King from scratch

When He Shu and Du Ming went offline to report the progress of the mission, Wu Xing, the nominal captain of the team, was watching the excitement with a dazed expression.

Just a few minutes ago, Xinshou Village was still chaotic and orderly.

Although the behavior of the players is uncontrollable, they have a basic knowledge of the game, and the game restricts sneaking, looting and looting, which greatly reduces the lethality of the players. no rest...

Compared to player performance in other games, this is absolutely harmless.

Of course, for the npcs in this game, these performances are enough to be lethal.

At first, it was the npcs who refused to release tasks during non-working hours, and then the npcs moved collectively, moved to the corner of the city, and announced that players were prohibited from entering the area.

Finally, right now, a group of strange-looking creatures descended from the sky, causing a group of players to be revived in a flash of white light because they couldn't dodge in time.

Players quickly surrounded this group of strange creatures. If they didn't have blood bars on their heads and looked very high-level, it's hard to say whether they would be so civilized, just watching.

At least Wu Xing heard the whispers of several players.

"Is this weird? It looks like a boss? Do you want to drive it?"

"Don't be impulsive, they have appeared in the video of His Majesty the King."

"demon?"

"It's exactly the same as in the video... At first glance, I thought monsters were attacking the city."

"Doesn't it look like a human? Look at the leader, it looks like a high-level demon, no different from a human."

"Then shall we still play monsters?"

"Stealing is not allowed in Xinshou Village, so you say it allows killing?"

"That can't be counted as a person?"

Following a player's slightly suspicious voice, all the gathered players cast fiery gazes at the demons in an instant.

"Finally a monster?" Some players couldn't suppress their excitement, and once choked up: "I thought this game was just endless moving bricks..."

"Don't be impulsive, this monster seems to be a bit high-level..."

"We have to cooperate..."

Just before the players were about to reach an agreement and start the normal game routine of pulling monsters and fighting bosses, You hurried over and stopped the players' plan to send them to death.

You said to the demons, "Why did you come here?"

He glanced at the players surrounding them layer by layer, and randomly sent out a mission.

[Random task:

Your onlookers made You very dissatisfied, and he wanted you to leave here.

Task condition: Get out of here.

Mission reward: [You's favorability +0.5]

Task penalty: [You's favorability -0.5]]

"Only 0.5 favorability, isn't it too picky?"

"It's not bad to have 0.5 points. The NPC with the highest favorability is Mr. Green Leaf, only 10 points."

The players were a little agitated, and hesitated for two seconds under the task reward of 0.5 favorability.

The demons didn't understand what the players were talking about. They looked at the players who looked like humans, but were actually just a bunch of ether, and they all showed joyful smiles—they finally met normal intelligent creatures.

Nubida breathed the free air and made the idea of ​​settling here.

"Of course the king asked us to come here." Nubida held his head high and pretended to be a tiger: "Who are you? Why haven't I seen you before? Do you know who I am?"

"I am the king's confidant."

The player's hesitation was dispelled by the devil's performance, and the enthusiastic onlookers, risking a huge loss of 0.5 favorability, watched the show.

"The king sent you here?"

Different from what the players think, You know exactly what the king means, even if they are lying demons, unless they really want to die, they will not tell this lie on the king's territory.

You frowned slightly: "I didn't receive the notice."

"He's busy talking to wandering merchants..." Nubida said casually, his eyes lingering on the players watching the theater around him: "Are these guys the king's subjects?"

He murmured softly, "It's too weak."

You looked at the players who were eager to try, and then at the demons who were in high spirits.

"If you want to contact them, you must abide by the following points..."

Nubida heard that he let go, so he didn't continue to listen. He grabbed a player casually, turned the other player over and over with great interest, and explored the composition of the other player: "Where are you from?"

[Quest from Nubida:

He is interested in you and wants information about you.

Task conditions: answer his questions.

