After leaving Ambeser, Brand had already put the task of Elemental Enlightenment on his schedule.
Because ever since entering the Elemental Manifestation Stage, all of his experience bars were locked in grey. This status in "Amber Sword" means that players must unlock the Elemental Enlightenment task before they can further level up.
But this is just one aspect.
The real reason for his arrival here was the information obtained from Laurena. The Frost Forest Maze was extremely famous within Erune in the past games, both for the maze itself and the famous Winter Young Dragon within it.
This instance is one of the few Legendary Instances within Erune, and so-called Legendary Instances simply allow guild-level teams of one hundred people to enter. Such instances, before the announcement of the third version, each civilized area outside the Black Forest (1) only possessed one unique instance, which in the earlier years Brand remembers represented the highest team challenge honor—the difficulty of the instance was thus imaginable.
Although Brand had already anticipated facing the ’young dragon on the Falling Needle Hills Road’, he didn’t expect the opportunity to ’descend’ upon him so soon. Frankly, if it weren’t for fear of Anlek seizing the Dragon’s Heart before him, he wouldn’t want to visit the Frost Forest Maze so early.
The Frost Forest Maze itself was a piece of Black Forest, a Black Forest within the lands of civilization, and almost the highest level one—Land of Law Inversion. Or the ’Trace of Dusk,’ similar in nature to the Saint’s Relics, Land of the Elves, such opposing existences.
As an Erune player, Brand was naturally extremely familiar with this instance. The existence of Frost Forest dates back to the time of the Battle of Dusk, after the fall of Babel Fortress, Frostweaver Milos fled south with the Miner people, and after seven days and nights of pursuit, Head Wolf Aisis caught this God of Giants at the border of the Land of Frost, ensuing a world-shaking battle.
Poem of the Blue writes: Aisis bit down on Milos’s neck, Father of Giants was immediately torn apart, its massive body seemingly transformed into a brilliant star, falling to the earth in three directions: east, north, and south. Where the giant star fell, raging flames arose, but these flames were without temperature, instead they were ascending ice flames.
Legend has it a fragment that fell south from the God of Giants Milos landed in today’s Viero, thus forming the eternal black forest. And even situated in the center of Martha’s Land of Blessing, has long remained unassimilated, in fact, in the game, Frost Forest nearly serves as the source of all monsters and player tasks in Viero.
In Brand’s previous life, although he had quite a few friends, he hadn’t joined any large guild before Erune’s fall, merely a small group with Senior Sister and a few others. Teams like theirs naturally had no fate with Legendary Instances like Frost Forest Maze, but even so, they experienced the extremity of this instance on the outskirts.
He remembers it was when the instance had just opened, the entire Erune’s players went to experience the novelty, and their team was no exception. But like most players, teams like theirs in fact hit a huge snag before even entering the instance’s door.
That was the young dragon.
The Gate God with the Golden People bloodline. Lurking near Frost Forest due to its liking for cold climates, it obstructed all players who attempted to enter this forest.
Honestly, before that, ordinary players hardly imagined the strength of the Dragon Clan. And the game designers well provided all players a chance to accumulate ’experience’ through this event.
So-called young Dragon Clan.
Actually, Brand also understood, Alorz was a ready example. Making players of that era, most of whom had not even awakened their Elements, face a little girl, the result was predictable. Brand even didn’t want to recall the details of that battle, because there were no details to speak of, simply put—it was like: we came, we saw, we fell.
And this was just the ’Old Man’ guarding the gate.
Precisely because of this, Brand urgently needed to first awaken his Elements. Legendary Instances may represent the peak of team instance difficulty in an era, but after all, they have their level limitations, once the Elements have been awakened, the difficulty of instances naturally decreases exponentially.