"Ghostly Child, come out quickly!"
"Let's see what you've got!"
"Please, just show us! We promise not to tell anyone!"
"Ghostly Child, you've changed. You've become so aloof, ignoring us after reaching Ω. Are we not worthy anymore? Waaah..."
"@Ghostly Child."
"@Ghostly Child."
"@Ghostly Child."
A group of players were still calling out to Ghostly Child in the "Do Nothing" group.
Including Power 39.
All three times Ghostly Child was mentioned, it was by him.
Power 39 really wanted to know what the girl had encountered.
It was something he had missed out on!
Ghostly Child wasn't intentionally being aloof and ignoring them, her emotions were just very complicated at the moment.
There was no doubt that Gu Chi had deceived her... and he had deceived her badly.
She even gained a hidden achievement because of it.
【Me and My Prophet (Gold): This is a tragic story. Someone was deceived the whole game, but I won't say who. A foolish girl knew her emotions were being manipulated, yet willingly went to fulfill the other person's wish, even if it meant getting hurt. She refused to believe that the Prophet would deceive her, until the very end, she wanted to quickly kill the other players and spend 18 days in the instance with her Prophet. Luckily, she died, otherwise I really worry she would have been deceived to the bone. Is she stupid or what? This achievement is a gold hidden one, it will give the girl a huge boost in mental attributes, I hope she grows a brain in the future. (Mental attributes can make people smarter, really, believe me (#^.^#))】
Ghostly Child: "..."
What a load of crap.
Mental attributes don't increase intelligence, this was a conclusion players had reached long ago.
Just like increasing charm doesn't improve looks, it only makes people feel mentally fulfilled, ready to be deceived again after being deceived once.
Little Broken Game was clearly mocking her!
But...
Mocking aside, Little Broken Game generously gave her 1 whole point of mental attribute.
That was a real benefit, she couldn't curse at him.
Similarly, even though Gu Chi had deceived her badly, he had somehow led her to complete the Ω instance in a certain way, gaining a lot of new items.
Ghostly Child's final evaluation should theoretically be higher than Gu Chi's. Her exploration of the world and Power 39's were both at 100%, her personal tasks were completed, and she had more player kills than Gu Chi. It was just that her final public task score dropped by 50%, resulting in her only receiving an SS.
Ghostly Child counted, a total of 73 epic items, 3 legendary items, including 2 legendary consumables.
So Ghostly Child was confused.
She inexplicably felt like she was watching a melodramatic romance drama—
"Are you stupid? He's deceiving you!"
"I know, but he called me baby..."
Ghostly Child: "..."
Even though Gu Chi didn't call her baby, this was more valuable than a hypocritical baby.
Power 39 persistently @'d the girl: "Hurry up, stop pretending to be dead. If worst comes to worst, we'll team up next time, I'll just pretend I can't see you."
Ghostly Child: "..."
Thinking about next time?
"Gift of the Stars" gave her an extra 30 points of attribute and a temporary divine attribute that she didn't know the use of yet—she hadn't checked.
But she could calculate that, with her equipment maxed out, her total attributes exceeded 190, only about 20 points less than Power 39. If she were to obtain a legendary item that matched her abilities, it wasn't certain who would win.
Ghostly Child posted the legendary box in the group: "Gift of the Stars."
Old Li: "!!!"
Sleepy Orange: "!!!"
Second-hand Trader: "!!!"
Everyone: "!!!"
The "Do Nothing" group once again went into spam mode.
Crazy Tire: "F*ck, a legendary!"
This Assassin Isn't Too Cold: "A real legendary!"
Sleepy Orange: "I'm so jealous, waaah..."
Paper Bullet Ice: "Quickly open it! Don't sell it to me if you get something!"
Old Li frowned and scolded, "What bad idea are you thinking, can't you say something nice? Do you not know how rare legendaries are? How many are there in the entire national server? Ghostly Child finally got a box, if she opens it and gets equipment she can't use, how sad will she be?"
Ghostly Child: "Exactly!"
This Paper Bullet Ice was really bad!
Old Li: "So @Ghostly Child, to prevent you from being sad, just don't open it and sell the box to me directly."
Paper Bullet Ice: "???"
