Necromancer chopping down trees

Chapter 162 Midnight Processing
Although the battle lasted for an hour, it was too short for players who were fully immersed in the game.

When we came to our senses, the wave of murlocs had receded, and the players who persisted to the end received experience and item rewards.

"Damn it, I was the one who triggered the mission, why is there no special reward?"

Persia, who accepted the mission, got the same equipment as others, so of course he felt psychologically unbalanced.

While his teammates were picking up the drops from the last wave of monsters, he was walking around the town with his head down, and finally bumped into a shotgun.

"Well done, adventurer."

The mayor stopped Persia alone, and it seemed that there was a special reward for him.

Persia rubbed his hands excitedly, and the mayor fumbled all over his body for a long time, and finally untied a brass button from his clothes.

"I was originally planning to take it to the grave, but since you've protected the town, I'll give it to you."

[Proof of Courage: Originally a reward prepared by a father for his son]

[Effect: Once a day, immune to fatal damage]

The copper button is just an ornament and it works just by hanging it on your body.

Persia kissed the item he obtained. The value of this equipment was worthy of the hidden mission. It was only with the help of thousands of players that he completed the mission.

"Even if you reach a high level in the future, I will still be there to protect the Novice Village."

The mayor retracted his shotgun and trudged back to the town hall.

After the murloc incident, players returned to the normal leveling and questing process.

The monsters that were scared away have returned, and many players who took this opportunity to reach level 8 have begun to explore maps outside the [Northern Woods].

The west side of the woods is filled with warning signs, but that still can't stop curious players.

However, no one can walk out of ten meters. The poisonous snakes in the warning area will kill the players instantly. The levels of those poisonous snakes are all question marks. The west side of the woods is obviously not the direction of the next map.

To the east of the woodland is the beach where the murlocs are. Even if you swim towards the sea, you won't see new land before you run out of energy.

Therefore, the correct direction is to head north to the [Northern Grassland] where the Free Town is located.

"Ah, it's so boring. I can leave after watching over this night."

At midnight, the players went offline one after another to rest. The number of online players dropped from tens of thousands to thousands in an instant, and there were only a hundred players actively fighting in the woods.

Many energetic young people choose to play all night long in order to stay one step ahead of everyone else.

Ryzen Studios is one of them. After all, games are part of their job. The more they know, the more money they can make.

"Xin, it was indeed the right choice to bring you here."

"Brother Long, what you said is really good. Remember to give me a raise and let me reimburse the money I spent on staying up late for beauty treatments."

"Ah, the woodland scenery is so beautiful, I mean the night view is so beautiful."

After Xinbo became familiar with the game content, he joined the team. The goal of their studio was to have all members reach level 10 today.

Compared to the internal beta, the upgrade speed of the public beta is much faster. As long as you can finish it for a whole night, you can reach the level that takes five days to reach in the internal beta. This is the adjustment Wang Yue made after learning from the lesson.

"Brother Long is so stingy. I really want a boss who cares about his subordinates."

Xinbo complained all the way, and the team arrived at the area of ​​level 8 monsters, the Quiet Cave, amid her complaints.

The quiet cave is decorated with spider webs, all of which are huge [Woodland Spiders].

This monster can use [Sticky Spider Web], which has the effect of imprisoning enemies trying to escape. However, unless the player fails to calculate the health point due to mistake, this skill is usually not a threat.

"The mission is to collect spider silk. Everyone should act together, grab monsters first, and then concentrate on killing all the monsters you have pulled."

There were already other players in the Quiet Cave, so fighting was inevitable.

However, after several rounds of competition, individual players were completely at a disadvantage and were unable to snatch the items from the larger and more powerful Ryzen Studio.

"Let's go. It's late at night. The whole map is reserved by studios. Individuals can't compete with them."

"If the authorities don't intervene, this game will be ruined by the studio sooner or later."

Not only the Quiet Cave, but any monster spawning point in the forest is inevitably occupied by the studio.

Individual players can only compete with these studios by teaming up with others and relying on quick hands and eyes to snatch monsters.

The abnormal situation has been captured by the system, and Xiao Nuo immediately reported it to Wang Yue.

"Wake up, important news has been delivered."

Wang Yue almost fell asleep while standing, but the harsh electronic sound woke him up.

"A studio? Unless you're a tech guy, the authorities won't bother you."

Looking at the data report sent by Xiao Nuo, Wang Yue saw that the online players were all talking about having their monsters stolen.

Most of the studios are still killing monsters late at night. By tomorrow, these studios that upgraded first will monopolize the resources of the new map.

"If I don't intervene, it will become a vicious cycle. It seems I must put a stop to it with justice."

In the last era, in order to prevent players from playing endless unhealthy games, the anti-addiction system made great contributions, but it only targeted minors.

Forcing players to log off will only ruin their goodwill, so holding some reasonable nighttime events should have a better persuasive effect.

"With so many murlocs dead here, it would be reasonable for murloc skeletons to appear at night, right?"

Wang Yue left the woodland town. He asked Xiao Nuo to send him the activity areas of all players and prepare to publicize the special night action.

"Thank you, fishman, for letting me use your primary bone fragments to avenge you."

Wang Yue used the long-lost [Summoning the Dead], but because the materials were at the elementary level, the summoned [Skeleton Murloc] was only level 9.

Tens of thousands of murlocs died as passers-by in the town, the summoning materials were endless, and skeleton murlocs rushed towards the players one after another.

What's even more fatal is that because it is Wang Yue's summoned creature, the Skeleton Fishman is a green-named monster. Even though it has a strange appearance, players will not be on guard against monsters that are not even yellow-named.

"Skeleton murlocs are fragile and their attack power is not high, but they can disrupt the player's rhythm of killing monsters. They may even be able to pick up the kills by sneaking up on low-health players."

The result was just as Wang Yue had expected. The appearance of the Skeleton Fishman greatly slowed down the pace of leveling in the studio.

Originally, for the sake of efficiency, the studio's tactic was to pull in a group of monsters, but in order to guard against sudden attacks from the Skeleton Fishmen, they had to stay together at all times.

Staying up late already makes people irritable, and the frightened skeleton fishmen consume even more energy.

"Forget it, let's fight again tomorrow when we wake up."

"It's really annoying. Look, why isn't the random person killing monsters nearby being chased by the Skeleton Fishman? Didn't he participate in the defense of the town?"

The legend of the Skeleton Murloc was posted online by players, which corresponds to the wave of Murlocs during the day and is very reasonable.

Netizens praised the game's details, but this made life difficult for the studio's players.

After this night, Wang Yue hurriedly revised the experience gaining rules.

After midnight, all game revenue will be reduced by half. He also wrote a long article advocating players to go to bed early and get up early, and play games in a healthy way.

(End of this chapter)