VCRMM: Chapter 175

Si Sheng’s powerful spiritual power spread out and covered the 156 mercenary group leaders. A golden light surrounded them.

As the light spots disappeared, the over 100 players turned into thin cards under the bewildered eyes of the onlookers.

Then they were swept up by the wind and disappeared in place.

“F*k! Were my eyes dazzled just now?”

Those who were gathered here weren’t just the over 100 mercenary group leaders, but also players from Imperial City who came to watch after receiving the news, as well as mercenary group members who accompanied the leaders.

Now these members were in a state of confusion.

Their boss suddenly turned into a card and flew away?!!

Those with quick responses asked their boss about the situation through private messages and the team voice channel.

However, all information had disappeared. The person chatting with them just now had no reaction.

This was too weird!

At this time, someone yelled on the public channel.

“Go and see the forum. The boss and the others have posted!”

So the players opened the Starry Sky Forum one after another.

Even Xu Yuheng, who was mixed in the crowd, hurriedly opened the forum to see when he heard this.

After entering the game yesterday, Xu Yuheng was originally going to enter the palace to see Xiao Li. Then as soon as he arrived in Imperial City, he received the message that Xiao Li had something to do and needed to postpone the meeting for a few days.

Xu Yuheng didn’t bother him. He wandered around Imperial City with Baifeng, doing daily missions and researching on how the new players viewed the game.

He came here with Baifeng when he received the meeting notice in the afternoon.

He vaguely guessed it was Xiao Li’s doing. He was curious about what the S-grade mission was, but he wasn’t in a hurry to use his identity to obtain information.

After all, he had already been told so many times. He also knew to pay a bit of attention and stop doing things that affected the balance casually.

Due to this concern, Xu Yuheng simply handed over the position of leader of the mercenary group to Baifeng.

As a game publisher, it made sense to enter the auxiliary test of the game during the first and second closed betas. Now that it was the open beta, it would be too sensitive to make any big events.

So after thinking about it, he decided to step back into the background.

Therefore, it became Baifeng who was turned into a card at this moment.

Xu Yuheng wasn’t very worried about his safety. After all, for players, this was just a game. It was just that the sense of substitution was too strong.

As for the card gameplay…

He vaguely heard it mentioned by the game team before, but he didn’t know much about it. It seemed that it should be gameplay for the middle and late stages of the game. Why did it come out on the second day of the open beta?

“All mercenary leaders, gather here!”

The moment he opened the forum, he saw a familiar ID—Qing Yan.

She was the leader of the Magic Box Team in Starry Sky Age and Qing Yan had already formed team groups in the game. The Magic Box Mercenary Group was currently one of the largest player forces in Starry Sky Age.

The team leader, Qing Yan, also had a very strong appeal among players.

It had been only three minutes since she made this post, and it had already become a popular post. The replies were still increasing.

Qing Yan introduced the situation in the post.

Right now, she had been turned into a card. Her body could only move slightly, she couldn’t speak, and she couldn’t use the in-game communication system. She could only post on the forum, and there was no problem with logging in and out normally.

Then she asked the other team leaders if this was the case and posted a system notification about Si Sheng transforming them into a card.

[F*k, I feel super strange now. There is a feeling of changing from three-dimension to two-dimension. The key is that it is so dark that I can’t see anything. I also can’t move!]

[What type of awesome skill is this Card Transformation?]

[What is Si Sheng going to do? How did he turn you into cards? I didn’t see this NPC at the scene. Is it possible that he can still become invisible?]

The players discussed it intensely and raised their own questions and opinions. It also attracted the attention of individual players who hadn’t joined a group.

[So is this the pre-plot of the new gameplay? The game doesn’t have any announcements, which I think is quite interesting.]

[What is so interesting? I have claustrophobia! ahhhh 5555, I want to go offline but I am worried that I will miss the plot. Now my state isn’t too good. It is too difficult for me. 5555.]

Xu Yuheng saw this post and the replies below. His brow furrowed and he was a bit confused.

What was Xiao Li going to do? Why turn players into cards? Where did the players who were turned into cards go?

