Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 855: Chapter 813: A Compilation of XP? _1

“Brothers, I have a bad feeling about this…”

“I bet ten bucks that this girl’s about to hit the bucket.”

“I’m in for 100!”

In Warehouse Bird’s live broadcast room, the players all had similar thoughts and felt as if they had already predicted the outcome:

“Damn, does it have to be like this? All that sweat and work to create a female character just to have her killed off?”

“You people just don’t understand, this is a tradition of Cloud Dream games, haha.”

“What a rip-off of a tradition.” Warehouse Bird watched as the anxious girl grabbed him and squeezed through a gap into the defense circle, and he couldn’t help but feel annoyed.

— When the merchant team set up camp, they would pull all the horse-carriages and freight-wagons together to form somewhat of a circle. This was their only defense against the “cavalry”.

The two of them drew their weapons, and other armed people also brandished their weapons, nervously watching the robbers who were about to charge.

“NONONO! Warehouse Bird! Show them what you’ve got. You’re a high-level player! Forget about everything else, just save the girl and I’ll donate a rocket!”

“The game by Cloud Dream surely has alternate endings! Victoria, who was just a casual streamer, managed to save the dog. You’re a technical streamer, shouldn’t it be easy for you to save someone?”

“Can those situations even be compared?” Warehouse Bird glanced at the conspicuous messages in his live broadcast room and was at a loss for words, “The situation in Night City involved 4 people, an indoor environment, and there was preparation time…”

“Now there are over 20 people charging towards me! Why don’t you give me an AK then?”

Source: Webnovel.com, updated on Ɲονǥᴑ.сᴑ

[Thank you [Desperate Journey] for gifting the anchor [An AK]!]

“Damn, that’s not the AK I was talking about!” Warehouse Bird stared at the gift that a fan sent in the live broadcast room, at a complete loss for words.

“Regardless, I’ve already sent it. The rest is up to you,” said a comment.

“…”

Warehouse Bird had no time to banter because the robbers had already charged in front of him!

Outside the horse cart defense circle, six NPCs had already been shot dead by the robbers’ arrows, and everyone else had already retreated inside the defense circle.

Inside the defense circle, the 8 guards of the merchant team formed a smaller defense circle with the overseer and workers of the merchant team. As for the hired rangers and unknown travelers, they lacked coordination and were in chaos.

The only good news was that the carriages were tall enough that the robbers couldn’t jump in while on horseback and had to dismount before charging.

This was the chance Warehouse Bird saw.

Instead of dodging, he unsheathed his sword and charged forward.

After playing in the virtual game for a while, even though the players hadn’t become martial arts experts, their mental fortitude was already at maximum. They could fight intensely against NPCs without changing their expressions.

And it was impossible to say that they didn’t know how to fight at all.

The Adventure tasks in the game “Assassins’ Alliance” taught basic combat skills, the game “Speed Chase” helped players adapt to close-ranged fast-paced combat through various real-time QTE-like gameplay. Finally, the military knife in “Battlefield” let players experience how to fight without “superpowers”.

By now, even a player with a plain stats panel could fight a decent battle with a sword.

Not to mention that it wasn’t just a plain panel—the entry-level sword technique was still a sword technique!

The moment Warehouse Bird swung his sword at the robber, he felt a brief disharmonic sensation, as if his attack shouldn’t be this way. So, mid-swing, he followed that sensation and slightly twisted his wrist, making his slash much more aggressive.

“Clang!”

When the sword clashed with the knife, Warehouse Bird showed no fear and continued to attack—advance step and then thrust!

As he launched his attack, his wrist unconsciously slightly twisted inward again, using his sword to protect his fingers.

The robber blocked the attack from the side and launched a counter-slash at the same time. Warehouse Bird ducked, counter-attacked the robber’s arm, and the robber withdrew to create some distance.

When the robber looked at Warehouse Bird again, his expression had become much more serious.

Warehouse Bird was also highly focused on his opponent.

The rookie knight and the unknown mountain bandit—they were evenly matched!

The battle around them was still ongoing. The robbers and guards were fighting fiercely. Three robbers on horseback were constantly shooting arrows. People kept falling. The busty girl and the two ranger companions were also on the losing side and barely holding on.

