Chapter 197 Featherfall Gem

"Featherfall Gem, what is that? We've been to the Treant Forest five or six times, and we haven't gotten any Featherfall Gems," Dusk said in surprise.

Dusk naturally didn't know what a Featherfall Gem was, because Featherfall Gems only dropped in Expert difficulty, and only from the Treant King. The difficulty of the dungeon would change according to the level of the players in the team. The more high-level people in the team, the higher the difficulty of the dungeon.

It wasn't easy for players to clear the Treant Forest on Expert difficulty. Even the elite teams of those big guilds couldn't complete it easily, so that Featherfall Gem was even more precious.

"You'll find out when the time comes," Nie Yan said with a faint smile.

Dusk was a little puzzled, but he thought, since Nie Yan didn't say, he'd just follow the team and see what happened!

"This brother Tang Yao's equipment is too strange. Logically speaking, how can an arcane mage wear a Firechaser set?" Dusk said with some surprise.

As far as a team manager was concerned, if a Firechaser dropped in a dungeon, they would definitely give priority to equipping an elemental mage. Equipping a Firechaser to an arcane mage was too strange.

Nie Yan smiled faintly, without explaining.

Tang Yao blushed slightly. He was really a little guilty wearing this Firechaser set. He secretly made up his mind that he must get a top-level arcane mage set himself, then he would really have face.

"Nie Yan, how did you get to know the president of the Holy Roman Empire?" Yao Yao blinked her big, watery eyes, like a curious baby.

"It's not as mysterious as you said." Nie Yan just gave a plain account of what happened in Link Town yesterday, but he omitted the matter of the Chapter of Courage before.

"But I still think you're amazing," Yao Yao said very seriously, otherwise Banishing Fox wouldn't have praised Nie Yan so much.

"I think it's a bit strange, how could that dragon creature run to the town for no reason? Generally, elite and lord-level creatures don't leave their activity areas." Dusk couldn't figure it out. Such a thing was really rare.

Nie Yan's eyes swept over the Chapter of Courage in his backpack, hoping that no one would associate the appearance of the Order Guardian with him.

"What's so strange about that? The main brain might just be creating a monster siege to add to the players' fun. It seems that such things are not uncommon," Tang Yao said as a matter of course. His unintentional words helped Nie Yan out of the predicament.

"Maybe," Dusk nodded.

A group of twenty-odd people crossed an open prairie. From a distance, they saw a dense forest at the foot of the mountain, lush and misty. This was about ten minutes away from the town of Tarrak, and it was a famous twenty-person dungeon map nearby, the Treant Forest.

There were many players active at the entrance of the Treant Forest, mostly in groups of twenty. They were also here to run the dungeon.

"The Treant Forest is also lively, there are quite a few people."

"The players' levels have gone up, and if they want good equipment, they can only team up to run dungeons."

The Treant Forest was still relatively difficult, and the equipment that dropped was much better than ordinary dungeons. Many teams couldn't clear the Treant Forest, but it was also good to brush ordinary monsters inside to get equipment. If they couldn't beat it, they could retreat. Although the team honor would be reduced a lot, most teams were not elite teams, and they didn't have much demand for team honor. If the team honor was reduced, it was reduced, as long as the team wasn't wiped out, it would be fine.

Currently in Conviction, there were a total of thirty-six twenty-person dungeons within level five, distributed throughout the Greenland Empire, with varying degrees of difficulty. Among them, there were six high-difficulty dungeons, which could only be entered after the team honor reached a certain level. The other dungeons had no requirements for team honor.

"Holy Word Priest with thirty-seven spell damage, looking for a Treant Forest group."

"Level thirty-five, one hundred and seven health, sixty-seven attack Berserker looking for a Treant Forest group!"

The entrance of the Treant Forest was very lively. Many players were shouting for a group, and when they saw Nie Yan and others coming over, they ran over to ask.

"Boss, group me up."

"Brother, do you still have room in your team?"

Bai Kaishui stepped forward to deal with them, and said, "There are no empty spots, everyone please leave."

Those players could only leave in disappointment.

"Wait here for a while, I'll open the dungeon," Nie Yan said, and walked towards a glowing boulder at the entrance of the Treant Forest. He walked up to the boulder, reached out his hand, and touched it. A strange feeling surged from the bottom of his heart.

'In front of this lush forest, you discover that some strange words are engraved on this strange boulder: Jungle walkers, they absorb dew in the early morning sun. The shepherd's flute floats in the forest, awakening from the ancient years, the sleeping soul of the tree. The councilors of the Greenland Elders Council say that traces of dark elves have appeared in the forest. You mutter to yourself: These damned dark elves, why don't they stop?'

