Chapter 174: Assassination ?
"Purple-ranked dungeon on Merisia Island. There's no detailed information available yet, but it's believed to contain a Chaos Crystal."
"According to reliable sources, the National Federation is expected to assign eight entry slots to eight guilds, with each being allowed to send in one team."
Daniel read through the news slowly, and with every sentence, his surprise grew.
A purple-ranked dungeon was equivalent to an S-rank, and that alone made it incredibly important — enough to involve direct action from the National Federation.
But what truly caught him off guard was the mention of a Chaos Crystal. What even was a Chaos Crystal?
He tried searching it up, but was met with a "restricted access" warning.
So he went back to the post and began reading the comments below, hoping someone might have mentioned something useful. He even tried leaving a comment himself, but the moment he typed "Chaos Crystal," his ability to comment was disabled for a whole week.
That left him with no choice but to just keep scrolling through replies, hoping someone with more access had written something informative.
Unfortunately, the answer was no. Still, it wasn't a complete failure — after reading dozens of comments, he managed to get a vague idea of what the Chaos Crystal was.
Apparently, it was something necessary for national-rank Awakened to power up. In order to push past their limits, national-level Awakened needed Chaos Crystals.
And it seemed the crystal had other properties too, but Daniel couldn't figure out what they were.
He kept reading the rest of the article, hoping to see if the guild entry times had been confirmed — and luckily, they had.