Chapter Three: Thirty-Seven Players, One Sparring Session

A flood of experience swept through the dungeon. Lin Jin rose from level one to twenty-five, while every hunter was expelled for failing the challenge. The inheritance judgment never activated. Not one opponent had managed to touch him. Back in Bellfall's square, Lin Jin emerged from the broken bell tower with the dark-gold Crown still above his head. His livestream stopped at 1.03 million viewers, just beyond Cold Edge's audience. Su Wanqing placed their statistics side by side. Cold Edge had received 3.2 million yuan in gifts, ninety percent of it from seven newly registered corporate accounts. Lin Jin had received 74,600 yuan from more than fifty thousand individuals. The Crown passed judgment.