Chapter 288 The Sea of Eternal Darkness and New PK Rules!
The Calamity Army melee not only caused a carnival for countless people, but also made headlines in many news media. At the same time, it also had an impact on some offline institutions and forces.
For example, the Special Investigation Department is very busy at the moment.
Feng Ying urgently reported: "Director Zhou, after the two major corps broke out in a full-scale conflict, Hongye, Shadow Pavilion, Xiayi Jianghu, and Tianlong Dynasty all sent spokespersons to announce their participation in the war on the official website forum and social media."
When they heard the news.
Everyone looked solemn.
The commander of the Hongye Corps, Hongye Blade, the commander of the Shadow Pavilion, Shadow Moon Wolf, the commander of the Xiayi Jianghu, Uncle Dashu, and the commander of the Tianlong Dynasty, Huang Tianlong, are all third-level masters of no less than level 23.
They have always been the focus of the Special Investigation Department.
They are all newly emerged strongmen outside the five major groups!
Each of them has a very strong background and is by no means an ordinary person.
In the future, both personal achievements and corps achievements may not be lower than the five major corps.
Deputy Director Zhang Wei immediately said: "It seems that the dispute between the Wings of Freedom and the Temple of War has overflowed. If this trend continues, it is not ruled out that they will completely tear each other apart and cause civil strife in the territory. Perhaps the plan should be activated immediately."
The Special Investigation Department had long expected that the Scourge Corps would have an internal war.
It is not necessarily a bad thing for these corps to fight each other. On the contrary, the Undead Dragon Soul can take the opportunity to develop and counterattack.
The Special Investigation Department is worried that this civil strife will go out of control. At that time, it will be difficult for other players and forces to survive alone. Players are immortal and cannot be really eliminated, which will eventually cause endless internal consumption.
This will seriously affect the overall combat power of the corps!
How to deal with difficult tasks in the future?
If the development of the situation will drag down the development of the corps and even the territory, thereby destroying the overall interests, or if the domestic player forces are out of control, allowing foreign player forces to take the opportunity to rise, these are all things that the Special Investigation Department does not want to see!
In order to avoid this situation.
The official has already made a series of plans.
The Special Investigation Department will launch different plans according to different situations.
Including but not limited to using various powers in the real world.
For example, the official capacity will directly intervene in the interviews with the personnel of the two major corps, and even directly legislate in the real world to prohibit private fights and vendettas in the game. At that time, whoever dares to make trouble in the game will be arrested, and similar things can naturally be avoided.
Unless it is extremely urgent.
The official will not use coercive measures.
After all, this is equivalent to directly interfering with the game.
The Special Investigation Department really can't figure out how the manipulators behind the game will react.
In addition, even if the official personally takes coercive measures, it can only restrict the players in Xia country, and cannot control overseas players, so this extreme measure itself has some limitations.
After thinking, Zhou Zhengming said: "It's not time yet, let's observe it."
Zhang Wei: "I'm still a little worried. If we leave it alone, it will be troublesome if it escalates again."
Zhou Zhengming: "Since the outbreak of this conflict, the territory has not taken any action. Lord Hang Yu cannot be unaware of the internal fighting of the Scourge Legion, and he cannot sit back and watch the situation get out of control. Let's see the attitude of the lord first."
Zhang Wei and Feng Ying also thought it made sense.
The territory has not yet expressed its intention to intervene.
Why is the Special Investigation Department in such a hurry!
The official is just a fake game production team. At most, it can only bluff and can't really do anything to the territory. If too many actions are discovered, players will lose their awe of the official, and even the secrets of the game will be exposed in advance.
The top leaders of the two corps are not stupid.
It is impossible for them not to know that internal fighting is harmful.
No one can really eliminate anyone. In the end, both sides will suffer losses and other forces will benefit in vain.
"If I were Ye Limeng and Hei Tongrui, I wouldn't want to fight this kind of meaningless, useless, and unifying battle. They are just being pushed by collective emotions."
Zhou Zhengming paused and continued, "I think we should believe in the ability of the lords and territories. The lords must have ways to prevent the dispute from escalating further and getting out of control. We just need to wait for the right time to mediate and create a step for both sides to step down."
