131 Chapter 131 (1/2)
Chapter 131
Server Alert: A Dungeon War has been started! This war will last a total of five days. For the next two days, players from the enemy dungeon will be able to invade your dungeon. Likewise, you will be able to invade the enemy dungeon. Do your best to survive the onslaught and overcome your foe! To the victors, the great spoils of war will be revealed.
The message flowed across James's screen the moment the timer hit 0. Likewise, he could see all of his players pause and look down at their own message screens, likely seeing the same message flow across.
At the same time, a single message in red appeared in front of him.
Core Live Stream Active. It seemed that not only was the dungeon war going to be live streamed to all of the other players, but the core aspect of it was going to forcibly be streamed to the rest of the Dungeon Cores as well. That was fine, because even though it meant BLANK could see what he was doing, it meant he could watch them as well.
James excitedly pulled up his Core chat menu, pulling up the main page. There, in bold letters, it exclaimed the start of the very first ever dungeon war. Below the exclamation two screenshots where shown. The first was of James's dungeon, as he would recognize the fearsome view of the Terminus anywhere. The other screenshot showed a giant…gummy bear? If he had to guess, the screenshots were of boss mobs for each dungeon. However, did BLANK really have a gummy bear as a boss mob? That seemed, a bit out of character.
Both screenshots had a watch option, with a little red dot showing they were currently live streaming. Excitedly, James rub his tentacles together before he clicked on the stream for BLANK. He could not wait to finally see-
Error: Dungeon War participants are unable to watch the core live stream. James stared at the message for a moment, before he let out a sigh. It made sense. If they wanted the dungeon war to be fair, or at least, as a fair as could be in the given circumstances, it wouldn't be right for the participants to be able to spy on each other.
Instead, James would have to just watch his dungeon as BLANKs players invaded his dungeon, and hopefully he could watch as his own players invaded BLANK's dungeon. A part of James was actually glad he and BLANK wouldn't be able to watch each other's streams of their actions. It meant BLANK wouldn't be able to see what James had planned for his third- and fifth-day placements. It also meant his Avatar information, and anything else he looked at or did during the next two days, would remain a secret from BLANK. Something that James was actually quite thankful for.
Server Announcement: Invasion Gates will become active in 5 minutes! Another message flitted across his stream, and James looked anxiously at Rue. The war had just started, and already the first invasion gates were about to go live. He knew they would activate every 2 hours and would create a gate on each floor. His players would be able to take parties of up to 10 through the gates, to invade the enemy dungeon. Likewise, the enemy dungeon could invade his instances with parties of 10. The instance invaders arrived in would be completely random though, so it was a toss-up on which adventurers would be available to defend against the invasion.
James did a quick scan of his dungeon, checking the instances he currently had up. His instances were maxed out, with players steadily grinding away. According to Rue, many of his players had actually stayed awake during the past 24 hours, grinding out as many levels as they could and upgrading their gear. Apparently, from what Rue had overheard, some enterprising merchants had even begun cutting deals or adjusting prices in order to sell their wares even quicker. Needless to say, the upcoming war was driving the economy already.
He ran a name search, seeing if Z or Skar's parties were in the dungeon, and was dismayed to see that neither party was currently in an instance. However, there was still a single instance for his third floor up, which was currently inhabited by members from the largest guild on James's server. Fifteen members, ranging from level 27 to 31 walked cautiously through the swamp land, fighting off stuffed animals. What the guild lacked in terms of top-level players like Z and Skar's groups had, they made up with numbers of above average players.