Death's Disciple [Sys Apoc, OP Villain MC, LitRPG] Chapter 27: 1.27 Class in Session

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1.27 Class in Session Chapter 27 “So we wait for the other teams to clear their towers, then progress after?” Vasquez asked. Barry shook his head, “that’s a possible way, but it makes things unnecessarily harder for us.” “Well, yeah, but that’s just unavoidable if it works the way you described.” Francis said. “Yes, but no, you gotta think more critically if you’re gonna be Paragon Squad,” Barry replied sagely. “Uh, what?” the rage warrior balked. Huwett shook her head, while Norton and I exchanged glances with a chuckle. Barry had been trying to get Francis to understand the plan for the last few minutes. It wasn’t horribly complicated, but it appeared that the warrior needed to start investing some stat points into intelligence—though doing so never actually made you any smarter, so it wouldn’t actually help. The problem at hand, which Francis failed to wrap his head around, was that it was apparent that the Dungeon Quest’s progression, and the difficulty of the tower’s defenses, were linked. Which made things more difficult, literally. Barry was told this next floor was supposed to be about a football field in length, and instead, as I said before, it was actually far closer to a quarter mile. We could only guess, but it would also be fair to think that the traps in the room were more deadly as well. Barry, Huwett and I quickly began making calls with our amulets in attempt to gather some more information, each of us calling different squad captains. “Hello?” “Captain Markus Hall, this is Adam Pierce,” I say through the connection. There was a pause on the other side before I hear a response. “Yes, sir, what can I do for you?” “Explain your squad’s progress and the encounters you’ve had at each floor. It looks like the Quest Update has made some changes and might be increasing the difficulty of the towers.” “Understood, the first floor was goblins…” As it turned out, Barry’s instincts were correct. After getting information from each squad and comparing notes between them all, it turned out that completing one tower made changes to all the others. It took us some time, and we had to dig into even the exact details in mob monster numbers, but it was confirmed that even completing a single floor in one tower also increased the difficulty in the other towers as well. For example, we had been the last team to enter the first floor of a tower, leading me to slaughter nearly two hundred goblins in the immensely large room. Meanwhile, the very first team had only encountered twenty goblins inside a much smaller room. While we took down a level eleven Ogre Berserker, others took down a basic level six ogre, or a level nine Ogre Hurler. Our third floor is a vast twelve hundred foot gauntlet, while the first team got a hundred foot hallway. Others got a moderately difficult football field stretch of trapped stone. Any progress made things harder for everyone else. Cleared floors gave small increases, while it looked like clearing a full tower created larger jumps. There was some hope though, as it appeared that as long as a team had already started a room, it’s difficulty wouldn’t increase while they were in it. Only un-entered rooms were affected. Which we learned as we waited for the other teams to finish their current rooms and had time to settle in to strategize. The strategizing portion is when we learned a few things. The first: Francis wasn’t great with difficult strategizing and puzzle solving. Which was why Barry had been spending so much time trying to get him to understand the plan, time that might have been wasted, in my personal opinion. The second thing we learned; the communication amulets were able to do group calls. Only up to six people at a time, but it was much better than playing a game of dungeon telephone through the amulets. The third thing was; communication amulets couldn't be used to call people outside a dungeon while you were in one. This was information that became well known across the world in the comi