Chapter 142: The Twin Dragon Mount Fort Player’s Pride
Pew!
A saber flashed, and blood gushed out.
“Huh, not bad. Such a speed of self-recovery is almost as good as that on the Land of Inheritance.”
In the room in the players’ base in Yang City, Ji Ye looked at his arm, which had stopped bleeding right after it was cut apart.
“However, I don’t have any hints like I do on the Land of Inheritance, and I have to explore the ability on my own gradually!”
Ji Ye considered for a moment. He then cleaned the kitchen knife that he had never used since he moved into the dormitory and put it back in the kitchen. He didn’t really cut his own neck to test the upper limit of this ability.
In fact, he only synchronized the ability as a precaution.
Since the Twin Dragon Mount was developing well, he could spend a long time in reality without worries.
Besides, Chidragon was one of the safest countries in the entire world. He might not have a chance to use this ability at all.
Well, technically speaking, it was truly wasteful to spend Rare Honor on synchronizing a Healing ability that couldn’t deal any damage.
Any ability that was slightly aggressive, such as the Nine Yang Divine Art, which could build up his body and even steam someone with a punch, or his mental strength that was powerful enough as the sixth sense, would’ve been much more intimidating than the Healing ability!
Ji Ye chose to synchronize the Healing talent first only because he was afraid of death!
Huh, Ji Ye was afraid of death?
That seemed to be some kind of a joke.
But it was the truth.
He hadn’t been scared of death earlier because he didn’t have many “goals”, but there were many things that he wanted to achieve on the Land of Inheritance now.
At least, until he was strong enough to test whether or not he could be resurrected on Earth, he would prefer to stay as safe as possible!
He synchronized the talent at this particular moment without delaying any further for two reasons.
Partly, it was because Healing was an Ordinary talent for now, and it wouldn’t cost too much Rare Honor to synchronize it.
Secondly, just like Honor should be appropriately spent on the Land of Inheritance, Rare Honor should be used judiciously too.
That was because one’s capabilities would be gone after one died. Even though he could keep the Rare Honor, what would he have left to synchronize?
Of course, since he was a beta tester, his talent abilities would probably be kept, albeit at a lower level, after the first time of death.
However, should that happen, it wouldn’t be as good to synchronize a talent skill of a lower level as to do that at this moment!
Speaking of the players’ talent skills, it was actually the second heated topic on the forum for the Land of Inheritance, only below the topic that Rare Honor could be used to synchronize abilities or exchange items!
“That’s unfair! I accumulated a hundred points of Honor in the settlement. Why didn’t I get any talent?”
“What kind of rules are working here? Even a village lady who doesn’t know anything except mahjong has a gambling talent, yet I don’t have it even though I’m a world champion in poker games. I want to know if ‘talent” really means ‘luck’.”
“Show more respect to the village ladies. Any random woman on the street can beat you in a poker game in my province!”
Very few people in the second batch of players received talents.
After all, even a settlement like the Twin Dragon Mount fort only had five such players, and one of them was a newcomer who wasn’t in the conference hall back then!
Most of the other settlements had even fewer players who received talents.
Inevitably, certain people who considered themselves superior found it hard to accept.
“Heh. The initial equipment I exchanged for is more powerful than most, and I’ve earned more Honor and made more contributions too. Why can’t I inherit the ability of my equipment while they can?”
Most of the players who did receive talent skills had inherited the abilities of their initial equipment.
As a result, many players who exchanged for initial equipment but didn’t get any talent in the end were angry.
“Clearly, unlike the first batch of players whose test was more focused on their personal capabilities, the second batch of players was faced with the Ten-Species Competition, which is a collective quest. So, they should work on the development of their settlement and the competition with aliens to be rewarded with talents!”
“Initial equipment would undoubtedly and significantly increase the competitiveness of one’s settlement at the beginning. While many of you did get a lot of Honor, did you really contribute your initial equipment to your settlement for its development at the beginning?”
“If you knew how useful the initial equipment was but were unwilling to offer it at the difficult times, would the Honor you earned by offering it later when the settlement was less in trouble really count as a contribution to the settlement?”
On the forum, certain outsiders who weren’t selected for the Land of Inheritance actually had more insights.
An old professor’s speech shed light on many people.
In fact, it wasn’t an unusual phenomenon.
Many people had thought that Honor might have an influence on the initial equipment, so they didn’t exchange for the initial equipment until they had accumulated dozens of points of Honor and even after the settlement advanced.
It was probably because the settlement could provide more power of providence for transformation after leveling up.
They got more types of powerful initial equipment, and since they were also stronger than before, they could kill aliens and even Commanders with their equipment to get a tremendous amount of Honor.
Therefore, they thought that they had better performance and made a greater contribution to the settlement!
