WTYTIAAN Chapter 160

Chapter 160

The appearance of the fist-sized fireball made the eyes of both [Big A Bro] and [He Kou Wang] light up. Even the people around who noticed their movements exclaimed softly.

[Big A Bro]’s excitement was almost impossible to suppress, he was close to jumping up on the spot. He praised himself fiercely in his heart for his discerning eye, this [Ri An] was indeed a game GM!

Cheng Tianyu was also a bit excited. After seeing the fireball summoned by Yan Yunqing, the thought of “as expected” popped up in his mind. Looking at [Big A Bro]’s expression, what didn’t he understand?

He had really been tricked by [Big A Bro]!

Cheng Tianyu looked at Yan Yunqing and nodded very solemnly, “I can!”

Yan Yunqing looked at him a few more times. So confident, it seemed that he had done a good job as a game power-leveler in the past.

He swiped open his friend list and added [He Kou Wang] as a friend.

Although this game was different from the keyboard and mouse games of the past, it still had a certain game logic. Experienced professional game players would have more advantages than ordinary game players. Plus, they were the first batch of internal beta players, so maybe this [He Kou Wang] would soon become the first echelon player in this game.

It wouldn’t hurt to befriend him.

Yan Yunqing thought so. The other two who obtained the friend spot of a suspected game GM were also very happy. Looking at the ignorant other players around, both of them simultaneously felt a sense of being one step ahead and superior.

[Big A Bro] still wanted to continue chatting with Yan Yunqing, especially wanting to ask how he had summoned the fireball just now, but a voice interrupted his gathering momentum.

“You are the ‘Sky Descenders’ of prophecy, right? I have been waiting for you for a long time.”

A female voice, still carrying a bit of childishness, sounded. It wasn’t very loud, but it was successfully transmitted to the ears of every player.

The originally restless players instantly quieted down and looked around, searching for the source of the voice. Soon, everyone’s eyes focused on the small platform not far away.

There really stood a girl in a mage robe, her black hair tied high, her brown-red eyes bright and beautiful.

Her name displayed above her head was [Alice], the color identifier was green. Obviously, this was an NPC, and NPCs that generally appeared at the newbie village spawn point were all guiding NPCs.

When they realized that the little girl in front of them was an NPC, the players boiled over.

“So realistic! Damn, is this really just an NPC? It can’t be a real person playing it, right?”

“This modeling is too exaggerated, it’s completely a real person!”

“Is this the fully restored real-world holographic game?”

Some people even tried to greet Alice, “Hey, miss, are you being played by a real person?”

Alice maintained a proper smile, but she felt a little uneasy in her heart. She always felt that these strange ‘Sky Descenders’ in front of her were not quite right in the head. Just now, someone was gnawing on mud while howling!

According to the teacher’s instructions, she was stationed in this vicinity. After waiting for a certain period of time, if there was no guide, she would have to step up and become the so-called ‘guide,’ leading these ‘Sky Descenders’ to familiarize themselves with this world and regulate their behavior, preventing these ‘Sky Descenders’ from running amok in this world by relying on their status as outsiders.

This was what the teacher had told her. After several months of studying with the teacher, Alice had developed the good habit of ‘everything the teacher says is right.’ She also fearlessly accepted the tasks assigned by the teacher.

After all, this ‘Sky Descender’ appeared within Bato Vita, and Princess Alice, who had already regarded Bato Vita as her future possession, naturally couldn’t allow these ‘Sky Descenders’ to wantonly destroy her territory.

She wondered if the other guides at the other locations were facing the same strange group of ‘Sky Descenders.’

Alice thought in her heart, but she didn’t reveal anything amiss on her face. She followed what the teacher taught her, ignoring those strange questions and continuing her performance.

“Welcome, ‘Sky Descenders’ from afar,” Alice lifted her skirt and curtsied slightly, performing a courtly etiquette, “Hello.”

