My Players Are So Fierce

Although Murphy complained that old Edward wasn’t being chivalrous by challenging someone so much younger as an ancient being, he still accepted all the gifts sent.

After all, the protective gear handmade by the continent’s top leatherworker was not just practical.

Simply wearing it was like carrying a non-depreciating outstanding fortune. If one day the little players messed up and Murphy had to flee with Tris carrying only their valuables, this set of leather armor alone could fetch a high price anywhere.

Its function was roughly equivalent to the Rolex on a big brother’s wrist – showing off normally, but also convertible to cash when needed.

Of course, Murphy was just grumbling inwardly. After returning to his office, he quickly changed into this dark red protective gear and quite narcissistically formed a mirror with spirit energy to admire himself.

Old Edward’s craftsmanship was impeccable.

The whole set of armor fit Murphy’s body perfectly. The material was soft yet tough, feeling weightless when worn and not hindering movement at all.

Although the lack of a helmet was somewhat disappointing, considering the excellent Quality of this item and that a helmet would hide Murphy’s handsome face, it wasn’t really an issue that couldn’t be overlooked.

He placed his finger on the armed belt fastened at his waist, and the information label for the entire set of protective gear popped up before his eyes:

Quality: Masterwork – 【Masterpiece】 Commander

Traits: Extreme Durability – Extreme Physical Defense – Enhanced Spirit Absorption – Enhanced Stamina Boost – Tough as Dragon Scales – Light as a Feather

Special Effect:

1. Lion’s Hide:

This armor is made from the hide of the Greenleaf flying lion. Under the perfect craftsmanship of the master leatherworker, it retains the toughness and softness of the flying lion’s leather, providing the wearer with the best experience while also imbuing the power of the legendary Greenleaf flying lion as the armor’s inherent enhancement.

This protective gear will provide the wearer with an additional 10 points of stamina, increase movement speed by 20%, expand perception, and grant a rapid life value recovery Special Effect.

This effect activates when three or more pieces of this protective gear are worn.

2. Midnight Grace:

This armor was crafted using a unique technique, making it more suitable for vampires’ rapid movements at midnight and granting silent yet deadly steps.

This protective gear will enhance the wearer’s 【Night’s Blessing】 effects by one-fifth of the original effect and put the wearer into a 【Advanced Stealth】 stance when moving at night.

This effect activates when five or more pieces of this protective gear are worn and the wearer is a vampire.

Usage Requirements: This protective gear is crafted by a master leatherworker using various spirit energy tanning techniques. The wearer must reach a certain level of personal strength to perfectly utilize the effects of this protective gear.

Wearing requirements: Agility ≥ 14, Perception ≥ 16.

Crafter: 【Wolfsbane Grand Duke】 Edward Spencer Gongreau

Item Description:

【Edward had no intention of gifting his perfect masterpiece to his enemy, so he chose the worst of his newly made sets of armor as a gift for the young vampire lord.

Of course, this ‘worst’ is based on the master’s critical standards. For others, this is undoubtedly a true work of art.】

“I must say thank you, even though you already view me as an unsettling threat and are ready to stab me hard when necessary.

But isn’t this just the daily life of vampires?

I’m not surprised at all.”

Murphy snorted, dispersing the spirit energy mirror before his eyes, then grasped the wolf vulture sword cane placed on the table. At this moment, he felt as if he had become a Wolfsbane spearhead.

After all, old Edward’s armor style followed his aesthetic, having less artistic sense but more practicality and sense of power compared to the Blood Vulture Clan’s family protective gear.

Murphy didn’t dislike this style.

Anyway, this was just an inner armor. He could wear Salrokdar’s swordsman armor over it, and others wouldn’t notice anything unusual.

“But I should start looking for professionals in various fields for the Blood Vulture Clan from now on. We can’t always rely on other people’s things. My family should have its own super powerful armor and protective gear made by our own people as a symbol of the blood vultures.

Lady Aqua is the family’s designated master tailor, although she doesn’t seem to intend to become a vampire, but as a player she’ll always be happy to serve the family.

Those two forgers’ skills are slightly inferior, but they’re also growing.”

Murphy sat in his chair, stroking his chin and thinking carefully, feeling that he still needed to lean towards craftsmen when selecting the next batch of “victims”.

Driven by this train of thought, Murphy entered the forum, unsurprisingly finding his “assistant Xiao Cui” lurking in the players’ group chat listening to them chat.

“Uh”

Murphy rubbed his nose, suddenly remembering that when saying goodbye to Tris earlier, his Grand Duchess had been grinning stupidly while holding the Computation Bead. Thinking about it now, she must have been amused by the various jokes the little players were telling in the group.

