"Heal me, damn it! Heal me, I'm dying!"
"Ah!"
[Player [Xiexie Huigu] has died. Current number of survivors: 14/20]
"They're here! They're here!"
"You're here to nurse the dead, huh?! No need anymore! Go nurse someone else!"
"Okay, okay."
"Hold on, we have to hold on! A lot of newbies have come these past few days. If we can't beat them this time, we'll have to start queuing again!"
"Clear!"
While Gray racked his brains to complete the question-and-answer task, an unknown number of fierce battles were raging in the White Wax Town Church, nearly a thousand kilometers away.
The group of kind survivors he spoke of were now displaying the most authentic "ugly" side of players, with curses, screams, and meaningless howls filling the entire Gloomy Sanctuary.
This team of twenty players is challenging Dungeon on normal difficulty.
Ever since the afternoon of August 18th, when White Wax Town was liberated, the church bell has been ringing incessantly day and night, even earning the nickname "death knell."
Players' enthusiasm for challenging the Dungeon far exceeded Ed's expectations. Although most of them would be wrapped up and spat out by the public resurrection machine, the lack of death penalties such as equipment drops, level reduction, and excessively long resurrection times in the Dungeon kept everyone's enthusiasm undiminished.
Many players, having used up their challenge tickets, immediately split up and infiltrated the dense forest to begin hunting. Those Aberration creatures, accustomed to their unbridled behavior, suffered undeserved calamities in the past few days, being sacrificed wave after wave to Ed. As a result, the production speed of players' basic bodies accelerated rapidly.
One day earlier, on August 20th, player [ Howling Pothos ] led a ten-person team to successfully clear the Gloomy Sanctuary on easy difficulty and obtained the achievement [ A Glimmer of Light ].
In his acceptance speech, the team leader [ Howling Pothos ] said that as long as you memorize the patterns step by step, clearing the Dungeon is actually not difficult at all.
While sharing his own experience, he also subtly reminded other players who wanted to lead a team to conquer the game of some tips and tricks.
For example, the Gloomy Sanctuary Dungeon has a maximum capacity of twenty players. Many players feel they're missing out if there are fewer players because they use Dungeon Challenge Ticket to open the Dungeon.
However, in reality, if there are too many people and the team leader's command ability is weak, the team can be wiped out faster in some narrow areas than when there are fewer people.
However, this was just the beginning. When the players who participated in the battle proudly showed off this achievement, everyone was surprised to find that the border of the first clear achievement [ A Glimmer of Light ] was a completely different gray from other achievements, and a faint pattern could be seen in the background.
By simply changing the viewing angle or adding a small filter, you can see the hidden beam pattern and serial number, just like the anti-counterfeiting watermark on real-world currency.
A group of veteran gamers quickly realized an exciting fact --
This achievement can be advanced, and there are even rankings!
Just by thinking about it, you can tell it's the kind of card art where High Tier achievements are much cooler than Low Tier achievements!
The hidden ranking system also satisfies everyone's eagerness to show off.
What could be more pretentious than hanging up a huge [NO.000001] sign?
Yes, that is, hanging an achievement icon that looks ordinary, but whose hidden card design and corner ranking watermark are enough to scare people to death!
Just like how the Dragon King only smiles crookedly after being slapped, and the King of Soldiers only returns after his wife and children have been bullied, many players have already started fantasizing about encountering a clueless NPC who questions them without reason, and then showing off their card art in front of the cheerleading newbies.
Half an hour after the first discoverer posted this feature on the official forum, the entire player community was in an uproar.
Ed's ingenious idea was met with unprecedented acclaim, once again creating a sensation among players.
Without a doubt, World of Disorder is a massively multiplayer online immersive game with strong social elements.
The official's powerful technology ensures that each person has only one account, eliminating the possibility of account farming and trading.
Coupled with Ed's deliberate scarcity marketing, the combination of these three factors made every player cherish their game account and character immensely.
Just like many parents like to display their children's certificates of merit at home, many gamers have a similar need; they want to wear their favorite titles and show off all their achievements...
Driven by this motivation, many players began attacking the easy difficulty of the Sanctuary dungeon—although the first kill was gone, they could still try to grab a single-digit achievement...
Meanwhile, many more ambitious players set their sights on the Gloomy Sanctuary on normal difficulty and launched a frenzied attack, attempting to carve a bloody path to the BOSS room with their lives and claim the coolest card of all.
However, at this moment on the battlefield, with the sudden death of [Xiexie Huigu], the left flank was briefly left without a commander.
The battle had already reached a fever pitch, with the instruments in the hands of the four musicians trembling wildly, so fast that afterimages appeared.
Yiden, suspended in mid-air, suddenly turned bloodshot and waved his right hand, shouting:
"Attack! Disrupt their formation!"
The four priests he commanded immediately used vines to ascend, landing among the group like paratroopers, and began a massacre.
[Player [ Easily Soluble in Water ] has died. Current number of survivors: 13/20]
[Player [ Second-Class Biscuit ] has died. Current number of survivors: 12/20]
[Player [ Backstabbing Expert ] is dead. Current number of survivors: 11/20]
[Player [ Little Policeman First in the Line of Fire ] has died. Current number of survivors: 10/20]
[Player... has died, current number of survivors: 9/20]
[...8/20]
[...6/20]
[...]
Because of the death of a "junior officer," the entire team was overrun by the Tree Worship Church priests, who then began to slaughter them, making it difficult to distinguish who was the raider and who was the Dungeon monster.
The [ Easily Soluble in Water ] character, who was weaving among the players using " Vine Bandage Pack " and the new item " Nutrient-Rich Resin " to heal others, was the first to be attacked, and was chopped into pieces by three priests.
The death of the healer hastened the collapse of the formation. With each announcement, the remaining players were powerless to turn the tide and were ultimately cut into pieces as they howled to the heavens.
This strategy failed again.
I really don't know when the next time will be...
Thinking this, [ Zhongde ], who was in charge this time, closed his eyes helplessly.
For some reason, he suddenly remembered the long update announcement released by the official team on the morning of the 19th.