Chapter 150: Rococo's Troubles
After a few months of experience in the game, today's Redemption players have a keen sense of the plot events that appear in the game.
The wave of exploration of the Inland Sea, secretly promoted by maritime NPCs, attracted a large number of players from all over the continent to the large and small towns along the coast of the Inland Sea in just one day. In particular, famous inland sea trading cities such as Nopra County in the Southern Continent Free Federation, Golden Harbor in the Eastern Continent, and Turtle City on the border of the Northeast Continent have become important strategic bases for major game guilds to compete for. Guilds such as the Hall of Stars Guild, which had been based in coastal towns before the Inland Sea Incident appeared, took the lead in this exploration event.
However, just when everyone is trying their best to get a ship in the coastal town to form their own team, and then go to sea as soon as possible to do a mission or find out the reality of the sea beasts, our protagonist, Miss Rococo, a longbow ranger girl, is thinking about entrusting the boat in her hand to her friends and leaving Nopra for a while.
This will definitely cause others to laugh at it, after all, as the inland sea trading city with the highest commercial prosperity among the three fulcrums of the inland sea route, Nopra County is recognized as the best base to participate in this sudden and suspected public main line of inland sea exploration. Having a fixed base in Nopra and having a ship that is fully owned by you is a "dream start" for all players who want to actively participate in this inland sea exploration, and in this case, to give up such perfect conditions and leave Nopra to do something else, it can only be said that such people are either not in their brains, or they have no idea about the plot of inland sea exploration that is already obvious.
Rococo was well aware that it was a bit out of place for her to do so, and in fact, she didn't want to leave Nopra at this critical time, if possible.
As early as after the Great Incident in the Holy City, after defeating Bekaz and recovering the fragments of Godhead on both sides of the Holy City and Bekaz, the girl brought her friends and relatives to Nopra County, and the explanation given by Rococo was that the dungeon jungle resources on the side of Nopra County were more suitable for players between level 30 and 60 to upgrade, in fact, she was to prepare for this inevitable storm inland sea turmoil in advance.
Storm Inland Sea Turmoil, this is the collective name of the main event that happened in the Storm Inland Sea by players in the previous game. The main plot of the Storm Inland Sea Turmoil in the previous life can be summarized simply, that is, the Sea Beast King Abyss Hydra, who led the Sea Beast Clan and made outstanding contributions to resisting the invasion of Chaos from the sea during the Genesis War, but for some reason, hundreds of years later, it suddenly began to fall into chaos without anyone expecting it, and this caused a huge turmoil that affected the entire Sea Beast Clan and the Storm Inland Sea.
The process of the fall of the Abyss Hydra, an ancient superpower, is not like the invasion of the undead of Lancarus and the Great Incident of the Holy City, but the influence and interference of Mira's game law system and the original law of fate on the continent of Emissia, which has derived an important branch point of the main story. In the game of the previous life, although the players also paid great attention and enthusiasm to this big event from the beginning of the Inland Sea exploration plot like this time, in the end, the players were still unable to stop the fall of the Abyss Hydra at the critical moment of the plot branching point, and at the end of the plot, the Sea Beast King, who was once the hero who led the Sea Beast Clan against chaos during the Genesis period, sadly sank into the chaos that it once hated and became the red dragon after purgatory, After the Blue Dragon of the Frost Night and the Land Beast King and the God of War Beamon, another leader of the Order race who has fallen into chaos.
And due to the fall of the Abyss Hydra, the sea beast clan of the entire Storm Inland Sea has also been eroded by chaos in large numbers and become chaotic life, which directly leads to the fact that in the main plot of the game in the previous life and later, the chaotic forces from the Northern Continent have an important way to bypass the two major barriers of the mysterious Misty Sea and the Sighing Desert on the east side of the North Continent, and re-launch a direct invasion of the Eastern Continent and the Southern Continent. If it weren't for the timely action of the elves and the black and white dragon kings of the Strange Domain in the follow-up plot at that time, assisting the Free Federation and the Radiant Empire to set up a solid line of order along the inland coast of the two continents, I am afraid that the game plot of the previous life would not have been able to support the main line of counteroffensive chaos after the players reached level 70, and the entire Emissia continent would have been completely destroyed by chaos.
For Rococo, who is tasked with assisting Arya and Mira in saving the plane of the Emissia continent, the fall of the Abyssal Hydra, of course, is the same thing she must stop in the game, and at the same time, another reason why she wants to stop the fall of the Abyssal Hydra is because it is also a relatively powerful candidate for the owner of the Divine Head Fragment in Rococo's heart.
Speaking of which, when it comes to collecting the fragments of Godhead, Rococo is now facing an impasse. Among the three Godhead fragments she collected before, the Creation Godhead fragment kept by Bekaz and the Goddess of the Holy City was determined by Rococo through the analysis of the game data of the previous life, and although the fragment of Kinzes was considered a surprise, in fact, the conclusion that "the Lancarus Trickster NPC is the owner of a self-aware Godhead fragment" is also something that Rococo has long been able to summarize from the game materials of the previous life.
