Hearing Shiho Miyano's voice, Lin Tian's hand, which was patting the maids, froze. He turned his head and saw that Shiho Miyano had appeared behind him at some unknown time.
"Uh... they completed my request, so I'm rewarding them."
Lin Tian told the truth. He was upright and honest!
Looking at the iron ingots and poppies scattered on the ground, Shiho Miyano believed Lin Tian's words. After all, no matter how perverted Lin Tian was, he wouldn't be that desperate.
But looking at the loli maids surrounding Lin Tian, Shiho Miyano felt speechless again. Just how much does he like them?
"The maids you were talking about... are these?"
Seeing the speechless expression on Shiho Miyano's face, Lin Tian also gave an awkward laugh.
"They're maids! Why care so much about their body type! As long as they're useful!"
"Ahem! Of course, while being useful is enough, being good-looking is naturally even better!"
Seeing Shiho Miyano's disbelieving expression, Lin Tian coughed twice and spoke the truth.
Shiho Miyano glanced at Lin Tian, looked at the surrounding maids, and asked, "You summoned so many maids not just to serve you, right? Is there some other purpose?"
Shiho Miyano didn't believe Lin Tian would summon so many maids just for his own selfish desires. That didn't quite fit Lin Tian's character. There must be some reason that led Lin Tian to summon so many maids.
Moreover, Shiho Miyano had keenly noticed that these maids were all holding Netherite swords. It was obvious those Iron Golems had been mobbed to death.
Since Lin Tian specifically summoned so many combat maids, it must mean some crisis was about to descend. But Lin Tian already had a weapon as powerful as the Sword of the Cosmos, what crisis could he still be afraid of?
Hearing Shiho Miyano's question, Lin Tian fell silent. He wasn't sure if he should tell Shiho Miyano. After all, this challenge truly held danger. Although he had resurrection coins as a safety net, Lin Tian wasn't planning on telling them about this yet.
But with Shiho Miyano's intelligence, she would probably guess his actions soon. Was there any point in hiding it?
"Are you trying to hide something from me? Is there some reason you can't tell me?"
Shiho Miyano saw Lin Tian's hesitation and looked at him in confusion, wondering if she should stop asking. What if it ruined the good impression he had of her?
Just as Shiho Miyano was about to give up, Lin Tian spoke.
"Actually..."
......
After taking 3 minutes to explain the whole story, Lin Tian stopped, quietly looking at the silent Shiho Miyano.
"So, you created so many maids just to fight the creatures from those strange and terrifying mods."
After hearing Lin Tian's explanation, the way Shiho Miyano looked at these maids had changed. In a dungeon where divine artifacts couldn't be brought, these maids were excellent bodyguards!
"Are you really going alone?"
Shiho Miyano came to Lin Tian's side, a worried expression on her face.
"This is the first time. I have to be the one to scout the path. I need to observe the difficulty of this challenge dungeon, otherwise, letting you all go in would just be suicide."
Lin Tian's words were firm. Although MC had many useful mods, it also had just as many terrifying ones. The strangeness of some mods was beyond what a normal person could even imagine!
But the only reassuring thing was that even if he couldn't complete these mods, and they assimilated into the main world, he could still choose to disable them.
He had suddenly remembered this earlier. When he first heard he had to complete these challenge dungeons, he was stunned and didn't react right away. Only later did he remember he could disable mods he didn't want!
He had even specifically asked the system, only to hear the system's mocking voice...
Just thinking about that scene made Lin Tian clench his teeth. To be tricked by a little loli system, what a disgrace!
"...."
Shiho Miyano heard his words and knew she couldn't change Lin Tian's mind. She just silently moved closer to Lin Tian and hugged his thigh...
A brief silence. Lin Tian crouched down and picked her up.
"Don't worry, it's just a small challenge, very easy. Besides, did you forget I can resurrect infinitely?"
Lin Tian held Shiho Miyano, comforting her gently.
"But the feeling of death... does it really feel good?"
Shiho Miyano's voice was muffled. She didn't know what death felt like, but it definitely wasn't pleasant!