Ghostly Child: "???"
Everyone: "???"
This Old Li was really bad!
Only Power 39 didn't say anything else.
Whether Ghostly Child would be sad, he didn't know, but he was feeling pretty sad right now...
The legendary item that Ghostly Child posted was a box, similar to a clearance gift pack.
In other words, it was a guaranteed reward.
Regardless of whether you completed your personal task or what your final score was, even if it was an F, as long as you cleared the instance, you would receive this box.Power 39 fell silent.
His eyelids twitched, his lips tightly closed, and the skin of his lips and cheeks trembled lightly.
It felt as if his long-time girlfriend had left him, and a sword had pierced his heart.
Even the sea outside the window, rippling in the wind, seemed so lonely and desolate.
There was once an opportunity in front of him—
Before the final release, Gu Chi invited him for a drink.
And he refused.
"The personal mode of a top player doesn't include the option to clear together."
At that time, Power 39 was carefree and arrogant.
He could win and lose, that's called pride.
Now, Power 39 wanted to give himself a slap.
"Who cares about your pride!"
That was a legendary opportunity!
Although he had a legendary revolver himself, it didn't really boost his combat power by much.
His marksmanship was good, and most players would use guns, after all, it was the most simple and effective weapon in the early stages of the game.
But in the middle and later stages, guns weren't as effective.
Except for some "special agent" players with their modified guns, it was hard to hit anyone with firearms that hadn't been improved in terms of firing speed or accuracy.
Especially for players like Ghostly Child, with extremely high agility attributes, if she wanted to hide, the bullets would hardly touch her.
And once you missed a shot, others would come to beat you up.
He didn't have any auxiliary shooting skills either.
For Power 39, it was better to throw a punch than to fire a shot.
He had been waiting to see if there was a chance to exchange a legendary item with other players.
He didn't even need to exchange, he could directly obtain a new legendary item, then he would be a man with two legendary items. However, the fact was, he had given up this opportunity himself, and let Gu Chi kick him out like a fool.
He even threatened Gu Chi, saying he would commit suicide if he didn't take action.
How much of a grudge did he hold against the legendary items!
Power 39 felt so much pain.
The most painful thing in the world was never about others having something and oneself not having it.
It was about being able to have something, but losing it because of one's own actions...
Sexy Uncle: "Am I the only one who feels a bit cheated by this first clear reward?"
Orange Orange Can't Wake Up: "? Where's the cheating? It's a legendary item!"
Sexy Uncle explained: "According to our previous judgment, the probability of getting a legendary item from an SS-level instance should be relatively high, and even higher for SSS-level. For an Ω-level instance, there should theoretically be a chance to obtain equipment above legendary. If we wait for the new version to clear the instance, this box might not only contain a legendary item."
It's a bit late to say this now, the box is already in hand, and there's no way to start over.
"Current version" refers to the version when the item was obtained, and it won't change with version updates, the reward pool is fixed.
Chu Mu's opinion was different: "There are still three legendary items missing in the new version, and we don't know when the update will be, maybe in a few months, maybe one or two years, or even longer. Even if this condition can be met, deliberately failing and putting the instance into the game library to enter after the update, they might not necessarily get the game rights, the people from Dragon Blade have been watching."
Power 39 didn't talk to everyone about the instance, indicating that the instance itself wasn't an Ω-level, it should be just a normal S or A, nothing special.
Ghostly Child also didn't know what had happened, so it must be that the other two had somehow raised the "difficulty level" of the instance, and through some special means, restored the "real difficulty" to achieve the effect of cheating on the difficulty.
This requires the key factors for raising the instance difficulty to be extremely compatible with one's own abilities, and most of the time, even if the instance difficulty is raised, it is only raised to a limited extent, such as the recent instance that appeared—A→S, this kind of increase of only one difficulty level is the norm.
Two small probability events stacked together, it's hard to come across without some luck.
Since it happened, of course, they had to enjoy the benefits of cheating as soon as possible.
Old Li urged Ghostly Child: "Has the box been opened? What did you get?"
Ghostly Child was washing her hands and hadn't had a chance to reply, when another system announcement popped up.
