Chapter 53: New Intelligence! The Approaching Ultimate Darkness!
Hang Yu skimmed through the post and saw that Rui Ge had described the defense battle of Hexi Village in great detail, vividly writing about the combat details and the twists and turns of the process.
"That was the entire course of the battle."
"This was the first real confrontation between the Fourth Calamity Army and the Abyss forces!"
"Although the Abyss-corrupted Xu Feng came on fiercely and cunningly, the players’ persistent and relentless efforts, the villagers’ strong cooperation, and the Lord’s strategic oversight from the rear, making Xu Feng wary from the start, all contributed to our success."
"In the end, we achieved a glorious victory!"
"Although the scale and intensity of this battle may seem insignificant in the future, it was the starting battle of the Fourth Calamity Army, and we believe it will be recorded in the history of the Twisted Three Kingdoms!"
"Of course, this victory also brought very generous rewards to the players — we earned the villagers’ goodwill, acquired a large amount of loot, and even received generous rewards far beyond expectations from the Lord."
"For example."
"Lone Boat received a set of Skeletal Wild Bull equipment from the task rewards, currently the first white-grade set owned by players, which was later bought by Ye Li Meng for a sky-high price of three hundred thousand!"
"Now, @YeLiMeng, @LittleBell, and several other rich tycoons are still using real cash to buy Contribution Points, with each point once hyped up to one hundred yuan!"
"Early-stage players can earn substantial material rewards through gameplay, and this also shows that the tycoons are very optimistic about this game — I believe that more and more investors and big shots will join in the future."
"Twisted Three Kingdoms is not just fun."
"It is full of opportunities!"
"For most people, it is more than just a game; it is a brand new world, an exciting and passionate life, and even a high-paying job."
"If you were lucky enough to be selected for the closed beta, make sure to cherish it!"
"Because it could be the opportunity that changes your destiny!"
"……"
"That’s all for the side topic."
"Now, let’s return to the main topic and discuss the latest changes."
"Also, I’ll supplement some guide content."
"Twisted Three Kingdoms quietly completed several updates in just a few days without any announcements or server shutdowns — we have no idea how the dev team managed it."
"I noticed that at least two new buildings have been updated in the base recently."
"They are called ‘Alchemy Workshop’ and ‘Skill Tower’."
"The ‘Alchemy Workshop’ is presumed to be similar to the ‘Forging Workshop’, likely selling consumable items like potions, although the Alchemist NPC has yet to arrive."
"As for the ‘Skill Tower’, as the name suggests, it is a place to learn or practice skills — currently, there are two skills available."
"One is the Qi Gathering Slash used by Li Niu from Hexi Village, and the other is the Taiping Lightning Spell Spell used by the village chief Wei Ji."
"Both skills are very powerful."
"Through studying the skill system, I discovered."
"Initial professions seem only to affect attribute growth and do not limit skill learning."
"For example, the Qi Gathering Slash requires 18 Strength points to learn — a Warrior starts with 7 Strength points and gains 3 points per level-up, meaning they can learn Qi Gathering Slash by Level 5."
"A Ranger starts with 5 Strength points, gains 2 per level, so they need to reach Level 8 to learn it."
"Monks, and even Warlocks, theoretically can learn combat skills like Qi Gathering Slash, thus training themselves into Battle Monks or Battle Warlocks... Conversely, Warriors and Rangers can also learn spells or healing skills!"
"What does this mean?"
"Extremely high freedom!"
"Players are not bound by their professions!"
"Everyone can create their own unique playstyle!"
"In the future, it will not be strange to see a spellcaster carrying a broadsword and slashing monsters with martial skills!"
"Twisted Three Kingdoms offers ways to improve attributes besides leveling up!"
"I discovered that skills also require cultivation — the higher the cultivation level, the stronger the skill’s power."
"No wonder the Lord’s Iron Armor Skill is true Iron Armor Skill, while players’ Iron Armor Skill can only be called Paper Armor Skill at best."
"Each skill can be cultivated up to Level 10!"
"From Level 1 to 9, cultivation is relatively easy, but breaking through from Level 9 to 10 is extremely difficult."
"During the Hexi Village defense battle, I obtained a Skill Breakthrough Card and became the first player in Twisted Three Kingdoms to cultivate a skill to Level 10, earning a permanent 10 Agility attribute boost."
