Welcome to the difficult-level instance: Royal Sea Battle!
Instance loaded…
Deploying Challengers to the virtual battlefield, number of deployments 2000/2000…
Instance has started! Entering countdown phase.
As system prompts continuously echoed in Lin Ye's mind, the world before his eyes gradually became clearer.
Ropes on the high mast swayed slightly, and beneath his feet was the cold deck, rising and falling with the waves.
At this moment, he was on an ironclad battleship!
Beside him were hundreds of other instance Challengers, just like him.
Their skin colors and hair colors differed, but without exception, they all looked terrified.
Levels floated above their heads; most were LV0, like Lin Ye, some were LV1, and there were a few scattered LV2s.
At this moment, an LV0 Black guy suddenly clasped his hands together, his thick lips trembling as he muttered in front of Lin Ye.
“God!”
“Jesus Christ!”
“Why was I teleported to such a difficult instance! Fuck.”
“Bro. This is my first time in a battlefield instance, you must guide me, M3.”
Lin Ye had no time to bother with the Black guy; it was pre-battle preparation time, and what he needed to do was not chat idly, but diligently search for various information within the instance.
Only then would he have a chance to clear this instance in the end.
…
Lin Ye had been transmigrated to this world for three days. In his previous life, he was a technical expert at a national defense research institute, and he was inexplicably teleported to this world.
Through continuous exploration over these three days, he gradually gained an understanding of this world.
The overall appearance of this world was actually completely identical to Earth in his previous life.
However, the core composition of the world was entirely different!
Because when this world was first formed, something called the Sky Curtain came into being alongside it.
If understood by Lin Ye, this so-called “Sky Curtain” was essentially the control of this world by a higher-level civilization.
Or rather, this world itself was a Truman Show.
Under the absolute control of the Sky Curtain, this world, from its birth until now, had never experienced a true war; it could be said to be an absolutely peaceful planet.
Without war, there naturally was no concept of a country; the entire planet had only one affiliation: the Azure Federation.
There were only countless races of different skin colors and appearances, such as the Great Xia Clan, Irish, Yamato People, South Korean, and so on.
Even more amusingly, although this world had no real wars, it greatly revered war, so the Sky Curtain created a mechanism called instance production.
All wars existed virtually within the Sky Curtain instances, and all technological and military advancements were realized through instances.
For the people of this world, their daily routine was to eat, sleep, and play instances…
Successfully clearing an instance would earn points, thereby increasing their level.
As long as one upgraded to LV1, they could unlock the permission to create instances, and then they could create instances themselves for others to challenge, earning more points.
However, if one continuously failed instances and their points reached rock bottom, they would be directly erased by the Sky Curtain!
Therefore, this was an era where everyone created instances, and at the same time, an era where instances determined life and death!
…
It seems all Challengers have been teleported.
Just then, the first bullet screen floated before Lin Ye's eyes.
Besides the Challengers directly deployed into the instance, others could watch the situation inside the instance through live streaming.
And the words of these viewers would be fed back into the game instance in the form of bullet screens.
These people are really unlucky to be thrown into such a difficult instance.
Does anyone know who the creator of this instance is? That's Ito Hidekazu, the top instance Designer of the Yamato People!
Ito Hidekazu? Is that the genius Designer who went from LV0 to LV2 in just one day?!
That's right, this instance, Royal Sea Battle, is his latest work. It's one of the few naval battle instances on the entire Azure Star. It seems many people will suffer again this time.
Lin Ye glanced at the bullet screens; they were mostly nonsense, without much useful information.
He stood calmly at the very front of the deck, looking left and right.
On both sides of his battleship, there were nearly twenty other ships of different designs.
There were large wooden ships, Spanish-style galleons, and ironclad battleships similar to the one he was on. Each ship had about 100 people.
People above LV2 had the ability to bring their military equipment from their instances into the current instance. These various ships should have been brought in by these LV2 masters.
…
And on the distant coastline, a row of large cruisers flying the Red Sun flag were anchored!
They were a dense, dark mass, slowly approaching the Challengers.
Without a doubt, those were the “enemy” in this instance.
As Lin Ye pondered, further information about the instance finally appeared before his eyes.
Royal Sea Battle: A difficult-level naval battle instance designed by Ito Hidekazu of the Dahe Clan. The instance location is a sea area called the Royal Sea. Enemy units are 10 armored cruisers, namely: Yoshino, Akitsushima, matsushima, Chiyoda…
Optional Task 1: Stay low and survive!
Players can forcibly endure for two hours or escape to Weihaiwei Military Port in the depths of the Royal Sea! Task completed, personal points remain unchanged.
Optional Task 2: Sink the flagship matsushima!
Players can sink the enemy flagship matsushima by various means, which counts as task completion, and earn 30 personal points!
Task failure penalty: Deduct 50 points!
The Sky Curtain instance detection program has detected Challengers entering the instance for the first time, therefore, a novice tip is provided to all players:
1. The enemy armored cruisers have very high combat power, representing the highest standard of naval weaponry in Azure Star instances. Players should carefully choose their approach. Perhaps, when the instance officially begins, heading directly to Weihaiwei Military Port at the fastest speed is the best way to complete the task.
2. Any military weapon has weaknesses and is not invincible.
3. Every action of all Challengers will be watched by spectators outside the instance. They might give you some bullet screen tips out of good intentions, but there is also a high possibility that they will frame you. After all, this is an era of global instances…
Seeing these instance tips, Lin Ye let out a long sigh.
“Hmph… It's indeed as I thought.”
Over these three days, he had accumulated 70 points through several instances, big and small. If he cleared this instance, his points could reach 100.
Then he would be able to upgrade to LV1 and gain permission to create instances.
So, he had to win this instance.
In addition, through observation over the past few days, Lin Ye discovered an interesting thing: the overall military understanding of Azure Star was actually very low.
If he had to give a reference, it was basically the WWI stage of his previous life.
And in this instance he was currently in, seeing those cruisers flying the Red Sun flag, Lin Ye could intuitively understand it as a large naval battle in his previous life, initiated by the Little Rizi.
Yellow Sea! Naval battle!