a02 Update! Death Penalty!

Chapter 24 a02 Update! Death Penalty! Leon hadn't expected that even though there were rat tails all over the ground to pick up, and even drowsy spiders in the first level of the underground Maze to sneak past, there were still guys who couldn't think straight and fixated on those few worthless Magic Crystals, even wanting to hoard them.

Wasn't this just taking off your pants to fart? He had originally planned to enable the death penalty when there were more players, but now it seemed he had to bring it forward.

Watching a certain ID that ruined his appetite walk away, Leon said with a helpless expression.

"You You, can you filter the Closed Beta players' qualifications a bit? I'm not saying that non-hardcore players aren't worthy of playing the game, but can we block those who are too overpowered? At least let them wait until the game is more complete before coming in?"

You You hesitated, then said after a moment.

"This... I don't think that's possible. Although I can revoke Closed Beta qualifications, I can't give them to specific players."

Okay.

It seemed that Closed Beta qualifications were distributed randomly, and this was part of the "underlying code" that the Calamity System couldn't change.

Leon could only think optimistically, just treat these overpowered players as helping him catch bugs...

On the other side, with the release of the a02 version update, the atmosphere on the Calamity Online Official Website forum was as lively as a festival.

In fact, as early as the monster siege, some restless players had taken the opportunity during their respawn downtime to go offline and update the forum with real-time battle reports.

Hordes of Rat Tide! Bosses as tall as small mountains!

And cool spellcasting effects... although it was NPC spellcasting, rounding it up, it was roughly equivalent to part of the game experience! In just one day, they verified two things!

The first thing was that the game's server was even more awesome than they had imagined, able to seamlessly load so many events and scenes, and also had scene destruction effects and a physics engine realistic enough to be mistaken for reality! The second thing was that the actual content of the game was definitely not just monotonous monster grinding and mining!

Just based on the density of events encountered in the Newbie Village, the game's development team was already quite conscientious!

If it were any other game, wouldn't this be released as a separate expansion pack?

Seeing the Closed Beta players having so much fun, a group of armchair players were also itching with envy, wishing they could immediately rush into the game wielding a Dragon-Slaying Blade and slaughtering everything in sight.

"Strongly request the development team to update the screenshot and video recording functions!"

"Strongly request the development team to immediately wipe the data and start the public beta!"

"Ahhh!!! I'm going to die without Calamity Online!"

"What?! Another update!"

"!! Amazing! This speed!!"

"Good news, brothers!!! New Closed Beta qualifications have been released!"

"Bad news, there are only four hundred new lucky ones. (Smirk)"

"Second bad news, the number of reservations has already exceeded ten thousand. (Smirk)"

"@%#$!"

"I'm going to kill you all! (Rage)"

Looking at the messages spamming the forum, Zhao JinYan, sitting in front of his computer, was dumbfounded.

The reason he was dumbfounded wasn't because the quality of the abstract netizens shocked him, but...

"Good heavens."

He actually managed to draw it?!

He had already downloaded the game demo program, and with his heart pounding, he quickly put on his glasses and entered his account and password on the startup page.

After waiting for five or six minutes, he suddenly heard a strange noise in his anxiety.

"Beep—"

The opening animation described by the netizens did not appear, replaced by a screen full of static.

"Damn it!"

Experience Bro suddenly took off his glasses and threw them on the bed in exasperation.

The second-hand VR he had bought for a huge sum of dozens of dollars had actually crashed! What a trash game!?

While Experience Bro was busy arguing with the black-hearted merchant, on the Calamity Online forum, players finally began to seriously discuss the content of the a02 update.

Old Man at the Village Entrance: "The content of this update seems like a lot, but it's actually a lot! In addition to the death penalty, they even updated the social module and the in-game store!"

Gou Shi: "Old Man seems to have said a lot this time, but actually said a lot! (Wry smile)"

Old Man at the Village Entrance: "Damn you!!! I'm just afraid the Newbies won't understand, so I'm summarizing the update content!"

Gou Shi: "Okay, don't explain, the more you explain, the more awkward it gets. (Wry smile)"

Old Man at the Village Entrance: "@#%$!"

Peerless Hero: "In any case, there's finally a place to spend Hell Money, congratulations!"

Knowledge Explosion: "But what's with this recruiting shop assistants thing? And the salary is Hell Money?"

One Leaf Knows Autumn: "If it's not Hell Money, would they give real money? Think about it, is that possible? (Side eye)"

Knowledge Explosion: "Guide Bro is here!"

Flower Monk Lin Daiyu: "Guide Bro! Analyze it! So much content has been updated this time, is the Open Beta coming soon?!"

One Leaf Knows Autumn: "I don't know, I'm not an internal staff member. Moreover, although there's a lot of content in this update, it's actually all expected stuff. Think about it, which game doesn't have a death penalty, social system, and in-game store?"

Doesn't Wash Pants: "Damn?! That's true!"

Doesn't Wash Face: "That was close! I almost got tricked by the Dog Devs!"

Gremlin Chieftain: "Fake update!!! Refund!"

Minotaur Warrior: "Bro! Your ID is interesting, want to make a reservation to play together?"

One Leaf Knows Autumn: "Ahem, it's a bit much to say that, although other games have these systems, Calamity Online is, after all, a groundbreaking open-world adventure game developed by an unknown developer... In short, I'm going to start hyping it up, Dog Devs don't rush to beat me up."

