The sound of horse hooves rumbled, and the ground shook slightly. Just over a hundred horsemen rushed out of the might of thousands of troops. Each 'professional template NPC' was glowing with varying degrees of halo, along with their bodies.
The war horses under the banner all have the passive effects of each profession.
Every elegant cloak lit up, and the magic patterns engraved on it seemed to come alive. Some were like abstract eyes, some were like octopuses with teeth and claws, some were giants holding up the sky, and some were like giants soaring in the sky.
bird
...The leader of the paladin held up his hammer high and shouted the holy name of the God of Death, Lysel. He struck forward with the hammer, and a huge, golden hammer shadow emerged from his body, aiming at the bee chrysalis in mid-air.
The monster smashed down.
boom!
The ground trembled!
The difference between the holy light and the electric light was like countless splashing steel needles. A dozen demonized goblins and demonized giant mosquitoes were riddled with holes. There was no trace on the ground. A large number of damage figures floated up, two digits,
Three-digit normal damage, critical hit damage, magic damage...all stacked together, extremely spectacular.
After the main hit damage of the skill passed, the steel needle-like holy light turned into a tarsal ant, causing continuous damage for up to 3 seconds. The monsters that were not killed instantly appeared one after another with slightly smaller damage values, and were killed one after another.
The health bar was emptied, and everyone drank in anger on the spot.
Bang!
An extremely strong demonized goblin exploded with an ax in his hand.
"ah!
"
The player who was running behind, still a hundred meters away, saw this and went crazy!
The contact of the vanguard took effect in less than a second. As the spearhead, the paladin followed a gap created by powerful skills. Along the way, the skill auras of various professions spread wantonly damage and death.
The mage's lightning and fireball, the priest's purification and blessing, the bard's war song brings group damage increase and group damage reduction, the ranger (jungle rogue)'s life-seeking arrowhead, the thief's... it will be cut in less than 10 seconds.
Cutting through the monster army like butter, he then jumped the horse's head, looking for the thickest part of the monster, and started again, just like plowing the ground, leaving a mosaic of wounds along the way.
But there were too many monsters, and after the trolls in the special camp also joined the battle, the spearheads of the template NPCs became blunt unknowingly, and the war horses were trapped in the quagmire and could no longer charge.
"Resistance, be fearless!"
The paladin at the head was really cool, just like a hero in a movie. With his order, all the template NPCs dismounted one after another, and the war horses were put into their respective backpacks in a blaze of glory, and then this
More than a hundred people, in groups of five, were divided into small teams to fight in infantry combat mode. They gathered together like hedgehogs to face the layer upon layer impact of the monster army.
There are monsters everywhere, ranging from level 1 to level 15, big or small, physical or magical, and totems...
Kobold totem warriors are undoubtedly the backbone of the monster army. They are extremely strong, and the dense totem patterns on their bodies are somewhat similar to the cloaks on the template professional NPCs. They are not afraid of death, shouting in a language that the players cannot understand, and drive them
The overwhelming monster army plunged the entire battlefield into a tense stalemate.
What about the players?
At the beginning, with the mentality of picking up bargains, the players rushed fast and fiercely, especially the new players. Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers. After the template NPCs swept the battlefield, they were quickly filled with them, leaving a layer of blood skin for them.
The monsters are trying to catch up, and they are scrambling like crazy for the dropped equipment and props, and they don’t even care about the monsters’ counterattacks.
Soon they received their lunch boxes and were taken back to the city one by one.
Even so, they didn't care, and quickly rushed out of the city, chasing the mosaic-covered battlefield like vultures. They were lucky enough to grab something, but most of them still found nothing.
At this time, their minds were in a daze. They could not feel the changes in the battlefield situation at all, and they had forgotten why they were so desperate. They just followed the trend, futilely touching the corpses of the monsters until the first
Failed a second time.
The quota for three free deaths was quickly used up. These people were "trapped" at the resurrection point and suffered a 24-hour resurrection cooling penalty in their soul state.
There are a lot of old players, and we have never seen such a big scene before. They let the newbies rush in front, while they hide behind and sneakily reap the benefits, and always pay attention to the changes in the battlefield situation. When the momentum of the professional template NPC is no longer
, when the dismounted battle begins, retreat to a safe area outside the battlefield in time, and while enjoying the plot, observe the characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of each profession, and how they are different from before.
"The Paladin is good. It has output, control, and flexibility. But the cooldown time of its skills seems a bit long?"
"I heard that cloaks mainly reduce the cooldown time of skills?"