“My name is Alice, and I am the eleventh princess of the kingdom in this land. You can call me Princess Alice or Eleventh Princess,” Alice said without changing her expression. With her self-introduction, a note (Bato Vita Eleventh Princess) was added next to her name.

This title was also suggested by the teacher. He said that she couldn’t give the ‘Sky Descenders’ too much of a good face, because these ‘Sky Descenders’ were very good at taking an inch and wanting a mile. If she couldn’t suppress these people from the beginning, they would definitely try their best to make trouble—

Of course, even if they were suppressed from the beginning, players would still try their best to make trouble after figuring out the situation here.

However, Yan Yunqing had not yet told the little princess, who had been tricked into coming to work, about this point.

Sure enough, after not receiving a reply from Alice, those people who were clamoring to interact with Alice stopped and waited for Alice to continue speaking.

Yan Yunqing stood among the players, looking at Alice, who had been able to perform generously after his emergency training, and was very satisfied.

And [Big A Bro] and [He Kou Wang] secretly glanced in Yan Yunqing’s direction, and once again confirmed their guess that this [Ri An] was an insider.

No wonder the big boss didn’t move at first, he was waiting for the guiding NPC to be in place! Sure enough, following the big boss meant there was food to eat!

“The land you are in comes from my country, Bato Vita…”

“The Bato Vita Empire once…”

“In this continent, peace was once our most precious wealth. However, the appearance ofdemonic beasts has destroyed this peace.demonic beasts have been troubling this land for too long. They emerge from the abyss, eroding our towns and threatening our lives.”

Alice clenched her left hand, resting it on her chest, her expression revealing a bit of pain, “Oh, ‘Sky Descenders’ of prophecy, we have been waiting for you for a long time, please help us dispel the darkness and restore the peace of the past.”

A passage of impassioned guiding words ended, and Alice’s emotions were in place, her cheeks inevitably flushed slightly due to the excited emotions.

The players wouldn’t listen to these introductory words. After all, the universal operation for players going through storylines was to skip, skip, skip. In this holographic game where skipping wasn’t possible, they could still wander off and study the clouds in the sky, the land on the ground, and the clothes on Alice.

However, [Big A Bro] quickly entered the state, carefully listening to Alice’s lines. He was originally a game upcontent creator who focused on the storyline, so naturally he couldn’t miss the opening guiding words.

The opening remarks of RPG games were also very important, and might even contain clues that ran through the entire game. As a game upcontent creator, how could he miss them.

“The NPC’s tone is so natural, and her demeanor is also very good. There must be a real person controlling her behind the scenes, right?”

Yan Yunqing heard someone discussing in a low voice behind him. Not many people had finished listening to Alice’s words.

However, he wasn’t surprised. He had guessed this result from the beginning. Anyway, these lines just needed to be said. As long as it was confirmed that Alice was a guiding NPC, then Alice could smoothly guide most of the players into the so-called newbie village.

— Obviously, this newbie village was also arranged by Yan Yunqing.

After deciding to truly establish his own power, Yan Yunqing used all available channels to quickly win over a group of people and complete the establishment of the power.

It included Merlin, Isabel, the elvenclan Regas, the members of the children’sgroup far away in Free City, the student Alice, Principal Penelope, etc.…

Of course, Diweike couldn’t be left out either. Originally, Yan Yunqing didn’t plan to bring him along, but after this guy got the news from Merlin, he came to Sigrett Academy to block Yan Yunqing. Helpless, Yan Yunqing could only add Diweike to the plan.

In just two months, Yan Yunqing had successfully expanded his power quietly.

The newbie village was created by Yan Yunqing using Merlin’s prophecy magic to circle out the ‘Sky Descenders’ spawning locations throughout the Ermann Continent, and then he sent people to build the ‘newbie village.’

Penelope put in a lot of effort in this. As the current principal of the highest institution of learning on the continent, she could mobilize a lot of manpower privately. A large part of the credit for the implementation of Yan Yunqing’s plan had to be attributed to Penelope.

