I Make Games Inside a Mobile Game?! Chapter 31 31: Score Optimization and the Calamity Virus

Carl followed Kyo to watch the gathering of Elysium's top guilds.

As Carl had ntioned before, Elysium did not only provide ga support for Oath.

Several top-tier MMO gas on the market were also built on Elysium's world.

Of course, the continental regions of different gas were separated by air walls, worldlines, and various other thods to prevent players from wandering into another ga.

Even so, there were still countless complicated connections between Elysium's gas.

And right now, in Ryan's open world, the Vice Guild Master of the guild known as Crimson Sigil, representatives of top guilds that had once dominated multiple online ga worlds in Elysium had gathered.

"Looks like everyone's pretty eager to witness a miracle."

Ryan opened the eting in a joking tone.

Ryan was a middle-aged man who looked rather unshaven.

What made Oath different from two-dinsional gacha gas was that it supported player appearance customization. Ryan and Kyo both belonged to the group of players who used their real identities to play gas.

Their in-ga appearances were not much different from reality. As for Kyo, he looked like a handso man with a sowhat lazy and sleepy air.

At the sa ti, Oath's open-world co-op player limit also had no upper limit, showing the kind of super performance that made Carl extrely envious.

It was just that Oath's co-op function did not have much aning. At present, Oath had no specially designed open-world co-op gaplay at all.

Also, treasure chests opened and puzzles solved by players who joined soone else's open world all counted toward the host.

This did make things convenient for boosters who helped find treasure chests.

"Crimson Sigil, Everlasting, Navigator, Do Alliance, Dragon Garden, Cola Mania... Looks like everyone's pretty much here. But how long has it been since you people slept?"

Kyo glanced at the crowd of players behind Ryan. They were all familiar faces.

These players all gave off an aura of powerful figures who were not to be ssed with. At first glance, they looked exactly like so behind-the-scenes villain organization holding a eting to destroy the world.

As long as one did not look at the IDs above their heads.

Carl's gaze swept across the IDs above these top players' heads one by one.

Just from these players' IDs alone, Carl could feel the despair radiating from them, because they were painfully familiar.

For example:

"Guy Below , You're Only One Point Off. Still Not Grinding?"

"I Finally Learned Hasumi Infinite!"

"I Don't Want to Learn Hasumi Infinite!"

"If I Don't Hit Top 50, I Feel Like Hasumis Are Crawling All Over !"

"Guy Below , Stop Pushing and Go Sleep!"

"I Don't Want to Grind Scores Anymore!"

"When Does the Season End? I Haven't Slept in Three Days!"

Anyway, just from looking at this group of players' IDs, Carl had no idea what they had been called in their previous gas.

Because the Extre Abyss leaderboard only displayed player IDs.

They had all changed their nas into IDs mocking the rankings of their competitors above and below them, or advising other score-pushing players to hurry up and go sleep.

This was also why Kyo had co here, because these guilds were all his previous employers.

He was friends with quite a few mbers of these guilds.

And Kyo was also the type of person who, after finding sothing good, would absolutely not hide it away, but would generously share it with his good buddies.

So Kyo accepted Carl's suggestion and planned to lead the friends he knew to rest for a while outside Oath's score-optimization hell before coming back to fight again.

"I just woke up at noon, but these animals have been watching my ranking the entire ti. I don't dare sleep for too long at all."

Ryan also glanced sowhat gloomily at the other guild mbers who had co to join the fun. Then he pulled himself together and asked Kyo,

"So what's going on with you, Kyo? Helping so many newcors push to 30,000 points, are you really just doing charity? Are you sure you're not planning to build a guild yourself?"

Ryan asked what everyone present was thinking.

With Kyo's influence, building an extrely powerful guild from scratch would be easy. If that happened, they would have another competitor.

"I'm really not interested in managing a guild. Besides, Oath doesn't have that much content where players need to compete with each other, right?"

Kyo truly did not want to get involved in these guild struggles.

Ryan laughed outright when he heard this.

"It's only that way for now. Do you trust ga planners, or do you trust ?"

