Many things happened in the world of Starry Sky Age during this year.
First, after becoming familiar with Rosam and the others, Happy Cultivator inadvertently learned that the way to remove the level restriction was by clearing out the interstellar beasts on Escher Star.
As always, he shared this information on the forum without hesitation.
Many players were initially skeptical, but His Majesty Snow conducted a live interview soon afterwards.
On Escher Star, His Majesty Snow was undoubtedly a top influencer. After knowing that he was going to be interviewed, the people who learned about it rushed to tell each other and stayed in front of the TV when the time came.
These days, all sorts of electronic products had entered Roland. With the current financial strength of the Roland Empire, it was more than enough to install a TV screen for every citizen.
As for the work of sending them to each house, it was naturally left to the players. In fact, players rushed to it whenever there was such a task.
Regarding His Majesty’s interview, there were new doubts about whether the news was accurate since it didn’t say which station the interview would be aired on.
“Hey, you don’t understand.”
The newcomers would understand once the time came.
It was because His Majesty Snow’s live broadcasts were extremely domineering.
Once the interview began, it didn’t matter what program was being played on people’s TV. The silver-haired emperor would appear directly in it.
Was this the strength of the emperor?
Then in front of all the residents and players, His Majesty Snow explained the dangers of the interstellar beasts to Escher Star and…
Once the last interstellar beast on Escher Star was destroyed, it would be the moment when the elementalists star level was unsealed again! Next, the empire would dispatch troops to accelerate the eradication of the interstellar beasts and issue extremely generous rewards to the braves.
The individual or team with the highest score would receive a mecha independently developed by Roland.
The news caused a nationwide uproar.
You know, the price of a Roland mecha was hundreds of millions of Escher coins, and it also required purchase qualifications.
Even if Lin Mu completed the mission of the mecha competition, he was just getting the right to use it, and there was also a period of use.
The interstellar people stationed in Roland also couldn’t help being tempted. They quickly spread the news back to their respective nations, hoping that their nation would send troops to assist Escher Star and maybe get a piece of the pie.
However, due to the zerg, the various interstellar nations were preoccupied with their own problems. After receiving the news, they only instructed the informers to follow up and nothing more was done.
In order to lift the level limit and to gain the generous rewards offered by His Majesty Snow, most players chose to return to Escher Star to clear out the interstellar beasts.
Moreover, based on their analysis of existing information, the interstellar beasts couldn’t regenerate on Escher Star, or the growth rate couldn’t keep up with the players’ rate of clearing them.
In order to lift the restrictions, all the interstellar beasts must be wiped out. This meant that every interstellar beast killed was one less, and they might not be able to level up by fighting monsters!
Even if that was possible, they would have to go to the forgotten land and fight directly in the lair of the interstellar beasts.
This made players anxious, especially some high-level ones.
Judging from the current exploration of Starry Sky Age, apart from some main quests, fighting monsters was undoubtedly the fastest way to level up.
Without monsters, leveling up would become incredibly difficult. From level 40 onwards, the experience required for each level would double, making leveling up more challenging than ever before.
The interstellar exploration could be left for later, but they couldn’t afford to waste the time used to gain experience!
After all, even if they switched factions later, they could transfer this experience with them.
As a result, the nationwide craze for monster hunting swept across Escher Star. This slowed down their exploration of the interstellar space.
Without the involvement of the undead army, the development of the universe started to coincide with the timeline of the future forum.
The zerg swept across the entire universe. The human nations, which had been peaceful for so many years, faced an extremely difficult challenge and the major powers started to reshuffle.
The biggest connection Roland had with this was probably that orders for teleportation circles had been pouring in like snowflakes.
In such a war, the role of teleportation circles was undoubtedly enormous. The timely allocation of various resources and personnel could greatly enhance the ability to eliminate the zerg and provide rescue.
There were even nations willing to bear the risks associated with long-distance teleportation circles.. They expressed their desire to place orders with the Roland Empire.
A powerful feature like being able to cross planets in minutes was worth the risk!
The fate of the nations with teleportation circles started to change from this moment. Perhaps without the participation of the players, they could also rely on themselves to explore a path that belonged to their nation.
Xu Sili didn’t take orders rashly. The materials for such teleportation circles were more precious, and the construction time was also longer.
He wasn’t ready to sell such a powerful weapon for money.
However, he was still happy to help the nations that had assisted Roland.
At least in terms of understanding the zerg race, he believed that no nation could compare to himself.
Therefore, even if Roland didn’t participate in the war against the zerg, the information about them that Roland disclosed to various nations, including habits, advantages and disadvantages, methods of dealing with them etc, caused the reputation of the Roland Empire to increase.