Let the bullets fly for a while!
Zhang Wei and Feng Ying continue to pay attention to the battle report.
Because the game does not have a live broadcast function, the Special Investigation Department does not have more observation channels, so the method of collecting intelligence is no different from that of thousands of cloud players, which is nothing more than pressing F5 frantically on the forum.
"How is the battle going?"
"The latest situation shows that the duel seems to have reached a stalemate!"
"What's going on?"
"The Wings of Freedom and the Temple of War have each found helpers, but the difference in strength between the two sides is very small, and the battlefield is next to the Xinye City resurrection point, which has caused many players to be involved in the battle after resurrection."
"What?"
"If the fight continues like this!"
"I'm afraid it will never end!"
"..."
Ye Limeng and Hei Tong Ruige didn't want to drag it out.
They just wanted to quickly decide the winner through a duel.
Facts have proved that it is not that easy. When the fight gets intense, not many people will follow the moral code.
After all, players can be resurrected quickly. There are always people who feel that they did not perform well and want to fight again. In this way, the battle will become endless and endless, so that both sides feel that it is difficult to get off the tiger.
"Why not let Team Leader Wang come forward to mediate with Shenyu Palace and Ragnarok."
"Can it work? Now that both sides are in a state of excitement, it may be difficult for external forces to intervene!"
"Forget about Shenyu Palace. Overseas forces like Ragnarok are probably looking forward to our players' internal strife. It's good that they don't take the opportunity to fan the flames at this time."
"What should we do?"
The heads of each group of the Special Investigation Department looked embarrassed.
Each of these people who can sit as team leaders is an elite transferred from various departments, or a leader in the scientific community. Both their level and status are not low.
They never thought that they would be so troubled by a conflict war in the game!
Of course, they all knew what this so-called game meant, so they had to ensure that the situation did not get out of control. The situation was getting worse and worse, but there was no good solution.
Just then.
A piece of good news appeared on the forum.
"The latest news!"
"There is action in the territory!"
"Zhang San and Li Si of the Blue Dragon Guard appeared on the battlefield!"
"What?"
"Third and fourth brothers are here!"
"It seems that this time the commotion is too much, and even the Lord can't stand it!"
"Group A! Stop it! There are Blue Dragon Guards outside!"
Other player forces can refuse to give face, but the players dare not refuse to give face to these two NPCs, not only because Zhang San and Li Si now have first-class commander strength, but also because these two are the most trusted guards around the Lord.
As expected.
The Blue Dragon Guard brought the Lord's order!
Forced to stop the further fighting of the Scourge Army Corps.
"Latest announcement!"
"The Star Arena is officially online!"
"The territory will officially launch PK competitive gameplay!"
"The Lord has ordered that from today onwards, large-scale private fights between legions are prohibited in principle."
"From now on, if players have any conflicts, they can apply for a duel in the arena, and a series of restrictions will be imposed on malicious PK behaviors between players."
"Wow!"
"The arena is finally online?"
"It seems that a red name function for killing people has been launched?"
"This update feels very powerful!"
"Hahaha, we have been looking forward to the arena for a long time. It seems that the internal fight between the two legions is not meaningless. Does this count as promoting the update speed of the territory?"
"..."
Various explosive news was exposed on the forum one by one, and was reprinted by major Internet celebrities and self-media, which once again aroused research and discussion among countless netizens.
All the staff of the Special Investigation Department breathed a sigh of relief.
The Lord's words are still effective. He doesn't even need to show up in person. He just needs to send two guards to say a word, and the players will stop obediently. This shows how much influence the Lord has among the players.
Zhou Zhengming guessed right.
The territory can't just sit back and watch.
Not only did they promulgate new rules for the territory.
They also launched the competitive function that players have been waiting for for a long time!
Feng Ying immediately collected relevant information about the arena and the new rules of the territory.
"Two Star Arena appeared in the northeast corner of Luoshui main city, and up to one thousand competitive spaces can be opened at the same time. The fatigue value of players who died in the competitive space is only one tenth of the normal state."
"Each person can get the benefit of ten death price exemptions every day."
"That is, death during the competition will not consume vitality."
