116 The Calling of the Gladiator Arena (1/2)
[Sunny_Light: Your chest's gone! Your sword's gone! Your account's gone!!!]
[FixBoxGo: Not amending BUGS but adding more? The CoderMonkey has perished.]
[CompanionReadingBookwormq: Finally, the game has PVP? I can feel the coming bloodshed!]
[UnoccupiedAnyuan: This is the game where gamers have to construct the buildings one brick at a time. Do they expect us to excavate for the land too?]
[Crimson Feather: I am relieved to see both the First and Second Beta Gamers being exploited.]
[Stir-fried Vegetable Rice: Dragon Raja is recruiting members! Join our Wechat group after registration! There is a subsidy every month!]
[Taking Jujube Pills: Don't say anymore. I am the man who is going to be the legendary Gladiator]
…
Most of the comments were on the PVP and the Guild System. There was minimal discussion on the newly opened areas.
While Sherlock was browsing the replies, a group of gamers entered the Dungeon Lord Main Hall noisily. They were there to find Bru.
They wanted to set up a Guild.
The leader was the veteran gamer NotWearingPants. Behind him were more than twenty First Beta Gamers.
Setting up a Guild required 100 silver coins. To a First Beta Gamer, it was difficult to come up with the money. However, with the collaboration of many gamers, it wasn't an issue.
The procedure for creating a Guild wasn't complicated. After accumulating 100 silver coins at NotWearingPants' side, they registered with 90 members. The name of the Guild was…
…
A pickaxe landed on the tough Diamond Seam and emitted a clanking sound.
At the half-developed Commerce Area, a group of gamers in underpants were chatting and excavating using their pickaxes.
”My God, the First Beta Gamers are rich.”
”They're paying us 200 bronze coins an hour to help them excavate the Guild Location. That's very cool.”
”Don't you know that the veteran gamers are all rich?”
The tens of gamers chatted while they excavated.
Behind them, a veteran gamer was leading a hundred gamers as he shouted, ”Good! That batch of gamers, come down. We're changing the batch!”
”Wait! Veteran! Let me excavate for an hour! I can still work!”
The group of excavating gamers begged, but the veteran gamer said, ”You've worked for an hour. Your strength and speed have diminished. If you want to work, go and rest. You may come back later.”
He urged them to come down and leave the pickaxes, which were rented by the veteran gamers.
The batch of excavating gamers was switched.
Sherlock sat in the Dungeon Core Main Hall and looked at the hundreds of novice gamers in the crystal ball. They were working in a few directions and helping the veteran gamers excavate their first Guild Location.
Though there were many gamers developing the Dungeon diligently, Sherlock felt strange seeing a few hundred gamers excavating the unimportant Guild Location.
”Why are these gamers always exploiting loopholes? Or… are they thinking of ways to oppose me? Is it that difficult to work honestly for me?” Sherlock asked Bru.
”Lord Sherlock, the rich gamers are using the power of money to employ other gamers to solve their problems. This is a common occurrence as money is used to do such things,” Bru said honestly.
The Dungeon Core burst into flames, and two letters were thrown onto Sherlock's table.
Sherlock picked up one letter, which was from the Northern Underground World Gladiator Arena.
He picked up another letter from Specter College. Sherlock opened up the letter sent by Professor Bacon.
”Respectable Lord Sherlock,
My apologies for imposing on you. It has been five to six days since there were combatants coming from Eternal Kingdom. The college is worried that there may be some issues, so I am charged with asking. I hope that Lord Sherlock does not mind. If there are any problems, Lord Sherlock may discuss them with me. I will try my best to help—Bacon”
Sherlock put down the letter and asked, ”The gamers haven't challenged the Instance Dungeon since the start of the Second Beta Test?”
”Nobody has challenged the Instance Dungeon, Lord Sherlock,” Bru quickly replied.
”As the Second Beta Testing has just started, they have been busy taking care of the new gamers and raiding the Ancestral Ruins. Most importantly, they have been doing missions carrying bricks. Lord Sherlock, please take a look.”