements Zombies every time. Death was the only reset condition, and death hadn’t found them yet.

Before Lucien even made a move, those six zombies had already charged into the pile of skeletons.

-1750. -1500.

"Ding, congratulations on killing a Skeleton Warrior, EXP +200."

-1500. -1800,

"Ding, congratulations on killing a Skeleton Warrior, EXP +200."

The six zombies were like tigers entering a flock of sheep. In less than three minutes, all the monsters on the first floor of the Xuanming Pagoda had been cleared, the system chimes stacking faster than Lucien could read them individually.

It was hard to imagine that these monsters, which were at the same level as Lucien, were not even a match for him in a single exchange.

After all the monsters on the first floor were eliminated, the stairs appeared.

Following that, he arrived at the second floor. This floor had Skeleton Mages. Although they used ranged attacks, they didn’t cause any trouble for Lucien.

It only took a few minutes before he reached the third, fourth, fifth, and finally the ninth floor. By this time, nearly two hours had passed.

"Ding, congratulations on clearing the ninth floor of the Xuanming Pagoda. Do you want to exit the dungeon?"

"Next time you enter, you can go directly to the tenth floor, or start climbing the tower again from the first floor."

Lucien clicked No directly. Looking at the stairs that had appeared, he couldn’t help but become serious.

He hadn’t even made a move on the previous floors; it had all been done by the Five Elements Zombies. Nine floors, nearly two hours, and he had barely broken a sweat.

But what came next was the Hell difficulty — the tenth floor and beyond. The attributes of the monsters would increase significantly, and the comfortable gap he had been operating within would narrow in ways that mattered.

He had to be careful about everything; he absolutely could not capsize in the gutter. Overconfidence after nine easy floors was exactly the kind of thing that got players killed on the tenth.

He didn’t go up the stairs directly but first ordered the Five Elements Zombies to go up ahead of him.

Seeing that the zombies were safe and sound — no sudden spike of damage, no sign that something had immediately gone wrong — Lucien then went upstairs to check for himself.