Chapter 46

The players woke up to level up bright and early in the morning because they wanted to catch up to the mainstream players. In the end, not long after they came online, they were informed by God Domain’s officials to go offline because of an update.

How could they be willing to accept that? However, no matter how indignant they were, they could not rival the officials of God Domain. Hence, many players could only hastily search for safe areas where they could go offline at.

Of course, although the players did not have much time to vent their anger in the public channel, the players quickly took over God Domain’s official forum.

Wolf King: “Damn it! God Domain is really impressive, huh? They’re announcing an update three minutes in advance. They don’t treat us players like humans, huh?”

Iron-Shelled Turtle: “The big shot who posted the comment above is right. My friends and I were fighting the Boss-level monster, and we were suddenly forced to go offline. If that Boss-level monster had a Purple Outfit, I would be suffering a huge loss.”

Little Hardworking Bee: “The person who posted the comment above, wake up. Purple Outfits are not something a person like you can get.”

Golden Armor Warrior: “You’re going off track. Aren’t we discussing the fact that God Domain’s officials aren’t treating us like humans?”

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Most of the players in God Domain’s official forum voiced their thoughts about the sudden official update. However, the players who were discussing the update and denouncing God Domain’s officials were soon attracted by the update information given by the officials of God Domain.

After all, the players had experienced all sorts of operations throughout the numerous years, and such abrupt game updates had happened before too.

God Domain was now the first fully-immersive game. No matter how resentful the players were, they would not give up on the game and stop playing. Besides, after the players simmered down a little, God Domain also issued a statement.

The statement’s general idea talked about the fact that God Domain’s basic version for the next three years had long been developed and added to the program. It was controlled by God Domain’s smart computer.

The update dates of God Domain’s game versions were completely decided by the smart computer based on the players’ level of activity and progress. It had nothing to do with the officials of God Domain.

In the end, God Domain even said that the third batch of virtual glasses would be up for sale on God Domain’s official website after the version update was completed. This time, 100 million virtual glasses would be launched.

The majority of the players were skeptical about God Domain’s previous official statement, but most of the players became extremely agitated after reading the statement about the release of the third batch of virtual glasses.

Previously, the ten-million player quota had greatly catered to the majority of the players’ demand, but a large number of players were still hindered from playing.

Even now, the family members and friends of many players still eagerly waited for the new player quota to appear on the official website of God Domain.

Now that God Domain had released a 100-million player quota, most of the players’ attention was shifted away from the issue about the update.

Hence, amidst the surprises, God Domain’s first data sheet update was gradually completed.

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After Liu Ming took a nap, he logged into God Domain again.

As soon as he entered, Liu Ming immediately headed to the hall of the City Lord’s residence together with the butler, who had already been waiting.

In fact, before catching up on his sleep, Liu Ming had already learned about the version update’s content from the official website.

The update’s first data sheet was named Nightfall.

In God Domain’s official introduction, it mentioned that the dark forces had long been plotting in the main positions for decades. In fact, people in various nations and empires had fallen and become servants of Darkness.

The kingdom that Lotter City belonged to was no exception.

Lotter City and the 20 main cities around it belonged to the Eric Kingdom, one of the kingdoms most heavily infiltrated by the dark forces among the many kingdoms and empires.

In other words, the news reported by Lotter City’s City Lord would not only be taken lightly by the kingdom’s higher-ups, but the City Lord might even get reprimanded by them.

If that was all, it would be fine.

This time’s update had also opened up the eligibility to switch to the Darkness Camp. As long as a player could find the person in charge of one of the Darkness Camp’s regions and complete a Camp Quest, they would be able to change their respective affiliation to the Darkness Camp.

The two pieces of information caused many players, who were not doing well in the Brilliance Camp, to join the Darkness Camp immediately after the game service was made available again.

Even the senior executives of guilds like World Guild had also openly stated that their guilds would choose to switch camps when the time came.

Hence, the Brilliance Camp completely lost their advantage, and the game plot’s subsequent development became unknown.

However, what bothered Liu Ming the most was not the matter of which camp had the greater advantage, but the new systems that were released together with God Domain’s update.

This time, brand new equipment, refinement systems, and demon possession systems were included in the update.

The equipment refinement system was traditional games’ strengthening system. All equipment above Level 10 could be refined with Equipment Refinement Stones.

There were a total of 20 levels of equipment refinement. Other than the first refinement, which would definitely be successful, the subsequent refinements would have certain chances of failure.

Every failure in refinement would cause the equipment’s Refinement Level to drop by one. After Refinement Level 11, each failure would result in a straight plunge to Refinement Level 0.

Each Equipment Refinement Stone cost one Gold Coin, and subsequently, the number of required Equipment Refinement Stones would increase almost geometrically with every increase in Refinement Level.

The fact that one would have to start all over again after a failure at Refinement Level 11 and above was enough to show how profitable the Equipment Refinement System was for the officials.

However, compared to the Equipment Refinement System, the Enchanting Resonance System was the one that would truly cost a lot of money.

The materials used in the Enchanting Resonance System were Stats Badges, which were extremely valuable.

Once the Enchanting Resonance System was activated, players would be able to add their Stats Badges to their equipment and form Enchantments using three to seven badges.

If six pieces of equipment belonging to a player, including weapons, were attached to corresponding Enchantments, resonance would occur. Additional Stats, as well as features, would also appear.

The Enchanting Resonance System per se was not a big problem except for the high consumption of badges. After all, if one knew which order the badges were to be combined, they could obtain their desired Enchantment in one go.

However, the resonance following it would suck many players dry.

Once six pieces of equipment resonated with one another, they could never be altered again unless there was another Enchantment, regardless of how terrible the Stats were.

In other words, one would have to waste another sum of money if the set of Enchanted equipment, which they had obtained after spending a bomb, ended up going wrong.

Those unlucky probably would not be able to get their desired resonance in less than eight to ten attempts. Hence, even many of the various guilds’ elite players claimed that they would just look to get an acceptable Enchantment after the update.

Ordinary players might not like such things that involved probability, but Liu Ming enjoyed it very much.

If not for the fact that Liu Ming had not collected his quest rewards yet, he would have gone to the Blacksmith and Enchanter to test out both systems immediately.