Necromancer chopping down trees

Chapter 93 Warm-up Exercises
When the players approached the vicious blood pool, they noticed other players walking towards them from a distance.

These players have been leveling up here on the third day, but judging by how hurried they are, I'm afraid the leveling up has not been very successful over the past two days.

"Hey, are the missions here easy to complete? Are the monsters hard to fight?"

When asked questions, they often just waved their hands and refused to communicate. Occasionally, one or two people would just hesitate and were almost unwilling to stay any longer.

"What the hell? I didn't hear about this map problem online."

"Me too, I don't know why these players are so shy and don't even want to talk to others."

Wang Yue also felt very strange, because Xiao Nuo had explained the arrangements of the internal test to him.

Although the internal test players were divided into three groups, the three groups of players only played different maps, and the story templates and task difficulties they experienced were generally the same.

"Notice, the game environment will change according to the player's behavior, and important battles will affect the local monster ecology."

"You finally showed up after playing dead all night?"

"Yesterday, I detected multiple and intensive network attacks, and there were viruses disguised as data packets attempting to erode my core AI."

"Were we attacked?"

Because the demon dog ran out of the map last night, Wang Yue tried to contact the game system, but she did not receive any reply.

Wang Yue had some ideas about the technical attack. Dolly had talked to him about the source code before. Since his key had expired, Penguin Company would definitely use its own means to pry open the core code of the game.

"This is not good. Now even our partner company has taken action against us. Xiao Nuo, has your module been hacked?"

"From the data log, we know that the enemy only invaded my decoy module and triggered the anti-invasion system. According to calculations, the enemy has lost at least one large server."

"Oh, a counterattack."

Since the opponent's sneak attack failed and was instead defeated by a machine, it means that the technology has fallen behind artificial AI and will be quiet for a while.

The attack by a group of programmers was just an episode. Xiao Nuo's hint made Wang Yue guess that it should be related to the battle mission.

If the battle on the ice field ended with the victory of the Yeti, then the cultists who secretly controlled the Yeti would definitely create chaos in the end.

Maybe the group of demon dogs from last night will cover the entire ice field, and the new players will have to start fighting with the demons.

"So it was the players in the blood pool who failed their mission, causing the dark forces to turn the map into the disastrous state it is now."

"Understood correctly."

"Alas, even if we carefully select players to participate in the closed beta, there is no way to avoid too many noobs mixing in."

Now Wang Yue could understand why the players coming towards her were so silent. It was because of her defeat that the map became so miserable, and she felt too embarrassed to tell the new players.

"If you lose, you have to fight back. Players can be losers for a while, but the final victory will belong to the invincible players."

Although Wang Yue had been communicating with Xiao Nuo, the players who followed him only saw him walking in silence.

Relying on his thick skin and strong flesh, Wang Yue walked straight all the way without taking any detours, and even stepped directly into the boiling pool of blood.

However, the players' health does not support their attempts. As soon as they touch the blood pool, a [Blood Boiling] debuff will appear in the interface, causing continuous blood loss until they walk out of the blood pool.

After walking for a while, Wang Yue finally came back to his indecisive state. He looked carefully and found that he had actually walked to the center of the map.

"This is not a good idea. Let's start a quest to get the players away. Then I'll ask these NPCs how to conduct the trial."

The players watched Wang Yue stop. They realized that a new mission was about to begin, so they all ran to Wang Yue and surrounded him.

"Pollution is everywhere. The minions of darkness have infiltrated this place. Clean them up, and I will grant you endless wealth."

[Mission objective: Eliminate the poisonous slime monster (0/20)]

[Task Reward: Wooden Pickaxe, Copper Ore]

Because he had not returned to the castle to process the props all night, Wang Yue only had the wooden pickaxe collected and recycled from the cat man, plus the copper ore he had dug all night.

As long as you have the tools, you can create unlimited wealth with your hard-working hands, so this task reward is not considered a language fraud.

Players were a little hesitant when looking at the quest items. Generally speaking, there will be equipment rewards when arriving at a new map, and even worse, recovery items. It is rare to get tools as quest rewards.

"I understand. Boss William is reminding us that if we encounter a mine again, we can dig for ore ourselves."

"Actually, I just saw a bare ore on the road. Maybe I can get an ore item by knocking on it once or twice."

"As expected of William, the mission rewards are all very diverse."

In addition to the "Lone Awakener", more players just want to find something to do, and this task gives them a reason to challenge new monsters.

Although there is no restriction on whether to complete the task alone or in a team, working in a team is more efficient.

The players who followed Wang Yue also had their own teams, so they started clearing monsters in four directions as small teams.

[Toxic Slime: A slow-moving, boneless creature that devours everything in its path]

【Level: 8】

The Toxic Slime is a yellow jelly-like creature that looks like it's best not to touch, as its name implies.

Monsters are at the same level as the players, so normal attacks will not pose any threat.

Its skill [Mud Poison] will only take effect after it gets close to the target. You just need to be careful in close combat to avoid being poisoned and losing blood continuously due to this skill. The overall difficulty is simpler than the wild boar on the ice field.

"I'm so angry! How come the slime has no back? I can't use my backstab anymore!"

The fat cat, who was used to causing a lot of damage with [Backstab], was very uncomfortable. Not to mention that he would be poisoned by the disgusting slime monster, the attack felt soft and there was no feedback at all.

The fat cat could only poke and retreat, and could barely kill the monster with the help of his teammates' long-range support.

"Don't go too far, Fat Cat. Start moving around with me as the center. Gin, you don't need to go forward. Just stay in close combat and help keep an eye on the monsters approaching me."

Maple Leaf’s small goal today is to upgrade to level 9. She has already learned about the hunter’s third skill [Trip] when she was offline.

Lucky players have learned the skill in advance through skill books, and the effect of the skill is to cause a small amount of damage and slow down the target.

The disadvantage is that this skill needs to be cast at close range, but this skill already allows hunters to use "kite" tactics.

"After we complete this mission, I estimate that everyone will be at level 9. If we meet Dolly again, our battle will definitely be different."

Therefore, Maple Leaf started at full speed at the beginning of the fourth day of testing, focusing on commanding with full firepower and output with heart.

In the end, their team became the first team to complete the mission objectives.

When Fengye led the team back, she happened to see three new NPCs pointing swords at William.

(End of this chapter)