Gao Linzhi's Setup and the Opening of a New Battlefield

In the region where "Silence" is located, there has never been an opponent with such a disparity in combat strength. Even if the number of people were doubled, it would probably not change the outcome.

He sighed and gave the final command:

"Let's all give up and prepare for the next round."

And so, Zhang Mingzhen led his entire camp to a crushing victory in the first battle.

Experiencing being carried by a "pro" player for the first time, fellow players exclaimed – is this the kind of treatment players in the 3rd District usually receive?

"That was awesome! We won in one fell swoop!"

"Once my brother and the others are done fighting, I'm going to brag about it—who told them to ignore me and waste so much time and energy, hahaha!" Zheng Yingjie said smugly, almost dancing with joy.

Jiang Lai didn't have the heart to dampen his spirits, after all, winning this round was like hitting the jackpot.

However, only after personally experiencing fighting Cheater "Chongxing" did he truly feel that overwhelming power.

It's like the feeling of playing pay-to-win online games where others spend 7 million, while he only spends 70,000.

Being on the same team is certainly comfortable, but if you're matched against the opposing team, it's a disaster.

Zhang Mingzhen then received the victory reward for the Flag-Carrying Battlefield, along with 300 event challenge points, and immediately registered to enter the next battle in the new event, the Chain Island Battlefield.

The new battlefield resembles a wide arena, with thirty players on each side, standing on opposite sides below the arena.

The system notification sounded clearly, "This round is a team battle mode, thirty players against thirty players, starting now."

"Each side decides for the number of fighters to enter the arena. After entering the arena, there will be a 5-minute battle period."

"Once the countdown ends, players still on the stage can continue fighting, which is called a chain battle."

Those who fall off the stage are eliminated.

Ultimately, whichever side manages to stand on the ring last will be the victor.

In fact, this competition was clearly a battle to see whose last member could successfully advance.

Simple and clear.

Just like the FIFA World Cup.

Elimination in pairs.

There are some tricks to it, namely deciding the number of troops to fight, how to Battle Formations, and how to implement the strategy of "Tian Ji's horse race" (a famous Chinese military strategy). That's what makes it so interesting.

After all, each player's health and mana are limited, unlike those Cheater can Chongxing infinitely.

Having figured out the rules of the battlefield, Zhang Mingzhen immediately relaxed.

If you let your teammates go first and then take the lead at the back, the problem will naturally be solved.

As expected, when "Chongxing" was recognized by a sharp-eyed player, the opposing team immediately stirred up a commotion.

The battle, which had previously been suspenseful, suddenly lost all its variables.

"What's the point of playing this? It's unplayable, there's a huge boss sitting on the other side."

"If you ask me, the Chongxing is simply a loophole in the game itself."

"With him around, any sense of balance becomes a joke."

"Yeah, at least other pay-to-win online games consider who spends the most money."

"I'm the worst off! I ran into him on the opposing team last time I was carrying the flag, and now it's happening again! My luck is just unbelievable."

"But since winning one game will complete the mission, I can just queue up a few more times."

"I'll leave once the pro finishes the task. Good luck next time."

"Hehe, this game was a breeze, I just carried the pro to victory, so comfortable."

"My friend on the other side, if you know what's good for you, don't resist. It's better for everyone if you die peacefully."

"Let's finish this quickly so you can start the next round sooner, right?"

After a flurry of discussion, the opposing camp indeed chose to give up resistance.

Zhang Mingzhen's first Chain Island Battlefield ended without any major incident.

Although the Chain Islands do not produce Experience Pill, the experience points they provide are still considerable, plus a generous Gold Coin reward, which is equivalent to a long trade route.

Therefore, this newly released battlefield is highly favored by merchant players.

Zhang Mingzhen completed two battles and earned 600 challenge points.

He then carefully studied the rules of the "Dragon Slaying Campaign": "Challenge points recover one point per minute, and 1,440 points are naturally recovered daily. With battlefield rewards, you can obtain a total of about 2,000 points per day."

Each challenge to a boss costs ten points, meaning you can challenge a boss a maximum of two hundred times per day.

Regardless of combat strength, the maximum number of attempts remains the same, but the number of levels to challenge can be freely chosen.

Players with high combat power can challenge higher-level bosses, and the points they obtain will increase accordingly.

This means that everyone needs to choose the most efficient level based on their own strength—too high a level will be slow and waste time; too low a level will result in fewer points and meager rewards.

