This Was a Contest Between Lin Ye and the Firmament
The statistics for this "Raging Waves"Instance are as follows:
[Number of players wiped out in the Instance: 200,000!]
[Maximum duration of the Instance: 300 hours]
[Instance completion rate: 0%!]
[Instance Completion: 10%]
[Instance kill rate: 20%]
Just before the Instance closed, the Instance's chat section exploded with messages, filling the screen!
[The Emperor was deducted one million?! That's outrageous!]
[Even the Emperor has been demoted! He's a top-tier LV4 expert... Aren't top-tier experts supposed to be worry-free for life?]
[Although I really dislike Dahe people, this points deduction is indeed too harsh.]
[Two hundred thousand Great He Clan were wiped out, even the self-proclaimed genius Itō Hidetaka was killed.]
[These 200,000 people are all elites from the Dahe Settlement. This will set back the strength of the Dahe Settlement by at least ten years.]
[Don't be fooled by the fact that the elimination rate is much lower than before; the base number is huge this time, so the number of people eliminated is astronomical!]
[Did you know that there was a statistic before... the total number of people wiped out in all Instances every day is between 100,000 and 150,000? So even though it's Amnesty Day, the number of people dying on Azure Star is actually increasing!]
[The completion rate of this Instance is also questionable; in reality, if the Eagle Sauce Country hadn't deliberately used superweapons at the end, the completion rate would probably still be quite low.]
[Everyone... I'm worried about what I'll do if I'm selected to enter this Instance later...]
[What else can you do but surrender? Surrendering will only deduct 20 points...]
[By the way, I have a question. Are there still any Great He Clan members in the Instance? Why haven't I heard them speak in so long?]
From initially just watching the spectacle, the Challengers's mindset has undergone a complete transformation.
Their fear of the Raging Waves had reached its peak.
Because the Raging Waves are truly terrifying.
The Instance are difficult, and the penalties are quite severe.
Take Itō Hidetaka, for example. He's a recently emerged genius in Instance and is quite well-known on Azure Star. Many people even idolize him.
Based on the past Instance patterns on Azure Star, it's actually very difficult to eliminate someone who has reached LV2 level.
The three challenges of the Raging Waves actually wiped out such a person.
The spectators naturally felt a sense of shared sorrow, like the fox mourning the death of its comrade.
The countdown ended, and amidst the still-scrolling barrage of comments, the Raging Waves Instance officially closed.
The live stream then abruptly ended.
Inside the Cliffside Villa, Lin Ye stood up from the soft sofa and stretched.
As the Designer, he watched the entire live stream of this Instance, and watching it from beginning to end in one go naturally made him a little tired.
The rewards from this Instance run were actually better than he had anticipated.
Lin Ye also saw in the comments that many people had doubts and fears about the Emperor having a huge number of points deducted.
"In a world like this, what's the point of discussing what's reasonable and unreasonable?"
"As long as it gets approved by Firmament, even something unreasonable becomes reasonable."
In fact, he did manipulate the mechanism a little this time, essentially playing a game of strategy with Firmament.
Through the previous two Instance adjustments, Lin Ye roughly guessed some of Firmament's programming habits.
If we consider Firmament as a large-scale artificial intelligence, then its behavior must follow certain patterns.
At least in the short term, there is a pattern to it.
First of all, Firmament does not want too many Challengers to die, because that would cause a sharp decrease in the Azure Star people, which would be extremely detrimental to the stable development of Azure Star.
Therefore, the number of Instance in the Firmament will be adjusted again and again to reduce the difficulty.
However, Lin Ye also discovered a characteristic of the Firmament: it showed absolutely no leniency towards Challengers with rebellious sentiments and violent tendencies.
In other words, Firmament absolutely expects the people of Azure Star to behave themselves and never disobey him! At the same time, they must not cause trouble in the real world.
Lin Ye noticed this clue when Itō Hidetaka was deducted 5,000 points last time.
In that economic warfare scenario, Itō Hidetaka repeatedly ignored the warnings from the Firmament and simultaneously subjected Eastern Ocean Island to intense exploitation.
This inadvertently offended two of Firmament's "troublesome" points.
Lin Ye grasped this point, and therefore made adjustments to the Instance quest mechanism.
He lowered the rewards and penalties for the basic tasks in the Instance, and also removed a series of stage tasks, giving Firmament the illusion that the difficulty had been reduced.
At the same time, some punishments related to resistance and violence were included in the Instance.
Any behavior that violates the basic rules of the Instance, and at the same time demonstrates a strong tendency towards hegemony and violence within the Instance, will be severely punished with double the deduction of points.
As expected, this task setting was approved by Firmament.
But to be honest... Lin Ye really didn't expect the Emperor to have a million points deducted in one go.
In Lin Ye's own estimation, each member of the Great He Clan would at most have 10,000 points deducted...
The fact that the Emperor could have one million points deducted only means that he made every mistake he shouldn't have made and walked through every nook and cranny.
Otherwise, things wouldn't have turned out this badly.
"Your Emperor... you really can't blame me for this."
Lin Ye shook his head helplessly, then took out a bottle of cola from the refrigerator and drank it contentedly.
Regarding the current dire situation in the Dahe Settlement, Lin Ye could only say that they brought this upon themselves.
First of all, they volunteered to take on the Instance challenge. If they hadn't insisted on forming a group to attack the dungeon, Lin Ye's direct selection would have only pulled at most 200,000 Dahe people into the Instance.
That way, the Challengers eliminated would be more evenly distributed, and wouldn't all fall on the heads of the Dahe Settlement.
In addition, the Emperor has done a lot of bad things over the years, creating a bunch of monsters like the Shogun, the Ninja Group, and the Germ Army.
At the same time, the Dahe Settlement felt like a place where imperial power reigned supreme.
This is clearly a case of acting like a local tyrant under the rules of the Firmament, while still harboring Militarism!
Even if Lin Ye doesn't punish them this time, Firmament will in the future.
Ultimately, Lin Ye did Firmament a favor.
Just as Lin Ye was pondering, the notification sound from the Firmament finally rang.
[Dear Dungeon Designer, your Instance"Raging Waves" has yet to be cleared... We will now proceed with the Instance point reward calculation.]