Chapter 437: Level 4 Gem Stone
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
"Nyehehehe! In your face, noobie tank! How does it feel to be trampled over! Hahaha! This is the payback for your bullying ways!" the little brat laughed like how an audience laughed at a clown.
Zhang Yang remained unfazed. Based on Han Ying Xue and everyone else’s progress, he had deduced that the Glory points found in chest varied from 1 points to 20 points! It was not completely random either. If the chest was found nearby an area with normal tiered monsters, it will produce Glory points ranging from 1 to 10 points. Most of them had not even spawned anyGlory points! On the other hand, if the chest was found in an area with elite monsters, the Glory points found inside would be between 11 points to 20 points. These types of chests would more likely spawn Glory points.
Since the start, his luck had not been that good, since he had only been able to find normal monsters. However, Zhang Yang had faith that his luck would turn for the better.
‘Server Announcement: Light flashes to all corners of the realm. Rainman has found an Ancient
Treasure Chest and obtained a powerful equipment: Star Dragon Boots!’
[Star Dragon Boots] (Violet-Platinum, Heavy Armor)
Defense: +80
Vitality: +806
Strength: +540
Dexterity: +230
<Level 3 Socket>
Level Requirement: 80
The server channel was filled with the announcement notification. The system notification had even posted the item properties, allowing every player in China to be able to read and check on the item.
Across the entire server, players from all around different cities got heated up, for the item tier was Violet-Platinum! The best and strongest equipment tier in the game, so far! Now that one player had obtained the item, everyone got fired up. For the item could be obtained from a chest, and not just from a boss!
From Zhang Yang’s perspective, he did not care about the item. He had bigger problems at hand. Just how big is this Realm of the Sacred Glory? All he had been able to see was the never-ending scenery of mountains and grassy plains. This event takes all players from all servers of the game! The numbers could easily reach 100 million, yet all Zhang Yang had encountered were monsters, and not a single player! Just how large did the developers make the map up to be?
Zhang Yang could not comprehend the sheer vastness of the map, and decided to go with the flow. After a certain number of chests, Zhang Yang finally managed to open one and score his first Glory point. The points did not require player to pick, open, or do practically anything at all.
As long as players opened the chest, the points would automatically be added to the poll and be displayed at the side of the player’s head’s up display user interface.
1 point…2 points…20…50…
As slow as Zhang Yang’s progress was, it was entirely controlled by the system random number generator system. There was really nothing Zhang Yang could do to boost the numbers. Based on Zhang Yang’s current equipment build, he had not needed to take any breaks and could go on forever in killing monsters and opening chests. Right now, to maximize the effort of earning more Glory points, Zhang Yang had placed the monster killing as his second priority and had set his main goal into finding more chests instead.
He rode the bear everywhere, and if there were no chests among the group of monsters he encountered, Zhang Yang would not stop and continued to run towards the next chest. If the monsters could not chase after him, Zhang Yang would not bother to turn around. The time allocated for him to be in this "realm" is limited. Even though the monster did give extra experience points, they wouldn’t matter if he could not earn enough Glory points in the first place.
After continuously collecting items from chests, Zhang Yang had finally filled up most of this inventory space. Although he had 190 slots in his inventory, most of the slots were filled up with many kinds of different potions and their different transmutation grades. In the end, Zhang Yang had to resort to discarding lower tiered items in order to make way for better items.
‘Ding! You have opened a Glory Treasure Chest!’
‘Ding! You have obtained Level 4 Dexterity Gemstone x1!’
‘Ding! You have obtained 16 Glory Points!’
Zhang Yang was stunned at the word [Level 4 Dexterity Gemstone] and quickly examined his inventory. There, sitting quietly at the corner of Zhang Yang’s saturated inventory, was the item.
Zhang Yang took it out and felt the glossy surface of the gemstone. Like other gemstones, it was extremely smooth on the surface, and fit just right in the palm of his hand.
[Level 4 Dexterity Gemstone] (Usable)
Use: Place this Gemstone in a Level 4 Socket or higher, to grant 50 Dexterity points to an equipment. Socketing has a 40% chance of failure.
Zhang Yang smiled happily. It was a jackpot. Gemstones that were level 3 and below could be bought from a Gemstone store. However, Level 4 Gemstones and higher could only be obtained from monsters, chests, or Hardcore Mode Dungeon Speed record reward. Still, if one had the wallet of Donald Trump, one could easily fuse Level 3 Gemstones into Level 4 Gemstones.
However, that percentage chance and money would only be burning a hole in pockets!
In most games, including ‘God’s Miracle’, players could invest a fortune and be able to "win" the game easily. Those who insisted in not spending any cash in the game would have to rely on talent and effort. Either money or effort could bring a player to victory, and if players had neither, gaming would be extremely tough for them. There were games that would give players a huge advantage for investing money, while other games had little to no benefits for cash players.
‘God’s Miracle’ was both pay-to- win, and play-to- win. It was balanced in both ways; put in enough effort, you can earn enough money in the game to re-invest in it again to earn more.
After that, Zhang Yang had opened more chests and had obtained a [Level 4 Vitality Gemstone], [Intelligence Gemstone], and [Spirit Gemstone]. None of them were in bulk. Zhang Yang had only managed to haul two counts of [Spirit Gemstone] and one count of the aforementioned Gemstones. Worst off, he had not obtained any [Strength Gemstones]! Since Vitality was considered to be the most universal attribute in all 5 major attributes, the [Level 4 Vitality Gemstone] granted a bonus 100 Vitality points, double that of others.
