Chapter 29: It’s time to guide the players onto the right path_l
Translator: 549690339
“The row on the forum was still brewing.
Before long, Zhan Tianjian personally posted with his ID, accusing the Emperor Blood guild of summoning the Dragon King BOSS, triggering this crisis in the beginner village.
‘Emperor Blood must take responsibility for the deaths of over a thousand players!’ Zhan Tianjian declared.
At the same time, Zhan Tianjian produced credible evidence that several hours earlier, players from Emperor Blood had impersonated them in order to collect a ‘village entry fee’.
The people from Emperor Blood, of course, refused to admit it and waged a fierce war of words with Zhan Tianjian’s people on the official forum.
As a rich second-generation, Emperor Blood Slays the Sky was skilled in tactics like ‘buying water armies, manipulating fishing boats’.
Under the power of Flower Coins, a plethora of water armies flooded the official forum.
Even with Zhan Tianjian’s indisputably solid evidence, they were severely bashed by the water armies, and their post was filled with negative comments below.
The entire official forum had become a smoky chaos.
Looking at the chaos on the official forum, Su Yu frowned and closed the forum page.
Following this online feud, the reputation of Zhan Tian guild would surely take a significant hit.
Moreover, their repeated setbacks in the game mean that Zhan Tian guild will not have as smooth a progression as it did in his previous life.
But Su Yu was thinking further ahead.
His ultimate goal in suppressing the Zhan Tian guild was to deal with the Skuru people.
While he had already restricted the development of the Zhan Tian guild, the restricting process also generated a lot of negative effects.
For instance, the few hundred spectator players who were innocent casualties in the Square, and the large amount of attention the official forum was attracting. Many players weren’t leveling up and were engaging in feud on the forum instead.
He needed to devise a way to reorient the players’ attention towards ‘enhancing their capabilities and leveling up quickly’ rather than wasting time bickering on the forum.
His thoughts lasted roughly five minutes.
Five minutes later, a light bulb went off in Su Yu’s mind: ‘I remember, for the first time a player completes the level 5 dungeon, the system will give a chance for a server-wide announcement!’
Perhaps, through the ‘loudhailer chatting’ session after a server-wide announcement, he will be able to guide the players back on the right path!
With this thought, Su Yu no longer hesitated.
He raised his [Frost Shield] and strode towards where the village chief had fallen.
At this point, 15 minutes had passed since the [Star-forged Dragon King] had left, and the remnants of his breath had almost entirely dissipated from the square.
However, the small residue that remained was still not to be overlooked.
Standing on the land that had been corroded by the breath, undulating numbers like ‘-5,’ ‘-8,’ still sporadically appeared above Su Yu’s head indicating minor damage.
However, Su Yu’s [Frost Shield] had a shield value of 208 points, which was more than enough to hold up.
Coming to the village chief’s side, the village chief Eamon was lying on the ground, panting heavily, with a lot of glowing things corroding his skin.
Su Yu could do nothing about the chief’s condition as he was not a priest and did not have healing spells, nor did he have a healing potion on him.
But Su Yu still bent down to check on him, asking with concern, ‘Village Chief Eamon, do you need me to call the village doctor?’
‘No need, I can hold on.’ The chief struggled to sit up from the ground.
Su Yu immediately reached out to help him.
Once the village chief sat up straight, he looked up at Su Yu, ‘Adventurer, if I’m not mistaken, you must have provoked the ‘Star-Forged Dragon King’, haven’t you?’
The village chief stared at Su Yu as if he could see through everything.
‘Yes, it was me. But it all started with Annie…’
Su Yu didn’t hide anything, and detailed the second half of the process with [Tear of Savie Goddess] to the chief.
Village Chief Eamon listened attentively.
After listening, he sighed, ‘Ah! It was I who let Sam adopt Annie. I knew Annie was extraordinary; I didn’t expect it would escalate to this point today…’ ‘Here’s what, Adventurer, you report this to the Empire’s Princess Alyssa, and let her decide what we should do next.’
‘But to see Princess Alyssa is not as easy as ordinary people like us would think.
You need to earn some credentials, such as the proof of power like [Head of the Howling Moon Wolf King]…’
Village Chief Eamon continued rambling.
Meanwhile, Su Yu’s mission log also changed.
‘Ding! Congratulations on triggering the main storyline [Glory of the Goldfinch Empire]!’
‘[Glory of the Goldfinch Empire (1/100)]’
Mission Requirements: Level up to level 10, participate in killing the level 10 BOSS [Howling Moon Wolf Leader], and obtain the mission item [Head of the
Howling Moon Wolf King].’
Mission Reward: [Village’s Best Horse (Mount)] X1, [Village’s Best Sword
(Consumable)] X1, Experience Points X2000.’
In “Evolution”, players can ride mounts when they reach level 10. It was unexpected that the first link of the main story would reward a mount, which felt pretty good!
Regarding the Star-forged Dragon King Aurelion Sol who just flew by, if players were powerful enough, they could even force it to become their mount. However, it was unlikely anyone could pull it off.
‘Don’t worry, Village Chief, I will slay the Howling Moon Wolf King as soon as possible!’ Su Yu assured.
‘Go for it, adventurer! May the radiance of the princess be with you!’
The village chief nodded at Su Yu and went off to help the other players.
Having said goodbye to the village chief, Su Yu arrived at the area where the level 8 monster [Forest Gray Bear] was located.
[Forest Gray Bear Iv8]
Su Yu now has only one goal — level up quickly to level 5.
After Su Yu leveled up to 4, he killed over a hundred level 5 [Silver Snakes] and gained 510 experience points, fought the Silver Snake boss solo for 50 experience points, completed the [Tina’s Resistance] mission for 2250 experience points, and [Annie’s Revenge] for 1000 experience points.
To level up from 4 to 5, 4000 points of experience are needed. Now he needs just 190 more points to fill his experience bar!
‘Level 5, here I come!’
Su Yu thought, as the [Lightning Bolt] in his hand was fired at the Gray Bear.
The light blue magical damage number popped out above the Gray Bear’s head.
The Gray Bear wasn’t killed instantly.
The defense of the [Forest Gray Bear] is high, and because it was 4 levels higher than Su Yu, under level suppression, Su Yu could only deal half the damage of [Lightning Bolt].
[Forest Gray Bear] was attacked and roared as it charged at Su Yu.
But Su Yu was prepared, with a wave of his hand he threw out a [Fireball] scroll.
[Forest Gray Bear]’s health bar was cleared, and with a whimper, it fell to the ground.
‘Ding! You killed the [Forest Gray Bear Iv8], reward: 8 X experience points, [Bear’s Paw] Xl.’
Su Yu roughly calculated, each bear gave 8 experience points. So, he needed to kill another 23 bears to level up?
With this in mind, Su Yu didn’t hold back anymore.
One [Lightning Bolt] after another was released from his hand.
One [Electric Chain] after another spread out.
Fireballs got activated one by one from the scroll.
One by one, the bears fell at his feet.
Little by little, experience accumulated, filling up the experience bar.
Finally, after killing 23 Gray Bears, a burst of golden light flashed, and Su Yu leveled up to level 5!