How Level Zero Devil Destroys Player Experience

I waved my hands helplessly, and tried to comfort this guy who looked like he might cry at any moment. "And Hill, don't think I didn't notice you looking at my hair."

"Your Highness, I didn't do that this time." Hill answered honestly, because at this moment she did not look over there, but was observing the materials piled on the ground, not knowing what she was thinking.

"...So you've been watching me all along!" Rather than hiding the embarrassment, it's more like I discovered a blind spot of the other person.

However, Hill had no intention of answering my question. "Mala Potion Formula, Burning Heart Potion Formula... Your Highness, these are the potion formulas and materials for fire element resistance. Do you have any special purpose for preparing them?"

But before I could explain, someone next to me jumped out.

"I didn't expect that His Majesty the Demon King would prepare so much for me. It's really touching."

"What stupid shit are you talking about?"

"Didn't the Demon King know that I was coming back, so he specially asked Little Tracy to bring some snacks?"

"Remove the small print for me!" Because of Satasia, Tris inexplicably paid attention to some strange things.

And then I remembered this guy's talent [Flame King], which seems to be able to absorb materials containing fire elements to enhance strength, but unfortunately these are not prepared for foodies.

"No, I knew you were coming back."

"It's not too late to know now. I'm going to start!"

"Oh, then let Hill feed you." I winked at Hill next to me, and Hill understood and stepped forward.

"Hehehe, I'm just kidding. How can anyone touch the Demon King's things casually?" Satasia took several steps back in an instant. "But since it's not prepared for me, what is it for?"

"Keep it secret for now, you'll know later." I kept it a secret.

After all, it is impossible to tell them that this is a necessary (po) preparation for the copy that will appear later.

"Okay, Hill, you and Trish, please help submit the bat materials that we have collected these days. Thank you for your hard work."

After all, it is impossible to just ignore the early development funds, so Hill and Tracy were asked to handle the hidden task of bat materials. After the two left one after another, the Demon King's Castle became quiet for a while... No wonder.

"Is your Majesty the Demon King a member of the Little Bear Party or the Blue and White Party?"

"It's okay if I just eat a little bit~"

"Damn it! We are all from the same class, why can't we stand together and face the outside world?"

A certain flat-chested girl held her head and talked to herself.

"Who is in the same class as you? Don't you have anything to do?"

I rolled my eyes and retracted my clenched fists. Suddenly, I remembered that I had given him a task before. "I remember that I asked you to clean up the monsters around the Demon King's Castle."

"Because there is no manpower left, I can't muster the motivation to work."

"Is that so... Wait, where are those men I gave you?"

I suddenly had a bad feeling.

"They're all dead." Sataxia spread his hands.

"..."

"..."

"It hurts, it hurts, but I am working hard. If you don't believe me, Your Majesty, you can take a look at the energy and materials I have contributed."

I retracted my hand that was patting the other person's head, looked at him with some suspicion, and checked the records on the Heart of Herontis. However, I found that in the past few days, excluding the income from the nest, there was indeed an extra 300 energy points.

But this result came at the cost of a huge loss of manpower, which is really hard for me to accept.

"I'll give you a chance to explain. There's no reason why the monsters around the Demon King's Castle can resist a lord-level existence like you."

Perhaps judging from my tone that I would have a deep conversation with someone without a good reason, Satasia hastily explained.

"It's not difficult to deal with the nearby monster groups, but we encountered a tough enemy in the Mist Forest southeast of the Demon King's Castle. That is the territory of the Black Spider Queen, a dominant monster."

I looked at the map, and just as Satasia said, in the southeast of the Demon King's City, after the fog had cleared, the Black Spider Queen's command-level pattern was marked on the Mist Forest, with a level of 25.

Although among monsters, the Lord can undoubtedly crush the Leader, but in the early stage of the game, the gap between the two is not that big. The attributes of the Level 25 Leader are fully qualified to beat the current Level 5... Hey, Sataxia who has been upgraded to Level 8.

That's right...

"But isn't it a bit too much to sacrifice everyone?"

I very much doubt whether this guy's former subordinates chose to betray him because of this horrific death rate.

"There's nothing I can do." Satasia held the back of his head with an innocent look on his face. "That territory is very strange. When I led the legion there, I directly triggered the barrier. The monsters in the legion were divided into groups of fifty and teleported to different dimensional barriers."

"Although I easily eliminated the black spider leader, the other monsters were not so lucky and all died."

