After the Battle of the Butterfly ended, there were still five days until the final.
In Thriller Paradise, many things could happen in five days.
Take Feng Bujue as an example. If he gave it his all, five days would be enough for him to reach the top of the level ranking.
But currently, his focus was on the title.
Even though the new title, Hate Gatherer, was a bit of a prank from the system, the ability that it came with was not bad.
The effect of Furnace of Hatred, to put it simply … was to allow the player to use more skills with less exhaustion. With this concept as the core, one could come up with many powerful combinations.
Not only would it be used in combat, ranged, defensive, summoning, and even healer players would be able to design a terrifying combination of skills around [Furnace of Hatred].
With this title, even if the player did not use their brain and added a bunch of active skills that had a cooldown of five to fifteen minutes, they could become very powerful.
For players like Feng Bujue who were good at planning, this title would be like adding wings to a tiger.
Compared to the tactic of Descent of the War Demon, which could not take away the enemy, Brother Jue naturally preferred the current title. From the perspective of the 'battle royale' in the final, the current title was more beneficial.
Now, the only thing that Feng Bujue was worried about was that his title would change before the final. Then, no matter how good the combination of skills he came up with, it would be useless.
This kind of thing was hard to explain because the change of title in Thriller Paradise was hidden. Even the internal staff of the Dream Company could not provide this data.
The change of this ability was completely controlled by the system. Every player, in every scenario that they were in, every word that they said, everything that they did, could affect this parameter. For such a complicated calculation, the photon computer would not be able to record the whole process and convert it into visual data to be transferred to human beings.
In fact, a normal photon computer would not be able to do this kind of calculation; only the 'monster' designed by Woody could do that.
Of course, even though Feng Bujue was worried, he did not dwell on it. If his title really changed the day before he entered the finals, then there was nothing he could do about it. After all, he could not stop playing scenarios just to maintain his title, right?
Brother Jue was a man with a secret mission. Woody's "stop her" sounded casual, but the danger behind it was hard to predict. Therefore, in these five days, Feng Bujue had to make good use of every minute of game time to make himself as strong as possible.
Feng Bujue had changed his mind ever since he entered the final stage of the [Tournament for the Best]. From his point of view, his opponents were not the other 49 players. Instead, they were some other strange things. However, he had no idea what they were.
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When you're busy, you'll feel that the days pass by very quickly.
In the blink of an eye, the day of the final battle had arrived …
After these five days, Feng Bujue had reached Level 43 and was now ranked fifth on the Level Ranking Board.
This … no doubt caused a huge uproar in the game because theoretically speaking, this was impossible.
After Level 40, the upper limit of a player's EXP reached eight digits. At that time, it would take at least three days to level up. Take Xu Huai Shang as an example. She had reached Level 40 three days before the Battle of the Butterfly, but when she competed with Brother Jue, she was still Level 40.
After these five days, Xu Huai Shang had only reached Level 42 while Brother Jue was Level 43.
After all, this was not the period where the ranking board changed every day. The Level Ranking Board was the most stable ranking. Among the top 20 players on the level leaderboard, most of them were level 43 … Every time the leaderboard was updated, the players would be able to see who had earned more EXP that day based on the changes in the order of the leaderboard …
But no one would have thought that in the past few days, someone would appear out of nowhere. Almost every day, people would see this Feng Bujue surpass several players who were ranked above him.
This was too strange, and it was impossible for it to go unnoticed.
Therefore, many professionals from gaming studios started to study this. Based on their estimation … Feng Bujue could gain at least 20,000,000 EXP in a day.
What kind of concept was that?
Normally speaking, after Level 40, clearing a normal team dungeon with a 'game time' of four hours would not give more than 2,000,000 EXP. To gain more EXP, one had to either run into a long scenario or go for Nightmare mode. The former depended on luck, and the latter was optional, but it came with a great risk.
If a player wanted to gain more than 20,000,000 EXP daily, then he had to ensure that … he would clear all the scenarios that he participated in. And there was no Killing Game or Solo Survival Mode on normal difficulty.
This kind of thing … was only possible in theory. Even Phantom Dawn could not do something like that because the stronger the player was, the more difficult the scenario would be. The so-called difficulty depended on the player, and it was relative to the player.
Other than that, there was the 'extra reward after clearing the scenario'. Normally speaking, out of the five 'Embodiment of Courage, Commendable Courage, Panicked, Scared Witless, Scared Witless', getting 'Commendable Courage' was the ideal situation. And the optional extra reward for this level was ten percent EXP or 50000 Game Coins. It was much weaker than the 'Embodiment of Courage' that Brother Jue had been given.
Of course, there was a reason for that because 'Embodiment of Courage' was very, very difficult to get. Even though the standard was not for the player to maintain zero Terror Points throughout the scenario, there was a strict requirement for the player's Terror Points, the highest Terror Points, and the number of times they were scared.
Since the start of the game, countless players had cleared countless scenarios, but the number of people who had received this rating could be counted on one hand. Of these people, only one … had received this rating multiple times, and the rest had not received it a second time.
Actually, most of the players in Thriller Paradise, including the professional players … were stuck between the phase of Commendable Courage and Panicked Witless. The people from Zombie Blade were able to get 'Commendable Courage', but they had the aid of medicine, so that was a different story.
Fear was a human instinct. Even with systematic training, it could not be completely overcome. Even for the players from a gaming studio, they were professional players and not professional killers, so no one would train them specifically for fear. Therefore, when faced with fear, their reaction would not be that different from a normal player.
For players other than Feng Bujue, Terror Points were a number that would fluctuate. Just entering a dark and depressing environment would cause the Terror Points to change. To maintain it at zero throughout the scenario was impossible. It was the same for Killing Games. Even though the horror element in the scenario had been reduced, the combat between players would still have an effect on the Terror Points. Be it seeing a slash coming at you face to face, a sniping battle, or an ambush, they would all trigger a reaction of fear. The only difference was the feeling of shock and fear.
In conclusion, taking into account all the possible factors, Feng Bujue's score … could only be said to be barely reasonable, or … theoretically speaking, there was no problem with it.
Under those circumstances, the rumor about him cheating naturally spread like wildfire.
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