“F*k, it is a monument!”
Lu Shi couldn’t help exclaiming as he watched the live broadcast.
There were also many players around him who showed anticipation and excitement on their faces.
The allure of the monument to the bigshots was undoubtedly huge, especially the wealthy people and hard-working people.
Even if they thought they couldn’t do it, they would still be curious about who would leave a mark in history in the end?
After all, Starry Sky Age was the first holographic game in history. The significance of this monument was absolutely extraordinary.
Putting this aside, just look at the NPCs of Roland.
If their names were really engraved on the monument, how many NPCs would support them? They would really become famous in the game.
They might have NPCs salute them wherever they went. What face-saving thing was this?
In any case, Lu Shi felt happy just thinking about it.
Those who made it to the top 100 would probably receive a lot of rewards. There might even be rewards personally bestowed by His Majesty Snow. This would be really exciting!
OF course, he could only think about it.
After all, 100 people would be chosen out of over one million players. It was really one in a million!
A newcomer like him who just entered the game had no advantages at all. Unless there was an unexpected encounter, he wouldn’t be able to do it, regardless of hard work or money.
After the live broadcast ended, Lu Shi continued to devote himself to the daily missions. It wasn’t just to level up, but also to earn Escher coins!
Now the price of Escher coins to real currency had dropped from 1:20 to 1:15, but the price was still beautiful.
As long as he sold two Escher coins, he would earn back the money he spent to experience the game today while having some left over. This was a real benefit!
Maybe he would be able to save enough money to buy a game cabin by selling Escher coins. He had to hurry up and make more money while the price hadn’t dropped.
The new one million players weren’t as rich as the previous 100,000 open beta players. In the face of huge interests, they naturally chose to make money first.
This would further stimulate the economic development of Roland, and create more material support for resisting the beast wave.
Therefore, new players discovered that in addition to Escher coins and reputation rewards, they could also get contributions points from the daily missions!
The amount obtained was small, but don’t forget that contribution was linked to land in the City of the Braves!
This meant that even if they couldn’t kill the interstellar beasts, they could still get certain benefits. This undoubtedly stimulated their enthusiasm even more.
After continuous exploration, players also discovered that in addition to doing the daily missions and hunting interstellar beasts, they could gain contribution points by participating in other game activities such as construction and planting.
For example, there was a real-life military enthusiast who successfully built a pistol using materials in the game and submitted the production blueprint to the faction warehouse. He unexpectedly received a high contribution reward.
Creating in the game itself was a very interesting thing. He hadn’t expected to get contribution points. This undoubtedly gave the life players a way out.
In other words, this was what Xu Sili expected to see.
After all, the creativity of players was unlimited. He hoped that through such encouragement, players could participate more in Roland’s construction.
Once this beast wave ended, they would have a wider area of land. He didn’t mind distributing this land to the players as long as they could create value for the country.
None of the ministers objected to his decision. Rather, they were surprised that such a reward could make the braves work so hard.
In the eyes of such nobles, land was indeed attractive but it depended on where the land was.
The newly recovered land was devastated and far away from the main cities. The cost of farming was too high and it had little value at all.
The enthusiasm of the braves was really incomprehensible.
Only Wen Jishan and other officials who had more contact with the braves could understand it to some extent.
After all, they had witnessed with their own eyes that the brave called Yin Xuemei could make crops grow in the cold winter without controlling the elements, while also generously and selflessly teaching the poor people who humbly asked for advice.
What was even more admirable and impressive was that she could also turn the originally barren land into fertile land again!
It was eye-opening for Wen Jishan.
This girl really had no selfishness. Now she led all the poor farmers in the small village to farm together. They were all valuable crops.
Thanks to the efforts of the wood elementalists, Roland now had no shortage of food. After satisfying their needs, they would naturally pursue a higher quality of life.
Wen Jishan hoped that they would have a good harvest this autumn. If this brave person’s method proved to be effective, he would try to promote it all throughout the empire.
By then, it should create good economic benefits.
As for the newly recovered land… maybe the braves had a way to solve the problem of attacks by flying interstellar beasts?
