Chapter 129: Three Diamond Badges

Just like that, you successfully obtained the achievement, cleared the level smoothly, and reaped abundant profits.

Just when you thought you could finally rest for a while, the Dream Management Bureau in reality suddenly issued an announcement that shocked you greatly.

"Recently, Nightmares have appeared on a large scale in Dream Online, the number of Nightmare attack incidents has surged 827% in a short time! Please, all players, be careful! If you encounter a Nightmare, please exit Dream Online as soon as possible!"

During that period afterward, a large number of Nightmare attack incidents appeared in Dream Online; these Nightmares appeared in the game in various unreasonable ways—some replaced a minor monster, some were summoned by the game boss, and some, like the one you encountered, were sacrificed into existence.

This incident is a mass event; the Nightmare summoned in the mission you encountered is not a special case unique to you, but the large-scale Nightmare invasion is indeed not a good omen.

Liu Delie and Yu Xiaomo also encountered Nightmares in Dream Online, but fortunately their current strength is still decent, so encountering Nightmares brought them surprise but no danger.

And as you expected, after the Nightmare invasion incident occurred, the number of Nightmare invasions in reality also began to increase sharply; although most were ordinary Nightmare invasion incidents, among these Nightmare invasion events there were actually mixed in the same kind of awful 'Existence Erasure' Nightmare incidents as before, and for a while, panic spread again.

And you were also worried, but not about yourself—you were worried about your own mother.

After your father disappeared, your beautiful mother became the well-known beautiful widow of these buildings; every day middle-aged men come to flirt with your mother, and they occasionally send gifts to your doorstep, making your mother thoroughly annoyed.

And in order to protect your mother from sudden Nightmare harm, and also to prevent a certain man from losing control to his beastly nature, you deliberately left the Nightmare Giant Bear by her side.

The Nightmare Giant Bear was initially unwilling and said it wanted to go to an arcane art lower than its own level, but after being violently beaten by a higher-level opponent's magic, it finally became obedient.

The large-scale appearance of Nightmares is absolutely a bad thing for ordinary players, but for you it is an excellent opportunity.

Those twisted Nightmares represent not only a large number of attribute points for you, but also the ability to summon more Nightmares, so you must go hunt Nightmares.

Thus, you postponed your speedrun game goal and instead each day kept an eye on the official announcements; whenever you saw where Nightmares were appearing, you rushed there immediately.

Because the Dominion Dark Blade's boost to your agility was excessively outrageous, on several occasions before the officials arrived you had already slain all the Nightmares, and your attributes and the level of your Nightmares have been steadily increasing.

Age 17: The frequency of Nightmare invasions did not decline as expected; instead, it continued to rise, which worried the Management Bureau greatly, as they continuously recruited new players into the Management Bureau to jointly combat Nightmares.

And they naturally did not announce this in the form of a notice, ostensibly to avoid causing panic, but the Management Bureau's increasingly frequent patrols and the police cars of the Management Bureau visible everywhere on the streets all indicate the fact that Nightmare invasion frequency is increasing.

But because the Management Bureau increased its patrol efforts, although the frequency of Nightmare invasions rose considerably, it did not cause major casualties; on the contrary, each time a Nightmare appeared it could be promptly suppressed, and people's safety index increased significantly.

And because you also slaughtered many Nightmares, your attributes increased considerably, and the levels of the Nightmares around you also rose significantly, with the average level now reaching 25.

At the same time, you also harvested a large number of pitch-black Nightmares, which you call Nightmare Fluid, and you also discovered another use for it.

Besides being able to devour enemies to unlock new forms, Nightmare Fluid can also raise the level of other Nightmares, so you need not worry about insufficient experience later.

And while you were hunting Nightmares, you also did not neglect game progression; you have now cleared all F-rank and E-rank games and obtained two diamond badges.

Badges have grades; the clearance badge obtained from clearing an F-rank game is merely silver, and the higher the game's rating, the higher the grade of the badge earned upon clearance.

The diamond badges you obtained are, respectively, the badge 'Legendary Newbie Player!' earned from fully clearing all F-rank games, and the badge 'Legendary Junior Player!' earned from fully clearing all E-rank games.

You don't know whether the Legendary Player described in this badge is the same thing as the Legendary Player written on your second panel, but you know there's no such coincidence in the world, and obviously this is not something you should be worrying about.

Moreover, you also obtained a badge named 'Ten-mile Slope Sword God', the condition for which is reaching a certain attribute level before becoming a B-rank player; it is also a diamond badge, which sufficiently shows how terrifying your stat-monster nature is.

But the biggest change is actually Liu Delie; after studying the Super Ancient Arcane Art, his strength increased markedly, his game-clearing speed also became very fast, even faintly catching up to Yu Xiaomo, which made this little female devil very anxious.

Now Liu Delie is just like someone who got a max-level big shot's casually discarded equipment in the novice village; in low-level games he is simply a killing spree.

Especially his move that can be called 'word-becomes-law' magic is so convenient it's even more convenient than Yu Xiaomo's Infinite Module.

Thus, Yu Xiaomo began to look for you more frequently to upgrade modules; for convenience, she wishes she could be by your side 24 hours a day.

While her Infinite Load Module talent gives her unlimited growth potential, it also imposes many limits on her—for example, the module 'Black Silk War God', which increases the user's attack speed and critical damage by 100%, but the limitation is obvious: it requires the user to equip 'Black Silk' to take effect.

This also causes Yu Xiaomo's system power to be overly mixed, making her strength increase very slowly; although this little female devil often opposes you, you likewise gain much enjoyment from her, and of course you cannot just watch her go down the wrong path.

Thus, you proposed to her a suggestion to correct the gameplay....

(Tsk! Let's open the widow's little tune and listen, and meanwhile think how to kill you, wahaha!)