Chapter 140

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Chapter 140: You Have No Item, You Have No Life

Unlike Ironfelt who seemed to feel bemused by his own work at first only to eventually achieve great enlightenment, the Players were all very obsessed with the ‘welfare’ that the God of Games bestowed with item strengthening.

 It was not how to understand, however, since there were ‘wallet warriors’ that exist here in the truest sense of the term. After believers became Players, they were all basically pulled up to equal statuses—therefore, only three aspects could provide a sense of pride and accomplishment: items, players levels and the clearing progress of the explorable dungeons, which were the outskirts of the Valley of the Tragic Dead and the Grey Fjord Port.

 The condition for the latter two was that everyone must be bored and had nothing else important to do, or it would be difficult for the Players to establish a clear difference.

 Moreover, EXP needed to level up progressively increases, and as exploring dungeons becomes even more difficult as the game moves to the later stage, the Players who started late would slowly catch up to the veterans.

 Therefore, a set of excellent and rare items became a passionate pursuit for most Players in the short term—and why the Black Hand was held with such disdain.

 And now, Xi Wei would use this opportunity to implement the item strengthening function, pushing the Players obsession for high-grade items to new heights.

 Still, unlike the online games back on Earth, ‘NPCs’ like Ironfelt could not receive every player at the same time. As such, there would be long queues in the Unnamed Town, the underground base in Lancaster and the strengthening house in the Frogmen Village as the Players all waited for their turn to strengthen their items.

 Naturally, there were those who attempted jump queue since most had been ordinary refugees whose average manners left a lot to be desired. However, after those perpetrators were slapped with yellow-card warnings such as [Assured Item strengthening failure debuff (24 Hours)] or [Account Ban (24 hours)], everyone immediately recognized the necessity of manners, hence tamely understanding their place.

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 “Hey, aren’t you Marni?” One particular Player could not help chatting up Marni Wilf, a legend amongst all Players when he found him queuing up in front of himself in front of Ironfelt’s strengthening house.

 “Oh, you know who I am?” Marni, who had been craning his head to look ahead to see when his turn would come asked in surprised.

 Could it be that his handsome face had spread amongst the God of Games’ believers that even the newbies knew him? Marni couldn’t resist thinking so while stroking his chin proudly.

 The Player then pointed over his head, and Marni’s smile promptly stiffened.

 Oh, right. Players could see another Player’s name…

 “You’ve been awesome lately!” The Player continued as if it was nobody’s business without noticing Marni’s stiff smile.

 “Ahahaha, it’s nothing to brag about.”

 Marni recovered and tried as hard as he could to control the proud look on his face.

 Still, all he did was connect a trade route from the Unnamed Town to Wickidor, kickstarting several operations in Lancaster to exchange lacking resources for the Unnamed Town (such as meat which the Players could not get from their monster farming), and repel the tsunami to protect the Frogmen Village four days ago!

 At that very thought, Marni puffed up his chest, feeling that the red title over his head that read ‘The Valiant Heroes Who Fought the Ocean’ had become much more vivid…

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