Chapter 98: Continental Borders
In fact, after learning from the forum that Bekaz's plan to attack the undead of Lancarus had failed, Mu Yun's first reaction was to wonder if there were any reborn like him on the side of the Free Federation.
Compared with the undead invasion in his previous life, Mu Yun clearly saw that the undead invasion of Bekaz in this life was not only launched much earlier, but also obviously not fully prepared to launch it naturally, but full of haste - yes, it was obviously like someone forced to do this. Mu Yun naturally does not know the amazing truth hidden in this game, he is convinced that the invasion of the undead is the original main story on the side of the Free Federation, and what can make such a huge change in the main plot can only be done by players in Mu Yun's opinion.
The existence of the Reborn is indeed a very strange thing, but since he will be reborn on the side of the Empire, who can guarantee that there will not be such an existence like him on the side of the Federation? If it's a reborn person who is familiar with the plot, it is naturally possible to interfere with the plot in advance to expose the conspiracy of the villain NPC, no, it would be strange if you didn't do it. After all, Mu Yun himself did just that, with the advantage of foresight, Mu Yun exposed the major infiltration conspiracy of the Beast Spirit Clan into the northern part of the empire in the first phase of the plot of the Imperial Forces, and with this great credit in the main story, he received a full benefit reward from the Imperial NPC.
However, what made Mu Yun feel strange was that just as he continued to follow this line of thought, he once again doubted his judgment. Because he found that the Free Federation side was almost identical to what he knew, except for the "Federation main story" about Bekaz's undead invasion, which was different from his previous life.
In the early stage of the game, the control of the voice is still the old professional player guild led by the dark domain, and the overlord of the game in the previous life, the Hall of Stars, still seized the "second main city" of the Federation side in the middle of the game in advance with a vicious vision, and gradually began to emerge in various dungeon strategies, and all the game masters who were famous in the previous life of the Federation side also walked on their own life path according to the original trajectory...... There is no such thing as a master like him who suddenly rose to a mysterious origin, and there is no special player force that did not exist in the previous life, that is, if there really is a reborn like him on the side of the Federation, then that person may not have done anything worth paying attention to at all except to rewrite the direction of the main line of Bekaz's undead siege.
Either this reborn is too idiotic, or this reborn is really too secretive, or, in fact, there is no reborn at all, everything is just Mu Yun thinking too much, and the change of the plot is completely caused by the details of various uncertain factors in the game in the past life and the present life.
To tell the truth, Mu Yun hopes that there is a reborn, even if this reborn is a LYB who can hide himself so deeply while developing silently, because if it is really the natural development of the game that leads to such a big plot gap between the past life and the present life, then this is definitely worse news for Mu Yun, who wants to rely heavily on the prophetic advantage of his reborn to go on in the game in the future, than one more reborn who is the same as himself but whose friend or foe are still undecided.
This is also the reason why Mu Yun has been diligently making various preparations during this time in order to participate in the plot of the Holy City Event. Not only because Bekaz's defeat in Lancarus made the plot of the Holy City event very different from his previous life, but also because Mu Yun was not sure what was hidden behind Bekaz's defeat, in any case, he had a hunch that this time the Holy City event may be the biggest challenge he has faced since entering the game, because in addition to knowing more about the background information settings in the game than the average player, it is very likely that he, the prophet of the reborn, will hardly have much room to play this time.
In fact, Mu Yun has also considered not participating in the plot of this Holy City event with too many uncertain factors, but unfortunately, it is now getting closer and closer to the opening time of the exchange system between virtual currency and physical currency in the game, in order to make the power and assets that he built up from scratch in the game with the advantage of the reborn in this life not be overwhelmed by those foreign capitals, and even after that, he can still dominate the game, he must obtain the expected huge benefits in this Holy City event.
Thinking like this, Mu Yun couldn't help but look at the unsightly stone in his hand that had fallen after killing the mountain troll.
Fortunately, he finally completed this series of tasks in time before the big incident in the Holy City, and with that task reward, even the final hundred-level boss battle between Bekaz and Orlanardo in his previous life gave him the confidence to get involved...... No problem, even in the face of a difficult situation, he firmly believes that he can get through it, because he Muyun is destined to be an extraordinary reborn!
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The Holy City of Aryavahl and its surroundings are a very special and absolutely neutral area in the game of Redemption.
In other normal neutral areas, such as the Strange Realm on the western side of the South Continent or the Elven Forest, which is also on the border of the continent, although players from different factions are not allowed to fight freely in safe zones such as cities and towns, players from different factions are not allowed to fight with each other so as not to affect the order of the safe zone, but outside of towns, players from different factions will not be taken care of even if they fight in the dark.