"If I can learn Qi Gathering Slash and cultivate it to max level, I will surely gain a significant Strength boost — with Qi Gathering Slash as a foundation, it would be much easier to learn other combat skills in the future."
"……"
"Finally, let’s talk about intelligence findings!"
"After the success of the Hexi Village defense battle."
"We gathered more intelligence from the villagers."
"We confirmed that Xu Feng was merely a subordinate of the big boss Ma Yuanyi."
"According to the intelligence provided by Village Chief Wei Ji, the local area experiences a celestial phenomenon called the ‘Day of Ultimate Darkness’ roughly once a month, lasting between twenty to thirty hours."
"Ma Yuanyi can only leave the core pollution zone during the period of Ultimate Darkness to ravage other territories, and he will never miss a chance to attack polluted lands — the battle today was merely a probe!"
"As far as we know."
"There are only five days left until the next Ultimate Darkness."
"The victory at the Hexi Village defense battle does not mean the crisis and intelligence threat have been lifted — it actually signals that a much tougher challenge is coming, and this battle concerns the survival of the entire territory."
"We believe that under the wise and great leadership of the Lord, we can definitely resist the threats from the Abyss forces, but we must also sharpen our weapons and prepare fully to perform better!"
"……"
"Alright!"
"That’s it for today!"
"Because there’s simply too much content in the game, and limited time, I could only pick key points and speak off the cuff, hoping it can help new or other players!"
Black-Eyed Rui Ge’s update was very rich in content, with the full text totaling at least five thousand words, not only sharing the current story situation but also revealing many new pieces of intelligence and information.
There was no doubt!
This would spark huge discussions!
Making people even more interested in the game world!
However, what netizens were most concerned about at the moment was not the Hexi Village defense battle, nor the game skill system, nor the setting of the Day of Ultimate Darkness.
"Holy crap!"
"Is this real?"
"There are actually tycoon players buying game currency?"
"Contribution Points should be the game currency, right? According to Rui Ge’s previous guide post, killing one chicken could explode nearly ten material drops, roughly equivalent to 10 Contribution Points."
"If every Contribution Point can sell for dozens or even hundreds, wouldn't killing one chicken earn a thousand bucks? If that's true, who the hell would still go to work? This is insane!"
"Please, developers, give me a spot!"
"Forget about the game currency being so valuable!"
"An equipment set from a mission reward was actually bought by a rich guy for 300,000? Does this tycoon have so much money he has nowhere to burn it? Although there have always been tycoons in gaming circles, this is still shocking!"
"Haha, so funny — no way someone actually believes this, right?"
"Such a bunch of noobs upstairs!"
"Obviously fake!"
"This must be a new scam!"
"I bet the next step is selling closed beta slots at high prices, waiting for a batch of suckers to get scammed and for the game company to run away."
"These people like Black-Eyed Rui Ge have definitely been bribed by scammers."
"Yeah, don’t believe in miracles falling from the sky — everyone quickly cancel your reservation and give your slot to me. Once I get into the game, I’ll expose the truth and criticize them fiercely!"
"……"
If in the past, players pre-registered for Twisted Three Kingdoms purely because of its gameplay, now a new batch of players flooded in, dreaming of getting rich.
If what Black-Eyed Rui Ge said was true.
The Twisted Three Kingdoms closed beta qualification was no longer just a chance to experience the game early — it was a genuine high-paying job, and if lucky, a chance to strike it rich and turn life around!
The forum was buzzing.
Reservation numbers had already surpassed two million.
Hang Yu was not at all concerned about players’ doubts — with the current number of reservations, the territory would not lack people in the short term.
If the territory’s population capacity and finances allowed, he would wish he could bring in all millions of players.
Just fifty players had already generated impressive output.
If two million players came in to work hard in the future, what kind of scene would that be?
The daily revenue might become so terrifying that Hang Yu could instantly rise to become a top-tier Lord!
This day would surely come.
It was just a matter of time.
Of course, Hang Yu had to solve the problems of territory finances, population cap, and land scale first — he must seize more land and open more Abyss maps.
Otherwise, even if millions of players flooded in, there would be no place to house them, and there would not be enough wild monsters to grind.
In such a situation.
More players would not always be better.
On one hand, there was the issue of management.
On the other hand, capacity had to be considered.
Otherwise, marginal returns would inevitably diminish, and the overall gameplay experience would be negatively affected.