The Baiye City competition concluded perfectly.
After the competition ended,
everyone returned to Tidal Town.
Li Ruoshu and the other two also returned to Great Xia Nevernight City.
Li Yunque immediately sought out Chen Yu, asking him what his next step was, as the competition was over, Baiye City would definitely remove or at least limit the traffic for Battle Royale as soon as possible.
Regarding this,
Chen Yu naturally understood, but he appeared very calm.
He only replied, “Since this is unavoidable, why don’t we accelerate its appearance and catch them off guard?”
soul crystals are important, of course.
But right now, competing for Baiye City’s population is the most important thing…
Hearing Chen Yu’s plan, Li Yunque’s eyes lit up.
He stated that he would do his utmost to investigate the opponent’s every move; this was the first round of conflict with Baiye City, and also the first step in Tidal Town’s rise.
During this period,
some different voices appeared on Baiye City’s forums; people were already discussing the Adventurer's Guild’s actions, and no matter how hard Xu Gaoyuan tried to manage public relations, he couldn’t suppress the dissatisfied voices.
“Why don’t we move to Tidal Town?”
Someone suggested.
“Honestly, Baiye City’s environment is rotten; it’s all about connections and calculating profits. Those Dungeon Lords don’t even bother to create fun Dungeons anymore; it’s the same few ideas day in and day out, recycled over and over. If you haven’t thrown up, I certainly have.”
“Yeah, how long has it been since these Dungeons in Baiye City had any innovation? I heard they are now criticizing and suppressing Battle Royale, and some Dungeon Lords are even secretly saying we’ve forgotten our roots. But they don’t consider that if Battle Royale hadn't been innovative enough to bring us joy, how could we possibly have played it?”
“According to inside information, after this competition, the Adventurer's Guild plans to limit Battle Royale to only 10,000 entries per day.”
As soon as this news broke, someone immediately expressed anger.
“What?”
“They actually dare to do such a thing? 10,000 entries, who is that enough for? Are they trying to kill us?”
“If that’s really the case, I’ll tear down their guild.”
“Let’s all move to Tidal Town. I truly have no hope left for Baiye City’s environment. I estimate it won’t be long before pirated versions of Battle Royale hit the market, and then those guys will target Battle Royale and completely remove it. Just you wait.”
Someone predicted.
Actually, it couldn’t really be called a prediction, as such operations had appeared before. Anyone with some understanding of the Dungeon system knew that to protect these lords of Baiye City, removal was inevitable.
“If they really take Battle Royale down, then I’ll move to Tidal Town the very next day. My world cannot be without Battle Royale, just as a Dungeon Lord cannot be without soul crystals.”
It was clear that many Adventurer had expressed their dissatisfaction.
But dissatisfaction aside…
Some things are bound to happen.
The Adventurer's Guild is now also waiting for the day when the Dungeon Lords below complete their replication.
This was also Ma Lingzhi’s ultimate hope.
Dark World.
Inside a very large castle, more than a dozen people stood.
One of them was the Dungeon Lord of this castle.
The other dozen or so were his Contract Adventurer, with five or six of them surnamed Ma. This Dungeon Lord was also the one closest to the family behind Ma Lingzhi.
At this moment,
there was also a huge dark creature in the middle of these dozen or so people.
This creature had a large eyeball and its lower body was entirely made of tentacles. It was the dark creature that all Dungeon Lords loved to raise: the Eyeball Demon.
Eyeball Demons have no attack power and are not high-level.
But they are very rare.
They can only be encountered during the Dark Tide.
The Eyeball Demon’s only ability is to connect its tentacles to the target’s brain, and then project what the target sees as a projection into its large eyeball.
At this moment,
this Eyeball Demon had already connected its tentacles to the brain of the Contract Adventurer in front of it.
And the Contract Adventurer had now opened his system.
He began playing the competition video that Ma Lingzhi had sent him.
Soon,
a very serene-looking island appeared before everyone.
“An island?”
“It doesn’t look special. I can make islands like this; it’s not difficult.”
The Dungeon Lord said indifferently.
No sooner had he finished speaking than the camera suddenly shifted, and an impossibly massive aircraft carrier appeared before him.
Dozens of fighter jets flew alongside the aircraft carrier, leaving trails of clouds.
The Dungeon Lord was stunned…
“Wait, what is that?”
“You don’t recognize it?” a Contract Adventurer surnamed Ma asked in confusion.
Because in their view, all Dungeon Lords had similar knowledge, at most a slight deviation. As long as the visuals were provided, any Dungeon could be replicated.
However, looking at their lord’s expression, it seemed…
He didn't recognize it at all.
The Dungeon Lord watched it repeatedly several times, finally frowning deeply and shaking his head, “I’ve never seen it. Every single part of it feels incredibly unfamiliar to me… And, are they flying in the sky? The Dungeon Lord on the other side can simulate the sky scene so realistically, it’s as if he’s truly been to the heavens himself…”
At this point, he sighed with emotion.
Dungeon Lords had never been to the sky, so they had no idea what a sky scene looked like.
It wasn’t that they didn’t have flying magical beasts, or War Lord friends with aerial units, it’s just… magical beasts were uncontrollable, and friends were equally untrustworthy.
Inside the castle, he called all the shots.
If he left the castle…
Who would call the shots was uncertain.
A lord in their castle is basically unkillable, but if they leave the castle, any damage taken cannot be transferred to the castle itself. So, lords are basically homebodies, rarely leaving their castles.
Based on these reasons…
Very few Dungeon Lords had actually seen sky scenes; the skies they constructed were basically entirely based on imagination.
He didn’t understand this aircraft carrier and fighter jet fleet this time, but he did make a note of the sky. So it wasn’t a complete loss.