WTYTIAAN Chapter 208

Chapter 208

At the same time, Yan Yunqing also received news about the 3.0 internal test. After seeing that the number of new players had increased by 40,000, bringing the total number of internal test players to 50,000, he couldn’t help but be shocked.

Game system, what are you doing?

Having 10,000 players online simultaneously had already caused his Newbie Village to experience operational overload. During the initial update, the people from “Flame” were working almost day and night to stabilize those 10,000 players, preventing any major glitches from occurring.

Now, suddenly adding 40,000 players?

Yan Yunqing felt a bit dizzy looking at this number, and the desire to slack off was stirring within him.

Even if a deity came, there would be no way to handle so many players at the same time!

Yan Yunqing felt a sense of suffocation.

No, no, he needed to calm down.

He had long anticipated that the number of players would only increase, but three months of dormancy had allowed Yan Yunqing to relax a bit. He hadn’t expected the game to try something big.

The first internal test had 3,000 players, the second internal test increased to 10,000 players, and this upcoming third internal test would raise the number of players to a terrifying 50,000…

This increase in numbers gave Yan Yunqing a bad feeling.

An unrestricted public test… couldn’t be coming soon, could it?

Yan Yunqing felt a darkness before his eyes and quickly contacted Merlin to prepare for the upcoming arrival of the 40,000 new players. He himself couldn’t stop either. Fortunately, he had a golem automatically harvesting experience points, allowing Yan Yunqing to free himself up to do other things; otherwise, he would really have to split himself in two.

The upcoming new players caused Yan Yunqing a huge headache.

Yan Yunqing was discussing with Merlin how to accommodate these new players. The current Newbie Village definitely couldn’t hold so many players, so the level restrictions for leaving Newbie Village that were initially set couldn’t continue to be used, because even if the overcrowded players stacked on top of each other, Newbie Village still wouldn’t be able to hold them all.

So, he had to come up with a better way to limit the players’ behavior. The only thing Yan Yunqing could think of was that after the players logged in, he would issue a mandatory quest, asking the new players to find an old player or NPC to learn about the basic rules of this world.

At the same time, he would use the forum account to post a thread, listing the rules they had customized and informing the players, while also announcing them in the game.

Of course, the best way to limit those players who liked to cause trouble would be to create a large-scale event, preferably one related to PvP…

And there was already one readily available; the faction war was the best carrot, capable of attracting the attention of the vast majority of players.

The remaining issue was those players with more unique thinking.

Yan Yunqing thought for a moment and spoke to Merlin, “Can you… use rule magic?”

Rule magic was the most advanced magic of all, belonging to the top of the pyramid, a type of magic that only existed in myths and legends.

Rules were a very broad concept, like how the sun rises during the day and rain wets everything on rainy days… these things that could be called common sense were referred to as rules in this world.

And rule magic was using the world’s rules to cast magic.

Rule magic only existed in legends. So far, the closest thing to rule magic was actually necromancy.

That was the necromancy used by the legendary necromancer Keen two thousand years ago. It violated the rules of “birth, aging, illness, and death,” transforming living beings into undead, and to some extent, it also belonged to rule magic.

Keen was called a legendary necromancer partly due to the acknowledgement of his magical talent, and Merlin’s achievements were even higher than his. This was a mage who was called the greatest and most genius mage in Ermann’s history. Logically speaking, Merlin should understand some rule magic, right?

Merlin, after hearing Yan Yunqing’s reasoning, sent a string of ellipsis: …

Merlin: “You think too highly of me. Rule magic isn’t that easy to study. I tried it once, and as a result, I lay half-dead on the bed for hundreds of years.”

Lay for hundreds of years…

Yan Yunqing heard this key phrase and hesitated, “Is that what caused your curse to form?”

Merlin was silent for a while, then nodded, “In a way, yes.”

Merlin had a curse on his body, which he had told Yan Yunqing at the beginning of their reunion. Merlin hadn’t said the specific reason, and Yan Yunqing could only deduce some reasons from Merlin’s words.

Merlin had fallen into a half-dead state due to certain events, and his life was in critical condition. Isabel used some kind of curse to share her life with Merlin, and the long lifespan of the Dragon Clan saved the dying Merlin. The drawback was that the two were now in a state of living and dying together.

As long as one party died, the other would die instantly because of the curse.

This was extremely unfair to the long-lived Dragon Clan, although Isabel might not care about this point.

Of course, being called a curse, the disadvantages were definitely more than just this one, but Merlin and Isabel had never said anything about it. However, looking at Merlin’s habit of basically not fighting, only occasionally helping out, it could be seen that this curse still had a deep impact on Merlin.

After all, although Merlin didn’t like war in those years, as the most talented and outstanding mage of that era, he was also full of vigor, and could even summon forbidden magic with ease.

Perhaps touching rule magic had caused him irreversible damage…?

Yan Yunqing pondered.

“Nolan, don’t try to touch the rules. Even gods don’t dare to say they’ve mastered the rules, or can control them.” Merlin warned, seeing Yan Yunqing was lost in thought, “But why did you suddenly mention rule magic?”

Yan Yunqing touched his nose, a little embarrassed, “I was thinking, if you could add rules to these descended ones, it would be a lot easier, like ‘descended ones are not allowed to take off their pants,’ and such.”

This group of players, who feared nothing more than a peaceful world, wouldn’t just take off the blacksmith’s pants, they would also take off their own pants to study their size!

