Chapter 37: The Beginning of Confusion

"Phew..."

"Boom..."

A cannonball grazed the head of the galloping Qiao Mai, cutting off several giant trees. The powerful power made Qiao Mai's scalp explode.

After only ten minutes of entering, Qiao Mai had thoroughly understood how dangerous this place was.

The whole map, full of battle scenes. A huge navy, fierce pirates, and even a large number of bounty hunters and adventurers. These NPCs with opposing camps fought together in chaos, turning the entire Golden Island into a pot of porridge. The stray bullets and terrifying shells that galloped by from time to time escalated the chaos by several notches.

If it was just an NPC from the One Piece manga, Qiao Mai would definitely be extremely excited, and maybe rush forward to ask for an autograph. It's just that the huge names on the heads of those NPCs and the weird dark red light emanating from their bodies all tell that these characters are just monsters derived from this game. They are all terrifying monsters derived from the dark matter realm in order to destroy the consciousness of Gaia on the entire earth.

At this time, above the entire map of Golden Island, there is a dark red, eerie sky. Large, jumble cracks tore the entire sky apart. Pitch black as a crack in the abyss, strange and ominous. Countless miserable white ominous air currents are constantly seeping through the cracks and flowing in. As if there was an air flow of self-consciousness, it surged towards the huge world platter below.

Depending on the fragments of the world they enter, these ominous currents have been transformed into monsters and characters of various shapes after being transformed by some kind of mysterious rule. No matter how powerful and hideous these monsters and characters are, they all have one thing in common. That is, all belong to what has ever appeared on Earth.

Whether it is in reality, or movies, TV series, various online games, and even myths and legends, all kinds of comics and novels. These things are all generated by the dark matter realm, mining all the dark monsters and human fear objects of the entire Earth civilization.

"Can't see me, can't see me..."

Qiao Mai cautiously hid behind the two giant trees, staring at the dozens of navies and pirates roaming in the open space outside, sweating profusely.

On the Golden Isle, no matter how fierce and chaotic the battle between these NPCs is, the moment they spot the player, they will all turn around and attack the players present. The momentum of the same enemy, as if their previous battles were all joking.

Qiao Mai accidentally approached the battle ground of a group of navy and pirates before, and in an instant, more than a dozen hideous strong men all rushed towards Qiao Mai, and the terrifying momentum made Qiao Mai's heart jump wildly, and his urine almost flew out. Qiao Mai, who was in a panic, fled in all directions, and soon the number of enemies chasing behind him increased several times.

After completely entering the world platter, Qiao Mai has lost the ability to detect the opponent's attributes by relying only on the soul attributes. Obviously, in order to get a glimpse of the attributes of a Bronze creature, you must have a detection skill. Faced with these characters whose attributes were unknown, Qiao Mai could only see the names and factions floating on their heads, as well as the cyan glow emitted by the bronze steps on these words. Of course, creatures with enhanced templates will have an extra symbol on their heads that represent the template.

Even if you can't see the attribute panel of these NPCs, Qiao Mai can roughly deduce what their main attributes are and what their highest attributes are based on their respective sizes and the momentum they exude. There is no doubt that the difficulty of the four-star game map belongs to the third ring of the world platter, and the highest attributes of all creatures have exceeded 6 points, and the bronze limit of 9 points is infinitely approaching.

Different additional attributes and a large number of skills derived from attributes make each Bronze creature have unique characteristics. This also makes it much more difficult for players to kill these NPCs, at least for Jomai, as in the bubble world, the scene of crushing and killing a bunch of mobs can never be recreated. It's not good, just a little monster that I haven't seen before can make players discouraged, not to mention the bosses with explosive combat effectiveness.

"Whew, let's go..."

The NPCs, whose perception was not high enough, failed to find Qiao Mai who was close at hand, and scattered in twos and threes. Some of them didn't even go far before they fought fiercely again. Qiao Mai, who saw this scene, was completely speechless.

"Okay, that's it..."

Staring at the several naval soldiers who were hovering in place, Qiao Mai's eyes slowly became hot.