Hearing Shiho Miyano's words, Lin Tian was speechless. Although he was no longer afraid of death, the experiences from the first few times had indeed left him with bad memories.
"Ding! Experience bar unlocked."
The system's prompt suddenly sounded in Lin Tian's mind.
Experience?
Hearing the system's prompt, Lin Tian was a bit dazed. Was this most basic thing in MC also counted as a mod? And it's only unlocking now?
Just as Lin Tian was wondering, the girl within the system quickly popped out to explain.
"Host, the use of experience is not the same as the original! Because you haven't fully integrated into this world, every time you die, your soul will undergo a 'little' change, which is why you were controlled by killing intent before."
"But with the addition of the experience bar, you can rely on experience to eliminate this burden after death. At the same time, experience can also repair your soul."
"As for its original function... if you need it, it can be changed."
Hearing the system's explanation, Lin Tian roughly understood the function of experience. It seemed that his mind had indeed suffered some problems when he fought the Knight of the Apocalypse and killed those weird things on the moon.
As for the original function the system mentioned, Lin Tian felt it wasn't necessary for now. For the time being, mending with experience was probably the most useful part.
When he needed experience for enchanting or leveling up later, it wouldn't be too late to switch it back.
Feeling a new, profound and mysterious sensation in his body, Lin Tian understood. This was probably the feeling brought by experience... right?
......
Time flew by, and soon, 2 days had passed.
And today was the first day the system said the challenge dungeon would begin.
"System, how do I enter the dungeon you said would open? Do I set up a portal? Or what?"
Lin Tian stood in an open space, his maid army before him. Each maid was in a full set of enchanted Netherite armor, holding various enchanted Netherite weapons.
Lin Tian himself was wearing a full Dark Matter set, and his weapon was also made of Dark Matter. He held a Transmutation Table in his left hand, and had several armor transformers on his body.
It wasn't that he didn't want to bring the stronger Infinity and Red Matter sets, but he felt that even his Dark Matter set might be disabled by the system!
Now he could only hope the system wouldn't disable his Transmutation Table, armor transformers, and battle maids.
Actually, he was never sure if the battle maids could be brought in, but he was going to try anyway. After all, battle maids are, strictly speaking, still maids... right?
And beside Lin Tian, the girls were all standing by his side.
That's right, Lin Tian had eventually told them about it. After all, they had lived together for a while. Especially Mitsuri Kanroji, as his partner, she had the most right to be told.
However, Lin Tian ultimately did not agree to their request to go with him. After all, he could be careless with himself, but not with them!
Besides, he was completely unbothered by this dungeon challenge now. Infinite resurrection, experience to repair soul damage, no loss of consciousness—what was this? Wasn't this just playing a game!
So, right now, Lin Tian just felt he was terrifyingly strong. He was abnormally confident! He wouldn't even care if he had to start from scratch!
"Is that so? If the Host wishes, this system can also..."
"No need! Absolutely no need! Starting from scratch is challenging, but this is just fine!"
Hearing the system's voice, Lin Tian immediately disavowed his previous thought. Although he didn't care about starting over, if there was a convenient way, only an M would enjoy playing with their life over and over!
"Heehee~ (ﾟ∀ﾟ)"
"Since the Host doesn't want to start from scratch, then let's forget it."
Lin Tian breathed a sigh of relief. If this damn system had really listened to him and disabled everything he brought, he would really have no tears left to cry!
"Since the Host is ready, let's begin!"
"The challenge dungeon portal is about to open. Host, please confirm the placement location."
Lin Tian looked at the girls beside him, nodded, and teleported with all the maids to an obsidian sky island he had specially built yesterday.
(Lin Tian: This is called foresight.)
After arriving at the obsidian sky island, Lin Tian signaled the system to place the portal right there.
After confirming the specific location, a black light curtain that seemed to want to suck people in unfolded.
Moving closer to the light curtain, one could hear the roars of various unknown creatures from within.
"This is what the challenge dungeon is like? It does look pretty creepy."
Lin Tian sized up this strange light curtain. It looked quite ominous, but that was about it.
"Let's go, maids!"
With that, Lin Tian was the first to step into the light curtain.