The power was still there.
It had even grown a little stronger.
That was the portion of power that should have been diminished due to the differences between worlds.
Now, it had all returned.
All players' power had once again returned to its peak state.
But compared to being transformed from players into NPCs, that was utterly insignificant.
Having once been players themselves,
no one understood better than they did how important the identity of a player was.
Especially now that they had been forcibly bound to the NPC Template.
What was an NPC?
Characters, animals, bosses... inside a game.
What was a player?
The ones playing the game.
Leveling up by killing NPCs was simply commonplace.
As players, Xiao Jun and the others had certainly once been hammered relentlessly by the NPCs from the Primordial World.
But through years upon years of accumulation and experimentation, they had ultimately killed some NPCs and amassed the experience points players needed. That was precisely how they had obtained their current strength.
Thus, although this group of players had lived rather miserably in the past,
the importance of their status as players had remained unshakable!
It was the foundation of everything!
It was also the basis upon which they could hope to surpass NPCs!
Like an express lane leading straight to the summit!!
Now,
without that identity, Xiao Jun and the others felt worse than if their legs had been broken!
And after gaining the NPC Template, the misery had been multiplied a hundredfold!
This meant they might be harvested like leeks by other beings, swiftly turned into their experience points!
Furthermore, from the system notification earlier, he had heard some ominous words.
Identity Conversion Period.
Taken on its own, it was a somewhat baffling term.
But when linked with the players in