375.Chapter 373 372 Rebellion! The players have revolted!
Chapter 373: 372…Rebel Against Rebellion! Players are revolting!
The last major version update of the closed beta was really shocking, just the proposal of a stronghold gameplay was enough to attract attention.
Although there were currently only three strongholds available for allocation, and two of them had already been allocated to specific player guilds, wasn’t there still one last one pending?
This isn’t the equivalent of the development team letting out the news that as long as a certain guild performs well in the upcoming events, they’ll still be gifted a stronghold.
Although it wasn’t explicitly stated, the official meaning was already obvious.
They are secretly raising the rewards to boost players’ motivation to participate in the “100 Days of Transylvania Construction”, which is obviously a bait and hook, but everyone will tolerate it because the rewards are really tempting.
As for the two strongholds that have already been allocated, most of the players and the Greedy Party have expressed their understanding.
The military stronghold “Maginot Defense Line” will not be mentioned.
At present, in addition to those few “professionals with infinite possibilities” in the player, there is only Stick’s group of veterans who are the most suitable to build and operate, and in the context of the coming black plague, handing over this crucial defense line to other players, even if Lord Murphy is relieved, the players will not be relieved.
Professional things should be left to professionals, not to mention this kind of big matter that concerns the life of the family.
But for another stronghold “Fort Riptide” belongs to, there is a part of the more serious not very happy.
Black Silk Under Keyboard: [I understand that Stick can get the military stronghold, they are very professional, but the Riptide Knights just entered the game, right? What makes them get a stronghold too? This is an old hen that lays golden eggs.
I’m not questioning the development team either, but at least give the others a chance to say something, right?
Tourist scholar Xiao Li: [Ah yes, yes, yes, yes, you want to say that only administrative players can get it, but my brothers are also administrative players, and they made it into the top twenty in the administrative assessment that just ended.
We’re just about to be assigned a workplace, so it would be great to have a stronghold of our own.
There are also a few administrative players who have been clamoring in the thread.
The “Honorable Knight Tepal” who was peering at the screen immediately became a bit nervous.
He was going to explain why, mainly because although the Knights of the Riptide had a large number of people, they had been working hard since they entered the game, and their lack of involvement in the events around the Scarlet Fortress had made their presence felt a bit low.
Tepal was a smart guy.
He knew that he had to explain this matter clearly, otherwise it would easily leave a bad impression to the bystanders that the Knights of the Riptide had gone through the back door.
This was true.
But for the RP party, a firm believer in the Holy Light wouldn’t care to play such cheap tricks, and for the gameplay, leaving a bad impression on the players wouldn’t be good for the development of the stronghold afterwards.
Before Tepal could edit the document explaining it, though, the administrator jumped in first.
Alpha: [In response to everyone’s questions about the belonging of the strongholds, I’m releasing a bit of backstage data here, the number of stragglers searched by guilds as of now for the ‘Great Transylvanian Census’ event that’s still ongoing.
Just take a look and you’ll understand:
Silver Moon’s Pride Regiment: 4424, Big Bird Spinning Regiment: 831, Scarlet Hammer and Sickle Regiment: 1565, Scarlet Beast Regiment: 1823, Knights of the Riptide Regiment: 9714, and Stonemasonry Brotherhood: 558].
Alpha didn’t do much explaining, yet the numbers couldn’t be fooled.
In the item of searching for stragglers alone, the Riptide Knights were more than the sum of the other unions, the simple data released immediately blocked the mouths of the others, and the guy who had just questioned this would fall silent.
Okay.
From the operation and management alone, these RP parties are indeed professionals.
Reed Name Female Sword Saint: [Holy shit! Fake it, but we’ve gone through the Batasin Chamber of Commerce, and through the power of NPC’s we’re recruiting the exiled Transylvanians and paying for it.
How can you guys have so many more people than us?
You guys open it!
Honorable Knight Tepal: [First of all, there are more of us, 81 of us split into teams to conduct non-stop straggler searches in Xico’s territory, and we have hired hillbilly guides, which has allowed us to find seven large straggler gatherings and 26 smaller gatherings.