"No, as long as the cloak adds basic attributes, it can also be strengthened."
"The Bard has indeed been weakened. Group AOE? Favoring team battles?"
"It should be."
"The shooter doesn't seem to have changed much?"
"Well, I'm a ranger now."
"Hey, barbarians can become violent!
"
"Hulk, what is this?"
"Not bad, not bad!"
"Isn't this kind of barbarian also capable of dealing damage? I think the damage is very high, but the tankiness is not as good as that of the paladin."
"Physical melee output, control skills are a bit lacking?"
"There seems to be no change in mages and thieves..."
"Speaking of which, the cloak is so stylish. What's the extraordinary title? Tsk tsk..."
"The title of Extraordinary is a first-level profession, right?"
"Well, the second level of dust release, what is the third level?"
"The official website didn't say..."
Qiao Shan and others were taking pictures with the system camera. At this time, the battlefield gradually changed. The thieves, who had always had no sense of presence, began to show their prowess. The time for the mage's chant has also come, lightning, hail, strong wind, fireball, summons, etc.
Wait, there are also skeletons and zombies driven by necromancy, which greatly changes the battlefield situation, and the balance of victory and defeat begins to tilt in the direction of the template NPC.
There are the most low-level monsters in levels 1-5, and they are also the most useless. The template NPCs cooperate well, and a team of five is like sharp daggers, knocking people off their feet wherever they go, and low-level monsters cannot slow them down at all.
A troll was frozen into ice and then easily taken away by the harvest thieves. A kobold totem warrior was retreating steadily under the mace of the violent barbarian. At this time, the kobold priest in the camp blew
The horns of the cow sounded.
The monster army began to retreat like a tide, breaking away from the template professional NPC, and the players also received a notification that the plot mode was over.
"Come on!"
"Kill!"
"Damn it, that grandson pushed me!"
"Equipment, equipment, bless the system!
"
There were monster corpses all over the ground, many of which had drop prompts. Old and new players crowded together and started a crazy scramble mode again.
Qiao Shan rushed the fastest. From a distance, he saw a bunch of monster corpses that were slightly fluorescent, so he used all his strength to pounce on them, demonizing goblins, demonizing grass elves, demonizing giant mosquitoes...
I rummaged left and right in the pile of mosaics in the Flesh Mold Lake, and finally found the corpse with the drop prompt.
It's a level 5 demonized little tree demon.
ah!
Level 5!
Someone screamed strangely from around him, and a black shadow enveloped Qiao Shan's figure before he arrived. Qiao Shan had already experienced it. His heart was beating wildly and he rolled the body in his arms, and then he heard "thumping, thumping~" behind him.
The arhats were stacked up, and the guy at the bottom screamed, and his voice suddenly became weaker.
I touched a set of bandages with the first touch, a dagger with the second touch, a handful of copper coins with the third touch, and then... what the hell, it suddenly turned out to be something like a scroll.
At this time, there was no time to look carefully. They put them all in their backpacks, threw the corpses on the players who were rushing towards them, rolled them again, and jumped out of the chaotic scene through the gap where they rushed towards them. Their eyes scanned like radar, and they identified an upright person.
Hu Xiaoyao rushed over.
Many players were competing for the body of a demonized giant mosquito. Three people touched it at the same time. Since the three of them were not in a team, there was a delay in determining ownership.
This terrible delay caused more and more players to touch the corpse, one after another like a stack of arhats. Seeing that there was no chance, Qiao Shan gave up decisively.
Look at the entire battlefield again.
The monster army retreated into the jungle, led by kobold warriors, kobold totem warriors, and kobold priests. Some of the template professional NPCs were injured, some died, and the remaining more than eighty were monitoring the retreating monster army.
Qiao Shan rolled his eyes and quietly touched a professional template NPC guarding the corpse of his comrade.
"Claire is dead. I don't know how to tell his wife Mary. Their child is less than 3 years old. I, I still remember..."
"Thank you for your kindness. Our Tujiang team never abandons any of our comrades... What are you doing? Put it down. You are blaspheming!"
"...Ah, you actually attacked me!
"
There were many old players who paid the same attention as him. The guarding NPC was a paladin. He knocked a player who was snatching the body of his comrade into a mosaic with a hammer. He struggled to stand up. As soon as he summoned the war horse, the players around him were like hyenas.
Like a wounded lion, he rushed forward.
"Ah, what are they doing!?" Mengxin screamed, confused about the situation.
