Chapter 415: Chapter 256: Head Held High, Money and Dignity Returned

In Fang Zhen’s consciousness, he sensed the existence of a spatial coordinate, which also appeared as a point of light.

Although no one had told him, he could immediately sense that this was the Nameless World, a setting where Nightmare difficulty had already been unlocked. The scene within the illusory light wasn’t real, however, because the Light Gate used for travel had not yet opened.

However, Fang Zhen already understood how to use this new peripheral.

This new peripheral was a portable Light Gate. In the future, when Fang Zhen entered an instance world, he wouldn’t have to run back and forth across the map. As long as he was in a suitable location, he could use this wristband to open a new Light Gate.

To take it a step further, if he ever needed to buy sensitive items abroad in the future, he could use this wristband to activate a Light Gate and send the items to an instance world, in addition to storing them in a separate dimension using spatial equipment.

He could then either leave the items in the instance world or open the Light Gate to retrieve them after returning to his country.

Fang Zhen found it utterly incredible, his gaze fixed on the black cylinder in the living room.

He wasn’t entirely sure if the black wristband had been inside the peripheral from the start, or if the cylinder contained some kind of spatial transference power that had sent the wristband to him.

’It seems the Dungeon Life Game still has so much for me to explore.’

After a brief moment of reflection, Fang Zhen returned to his room.

The instance settlement screen had ended, and the Dungeon Life Game on his computer had returned to its main interface.

"During the instance settlement process...

Critical information acquired by character Fang Zhen has been detected, unlocking the fifth act instance following the Demon Duke instance.

The fifth act instance is the ultimate instance of the Nameless World. Its difficulty is Hell, and it will open in one month. Before the fifth act opens, you have the privilege of unlocking partial information in advance.

You may spend 5 Merit Points to obtain partial information about the new instance ahead of time."

After seeing the message, Fang Zhen didn’t immediately move to unlock the new instance information.

He felt he had a lot on his plate right now. The timing was tight. Right after finishing the Nightmare difficulty instance, he had to start the Nightmare difficulty instance of the Curse Seal World. He didn’t want to divide his focus any further before then.

It wouldn’t be too late to start the next instance after finishing the one in the Curse Seal World. For now, he would put the Nameless World instance on hold.

The instance settlement screen was now completely finished.

Fang Zhen’s Spirit also relaxed.

For the next day, Fang Zhen did absolutely nothing. He simply spent the entire day lying on his big, soft sofa, releasing the stress from the instance.

After a full day, his Spirit had recovered significantly.

That evening, he took care of two more things. The first was appraising the many pieces of equipment he had obtained from the instance.

After the new Dungeon Life Game interface upgrade, equipment was now assigned corresponding grades. It seemed that based on the power level of the instance world, all equipment was divided into several grades: Nameless, Common, Elite, Heroic, Legend, Godly, and Eternal. Furthermore, these grades were also marked with star ratings.

Fang Zhen found that his Dragon Gall Bright Silver Spear and other firearms were only of the Common grade. However, his AWP sniper rifle was a 7-star Common, while the Dragon Gall Bright Silver Spear was only 2-star.

Correspondingly, among all the items Fang Zhen had obtained, the Alien Snake Sword was marked as Elite grade, 3-star.

Based on the equipment he had received, Fang Zhen came to a general understanding of the system.

Equipment tiers likely had their own hierarchy. For instance, equipment that could unleash Extraordinary or special abilities received a higher grade. However, even low-grade equipment could sometimes be more practical in certain aspects than high-grade equipment, as long as its star rating was high enough.

’A top-tier blue item can sometimes be better than a trash-tier purple one.’

In this Nightmare instance of Dungeon Life, Fang Zhen had acquired many Extraordinary items of the Elite grade. However, many of these were just basic Elite items with no star rating at all—trash-tier items within the Elite category, it seemed.

But there were a few good items among them. Duke Talono’s battle-ax was rated as a 2-star Elite.

Fang Zhen planned to smelt or sell most of this equipment, keeping only one or two specialized sets. He could fill out his gear later.

Of course, these items could also be used as trade goods for transactions between different instance worlds.

After resting for a day, Fang Zhen started on another matter that was very important to him.

He drove to the casting workshop that Wang Donglai had introduced him to last time. He spent the whole day there, taking the time to smelt 3,000 pieces of his Gold Rope, producing a total of eighteen kilograms—eighteen one-kilogram gold bars.

While doing this, Fang Zhen didn’t find the work tedious. On the contrary, the process of smelting the metal brought him a great sense of peace and helped alleviate much of the stress from the instance.

Fang Zhen now had over twenty gold bars in his possession. He still planned to execute his Golden Mountain and Silver Sea plan in the instance worlds, and the more money he had in the real world, the more resources he could mobilize.

That night, Fang Zhen returned home with the gold bars.

He locked the gold bars in his safe, then sat down at the coffee table to rest with a cup of hot tea.

In the last instance, money had brought him immense advantages, and he planned to expand on that strength.