In front of the main hall built around the summoning circle, Xu Yuheng and the guards looked at each other for a while before decisively turning around to leave.
He remembered the system notification just now — —
Because Si Sheng's favorability towards him was' Mortal Enemy ', his fanatical supporters might attack him!
Although his level was higher than the NPC in front of him, and the other party was just a normal person, if a conflict broke out, would he really kill the other party?
No matter what, the other party was his younger brother's people, so he had no reason to do such a thing. However, in his heart, he made a note of this in Si Sheng's name.
His level wasn't high now, but that didn't mean it would be in the future. Moreover, as a player, being able to revive was his greatest reliance. Sooner or later, he would get his revenge!
Bai Feng looked at him, then at the summoning hall with a confused expression. Hm? He wasn't going in?
"Little Feng, you go do your daily quests first. I have something to do."
Xu Yuheng finally remembered him. With his current bad luck, Bai Feng probably wouldn't have a good time following him, so he said, "Also, take some photos of the scenery so that we can shoot a promotional video."
Bai Feng thought about it, then nodded. "Then I'll go. I'll also look for some good food."
Food was a selling point that they had explored before.
Xu Yuheng nodded. After Bai Feng left, he was about to go offline to take a look when a friend request popped up.
[[Red Ying] wants to add you as a friend.]
Xu Yuheng was about to reject it, but he suddenly realized.
Hm? Wasn't the Red Ying Yin Hong reversed? He quickly added her. Once he succeeded, the other party sent a voice message.
"Xu Yuheng, what's going on? Why am I in Glazed Sea City! You even said that you wanted me to play with Ah Xing. How am I supposed to play like this now? "As soon as he picked up, Yin Hong's complaining voice sounded in his ears.
Xu Yuheng didn't expect such a mistake to happen. He had clearly informed the gaming team beforehand. Could it be that the two from the Yin family had also gone to another main city?
He seriously communicated with Yin Hong.
At this moment, a figure ran out of the summoning hall in a hurry, almost crashing into him.
"Sorry, sorry!"
Su Mo quickly apologized, then ran away without looking back.
He ran as fast as he could, wishing he could grow a pair of wings.
F * ck, he had been waiting for the server to open, but he had overslept today!
When he thought of Ikeda, which he hadn't seen for half a month, he ran even faster. He didn't even bother to add his friend request from his childhood friend, who he had recommended to the game and was lucky enough to buy a gaming pod.
However, when he rushed to the Chi family, he was told that Ikeda was not there. Instead, he had gone to the Elementalist College.
Although Mother Chi warmly invited him to wait at home, Su Mo missed his family dearly. He left the Chi family's house shyly and obediently and rushed to the Elementalist College.
Because he had gone through the class change last time, he could be considered half a student of the academy. With this identity, the guards did not stop him.
As soon as he stepped into the academy, Su Mo heard a soft and melodious voice. At the same time, he noticed that in the upper right corner of his game interface, there was an additional buff.
[Singer: Cultivation speed + 100%]
Su Mo:???
He stopped in his tracks. He didn't notice this buff the last time he was here!
Su Mo left the academy and realized that the buff had disappeared. When he walked into the academy, the buff appeared again.
Singer?
Could it be related to the voice?
"Are you going in or not?" The guard stared at him as if he was a suspicious person.
Su Mo immediately smiled apologetically.
"Yes, yes, yes!"
Then, ignoring the buff, he followed Mother Chi's instructions and found the academy's library.
However, before he even walked in, he noticed that the buff on the game interface had increased from one to two.
[Singer: Cultivation speed + 100%]
[Elemental Attraction: Cultivation speed + 100%, mana recovery + 100%, elemental skill effects + 20%]
F * ck!
Su Mo couldn't help but open his eyes wide. Although he was moving bricks for love and had a tendency to become a life skill player, he was originally an expert gamer. Naturally, he understood the meaning of these buffs.
