Blocking the Entrance

Once outside the city, Xiao Fan discovered that there were even more players in the wilderness today than yesterday.

Players hunting Fierce Beast can be seen everywhere.

"Tch, these foreigners say our Dragon Nation Server are bad, but now they're playing with them more enthusiastically than anyone else."

The fat man sneered as he looked at the chat messages on the World Channel.

Yesterday, right after I logged into the game, players from the other three merged servers started mocking me in the World Channel, saying that their Dragon Nation Server was bad and didn't deserve to be the main server.

Only a day has passed, and now the World Channel is buzzing with requests for skill books, where to catch mounts, how to spot Invisible Monster, how to play the Talent System, people offering huge sums of money for Profession, guilds recruiting, and even people offering high prices for City Building Token.

In addition, there were complaints from players from Dragon Nation.

During the previous competition, everyone was focused on keeping their servers alive.

However, with the server merge, players from the Dragon Nation also discovered the downsides of the merge.

Previously, when they leveled up, they would go out into the wilderness, find any place to level up, play for a day, and then go home.

But what about now?

You can't get them, you simply can't get any monsters.

The higher-level areas are better; there aren't that many players there.

There are just too many players in the level 20-80 range, especially in the usual good leveling areas, which are practically overflowing with people.

Although the Fierce Beast in <Cloud Sea> will respawn, they are not infinite; they are subject to time limits.

The game finally launched a triple-reward event, but they couldn't even get a spot in the monsters. Could anything be more frustrating for them?

Fortunately, there's still a battlefield mode available at night, otherwise Dragon Nation players would be disgusted.

Last night, many Dragon Nation players complained on the World Channel that players from other servers were stealing their monsters.

As a result, I got criticized.

"What do you mean by 'your Dragon Nation Server'? This is the Blue Star Server, which belongs to all of us. If you can't get any monsters, it's because you're incompetent. Stop yelling."

The players on the Dragon Nation Server are really excited.

They were upset when the servers disappeared after the server merge, but they're still upset that the servers were preserved.

That wicked server merge!

Today, all the decent Dragon Nation teams are playing in the Secret Realm.

Although the secret realm is challenging and carries the risk of failure, it's still better than not being able to get any monsters at all. Besides, the rewards from the secret realm are much greater than those from fighting monsters in the wild.

Many factions are currently collecting City Building Token. If someone gets lucky and drops one while raiding a secret realm, wouldn't they be rolling in money?

With version updates and the popularization of the gameplay compiled by Xiao Fan in the Dragon Nation, the overall strength of Dragon Nation players has increased, and it is no longer so difficult to fight in dungeons of the same level as themselves.

Of course, this refers to tackling the weakened dungeons. Even for the first clear, there's still a risk of wiping out the entire team in dungeons of higher difficulty, so players are hesitant to attempt it.

Xiao Fan and his group's goal today is a newly appeared large-scale Special Secret Realm for 25 players in the level 65 area.

This is a new instance that appeared after the game update; the first clear is still available.

Xiao Fan is now almost level 90, and there will be an experience reduction buff when fighting in dungeons of this level.

But there's no way around it, the team's level is currently around 65, and the two sisters, "I Kick Your Lung," are not even level 40 yet. The level 65 Special Secret Realm is the most extreme option.

Fortunately, Xiao Fan didn't really treat the two sisters like people; he treated them more like mascots.

He now possesses a secret Resurrection Art, giving him plenty of confidence.

Besides, the two sisters are now full-time gamers and still have some fighting ability.

"Brother Chen, do you think these players from foreign servers might build up their cities, develop their strength, and then attack our Dragon Nation's safe cities?"

Han the Person suddenly frowned and asked.

"Is that even a question? It's included."

Xiao Fan said calmly.

Previously, the server only had one country, Dragon Nation, which was divided into two factions. Now there are three countries plus a Jing City.

Currently, it is White Nation; neither the Black Nation nor the Jing City has established a safe city yet, so it is relatively stable.

But once they settle down, conflict is inevitable.

However, they can't really fight it out much, since there's still the ever-present threat of the Black Fog in the Real World. If a large-scale player death incident occurs in the game, the Black Fog will seize the opportunity to engulf their planet.

In that time, everyone will lose their homes.

Hearing Xiao Fan say this, the others' expressions turned worried.

"Sigh, if only dying in a game wasn't a real death."

Han the Person sighed.

This way they can fight with all their might.

"Be content. Things are much better now than before. With the healing power of the Jiu Chen God Blood Bar Healing, the player death rate has plummeted. If we used the old healing methods, how many players wouldn't die every time we went out to level up or raid dungeons, especially when our levels were low and our stats were low? We could easily be beyond saving."

Suddenly Ye Bugu spoke up.

He had been playing games for many years, but he had witnessed the difference between having Xiao Fan and not having Xiao Fan.

The previous treatment method resulted in a very high player mortality rate; a level 40 player could easily be wiped out if they tried to enter a level 20 dungeon.

Unlike now, Blood Bar Healing is so simple and effective.

Xiao Yi and Liu Xiujuan nodded in agreement.

Although they hadn't played games much before, they had witnessed firsthand how terrible the game environment of <Cloud Sea> was back then.

Things are definitely much better now than before; the players' attitudes are very different.

After finishing speaking, Ye Bugu added, "You guys are really lucky to have entered the game at the same time as the great Jiu Chen. You've caught a perfect opportunity."

"Of course, Brother Chen is our savior."

The fat man and his companions looked arrogant.

As they spoke, the group followed the map to the entrance of this secret realm.

To Xiao Fan's surprise, there were already quite a few players here, mostly from the White Nation and Black Nation, and two teams from the Dragon Nation. Xiao Fan looked around but didn't recognize the two teams.

However, something seemed amiss at the scene.

Players from the White Nation and the Black Nation stood blocking the entrance to the secret realm, looking arrogantly at the two Dragon Nation teams opposite them, while the players from both Dragon Nation teams were filled with anger.

Xiao Fan and his group's arrival immediately drew the attention of both sides.

The players from the two Dragon Nation teams' eyes lit up the moment they saw Xiao Fan and his group, as if they had seen saviors. One of the players then ran up to Xiao Fan and said...

"We thought no teams would come to raid during the triple event. You guys are here to raid this dungeon too, right? Perfect timing, come join us."

Xiao Fan looked at the man with a puzzled expression and asked, "What's going on here?"

Upon hearing Xiao Fan's question, the player angrily replied, "Damn it, these foreigners are blocking the entrance to the secret realm and won't let us in. They even claim they discovered it first and other players aren't allowed to enter."

Upon hearing this, before Xiao Fan could even speak, the fat man and his companions behind him couldn't stand still.

"Are these foreign bastards crazy? This secret realm doesn't have any team restrictions; anyone can enter. What's the point of blocking it?"

"Who can argue with that? At first, we thought the foreign players didn't know the rules of the dungeon, so we kindly explained them to them. But it turned out they knew the Secret Realm Rules perfectly well; they just wanted to monopolize the dungeon and didn't want other players to explore it."

The player was indignant.

"Damn, how shameless! They dare to be so arrogant on our Dragon Nation's servers! Let's take them down! Let them know who's in charge!" The fat guy and his friends were instantly enraged.

"Do you think we don't want to? There are only three teams from our Dragon Nation here to explore the land, while the other side has at least ten teams. How can we possibly win?"

The player said with a mournful face.