It also made more nations that received preferential treatment to have a good impression of Roland. More and more nations were willing to establish diplomatic relations with Roland.
Seeing the universe that had been turned into a mess by the zerg, Xu Sili asked the elemental elf if the world consciousness would intervene in the same way it had dealt with the interstellar beasts.
The answer was no.
For the world consciousness, the zerg were also a native life of this world. It was normal for civilizations to collapse.
If the zerg really won, this place would become a world dominated by the zerg civilization, just like the world of interstellar beasts.
However, Xu Sili wasn’t destined to let such a thing happen.
In this year, thanks to the improvement of the gaming device manufacturing, more and more players flocked to Escher Star. The number had reached more than 30 million, which was one-third of Roland’s total population.
In other words, one in four people in Roland was a player.
This ratio was quite scary and it would gradually increase. In the timeline of the future forum, the number of online players reached more than 200 million!
According to Roland’s population, it was absolutely impossible to double in more than ten years.
But in the future, players were bound to flow to the universe. Xu Sili had tried his best to slow down the pace, but it was absolutely impossible to stop it.
Even now, only most of the players had returned. There were already a small number of players who didn’t care about their level and were full of yearning for interstellar mecha battles and turned to Roland’s allies.
Due to Roland’s matchmaking, they successfully obtained the nationality of the nation. Since they immigrated from Roland, they were treated very well.
Their start was much smoother than Super Invincible Commander.
Super Invincible Commander didn’t have to say anything. He just regretted it!
Since more than two-thirds of the old and new master-apprentice missions were related to fighting interstellar beasts, players were fooled by masters to clear the monsters as soon as they entered the game. They didn’t have time to experience the other wonders of Starry Sky Age.
“I want to touch the mecha. I want to play with female NPCs!”
“Isn’t Starry Sky Age a casual life game? Why is it so lively? I used my sleeping time to work hard. I am still very tired!”
“Apprentice, if you don’t fight monsters now, you won’t have anything to fight in the future. It might be difficult to reach up to two stars. Master is doing this for your own good!”
Complaining was complaining, but they still fought.
After all, Starry Sky Age was very real. The fight scenes were extremely exciting and the skills of an elementalist very fun. Every battle was a test for them.
It was like having an adventure in another world!
This also allowed players who followed the game to be completely removed from the game experience and rushed directly into combat.
However, no matter how much they loved fighting, there was still a certain order. It wasn’t as chaotic as on the future forum.
The later interstellar beasts were getting harder and harder to fight.
Still, what were these interstellar beasts in front of an army of tens of millions?
What’s more, there was a big killer like Si Sheng.
Under the crazy efforts of the players, all the interstellar beasts on Escher Star were finally wiped out and most of the ones in the sea were also cleaned up.
The territory of the sea elves was completely reclaimed, and had even doubled in size compared to before. The seabed became more and more prosperous as players built underwater cities.
As their lives improved, the sea elves didn’t just care about themselves.
They helped rebuild homes for many endangered marine creatures whose habitats had been taken over by interstellar beasts.
The underwater map was gradually reclaimed. As the native life on Escher Star flourished again, the power of the elemental elf also recovered faster and faster.
Finally, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Xu Sili placed the core of a seven star beast into the center of the summoning circle. Accompanied by the holy golden light, Imperial City was raised to lv7.
The level of elementalists on Escher Star also broke through to seven stars.
The golden holy light was the power of the elemental elf emerging. It had many benefits for life in this world, but it could cause fatal damage to life from other worlds, namely interstellar beasts.
This time, the golden light was much stronger than before. The natives of Roland felt it was warm and surrendered from the bottom of their hearts.
They fell to their knees and prayed to the elemental elf.
Such power gathered and was fed back to the elemental elf, making this golden light more powerful. Finally, it turned into a golden drizzle that covered the entire planet and nourished all things.
In this golden rain, everyone benefited. Almost every native resident who practiced meditation and body tempering felt their hearts awakening.
There were even more elementalists who were directly promoted.
Players also cheered as if it was a festival, especially those who had stuck with the game since its launch and experienced five major city upgrades.
They filmed Roland bathed in the golden rain and made a beautiful video to commemorate this spectacular event.
The Elementalist Academy.
Small Round Biscuit flew out of his room. He was also bathed in the golden light and burst into tears.
As a little sprite born from the elemental elf, he was happier than anyone else to see his mother recover.
“Turles, do you see it? She is back!”
Small Round Biscuit picked up the necklace on his chest. It was Turles’ stele that was shrunk by him and brought out.
