Kapitel 52: Chapter 52: Player Guild (Vote for recommendation!)
Redakteur: Henyee Translations
Two days have passed since the recapture of Feilengcui.
After the players officially established a stable Teleportation Array and completed the first main quest, subsequent storyline quests also followed.
That is to delve into the exploration of the ancient Holy City, seeking the history left by the elven civilization.
However, not all players chose to accept this exploration quest this time.
A portion of players fond of combat promoted themselves to level 11 and then chose to leave the safe zone to adventure into a broader world.
Basically, it meant grinding and leveling up through monster kills.
"Elf Kingdom" is different from other games; the combat mechanics of this "virtual reality game" are very free. After players get familiar with the rules, they quickly fall in love with this battle mode that's extremely true to reality.
Adventuring in such a game gives them the experience of truly becoming mercenaries, becoming hunters of prey.
Not only that, but many combat-seasoned players even found that their adaptability and reflexes were enhanced back in the real world.
There were even rumors of someone who used the techniques from the game to subdue a robber during a robbery...
And this made the players even more enthusiastic about combat.
Moreover, the vast forests outside the safe zone also provided this possibility for players.
Outside the safety zone, the Elf Forest is home to numerous Demon Beasts, primarily of the Black Iron rank—very suitable for players looking to train their fighting skills.
Especially those Black Iron Lower beasts.
Of course, the forest also has its share of formidable Silver Creatures, but such beings generally roam the more northern parts of the forest.
And it's said that in the far north, there are even Gold or even legendary-level powerful creatures.
Needless to say, those legendary existences are beyond what current players can comprehend.
These pieces of information were all obtained after the players wracked their brains and made every effort to please Alice and learned from her.
Alice even taught them how to identify the tracks of powerful wild beasts and how to avoid higher-level Demon Beasts and the like.
All of this was thanks to the improved relationship between Alice and the players.
After the invitation of the players in Feilengcui, except for Demacia, the relationship between Alice and most Chosen Ones improved.
Especially those Chosen Ones who had participated in reclaiming the Holy City, many of them reached a friendly status with her.
Under these circumstances, Alice finally became willing to have in-depth exchanges with the Chosen Ones.
Not only that, but Alice also took notice of Gugu Bird's talent in Arrays and started giving her pointers from time to time, stirring the envy of many players.
And Gugu Bird became the first player to trigger Alice's side quest, becoming the earliest Chosen One to start learning about Arrays.
Well... at least that's what the players believed.
...
In Feilengcui, amongst the ruins of elven constructions,
Li Mu walked carefully in the dim light, holding a torch that flickered intermittently.
As a player who loves storyline quests, he declined other players' invitations and did not head out for wilderness adventures. Instead, he chose to complete the storyline missions.
After completing previous quests and sacrificing the goblin curved knives, bows, and clubs seized to the Goddess, he had accumulated enough contribution points to exchange for two new skills.
[Cat's Grace] and [Bull's Strength].
The former improves agility, while the latter enhances strength comprehensively.
As for equipment...
Well, being able to exchange for two skills was already the result of him pushing his limits; he didn't dare to hope for more.
He wasn't a wealthy big spender, after all.
However, not long after the players completed their tasks, a new batch of weapons emerged in the exchange system.
This batch was mainly scimitars and bows, with some good-looking magic staves as well.
They were beautifully crafted, and the price was reasonable, requiring only a thousand or a couple thousand contribution points. They were all blue rarity equipment.
Even though their attribute bonuses couldn't compare to purple epic equipment, they were still better than the goblin weapons seized by Li Mu and his peers.
Li Mu thought that this must be the official gear tailored for the average player.
He planned to save up enough contribution points to exchange for a magic staff.
But then again, he always subconsciously felt that this batch of equipment looked familiar, yet he couldn't quite place where he had seen them before.
It must be an illusion.
Li Mu shook his head and continued exploring the dim ruins.
These were one of the larger ruins in Feilengcui, far from the temple in the Holy City. The entire ruins seemed to have once been a magnificent structure made of huge stones.
Li Mu felt that only in such large-scale ruins could one more likely find the treasures left by the elf civilization.
Unfortunately, he had been exploring here for two hours but had found nothing.
What was even more irritating was that a big tail behind him kept jabbering on and on...
"Brother Mu, Brother Mu, why did you choose to explore the ruins? We've been wandering around here for two hours and found nothing."
Demacia muttered incessantly with a straw in his mouth, following behind Li Mu.
"I heard that Boxed Meal's team killed a level 13 Mountain Rock Wild Boar in the wild, and they're almost level 12 now... Ah, Brother Mu, why don't we organize some outdoor activities?"
Demacia looked at Li Mu's back, his voice tinged with a hint of grievance.
As a taunting tank warrior, he got itchy for a fight after a few days without one.
He had traded for an epic curved goblin knife and had even put off learning new skills to get it.
Hearing Demacia's words, Li Mu frowned and said:
"Don't rush, we can go after we've finished the storyline quests."
"But we've been exploring for two days and haven't found anything... hey, according to the storyline, this place has been abandoned for nearly a thousand years. Even if there was something, it would probably have been ruined by the goblins."
Demacia shook his head as he spoke.
Li Mu thought for a moment and explained:
"If the storyline has given us a task, it's definitely not aimless. The harder it is to find, the more it shows that the reward for this task is precious..."
To be honest, after wandering for two days, even he wasn't feeling very confident about saying this.
Sometimes Li Mu also felt annoyed with the game designers' planning for Feilengcui – creating such a large-scale ruins and it's seriously just a pile of ruins. Besides the trash left by the goblins' eating, drinking, and living, there's not a single hair to be found...
"Ah... and then there's Fried Tomato, I heard he's set up a guild specifically for outdoor strategy, with all that smugness, hmph..."
Demacia curled his lip.
"I'm saying, Brother Mu, do you think he really wanted to steal the Divine Blood Crystal? I remember the system warned him specifically when he attacked you..."
He asked curiously.
Li Mu paused for a moment, then said:
"Instead of asking about this, you might as well keep a good eye on the road and look for any secret passages or treasures."
He didn't deny it, which was as good as confirming Demacia's guess.
"Heh, I knew that guy was up to no good."
Demacia sneered:
"Heh heh, once the guild battles start later, we'll teach Fried Tomato a good lesson!"
After completing the first instance quest, players had also begun to establish their own guilds.
Guilds as organizations help to enhance the cohesion among players, foster teamwork, promote competition among players, and add more fun to the game.
To help players complete quests more efficiently, Eve did not fall behind on this feature.
In fact, even if Eve hadn't set up guilds, given human nature's love for grouping, people would form groups big and small after getting together.
Better for Her to take the initiative to cultivate unified player guilds for Her to command.
The most terrifying fourth calamity is a united one.
As of now, the guilds have only enabled a public chat channel and sharing of the small map feature.
In the future, Eve plans to issue various quests through guilds to further train players' combat skills and their ability to coordinate on tasks.
Eve's ultimate goal is to shape the players into legions that can be directed wherever needed with guilds as a prototype!
And to establish a guild, one needs to spend 10,000 contribution points.
That's a substantial amount of money, but it becomes much less if players cooperate and pool their money.
Cooperating to raise funds, the closed beta players eventually formed three major guilds.
-- Geschenk
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