Free Web NovelHaving developed an interest in gossip, Xu Lang directly summoned the veteran player Song Fei.
"Song Fei, back when Taleblade Building was still a minor player, you must have heard of some stronger dorm buildings, right? What happened to those buildings? How did they deal with the Blood Calamity?" Xu Lang asked Song Fei.
Song Fei thought for a moment before replying, "Within the Titan Ruins, Taleblade Building and Celestial Demon Building are the oldest batch of dorm buildings. I've heard of even older ones, but they're outside the Titan Ruins."
"Tell me about it. If players keep growing, they should eventually be able to rule the Blood Mist World, right? But I've never heard of any player that overpowered." Xu Lang had just finished training and was in a leisurely mood, happy to listen to some stories.
Song Fei replied, "Inside Taleblade Building, we once had similar conjectures about this topic..."
The Dorm Survival Game's history was impossible to trace. It had existed for a very, very long time—at least a millennium.
As dorm buildings developed, the game difficulty would indeed gradually increase.
However, players also improved at an astonishing rate. Among them were genius players who, using various resources and mutations, could actually suppress their dorm buildings instead.
But apparently, when a dorm building reached its final stages, even if it wasn't destroyed, it would fall into silence.
Anyway, no one had ever truly seen a player who had survived over fifty cycles, nor had anyone heard of a thousand-year-old building.
Players who weren't in the top tier simply wouldn't pay attention to these things.
Taleblade Building was just a thirty-something-cycle dorm building. It was still far too early to understand the core content of the Dorm Survival Game.
Song Fei's knowledge was limited, and most of it was just legend anyway.
"One of our floor leaders in Taleblade Building once obtained an item left behind by a forty-ninth-cycle player. The description had some high-level metaphors, but I don't know the specifics either," Song Fei finally said.
"What was that floor leader's name?" Xu Lang asked.
"Forgot..." Song Fei gave a wry smile. "I barely have any direct information about that floor leader. I only know he was the tenth-floor leader, very mysterious."
What kind of level was that? Same position as I used to have!
Xu Lang nodded and didn't press further.
It really was too early to understand all this now. It felt like a minor official gossiping about the provincial committee chairman.
He briefly summarized the information and sent it to Sherry.
The Demon King Castle already had a massive archive—some documents for public release, others kept confidential. Either way, the Blood Mist Morning Paper never lacked content.
Even if nothing new happened each day, the department members could flip through the archives and pad out the Blood Mist Morning Paper's content.
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Demon Box World.
Inside a massive library, Sherry was organizing files when she suddenly received the message from Xu Lang. A delighted expression appeared on her face.
Immersing oneself in documents and scrolls would drive an ordinary person crazy, but Sherry felt pure joy.
The tenth floor had a large conference room for meetings, but all the core clerical staff worked inside the Demon Box World.
The space here was large enough to store plenty of books.
...
"Song Fei, I'm temporarily handing over partial management rights of the Taleblade Demon Box to you. Go set up some tales outside the safe zones to protect them." After finishing his gossip session, Xu Lang got down to business. freewёbnoνel.com
You're making me herd tales?!
Song Fei's spirit lifted. "I guarantee the mission will be completed!"
"Remember, don't let the tales go berserk," Xu Lang instructed.
Tales themselves were hyper-dimensional things with strong mutability. Once they combined with certain special entities within the Blood Mist, the Taleblade Demon Box might not be able to retrieve them.
The inability to retrieve them was secondary—the main concern was them invading the Taleblade Demon Box from the outside.
"Yes!" Song Fei's heart surged with excitement.
His hard work over these past days hadn't been in vain. The Herd Master had seen all his contributions!
Song Fei had bred Blood Mist creatures to feed the Taleblade Demon Box. Now, the Taleblade Demon Box was more than three times stronger than before, and it contained an unimaginable number of tales!
To think that if just one of those tales was placed in a magic-less world and allowed to keep killing, it would grow endlessly and eventually become a world-ending existence!!!
The Taleblade Demon Box was absolutely an Imperial-grade tale.
"Go. Also, collect all the curse-infected bodies into the Taleblade Demon Box. Don't let them run wild," Xu Lang continued to order. "Be back at Mad King Building by six o'clock."
"Understood!" Song Fei took his leave and departed.
After Song Fei left, Xu Lang continued sitting cross-legged.
About ten minutes or so passed when Xu Lang suddenly reached his hand into the void and grabbed. A golden energy chest materialized out of thin air, with a row of golden-glowing items displayed inside. freewēbnoveℓ.com
Nine divine weapons, fresh off the assembly line.
The Overlord Level Superweapon Spirit Core had already fulfilled its purpose, and Xu Lang was extremely curious about what changes this level-fifty Mythical item would bring to his equipment.
[Please name before inspecting item attributes]
"Purgatory!"
[Purgatory Weapon Armory has been established]
[Purgatory Weapon Armory (Mythical 9/9): Purgatory·Purgatory's Master, Purgatory·Wraith Scabbard, Purgatory·Demon Emperor's Sovereign Helm, Purgatory·Void Faceplate, Purgatory·Demon Skull Armor, Purgatory·Dark Dragon Vambraces, Purgatory·Tyrant's Belt, Purgatory·Cruelty Greaves, Purgatory·Trample All Realms Heels]
"Could it be that all the equipment has been upgraded to Mythical rank?"
Xu Lang felt his heart racing. An incredible thought surfaced in his mind.
A full Mythical set including weapons—was there anything more solid than this?
In the last Simulation, he hadn't cashed out the Purgatory Weapon Armory because it required too much Nightmare Essence.
But he never expected it would give him such a huge surprise.
Many components in the Purgatory Weapon Armory were different from before. This was clearly a major overhaul!
Xu Lang took a deep breath, pulled out all nine pieces of equipment, and used the Nightmare Eye combined with his player authority to examine them repeatedly!
"All nine pieces have become Mythical rank, and they've even been upgraded to level twenty-five!"
"Machine King above!"
"Praise be to You!"
