Vampire Princess Guide in Progress - Volume 1 Chapter 31

Chapter 31: Some Intelligence on the Third Floor

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Normally, after successfully defeating a floor BOSS, the first thing an attack team wants to do is step onto the teleportation array to the higher floor, reach the newly opened game map, take in the new landscape, and obtain first-hand intelligence about the new map.

Because of the rich map design and exaggerated details in 《Floating Island》, exploring new areas has been a major driving force for players.

But the third floor is different.

There is a limitation to the map environment of the third floor.

Even though the third floor is now open to all players, not many people can enter immediately. During the closed beta, Tilia Scarlet had learned about the third floor map, which features a new landscape quite different from the first and second floors — Winter Snow Plains.

Unlike before, the third floor has added harsh weather as an environmental element.

Under the extremely cold environment DEBUFF, free passage is no longer possible. If players don’t have cold-resistant gear, they cannot explore deeply.

In the weather of wind and snow, players traveling across the snow plains will continuously stack the 【Cold】 DEBUFF. Besides making movement speed sluggish, when stacked to a certain level, it turns into 【Frozen】.

Once in a frozen statue state, HP values will decrease very slowly. Without teammates to help break the ice, it’s almost certain death.

Therefore, fire-type Mages are said to have a particular advantage on this floor.

The third floor has a main city called “Ice Snow City,” which has heating devices in the safe zone inside the city that prevent stacking the cold DEBUFF. However, the long distance from the teleportation entrance to the main city is enough to cause countless players to fail along the way.

As for obtaining cold-resistant gear, it can be acquired through certain side quests or by grinding materials on the second floor.

Therefore, going to the ice and snow-covered third floor without adequate preparation means that the harsh cold weather can become a life-threatening factor, not to mention the Lv.15 monsters that outclass the combat level of 90% of current players.

Additionally, as the map floors increase, the game’s difficulty also continuously increases, but the resource enhancement coefficient grows faster than the difficulty.

Because of the additional environmental difficulty coefficient, starting from the third floor, green-quality and blue-quality equipment drops have significantly increased. The types of item rewards have also multiplied, and monster experience values are plentiful.

As long as players survive, the level of danger in this game ultimately can’t keep up with the players’ growth.

Thinking back to the people in the city who had fallen into despair, Tilia understood why people would be in a state of passive survival under such an atmosphere and pressure, but she had now successfully proven that defeating the BOSS was feasible.

Although, she had almost disappeared from this world because of it.

Even now, recalling that final hit she took still makes Tilia shudder.

But undoubtedly, even if no one hoped to clear the game, even if she were alone, she would continue to progress through this game. The most difficult and dangerous hurdle of the early stage was over, and she had now retrieved her closed beta character.

Only… she wasn’t adapting to this petite body as well as she had imagined…

“Tsk, my thighs and under my skirt feel so chilly…”

This wasn’t the case during the closed beta!

It seems that as pain sensation was implemented, various bodily sensations in the game were also added?

During the closed beta, there were no physical sensations in the game. Even if you put your hand into a fire pit, all you would feel was continuous vibration on your palm, and a prompt like 【Your arm is being burned by flames, please leave and seek treatment immediately】 would pop up.

Even if you were burned, you would only lose some HP.

But now, as Tilia quickly flew through the forest due to the teleportation magic cooldown, she heard the howling wind passing by her ears. Her already light and thin skirt was blown about wildly, and the black lace panties she wore underneath occasionally peeked through.

That chilly feeling was creeping up under her skirt, almost becoming unbearable.

Fortunately, there was no one around, otherwise, this beautiful Vampire Princess would have been completely exposed, with her underwear in full view.

Although she knew that sensations had been implemented when entering the game during the public test, she didn’t expect to feel it so strongly in this particular way, finally forcing her to make the girlish gesture of trying to hold down her skirt with her hands.

After about ten minutes, Tilia returned to the inn.

Standing at the door to her room, she hesitated for a moment, wondering if the room would still grant her entry permissions, since it was still technically 【Nolan’s room】, but surprisingly, she passed the identity verification.

Back in the room, she seemed to breathe a sigh of relief as she sat on the soft bed.

At the same time, Tilia noticed that at this late hour of 4 AM, players on the lamp-lit streets of Morning Dew Town were excited about the news of the second floor BOSS being defeated, making the entire town even livelier than during the day.

Indeed, the BOSS kill announcement was received by everyone, even those players who had hidden in the safe zone since day one of the game.

— 【It’s not over yet】.

This was the message that the BOSS kill announcement was conveying to all hopeless players, in just these four words.

The same applied to Tilia, her life was also far from over. However, her immediate task was to adapt to this young girl’s body as much as possible, and also… there were some things she didn’t understand about what happened when she transformed back into Tilia.

This world… how exactly is it constructed?