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Chapter 289 - 243 Not One Day? How Has a Year Passed!

Chapter 289: Chapter 243 Not One Day? How Has a Year Passed!

"Ah—! Finally back!"

A figure appeared in front of Flying Dragon Lake in Star Dragon City, with red long hair, peculiar attire, and a bunch of trinkets all over him, making him look very odd.

Before logging off, the Undead were grinding dragons, so upon logging back in, he found himself here again. Coincidentally, many Undead had chosen to log off around this area.

Streaks of white light flashed by, and one Undead after another appeared, immediately turning the once-quiet lake into a bustling scene.

"Wait, what place is this?" Someone noticed something was amiss.

They remembered that yesterday there was only a very rudely styled lake here, hastily constructed for cooling down the Flying Dragons. But what appeared before their eyes now seemed a bit more refined.

First of all, the lake had been re-landscaped, and there were quite a few new small buildings around it, complete with benches and pavilions.

The edges of the lake were now lined with stone brick railings, and more obviously, the size of the lake had been expanded several times over.

Not only that, there were small boats on the water, and a stone bridge had been built in the distance.

"It must be that they’ve updated the new architectural models," came a voice from nearby, another Undead who had logged on.

"Damn, how did my level get rolled back?"

Following this exclamation, other Undead also abruptly woke up to reality, and then wailing spread through the air.

The Undead who had been forcefully keeping their levels at 11 by drinking Magic Potions to gain Transcendent power discovered upon logging in that their levels had dropped from 11, which they had before they logged off the day before.

"Didn’t they say it wasn’t going to be an update that wipes progress?"

"Indeed, they didn’t wipe progress, look, our equipment is still here. Maybe they fixed a bug that prevented us from exploiting level-ups?"

Not being able to exploit level-ups wasn’t much of a problem since the level cap had been raised to 20. But the Officials’ action was very annoying to them. Buying Magic Potions still required spending points, which was an infuriating waste of resources.

"Never mind that, let’s level up quickly."

After the level cap was raised, the Undead were eager to increase their strength and see the view from higher up.

"Hold on, is this Star Dragon City?"

More and more Undead began to notice subtle changes. The overall architectural style of Star Dragon City hadn’t changed much, but many places had become more refined.

The real difference seemed to be that before, the city was just a game Main City built for show, with many areas having items placed just because there was supposed to be something there. But now, the entire city was filled with traces of life everywhere.

They could see the tracks left on the ground by carriages running back and forth, and they could tell the difference between the sunlit side of a wall and the shaded side.

Details were everywhere.

"How much work did this take?"

It felt as if during the one day they were logged off, a long time had passed here.

It seemed indeed a long time had passed, because on their way they hardly saw any NPCs.

The absence of Flying Dragons within the city was logical.

The Banshee’s pool in the square was also closed. The Undead, having logged in, only wanted to rush their levels and weren’t very interested in small games, so they didn’t mind.

But when the Undead rushed to the Magic Potion Shop, they found its doors were shut.

It wasn’t just the Magic Potion Shop; the Blacksmith Shop, Tailor Shop, Fireworks Shop, and many more were all tightly closed.

"What’s going on? Haven’t the NPCs started their shifts yet?" someone wondered.

"Shall we go check the tavern?"

"Let’s go!"

A throng of people swarmed towards the tavern. Before putting on their gaming helmets, they thought that with their superior intelligence as players, they were definitely going to outsmart the NPCs. But they didn’t expect that once they logged in, the shops would all be closed.

When they looked at the tavern, which had been expanded several times over, they were still not quite able to react, as the changes to Star Dragon City were indeed too great.

The interior of the tavern sounded very lively.

When they pushed open the door, they indeed saw those NPCs who had left their own shops.

The blacksmith, pharmacist, poster girl, and so on, some with familiar faces, others looking completely unfamiliar.

"NPCs really have become self-aware!" someone couldn’t help but exclaim.

Someone immediately nodded in agreement, "Yeah, this game update seems pretty substantial."

"Ahem," the soldiers who were drinking looked at the strangers with familiar faces that rushed in; they were bewildered until someone blurted out, "The Undead, the Undead have returned!"

The Undead have returned!

The news spread like a gust of wind to every corner of the tavern, and then flew to every nook of Star Dragon City.

The Lord had emphasized more than once during this time that the long-lost Undead would return one day, and when they did, no information should be concealed, answer all questions, but don’t forget your duties either.

The establishment of the entire Star Dragon City, and the jobs of these NPCs, were originally for the service of the Undead.

The shops reopened.

An Undead approached an NPC: "How has it been going lately?"

"Not too bad," the NPC smiled.

The Undead immediately sensed the estrangement in the NPC’s tone; he remembered that he and this NPC should be fairly familiar friends.

Had really a long time passed?

Unable to hold back, the Undead asked, "How long have we been gone?"

"Over a year."

"What, that long!"

Wasn’t it just updated for one day, why then had more than a year passed in the game? Was there some special plot during this time, or was there another reason?

The Undead didn’t keep things to themselves; they always spoke plainly to the NPCs.

"Is something big about to happen?" the Undead inquired. "Has the Lord given any special orders?"

"Shouldn’t be," the NPC pondered for a while before continuing, "definitely not."

Lately, life had been very peaceful; nothing significant had happened, and it had been a while since the Lord had waged a war.

These were good times, aside from the Great Knight squads periodically being sent out to eliminate Calamity, life was peaceful.

"Is that so?" the Undead were skeptical.

...

"Why did it have to be now that you logged on?"

Lind tugged on the reins of his horse, and the Black Fire brothers, who served as his personal bodyguards, immediately stopped as well.

They were very afraid of dying, but sometimes Lind felt they weren’t following him, but the "Unclean Holy Grail of Dark Flame."

As a human, Lind was absolutely certain he was alive, not just a bunch of data.

The Undead took one day to update, yet a year had passed in this world. The reason for this seemed to boil down to two possibilities: first, "The Officials’ were lacking in capability, intending to expand the number of Undead from 3000 to 12000, which required a great deal of energy, hence the need for over a year to adjust.

The second was that this period of time fit perfectly with "The Officials’" plan.

Though these were but two speculations, they implied two entirely different states: the first suggested that "The Officials’" might was weak, capable only of completing updates with an accumulation of time; the second indicated that "The Officials’" were terrifying, with a vision that could traverse time, bringing the Undead here.

Of course, neither was important to Lind because he had more pressing matters at hand.

The number of beta testers had expanded to a total of 12,000, which meant that a huge number of newbie Undead would appear in various Newbie Villages.

The Undead now had two choices: one was to choose the Old Nobility represented by the forsaken Lind, and the other was the New Nobility in line with the development of the times.

So, Lind had to act quickly, to compete for the Undead!

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