Beep beep—

At this time, there was a system notification reminding him that there was an external call request.

Xu Yuheng blinked doubtfully when he saw the note of ‘Elder Wang.’

Why call him at this time? Was it about his big brother’s game cabin? Didn’t his brother say he would deal with it? Xu Yuheng found it a bit strange, but he still picked it up.

“Mr. Xu, what did you do again?”

Elder Wang’s voice was heard, revealing a bit of suppressed anger.

Xu Yuheng, “……?”

After taking the group leaders away, Xu Sili returned to the spaceship located at the border with Si Sheng under Chamo’s guidance.

He received a message from Xu Yuheng the moment he jumped off the silver wolf.

Second Brother: [Xiao Li, did you turn those group leaders into cards? What are you going to do? In addition, what is this S-grade mission?]

Looking at his second brother’s series of questions, Xu Sili touched his nose. What he was going to do next might greatly speed up the game again.

But…

His eyes became firm again when he thought about Silin and about the dead Xenos.

Snow: [Yes.]

Snow: [You will find out soon.]

Snow: [Second Brother, I’m sorry.]

After replying, Xu Sili turned off the communicator, regardless of how Xu Yuheng on the other side would react after seeing his messages.

Brady and the others had returned to the spaceship and the crater below had been cleared.

No miracles happened.

The only things carefully collected were the communicator and wheelchair of the eldest prince, Xenos. There were also a few blood-stained rags that could be determined to be Xenos’ clothing.

In addition, there were several disemboweled corpses of the mountain drilling beasts, which were thrown below, attracting hungry interstellar beasts to snatch them up. Then Xiao Wu shot them to death one by one with artillery fire.

“No remains were found in the stomachs of these mountain drilling beasts, but there are still some temporarily evacuated passages around the crater. Some mountain drilling beasts should’ve escaped.”

Brady looked sad. “His Highness Xenos… it should be impossible to get him back.”

Xu Sili tightly held the communicator that Brady handed him. He looked at the blood stains that still remained on it and his fingertips were slightly white.

Xenos…

He had long guessed it, but it was still somewhat difficult to accept the result after hearing it clearly.

The image of Xenos when tying on the bracelet appeared in front of his eyes again. In fact, the man’s facial features were already a bit blurred, but he still remembered the gentleness that was hidden under the cold exterior.

Such a person shouldn’t have ended like this.

In Xu Sili’s heart, he couldn’t help hating the interstellar beasts that caused all of this.

“There are injuries left by ice spikes on the corpses of the mountain drilling beasts.”

Brady continued, “They should’ve had a fierce battle with His Highness Xenos. Even in that situation, His Highness Xenos fought until the last moment!”

“If it wasn’t for His Highness, we wouldn’t have been able to survive in the wilderness for the past four years… It was our dereliction of duty. We should’ve left one more person to guard the cave…”

In the end, this big man with three scars on his face, and a fierce and vicious appearance, was already in tears.

He knelt down in front of Xu Sili. “Please punish me, Your Majesty!”

James, the metal warrior beside him, was also full of shame and knelt down. “I didn’t protect His Highness. Please punish me!”

Seeing this, Abner hurriedly followed.

Xu Sili looked at them and shook his head with a sigh. “Everyone, get up. Now isn’t the time to talk about this.”

“That’s right.” A resolute female voice was heard.

Xu Sili looked over and saw that a woman with short silver hair had appeared at the door of the room at some point.

The fragility and collapse of yesterday was no longer on her face. All the pain was hidden in her heart. Standing in front of Xu Sili was once again that tough and tenacious female warrior.

“Now isn’t the time to talk about this.”

Silin came over and took the communicator from Xu Sili’s hand. It was only when she saw Xenos’ communicator that her hand trembled slightly.

Then she quickly restrained herself.

Silin looked up at Xu Sili. “Snow, thank you.”

Xu Sili looked at her, feeling both familiar yet unfamiliar.

He didn’t know what Silin in the parallel world would look like when she grew up. He only hoped she would be as strong as the woman in front of him, and that she wouldn’t experience despair and sadness again.