Thinking about the future possibility of countless players taking off their pants on the street and behaving indecently, Yan Yunqing felt a headache.

If only he could directly restrict players from taking off their pants from the rules.

Yan Yunqing thought resentfully.

Merlin seemed to have recalled some bad memories, his face turning green and red, as colorful as an overturned paint palette.

He also gritted his teeth: “If I could really master rule magic, I would definitely write this rule into the world rules at the first opportunity!”

Yan Yunqing and Merlin looked at each other, both seeing the pain in each other’s eyes.

Yan Yunqing pressed his forehead, banishing the ridiculous things players might do from his brain, and prepared to continue discussing the upcoming arrangements with Merlin, but a system panel suddenly popped up in front of him.

[Detected NPC demand, rule function is now online.]

[You can add the required rules. After only detecting conformity with the world’s logic, it will be added to the game rules.]

[___________________]

Yan Yunqing:?

Huh???

Yan Yunqing was stunned, sitting up straight.

What’s going on?

Yan Yunqing looked back and forth at the game panel that popped up, finally confirming that it meant he should write game rules.

Wait, could it be that the game autonomously created a new function for him to use because of his thoughts just now?

Yan Yunqing narrowed his eyes and began to meditate: Tell me about the existence behind the game… xn

Merlin saw that Yan Yunqing suddenly closed his eyes, chanting something strange, and couldn’t figure out what kind of magic spell it was after listening for a long time. Merlin slowly typed out a question mark?

Nolan, has he finally been driven crazy by the descended ones?

Merlin felt worried in his heart.

Merlin reached out and waved in front of Yan Yunqing, but Yan Yunqing held his hand. He still closed his eyes, chanting unintelligible words. Seeing him like this, Merlin could only choose to suppress the doubts in his heart and wait for Yan Yunqing to become normal.

After chanting for a few minutes, Yan Yunqing found that the game system simply ignored him. Not only did no new game panel pop up, but even the new function prompt panel that had just popped up disappeared.

Yan Yunqing: …

Yan Yunqing opened his eyes and opened his system panel, searching for a long time before finding the newly added [Add Rules] function in the lower right corner of the personal panel.

It was hidden way too well.

Yan Yunqing was a little speechless, opened that function to check, and there was no difference from the prompt that had just popped up, and there was no limit to the number of uses. Yan Yunqing touched his chin.

Input:

[The system unconditionally informs Yan Yunqing of the game and the truth of the world]

Submit. The next second, a red prompt appeared: [Error, this rule cannot be added to the game rules.]

Input:

[The system unconditionally informs players/Nolan/Joker/Rian of the game and the truth of the world]

Submit, four error prompts.

It seems that taking shortcuts is not possible.

Yan Yunqing thought for a moment and changed his wording.

Input:

[Yan Yunqing will know the truth of the prophecy]

Submit. This time the system spun for a while, and just when Yan Yunqing thought it was about to succeed, it still reminded him of an error.

Hmm, this rule shouldn’t be able to affect this world, so it’s purely game rules for players?

Yan Yunqing tried to input:

[Players cannot take off their underwear in any form or through any channel.]

This time the game turned, and finally showed green.

[This rule has been added to the player’s game rules.]

Yan Yunqing immediately switched back to the player’s avatar to try. Merlin watched as Yan Yunqing’s eyes rolled back and he lay on the table.

Merlin:?

Merlin was just about to check Yan Yunqing’s condition when he saw him suddenly open his eyes, get up quickly… and start trying to take off his clothes.

Merlin:???

What is he doing?

Merlin was confused. Fortunately, Yan Yunqing wasn’t so quick and directly took off his clothes, but looked at Merlin, “Oh, sorry, I forgot you were still here, I’ll find an empty room.”

Saying that, he picked up the coat he had already taken off and ran out, not forgetting to assign Merlin a task, “I have something to do, you think about it first, I’ll come back later to continue discussing with you.”

Then Yan Yunqing ran away.

Merlin: Nolan has finally been driven crazy by those descended ones, right?

Yan Yunqing found an empty room and began to take off his clothes, confirming that his clothes could all be taken off, but the player [Rian]’s underwear couldn’t be taken off. Yan Yunqing confirmed that this game rule could indeed affect players, but it had no effect on him as an NPC.

That was enough.

Yan Yunqing stuffed all the things he had thought of that needed to restrict players from doing, and now that he had this game rule, it was much more convenient.

Considering that there were also female players in the game, Yan Yunqing added underwear as well. The scene of indecent exposure in the game would be eliminated, and Yan Yunqing felt that the air had become much fresher.

If this function had appeared earlier, he wouldn’t have had to think of so many ways to restrict players at the beginning.

Of course, not everything could be added to these game rules. For example, the rule [Players cannot harm or kill NPCs] conflicted with the underlying upgrade logic of the game. Yan Yunqing could only set the rule to [Harming or killing green-named NPCs will result in -100 regional reputation, and receive the [Wanted] debuff. During this debuff, experience and gold coin acquisition will automatically be reduced by two-thirds, and blood recovery speed will be reduced by 80%, and any buffs cannot be used.]

He tried his best to write the consequences as seriously as possible, and the game froze for a few seconds after submitting it. Just when Yan Yunqing suspected that it still wouldn’t pass him, the panel prompted that the rule had passed.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Yan Yunqing followed this pattern and stepped on the game system’s bottom line to set a few rules, and they all showed that they had passed.

Just as Yan Yunqing was admiring the rules he had set, the alchemy golem sent a message.