Just the doubling of his cultivation speed was already amazing, but now it even had mana recovery and skill effects? What kind of godly buff was this?
Moreover, as he got closer to the library, he could clearly hear the young and clean voice becoming clearer. It was obvious that the source of the voice was inside.
Su Mo was a player after all. He immediately understood that he might have found something good, and his eyes became even more excited.
He walked into the academy's library quietly.
The Elementalist College's library was very rich. Walking in, it was like walking into a sea of books. There were more than ten rows of large bookshelves, and the surrounding walls were filled with books. It was a shocking sight.
Su Mo suddenly felt a kind of quaint solemnity, and the expression on his face became much more solemn.
The Elementalist College wasn't closed off. Although the library was precious, it was open to all Elementalists. Of course, if one wanted to borrow the books, they had to go through certain procedures.
It was winter now, and it was a rare holiday, so there were only a few people in the library.
Su Mo looked in the direction of the voice and saw two children, one big and one small, leaning against a desk, writing and drawing. The song seemed to be sung by the blue-haired child.
However, his eyes didn't stop on them. Instead, he noticed the two figures diagonally across from the children at the same table.
One of them was thin and tall, and it was Ikeda, who he had been thinking about day and night. He had a book open and was talking to the black-haired boy beside him in a low voice.
The two of them were so close that their bodies were almost touching.
Su Mo didn't know why, but he felt sour.
He pursed his lips and walked over angrily. He didn't say anything, and just crossed his arms and looked down at the two of them, as if he had caught them in the act.
He stood there for quite a while, but the two of them didn't notice him?
Su Mo was embarrassed, but walking away quietly wasn't his style, so he coughed lightly.
His voice wasn't loud, but it was more than enough to attract attention in the empty library. Not only Ikeda and Su Lin, but even the two kids next to them looked over curiously.
Ikeda was confused at first, but when he saw the person in front of him, he was pleasantly surprised.
"Su Mo? Why are you here? "
Seeing that the joy on his face didn't seem fake, Su Mo's mood improved. He snorted and said, "Auntie told me you were here."
Ikeda slightly curved his lips, "Is the Hero's Passage open again? How long can I stay this time? "
Su Mo paused. Thinking that the second beta test was only two months away, he felt a headache coming on. Also … it seemed that the flow of time in real life and in the game was different?
"Two months." He said unhappily, "How long have I been gone?"
Chi Yu counted with his fingers. "It's been three months."
Seeing how he counted, Su Mo felt that it was very cute. When he heard that three months had passed in the game, he couldn't help but gasp.
Only half a month had passed in real life!
No wonder Ikeda seemed to have lost a lot of weight. He couldn't help but sit down and say, "You've lost weight, I'll make you something good to eat tonight. By the way, why did you come here to read?"
Wasn't Ikeda a normal person? Why did he come to Elementalist College? Su Mo looked at the black-haired boy next to him.
Su Lin, level 15.
He was one level lower than him, so he could see some of the boy's information. Of course, even though they were at the same level, he knew that the boy's HP was much higher than his.
Ikeda just remembered and quickly introduced Su Mo to them. Knowing that Su Mo was a hero, Su Lin's gaze towards him suddenly changed. He restrained himself and revealed a bit of curiosity.
Su Mo also knew that he couldn't argue with a kid, so his attitude towards Su Lin was still considered friendly.
Then, Ikeda talked about how he was responsible for the construction of the teleportation formation.
Now that he was researching formations with Su Lin, he couldn't help but share it with Su Mo.
After a month of research, Ikeda learned a lot about formations and became more and more fascinated with this mysterious subject. His fascination with formations was no less than that of architecture.
Looking at his smiling face, Su Mo felt his heart beating wildly. But when he thought about how Ikeda was with Su Lin every day for a month, he couldn't help but feel jealous.