System: Do you choose to enter the Treant Forest?

Yes!

Nie Yan clicked confirm.

System: Please choose the difficulty of the dungeon, Simple, Normal, Difficult, Expert, Master?

Expert!

System: Are you sure?

Yes!

Nie Yan clicked Expert difficulty. A flash of white light flashed, and when Nie Yan and others opened their eyes again, they had already arrived in a lush forest, shaded by green trees. Although beams of sunlight were projected from the gaps between the trees, the whole environment still seemed a bit gloomy.

System: You have entered the Treant Forest dungeon, dungeon difficulty, Expert!

The other nineteen team members also received this message, and they looked at each other in dismay.

"How is it Expert?"

"Captain Nie Yan, did you choose the wrong one? How is it Expert difficulty?"

"Yeah, Expert difficulty, how can we possibly clear it?" The team members were all anxious.

Yu Lan looked at Nie Yan, but saw that Nie Yan's expression was natural. How could a person like Nie Yan make such a low-level mistake? Did Nie Yan deliberately choose Expert difficulty? No one had dared to try the Expert difficulty Treant Forest so far. Even the lowest and simplest dungeon would be ridiculously difficult once Expert difficulty was chosen, let alone the Expert difficulty Treant Forest.

"Since I brought you in here, I naturally have a way to bring you out," Nie Yan was very calm.

"What big words are you saying? No team has been able to clear an Expert difficulty dungeon so far, do you think we can? Our team hasn't even cleared the Simple level Treant Forest, don't put our whole team in just to show off," Chen Bo mocked, his tone extremely unkind.

"Is he your friend?" Seeing Chen Bo's impolite words, Dusk couldn't stand it, glanced at Nie Yan, and asked.

"No," Nie Yan shook his head.

"If a teammate in our team dared to be so rude to our captain, our captain would have kicked him out long ago, how could he let him talk so much nonsense," Dusk sneered, looking at Nie Yan, "Brother Nie is really good-tempered."

From Dusk's point of view, Nie Yan dared to choose the Expert difficulty Treant Forest, he must have confidence. This was interesting. He had originally just come to play with the team, but he didn't expect to gain something else.

Chen Bo was annoyed, but Dusk was invited by Bai Kaishui. If he offended Dusk, he would also offend Bai Kaishui, and he would definitely be more isolated in the team.

"Chen Bo, Nie Yan is a friend I invited, if you have any opinions about me, just say it directly," Yao Yao frowned slightly. Nie Yan didn't argue with Chen Bo, mostly because of her face. If she didn't say a few words for Nie Yan, it would be too unreasonable.

"Yao Yao, it's not like that," Chen Bo quickly explained when he saw Yao Yao was angry.

Yao Yao snorted coldly and turned her head away.

"I was just invited by them, I'll leave after finishing the Treant Forest. Everyone is just in a cooperative relationship, I'm not any captain either, the real captain is this beauty," Nie Yan pointed to Yu Lan next to him, and explained to Dusk. He wasn't a good-tempered person, Chen Bo had indeed annoyed him, he decided to teach Chen Bo a lesson, but fighting with this kind of person would lower his status.

"Chen Bo, you shut up next, otherwise don't blame me for being rude," Yu Lan scolded, and apologized to Nie Yan and others, "He's just like that, I apologize to Brother Nie on his behalf."

Yu Lan also felt very embarrassed. She and Chen Bo had been classmates for more than ten years, and their parents were good colleagues, so she couldn't do things too harshly.

She didn't expect Yu Lan to speak up for a few outsiders. Chen Bo glanced at Nie Yan and Dusk venomously.

Dusk also felt that arguing with Chen Bo would degrade his status, so he changed the subject and said, "Brother Nie Yan must have been prepared, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen Expert difficulty." Dusk was a subordinate of Banishing Fox, and he also wanted to see how capable Nie Yan was.

"Actually, Expert difficulty is not very difficult, it's just that the health is 30% thicker, and the requirements for the shield warrior's defense and the mage's output are slightly higher. The Treant King changes a lot, I will remind you then," Nie Yan said confidently.

Nie Yan said it easily, but Dusk understood what it meant for the health to be 30% thicker in the dungeon. When running a dungeon, a slight deviation, a health difference of 1%, a defense reduction of 1, or a spell damage deficiency of one or two points, could lead to the destruction of the entire team. Where did Nie Yan's confidence come from?