And by analyzing the game data of his previous life, Rococo was also able to determine that there were traces of Godhead fragments in three places on the two black and white dragon kings of the Strange Domain, among the high-ranking people of the Free Federation, and in the army of the Beast Spirit Clan. Among the clues about the latter two, Rococo was only deduced by some wise decisions made by the two forces of the Free Federation and the Beast Spirit Clan in the game in the previous life, but he was only able to guess that the two major forces had the owner of the Godhead Fragment at the top of the level, but he could not confirm who it was, and the Black and White Dragon King was the owner of the Godhead Fragment This is something that Rococo can determine, but because the Strange Domain needs to wait until the player is level 50 to open to the public, and the position of the Black and White Dragon King is also the same as Orlanardo is the leader in the order camp, Therefore, Rococo was not in a hurry to go to the Strange Realm to ask the Black and White Dragon King for the Godhead fragments.
However, these are only the fragments of Godhead that Rococo can accurately or roughly deduce their existence, but in fact, Rococo is very clear that in addition to these, there are definitely owners of Godhead fragments on the continent of Emissia that she does not know.
The mysterious strong man named Conte who had a photo in the Holy City event before is a living example, Rococo has not been able to find any information about this guy called Conte in the game materials of his previous life, either before or after the fact, but he is indeed an aboriginal powerhouse with a fragment of Godhead to keep himself, and what's worse is that this guy doesn't seem to have the slightest respect for order and the goddess of creation.
Rococo came to Nopra County after the Holy City incident, and in addition to preparing for the storm and the turmoil in the Inland Sea, he also did not want to try his luck to see if he could find out something related to Conte. After all, she knew almost nothing about Conte, and Conte's iconic appearance as a Nopra merchant was one of her only clues. But unfortunately, so far, she has not achieved anything in this regard.
In addition to Conte, Rococo believes that there are likely other owners of Godhead shards in this game world that she has not deduced in the game materials, and that Abyssal Hydra is one of the targets of her strong suspicions.
Originally, Rococo excluded Abyssal Hydra from the list of owners of Godhead Shards, mainly because she felt that if Abyssal Hydra was indeed the owner of Godhead Shards, it should not be so easily manipulated by the plot branches of the game system, relying on the player's actions to determine its final Fallen Ending. However, Rococo later discovered that in the game of the previous life, the fallen Abyss Hydra in the follow-up command of the equally depraved Sea Beast Clan to help the chaos forces invade the continent in the related plot, several times as the final boss of the combat command obviously has a unique shadow of calculation, which can only be done by NPCs or bosses with their own.
Therefore, Rococo has been preparing to participate in the Storm Inland Sea Incident since the end of the Holy City Incident, and it is not too late for the owners of the Godhead Fragments on the side of the Free Federation and the Beast Spirit Clan to investigate later, but on the side of the Abyss Hydra, it is too late to regret it once it is missed.
However, what Rococo didn't expect was that perhaps because of the butterfly effect caused by her previous series of actions, the storm inland sea turmoil in this life came earlier than in the previous life - when the storm inland sea turmoil in the previous life began, it was on the eve of the players who were about to hit level 50 second turn, but right now, the average level of the first group among players was just over level 40.
This is nothing for players, after all, in the plot of the storm and inland sea turmoil, the monsters and big and small bosses that players really have to face are almost all about level 40 to 50, and super bosses like Hydra of the Fallen Abyss have a plot to deal with, so as long as they reach level 40, players will not have the problem of not being able to cope with the plot.
It's just that for Rococo, the player's level is over level 40, which means a lot to her, because it means that her NPC mode can finally release personal side story missions to players to retrieve the memory and power of the original goblin.
At the moment, although with the help of the three godhead fragments collected, Rococo has a way to temporarily restore the identity of the original goblin with the help of Arya, but after all, this is only a measure of interests, and the existence of the original goblin mode has always restricted Rococo, making her unable to really exert the full strength of the original goblin in battle.
And now, after players reach level 40, it means that they have met the first prerequisite for receiving Rococo's personal side story quest [personal level higher than level 40], and then as long as players above level 40 brush up the favorability of the Rococo NPC mode, then Rococo can trigger the relevant plot to "recover" the power of the original goblin by issuing a mission to that player and secretly promoting the success of the mission.
For Rococo, who is likely to face a strong enemy in the next storm inland sea event, it is naturally a good thing to be able to recover the power of the original elf early, but Arya tells her the bad news, that is, in order to recover the power of the original elf, she not only has to temporarily change back to NPC mode, but even due to the needs of her personal story mission, she must return to the border village of the empire where she was born as an NPC for a while.
If the plot of the Storm Inland Sea only broke out when the players were about to reach level 50 like in her previous life, it would not have been possible for her to run away for a day or two before the incident, but now that the plot is like a mystery happening earlier, Rococo is not sure if she will miss something if she will leave Nopra for a few days to stay with the Empire now.
It's nerve-wracking......