"In addition, you can get competitive points during the competition, which can be exchanged for vitality rewards, and even various territory props, contribution coins, contribution points, etc."
"The battle in the arena can be broadcast live on the official website!"
"The territory has also launched a prop called "Duel Oath."
"Some interest competitions or conflicts between players and the legion can be resolved by signing an oath and dueling, and the content will be protected by the territory."
"..."
When the information of the Star Arena was announced.
Everyone realized how important this facility is to the Scourge Army and the players!
This sounds like not only an update to a very important gameplay, but also an excellent solution for players to resolve disputes and even interest divisions.
Similar conflicts will occur in the future.
Players can completely go to the arena to solve the problem by dueling.
"Not only that, the territory has also issued a series of new rules based on malicious PK!"
Feng Ying continued to introduce: "From now on, in the wild areas outside the territory, players who engage in malicious PK will generate sin values according to the actual situation. The higher the sin value, the higher the cost of death. When the sin value reaches 1,000 points, they will enter the wanted state."
"This sounds a bit like the PK red name in the old online games."
"However, from the new rules, although the territory does not support players' malicious killing, it does not completely oppose wild PK."
"First of all, the generation of sin value is floating. When a high-level player maliciously kills low-level players or NPC civilians, a large amount of sin value will be generated, while when a player kills a player with similar strength, the sin value generated is relatively small, and even no sin value will be generated in the case of fair PK."
"In addition, the sin value will slowly decrease over time, and it can also be eliminated by using special props and performing special tasks."
"..."
From the new rules, although the territory has some restrictions on malicious PK, it does not prohibit players from fighting each other in the wild. It can be seen that it wants the Scourge Army to maintain a certain wildness.
"Good!"
Zhou Zhengming was completely relieved.
He said: "With a platform like the Star Arena for public and notarized duels, and a certain degree of restrictions and punishment mechanisms for malicious killings, even if the Scourge Army has internal conflicts in the future, it is unlikely to evolve into the scale of today."
Zhang Wei also said: "This matter has finally come to an end!"
Once the new rules of the arena and PK are released.
The stability of the Scourge Army will be greatly increased.
Even if there will be fighting in the future, unless there is a real blood feud, it is likely that the state of fighting without breaking will be maintained, that is, maintaining competition without completely tearing the face and going out of control!
As for this round of conflict between the Temple of War and the Wings of Liberty?
Since the lord has personally ordered it.
They will definitely not fight again.
At this time, the Special Investigation Department will leave in an official capacity and invite high-level officials or representatives from both sides to negotiate and create a decent step for them. I believe that this matter can come to an end.
And it is not difficult to see from this incident.
The territory is not only growing stronger from nothing.
The rules and systems of the territory will also be continuously improved with development.
…………
At this time.
The main city of Luoshui.
In the core hall.
Hang Yu was also paying attention to the reactions of all parties.
The internal turmoil of the Scourge Legion should be temporarily over.
Ye Limeng and Hei Tong Ruige stopped fighting after Canglong Guard Zhang San and Li Si came to mediate.
At this time, the relevant departments also sent invitations to the responsible parties of the two corps, and it seemed that they were ready to personally intervene in an "official" capacity to mediate the conflict between the two corps and call on them to shake hands and make peace.
The two leaders didn't want to fight in the first place.
At this moment, they would not refuse if there was a way out.
Even if the internal members of the two corps didn't like each other, they didn't want to fight outside at this time, because it was too bad to lose energy when they died, which would only reduce their own level and weaken their strength!
In comparison.
Isn't the arena good?
There are at least three advantages to PK in the arena!
First, you won't lose energy when you die in the arena.
Secondly, you can earn competitive points by dueling in the arena, which can be exchanged for essence, contribution points, and even various props and resources. In other words, not only will there be no internal friction, but it will enhance your own strength.
Finally, the arena has a gambling function, which can solve some disputes and disagreements between corps and even players by dueling under the condition of territory notarization.
In addition.
Tens of millions of cloud players are celebrating.
Because the arena duel can be broadcast live on the official website forum.
This is undoubtedly a huge benefit for hundreds of millions of cloud players and tricksters, allowing major corps to smell huge business opportunities.