He said with certainty.

"As the later updates co, this ga will definitely release a whole pile of even more disgusting high-difficulty modes. Either they'll force players to team up, force players to spend money, or maybe even release a mode that forces players to fight among themselves."

Ryan's words gained the agreent of the players present. They were far too familiar with that bunch of cursed planners in the real world.

"But haven't the gas we played before already proven that the high-pressure infighting model of pay-to-win online gas failed?"

"That's why Elysium developed Oath, this kind of single-player open-world model. They must be trying to find a new way to deal with it, right?"

When Kyo said this, all the players present fell silent.

Carl instantly caught an extrely important piece of information. This group of players seed to know so truth about Elysium.

The "failed" that Kyo ntioned did not only refer to so dungeon clear.

Rather, it ant that these players who knew the truth had failed to defeat sothing far more terrifying and far more important.

So Carl pretended not to understand anything and tentatively asked Kyo,

"When you say... we all failed before, what do you an?"

"Oh, that."

Kyo thought for a while, then told Carl the secret about Elysium that only an extrely small number of players were willing to believe.

The online ga they had played before had also been built based on Elysium, so its main enemy was also the Calamity Virus.

Of course, in that ga, the Calamity Virus had taken a different na and form.

Nightmares, monsters, demons, phantoms, anything could be used to describe it.

No matter what it was called or what form it took, in short, it was a terrifying electronic virus that could infect ga NPCs and twist their bodies.

The players of that online ga, under the ga's guidance, eliminated one powerful Calamity Virus aberration after another through gaplay forms like clearing high-difficulty dungeons and defeating open-world bosses.

Everything had originally gone very smoothly. Players spent money like crazy, the major powerful guilds competed against each other, and they wiped again and again in front of various high-difficulty dungeons and world bosses. But in the end, they still took down those bosses.

In the latest version story of that online ga, the players had also defeated the monster that would destroy the world and welcod a happy ending.

But a small portion of players noticed sothing wrong.

That was...

After a version update one day, everything in the ga world had suddenly been completely reset!

By reset, it did not an the data of players or NPCs.

The players' data was still the sa, and the NPCs and everything in the ga seed to have no changes.

Those NPCs were still those NPCs.

But... the NPCs' mories! The NPCs' mories of individual players had all disappeared!

Although those NPCs tried their best to hide the truth that they had been reset and lost their mories.

So sharp, intuitive players instantly realized that the person in front of them was only soone who looked like their wife.

The NPC wife they had known in the ga for several years had died at so unknown point!

Afterward, so players speculated that this was Elysium's ultimate thod of suppressing the Calamity Virus, resetting the entire world.

The price was deleting all the NPCs' mories of the players and starting over from scratch.

And the reason all of this happened was because the players had failed. They had failed to suppress the Calamity Virus.

But the players who realized the truth simply could not understand. They had defeated the world bosses, and they had also cleared the most difficult dungeons.

So why had they not won? Why had they still failed to win?

At the ti, the small number of players who knew the truth questioned the ga's official side.

But the official side avoided it with excuses like, "This makes no sense, we don't know what you are asking," and then quietly buried the matter.

As a result, this truth only spread among an extrely small portion of players, and only an extrely small portion of players were willing to believe it.

As a result, this truth only spread among an extrely small portion of players, and only an extrely small portion of players were willing to believe it.

Regarding this, Carl actually had so guesses of his own.

The underground laboratory had records related to the Calamity Virus. In those records, it stated that the Calamity Virus was a kind of malice born from pollution by negative emotions and obsessions.

As for why the players had been unable to defeat the Calamity Virus in that online ga before... Carl could only think of one possibility.

That online ga was not fun enough. Its environnt was too high-pressure, and after driving players crazy, it had instead strengthened the Calamity Virus.

That was why Elysium sought change and developed Oath, this kind of single-player open-world online ga that did not require competition.

Unfortunately... based on Carl's current observations of Oath's ga planners, this ga's future still did not look optimistic.

(To be continued.)