Vengeful Blood went back and imdiately enabled the anonymous alt profile feature.
Judging from Oath's current official stance, they really did seem intent on soft-banning those Villager players.
To avoid suspicion, Vengeful Blood changed her ID in anonymous mode and altered her appearance into that of a frail young girl.
After all, in Vengeful Blood's understanding, Netherworld Village mode was basically about being a mouse that hid everywhere. A slimr build would make her harder to spot.
"Welco, new villager. This is your hideout in Netherworld Village."
Carl saw Vengeful Blood arrive and dutifully took on the role of beginner ntor.
At the sa ti, Carl sized up Vengeful Blood's new appearance.
She was a female character who looked only about 1.6 ters tall, but her expression and aura alone scread "tough boss lady."
Just as Carl was about to recomnd the best guide and escort in the starting village, Hasumi, Vengeful Blood's first words made everything he wanted to say stick in his throat.
"How do I get to the City of Glory?"
At this stage, Vengeful Blood truly had no interest in the core gaplay of Descent into Netherworld Village.
She only wanted to see whether she could climb the ranks in Villager Mode.
"This... Miss Player, the Trial of Glory is currently the most difficult mode."
"I suggest you scavenge one or two rounds in Netherworld Village first, upgrade part of your hideout's infrastructure, and craft items like flash grenades and short-range teleportation devices before heading to the City of Glory."
"Otherwise, if you encounter guards and other players hunting you down in the City of Glory, you will have no way to fight back." Carl tried his best to persuade Vengeful Blood to take things step by step.
What kind of beginner player charged straight into the highest-difficulty map right away? And without even carrying a single gun.
"Start a City of Glory round for ." Vengeful Blood did not care about any of that. She simply crossed her arms and glared at Carl.
It could only be said that she had probably forgotten her current appearance was no longer that of a two-ter-tall burly man.
Making such a fierce expression with this young girl appearance was unexpectedly kind of cute.
"Fine, as you wish. But could you bring along in your party?" Carl asked.
"Co along if you want." Vengeful Blood did not mind bringing Carl along.
Mainly because Carl did have value in the high-difficulty modes of the Trial of Glory.
Although Carl himself had no damage output, his illusion ability was a top-tier information tool in this mode.
Although the Champion Trial did not allow players to team up, Oath had also forbidden Villager players from matching with any other players.
To keep things balanced, Elysium gave Villager players permission to team up with ga characters.
Though most Villager players who went to the City of Glory still went alone.
Vengeful Blood most likely intended to use Carl as bait.
And so, Carl and Vengeful Blood began a lovely duo queue.
Vengeful Blood was also very rational. Even though she was playing anonymously, her ranked points were still calculated based on her previous standing.
Therefore, the invasion point Vengeful Blood chose was an extrely remote wilderness area.
"Miss Player, there is an abandoned building over here that can be searched." Carl dutifully perford his role as a guide.
"I don't need you to remind ."
Vengeful Blood had played at least a hundred hours of the Trial of Glory over the past few days.
She knew a huge number of looting routes like the back of her hand, and she dove straight into the nearby abandoned building to start looting like crazy.
Perhaps because it was an edge area, Vengeful Blood did not find much high-quality loot.
But the feeling that everything she found could be used, and that she was growing stronger bit by bit, was sothing Vengeful Blood truly experienced.
Vengeful Blood went from landing with only a five-slot backpack to walking out of the building with a twenty-slot backpack packed full of supplies. Any ordinary player would have been very satisfied.
Unfortunately, Vengeful Blood did not feel any thrill from it.
Mainly because her backpack in the main Oath ga had nearly eighty slots.
Furthermore, when using her main character in Oath, she had long since been raiding the core areas of the City of Glory. As long as she won, she could take all the big reds and small reds she wanted.
On her main account, she had already sold countless pieces of highest-rarity loot to the Church, keeping only one in her warehouse as a souvenir.