No matter how you look at it.
The landing of the Star Arena.
Bring far-reaching impact to the territory.
…………
Hang Yu summarized the gains.
This round of conflict generated an additional income of more than 100 million essence for the territory.
This is not a big number for Hang Yu, but it can also help many elite Canglong Guards practice the two major skills of "Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix Spear" and "Nine Nether Demon Flame"!
Currently.
In the territory.
There are 500 Blue Dragon Guards.
In order to train this core elite.
Hang Yu spared no resources and spared no effort.
They are the most important combat force under the hero unit.
The Blue Dragon Guards are divided into three levels: initial dragon guards, elite dragon guards, and regular dragon guards.
There is no upper limit to the training standards of the eight initial dragon guards, all depending on the resources and development of the territory.
The elite dragon guards plan to build 100 people. In addition to surpassing the cutting-edge equipment of the Scourge Legion, the goal is to master two sets of skills, so that the future strength can be guaranteed to reach the level of a first-class commander.
As for the remaining ordinary dragon guards, their equipment will be slightly worse than that of the elite dragon guards, but they will be at the top level relative to the players. Each person must at least create a set of skills, so that at least they will have the strength of a second- or third-rate commander!
With the current resources of the territory.
Raising 500 Canglong Guards is already the limit!
At this moment, Hang Yu opened the arena, and the daily energy income will increase significantly in the future. Even if there is no territory war, the energy generated every day will not be spent.
In the long run.
The energy reservoir formed by 500 Canglong Guards may be too small.
"The number of players is constantly increasing, and the energy income is constantly increasing. The Canglong Guard should also be expanded!" After a little thought, Hang Yu directly launched the territory summons and recruited another 500 Canglong Guards!
In this way.
The energy reservoir doubled.
Used to digest the excess energy generated in the future.
In this way, the energy output and consumption of the territory can always be maintained in a balanced state.
In fact, in terms of quantity, a mere 1,000 Canglong Guards are not many. After all, the Scourge Army will reach a huge scale of more than 30,000 or nearly 40,000 in the next ten days.
In theory.
It is completely fine for ten Scourge Army to support one Canglong Guard.
If there are 40,000 players in the territory, the reasonable scale of Canglong Guards should be 4,000. Only in this way can the players be better managed, and it is enough to ensure Hang Yu's absolute dominance and control over the territory.
However.
The training of Canglong Guards cannot be achieved overnight.
Although the number of Scourge Army is growing rapidly, most of the Scourge Army are new recruits now. These low-level recruits cannot produce too much essence, and it takes some time for them to grow up.
The training cost of Canglong Guards is quite high.
From level 1 to level 30.
The essence cost alone is 2,508,642 points.
These 2.5 million essences are only the most basic expenditure.
According to Hang Yu's positioning of ordinary Canglong Guards, in addition to the materials consumed to build a set of top equipment and attribute medicine, at least a set of blue skills must be cultivated, and even a conservative estimate will consume 5 million essences.
It is not difficult to calculate.
The cost of a qualified Canglong Guard at level 30 is 7.5 million essences.
In addition, 6,000 to 10,000 pieces of third-level material essences are required to strengthen the equipment.
Not counting the expenses of forging stones, gemstone materials, and attribute medicines.
In this case, if you want to build 100 qualified Canglong Guards, theoretically speaking, at least 750 million essences are required.
This is only at level 30. In the future, after Hang Yu breaks through to the fourth level, the Canglong Guard Corps of the entire territory will have to undergo a round of upgrades, and various additional investments will make the numbers even higher!
Each Canglong Guard is a high-end combat force piled up with massive resources!
However, the value of the Canglong Guard output is not high.
It is mainly a bottom-up force.
Therefore, Hang Yu is not radical in expanding the Blue Dragon Guard. The territory's essence will definitely be used first to cultivate hero units including Dian Wei and Jia Xu, followed by the cultivation of the Scourge Army, the Black Tiger Guard, and the people of the territory.
When the output is in excess.
Then flow into the pool of the Blue Dragon Guard.
At this moment, the Blue Dragon Guard has expanded to a scale of 1,000.