Mission reward: none

Mission penalty: [Death]]

The players who were unfortunately selected were overjoyed when they saw such a simple task description, and then surprised when they saw the task rewards and failure penalties. Their facial expressions changed so much that other players asked questions.

"What's wrong? Received the mission?"

"What mission?"

Nubida was impatient, the guy in his hand didn't respond, so he just threw it away and grabbed another one.

【mission failed. 】

This notification popped up in the previous player's mission notification, and he was thrown aside with a flash of white light, and he was revived again.

Nubida had just caught another player, and seeing the guy who had just been thrown aside just like that disappear without any death threat, he couldn't help but be full of doubts.

"Why so weak?" Is this dead?

"Why am I alright?" Nubida came back to his senses and looked at You: "Aren't they the king's subjects?"

"They are." You gave an affirmative answer: "It's just that they are a little special."

Players scurrying from afar proved what Lobby's special really meant.

The revived player raised his voice and reminded other players: "This guy is more picky than you. There is no reward for successful missions, but if the mission fails, you will be sent to die directly."

The players were taken aback by how stingy the opponent was, and all backed away, watching Nubida warily.

Nubida glanced at the revived players, and suddenly realized: "They won't die?" That's a bit novel.

There are too many undead races, but Nubida has never encountered such a weak undead race.

Nubida's gaze fell on the player he was pulling in his hand, looking him up and down.

"I think you'd better listen to the precautions for contacting them." You reminded the other party: "Otherwise..."

Nubida rolled his eyes: "The king has no objections, but you have so much to say."

You stared at him with strange eyes for two seconds, then turned around and exited the encirclement of the players, leaving the demons to the players.

Nubida didn't understand what the other person's eyes meant. Seeing that the other person turned around and left without saying a word, he couldn't react—this guy is so talkative?

Whispering voices sounded again among the players.

"It's over? What do you mean, why don't I understand?"

"Does this mean that there is another group of npcs?"

This sentence from the player's guess changed the situation on the scene.

The players who had originally retreated due to the harsh mission punishment of the devil took a step forward and narrowed the encirclement.

Lessons learned from the past made them not rush to take on the task, but whispered again.

"But I look at them as if the conversation has collapsed? Is this a monster or an npc?"

"Even if it's a monster, we can't beat it at this stage, right?"

"The number of resurrections is limited, I think it's a bit of a loss to waste it here."

"Then you still accept the task?"

"Didn't you hear what the player said just now? There are no mission rewards, and the punishment for mission failure is still severe."

The players whispered that demons don't just stand around and do nothing.

Seeing that you were far away, the other little devils immediately became unscrupulous.

The demon with three heads grabbed a player casually: "Where are you from? What can you do?"

[Task from Ruda:

He is interested in you and wants information about you.

Task conditions: answer his questions.

Mission reward: none

Mission penalty: [Death]]

The player caught by him glanced at the mission and screamed, "If you fail this mission, you will die?"

After he finished screaming, he quickly used Gao Wan's psychological quality, and answered the other party's question without changing his face: "We..." The machine shut down after only two words.

He turned his head and asked other players not far away: "Where do we come from?"

This is a good question, because the players don't know the answer, so they can't tell the npc that they are from Earth, right? Can npc understand?

The players looked at each other in blank dismay, watching helplessly as the player turned into a flash of white light and took another step back in unison.

But one wave after another, another snake-tailed demon didn't talk nonsense to them at all, its thick tail swept across, and the white light flashed into a piece.

"This is a monster!" A heart-piercing voice sounded from among the players, setting the tone for this slowly unfolding drama.

Almost at the moment when the voice fell, the players retreated back and forth in unison, and quickly gathered together.

"Is this the boss?"

"Do you want to find You?"

"Maybe this is the test he gave us?"

"We don't even have a level, so take the lead?"

"If you run out of resurrection times, you will lose the qualification for the closed beta. Don't be reckless!"

