"You have used the Ganhua City Lord Token!" "You have become the lord of Ganhua City!" "World announcement: Player Cui Yiming has captured Ganhua City, becoming the first player feudal lord. Reward: cultivation realm +2. This announcement is hereby issued!"
The world announcement sounded three times in succession, reaching every player's mind.
After a brief silence...
An earth-shaking uproar erupted.
A world announcement!
This was perfectly ordinary in other games, but in this game, this was the first time any player had triggered the feature.
How many players had entered this game?
A hundred million?
Over a billion?
Or several billion?
Many people could hardly put a number to it. The real world was vast, and although its population was not as large as the NPC population in the game, it was certainly considerable.
Especially now that spiritual energy was returning.
Almost everyone knew about this game.
And then...
Many people who had never played games before entered this one.
As a result...
The game's player population grew even larger.
A world announcement like this instantly made someone famous among all those players.
Fame!
The word was simple enough, but it was something countless people yearned to pursue.
Once they learned that capturing a city and becoming a feudal lord could trigger a world announcement, many people went wild.
The first city capture had triggered a world announcement.
No one could be certain whether the second would do the same.
But—
What if it did?
Then everyone in the world would know their name.
Fame alone...
Was enough to drive people mad.
Somewhere in an unnamed wilderness, a young male player was fighting a demonic beast. The sudden system announcement distracted him for a moment, leaving him unable to dodge in time. The beast seized the opportunity and