The closed beta was only for a month, and after that he had to participate in the escort mission. The time he spent with Ikeda was less than three weeks!
In order to not let Ikeda notice his twisted expression, Su Mo couldn't help but pick up a book and start flipping through it.
But as he flipped through it, he accidentally got lost in it. When he finished reading the thin introductory book, he saw the system notification pop up.
[Ding ~ Congratulations on self-learning 《Introductory Formations》. Formation Master interface unlocked. Experience + 500, INT + 1]
[Ding ~ Successfully unlocked [Formation Master Apprentice] identity. Roland Empire Reputation + 1000, INT + 5]
Su Mo: Oh! I don't need to carry bricks anymore!
In the bedroom.
Xu Sili was curled up on the sofa, browsing the future forum while drinking hot milk tea.
It was freezing outside, so he didn't want to move. Although it was an important day for the second beta, it wasn't important enough for him to go out.
Five thousand new players had come online, and with the original one thousand old players, six thousand players was quite a force to be reckoned with.
But once they were scattered across the five main cities, they wouldn't stand out. Not to mention, they were all level 0 newbies. He had to wait until they reached level 5 and changed class to Elementalists before they could be of more use.
He didn't know when the teleportation circle would be completed …
[Ding ~ Roland Empire has unlocked a total of three professions (Weaponsmith, Elemental Potion Master, Formation Master). Talent Reserve panel unlocked, can be viewed in the territory panel.]
？？？
Looking at the notification, Xu Sili couldn't help but be stunned.
What's going on! Did something terrible happen when he wasn't aware of it?
Formation Master? Could it be that Ikeda succeeded?
He quickly opened the territory panel, and saw that there was an additional column for talent reserve at the bottom. He clicked on it to check the details, and a new page appeared in front of him.
There were many professions that had not been unlocked, and at the very front were three lit up icons —
Weaponsmith: Imperial City Level 2 unlocked …
Elemental Potion Master: Imperial City Level 3 unlocked …
Formation Master: Imperial City Level 3 unlocked …
Other than the unlocking conditions, there was also the current number of people in the reserve. After clicking on the details, he could see personal information by profession level, as well as a map of the regions.
For example, there were about a hundred Weaponsmiths, and most of them were from the Imperial City. The only Master Weaponsmith was also in the Imperial City, living in the Mercenary Town.
As for Elemental Potion Masters, because they had just received the inheritance, there were only seven or eight of them, and the highest level was only Beginner. The rest were all Apprentices.
Xu Sili knew about these two professions, but what really surprised him was the Formation Master.
Although there was only one Formation Master, he couldn't wait to click on the Formation Master panel, and then he saw …
Formation Apprentice: Su Mo.
Hmm? Su Mo? Why does he look so familiar?
After being stunned for two seconds, Xu Sili quickly reacted. Wasn't this the player who built the teleportation circle with Ikeda in the future?
But he was a player …
After comparing, Xu Sili quickly found that in the Weaponsmith and Elemental Potion Master panels, the two highest leveled NPCs had the words "Life Profession Mentor" behind them, but Su Mo didn't!
Ah, this …
Xu Sili was a bit confused.
So Formation Masters couldn't be popularized yet? Because Life Profession Mentors hadn't appeared yet?
Then how did Su Mo change his profession?
He didn't understand the design of Star Age, but this wasn't a problem for him.
Something as useful as Formation Masters had to be learned! Naturally, the more talents there were, the better!
Xu Sili opened the quest panel and began to edit.
He directly spent 1000 Magic Points and gave Su Mo a Legendary Quest. As long as he could successfully teach an NPC Formation Master, not only would he receive money and experience points, he would also directly give him a piece of land.
As for how to build it, he was a Master Builder, so of course he would build it himself.
He didn't care about Su Mo's surprise and continued to look at the other icons in the talent panel.
Although the rest of the icons were gray, there was one that was different from the others. It showed text, but it wasn't lit up.