Secondly, from the time our valiant knights landed in Transylvania until now, our entire regiment has hardly been involved in any other operations, focusing on finding the ‘strategic resources’ for Transylvania that Governor Murphy needs most at the moment.
Namely, people!
A territory cannot grow in any way without enough lords on it, and this is something we had agreed upon in the tavern before my knights arrived in Transylvania.
The initial development strategy that the strategy team of the Knights of the Riptide had laid out for us forerunners proved to be correct].
Lady Warm Atmosphere Water: [Awesome! Your sneaky and down-to-earth heads-down work has indeed taught the other player forces currently in the game a good lesson, showing us that an organization with conviction and unity of purpose can explode to its greatest potential.
@Boardloads of happy sticks, Stick, watch and learn!
This is the right example of how to run a large guild, the only way to fully utilize and maximize the strength of numbers is to have a clear goal and a clear division of labor].
Boardload Happy Stick: [Sister Shui is right, I am indeed convinced this time.]]
Alpha: [So, in the face of the person’s explanation and the data disclosed by the test team, does anyone else have a problem with the dev team’s decision? This thread is for discussion, so if you have an opinion, say it.
As long as they are reasonable opinions and views, we can discuss them completely rationally.]]
Electronic Phantom Old Song: [This is obvious data in front of us, as long as it is not a blind man all know that people get the stronghold territory deservedly.
At the moment, there is no real savant among us players, so Fat can rest assured.
However
There is still a stronghold authority in the hands of the development team that hasn’t been decentralized, right?
Lumina-Yang Scar: [What do you mean, Brother Qu? Didn’t Brother Meow Meow say that he wanted to go the small and elite route? What’s the point of having a stronghold?
There’s not a single administrative player amongst you guys, so even if you got it, you wouldn’t have the time to manage it].
King Woo Meow: [Hehehe, it’s true that we don’t have the energy or manpower to devote to stronghold management, but this game is so free it doesn’t necessarily have to involve us.
Hasn’t Lumi girl ever heard of a management mode called ‘hosting’?
We can absolutely hire civil servants from the administration office to participate in the territory management, and we’ll do our own thing, so that we can get quite a sizable amount of resources from the stronghold every month to use for reinforcing our armaments and logistics.
Black Silk was right earlier.
This is a hen that lays golden eggs, who wouldn’t want it?]
Lumina Yang Scar: [Ch, let’s compete then! We, the Silver Moon Troupe, will take this last piece of territory!
King Mewtwo: [Let’s do it, who’s afraid? We’ll go slave hunting after the boxing match, I don’t believe it, the census will last until the end of the Hundred Days of Construction, there are still two months and 17 days left.
Let’s have a match.]
Alpha: [Uh, it doesn’t have to be population plundering, doing other things is also something that can be favored by the Scarlet Fortress Administrative Office, as long as it’s conducive to increasing Transylvania’s development and prosperity, Consul Miriam will see to it]]
Hedonism: [@Sister Pomegranate pulls down the willow, @Banzai Happy Stick, @Woo Meow Brother, hurry up! The Sewer Fist Tournament swiped ring #3 today with Andre, Earl of White Mountain holding the ring.
Dudes who want to get an invitation to challenge Lord Murphy hurry up and report their lives to fight, Cat has already gotten a letter of recommendation from the Earl of White Mountain!
Doesn’t need to beat him!
According to Cat, one only needs to last three minutes under Andre’s attack to get his endorsement. However, this kid is an Assassin+Magic Swordsman, with a pretty tough attack and a sneak backstab that will kill you in seconds if your blood level is below 40%!
So before you come, you’d better buy the Spirit Sight Potion from Lady Tris’s Alchemy Hut and put on the thickest armor you can find!”]
Traveling Scholar Cho: [Wait! What’s with the letters of recommendation? How can we still challenge Lord Murphy? What kind of quest is this again?
How come I don’t know!