Speaking of rewards, why hasn't the reward pool for this dragon-slaying event been announced yet? Will it only be revealed when the event officially starts? It's quite mysterious.

Judging from this, the event is likely to be quite demanding, and if the rewards aren't enticing enough, it will be difficult to motivate players.

Under pressure from the real world, players must carefully determine which activities offer the best value for money.

We can no longer squander our game time as we used to.

The three-hour countdown has finally ended, the battle to slay the dragon has officially begun, and the reward pool has also been revealed.

Players, regardless of whether they had completed both battlefield missions, immediately opened the prize pool list.

With just one glance, the entire player community in the God's Domain instantly erupted in excitement.

"Fashion! The fashion that all the girls dream of!"

"I can randomly get one outfit from dozens of unreleased styles! I'm going to grind like crazy, ladies! I was just planning to play casually, but now I'm going to go all out. I'll grind until my hands are sore, but I'll still get all the outfits!"

"Hehe, you're such a fairy! Even in a world where reality is apocalyptic, you're still thinking about fashion?"

"Hehe, the person upstairs is such a straight man. Even in chaotic times, fairies are still very particular about their food, clothing, and shelter, and they even have to indulge in petit-bourgeois sentiments!"

The two male players said sarcastically.

"Straight men, get lost! Ladies upstairs, calm down. Can you check the points first? One fashion chest costs 200,000 points, and each person can only exchange for a maximum of two, that's 400,000 points!"

"Does anyone know if 400,000 points is a lot or a little? Has anyone started the challenge yet?"

"Use your brain and look at the point values of the other rewards; you can roughly estimate what 400,000 points means."

"One Spirit Stone is only worth two thousand points! A set of fashion items can be exchanged for two hundred Spirit Stone! I would definitely exchange them for Spirit Stone!"

"The other rewards are pretty impressive too! There are Experience Pill! You can only exchange for one per day; there are Gold Coin! Attention, trading brothers; and there are pet eggs! You can hatch special pets!"

"I've told my family, don't contact me for the next seven days. I'm going into seclusion to challenge myself, and I can't waste a single challenge point!"

"Why are you only looking at the regular rewards? Scroll down! There are defensive formations! And gold-grade equipment!"

"With the defensive array, what's there to fear when encountering Warcraft in reality? I have to switch! It's only three million points!"

"And there's Resurrection Medicine! Pet evolution stones!... Compared to that, fashion items suddenly don't seem so appealing."

"What should I do? I'm starting to have second thoughts."

"A bunch of idiots. What's fashion compared to the real things that help us survive in reality?"

"No matter what you exchange it for, everyone hurry up and start challenging! I just finished the first level and got a hundred points, can you believe it? At most, you can only exchange them for a few Spirit Stone in a day!"

"Don't always focus on the lower ranks; the points there are limited."

"I understand that principle, but the higher-ups are taking too long. The challenge is only five minutes long."

"If the time limit is exceeded, all previous efforts will be wasted!"

"The first floor alone took me a minute. At this rate, the number of floors I can reach is really limited."

"I wonder how many points I can accumulate in the end, and whether it will be enough to exchange for that defensive magic array."

This conversation made the onlookers' hearts tighten.

The difficulty was surprisingly high: reaching the top required arduous and time-consuming struggles, while staying at the bottom yielded meager rewards, wasting precious opportunities for challenge.

After weighing the options, most people opted for a compromise—to push themselves to their limits and complete as many levels as possible within the five-minute time limit.

All things considered, the daily challenge limit is two hundred attempts.

Each session lasts five minutes, and with the intervals between going to and from the instance, it takes approximately seventeen hours in total.

The remaining time needs to be allocated to the training tower, the two battlefields, and other dungeon matters.

This "dragon slaying" event has attracted almost all players, and there's bound to be something tempting among the treasures listed in the prize pool.

As a result, the game world was filled with an almost frenzied atmosphere of intense battles throughout the week.

Everyone was racing against time to participate in the activities and fight on the battlefield; even eating and resting became a luxury.

Surprisingly, a group of female players showed the most fervent dedication—in order not to miss out on exclusive rewards such as outfits, they had to put in more effort and hard work than the men.

This left many male gamers speechless.

Real-world crises cannot stop their pursuit of beauty.

Actually, this is a problem stemming from male players' thinking: female players aren't stupid.

Rather, it's a long-standing path dependency that has shaped their mindset: with fashion, they can become more beautiful; with more beauty, they can attract more powerful admirers, thereby gaining more value...

This is a path that 99.9% of male players have never experienced, unless they play as a cross-dresser in the game.

