Liu Xuan ended his private chat with Zhang Meng after a few brief exchanges.
At this point, he was nothing more than a merciless monster-grinding machine, sprinting through the streets and alleys of Orenburg and leaving a trail of corpses wherever he went.
The most annoying part was having to pick everything up. If only there were an auto-loot function.
It was just too painful to leave those Mutagens behind.
Still, he had already made up his mind. If his score was still below the requirement after making this entire circuit, then he would abandon the Mutagens and the set equipment alike.
Fortunately, the Goddess of Luck… That didn’t seem quite right. It was more accurate to say that strength was on his side.
When Liu Xuan cleared out the final portal, an announcement appeared before his eyes.
[The number of Destroyers remaining in Orenburg has fallen below 20%. Primary objective complete.]
[Warriors in this battlefield may now…]
Suddenly, the announcement froze.
Liu Xuan’s heart skipped a beat. He hurriedly looked up, only to see that the progress bar in the sky had risen to 20.2%.
Damn it. Could they really be stopping him from exploiting the bug?
Fortunately, after pausing for two seconds, the announcement continued.
[…may now proceed to the secondary objective. The Town Hall is now open.]
[In addition, it has been detected that unconventional methods were used to complete the objective in this battlefield. As this will have a considerable impact on subsequent battles, the existing loophole will be fixed in the interest of balance.]
[From this moment onward, the primary objective of the Orenburg battle has been changed to: the number of remaining Destroyers must be kept below 20% for an extended period of time. Otherwise, the secondary objective cannot be unlocked. Once the secondary objective is unlocked, all Destroyer portals will immediately disappear.]
[As compensation, this battlefield’s portals will remain open for one day after the battle has completely ended. They will automatically close after that one-day period.]
[As the discoverer of the bug, you have been awarded 1,000 Mutagens.]
After reading the announcement, Liu Xuan let out a sigh of relief.
The meaning of the announcement was obvious: anyone who had already exploited the bug would not be penalized.
After all, the existence of a bug wasn’t his fault. It was the designer’s problem.
They hadn’t said anything beforehand about not being allowed to do this, so they couldn’t invalidate his results afterward.
He had put in both time and effort, hadn’t he?
However, the other battlefields wouldn’t be able to do the same. The reason was clearly stated in the announcement: it would “have a considerable impact on subsequent battles.”
If those portals were allowed to remain indefinitely, players could keep farming Mutagens from them.
The battlefield’s designers might permit players to use the Destroyers in the city to create a few powerful experts, but they could never allow them to farm their way into producing an entire army of monsters.
As for the final two forms of compensation, the first meant that the portals in Battlefield 2468 would remain open for one day after the entire battle ended.
Liu Xuan was a little disappointed, but one day was still pretty good.
A single portal could spawn twenty-one Destroyers per minute. Over the course of a day, that would amount to more than thirty thousand monsters. With a ten percent drop rate for Mutagens, that meant roughly three thousand Mutagens.
One hundred Mutagens could increase a single free attribute point gained upon leveling up. In other words, if all the Mutagens from one portal were given to a single person, that person could gain more than thirty-five additional attribute points upon leveling up!
That kind of boost could send someone soaring, even if they weren’t a hidden class.
The twelve portals throughout Orenburg would be enough to cultivate several top-tier experts.
The only slight difficulty was that, aside from Liu Xuan, everyone else was still too low-level. They might not be able to defeat these Destroyers.
Even if they formed a party, they probably couldn’t kill twenty-one of them in a minute.
With that thought, Liu Xuan sent Zhang Meng a message:
“I’ve got something good here. Don’t ask what it is yet. Hurry and give the orders. From now on, concentrate all our resources on a group of experts. Have them make their way toward Orenburg as quickly as possible while leveling up as much as they can.”
As he spoke, he also sent over the information on the Destroyers.
A moment later, Zhang Meng’s side sent back only three question marks.
“???”