Of course, the reason why these plans could be implemented so smoothly was also because Yan Yunqing had elaborated on the possible consequences of these ‘Sky Descenders’ appearing. Merlin, Penelope, and the others all believed in the saying that with great power comes great responsibility. In order to protect this land, they naturally had to fully cooperate with Yan Yunqing’s plan.

When Alice led the players into the ‘newbie village,’ although there were a few disobedient ones who acted alone, most of them, as Yan Yunqing had expected, followed Alice into the newbie village.

Very good. Next was to let the NPCs in the newbie village imperceptibly give the players the rules of survival in this world.

Yan Yunqing trailed behind the last of the players, his gaze falling on a farmer who looked ordinary, wearing old clothes, and holding a hoe as if he had just returned from planting in the fields.

His gaze swept over the other party lightly, finally pausing on his level for a while, and then quietly shifting away.

A level 52 swordsman was here to play a farmer…

If any player didn’t have eyes and ran over to cause trouble in front of him, they would probably be directly killed back to the resurrection point.

Amen.

Yan Yunqing gloated a little in his heart. These newbie village NPCs were there to let players tacitly agree to a rule: ‘You can’t attack NPCs at will. This world also has laws and regulations to restrain you.’

Although Yan Yunqing knew that this rule couldn’t restrain all players, and that there would always be some players who would act recklessly in the game, at least this rule could allow the ordinary people of this world to transition for a period of time, get used to the existence of the ‘Sky Descenders,’ and be wary of their behavior.

This was Yan Yunqing’s ultimate goal.

Even though he wasn’t the Demon King anymore, Yan Yunqing, who still had to worry about this continent, said that he was very tired.

So what was the deal with that Homecoming Game Studio? His own game didn’t even have a game guide, and he, a player who had been thrown into the game in advance, had to worry about it!

Was this appropriate?!

Alice brought these players into the newbie village, casually explained a few sentences, and incidentally revealed the level set by Yan Yunqing for leaving the newbie village, “After your level reaches 10, you can choose a profession. With a certain amount of strength, you can leave here and do your part toexterminate the demonic beasts.”

Players automatically understood: They needed to stay in the newbie village until level 10, and then they could leave the newbie village and explore this grand virtual world.

The players were eager to try, and were already ready to go. After Alice finished speaking, they rushed excitedly to the blacksmith shop, the weapon shop, and some players reacted very quickly, turning around and running to the NPCs, trying to take on quests.

[Big A Bro] glanced at Yan Yunqing, who was still standing in place, “Bro, are you going to take on quests or go grind monsters next? If you’re going to do quests, can bro follow along?”

[He Kou Wang] nodded repeatedly beside him, indicating that he wanted to join too.

Yan Yunqing glanced at them, not intending to really take them to do quests, “I have something to do next, I’m going offline, you guys go do quests.”

After saying that, Yan Yunqing nodded to the two of them and walked straight to the entrance of the village.

[He Kou Wang] still wanted to follow, but was pulled back by [Big A Bro].

“What’s wrong, A Bro, aren’t we going to follow and take a look?” [He Kou Wang] turned back, “See where the big boss goes offline. We’ll also go offline from that side later, so that we can be with the big boss when we log in tomorrow.”

[Big A Bro] couldn’t help but support his forehead, “Orange, how come I didn’t realize you were so cute before? The big boss said he’s going offline, and you really believe he’s going offline? Did you forget what his identity is?”

[Big A Bro] looked around, lowering his voice, “He’s a GM, and a GM hidden among the internal beta players. Although the excuse is to go offline, how is it possible that he’s going offline just ten minutes after the server opened? He’s obviously going to work.”

“And the work content is not convenient to tell the players, such as testing dungeon drops, etc. It’s not good for us to follow,” [Big A Bro] said logically, “Anyway, we’ve already added him as a friend. There’s still a long time for the test. There will be plenty of time to get some inside information and small benefits from him in the future.”

