Calamity Dragon, Starting with the Cultivation of Knight Families

Chapter 117 The Essence of the Game, Dungeon Arrangement
[The new map, the continent of Calter, is strange; all players' gameplay now revolves around leveling up by defeating monsters.]

The rain was grayish-white: "As we all know, in the first test map, players had many different ways to play. But in the second test, especially after the players in the new map, the situation changed. You can see from the second test video that the entire game's style has changed to killing trolls to get items and experience. Is this reasonable?"

Wei's Guitar: "Of course it's unreasonable! Reasonable my foot! In the new map, out of the 200,000 players in the second round, almost 70-80% chose humans, but the key is how terrible the human situation is in the new world! They're almost all slaves. You're asking slaves under the control of trolls to kill trolls? What's the difference between that and suicide?"

"Don't close your eyes when it gets dark: 'That's right. Don't real games tell you this beforehand? I'm really fed up with all the YouTubers' initial promotions, telling us that it's best to choose humans or something, otherwise the weird monsters will be an eyesore. Damn it, luckily I was smart enough not to do anything rash, otherwise I would have had to call GG right from the start.'"

Nine O'Clock Star: "As it stands, the human players in the new world are in dire straits. Of the 200,000 players, it would be good if half of them survived after one round of simulations."

The middle finger that travels to the ends of the earth: "Half? You're overthinking it. Just wait and see, the Countermeasures Bureau should be able to collect and summarize the total number of players soon!"

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There is a lot of discussion about the Second World on player forums.

This even surpasses the fact that the chief player suddenly disappeared.

"A test. With 200,000 players, given the situation on the continent of Carter, it's indeed not easy for human players to avoid being killed at the start, but non-humans will definitely have a much better chance."

"But is such a test really necessary?"

Lin Ke is trying to understand the logical behavior of real games.

According to the information provided by the actual game, the Auckland continent is absolutely the most suitable place to cultivate players on Earth.

Wouldn't it be better to wait until these players have grown up, then connect the two worlds and have a full-scale battle?
In fact, the original number of superhumans on the continent of Auckland should have been enough for the five major races to fight against these troll empires, right?
So, does the so-called 100% openness of the real game mean that it has successfully grasped the power over the entire continent of Auckland, or is it that it has not yet fully grasped the power for some deeper reason?

After all, if the real game truly had complete control over the Auckland continent, why bother cultivating players?
Why not just let the native forces of the Auckland continent and the trolls of the Cartel continent have a war of civilizations?
Therefore, from this perspective, the actual game simply cannot control the five factions and races on the continent of Auckland.
It's not acceptable from any perspective.

Therefore, is it necessary to use someone else's resources to achieve this?

Using the 'chicken' of Auckland continent to lay the 'egg' of Earth players?
How can we cultivate our own strength in this way?
So, what is the current situation of the native gods of Auckland?

Has it revived? Or hasn't it? The progress bar is just keeping loading?

Or perhaps the real game itself has some kind of deal or contract with those fallen gods?

Thinking about it this way, Lin Ke suddenly seemed to understand many things.

Real game rewards are never created out of thin air.

After all, it's impossible to keep going like this indefinitely.

Furthermore, the fact that the number of players keeps increasing suggests that the actual game is also in a certain 'growth phase' or 'expansion phase'.

In addition, he possesses the bloodline of a divine dragon.

All of this is essentially telling Link that the dragons that disappeared from the continent of Auckland must be related to the real game.

So, what exactly happened to the dragons that disappeared from the continent of Auckland?
All dead?
Or has it always been hidden behind the real game?

Thinking about all this, Lin Ke felt as if he had been pushed to the forefront of a raging torrent.

Being a trendsetter shouldn't be so easy.

The Gate of Truth has even established a bridgehead in the Second World.

Unbeknownst to many, everything Lin Ke did was driven by real games.

Lin Ke could not judge whether the final result was good or bad.

After all, things are about to go wrong in reality.

My own wave will inevitably be born; if not myself, then someone else will.

Therefore, compared to being an ordinary person who accomplishes nothing, Lin Ke is already very satisfied with everything he has achieved.

Cherish the present!
Just try not to be the one who gets swept away by the next wave and left on the beach.

Regarding Real Game's move to deploy 200,000 new players in the Second World, Lin Ke only needs to know that there must be a logic behind Real Game's actions.

Even more so, it is related to the so-called increasing openness of the second map and the so-called rule erosion in real games.

Therefore, is the role of the player actually the key to the continuous reinforcement and erosion of the new world by the real game rules?

So how do players achieve this kind of feedback?

