Chapter 111: 111, Two weeks later_l
Translator: 549690339
Unbeknownst to him, two weeks had passed.
Of course, “two weeks” referred to in-game time, whereas only 28 hours had passed in the real world.
During these two weeks, Su Yu had stayed in Maple City, working on the 16th to 19th quests of the princess line.
These four quests were basically the same as the 14th and 15th ones, all of which involved accepting the princess’s commission to help her liaise with her secret contacts in Maple City, connecting old sections, collecting intelligence, and so on.
Morningstar also occasionally helped, giving Su Yu a lift and helping him pass through some exceptionally tough scenes.
The rewards for these four quests were not as substantial as the 15th quest, they were merely some experience points, equipment, scrolls, and potions, with no special items.
Moreover, these four quests were all conducted during in-game night time.
In terms of in-game daytime, the princess took Su Yu to Wolf Howl Castle to engage in lengthy negotiations with the representatives sent by Duke Seifer and Duke Landilus.
All three parties involved in the meeting intended to procrastinate, thus no result could be reached from the negotiations.
For a full two weeks, all three sides were pulling strings at the negotiation table, proposing their conditions without any willingness to compromise. The negotiations were constantly at a stalemate.
Not until the 14th day of negotiations was Duke Landilus’s emissary ready for the second attack on the princess.
Therefore, the emissary of Landilus overturned the negotiation table and left in anger, causing the entire negotiation to fail thoroughly.
On the same day, the princess prepared her convoy to return to Goldfinch City, and the quest line also reached its 20th stage.
The 20th stage quest, like the 10th stage [Encounter in the Giant Wood Canyon], was also a battle in a scene.
Through communicating with the princess, Su Yu easily obtained the delegation rights for this task.
The above is the main storyline of the game.
As for the player side, there had also been earth-shattering changes.
After the last [Encounter in the Giant Wood Canyon], the ranking list faced a major reshuffle.
The nine guilds participating in it had risen powerfully, becoming the hot favourites in the game, attracting quite a few high-end players to join.
The “Relevant Department” guild of Snow Leopard was particularly outstanding. Backed by substantial resources, the number of members in the guild quickly exceeded ten thousand, making it the largest guild in the game.
Emperor Blood Slays the Sky and Shepherd in the Clouds seemed to have picked up on something when they saw the “National Team” putting so many resources into this game.
The capital behind them followed the trend and increased investments. After burning through a large amount of money, they became the second and third largest guilds following the “Relevant Department”.
As for the Zhan Tian Guild, they were quite miserable.
In the past, they managed to become one of the top three guilds in Mainland China through ‘broadcast’ advertisements from raid dungeon first clearances; along with the advertising effect of their elite members occupying the top positions in the level leaderboard.
But in this life, they couldn’t snatch any first kills in any dungeons. Furthermore, due to Zhan Tianjian’s strategic mistake of not participating in the [Encounter in the Giant Wood Canyon], no members of the Zhan Tian Guild were visible on the level leaderboard, which led to the guild’s downfall. Add to this, the “Relevant Department” , Emperor Blood, and Mu Yun guilds’
Add to this, the “Relevant Department”, Emperor Blood, and Mu Yun guilds’ investment in the game are several times more than in the previous life, which squeezed the already small living space of the Zhan Tian Guild.
A few leading players such as Cang Shan You Jing, Botany, and Matthew White were also poached by three big guilds. The Zhan Tian Guild was losing members seriously and nearly lost the possibility of entering the “Top Ten National Guilds”.
Su Yu had been paying attention to the details of the Zhan Tian Guild. Seeing the miserable state of the Zhan Tian Guild, he gave up the idea of continuing to suppress them.
After all, in the previous life, Zhan Tian’s contact with the Skuru was completely dependent on the super strength of the guild’s core layer, and Zhan Tianjian, a strongman who was piled up to the pinnacle of the 6th level Sanctuary with a huge amount of resources.
This life’s Zhan Tian Guild was in such a state that it was impossible for them to get strong support of national resources again. Even if they took the initiative to contact the Skuru and wanted to turn traitor, the Skuru would not be concerned with them.
On the forum, the Zhan Tian Guild had also become the object of many players’ mockery and ridicule.
Upon learning that Cang Shan You Jing had been poached, players on the forum sent congratulatory messages one after another:
“Congratulations to Cang Shan You Jing for escaping misery!”
“The Zhan Tian Guild is getting worse and worse. At the beginning of the game, they had the biggest momentum. Now they might not even make it into the top
ten. ”
“Ha! They deserved it for setting up toll booths at the village entrance.”
“Uh, the person above, Zhan Tianjian himself clarified and debunked it. They really didn’t do this.”
“Did we get a debunker? I didn’t hear about it.”
“Besides the Zhan Tian Guild, it seems like we haven’t had any news from Big
Brother Nemesis recently. I wonder what Big Brother is up to?”
“Who knows? Big Brother’s level has been stuck at 21 and hasn’t changed, and he hasn’t taken any dungeon first kill.”
“Could it be that Big Brother Nemesis found it meaningless to crush everyone and simply quit playing?”
“Quit playing? If that’s the case, A Thousand Cups Unintoxicated who is ranked second on the level leaderboard would probably wake up from his dream laughing!”
“Maybe there’s just no news for the moment… Didn’t Big Brother Nemesis mention there was going to be another battlefield scene?”
“Whoa, guys, go check! Big Brother Nemesis has posted! This is epic breaking news!”
“Where’s the post?”
“Just refresh your homepage, it’s either the first or the second post.”
“Well, speak of the devil! We were just discussing Big Brother Nemesis, and there he is!”
At this moment, a forum member called ‘I’m Cao Mengde’ popped up: “Who is talking about me?”
The post that Su Yu made on the official forum caused quite a stir!
The title of Su Yu’s post was ‘Recruitment for the Battlefield Scene [Perilous
Escape]. Need 1,000 leading players, first come first served!’
In just five short minutes, the post had gained a thousand replies!
Everyone well remembered the last battlefield scene [Encounter in the Giant Wood Canyon] published by Su Yu, which led directly to the reshuffle of the leaderboard. The nine participating guilds rose powerfully, standing at the head wind.
Big Brother is now publishing another battlefield scene, what impact will it have on the game’s order? Will there be any new guilds rising?
In the post, Su Yu gave a detailed description of the background of this battlefield and informed everyone that he was publishing the mission at the
West City Gate in Maple City. The first thousand to arrive will be served first.
Beneath the post, other than the typical “sofa,” “floors,” and “Huo Qian Liu
Ming,” players were having a lively discussion about the contents of the post. “My God! Big Brother Nemesis has released another battlefield scene mission!” “Will this mission result in another major reshuffle of the level leaderboard?”
“I think Big Brother Nemesis is going to advance two more levels this time! A
Thousand Cups Unintoxicated will probably cry.”
“What the hell are you guys discussing? Hurry up and log in!”
“Ah! I have no playtime left.”
“Ah! I’m still in class.’
“Ah! It’s expensive to teleport to Maple City. It costs 500 spiritual coins to teleport from Orleans City where I am.”
“Haha! Fortunately, I was smart enough to be in Maple City already, I’ll go online now! ”
In the game, the teleportation array for players on the east side of Maple City.
The once rarely used teleportation array lit up with layers of white light, teleporting players from all over the country to Maple City.
After the teleportation ended, players who teleported at a close distance were fine, but players who teleported from a distance all experienced symptoms of headache and dizziness.
However, they didn’t care about these negative statuses, they quickly summoned their mounts, said hello to nearby friends, and proceeded towards the West City Gate..