Speaking of which, would this weird hobby of lurking all day give Tris another character tag of 【Internet Addict Auntie】?

That would be terrible if it happened.

She’s already a hopeless drunkard and a Proficient slacker. With another negative BUFF, this guy would probably sprint down the path of becoming a complete shut-in.

Murphy shook his head, throwing this scary imagination out of his mind, then following the plan sent an email to a certain tester’s mailbox as administrator Alpha.

A few minutes later, a note from a private chat window startled Murphy from his group chat lurking state.

He opened the window. The player chatting with him had the ID “Honorary Knight Typal”, who was currently the most enthusiastic role-player among the little players.

Of course, even the most hardcore RP would pretend to be a normal person in daily life, so Typal replied using very ordinary sentences like other normal people:

Honorary Knight Typal: 【Brother? What did you mean earlier when you said you could provide us with a ‘special approval channel’? Is this a way to get in through the back door?】

Alpha: 【Haha, don’t use such descriptions that could cause misunderstandings. It’s just that the development team’s next phase of functional testing targets administrative professions and the yet-to-be-released ‘stronghold’ gameplay. But given the current action state of the testers, the development team estimates they would have difficulty handling this part of the testing work.

Therefore, our testing group has been given the authority to specially recruit a batch of ‘special players’ most suitable for administrative and stronghold gameplay.

I think by now, you should understand what I mean.】

Honorary Knight Typal: 【So, you mean to recruit hardcore RP players like me on a large scale?

Wow, that’s great!

My friends send me many messages every day asking about my game progress in Transia. I’m not trying to flatter or boast, but the fact is, there’s probably no other game as suitable for us role-players as 《Reality Realm》 right now.

Just tell me how many warriors you need!

I’ll go recruit for you in the few taverns I frequent right away.】

Alpha: 【Sweat, I had only heard before, I didn’t expect you guys really call your social groups ‘taverns’.】

Honorary Knight Typal: 【Ahem, it’s to increase immersion, sorry for making you laugh. But what you mentioned earlier about the ‘stronghold’ gameplay.

Is it similar to fortress gameplay?】

Alpha: 【Yes, that’s an accurate description, but our game is slightly different in these settings. Because the stronghold gameplay will be added to the game in an update no later than next month, I can’t reveal too much to you now.

I can only tell you that once you, as an entire guild, gain management rights to a stronghold, it’s equivalent to you being able to ‘carve out territory and become a king’ in Transia.

In the stronghold you’re responsible for, you almost enjoy all the powers of a lord.

Except for having to swear allegiance to the Transia political system and complete certain plot tasks issued by the administrative office and the lord, you can do anything you want in your stronghold.

This is quite a bold attempt by the development team.

They’ve given you almost all the power they can give to players, but this is also a significant risk. To be honest, even the few programmers responsible for designing this feature in the development team can’t predict what terrible consequences might occur if a stronghold falls into the hands of players with bad intentions.

So, we must be extremely cautious when dealing with this feature.】

Honorary Knight Typal: 【Mm-hmm, I can understand. A mediocre lord is a fortunate thing for the people, but a lord without bottom line and with wild imagination is an absolute disaster.

I also understand your intention in choosing our group. For us who extremely pursue immersion and engagement, on such a vibrant and competitive land as Transia, we who seek perfect integration with the otherworld can restrain the desire to mess around in the game.

But to be honest, if we’re to be given such a significant responsibility, I must carefully examine my few taverns.

As far as I know, even in the ‘Torrent Knights’ where I’ve been for several years, there are many hidden ‘potential chaotic evil elements’.】

Alpha: 【No problem, you can recruit slowly. This is a long-term project. If you have results, you can send the list of personnel you’ve chosen to my email as candidates once a week.

No more than 30 people at a time.

In the coming period, the development team will release a certain number of invitation quotas every week. Let your good friends hurry to fill out the test applications.

Also, besides you, the candidate for the stronghold feature test is also Lumina, after all, she’s also an RP party.】

Honorary Knight Typal: 【Emmmm, by my standards, Miss Lumina Yanghen doesn’t count as a true RP party.

At most, she can only be considered a fanatical amateur enthusiast.

Of course, she’s fully qualified in matters related to elf culture.

Oh, by the way, brother, if we get our own stronghold territory in Transia, can we name it?

Please understand, this is of great significance to our group.】

Alpha: 【Of course you can, but Transia’s current scale is at most a principality, so you can’t use names that are too wild, cool, and awesome, like ‘Earth Defense Force Headquarters’ or something.】

Honorary Knight Typal: 【!!! I didn’t expect it, brother, you’re actually an old otaku, even knowing this. I just planned to name our first stronghold ‘Torrent Castle’ to boost the morale of my Torrent Knights. Ah, I must share this news with my knights immediately.