"Yo! Boss, how much is your current Glory points?" asked Endless Starlight out of the blue.
"129 points." Zhang Yang casually replied.
"D*mn! That’s a lot! You have more than I do!"
"Can’t help it. I’m handsome, that’s why!"
"Please! 129 points? That’s far from what I have!" the little brat interjected in the party chat. "I already have 153!’
"Haha! You’re saying that you’re beautiful?" said Zhang Yang.
"Nyehehehe! At least you have good eye sight!"
Without realizing it, Zhang Yang had already spent more than 2 hours in the realm. Only then,
Zhang Yang had spotted the first player in the map. The opponent was not a China player.
Instead, he had a tag behind his name saying: "North America".
Even though the other player was only Level 78, Zhang Yang had still jumped atop his mount and killed the poor player in a few hits. In the game, the enmity between players across the continent and server would forever be hostile. That was why, Zhang Yang would kill anything that did not bear a red flag, even if he was Level 78, or Level 1!
‘Ding! You have obtained 1 Honor Point!’
Zhang Yang obtained Honor points after killing the player. Honor points were collectible points that could be earned when a player kills another player of a different server. Points collected could be used to exchange items and equipment that would be bound to a player. It was another method if obtaining equipment if one could not kill a dungeon boss. Honor points would only be given if the player killed is from another region. Players from the same region, for example, China’s Emerald City and White Jade Castle cannot earn points by killing each other. Normally, players can earn 1 Honor points by killing NPCs, players equal or lower than the player’s level.
Players could earn more points by killing more important NPCs like army generals or Kings or a ruler from another kingdom. In this case, the King would grant up to 10,000 Honor points! The problem was, it is not easy to just jump into the vast army and target their king. Unlike chess, the Kings in the game were one of the strongest entities.
Slowly yet surely, Zhang Yang had gathered more Glory points and had reached above than 300 points. With no sense of security since the game did not provide a means to check one’s current position in the ranking list, the only way Zhang Yang could convince himself that he is in the ranking list was to open more and more chest. By the time the system was close to revealing the rank, Zhang Yang had the urge to ask his friends.
"Hey guys? How much points do you guys have?"
"421!"
"583!"
Everyone reported their collected points and to put in comparison, Han Ying Xue, the ever so
lucky lady had collected 682 points with Fatty Han at the lowest with only 398.
"Aww. Fatty bro. I don’t understand, why do you have such luck!"
"Nyahahaha. I’d say, remember to wash your hands every time you’re done with the loo!"
"Sadly, Fatty bro might be kicked out!"
Amid the jokes around, by the time the clock struck 12 noon, every player’s character was frozen in place.
‘Ding! The system is currently calculating the system rank. Please wait…’
‘Server announcement: Current number of players in Realm of the Sacred Glory: 687,349,832.
Players with Glory points of 400 and less will be eliminated from the Realm of the Sacred Glory.
Player elimination will start in 30 seconds. Please be ready.’
Without much delay, the system announced the result.
"ARGH! What a waste! I was only 2 points behind! 2 motherf*cking points!" cried Fatty Han disgruntledly. Cry as he may, the system ruthlessly kicked players out without a second thought.
After much discussion and inquiry, it was found out that almost 90% of Lone Desert Smoke guild members had been kicked out of the map.
The longer you spend inside the Realm of the Sacred Glory, the more benefits you could reap from it. It would serve as a great chance to improve the status of the guild. Yet, after finding out that 90% of the members of the guild had been kicked out, it would not help much, but only a tiny fraction of that.
Zhang Yang asked Snow Seeker and even Greensleeves Prince, and found that their guilds had suffered from similar losses. Both guilds had 90% of their guild members kicked out of the
Realm.
The second portal opened and the second round of the "Treasure Hunt" started. This time, many players who had not participated were first to arrive. Since they had not joined the first round, they had lost a great deal of time to find and gather Glory points. Unless they had the best of luck, they would not have much time to compensate the 12 hours lost from the previous round.
This round, Zhang Yang was extremely lucky. The Glory points that he had obtained from most of the chest were all 10 and above. He had even surpassed Han Ying Xue! Even though the real-time ranking list was hidden away from players, Zhang Yang had found out that he was the highest in the guild.
After the second round, the elimination condition was set to 1,000 Glory points and below. The number of players left to join the third round was only around 7,000,000, which was not even enough to fill one major city!
From the third round onwards, the ranking list was released to the players. At the same time, the system had made an announcement, eliminating 90% of all the players inside the realm. Those who were listed in the ranking list had to push themselves to the limit, to position their names at the top of the list, in order to prevent elimination. With the threat of elimination hanging over their necks, players who were listed lower in the list had to force themselves to run amok in panic to search for chests.
Zhang Yang had the experience. Now, instead of just blindly searching, he completely ignored
fighting the monsters until he could find another chest. If the monsters still chased after him, he would kill them all in one wave. With his battle mount and him combined strength, monsters stood no chance. Only strong tanks like One Sword Stroke and Endless Starlight might be able to follow his method.
After the third, fourth, and the fifth round of elimination, only 10 players, including Zhang Yang was left in the realm. The only player from Lone Desert Smoke to remain in the field was Zhang
Yang alone!
Initially, the little brat had a chance to enter the final 10, however, she had encountered a European player and had been in a fierce fight. They had spent more than 2 hours just to have a go at each other and in the end, both of them were eliminated.