Chapter 372: A Lord, A Deserter, A Wanted Criminal!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Brothers, activate your game panels! It unlocked a new function. It’s… It’s a live broadcast of the Promotion Battle for the Level 4 title holders—Ocean Commander!”
“Crap, these people are so awesome! I’ve only just reached Level 2 after all that hustling, and there are already so many people who have reached Level 4?”
“F*ck, I’ve only just built my ‘Benevolent Life Machine’, but these people have managed to get ten thousand points already? How outrageous!”
“80,000 people have reached 10 million points! This is abnormally strong of them!”
“Humans take up 55 spots in the top 100! It seems that we humans are still stronger!”
“This is a f*cking fight between godlike people! Say, are these 80,000 people all ghosts? Why can none of them be seen on the World Channel?”
It had been proven that, both on Earth and in the wasteland, the barriers between people that were brought about by the difference in information access were still too thick for ordinary people to break.
At 7.08 pm, after more than 95% of the Ocean Commanders had chosen to enter, and then passed the first level…
A new feature had finally popped up in everyone’s shelter core!
It was this new feature that made the survivors in the outside world who were still trying to promote their titles, explode.
From the release of the title to this point in time, only two days had passed.
These people who were part of the Ocean Commander Promotion Battle were dauntingly fast—they were able to achieve 10 million points worth of progress within such a short time, and still accomplish the tasks in between.
About 90% of the survivors were still in the midst of struggling to level up their titles from Level 2 to Level 3.
Despite not being able to visibly see their progress, the amount of progress they had made and the number of points they had accumulated made them gleeful.
With their progress speed, they thought that even if they were not among the frontrunners of humankind, they would at least be further ahead than most.
Unfortunately, in just two days, their illusions were mercilessly shattered!
There were already people at Level 4 who were advancing to Level 5!
Plus there were more than 80,000 of them!
Not to mention more than 100,000 people from the foreign races!
These numbers were like loud slaps on their faces, smacking every complacent person hard on their faces and knocking them dizzy.
With disbelief, they first tapped into the newly appeared promotion interface and watched this Level 4 Title Promotion Battle between the humans’ and foreign races’ elites.
After a delay of more than an hour, some changes had occurred on the leaderboard.
The one currently in first place was no longer the Gambling Monster Reed, who had previously dominated when Su Mo was watching the leaderboard. In its place was now a human with the ID Chu Xuan.
The current bottom of the leaderboard, which was the 100th place in terms of points, had 6.02 points.
Chu Xuan’s points were three times that of the last place’s, with a total of 18.29 points!
And behind his ID, an insignia had lit up…
Marine Defense Troop – Cohort 35 – Decurion.
Not knowing the meaning of these words, the players that swarmed in as well as the foreign races could only place their eyes on the person ranked below Chu Xuan.
What made the foreign races feel helpless was that the one currently in second place on the leaderboard was still a human, but with 18.12 points.
His ID was Great Emperor Wang Teng.
The name was arrogant, and likewise the insignia behind his name was even a little more imposing compared to Chu Xuan’s.
Marine Guards – Cohort 7 – Centurion!
“So is the Ocean Commander Promotion Battle a competition comparing their ability to lead the army in battle?”
With this doubt in their minds, they skipped over the first two ranks and looked at the third place on the leaderboard, who was the only person from the foreign races that made it to the top ten.
His ID had only one word—Snake.
However, he currently possessed 17.79 points, so no one dared to underestimate him.
As someone from the foreign races, he also received a special insignia that was different from the humans in the top two.
Ocean Combat Beast Troop – Cohort 3 – Decurion.
“The Ocean Commander Promotion Battle is a test of their ability to lead troops in battle. This is a bit outrageous!”
“Guards, Marine Defense Troops, Advance Troops, Combat Beast Troops, and the Logistics and Supply Squad. I feel like the categories are pretty thorough!”
“Why is Almighty Su not up there? Did he not get enough points this time? Or is he not on the leaderboard yet?”
“How is the live broadcast of the Battle still not open? Isn’t it much more interesting than the Disaster Resistance live broadcast?”
At nightfall, more and more people joined this live broadcast page. The comments screen of the live broadcast page started to become lively.
At this moment, they could not see the live broadcast streams, so they could only speculate on the rules of the Promotion Battle based on the information they obtained from the existing leaderboard.
Some guessed that it was the same as a role-playing game, where everyone received a military position and then competed to see who could climb to the rank of Commander first.
Some people guessed that it was the same as the game “Age of Empires”. The period of time that was not broadcasted live was used to develop and build.
When the live broadcast page was opened, they started to think that everyone had a cohort and that they were competing to reach the highest Commander Points.
Someone boldly guessed that all Ocean Commanders would become a part of the God of the Ocean’s troops, and help the God of the Ocean fight against the world and attack the New Continent.
Everyone had different speculations and opinions.
On the live broadcast page, where there was no restriction on speech, the comments screen refreshed at an amazing rate thanks to the 3.5 billion viewers.
While everyone was arguing, a new name suddenly appeared at the very bottom of the rankings!
Then, in less than five seconds, this name leapfrogged its way to number one with a terrifying momentum.
That was when all of them finally reacted.
The next second, the live broadcast page exploded!
“Crap, General Xing Daorong, Points: 403???”
“Deserter and Wanted Criminal, Wanted Rank: 2 stars? What position is this??”
“Isn’t this the Ocean Commander Promotion Battle? Someone became a deserter? That’s hella awesome!”
