Immersion is a truly fascinating thing.

Sometimes a long and exhaustive text version of a background story introduction just makes people feel bored, but other times it stirs the emotions, more often the former.

Gong Qiying once tried this method in the Casas Underground Tomb, but now it seems the effect was mediocre, so he changed his approach.

He leaned towards enhancing immersion through performance effects and various details.

Judging from the activation of the Great Rune atop the Divine Tower, this method has had a good effect.

"Buzz—"

Under the sunlight piercing the storm, the bizarre and eerie yet inexplicably transcendent remains of the Two Fingers lay quietly at the top of the tower, with a strangely patterned Great Rune of golden light floating between the Two Fingers, intertwining the sacred and the grotesque.

The adventurer bearing the Great Rune stepped forward, and the golden light immediately reacted, dispersing with a hum and spiraling flying light around the adventurer’s body, as if being gently wrapped by a golden cocoon, providing an indescribably wonderful sensation.

The faded Two Fingers, the gray storm, the golden flying light, and the distant dark blue ocean, these colors compose a scene akin to a classical oil painting, simply describing these elements makes one feel it must be a place a legendary adventure aims to reach.

And now the adventurer has entered this scene, personally touching this yet unknown adventure, and at the same time becoming part of the legend.

There is quite a feeling as if one is the Elden King of yore!

Especially when the tattoo of the Great Rune on the body lights up, this feeling becomes even stronger.

Maru’s sense of immersion became so strong that she dragged Isha to shout some chuunibyou lines for role-playing, and the shy Isha gradually opened up amidst the lively environment at the top of the Divine Tower.

People sat here appreciating the scenery, and the scene at this moment could be used as the ending scene of some old RPG games.

And in this peaceful setting, Uffie poked Leon, who was chatting happily with Fanen, and pulled him aside to whisper a few words.

Then Leon’s shout echoed throughout the Divine Tower.

"You mean... Teacher Gapar wants me to compete against your disciple?"

After the exclamation came silence, after which he let out a deep sigh, brewing a feeling of helplessness.

Teacher Gapar is really worrying, such a big matter and he didn’t even notify him.

"I knew dad didn’t tell you," Uffie also looked helpless, saying, "I thought it would be better to tell you in advance, if you don’t want to, maybe you can go complain to dad and he won’t ask you to go."

"No, I have no objections."

Suddenly, Leon reverted to his spirited self, showing a sunny confident smile, and pointing a thumb at himself, said, "I won’t lose for sure, you better consider your side more, or you could personally come and fight me!"

"Oh, quite full of yourself, aren’t you." Uffie had veins popping on her forehead, although smiling, her face was covered with dark lines.

"So who is my opponent, Fanen? Isha? Or..."

Unexpectedly, Uffie pointed at Leon himself.

Leon was puzzled, "What do you mean?"

"Your opponent is..." Uffie made a face as if she was about to see a good show, slowly said, "Your father."

She eagerly observed Leon’s expression, wanting to see some kind of surprise in his face, which would make her feel better.

However.

"Uh..."

Leon’s mouth twitched, ultimately showing a rather disinterested expression.

"Don’t make that face, who are you looking down on!"

"Ah, no, it’s just, I was thinking if there were no other more exciting options?" Leon himself wasn’t sure what he was saying.

"Your father is now trained to a super formidable level, absolutely will surprise you, you better prepare for it!" Uffie made a remark like a small fry in an anime before looking around, "Where did that guy go, he was here just a moment ago."

"Well, then I’ll be waiting, hahaha..."

Leon put on an awkward yet polite smile.

Uffie felt like this guy was looking down on her side, probably biting her handkerchief in her mind, after pondering for a moment, she suddenly smiled and said:

"Ah, by the way, I still have to go to Benar to learn combat skills today, our combat skill level has really improved fast recently because of his guidance."

As she spoke, she glanced at Leon unnoticed.

"Benar?" Leon was indeed attracted by this topic, it seems even well-informed people aren’t entirely aware of the intelligence on this side.

"Ah, you don’t know Benar? How can you not know? Let me tell you about him~" Uffie smiled, shaking her slender finger as she began to explain.

Leon felt something was amiss about the way things were progressing, and upon seeing her expression, he finally understood.

So that’s it, this girl wasn’t willing to be outdone and wanted to rely on her advantage in intelligence to gain an upper hand, she’s really good at this little calculus.

This ambition to win is surely...