“We’re all only level eleven or twelve. You want us to cross the entire region while fighting our way through all the monsters, then go fight level-twenty monsters on top of that?”
“Are you even human?”
“And what do you mean by ‘get to Orenburg as quickly as possible while leveling up as much as possible’? Can those two things even be done at the same time?”
Liu Xuan knew he was asking a lot. “Do your best. All I can say is, once this opportunity is gone, it won’t come back.”
“The rewards are really that good?”
“They can increase the number of attribute points you gain when leveling up—and by quite a lot.”
The moment Zhang Meng heard that, his expression turned serious.
“If that’s the case, I’ll find a way.”
“Don’t worry. I have a way to deal with those monsters. You only need to figure out how to get the people here. Still, be careful on the way. If you really can’t make it through, then forget it. I still have to keep pushing the battle forward. We’ll talk when we meet.”
“Understood.”
After ending the private chat, Liu Xuan used the newly acquired Mutagens while determining his direction and hurrying toward the Town Hall.
Some of these Mutagens had dropped during his earlier circuit, while others had just been awarded by the system.
Altogether, he had more than 1,700.
Adding that to what he had farmed earlier, Liu Xuan could now gain a full thirty-seven free attribute points upon leveling up.
……
In a world unrelated to Earth.
It was also Orenburg, and five figures were racing through the city in different directions.
Every one of them was tremendously powerful. With a casual wave of their hands, they could instantly kill the Destroyers around them.
Since it was all so easy, they even had the leisure to chat in their party channel.
“Just cleared another street!”
“They’re too weak. I cleared one and a half streets in the time it took you to clear one.”
“Shut up. There are way more monsters over here.”
“At this speed, there probably isn’t another group in the entire Human Empire that’s faster than us, right?”
“Definitely not. The chances of gathering five hidden classes in one battlefield—and having all of them be powerful classes at that—are incredibly low.”
“Who would’ve thought that killing fast enough could complete the primary objective? In the other battlefields, everyone can only honestly guard the portals until they close.”
“Stop wasting time and hurry! The progress is already down to thirty percent. Don’t screw up at the final ten percent. As long as those portals don’t disappear afterward, the five of us will be invincible!”
“Hey, Captain, why are you in such a hurry? Each portal has to be guarded for three hours. No one can be faster than us. Just wait until I finish this street…”
Before he could finish speaking, an emergency notification suddenly appeared before all five of them.
[It has been detected that a battlefield in the Human Empire used unconventional methods to complete the primary objective of the Orenburg battle.]
[As this battlefield is also attempting to exploit the same loophole, and to help everyone save time, please be advised that the loophole has just been fixed.]
[From this moment onward, the primary objective of the Orenburg battle has been changed to: the number of remaining Destroyers must be kept below 20% for an extended period of time. Otherwise, the secondary objective cannot be unlocked. Once the secondary objective is unlocked, all Destroyer portals will immediately disappear.]
The five men’s expressions instantly turned ugly. One of them, who had a particularly violent temper, went completely berserk.
“Fuck!”
“I’m almost done! The progress is already at thirty percent, and you’re telling me the loophole’s been fixed?”
“And you still have the nerve to say you were helping us save time? Save my ass!”
“Who was it? Who on earth was faster than us?”
The others were all seething with frustration. Like Liu Xuan, they had spent one or two hours testing the glitch from every angle to see whether they could exploit it.
And now they were being told the glitch had been fixed, and they had to go guard the gates properly?
Even with five people, one gate each, it would still take them nine hours to close all the gates!
The key point was that the very first sentence of the announcement had made it crystal clear: “A certain battlefield… has completed the first objective of the Battle of Orenburg.”
In other words, the system acknowledged the results from the battlefield where someone had successfully exploited the glitch.
In other words, if they had been just a little faster—if they had been the first to exploit the glitch successfully—then their results would have been the ones recognized.
“Ahhhhh! This is so infuriating!”
The five of them completely lost it on the spot.
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