The thing which is suffocating me.

***Eight-Tailed Fox VS Giant Poisonous Horned-Snake***

“Good job, everyone!”

“I’ve got enough experience points now. Time to take the Level 5 test.”

“Ugh… I thought the system reset would wipe out our experience points, so I used them to increase my inventory capacity. How should I have known that they’d leave the experience points alone and also raise the requirements to take the level tests? Ugh.”

“Right. I never thought that I’d face an experience point bottleneck for the level-up tests.”

Everyone in the party had been above Level 5 during the beta test, so they were experienced experts in the game. Moreover, Hanma, Jeros, and Ohje were part of the top one percent of those invited. Consequently, these elite users possessed skills and abilities that went beyond their level, and these were the only reason why the party could clear the hardcore version of the quest without any preparation or training.

“Testing Room. Enter.”

“I’m going to train a bit more just in case. If I fail the test, I’ll lose a tremendous amount of experience points.”

“Great work, everyone! I’ll be sending out friend requests, so don’t deny it!”

The 36 members of the party started to scatter and go their own ways. Some remained in the Star Temple to complete other quests, but Merlin was not one of them...