Surviving the Maze of National Destiny: Hints from the Chinese Characters I Understand

Soon, a cold notification tone entered his system and all the live broadcast rooms.

[Maze Game: This battle royale competition is a complete success! Survival rankings: 1st place: Lin Mo from Dragon Kingdom; 2nd place: Wang Fugui from Dragon Kingdom; 3rd place: Zhang Si from Dragon Kingdom.]

[Maze Game: Game ranking rewards have been distributed, please check. The Maze Points Exchange Shop is now open; all explorers with points can redeem their desired prizes there.]

Lin Mo felt extremely exhausted. He and Kabu transformed into a streak of light and disappeared from the arena. The next second, they returned to the original maze terrain on the second floor.

Without saying a word, Lin Mo took out 1000 ml of water (1600 ml remaining) and drank it happily with Cappuccino.

Then he took out 13 fragrant roasted potatoes (out of 30) and let Cappuccino eat his fill.

Lin Mo took out a full 500 grams of cod to replenish himself.

A series of notification sounds and announcements spread through Lin Mo's live stream.

[Congratulations to Dragon Kingdom Explorer Lin Mo for gaining 3 National Fortune Points, Dragon Kingdom Explorer Wang Fugui for gaining 2 National Fortune Points, Dragon Kingdom Explorer Zhang Si for gaining 1 National Fortune Point, Dragon Kingdom Explorer Li Qiang for gaining 2 National Fortune Points, and Dragon Kingdom Explorer Feng Qingya for gaining 1 National Fortune Point. The Dragon Kingdom currently has 65 National Fortune Points and a National Fortune Index of 0.65.]

Wow, the Dragon Kingdom's national fortune points have increased, and the proportion of returned resources will also increase accordingly.

Lin Mo guessed that Li Qiang and Feng Qingya from Longguo were probably from other groups, such as the Master Group or Grandmaster Group. They also achieved a ranking, which was really not easy.

But the most exciting thing is that the golden treasure chest has arrived. At this moment, it lies quietly in Lin Mo's personal space, glittering with gold.

Congratulations on obtaining 2 Golden Treasure Chests and 502 Competition Points! You can redeem rewards in the Competition Shop, which is only available for 24 hours.

"Duang!" Lin Mo took out two golden treasure chests from his personal space, and the entire live broadcast room was stunned.

[Chinese netizens: It's here! The Golden Legend!]

[A Chinese netizen commented: "After all that fighting, I really don't know what we'll get. I've never seen an explorer open a golden treasure chest before."]

[A netizen from China commented: "I heard from an explorer from the Free Kingdom that, according to his understanding, there's a small chance of a golden treasure chest appearing after level 20."]

[Chinese netizens: Open it quickly, open it quickly, I want to see Brother Lin release something good.]

The moment Lin Mo took out the golden treasure chest, he already knew what was inside; the hint had already explained it clearly.

The first treasure chest contains only one item, called "Difficult Choice".

[A difficult choice: Using this reel, you have two options.]

[1. Rise to the challenge! From now on, the monsters you encounter in the dungeon will be adjusted to Hard Mode. For example, with the same level 6 dungeon monster, you will gain half the experience points and half the resources in Hard Mode, and the rarity of resources will be increased by 50%. Friendly reminder: To clear the dungeon, you must upgrade to the highest difficulty and defeat Final Fantasy. Your country will obtain the final solution, restoring rivers, lush rice paddies, and the sounds of birdsong and fragrant flowers…]

[2. Maintain the status quo: Choosing to maintain the status quo will grant you 10 units of refined iron, 10 fire elements, 10 units of wood, 1000 ml of water, and 1000 g of high-quality rice.]

Lin Mo was shocked...

It turns out it's the authority to upgrade the difficulty of the maze?

In other words, is your current mode the simple mode?

To finally resolve the maze game's woes for the Dragon Kingdom, one needs to complete it on the highest difficulty level.

Lin Mo did not hesitate and directly chose the hard mode.

Because his purpose in coming here is to end this damn game and let everyone return to normal life.

Choosing the hard mode yields more experience points and resources, which are also rarer.

Putting everything else aside, the number of beast cores will increase by 50%, and your swordsmanship will improve faster.

My current combat power and Kabu's are enough to crush monsters of the same level in normal mode, and I believe we can handle the hard mode as well.

Of course, the biggest reason Lin Mo chose the hard mode was the contents of another treasure chest, which contained the "Perfect Blade of Calamity".

A perfect-level battle sword, how awesome is that?

With this thought in mind, Lin Mo used the "Difficult Choice" option and selected the first one.

Congratulations! Your choice was successful. Your future maze exploration journey has been upgraded to Hard Mode.

Lin Mo opened another treasure chest and obtained the "Perfect Calamity Blade Blueprint," which he then used.

Congratulations on successfully learning how to craft the "Perfect Blade of Calamity".

[Crafting the Blade of Calamity requires: 10 units of refined iron, 5 units of copper, 5 fire elements, 5 units of wood, and 1 unit of gold.]

There were many supplies needed, but Lin Mo wasn't worried at all because he still had 502 points left to use.

The system has a temporary competition shop with a dazzling array of items.

1 unit of wood = 5 points

1 unit of refined iron = 10 points

1 Fire Element = 10 Points

1 unit of copper = 15 points

1 unit of gold = 50 points

[Prophet's Scroll = 100 points (can be used to translate one maze hint)]

Transformation Pill = 25 points

Evolution Pill = 100 points

【Battle Pet Summoning Scroll (White) = 500 points (Summons a battle pet of the same level as you, quality random)】

[Battle Pet Summoning Scroll (Green) = 1000 Points (Summons a battle pet of the same level as you, guaranteed to be at least green quality)]

[Pet Summoning Scroll (Purple) = 10000 Points (Summons a pet of the same level as you, guaranteed to be at least purple quality)]

【Shelter for the Coward = 200 points (Establishes a safe point. When you encounter danger, you can teleport back to this safe point. Exclusive to the cowardly: if I can't beat you, I can run away.)】

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Lin Mo was stunned. Some of the items in this points mall were incredibly powerful, such as this "Shelter of the Cowards," which was basically no different from a free resurrection, without sacrificing national fortune points or counting towards the number of resurrections.

That pet summoning scroll is ridiculous too. It guarantees a purple-quality pet with a default affinity of 80, but it costs 1 points. Why don't you just rob it?

1 points? I couldn't get enough even if I killed all the monsters on the entire map. Wait a minute...

Can these points be saved? Are there even more difficult competitions with higher point values?

So that's how it is! Lin Mo suddenly understood. He asked the system and it confirmed his idea. The next competition was in 7 days, but the content of the competition was still unknown and would be randomly selected at that time.

Lin Mo's current supplies are all food, and these forging materials only contain one fire element.

Then I can only redeem it with points. Anyway, I don't care about those "Prophet Scrolls". Others would definitely treasure that item, but I don't need it.

Lin Mo couldn't wait to exchange all of the following: 10 units of refined iron, 5 units of copper, 4 fire elements, 5 units of wood, and 1 unit of gold.

You have successfully redeemed 10 units of refined iron, 5 units of copper, 4 fire elements, 5 units of wood, and 1 unit of gold using 290 points. These have been stored in your personal space. You have 212 points remaining.

Lin Mo rubbed his hands together: "System, begin forging the perfect Blade of Calamity."

[Your resources meet the crafting requirements, crafting in progress...]