Minecraft: I Am The Demon King

Kill count can only be effective by killing players.

This also made Pengpeng and the others confirm their goal. To become stronger, they naturally chose to stand on the opposite side of the players.

Pengpeng also utilized his previous advantage as a guild leader. He knew that many guild bases, just like his previous one, would prepare dedicated player respawn zones.

So, they targeted a smaller casual guild with fewer members.

After locating the respawn zone in advance, they sent one group to raid the guild base and another group to camp and guard the respawn zone.

In this way, it was essentially an infinite kill farm.

It must be said, Pengpeng's idea was ambitious, but reality was harsh.

He had only just learned that each player could provide a maximum of three kill counts.

As the saying goes, "Three strikes and you're out." Spawn camping could only work three times.

Seeing that camping was no longer effective, Pengpeng didn't linger.

He led the zombie players out of the basement.

———

Everything that just happened was observed by Xu Yuan.

The players' conversation earlier also surprised Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan hadn't expected that the infected players he created could actually improve their strength.

It was similar to how 007 evolved initially, relying on kill counts to advance.

However, while 007 evolved his consciousness, these infected players evolved their physical bodies.

After all, they already had their own consciousness.

Although the fact that infected players could evolve seemed powerful, it actually required an immense amount of accumulation.

100 kill counts for just 0.5 attribute points—it was far too little.

Moreover, both the infected and Xu Yuan shared a single life.

If they wanted to grow strong enough, they not only needed continuous development but also had to be extremely cautious.

Otherwise, all their efforts would be in vain.

It could be said that the enormous benefits of being infected came from dancing on the edge of death repeatedly.

The path to growth was far more challenging than that of regular players.

But Xu Yuan didn't care whether their path was tough or not; that was their choice. Xu Yuan only cared about whether they could bring him benefits.

Thinking of this, Xu Yuan began formulating a new plan.

The primary task now was to create as many infected as possible. The larger the infected base, the more Faith Points Xu Yuan could earn.

However, whether someone could become infected wasn't Xu Yuan's decision. It had to be voluntary; otherwise, even if infected, players would choose to commit suicide.

So, Xu Yuan needed to make the infected players realize the benefits of being a zombie. This would significantly improve the conversion rate.

Xu Yuan had already come up with a good plan.

'This method should greatly increase the infection conversion rate…'

With a plan in mind, Xu Yuan immediately prepared to put it into action.

Xu Yuan initially planned to continue viewing the semi-infected player's perspective to locate the next guild base.

But he realized that the 10 seconds had already been used up.

Seeing this, Xu Yuan had no choice but to spend 100,000 Faith Points to upgrade the control system to the next level.

[Control Mode Lv2: Gain infected and semi-infected vision, control time increased to 20 seconds, cooldown 10 hours.]

[Note: Control time is shared across all infected. Example: Controlling A for 2 seconds reduces total control time to 18 seconds.]

[Upgrade available for 200,000 Faith Points.]

Although the upgrade brought some improvement, the increase wasn't much.

But Xu Yuan wasn't in a rush. Once this wave of infections spread, the Faith Points would increase rapidly.

"Multitasking should be much more efficient…"

Xu Yuan's idea was simple: multitasking.

The semi-infected players were likely scattered in different places. If he could simultaneously spread the infection in different locations, the efficiency would skyrocket.

The key was that Xu Yuan had the Clone skill. The clones could inherit the abilities of the main body.

Currently, Xu Yuan's main body could infect players. If he could upgrade the Clone skill to its maximum level, the clones should also gain the infection ability.

However, Xu Yuan wasn't entirely certain.

But regardless, the Clone skill would eventually be maxed out. After all, he no longer had to worry about kill counts.

Thinking of this, Xu Yuan opened the skill list to check the Clone level.

[Clone Lv6: Consume 5% health to summon five clones, each inheriting 60% of the main body's abilities.]

[Example: Main body Explosion Skill Lv5 → Clone Explosion Skill Lv3.]

[Upgrade cost: 1,500,000 kill counts.]

Xu Yuan glanced at his kill count. The number was so long that he couldn't be bothered to count it. It was definitely enough to max out the Clone skill.

Without hesitation, Xu Yuan upgraded it to the maximum level.

[Clone Lv10: No health cost, summon nine clones, each inheriting 100% of the main body's abilities.]

[Clone Evolution available at 10 billion kill counts!]

Xu Yuan initially thought level 10 would be the limit. But seeing the evolution cost of 10 billion kill counts left him stunned.

"System, you're truly ruthless!"

Xu Yuan didn't know what Clone Evolution entailed. But 10 billion kill counts—it was a ridiculous, astronomical figure.

Xu Yuan didn't dwell on it. It was far beyond his current reach.

After upgrading the Clone skill, Xu Yuan decided to upgrade the Teleportation skill.

Teleportation hadn't been upgraded in a long time.

If he could teleport directly to coordinates without range restrictions, it would save a lot of trouble.

He checked the Teleportation level. It was currently level 7.

[Teleportation Lv7: Teleport to a coordinate within 3,000 range, carry objects or living beings within a 30x30 area, cooldown 3 seconds.]

[Upgrade cost: 2,000,000 kill counts.]

Without hesitation, Xu Yuan maxed it out.

[Teleportation Lv10: Teleport to any coordinate without range restrictions, carry objects or living beings within a 100x100 area.]

Xu Yuan had expected another exorbitant evolution requirement. But surprisingly, level 10 was the cap.

Just as he anticipated, max-level Teleportation allowed unrestricted coordinate teleportation. This was incredibly convenient.

After upgrading these two skills, Xu Yuan considered upgrading more. But he realized his kill count was nearly depleted.

It seemed he'd need to accumulate more before further upgrades.

With these upgrades complete, Xu Yuan reopened the Infected Control panel.

Although the 10 seconds had been used earlier, the cooldown had reset after upgrading.

Now Xu Yuan had 20 seconds to locate guild bases.

———

In 20 seconds, he successfully located two guild bases.

Although two wasn't a large number, it was already quite good.

Currently, Xu Yuan could only access the infected players' vision and couldn't directly control them.

This meant he had to deduce guild base locations through conversations and environmental clues.

Time limitations also added difficulty.

But all these constraints stemmed from insufficient Faith Points.

As infections increased, Faith Points would grow, and these problems would resolve themselves.

The two guilds Xu Yuan found were named Canglan Guild and Yunshui Guild.

Both were mid-tier guilds with moderate player numbers.

Although Xu Yuan preferred larger guilds, he had no choice.

He summoned two clones, leaving one near the shore for Little Bug to see him.

The main body and the other clone teleported to the areas near the Canglan Guild and Yunshui Guild.

———

Inside the Canglan Guild base.

The players were practicing on the square.

They, like many other guilds, were also influenced by Steve.

Steve, remaining true to his original intentions, had always been posting his insights about the game and some training operation guides on the forums.

This led many guilds to start focusing on improving players' individual skills.

Players basically had to spend 4 hours every day during the daytime practicing their operations. At night, they had to face off against monsters. Every day was incredibly busy.

Additionally, the guild had also adopted the assessment system of Steve's Nirvana Guild.

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