With a quick glance around, Warehouse Bird realized that time was of the essence. The more guards that fell, the bigger the advantage became for the robbers until all was lost.

He decisively charged forward again, entangling with his opponent.

However, even though the situation was perilous, he couldn’t help but become more and more excited as the fight went on!

He had already noticed: the skill system in “Chang’an” was quite different from previous games.

In previous games, there were often special mechanics—like slowing down game time, amplifying the presence of certain elements, and so on to enhance the player’s abilities and improve their combat power.

But the sword technique in “Chang’an” didn’t seem to work like that.

The system only made some small “prompt”, “calibration”, “correction” changes to his movements.

The modifications were all related to the action, with no aid given to the “consciousness”.

There was no slowing down of time to allow him to decide the best angle of attack, nor did it enhance the presence of a certain part of the opponent’s body to prompt him to attack the weak spot.

Where to attack and how to attack were all up to him.

This gave him a real sense of being a martial arts master—just needing to correct a few minor issues with his moves.

The only problem is: Isn’t the game difficulty too high? The little wild monster in the tutorial level is already this strong?

It fought me back and forth?

Did I open the game wrongly?

Warehouse Bird couldn’t help but doubt.

“Whoosh!”

The sound of arrows piercing through the air interrupted his thoughts, followed by the sound of arrows piercing into flesh.

Warehouse Bird woke up abruptly and turned around, only to find a busty girl with an arrow in her chest—she had taken an arrow for him, and both of her Ranger friends had already died.

And now, she too, had followed in their footsteps.

“Damn it!”

Warehouse Bird got angry and rushed at his opponent again.

This time, he ignored the system’s help, rejected adjustments, and took a knife to his shoulder at the cost of landing a sword on his opponent’s arm.

His shoulder was in pain, and an arrow hit him in the back the next moment, but Warehouse Bird still rushed up and landed three more sword strikes, killing the bandit.

But the bandits had already surrounded him, and with the help of archers, they had only lost two people!

Warehouse Bird looked at the girl lying motionless on the ground, seething with anger.

But he still had a chance to redeem himself: commit suicide immediately, start over, and try to save the girl.

After all, the girl held on for a long time before, clearly having strong combat power. As long as he killed fast enough, he had a chance to save her.

He might even annihilate these bandits and save the entire merchant team.

As for how to achieve this…

Of course through brute memorization!

In any game you can memorize, you can win even without a scratch, no matter if you die a hundred or a thousand times!

But if he chose to take this route, he would be risking a lot.

Because there might be hundreds of thousands of participants in the First Completion Battle, and if you lag for a step, it will be difficult to catch up with the First Team.

Not to mention that he intends to utilize repetition, which will take even more time.

The bandits won’t wait for him. A man who was clearly their leader stepped forward, looked at the henchmen who had died on the ground, and said menacingly, “I promise, you will die very miserably.”

But Warehouse Bird completely ignored this threat, didn’t even look at the bandit leader once, instead he self-righteously cursed, “Lincoln You bastard!”

Then, he cut himself with the knife!

Restart!

The moment he killed himself, the busty girl on the ground, with an arrow in her chest, who seemed to be dead, her eyelids suddenly twitched.

Too bad Warehouse Bird didn’t see it.

He reopened the game with great determination.

*

Thousands of typical players, such as Victoria, Shuihua, Queenie… who all started the game at the same time, had already woken up in a carriage compartment.

And as soon as they opened their eyes, they saw a young preety-faced girl, dressed in a red blouse and skirt, with exquisite embroidery around the neckline, known as the Lady of Officials, appearing in their field of vision.

She said with some excitement:

“Are you awake?”

“Were you attacked by bandits? I found you were still alive when I passed by, so I had you rescued.”

“Quickly call me your savior~”

Shuihua blinked her eyes, a bit confused.

What’s going on?

When she was shot dead by the bandit, she thought she had to restart.

But, after she blinked, she directly moved on to the next part of the story?

And…

Shuihua looked at the lively and cute lady in front of her, and couldn’t help but hilariously comment in her heart:

“I saw a busty country girl the first time I opened my eyes; the second time I opened my eyes, I saw a flat-chested young miss.”

“What’s next?”

“Is this game planning to compile some XP highlights?”

“We haven’t even entered Chang’an City yet!”

“Also, this young miss won’t die later, will she?”