Main City Construction

After the CG scenes had completely faded, lines of text appeared before the players.

[The Boundless Calamity has arrived. Monsters and evil spirits from another world run rampant across the mortal realm. In just a few short years, the mortal world has been devastated, and all the beauty it once held has vanished. To protect the world, your homeland, and the things you hold dear, you have set aside your personal attachments and embarked on the path of resistance, crossing a spatial passage to the Boundless Realm...]

Just a few hundred words were enough to help the players understand their backgrounds in the game.

They were Human Race warriors from the mortal realm, who had come here to protect it.

Although the mortal realm in the backstory wasn't the real one, Tang Yu had used actual historical footage to create a fictional history for the players.

But Tang Yu had a reason for choosing this particular period in the history of the Dark Fiend World as the backdrop.

If this battle were lost, humanity would ultimately meet the same fate as the Dark Fiend World.

Love, friendship, family... everything would vanish.

At the same time, the Dark Fiend World was very similar to Earth, where humanity lived. Aside from lacking abundant spiritual energy, its dominant species was also human.

So this history could help players feel more immersed.

Tang Yu had undoubtedly achieved his goal.

Even after the background text faded, many players remained immersed in sorrow, unable to pull themselves out of it for a long time.

At that moment, another game update notification sounded.

[Update Notice: Main City System officially opened]

Dark Fiend City (Player Main City)

Main City Location: Resurrection Point Area

Main City Construction Completion: 0%

Resources Needed: Wood, stone, ore, mud...

[Server-Wide Announcement: Main City Construction quests are now officially open. Players can submit the materials needed to build the main city at the resurrection point in exchange for contribution points. Once construction is complete, contribution points can be exchanged for special items and units.]

[Construction Contribution Point Store (opens for a limited time after the main city is complete)]

[Divine Power Exchange]:

Every 3 contribution points can be exchanged for 1 point of Divine Power (Divine Power cannot be exchanged for contribution points).

[Special Unit Exchange]:

Dark Fiend Warrior (4,000 contribution points)

Growth Potential: F+ Rank

Dark Fiend Archer (12,000 contribution points)

Growth Potential: E+ Rank

Dark Fiend Shadow (35,000 contribution points)

Growth Potential: D Rank

Dark Fiend Warlock (36,000 contribution points)

Growth Potential: D Rank

...

[Special Item Exchange]:

[Dark Fiend Armor (Blue Quality)] (8,000 contribution points)

[Dark Fiend Blade (Blue Quality)] (5,000 contribution points)

[Dark Fiend Mask (Red Quality)] (50,000 contribution points)

[Walker Potion (Tier Two Special Potion; greatly increases movement speed for 1 hour)] (2,000 contribution points)

[Underwater Breathing Potion (Tier Three Special Potion; lasts 3 hours)] (4,500 contribution points)

[Raging Flame Potion (Tier Two Special Potion; lasts 1 hour; can be used on units to grant them the power of fire)] (1,500 contribution points)

...

Looking at the dozens of pages of special items and units in the contribution point store, the players stared in stunned silence for a moment before growing excited.

Main City Construction? Contribution points? Special items to exchange for?

Ever since Omnipotent God had launched, players had been complaining on the discussion board that the game had no quests to help newcomers. They had to work for everything from scratch, and the game was quite difficult.

But now, they knew their benefits had finally arrived.

At the same time, huge machines appeared throughout the player resurrection area on the eastern side of Dragon Scale Island. At the center of each machine was a swirling black hole.

When players used Analyze on the machines, their detailed information appeared.

[Resource Crusher (Special)]

Item Details: Players can put the resources they obtain into the crusher in exchange for contribution points.

Required Items: Stone, spirit ore, wood, mud, Spirit Materials, etc.

...

Realizing that this machine was the "NPC" for submitting construction resources, a player immediately picked up a stone from the ground and tried tossing it into the black hole at the center.

The black hole swallowed the stone, and it disappeared in an instant.

Less than a second later, a game notification sounded in the player's mind.

[Game Notice: Submitted construction resource "stone." After processing, obtained stone resources: 1.3 points]

[Game Notice: Submit resources in exchange for contribution points?]

After the player chose to submit the resource, a list of building options appeared before him.

Dark Fiend City - Main Hall (Construction not yet started)

Dark Fiend City - Central Plaza (Construction not yet started)

Dark Fiend City - Weapon Forging Room (Construction not yet started)

Dark Fiend City - Pill Refinery (Construction not yet started)

Dark Fiend City - Skill Training Room (Construction not yet started)

...

There were over a hundred buildings to choose from on the list.

When the player selected "Dark Fiend City - Main Hall," a phantom building appeared near the resurrection point, with a progress bar at its center.

[Dark Fiend City - Main Hall (Under Construction)]

Construction Progress: 0.0000001%

After a moment of stunned silence, the player immediately posted what he'd discovered in the regional chat channel.

"Holy crap, we can submit stones we find lying around? We're gonna get rich!"

"This is definitely a welfare quest! I'm off to gather stones. Special units, here I come!"

"Anyone want to team up and chop trees? Let's get rich together!"

"The contribution points for stone are way too low. I'm going mining instead. I bet ore will get us more points!"

"The Dark Killing Set looks so cool. I'm getting it!"

At that moment, the players forgot their sorrow.

They all sprang into action.

Some chose to chop trees, others continued mining, and some went to dig sand by the sea...

After the announcement, the players were fired up.

They were eagerly anticipating the soon-to-be-built main city.

Besides looking forward to the facilities inside once construction was complete, the players were even more excited that they would finally have a home in the Second World instead of wandering around forever.

Especially since they were building the Dark Fiend Main City themselves. It gave them a real sense of involvement.

With the construction quest announced, Dragon Scale Island was bound to be restless that day.

Players could be seen wandering all over the island.

White Ape King, who was on the southern side of Dragon Scale Island, naturally noticed the players' unusual activity.

Suspecting that the outsiders had come with ill intent, White Ape King began secretly observing their movements, hoping to prepare in advance.

But after watching them for half a day, White Ape King was completely baffled by their behavior.

He realized that the outsiders had no intention of invading his territory. Instead, they were doing things that seemed to make no sense.

Pulling weeds, chopping trees, digging in the mud, and so on...

What he found even harder to understand was that

while these outsiders busied themselves, their faces were lit up with inscrutable smiles.

They looked as if they'd struck gold.

After observing them for most of the day, White Ape King became even more certain of his guess.

These outsiders... weren't quite right in the head.