On the day when the two-way teleportation circle was opened to the public, the teleportation circles of the two main cities were once again crowded with people. Players also came to join the fun.
Fortunately, the teleportation officer who just took office had already anticipated this situation. A few days ago, he arranged guards responsible for maintaining order, so there was no major chaos.
This time, it was opened but Xu Sili didn’t appear again. It was presided over by the chief administrator, Wen Jishan.
In front of the interview camera, Wen Jishan announced in public the rules for the use of the teleportation circle, including the welcome time, the difference between teleporting people and objects and the fees to be charged.
The teleportation circle required special energy so the teleportation wasn’t free. A single teleportation required 1,000 Escher coins and it could teleport 10-50 people at a time, or cargo that was less than 10 tons.
The price wasn’t particularly expensive. If they could find 50 people to chip in then on average, they only needed 20 Escher coins per person.
It was worth mentioning that the teleportation circle used the traditional source stone according to the blueprints. Later, Xu Sili had a whim and used a star core that Si Sheng brought back for him. Then he found that it could be replaced.
Source stone mining was very troublesome. It was much more convenient to have the star core of the interstellar beast as an alternative. According to the current number of interstellar beasts, the star cores were inexhaustible.
The teleportation circle fee wasn’t for profit, but to limit the usage. This way, no one could teleport to play around.
Finally, after a simple ribbon-cutting ceremony, the teleportation circle started to officially operate.
The first to teleport naturally didn’t include the braves.
Due to the beast wave, the main cities had been closed off for the past three years and many people’s families were separated. Naturally, they should take care of these people so they could be reunited.
Will was in the first team that was arranged to use the teleportation circle in Orchid Moon City.
Before the beast wave, he was sent as a support soldier from Imperial City to Orchid Moon City. He was about to return after the expiration of his term, but he was caught in the beast wave and sealed with the city.
Doing the math, he hadn’t been home for five years.
When he left, his wife had just conceived. Now…
Aside from asking his team leader to help transfer back the subsidies he accumulated every month, Will hadn’t contacted them for a long time.
He was just an ordinary soldier and the communicators issued by the army didn’t support cross-city communication. Orchid Moon City was in such a difficult situation before. It was precarious and he could die at any time.
The last time he contacted his wife, he proposed to divorce her so she could remarry as soon as possible and not be delayed by him.
In fact, he should’ve done this a long time ago but he still delayed her for three years in vain. How could he not know when he had been fighting in the army?
The interstellar beasts couldn’t be cleared at all. He might be trapped in Orchid Moon City all his life and never be able to go back.
The taste of despair and pain was known only to those who had experienced it.
Fortunately, he had nothing left in Imperial City other than his wife and child. He was an orphan. His father had died on the front lines when he was very young and his mother disappeared. The empire brought him up.
Just like his former father, he received the same ending. It seemed… pretty good.
Will didn’t expect that there would be a day when things would be over.
First, the marshal took action and slaughtered tens of thousands of interstellar beasts outside Orchid Moon City, giving them time to breathe. Then His Majesty lifted the seal of Orchid Moon City, allowing the hole in Orchid Moon City’s broken guardian circle to be strengthened.
The most incredible thing was— His Majesty built a two-way teleportation circle and achieved great success in a nationwide live broadcast!
God knows, when he saw on the live broadcast screen that His Majesty successfully teleported to Orchid Moon City and teleported back to Imperial City, how violently did his desperate and dead heart beat?!
He could go back!
After five years, he could finally go back!
He just had to wait another week and he could use the teleportation formation to go back!
It was like he was dreaming.
It was especially the case the next day, when the regiment leader called him and a few soldiers from Imperial City who had survived to the barracks. They were told to pack their bags immediately and prepare to go to the central town. They couldn’t believe it was real.
However, the military order that he held in his hand couldn’t be more true.
From now on, he would be sent back to Imperial City to serve as a patrolman in the small town of Doha. He was ordered to take the teleportation circle and report to the militia battalion in Doha Town as soon as possible.
This meant he no longer had to stay on the front lines and didn’t have to live in the shadow of being killed by the interstellar beasts every day.
What really made this rough man who was 1.8 meters tall and had a strong physique cry like a child was that he could finally go back to reunite with his wife and child!
That night, several of them hugged and cried together. The next day, they took the military shuttle to the central town and waited.
Finally, the day had arrived!
Once the teleportation circle lit up and disappeared in Imperial City, 50 soldiers with patched but cleanly washed clothes appeared out of thin air in the center of the circle.
They looked around cautiously. There was a bit of excitement and trepidation that came from homesickness.
Outside the teleportation circle, Wen Jishan clapped his hands and attracted the attention of the soldiers.
Under their gazes, he said with joy and emotions. “Soldiers, welcome home!”
These men had been fighting on the front lines for many years. Even if they were seriously injured, they gritted their teeth and persisted. Due to this sentence, one or two of them had red eyes.