“Now our most important thing is not to explore his work content, but to try to get along with him, you understand?”

[He Kou Wang] seemed to understand, but not really. His game talent was much better than [Big A Bro], but he could only be a game power-leveler, while [Big A Bro] had long become a game upcontent creator with millions of fans. The difference between the two was in this social skill.

“I’ll listen to you, A Bro,” [He Kou Wang] decided to follow [Big A Bro]’s footsteps, “Bro, remember to bring me along if you have any internal news!”

“I’ll take care of it,” [Big A Bro] patted his chest, “I’m also an upcontent creator with millions of fans, right? I’ll do more promotion for the game. You still have to give me this face.”

……

Yan Yunqing left the most crowded place in the newbie village in a low-key manner, and found the only inn set up in the newbie village. Yan Yunqing didn’t expect that he would be the first player to experience this inn.

After spending a silver coin, under the kind gaze of the level 45 gatekeeper, Yan Yunqing climbed the stairs, found his room, locked the door, and began to study the player panel.

This panel was locked after he established his new player identity. After it was unlocked just now, Yan Yunqing couldn’t concentrate on checking his panel because there were too many other players present at the time.

Yan Yunqing opened [Ri An]’s panel. He had been frantically doing tasks before the player went online, and had done almost all of the bounty hunter association’s hunting tasks. His level had already been pulled to a leading 73.

However, the level display on [Ri An]’s panel was intriguing.

Level: 0[+] (73)

The level in front showed 0, followed by 73, and a + sign was faintly glowing, as if reminding him to click.

Yan Yunqing hesitated for a few seconds and clicked the [+]. A faint white light lit up, and the level on [Ri An]’s panel became 1.

Level: 1[+] (73)

With the change in the level on his panel, a series of game prompts also jumped out.

[You have successfully leveled up to level 1]

[Dear Sky Descender, congratulations on your first level up in “Homecoming”, you have obtained the title of [Pioneer]. Completing tasks while wearing it will increase experience by 10%.]

[Dear Sky Descender, due to your outstanding performance, [Level Ranking], [Wealth Ranking], [Fame Ranking], etc. have now been opened. Thank you for your efforts, may your journey in “Homecoming” be full of glory and victory!]

[It has been detected that you are on the major rankings. Do you want to hide personal information?]

He felt a bit of a headache from being disturbed by the various pop-up boxes. Yan Yunqing pressed his temple (tàiyángxué), and was shocked when he saw the last prompt box, and quickly clicked to confirm the hiding.

At the same time, an announcement visible to all internal beta players popped up.

[Congratulations to Sky Descender [] for the first level up. [Level Ranking], [Wealth Ranking], [Fame Ranking], etc. have now been opened. Sky Descenders can open the rankings to view the details!]

[Please Sky Descenders continue to work hard!]

[Big A Bro] and [He Kou Wang], who were talking to a villager NPC, trying to get more experience from the NPC, were shocked when they saw this server-wide announcement.

“Who is it, leveling up so quickly?” [He Kou Wang] was shocked. Homecoming opened its server on the first day. Although it seemed to be divided into several different newbie villages, this newbie village still accepted hundreds of players. There were only so few NPCs, and the tasks were not repeated, so they had to rely on robbing to do tasks.

[He Kou Wang], who had just robbed a errand task and completed it, only had a quarter of his experience bar. Which player was so lucky to complete a task and level up directly?

[Big A Bro] was also very surprised. He subconsciously opened the leaderboard, and saw that there was only a single entry on several leaderboards, and the ID was hidden by the system. He could only see the other party’s level and some other data.

[Level Ranking]

No.1 [] Level 1

[Wealth Ranking]

No.1 [] Wealth 9 gold 99 silver 0 copper

“……”

[Big A Bro] checked all the leaderboards and confirmed that the single entry on each leaderboard was the same person. He thought slightly, as if he had thought of something, and opened the friend list.