【Global Announcement】
【Dear players, were you feeling particularly shocked, unable to understand, and incredulous just now?】
【That's right, because we were just fooling you】
【This is just a little joke】
【In this ordinary and ordinary day, we urgently want to add a bit of fun to everyone's lives】
【So we have decided to set December 5th-6th as the first player festival of Pure Land Game】
【Global April Fool's Day】
【Surprised? Expected?】
【To celebrate the establishment of this festival, we have carefully prepared a "April Fool's Day gift package" for everyone, which has been sent to your mailbox, please check it in time】
【Wishing everyone a happy April Fool's Day, goodbye】
Old Li: "???"
Sexy Uncle: "???"
Everyone: "???"
This announcement was also sent out globally at the same time.
Just as one wave subsided, another wave rose.
A player from a foreign server: "Fuck! This joke is not funny at all!"A certain mixed-race player: "Ah Xi... Little broken game, you're so bad!"
In the amusement park, a group of players were excitedly discussing the 2.0 version, full of question marks.
They didn't know Gu Chi, Xia Ling, and Ghostly Child, so they couldn't discuss the rewards, they could only chat about the upcoming new version.
Then Little broken game told them that the previous announcement was fake?
"You're kidding me!"
"Deceiving consumers, huh!"
"Is it some kind of global April Fool's Day joke, playing us like this!"
"Hey, check your mailbox, they sent ten memory crystals and a bag of rice!"
"Wow, that's so generous??"
"Oh, so today is really April Fool's Day."
"Huh, did they send the wrong announcement just now? Why don't I remember?"
"No, right? Little broken game has always been rigorous, how could they make a mistake?"
"That's true."
In the Do nothing group, Old Li urgently said, "@Ghostly Child, are your clearance rewards still there?"
Orange Orange couldn't wake up: "Hurry and check!"
They weren't stupid, and they could react to the fact that Little broken game was retracting the previous server-wide first clearance announcement in a new way.
Now, when they opened the historical announcement records, they couldn't find the three heroes who had just been engraved on the milestone of human civilization.
That wasn't the key issue, the key was whether the rewards had been retracted along with the announcement.
Ghostly Child quickly opened her backpack.
Unlike Gu Chi, who had already had one experience, knowing that Little broken game was generous, and seeing that the boxes and such were still lying quietly in the grid, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank goodness, Little broken game can afford it."
Ghostly Child replied in the group: "They're all there."
Old Li: "That's good then."
After sending this message, he felt something was wrong again: "Wait, what do you mean by 'they're all there'?"
Strength 39 was a bit shaken: "Please don't tell me there's more than one legendary item."
Ghostly Child sent a cute winking expression: "Indeed, there's more than one, and a few legendary consumables as well."
Strength 39: "???"
Old Li: "???"
Everyone: "???"
There's more, and there are a few more??
Ghostly Child didn't reply for the time being.
She first opened the box.
Just in case Little broken game changed its mind, at least she could enjoy it a bit with the help of the prophet.
There was only a desk lamp on in the bedroom, and more of the night.
The girl sat on the edge of the bed, and her appearance wasn't very clear until a burst of brilliant golden light illuminated her face.
[Obtained item: Dance of the Backlight (Legendary)]
[Dance of the Backlight: "The most superior assassination technique is not stealth, getting close, and a full-force strike, but openly walking over, hiding yourself at the moment of attack." - The young dark god once heard the teacher say this, but she was a bit stupid and never learned it, so she later made this pendant. Carrying this item will increase your agility attribute by +5, and you will enter a hidden state with each attack, lasting until the end of that attack.]
Ghostly Child: "??!"
Hidden!
She actually obtained a legendary equipment that could passively hide herself!
The advanced stealth magic she learned in the game couldn't be brought out because she didn't have the Eternal Seal.
Ghostly Child had been opening memory crystals for several years, and she had already lost hope, even though she still opened them in that direction every time, there was no ripple in her heart.
For her, not getting anything was normal.
But she didn't expect her luck to be so good this time, directly obtaining a legendary stealth...
"Wow, my prophet!"
Ghostly Child was so moved she wanted to cry.
The people in the group saw that she wasn't speaking and started mentioning her again.