The size of the essence reservoir has doubled and can be used for a while.
It is necessary to extract essence from the players, and the secret to efficiently harvesting leeks is that the players' strength cannot be too strong or too weak. Hang Yu needs to strike a balance.
At present, the strength of the top players in the Scourge Army has almost reached the standard.
The problem now is that there are too many recruits.
Their level is too low!
It is necessary to strengthen fertilization, support the growth of recruits, and let them level up as soon as possible. Only in this way can more leeks be harvested, thereby producing more essence to cultivate the Blue Dragon Guard and create more Blue Dragon Guards!
Just as Hang Yu was thinking.
How to fertilize the new leeks reasonably and efficiently.
He suddenly felt the core of the territory vibrate, and at the same time received a prompt from the will of the stars.
[Ding, you received a communication request from the Stars, do you want to connect? Yes/No! ]
Hang Yu was slightly stunned.
Another existence contacted him from the stars.
No need to guess, it is Principal Long!
Hang Yu did not hesitate and immediately connected the communication. He saw a projection appeared in front of him. It was Principal Long, who was the Primordial Dark Dragon. Of course, it was probably just a projection of a clone.
"Hello, Principal Long!"
Hang Yu immediately greeted politely: "I wonder what instructions you have for suddenly contacting students?"
Principal Long: "The theme of this New Star Lord Competition has been determined. The territories of all participating lords will open temporary teleportation rights to the Sea of Eternal Darkness, and launch a survival test lasting no more than half a Star Week. Please prepare in advance."
As expected.
She came to remind you about the competition.
Calculating the time, the Star Lord Competition will start in about two days.
"What? Is it the legendary Sea of Eternal Darkness?"
Hang Yu looked surprised when he heard this.
Of course he knew what the Sea of Eternal Darkness was.
The so-called Sea of Eternal Darkness was not a real ocean, but the graveyard of the world.
It was a large graveyard made up of the wreckage of the completely destroyed abyss plane, very dangerous!
Principal Long said: "Even I don't want to easily set foot in the Sea of Eternal Darkness. After all, the danger of such a place is beyond imagination... Although the sea area anchored by the will of the stars must be relatively safe, it is still recommended that you be as conservative as possible and do what you can. If you encounter the evil god's followers or the fourth-level lords, you should protect yourself first."
No matter how outstanding Hang Yu is.
After all, he is just a human lord.
The tolerance rate of human lords is really too low.
If all the troops that have been trained hard at a huge cost are buried for an event, it would be too much of a loss.
The Lord Competition is not a Lord War.
This kind of activity is originally done within one's ability.
Principal Long is very satisfied that Hang Yu can get the first place in the qualifying round, and for Hang Yu personally, it is enough for him to gain some reputation in Shengcang City.
"Thank you for the reminder, Principal Long!"
Hang Yu immediately said, "Please rest assured, students cherish their lives very much and will never act rashly!"
Principal Long also introduced some information about the Sea of Eternal Darkness to Hang Yu, and this information cannot be learned in the Lord Academy, which will be of great help in the next competition.
After the explanation.
Principal Long ended the communication.
"In two days, the territory will open the transmission to the Sea of Eternal Darkness. Although it is a very dangerous place, it also contains great opportunities!"
According to Principal Long.
The competition will last no more than half a star week.
If converted into a more understandable time, it will probably not exceed fifteen days.
Hang Yu is still confident in his strength, and the Scourge Legion is not afraid of consumption and danger at all. The only trouble now is that in five days at most, the territory will start the third map development.
In other words.
The Lord Competition and the map opening will collide.
It may cause the territory's troops and energy to be dispersed.
If the newly opened Abyss Nightmare is very dangerous, the territory will have to focus on defense, so the Lord Competition can devote less power.
Although it is a bit challenging.
But it doesn't seem to be a big problem.
Hang Yu still has the remaining Star Merit in his hand. If he really encounters a dangerous situation, the worst that can happen is to exchange for Star Protection once, in exchange for seven days without triggering the Lord War and being invaded by external forces.
With the growth rate of the Scourge Army.
With the development speed of the territory.
It is enough to deal with it at the same time!
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