Chapter 86: What’s the Deal with Synchronization Rate? You Guess (Hehe~)
The situation wrapped up nicely, and the nobles paired off and left, while Kreimans had sneakily vanished even earlier.
With no one around, Elia swiftly scooped up Xu Xiaofeng into a bear hug. “Little Wind, you’re just amazing!”
“This time, I finally had a chance to take a deep breath!”
When Xu Xiaofeng wriggled out of Elia’s embrace, she was gasping for air, her head still spinning a bit.
“Big sister, that was so violent…”
“Ah, uh…” Elia chuckled awkwardly, “Little Wind… I was just targeting Kreimans…”
“No worries! You were super cool!”
As for whether they were worried about Kreimans’ revenge? Both couldn’t care less.
My sister is a princess! A royal! What are you gonna do about it?
Ding! NPC Elia Jade Aofuli’s favorability towards you has increased, and your relationship is now best friends.
In the next moment, Xu Xiaofeng was back in the dark again.
“I’m dying… I can’t breathe!”
“Hahaha… Sorry, I got a bit carried away.”
After a moment, Elia asked about the details of Xu Xiaofeng’s time in the tower.
“I get it now! Little Wind, you’re really smart!”
Using wits against legendary foes is always the way to go.
Although Xu Xiaofeng skipped a lot of details, Elia could tell the battles were tough.
“So, why did you stay on the first layer for so long?”
“Well, you see…” Xu Xiaofeng thought for a moment, then replied, “I ran into someone really interesting and chatted with him for a while.”
“And you chatted for over an hour?!”
“Eh? Was it really that long?”
“You’re just… too cute!”
Elia giggled and changed the subject.
If Little Wind didn’t want to share, she wouldn’t pry; everyone has their secrets.
“Last question. Did you run into anyone ancient in the Heroic Spirit Tower? Like, not from the Jade Emperor Kingdom?”
Xu Xiaofeng shivered at the question.
Well, does the Golden Kingdom count?
But she decided to keep Aslan’s matter under wraps.
“I met a really weird guy on the Tenth Layer, all in black. He didn’t seem like someone from the Jade Emperor Kingdom. Unfortunately, I couldn’t understand what he was saying, so I couldn’t confirm anything.”
“Oh, well, that means he definitely isn’t one of ours.”
“Isn’t it a problem if he’s not from the Jade Emperor Kingdom?”
“Not really. It’s just said that certain special individuals might encounter ancient spirits in the Heroic Spirit Tower, which would greatly help us research the past. Plus, meeting an ancient powerhouse indicates that the challenger has exceptional talent.”
Elia led Xu Xiaofeng to the dining table, serving her food while continuing to chat, “For example, I once met a spirit who claimed to be from the Golden Kingdom while entering the Heroic Spirit Tower. They were very powerful.”
Clunk!
Xu Xiaofeng’s food plopped back onto her plate.
“Big sister, please tell me more!”
“Are you really that interested in the Golden Kingdom?”
“Absolutely! Super interested!”
“Well, there wasn’t much to say at that time. If you’re keen, I’ll have Amelia help you gather some information later.”
“Thanks, big sister!”
They chatted a bit while eating, and after Xu Xiaofeng replenished some energy, Amelia was called to escort her out.
She hadn’t eaten much—just three plates.
As Xu Xiaofeng walked, she opened her friend messages.
As expected, she was bombarded with a wave of notifications.
In fact, she had seen the prompt when she exited the tower, but the timing wasn’t right, so she had to wait until now.
First, she checked messages from her sister.
Xu Xiaoyue had arrived in the main city over an hour ago. The first thing she did was report to Big Brother, but he ignored her.
Then she tried to find Nuclear Bomb Little Sister, but couldn’t locate her and went back to ask Big Brother again. Ignored again.
Finally, when the system notification rang, she cut to the chase with a summary: “Awesome!”
So, Xu Xiaofeng replied, “I’m done with my事情. Nuclear Bomb Little Sister should show up later this afternoon. She goes to her stall on a schedule, so just keep an eye out.”
“And remember, my identity can’t be revealed! It’s best if nobody knows you know me. There are too many people looking for me now. So we can’t meet up for a while.”
Soon enough, she received a ‘OK’ gesture.
As for Fat Wang’s messages? What was he chatting about with Kun?
She took a glance and casually replied with “TD.”
Xu Xiaofeng continued replying and refreshing the forum as she made her way back through the teleportation array.
She didn’t even notice that two shadowy figures were following her the entire way.
As she turned a corner, the shadows followed suit… but their bodies didn’t turn.
With a tilting of their heads, the two pursuers collapsed onto the ground.
Steven appeared out of nowhere, looked at the two on the ground, then glanced at the distance where Xu Xiaofeng was. “What’s going on? How did she not notice such a shoddy tailing? How did she spot me that day?”
“She’s too young and lets her guard down in the city. Little does she know, sometimes the city is far more dangerous than the wild.”
After waiting a bit, the two newcomers dragged away the half-conscious pursuers, then Steven continued to tail Xu Xiaofeng from a safe distance.
Xu Xiaofeng was getting the hang of things on the forum.
Honestly, it didn’t bother her much; it was just a bunch of people wanting to find her.
Gotta blame the system, that old l… old cutie.
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So cheeky to not give a heads-up before the announcement.
Wait a minute… it seems like they did give a warning.
cr*p! Sean, you rascal! In that kind of situation, how could I not drop a name?!
As for the Heroic Spirit Trial Tower information?
Go search for it yourself.
The system already mentioned that a low synchronization rate just doesn’t cut it.
She could enter early simply because she got herself a great big sister.
I have to say, the experience from the Heroic Spirit Tower is truly abundant.
But thinking it over reveals, from both the perspective of real-world design and numerical design, it makes sense.
From a real-world design perspective, challenging the Heroic Spirit Tower during weaker periods makes it easier to grow stronger. By the time you’re strong enough to challenge it, it’s not nearly as meaningful anymore.
Otherwise, it wouldn’t just be young people challenging it.
From a numerical design view, only Xu Xiaofeng cleared the Heroic Spirit Tower at level 11. Who knows if others at level 20 could even pass a few layers.
Even if a level 20 could make it through, the experience needed for leveling up is probably in the millions, and a reward of 200,000 experience? What good is that? Just to stick in your teeth?
So, grinding now is genuinely satisfying!
Too bad, according to big sister, they have to wait at least half a month to enter again, and by the next time, it’ll probably be way less effective.
She focused back on her own panel. The last column: Synchronization Rate: 32% (Level 12%, Extra 20%).
According to Sister Tong, that’s basically awakening rate.
With a higher awakening rate, she should get stronger, right?
She felt her current state.
She definitely felt stronger; it’s just unclear whether it was the high awakening rate that made her stronger or if she got stronger first, leading to the awakening rate increase.
In any case, this is still a perplexing set of data.
