Eternal understood the mentality of the players too well. How to make the players' resentment last forever? Drop equipment? Reduce levels? These were useful, but they were troublesome and could easily be overdone. If a player was killed until they were level 10 and lost all their equipment, their resentment would last forever, but at the same time, they would also be disheartened and unable to lift their spirits.
As such, the best method was to use Eternal's suggestion: create rumors and humiliate the players.
These experienced players were all reputable people in the main city. Now that they were being pointed at by others as cowards, this was even more painful than losing their equipment. What was even better was that the more rumors spread, the more exaggerated they became. Due to Ying Qi's intentional planning, it was very easy for them to look down on Weathered Frost's group as well as their friends and guild members who had gone through Weathered Frost to look down on them. This was what Eternal meant when he said that there might be an even more terrifying force to be reckoned with.
Matchless Wonder appreciated Eternal's suggestion and immediately ordered Five Nights to find someone to carry it out.
Fighting and killing people was not something that a studio could do, but creating rumors and guiding public opinion was their forte. Manipulating the market and adjusting prices were things that studios often did. How could they do these things without using public opinion and creating rumors? The studio was very familiar with this.
Ying Qi was very familiar with this business. Yun Teng's leveling business was much more efficient than Gu Fei's. At the very least, they had more people than Gu Fei and the others in terms of accounting and statistics. Moreover, they were very responsible, unlike Gu Fei and the others, who only wanted to reap the fruits of their harvest and avoided the dirty and tiring work.
Cloud Teng had already done a detailed investigation of the leveling areas, and naturally had their own way of assessing the saturation of leveling. In short, after collecting money, ordering, informing the players of the time, the teaching tasks had already been assigned, and the players who paid had already received emails informing them of when the classes would begin.
Cloud Teng's progress was godly, but the guilds were dragging their feet. The major guilds of the main cities had yet to come up with a proper plan. They had contacted Cloud Teng to find out how many students there were, and Cloud Teng had provided them with accurate numbers. However, these guild leaders knew very well that the data would be greatly exaggerated. This didn't mean that Yun Teng would falsify the data, but that the players would take advantage of it. After all, things like efficient leveling methods were very easy to share. If one person were to learn it, who knew how many disciples would follow him? Large Guilds like theirs, which had over a thousand members, wouldn't actually pay the fee for a thousand members. It would be good if they could pay the fee for a hundred members. Even if they did, they would wait for the fee to be popularized within the Guild.
Of course, the studio didn't have to bear any responsibility for the thoughts of the players. The studio would simply recruit a suitable number of players based on the leveling areas they had inspected. If a single player was followed by a large group of players, the studio wouldn't be able to do anything about it.
There was no need to worry about the studios, but the players had to worry! According to the number of people revealed by the Workshop, and considering this situation, magnified several times, the leaders of the major guilds all had the desire to vomit blood. They seemed to have already seen that if these two leveling areas of their respective main cities were left unchecked, they would inevitably follow in the footsteps of White Stone City's White Mill. They had to take some measures.
After all, there were still many capable people. The elites of the various main cities and guilds all expressed their own opinions. As a result, some main cities began to divide the leveling areas. Some main cities took to the streets to advertise to the players, and some main cities' major guilds first occupied the leveling areas. The methods were different, but the central idea was the same: to make the efficient leveling method truly efficient.
Weathered through hardships, low-temperature, sandpaper … These people had lost levels, but their status in the guild had already been established. Naturally, it wouldn't change because of the level difference. At this time, all of them were first-class backbones, running around busily for the sake of this efficient leveling method.
Another day passed just like that. Weathered through hardships, their main cities finally had a plan that everyone agreed on. They divided the two major leveling areas. Regardless of the others, the major guilds would first ensure that they had a leveling area. As for the other idle open spaces, they simply didn't care about it. If the other small guilds or wild players wanted to fight and cause trouble, they could do as they pleased. Weathered through hardships, their major guilds weren't prepared to be the heroes who upheld justice.
They only confirmed one thing: their major guilds were in an offensive and defensive alliance. If someone came to make trouble here, then they would teach the other party a lesson together.
This plan had actually been adopted by their major guilds in the beginning of White Stone City. But unfortunately, White Stone City was attacked by level 40 players from all over the world at that time. Even if the major guilds were in an offensive and defensive alliance, they couldn't withstand this excessive number of refugees. Today was different from the past. This time, the Workshop hosted the efficient leveling method. There wouldn't be this kind of fugitive appearing again. Therefore, these major guilds that had experienced hardships felt that they could control the situation.
"It's finally done!" Weathered through hardships let out a long sigh of relief and entered the tavern with a few of his guild brothers. These few days of life were too exciting. Being hired, losing levels, going to jail, running around … It was fulfilling, but why wasn't any of this fulfilling content good? After sitting down in the tavern, Weathered through the past few days of gaming life felt sad. He fiercely ordered a large barrel of alcohol and prepared to get drunk to solve all his worries.
