While Ouyang Shuo was still worrying about North Sea Town, a system announcement resounded throughout the China region. < >
"System Announcement: The China region has successfully promoted 100 townships. Triggering the campaign system. The first campaign, the Battle of Zhuolu, will officially begin in three days. Please look forward to it. Friendly Reminder: The Battle of Zhuolu is a non-mandatory campaign scenario mission. Only township-level territories and above are eligible to participate. "
The players were in an uproar. They knew nothing about the so-called campaign system. There was no information about the campaign on the official website. Even Di Chen and the others knew nothing about the campaign settings.
Compared to the territory defense mission, the campaign scenario mission was much smaller in scale, but it was definitely not less exciting than the former. Due to the restrictions set by the system, only the top 100 territories in the China region were eligible to participate in the mission.
The territories that were still struggling at the village stage could only protest helplessly. As for the territories that met the requirements, they were all eager to get started. Those who were indignant naturally wanted to use these three days to see if they could promote their territory to a first-grade town.
Compared to the confusion of the others, Ouyang Shuo understood. The most unique gameplay of "Earth On Earth" — the campaign map — was finally going to be activated. In his previous life, the Overlord players described the campaign map as a dimensional war. This showed how exciting the campaign map was.
The so-called campaign map was somewhat similar to the scenario mission. The system would select a particular battle in history and use it as a basis to deduce a temporary dimensional map. Overlord players who met the requirements could bring their troops through the teleportation array and choose a faction to join the campaign.
In the campaign map, one could see many famous historical figures and follow them to participate in the bloody war of the past. As long as one had enough wisdom and strength, one could even change the direction of history and reverse the war. This kind of immersive feeling was undoubtedly very attractive.
Generally speaking, there would only be one campaign in a dynasty. When the campaign of a dynasty ended, the historical figures of that dynasty would appear in the wilderness and join the game.
Therefore, the later the campaign, the more historical figures there would be in the wilderness. The chances of Overlord players recruiting historical figures would greatly increase.
Another benefit of the campaign map was, of course, the Achievement Points. The later stages of the game, the more difficult it would be for players to raise their noble ranks. Take Ouyang Shuo for example. He was now a Second-Rank Earl, the highest-ranking player in the game. However, it was still extremely difficult for him to become a first-rank Count. There was no need to even mention the Marquis, which required an astronomical number of merit points.
The Battle Map provided an opportunity for Lord players to earn Achievement Points. For every battle, the system would rank the players according to their contributions. The higher one's rank was, the more merit points they would receive. The top ten would also receive additional rewards.
The most attractive thing about the Battle Campaign Map was not the things mentioned above. For a lord, a famous and valiant general in history was what they yearned for the most. In the Battle Map, players had the chance to trigger the Taming Quest of historical characters. As long as they completed the quest, they could tame them and bring them back to their territory.
Killing God Bai Qi, Chu Bawang Xiang Yu, War God Zhao Zilong, War God Li Jing, and other generals that everyone was familiar with would all appear on the battle map. Just thinking about it made one's blood boil.
At this stage of the game, the rarity of historical characters was something that everyone had experienced. Even for a territory like Shanhai Town, which had a deep foundation, apart from Shi Wansui, who had been rewarded with the Village Building Quest, only two King-level historical characters, Fan Zhongyan and Tian Wenjing, had appeared in the next six months. From this, one could see how rare they were.
After the system announcement was made, all the Lord players in the China region received a system prompt. Naturally, Ouyang Shuo was no exception.
"System prompt: In order to coordinate with the activation of the Battle Campaign System, the system will build a Teleportation Matrix for your territory for free. Please select the location to build it. "Friendly reminder: This Teleportation Matrix will be preserved permanently. At the same time, it can also be used to teleport between territories. Please select the location carefully."
With a flash of blue light, a holographic map of Shanhai Town appeared before Ouyang Shuo.
The location to build the Teleportation Matrix was very particular. First of all, the Teleportation Matrix could not be built indoors. Thus, an open area had to be chosen. Moreover, for the convenience of teleportation, there had to be enough space. Otherwise, it would be crowded.
However, the Teleportation Matrix could not be built in the wild. That was because the Teleportation Matrix could be destroyed. In future territorial wars, if the enemy destroyed the Teleportation Matrix, their allies would not be able to teleport over as reinforcements.
In the end, Ouyang Shuo decided to build the Teleportation Matrix on the east side of the square of the Lord's Mansion. Not only was the area spacious, but it was also close to the military area.
