Global Game: I Can Choose Instance Rewards

When Wang Zhifan stepped through the ink portal before him, he found himself in what appeared to be a humble cottage.

The interior space was not very spacious, nor was it adorned with any elaborate decorations, yet it imparted a particularly simple and steady feeling, as if he had arrived at a familial home that calmed the innermost parts of his being.

"Young friend, my humble abode is simple, please feel free to find a chair and sit down."

A teacher with gray-white long hair was currently sitting on a simple wooden stool, bent over a desk that looked even more simplistic and worn, holding a brush in his right hand, writing something on a scroll of yellow cloth.

Before the just-arrived Wang Zhifan could greet him, the teacher slightly raised his head and spoke to him in a calm tone.

"Thank you, sir... I wonder what important matter you have summoned me for?"

Wang Zhifan was not quite sure how to express the appropriate etiquette in this situation, so he simply chose to be blunt and directly asked the teacher before him, after all, the other party didn’t seem to be a particularly rigid person.

"Haha... as expected, young friend, you are a straightforward person."

Sure enough, the teacher bent over his desk wasn’t displeased at his direct manner of speaking; instead, a peaceful smile appeared on his face.

He then placed the brush, just as he finished the last word, on the inkstone beside him, picked up the yellow cloth covered in writing on the table, and addressed Wang Zhifan:

"I have invited young friend over, not for personal reasons, but to address the impending calamity... I have recently been deducing the celestial mechanism and found that there are several additional variables in the Demon Realm’s invasion. Trusting these variables to young friend seems to be the most prudent strategy, so I’ve invited you here for a discussion."

"May I ask, sir, what specific variables are these?"

Hearing this, Wang Zhifan suddenly felt a bit annoyed because he disliked pondering such vague, riddle-like statements, which offered pathetically little information. Often, knowing these things was less useful than not knowing, as at least uncertainty didn’t lead to suspicion.

"It is the outer-world visitors, many of whom are enemies of both the Calamity Realm and yourself. They will invade the Calamity Realm alongside the Demon Realm army."

The teacher then made things much clearer, allowing Wang Zhifan to immediately understand what the Saint’s near-match presence before him was referring to.

"Outer-world visitors? Could he possibly mean that many hostile players from the Demon Realm will come over?"

Wang Zhifan felt a bit puzzled at this moment, puzzled because, under normal circumstances, this shouldn’t happen.

As the players of this instance were set by default to be aligned with the Calamity Realm, only those with the special status of "Vengeance players" would oppose other players. However, Vengeance players, from what he understood, required VIP or SVIP status to become. How could so many VIP players be concentrated in this instance, and moreover, how could all these VIP players choose the Demon Realm side? It sounded completely unreasonable!

So he immediately asked the teacher:

"Do you know the approximate number of those outer-world visitors, sir?"

The teacher lifted the yellow cloth filled with characters higher and casually responded:

"If my calculations are correct, there should be more than two hundred."

"Over two hundred ’Vengeance players’... that’s impossible... it’s absurd!"

Wang Zhifan internally expressed speechlessness upon hearing this, and began seriously doubting whether he misunderstood the information the other party provided, his eyes moving slightly with furrowed brows.

Meanwhile, the teacher finally moved his gaze from the unfolded yellow cloth in his hand and looked up with a smile at him:

"Young friend, there is no need to doubt. It is indeed as you think. There might be some subtle differences, but those outer-world visitors are indeed the opponents you are familiar with... I hope you can prepare well and repel them along with the Demon Realm army..."

After saying this, without any detectable special actions from the reputed near-saintly entity, Wang Zhifan suddenly felt his vision change and instantly returned to the small cave where he initially entered the ink portal.

And just before he left, he remembered seeing the three ancient characters on the side of the yellow cloth facing him that the teacher held: Demon Sealing List.

As Wang Zhifan was deep in thought at this moment, a tall and graceful figure approached from behind him, it was the Moon-Annihilating Dragon Saber who had been waiting in the cave beforehand.

"Fan, what did the teacher tell you?"

Moon-Annihilating Dragon Saber clearly cared a lot about why Wang Zhifan had been specially summoned by the teacher, inquiring curiously with a bright face.

"It’s about preparing to deal with the outer-world foes... though I haven’t fully understood the situation yet."

Wang Zhifan naturally didn’t hide anything from his partner, as most people working on instances likely wouldn’t have the teacher’s precise insight into their group, and even if he said it, they wouldn’t grasp the real situation.

"Outer-world foes? Could it be... that apart from the Demon Realm, other world adversaries plan to invade our Calamity Realm?"

Unexpectedly, Moon-Annihilating Dragon Saber seemed to be thinking along the right lines and immediately offered an almost spot-on understanding.

"More or less, yes... let me continue to ponder it further."

Wang Zhifan promptly stopped the topic there, as he had many details to think through to verify the authenticity of the teacher’s crucial intelligence.

The Dragon Lady realized he didn’t want to discuss further, so she didn’t press the issue. Together, they left the cave and returned outside to leisurely roam around, planning to grab a bite and socialize with some new faces.