Chapter 723: Chapter 686: You’ve been strengthened!
As the large ship docked, all the players who had been wiped out simultaneously exited their soul state and respawned at their respawn points.
This also signified the end of the cutscene viewing period.
It was time to pick up their weapons and defend Dinosaur Island.
Of course, while it’s easy to say that, none of the revived players were crazy enough to directly challenge the Molten Mountain Dragon and Phase Willow.
Before these two, players felt as insignificant as ants.
But, before even considering whether or not their bites would hurt these behemoths, simply getting close to them was a challenge.
One was constantly emitting high temperatures and lava, while the other was surrounded by rapidly flowing seawater.
To fight against them, the first step was to overcome these environmental hazards.
The players’ first goal was very clear: board that ship!
However, many players who recently squatted at Dinosaur Island respawned at various bases on the island.
After respawning, they were met with a surprise: monsters that used to be dinosaurs but had now “evolved” into bizarre shapes suddenly attacked!
Camille Victoria, who temporarily set her respawn point in Jurassic Park, encountered the same awful situation.
Even though the resort hotel used for binding her respawn/login point had turned into ruins, she still respawned amid the ruins with other scattered players.
However, she had just respawned when a creature, which might have been a Spiny Back Dragon in its original form, pounced on her with its mouth wide open.
Camille Victoria, who was unarmed, had no chance to fight back, and was brutally killed on the spot just five seconds after respawning.
Seeing the countdown for respawning begin again, Camille Victoria didn’t even think about taking revenge and decisively quit the game, returning to her virtual house.
She then opened the login options and chose to login at the amusement park.
Her plan was to take the ferry from the amusement park to the Dinosaur Island dock.
Though this route was a bit further, and the ferry had stopped running after the temporary closure of Jurassic Park, it was certainly simpler than fighting giant monsters, right?
After the Ancient Dragon’s call, all the dinosaurs on Dinosaur Island seemed to have a strange bloodline awakened, triggering brutal evolution.
And regardless of the type of evolution, their basic “physique” had undergone significant enhancement.
Even the petite Raptors, which were less than a meter in length, were now as big as the old Pterosaurs!
Camille Victoria didn’t even want to imagine how exaggerated the body of the former King of the Sky, the Wind God Wyvern, was now.
Little did she know that the most terrifying thing about the Wind God Wyvern wasn’t its size.
While the Molten Mountain Dragon bestowed physical evolution to the dinosaurs, Phase Willow granted unique abilities to some dinosaurs.
However, as this process involved a lot of…work… actually, it should be said that this type of evolution was too powerful and could harm the game experience for the players. In order to reduce the difficulty and avoid torturing the players, the special traits evolution was rare and was only granted to a few dinosaurs.
As an elite unit, the Wind God Wyvern would naturally not be left out.
The Wind God Wyvern had not only doubled in size, but it had also truly mastered the power of the “wind”.
Excluding the Molten Mountain Dragon and Phase Willow, it was now one of the toughest creatures on the island.
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When Camille Victoria opened her eyes in the amusement park once again, she was stunned to find that the park had completely changed.
The entire amusement park had turned into a Panda’s world.
Innumerable giant pandas had completely occupied the park. The cute, round pandas freely frolicked in the amusement park, rolling around.
It was the first time the amusement park had achieved a “free” panda for everyone!
In the past, there were also giant pandas, but in limited numbers. Given the popularity of these creatures, people often had to queue and wait their turn to play with them.
Camille Victoria took a brief look, bent down, picked up a baby panda from a passing panda mother, and joyfully started to play with it.
The panda mother seemed oblivious to the disappearance of her baby and continued to walk down her path.
Camille Victoria had to sprint to catch up with the panda mother and return her baby.
If it weren’t for the pending live stream, she would have stayed here instead of leaving.
This was a chance to hold dozens of baby pandas simultaneously!
She saw a little girl buried in a pile of pandas, almost drowned by the pandas, but laughing happily.
And this little girl was rocking some rare gradient purple twin ponytails and wore a dragon horn shaped hairband. She was even cuter than the pandas.
Camille Victoria had to hold back herself from running over there and playing with that little girl.
By the time she reached the ferry, she found that it had already been occupied by other players who had arrived earlier due to her delay.
Given how hard it was to get around Dinosaur Island due to the dangers, the players evacuated in droves, and used the amusement park’s ferry as a detour.
At this moment, the ferry was slowly moving and about to leave the dock.
“Hey! Wait! Take me with you!”
Camille Victoria ran with all her might towards the ferry, jumped from the dock in the nick of time, grabbed the edge of the ferry, tumbled onto the deck, and managed to get on the first ship.
“Charge! Full speed ahead!”
“Target: Dinosaur Island Dock!”
“Jurassic, onwards!”
