Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 841: Chapter 800: Kindergarten Group Fight

“Competition” might not be an indispensable element in every game.

But it is often the simplest and most effective way to stimulate players’ enthusiasm for the game.

It doesn’t always manifest as combat. Sometimes it takes the form of ostentation or other forms, but the goal is similar—

Get the players wired up!

And surely enough, upon seeing this prompt that blatantly incited everyone to divide into factions and fight, the players were indeed immediately excited.

In their eyes, this was an opportunity for their pets to show off their skills!

Cloud Dream provides hundreds of different spirit beasts, each divided into six star levels, along with growth value, combat level, combat skills… The pet cultivation system has a considerable depth of design.

But what were players training their pets so diligently for?

Surely it wasn’t just for show, or else why would they care so much about star levels and combat power?

Is it more relaxed to catch wild spirit beasts?

Indeed, that is a kind of joy, but so far, fighting wild spirit beasts is still three against one, there’s no need for the highest star pet at all. Basically, two four-star pets of the same level could easily win the battle.

If it’s three rotating in turns, then three-star is enough.

Unless there’s another North Sea giant monster world BOSS, there’s no need to pursue the limit.

And even if there’s a world BOSS, in fairness, you wouldn’t stand a chance with three six-star pets. It would have to be a group of people together.

So if you want players to maintain their passion for cultivating spirit beasts in the long term after the initial novelty wears off, you have to give powerful high-level spirit beasts a place to shine.

And “Monster Tavern Contest” is the “stage” Cloud Dream has prepared for the players!

The Daxia players surrounding the tavern didn’t hesitate for long and quickly chose their factions.

And as expected, the least number of players chose the Jiuli faction, and the most chose Xuanyuan.

Turner was frowning, a look of “what on earth is all this” on his face, while in his live streaming room, some people had already started looking up information, and a few Daxia viewers started giving explanations.

Turner looked at the faction choice countdown somewhat anxiously, and glanced at the explanations in the comments. However, a number caught his eye—

“4600”

He inadvertently found that comment and took another look—

“These are three tribes in Daxia’s history, approximately 4,600 years ago, these tribes fought a battle at Zhuolu which determined the course of Daxia’s history.”

“The Battle of Zhuolu…”

“?”

Turner suddenly froze, and then exclaimed in disbelief:

“Were these three tribes from 4600 years ago?! ”

“What the fuck! We only became a nation 250 years ago! Are you serious with this 4600 years? How did you manage to keep a record?”

He felt his head was full of question marks.

Yes, he knew that Daxia’s history was very long—everyone knew that… Well, not everyone back in America knew that.

But… it couldn’t be to this outrageous extent, could it?!

It has been so long that he can’t even imagine it.

Turner even subconsciously turned around and looked at the high-rise buildings of Xiajing City behind him, feeling a strange sense of unreality.

It was only when he snapped back to his senses that he realized the countdown had already reached the last 10 seconds. With no time to think further, he just randomly clicked on the shortest [Jiuli].

After selecting the faction, a system announcement appeared in front of him again—

“[All players have selected their factions, beginning to apply battle boosts to the two factions with fewer people… Boost complete, dynamic balance achieved.]”

A green halo appeared behind the crowd, encircling an area about 30 meters in diameter.

“[The battle area has been determined, anyone who goes outside of it automatically surrenders.]”

“[Countdown to the start of Tavern Conquest War…]”

“[3]”

A giant number appeared directly above the tavern.

Red, yellow or blue flags started to appear on the shoulders of the players at the scene, and flags of the same colour also appeared above the heads of the spirit beasts, indicating their respective factions.

“[2]”

The players on the scene quickly took action, distancing themselves from the enemy factions and getting closer to players of their own faction.

They were all rearing to go, ready for a big battle!

But in Turner’s live stream room, some different voices emerge:

“Is it too cruel to make these underage creatures fight each other?”

“It’s one thing to have a couple of fights, but isn’t it a bit too much to have nearly a hundred creatures all at once?”

“I can’t bear to watch what’s about to unfold!”

…

But Turner couldn’t care less about the audience’s comments at this point. It was only now he realized: instead of spirit beasts fighting one at a time, the battle was about commanding three spirit beasts to fight simultaneously!

[1]

There was no time to think. A firework exploded above the tavern.

The battle started!

