Samsara Online

While Yue Kai patted his friend on the back to help him, Hu Chen couldn’t help but exclaim, "Five hundred.... Five hundred million!? Are you crazy? The Samsara Online currency exchange has just opened, even if the World Central Bank is backing the game, isn’t it better to wait a little longer just in case? There will probably be a lot of uncertainties and instability.... If... If something were to happen and you can’t get your money back..."

Xie Feng couldn’t help but smile as he noticed his friend’s worries for him. Therefore, knowing that Hu Chen was reminding him out of kindness, Xie Feng patiently explained, "Actually, I think it’s safer to keep money this way. In the real world you can lose it if you have it and the banks can be hacked.... It’s not like something like this has never happened. But here, in this strictly protected world, loss and hacking is absolutely impossible."

Hu Chen blinked several times, looking at his friend with confused eyes and asked, "How can you be so sure of that? Even in other virtual reality games in the past, there were several incidents where the servers crashed for a few hours because some people tried to hack the system."

In fact, several incidents like the ones Hu Chen said happened in the past. However, if there was one thing Xie Feng was sure of, it was that Samsara Online was not a normal game. Before he had his doubts since the mere thought of such a thing was crazy.... But after meeting Han Xue Nai, he finally came to the conclusion that the Samsara world was definitely not an ordinary virtual world; after all, why would a person so strong as Han Xue Nai go to the trouble of lying to him like that? Even if she was a little girl, she wouldn’t even get any fun out of lying to Xie Feng since she would never know whether he followed her advice or not unless she was by his side during the trip.

Xie Feng smiled faintly and was about to reply with an excuse casually, but an announcement from the system silenced him and everyone.

[Ding!... Event dungeon, ’Prison of the Snow Fox’ has been created! Dungeon system event starts from now on! Upon successful completion of the quest, players will be able to acquire pets by defeating a monster or finding pet eggs in unexpected places! Due to the specialty of the mission, no further details will be given. To enter the event dungeon players must go to the Sanctuary of Eminence which is located south of Eminentis City. Each player can only enter into the event dungeon once per day and only a maximum of twelve people per group can enter at the same time.]

[Mission: Save the fox elemental type.]

The people in the mansion were silent as their minds processed what they had just heard.

During the previous week, the mission of the exploration event had culminated. During that mission, Xie Feng did not participate because it was boring to his taste; therefore, he had no idea what kind of mission it was. However, only now the last mission of the three-part event was launched.

Exploring the map and saving the city from the five waves of monsters had already been accomplished by the players, now they had to face the last challenge for all of Samsara Online’s systems to officially open completely.

Xie Feng stood up and looked at the people present with a smile, "Well, looks like the talk is over. How about we go have some fun for a while?"

"Oh! How I want to use the bow in my hand to complete this!"

"Forget it, with Xie Feng here there’s no place for your bow."

"That’s right. If we have to compare, your bow and Xie Feng’s spear is like the stars in the sky in broad daylight.... Completely eclipsed by the sun."

The Yue Kai trio stood up clearly excited to move their bodies a bit. The three of them were currently at level 16 and, although it seemed low in comparison to Xie Feng and the monsters that occupied the top 10 on the level table, they were part of the highest leveled players in the entire Chinese server.

"It seems like there’s something to do now." Gu Qianxue looked into the sky and revealed a small funny smile.

The two beauties stood up as well and stood next to Xie Feng, clearly showing that they would go with him anywhere.

"You must not look down on other players and you must not look down on players from other countries. A true expert won’t reach the top early and this world is full of crouching tigers and coiled dragons.... Well, though I don’t plan to let another country or another person take the success anyway."

Xie Feng smiled slightly and headed for the exit while putting on all of his battle gear.

[You have created a party. Current party members: 6/12]

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South side of Eminentis City, Sanctuary of Eminence.

In this part of the city it was generally quiet, so quiet that the arrival of players was extremely strange because there were no quests in the area. Xie Feng himself had never set foot in this place, after all it was impossible to walk around the entire city considering its size unless one had nothing interesting to do. However, it was different today.

The system announcement clearly stated that in order to enter the event dungeon one had to do so by going to the Sanctuary of Eminence. Therefore, by the time Xie Feng and the rest arrived there were already quite a few people crowded there.

"Woah!" Gu Qianxue exclaimed while seeing the crowd of people trying to push each other to get there first.

Xie Feng shook his head helplessly at the sight and commented, "I don’t understand why everyone is acting like a prisoner who sees a beautiful woman after twenty years of confinement."

"Shouldn’t they be more careful?" Xie Yao frowned slightly under her rabbit mask and pointed out, "After all, each person can only enter into the dungeon one time each twenty-four hours."

Xie Feng and the rest nodded expressing their agreement with Xie Yao’s thoughts.

Fortunately, the place was spacious enough or else it would be really troublesome to be able to move among so many people. Besides, as Xie Yao pointed out, many people were probably being cautious before coming here. Not only did they need to prepare supplies, they also needed to form the strongest teams with the most suitable classes. If they rushed into the map, they would be wasting the opportunity to enter the map and would have to wait another day before entering again; by then, unless the mission was extremely difficult, other players should have already finished the task and the careless ones would have missed their chance.

So, while the strong but careful players were preparing, the weaker and more careless ones ran to the Sanctuary of Eminence immediately after hearing the system’s announcement... On the other hand, there were also the players like Xie Feng who had enough reasons to be confident in themselves.

"Hey, look..."

"That’s..."

"No doubt about it, that’s Shiva!"

"After a week of not appearing in public he showed himself again! Even though his level hasn’t increased since then he still occupies the first place in the level table."

"Those two women next to him are Rainbow Butterfly and Feng Yao, both of them also rank high on the level table and in the ranking of beautiful women!"

"But who are those three?"

"I don’t know... But look at the equipment they use, they must certainly be powerful players."

...

Of course, when Xie Feng’s group appeared on the scene and entered the shrine courtyard, they immediately attracted the attention of many people in the crowd; after all, Xie Feng was wearing his main equipment and even without the Calamity Spear in his hands, the black and white colored mask with a mysterious smile engraved on it had already become known to everyone. Moreover, it was well known that in most cases he was accompanied by the two women who ranked third in the ranking of beautiful women and although Xie Yao and Gu Qianxue had their faces covered from the nose up, only the lower part of their faces and their bodies were enough for anyone to know that they were both heavenly beauties.

On the other hand, although Hu Chen and the rest were not well known, the bronze and silver grade equipment that only elites could obtain was enough to attract many eyes as well.

The crowd could not help but unconsciously open up and form a path when they saw the group of six people advance forward. This was something the players seemed to have grown accustomed to and Xie Feng simply accepted the gesture in silence, walking indifferently without caring about the gaze of others; even if they looked at him with admiration, love, envy, hatred, or any other emotion, his heart was not even moved.

Xie Yao and Gu Qianxue also did not care about the stares they received, and although they noticed several lustful glances hidden in the crowd, it was not the first time something like this had happened and they both knew it would not be the last either. Beauty was an innate eyes magnet and both were undoubtedly two powerful magnets wherever they went, something they had no choice but to get used to.

"Looks like we’re not the first to arrive." Yue Kai whispered under his breath, seemingly worried about being heard.