mtlumby2d Chapter 458 - 77: The State of the World, the Black Prison Race’s Alertness
Chapter 458 - 77: The State of the World, the Black Prison Race’s Alertness
In the blink of an eye, six years of game time—Star Empire time—had passed since the Players were deployed to the Shadow World.
All the first-wave Players had now undergone twenty-one hundred-day evaluations.
It had to be said that the True Game had been quite generous with its investment in this world.
At least, for the older generation of Players—in their words—the million new Players in the Shadow World had boarded the express train of a new era.
After all, they were the ones who had arrived just in time for the True Game’s full-scale version update.
And now, with the full-scale version update a part of history, many veteran Players had come to learn the inside story behind many of the True Game’s initial changes.
This was especially true during these six years of all-out conquest by the Star Empire.
As for the so-called full-scale upgrade of the True Game, in the words of the veteran Players—and the Player Deities...
The True Game had encountered a game system from the same origin.
The two games merged, giving rise to the so-called faction system.
And this faction system, to put it simply, was a new game mode established by the True Game’s Chief Dragon God along with three other powerful Deities from the kindred game system.
The True Cosmic Game, or you could say, the Cosmic True Game.
This was the official designation for the True Game after its full-scale version update.
According to the Player Deities, under the current True Cosmic Game, the other three Deities were also far from weak, not just the Chief Dragon God.
Otherwise, the so-called faction system would never have appeared.
In short, all Players of the Star Empire only needed to know one thing for now.
That, under the True Game, besides their own faction led by the Dragon God, three other powerful, friendly factions had emerged.
As for the specifics of the factions, that was not something ordinary Players could know or get involved in.
They just had to follow orders.
In the end, the final victory would surely belong to the Star Empire, to the Players of the Dragon God’s faction.
This was the extent of an ordinary Player’s knowledge regarding the game’s version update.
In any case, the rewards in the upgraded True Game were much better than what the first-generation Players had received.
Take now, for example.
After twenty-one hundred-day evaluations...
...more than four thousand High Tier Players had emerged among the Players in the Shadow World.
Among them, a dozen or so had even reached the Saint Tier.
And this terrifying speed of advancement didn’t even account for the True Game’s generous protection mechanics for new Players in this world.
In short, this alone was enough to make many veteran Players green with envy.
And now, with the emergence of large numbers of High Tier Players and the covert development of several hundred thousand Middle-Low Tier Players...
...it was safe to say that this "farm" world, which belonged to the Black Prison Race, had long since been secretly infiltrated by the True Game’s Players until it was as full of holes as a sieve.
According to current calculations...
In the Shadow World, of the one million Players initially deployed—not counting the newcomers who constantly replaced those who failed along the way...
...approximately 670,000 of the original Players remained.
Among these 670,000 original Players, fewer than 100,000 were still lingering in the Low Tier.
Nearly 600,000 of them had long since entered the Middle Tier.
With such a massive force, and taking into account the True Game’s temporary military rank system...
...one could only imagine how many of the Shadow World’s natives had become ’Extraordinary Soldiers’ under the Players’ military rank system.
In short, to put it in a single sentence:
Take the Andrews Kingdom, where the Player Yue Xin was deployed.
The Power the Players had amassed there, on their own, was now enough to overthrow the entire kingdom in an instant.
Of course, "overthrow" wasn’t quite the right word.
This was because the True Game’s quest-triggering model for this world was clearly a very gentle one, especially concerning the natives.
So, in the Andrews Kingdom today...
...it wasn’t just Little Princess Trish, who had been recruited into the Ghost-Slaying Alliance long ago.
Even the kingdom’s Eldest Prince—the current King of the Andrews Kingdom, ’Andrews XVII’—had also long since become a member of the Star Empire’s Ghost-Slaying Alliance.
Now, throughout the entire Andrews Kingdom...
...the power of all Players had long been consolidated.
Its full designation was: ’Star Empire, Shadow World, Andrews Kingdom Region, 17th Legion of the Freedom Legion.’
The first temporary Legion Commander was none other than the Player Yue Xin, the man known in this world as ’Bertrand.’
The legion commanded a total of over six thousand Players.
This included one at Saint Tier.
Sixteen at High Tier, and an uncounted number of Middle-Low Tier Players.
And the number of native soldiers that these six thousand-plus Players had recruited and organized on their own was even more terrifying.
To put it this way:
The entire Andrews Kingdom was neither large nor small.
Its population was consistently around four million people.
But after the Players meticulously combed through this population of over four million...
...they had unearthed nearly everyone with the Potential to become a Transcendent.
It had to be said that while all the humans in this world were mortals, it was, after all, a Middle Demon World.
Therefore, steeped in the world’s Magic Power, mortals with Extraordinary Talent were not uncommon.
Within the borders of the Andrews Kingdom alone...
...there were over 300,000 people who could successfully step into the Extraordinary Realm through a Bloodline infusion ritual.
Thus, with the powerful logistical support provided by the Star Empire via the True Game...
...a continuous supply of Bloodline Potions quickly allowed these Players to forge a massive legion of Transcendents.
A Transcendent legion of this magnitude.
This would have been utterly impossible to build if the Players had been forced to rely only on themselves while hiding their actions from the natives.