This is not the case around the Holy City of Aryvar, where players will find that their faction system will be temporarily disabled, and all players will be defaulted to the "Order Faction". Not only in the Holy City, but also in the wild area outside the city, as long as it is marked on the system map as belonging to the jurisdiction of Aryvar, whether it is a fight between players of different forces or players of the same force, it will be regarded by the system as an illegal act that will attach the player's guilt value, and the crime points generated by the brawl around the Holy City will be twice as high as that of other regions, and the Templar NPCs here will also be merciless in the punishment of players with guilt points, It will even take the initiative to hunt down some players who dare not return to the city and wander in the wild because of the high sin value.
Because of this anti-PK mechanism in the surrounding environment of Arya Val, the security situation in the game (mainly referring to the frequency of malicious PK that occurs between players) is even better than that of the Empire's Radiant King City and the Federation's Lancarlos City. Players from the Empire and the Federation would only have verbal arguments here at best, but no one was willing to risk being hunted down by the Templars, and even because players from the two major forces were able to team up in the jungles and dungeons near the Holy City, many players from different factions became good friends after teaming up and cooperating by chance.
The appearance of similar "cross-force friendship" and even "cross-power romance" makes many players think it is very emotional, because fools know that since the two major forces of the empire and the federation exist in the game, then the national war will definitely be an inevitable element in the future game. When the time comes, former teammates who have gathered around the Holy City to hunt monsters in the name of "order" will have to fight each other for the sake of the forces they represent...... Although when it really happens, players may not really have the tragic feeling of sacrificing their egos for the sake of the country, but this does not prevent them from substituting themselves into this kind of plot that seems to be a movie drama.
Of course, there may be only one person in the game, the longbow ranger girl Rococo from the Free Federation, who really knows that the creator of the game "Redemption", or the god Mira who turned the plane of the Emissia continent into a game world, actually really hopes that the whole game world will not support PK between players like the surrounding Holy City, and hopes that the so-called national war plot will never happen.
It's a pity that the Free Federation and the Glorious Empire have maintained a state of hostility for hundreds of years, and since the first declaration of war a hundred years ago, the two sides have never signed an armistice, so strictly speaking, the Federation and the Empire have always been at war, and this relationship has also been faithfully preserved when the continent of Emissia was gamified.
At present, the so-called "peace" is actually nothing more than the fact that the two forces have tacitly entered a buffer period of war after several years of war, and each side has recuperated and recuperated. It's like two explosive packets stacked on top of each other to accumulate explosive equivalents, as long as the slightest spark is generated, both sides will explode at the same time, and the "national war" plot that players are looking forward to will be played out immediately, which is the current situation between the Federation and the Empire.
In the previous life, Bekaz played the role of this "spark", and this time, although Bekaz lost the undead legion under Rococo's efforts, this only made this "spark" temporarily weakened to the point that it could not ignite, but it did not completely extinguish it.
Bekaz is worthy of being a master of trouble-making in the game of his previous life, although he suffered heavy losses from Lancarus and the plague undead conspiracy was completely lost, but from another point of view, this also made him come to the continental border area earlier than in his previous life. In his previous life, Bekaz came here to cause the Holy City event when the players were around level 30, and in this life, Bekaz escaped here before the players reached level 20, giving him plenty of time to regather an army of plague undead.
The undead army comes from small villages and towns scattered along the borders of the Empire and the Federation, and for Bekaz, who is proficient in plague necromancer magic and can turn the living into undead without killing people, it is easy to spread the plague in these border towns without the need to kill people. The other part is the inhabitants of the border zone - yes, in addition to the Elven Forest in the north and the Holy City in the south, there is a considerable area of land in the central area of the continental border that is not under the jurisdiction of either the Empire or the Federation, but it has always become the main battlefield of both sides in wars. The law does not exist here, so it has become a paradise for bandits and criminals of all kinds...... And now, this is finally the ultimate villain among the villains, Bekaz.
So, by the time the players generally reached level 30 or so, Becaz, who had experienced the defeat of Lancarros, had actually regathered a new army of undead in the border area that could not be underestimated, and all signs indicated that he would soon launch an attack on the Holy City like in his previous life, and the Great Incident of the Holy City, a little later than the previous life, was about to officially kick off.
Judging from the results, what Rococo has done before in Lancarlos seems a little ridiculous, because she has not changed anything at all, but in fact, Rococo knows in her own heart that her goal is basically almost achieved.
In her previous life, Bekaz set off this great event in order to seize the fragments of the godhead in the Holy City, and this time, she had already used the time when Bekaz was forced to lie dormant on the mainland border to prepare a big gift for the plague mage - a big gift called "Drawing Salary from the Bottom of the Cauldron".