When he was alive, the monster in Qiao Mai's body, gluttony, would endlessly force Qiao Mai to eat like crazy. After entering this game, Qiao Mai did not feel that painful hunger pang, and he no longer had to look for food. However, this is only due to the change in the diet of gluttony, which now requires the body and soul of living beings to eat. As long as he doesn't kill monsters for a while, Qiao Mai will feel that his soul is torn and devoured by gluttony. The pain from the soul was even worse than killing Qiao Mai himself.

"Ghouls..."

Qiao Mai summoned again, and the five cruel and hideous ghouls jumped out of the mist that suddenly appeared around Qiao Mai.

"Kill them...."

"Crunch... Roar..."

The ghoul, who let out a strange roar, opened its mouth and pounced on its target fiercely.

"Oh, what the hell..."

"Damn, it's the pirate who escaped, he's an evil wizard. Rub, this damn thing, should be put in jail and stay in Push City for a hundred years..."

"Come here, take care to dodge..."

"Long live justice..."

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The moment the ghoul appeared, the Navy soldiers spotted Jomai. The hideous ghoul made all the navies scream in horror.

Compared to the monsters Qiao Mai encountered before, these bronze level NPCs all have a strong sense of autonomy, which is no different from ordinary people. The only difference between them and the player is that the player has the blessing of the system. Perhaps, in the eyes of these NPCs, all players are the most evil invaders.

"Get back to me..."

The strong man led by the stiff blessed body swelled, wielding a huge axe, sweeping the two ghouls directly away, and his fierce momentum was unmatched for a while.

"Haha, it turned out to be just a showcase... Kill him for me..."

Sweeping away the hideous ghouls, the strong man's confidence soared, and it turned out that these terrifying-looking monsters were only a little scary in appearance, and their strength was not even comparable to that of ordinary naval soldiers.

"The nine-character mantra - all, all..."

Qiao Mai's hands were sealed, and he swiped the words several times in a row, so that the health of the two injured ghouls returned to full value. The strong navy on the opposite side, with just one blow, swept away nearly half of the health of the two ghouls, and the powerful attack power was unobstructed. To Qiao Mai's surprise, the navy with such strength was just an ordinary monster, and it didn't even mix with an elite template.

There were a full five Navy soldiers across from Jo Mai, who looked like a standard combat squad. And it was the strong guy who took the lead, with a strong body more than half a meter higher than Qiao Mai, and his momentum was amazing.

The few naval soldiers in front of Qiao Mai were marked with their camp - navy above their heads, and their military ranks were faintly floating below. Ordinary soldiers range in rank from third-class to first-class private, while the strong man who takes the lead is a higher rank corporal, commonly known as the captain.

Only creatures of the Elite template and above will show the specific character name. Normal-tier creatures, no matter how powerful, can only show their faction and rank. Players, on the other hand, will only be able to display their codename above their heads after obtaining the Elite Template.

A strong man in the navy with the rank of captain, his strength is only one step away from the elite rank. Even, because he belongs to the comic side of the plot character, his strength is stronger than that of many warriors on other maps. Because of the different world civilization settings, even if it is a creature of the same level and template, the strength will be very different.

Different game maps, due to the world background, the requirements for advanced and higher templates are different. And in the One Piece world, the easiest way for the Navy to be promoted to a higher template should be the promotion of military ranks. It seems that the rank of the elite navy should be sergeant, which is commonly known as the military cao.

Qiao Mai doesn't know how the player's template should be promoted for the time being, and he has only been given the task of collecting elite seals in the bubble world. Moreover, because of his talent, Qiao Mai collected enough of the 9 elite seals he needed early. He killed the elite-level monsters behind him, and he didn't explode again. Obviously, the maximum number of Elite Seals a player can obtain is 9.

It seems that it is not enough to collect 9 Elite Seals, there are some other conditions that must be met in order to trigger the quest of the Advanced Elite Template. Qiao Mai would not be delusional that just a few elite seals could be successfully promoted to the elite template. The discipline of the system is not good enough to get to that point.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Qiao Mai's mind was full of thoughts, and he analyzed and understood a lot of doubts.

How do you get promoted to the elite template?