But Vengeful Blood had not co this ti to have fun. She was here to climb the ranks, so she did not ask for much.
After filling her backpack, she found an extraction point in the edge area and successfully extracted.
Unfortunately, her ranked points only increased by one.
But that was still better than losing points.
After that, Vengeful Blood continued using this conservative strategy, scavenging in edge areas and returning to her hideout to upgrade various facilities. She did manage to extract in every single round.
Carl, who had been watching from the side the whole ti, could tell she was bored out of her mind.
Simple looting, fighting, and extracting could no longer bring her any joy. Right now, she was climbing purely for the points.
Although Vengeful Blood's Villager character gradually grew stronger as more hideout functions were unlocked and her backpack filled with enhancent items, Carl could feel a sense of frustration steadily building inside her.
This frustration ca from many things.
First, even after switching to Villager Mode, the matchmaking system still refused to let Vengeful Blood off the hook. Every single round matched her into high-pressure lobbies where everyone was blowing each other up.
Second, if she were using her main character in those high-pressure matches, she would at least have the ability to fight back against other players surrounding her, and she could even brutally wipe out those foolish enough to ss with her.
Instead, in Villager Mode, she could only scurry around like a mouse, hiding on the outskirts of the city and scavenging scraps.
For a top-tier player who was already used to one-versus-four situations, being chased all over the place by people weaker than her was truly an unpleasant feeling.
It was still fine as long as she did not get caught and kept extracting successfully. But the mont she failed to extract, Vengeful Blood might ntally collapse on the spot and abandon Villager Mode entirely.
Carl still wanted every player to have fun, so he decided to activate a backup plan he had not fully prepared yet.
For this, Carl sent another short ssage to Anan, the captain of the Abyssal Knights.
"Ms. Anan, may I borrow one or two mbers of your Abyssal Knights for now?"
Regarding this, Anan had already thanked Carl before for the ridiculous idea he had given her, which had indeed cured the illness affecting many mbers of the Abyssal Knights.
Therefore, in Carl's view, borrowing one or two knights from Anan to help out should not be difficult, right?
But who would have thought that Anan's reply would co extrely quickly?
"Only... one or two? Do you need the entire Abyssal Knights?"
When Carl saw this reply, his first reaction was that Anan was baiting him.
His second reaction was, had Anan finally made up her mind to jump ship?
"Ms. Anan, have you decided to join my side?" Carl was currently in need of a large number of powerful NPCs with high Data Volu.
At present, the only combat-capable NPC on Carl's side was Hasumi.
The saddest part was that Hasumi's current raw strength might not even match the newly released Abnormal character, the little girl knight.
As for the mbers of the Abyssal Knights, every single one of them was the kind of overtuned character that would normally only appear in Version 2.0 or even Version 3.0.
"No. About what I ntioned to you before... the academy director's side is probably planning to issue an extermination order against you Villager Saviors! We Abyssal Knights will likely receive orders soon. If we encounter you Villager players in the Trial of Glory, we are to kill you on sight!" Anan said.
"That is within my expectations. But Ms. Anan, I believe the benefits I promised before were not wasted, were they?" Carl remained very calm in the face of the official crackdown.
The reason was that the NPCs of the Abyssal Knights, led by Anan, had already tasted the joyful emotions flowing from the Villager players.
The happiness of arriving in a big city for the first ti and discovering that everything could be scavenged and taken ho.
The thrill of hiding in the shadows from a powerful enemy's search and successfully escaping by the skin of their teeth.
And the satisfaction of stockpiling a huge pile of supplies and happily returning ho.
These were all things the original Trial of Glory could not provide to players.
And these emotions flowing from the Villager players were, to every mber of the Abyssal Knights, top-grade dicine.
This had led to the mbers of the Abyssal Knights reaching the point where, every ti they entered the Trial of Glory, they had to go scare Villager players a little and interact with them.
So now, most mbers of the Abyssal Knights probably could not bear to leave the Villager players anymore.
(To be continued.)
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