Chapter 188 – Expansion to Max Level… (1)
I definitely had a warning before I came to this world.
Maximum level expansion!
When it comes to RPG games, this is one of the biggest events.
But before I could even see it, I was forcibly summoned to this world.
And for some reason, the content that comes out after the max level expansion was kept under wraps, so most of the information was not released.
Usually, large events like this tend to show a lot of what’s coming in order to bring in new or returning users and raise expectations about what fun things will happen.
By showing what new skills can be used through maximum level expansion and how characters are strengthened, it lets you expect your characters to become stronger and shows roughly what monsters will appear in new dungeons.
Moreover, you can’t be called a game user if you don’t feel excited when you see the new patterns shown by the new monsters.
Therefore, whenever something new was released in their game, they placed an advertisement wherever there was a lot of movement of people.
However, for some reason, when the maximum level expansion after level 100 was released, the Elion Festival only revealed a few names and settings and kept the information completely hidden.
The only information that was revealed was that a monster called ‘Chaos Alcatraz’ would appear as the next level 110 raid boss.
It didn’t even show what form the monster was and what pattern it used.
Of course, they didn’t show how the raid would work…
In that case, breaking the magic circle that just placed a barrier on Arceus, or rather Chaos Alcatraz, may have been part of the raid’s gimmick.
But the level 110 raid boss appears here…
This… Can’t be beat!
Even if I die and wake up, there is no way to win in my current state.
I think the biggest crisis since being summoned to this world and meeting Ellie was meeting Gigant, who had fused with Baccarat in the Kingdom of Prash.
It makes no sense to fight even a simple level 100 raid mid-boss without Freyja.
If someone posts in the community that they are going to beat a level 100 raid without a buffer in an actual game, they will probably just laugh at the comments and call them crazy.
However, if you ask me if the probability is very low and can be beaten through numerous tries, I think I can beat it.
It will be difficult if you have already farmed the spec-up equipment that can be obtained from level 100 raids like my characters, but I think it is possible if you take your time and deal with it.
It’s such a waste of time that no one would do it.
This only happens when it’s a game.
Therefore, you can try numerous repetitions.
But this reality I live in is not a game.
This means that repeat trials are impossible.
Therefore, I did not even expect to be able to defeat Gigant, who had fused with Baccarat at once.
So, in order to immediately summon Freyja, he scoured the Kingdom of Frash to find the equipment needed to summon her.
When comparing the situation then and now, if you ask me which is the worst, I am confident that I will say that it is the current situation.
The situation with Gigant was definitely not a good one… No, it was one of the worst situations I could have imagined.
The good news is that the people we deal with know about baccarat.
I have played baccarat countless times in the game, and even participated in the header raid in the early days of the 100-level raid when baccarat was first released and cleared it.
A heading engineering school is an engineering school where people with low level of skill in patterns gather together to conduct raids and become familiar with the patterns.
In the early days of raids, most people don’t really know the pattern, so there are quite a few heading teams like this and many people actually participate.
I was one of those people, and if you go to a heading engineering school like this, you can see the patterns of monsters in a boring way, so I am confident that I will avoid all Baccarat attacks unless there are special cases in the game.
And I think that applies not only to me but also to my characters.
Thinking about the conversation so far, it seemed like my characters had all fought demons in their world as many times as I had cleared the raid.
If that’s the case, then it means that they, too, have had a lot of experience with the patterns of baccarat like me.
Therefore, at that time, there was a thought in the back of my mind that even if I left them in front of the Gigant who had fused with Baccarat and went back to look for equipment, they would not be seriously injured in this short period of time.
But the Chaos Alcatraz before my eyes is something I have never faced before.
I don’t even know what patterns there are, nor what gimmicks they use.
At least, breaking the magic circle here was a gimmick that appeared frequently in Elion, so it was ruined. If a new gimmick other than this was added, I don’t know at the moment.
How many times does a game character have to die in order to perfectly master the patterns of the monsters in the game?
It will die countless times by hand.
It is inevitable.
People who study and attack monster patterns while playing RPG games get a summary of the monster patterns in return for killing their characters countless times.
But now, can I figure out the pattern of Chaos Alcatraz like they did?
No, it’s impossible.
Because where I am right now is not a game, but reality, there is no such thing as a retry even if I figure out the pattern for the sake of my life.
So, can we say that the problem is solved if we know all about the patterns of Chaos Alcatraz?
No, not that either.
Even if we know the pattern, we probably won’t be able to defeat Chaos Alcatraz with our current combat power.
All the demons we had seen up to this point appeared before our eyes in the same way as the game settings.
That includes patterns, but so does stamina.
In Elion games, as the maximum level is reached, users are able to farm new equipment, and when the new equipment is equipped to a certain extent, a raid is released, and it is a common pattern that additional equipment or other items to upgrade the specifications can be obtained there.
In other words, raids that appear after max level expansion not only do not appear immediately, but also appear on the premise that users are equipped with new equipment.
But, rather than farming those items, are you going to raid with only old graduation items that are items before the maximum level has been expanded?
It’s nice to see that if you post something like that on a community, you’ll be immediately stuffed and made fun of for a few days.
Of course, I am sure to join in on the teasing comments.
The damage gap between old graduation items and new items is incomparable.
What is inevitable is that if the maximum level is expanded and the items that new or returning users farm when they start the game are designed to fall far short of the old graduation items, they will have tremendous difficulty clearing the newly released dungeons.
This is because dungeons must be able to satisfy users who have graduated from at least the previous raid with all items.
If new dungeons are easily released to suit new or returning users, this means that the level of items obtained after max level expansion is not much different from the level of old graduation items, and if so, it will satisfy the desire for farming for existing users. This is impossible.
Therefore, Elion operators have chosen to raise the level of new items with options that can satisfy both existing users and new or returning users.
Therefore, new or returning users who have collected only a certain level of new items will quickly catch up to the standards of old graduate users, and old graduate users will be able to have fun farming new equipment that is much more powerful than the equipment they are using.
Therefore, the gap between Elion’s equipment before and after max level expansion is so large that it becomes regrettable to compare it.
Even considering just the new dungeon, this is released at a level where you can barely catch it with old graduation equipment, but the problem with Chaos Alcatraz is that it is a raid boss that you will encounter after farming new equipment.
Moreover, it is a level 110 raid.
I played Elion when the character’s level reached level 100, and usually when I expanded to max level, I went up the stairs in 5-level increments.
However, this time, I don’t know why, but the Elion operators declared that they would raise the maximum level by 10 levels.
Of course, the reason was not taught.
So, opinions were divided among users as to whether there was a lot of new content coming out.
They probably expanded the max level by 10 levels because they had something special in mind.
If that’s the case, I think there would be a lot of things to prepare in the middle and the raid would have been that difficult to launch, but I’m not prepared for that.
Ah… How do I defeat this guy?
No, is it even possible to defeat it in the first place?
My consciousness sank so deeply into despair that I could not escape.