[ World of Disorder Update Announcement:]
Dear Soul Returner, the trial phase of the " Bloody Night " event has ended. Based on Soul Returner performance and feedback, and to provide you with an even better gaming experience, the development team has updated the following content:
1. Five new types of artificially Aberration plants have been added:
[ Oil Vine ]: A fast-growing vine that secretes a large amount of flammable oil. It has good toughness, is flammable, and its toughness and hardness increase significantly after being burned.
[ Fluorescent Velvet Grass ]: Its fluffy seeds have an extremely short growth cycle and can take root in flesh and blood. After germination, they can continue to glow for about 70 hours.
[ Iron Birch ]: An artificially Aberration plant with outstanding hardness, toughness, and wear resistance, but it will grow randomly without guidance.
[ Blood-Drinking Thornbush ]: A Aberration plant that feeds on flesh and blood. Adults have few and hard leaves, and their branches are covered with thorns.
[ Resin-Dropping Pine ]: A Aberration plant with no specific requirements for its growing environment. Mature plants drip large amounts of highly viscous oil, which is corrosive to animal tissues.
2. New Status and Corresponding Methods:
[ Blood Curse ]: After killing Blood Corpse, the curse is automatically transferred to the racial mark on the target who delivered the fatal blow. Blood Curse of each lineage are independent of each other. Vampires of different ranks can lock the location of Blood Curse holders of their own lineage within different ranges. The more Blood Corpse killed and the higher their rank, the stronger the effect of [ Blood Curse ].
Methods to remove the [ Blood Curse ]: 1. The holder of the [ Blood Curse ] dies permanently; 2. All Blood Corpse in the lineage to which the [ Blood Curse ] belongs die.
[ Corpse Poison ]: A Psionic Energy toxin spread by Blood Corpse through biting and scratching. It gradually erodes the current body, causing it to transform into Blood Corpse. The transformation speed is affected by the area of the wound and the rank of the Blood Corpse that caused the wound. Once [ Corpse Poison ] completely erodes the body, it transforms into the state of [ Blood Corpse Transformation ], with the following effects: The player's [Strength] and [Agility] attributes increase by 10%, [Constitution] attribute increases by 5%, [Willpower] decreases by 50%, special attributes [ Plant Compatibility ] and [ Animal Compatibility ] are reset to zero, [ Psionic Energy Compatibility ] increases by 30%, and [ Mechanical Compatibility ] is unaffected.
Note: Resetting special attributes will disable the corresponding system abilities. In the [ Blood Corpse Transformation ] state, if the [Willpower] attribute is below 2, the player will be affected by the Grand Duke (Progenitor) of the vampire lineage, resulting in hallucinations or hearing delirium, and further transforming into a mindless Blood Corpse. Players in the [ Blood Corpse Transformation ] state also have the ability to infect others.
Methods to eliminate [ Corpse Poison ] and [ Blood Corpse Transformation ] states: 1. Completely reconstruct the body (eliminates Blood Corpse Transformation and any level of Corpse Poison ); 2. Rest in the Tree of Rest for at least eight hours (eliminates Blood Corpse Transformation and any level of Corpse Poison ).
The above content will be updated to the game without server downtime at 12:00 on September 23, 2037 in the real world.
Enjoy the game! Odin Game Company, the developers of * World of Disorder *, September 23, 2037, Current Version: v0.3
The announcement naturally put the players' minds at ease.
It seems that the Blood Corpse Transformation status cannot be entirely considered a debuff. However, for players with weak willpower, it is best to try to get rid of it after contracting it. This will not only help them maintain their rationality but also prevent innocent Tree Worship Church members from being implicated.
As for the players who have already been infected... as long as their [Willpower] is not too low, they will still regard the Blood Corpse as enemies and can continue to fight.
However, if [Willpower] is less than 2, they might defect and become one of the enemy.
Furthermore, the [ Blood Corpse Transformation ] state will seal some of the players' abilities, which will actually have a significant impact on the game experience, since many functions in the game are designed to be available only when players are in a "vegetative state".
Now that "vegetative state" has become "zombie," the original racial benefits are gone.
It's likely that the official design was intended to prevent some players from having thoughts of "defecting to the enemy," but the extent to which game functions have been blocked remains to be investigated.
Having figured out the logic, the players who hadn't yet become " Half-Blood Corpse " began to consider quitting. They wanted to take advantage of the time before they were fully mutated and quickly teleport back to their own Tree of Rest to purify themselves of the negative status effects.
So after a quick cleanup of the battlefield (there wasn't much left to clean up), the players retreated one by one, leaving only a few players who were on good terms with the Half-Blood Corpse players still lingering on the battlefield.
The restraints on [ Zhongde ] and the others were finally released, and [ Xiexie Huigu ] and his squad stood nearby, still on high alert.
"It's not that I don't trust you, but send me your current stats. I need to confirm whether your willpower is below two."
[ Zhongde ] smirked smugly, but drool dripped from his mouth. He sent a screenshot of his interface to [ Xiexie Huigu ] for confirmation, explaining:
"Do you know what my starting point was? I started with 5555, that was when I was level zero. Now I'm level two, and I like to allocate my stats evenly, so there's no way I could become a complete 'Blood Corpse '."
[Xiexie Huigu] nodded, signaled to his teammates that [Zhongde] was fine, and then began to check the panels of the players who had become Half-Blood Corpse by one.
Everything went very smoothly until they reached the last person.
The player was impaled on the ground by three short spears, his head drooping downwards without any reaction, but other players could see through the vision panel that he was still connected and had not logged off.
[ Xiexie Huigu ] walked up to him and poked him with the weapon in her hand.
"Dude, wake up."
The player raised his head somewhat weakly, revealing his ID: [ Chosen of the Four Gods ].
"Dude, your name seems a bit unlucky. Show me your profile picture."
[ The Chosen of the Four Gods ] looked up at [ Xiexie Huigu ] with a slightly confused expression and asked, his eyes somewhat unfocused:
"You're the one talking to me now, so who was calling me just now?"
A deathly silence enveloped the forest. [Xiexie Huigu] silently took half a step back and repeated his request.
[ Chosen of the Four Gods ] seemed to be out of his mind at the moment, and it took him a while to send the panel to [ Xiexie Huigu ].
On that picture, the "[Willpower]" column clearly shows "2".
"Well."
[Xiexie Huigu] sighed:
"Dude, don't blame us. We've chipped in some money for you. Go to the castle and wait for us."
[ The Chosen of the Four Gods ] looked up at him in astonishment:
"What, what are you going to do?!"
"Axehand!"
With a loud shout of "[ Xiexie Huigu ]", the players immediately jumped out from around "[ The Chosen of the Four Gods ]".
"If you're a true brother, come and chop him down!"
Although everyone usually gets along well, now that there's a reason to treat your buddy to a meal, very few people can refuse.
Amidst the cracking of flesh and bone, the [ Chosen of the Four Gods ] severed its connection.