He picked up the pendant, let it bathe in the golden rain and kept praying in his heart for Turles to recover soon.
For the inscriptionist inheritance, Turles had integrated his soul into the inheritance stele.
After a long time and the inscription master civilization flourished again, he might be able to gradually regain consciousness and become another life form.
However, a miracle happened at this moment.
He saw a halo in the sky falling on the stele necklace, so dazzling that people couldn’t open their eyes.
Small Round Biscuit watched blankly. Once the halo dissipated, he clearly sensed that the sleeping soul in the stele had awakened!
This soul’s consciousness was very weak and could only give him very simple feedback, but it was great news for Small Round Biscuit!
In any case, sprites could live for a long time. He could wait for his Turles to wake up completely and return to him.
“Thank you, elemental elf!”
The little sprite wiped away his tears and worked even harder.
He wanted to make his own contribution to the Roland Empire and carry forward the legacy of inscription masters.
The more prosperous the inscription masters were, the faster Turles would recover!
Yin Xing got the greatest benefit from the stone stele. After learning about this, he also taught more unreservedly and worked hard to train more powerful inscription masters.
Yin Xing was originally paralyzed in real life, but he miraculously regained sensation in his body. After rehabilitation, he was even able to sit up on his own.
The doctor even concluded that he would be able to walk again if given time.
Yin Xing was naturally happy, but his life was now focused in Starry Sky Age. For him, this was never a game from the beginning.
He still regarded this place as a new world and integrated himself into it. If possible, he hoped to become an NPC of Starry Sky Age when he grew old.
He also hoped that Starry Sky Age would continue to thrive for a long time.
Xu Sili naturally thought the same way.
Just as he had guessed, the condition for removing the level restriction of eight stars was indeed to increase the land utilization rate of Escher Star to 50%.
Of course, judging from the feedback of the elemental elf, the land utilization rate didn’t only refer to the construction of human cities. As long as the native life of Escher Star prospered on this land, its power would increase significantly.
However, achieving a 50% land utilization rate was far too difficult for Escher Star, which had been ravaged by interstellar beasts.
Building was always more difficult than destroying. It couldn’t be accomplished overnight. It might take decades or even centuries to fully restore Escher Star.
This might be too long for players, but this was a real world.
Games had a lifespan, but a world did not.
This world would continue to turn even if Starry Sky Age shut down in the future and players no longer came.
Of course, Starry Sky Age would never stop running as long as the Xu family was around.
Once the golden light from unlocking seven stars spread from the seal, many high-level elementalists in the forgotten land couldn’t help shedding tears.
This was the call of the elemental elf to them.
Apart from Rosam, the almost eight star elementalist, everyone else could finally go back.
Despite knowing that their homeland no longer existed, they still wanted to go back and see it. Just like the descendants of other nations, they wanted to build a city on Escher Star and name it after their homeland.
They were rare high-level elementalists. No matter what grudges or misunderstandings had existed in the past, they had long been resolved through the shared battles over the past century.
They embraced and celebrated, but Rosam looked somewhat forlorn.
He never thought that he would one day be troubled by his high level.
He didn’t know when it would be his turn to go back.
However, looking at the forgotten land which had been expanded two or three times and was now fully equipped with various living facilities, Rosam quickly composed himself and decided to wait until his old friends left before going to the bar for a drink that evening.
The students he recruited should be happy to keep him company, right?
Leopold, Ivis and the others were transformed into cards by Xu Sili and brought back to the Roland Empire.
There, they were greeted by a grand event.
In order to celebrate their return, the Roland Empire held a three day, three night event. This allowed these veterans to feel no sense of alienation and to naturally blend in.
Xu Sili received some good news after the grand event.
Due to most of the power of the elemental elf reviving, Starry Sky Age would officially become a game for all ages! In other words, his grandfather and grandmother could enter the game.
Leopold had already explained Xu Sili’s strange experiences to the other members of the family. The Roland imperial family, who had long suspected something, were all overjoyed.
Silin was even happier and hugged Xu Sili.
She used to be worried. After all, she had the best relationship with Snow. How could she not notice it? She also confided in Xenos about this.
Now it was okay. He was her younger brother and she didn’t need to be sad any longer.
Well, only Joan… He never thought that his imperial brother was not his imperial brother!
However, his imperial brother was indeed his imperial brother!
After the initial confusion, shock and hesitation, he readily accepted this fact and there was no estrangement with Xu Sili.
In any case, his brother was still his brother. It was enough for him to know this!
So on the day when the two elders arrived, Xu Sili organized a meeting.
The two families from different worlds, who loved him deeply and were bound together by him, had their first official meeting in the palace.
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