Crazy Tire: "Where is she? What good thing did she get, show everyone!"
The old players were relatively idle.
They were no longer interested in the rewards from the game library, and the monthly recruitment was limited. Besides occasionally making money, most of the time they were picking up bargains at the auction house and chatting.
Ghostly Child wouldn't fall for these bad tricks.
How could she easily show the equipment attributes to others?
Especially to people who could be grouped together at any time, showing them would only weaken herself, she wasn't that stupid.
Ghostly Child snorted lightly, then smiled contentedly: "/Drooling/Drooling, I love the prophet!"
Crazy Tire: "?"
Old Li: "?"
Strength 39: "?"
Xia Leng: "?"
Orange Orange couldn't wake up: "???"
The goddess sister actually used question marks, could it be that the prophet in Ghostly Child's mouth had something to do with her?
Strength 39 sarcastically emphasized: "Just now, didn't you ask me if they were players, wanting to get revenge on them? Now you love them? Is this what women are like?"
Ghostly Child's face turned slightly red, and she straightened up with pride: "You don't understand, this is deep hatred and deep love."
She wasn't an unreasonable person.
She couldn't say what would happen after a good night's sleep, but at least at this moment, she really wasn't angry... she didn't have the right to be angry! Otherwise, wouldn't she be taking advantage and acting cute?Anyway, she had a way to get back to Gu Chi. When they met again, she would deal with the dear prophet. For now, she would love first and talk later!
The crazy tire repeatedly looked at the five characters of "Prophet Mister," and suddenly slapped his head: "Fuck, I forgot to add him as a friend!"
This wave of communication, Ghostly Child didn't know anything, obviously just a pendant, the real action was the other two people in the announcement!
No, most likely it's one person.
Prophet Mister - everyone calls him Mister, so he should be a man.
From the ID, the two characters "Gu Yuan" look more like a man.
Orange Orange couldn't wake up: "Oh no, I forgot their names!"
This killer isn't too cold: "Haha, are you really not awake? It's only been a short time, how could you forget?"
Orange Orange couldn't wake up and said in a grievance: "Who knows that Little Broken Game would delete the announcement."
Chu Mu Chen sent out two IDs: "Gu Yuan, Fish in the Pond."
After two seconds, the crazy tire started to curse: "Damn, who's acting so fast? I can't even send a friend request!"
Orange Orange couldn't wake up: "/Crying, I couldn't send it out either."
Chu Liuxiang: "Me too!"
At this point, it was already past midnight, and the Do Nothing group started the second wave of spam for the day.
A group of players who wouldn't let go of Ghostly Child didn't send out a single friend request.
The maximum number of friends in the Pure Land game is only 500, and the message box for receiving system prompts can only hold 2000 friend requests. If this number is exceeded and not dealt with in a timely manner, other players won't be able to add you.
Old Li Head: "/Disdain, you guys, at least you're all top-tier players, always thinking about clinging to others, can't you have a little ambition and help yourselves?"
Crazy tire: "Sorry, I'm useless."
Orange Orange couldn't wake up: "Useless +1."
Everyone: "Useless +1."
On the other side.
Gu Chi played around with Xia Ling for a while, bickered with her, and waited until the "Judgment of Sin" BUFF disappeared before reluctantly exiting the settlement interface.
A quick look at "paw𝑟ead.com" will leave you more fulfilled.
Seeing a small horn flashing in the lower right corner, he casually clicked on it, and a series of friend requests popped up, sorted from 1-20.
【Player "Old Li Head" requests to add you as a friend (through ID search), do you agree?】
【Player "I'm in the Air Force" requests to add you as a friend (through ID search), do you agree?】
【Player "Number One Little White Face in Jiuzhou" requests to add you as a friend (through ID search), do you agree?】
【Player "Big Brother Wants Me" requests to add you as a friend (through ID search), do you agree?】
【……】
Gu Chi thought there were only 20 requests at first, but as he continued to accept, he found that there was a 【2000/2000】 in the upper right corner.
No matter how he agreed, it was always 【2000/2000】.
When would he finish accepting these?
Xia Ling was the same.
Gu Chi decisively closed the message box.
He actually liked making friends, like Li Tianque.
