Chapter 248-1: Mole Operation, Super Welfare (1) |
Primordial Altar.
While keeping an eye on how the players were doing in the Etherbreath World, Qi Sheng was also paying attention to Little Mage who had obtained Blood King’s memories.
It was not that he worried Little Mage would be affected after receiving Blood King’s vast memories.
Although the thickness of the two sets of memories was not on the same level at all.
Blood King had waged cross-realm wars for an endless span of years, while Little Mage’s twenty-three years of memories, compared to Blood King’s, were like a single drop of water in a washbasin.
If the memories truly fused completely, Little Mage would inevitably lose his true self and believe he was Blood King.
But with the purification system’s protection, any external memories or emotions could not influence a player.
Because any feeling brought by a memory requires a corresponding emotion as its carrier, a memory without emotion is like a movie.
The purification system erases all emotions, leaving memories as pure information.
A similar situation could be referenced with the Taunt Inherited soul.
When Taunt Primordials were first contained, quite a few players were struck by the rule trait of taunting.
An uncontrollable, intense anger would surge up within, and the illusion woven by memory made players unable to extricate themselves.
But once that segment of memory was cleaned by the purification system, the emotions contained within it vanished completely, and players would no longer be affected by that memory in any way.
Blood King’s memories were incomparably long. After being stripped by the purification system, they became a dry, lengthy documentary.
When revisiting these memories, Little Mage would take his own emotions as the starting point and feel anger, empathy, and so on.
Rather than experiencing these memories through Blood King’s emotions.
It was like an archived information library. Little Mage could retrieve and view it at any time, but only view it.
For example, in one segment of Blood King’s slaughter memories, Blood King’s corresponding emotion at the time was exhilaration.
After Little Mage watched that segment, his reaction might be disgust, feeling that the act was too cruel.
The memories were the same, but the emotions produced took Little Mage’s own thoughts as the base point.
He could empathize, feel sadness, feel anger, but it would all be centered on the player’s own thinking.
It was more like obtaining a precious book of memories, filled with lots of useful knowledge that could be leafed through.
Among these memories there were even memories about Earth.
Because Blood King’s memories included discussions with the other seven Etherbreath Thrones on how to invade Earth.
But Qi Sheng had no intention of stepping in to alter this part of the memory.
The Lunar Eclipse race had already explained this very clearly to the outside world.
The Etherbreath World instance was made using the forces that were about to invade Earth as the blueprint.
Therefore, the invasion plan for Earth, including content such as controlling floating behemoths to enter Earth for reconnaissance, could all be reasonable plot information.
Secondly, the Lunar Eclipse race also stated that there were many hidden easter eggs and hidden plot contents in the small world instances, triggered at random.
All the explanations had already been provided in advance by the Lunar Eclipse race, so there was absolutely no need to worry about this aspect.
Qi Sheng did not even need to have Guide send that player another Challenger Notification to indicate that this was hidden plot.
Since Monster World went online.
Aside from territory node containment and Primordial Monster containment, no missions had clear Challenger Notifications.
Later, it was from the Lord of Ecstasy’s Death Space that a large amount of unverified intel was obtained, and only then was an update setting launched in which some hidden missions would trigger prompts.
Before that, the events of players discovering the Darkborn space, discovering the Ecstasy space, and a series of other incidents were all organized and undertaken by players on their own initiative, with absolutely no prompts about hidden missions.
But these events that could bring immense profits were considered hidden plot by the players.
Many hidden missions had no prompts. In the eyes of the players, this was a hidden setting by the officials to enhance the game’s freedom.
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At this moment, in the Etherbreath World.
At the Super Beast Legion’s blood pool garrison.
“It’s over, completely over.”
Thinking of how he would have to face countless enraged players, Little Mage’s mentality exploded.
The carry-for-hire mode was indeed delightful. He had earned more than one hundred thousand in sacrificial power while lying flat, but the price was becoming the public enemy of all.
The karmic burden was too heavy. He felt he could not bear it.
As a player, he could provoke any powerful enemies, even the Black Tide could be fought without fear, and there was nothing to be afraid of.
But the one thing he could not become was the public enemy among the player group. Otherwise, he would not even be able to step out of Emperor’s Mound Village.
His fellow townsmen were more terrifying than the Black Tide or the Swarm.
Now he had already reached a dead end.
Thinking that a large number of players had already stated on the forum that they would band together to crusade against him, Little Mage’s expression shifted between gloom and brightness.
“Damn it, worst case I will fight to the bitter end.”
He hardened his heart and had the idea to simply become a villain BOSS, walking a path of growth through slaughter.
But when the corner of his eye caught sight of the 999+ application notifications, that burst of ferocity in his heart deflated like a pricked balloon, leaking away cleanly.
He felt he was indulging in pure fantasy.
To set himself against his fellow townsmen meant only one road to death. How could he possibly fight against fellow townsmen united together.
If he chose to keep being arrogant, he would probably be doxxed by his fellow townsmen offline, dragged out of the game pod, and beaten up.
It was not that he was worried about the privacy protection of upper-realm beings inside the game.
Although players could not find his information from Monster World’s database, many brothers in the guild knew which city he lived in.
With many clues pieced together, it was entirely possible to find his specific address.
By then, the arrogant online villain would be beaten black and blue offline.
Besides, the path of a villain was not one he could walk.
The Etherbreath race’s growth system was a little brother compared to Monster World. Even if he possessed the entire Etherbreath legion, in Monster World he would just be a dish on the table, and any nearby force could come take a bite.
Back home, he did not even have the qualifications to be a villain.
“It’s over.”
The more he thought, the more despair he felt. Little Mage summoned the function panel, recalled Guide water sphere that had been masked, then looked at Guide water sphere floating at his side and asked with hopeful expectation.
“Brother Guide, can I delete my account and start over?”
Guide’s eyelids lifted slightly.
[What do you think?]
“I think I can.”
Guide did not answer and closed his eyelids again.
Seeing Guide’s reaction, Little Mage’s heart went cold.
He actually knew the answer without asking.
But he still asked while clinging to a sliver of hope, yearning for a miracle.
Monster World had no explicit class positions. Whatever build one wanted to play could be switched to at any time as long as there was sacrificial power.
So there was fundamentally no function for deleting an account to start over, or creating a new alt.
He was probably finished.
He definitely could not return to the village now.
He had just checked the forum, and he estimated at least one hundred thousand players wanted to kill him to vent their anger.
Most of those players had no vendetta with him, but many players had their own small groups. To offend one among them was to offend the entire small group.
The result was that everywhere were players who saw him as a traitor.
The good news was, he had become famous, and his forum popularity rivaled Darkness Approaches.
The bad news was, his infamy had spread far and wide. In the eyes of players, he was a bastard who betrayed his own camp for the sake of completing a hidden mission, someone whom everyone had the right to execute.
“No, I have to go on the forum and explain, otherwise I really am done for.”