"System prompt: Teleportation Matrix construction location selection completed. Teleportation Matrix automatically forming."
"System prompt: Teleportation Matrix construction complete. Please check for yourself!"
Ouyang Shuo walked out of the Lord's Mansion and saw a huge Teleportation Matrix already standing on the east side of the square.
The entire Teleportation Matrix was shaped like a disc. It had a diameter of about 10 meters. It was made of neither stone nor jade. It looked very simple and unadorned. At the core of the disc was a black and white Tai Chi pattern. It was constantly rotating in a clockwise direction. In the middle of the disc was the Eight Trigrams pattern. The outermost circle was the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.
Four bronze statues stood in the four directions of the Teleportation Matrix. They were the Azure Dragon in the East, the White Tiger in the West, the Vermilion Bird in the South, and the Black Tortoise in the North. The Teleportation Matrix used the Four Spirits as nodes to form a three-dimensional protective screen. Those without authorization would not be able to enter the Teleportation Matrix.
Ouyang Shuo approached the Teleportation Matrix. He placed his right hand on the screen and started setting up the Teleportation Matrix.
"System prompt: Please select the person with authorization to activate the Teleportation Matrix!"
Currently, he was the only player in Shanhai Town. Hence, Ouyang Shuo had set the authorization to activate the Teleportation Matrix to him alone.
"System prompt: Please select the territory's teleportation mode. You can choose one of the three teleportation modes: Free teleportation mode, unauthorized teleportation mode, or war teleportation mode."
The protective screen of the Teleportation Matrix was not two-way. In other words, it could prevent people without authorization from entering the Teleportation Matrix. However, it could not prevent people from coming out of the Teleportation Matrix.
Hence, for the territory's safety, it was necessary to set a restriction on the teleportation mode.
Free teleportation mode was the teleportation mode with the least restriction. It meant that anyone from one's ally could teleport over at any time without the other party's permission. Unless it was an iron-blooded ally, very few lords would choose this method. This was because there was no guarantee that any member of one's ally would be reliable.
If one's ally was bribed by one's opponent or enemy, the other party could use the ally's Teleportation Matrix to infiltrate one's territory. If one was careful, one might not even be able to detect it. This was undoubtedly very dangerous. Given Ouyang Shuo's cautious nature, he naturally would not choose this teleportation mode.
In order to guard against this possibility of infiltration, there was a second teleportation mode. That was unauthorized teleportation mode. In this teleportation mode, if the other party wanted to teleport to one's territory, they would need one's permission. That way, you'll know who's about to be teleported and when they'll arrive. With this information, as long as one was prepared, it would be very difficult for the other party to sabotage.
Of course, if one was more careful, one could also choose the third teleportation mode: war teleportation mode. In this teleportation mode, the other party would only be able to teleport over with one's permission if there was a territorial war and reinforcements were needed. At other times, it could not be teleported over.
This mode was undoubtedly very suitable for allies who did not have enough trust in one another. After all, even if it was unauthorized teleportation mode, there was still the possibility of the other party infiltrating and sabotaging it.
Similarly, for those purely military alliances, war teleportation mode was also very suitable. The two parties only agreed to help each other out. As for other economic and cultural exchanges, there was no need to discuss them.
"Select the unauthorized teleportation mode!" Ouyang Shuo said.
Although the various members of the Alliance of Mountains and Seas had not established a high level of trust, Ouyang Shuo still believed that he had the ability to control the risk. After all, the Military Intelligence Department and the Public Order Department were not to be trifled with. If an ally was really bribed, Ouyang Shuo believed that the other party would not be able to cause much trouble. After all, the third teleportation mode, no matter how one looked at it, was a bit like seclusion.
"System Notification: Do you want to activate additional teleportation mode?"
Regardless of which of the three teleportation modes was chosen, the precondition was that the teleportation was between allies. If there was no alliance, then no matter what, it would be impossible to teleport to the other party's territory.
However, if one's friends or talents that one wanted to recruit needed to be teleported over, what would one do at that time? In this regard, the System was still very humane. In addition to these three teleportation modes, there was also an additional teleportation mode.
The so-called additional teleportation mode meant that the lord could directly add the name of the person that one wanted to teleport over to one's territory. This way, the other party would be able to teleport to one's territory through any teleportation formation.
"Activate!" Ouyang Shuo said without hesitation.
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