Silence!
After reading the update announcement, the dozens of players on the street froze completely.
A full three seconds passed.
"Holy shit!!!"
"The devs have lost their minds! They're handing out money!"
One newbie's eyes instantly went red, and he blurted out a curse.
Thirty coins just for participating?
Another twenty for snagging a kill on a Novice Knight?
Killing that Second-Tier Scarface leading them would drop a staggering fortune of fifty Ash Coins!
Beside him, a player still holding a brick was trembling all over with excitement:
"We're rich! We're fucking getting rich!"
"Thirty coins guaranteed, and if I snag another kill, I can buy an Ash Robe and an Ash Longsword today!"
As the discussion grew more heated, the players descended into utter madness!
"As long as we don't let them escape, every brother here today gets at least three lives' worth of resurrection money for free!"
"Wait... looks like the maximum reward isn't just eighty Ash Coins... what if I snag every kill? Wouldn't that give me a hundred and eighty Ash Coins outright?"
"Heh! Keep dreaming, buddy. I've already called dibs on the Second-Tier Knight!"
"You think you can steal kills in those rags? Don't get skewered by a knight's lance and block my attacks!"
"I can't take it! My hands are shaking! Someone slap me so I can calm down!"
To be fair, Lin En really was determined to kill these knights from Winterhold.
He had taken the simplest, most brutal approach-throwing money at the problem-and cranked the players' greed and bloodlust up to the limit!
With so many Ash Coins on offer, the players would never let these six knights escape, even if they had to chase them all the way to Winterhold's gates!
But alongside the reward-fueled frenzy, that exceptionally stern [Warning]