"Dimensional barrier? Fifty in a group? Black Spider Leader..."

I was stunned for a moment, as if I had thought of something. I propped up my chin with my index finger and pondered for a moment, "Could it be an unlockable special copy?"

To be honest, it was not common in the previous life, because this type of copy often requires many people to participate at the same time, and it is usually only open during special holidays or certain key game nodes.

Similar to the form of a world boss, all players participating in the dungeon need to work together to complete the dungeon a certain number of times or meet other conditions before they can unlock the next dungeon level, and finally summon the gigantic final boss and kill it to complete the task.

In the meantime, there will be a scoring system based on the player's combat performance, such as damage, treatment amount, and damage suffered, and the player will receive corresponding rewards based on the score.

I have participated in this dungeon several times in my previous life, and I can say that every player is looking forward to the appearance of this type of dungeon, not only because of the extremely high participation atmosphere, but more because of the generous rewards.

But if this thing is placed in one's own territory, it will not be very comfortable. If one wants to deal with such a copy, at least thousands or tens of thousands of troops will be required.

How much energy does that require...

I held my head with a headache, "Forget it, this kind of thing can't be blamed on you. I'll give you some more manpower. For the time being, don't worry about the Mist Forest. Go and clean up the monsters in the farther place."

"Received, Your Majesty the Demon King~"

After Satasia left, I thought about it for a long time but couldn't come up with a solution, so I had to put the matter of the Mist Forest aside for the time being.

"Let's deal with the work at the forest ruins first."

……

As clever as I am, updating in the evening not only allows me to wish you a happy New Year, but also saves me a chapter. And as a scholar, there is no way I can postpone my post. Yesterday was clearly the sage's time.

Well, anyway, I wish you a happy New Year in advance~

Chapter 40: Forest Ruins Remake

Thanks to my hard work in designing and modifying, the forest ruins have now become the most popular leveling site around the town of Soma, and the town of Soma has also become somewhat famous in the Orwin Empire.

Thanks to this, about half of the monster nest's daily energy income is currently supported by the forest ruins.

However, in the past few days, I can clearly feel that the growth of this part of the energy has slowed down a bit. In fact, I can know the main reason without thinking about it.

After all, the level 3 dark bat is already a relatively backward leveling object for the current mainstream player echelon.

It just so happened that my energy reserves had been relatively abundant recently, so I clapped my hands, appearing somewhat excited.

"So now it's time to make some drastic changes."

The first is the expansion of the territory. Based on the original foundation and according to my plan, I used the power of the Dark Law [Dark Erosion] to roughly expand the area by about three times.

在扩张了领域后，并没有着急生产黑暗蝙蝠，而是根据领域的面积划分成了三块，分别定为3-5级、5-10级、10-15级的练级区域。

Although the previous forest ruins covered a large area, they were essentially no different from ordinary small leveling areas, with only a single monster level. This resulted in a small level span for players who came to level up, which would also limit subsequent popularity.

Setting up different leveling areas, such as dungeons and monster camps, is more suitable for players of different levels to level up.

After dividing the areas, all that remains is to add the corresponding monsters.

The dark bats, which were originally the main monsters in the forest ruins, are of course indispensable, but some adjustments need to be made to adapt to the current player level.

After the capacity of dark bats was increased, a new batch of dark bats were born in the nest. Unlike the previous level 3 dark bats, these were levels 4 to 10.

In addition to increasing the level of dark bats, other monsters are added to prevent players from getting aesthetic fatigue.

Being responsible to this extent, I always feel like a sales manager promoting my own products.

I was originally worried that I didn't have many suitable materials, but after Satashia cleared out some of the surrounding monster groups and dropped a lot of monster nest drawings, this problem was solved.

The Vile Gargoyle, the Little Ghost, the Dark Totem, and the Dark Martyr.

These four are the monsters I decided to add to the forest ruins.

Among them, the Despicable Gargoyle is a monster of level 8-12. It was originally a small minion used to disrupt combat in the dark camp. It has no significant characteristics. In my settings, it has become a character with high defense and almost no attack power. The reason for doing this is entirely because of its innate passiveness -

[Vile Throat: The gargoyle continuously emits a low howl, which has a chance to randomly cause stiffness, fear, and silence effects to enemies within a certain range, lasting for 0.1 seconds.

If you face this kind of monster alone, at most you will be annoyed by the occasional interruption of its movements due to control, but if you have to face the siege of several dark bats at the same time, it will be extremely uncomfortable.

