Chapter 471 (1/2)

Filled With Inspiration!

As someone who was alpha testing the game in a spiritual sense, the game producer in Zha Feng still took most of the wheel. He has always put himself in his prospective players’ shoes. All the better for him to surprise them.

It was already a surprise to have clean equipment dropping from the girl he murdered in return for seriously injuring herself while trying to save him. Any player would have thought that they would undoubtedly get a tremendous amount of experience and legendary equipment from killing a peerless master who was on a similar level as Li Xiye. However, the girl only ended up dropping some clean equipment. It could barely even be called equipment – it was an ornamental sword – used for decorative purposes. Imagine the disappointment. It would leave players with a sour yet refreshing taste in their mouths…

The decorative sword aside, Zha Feng felt that some incentive should be added to push these players into this dark path. He would whisper dark words into their thoughts, only to leave them in absolute darkness and punish them for obeying.

Who knows, after killing the girl, the player would be destined to encounter a tough obstacle later. Unless the player was a genuine god who was capable of heaven-defying acts, his savefile would be at a dead end

So, how would he send players down this path while blaming them for everything? Zha Feng was not too sure, yet. He chose to reload the previously saved file again. This time, he spared the girl. On the contrary, he started tending to her wounds, for she was his savior!

Of course, players could care less about these ‘saviors.’ Even if they nursed the girl back to health, it would only be to dig up her backstory. Not because they were curators or journalists or any of that sort, they only hoped to gain some secret reward from it.

Naturally, they were also in it for any potential quests, and the ensuing rewards.

If not one or the other, it had to have something to do with the girl’s favorability’s level. Who knows, you might get some pleasant, exciting CGI cutscene when her favorability reaches a certain extent. Of course, it would not be child-friendly.

Just like that, Zha Feng became highly inspired. He gradually discovered the girl’s unique personality, her miserable life, her extremely admirable, beautiful swordsmanship which could be mistaken as a graceful dance, if not for the disembodied pieces of monster body parts that followed.

The girl’s outfit could also be customized. She could get dolled up in a Han Dynasty costume, only to turn into a graceful, westernized elegant aristocratic princess, deserving of the title “Her Majesty” in the blink of an eye. No one would believe that she was “Cinderella” before this!

However, at that time, the players would have to make a decision. Accept the quest entrusted to them by Su Hu and become enemies with the nameless girl, or stand with the girl?

Su Hu’s rewards were outstanding. On the other hand, the nameless girl was pretty poor, because all her money was invested in the nameless city. She used her small, fragile shoulders to build up a Peach Blossom Spring[1] amidst the cruel, troubled world

In such situations, some players might just change their minds. To them, money and equipment were most important. Who cared about the morality of the situation?

At that point in time, the nameless girl’s life story would not have been exposed yet. However, the game would throw characteristically malicious misdirections, leading players would think that she had rather grand ambitions. She would soon share her intentions of murdering the emperor of the Kingdom of Zhao, Su Hu. For this reason, she would trigger a decisive battle that involved the lives of every living human being!

The decisive battle at the peak of the Forbidden City!

The Forbidden City housed the royal palace. The girl intended to use this decisive battle to attract the attention of the guards and give those who followed her a chance to kill Su Hu. If the player was still on her side by then, the player would definitely participate in this shocking, colossal scheme…

Indeed, the opponent of the nameless girl was the “Sword God” Li Xiye. Like the old saying —- —-

On the night of the full moon a duel between the Sword from the West and the Fairy from Wonderland!

For once, the game would truly treat its players to a visual feast of Wuxia swordplay and moonlit sihouttes, complete with blood splatters that gave way to flower petals. This took nothing away from the fact that peerless masters still could not beat some dogs…

This battle at Forbidden City would end with the girl’s life. It was not because she could not beat Li Xiye, but because things turned out to be more complicated than expected. After all, when up against young girls, Li Xiye could not bear to bring out his sword and take them seriously. Due to this, his Kendo[2] was rusty. However, the girl would give her own life to help him improve his Kendo!

Players would have the opportunity to inherit the girl’s clothes. At that point in time, they would be surprised to find that the girl’s Flying Rainbow was no longer some random clean equipment, but a truly godly weapon. It would be the type of weapon that could carry a player to the end of the game. What’s more, it was a weapon that was both aesthetically pleasing and highly practical.