Chapter 1283 (1/2)

Chapter 1283: 414. Don’t mind making a big fuss

“I bet this is definitely a wrongful block! Anyone who opposes me, dare you bet with me? If I lose, my whole family will ascend to heaven. If you lose, I won’t ask for much, just an apology will do!”

Needless to say, this reply came from the Dark Disciple.

As soon as Mason Gray saw someone come to his aid, he immediately teamed up with the Dark Disciple and fiercely attacked the players who claimed he was an alternate account.

The same scenario played out on various floors of the thread.

Unknowingly, dozens of players had joined the Dark Disciple’s camp, beginning to unleash their firepower on other players.

Mason Gray quickly understood the situation.

All the players who were helping the Dark Disciple must have, like him, received a task from the Dark Divine Cult!

Sure enough, before long, the Dark Disciple pulled the players, including Mason Gray, into a group chat and said bluntly:

“It must be those selfish bastards from the ‘Gold Dragon’ guild that don’t want us loose players surpassing them, so they collectively reported our accounts! Brothers, I have a plan that can get us revenge!”

Everyone who joined the group had received the task, so naturally, there was no opposition.

They discussed it among themselves.

Half an hour later, including Mason Gray, the players ended the group chat, each created a character, and entered the game.

Some applied to join the “Gold Dragon” guild, while others spread out and joined other large guilds.

Great Guilds have their own schemes for absorbing new players.

They categorize new players into four ranks.

Fourth-rank players have no money, no time, no experience.

Third-rank players have time, but no money, no experience.

Second-rank players have time, experience, but no money.

First-rank players have time, experience, and money.

Third- and fourth-rank new players are directly rejected when applying to join Great Guilds.

Second-rank players can become official members after a probationary period.

First-rank players are exempt from the review and probationary period, and can participate in guild tasks upon paying their membership fee.

Above first-rank, there are special-rank players who have money, but no experience, no time.

That’s the big boss, responsible only for funding, occasionally logging in to enjoy the fruits of professional players’ labor.

The path the Dark Disciple led everyone down was that of a first-rank player.

There were 48 of them in total.

10 people joined the “Gold Dragon” guild, and the remaining 38 joined the “Eternal Club,” “Star Cluster Will,” and “Arrogant Fantasy” – three other large guilds.

They had already agreed on a plan.

The 10 members who joined the “Gold Dragon” guild would look for opportunities to initiate disputes with the other three guilds, ideally creating incidents involving player casualties and damaged ships.

In this process, some players acted overtly, while others guided public opinion in the shadows, exacerbating the issue and suppressing any voice that was favorable to resolving the dispute.

To sum it up in one sentence, they’d do whatever could get people riled up and blowing their tops.

If possible, it would be best to use honey-traps to corrode a few guild admins, making it easier to manipulate guild mechanisms and ignite conflicts.

It must be said that the Dark Disciple and his people had chosen a good time.

Right now was the crucial stage of developing the new expansion, and the last thing the Great Guilds wanted was outsiders holding them back.

Take, for example, the process Noland Lee had set up for registering as a Wizard Apprentice.

Considering the players contaminated by the Dark Divine Cult, and the possibility that it might extend to regular players who had never had their accounts deleted, Noland Lee decided to conduct regular checks on all players joining the Academy.

The method for regular checks was simple: encourage players to get into the habit of carrying out “Training Tasks.”

Noland Lee added the “Sparring with Magic Puppets” training task to the daily task list for Wizard Apprentices, offering substantial experience and item rewards.

After logging in, players would automatically pick up the daily task and head to the training grounds to engage in combat training with magic puppets.

During this time, Noland Lee’s Passive Deconstruction would trigger normally, thereby updating the basic information of the players daily.

This precautionary measure, amid the rush of players joining the Academy, instead became a point of exacerbating player conflicts.