How Level Zero Devil Destroys Player Experience

The series of celebrations of the era have all ended, but the impact they brought is unimaginable.

The number of players in the game world has reached a new high. The online promotion of the New Year event has attracted a large number of new players, making the low-level cities and low-level training points in the game, which had been deserted, show signs of becoming popular again.

It also gave rise to a hot training market.

And as the influence of the era deepens.

In reality, related industries are emerging one after another, and even related games, anime fan products, etc. have emerged one after another. The game trend created has the potential to sweep the entire real world, and the stocks of game companies operating the game have been rising again and again, and they cannot be more popular.

However, amid this favorable situation, there are also some noises, and some arguments that the economy will eventually decline after reaching its peak continue to emerge.

Against this background, the official Anno finally released the long-prepared new expansion pack "Freedom Conflict", which immediately attracted the attention of countless players.

The most important thing in this expansion pack is also the one that attracts all the major guilds the most.

Of course, it is the opening of the fortress.

As soon as the new expansion was released, the major guilds of each empire immediately summoned their own elite groups and accepted national missions of different levels from the imperial forces to which they belonged.

The preparations for each national mission were planned down to the smallest detail, with at least several thousand members sent to participate.

Apart from the big guilds, some medium-sized or small guilds were also caught up in this mighty wave, intending to occupy a low-level fortress to develop their own base.

This makes the areas where the fortresses are located seem particularly lively during this period of time.

This is naturally inseparable from a rapidly developing guild.

Olwen Empire, Gruin region, Forest of the Great Fang.

In an abandoned city-state halfway up the mountain.

A battle involving tens of thousands of high-level players is going on fiercely. Although none of their levels is lower than level 85, the highest one has even reached level 90, and most of the players have at least three or four pieces of dark gold equipment.

But in this fierce battle, he still looked somewhat struggling.

The reason is that their opponent is a level 120 command-level monster - Roaring Earl Furyfang.

This beast, which was more than ten yards in size, would throw away the front-row soldiers that surrounded it every time it attacked. Only a few chief MTs of the guilds could withstand it.

"Mage team five, six, seven, and eight, stop and wait until the hatred subsides."

"Warrior teams three and four will take the aggro of the nearby monsters, while priest teams five and six will be responsible for their treatment."

"Wencun, Yingzi, and Ah Xin, activate the Guardian Heart and withstand this wave of damage. Everyone else, retreat!"

Luoxue Fengye took over the overall command and issued orders in an orderly manner.

Although Roaring Count Angry Fang was extremely powerful, under the command of Snow Maple Leaf and the close cooperation of the members of Alice's Guild, his health point of two million was reduced to less than 20% at this moment.

But the BOSS is different from ordinary monsters. The lower its health, the stronger its attack will be.

Even the chief shield warriors of the three guilds, Wencun, Silent Shadow, and Lost Heart, were under tremendous defensive pressure.

"Yiwen, I leave it to you."

Seeing the Howling Count attacking madly in the distance, I gave instructions to the team nearby.

"Leave it to them~"

Yuwen chuckled, picked up the blood-red short blade in his hand and rushed towards the BOSS in the distance.

Makino pulled the longbow, and the arrow on the bowstring shone brightly, and the tip of the arrow seemed to carry the power to penetrate everything.

Meng Yi raised the staff in his hand and chanted an obscure spell. As the spell sounded, surging arcane energy rippled across the battlefield.

At the same time, there were no less than twenty players around, all preparing their most powerful professional skills at the same time.

Although the equipment was different, they were all of the most luxurious dark gold grade. They were clearly a team of players with hidden professions.

call out.

As Yi Wenhua made a bloody shadow and rushed to the side of the huge figure in the distance, the skills of hidden professions such as Muye and Meng Yi also burst out completely.

The light of magic, sandwiched between huge arrows.

It landed heavily on the body of Roaring Earl Angryfang, bringing up a bright splash of blood.

"Hoo ho ho."

Roaring Count Ragefang let out a brutal and angry roar.

