MMORPG: Rise of the Primordial Godsmith

Chapter 1418: The Great Veldanyr Labyrinth (5)

”…Is that a lot?”

Listening to the number Alpha gave them, Valyrʼs group briefly looked at each other in excitement, only for their expressions to then turn into confusion not long after.

After all, they had no frame of reference as to whether that number was enough for them to obtain most, if not all of the items available within the labyrinth.

For all they knew, each item could possibly cost at least a million Labyrinth Points at the minimum.

”Not a lot to be overwhelming, but definitely substantial for a head start,” replied Alpha in return, having heard the question that left Valyrʼs mouth.

”To give you some context, all of the groups aside from yours are only generating 5 Labyrinth Points per minute. This is because their territory only spans an entire room.”

”Now, if they were to claim another room as their territory, that number would increase to 15 points per minute,” the puppet continued its explanation, prompting the gears in the minds of Valyrʼs group to start turning.

”Each additional room gives 5 points more than the previous room that was claimed, which is why your current territory generates close to 5,000 points a minute.”

Feeling like it had given Valyrʼs group a thorough enough explanation, as well as a good enough frame of reference on how much Labyrinth Points they were generating, Alpha proceeded to give a similar explanation on how the territory gave more points to the other groups.

After that, the puppet also gave everyone a heads-up that every enemy they killed would drop a Labyrinth Point, which unsurprisingly stoked the flames of motivation deep within the eight groups.

By the time it was done with its explanation, a pedestal soon appeared at the center of the rooms where the eight groups spawned, causing all of them to look at it as it caught the groupsʼ attention.

”As a bit of a motivator and incentive to make sure all of you try to claim as many rooms for your groups as possible, Iʼm sure youʼve taken notice of the pedestal thatʼs appeared in your rooms all of a sudden.”

As these words from Alpha echoed throughout the eight spawn rooms, the eight groups nodded in agreement, curious as to what the pedestal entailed.

”To sum things up, these pedestals more or less act as a middleman between me and the eight groups.”

”With the pedestal, you can browse all of the items that could possibly be obtained from the labyrinth with their corresponding prices attached. Naturally, as the figurative middleman, the pedestals also serve as the point where you could buy those items.”

”Iʼm pretty sure Master added a lot of valuable items in that list, with some of them even acting as assistance during the ascension to Rank 6.”

”However, since all of you are still far away from reaching that point, Iʼd suggest aiming for something else.”

”Other than that… I think thatʼs pretty much all I have to say for now.”

”Best of luck in claiming as many rooms within the labyrinth as possible.”

Whoosh!

With Alphaʼs final words serving as a catalyst of sorts, it went without saying that the seven other groups immediately went into a frenzy, heading towards the other rooms as soon as possible in order to boost their passive point gain.

On the other hand, Valyrʼs group decided to refrain from claiming more rooms for the meantime, considering that the past half hour had given them a massive lead over the other groups.

ʼItʼs also a good opportunity to take a look at what the labyrinth can give us,ʼ thought the young man to himself, doing some math in his head to compute the theoretical maximum number of points they could get from the labyrinth.

”If each succeeding room gives 5 more points than the previous one, then claiming all 512 rooms within the labyrinth would allow us to obtain…”

”Around 650,000 Labyrinth Points per minute,” replied Meria, prompting Valyr and the others to look at her in surprise.

”Damn. That much?” asked Thomas in return, to which Meria nodded in agreement.

”Although Alphaʼs explanation was slightly confusing, the 44th room we claim would increase our point gain by 220 points,” she explained, giving everyone a better idea as to how she got to that figure.

”If one additional room alone already gives us 200 points, then what if we claim our 200th room? That one room alone would instantly boost our point gain by a thousand points per minute.”

”…I see.” Having been listening to Meriaʼs explanation all this time, Lucquesʼ eyes eventually gleamed in understanding.

”Thatʼs… the sum of an arithmetic series, right?”

”Exactly.” Meria nodded in return, smiling at her younger sibling.

”I guess I shouldnʼt be surprised the two of you could easily compute that number,” said Valyr after that with a slightly wry smile. ”After all, back when we used to raid dungeons on the daily, you guys were the ones we relied on for numbers.”

”Seriously.” Thomas and Alisa nodded in agreement. ”You two really shouldʼve gone to college or something.”

”Letʼs save that topic for another time.” Not wanting their conversation to go off-topic, Valyr brought everyoneʼs attention back to the matter at hand. ”For now, letʼs focus on the labyrinth.”

”With each room containing 100 enemies each, weʼve amassed a total of 4,300 Labyrinth Points in the past 30 minutes.”

”Add in the points weʼll obtain from the labyrinth every minute, weʼll have around 9,000 Labyrinth Points soon enough.”

”Now… is there something we can buy with that much points?” As those words left Valyrʼs mouth, he went ahead and moved closer to the pedestal.

Glancing at it for a bit, he soon placed one of his hands on it, revealing a screen that was filled to the brim with images of various items.

Whoosh!

”…Damn.” Looking through the list of items that had been made available to them, Valyrʼs eyes immediately widened in surprise as he recognized most of them to be precious materials in his past life.

However, even the items that werenʼt that valuable in comparison had great use in various fields.

ʼTo think some of the items I was planning to find after becoming a Myth was actually available here.ʼ

As this thought came to mind, the young man continued to scroll through the catalog of items, wondering if there were even more valuable items than the ones heʼd already seen.

However, rather than come across an incredibly valuable item on the list, Valyr instead took notice of a peculiar item.

”Hmm?”