Chapter 266: The First Concrete World

After returning, Perry Yates wanted to try concretizing the dungeons she had previously experienced.

Concretizing a dungeon required cards, and there were requirements for both quantity and Card Level.

This might have been a problem for other players, but for Perry Yates, it was nothing at all.

The number of cards she currently possessed had already reached a terrifying total. And after the upcoming auction, that number was set to increase even further.

With a thought from Perry Yates, a golden panel appeared before her.

The panel displayed all of Perry Yates’s information.

[Name: Perry Yates

Identity: Cerulea Player No. 68656

Croupier No.: 001

Main Attributes: Wood Attribute, Sun Attribute, Moon Attribute.

Fusion Cards: Twin Sunflowers, Bicolor Rose, Thorny Rose, Yin Yang Bagua, Cold Moon Guardian, Seed of Life, Clone, Wargod Kai, Dodder Seed, Any Door, Water Lotus, Moon Shadow Stealth, Stone Record,

Comprehensive Evaluation: Five Stars

Concretizable Game Dungeons:

1: The Warped Jungle

2: Frostfell

3: Solara

4: Xenomorph World

5: Island Royale

6: Hide-and-Seek World

7: Cave Survival

8: Haisa

9: Giant Creatures]

She hadn’t realized it before, but seeing them all listed out, she was surprised she’d already experienced so many game dungeons.

After looking over all the dungeons, Perry Yates tried tapping on the first one. A smaller screen immediately appeared before her.

[Concretize dungeon "The Warped Jungle"?

The conditions to concretize this dungeon are as follows:

10,000 White Cards, Stability: One Star

8,000 One-Star Cards, Stability: Two Stars

5,000 Two-Star Cards, Stability: Three Stars

1,000 Three-Star Cards, Stability: Four Stars

Four-Star Cards, Stability: Five Stars

Five-Star Cards, Stability: Six Stars]

"..." ’So expensive.’

"What does this ’stability’ mean?"

[Stability refers to the impact on reality after a dungeon is concretized. The higher the stability, the smaller the impact.

The stability levels from one to five stars are as follows:

One Star: Very Dangerous. Explorers will receive no protection upon entry. Creatures from inside the dungeon may also enter the real world.

Two Stars: Dangerous. Explorers will receive no protection upon entry, but the monsters within the dungeon will have reduced hostility towards intruders.

Three Stars: Relatively Safe. Explorers will receive a degree of protection, and most creatures within the dungeon will be favorably disposed towards intruders.

Four Stars: Safe. Explorers will encounter virtually no danger after entering the dungeon.

Five Stars: Absolutely Safe. All dangers within the dungeon will be cleared with a single command, leaving no risk whatsoever.]

[Sufficient Five-Star Cards detected. Do you wish to perform a Five-Star Concretization of the dungeon "The Warped Jungle"?]

"No, don’t," she refused without any hesitation.

"I’d like to ask, once a dungeon is concretized, is its stability level fixed, or can it be upgraded later?"

[A dungeon’s safety level can be upgraded later, but all of the original cards must be replaced at once.]

"The replaced cards don’t disappear, right?"

[No.]

[If the player wishes to use the cards that are stabilizing the dungeon, the dungeon must first be closed.]

Hearing this from the system, Perry Yates finally breathed a sigh of relief. She then used twenty thousand cards to concretize two dungeons: The Warped Jungle and Frostfell.

As for why she chose those two, it was because they were relatively less dangerous.

This dungeon concretization feature was clearly intended for ordinary people, which was why Perry Yates chose these two.

However, since they were only at one-star stability, Perry Yates had no intention of opening them yet, even though they were now concretized.

Two keys appeared in her hand. One was green, depicting a tentacled, mutated monster. The other was shaped like a white snowflake.

She then went to the fifth floor and took out all the spoils she had gathered from the game.

The fruits were sent to the warehouse.

"Oh, Butler," Perry Yates said, "Amber Sheridan should be sending something over in a bit. Please receive it for me."

"Understood."

After the butler left, Perry Yates took out the white liquid she had collected in the game.

She had only tried a little of it before but had already felt a change in the cards within her. She guessed that this substance could likely cause her cards to evolve directly.

With that in mind, Perry Yates took a gulp. The next moment, a continuous stream of power flowed into her body and was absorbed by the cards within.

Perry Yates could feel the cards inside her growing significantly stronger—and that was just from a single gulp.

A person’s stomach could only hold so much. To absorb the energy and upgrade her cards faster, Perry Yates simply stripped off her clothes and jumped into the container filled with the white liquid.

The instant she submerged, Perry Yates felt as though every pore in her body had opened up, and a ceaseless stream of energy began to pour frantically into her.

At the same time, the thirteen cards inside Perry Yates’s body began to undergo a constant transformation.

An unknown amount of time passed. When Perry Yates opened her eyes again, only a thin layer of the white liquid was left in the container.

Looking down at her naked body, she noticed her skin seemed to have grown much fairer.

However, the physical changes were secondary. Most importantly, all the cards inside her had been upgraded to Five-Star Cards.

’This haul is incredible. I have to get my hands on the Giant Creatures dungeon, too.’

Using another ten thousand White Cards, she also concretized the Giant Creatures dungeon. Another key appeared in Perry Yates’s hand—this one was pale green with an animal pattern on it.

After getting out of the container and dressing, Perry Yates went to where she stored her cards.

With thirty thousand cards suddenly gone, the area dedicated to card storage instantly seemed much emptier. Many of the boxes were now empty.

’I should start by ascending cards to three-stars. That way, I can swap out the cards in the dungeons and officially open them to the public.’

With this in mind, Perry Yates took out a pile of cards from a box and dumped them all into the container she had just used.

The container still held some of the white liquid—no, it should be called Emperor’s Liquid. That was the name Perry Yates had just gotten after using an identification item.

The moment the cards touched the Emperor’s Liquid, they began to transform, their levels starting to rise.

Perry Yates fished out the cards that had been upgraded to three stars and put in new ones. Soon, the Emperor’s Liquid in the container was used up, so she poured in a lot more.

After that, Perry Yates repeated the process over and over: putting in cards, fishing out cards, pouring in Emperor’s Liquid. She had turned card Ascension into an assembly line.