novelraw Chapter 414: The Most Soul-Stirring Reward, Soaring to the Heavens in One Step!
Chapter 414: The Most Soul-Stirring Reward, Soaring to the Heavens in One Step!
The most shocking reward, reaching the heavens in one step!
[This is the first time ranking rewards are being distributed, all players please look forward to it.]
[Special congratulations, the world first place reward has the possibility of reaching the heavens in one step!]
Lu Ce: ?
Wait, is the game suddenly being this nice to me?
After struggling through dungeons for so long, constantly being targeted by the game while fighting desperately, now there's actually such good fortune?
"How is this possible?"
Lu Ce instinctively asked this question, but quickly realized that the last two sentences he heard weren't just directed at him.
They were public information broadcast to all players!
Opening the regular reward summary, he looked at the reward list and found this time's rewards were unusually strange.Apart from the standard items like potions, Exit Coins, and one unit of Dimensional Backpack space, there were actually no other items!
Oh right, there was also a Despair Token!
Pleasure, Life, Despair, Lust - he now had four tokens, though he still didn't know what they were for.
But things like the weapon draws, sequence item draws, and similar rewards that were usually available were all missing this time!
Considering this was his first time directly confronting that level of existence, it was surprising everything was gone, leaving only two things.
One was the sequence item upgrade, which had just upgraded his Seven Deadly Sins Heart to S-rank.
The other was the [Peak Rankings First Place Reward]!
"It seems this thing should offer quite substantial benefits."
Lu Ce sighed with emotion, feeling slightly expectant, thinking it would be great if he could get another Broken Divine Weapon that matched his mask.
From what he currently knew, among all players worldwide, he should be the only one who possessed a Broken Divine Weapon.
Rare goods command high prices.
Opening the public interface, he could see that this ranking reward announcement was indeed sent to everyone.
[: First place reaching the heavens in one step? I just checked, the current rankings haven't been updated yet, is it still "Sin"?]
[: Not sure, didn't they say he and Perfect Life were in the same game? Probably between those two then?]
[: What does reaching the heavens in one step mean? I feel like "Sin's" current strength is already way beyond normal standards!]
Right as everyone was discussing, Perfect Life actually spoke up voluntarily in the public chat area:
[Perfect Life: First place is him, not me.]
[Perfect Life: I'm completely convinced this time, we'll fight again next time, looking forward to his reward.]
As he spoke, he even @mentioned Lu Ce.
The game's chat channel immediately exploded, with everyone discussing why the previous game had suddenly cut off at the final moment.
Questions about what happened in the end, what Divine Messengers were, came flying in like snowflakes.
Lu Ce was slightly surprised that Perfect Life had directly addressed him, even saying strange things like being completely convinced.
Of course, he didn't choose to respond - he never had that habit. After scanning a few messages, he closed the chat channel.
After this game ended, people's discussions seemed more enthusiastic and frequent compared to before.
Previously when games ended, they just ended.
Why was this?
.......
"Because the competition between players has been completely laid bare, and it will only intensify from here."
Underground, in the Dragon Group Council of Elders, looking at a set of data before them, numerous elders were discussing various issues.
That was the number of participating players and completing players from this game session.
The number of participating players had increased because the chosen were increasing every day. Following this pattern, it was only a matter of time before everyone could become chosen.
However, the number of players who completed this game session had actually decreased!
With this inverse relationship, the ratio between participants and completers showed a significant drop!
Regarding this very abnormal situation, the Grand Elder offered the above explanation.
"How many dungeons in this game session were player versus player type?"
Someone asked the secretary at the door.
"Reporting Elder, there are too many global games, the Dragon Group hasn't completely organized everything yet."
"But from what we've seen so far, all games are player versus player type!"
"Although the game's forces are still quite strong, situations where players cooperate against game NPCs no longer exist."
Hearing this, the Grand Elder nodded - exactly as expected.
"That's how it is, remember what we experienced before?"
"Back when we first learned we could enter the secret realms, meaning the games, participants worldwide had an unspoken understanding, thinking that in that world without politics and borders, everyone should help each other as much as possible."
"But as conflicts intensified within game missions, everyone realized mutual assistance was impossible, and more often we had to kill each other."
"Only this time, things have become more naked and bloody, with the direct Game 2.0 update clearly indicating player versus player combat, then giving rewards and privileges to top-ranked players as bait..."
The Grand Elder's expression was very grim - in this unsolvable situation, they had no room for negotiation.
The rules were set by "God," essentially "screening" something through humans killing each other.
But could you choose not to participate? Could you deliberately go easy on your opponents after joining?
It was completely a deadlock!
"I just want to know, what exactly is that so-called first place reward of reaching the heavens in one step?"
"That will be the most tempting treat dangled before everyone's eyes... probably a poisoned treat too."
......
With everyone's intense discussions, current circumstances were no longer something humans could control.
They could only wait for the game's results, wait for that final "reward."
And the game ultimately didn't make everyone wait too long.
[Ding ding ding, the exciting moment has arrived, our game's peak rankings have been organized.]
As these words appeared, the latest Peak Rankings appeared on everyone's game interface.
Second place - Perfect Life!
First place - Sin!
Ultimately, the ranking between these two hadn't changed.
Although the most forbidden part of the previous game had been covered up by the game system, clearly, "Sin" had won.
What puzzled everyone slightly was why Perfect Life still achieved all perfect clearances?
These weren't matters the game needed to concern itself with. After revealing the Peak Rankings, it continued with its announcements.
[Very well, next is the ranking reward segment.]
[First, the reward content for rankings between top ten thousand and top one thousand.]
[One Epic weapon draw ticket, random physical enhancement draw.]