252 The Game Resumes (2/2)
The energy was hardly enough for 0541. Therefore, 0541's main program did not immediately activate and remained in Sleep mode. A non-intelligent backup program was still controlling the internal settings of the ring.
Once he returned home, Jiang Fei had dinner and went into his room. The game's maintenance should have concluded, and Jiang Fei would be able to enter the game at night to experience the new content.
At 10 o'clock, Jiang Fei immediately logged into the game.
Right away, he noticed a major change in the city.
Firstly, the city area had been expanded rather extensively. The streets were much wider, and there were several new shops. There was also the addition of a large number of service type merchants and also, two new buildings in Dawnlight City!
Intercity Teleport Portal! (Locked!)
This was one of the new buildings. As its name suggested, the teleport portal was where the four main cities in the game met. However, for the time being, the teleport portal was still in a locked state. It would take some quests to gain its access.
Apart from the Intercity Teleport Portal, there was a vast PVP Arena in the middle of Dawnlight City! This was where players could fight each other to test their skills or to resolve conflicts. There were options of selecting between individual or team PVP. Although dying in the arena would not result in any xp or material losses, the PVP arena did feature a betting function of sorts.
After selecting the mode, both parties, regardless of individuals or teams, would need to hand over their stakes to the depository in the arena. There were three modes of battling for victory, namely best two out of three, best three out of five, and single combat.
Players were free to select their desired modes. Once either side won based on the selected mode, the stakes would immediately go to the winning individual or team!
Of course, the betting was not limited to the involved parties. Other players could also observe the PVP fights and place their bets. However, observers were only allowed to bet with gold coins. The system would also charge a part of the bet amount as commission to keep some of the gold coins in circulation while still entertaining players. The rationale behind this was to avoid unregulated inflation of the gold coins when the amount of currency dropped by monsters at higher Levels increased.
The changes in the monsters outside of the city were even more drastic. There were hardly any lone monsters out in the wild. Most monsters now roamed in packs, with each individual member experiencing a rather significant power boost.
The new version of the game evidently placed an even greater importance on forming teams and collaboration. Apart from a minority of unusually strong players, most players could no longer train or hunt for treasures alone!
”Level 29 Sprint Team! We will train at the eastern gate area. One Healer is needed! We will leave immediately!”
”Level 30 Rapid Levelling Team. We need an Attacker!”
”Monster Killing Team for Second Job Classes. Leveling and treasure hunting. Those who have not advanced to the Second Job Class, do not bother requesting!”
”Small Accounts Happy Levelling Team. First come first serve. We have pretty girls to chat with you so that Levelling would be fast and not one bit dull!”
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The four city gates of Dawnlight City were now much livelier than before. Clearly, players had realized that attempting to train alone was futile unless they teamed up. Therefore, a lot of shouting could be heard at the city gates!
Apart from changes to the small monsters, the difficulty of Leaders had also been decreased to grant standard pub players an opportunity to experience the fun of killing monsters in the wild. However, the difficulty or Lords were increased significantly. What was once the level of difficulty for military groups was now the level for standard groups. However, those changes did not really affect most players. After all, the players were mostly only around Level 30. The Lords started appearing at Level 50. Apart from Jiang Fei who had the ridiculous capability of single-handedly fighting Lords, it barely mattered to anyone else.