Therefore, they naturally couldn't understand why these female players would still be chasing after fashion items that didn't add much to their stats during such a crisis.

In the midst of the battle, the scenes of passively avoiding combat or easily surrendering, which were common in the past, were rarely seen.

In order to achieve victory quickly and complete the objective as soon as possible to earn the qualification for the challenge, the players showed unprecedented focus and seriousness.

However, the tense atmosphere also made the battlefield increasingly tense, with frequent accusations and arguments arising from coordination errors.

The forum was more bustling than ever before.

The monotonous and repetitive battles require an outlet, and most players choose to share their experiences and insights on forums for discussion as a way to relax.

"Help! How can I improve my skills in a short period of time?"

"I've calculated it carefully. Even if I consistently conquer the fifth level, the points accumulated over seven days won't be enough to exchange for what I want. I must attempt to reach a higher level."

"But I'm still a little short of time before I can break through to the sixth level!"

"As mentioned in a previous post, if the difference isn't significant, you can purchase temporary attribute-boosting potions from the pharmacy, but they are quite expensive."

"Or go to the auction house to buy equipment that increases attack power."

"Some guilds have already started renting out equipment to their members."

"If you come across a suitable guild, you might as well join. I've heard that some offer excellent benefits and you can even temporarily borrow old equipment discarded by skilled players."

"You can also purchase or summon spirit pets to assist in battles against bosses, which can at least increase the efficiency of clearing levels, providing a significant boost."

"Yes, the market price of spirit pets has been driven up again."

"The price increase of spirit pets was expected, especially since healing professions almost all need one."

"If you don't have money, try catching them in the wild."

"The Priest's own damage output is simply not enough to make a difference in this dragon-slaying event; his situation is truly difficult."

"However, the Priest's exception is naturally not among them."

"Yes, I've heard that 'Chongxing' Cheater straight to the Peak of the Hundred Floors!"

"I'm so envious. He should be able to redeem all the treasures in the prize pool, right? But there's a redemption limit for each type of reward. Has anyone calculated the total number of points needed to clear the prize pool?"

"Who would bother with that? That's just too much free time."

"Besides Chongxing Cheater, who else can do it?"

"Someone actually did the calculation; it would take fourteen million points to redeem all of them."

"... Even 100,000 points is enough to exhaust a person; let's leave this kind of arduous task to experts like Chongxing."

Zhang Mingzhen did indeed intend to empty the prize pool.

Originally, directly attacking the boss on the 100th floor was quite efficient, and the points gained per attempt were also substantial.

Unfortunately, the number of daily challenge attempts is limited, and you can only accumulate a maximum of four million points.

No problem, it will only take a few more days.

He carefully examined the defensive arrays in the prize pool; the items provided by the system were indeed far superior to those circulating in the auction house.

It can absorb external energy on its own, and only requires Spirit Stone to activate. After that, it does not need to continuously consume Spirit Stone for energy. It can also be stored, carried, and used repeatedly. It also has a certain deterrent effect on ordinary Warcraft.

Right now, any player with the ability to compete will likely forgo other rewards and focus their attention on this magic circle.

Because it's something that's directly useful in reality.

However, exchanging for the magic array requires three million points, which means that the average daily point income must not be less than four hundred thousand, making the lower-level challenges no longer feasible.

It's just unknown how many levels need to be cleared to reach that number.

The players in the "God's Domain" world were indeed ignited with fighting spirit by this Dragon Slaying Campaign.

At this very moment.

Gao Linzhi is checking the game's backend.

He discovered that he had grasped the World Source the Earth, and the speed had increased.

This is the correct way to use Golden Finger.

Discover the Golden Finger and let it help you transform from a pawn to Chess Player.

He could concoct hundreds of those "Chongxing" Cheater that everyone envied in a matter of minutes, and he could also make them experience the "fall of a genius" scenario in a matter of minutes.

However, Master Gao didn't have the same kind of boring and perverse sense of humor Dishitian.

In reality, Dishitian died because of his own wicked sense of humor. If he hadn't underestimated everyone, he wouldn't have ended up dying at Duan Lang's hands.

Although this is just the setting of the story script.

However, in reality, even a strong person with the personality of Dishitian would ultimately face defeat.

Therefore, Gao Linzhi manipulate the fate of these so-called masters nor expose himself.

Let them grow wildly on their own.

Gao Linzhi will only give them a starting talent and an environment; everything else is up to them to figure out and take responsibility for.