How Level Zero Devil Destroys Player Experience

"What the hell is going on? I've clearly purified myself..."

Under normal circumstances, all of a priest's purification skills are simply purifications, the only difference being the range, the number of negative states purified, or other beneficial effects. However, that was only before the game fixed a certain BUG-like mechanism.

[Healing Glory] is a passive skill that every priest must learn. Logically, it should have no connection with this. However, due to the designer's carelessness in the early stage of design, it was set with too high a priority, even taking precedence over the settlement mechanism before purification.

Therefore, the various mechanisms and logics are superimposed on each other, and the final conclusion is that these players in the fanatic state cannot be affected by the weak recovery and early settlement purification effect attached to [Healing Glory].

Because it involves the basic rules of the game, at least before this priority is changed again -

There is no solution to this question.

"How's it going, sister? Is my last trump card okay?"

Looking at Isabella who was distracted by the chaos of the army and players below, I put my hand to my lips.

"Well, now is the time to hunt!"

You asked me, since this BUG has no solution, why not demonstrate this ability from the beginning, but spend so much effort to plan it specifically?

If it had been shown at the very beginning, how could I have tricked so many players into coming in, letting them see the hope given by the army and fight recklessly, using up all their resurrections so that I could earn more points and convert them into energy?

Don’t you think it makes sense?

Thoughts and reflections at the end of the volume

The second volume is not well written, as I've learned from some recent feedback.

In short, it is clear now. I was probably too excited when writing and forgot to control myself, which resulted in too much introduction to the mechanisms and terms in the middle part, making it cumbersome and bloated.

I also know that with the current number of chapters, the pace is already too slow for the entire game process. After more than 300 chapters, the highest player level is only in the early s, which is really unbearable to watch.

I had actually considered speeding up before and finishing this volume as soon as possible. However, I seem to have a bad habit. I always feel that if I wrote so much in the beginning, it would seem a bit out of place if I finished the rest so quickly, so subconsciously I kept adding to it.

So it became what many people complained about, there are too many irrelevant things, in short, it’s just water.

I have also read the new long review, and what this young reader said is also very right. I did focus too much on passers-by before, which resulted in the protagonist and other main supporting characters' presence being much weaker. I got the priorities wrong, and I need to seriously reflect on this.

But I am not quite sure what your positioning is now. Some people prefer to see plots where players are persecuted, while some are more concerned with yuri plots, and some want to see the farming part. With my writing skills, it seems that I cannot take care of so many at the same time, and there will definitely be a lot left out. I hope you can be more tolerant later.

Some people say that they don’t like reading realistic chapters, but some realistic chapters must be connected because they are related to the appearance of characters. Without this description, it feels like there is a lack of logic in the middle. It is impossible for everyone to be closely acquainted with the protagonist as soon as they appear.

You said that it is impossible to put it entirely in the game, because the protagonist always has real life to deal with, so I may not be able to compromise on this point. I can only reduce the length of the later part as much as possible.

Another point I want to explain is that the speed and rhythm of the following chapters may be much faster, like many days passing in a flash, or some other situations that don't quite fit the rhythm of the game process. I hope you can get used to it, because according to my original plan, I was going to write about 130 or 140 million words.

After all, when I first conceived this subject, there was still a lot of content, but as time went on, I felt that there were fewer and fewer new ideas. Every time I wrote one, I had to think about what anti-routine mechanisms and game content I could use, which was really tiring.

That’s all I have to say for now. I’d be very grateful if you could listen to all I have to say.

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Damn, why does the time limit have to be 1000 words?

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A pink hair: So why do you have to drag me in to fill the word count? My time is precious! If you get pushed down by the players, you will be responsible!

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A girl with double ponytails: Can you remove the ellipsis in the middle? It affects the closeness between me and An An.

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A dangerous person: Is this a layer cake?

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A certain Kugimiya voice: I just came here to take a look, I'm not thinking of playing with you guys or anything, please don't get me wrong.

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A daughter (fake): Why do we have to take a high-rise? It’s so high. I want to take the elevator up.

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A slacking fish intelligent brain:? Which eye of yours saw me slacking off?