Sister Pomegranate pulls a willow upside down: [It’s a challenge quest. You have to get a Wolfsbane Staff Sword then go to Lord Murphy and challenge him to trigger the quest, it’s very difficult and not recommended for normal players to just try it.]]
Morning Blade Ranger Bacchus: [Ms. Pomegranate please elaborate on the challenge, I and other strangers have been in Transylvania for a short time and don’t know much about local customs. So, what are the specifics of this challenge quest?”]
Sister Pomegranate pulls the willow upside down: [If you want to challenge Lord Murphy you have to get the approval of the seven most powerful lords under his command, and you have to get at least four letters of recommendation before you can move on to the next part of the quest.
The seven lords are ‘Monster’ Maxim, Hunting Baron Kudel, Andromeda Countess Phymis, Spectral Baroness Lady Adele, White Mountain Earl Andre, Moonlight Bow Knight Laneia, and Pale Vulture Knight Valander.
Currently the only ones that can be directly challenged are Maxim, Kudel, and Lady Adele, with the remaining four all being randomly refreshed daily in each of the six rings in the Fighter’s Championship.
But as I mentioned earlier, this quest is ridiculously difficult.
Maxim’s challenge is characterized by the fact that within a minute of entering the fight, if the strength and gusto of your attacks don’t satisfy him, he’ll just go berserk and kill you in seconds with a cool execution from Dark Sharp Claws.
Mrs. Adele has ridiculously high evasion!
She requires you to hit her three times in ten moves, and if you can’t do the same you’ll be killed in seconds with a set of silky little combos.
Of course it won’t kill you, it will just instantly reduce your life value to 1.
Maxim and Mrs. Adele belong to the ‘gatekeepers’ of this quest chain, and if you can’t get references from both of them, then you don’t have to think about the rest of it].
Seemingly Tiger Can Edgewood: [That’s right, these two have the lowest combined challenge difficulty.
I tried to challenge Lord Kudel before, drank a potion and used a scroll and got someone to buff me, went in with confidence, and ended up getting two sword seconds from Lord Kudel.
He is not something we can challenge now.
According to my estimation, you have to cultivate at least one advanced sword art and defense skill to master level before you can get a letter of recommendation from Lord Kudel.
Of these four hidden characters, I think it’s only the Earl of White Mountain that’s a bit easier.
Knight Valander has already become a Grail Knight, his muscles scare me when I look at them, and Bow Knight Ms. Laneia is a long range, it’s questionable if you can even touch her in a real fight.
Missy is even more so.
She’s a noble mage.
But there’s a special achievement and an out-of-print title after beating this quest chain, and I think this might be the only way we can fight Lord Murphy in the game right now].
Touch Your Poor: [Sounds like the payoff isn’t proportional to the payoff.]
Reed Sword Saint: [Indeed not proportional Oh, this is obviously the development team to leave those battle maniacs challenge mission, ordinary players do not spend time running the quest chain, really can not row. In addition, I’ve already got a letter of recommendation from Ms. Laneia, and I don’t need you to beat her.
It is not necessary for you to defeat her.
Just challenge her at the shooting contest site and complete the 30 targets in three minutes with her interference.
However, in order to challenge Ms. Leonia, you must first win all 24 matches in the Shooting Competition, which means that you have to defend the ring for two days].
Invincible Tyrannosaurus Rex: [Ms. Laneia’s challenge doesn’t require a fight either! You’ll be able to trigger the challenge quest once your favorability with her reaches a certain level.
She’ll give you three psychic jutsu models, and you have to memorize all three and successfully release two of them within an hour to get a letter of recommendation.
I personally find this challenge quest to be the most rewarding.
Not only do you get a letter of recommendation, but you can also learn skills. I’ve already gotten a letter of recommendation and learned three advanced psychic spells, namely, Confusion, Small Thundercloud Lightning, and Static Electricity Field, so I’m really a psychic genius, right?
Hahahahaha.]
Shan Nan Hu Xiao: [Is there a way to challenge the Valande Knights? Did any of my brothers with big dicks explore it?
