Chapter 301 (1/2)
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It was an arduous half an hour of waiting, but the servers had finally reopened once more!
I was waiting at the login screen all this time. The moment the servers were up, I logged into the game immediately.
Swhoos.h.!.+
A beautiful figure ran out of my tent like lightning the second I logged into the game. f.u.c.k, Beauty Lin is so fast!
I caught onto a corner of her battle robe right before she left my range completely and let her pull me out of the tent. Players were logging into the game from everywhere, and tents were disappearing by the millisecond. It only took a short while before the teleportation formation was completely jam-packed. There were just too many players in Floating Ice City!
Lin Yixin looked back at me and glared. ”OMG, stop dragging me down you idiot…”
”Wait for me! Why are you in such a hurry anyway? It's not like there's meat waiting for you at Sky City!”
I selected ”Talk” after the both of us had squeezed our way to the NPC mages responsible for operating the teleportation formation. The bearded old man started talking in a deep, distant voice, ”The power of darkness has tried to conquer the Heavenblessed Continent again and again, forcing the humans, the elves, the succubi, the dwarves, the barbarians and more to form a pact in order to defend their right to live and the pride of their races. Today, that pact is known as the 'Heavenblessed Alliance'. For hundreds of years, the allied races have built countless bastions at every corner of the continent!”
The old mage then looked at me and said, ”Young warrior, you are an adventurer of Floating Ice City. Right now, we have enough magical energy to send you to these three cities—Sky City, Vanished G.o.d City, and Wind City. Please make your choice!”
I nodded and selected Sky City!
Ding~!
System Notice: Greetings, respected player. Please note that you can only teleport directly to Sky City if you are Level 80 or above. The cost is 2000 Reputation and 1000 gold. Are you sure you want to teleport?
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My eyes widened into saucers for a moment. G.o.dd.a.m.ned sonuvab.i.t.c.h, did Eternal Moon Corporation lose their minds to greed recently? I couldn't believe that it cost 1000 RMB to teleport to a super city! Moreover, the player must be Level 80 or above before they could even attempt to teleport, and there were only a hundred or so players in the entire Floating Ice City who even met that requirement!
This meant that a low-level player who wanted to teleport to a super city without using Floating Ice City's teleportation formation would have to use an open teleportation point instead. At a glance, it would take at least 10 hours of running just to reach the borders of Sky City! The game company had played all of us like a fiddle!
Players were swearing all around us—
”f.u.c.k this immoral game company! I haven't slept a wink the entire night, and you're telling me now that I don't have the necessary level to teleport??”
”Yeah, and 1000 gold? What is this, an international flight?”
”I curse the producers and their wives to stay a virgin forever!”
……
But there were also plenty of players who quietly formed parties and ran out of the city after discovering that they didn't meet the requirements to use the teleportation formation. Clearly, these people were going to run to Sky City on foot. Sometimes, there was no point complaining about the unfairness of the world. Only those who continuously strived to improve themselves could truly master their own fates. These were the kind of people who would have the last laugh during the latter stages of the game.
Lin Yixin had already vanished. She must've teleported to Sky City already!
I clicked the ”Confirm” b.u.t.ton and watched myself being dragged into the super s.p.a.ce by several wisps of magical energy. A couple of seconds later, I had arrived inside a dense first!
Ding~!
System Notice: You have entered the territory of Sky City!
……
”f.u.c.k, the territory of Sky City? But where is Sky City…”
Slightly confused, I checked the map and noticed Sky City was straight ahead. I guessed that the teleportation formation teleported us into the territory of Sky City, but not directly into the city itself. Moreover, the location we appeared at was completely random. In the end, we still had to carry ourselves into the city with our two feet!
s.h.i.+ng!
I pulled out the Purgatory Sword and started moving. After pa.s.sing through a small section of the forest and parting the tree leaves blocking my vision, a sight unlike anything I had ever seen before stunned me into speechlessness!
Inside a vast valley, a couple of giant rocks could be seen floating above the ground. They formed a staircase that led visitors up to the sky where a magnificent city awaited!
Heavens! I wasn't expecting Sky City to be a literal floating city!
”Gulp!”
I swallowed. The city looked supernaturally fine, almost as if it was an inspiration stolen from the heavens itself. The wall alone was at least dozens of kilometers long, and the whole structure was floating in midair. It looked exquisite to say the least!