Sure enough, following the battlefield announcement came Liu Xuan’s personal reward announcement.
【Congratulations! As the first human from Blue Star to complete the campaign “Sun and Moon Shine,” you will now receive your rewards.】
【Because your completion time was 12,460% faster than expected, your rewards have been multiplied by 12,460%!】
【You have received 124.6 Crystal Coins.】
【The effects of your title (Blue Star’s Number One Warrior) have been enhanced.】
Title: Blue Star’s Number One Warrior (Unique)
Description: Proof of Blue Star’s strongest warrior. Whenever an important milestone in the First Phase War is settled, ownership of this title will be reassigned, and its effects will be increased or decreased according to the holder’s performance.
Effect: You have two chances to revive after death. The first revival is guaranteed, while the second has a 74.31% chance of success.
Note: This probability depends on the holder’s performance. If the title changes owners, the previous holder’s probability will not be inherited by the new holder.
Note 2: When a warrior obtains a title with the (Unique) attribute, they may choose to use that title as their preferred name in the public areas of the battlefield, including but not limited to system announcements, rankings, the auction house, and regional broadcasts.
Seeing the changes to the Blue Star’s Number One Warrior title, Liu Xuan was overcome with excitement.
Two chances to revive!
The first one was 100% guaranteed!
And the second had a 74% chance of success!
He was practically equivalent to having three lives.
This long journey to attack Dawn City ahead of schedule had been completely worth it!
As expected, you had to dare to dream and dare to act!
If you didn’t try exploiting the system’s mechanics, how would you know they couldn’t be exploited?
If he had followed the normal procedure and waited until after completing the Promotion Defense Battle, his rewards would have been much less generous.
But what were these Crystal Coins?
Was he not being rewarded with gold coins this time?
Liu Xuan checked his inventory and discovered that the Crystal Coins had also been classified as currency.
At first, he thought they were a higher-tier version of gold coins. There were simply too many rewards this time, so perhaps the system had changed the currency because it was inconvenient to issue such a large amount in gold.
However, after looking into it, Liu Xuan discovered that Crystal Coins and gold coins were not interchangeable.
Their description read: “A token used for trading with the gods.”
Another strange and unusual item. He had no idea where he was supposed to use it.
Still, it was a reward from a main campaign, so it had to be something good. And as part of the main storyline, it was impossible for the system to give him some obscure, useless item. That meant it would definitely come in handy later.
Liu Xuan was still celebrating when he received another pleasant surprise.
【You have received the title: Star of Sun and Moon.】
Title: Star of Sun and Moon (Unique)
Description: Awarded to the warrior who performed most brilliantly in the Sun and Moon Shine campaign. You are a rising star in the World of Despair.
Effect: All warriors on the battlefield who sincerely respect you gain 100 maximum health. For each additional faction represented among those warriors, they gain another 100 maximum health.
Current health bonus: 100
【Multiple titles detected. You may now freely choose to display one or more titles, regardless of how many you display. All title effects will remain active.】
Another title.
This time, the effect did not benefit Liu Xuan himself. Instead, it applied to other people.
As long as someone sincerely respected Liu Xuan, they would gain an additional 100 health.
That might not sound like much, but it was still a decent bonus.
The key point was that it was practically free, which made it all the more valuable.
Furthermore, if warriors from other factions sincerely respected Liu Xuan, the bonus would increase to 200 health.
Though Liu Xuan felt that would be quite difficult.
Warriors from other factions—weren’t they his enemies?
Even if enemies occasionally experienced something like “respect between heroes,” if you were my enemy, I couldn’t let you live for very long.
And once you were dead, how could you respect me?
Sigh. It looked like this title would probably provide only a 100-point bonus for the rest of his life. Its usefulness was rather limited.
Even so, Liu Xuan equipped the title. The name above his head instantly grew even longer.
【Blue Star’s Number One Warrior】radiated golden light, 【Light of Orenburg】glowed white, and 【Star of Sun and Moon】was surrounded by tiny blue stars.
There was no doubt about it. As long as he stood there, he would absolutely be the brightest guy in the crowd.
After waiting for a while and seeing that no further announcements appeared, Liu Xuan found a relatively clean spot inside the gatehouse and took out his sleeping bag.
He had to set out early the next morning to make his way back and prepare for the first Promotion Defense Battle. He needed a good night’s rest.
Liu Xuan slept soundly, but many people elsewhere were unable to sleep.
Outside the battlefield.
Everyone had already grown accustomed to China’s rapid progress.
After the announcement that the Third Phase Campaign had been completed, everyone’s attention had been focused on the Promotion Defense Battle three days later.
The entire Ya Continent was already on the brink of war, shrouded beneath the clouds of conflict.
The reason fighting had not broken out yet was, first, that no one was confident they could defeat China.
It was one thing to engage in a little verbal provocation and create minor friction from time to time. But no one seriously intended to start a war with China, did they?
Second, some countries believed they might not necessarily lose to China inside the battlefield.
The announcement had stated that the battlefield would take the form of something similar to a virtual game. As a result, many countries had brought in game designers and top professional players to ask them to assess the likely outcome.
But with the survival of their nations at stake, how could these people dare to make any definitive statements?
Designer: I didn’t design this battlefield.
Professional player: I’ve never even played this game.
If they told their leaders they couldn’t win, what if the leaders immediately started a war with China?
It could very well trigger a world war.
They couldn’t take responsibility for that.
But if they told their leaders they could win and they ultimately lost, wouldn’t they become sinners in the eyes of the entire nation?
They couldn’t take responsibility for that either.
So one after another, they offered only vague, noncommittal opinions:
“The key lies in just how strong that Liu Xuan really is. We don’t have his data, so it’s difficult to analyze.”
“There’s no way to spend money to enhance your character in this battlefield. As a game designer, I believe that under such conditions, a character’s strength should be limited. It would be difficult for one person to cut through an entire server. However, China has a considerable experience bonus, and its people are generally more than five levels above ours. Once you account for the difference in combat power, the outcome is difficult to predict.”
“Thirty thousand against five thousand—we still have a chance.”
“Victory doesn’t necessarily require killing every one of them. In fact, you don’t even necessarily have to defeat them directly. You only need to destroy the opposing team’s flag. If they have a particularly capable stealth-class player, they could simply sneak in and steal the flag. That would be enough to win.”
Their analyses sounded thorough, but in reality, they were completely useless.
As a result, the leaders of the various countries could not make up their minds.
They still held on to a sliver of hope: What if they won the Promotion Defense Battle?
Of course, when all was said and done, they still did not dare to make a move against China. If China had been a weak country that was suddenly far ahead of them, it would probably have been attacked by everyone already.
But that had been before.
Now that the announcement declaring the completion of the Fourth Phase Campaign had appeared, the situation changed instantly.
That was an experience bonus of more than 120 times!
With one full day remaining before the Promotion Defense Battle, how many levels could the Chinese players gain in a single day?
When the time comes, how are we supposed to fight against such an overwhelming level advantage?
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