The few that came with Weathered through hardships were the ones that flew with him to Cloud City. Weathered through hardships, they basically didn't run away. It was really difficult. At this moment, they had the same thought as Weathered through hardships: If they don't get drunk, it'll be hard to get rid of the depression in their hearts!
"Brothers, come, cheers!" Weathered through hardships raised his glass. He was annoyed in his heart! His hatred for Against Overpowered was far from over, but the current situation definitely wouldn't allow him to leave for the next few days. After all, the efficient leveling method hadn't really started. They were only doing preparatory activities. When the time came, they still needed to deal with the situation! How could he leave?
After a few days, when the situation stabilized, he really didn't know if it would be convenient to recruit people like last time. Perhaps at that time, everyone would be addicted to the fun of the efficient leveling method, and he would be even more embarrassed to ask for help.
"Damn, this is so depressing. Cheers!" Weathered through hardships finished one glass and quickly raised a second.
Everyone at the table was in a bad mood, so of course, the drinking was also depressing. Everyone just listened to the shouts and drank mechanically. Whenever they chatted with each other, they would always talk about that annoying thing called Against Overpowered. As a result, the few of them began to drink while looking around, hoping to find something interesting to eat and drink to pass the time of this depressing time.
As soon as they looked around, they immediately saw a few players at the surrounding tables sneaking glances at them. Some of them were sneaking glances while quietly discussing something with their table mates.
Weathered through hardships was a famous person in the main city. He was used to people pointing at him when he walked on the road. But today's situation was a bit off. Why were those people not serious when they were talking about them? Was he that funny?
"Hey!!" Weathered through hardships wasn't someone who couldn't calm down, but at this time, with the help of the alcohol, he immediately slammed the table and pointed at the people at the table closest to him: "What are you guys talking about? Come over and have a chat with me!! "
"Haha, Boss Frost, what do you want to talk about?" A player at that table said as he stood up and walked over.
Weathered through hardships looked up and saw the badge on the other party's chest: "Oh? A person from Troubled Times. "
Troubled Times was also a Rank 6 guild in this main city. However, Weathered through hardships and his guild had always been at odds with each other. Even though it wasn't to the point where they would kill each other on sight, it could be said that they were competitors.
"Yeah!" The other party nodded his head.
"Do you know Mao Qing?" Weathered through hardships asked.
"Of course I do." The other party replied. Mao Qing was one of the core members of their guild.
"Hmm, he's an idiot. Listen to his name, Mao Qing. What does that mean? Hat cuckold? Damn, isn't that an idiot? " Weathered through hardships wasn't someone who was normally like this. However, recently, things hadn't been going well for him, and he was depressed. Now that he was drinking, he saw someone pointing at him. Moreover, it was someone from an enemy guild. He immediately knew that they weren't saying anything good about him, so he immediately threw a harsh look at them.
"Hehe." The other party laughed coldly, "How's Boss Feng Shuang recently? I heard that you went to Cloud City? "
Weathered through hardships' face turned ugly. He had already guessed that the other party was talking about this. However, it hadn't been that long, so how did it spread so quickly? Were all the fellows in the room whispering to each other talking about this? Bad news really spread to Qianli! Weathered through hardships looked left and right.
"What is Boss Feng Shuang looking for? Is he afraid that the people from Cloud City will chase after him? " That person laughed and then turned to look at his brothers: "Oh right, what's the name of the expert from Cloud City?"
"Qianli One Drunk." Someone immediately cooperated with him. With their guild relationship, if they fought, they would feel that it would be too much of a loss, so they couldn't bear to do so. As a result, mocking each other became their favorite sport. In this aspect, they had a very high level of teamwork.
"Oh right, Qianli One Drunk." That person nodded his head. Seeing that Weathered through hardships' face was still expressionless, he shouted again: "Qianli One Drunk!"
"What do you mean?" Weathered through hardships raised his head and stared at him.
"I want to see if Boss Feng Shuang will crawl under the table after hearing this name." After that person said this, he didn't laugh, but his brothers behind him laughed out loud together.
"F * ck!!" Weathered through hardships was angry. If he still wasn't angry, then he wouldn't be a man. Actually, these two guilds had bickered with each other before. However, it was as if everyone had agreed to it, they would only win with words and never PK. But today, Weathered through hardships' situation, this psychological background, in addition to the alcohol-stimulated brain, the ruthless beating of the spine. More importantly, in the past, when someone couldn't bear it, there would always be someone beside them who would stop them. But today, the other party's words were too broad. Everyone was in the same situation and mood as Weathered through hardships. Thus, everyone at the table fought to be the first to attack.
"You motherf * cker go to hell!!!" Everyone shouted.
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