Chapter 726: Chapter 689: Public Map (Freedom)
As Super Tomato started gathering people for free explosives, tropolis was bustling with activity as well.
Compared to the players on Dinosaur Island who were waiting in advance and were wiped out due to the grand debut of the Molten Mountain Dragon, the situation of the players in tropolis was much better.
Knowing that their opponent was a Fire Dragon, they naturally wouldn’t gather in a small area, getting swept away in one fell swoop.
Especially when midnight arrived, the hundred-ters-long Fire Dragon with red scales broke through the clouds. The soft clouds quickly turned into large patches of burning clouds, and the entire sky seed to be engulfed in flas.
This Fire Dragon roared as it flew over the skies of tropolis, and in a blink of an eye, the temperature soared, and strong winds surged!
An imposing and cold aura overwheld them!
However, the Fire Dragon did not land imdiately. All players in the tropolis Public Map received a pop-up with an option:
[Public Map (Free) has been activated, do you want to join?]
[Yes/No]
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Although Lincoln really wanted to give everyone an imrsive Fire Dragon invasion experience, the [Public Map] had always been a safe zone, with many casual players who had no interest in combat.
These casual players ca to tropolis purely for sightseeing.
They logged into tropolis to stroll around, make friends, drink coffee, watch movies, and relax after a day of work.
By now, tropolis had a wealth of leisure and entertainnt venues, such as karaoke, dancing, sports, amusent parks, playing cards, board gas, and escape rooms. All common forms of reality entertainnt were brought into the virtual world by the operation team.
Since Cloud Dream had acquired a large number of well-known IPs, countless comics, books, and movies were added.
Even so partnered brands would hold press conferences here and showcase their latest products.
Every day in tropolis was bustling.
By now, the number of casual players in tropolis had surpassed the number of players in the ga Assassins’ Alliance itself. Lincoln couldn’t ignore their needs.
For these people, having a Fire Dragon suddenly drop from the sky and cause destruction, spewing fire everywhere, and stomping themselves and their friends to death was absolutely not an interesting experience.
So Lincoln created a “mirrored map” and officially launched it during this New Year’s event.
This mirror was almost identical to the current [Public Map], also connecting three cities, and covering almost everything. The only difference was that in this mirror, players’ battles were not restricted.
In other words, they created a rival [Public Map (Free)] in addition to the [Public Map (Peace)].
— This is not an irony, “Free” is just an abbreviation for “freely and open fire.”
By doing this, the power to choose was given back to the players themselves.
Those who like big battles and lively atmospheres can freely cause chaos in the free map.
Those who prefer peace and quiet can stay on the peaceful map, continue doing their usual activities, undisturbed.
Everyone was happy.
Players who had been waiting for the event to start, of course, entered the free map first.
As soon as they entered the free map, they found that all the equipnt they had prepared in the ga world had appeared on them.
At this stage of developnt of Assassins’ Alliance, using pistols with single-shot [Curved Shot] to reach its full potential is no longer common.
Nowadays, among the players participating in the event, it’s rare to find one out of a hundred using a pistol.
Only those who had bought the console not long ago and just started playing Assassins’ Alliance would use pistols.
The weakest weapon carried by veteran players was an automatic rifle!
Light machine guns, heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, RPGs, armored vehicles, they had them all!
Though high-powered weapons were scarce and difficult to obtain in tropolis, it didn’t matter for these veteran players.
Videos of 5-player teams attacking the tropolitan Police Departnt and escaping unscathed had appeared several tis.
tropolis News had reported that to counter increasingly powerful “bandits,” the tropolitan Police Departnt’s armory had been upgraded three tis, and a fourth upgrade was being sought.
Pistols were about to be phased out by the tropolis Police…
At this, players were eager to see how it would unfold.
After all, if they didn’t level up, how could we?
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As the saying goes, when one is ard to the teeth, killing intent arises; brandishing these weapons, they naturally looked up imdiately to find the Fire Dragon.
And the Fire Dragon did not linger in the air, diving down towards the ground!
The deafening roar echoed over the tropolis, the scales on the Fire Dragon’s neck emitting a bright crimson-yellow glow. Its mouth wide open, a flash of firelight sparkled, and the next mont, a wild breath of Dragon Breath gushed out!
The intense dragon fla poured down along the main street!
The players gathered here faced a calamity as they were engulfed by the Dragon Breath. Whole teams faced destruction in an instant.
Confronted with this head-on attack, [Assassin Bloodline] automatically activated, and their senses were imdiately enhanced to an exaggerated level. The whole world seed to slow down, their eyes seemingly turning into ultra-high-speed caras, capturing a unique landscape—
The Fire Dragon’s flying speed slowed down instantly. It elegantly and slowly flapped its wings, soaring only 10 ters above the street. The erupting dragon fla pouring from its mouth turned into a silently flowing river of fire.
Farther down the street, the entire street was already subrged in this river of flas, inch by inch rolling towards the players. The speed was slow, but there was no escape.
They seed to watch the blazing fire cover them, ignite their clothes, and engulf their bodies.
The scorching heat even caused bullets to explode.
During this extre sensory acceleration, bullets in the magazine detonated one after another, with muffled explosions and the crisp sound of tal colliding echoing incessantly.
Quite a few players were killed by their own bullets.
At the sa ti, players carrying hand grenades on their chests and waists experienced an exciting scene of close-up hand grenade explosions and flying debris.
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However, regardless of the scenes they witnessed, their fate was the sa-
Death.
The only difference was whether they were burnt to death, smashed to death, shot dead, or blasted dead.
With a huge amount of dragon fla, the 400-ter-long street was virtually washed clean. Everything on the street lted into clumps of lted tal in the dragon fla, and there was no way for players to evade.
But [Assassin Bloodline] was not aningless.
Although it was still an inevitable death, at least it gave them a chance to counterattack before they died!
Under sensory acceleration, any movent was much more challenging than usual, but it was still easy to lift the gun’s muzzle, aim, and pull the trigger.
Fearless players abandoned the idea of escape and aid their guns at the Fire Dragon.
Bullets sped straight towards the target, and experienced players could even calculate the lead, shooting the bullets directly at the Fire Dragon’s head!
But the scales on the dragon’s head were incredibly tough!
Ordinary bullets were simply bounced off by the scales, only generating a few sparks. Piercing bullets made of steel cores shattered upon hitting the layer of scales.
Only heavy machine gun bullets could break the scales.
But [Assassin Bloodline]’s sensory acceleration effect wasn’t made for cumberso heavy machine guns—under sensory acceleration, it was virtually impossible to aim with a heavy machine gun.
At present, the large-caliber bullets hitting the Fire Dragon were mostly from players crazily shooting from a distance after setting up their guns.
The result was that the Fire Dragon’s wave of Dragon Breath wiped out 187 players in one swoop.
While the damage it sustained was almost nil!
On a rooftop a street away, Yi and Yelang put down their telescopes, exchanged glances, and saw the surprise in each other’s eyes.
“Is this a fucking fighter jet?” Yelang was speechless.
“Bullshit!” Yi imdiately retorted, “Have you ever seen a fighter jet over a hundred ters long?! Moreover, with such defense, it flew through the hail of bullets unhard, which fighter jet can be so sturdy?!”
Yelang lowered his head to look at the anti-equipnt sniper rifle in his hand and doubted his life for a mont, “So can this thing break through its defense?”
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