Seeing the only two friends, the [Ri An] with level 1 displayed, [Big A Bro] snapped his fingers, “It really is him!”

[He Kou Wang] also came over. Seeing [Big A Bro] say this, he also checked the friend list, and then suddenly realized: “It turned out to be him!”

Then it was not surprising. After all, he was a game GM, so it was normal to know some ways to level up that ordinary players didn’t know.

The two tacitly looked at each other, closed the friend list together, and listened to the other players around guessing about the starasterisk player, and together showed a meaningful smile.

Sure enough, this feeling of everyone being drunk while I’m sober was really great.

*

Yan Yunqing breathed a sigh of relief after confirming again that all the leaderboards that might expose him had hidden the information.

He secretly cursed that Homecoming Game didn’t act like human beings, and he had to worry about the newbie village, but this always dragged him down.

When he caught the existence behind this, he’d see how he’d really face off against the other party!

Yan Yunqing beat up the black hand behind the scenes several times in his heart before continuing to study his player panel.

He already understood what the [+] in the level was. It was the level of his player identity [Ri An] on the surface. He could level up by clicking [+], as long as it didn’t exceed his original level.

However, Yan Yunqing didn’t plan to level up himself in a short time. After there were more other players on the levelranking, he would slowly raise the level. Being too prominent was not conducive to him making trouble.

He glanced at the backpack again, and after confirming that the player backpack and the NPC backpack were universal, but the wealth needed to be transferred to be used, he closed the panel and switched his consciousness back to the NPC identity.

*

Switching consciousness back and forth between two bodies was really a magical feeling.

Yan Yunqing rubbed his stiff wrist and took out the [Carrier Pigeon] provided by Merlin as a friendship offering. This was an alchemy item. Although it was called Carrier Pigeon, it had nothing to do with pigeons. It was a remote communication device, and it could even project virtual images, but it required a high amount of magic to support it. Anyone with a slightly lower level couldn’t use it.

Moreover, the production cost of this Carrier Pigeon was very high, and the success rate was very low. Even Merlin only had a few [Carrier Pigeons]. It was said that he had specially commissioned the clan leader of the dwarfclan to forge them.

Yan Yunqing transported the magic to the [Carrier Pigeon] according to what Merlin had taught him before. After a while, a virtual image lit up above, and it was Isabel’s face.

The image stuttered for a moment before moving. Isabel’s voice came, “Looking for me?”

“How’s the situation on your side?” Yan Yunqing asked.

Merlin had prophesied a total of ten locations where the ‘Sky Descenders’ would appear, and Yan Yunqing had arranged manpower at these ten locations. [Ri An]’s spawning point was one of them.

There were two spawning points between Dragon Valley and Norman Forest, and Yan Yunqing had handed these two spawning points over to Isabel and Regas to be responsible for.

Isabel: “Sky Descenders have descended in both villages. Regas and I have already arranged it. Don’t worry, they won’t cause too much trouble, at least in the short term.”

“Well, when the players’ levels are higher, you can appropriately provide a little information about the Eternal God Cult — not too much, just say a few ambiguous words. If they ask, have the people you arranged say they don’t know,” Yan Yunqing instructed.

“Got it.”

After saying a few more words to Yan Yunqing, Isabel couldn’t help but ask before hanging up the communication, “Will these Sky Descenders really be helpful to our plan?”

“I’m not questioning you, Nolan, you know that,” Isabel added, “But those Sky Descenders are indeed too weak… Even it is difficult for us to track down the Eternal God Cult, can those Sky Descenders really do it?”

“You underestimate them too much.”

“This is a group with unlimited desire to explore, and they won’t die.”

“Have you forgotten what the prophecy said?”

“War and disaster are coming, and the world will be destroyed. Only the Sky Descenders can save everything.”

This was… the Fourth Heavenly Disaster (Playerbase).

