The weather was clear and cloudless.
Today was the second day after the end of the second stage of the Chunin Exams.
After the combat matches of the second stage of the exam, the internet cafe, this wondrous place, had begun circulating among Konoha's Jonin circle.
After all, the match between Sasuke VS Rock Lee left a very deep impression on these Jonin.
Rock Lee, who had opened the Fifth Gate of the Eight Gates, was someone even these Jonin had to treat seriously, as they could easily be defeated if they weren't careful.
Even such a Rock Lee appeared helpless and unable to do anything when facing Sasuke's Sword Array.
The Jonin all knew that the Uchiha Clan did not possess such secret sword arts.
To figure this out and resolve the doubts in their hearts, the wondrous internet cafe naturally came into their sight.
Hiruzen Sarutobi had no solution for this.
He couldn't exactly stop these Jonin from going to the internet cafe to play games.
However, he also issued a gag order, restricting knowledge of this matter to the Jonin circle. At most, their subordinates could know, but everyone else must still be kept in the dark.
Hiruzen Sarutobi also found a good excuse regarding the doubts raised by the various Jonin.
Since it was the Chunin Exams period, all sorts of people were in Konoha Village, and he was only doing this to ensure that Ninja from other villages wouldn't find out about the internet cafe.
Once the Chunin Exams concluded, he would naturally lift the gag order and allow all Konoha Ninja to enjoy the 'fun' brought by the internet cafe.
Whether or not these Jonin believed this excuse, he, Hiruzen Sarutobi, certainly did.
As long as there was a proper excuse, these Jonin wouldn't cause any trouble. After all, he was the Hokage of Konoha Village... "Yo, Kakashi, you guys came quite early today."
With the Chunin Exams over, Team 7 returned to its usual routine.
In the morning, they would first take ten d-rank missions, and only after finishing them would they go to Ge Liang's internet cafe to play games.
However, today, the members of Team 7 did not go on missions but came directly to the internet cafe.
"Uncle, you told us yesterday that the internet cafe had an event today, so naturally, we had to come early."
It turned out that on the first day after the second stage of the exam ended, Ge Liang informed the visiting customers that the internet cafe would have an event today and hoped they would participate.
The customers immediately asked what kind of event it was.
Ge Liang didn't specify, only telling them they would find out when they arrived the next day.
And so, Team 7 skipped their missions and came straight over.
"Oh, right, Uncle, you still haven't told us what kind of event this is."
"Here~ See for yourselves."
Hearing Naruto's question, Ge Liang pointed directly to a small blackboard inside the room and told them to look.
"diablo ii Game Speedrun Event!"
"Rules Introduction: One: The event is divided into the Solo Group and the Multiplayer Group."
"Two: The game difficulty for the Solo Group is Nightmare, and the game difficulty for the Multiplayer Group is Hell."
"Three: Kill the game BOSS corpse explosion."
"Four: The person who takes the shortest time wins."
"Five: Repeat challenges are allowed."
"Six: This event lasts for three days."
The rules were simple: see who kills corpse explosion in the shortest time, and participants could repeat the challenge if they were unsatisfied with their time during the three-day event period.
Of course, every time they entered the game, their character would revert to Level 1.
"Uncle, isn't this event a little too simple?"
Looking at the event description, Naruto appeared particularly confident.
Because during the Chunin Exams, when the three of them snuck out of the Forest of Death to play at the internet cafe, they had already killed corpse explosion once.
Thus, in Naruto's view, this event was simply asking them to kill it again—it had no difficulty whatsoever.
"Idiot, look closely at the second rule."
Naruto's words made Sakura furious.
She knew that they had played on Normal difficulty back then, and even so, it took them several hours to kill corpse explosion.
This was partly due to their unfamiliarity with the game, but it also showed that as the first BOSS in diablo ii, corpse explosion still had its own prestige.
"Nightmare and Hell? Hiss~ Has the difficulty been increased?"
After Sakura's reminder, Naruto also clearly saw the second rule.
Although he didn't know how much the difficulty had increased, with both Nightmare and Hell involved, it seemed certain the difficulty jump was significant.
"The difficulty is high, but the rewards are quite generous."
While Sakura was correcting Naruto, Sasuke had already finished reading the event rewards written on another small blackboard.
"Event Rewards: Solo Group Champion: Self-select an item worth five million Ryo."
"Solo Group Runner-up: Self-select an item worth two million Ryo."
"Solo Group Third Place: One weapon or piece of equipment worth one million Ryo."
"Multiplayer Group Champion: Self-select items worth twenty million Ryo."
"Multiplayer Group Runner-up: Self-select items worth ten million Ryo."
"Multiplayer Group Third Place: One weapon or piece of equipment worth one million Ryo per person."
..."Boss, it looks like you're going to bleed money this time."
After the members of Team 7 finished reading the event rewards, they were all startled by Ge Liang's grand gesture.
The total value of prizes for the Solo Group and Multiplayer Group actually reached forty-six million Ryo (Multiplayer Group maximum eight people)—this was no small amount.
"Yes, yes, I've taken out my life savings for this event. I hope I don't lose too much."
Hmm, he definitely wouldn't lose money.
The items that the black-hearted Ge Liang sold to customers, excluding a few life-saving items, were priced at ten times the Mall Price.
In other words, although he was ostensibly offering forty-six million Ryo in prizes for this event, the actual cost was only about five million Ryo.
Items like the Immortal Pill from legend of sword and fairy 1 and the Teleport Scroll from diablo ii could only be exchanged once per person, minimizing his expenses as much as possible.
Only five million Ryo—Ge Liang might even profit from this event.
Think about it: the internet cafe has thirty computers, the event lasts three days, and it operates twelve hours daily.
If the daily revenue is maximized, that's three hundred sixty Ryo per day, or one thousand eighty Ryo over three days.
Of course, this was only the best-case scenario.
However, Ge Liang believed that even if the daily revenue wasn't maximized, it certainly wouldn't be lower than eighty percent.
In this way, he still wouldn't lose money... "Oh, right, I forgot to tell you, the Multiplayer Group can have up to eight people playing together, so what do you think..."
Knowing the event details and rewards, The four people of Team 7 naturally wanted to participate.
Compared to the five million Ryo reward of the Solo Group, they naturally preferred the twenty million Ryo reward of the Multiplayer Group.
The increased exchange amount meant they could redeem some Advanced items that the Solo Group couldn't afford.
However, hearing Ge Liang say that the Multiplayer Group could have up to eight people left them in a dilemma.