“Imperial Sister…”

Xu Sili had just called out when Silin lowered her eyes and said, “You had better take them back.”

Xu Sili frowned. Then he heard her continue speaking, “I was too impulsive yesterday. I shouldn’t have made such a willful decision. You shouldn’t do anything stupid for me.”

“I heard from Xiao Wu that the empire is recovering rapidly under your rule, so… don’t cause any unnecessary casualties because of me and the Imperial Brother.”

“And you… I’m very happy to see you, but you should go back as soon as possible. As the leader of the empire, you shouldn’t come to such a dangerous place.”

Her tone was a bit stern at the end, and Xu Sili couldn’t help touching his nose.

He shook his head and told her, “What I promised will be done. This isn’t a willful decision. Once the interstellar beasts nearby are cleared, I will establish a base here.”

“This is the place where the bones of Xenos and many warriors are buried. I can’t tolerate the wanton trampling of the interstellar beasts any longer!”

Silin was slightly startled and her eyes were a bit red.

She bit her lip. She might support him emotionally, but she still denied it intellectually. “This is too difficult. The border is tens of thousands of kilometers away from Imperial City. There is no point establishing a base here.”

“How can there be no point?”

Xu Sili smiled. “In the end, Imperial Sister doesn’t believe I can do it. Then how about we make a bet?”

“What bet?”

“I will recover this land with zero casualties!”

“Impossible…”

Xu Sili interrupted her. “You will know when you try it yourself if it is impossible or not. Let’s go. The braves can’t wait any longer.”

Braves?

Filled with doubts, Silin followed him and Marshal Si Sheng off the spaceship.

The strange thing was that the interstellar beasts attracted by the corpses of the mountain drilling beasts turned around and ran away, as if they saw some natural enemy.

Silin, Brady and the others were full of surprise. Only Chamo wasn’t surprised.

Then Xu Sili came to a relatively flat open space and released the over 100 mercenary group leaders.

Silin couldn’t help being surprised when she saw so many people appearing. Did Snow master some sort of secret technique?

But…

More than 100 people probably weren’t enough, right?

The players were also at a loss. However, those who could be team leaders were basically wise. Seeing that the emperor and the marshal were present, they immediately understood that they might’ve encountered an incredible mission.

They didn’t make any noise. They just silently turned on the recording and live broadcast. The communication was also only in the player’s voice channel.

Xu Sili was very satisfied with their discipline.

He looked at the players and said softly, “Braves, maybe you are curious about where this place is? In addition, why did I bring you here?”

The players’ eyes were drawn to him.

“This place is the original border of the Roland Empire.”

“Four years ago, a great war broke out here. The beast wave broke through Roland’s defenses, swept over the entire empire and forced us to shrink back in the five main cities.”

“Countless warriors sacrificed themselves for this, the population of the empire was directly reduced by half, and my father and older brother also died in the beast wave.”

Silin and the others’ eyes turned red when they heard this. The players who had heard Roland’s background were also a bit sad.

“And now…” Xu Sili continued. “The empire has finally survived and has the power to fight back!”

“So today, I made a decision.”

“The Roland Empire will establish the sixth main city, the City of the Braves!”

His words were so loud that the players were stunned. Then they heard the honorable emperor say.

“With this place as the center, I will fight for you in the next month, just like on the Glass Sea Plains. Then…”

“The Roland Empire will give the braves as much land as you recover. This will be a main city that truly belongs to the braves!”

[Ding~ Congratulations on triggering the legendary mission- City of the Braves!]

[Mission Description: Please recover the land at the border within one month. The recovered land will be used to build the City of the Braves. All participating players will be allocated land according to their contribution.]

[Please fight for the establishment of the City of the Braves. Snow Roland will be your partner and fight with you!]

The players were originally just a bit sad. Then after digesting Xu Sili’s words and clearly seeing the mission notification, no matter whether it was the group leader or the group members paying attention to the live broadcast, all their eyes turned red at this moment!

Proofreader: Purichan