Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

"That's just a mirror image, a spectacle projected by an eternal artifact within the city. If Otawien is invaded, the city above will be 'activated.' I don't know the specifics, because it's said that no force has dared to attack the system's main city for decades."

Kal'tsit then began to show Liu Nian around.

The central square is the heart of the entire city.

The place is teeming with people.

No, it should be said that "races" are intertwined.

Although most of them are humanoid races, they are also quite diverse.

There were humans, elves, dwarves, gnomes...

However, there are also other races. For example, at this moment, a guy with dark red skin and two horns on his head walked past him. His aura was as hot as a ball of fire. He was a demon player.

Liu Nian also saw a group of two-headed ogres over three meters tall. They were mostly clad in heavy armor, carrying battle axes as tall as a person on their backs and holding staffs in their hands. The ground trembled when they walked. They were in groups of three or five, and their voices were incredibly loud. They could be heard arguing about the reward for a certain mission from dozens of meters away.

They also saw orcs, different from pigmen, with green skin, protruding tusks, and slightly smaller physiques than pigmen, but their ferocity was no less.

Liu Nian also spotted the Dragonborn—but unlike Liu Nian, these Dragonborn had a distinctly lizard-like appearance, with vertical pupils. The surrounding players seemed quite wary of them, keeping their distance from afar.

We also saw many more races whose names we didn't know—some were shrouded in shadow, their faces obscured; some floated in mid-air, moving through the crowd like ghosts; some had tentacles on their bodies, slowly wriggling forward...

"Don't worry." Kal'tsit seemed to have read his mind. "You are absolutely safe in Altavian. Any attack is ineffective in the city."

Kal'tsit spoke quickly, but Liu Nian quickly understood.

The system's main city has built-in rules to protect its residents from any harm.

But once you leave the city, things are different. Because the players' racial composition is extremely complex, there is no such thing as a "red name" here, which means that players are not prohibited from PK or malicious PK.

90% of the players who manage to ascend have won the Ascension War through combat and have a deep understanding of the cruel rules of Cyber ​​Hell.

Only a small number of regions were promoted collectively through alliances or trade.

Players from such regions rarely appear alone outside their ancestral lands or system cities.

"Oh, right..." Kal'tsit suddenly remembered something, "You're only level 104, you probably don't know the leveling rules for the Abyss, right?"

Liu Nian shook his head: "That's exactly what I was going to ask you."

Liu Nian had killed eight high-level players before, but he didn't gain any experience points.

"You can only gain experience through quests or by killing monsters and NPCs. Killing players from other factions won't give you experience or make you a red name," Kal'tsit said. "But there's a chance they'll drop equipment from your character or inventory."

"Leveling up can be easy or difficult! The main problem is that the monsters in the Abyss are very strong! It's hard for ordinary players to farm a large number of them at once. But it's much easier for players like you."

"And what happens after it's fully upgraded?"

"You mean reaching level 199?" Kal'tsit asked. "Then there are two possibilities. The first is that your race's capital city breaks through to level 3, and you will naturally unlock the level cap. The second is that you don't have your own capital city, so you can only look for opportunities by going to the Battlefield of the Heavens."

"And another thing," Kal'tsit continued, "not only is leveling up difficult here, but farming gold is also incredibly difficult. Most monsters only provide materials, rarely dropping gold directly. And materials... emmm... ordinary monsters rarely drop anything valuable. Only bosses or regional bosses are relatively lucrative. But these bosses are basically monopolized by the major factions, and other guilds can't really get involved... sigh, so leveling up and farming for treasure are both very difficult here. The more players ascend, the harder it becomes! Because resources are fixed, but the number of players sharing them is increasing... which means the later you ascend, the harder it is to stand out..."

Liu Nian listened as he walked, and by this time he had arrived near the edge of the square.

There are numerous shops here, with all sorts of signs: some sell equipment, some sell potions, some sell materials, some sell scrolls, some sell information...

"This is the system shop, and the items sold are mostly standard equipment. There's nothing special about them. If you're interested, you can browse around here later."

Kal'tsit said, "The really good stuff is in some special shops, but since you're new here and your reputation is too low, those areas aren't open to you yet. So I suggest you take on some quests in the various guilds to grind your reputation. I'm not talking about player-run guilds, but the original guild organizations in the main city, such as the Thieves Guild, the Mage Guild, the Bounty Hunter Guild, the Adventurers Guild, and so on. You can also choose to join these guilds. I'm a member of the Engineering Society, for example."

As she spoke, she patted the mechanical device at her waist.

"See those towers?" Kal'tsit pointed to ten towering structures surrounding the plaza, introducing them one by one from the far left. "That's the Bounty Hunter Guild. If you're a solo player, that's perfect for you. Tons of quests, all kinds of difficulty, for all races and classes. The one next to it is the Mage Guild, and next to that is the Rogue Guild, and then the Warrior Guild..."

To the north of the square is a wide-open area, bustling with people.

"That's the free trade zone," Kal'tsit said. "It's where players set up their own stalls. If you have any unwanted equipment or materials, you can sell them there. You can also occasionally find some good stuff there."

Liu Nian glanced around and indeed saw many players sitting on the ground with all sorts of random things in front of them.

To the north of the square, a colossal building stood tall, towering above all others. It was a castle, or rather, a castle complex—black stone walls, soaring towers, heavy gates, and soldiers patrolling the walls.

"The Lord's Mansion." Kal'tsit's tone held a hint of reverence. "It's the administrative center of Ovitan. The Lord is a level 199 eternal NPC named Caesar. He belongs to the 'Empire' faction, so Ovitan is officially considered Empire territory."