The final battle of the Blood Banner battlefield had been utterly frenzied. After the last Whiptail Elite was finally taken down, even the most energetic players urgently needed to log off and rest.
It was a simple fact.
Although the daily online time in True Otherworld had now reached twenty hours, most players couldn't possibly "play the whole time." According to Murphy's private survey, including the eight hours spent in sleep link, fourteen to sixteen hours of game time a day was a fairly typical experience.
There were also "hardcore addicts" like Little Ashina and Meow Brother, who played the full twenty hours every day. The average online time of the "professional players" in the top one hundred for combat strength had also surpassed eighteen hours, but they were still only a small minority.
Most players didn't have the energy, or the freedom from work and other real-world responsibilities, to roam Transia to their heart's content. Yet during the seventeen days of the Deathmatch, players from every warband had stayed online for more than eighteen hours during their rotations.
Exhaustion was only to be expected!
Game helmets could stabilize the mind, but that didn't mean they could turn players into tireless superhumans. So when the event ended, ninety percent of the players chose to log off. The rest area set aside for these "Transian warriors" at the Blackflame Pass position was filled with people sprawled everywhere, sound asleep.
Many hadn't even washed up. They were still in their "battlefield natural state," prompting the NPCs who had withdrawn alongside them to once again marvel at how "practical and reliable" these foreigners were.
The legendary Blood Banner, brought back by the triumphant "Standard-Bearer" Miss Biji, now stood at the edge of the "player rest area." Many retinue army commanders came to "pay