“As expected of an General. He just made this broadcast so much more entertaining!”
“F*ck, in a battle where the God of the Ocean’s title is upgraded, they still had the courage to do something as unexpectedly off-putting as that! He’s deliberately making a mess, isn’t he?”
“Awesome! His actions can only be described as ‘awesome’!”
On the rankings, where everyone had completely reasonable military positions, this deserter named General Xing Daorong that had suddenly appeared was definitely eye-catching and striking.
He was different from Chu Xuan, who had been pushed down into second place.
This Xing Daorong, who had appeared out of the blue like a shooting star, crushed everyone with his 403 points.
In an instant, the voices discussing the contents of the promotion of Level 4 title “Ocean Commander” were gone.
No one studied the rankings of the foreign races and humans.
Even some of the speeches discussing how to rack up more points disappeared.
Only Xing Daorong remained on the comments screen, and everyone’s mind was only filled with curiosity about Xing Daorong.
To everyone’s surprise, the General, who had reached number one with the momentum of a shooting star, was currently in huge trouble!
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“Chief, we have some good news!”
“The mines we planted earlier have killed all the Guardians of the Ocean scum that came to attack us!”
“Not only did they chase us all the way here, but now they want to sneak onto our island as well? They’re simply asking for death!”
Su Mo looked at his murloc subordinate, who was standing in the distance holding a knife about a meter long. He swayed as he ran due to the weight of his knife, and looked as inelegant and awkward as he could be.
Su Mo, who was sitting on a large rock, helplessly sighed.
Three days.
Ever since he tapped on the button that said “Breakthrough” and came here to this mysterious world, three days had passed.
Unlike what everyone initially thought, the players were not returned back to the glass cabinet to recuperate after completing the first level before starting the second level after that.
After the first level was completed, the second level began immediately. All the levels were closely interconnected.
If one did the first level wrong, then the difficulty of the second level would be increased.
Even if one finished the second level, these mistakes would snowball, and he would enter a vicious circle, leading to worse and worse results.
Su Mo, who was currently a deserter, happened to be in the middle of such a cycle.
“Sh*t, other people are so lucky! As soon as they entered, they received military positions and could lead an army. Why did I become a deserter instead?”
“What the hell, it’s not like I voluntarily fled!”
After scanning the leaderboard in the breakthrough interface, he noticed that his ID topped the list and that he was listed as an arrogant, wanted deserter.
The corners of Su Mo’s eyes twitched and he half stood up from the stone.
“Fish One, how are the casualties on our end?”
“Reporting to the Chief, we have no casualties! And we took all the equipment and supplies of the Cohort 40 Marine Army scum that came just now. We’re rich now!”
The murloc called Fish One was only about 1.2 meters tall, similar to the murlocs described in Western fantasy novels back on Earth. He could speak the human language, but his combat power was pathetically weak.
Although the big sword in his hand looked powerful, it was a standard weapon obtained by looting the God of the Ocean’s troops.
In this case, Su Mo had a hundred reasons to believe that the murloc would be cut by his own sword first before he could even attack the enemy!
“Good, if the scum of the God of the Ocean’s troops dare to come to the island, just give them a good beating!”
Su Mo pulled off a stiff smile. After calling Fish One over and going through some matters about what to do next, Su Mo took out a bottle of powder and handed it to him.
Looking at the naive murloc excited to return back to his duties, Su Mo also no longer rested. He put on the merman costume that slightly limited his movements and directly climbed down from the rock.
Su Mo slowly moved over toward the center of the island.
The entire island was small and only covered an area of about two square kilometers. As the island’s center was raised over its surroundings, Su Mo could look over the whole island easily when he slowly climbed up to the highest point at the center.
At this time, Su Mo did not have the heart to appreciate the white sandy beach and the blue waters in his field of vision.
He also did not pay attention to the murloc tribe (that only had 9 members) on the beach.
Standing on the highest point of the island, Su Mo gently knocked on the surface of the rock with the three-pointed two-edged sword in his hand.
In the wasteland, nothing would happen after he knocked on the rock.
However, in this mysterious realm where the battle was being held, a token, which looked plain and simple on the outside, suddenly emerged from the center of the rock, ignoring the material laws.
As Su Mo held the token in his hand, a properties panel naturally appeared within Su Mo’s vision.
[Ocean Commander: Su Mo (Rank: 1; Points: 403)]
[Commander Status: Lord of White Sand Island; Deserter; Wanted Criminal]
[Current level in progress: 3 (Free Lord development route)]
[Level contents:Guarding the territory, protecting your subordinates so that they successfully pass the first difficulty level (Completed)]
[Level Reward: Good-level Design Blueprint*1 (Upgraded. Do you want to claim it?)]
[In-level Reward: Elementary Territory Transformation Card*1 (Do you want to claim it?)]
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[Occupied Territory: White Sand Island]
[Territory Area: 2 square kilometers (Actual available area: 0.689 square kilometers)]
[Territory Specialties:Treasure Fish, Green Shrimp, Beet Coconut, Honey Pot Grapes (Good)]
[Territory Residents: 9 (Murlocs)]
[Territory Fame: Obscure (0)]
[Territory Development Potential:None]
[Territory Health: 6 points (lacking sustainable production of food crops; lacking effective armed forces; lacking defense facilities; lacking any means of intelligence gathering; lacking…)]
[Evaluation: Within the vast ocean, this is a place destined to only be a resting place for travelers..]