"Explode NPPC, advanced professional equipment, cloaks, artifacts!
"After reacting, Mengxin shouted, his face distorted and his voice hoarse!
Almost all the players who heard and saw it were red-eyed. The plot mission has ended. Is there any system prompt not to do this...
at the same time.
"Ah, Xiaoyu!
"
"I'm here, I'm here!"
"I see you, I see you!
"
Du Shiyu from No. 398 Novice Village and Xia Miaomiao from No. 199 Novice Village met victoriously at the foot of a mountain ridge. The two hugged each other and danced and laughed. The teams on both sides watched with smiles and were not in a hurry.
"What a coincidence, Xiaoyu, how did I meet you here!?"
"We are going to Novice Village No. 28, there are monsters attacking the city there."
"What a coincidence we are too!"
"That's why we met!"
"Haha, now we can be together again."
"You can take the teleportation service after taking office, just a little earlier."
"It's just you, is there anyone else?"
"Haha, there's me too!"
The Saint of Huaguo Mountain cheerfully waved his hand to indicate this direction.
"Monkey, why is it you? Aren't you in 409?"
"Xue Wu and I are very close. We came here as soon as we got online today."
"It's just you, where are the others?"
"They are far away. Spring Water is at the far west. It is impossible not to take the teleportation service."
"Let me introduce my teammates to you..."
The two teams came from different novice villages and quickly became familiar with each other. They were all level 5 veteran players and walked together while talking and laughing.
No. 28 Novice Village happened to be in the center of a dozen or so surrounding Novice Villages. The straight-line distance was not far away. It was just a coincidence that they met here. The three of them were extremely happy.
There were about two hours left to travel, and the game time was almost here. After a round trip, the two teams stopped and prepared to set up camp.
Next to a mountain stream with a fast current, surrounded by jagged rocks, the light was dim, and the water mist filled the area. There was indeed a strange rainbow across the entire mountain stream, like a bridge connecting the two sides.
The terrain on this side of the bridge is relatively flat, but on the other side it is extremely undulating. Under the sparse vegetation, a large number of [soundworms] are flying everywhere.
They are attached to the stone forest that looks like humans, animals, ghosts, and demons, covering the stone forest with a layer of black and white, and making irregular changes. After being disturbed, a group of them surge up, and countless high-speed vibrations
The "clanging" sound produced by its wings is like a symphony composed by countless small notes, going from extremely quiet to extremely moving in just an instant.
"Wow!"
Xia Miaomiao covered her ears and exclaimed.
Although veteran players have known about the sound bugs for a long time, and have seen various sachets, music boxes and other gadgets made by the sound bugs, this was the first time they saw a 'symphony' of this scale, and they were all shocked in place, until all the sound bugs
The insects all flew to the other side of the stream and landed again.
"This is a resource point, write it down, write it down!"
Xia Miaomiao happily marked it on her map.
Others followed suit and were preparing to set up camp. Someone said that their game time was up.
That's okay, we're almost there anyway.
After making an appointment to go online, the person waited and waited but there was no prompt to go offline.
"You must have remembered it wrong!"
"How is it possible? We were online at about the same time, and you were almost online too."
The others didn't care and found a relatively flat place with higher ground to set up camp.
"No offline prompt yet?"
"I passed."
"Mine too."
"Stop guessing, the game time limit has been lifted. The notice was just posted on the official website."
"Game time canceled?"
"Really or not?"
"Login restrictions have also been lifted. I logged out once and the news was just posted on the official website."
"Fuck!"
This is a huge change, and it will definitely profoundly change the current game style and reality, but ordinary players will not think about it that deeply. Naturally, everyone's first reaction is to be happy.
"Wouldn't that be... exciting?"
"Haha, my nickname is the Liver Emperor..."
"...What if you don't go offline all the time?"
"What else can I say, hiccup!"
"ah?"
"I'm starving to death. In reality, you just have to eat and drink, right?"
"Too……"
Everyone discussed happily for a while, built a simple camp, took a short rest, and then headed towards Novice Village No. 28.
"What is that!"
As we were looking for a way to cross the mountain stream, a teammate pointed to the sky above us and shouted.
"...Double, bipedal flying dragon!?"
"Why are there so many magical beasts, so many level 56 monsters!"
"No, run quickly..."
Five minutes later, Xia Miaomiao, who had been wiped out, walked out of the resurrection point and was yelling at Canaan Company and Dog Planner for their brainlessness. Groups of vampire bats swarmed over the novice village and fell not far away.