Finally, under the guidance of the team leader, they quickly wiped their faces. Then all the members gave a standard and extremely imposing military salute to Wen Jishan.
“Sir, reporting. We are home!”
The sonorous but choked voices of the men resounded through the teleportation hall. This made the other people in the hall and even the audience watching the live broadcast feel sad.
“Wow, this is too easy to cry.”
In a tavern in the small town of Doha, Deng Jianan watched the live broadcast and shed two drops of tears.
Of course, he also turned on the live broadcast so that the audience of the live broadcast could watch together. The barrage was also crying.
“It isn’t easy for them…”
The bartender Pete wiped a glass while looking at the picture on the screen. He couldn’t help sighing. “Being able to come back is His Majesty’s blessing.”
Deng Jianan nodded. Pete was the fanboy of the emperor of Roland. In front of him, it was right to follow along and give praise.
“Huh, isn’t that Will?”
The mercenary Li Lei put down his wine glass and said in amazement, “He is still alive? What good luck!”
“You know him?”
“He is my former neighbor. It seems there has been no news about him for a long time. It wasn’t easy for his wife to raise their child alone.”
On the screen, the reporters interviewed the soldiers and asked what they wanted to do most now. Almost all of them said they wanted to meet their relatives and friends.
Then the live broadcast screen changed and came to the outside of the teleportation hall. The 50 soldiers who returned from Orchid Moon City received a hero’s treatment as they walked out of the hall.
They were indeed heroes!
Amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the people, the crowd suddenly separated. Some elderly people staggered out on crutches and there were women rushing out with children in their arms.
The soldiers froze. Then they cried out with excitement at reuniting with their relatives and friends, who had been arranged to wait there.
In the tavern, there were other players besides Deng Jianan. They couldn’t hold back their red eyes when they watched this scene.
Suddenly, a player said excitedly. “Eh, I helped take care of this older sister’s child before! It is good that her husband is back. They aren’t orphans and widows any longer…”
Not long after he finished speaking, a beer was smashed on the table in front of him, startling him.
“Good boy, you did a good job! I thank you for my old neighbor. This wine is for you!”
Li Lei came up to him at some point. He patted the player on the shoulder and said this with a big smile.
However, the player’s face turned blue all of a sudden.
The player’s level had gone up. This player wouldn’t directly die from this slap but he still shed blood!
If it wasn’t for the fact that this NPC invited him to drink, the player would’ve thought he was being provoked. Later, Deng Jianan also invited him to join, so this made him laugh away his grudge.
In the Starry Sky forum, many players were discussing this teleportation live broadcast. Many people admitted in the post that they were tearful when they saw it.
Mainly, many of the elderly people and children who reunited with their families at the scene were NPCs they had contacted or helped when they were doing the daily tasks.
They even called out the names of some NPCs while watching the live broadcast. This feeling was very subtle. They felt happy and very accomplished.
This was especially the case when the soldiers asked their family questions and the elderly people and children mentioned the braves who helped them. They said they wanted to thank the braves and the players’ vanity was satisfied like never before.
Everyone had to sigh emotionally. No matter how cumbersome the daily task of Starry Sky Age was, this sense of substitution into reality was indeed unspeakable. It also made people subconsciously have a sense of belonging.
It was naturally Xu Sili’s idea to ask Wen Jishan to find the relatives of these warriors.
He had experienced the pain of parting with his loved ones so in this matter, he somewhat empathized with the soldiers.
Therefore, he took a bit of time to help them find their surviving relatives and friends. At the very least, he could feel some comfort in watching their reunion.
Once he saw this on the live broadcast screen, he turned it off.
He didn’t know when he would be able to reunite with his parents and oldest brother, as well as his grandparents.
He sighed before perking up again.
Now Imperial City and Orchid Moon City could communicate with each other. The engineering team of elementalists who had accumulated countless experiences here could also be sent to Orchid Moon City to speed up construction.
The construction on Imperial City’s side naturally hadn’t stopped. The efficiency was lower in winter but it was still advancing. By the beginning of spring, a large number of poor people would be able to move into their homes.
These poor people had also been hired by Wen Jishan and devoted themselves to construction. Their requirements were very low. They just needed to be able to eat and wear warm clothes.
Now the elementalist engineering team had figured out a set of working methods that could cooperate with ordinary people and maximize efficiency.
After having a job, there was money to buy things which meant there was demand. The market would gradually grow with it. The newly built urban economy in Doha Town gradually livened up under the operation of Wen Jishan and the others.
With the expansion of construction and the increasing number of participants, the construction speed naturally increased and Xu Sili’s experience points rose rapidly.
A week later, he managed to break through to Lv 30 and became the only person in the Roland Empire besides Si Sheng to reach the strength of three stars.
Due to the level limit, he stagnated at level 30. The experience points he gained later accumulated and he had to wait for the upgrade of the main city again.
