Half of the ranking list
Although there's a lot going on and he's quite busy right now, Yang Jian doesn't need to do much.
He has always had a clear understanding of his role: to be a good signboard.
While waiting for the others to log in, Yang Jian opened a short video app to browse for a while.
As time passed, other forms of entertainment on the market had almost disappeared.
Mobile games that people used to play were long since abandoned.
Now, when he opened Douyin, it was either about salvation or suggestive content… He liked several scantily clad young women who appeared on his feed.
There was no other reason; Yang Jian was simply afraid Douyin would think he didn't like such content and would only recommend salvation-related content to him in the future.
As he scrolled, he came across the latest rankings.
First place: Tianmu Zhenjun, Level 26 47%, Class: Hunter, Guild: Star Palace (Guild Leader).
Second place: Yueyin Qingya, Level 18 22%, Class: Element Controller, Guild: Star Palace (Vice Guild Leader).
Third place: Thousand Years of White Clouds, Level 17 41%, Class: Void Hunter, Guild: Star Palace (Vice Guild Leader).
Fourth place: Qingqing Zijin, Level 16 31%, Class: King of Beasts, Guild: Star Palace (Vice Guild Leader).
Fifth place: Xia Yuan Weiguang, Level 15 81%, Class: Paladin, Guild: Star Palace.
Sixth place: King Arthur, Level 15 79%, Class: Arcane Mage, Guild: Norse Pantheon (Guild Leader).
Seventh place: Thunder God Envoy, Level 15 75%, Class: Thunder Mage, Guild: Asgard (Guild Leader).
Eighth place: Western Cowboy, Level 15 62%, Class: Mechanic.
Ninth place: Templar Knight Borg, Level 15 60%, Class: Paladin, Guild: Light Church (Vice Guild Leader).
Tenth place: Bi Luo Jing Feng Yu, Level 15 55%, Class: Monster Hunter, Guild: Star Palace.
This was an account dedicated to live-streaming the top ten on the leaderboard.
The live stream camera was focused solely on the rankings.
Normally, there weren't many people here.
But today, the dramatic fluctuations in the data captivated everyone.
Currently, over ten thousand people were in this live stream room, commenting and discussing.
“Sigh… on the world level leaderboard, Star Palace holds six spots in the top ten… half the country!”
“It's obvious; looking at the experience gain, you can tell Tianmu Zhenjun is leading his beautiful subordinates to level up!”
“I level up once every two days, and it's getting slower; I think it'll soon take three days to level up. But they can level up twice in one night; is that fair?”
“Jealousy distorts my face; jealousy makes me want to split apart!”
“I reported all night on Douyin, and many leaderboards were taken down, but I can do nothing about the cheaters in the game!”
“Streamer: How wronged am I? Go report him in the game; why are you reporting me?”
“Work hard to level up yourself! Thinking about those crooked ways is useless! salvation doesn't care about you at all!”
“Have you heard? Taotao Bowl kept protesting Star Palace's 100,000 player slots on the game's official website. Their foul language angered the administrator, O'Neal, who directly revoked all tens of thousands of their slots…”
“So?”
“Even the helmets that had already been distributed all disappeared!”
“Hiss…”
The player who had just spoken up about reporting everywhere had already disappeared!
That's how ruthless it is?
At this point, who doesn't know that the apocalypse is truly coming?
These helmets appear out of nowhere when given and vanish directly when revoked… Chang Wei, you still say you don't know martial arts?
Seeing this, Yang Jian also went to look for related international news.
As someone who enjoys a good show, how could he miss such entertainment?
Yang Jian initially thought it was fake news spread from somewhere… after all, such a thing was too outrageous!
But he never expected that such an outrageous thing was actually true!
It seems the game's official team is demonstrating its power… Yang Jian realized that after this incident, everyone should have a clear understanding of salvation and the apocalypse.
If someone could still think it was fake, that it was all fake, then Yang Jian could only say that person was truly amazing!
“Guild Leader… why didn't you take me with you when you leveled up?”
Three years ago, Bai Xiaobai was a typical child.
But three years later, though still underage, Bai Xiaobai was a graceful young lady.
“This isn't my fault! I asked your aunt to call people, intending to give you a slot! Who knew she would sacrifice family for righteousness…”
Bai Xiaobai's eye twitched. Don't use idioms if you don't know how… Who are you trying to fool?
If you had arranged for Sister Zhou Yue to call people, you could have taken me along. But if you let my aunt call people, she would naturally avoid suspicion, wouldn't she?
She frantically complained about Yang Jian's actions in her mind.
Yet, with an innocent face, she joined Yang Jian in denouncing her aunt!
“Hmph, my aunt is too mean! I won't be best friends with her anymore!”
“Right! When you go back, you can scold her…”
“Huh? I wouldn't dare…”
“What are you afraid of? I've got your back!”
“Hehe, why don't you scold her, and I'll cheer you on?”
Yang Jian: …Kids these days aren't cute at all!
About an hour and a half later.
Everyone logged in one after another.
During the in-game daytime, the experience gained from leveling up significantly decreased.
Yang Jian only got 8% experience from clearing a round of wild monsters!
Although bringing them along did significantly reduce his experience gain.
Fortunately, the materials harvested were substantial… Bringing such a group of people to level up reduced Yang Jian's experience by almost 20%!
There are downsides, but naturally, there are also benefits.
With Zhou Yue present, rare materials that never dropped when he soloed now dropped quite a bit!
Finally, after leading them to fight for another ten-plus hours and seven or eight waves of wild monsters.
Yang Jian finally gathered all the upgrade materials at 10:30 PM in game time… Several people had been leveling up here since 9:30 AM in game time, fighting until 10:30 PM.
Zhou Yue ran around collecting ghost grass for Yang Jian.