With one attack from each person, the health of the Domination-level BOSS was reduced by about 10% in just an instant. This terrifying damage was one of the significant advantages of hidden professions over ordinary professions.

As the game progresses, the advantages of various hidden professions have gradually emerged.

Some are like Ivan and Sweet Orange, who can perform assassinations and spy at the same time, while others are like Meng Yi and Makino, who can clear the field with long-range damage. Each hidden profession has its own unique and powerful abilities.

All the major guilds have taken this seriously and are spending their time to train hidden professional players, or collecting relevant inheritance mission information, or spending a lot of money to recruit them.

However, the number of hidden professions and inheritance quests is very small, and once the major guilds divide them up, there are very few left.

Even the number of hidden professional players in Baofeng was no more than 40. This was a huge difference from Alice, who, with someone's foresight, had trained a team of nearly 100 hidden professional players.

After the health dropped to 10%, the attack of the Roaring Earl Angry Fang became more fierce. Even the health lines of Wencun and the other three who were at the front fluctuated, which looked extremely dangerous.

But it doesn’t matter, its majesty will only last for a short moment.

"Ahri."

At my call, a small figure jumped out from my shoulder.

The light white mark on the forehead shone, and a bright golden fox fire flew out, igniting the huge body in the distance. Under this transparent burning fox fire, the blood volume of the Roaring Earl Angry Fang quickly dropped.

Within a few seconds, it fell down with a loud bang after letting out a shrill roar.

Thousands of guild members around saw this and cheered, almost shaking the entire city-state.

Luoxue Fengye also breathed a sigh of relief and arranged for people to pick up the spoils, while also asking people to clear out other monsters in the surrounding buildings.

"Well done, Ahri."

I rubbed Ahri's head as she flew back into my arms, and I didn't hesitate to praise her.

In the more than one month since the New Year, Ahri's level has also advanced by leaps and bounds, reaching the level 50, with great improvements in both attributes and abilities.

Like the Fox Fire just now, it is an extra skill - Bright Day Moon Wheel, which can instantly kill enemies with health below 10%, no matter they are ordinary monsters or BOSS. The disadvantage is that the cooldown time is as long as three days after using it once.

But when it can be used on a command-level BOSS, this skill can be said to have fully demonstrated its value.

"Of course, after all, it is the fruit of our love."

Yiwen retreated from the front and also came closer.

boom--

What greeted her was the iron fist of socialism.

This farce caused a group of hidden professional players such as Meng Yi and Makino who were resting nearby to burst into good-natured laughter.

Chapter 2: Hope City

"The surrounding area has been cleared, and we can place the core of the fortress."

While they were playing, falling snow and maple leaves came from a distance.

"Well, let's go over there, Sister Maple Leaf."

I nodded.

Following Sister Maple Leaf, we walked towards the tall tower in the center of the city behind the Roaring Earl.

We walked all the way to the hall at the top of the tower, which is probably the best preserved place in the tower.

The ground was paved with neat and smooth stone slabs, on which was cast a huge and complicated magic circle with silver metal. In the center of the magic circle was a mechanical device with a conspicuous groove above the device.

I took out the medium-sized fortress core from my backpack, aligned it with the position, and placed it in the groove.

System: Do you want to activate the intermediate fortress?

Yes.

System: Please name this fortress.

Hope City.

I didn't hesitate, as this was the name that Fengye and the others had agreed upon long ago.

And after such steps are taken.

Accompanied by a clear and pleasant sound.

The mechanical device containing the core of the fortress seemed to wake up from a deep sleep, emitting a different light, which also activated the magic circle underground. The originally lifeless hall suddenly seemed to come alive with a different kind of vitality.

At the same time, including me, Sister Fengye and Yuwen.

A system prompt popped up for all players in the fortress.

System prompt: You have entered the guild’s intermediate fortress - Hope City-State.

This news means that Alice will have the final proof of occupying a mid-level fortress.

At the top of the tower, one could faintly hear the cheers of the members outside. Luo Xue Feng Ye was quite emotional, "I didn't expect that we could occupy a mid-level fortress."