But this time, there were too many, he would deal with it when he had time.
Gu Chi opened his personal panel.
【Player level increase: 14→20】
【Player level has reached the limit, unable to gain more experience points】
【Ranking function has been opened】
【Scheduled summoning function has been opened】
【Competitive mode has been added to the summoning (your next summoning will definitely be this mode)】
【Item refining function has been opened】
【Ability/item decomposition function has been opened】
【Increased probability of matching high-difficulty dungeons: 3%】
【New attribute activated: Divinity (can be viewed in the personal panel)】
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Player: Gu Yuan
Current gender: Male
Level: 20
Game sessions: 18
Constitution: 7 (+8.5)
Spirit: 10 (+7.5)
Agility: 5 (+7.3)
Strength: 6 (+7.3)
Charm: 9 (+7.3)
Divinity level: 0 (+1) (0/100) (click to view details)
Talent: Blazing Fire Physique
Special: Daoist Art - Word Spirit, Forbidden Curse - Ashes of Annihilation
Dao Yun: 75/75
Skills: Stone Skin Technique lv1 (+1), Dream Manipulation Technique lv10 (+2), Enchanting Hand lv7…… (3 remaining skills not displayed)
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His level directly soared to 20, and he was now a full-level player.
There were quite a few new functions, but Gu Chi didn't look at them for the time being. He was more concerned about that divinity.
He hadn't even opened the Legendary Box yet.
When it came to attributes, it was more important than equipment.
At this time, Xia Ling's actions were basically synchronized with Gu Chi's, both of them opened the "Personal" panel to look at the divinity.
"Huh? Seems like a new function?"
The divinity had an independent panel, with a background that seemed to be a large tree, with a faint outline, mostly covered by mist, only the bottom of the trunk was visible.
There were three star-like light spots on the trunk, and only the bottom one was lit up.[Path of God-Making (Simplified Test Version 1.0)]
[Current Divine Rank: 1]
[Activated Effects: All negative effects you receive are reduced by 20%, final damage taken is reduced by 20%, and final damage dealt is increased by 20%.]
[Divine Rank 2 Activation: Previous level effects increase to 30%, and your body's self-healing speed increases by 30%.]
[Divine Rank 3 Activation: Previous level effects increase to 50%, and all your ability costs are reduced by 50%.]
[Divine Rank 4 Activation: ???]
"Brother..."
Xia Ling tugged at Gu Chi's arm with a slightly dazed look, murmuring, "This divinity... seems a bit overpowered."
Gu Chi smacked his lips.
It wasn't just overpowered; it was practically inhuman.
To put it in layman's terms, this was another form of level suppression.
Or rather, "species" suppression.
Especially the effects of Divine Rank 3, which for his Speech Spirit Technique meant doubling the upper limit of Dao Yun.
Wasn't this just taking off from the ground?
So the question was—how does one acquire divinity?
The same trick wouldn't work a second time; Little broken game would surely patch it overnight, and using the same method to clear Ω probably wouldn't yield anything good anymore. He had to think of another way.
Gu Chi pondered, "There's an experience bar after the divine rank, could it be about grinding monsters?"
Divinity wasn't a skill that could be practiced, nor was it like an attribute that could be increased by eating.
Thinking from a player's perspective, Gu Chi's first reaction upon seeing the experience bar was to grind, grind, grind.
But ordinary monsters wouldn't do.
According to the settings of Pure Land, many things are unlocked only after contact, such as Dao Yun, magic power, blood energy, etc., each corresponding to different types of skills.
The reverse was also true.
If someone in reality developed magic power, the term would also appear on their personal combat information panel.
If ordinary monsters could grant divine experience, then everyone should have already unlocked divinity, and the forums would be flooded with guides by now, no need for a newbie like him to ponder over it.
New attribute entries for the new version would likely rely on new instances and items.
"I've got it!"
Xia Ling's eyes brightened as she pulled out a delicate mini door from her bag and laid it in her palm, "Could it be this?"
Gu Chi had this item too.
The Gate of the Divine Realm.
...
Still 6000 words! My schedule's a bit off, I'm adjusting, and I'm saving some manuscripts to update on time. (Vote for monthly tickets!)
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