Chapter 318: Chapter 307: Bounty (1st Update) Chapter 318: Chapter 307: Bounty (1st Update) “Planar Pirate Battlefield Mission: Defend the Pirate City.”
Description: The Magic Thieves have allied with the Abyss organization and amassed a large army aiming to destroy the Pirate City. The Lady of Calamity herself leads the three major pirate groups in this defense battle. Holy Spirits! Display your power on the battlefield.”
Reward: 20 reputation with the Planar Pirate faction, Item: Plunder Net.”
The situation outside Pirate City was extrely chaotic—it wasn’t so much a battlefield for the players as a wild map for monster farming.
Thus, the players grouped together by guilds, and those who were without a guild either ford teams or went solo to farm the monsters that appeared on the Pirate Plain.
The majority of the Magic Thieves’ army consisted of Abyss Mutants, these mutants bore human appearances, but their levels varied greatly, ranging from level 30 to 50, all of normal monster standard.
Mo Shigui led the entire Dancing Nuclear Guild in breaking through the defense lines ford by the Abyss Mutants.
The mutants were so weak that nurous players lanted their conscience; Mo Shigui, being a Shield Warrior, could eliminate a level 50 Abyss Mutant with a single sword strike.
But killing these mutants didn’t offer much in the way of rewards. It was similar to killing trivial monsters in the wild maps of the Spirits’ ho world—it’s mostly just for leveling. The really good equipnt still ca from killing bosses and elite monsters in the wild charts.
Mo Shigui was now searching for elite monsters and bosses on Pirate Plain, specifically those Magic Thieves and indigenous dragons from Black Tide Island.
“Ye…boss, aren’t you scared?” Fuzzy Bunny suddenly ran up to Mo Shigui and asked.
“Scared of what?” Mo Shigui used his shield to push an Abyss Mutant diving towards him away, continuing to search for traces of Magic Thieves on the battlefield.
These mutants didn’t look particularly disgusting, so even resembling demons from people’s imaginations.
“Fureya, ever since Little Cloud found out about it, he’s been hesitant to explore new areas,” said Fuzzy Bunny, a comnt that could be heard throughout the entire guild via the voice channel, clearly aid at unsettling the whole guild.
“Well, enough chit-chat… found a Magic Thief, get ready to raid.”
Mo Shigui wasn’t affected by Fuzzy Bunny’s remark; he knew well what Fuzzy Bunny was referring to—it was the fact that Fureya would lose part of her mory if killed by Magic Thieves or native dragons on Black Tide Island.
When Mo Shigui first learned about this from his guild mbers, his initial reaction was… anger.
The reason for his anger was… his first impression was ‘Is the damn designer seriously planning to use Fureya to hold all the players hostage?’
To Mo Shigui, their potential death resulting in Fureya’s mory loss seed purely a routine ga chanic—a common type of death penalty in gas.
This feeling was unbearable, as uncomfortable as a once enjoyable ga becoming increasingly demanding and monetized by greedy designers, with an influx of balance-disrupting, expensive items.
So far, Saints had no ga store system, and it was very well-balanced, the gaplay and graphics vastly superior to virtually every other VR ga on the market.
Mo Shigui didn’t mind spending money in gas; he had been a big spender in Strife too, but the death penalty on Black Tide Island made him feel as though he was being toyed with by the designers.
“Coach Song, why don’t you think… it might really be those Magic Thieves capable of stealing Fureya’s mories?”
Silver, having heard Mo Shigui’s grumbles over the guild voice chat, directly called him out.
“The Magic Thieves are still monsters in the ga.”
Mo Shigui’s gaze shifted toward a Magic Thief elite trapped by the Dancing Nuclear Guild’s raid team on Pirate Plain.
“Magic Thief des, Level 57, Lord-tier creature, Health 3122311/3300000.”
Mo Shigui knew what Silver was hinting at… that was Fureya herself had told her the Magic Thieves wanted to plunder the Power of the Devouring God from her, which would trigger her amnesia.
And Mo Shigui was supposed to be angry at the actions of the Magic Thieves.
But to Mo Shigui’s logic… the Magic Thieves were monsters within Saints, wasn’t everything orchestrated by the ga’s ‘background planners’?
In Mo Shigui’s opinion, if he were really to vent Fureya’s mory loss as a death penalty, he should be confronting the ga’s designers, letting them know to stop exploiting players’ attachnt to Fureya.
The Magic Thieves were just clusters of data in the ga, accomplices of the cunning planners.
But… was it really so?
Mo Shigui knew what Silver had been implying all along, that the NPCs in Saints… at least most of them, had ‘self-awareness.’
This was not a surprise to Mo Shigui; his own Fureya had shown plenty of self-awareness, making it impossible for Mo Shigui to view her as rely a puppet any longer.
There were many such NPCs in Saints, like Queen i, and those living at the base, each possessing their own emotions.
