Under Hell Mode, managing my Pain Value should still be relatively easy.
Counting this time, it seems I've gotten Hell-Level dungeons three times in a row. My Luck must really be something.
"Heh."
I chuckled unconsciously. Luckily, it's me. If it were a normal person, they probably couldn't handle this kind of setup.
"Hello, excellent players."
"I am your host for this session. You can call me the Great Tom."
"Welcome to the Devil's Asylum."
"Of course, if you want to call this place a prison, that's fine too."
Lu Ce looked at the tin robot in front of him and suddenly asked, "Tom? Are you the same voice from the previous game?"
"The Great Tom! Watch your words, kid!"
Lu Ce felt that the voice was indeed familiar but decided not to argue over trivial matters.
So he didn't respond, just opened his live stream to check for valuable information from the audience's perspective.
"Here we go, I skipped class just to watch the pro's perspective."
"I quit my job to watch this. Once I learn, I won't attend this B class anymore and will join the game."
"This is a high-level match. I checked earlier, and all five players in this game dungeon have cleared the game before, no newbies."
"And besides this guy, that foreigner over there is also a perfect-clear player!"
"This is going to be interesting."
"Wait, did I get it right? Why is the mask color different from last time?"
Lu Ce glanced briefly at the comments and noticed that more and more people were following him.
Being watched like this isn't great, but the advantage is clear: I can quickly learn about the people around me.
A high-level match, huh...
Looks like this time the people might not be as easy to deal with as last time.
Wait, mask color?
Reminded, Lu Ce turned to look at the tin robot, and from its mottled body, he could barely see his blurred reflection.
It was a red mask!
Red (MEIKO) — Gluttony!
"Personality Impact: Greed enhanced in appetite, mental chaos, able to eat anything, everything disgusting in the world becomes delicious in his mouth."
"Benefit: Incredible digestion ability, everything eaten is converted into energy, all negatives are offset."
"Side Effect: The more you eat, the higher the harmfulness of what you eat, the higher the degree of mental chaos, and the energy inside doesn't belong to you. If not released to a certain extent, you'll explode and die."
"Hiss..."
Lu Ce took a deep breath, not expecting to get hit with something big this time.
Last time with the Greed Mask, there were Normal and Overload modes to choose from, and in Normal Mode, there wasn't much change.
But Gluttony is different. It's the only one among the seven Mask of Sin attributes without a mode selection.
Food and sex are both desires, Lust and Gluttony are the two with the highest mental impact, meaning the highest negative impact.
But looking at this description, the functionality is absolutely insane. It's definitely a bug-level superpower in the early stages.
No wonder it's an S-level Sealed Artifact. The effects and side effects are top-tier, and I still don't know what the other states and Overload Mode will be like...
But high risk, high reward, fits the game's principle.
At least for now, I don't feel any mental impact.
"Alright, I suppose none of you are ordinary players."
"You can get to know each other, or exchange information, familiarize yourselves with each other's abilities."
"After all, in a sense, you're both partners and competitors."
"What do you mean?"
After the tin robot finished speaking, the foreigner among the players spoke up. Based on the previous comments, Lu Ce knew this was a perfect-clear player.
"Literal meaning, get familiar on your own."
The red light on the tin robot flashed twice, then its tracks rolled, dragging its body towards the door.
"So what's the task in this game?"
"Don't rush! Also, address me as the Great Tom!"
The tin robot seemed very angry at the player's rudeness, leaving without looking back.
After the door closed, the damp space of dozens of square meters only had the five players left.
The atmosphere fell silent, and due to the Hell-Level difficulty, there was even some suppression.
The foreigner who spoke earlier now frowned, saying with some confusion:
"What is the purpose of this robot coming here..."
"He didn't say anything. FUCK!"
"Maybe it came to act as a mirror." Lu Ce replied to his self-talk, touching his mask, "Also, can this international friend understand Chinese? Then why not speak it?"
After all, the robot seemed to be speaking Chinese, or is it that in this foreigner's ears, it's in English mode?
The foreigner was stunned, raised his eyebrows, showing a thoughtful expression, but casually replied:
"I don’t want to."
Lu Ce didn't pay him any more attention, and the atmosphere fell silent again.
"This game has five players, and they all don't seem to be newbies. It looks pretty serious.
Though each of them looks like they've eaten something disgusting, at least they didn't cry out when they heard Hell Mode, which is already good.
There's a foreigner who looks very arrogant, seems to understand Chinese but doesn't want to speak it, and his expression seems to be imitating some movie star, playing a deep character.
On the left is a Big Guy, looks strong, but probably not a useful player. Fortunately, his physical features are obvious, so we don't have to remember his name, just call him Big Guy.
Theft is never good, try looking at bit.ly/3iBfjkV.
There's also a woman, whose eyes have been darting around everyone since she came in, probably not an easy one either, but hopefully, she can drop some coins.
The one on the far right is the most flamboyant, a 1.9-meter-tall man. While others are in the game's basic attire, he somehow got himself a set of clothes, all red with patterns, let's call him Flamboyant Guy."
...
Silence...
The guy in red, whom Lu Ce called Flamboyant Guy, stiffly turned his neck, twitched his mouth, and said to Lu Ce:
"Come on, bro... can't you just think these things in your head? Why say the narration out loud?!"
Is your intelligence really okay?
Where am I flamboyant? It's the organization's required outfit, okay!