Monsters Are Coming
Chapter 339 - 142: 70,000 Newbies, Chickens Pecking at Each Other_5

Chapter 339: Chapter 142: 70,000 Newbies, Chickens Pecking at Each Other_5

Among them were forty thousand human clan players, twenty thousand Tianyu clan players, and ten thousand Gills Fish Clan and Abyss Fish Clan players.

The Resurrection Square in the three major spaces randomly assigned the newbie players.

The majority of the players were sent to the newly opened Frosty Winter Snowfield space.

In observation, this group of newbie players quickly walked out of the Newbie Village space and began exploring the world, all shocked by the realistic scene before them.

Especially the newbie players whose initial login location was in the Colorful Mist Coast Space and Frosty Winter Snowfield Space.

In the white space, they couldn’t see the scene modeling and were still complaining about the Newbie Village being too simplistic.

But as soon as they left the Newbie Village space, they were immediately stunned by the scenery in front of them.

Toward the game Dark Land, nearly all players held very high expectations.

However, upon entering the game, they found that they had underestimated the superior technology of the Moon Eclipse Clan, as it was a virtual game indistinguishable from real-world physics.

The regional voice channel was flooded with the exclamations of newbie players.

The arrival of new players was supposed to be a moment for veteran players to show off their extraordinary power, but soon they realized something was off.

The forum was flooded with posts seeking to buy sacrificial power.

Especially the latest Tianyu clan players who had just entered the game; rather than experiencing the game’s content, they immediately rushed to buy sacrificial power.

This made many human pay-to-play veteran players quite unhappy.

Recently, the price of sacrificial power had already experienced a surge.

The reason was that the Arms Merchant Guild and the Alchemist Guild suddenly started buying sacrificial power in bulk at prices higher than the market rate on the forum.

This caused the cost of acquiring sacrificial power for many pay-to-play players to soar dramatically.

It also led to players who originally intended to sell sacrificial power becoming reluctant to act, choosing to wait and see, hoping the price might continue to rise for greater profit.

A new group of investment-oriented players even emerged in the game.

They bought sacrificial power from other players and hoarded it, waiting for prices to rise further, treating it as an investment product.

As it turns out, this group of players profited handsomely from several rounds of sacrificial power price increases.

Now, already scarce sacrificial power saw another surge due to the influx of new players, making pay-to-play players feel quite uncomfortable.

Unlike the Gills Fish Clan and Abyss Fish Clan, newbie players from the Tianyu Clan were originally pay-to-play players in other games.

After initially exploring and understanding the game’s quality, realizing this would be an irreplaceable virtual game and their "Main World" for decades, they immediately chose to invest early to accelerate their growth in the game.

This behavior also drew dissatisfaction from many veteran pay-to-play players.

However, many veteran players rejoiced in this, such as those from the Gills Fish Clan and Abyss Fish Clan, who experienced real-world hardship and solved issues through gaming.

In their eyes, the higher the price of sacrificial power, the better.

Qi Sheng had done an analysis; the 5,000 game slots given to the Gills Fish Clan and Abyss Fish Clan initially, had already produced real-world earnings accounting for 27.82% of the profit from selling seafood normally for these clans.

Given the current trend of rising sacrificial power prices, the 15,000 Gills Fish Clan and Abyss Fish Clan players in-game would eventually earn more than the profits from exporting seafood.

The issue of the Gills Fish and Abyss Fish clans struggling to sell their seafood and earn foreign exchange was no longer a concern.

For this recruitment of the Tianyu Clan, Qi Sheng valued their aerial combat capabilities to fill the gaps in the early stages.

As for later stages, players would all possess the ability of flying and escaping, making aerial combat a non-issue.

This recruitment was also an assessment, watching the Tianyu Clan players’ performance before considering future allocations of game slots.

If they disconnected priority recruitment in the future, Qi Sheng didn’t care how the Tianyu Clan players who couldn’t secure a slot felt.

The focus then shifted to the Frosty Winter Snowfield, observing the newbie players’ actions in the new scene.

Near the starting point in the Frosty Winter Snowfield, it was overcrowded, and throngs of newbie troops marched forward grandiosely, opening a sweeping mode.

They gnawed trees, fought snowball battles, ate snowballs, and screamed loudly... The newbie players, upon first entering the Frosty Winter Snowfield scene, were like energetic but ventless Teddies frolicking everywhere.

After data statistics, Qi Sheng discovered that among the Tianyu Clan players entering the Monster World, the Life Soul with the highest initial selection rate was the Scattered Arrow Spirit.

Upon entering the game, they mostly operated in their Main Form, spreading their wings to fly high and overlook the earth.

Before long, the army of players encountered hundreds of giant bears.

The battle broke out, and the Tianyu Clan players took to the skies, gathering Scattered Arrow Spirits for aerial shooting.

However, without the Life Soul Attribute support, the shooting that depleted Qi-Blood quickly made flying difficult for the Tianyu Clan players, causing them to fall from the sky and crash into the snow.

This was a common mistake among newbie players, especially those who preferred to skip understanding game mechanics and directly start exploring.

The Life Soul Attribute far surpasses the players’ real-world Main Form attributes.

Using the Main Form directly with Life Soul Characteristics could cause dizziness from spiritual power overexertion or weakness from Qi-Blood overconsumption.

In the initial battle upon entering the game, many players were slain by the giant bears.

Once they cleared the hundreds of giant bears, the frenzy army continued its sweep forward.

After clearing several more waves of giant bears, they encountered the main legion of the Frosty Winter Snowfield.

A group of peculiar lifeforms constructed of purple energy.

Seeing these monsters, the newbie players’ expressions were rather remarkable.

Especially when they saw the monsters stumble and fall suddenly while advancing, then shakily stand up again, they almost burst out laughing, and the regional voice channel was filled with hot discussions about this: