Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 852: Chapter 811 Release Date Arrives! _1

Although there were some rather distasteful twists and turns in the middle, Yi finally achieved his goal.

For the first time since the start of the closed beta, he was genuinely grateful for Cloud Dream’s rules against live streaming, recording, and taking pictures.

This saved him from a potential public embarrassment that could have led to a “social death”.

Now he was in the team channel, accusing Red Dust: “Regardless of whether it was an accident or not, you have to give us an explanation!”

“As for this medicine, you have to give me a few packets!”

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Yelang’s plan was much more complicated than Yi’s. Although the difficulty was lower, it took much longer.

It wasn’t until 11 o’clock at night that everyone stopped dying and entered the final verification stage.

The verification method was simple and crude: by using a kite-fighting relay, they lead the Capital Commandant, who was holding the lives of over a hundred thousand players and was bloodthirsty and intensely aggressive, yet nearly insane, into the Imperial City.

Everyone used their lives for the test: they stood still with their backs against the wall and took a knife without moving.

As a result, the sturdy rammed earth wall of Health Square was cut in two by the Capital Commandant’s blade!

Although there still weren’t any elements of high-level martial arts like “knife lines” or “sword aura”, the thick rammed earth wall over three meters tall was split in two by a single slash, with the cut being almost a palm wide. Aside from the fact that it didn’t fly out, it wasn’t very different from sword aura and knife lines!

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——Player bodies are peculiar. After all, they are protected by the system, and unless Cloud Dream makes a special setting, no matter how gruesome their deaths, cases of dismemberment will not occur. This is why players giving up their lives in the middle of the street earlier didn’t reveal this possibility.

If he’s so strong, then slashing open the taller, thicker city wall of the Imperial City should not be too difficult, right?

Whether they subsequently rush into the Tai Chi Palace to see the emperor or are stopped by some hidden world-class expert, they could greatly satisfy everyone’s curiosity.

So, the operation started.

Thousands of players lined up in a long queue, continually generating aggression, dragging the Capital Commandant towards the Imperial City.

And every time the Capital Commandant swung his long knife, two or three players would instantly drop dead on the spot, only to revive in the prison.

But since there were enough players, they didn’t care about this loss.

The real value was time.

Previously, each time someone provoked the Capital Commandant, they would “submit to punishment” instantly, naturally not causing any disturbance in Chang’an City’s law enforcement system.

But now they wanted to pull the NPC along, so they had to take action together. As expected, the Golden Guards had already started moving, and as everyone approached the Imperial City, the Left Valiant Warriors would also become involved.

So… they had to be fast!

Everyone raced against the clock, running at full speed. The high, bright red city wall of the Imperial City appeared in front of them. Even the vigilant guards on the wall could be vaguely seen.

It was obvious that the gate must have already been closed.

But that didn’t matter. A row of sixteen players stood neatly against the city wall, forming a standard target, waiting for the Capital Commandant to cut over and see if he could cut the city wall.

All sixteen guys closed their eyes but oddly, they didn’t seem to ever feel the knife.

The guys opened their eyes, puzzled, only to find that the NPC, who had been killing for two days and nights and was almost mad, had stopped.

He looked at the high city wall of the Imperial City as if he was reminded of his commitment as a Golden Guard, and suddenly calmed down.

Yelang looked at the captain of the Golden Guard squad, a little dumbfounded – what if the other guy didn’t take action?

This question only just popped up, but the other party had already started moving. Moving so fast it almost left after images, the blade sweeping almost drawing a blade light, and outside the blade light was a continuous stream of blood!

Sixteen guys fell instantly, vanishing in a flash of light.

As for the city wall of the Imperial City, it was intact.

—— It didn’t even have a scratch!

“We’re done.” The thought suddenly popped into Yelang’s mind.

The next moment, a blade light flashed before his eyes.

His last thought was: “Fortunately, the beta testing will end in an hour, and it is going to be wiped… wait! When the player’s data is wiped, the NPC’s data will also be wiped, right?”

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Yelang’s desire to see the ultimate destructive power of the NPC was completely dashed.

The NPC effortlessly slaughtered all players who raised their weapons to him. According to the players who were furthest away, they only saw blade lights flashing in the crowd, and blood flying around, but they couldn’t capture the NPC in the crowd at all.

The guys in the group chat were initially a bit bummed, feeling like they wasted so much time.

But soon they became excited: “Can we be as strong as this in the future?”

Everyone, full of anticipation, logged off to rest and prepare for the official release of the game the next day.

*

On the last day before “Chang’an” was released, all the players who had participated in the closed beta were excitedly exploring the game.

Many others who were unable to participate in the closed beta, instead, appeased their craving through promotion materials released by Samuel.

Besides that, they continued their busy outdoor activities, chasing and catching little monsters.

However, as the Small Spring Festival approached, numerous companies and schools went on vacation, students and workers began heading back to their hometowns, triggering a massive exodus among “Pokémon” players.

As a result, the intensity of the night tavern warfare in Xiajing City started to decrease.

— The first couple of days, players who were night owls, attempted to sneak attack the tavern by forming teams with their colleagues at three in the morning but almost always ran into players from other factions.

A large bunch of workers in their twenties, thirties, and even forties were heatedly guiding their tiny pets to fight in groups outdoors during the biting cold early morning, a sight that was enormously entertaining.

By Wednesday, many netizens complained about people in their neighborhoods who were not sleeping at night but making a commotion instead, causing a disturbance.

So, Lincoln swiftly initiated a small update to remind players to avoid disturbing others.

He stated: if complaints about disturbances are received, the gameplay in Monster Taverns within community areas would be suspended during the night.

The effectiveness of this countermeasure remained to be proven over time.

On another note, the prices at the night-time time-limited transaction line were gradually returning to rationality.

Players slowly realized: the output of the Spirit Beasts was far greater than the demand.

Diligent players could catch forty to fifty or even more Spirit Beasts in a day, and as [Eight Sides] Helm kept progressing, the number of “Pokémon” players continued to increase, so did the quantity of the Spirit Beasts.

And each day that passed, the number of Spirit Beasts would increase a bit more, continuously inflating.

So, the prices of Spirit Beasts dropped very quickly.

The previously outrageously priced five-star Spirit Beasts, their price has now plummeted to a couple thousand, almost the same as the price of a four-star beast a few days ago.

And there are also fewer willing buyers now.

Partly because everyone believes that if they wait a few more days the prices might continue to decrease.

An additional reason is that: a brand new hot item is now in the market – Shiny Pets!

Their names, skills and attributes are identical to those of the same species and star level of the Spirit Beasts, but their looks are more glamorous and cute.

If there had to be a notable feature, it would be — they are exceptionally rare!

Exceptionally, tremendously rare!

Because of this, they easily achieved a market price far above their original star level.

Of course, the star level of the Shiny Pets wouldn’t be too low, all the ones that players have seen so far are four stars and five stars.

This led to, virtually all “Pokémon” players now awaiting the emergence of the first six-star, shiny pet with all skills, preferably a very pretty, popular Blue Phoenix or White Luster – The popularity of Little White Tiger remained persistently high.

That way, there would be a great show to watch!

Additionally, in the last two days, there has been a specific trend among players: Rejecting the promotional ceremony gameplay.

Even though after the promotional ceremony, the original Spirit Beast still lives happily in the World in the Painting and can be brought out for a stroll in the real world, looking no different from a regular Spirit Beast, there were still many players who couldn’t bring themselves to go through with it, and thus refused the gameplay completely.

Victoria’s best friend, Xiaomei didn’t like this type of gameplay.

She loved “Pokémon” and would chase them every day, but she was very casual about the star level of her pets. She was content with whatever star level she caught and didn’t obsess over having high star Pets, there wasn’t a single soul beast in her World in the Painting.

The star level of wild Spirit Beast was always random, and if one was lucky enough, they could catch high-level Spirit Beasts directly.

Already around ten seal players have posted their stories on the forum about catching a wild five-star Spirit Beast.

Everyone kept guessing that there should also be six-star ones, but their appearance was such a demanding requirement of luck that they hadn’t shown up yet.

In the live stream rooms of Lance and Victoria, people would occasionally bring up Shuihua, hoping the Goddess of Luck would manifest once more and provide a spectacle for them to behold.

Though she really was starting her winter break from tomorrow — starting from Small Spring Festival, all the way till the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, then she would resume school early and continue reviewing.

However, her “devotees” were destined for disappointment for some time.

Because Shuihua currently had no time for “Pokémon”, she fed Pixiu and White Luster their rations, set an alarm, and went to bed early, preparing to start her “Chang’an” journey first thing tomorrow.

And so, amid the intense anticipation of millions of players, the last night before the release of “Chang’an” slowly passed.

As the stars shifted their positions in the sky, the darkness gradually receded, and the sun once again leaped over the horizon.

The release date for “Chang’an” had arrived.