The players and spirit beasts who had been ready for battle immediately swooped down on their chosen adversaries.

Twenty-eight players and eighty-four spirit beasts began the battle all at once!

A chaotic mess unfolded on the floor as a small tiger was tangled up with a white snake wrapping around a rabbit’s neck, causing it to stick out its tongue. The dragon, snake, bird, and whistling snake flew around in air combat, while also launching water and fire balls, wind blades, and rocks at the spirit beasts on the ground. Golden toads, Fei, and wild beasts raced around the perimeter, spitting copper coins and venom at their opponents inside…

The importance of the Master was highlighted for the first time in this large chaotic battle between the three forces—

“Fuzhu! Help with the poisoning! Lolo, ambush their healer. The fox! I need some blood! My Boma can’t keep going like this!”

“Come back, don’t rush! Circle around a bit!”

“Qiongqi come back! You’re already at half health and still rushing forward! Don’t just blindly move, go back and protect Chenghuang!”

“All three of my creatures are poisoned! Can some Boss help to remove the toxins! They won’t last if we don’t remove the poison now!”

“I just cooled down, which one is yours? I can’t tell!”

…

The scene was a complete mess!

Most players had never experienced this kind of gameplay before.

Commanding three at a time while simultaneously dealing with a complex and chaotic battlefield, everyone was scrambling in a mess, inevitably neglecting one task while attending to another.

And the consequence of improper command was that some poor little ones being ganged up on, their health bars quickly dropping to the bottom, being knocked out — and some of them were even eliminated on the spot without even seeing their health bars drop to the bottom.

However, the brutal scene that the audience in Turner’s live streaming room was worried about did not happen.@@novelbin@@

When a spirit beast’s health bar dropped to the bottom, it would “fall” to the ground and not move, but that didn’t mean death — they would still blink and stick out their tongues at their master, they just wouldn’t stand up anymore, lying on the ground and waiting for the end of the battle.

No other spirit beast would attack a fallen spirit beast.

Not only was “falling” not scary, the process of fighting also didn’t seem scary.

Even the rabbits who were been bitten by Qiongqi by their neck, would keep struggling for a bit. When they realized they couldn’t shake off the grip, they’d simply give up, roll their eyes in an attempt to kill Qiongqi with their gaze.

The Jinhua cat jumped onto Bo, revealing its gleaming claws, and violently scratched at Bo’s head. White horsehair flew in the air, but no sight of blood could be seen.

When the golden toad’s copper coins hit Qiutu, the little white snake screamed and was thrown out by the impact of the copper coins.

But after catching its breath, it would get up again, rushing towards the golden toad with a grudge, longing to take revenge. Thanks to its master’s timely restraint, it didn’t end up charging into the crowd of enemies and meeting its end…

Similar scenes were happening outside the Monster Tavern as well.

Although the battle was intense, the scene was still rather adorable. It wasn’t a ruthless fight at all, but it seemed like a group fight in a spirit beast kindergarten.

Looks like they were just playing around.

Those who said they couldn’t bear to watch in the live streaming room were all wide-eyed now, watching more intently than anyone else!

While Turner sat on the ground in frustration and switched to spectating mode.

As soon as the battle started, he felt the “warm hospitality” from the Daxia players towards him, the foreigner — a total of more than ten spirit beasts appeared all aiming for his golden toad, snake, and eagle!

The moment the fight began, he found himself in a desperate situation.

Even with his teammates’ help and desperate commands for his pets to run away, he was still the first one to be knocked down…

As for the rewards for capturing the tavern, he was no longer holding his breath for that.

Jiuli was originally the faction with the fewest people, even if they had buff benefits, they did not have an advantage in a purely chaotic battle.

If they couldn’t secure victory, the “weak side receiving more rewards upon victory” would just be a pie – an unreachable one – in the sky.

“Should those in small and weak factions team up with their friends, come over at night when it’s quiet, and quietly seize the tavern?”

“Or, we don’t have to wait for nightfall, just find a tavern in a more remote location. Just get fewer opponents we would have a chance to become the dominant force in a local area!”

Turner’s mind was pretty flexible, quickly thinking of two methods to game the system.

However, both methods had one prerequisite — to have a sufficient number of friends in the same faction.

But the problem is:

“How am I going to find many friends in the same faction in Daxia, when I can’t even speak Chinese?”

Turner was plunged into distress.