Chapter 33: At Eighteen, Inducted into the Global Dungeon-Clearing Records Hall of Fame!?

To be able to reduce the completion time of a dungeon, which is strictly capped at three hours by the system, to a mere two minutes—

Wu Jun adjusted the glasses on the bridge of his nose.

As wise and composed as he was, he could only think of one possibility: this young man before him had killed every single monster within the dungeon.

The entire dungeon had been rendered completely safe.

Naturally, there was no longer any need to test a professional’s survival capabilities. The requirement to survive for three hours had lost all meaning.

However, the moment this thought entered his mind, he instantly dismissed it.

It was too ridiculous, too absurd.

According to the intelligence he possessed, this A+-difficulty dungeon supposedly contained a hidden boss that had gone undiscovered by countless professionals for over a hundred years. The existence of that hidden boss was the reason why the city of Phrycain was constantly spawning waves of shadow monsters. Unless that boss was eliminated, it was impossible to clear out every monster in Phrycain.

The method to activate that hidden boss remained a mystery to this day. However, many high-level experts with exceptional perception and appraisal skills had surveyed this dungeon and confirmed that the hidden boss was at least level 200 and possessed at least a King-tier rank.

A boss that was naturally level 200 was fundamentally different from those that had their levels forcibly boosted through mutation; the former was significantly more powerful.

Therefore, all guides for this dungeon explicitly warned challengers to be cautious and not to act recklessly, lest they trigger certain mechanisms that would awaken the hidden boss. If that happened, the dungeon would no longer be A+ difficulty—it would be a genuine S-rank threat!

"How... how on earth did he clear it?" Wu Jun was plunged into deep suspicion. He even felt the urge to grab Lin Yi and demand an answer.

However, in the next instant, the light curtain at the dungeon entrance began to tremble violently.

A wave of intense heat rushed out! Someone even caught a glimpse of blue flames flickering from the entrance.

The next moment, the dungeon entrance began spitting out the hundreds of people still alive inside, as if pouring beans from a container!

Wu Jun’s expression changed drastically.

What was happening? The seventy or eighty students he had just sent in, along with four or five teachers of the third and fourth advancement tiers—why were they all coming out?

The students were all unconscious. Only a few of the stronger teachers remained somewhat lucid after being forcibly ejected by the dungeon.

Wu Jun stepped forward, grabbed one of them by the collar, and demanded, "What is going on?"

"The completion time hasn't even arrived, why have you all come out?"

The teacher he held by the collar had pupils that kept dilating and contracting; his entire body was trembling.

"Fire... fire!!"

"There’s fire everywhere...!"

"No! No! Don’t burn me!"

"Help! Help! I don’t want to die!!"

His mental state had clearly collapsed.

Watching this scene, Lin Yi felt a twinge of guilt. After all, he was the culprit. He never imagined that a single "Divine Flame Heaven Conquest" would break the entire dungeon. The hellish sight of fire everywhere must have caused such immense psychological trauma to these adults!

The man's frantic screaming seemed to wake a group of semi-conscious students. For a moment, both teachers and students from Tianshui Academy were wailing and screaming as if they had experienced something truly terrifying. The scene was chaotic.

The onlookers watching from the perimeter were horrified. What exactly had happened inside? And what were these people referring to when they kept mentioning fire and the sun?

[Dungeon Adjustment Notice!]

[Attention to all Blue Star professionals: The special trial dungeon, City of Lost Light: Phrycain, has been completely destroyed due to special reasons. Effective immediately, this dungeon is permanently removed from the Blue Star trial dungeon sequence!]

[Henceforth, no professionals will be able to enter this dungeon for completion. The dungeon’s record leaderboard will be moved to the Hall of Historical Fame!]

This time, it was a dungeon adjustment announcement that resonated across the entire Blue Star!

Such announcements occurred hundreds of times a year. They generally meant that certain changes in the Abyss world, unknown to the Blue Star, had caused specific dungeons to vanish permanently. But issuing this notice at such a specific moment left everyone with endless room for speculation!

Zuo Qian and Jiang Xian looked at Lin Yi in astonishment. Damn, this kid had just entered the global hall of fame for Blue Star dungeons?

One had to realize that to this day, fewer than a thousand names across the entire Blue Star had ever been carved onto the Hall of Fame. It was the supreme honor for any professional!

He was 18 years old, and he had ascended to the global hall of fame for dungeon records!?

Facing so many eyes, Lin Yi knew that if he didn't say something, he wouldn't be getting out of this easily.

"Uh, well, what if I said I didn't do anything?"

"After I teleported in, I saw him," Lin Yi pointed at Jiang Chen, then continued, "So I intended to see how he was doing."

"At that moment, a sun suddenly rose in the dark dungeon, followed by a massive explosion. I don't know why I was fine, and then I just came out."

"It even told me I had cleared the dungeon."

Lin Yi had tried his best to lie. If he told the truth, nobody present would believe him anyway. But by distancing himself completely and blaming the bizarre events occurring within the dungeon, everything seemed to make sense.

Wu Jun frowned even deeper. Lin Yi’s account, combined with the claims of his own teachers, left him full of doubts.

Ignoring the teacher who was still screaming, he delivered a sharp chop to the back of the man's neck. The man slumped to the ground, unconscious.

Wu Jun knelt down and pressed two fingers to the man's forehead. His profession was a special branch of the Priest class: the Soul Priest. This profession possessed a vast array of skills that could influence and manipulate the minds of others. Reading someone's short-term memory was a trivial matter.

Wu Jun closed his eyes. After a veil of darkness, he relived the scenes from inside the dungeon through the first-person perspective of the unconscious teacher.

Dozens of seconds later, Wu Jun opened his eyes. Cold sweat was dripping from his forehead and back.

He finally understood why these third and fourth-tier teachers couldn't withstand the mental pressure. Even he was drenched in sweat now.

Wu Jun looked at Lin Yi again. The scenes in the dungeon were almost exactly as the kid had described. The credibility of Lin Yi's story instantly increased several notches.

Perhaps he really was just extremely lucky, stumbling upon the low-probability event of monsters killing each other in an Abyss dungeon, ultimately leading to its collapse. And since he was the only one conscious at the end, the record was attributed to him?