Legendary Missions were something one could stumble upon, but never count on finding.
So far, very few players had received a Legendary Mission.
Orange Star's higher-ups could speak directly with the game designers, organize all the mission clues they had planted early on into a visual plot outline, and then have the research institute regularly train player teams to search for clues to these Legendary Missions.
Accept Legendary Missions, switch to the best hidden classes, and equip the best gear available at each stage.
However, as the quest NPCs' personalities began to change, they started actively modifying parts of the missions they issued, steering them toward extremism, evil, and chaos.
The Orange Star General Research Institute designated this period as "Betrayal." The NPCs had betrayed their original design principles and could no longer be trusted.
Legendary Missions all involved major storylines. Once a storyline was involved, quest NPCs inevitably participated, so hardly anyone touched the later Legendary Missions. Doing so carried the risk of being proselytized.
Yet the Cthulhu Followers feared proselytizing less than anyone else. They had already joined the faith. Outside interference was a venomous snake to ordinary players, but medicine to them.
"Look, instructions from the Evil God!"
The seven players also saw the orb radiating an aura of "strangers, keep away." They had initially wanted to blame Po Wu for not discussing things with them beforehand, but that feeling had vanished.
It was as though some inexplicable force was drawing them to touch the orb.
"@#!#"
Strange sounds flickered in and out beside their ears, and the seven felt a heartfelt joy.
They reached out, gently slipping their hands into the gray fog, and touched the Evil Thought Orb.
In an instant, evil thoughts surged toward them, as though about to tear their brains apart.
But