Moreover, the coverage area of ​​the Vile Throat is large enough. Once the treatment of the priest in the team is accidentally interrupted, it will be a devastating blow to the entire team.

But this is still relatively good. Even if the other little ghosts cannot cause effective damage, due to the existence of the ability [Possession], they become more difficult monsters than the despicable gargoyles.

After entering the battle, the little ghost will possess the nearby monsters and enhance the outstanding ability values ​​of the possessed object, such as the dark bat's attack power and the gargoyle's defense power.

The little ghost will only come out after defeating the corresponding monster, but don't be happy too soon. If you don't get rid of it quickly, the little ghost will possess you again, but this time it may randomly possess the player himself, causing negative effects that last for a certain period of time: continuous blood loss and a decrease in all attributes.

Fortunately, the characteristics of the little ghosts make them die after possessing twice. It may be that the designer has taken into account how psychologically disturbing this thing is.

But don't worry, our favorite thing is to persecute players.

"Hmm, even if I use energy, I can only increase it up to three times at most?"

I puffed my cheeks and looked at the notification that the number of possessions had reached the upper limit with a little dissatisfaction.

But it's just one point. I can imagine the desperate expressions on the players' faces when they face the little ghost that has possessed them three times.

The Despicable Gargoyles, Little Ghosts and Dark Bats are the monsters that occupy the two leveling areas of Forest Ruins, level 3-8.

Many people may feel that they cannot win at the beginning, but in fact, when they get into actual combat, they will find that it is just more challenging.

After all, as players level up, the skills they learn, the equipment they wear, coupled with their own operating techniques, the chemical reaction produced by the combination of these three is strong enough to be stronger than the combination of gargoyles, ghosts and dark bats.

You have to know that the settings of the dark bats that I had worked so hard to come up with were completely figured out by the players in less than a few days, and at most it just added some trouble to them.

So never underestimate the wisdom and strength of the players!

——Comforting myself in this way, the slightest feeling of guilt in my heart for persecuting players also disappeared.

As for the latter two, the Corrupted Glyph Totem and the Corrupted Glyph Martyr are found in the level 10-15 leveling areas.

In this area, which I set up just for advance preparation, the current highest player level is only level 6, so I don't think there is much need to consider it, so I haven't changed any attributes for the time being and just left it there.

If someone really dares to challenge me, I would welcome them to make a small contribution to the energy income of the Demon King's City.

With this series of settings, the forest ruins have been transformed into a barely medium-sized leveling area. We can fully look forward to the upcoming hot scene and the rising speed of energy income.

However, such drastic changes did come at a price. The energy he had saved over the past few days plus the income from playing as a jungler for Satashia were almost completely squandered.

"This number is as desperate as Satasia and Trish's breasts."

Looking at the single-digit remaining energy displayed on the Heart of Herentis, I couldn't help but sigh. Although this situation can actually be used as an analogy to myself, who would be bored enough to complain about themselves?

Just when I was feeling emotional, the system brought me good news.

System: Mission [Dark Bat's Carnival Feast (II)] Completed

This mission, which I was about to forget, was drastically modified, so that the number of dark bats increased dramatically, and it just happened to meet the mission requirements.

Ignoring other mission rewards, the 150 energy points can be said to have solved the current energy shortage problem at once. Otherwise -

"The energy to advance to the next level is almost insufficient."

……

Fire the first shot of New Year's Day~

Chapter 41: Advanced, Leader Monster

200 monster souls of dark bats had been collected a few days ago, but due to their quality they had not been upgraded.

With the help from the Rose Heart, the collection progress was not slow, but I did not expect that adjusting the forest ruins would consume so much energy.

Fortunately, my luck has always been good, and I accidentally completed the task that I had forgotten. Otherwise, I would really be so poor that I wouldn’t even have the 50 energy points required to advance to the dark bat leader.

Teleported from the Demon King's Castle to the Dark Church, under the illumination of the colorful light projected from the dome, one can see a lifelike sculpture.

Compared with normal dark bats, the black color on its body is darker, exuding a cold murderous intent, and it begins to have a certain deterrent effect.

This is a boss-level dark bat that has completed its advancement.

In fact, through the collection in the past few days plus the previous accumulation, the black crystals in stock are enough to advance to four dark bat bosses.

With an experimental idea in mind, when creating the first two bosses, lower-quality souls were selected, and the attributes of the boss-level dark bats that were born were very ordinary.