Bai Youyou and Mo Suqing sat on the in-game grass, processing a massive number of game applications.
Bai Youyou recruited people assigned to Linhai City.
Since their territory had expanded to an entire commercial park, their second City Heart finally had a use!
What else was there to think about?
Recruit, recruit like crazy.
These 100,000 people, even if only 20,000 to 30,000 could be converted into an army, might not be able to stabilize the world in troubled times!
But protecting one's own territory would be no problem!
So, except for Xia Mingwei, who was relatively idle, ostensibly on alert but more accurately daydreaming and leveling up.
“The materials are all gathered. Should we return to the city?”
“Go ahead, you all look tired…”
“Sigh, I truly admire you now. To make such a tedious task so… it's not easy!”
“This is survival in the apocalypse; you really think it's just a game!”
“They keep shouting about Abyssal Monsters invading. When will the Abyssal Monsters actually invade?”
Yang Jian looked at the people in front of him.
“Hmph, hmph, when the Abyssal Monsters invade, massive Abyssal Monsters will rush towards your families with weapons… And you, my friends, you won't even have the ability to pick up a knife and resist… At that time, you will know what kind of disaster today's lack of effort will bring you…”
“Can you speak properly?”
“Don't listen to his nonsense. Aren't all of us together? Even if we're not strong enough to protect ourselves, isn't the Guild Leader strong enough?”
“Oh, that's right!”
“Right about what?”
Mo Suqing was almost in tears!
“Don't forget, I'm still in Yun Province!”
Although she knew it was a bit unethical, Bai Youyou inexplicably wanted to laugh… Watching the others hearthstone back to the city.
Yang Jian thought for a moment and decided to hearthstone as well.
He returned to the long-unseen Zhenhai City.
Yang Jian didn't waste any time.
He immediately fed all the materials in his hand to the ring.
In fact, troll jade and silver spirit crystal had been collected long ago, with quite a bit left over.
It was the dragon blood that only had a tiny chance of dropping purple dragon blood from Level 40 elite raptors.
Perhaps they didn't drop it originally, but after Grandpa Zhou came, they started dropping dragon blood.
Sitting on the bed in Room 1 of the guild stronghold, Yang Jian fed all the dragon blood in his hand to the druid king ring.
A dazzling purple light flashed, and the ring in his hand immediately transformed.
malorne's oath of loyalty (Purple)
Finger: Ring
All Attributes +80
Skill: Travel Form (Sea, Land, Air, Movement Speed Increased by 100%)
Skill: Melee Specialization, Cat Form (Skill: Stealth)
Note: A demigod artifact made from the shed horn of the Wild God Malorne, once gifted to his second son, damaged after being lost.
Repair Requirements:
Condition One: Collect Souls (0/150000), required soul level not lower than host level.
Condition Two: Silver Iron Stone (Purple) 0/50, Baoshan Earth Jade (Purple) 0/50, Heart of Silver (Orange) 0/3, Flame Essence (Orange) 0/1
Condition Three: Golden BOSS Soul 0/3
Bound, Cannot be Dropped, Cannot be Traded
Good news: After the ring upgraded, its attributes were comparable to orange equipment.
Yang Jian could now equip items Level 25 and above. Level 25 purple equipment had 50 attributes, orange equipment had 100.
The druid king ring's attributes were now above purple but not quite orange… Bad news: Besides the Heart of Silver, Yang Jian hadn't even heard of the other purple materials for upgrading!
This meant that at least in this map area of the Southeast Plains, there were no materials available for the ring's upgrade.
He checked the time; it was already 10:40 PM.
There was still over an hour until midnight!
During the days he was out, Yang Jian had almost never run guild dungeons.
Now that he was strong, he planned to see what was different about Hai Chao Village!
He checked his friends list; most were not in the city.
The women who had just returned had also logged off.
Yang Jian decided to be quick.
Yang Jian, alone with his dog, quickly cleared the Graveyard dungeon in about ten minutes.
Excluding the time spent running and picking up equipment, the two BOSSes and a group of small monsters couldn't survive five minutes against Yang Jian!
He tidied up the equipment dropped from the dungeon.
Then he entered the Hai Chao Village dungeon once again!
This time, Hai Chao Village should be located at its original position.
It wasn't packed by the gods into that corner of the Newbie Village.
The murloc village here not only had rows of houses but also walls… It was a pity that it had become a guild dungeon.
The murlocs here had lost their original spirituality!
They were the epitome of creatures that would charge blindly when seen… Murloc Guard, LV35
Murloc Race, Silver Grade
Health: 5 million
Steel Armor, Evasion Armor, Sea Anchor Heavy Strike, Aquatic Creature, Summon Guard Squad…
…Murloc Summoner, LV35
Murloc Race, Silver Grade
Health: 3 million
Skills: Summon Murloc Guard, Summon Murloc Hunter, Summon Shadow Walker, Summon Murloc Priest…
Description: Don't move, you've been surrounded by me alone…
…Murloc Priest, LV35
Murloc Race, Silver Grade
Health: 5 million
Skills: Summon Fish Spirit, Lightning Chain, Earth Totem, Storm Totem, Healing Chain…
Although the Murloc Priest's methods and strength were much stronger.
The Murloc Guard was, after all, a tank-type BOSS… To be honest, dungeon BOSSes were not nearly as strong as wild BOSSes.
Without level suppression, Yang Jian activated all his skills, taking out one every ten seconds!
For Yang Jian, this was like serving him food!
He quickly killed the three BOSSes in the village, collected all the necessary purple equipment, and threw the unwanted items into the guild warehouse.
Don't think that Yang Jian gets purple equipment like it's nothing.
The guild's elite squad still couldn't defeat Corpsefire… One could only say… some starve to death, others drown in abundance!