novelonline Chapter 1294 Public Beta Begins
Chapter 1294 Public Beta Begins
【00:09:59】
[Prince of Ghost Market] glanced at the countdown time and directly arranged for a player to go offline to see whether the initial quota for their small town was full.
Unlike the three internal tests, no temporary accommodation will be arranged for this public test.
Players are directly placed in an area outside the city, and there will be a quota limit based on the size of each town.
For example, the imperial city of Zhongxuanzhou can select 10,000 people, and they must be human.
Xixuanzhou Prefecture, which is close to the Western Demon Realm, does not limit the human and demon races, but the largest city only has places for 8,000 people.
On the Ghost Market side, the huge central cities of the three major states in the southern border also have a population of 10,000.
As for the medium-sized city where the [Prince of Ghost Market] is located, it has given places to two thousand people.
When the countdown just appeared, the number of people had not yet reached the full quota. Perhaps because the other two major races were newly opened, the number of demons stationed in those cities in the Far West Demon Realm reached the upper limit early.
The ferocious beasts are more free and can be directly released into areas without any restrictions on their numbers.
This makes it convenient for some chaebol family groups in reality to arrange their own people to gather together first. Otherwise, even if they are fast, it will be difficult to arrange everyone in one area.
In the Mountain and Sea Realm, the area of Kyushu alone is several times larger than in reality. In the initial adaptation stage of building a character, it is impossible to perform long-distance actions. The space channels opened by the Ghost Market, as well as airships and mechanical trains, are not affordable for public beta players who cannot even reach the Body Tempering Realm.
It is just to directly create an account with a bunch of ferocious beasts, which is also a very challenging decision.
The three internal tests have actually cleared a lot of ground for the public beta players. At least the human race's main martial arts system is now familiar to all players, and they also know how to improve themselves step by step.
Since the demons have similarities with the human race, many aspects can be used as reference.
But as for the ferocious beasts, it is a foggy road.
Without internal beta test players to explore, the future development of this ferocious beast is still unknown, and the method of becoming the Beast King is only limited to paper talk.
"How about it?"
The prince looked at the player who was lying dead on the spot and then suddenly sat up.
"We're still about three hundred people short, and we probably won't reach the full quota." The player shrugged when he saw the countdown timer was three minutes left.
The prince nodded indifferently, but still gave some instructions to the other players.
“As long as they don’t make too much noise, it doesn’t matter. After they calm down, let them make their own choices as we said before. As for the family forces in the city, you will also lead people over there.
It is up to them to decide which one they want to join.
By the way, the night curfew needs to be restored, and those who have no place to stay and are still wandering on the streets should be driven out of the city."
With the current size of the Ghost Market, there is no need to coax and deceive players into joining as was done in the three internal tests. Now everything is handled in a fair and impartial manner.
However, any public beta player who chooses the Ghost Market as their starting point will inherently belong to the Ghost Market in terms of faction division, but this secondary resident status no longer has the guarantee of a temporary residence like the first three internal tests.
After all, it would be a hassle to temporarily arrange accommodation for so many people.
On the other hand, over in Nanxuan Prefecture, the Exploitation Demon had organized an activity of loan accommodation, and had long ago built dormitories for sixteen people each, which were much better than the Mouth of the Abyss where the third test players lived when they descended.
This is much more reasonable than the large dormitory that he had set up at the beginning where 300 people could sleep.
After all, Southeast Province was only taken over not long ago, and the prince, as the city lord, has not yet raised the city's technological level to the same level as Nanxuan Province. Naturally, he does not have the leisure to arrange for public beta players to move in in advance.
Besides, this business is also very risky. If you really want to build a residence, it is very likely that the public beta players will take it for free and then simply abandon the house and move to another place.
If the six land-selling demons were not notorious, and the Exorcism Palace to which the second of them belonged had not also begun to take on the debt collection business, even the exploitation demon would have to consider whether the risk was worth his initial investment.
【00:00:30】
There were still thirty seconds left. The somewhat listless [Prince of Ghost Market] tidied up his neat and majestic attire of the city lord, and chose a platform, where he stood with his hands behind his back, waiting for the arrival of the public beta players.