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A great and wise intelligent brain: Tsk, you want to compete with me with such limited computing power? Ah, I’m so sleepy.

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Shit, finally enough.

Volume 3: The bells of siege and city building ring

Chapter 1: In the blink of an eye

After the incident in the ruins ended, a certain demon king naturally received the building drawings provided by Alice, as well as a large amount of energy points, which showed how many players had been persecuted just by looking at the numbers.

"I didn't expect you to give me such a good show." As for the series of experiences in the attack and defense of the ruins planned by a certain pink-haired creature, Alice said that even though she was an intelligent computer that had processed a lot of information, she was still amazed.

"Oh, by the way, thank you for helping me find this bug. Otherwise, it would be troublesome if players complained later."

On the night when the ruins incident ended, Epoch underwent a small maintenance, which only stated that it was to repair the plot descriptions of some tasks.

However, after I entered the game and tried it out, I found out that the bug that caused the priority of [Healing Radiance] to be too high, which caused it to be entangled with the logical mechanism of Purification, was secretly fixed.

"So what reward do I get?" I asked tentatively when handing over the reward to Alice.

"Of course." Ellie said without hesitation, but the next moment I frowned, "But considering that someone maliciously used a bug, my intelligent computer pays attention to the principle of fairness, so we canceled each other out."

"...Be careful or I'll report you on the forum for secretly fixing bugs."

"What? Don't frame a good person. Under my strict control, how can there be any bug in this game?"

"???"

As long as not many people find out about the secret repair before, there won't be any BUGs. Alice has figured out this trick.

Two months have passed in a flash. During this time, nothing special has happened. In real life, math has become twice as difficult as it was a little more difficult.

What is worth mentioning in the game is probably the monster gathering places that he arranged near the popular cities in the game, as well as some dungeons, and the surplus energy from the attack and defense of ruins that he kept as a backup.

The Heart of Heron was naturally upgraded to level three. After being upgraded to level three, the Heart of Heron also opened up various new buildings, with additional functions and mechanisms such as adding elements to dungeon terrain and fusing monsters.

This also includes the architectural drawings that Alice gave herself after the ruins incident, which the Dark Legion had obtained.

The ability of this building is similar to the effect that Alice gave to Ivan and Cecilia before. It allows me to "recruit" players from the light camp and convert them into members of the dark army under my command in the dark camp.

In addition to this building, among the other additional functions, the one that attracted my attention the most was - city building.

To put it simply, it is to build a city similar to Fansi and Vantientu around the Demon King's Castle as the core. Of course, it is impossible to be as magnificent as the capitals of the Orwin Empire and the Constantina Empire, at least in the early stage.

At most, it should be like Nalton, or even worse...

But all in all, even so I had great expectations. However, after seeing the conditions and materials needed to build a city, I suddenly felt like a frost-bitten eggplant.

After all, 80,000 energy points alone are more than I can afford since my pockets have been emptied by the upgrade of the Heart of Herontis. But even so, I was not discouraged. I calculated the best returns to arrange additional monster gathering places, and at the same time tried to save energy expenses as much as possible.

With this arrangement, the daily income of the Demon King's City has gradually increased from 300 at the beginning to 500, and finally to the current 1,500, and the accumulated energy has reached more than 50,000.

"We still need about 30,000 yuan, which will take more than 20 days..."

I calculated silently in my heart and couldn't help but sigh, "Why does it take so long..."

It seemed that the groaning sound was a bit loud, attracting the attention of a good kid next to her, Yun Qian, "What is Xiaotong's mother talking about?"

"nothing."

I shook my head. After so many days, I had already gotten used to the other party's way of addressing me.

However, Yiwen, who had been paying attention to this side all the time, suddenly came up and said, "An'an, I knew you would not forget our anniversary. In fact, there is no need to be so troublesome. It's good that An'an has this little thought~"

As he spoke, he covered his face again, looking as if he was lost in thought. I don't know what he was thinking about, but he was still laughing.

"Um, anniversary?" Yun Qian blinked.

Cecilia, who was not far away, twitched her ears. She was also attracted by the attention, but the object of her attention was somewhat different. "Snacks? An made snacks again?"