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The players on the ship all had looks of excitement, none paying attention to the scenery. All were focused on the sky above Dinosaur Island.
There, the climate was undergoing an intense transformation.
Although the CG of the “Behemoths Battle” had not finished, they didn’t know the result of the battle between the Molten Mountain Dragon and Phase Willow. However, judging from the changes in the sky’s atmosphere, the Ancient Dragon and the Behemoth were most likely evenly matched.
The deciding factor of victory could very well depend on their choices!
With this thought, how could they not be exhilarated!
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Full of such eager anticipation, the Jurassic landed on the shoreline.
——Right next to that huge wooden ship.
Players were scrambling onto the wooden ship in a hurry, some even jumped ship with a readiness like it was a gang fight.
Camille Victoria clearly saw: there was a towering woman, perhaps over 1.9 meters tall, giving the impression of a muscular sister, whose weapon was almost halfway out.
Thanks to her companions who stopped her, she didn’t slash these jumping players.
Thus, Camille Victoria decisively followed suit, stepping on the railing and jumping onto the wooden ship.
——since she wasn’t going to be slashed, why not jump?
Once she landed, the noise instantly faded.
Raising her head, there were only about ten players left on the ship wearing casual clothes.
Obviously, this was an isolated mirror space. At the same time, thousands of mirrors might have branched off this ship to accommodate the influx of players.
One piece of evidence is: there’s an additional [Hunting Ship] in the area channel.
Moreover, in this channel, the player’s messages were scrolling non-stop.
Before Camille Victoria could even open her mouth, she saw a muscular man carrying a massive bow, pulling together a row of weapon racks——
“Which one are you good at? Choose one.”
Camille Victoria looked at the big swords, giant swords, giant axes, big hammers, big shields… and other weapons that were even taller than her, and she was lost in thought for a moment.
It wasn’t that she had difficulty choosing, but she felt… like she wasn’t good at any of them.
Moreover, she was more curious about other things:
“Who are you?”
“Where do you come from?”
“Why did you come here?”
The muscular man, who was prodding her to choose a weapon, raised his eyebrows: “You still have time to care about these things?”
The muscular man turned his head, beckoning her to look at the plume of smoke that was just rising on Dinosaur Island. There, forests were being consumed by a massive fire.
“If you delay any longer, your island will be completely destroyed.”
Camille Victoria could understand this. After several rounds of floods and fires, no animals could survive on this island.
But she was not worried.
——Could it be that a week passed without finishing off the BOSS, and the development team would simply leave a scorched earth scene?
The players would definitely chew them out!
So Camille Victoria calmly continued to ask, “please tell me about it.”
However, the muscular man just shook his head, shaking the weapon rack in his hand, “We’re short on time, make it quick, if you don’t choose, I’ll move on to the next one.”
“Picking, picking.” Camille Victoria hurriedly picked up a light crossbow, which looked the lightest.
Only then did the muscular man continue to introduce, “The weapon in your hand is the most basic weapon. It can help you hunt most of the low-level prey—I mean those under 4 meters.”
Camille Victoria held the light crossbow in her hand, weighing it, doubting the power of the weapon.
She subconsciously asked, “Isn’t the power of this thing insufficient?”
The muscular man nodded, but answered, “You can collect materials from the prey or find special minerals on the island to upgrade your weapons and gain more powerful damage.”
“The armour is the same principle, now go and get your armour.”
“Wait!” Hearing that the initial weapon was so important, Camille Victoria immediately asked, “Can I switch weapons later on?”
“Yes.” The muscular man nodded, “But the upgrade of the weapon can’t be transferred. After changing the weapon, you have to start over and collect materials for upgrades.”
After saying that, he pulled the weapon rack and hurried to find the next player who boarded the ship.
The process of receiving the armour was similar to that of weapons.
The NPC quickly distributed the armour to Camille Victoria, then urged her to start hunting as soon as possible, to collect materials and upgrade her weapon and armour.
Camille Victoria was astonished, “Ah? That’s it? Don’t rush! Let’s chat!”
But the elder sister who distributed armour had already left without looking back.
——The beginner tutorial will always be short, it’s impossible to answer the backstory of these hunters.
Because it’s just a demo for the event, only including combat and equipment upgrades. Other things simply weren’t done, and even the precise world narrative hasn’t been established yet. So Camille Victoria’s questions were inevitably left unanswered.
The best way to not let players feel the content is too simple, is to have the NPCs behave aloofly.
So, Camille Victoria, like countless other players, wearing a basic model of leather armour, holding a plain weapon, was almost hounded and urged off the ship.
They stood on the broken dock with a lost expression, looking back at the hunters on the ship, they all seemed to be showing the same message their faces:
“You’ve been strengthened! Now, go forth!”