Due to the encouragement to the life players, the ranking changes in the contribution list were quite large.
From the day that Xu Sili announced it, the discussion of the top 100 monument had remained high on the Starry Sky Forum.
There was even a post that opened a bet to see who would be in the top 100 in the end, and who would be the final winners of the top three and first place.
Among them, the choices of Qing Yan and Lin Mu were undoubtedly the highest.
These two had always been in charge and had naturally made great contributions. Now they were the only two players competing for the top spot on the contribution list.
Of course, it was inevitable that some people would complain about the unfairness of the ranking. After all, new players had just entered the game. The 100,000 players in front were already too far ahead.
It was difficult to catch up even if there were many ways to obtain contribution points.
But this was the way that the game worked. New players who entered late were slower than old players.
Those who could grab the gaming helmet as soon as possible had basically been paying attention to Starry Sky Age for a long time. They were actually aware of this.
There were still hundreds of thousands of game cabins waiting to be shipped out from the factory. From this perspective, they actually started faster than these hundreds of thousands of players.
Moreover, Starry Sky Age didn’t encourage PK and killing between players like other games. Instead, it focused more on the interaction between players and the game world, and the exploration of this world.
Combine this with Xu Sili’s restraint and incidents of high-level players bullying newcomers didn’t happen very often.
The basic PK function was available.
Players could initiate challenges among themselves. In challenge mode, players who died wouldn’t be punished with the 30 minute resurrection time. Their bodies would be in a semi-invisible state and their fighting wouldn’t damage the surrounding environment.
The protection of newcomers was relatively well done.
Every time someone killed a player five levels lower than themselves, a backlash debuff would be randomly stacked. This included but was not limited to serious injuries, weakness, hunger, etc.
It lasted for 24 hours and the cooldown would only decrease when they were online.
What was even more annoying was that killing people would deduct the faction reputation. If an NPC witnessed their killing process, they would lose favorability, even if the people killed were braves.
As it was well-known, if more than three NPCs had a negative favorability toward the player then they wouldn’t be able to exchange items in the faction warehouse!
The system mall didn’t sell equipment and potions. If they wanted to improve their strength, they could only rely on the faction warehouse. The favorability of NPCs was crucial.
This wasn’t the most annoying thing. The most annoying thing was that if they destroyed something during a fight, they had to pay for it!
In a real game world like Starry Sky Age, they could create anything they wanted. Of course, there was no way to automatically repair broken items.
Thus, the destruction of public property and the private property of NPCs during a fight required compensation!
If the two people fighting weren’t dead, they would share the responsibility. If one of them died, the murderer would pay the full amount.
As long as they were still on Escher Star, don’t even think about evading their bill. Once they tried to evade it, they would immediately become a wanted criminal.
The players who dared to evade the bill first were arrested and brought to justice in less than ten minutes. After being sentenced and detained for seven days, he still had to repay his debt obediently.
There was probably no way to default on the bill other than deleting the account and starting over.
Basically, no high-level players dared to kill in the main cities. As for whether they would kill people on the wild maps in the future, it was hard to say.
After all, the forest was big, there were all types of birds, and players were the best at exploiting loopholes.
In addition, if they really hated a player and the other person avoided them and refused the challenge, they could purchase a life or death order in the system store to force a PK against the player.
In this case, they could choose arena mode.
After entering the arena, all players in the server would receive an invitation. If they clicked to accept, they could enter to watch the fight and place bets on who would win the final victory.
Once this setting was figured out, everyone complained that the game group really made money!
Roland was like an old machine that had been revitalized after more than one million players joined. It was speeding up at every moment.
There was the sword called the beast wave hanging over their heads, so it was obvious that the atmosphere had become tense.
It was just as Xu Sili expected. Under this pressure, the number of elementalists who achieved breakthroughs increased every day.
In response to the beast wave, under the collective efforts, players explored various cool operations.
For example, sealing off the path of retreat and beating hard.
The biggest reason why the previous line of defense collapsed was because there were too many interstellar beasts outside the defense line, resulting in too much energy being accumulated in the end.