All of this could be explained by artificial intelligence, as modern society’s AI had developed to such an extent that players were accustod to it, but it was still surprising that a ga character could also possess such a high level of intelligence.
So the key question was, could an NPC that players treated as re mob spawns also possess this kind of intelligence?
Mo Shigui couldn’t answer this question, but this Magic Thief nad des before him could provide an answer.
“Those foolish dinsional pirates actually brought you here? The newly born descendants of the Devouring God, we were just looking at not having enough Power of Devouring God… to complete our great purification.”
The Magic Thief des appeared as a young NPC with no signs of abyssal infection on him when he saw Mo Shigui leading an elite raid team from Dancing Nuclear Guild approaching him.
Suddenly, a pitch-black fla erupted in the Magic Thief’s hand, and he charged ferociously at Mo Shigui.
Raise shield to block, the raid group’s healers and buffers applied various enhancents to Mo Shigui… A typical instance boss battle process quickly unfolded.
But when des’ fist hit Mo Shigui’s shield, a cunning smile appeared on his face.
“Soone told us… you descendants of the Devouring God like to fight in groups, this ti we also have reinforcents,” As soon as des finished speaking, an ear-piercing roar of a dragon suddenly erupted behind him.
Wind-devouring Dragon!
Mo Shigui recognized at a glance the giant dragon soaring into the sky, a kind from Biland Island capable of controlling storms, its body as tough as steel.
The roar of the Wind-devouring Dragon was accompanied by a strong wind pressure, which, although not harmful, blew away the raid team’s formation behind Mo Shigui, completely disrupting their coordinated moves.
And Mo Shigui… was completely isolated!
Seizing the mont, des unleashed Extre Cold Power from his left hand, having stolen a skill from an Ice Master player in an instant.
The temperature beside Mo Shigui dropped rapidly, which was fatal for a Heavy Armor Warrior… one of his hands wielding the Longsword stabbed towards des, who was casting Extre Cold Magic.
But just as he stabbed, a sense of crisis surged over Mo Shigui.
The mont Mo Shigui swung his sword, two elite Magic Thieves appeared by his side, unleashing deadly attacks directly upon him.
And Mo Shigui had no ability to resist.
This was the trouble with wilderness map bosses! Not to ntion that this group of wilderness bosses also knew how to isolate players and break them down one by one!
In less than ten seconds, Mo Shigui’s health was depleted under the assault of the three elite Magic Thieves…
Everything before his eyes suddenly darkened, and when he opened his eyes again, Mo Shigui found himself turned into a tombstone standing on the battlefield.
The Magic Thief des then took the opportunity to stretch out his hand… grabbing sothing shiny floating above Mo Shigui’s tombstone.
“Got it! A woman’s mory? What kind of junk is this, shouldn’t it be the most important part of them?” des had hoped to get their holy weapons and equipnt, but he wasn’t discouraged… he began searching for his next prey on the battlefield.
But a pain akin to bone fracture suddenly erged on his wrist… accompanied by a high-pitched shout from a plush rabbit, “Hero never dies!” Under the enhancent of the Resurrection Technique, Mo Shigui instantly resurrected and imdiately grabbed the arm of the Magic Thief.
“What did you take from ?” Mo Shigui’s voice was filled with anger that was about to erupt.
In that mont, Mo Shigui realized that these Magic Thieves had their own consciousness and thoughts! Their goal was to steal Fureya’s mory, not just driven by programming to do so!
des did not respond to him, a smoke bomb went off in front of Mo Shigui, and the Magic Thief he had been holding suddenly turned into a scarecrow and vanished from sight.
“Guild Leader.” The raid team from Dancing Nuclear Guild managed to break away from the Wind-devouring Dragon and promptly reached Mo Shigui’s side.
Mo Shigui surveyed the chaotic battlefield, but could no longer find the figure of the Magic Thief des.
“Post a bounty on the Spirit Forum, a bounty for the whereabouts of the wilderness monster Magic Thief des, a thousand Gold Coins!” Mo Shigui said through the guild’s voice communication channel.
“Only a thousand Gold Coins, won’t you, Old Song, be a bit more generous?” Can Xin suddenly popped up and shouted.
However, as soon as Can Xin finished talking, he was swiftly killed by a Magic Thief who appeared from nowhere, and then the Magic Thief also disappeared.
“Where did they go? How can these wilderness bosses kill soone then run away! Did you see where he went?”
Can Xin, now a tombstone, frantically asked the mbers of Abyss Temple around him, but they all said they didn’t see where the Magic Thief who had killed their guild leader had gone.
“I’ll also post a bounty… damn… I don’t have that much money.” Can Xin said halfway, looking at the re hundred Gold Coins in his bag and suddenly lost his confidence.
Mo Shigui didn’t bother with Can Xin’s antics and continued to pursue the Magic Thieves on the battlefield.
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