Super Righteous Player
Chapter 959 - 17 Playing a Game within a Game

Chapter 959: Chapter 17 Playing a Game within a Game

Annan and Nigel shared the same destination.

After arriving at Noah’s Royal Capital, Annan summoned a team of players to follow Nigel.

This was partly for his protection and partly for surveillance.

Once Annan returned from Heath Tower of Black, he would take Nigel with him to meet with the Silver Baron. Of course... now that he was here, it was only proper to meet Kafney as well.

Nigel was well aware of this.

He didn’t know that it was the body of the "Charioteer," but he roughly guessed the significance of the matter and understood the level of incident he was involved in.

Therefore, Nigel didn’t resist Annan’s proposal for surveillance at all.

Instead, he treated the players with great courtesy... even respectfully.

"My safety is in your hands," he said politely and earnestly.

The wandering child nodded solemnly, "Leave it to us."

Xitan Pulan had finally learned the Divine Art "Dance Partner of Death’s Throat" and, not long ago, had pulled Miss Bofis out to become her dance partner. After mastering his core abilities, Xitan Pulan’s capabilities had improved considerably.

Meanwhile, Lin Yiyi and the sibling duo of Four Dark Devas had also become the first to reach the max level of the silver tier during the intense nightmare incursion.

But leveling up didn’t mean they immediately mastered the power of their new tier.

However, they were not arrogant at all. In fact, they were quite patient.

After reaching a certain threshold, they didn’t stop to rest or immediately look for ways to advance to gold tier... they calmed their hearts and began to deepen their accumulation.

—They were well aware of the "water content" in their levels.

Transcendents in this world typically purified a few highly reliable nightmares amidst arduous study and practice... but they purified nightmares at a high density, training for just a few minutes each day.

The most typical were those silver-tier wizards who almost maxed out their level but hadn’t yet filled their spell list.

Lin Yiyi was dedicated to grinding reputation with Azure Diamond Tower, saving money to buy various built-in spell gems.

She actually quite liked this—after all, mages in this world couldn’t reset their skills, and once a spell was added to the list, it couldn’t be removed. To truly start learning spells, one had to first clarify their thoughts... and once decided, there was no room for regret.

On the other hand, the more spells one used, the more proficient one became.

Therefore, it was only by quickly determining one’s spell set that one could begin formal training. Merely learning spell theories was like practicing shooting by watching videos.

However, it was different for the Azure Holy Guard.

With enough money, they could obtain one-time spell usage rights. They didn’t need to worry about their spell composition or train in spells. All they had to do was train their body and improve their ability to control the battlefield, knowing what item to use when.

It was like how players from soul-series games who transitioned to monster hunting hesitated to use consumables; players who played a lot of RPGs hesitated to use active items in MOBA games.

But Lin Yiyi herself was a monster hunter player. She had insights into using items and was never one to skimp on them.

Four Dark Devas, on the other hand, was focusing on researching various explosives.

He also discovered... that the explosives provided by abilities were types that could be "instantly created." He could completely use these materials, his magic power, and his bodily tissues to craft entirely new explosives.

And these consumables with special properties could be used by teammates—much safer than ordinary explosives. As long as Four Dark Devas didn’t activate them, there would be no problems even if they accidentally came in contact with sparks or were taken by enemies.

The child had finally mastered the "Sky Strike Technique."

"Air," which had no physical form or color, was the most difficult natural element to utilize. But it was also the most hidden and convenient ability.

Before mastering this power, the child would lose at least half of his strength unless he was in a field-like setting—with mountains, waters, and trees—reminiscent of a resort area.

But now that he mastered it, even in a city, he still had a very mature combat capability.

In this world, being at the silver tier was already considered a high level.

After all, Benjamin, who had been responsible for protecting Tan Juan, was only a Silver Baron—though he had waited at the maximum level of Silver for quite some time, he was still just a Silver.

Their team, consisting of four people and one ghost, could be said to have a fairly reasonable distribution of roles. They had a tank, a healer, a damage dealer, and outdoor survival skills; they weren’t lacking in breaching abilities and could engage in alley battles or assassinations.

Besides the Delicious Wind Goose and Defu’s assassination specialized team.

This was Annan’s strongest squad.

—Players regarded this Otherworld adventure as a game, while for Annan, these players were also a part of the game content.

The initial recruitment was like drawing cards; getting strong players was all down to luck.

Then, according to the players’ characteristics, developing different types and abilities—that was cultivation. While there were a few cases of failure, there were also exceptionally strong outcomes.

Annan would then provide excellent players with conditions for a quality class change, feed them different kinds of resources, allow the players to team up to compensate for weaknesses or specialize in strengths... and then send them on missions that their team compositions could complete smoothly.

—This could be considered a kind of strategy game.

...and it sounded quite similar to raising racehorse girls.

Their team, though it appeared to be at the Silver level... could easily defeat the initial version of Benjamin with their resurrection abilities and teamwork.

Keeping an eye on Nigel for a week with this team was definitely not a problem.

And if all else failed, they could always call for reinforcements...

Because of the tightening of resurrection permissions and the increase in players’ "game time," a new economic system had emerged among players.

That was the "resurrection permission" and "purification rights" purchased with Annan’s favorability points. In this world, this was legitimate hard currency—there was nothing harder than this.

You could only get it by completing special tasks for Annan, controlling the distribution to ensure it never flooded the market; even if you went into debt temporarily, you could always pay it back. With plenty of tasks available... although the profits might be less than directly exploring the greater world, this favorability was what players spent to "call on" each other.

After all, teleportation cost experience.

And different from the beginning... when players first left Frostwater Harbor, almost everyone stuck together.

They looked like a tour group traveling to a different area, afraid of getting lost if they strayed from the group, and unsure of what to do when acting alone.

But now, half a year later, players had formally integrated into this world.

They each had their own lives and had made friends who belonged to them. Offering to drop what they were doing to help out was no longer the initial kind of unpaid act of "joining in for a quest."

Now, although the number of players had multiplied several times, not many people would watch even when a nightmare was streamed live.

—Because they could easily find new nightmares to tackle.

At the start, players had to wait a long time after entering a nightmare due to the cooldown... and it was in their idle moments that they developed the habit of helping each other decipher puzzles. Now that there were many more players, that scene was no longer seen.

Instead, there were quite a few who took to editing clips of their lives or nightmares and turning them into videos...

Fortunately, back when players first entered this world, Annan had devised the method of "using his favorability points as in-game currency."

And because of this, players hadn’t scattered to the winds but maintained close contact.

It was probably like "help me beat a dungeon, and I’ll give you a potion of fantasy," a type of hard currency transaction. Besides that, it was the exchange of information on forums.

Lin Yiyi and her group looked at Annan’s Thirteen Fragrances and Husky combo with some envy. Such a mainstream quest could probably earn them favorability worth more than a dozen tedious errands—without a doubt, this favorability was also a part of their own strength.

Being powerful enough to call people over was certainly a strength!

But they didn’t say much, just smiled and greeted them before taking Nigel for a barbecue.

Annan, on the other hand, rented a carriage and took two young Wizards toward the Heath Tower of Black.

He himself couldn’t teleport—that was the most troublesome part.

However, the Black Tower wasn’t too far from the Royal Capital.

At 3:30 in the morning, they finally arrived at the Heath Tower of Black.

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