Chapter 2: New Century (Epilogue)
Chapter 651: A String of Bad News
“Brother Ren Shi, what are your thoughts on the King of Winter’s recent comeback activities in the past two days?”
In an inconspicuous small wooden house, (Player Name) (M) and Nobody Does Human Things (M) sat around a table, a plate of peanuts in front of them, talking mysteriously.
“Cough, cough, when things are abnormal, there must be a reason!” Nobody Does Human Things’ eyes flashed with a cunning glint from beneath his hood.
“The King of Winter’s actions are always very goal-oriented. Many people think the King of Winter is just bored, which is why he releases some tasks. There are countless speculations on the forum about this, but guess who posted these posts?”
He chuckled playfully and said coldly, “ID ‘Three Little White Rabbits’, level 48, beta tester 2. ID ‘Blood Welders Dharma’, level 52, alpha tester. ID ‘Crazy Tent’, level 43, beta tester 2, and a famous uploader who made over thirty videos exploring the Cain Continent…”
Nobody Does Human Things listed a large number of names, mostly high-level players or well-known uploaders in the game.
“These people say they aren’t doing the quests and find it boring, but every day at four or five in the morning, I see them turning in quests. By the time players generally wake up and log into the game at eight or nine, they are already playing Gwent by the tavern entrance, slacking off. This means they deliberately don’t want too many players to touch these quests.”
Upon hearing this, (Player Name) (M) looked at Nobody Does Human Things with surprise.
Why Nobody Does Human Things knew about these players’ movements at four or five in the morning could only mean that Nobody Does Human Things was also a hardcore player, which made (Player Name) (M) feel a sense of reverence.
“Heh heh, are you curious why I know about this?”
Nobody Does Human Things grinned lewdly:
“To tell you the truth, it’s because I was planning to take Mia out for a casual match that day, and I happened to see them. They seem to have formed an organization and are frantically urging players on the forum not to bother with those ten daily quests and not to waste their time on them.”
(Player Name) (M): …
Good heavens, he hadn’t even ranked outdoors with Claudia yet. He didn’t expect the seemingly upright Nobody Does Human Things to be so devious.
“What should we do? Should we post a guiding post online?”
(Player Name) (M) asked.
“No, since we’ve confirmed this is a hidden trial from the King of Winter, we’ll naturally keep it quiet and profit. However, we can verbally attack this organization. For the next period, we’ll stake out every morning and record their hypocritical behavior, then edit it into a video and post it online anonymously. Guess what will happen to them?” Nobody Does Human Things gave a sinister smile.
“Heh heh! They’ll be swarmed and destroyed by the enraged beta testers 3!”
(Player Name) (M) also started to laugh.
“Exactly! That’s the way!”
[Ding! Teenager Mode is now online! West District has been unlocked!]
The system’s prompt startles Nobody Does Human Things and (Player Name) (M).
“What the heck is this?” (Player Name) (M) clicked on the teenager mode a couple of times, but no prompt appeared.
“It’s probably just a patch to prevent 18+ content.”
Nobody Does Human Things pouted and said with disdain:
“I heard a group of people has been restless lately, trying to peek at the Star Magus taking a bath every other day.”
(Player Name): “Tsk tsk, how pathetic. What’s so good about women? They can’t even handle this kind of temptation!”
Nobody Does Human Things: “Exactly, exactly. Women only slow down our sword-drawing speed!”
Since the two player representatives hadn’t triggered the Teenager Mode, and it sounded simple and easy to understand, they didn’t pay much attention to it.
Little did they know that when they returned home and prepared to get intimate with their respective wives, they would discover that their normally fragrant, soft, and tender wives would turn into concrete “big peanuts” as soon as they took off their clothes!
In the King of Winter’s office, Xi Wei had already planned his future course of action.
Coincidentally, the Elven Empress was going to the Undead Desert. He would follow her to retrieve the Goddess of Time’s artifact. As for the Scythe of the God of Death, he hadn’t considered it; that belonged to the God of Death, and Death Divinity was aggressive. What if he was killed by accident?
After obtaining the Goddess of Time’s artifact, he could then move on to Kalun. He would retrieve the Earth Goddess’s artifact there and take the opportunity to negotiate a deal with the King of Saint Lodia Empire.
He sat on his office chair, thinking back and forth, always feeling that something had not been fully considered.
Moreover, this matter was related to the players.
“What exactly is it?”
And this matter was vaguely related to the players.
Xi Wei scratched his head, staring blankly at the Pothos outside the window.
After a while, a soft moan came from the bed. Xi Wei’s expression changed, and a gentle smile appeared on his face.
If he couldn’t think of it now, he wouldn’t think about it later. Players couldn’t die anyway.
He immediately put everything else aside, stood up cheerfully, and walked towards the bed.
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Andor Empire.
Royal City.
King Castro of Andor was not on his throne.
He wasn’t even in his palace.
This was a stable, the royal stables of the Andor Empire. He had disguised himself as an old man guarding the stables.
Ministers’ various messages would be delivered by special personnel.
The Naga Empress was too terrifying. She would arrive in a hurry and leave in a hurry. Every time she left, she would kill “him” on the throne. Before the palace’s spell array could seal the space, she would immediately disappear into space, leaving only a pool of seawater.
Castro had considered fighting the Naga Empress head-on.
But after the Naga Empress revealed her Legendary-grade weapon, he gave up that idea.
Currently, the allied forces of Orcs and Humans were barely stopping the Naga Legion outside the Royal City. The Naga were still reinforcing continuously. They attacked the city during the day and sent Sea Ghost assassins to sneak in at night, attempting to destroy the siege engines and spell arrays on the city walls.
Fortunately, the fighting strength and vigilance of the Empire’s soldiers were sufficient; their training had not been in vain.
At the most tense moment, a Sea Ghost disguised itself as a general and almost broke the core crystal of the spell array, but it was discovered by a nearby priestess. She joined forces with the surrounding priests to kill it.
Later, Castro immediately placed an order from the South Continent for a batch of anti-invisibility spell arrays.
By calculation, they should arrive in a few days. By then, the Royal City’s walls would be truly impregnable!
However, before he could breathe a sigh of relief, a series of bad news reached his ears.
First, Tantinger City was split into pieces by a single sword strike from the King of Winter.
Then, the old knight Gewen, whom he trusted deeply, fell and became a demon. Maradona City was in chaos, with demons everywhere. The surrounding cities were struggling against the endless demon spawn and would probably not hold out for much longer.
The moment he heard this news, the King of Andor was so shocked that he almost fell to the ground.
Gabriel (Female)