He decided to just quietly watch her for now.

"Not just Benar, after learning from him, I still need to return to the Round Table Hall. The blacksmith there is incredibly skilled, and sometimes due to a stroke of luck, a weapon that’s been enhanced can level up twice. Oh right, you probably can’t make it to the Round Table Hall now, want me to teach you~"

Uffie spilled all the information she knew, making the nearby Fanen break into a cold sweat.

Leon smiled politely, occasionally nodding, appearing as if he was genuinely listening.

"Being able to do so many things here every day, it feels so fulfilling, it’s truly wonderful." Uffie puffed out her chest, placed her hands on her hips, and her tone took on a theatrical flair, while Fanen beside her looked pained as if to say, "Please, can you not speak in that voice?"

This was not only a battle between Uffie and Leon, but also a microcosm of the struggle between the adventurers of the Warrior Country and those of the Yanor Kingdom!

No one could back down!

"Thud... Thud..."

At this moment, the sound of the Sain Dungeon nearing closure rang out, prompting her to sigh and say, "What a pity, it’s closing time already. We’ll have to wait until tomorrow for another fulfilling day."

Just then, Leon, who had been smiling, delivered a precise blow and nonchalantly said:

"Oh, you guys have a time limit here?"

Uffie’s words came to an abrupt halt.

"Oh no, really? There’s still a time limit in the Sain Dungeon at this point? Even Fran Fort is open all day, what’s going on over here?"

Leon, like a Gatling gun warming up, started his attack.

"Could it be that the Sain Dungeon thinks you might not be able to handle the pressure if it were open all day?"

"Ahaha, the Sain Dungeon is really considerate, it’s true that being open all day would be a lot of pressure, we face immense pressure every day over there."

"Boss... your tone is really annoying." Even Maru couldn’t help but chime in.

"When will this meaningless argument finally end?" Fanen said, covering his face.

Fortunately, this debate, which was akin to a noisy quarrel, didn’t last long before it quieted down, though the cost was that Leon and Uffie would "huff" and turn their heads whenever their eyes met.

The group left the Divine Tower, wandered around the city to wrap up, and found Roger in a hidden study-like room, who continued to kindly teach them magic combat skills.

With this, Uffie ascertained that she had completely explored Stoneveil City, and the exploration progress must have reached 100%, which was truly worthy of celebration.

However, Leon questioned this conclusion.

"No hidden areas or anything? This place seems like it should have hidden doors."

"We didn’t encounter anything like that at all."

"I see..."

The strategy group exchanged glances, thinking that the city couldn’t have been so easily fully explored, suspecting there were places they missed that they would check out when they had time.

But the most important thing at the moment was to figure out the connection mechanism between the old and the new areas of the Sain Dungeon.

Could it really be relying on Greg’s battle site for the connection? No matter how you think about it, that’s quite strange!

With these thoughts in mind, the group entered the mansion when the bell tolled a second time. Inside, the structure was quite simple, facing the courtyard was a simple and dignified golden throne, and no other decorations or furniture besides a ladder connecting to the underground; the door underground revealed an outdoor scene.

That’s right, that was the route they took to enter the mansion, and outside should be Lake Lienia!

"Is it really connected here? How strange."

Leon walked toward the door, and everyone followed.

However, as soon as he stepped out the door, an unprecedented flash of strong light emerged in front of everyone, completely covering everything in sight!

What the hell, why is there a flash!?

Leon instinctively raised his hand to cover his eyes, and when the light disappeared, he lowered his arm to find a rather peculiar scene before him.

A round table appeared in front of him, a spacious round table with many weapons embedded at its center, and a golden great blessing quietly floating above all the weapons, serene and sacred.

And there he sat before the round table, as if attending some round table conference.

At this moment, the great blessing dispersed a wisp of golden light, which continuously combined in front of him, eventually revealing the memory scenes of people choosing the Elden King.

Bubbles flickering with strange landscapes and characters appeared before Leon, he keenly noticed a bubble with Greg’s portrait lit up with a faint golden light, also displaying the Great Rune scene on it.

Did this scene mean that they won and successfully obtained Greg’s Great Rune?

Amazingly, there were three entire bubbles that lit up! 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Leon held his breath, reached out, and learned about the memories of the Elden King that each bubble represented.

["Full Moon Queen" Renala]

["Shattered Star General" Latan]

["Desecrating Monarch" Rakad]