Global Games: Reporting the Great Ascension Stage at the Start

Shen Hua neither heard nor cared about the players' questions.

Leaving the starting village, I galloped on my horse along the official road.

As he urged his horse forward, Shen Hua felt the cool breeze blowing in his face.

The reason he didn't stay in the starting village was because he didn't want to do those beginner quests.

The purpose of beginner quests is to help players understand this world, and the rewards are actually quite good, including some low-grade spirit stones, low-level cultivation techniques, and even low-level magic weapons.

But Shen Hua has better places to earn his first pot of gold, and doesn't need to wait in line here.

……

He opened the system map and saw that he was currently located in the eastern part of Donghai County, Xuzhou, near the sea.

The regions assigned in the game are based on the real world. In the real world, he is in Donghai City, so he is naturally assigned to Donghai County in the game.

Only players of the demon race will be initially assigned to the mountains in the southwest; for others, their locations in the game are not much different from those in the real world.

After traveling westward for about 10 minutes on the official road, Shen Hua was suddenly struck by a sudden change in the weather!

It was as if he had entered another world. The wide official road under his horse's hooves suddenly turned into a mountain path, and the vast plains around him turned into steep forests. It was noon when he set off, but now it was dusk.

"Hiss~" The chestnut pony was startled and suddenly reared up, its front hooves raised high in the air.

Shen Hua remained calm, gently stroking the horse's mane to comfort it.

Soon, he received a system notification: [Notification: You have successfully triggered a small-scale scenario quest. The basic reward for this scenario quest is 1 [Low-grade Spirit Stone]. Do you wish to participate?]

Shen Hua knew without looking at the prompt that a scene mission had been triggered. Every time a scene mission was triggered, the weather would change drastically, as if he had entered another world.

In his past life, he experienced numerous scenario-based missions.

But now, he still looked extremely concerned.

"Yes."

[System notification: Your participation in this scenario task has been confirmed. The task has begun. Good luck!]

The "Scene Quest" system is a unique feature of the game "Ascension".

Unlike traditional online games where monsters are everywhere, the game "Ascension" has separate low-level and high-level leveling areas.

In the world of "Ascension", wild monsters are very rare. At most, various powerful monsters dwell near mountains with rich spiritual energy, and various ancient forbidden lands are located there.

The number of wild monsters is scarce, and the number of quests issued by NPCs is also limited, but 70 billion players worldwide are still eagerly waiting to level up. The solution for the game "Ascension" is - scene quests.

Players in the Qi Refining stage can trigger a scenario quest once a week simply by walking in the wild.

By completing scenario-based tasks, players can obtain a varying amount of cultivation resources.

As for why Shen Hua attaches such importance to it, the reason is very simple—the scenario-based tasks are extremely, extremely, extremely important!

The scenario task is completed, and the rating is out of 5 levels: [Poor], [Pass], [Good], [Excellent], and [Perfect].

The higher the rating, the better the reward.

Furthermore, the better you perform, such as achieving an "Excellent" rating or higher, the more difficult the next scenario task will be, and the better the rewards will be!

This is a positive cycle: the better you complete the task, the higher the reward for the next task!

However, if you don't perform well, for example, if your first scenario task is rated "poor", then not only will you not receive a reward this time, but the difficulty of the next scenario task will remain the same, and you still won't receive much of a reward, which will create a vicious cycle.

Therefore, scenario-based tasks are very important!

Especially for players who lack talent and have bad luck, scenario-based missions are of paramount importance.

In the video, Huangpi Dahaozi said that players need to rely on "talent, skill, and luck." "Talent" refers to spiritual roots, "luck" refers to fortune, and "skill" refers to the scenario tasks.

For players with poor spiritual roots and bad luck, scenario quests are the only path for them to become top players. On this path, spiritual roots and luck are irrelevant; only skill matters.

This is why Shen Hua attaches such importance to scenario-based tasks.

He has mixed spiritual roots and his talent isn't great. Although there's a huge advantage to playing through the game twice, scenario quests are still very important, and you should complete them as best you can each time they're triggered.

Therefore, Shen Hua immediately threw himself into the task to see how to complete it.

Shen Hua continued onward, riding his chestnut pony.

After walking about a few dozen meters, a series of shouts and curses came from not far ahead.

With a thought, Shen Hua spurred his horse forward at full speed.

Soon, after turning a corner, he saw two groups of people facing off on the mountain road ahead.

A group of people dressed in yellow clothes and wearing yellow headscarves, leaning slightly forward with their arms outstretched, were imitating the posture of immortals and birds ascending to heaven. They were clearly people from the Way of Peace.

The other group wore short iron lamellar armor, carried swords and bows, and had black armbands wrapped around their arms. They were probably from some prominent families in Donghai County.

Shen Hua glanced at the armbands and immediately determined that these family guards belonged to either the Mi or Wang families.

The two groups were locked in a standoff for some unknown reason, and the situation was extremely tense.

Just as Shen Hua arrived, the two groups had already begun to make their move.

At the same time, Shen Hua received a system notification: [Please select which side to assist in defeating the opponent. Your choice is: 1. Taiping Dao gang members; 2. Donghai Wang family member A.]

"Members of the Taiping Dao," Shen Hua replied.

[You've made your choice. Because you've chosen the weaker side, your rewards will be increased once the scenario task is completed.]

Shen Hua chose the Way of Peace not for the sake of more rewards, but because he planned to join the [Taipingmen] in the future and couldn't afford to tarnish the Way of Peace's goodwill. Therefore, for him, it was practically a single-choice question.

Shen Hua squeezed his legs together, and the chestnut horse neighed loudly, charging forward like an arrow released from a bow.

There were six members each from the Taipingdao gang and the Wang family's head.

Four members of the Wang family, armed with swords, stood menacingly in front, while two others behind them aimed short bows.

Of the Taiping Dao gang members, only one carried a ring-pommel sword, another a short halberd, and a third a bow; the remaining three were empty-handed.

"You Yellow Turban rebels, disturbing my neighbors and robbing the gentry, you will stay here today!" The leader of the gang shouted, and swung his sword at the Taiping Dao gang member in front.

"Officials exploit us, and powerful figures bully us. If we hadn't been cut off from all other options, who would choose to become a bandit in the mountains?" The leader of the Taiping Dao gang responded indignantly, brandishing his ring-pommel sword as he charged forward.

A loud "bang!"

Jia Jia was unharmed, only swaying slightly; the Taiping Dao gang member immediately lost his grip on his ring-pommel sword, which flew out and fell into the nearby bushes.

In just one encounter, the disadvantages of Taipingdao became apparent.

"Haha, you Yellow Turban rats!" Jia Jia sneered, brandishing his long sword and charging forward.

The blade flashed straight at the opponent's chest, ready to kill him instantly.

However, at that very moment, Shen Hua entered the scene!