It was much more difficult to upgrade the main city to Lv 4 than to Lv 3. In addition to the original three Lv 2 urban areas to be upgraded to Lv 3, it was necessary to build another Lv 3 urban area.
Currently, there was no hurry. Xu Sili could only temporarily calm his mind.
The thing that surprised him was—
[Ding~ Your personal level is Lv 30. Unlocked the leadership skill—Balance.]
[Balance]
[Description: Don’t worry about scarcity but unevenness. You can designate a team and the damage suffered by the team members will be equally distributed to each member of the team. The duration is 30 minutes.
Magic consumed: 1,000]
Xu Sili was stunned for a while before carefully reading the newly acquired skill description. Once he was sure that he hadn’t misunderstood, joy suddenly exploded in his heart.
F*k, he would never say bad things about Old Wang again!
This skill was really too timely. It would play a very important role in his next plan to clear monsters.
The next day, the good news came again. The teleportation circles of the three cities of Glass Sea, Twilight Frost and Seizing Star were completed!
Xu Sili was overjoyed and rewarded Su Mo’s trio. Then with a wave of his hand, he sent Chi Yu and Su Mo to build secondary teleportation circles in various places. Meanwhile, Su Lin became the instructor of the circle mages so he was transferred back.
Even if there were only five main cities in the Roland Empire, the land area was quite considerable. For the sake of player experience, it was necessary to build teleportation circles in various places to facilitate travel.
Fortunately, the blueprints found in the ruins didn’t just have the ultra-long-distance teleportation circles between the main cities. There were also secondary teleportation circles suitable for the city. The materials required were fewer and simpler.
There was an accelerator like Chi Yu and he wanted to build a batch before the public beta.
Su Mo was naturally very happy. He didn’t care much about the reward. He just thought that he could finally work together with Chi Yu and felt beautiful in his heart.
More importantly, the annoying Su Lin was also transferred back to the inner city to teach circle techniques.
For Su Mo’s mental journey, Xu Sili didn’t understand or care much. This time, the teleportation circle was completed and he didn’t personally participate in the broadcast. He sent Wen Jishan and Qiu Zheng.
Qiu Zheng had relatives in Seizing Star City and the completion of the teleportation circle made him happy.
However, the completion of the construction didn’t mean that it was officially opened to the outside world. The scheduling and coordination of each main city still needed a bit of time to straighten out. Xu Sili took advantage of this effort to release the long-planned task.
On this day, two weeks before the end of the second closed beta, every player in the game received the same task.
[Ding~ Successfully triggered the ordinary mission – Interstellar Beast Clearance Plan (1)]
[Description: None]
[Mission Content: Please bring the ‘Weekly Order’ to Imperial City’s military and political office within 24 hours.]
[Rewards: 10 XP, 1 reputation point, invisible armor x1.]
???
All the players were confused when they saw the ‘description: none’. What type of mission was this?
However, the title of ‘Interstellar Beast Clearance Plan (1)’ was quite intriguing. Countless people in the Starry Sky Forum were discussing this matter.
There was also the weekly order. Only players who did the ‘Respect the Old and Care for the Young’ every day for seven days could use it to exchange for things in the faction warehouse.
Every time a weekly order was completed, the convertible amount would increase by one piece. This was also added after the second closed beta. So far, no one knew the function of the weekly order.
It had been a month and a half since the second closed beta opened so the diligent ones had four or five weekly orders. In addition, most players had at least one. Now the teleportation circles were open to the players so this task wasn’t difficult.
Everyone finally agreed to just do it first! After all, they would gain invisible armor for nothing.
So with all types of doubts and curiosity, a large number of players gathered in Imperial City through the teleportation circle. They gathered at the military and political office. Then once the time came, they were taken to the shuttles that had long been on standby.
A total of 4,580 players came. The rest weren’t online and couldn’t make it in time. This number was enough for Xu Sili at present.
He stepped on the shuttle and led the army of players to the border in the direction of Glass Sea City.
The vast plains between Imperial City and Glass Sea City would become his first touchstone.
Once they came to the barrier of Imperial City, the four or five fully loaded shuttles didn’t stop. They passed through the protective barrier. They flew out of Imperial City and headed toward Glass Sea City.
Finally, they landed at the border line where the imperial army had advanced.
The officers and soldiers who came to greet them looked at them worriedly. To be precise, it was one of the shuttles that came with them.
The players were curious about it. Then they saw a familiar figure walking down from the shuttle.
Long silver hair, purple eyes and the handsome face that could be called a prosperous beauty.
It was a big matter!
Wasn’t this the leader of the Roland Empire faction, Snow Roland? How could he be here?
They were in shock. Then they saw the young man look at them and smile gently. “Next, I will give you a lot of advice, braves.”
The players were dumbfounded.
F*k, what could he teach? Why was a faction leader running to the front lines? Didn’t he know that this was dangerous?
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