Now they chose to let some interstellar beasts in. Then choose the right time to throw out the interstellar beast corpses to block the entrance. Once the ones that came in were killed, the blocked interstellar beasts on the other side would rush in.
Then the same process was repeated.
Of course, this couldn’t prevent all interstellar beasts. After all, Roland had a vast territory. It was impossible to build such a long defense line in a short period of time.
Fortunately, there was now enough manpower to fight at multiple points. There was also the Balance card made by Xu Sili, which often played a huge role at critical moments and reduced the casualty rate to a minimum.
Therefore, people in the empire might be panicking due to the beast wave but the situation on the front line was actually quite optimistic.
Thus, Xu Sili put his mind on other things.
Off the Glass Sea Plains, somewhere in the middle of the jungle.
A sneaky figure weaved between the trees and finally entered a hidden cave. After making sure that no one was following him, he took off his hood and mask, revealing an old face full of wrinkles.
This person turned out to be Bryce, the traitorous elder who planned to destroy the guardian circle of Orchid Moon City before.
He had been hiding after he successfully escaped. He originally planned to sneak to other major cities to seek shelter from the organization. Who knew that teleportation circles would be built in the main cities to achieve inter-communication.
Then the organizational forces in the major cities suffered a devastating blow.
Bryce didn’t dare to contact anyone. He originally wanted to develop a few braves, but it turned out that these braves were like monkey spirits and weren’t tempted by him at all.
The most irritating thing was that since the young emperor announced on TV that the beast wave was a conspiracy of the Bewatt Empire, it had become even more difficult for him to move in Roland.
Those braves started to plot evil against him one by one.
Fortunately, he saw an opportunity and escaped from the city.
Bryce thought about his current situation and couldn’t help regretting it a bit.
Now that everything seemed to be getting better for Roland, his choice to join the Bewatt Empire didn’t seem to be a good one.
But it was hard to say…
After all, the beast wave was coming soon!
Bryce gritted his teeth after thinking this way. Then he turned on the communicator to try and contact Arnauton.
Since last time in Orchid Moon City, he hadn’t contacted anyone from the Bewatt Empire. Unexpectedly, the communication request was answered as soon as he sent it out.
A lizardman’s figure appeared on the light screen. It was Arnauton.
Bryce hurriedly saluted him.
He was one of the few people who could contact Arnauton. As for why the leader of the lizardmen, who had been disappointed with Bryce before, would accept to talk to him this time, it was because—
The Bewatt Empire’s intelligence system in Roland was almost gone!
Arnauton urgently needed to know what happened in Roland. He was surprised to learn from Bryce that his subordinates had set off a beast wave in Roland ahead of time.
He didn’t issue this order…
After learning that Xenos had returned to Roland, he suddenly understood something.
Arnauton’s expression changed slightly.
At this moment, he looked past Bryce to behind him, his vertical pupils constricting.
He saw a figure silently appear behind Bryce.
The man had blond hair and blue-gray eyes that stared at him indifferently. This made even the arrogant Arnauton take a breath.
Meanwhile, Bryce had no chance to look back.
The moment the man appeared, his body immediately burst into flames. Bryce didn’t even have time to scream in pain before he was reduced to ashes, leaving only the communicator that the man reached out to catch.
“Si Sheng!” Arnauton gritted his teeth and glared at him. “It is you again!”
Then he soon controlled his emotions and said, “Si Sheng, with your strength and wisdom, you should understand what is the best choice.”
“Roland isn’t worthy of your protection.”
Si Sheng stared at him indifferently.
Arnauton thought for a while before continuing, “It is impossible for Roland to withstand the beast wave this time. It is only a matter of time before Roland falls.”
“I will say the same thing. Once the time comes, the door of the Bewatt Empire will still be open for you!”
Hearing this, Si Sheng’s eyes finally changed slightly.
He seemed a bit surprised. Finally, he nodded and said, “Yes, then you can just wait.”
Arnauton hadn’t expected Si Sheng to answer like this! He couldn’t help being ecstatic. Had he been successful in instigating rebellion?
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