Chapter 343 - Are You Ready To Die? (1/2)

Although the Crimson Blood mission was good, William had not expected what happened. The teleportation portals of the City of Dawn were well connected to Red Fire Kingdom, Lion Kingdom, and Grand Duchies in the southern region. Hence, the players were not interested in Crimson Blood.

The City of Dawn had 500,000 players, of which 300,000 were Intermediate professionals, and more than 200,000 were beginners who were involved in the development of the city.

Of the 300,000 Intermediate professionals, only 100,000 were interested in Crimson Blood.

The remaining 200,000 made use of the teleportation portals to travel to other locations.

The players had recognized that the City of Dawn was rich and powerful. They wanted to make use of their affiliation to take up missions and adventures in other kingdoms and grand duchies.

They wanted to immerse themselves in the customs of various kingdoms. They wanted to appreciate the scenery that they had not seen before. It was what they desired.

Similarly, some players preferred the ocean and wanted to conquer it.

There was even a player with an ID ‘The Strongest Little Mermen’, who formed a guild for this purpose. He raised funds to buy a Grandmaster warship from William. He bought it just to live the life out at the seas…

The Stormy Island and the Great Mermen Island were the spots that the players frequented.

Even the East Sea Metropolis, which had no monsters, was a popular spot for the touring players.

As for Dawn College…

There were many shameless players who wanted to enroll there.

William could not refuse their applications because the Gods game had such a set of rules.

The players could go to school to obtain certain attributes. These attributes would reduce the experience points required for battle energy manuals and upgrading skill levels.

The colleges were only accessible to players in the middle and late stages of the game. At that time, the players could resort to schooling in order to reduce the experience points required for upgrading to the next level.

However, the City of Dawn already had two colleges.

Tens of thousands of players were interested in studying. Perhaps they had all been playing truants when they were young, so they had missed studying.

Of course, William would never reject these rich players who loved learning…

However, Dawn College had also promulgated various rules to prevent the players from affecting the learning of NPCs.

“It seems like the portal fares are not high enough,” William muttered to himself.

In the great 20% sale two days ago, William had sold almost all the pieces of equipment that were considered obsolete by the NPCs. He had earned more than 5 million gold coins, and the treasury of the City of Dawn was fat again.

He had shaved all the player-lambs hairless. Some of them even started to bleed.

William decided he should slow down the process of shaving the player-lambs. Otherwise, he would be cutting into their flesh.

At that time, many players would quit the game.

After all, there was no other choice.

William was the real schemer in this game.

The game’s mainframe was not being controlled, and William was an NPC with tremendous power. He would try his best to get the players to spend more money…

He was an outstanding NPC. The staff of the game company would be fond of him.

Hence, he had to wait at least two or three months after version 3.0. Then, he could exploit the players and increase the portal toll. It would reduce the number of portal uses, and he would make 100% profit of the magical crystals.

“Now, the competent players prefer adventuring. It’s normal for them not to participate in the main plot mission. In my previous life, in version 4.0, I did not participate in any main plot mission.

“After all, freedom is the most interesting aspect of this game. The game missions will never place restrictions on the players’ actions.

“When the City of Dawn, which was the players’ faction, was threatened or attacked by foreign enemies, the players would become agitated and think of protecting their hometown.”

William stroked his chin. “However, the 100,000 players can complete Crimson Blood. The small number of participants also reduces the number of rewards I have to give out.

“At that time, with the Red Fire Kingdom as our allies, we can share the gains of occupying Lan Yu Grand Duchy and Emerald Grand Duchy. It’ll be highly profitable.

“However, the City of Dawn has to develop stronger. Otherwise, when the players start exploring other regions, they may foster the idea of changing factions!”

William sighed. The players were a group of creatures without loyalty. If they thought that their faction was not large, the reputation was not good, and the city was not powerful enough, they would have the desire to defect if they did not receive the respect from others.

Although the players would not immediately defect and attack the City of Dawn, it was still wise to avoid such an incident.

William believed that such a mass defection would not occur in a short time.

Perhaps, it would happen when the players attained the Advanced and Grandmaster levels.

William made a decision when he thought about it. “I want to be strong in order to control the situation. I don’t intend to make the City of Dawn a beginner’s village.”

“What’s Prince William doing today? I haven’t seen him for hours.” Angry Fatty was depressed. It had been a whole day, but Prince William had not brought him out to take some video shots.

“Perhaps, Prince William had another videographer?

“Md! It can’t be tolerated. I’ll find out which broadcaster has usurped my number one spot in Gods.”

Changli Jiuge did not know what Fatty was thinking and sighed. “Beats me! We can’t curry his favor even if we wanted to. It’s sad.”

“Where are you going?”