However, after a month had passed, some people who had exchanged for their equipment earlier and used it up inherited their equipment abilities, whereas none of those who exchanged for the equipment late and still had many usages available could inherit the ability!
“Some people have made a wrong estimation on the situation since the beginning!”
The old professor’s frank description put a lot of people to shame.
“However, the talent skill is still unfair.”
“That’s because the second batch of players is clearly rated at a lower level than the first batch. Few of them are even rated as Perfect when there are five million of them!”
Of course, some of the players who were unwilling to admit they were wrong tried to change the subject.
“The qualities of the second batch of players’ talents are truly lower than anticipated!”
In fact, Ji Ye had doubts about that.
He could accept what happened with Mister Bug, who had received his talent skill purely by chance.
Theoretically speaking, according to the statistics that the Confederate government made based on the beta testers who passed the trial, Elder Jiao could’ve been rated as Perfect and Li Qing might have been qualified to be rated as “Superior” too. However, both of them had lower-level talents than the estimation of the Confederate government!
“The rating for the second batch of players is not low; it’s just that the rating for the first batch was higher than it should’ve been!”
The old professor had a different opinion on the matter.
He also elaborated on his reasoning.
Earlier on the forum, even the worst of the beta testers who passed the trial had shown that their talent was rated as Refined.
Leaving aside the possibility that the players with lower ratings were unwilling to speak out, the greater possibility was that all the people who passed the trial were rated to a level higher than they should’ve been.
The professor believed that it was a hidden reward for the first batch of players who participated in the trial under the enormous pressure of not knowing if they would really die on the Land of Inheritance!
“That must be it!”
Ji Ye nodded in agreement.
He had seen many specialists and professors who talked nonsense on the forum, but this old professor, whose ID was Fishing At Sunset and who introduced himself as a professor at a provincial college, actually made a convincing analysis.
“Get to know more about the most awesome settlement of this province: a summary of my experiences on the Twin Dragon Mount in the past half month!”
“Haha. Whose settlement can be better than ours? We have seven heroes and three of them are Perfect!”
“Nie Xiaoqian and Ninth Uncle… Can you believe that they are in a settlement with Water Margins as the setting?”
However, speaking of the southwestern province’s forum of Land of Inheritance…
Ji Ye saw a lot of threads on the Twin Dragon Mount fort after he opened it.
Clearly, most of the threads were posted by the players of the Twin Dragon Mount fort who had logged offline.
In terms of progress, the Twin Dragon Mount fort wasn’t the only one in the southwestern province that had secured a quadra kill.
As one of the most populous provinces in Chidragon, the southwestern province had more than five thousand settlements at the beginning. Although a lot of them had failed the competitions with the aliens, almost two thousand still remained.
Some of those settlements weren’t slower than the Twin Dragon Mount fort in terms of progress, but none of them had as many distinguished heroes as the Twin Dragon Mount fort did.
Most settlements didn’t even have many Superior offerings, much less Perfect ones.
The Twin Dragon Mount fort, on the other hand, had three Perfect, two Superior, and even three Excellent heroes who were as good as “Superior”!
Also, all of these heroes were very famous.
Some of them, like Ninth Uncle and Nie Xiaoqian, were popular characters that had huge potential and weren’t from Water Margins!
That was the real gap between the Twin Dragon Mount fort and other regular settlements, and the gap would only grow larger in the foreseeable future!
“The man who subdues Wu Song and Lu Zhishen is neither Song Jiang nor Lin Chong. Who is he? Open this post and I’ll tell you!”
“Can you believe that Nie Xiaoqian is willing to work as a maid?”
“Have a look at what the Crossgod is capable of and know who the best beta tester is nationwide!”
Apart from that, his identity as the master of the Twin Dragon Mount fort and “Crossgod” couldn’t be completely kept as a secret anymore.
It was because many players from the Twin Dragon Mount fort were from other cities in the province. Some had even died and were reborn outside of the province!
Of course, the Confederation Office had tried to delete the information on the forum. While his identity as the Crossgod was exposed, the rest of his personal information wasn’t leaked to the forum, and he didn’t have to worry about stalkers when he came out.
However, after reading a few posts that had trolling titles, Ji Ye clearly sensed that they were composed in exactly the same style as the programmer who made the video of “Crossgod vs Black Serpent”.
Ji Ye thought that he probably should’ve assigned more missions to this boy while he was offline.
At this moment, his phone suddenly rang.
“Well, Brother Ye, do you have time?
“My father wants to invite you to dinner!”
He picked up the phone, and Su Nongying’s voice came through.
Su Nongying disconnected at the same time as Ji Ye.
Because Elder Jiao, Elder Meng, and Shang Yan were back online and took over their jobs, and Ruan Xiaoer was there to keep an eye on the Eagle Men, no problems would happen.
As a central member of the fort, Su Nongying naturally had Ji Ye’s phone number.
“Your father?”