Huh? Isn't This A Galgame?

Ye Jiu opened his player interface from the system and was about to open the equipment backup tab to take out the chip and the locked card from Guan Ailin, when he glimpsed a small red dot indicating a message in the upper right corner.

Wen Nan clicked on the message and found it was the task settlement result from the Snow Mountain Villa instance.

During the final task settlement, Wen Nan was inside the Divine Staff Sheath, busy smashing mussel meat, and did not have time to check the result.

Also, because he hadn't anticipated that after the inner wall of the Divine Staff Sheath was broken, he would be directly teleported back to the rest hall, the experience value settlement hadn't been completed in time.

Due to that "one wish," the system still completed the settlement for him and dutifully presented the result—

[Player Ye Jiu, the main mission settlement for this round is as follows:

Completion status: Completed;

Mission score: 90 points;

Mission rating: Excellent;

Additional rewards: None;

Locked targets: 1. The hostess of Snow Mountain Villa; 2. The designer and builder of Snow Mountain Villa; 3. Alchemist; 4. Guardian of the Divine Staff Sheath;

Strategy difficulty: ★★★★★★★★★★★☆;

Live broadcast room popularity settlement: 52,836 Gold Coins;

Live broadcast room betting settlement: 698,121 Gold Coins;

Live broadcast room tips settlement: 28,727 Gold Coins;

Account balance: 3,020,513 Gold Coins.]

The first thing that popped out was the result of the third main mission.

The task score and rating were unsurprisingly still excellent, after all, he had a very mature character that was good at self-strategy.

However, there were two things that surprised Wen Nan, the first being the unprecedented betting settlement in the live broadcast room, reaching nearly seven hundred thousand Gold Coins!

Actually, during the first main mission settlement, Wen Nan received four hundred thousand Gold Coins, which he guessed was because it was the first time entering an intermediate instance, and there were high-level sponsors who were foolishly generous and went all in.

But such all-in was one-time; in the second main mission, everyone immediately got smart, resulting in his second betting settlement only earning a meager 20,000 Gold Coins.

Unexpectedly, the last time, before Wen Nan opened that secret door, in the final betting pool, asking if the streamer could successfully exit the secret room on the roof, almost all the audience went all in, betting he wouldn't make it.

This directly brought Wen Nan's account balance up to three million.

Three million Gold Coins are enough to upgrade their guild's small, shabby office.

Apart from the account balance, there was another point that shocked Wen Nan—the last character identity of Yu Shouling, previously in an unlocked state, now finally displayed.

She is the guardian of the Divine Staff Sheath, and after Wen Nan successfully opened the Divine Staff Sheath, the originally hidden information was naturally revealed—

[Name: Yu Shouling (Miss Ling)]

[Background: Yu Shouling always believed that she was abandoned by her parents at birth. When she was dying, she was saved by an old man who went up the mountain to mine and took her in. However, that was not the case.

The reason Yu Shouling has no parents is that she was personally created by this old man.

This old man, whom Yu Shouling respectfully called father, is a projection of a memory left in this game world after the Great Demon Master Ah Rham passed away.

This Great Demon Master created an independent consciousness from the Divine Staff Sheath and molded it into the guardian of the Divine Staff Sheath with that consciousness as its soul. After thousands of model trainings, he crafted it into a naive young female character.

He stored this female character inside the Divine Staff Sheath and buried the Divine Staff Sheath deep at the summit of a neglected snowy mountain, patiently waiting for an opportune moment.

A century later, that moment finally arrived.

Yu Shouling's consciousness was awakened. Under the guidance of the memory projection of the Great Demon Master Ah Rham, she came to understand the world and learn her craft.

Yu Shouling has deep attainments in Alchemy and is quite obsessed with it. After the old man led her to this path, she devoted almost her entire life to Alchemy and to faithfully guarding the Divine Staff Sheath.

With her talent, perseverance, and patience, she created piece after piece of work that amazed the world, including the Snow Mountain Villa, the powder of Adam's rib, and Ye Jiu's one-night soul-calming cream...

Because of her duty to guard the Divine Staff Sheath and her obsession with Alchemy, since her awakening, she has spent most of her time locked in the room, living almost in complete isolation from the world.

Until your inadvertent intrusion completely disrupted her originally pure and peaceful life...]

Reading through the updated character background introduction, Wen Nan fell into deep thought.

Previously, in the main mission of the instance, Wen Nan vaguely guessed that the secret door and the Divine Staff Fragment were related, and when Yu Shouling mentioned her father, Wen Nan briefly suspected that it might be that Great Demon Master.

However, at the time, because he was considering the age difference between the two of over a hundred years, Wen Nan dismissed his speculation.

He didn't expect that the century-long difference was due to the Great Demon Master using his memory projection.

Now that the previously locked information has been completed, everything is clear—

The Divine Staff Sheath is a top-tier tool handcrafted by the Great Demon Master to collect fragments and reforge the Divine Staff.

And the seemingly naive Yu Shouling was indeed nurtured single-handedly by that Great Demon Master.

Though the Divine Staff Sheath can hold all 12 fragments, such an important tool, why is its guardian only rated at eleven and a half stars?

Why not create a character with a higher strategy rating to guard this divine tool?

Wen Nan had a vague guess in his heart about this—

Although the Great Demon Master Ah Rham could create female characters, she actually had no authority to determine the strategy level of the characters she created.

If Yu Shouling was only recently awakened due to the arrival of some special opportune moment a century later, just as she herself once mentioned, it's her first time opening the door to guests.

This means that before Wen Nan, Yu Shouling had never interacted with any players, and unlike other characters, she wasn't created by the game system within each instance; she was handcrafted by the Great Demon Master.

This led to the game system used to evaluate her strategy difficulty having hardly any prior data as a training set, making it difficult to accurately calculate Yu Shouling's star rating.

In this case, the game's developers would very likely return her a default value, which might be an average star rating, a median, or simply a random number.

In short, this eleven-and-a-half-star rating is likely not Yu Shouling's true level.

Yu Shouling might be the strategy character with the greatest growth potential that Wen Nan has encountered so far.

If Wen Nan hadn't accidentally taken the Divine Staff Sheath out of the map, and if Snow Mountain Villa continued as an instance to accommodate new players, Wen Nan believes that it wouldn't take many rounds for Yu Shouling's star rating to soar significantly.

However, it's a pity that this instance had bad luck; as soon as it opened, Wen Nan completely uprooted it, taking the most important tool with him, likely ending Yu Shouling's growth space as well, right?

But then again, how did Wen Nan manage to wipe out this instance?

During the first trial instance, Yu Shujun and Wen Nan had a conflict, completely removing the refresh point. In the second beginner-level instance, due to a bug in the map and Wen Nan's actions of stealing chips, it caused a significant incident in the entire map, which was directly closed.

Now, this third intermediate instance, just after its first opening, got the Divine Staff Sheath carried out by Wen Nan, once again facing the crisis of destruction…

In all the time playing this game, Wen Nan doesn't even know how a normal closure should be initiated with the refresh point intact.

Is he some kind of instance map assassin?

Enter one map, wipe out one map?