Is it because players themselves are products of the real game, so all their actions will have some kind of impact on other worlds that they cannot see?
At the same time, would this provide some kind of benefit to real-world game feedback?
Lin Ke felt that his guess was probably pretty accurate.

After all, it makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

Otherwise, how could a new player with such limited strength fight against a troll?

Let alone 200,000, even 1 million is just a small treat for trolls if you don't have the strength.

This is completely ineffective in overthrowing the trolls' rule over the continent of Calter; on the contrary, it wastes the players' qualifications and even the power that the game itself projects from the players.

Wouldn't it be better to send all the second-round players to the continent of Okra to develop slowly, and then bring them to this world to conquer when the time is right?

Therefore, based on all the information he currently possesses, Lin Ke has reason to believe the conclusions he has drawn.

Lin Ke didn't really care about the situation of the second-round players.

Now that Lin Ke knows most of the truth, he, as a player on the wave, needs to be even more careful.

You can't even make mistakes.

Because making a mistake means that one may face a major defeat on the continent of Calter.

This would inevitably affect his progress on the Auckland continent and even his ranking in the hidden mechanics of the actual game. Thinking of this, Lin Ke checked the time.

It was already past 2:20 in the morning.

The next game simulation will take place in three days.

During these three days, the game time is synchronized with the real world, although he himself can no longer descend.

But I have to use the great reward I just received.

"We can't waste the lower-level dungeons."

"Time is everything. Three days is three hundred professionals. If we use it well, four or five hundred days after the next simulation day, York will have an army of over thirty to fifty thousand professionals who are low-level analog superhumans!"

"Although this power cannot yet affect the battlefield of high-level beings, quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes. It is more than enough to conquer even the Eagle Kingdom!"

"An army of 30,000 to 50,000 professionals?"

Lin Ke felt a chill run down his spine just thinking about it.

However, upon closer reflection, Lin Ke realized that he had miscalculated, and was seriously wrong.

Because only level 10 professionals in dungeons can be considered to have entered the ranks, while those below level 10 are at most only of the quality of mercenaries and elite soldiers.

Analogous to unranked magical beasts.

Moreover, this also takes into account the number of professionals who might die in the dungeon each time.

There may even be non-combat professions, such as life professions, that may awaken.

Therefore, by the end of the next simulation day, Lin Ke felt that it would be good if Dawn City had three to five thousand first-tier professionals, or even just a thousand would be considered a victory.

Of course, there may also be some people with exceptional luck and strength who break through to the second or even third tier.

But this is an extremely rare occurrence, and requires an extraordinary amount of luck.

The dungeon is no joke; the gods of Calth created it to hone humanity or even for amusement.

Entering the dungeon, life or death is extremely uncertain.

Furthermore, lower-level dungeons currently do not allow for team play, and all players will be randomly teleported to various locations within the map upon entering.

This undoubtedly increases the risk of death for ordinary people.

A world also containing gods.

The continent of Auckland is considered to have a slightly higher level of magic, while the continent of Carth is only considered to have a medium level of magic.

This likely means that the death rate in the underground city may be far higher than imagined.

Moreover, the number of professionals that can be successfully created may not be better than the number of professionals that naturally grow on the continent of Okra.

Just thinking about this situation made Lin Ke realize that the dungeon really puts human nature to the test.

Order all soldiers to take risks?

That could very likely lead to difficulties in recruiting soldiers in the future.

Therefore, I thought about it for a long time.

Linke thought it best to let York make his own choice.
Let the soldiers of Dawn City and all the common slaves choose for themselves!

Is it better to gamble on a future or to live in hardship until death?

As long as a suitable reward and punishment mechanism is introduced, Lin Ke believes that there will certainly be no shortage of people willing to risk their lives in a cruel slave society.

Moreover, there are many, many human slaves under the command of the trolls in this world.

Dawn City doesn't need so many mindless slaves.

Lin Ke did not intend to concern himself with the specifics of how it would be implemented.

In short, let York think about it himself for now!

It's not just slaves who need growth and tempering; York, their number one pet, also needs it.

Lin Ke can't do everything himself.

If everything is planned out for York, then what is York's value?

Purely for pets?
Think of this.

After browsing the game forum for a short while, Lin Ke quickly closed his eyes again.

As he closed his eyes, Lin Ke naturally envisioned an overhead view, much like playing a computer game.

In this process, Lin Ke does not necessarily need to bring his consciousness into his body.

He only needs to switch his vision directly to York to communicate with him through what he calls oracle.

In addition, to operate the designated location of the dungeon, Lin Ke only needs to find a place from the overhead view and activate it with his mind.

Thus, Lin Ke quickly selected a location.

Lin Ke plans to place the underground city on a mountain peak outside the left side of Dawn City.

(End of this chapter)