"..."

There was nothing special about Yun Qian's explanation to the other party, she just heard it wrong.

I, Yuwen, and Yunxian, who was eavesdropping nearby, all expressed our deep speechlessness towards this dessert fanatic with twitching lips.

Yiwen coughed, trying to attract everyone's attention again, "Of course I got An An Chuye..."

However, just as I opened my mouth, I caught the sensitive words and subconsciously had a stress reaction, and I got hit hard.

The two lolis who were obviously newbies looked confused.

“Chu Chu Chu... Chu Ye!?” A young lady who seemed to have secretly hidden some study materials blushed and looked at him in shock.

"This guy is referring to his first sleepover at my house."

I explained calmly, and at the same time gave a warning look to the ponytailed girl who was about to attack again, "If you have nothing to do, go and continue to lure monsters."

"Tsk, I thought it was something else..." Yun Xian, who was expecting to hear some hot gossip, curled her lips in disappointment, but felt that this seemed to have exposed something, so she quickly clarified, "I only saw this word on TV, so... I'm a little curious, don't think too much."

"And what are you looking at? Go and lure the monsters away! This is Xiao Qian and I's job transfer mission. Don't be lazy here!"

Yuwen rolled his eyes, just looked at the warning look I gave him, and ran to the front to pull the monster in a sullen manner.

Yes, the reason why we gathered here, as Yun Xian said, is just to help the two sisters complete their first job transfer task.

In more than two months, the player echelon in Era has gradually climbed from the original level 30 to the current mainstream level of 57 and 58, which has clearly exceeded the first-level threshold of 55.

It’s just that at level 55 you can go to the associations of various professions in the capital (religious professions need to go to the church) to accept job transfer tasks.

But in fact, under normal circumstances, there are definitely no more than one or two people out of a hundred who can complete a transformation at level 55.

The time and difficulty required for this job transfer task is beyond the imagination of ordinary players. Even I, who was in the top ten, only completed it when I was over level 60.

Not to mention anything else, before Ivan, Cecilia and I joined, Yun Xian and Yun Qian spent more than a week to barely get half of the progress done, and that was even after I provided them with many process guides. You can see the difficulty and hardship involved.

Chapter 2 Job Change Tasks

In the territory of the Orwyn Empire, in the southwestern Nocasai region, the Zeyue Mountains.

Among the rolling hills interwoven with dense forests, there are many caves, whether they were created naturally or dug by some troglodyte creatures.

These caves are either narrow or wide, and are interconnected, forming a special "transportation network" inside the mountains. In addition to the cave-dwelling monsters, there are also some wizards living here. They were expelled from human cities for learning forbidden black magic.

And they are also the targets that Yun Xian and Yun Qian need to deal with in the job transfer tasks they received from the church priest Lord Calvin.

Under the light of the torch, in the cave which was not bright but still clear enough to see the surroundings, a wizard in a black robe chanted a mysterious spell, and two huge gray-haired beasts were summoned, roaring and attacking a team of players in front.

However, he was stopped halfway by a petite figure.

Yun Qian raised a shield in his hand that was as tall as himself and blocked it in front of him, barely using it to block the attack of the two giant beasts.

Just looking from the side, the beast and the loli seemed to form a huge contrast at this moment, and Yun Qian didn't seem to be feeling well either. He took a half step back with difficulty, barely offsetting the huge force of the two.

"Xiao Qian, lean forward a little when holding the shield. It can help to reduce the impact force." I reminded Yun Qian while casting a curse on the two summoned beasts.

"Yeah." Yun Qian gave herself a simple health recovery and defense blessing, nodded, and obediently did what I said. After resisting another attack from the giant beast, she found that she was indeed a lot more relaxed. "Thank you, Xiaotong Mama~"

"..." I held my forehead helplessly. Although I was used to it, I still felt a little ashamed every time I heard it. However, I did not stop the movement of my hands while thinking this. I continued to entangle the beast in pain and torture.

These reminders are actually not uncommon. During the past two days, when I was helping the two sisters with their tasks, I also gave these little guys in the team a lot of useful professional skills.