The group of players next to him who were originally chatting and flattering each other also became radiant, quiet and serious, and really had the demeanor of masters.
This made the Evil-Repelling Sword Guard, who had been suppressing the desire to castrate throughout the whole process, raise his eyebrows.
He tightened his grip on the castration knife in his hand, and after gesturing towards the players from a distance, he still suppressed his impulse.
At the same time, his secret actions naturally attracted the attention of other players, but thinking that the public beta players would arrive in a few seconds, they forcibly suppressed the urge to howl and run away in order to maintain their status.
After all, these days, people can give up anything to show off!
Just as the whole atmosphere fell silent and the dust stirred up a storm along with the turbulent hearts of the people, the countdown returned to zero.
【00:00:00】
Swish, swish, swish, swish!
As if they had grown directly out of the ground, the public beta players, dressed in cloth and looking very simple, were scattered all over the square in the outer city area.
As the first player stood up with a roar, the originally quiet square immediately became like a chicken farm, with endless chirping.
Some were pinching here and touching there.
Some of them were like they were possessed by monkey spirits, jumping around wildly on the spot.
Others began to study their own magical skills of iron pants.
The solid seal triggered the howls of countless players, and some female players began to compete with each other in beauty, ranging from compliments to sarcasm, and a few words almost caused a group of women to start tearing each other's hair.
[Prince of Ghost Market] has always maintained his status.
Although some players below had already started pointing at him and saying in what they thought was a quiet voice that he should be struck by lightning for being such a show-off.
But the good thing is that they at least took the prince's identity into consideration.
After all, except for a small number of players who choose their initial location without looking at any information, most players will refer to the information released by the internal test players when making their choices. Therefore, many of them know that there is a player with a stupid name but was not killed by the ghost market. He is the lord of the city they are in.
The power of a city lord is very great. Even though the Ghost Market has begun to carry out corresponding reforms, for now, the city lord still holds a tight grip on both the military and political aspects. In fact, the current [Prince of Ghost Market] is more like a golden thigh than the rootless demon he encountered when he first created his account.
So now there are some players who look shifty and are ready to come up and get close to you.
Just as they were about to approach the prince, they were locked in by the murderous aura of the Evil-Repelling Sword Guard who had been leaning against the wall.
其眼中满是挑衅，更是邪恶的舔了舔自己手里的阉割刀，那样子要多欠揍有多欠揍，那脸上表情更是明晃晃的将钓鱼二字写了出来。
"Fuck! Who is this X?"
"Is he glaring at us?"
"There are more than a thousand of us here, so it shouldn't be a problem to take him down."
"What are you looking at! I'm just asking! What are you looking at!"
Many hot-tempered guys have returned to their true nature. It’s ok to endure it in real life, but it’s absolutely unacceptable to be provoked by NPC while playing a game!
Also in the crowd, there are strategy enthusiasts and science geeks who often read the posts of internal test players and give timely explanations.
"That should be the Evil-Repelling Sword Guard."
"It's the organization of lunatics founded by the Rootless Demon."
"I heard that he personally killed every member just to feel the same pain."
"The castration knife in his hand is similar in style to the Gate Blade of the Rootless Demon. It seems that it can break through the player's inability to feel pain and directly give the player a double pain effect."
"More importantly, once he strikes, there is absolutely no going back."
The brother who had already calmed down approached a science geek and asked.
“This is a one-way trip.”
"Well, it's the one you think of that goes but never returns. I recommend you to read a popular science post about the six land-selling demons in the forum. The rootless demon was once called [The Unparalleled Demon Hero]. As the first test boss, he was quite normal at the beginning.
Even compared to other social maniacs, he is considered shy among the six land-selling demons.
After all, one is completely black-hearted, one keeps shouting that art is explosive, one inadvertently leads you to the embrace of faith, and one has a bunch of spiders, toads, giant pythons and other things wrapped around him every day.
The last one wore gold-framed glasses and would laugh sinisterly and weirdly from time to time.
Before he officially accepted the name Wugenmo, he was really an ordinary player.
Of course, the more normal you are, the more crazy you become.”