Originally, after the expansion was released, Maple Leaf and her team were planning to seize a few low-level fortresses and develop them for a while before making further plans. After all, the scale and difficulty of national missions are fundamentally different from ordinary missions.

The task of obtaining low-level fortress cores alone is extremely tedious.

Only the big guilds would consider occupying a mid-level fortress.

But I ignored the opposition and enlisted the help of thousands of senior players in the guild. With the help of the strategies and skills about national missions that I mastered in my previous life, I was finally able to complete the core mission of the intermediate fortress.

"Hehe, so I told you, we are also qualified to do so."

I blinked.

Although he said that, he also felt somewhat relieved.

After all, even with the strategies and skills, the difficulties and obstacles in the mission are obvious. After spending more than half a month's hard work, I finally completed it, and naturally I felt relieved.

"Don't be too proud." Sister Fengye said calmly, "Now those big guilds have two intermediate fortresses in their hands."

What Maple Leaf Sister was talking about were naturally big guilds like Stormwind and Empire Epic. Even Rose Heart had recently captured its second intermediate fortress, and the first intermediate fortress had already been opened for commercial use.

Storm even already has three total fortresses in its hands, and no less than ten low-level fortresses.

Although Alice is developing rapidly now and is able to rank at the forefront of the T2 guild, it is still a long way behind these large guilds with deep roots.

I stuck out my tongue. "We have to take it slow. Now is the first step."

What's more, this intermediate fortress was carefully selected by himself. It is located on the edge of the Bidan Forest in the Gruin area, halfway up the mountain, and occupying a high ground. It can be said to be an excellent location that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

It had belonged to Storm in the previous life, but due to my early intervention, it had become a fortress under Alice.

If we don't develop it well, this excellent geographical advantage will be completely wasted.

"This is the planning drawing drawn by Xiaorou and several junior students from the Department of Architecture. Take a look."

I took the drawing handed to me by Sister Fengye. It was a plan for the construction of the fortress. It could be said that she was indeed a professional. The location, style, and data of the residential area, commercial area, and teleportation points were all recorded.

This also includes the guild headquarters.

After owning a fortress, the headquarters of each guild must be moved to the main fortress.

From now on, the guild's progress will be closely related to the fortress. If the fortress is lost, the guild headquarters may be destroyed, and the guild's reputation and honor will fall. This is why the big guilds restrained each other in the past life, and other guilds were constantly in dispute.

Now that there is such a mid-level fortress - Hope City-State, Alice naturally cannot set up her headquarters in other low-level fortresses.

As long as they hold on to the various fortresses below, especially the City of Hope where the guild's headquarters is located, they can expand gradually. My father's company will also be able to inject more capital into the guild. The two will complement each other and gain more benefits, which is the key to a virtuous cycle of development.

Other guilds and the financial groups and forces behind them naturally think the same way.

A situation of warlords fighting for their own interests is slowly taking shape after the release of the expansion pack "Era".

I took a look at the drawings and found that there was nothing much to say about the internal planning. After all, it was designed by professionals. However, the defense layout was slightly inadequate.

Hope City-State covers an area of ​​about 20 square kilometers and is surrounded by a city wall of more than 20 yards. The height is sufficient, but only one line of defense is obviously not enough to fully exert the advantage of occupying the high ground.

"There will only be one entrance to the fortress wall, and the guild members will enter and exit through the teleportation point. Build multiple walls side by side, leaving some distance in between, and don't put the entrances of these walls together."

With this arrangement, the time it took the enemy to break into the fortress was greatly prolonged, and they were unable to advance straight ahead, and their momentum was also weakened.

If you set up defense machines such as giant crossbows and magic crystal cannons on the city walls, or long-range professions such as mages and archers, let the front row hold the passage between the two city walls.

The other side had no heavy siege machinery and could not break into the fortress at all.

Sister Fengye's eyes lit up, "That's a good idea. This way, our defense capabilities will be greatly improved."