Yan Yunqing believed that as long as the player’s help was used well, no matter what existence was behind this Homecoming Game company, and what they wanted to do, he could turn the disadvantage into an advantage.

And that Eternal God Cult… Since they were doing bad things in the name of the Demon King, they should pay something for it.

After hanging up Isabel’s communication, Yan Yunqing contacted several other people, and all of them received replies that the plan had been completed. According to Merlin’s prophecy, he had prepared a total of ten newbie villages, and the people in charge of seven of them had successfully received players.

Only the three newbie villages located in Romunike sent news that ‘no Sky Descenders had appeared.’

If only one newbie village didn’t wait for the Sky Descenders, Yan Yunqing could understand, after all, prophecy magic wasn’t 100% accurate, even Merlin, the greatest magician, couldn’t do it.

Prophecy magic wasn’t Merlin’s best magic after all.

But no Sky Descenders appeared in the three newbie villages in Romunike, which made Yan Yunqing have to be suspicious. One or two were coincidences, but three in a row was a bit problematic.

After thinking for a while, Yan Yunqing asked Diweike, the person in charge of these three newbie villages, to continue searching for traces of the ‘Sky Descenders’ within this range, and at the same time, he would go to Romunike to check the situation.

“I am always ready to welcome your arrival.” At the end of the communication, Diweike once again offered the loyalty belonging to the dragonclan to the king.

Yan Yunqing stood in front of the [Carrier Pigeon] for a while, opened the forum that came with the game system, and refreshed it. There were no posts related to the game content in the forum.

This was about the same as Yan Yunqing thought. After all, he had also seen the rules of this Homecoming Game. There was only one login opportunity per day. Once he exited this world, he could not log in again within 24 hours. The number of logins would be refreshed at 8:00 AM the next day.

With the number of logins limited, the first batch of players wouldn’t exit the game so quickly in a short period of time and post on the forum.

Therefore, the current forum still maintained the various negative comments about Homecoming from the past two days.

Yan Yunqing was about to close the forum, but accidentally refreshed it, and saw a newly issued post floating to the top of the forum.

[I’m going! Is the death penalty in Homecoming this serious? I’ve been locked in a small dark room for 48 hours! [NEW]]

Yan Yunqing frowned and clicked on the post.

0L: I’m convinced, as soon as I went online, I didn’t even have time to get excited, and found that I was surrounded by barbarians. The next second, the group of barbarians squealed and tied me up, and then killed me! Killed me!!! I directly went dark and was forcibly exited from the game. I wanted to log in again, but the helmet didn’t respond, only a countdown, a full 48-hour resurrection CD!!! Damn barbarians! Damn Homecoming! Where’s my newbie tutorial and newbie protection?!

This post was just issued, and there were no replies.

When Yan Yunqing saw the content of the post, he realized that something was wrong. He had already established newbie villages in the ten spawning points predicted, and had arranged people to specifically cosplay ordinary villagers to ensure that there would be no ordinary people who strayed in. How was this player caught by the barbarians as soon as he went online?

And… were there any barbarians on the Ermann Continent?

If there were barbarians… then it could only be the three spawning points in Romunike that had accidents and no Sky Descenders appeared.

Sure enough, there was a problem with those three spawning points. He just didn’t know whether the spawning points themselves had a wrong prediction, or there were other special factors that caused the player’s spawning point to change.

Yan Yunqing pressed his brows, and quickly combined and analyzed the current clues in his mind.

Barbarians… that could only be in relatively remote and backward places, where Romunike people who looked more like barbarians would appear.

They tied up the player and killed him as soon as they saw him, so that place was relatively exclusive…

Yan Yunqing listed several possible locations, but he excluded them one by one.

After thinking for a long time, he couldn’t get a result. Yan Yunqing refreshed the post again, hoping to get some new clues from thislandlord/OP.

When his gaze touched the bottom of the post, Yan Yunqing’s gaze suddenly stopped.

This was?