The Demoted Emperor!
Itō Hidetaka entered the Instance with just over 10,000 points.
With 100,000 points deducted at once, the points are naturally reset to zero.
That's enough to kill him ten times over.
Their fate was naturally to be directly annihilated.
Upon seeing the image of Itō Hidetaka completely obscured by the Firmament, the Emperor's Adam's apple trembled slightly, and he began to feel apprehensive.
Itō Hidetaka had always followed his orders, so it's fair to say that the Emperor bears at least 90% of the responsibility for his assassination.
If the Emperor had allowed Itō Hidetaka to surrender when he did, he might not be dead now.
A feeling of pity and regret arose in the Emperor's heart.
Itō Hidetaka is Instance genius specially cultivated by the Dahe Settlement. The Emperor has invested a lot of resources in him.
Otherwise, how could Itō Hidetaka design four Instance in a single day? How could he leapfrog to LV2 and become the fastest genius Designer to reach LV2?
The elimination of such a specially trained individual is a loss for the Dahe Settlement, and even more so for the Emperor.
Of course... besides regret, the Emperor's strongest emotion was fear.
If even an accomplice like Itō Hidetaka has had 100,000 points deducted, how many points will the supreme commander of this Instance have to lose?
The Emperor's legs began to weaken again.
As a top Challengers at LV4, he has over ten million Point Reserves, so the usual point deductions are really insignificant to him.
But Lin Ye's Instance is different; it hides too many traps, with various points multiplied and stacked, completely breaking away from the patterns of previous Instances.
Therefore, even the Emperor is not entirely confident.
[Please, Emperor Xiaochuan, step forward to the judgment seat!]
The Emperor let out a long sigh, dragging his shackles as he slowly walked towards the judgment platform.
Every step he took filled him with immense humiliation, as if he were falling into an abyss.
The Commander of the Dahe Settlement was being judged by a mere twenty-something-year-old boy!
They were being watched and mocked by everyone on the entire Azure Star.
The short distance felt incredibly long to the Emperor.
But in the end, he still stood before the judge's bench.
[Emperor Xiaochuan, as the Commander-in-Chief of this Instance, you have committed heinous crimes. Because of you, countless innocent people on the Eastern Ocean Island have perished in the war, and because of you, countless members of your people have been wiped out...]
[The crimes you committed during this Instance challenge are as follows:]
[1. Proclaim war! Set the general course of war for all Challengers.]
[2. Incite the populace and spread your Militarist Ideology to the people of Eastern Ocean Island! At the same time, conscript large numbers of soldiers, destroying the livelihoods of the people of Eastern Ocean Island.]
[3. Secretly developing a bacteriological army and bringing this inhumane weapon into the Instance violates the humanitarian principles of Earth Online!]
[4. Illegally intruded into the territory of the third-party faction Dragon Country, in the Instance!]
[5. Feigning surrender to the Eagle Sauce Country while secretly plotting the attack on Pearl Harbor...]
[6. Maliciously controlling the media in Eastern Ocean Island and spreading erroneous Militarist Ideology...]
[...]
The Firmament began to list the Emperor's crimes, a process that was extremely lengthy.
Finally, when they reached the hundredth or so, the Emperor could no longer contain himself. He clenched his fists and roared:
"Enough!"
"What crime? It's all about the winner taking all! Next time I enter this Instance, I'll make the same choice!"
"Firmament, as a Level 4 advanced Challengers and the leader of the Dahe Settlement, could you please grant me a quick death?"
With each crime read aloud, the Emperor felt utterly humiliated, his heart breaking!
These are simply the rules set by Lin Ye. Launching a war is the main theme of this Instance, and the Emperor doesn't think he has done anything wrong.
[The Firmament agrees to Emperor Xiaochuan's request!]
[After review by the Firmament, it has been decided to deduct 1,000,000 points from your account!]
1 million points?!
The Emperor Cold War and involuntarily took two steps back.
"That's way too much!"
Just now, he did consider that Lin Ye might use some tricks in the Instance to deduct a huge amount of points from him, or even cause him to be demoted.
However, this was only a worst-case scenario, and the Emperor did not believe it could be achieved.
As it turned out, Lin Ye actually did just that, and under the strict scrutiny of Firmament, he made everything seem perfectly logical.
Moreover, this million points will just happen to demote me!
Because the Emperor's current reserves are 190,000!
"The Firmament... this is unfair!"
"Previous Instance only Instance a few thousand at most, but this time, Lin Ye's Instance is deducting a million! That's outrageous!"
The Emperor simply couldn't understand what strange mechanism Lin Ye had used to increase the penalty for a task with a base deduction of 500 points to one million!
The Firmament did not answer the Emperor's questions at all, but instead began to pronounce the verdict.
[Dear Challengers, after deducting points, your score is less than ten million. Therefore, your level will be reduced from LV4 to LV3!]
[All Challengers have now completed their trials; the Dongying Judgment is now concluded...]
[You will be teleported out of the Instance.]
"No!!"
"Don't want!"
The Emperor roared in anger.
The relegation had a huge impact on him.
Keep in mind that the higher you go, the more difficult it becomes to level up, because the Firmament will significantly reduce your points rewards.
The upgrade from LV3 to LV4 is incredibly difficult! This gap represents a huge disparity in the Hero Ranking.
It took him a full three years to go from nine million to ten million.
The failure of the Raging Waves strategy essentially wasted three years of his life.
That's not the most important thing.
What's even more frightening is the negative impact of the downgrade.
The downgrading of a high-ranking individual means that the resources allocated to that individual's Settlement by the Firmament will be withdrawn.
In that case, his reputation will be greatly damaged.
The Great He Clan people generally admire the strong and prioritize their own interests.
The tribespeople would feel that because of him, their Settlement had declined, and his status in the Settlement would be greatly reduced, and he might even fall from the position of Emperor.
It's worth noting that the Great He Clan also has another newly promoted LV4, the Shogun Minamoto no Yorimitsu!
Minamoto no Yorimitsu didn't lose too many points in this Instance, and is now completely above me!
"Firmament! Please, no!"
Ignoring the Emperor's anger, the Firmament teleported Emperor out of the Instance.
At the same time, the completion statistics for this Instance were displayed on the screens of all spectators.