Near the city gate, Liu Xuan found the Greatblade Destroyer that had fled to deliver the warning.
After dispatching it with ease, a system notification appeared before him, just as expected, and Liu Xuan let out a sigh of relief:
[China Battlefield No. 2468 Announcement]
[Dawn City has been conquered.]
Then came his personal notification:
[The Fourth-Stage Campaign (Sun and Moon Shine) has completed its first step: the Dawn City Annihilation Battle.]
[At present, you are temporarily leading the Overmind’s projected estimate for the humans of Blue Star by 5,677%. The rewards will be settled together after the Fourth-Stage Campaign is fully completed.]
Sure enough, killing this small monster counted as completing the objective. There was no need to hunt down Shengxing, who had no idea where he had fled.
However, when Liu Xuan saw the figure of 5,677% in the announcement, he rubbed his eyes hard.
His current resurrection probability was already 49.71%. If he added another 56.77% to that, it would exceed 100%.
At that point, he would be guaranteed to resurrect after death.
But he had no idea how the extra six percent or so would be calculated.
Would it grant him an additional six-percent chance of resurrection?
For now, however, the result had not yet been finalized. It would have to wait until Moonlight City had been dealt with before everything could be settled together.
The name of this four-stage campaign was Sun and Moon Shine, which presumably represented reclaiming Dawn City and Moonlight City.
What Liu Xuan had not expected was that the announcement was not over yet.
At that moment, the fleeing Shengxing was crawling beneath a grand hall, explaining his experience to the figure above him:
How strange that human had been, how foolish his own guards were…
His voice grew quieter and quieter.
After a moment, the figure above issued a brief command:
“Hisssss…”
If Liu Xuan had been there, he would have understood the meaning of those words:
“Retreat!”
Thus, at the exact moment that order was given, a new announcement appeared before Liu Xuan.
[Global Blue Star Announcement]
“Huh?”
Liu Xuan froze for a moment. Global announcements usually only appeared after an entire campaign had been completed. He had only fought half of it—so what was going on?
[Because China Battlefield No. 2468 has conquered Dawn City, its progress has advanced too far and its battle record is too outstanding, causing the development of this battlefield to deviate substantially from the preset storyline.]
[The Destroyers are about to withdraw from Moonlight City.]
[Therefore, China Battlefield No. 2468 will be considered to have fully completed the Fourth-Stage Campaign. The campaign-related rewards will be distributed at a later date.]
Liu Xuan could not help blurting out, “What?”
The Destroyers had voluntarily withdrawn from Moonlight City?
The entire Fourth-Stage Campaign was being counted as complete?
Why would the Destroyers issue such an order? Were they not supposed to follow the campaign script?
Once again, Liu Xuan felt the difference between this battlefield and an ordinary game.
If this had happened in certain games, then players clearing a dungeon too quickly would have prompted the designers to strengthen the dungeon boss.
But this battlefield had gone in the opposite direction—it had simply canceled the “dungeon” altogether.
The Destroyers certainly would not have retreated for no reason. Could it be that Liu Xuan had frightened them with his overwhelming strength, making them unwilling to suffer pointless casualties in Moonlight City?
If that was the case, then the campaigns in the later stages might undergo some major changes…
A surge of excitement suddenly rose in Liu Xuan’s heart.
Aside from the unknown challenges ahead, there was also the thrill of forcing the “game” to alter itself because of something he had done. In a certain sense, it felt pretty damn good.
The announcement continued:
[Because China has completed the Fourth-Stage Campaign, the second round of the Blue Star Promotion Defense Battle will begin in three days!]
[The rules for the second round of the Promotion Defense Battle are as follows:]
[First: The defending side will consist of all warriors from China Battlefield No. 2468. The attacking side will consist of warriors ranked among the top thirty thousand in the national rankings of Europe and Africa.]
[Second: The defenders will win if, within one day of the battle’s commencement, they can ensure that the flags at the centers of Dawn City and Moonlight City are not destroyed, or if they eliminate all attackers. The attackers will win if, within one day, they destroy the flag of either city or eliminate all defenders.]
[Third: Anyone who dies in this battle will only be temporarily confined in a special space and will not truly die. They will recover once the battle ends.]
[Fourth…]
Once again, this was something Liu Xuan had not expected: the second round of the Promotion Defense Battle was going to begin as well.
The first round had not even officially started yet…
The rules were broadly similar to those of the first round. They still had to defend the cities and ensure the safety of the flags.
The difference was that the attacking side would now consist of warriors from the countries of Europe and Africa.
If the flag in even one of the two cities was destroyed, the defenders would lose.
That made the difficulty rather high.
Their battlefield originally had only a little over four thousand people, and they would have to divide their forces between two positions. Dealing with thirty thousand attackers would already be extremely difficult.
To make matters worse, Dawn City had only one section of its walls remaining. It had no natural defenses to rely on, meaning that the two sides would have to engage in a head-on clash.
If there had only been one city, it would have been fine. Liu Xuan could simply hold down Dawn City himself.
But he had no idea how things were going in Moonlight City.
Now that he thought about it, they also had to send people to defend Moonlight City within three days.
Even making the journey in time would not be easy.
Liu Xuan could not help smiling bitterly.
Who knew whether finishing the campaign so early was a blessing or a curse?
The announcement continued. It seemed that Liu Xuan’s actions had had an enormous impact; the system still had plenty to say.
[Because China Battlefield No. 2468 has completed the Fourth-Stage Campaign, in accordance with Rule Nineteen of the Blue Star Promotion Battlefield:]
[When one battlefield gains too great a lead, the world progression of all other Blue Star battlefields will receive one special acceleration.]
[Attention: This progression acceleration does not apply to warriors.]
This part of the announcement was rather cryptic. Liu Xuan could not understand it for the moment.
What did it mean that “the world progression would receive one special acceleration”?
Was it a benefit for the other battlefields?
But the announcement also said that this “acceleration” did not apply to warriors.
If it did not apply to warriors, then could it be referring to NPCs?
What was the point of accelerating NPCs?
Forget it. It concerned the other battlefields, and there was nothing Liu Xuan could do about it.
It was better to look at the Fourth-Stage rewards.
The rewards appeared at the end of the announcement. First came those for their own Battlefield No. 2468.
As usual, there was an experience bonus. But to Liu Xuan’s surprise, the bonus was far more than just 5,677%.
[…]
[Warriors of China Battlefield No. 2468 will receive a 12,460% experience bonus until reaching Level 40.]
[All warriors in China’s battlefields will receive a 6,230% experience bonus until reaching Level 40.]
[The low-level experience rewards obtained during the previous two stages will remain in effect.]
“What?!”
Upon seeing those numbers, it was not only Liu Xuan who rubbed his eyes, trying to confirm that he had not misread them. Pretty much everyone who saw the announcement probably did the same.
Was there any justice left?
Was there even any law left?
A 124-fold bonus?
They were blatantly cheating in the open, weren’t they?
Only Liu Xuan recovered from his brief shock and understood what had happened.
His score for conquering Dawn City had indeed been 5,677%. But conquering Dawn City had immediately counted as completing the entire campaign.
In other words, all the time that would originally have been spent conquering Moonlight City had been saved.
So it made perfect sense for the score to become 12,460%.
It was just that the magnitude of the bonus was a little too outrageous. Those who still hadn’t reached Level 20 would probably gain several levels just by killing a single monster, right?
With this experience bonus, there was no need to worry so much about the upcoming promotion defense battles.
“Wait…”
Liu Xuan suddenly realized something, and his eyes lit up.
“If the experience bonus is this huge, doesn’t that mean my chances of resurrection will also…?”
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