3. Increased activity tasks:
Although the Soul Returner have figured out the general structure of Fir City, many powerful individuals still reside in the core area of the city, and they are not beings that one or a few Soul Returner can defeat.
To encourage the Soul Returner to fight against powerful enemies, the development team is introducing a limited-time mode – "Temporary Co-op".
When entering the dangerous core area of Fir City, players from different squads can express their willingness to cooperate by temporarily planting [ Fluorescent Velvet Grass ] on their bodies, thus forming a temporary alliance to face powerful enemies together.
Whether you defeat enemies or meticulously record their abilities, you can accumulate a large amount of Adventure Rank experience and reap substantial rewards at the Adventurers' Guild.
*Note: Some limited-time missions are connected to hidden side quests. All Soul Returner are welcome to participate.
Enjoy the game! Odin Game Company, the developers of * World of Disorder *, January 15, 2035, Current Version: v0.5
Ed's casually edited game announcement naturally caused another huge uproar among the players.
Although Fir City Operation is nominally a PVPVE game, the enemy priests, Holy Crusaders, and Treant Hunter are so overwhelming that players often instinctively band together for protection. Furthermore, Fir City is so vast that many players have played for a long time without ever encountering another Soul Returner. When they do meet, they're too happy to fight, so while competition exists, it's not serious at all.
Now, with the release of the new official announcement, the intention is clearly to further support players in limited cooperation in certain areas to defeat powerful enemies. At the same time, more generous rewards have been offered for exploring these areas and collecting relevant BOSS information, which is equivalent to strengthening the PVE element and weakening the PVP element.
This isn't exactly a mandatory requirement; after all, if players don't want to team up, they simply don't have to plant Fluorescent Velvet Grass on themselves—that's their prerogative.
However, despite this, players who are well aware of their own capabilities have already started casting a wide net on the forums to catch more fish. The entire forum is full of posts from teams looking for a second member and free agents asking to be taken in.
Seeing that his few words had stirred up such a huge wave among the players, Ed stopped browsing the forum with satisfaction, letting the players continue to grow wildly, looking forward to the new surprises they would bring him.
Fir City, South Gate.
After several months, the city's southern gate has finally reopened.
The prolonged closure caused the door hinges to creak and groan, but this did nothing to dampen the excitement of the Holy Crusaders within the city.
Reinforcements!
It's finally here!
After all, any normal person would be somewhat mentally broken after being besieged by Blood Corpse in a city for half a year and then harassed by rebel forces. Antiya Lisi only managed to keep Fir City running thanks to his strong personal abilities and prestige. (Although this prestige has been diminishing day by day with the Spread of unofficial history...)
Although no one said it aloud, they sometimes wondered if they had become expendable pawns of the Tree Worship Church. But now it seemed that this was not the case. The reinforcements this time were actually a legion composed of three Holy Crusaders Knight Order, which made many priests and Holy Crusaders extremely happy.
Although Fir City has ten knightly orders as its regular garrison, the capabilities of these Holy Crusaders from a remote province are completely incomparable to those of the Holy Crusaders from the heart of the Holy See.
Most of the local high knights were aware of this, so they wanted to take this opportunity to learn some skills from the elite knights in the heartland, so that they could train an even more powerful Holy Crusaders in the future.
Archbishop Antiya Lisi personally received the reinforcements from the heart of the Tree Worship Church at the city gate, and shook hands with Legion Commander Marba in front of a crowd of onlookers.
Many of the middle and upper management of Fir City were genuinely excited by this scene, and even the ordinary citizens who had been forcibly dragged in to create atmosphere and the few Soul Returner had mixed in with the gossip started to dance and gesticulate wildly.
But in the center of the crowd, Antiya Lisi spoke to Marba in a voice only the two of them could hear:
"The situation is complicated and urgent; I'll explain in detail later."
Marba's expression was equally solemn and serious:
"I had already anticipated this."
After the reinforcements entered the city, the main force, led by local officers, headed to their prepared encampment, while Marba and a group of high-ranking legion officers followed Antiya Lisi toward the cathedral.
Walking on the swept street, Antiya Lisi asked in confusion:
"Commander, is your position newly created by Sailesi? I've never heard of a Commander in the Holy Crusaders before, or is it because the city's lockdown due to the Blood Corpse caused me to miss some new information?"
Upon hearing this, Marba smiled from the bottom of his heart:
"Of course you haven't heard of it, because I created this position myself."
"... How dare you do this?"
Upon seeing Antiya Lisi, whose pupils dilated in shock, the demon in human skin decided to teach this junior a lesson:
"Lord Antiya Lisi, before coming here I read your file and knew that you were renowned for your exceptional talent and diligence during your time at the seminary."
He looked the somewhat aged archbishop up and down:
"I'm a little younger than you, but I still have some thoughts I'd like to share with you in person."
"Go ahead and say it."
This was the first time Antiya Lisi had heard of a junior offering him advice, so he responded without any annoyance, indicating that the other person could continue.
After organizing his thoughts, Marba said:
"Personally, I think that you are sometimes too cautious in your actions, afraid to break the mold or overstep any boundaries... You should know that while this may prevent you from making big mistakes, it also makes it difficult to achieve anything significant. However, you are not the kind of person who 'seeks no merit but avoids mistakes,' so the contradiction between your personality and your style of doing things has led you to your current situation."
Antiya Lisi neither agreed nor disagreed, but instead carefully considered whether there was any merit to what the other party said.
After a few seconds, he said noncommittally:
You haven't answered my question yet.
Marba smiled and said:
"I am answering your question. The Theocracy has never had the position of 'Legion Commander,' but I believe that the existence of this position can help us win the upcoming war, so I have made it exist. As for all the consequences that follow... if I can win, none of this will be a problem; if I fail, it will be even less of a problem."
"If you had mobilized the entire city to sweep through the province and annihilate the rebels the moment you discovered the anomaly, the situation wouldn't be like this now."