[Elemental Chef: Imperial City Level 3 unlocked. Current headcount: 0]
Xu Sili frowned. Elemental Chef … Wasn't that a chef? What was the difference?
Then he quickly realized the problem —
Elemental Potion Masters could make potions with different buffs, so could Elemental Chefs?
Xu Sili was suddenly interested.
Then how could he cultivate an Elemental Chef? He didn't think too hard about it, but opened the future forum.
Hehe, although the current timeline was very different from the future forum, the basic settings were still the same.
He searched through the old posts.
In the original timeline, the Imperial City was upgraded by Su Mo and the others a year after the open beta, so he locked onto the posts from that period. However, before he could find the origin of the Elemental Chef, he was attracted by other messages.
[Ahhh, if only the level limit was unlocked earlier, I wouldn't have died so many times during the Beast Tide! I'm so pissed! My heart hurts]
It seemed like a very normal post, but … Beast Tide? What the hell?
Xu Sili was a little confused, and at the same time, his heart was beating wildly. He suddenly had a bad feeling.
Could it be what he was thinking? It couldn't be, right?
He took a deep breath, put down the slightly trembling cup of milk tea in his hand, and entered the two words' Beast Tide 'into the search bar. Suddenly, a page full of posts popped up, and there were more than ten pages.
Xu Sili pursed his lips, and read the posts one by one. After reading a few pages, he roughly understood what was going on.
About seven months after the game's open beta, a large-scale Beast Tide broke out on Eshe Star.
Countless Galactic Beasts swarmed from the other side of the distant continent, and it lasted for a full half a month before it subsided.
Dusk Frost City bore the brunt of the attack, and its protective barrier was continuously attacked for half a month. When the protective barrier was on the verge of collapse, the Galactic Beasts' rampage finally subsided.
Even Dusk Frost City was like this, not to mention Orchid City, whose protective barrier was full of holes.
Orchid City's protective barrier only lasted for a week. Fortunately, because it was relatively late, the Consul had prepared protective measures in advance and moved most of the people underground.
However, even so, the underground was not completely safe because there were beasts like the Mountain-Quarrying Beasts that specialized in underground activities.
It could be said that the players of Orchid City played a vital role in this disaster.
It was also because of their performance in this battle that the players' image in the eyes of the NPCs, which was tarnished because of the attack on the city at the beginning of the server, finally recovered a lot.
In the Beast Tide, Orchid City could be said to have suffered heavy losses.
Meanwhile, the players who resisted the Galactic Beast Horde were filled with resentment, which could be seen from the number of complaints. Therefore, when the main storyline mission of defending the main city and eliminating the Galactic Beasts was finally triggered, the players gladly accepted it.
It was also because of this half a month of resisting the Beast Tide that they really got along with the NPCs and developed a sense of belonging to the Roland Empire.
This monster attack should have been very successful in the eyes of the game planners, but Xu Sili's hands and feet were cold, and he felt that the Fire Magic Circle underground was even less warm.
He pinched his fingers and calculated the time.
The second beta would last for two months, followed by a month of closed beta. According to the time flow rate of 6: 1, half a year would pass in the game, followed by the open beta.
At the very most, he only had one year and three months to prepare.
Although this time, the Beast Tide did not completely destroy the protective magic circles of all the main cities, and although now that Orchid City had leveled up and the holes had been plugged, Xu Sili did not feel relaxed.
His goal was to reclaim the country, after connecting to the five main cities, he still had to continue to push the country's border outwards, to at least ten thousand miles away, to … the burial ground of Sirene and Senos.
This was something he had to do.
However, after the Beast Tide, this goal may be indefinitely postponed, and the next Beast Tide was less than five years away from the one three years ago, right?
Five years after five years, could he only hide in the protective barrier that the late emperor opened with his life until the power of the magic circle was exhausted?
He was not willing!
Xu Sili's eyes were a little red.
