Browsing the Forum and Watching Videos
After eating and drinking his fill, Xiao Yu paid the bill and left. Back home, he checked the time; there was still a long time before the maintenance update finished. This time, the maintenance update would take a full 24 hours, meaning there seemed to be a lot of new content to be updated.
Bored, Xiao Yu turned on his computer and started browsing game forums. Although he could browse forums through a virtual interface in the game pod, Xiao Yu wasn't interested in going into the pod at the moment; he preferred browsing on his computer.
I haven't visited the forums for half a month, and the Sky World game forum has two new sections.
Demon King Hall -- A hub for videos and posts related to the BOSS tournament.
Hero Hall -- A central hub for videos and posts related to the Hero Tournament.
With the official events of the game company underway, various game guilds and game studios have gotten involved. In order to increase their popularity, a publicity war has quietly begun. Regardless of their strength, they want to make a name for themselves first. As a result, even the entire game forum has undergone significant changes.
As a BOSS, Xiao Yu naturally went into the Demon King Hall first. The Demon King Hall is divided into three main sections: the video area, the discussion area, and the monster faction section.
The monster factions are ranked according to their popularity, and each faction has its own section, but only the top ten can be featured on the homepage.
The discussion area mainly focused on how to play with monster templates, advanced techniques for different monster factions, and introductions to the abilities and attributes of different monsters. Xiao Yu didn't look at this section carefully; as a veteran player, he no longer needed to understand this content further.
He went straight into the video section, and in half a month, the video section had many self-made videos. Many of them were videos of heroes defeating BOSSes or BOSSes retaliating against heroes. These videos were naturally all promoting their respective monster factions. Since some videos involved both heroes and BOSSes, a video might appear in both the Demon King Hall and the Hero Hall at the same time.
Xiao Yu opened the homepage of the video section, and the first video that caught his eye was "The World-Destroying Dragon Clan's Attempt to Destroy the World Backfires."
Xiao Yu couldn't help but find it amusing; he hadn't expected that something that happened only that morning would already be uploaded to Alibaba.
When you open the video, the viewpoint is that of a Gryphon Rider.
The Gryphon Rider flew slowly through the sky, with the Stormwind City cityscape bathed in sunlight below. As the Gryphon Rider flew, a line of text appeared beside him providing an explanation.
[This morning, a bunch of **** dragons came to Stormwind City to cause trouble, claiming to be some kind of the World-Destroying Dragon Clan. But in front of my Royal Gryphon Knights, they're all trash. What follows is how we utterly crush these **** dragons.]
Suddenly, a tense and exciting background music started playing, alarm bells rang, and the perspective shifted. In the distance, a group of dragons could be seen wreaking havoc above the city. People were crying out, and the city was burning. The Gryphon Rider did not directly engage them but instead flew towards a griffin tower not far away. There, squads of Gryphon Rider were taking off. The person filming immediately joined these Gryphon Rider, and then they flew towards the direction of the Dragon Clan.
At this moment, narration subtitles appeared on the side.
These dragons, which seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, naturally fled at the first sign of the might of our great Gryphon Knights. But no worries, we have riding mages in our guild who can buff us, and we'll catch up with them in no time.
Sure enough, once the mage's group speed boost was activated, the Gryphon Rider quickly caught up with the fleeing Dragon Clan, and a great battle ensued. At this point, the background music became increasingly rousing and exciting...
Basically, this video faithfully recreates the scene Xiao Yu saw in the morning, but due to the perspective, it appears even more intense and exciting. Griffins and dragons are battling in the air, and with the background music, it's like a fantasy blockbuster. The video ends with Stormwind City King Varian Wrynn slashing down Deathwing with a single sword strike, and a group of Gryphon Rider surround the Skybreaker like stars.
This video has over seven million views and is still increasing; it seems like it's only a matter of time before it reaches ten million.
Not only were the battles exciting, but the most important thing was that they were quite comical. The World-Destroying Dragon Clan, with such a powerful title, was almost completely wiped out in the end, which is quite a contrast.
The comments below are almost unanimously criticizing the World- World-Destroying Dragon Clan.
Visitor 25038: A bunch of idiots, they didn't run away after spewing dragon breath, are they just waiting to die?
Visitor 79567: This is the most **** monster organization I've ever seen, bar none. They call themselves the World-Destroying Dragon Clan? With this kind of strength, they dare to boast so much.
Xiang Yu Guo Jiang Xi: The bolder the man, the greater the harvest; I'm rooting for the World-Destroying Dragon Clan!
I Am a Footman of the Alliance: Hahaha, I slew a white dragon as soon as I logged into the game this morning and advanced to the Elite template! So awesome!
Slash the Devils' Heads with a Broadsword: "Waaah! I almost killed a black dragon, but I was killed before I even died. I was digested alive inside the dragon's belly. I strongly suggest we weaken the Dragon Clan's devouring skill; it's too overpowered."
Jiangnan Beast: These **** dragons do have some intelligence; they know they're going to Stormwind City but won't dare come to Orgrimmar. If they did come to Orgrimmar, none of them would escape.
Yun Zhonghe: I am the video creator and I participated in the entire battle. This is the consequence of going against my Alliance. Whether you are Black Dragon or White Dragon, hang them all on the city gate.
Below this comment is a picture showing a row of seven or eight dragon heads hanging on the gates of Stormwind City, creating a striking visual impact. However, Deathwing's head is missing, so it seems that guy isn't dead.
After closing the homepage video, Xiao Yu continued searching for content that interested him. In the video section, Xiao Yu unexpectedly came across a video about the Tower of Amalarui, but it didn't seem to be particularly popular, with only a little over a million views. After all, there are already many videos of this kind of story campaign. In the past two weeks, due to events, story-driven deaths in the game have become very common. In the past, there was also an unspoken rule of "kings not meeting kings," and although not everyone would abide by it, at least those players who painstakingly leveled up from the free templates were generally careful not to break the rules.
But nowadays, everyone's focused on getting ahead and winning big prizes, so who cares about that anymore? The battles between heroes and bosses, between heroes themselves, and between bosses are incredibly fierce, with videos showing skeleton-level bosses and star-level heroes being taken down.
There were even instances of rival guilds challenging each other to fight. For example, Xiao Yu saw a video of a Centaur fighting Quilboar, which was about a war between a Centaur Horde and Quilboar Horde for a piece of land in the Barrens.
If it weren't for the recent surge in popularity of BOSS and hero templates, with wealthy players constantly buying new BOSSes and heroes, at the current rate of player deaths in the game, there would probably be very few named characters left in just a few months.
However, it's not hard to see from these videos that players using hero and boss templates generally don't have very high levels or templates yet. This is because game companies only sell high-level hero and boss templates at most; if you want to level up your heroes and bosses, you have to do it yourself. Therefore, the heroes and bosses that die in these videos are generally not particularly powerful.
Suddenly, the title of a video made Xiao Yu's eyelids twitch.
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