Wait for my good news, brother!】

The deep RP party said goodbye, Murphy shrugged, not ending this conversation but opening another private chat window:

Alpha: 【Brother Stick, how’s your recent campaign life in Transia?】

Onboard Joy Stick: 【Uh uh uh? Brother, you’re back from vacation? So fast? Didn’t your assistant Sister Cui say you’d be gone for several days? And where did you find this big sister?

She’s so interesting.

She said she was recruited into the development team and became one of the game background designers because she really, really likes vampire culture.

She even shared various background settings about the seven vampire clans with us last night.

Sigh, let me tell you, she’s so fun. Maybe because she’s been immersed in her own world for too long, her reactions always feel half a beat slow, and she’s quirky.

She claims to like vampire culture but doesn’t even know Dracula, making us educate her.】

Alpha: 【Sigh, what a family disgrace. I’m still on the beach in the Maldives. Aren’t I just worried that Xiao Cui, who’s covering for me, might cause trouble?

Let me tell you, don’t be fooled by her confused appearance. That girl is a seasoned prankster. She understands everything but pretends to be silly just to tease you guys. I’m almost dying of anger.】

Onboard Joy Stick: 【? I suddenly smell a sour stench that makes people uncomfortable. So, brother, are you and Sister Cui actually a couple?】

Alpha: 【Just pursuing, your Sister Cui has very high standards. Sigh, let’s not talk about this. Let’s discuss business. Are you interested in being a tester for a certain gameplay in the next phase?】

Onboard Joy Stick: 【Yes, yes! I’m young and strong, I can totally take on more testing tasks! Brother, thanks for thinking of me. Why don’t you give me an address and I’ll send you some local specialties?】

Alpha: 【Uh, you probably can’t send them over, and be serious. The content of this test is very difficult. The development team plans to unlock the ‘stronghold’ gameplay in next month’s update. They want players to integrate into Transia’s reconstruction process, so they’ve delegated a ‘quasi-territory system’ completely managed by players.

The attribution of life-related stronghold tests hasn’t been confirmed yet, but you were the first one I thought of for war-related stronghold tests.

I hope you can be prepared. If you accept this test task, you’ll need to trigger an exclusive quest from Lord Murphy after the update.

And then you’ll have to be stationed long-term on a battle line that will be established near Foul Swamp in southern Transia.

After the plot progresses to a certain node, you’ll be appointed as the commander of that battle line, fully responsible for the planning, establishment, and maintenance of the battle line.

The Transia Administrative Office will allocate sufficient manpower and resources to you.】

Onboard Joy Stick: 【Holy shit! Is it that awesome? I’m willing! But can I ask, in the development team’s plan, what scale do they want to build that battle line to?

Is there a specific reference, so I can prepare?】

Alpha: 【Emmmm, perhaps the Maginot Line?】

Onboard Joy Stick: 【. Are you kidding me?】

Alpha: 【Do I look like I’m joking? I think you old players should have more or less guessed the content of the main storyline’s second chapter through some details, as well as the relevant situation of that mysterious expansion pack we mentioned before.

I can only tell you that on the plot progression timeline preset by the development team, after this winter passes, the novice area where you are, that is, Transia, may face a rather terrifying, um, test?

The result of this test will directly determine whether other regions of the continent will be opened for you to play.

What I mean is that our game doesn’t have that gradual progression thing. After clearing the novice area, the entire world map will be fully open to you all.】

Onboard Joy Stick: 【F**k! You’ve already completed all the maps of the entire world? And all with the precision of Transia?

Do you all have ten hands each?】

Alpha: 【Uh, of course not! Otherwise, why would we wait several months to start the second chapter? Everyone is working overtime now, okay?

Anyway, that’s all I have to tell you.

Think about it.

If you’re really interested, then get ready. Don’t announce the news of this stronghold system externally yet. We need to confirm a selection mode, but its launch time will definitely not be later than the end of next month.

But I must tell you in advance, the pressure you’ll bear on this battle line in the future will definitely be very, very high.】

Onboard Joy Stick: 【No problem! Leave it to me. I’m not interested in simple things. I’ll hold a meeting with my brothers right away to announce this.

Well, it looks like my team needs to expand too.

Brother, when are we recruiting? I’ve already contacted a batch of retired peers. I’ve personally examined them, absolutely no problem!】

Alpha: 【Let them fill out applications, then report the list to me.】

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