This science geek shut up because he saw that the evil-repelling sword guard had locked onto him and was holding a voice transmission token in his hand. He knew without a second thought that this guy was definitely telling tales. If he said a few more words, he would definitely get stabbed by him.
Damn it! I just created an account and now I have to say goodbye to my little brother forever. Is there any other choice besides deleting the account and waiting for the cooldown?
The time at the beginning is the most critical. Without these ten days, he will miss so many opportunities!
So he chose to follow his heart.
Of course, it is also because the more I know, the more I am in awe of the value of the three words "rootless demon".
After all, why should a normal person bother with a psychopath?
After completing a wave of self-psychological persuasion, this science geek showed a friendly smile to the evil-repelling sword guard. After the evil-repelling sword guard said with undisguised contempt, he was still smiling. His main point was that he would not hit a smiling person.
Naturally, there were also people in other towns who were dissatisfied.
Then a bloody frenzy broke out on the scene.
Of course, it can also be seen as killing the chicken to scare the monkey.
This time it’s really killing a chicken!
But soon some players discovered something strange: some of the players who were cut off did not delete their accounts. Some of the players who experienced extreme pain and were able to log in to argue unexpectedly received invitations from those Evil-Repelling Sword Guards.
Damn, is this club recruiting new members?
With such bizarre behavior patterns, they completed the member screening?
About half of them accepted the invitation to join the Palace of Exorcism, because some players, after being cut off, were still able to endure the pain and come up just to say a few words. They were already prepared to have their accounts deleted.
They were really furious and vowed not to bow to the evil organization, the Palace of Exorcism.
Some chose to reconcile.
Because after seeing with their own eyes that the Exorcism Sword Technique had reached the Heavenly Grade after several improvements, these players were deeply attracted!
Starting with the Heavenly Grade Sword Technique, what a wonderful opportunity.
What's more, the reputation of the Exorcist Palace is so bad and cruel, and it is too difficult to adapt to players!
As the saying goes, once you cut it off, the world will become wider. It's just a game anyway, so if it's gone, it's gone. I was originally sealed away, so now I don't need to worry about anything. Why not just let myself go and embrace a new life!
Soon after this important discovery was posted on the forum, some public beta players, especially a bunch of fans who had previously praised the Rootless Demon on offline forums, began to actively provoke the Evil-Repelling Sword Guards stationed in various towns.
The front foot was cut so painfully that the back foot started to hug each other's shoulders.
Although this is only a small minority of the massive public beta players, it also gave a strong shock to some Ghost Market masters who were present to witness the launch of the public beta.
The number of players in the previous three internal tests was not too large, and after three rounds of screening, these people were actually excellent seeds who already had outstanding talents in different fields.
Those who are truly just insane have only now stood out from this massive number of cases.
After this news including the corresponding images were transmitted back to Ghost Market, the advisory group was greatly shocked.
After all, mediocre players are all alike, but truly crazy players are all weird.
The prince has already started explaining the next novice guidance task according to the previous arrangement.
Then, under the guidance of other players, they began to wander around the city in teams. Of course, some of them moved freely, but the prince didn't care. What he paid most attention to was the leader of the Nine Evils who was sighing with regret on the side.
He didn't draw his sword, and no player gave him the opportunity.
Even though a strategy post for the first hidden force that is exclusive to the Ghost Market and can be joined by public beta players has been posted on the forum, apparently no one among the more than a thousand people on the prince's side was lucky enough to capture a lunatic.
At the same time, in the Far West Demon Realm, the capital of the Demonic Kingdom.
It is also a super-large city that has been selected to accommodate 10,000 public beta players.
A wave of chaos is brewing among players here.
Although the advantages and disadvantages of demon players were explained in the previous update log, only by experiencing it yourself can you know how serious the disadvantages of low innate mental strength and the chaos buff that appears from time to time are.
Of course, there are advantages as well. When the human players did not feel the difference from reality, the demon players completed the breakthrough from blank to body tempering realm just five minutes after arriving.
The significant increase in physical strength makes these already red-eyed red devil players feel that they are simply powerful enough to explode!
I don’t want to think about anything anymore, just dry my teeth!
Are there any kings, princes, generals or ministers of different races? (End of this chapter)