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"What kind of stupid requirement is this anyway?" Nala could not help but complain after finally accepting their current predicament.
The timing simply could not have been worse.
They had already reached the final stage of Rook's hidden questline.
Beyond this ancient gate most likely lay the boss chamber itself—the destination they had spent days trying to reach.
There was no turning back now.
Even if they wanted to search for a male player or convince an NPC to accompany them, doing so would mean abandoning everything they had accomplished.
And that was simply unacceptable.
This was not even their first attempt.
It was already their fifth expedition into this hidden dungeon after failing the previous four runs.
The dungeon itself was absurdly difficult.
Although the system classified it as a five-man instance, the monsters within possessed strength and numbers more befitting a hundred-man expedition dungeon.