Banzai Happy Stick: [Uh should we compare riding skills with him?
The Valander Knight says we’re too weak right now to make fighting us challenging, but he’s interested in competing with us in horsemanship.
I haven’t tried.
But I have brothers under my command who have gotten into this, and the base requirement is to get to the finish line before the Vulture Rider in a set amount of time, with advanced challenges to follow.
It’s a tough one!
Because according to the Vulture Knight himself, he was born on horseback, and I don’t know if he’s bragging or not, but if it’s true, then I really admire his old mom]
Wrist Ho: [So there’s this chain of quests that challenge the strong? This game has done a pretty good job in this regard, looks like I’ll have to hurry up and level up to pass the Black Iron Trials and then challenge the local powerhouses as well]]
Star Soul Eagle: [Mr. Li, you must be fine! I think you might be the first player to beat Lord Murphy.
Rako Rin: [Wait a minute! Didn’t you say that Lord Murphy is only a Black Iron ranked Grave Sword Guard? Why did you have to beat so many Silver ranked lords before challenging him?
Could it be that Lord Murphy’s combat power has already broken through the rank limit?”]
Guided by three or five more buckets: [Aren’t you talking nonsense? He’s a noble ‘mainline NPC’, isn’t it normal for his combat power to be a bit outrageous?
I reckon that the only ones in this game whose strength is steadily pressing down on Lord Murphy are Lady Tris and that golden neurotic tart Blood Knight Lord that appeared before.
Reed Name Female Sword Saint: [You’re all thinking wrong, I’ve carefully read the content of that challenge quest, and I’m guessing that when the time comes to fight Lord Murphy it won’t even be one on one.
It will most likely be a team battle!
Maybe there will be a time-limited copy of the challenge quest, or a 40-player quest. Lord Murphy is a leader-level NPC, so it’s easy to be a group BOSS.
Anyway, keep doing it, and try to get this quest done before the Black Plague arrives!
Let’s all work together and cut down the bad Lord Murphy! [Pinch hahahahahaha, what a sense of accomplishment!
—
Murphy was in his office, looking helplessly at his warriors discussing how to defeat him, he could not say anything to this group of “deception” guys.
Just in his heart silently decided, when enough 40 to get the letter of recommendation of the guys to challenge him, must give them a little color to see!
At that time, once the fight starts, he will never show mercy, first second off the healing and then take out the DPS, and finally the most difficult to gnaw on the shield T as a crippled wheelchair monster slowly slipped to play.
Hey, a high degree of freedom BOSS with no timeline or fixed skill set can definitely make these guys realize what is called cruelty!
Gee, what do you mean by the majesty of a mainline NPC?
Speaking of which, if these guys are so enthusiastic about challenge quests, should we start a separate challenge quest chain for Tris as well?
Should we give them a follow-up quest after they pass the “Murphy’s Martial Arts Trial” so they can challenge the most honorable and powerful of the Blood Vulture Clan?
Well, that sounds interesting!
Thinking so, he smoothly took out a weapon case from his psionic bag, and with a smile on his face handed it into the hands of the summoned Brother Woo Meow as he said:
“My warrior Woo Meow, the research on that Bloodthirsty Demon Sword you submitted earlier has finally come to fruition, and I am able to have the honor of returning it to you.
However, it is currently incomplete, and you will need to continue to find ways to make it awesome.”
“Thank you, Lord Murphy!”
Brother Woo Meow, who had suddenly received an update on the hidden quest just now, received the weapon box with a face full of joy, and opened it in front of Lord Murphy to see that the magical sword he had submitted earlier, “Scorpio”, had been refreshed with a new look.
In his heart, he said harshly:
“I had thought that this quest was a mess, but I didn’t expect it to be given a follow-up after this version update… Sure enough, this is a mega hidden quest chain, isn’t it? I really am Lord Murphy’s favorite and most favored warrior, ah, just ask anyone else who else has this treatment, right?”
(End of chapter)