One Leaf Knows Autumn: "Although the content of this update is not much, it is not difficult to see the ambition of the development team from some details. For example, the death penalty mechanism specifically mentions that the Contribution Points deducted upon death will vary depending on the role played by the player. A reasonable analysis is that this should be laying the groundwork for the future introduction of different races to play."

Boar-Headed Knight: "Succubus! Succubus!!! (Screaming)"

One Leaf Knows Autumn: "That's right, take the Succubus you mentioned as an example, I speculate that there should be some kind of mechanism updated in the future that allows players to upgrade their characters from skeletons to Succubus... or Boar-Headed Knights by consuming Contribution Points."

One Gulp of Septic Tank: "Why Contribution Points?! Where's the Hell Money? And Magic Crystals!"

One Leaf Knows Autumn: "Magic Crystals? What's that? Anyway, explaining it from a setting perspective, it's more reasonable for the death penalty to deduct Contribution Points, and for reincarnation to also consume Contribution Points. And explaining it from a practical perspective, Hell Money is already inflating like crazy right after the server opened. If I were the Dog Devs, I definitely wouldn't link important systems to it."

"On the contrary, I can clearly feel that the Dog Devs are very carefully controlling the Contribution Points' revenue curve, which means that this parameter will greatly affect the game balance. The only way I can think of to affect the game balance is the future Class Change system... After all, anyone with eyes can see that High-level Demons are stronger than low-level cannon fodder."

Gou Shi: "Awesome! I'm convinced!"

Knowledge Explosion: "You're still saying you're not an insider! I think you're just a mop! (Angry)"

One Leaf Knows Autumn: "..."

Gremlin Chieftain: "Bro, give me a Closed Beta qualification! I'll let you play when I become a Succubus. QAQ"

One Leaf Knows Autumn: "Get lost!"

Old Man at the Village Entrance: "Hahahaha, damn!"

"..."

On the other side, in the inn at the entrance of the North Peak Mine, Leon, sitting under the abandoned stable, was peeking at the forum discussions on the Official Website through a mirror while roasting rat tail skewers over a fire.

Although he was a little resistant to eating Ratkin meat, rat tails seemed to be a kind of Chinese medicine? In short, he planned to put aside the long-lasting dried meat for now and use the tributes turned in by the players to get by for the next few days.

"Good stuff... this bro has some knowledge."

Imagining the skewer in his hand as Peking duck, Leon bit the bullet and took a bite, and it was surprisingly not bad. Chewing it carefully, it really had the feeling of duck meat.

What a pity.

Without cumin and MSG, it would still feel a bit fishy after eating too much.

At this moment, he suddenly thought that Thunder City was near the sea, and he should be able to reach the coastline by going south.

If he could get some seaweed back, he might be able to cultivate some monosodium glutamate.

Although he didn't know exactly how to extract this stuff, he had players! The more Leon thought about it, the more reliable it seemed, and he also wondered why a certain transmigrator predecessor hadn't thought of this.

"It seems that the power of one person is ultimately limited, even gods are nothing more than that, and there will always be oversights..."

You You: "Lord Demon Lord?"

"It's nothing, I'm just lamenting... it's really great to have a group of like-minded little friends, hahaha."

Looking at the comments from the funny netizens, Leon raised his head and laughed out loud, just like a real Demon Lord.

"Speaking of which, You You, you're just watching me eat, do you want to try a bite too?"

You You in the mirror took two steps back in fear.

"Uh, this, I'd better not... and I can't eat in this form either."

"Is that so?"

As he spoke, Leon wiped the skewer in his hand on his mouth again, "That's a pity... it's actually quite delicious."

Just then, "Bond," who was sitting slumped to the side with his head drooping, suddenly opened his pale eyes and let out a hissing growl.

"What's wrong, Bond, are you shocked by this Lord's cooking skills? Or... did you smell the scent of a living person?"

Leon laughed heartily, but his eyes gradually turned cold, and his hand rested on his Magic Wand.

The time he and Jack agreed upon for the delivery of goods was tomorrow evening when the sun went down.

This wasn't just two hours early, but a whole day early.

"Lord Demon Lord... what's going on?"

"Not sure, maybe it's an assassin."

The aura on that person was very weak, they should be an expert at hiding their presence.

Not only that, but that person's movements were also very agile, actually managing to avoid the warning Magic Arrays he had set up around the inn!

If his summoned zombies hadn't smelled the scent of a living person, he might not have noticed it until now! As expected.

Living outside all the time was still too risky.

Leon got up without showing any signs, pretending to be in a hurry to urinate, and slipped around the corner, while ordering Bond to restrain his aura and wait for the target to show themselves before taking action.

After doing all this, he held a lens in his hand, signaling You You to stand outside and report back what she saw.

Perhaps they couldn't wait any longer.

He had only just left when the figure hiding in the dark darted out and went straight for the fire he had lit.

Were they planning to poison the food?

Heh, a good plan.

But too bad, he still had a backup plan.

Just as Leon was thinking this, the swift figure snatched the skewer of rat tails stuck next to the fire and stuffed it into their mouth in big gulps, gobbling it down with "awoo awoo" sounds.

Looking at the cat ears shaking in the lens and the wooden skewer being chewed with a crunching sound, Leon was completely stunned.

This is...

A Demonkin?! This guy also came from hell?! - (Damn masked torture, tricked me into starting a new book. If it wasn't a new book, I would have taken a leave of absence. T.T)