"There can be no unsolvable boss! There must be something we have missed."

Seeing the sudden development of the situation, Wu Xing asked a question with a confused face.

"Bosses can also send missions?"

The noisy scene was quiet for a few seconds because of his words.

The snake-tailed demon didn't give a damn about what they were saying—it must have been begging for mercy, fear, or something, and he'd heard too much of that.

The nature that was forcibly suppressed by the holy guards finally got a channel to vent at this moment. The snake-tailed demon wagged its tail and quickly chanted a spell, ready to appreciate the despair of the weak in the face of death.

The players who were about to usher in the big move made a surprised sound.

"Wow, he can say spells!"

"What is this reading? Why can't you hear clearly?"

"This is magic! It must be magic!"

"Can this be learned? Do they teach?"

Just when the player rekindled the idea that the demon might be an npc, the snake-tailed demon's ultimate move was finally released.

Flames soared into the sky.

The white light became bright, and all the players present died instantly.

Even Wu Xing, who was watching the play, suffered an indiscriminate disaster and was resurrected from the altar.

The fire spread rapidly and spread towards the city.

The players resurrected from the altar, caught a glimpse of the rapidly spreading fire, and quickly shrank to the bottom of the church to avoid the fire.

"It's strange... no, this npc... what the hell is this? Why did it suddenly amplify its moves?"

"Could it be that we have been playing monsters for too long, and the other party directly opened up?"

"Why do I think this is not a big move for them?"

When the spreading flames were about to extend to the city square, they were abruptly suppressed.

The farthest flame disappeared out of thin air, and it seemed like an invisible existence walked towards the demons on this path of flame.

Wherever they walked, the flames disappeared inch by inch.

The familiar deadly sense of crisis emerged, and the killing intent locked on the demons.

The ether all over his body was boiling, accumulating big moves, but soon, just like before, the boiling ether lost its sense.

The murderous intent passed over Nubida and stopped at another place.

Nubida looked sideways, and the figure of the snake-tailed demon was slowly erased from reality until it disappeared completely.

The scene fell into sudden silence.

In the demiplane.

After dyeing the stable ether body with their own color, it was judged that the culprit who "damaged the kingdom's public property on a large scale" had received due punishment, and the "employees" stopped manipulating the ether and re-dispersed.

In the silence, a player spoke tremblingly.

"What just happened?"

"The fire is out?"

"No, that npc... No, that monster is gone, did you see it?"

"do you died?"

"How did you die?"

"I see!" said Luye, who hurried over from a distance and just witnessed this scene: "This is why we died in violation of the rules of the game."

Some players reacted quickly: "The rules of the game are not only valid for us, but also for them?"

"No, didn't Master Up say that when he asked for legal advice? What he formulated was the law of the kingdom."

"So, he broke the law!"

Some players were puzzled: "Which law did you violate? Kill someone?"

"I don't think players should be counted as human beings, right?"

Wu Xing's objective words aroused the glaring of the players. He corrected: "I mean, the players are an exception. He didn't get any punishment for killing the players just now."

"Recall the scene just now, have you noticed? The fire is extinguished first, and then the monster."

Green Leaf stared at the long string of black marks that had been burned on the road, thoughtfully: "Destroy the kingdom's public property?"

"That's right!" Another player was shocked suddenly: "Comrades! I know how to kill monsters!"

Wu Xing guessed what he wanted to say: "But using the kingdom's laws to kill monsters can't be counted as our killing."

The other party became sluggish again: "It seems like this..."

The players were calculating how to open the boss openly there, and the demons were also having a simple conversation about the death of the snake-tailed demon.

"The tail is dead...is it the second dead tail?"

"The snake tail race really has no brains."

The brief conversation about the death of Snaketail ends here, and the demons go their separate ways.

Some of the demons came to the players, ready to have some interesting interactions with these players, while another part of the demons wandered around the city, ready to have some other fun.