[Challenge event completed. Half the total will be deducted as a storage fee after settlement. Current challenge points: 6422108. Players may choose items to redeem.]
Once settlement was complete, all players still inside the challenge event map were sent back to their own homesteads.
This time, the so-called deduction of half as a storage fee meant converting all the items they had obtained into points, then deducting half those points.
Players could use these points to redeem the items they wanted, though naturally, their choices were limited to what they had previously obtained.
This arrangement made Ye Fei feel that the world was fairly generous. It let players choose first, leaving the remainder as the so-called storage fee.
[{Elder} Snow Mountain/0080-6696-9999 (Elf Queen): Not bad. Everyone made it back alive.]
As the only player who had stayed home instead of going to the challenge event, the Elf Queen had been bored out of her mind these past few days.
Now that she saw everyone returning, she greeted them in the Faction Chat Channel, inviting them all to come chat.
[{Member} Grassland/0090-1144-3656 (Lu Heng): Senior Queen, we had such a miserable time. We ran into a group of players from the Heavenly Imperial Sect, and they bullied us...]
After Lu Heng returned home and saw the Queen's message, the first thing he did was complain about his suffering.
They had been bullied, threatened, and looked down on, and they had even been attacked before returning...
In short, in his account, they were nothing but innocent, pitiful little victims.
``` [{Elder} Snow Mountain/0080-6696-9999 (Elf Queen): Although I ought to believe our own people, could you explain something to me? Most of the Heavenly Imperial Sect's disciples were killed or injured, supposedly because players from Free and