Looking at the posts about the Beast Tide, he gritted his teeth, and his eyes were full of determination.
There was still more than a year, he could do it.
As long as he was strong enough, what was the Beast Tide? It was just experience points and piles of materials for leveling up!
Xu Sili quickly calmed down, then continued to stare at the Future Forum. He wanted to read all the posts again to avoid missing any details.
Time passed unknowingly, and it was not until dinner time that Xu Sili received a message from Xu Yuheng, hoping that he could send someone to pick him up. Otherwise, he would not be able to enter the palace.
Although it was a little strange, as he had clearly given the token last time, Xu Sili did not think much of it and directly sent Li Zheyu over.
Ever since Xu Sili and Si Sheng personally went to the Asmo Mountains and rescued his brother Li Lai, Li Zheyu had become more and more loyal to Xu Sili, and his favorability had risen to [Worship].
Now that Xu Sili told him to go east, he definitely would not go west, let alone pick someone up.
However, when he arrived at the entrance of the palace and saw Xu Yuheng, he realized that there was a subtle change in his mood.
He had seen this brave warrior before, and he seemed to be the leader of the Brave Mercenary Group. He had a good impression of him, but today …
Why did he feel that this face was so annoying? He even felt that his fists were itching.
Li Zheyu took a deep breath and thought that this was an important guest of Her Majesty, and he could not neglect him.
In the end, the current second most powerful person on Ai Xue Planet forced a smile and politely invited Xu Yuheng into the palace.
"…"
Xu Yuheng looked at his distorted facial features and wanted to tell him not to smile.
However, in order to prevent this unfathomable NPC from harming him, he chose to remain silent and quickened his pace.
When he saw his younger brother and saw that he had dismissed all the NPCs, Xu Yuheng was relieved.
Xu Sili, who was still worried about the beast tide, did not notice his second brother's abnormality. He brought him to the garden for a walk and let the cold wind blow on his brain, which had been running for the entire day.
"Is everything okay at home?" He asked.
Hearing this, Xu Yuheng immediately complained, "Everyone is fine, only I am not."
Huh?
Xu Sili looked at him in confusion.
Xu Yuheng did not mention Si Sheng. Instead, he told him about how the game had developed too quickly and was almost deleted and restarted.
"If I didn't stop you, you would have been in danger, brat!"
Then, he muttered, "I didn't tell you that you could upgrade to a main city, how did you know?"
Xu Sili did not expect this at all. He blinked and was about to say that he could see the future forum, but he could not help but hesitate.
He could not explain why the future timeline was different from the current one. In that timeline, he did not resurrect …
Forget it, let's not talk about it.
Xu Sili did not continue the topic. Instead, after a moment of silence, he apologized to Xu Yuheng.
"Second brother, I'll have to trouble you from now on."
He whispered, "I might … speed up the development."
Xu Yuheng was speechless.
Listen, is this something a human would say?
Xu Sili knew that this was a little cruel to his second brother, so he could only explain, "NPCs have observed that there will be a large-scale beast tide in Roland in a year's time."
"Second brother, you should know about the background of Roland, right?"
Xu Yuheng retracted his resentful expression and turned solemn.
A year's time? Beast tide?
Why didn't he know about this setting?
"I'll go back and ask the game team. If it's true, then there's no other way. Your safety is more important."
Xu Sili was touched. He was about to hug him when he suddenly felt a chill down his spine.
He shivered and pulled his coat around him.
"Are you cold?"
Xu Yuheng asked with concern. However, before he could touch his brother's shoulder, a pair of male palms pressed on Xu Sili's shoulder and pulled him back, avoiding his hand.
Xu Yuheng was slightly startled. When he raised his head, he saw that Si Sheng had appeared behind his younger brother out of nowhere and was embracing him like a protector. A pair of grey-blue eyes were looking at him with slight hostility.
？？？
F * ck, it's that Si Sheng!
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