My Players Are So Fierce

“Holy crap, holy crap, these numbers!”

One of the little players, Medical Insurance Warrior Great Sion, was holding a cup of soda in his rental apartment, staring in disbelief at the video edit he had uploaded to a certain platform four hours ago.

This CG movie, which he named “Rise of Transia – Gnoll Apocalypse”, was only 30 minutes long, made from screen recordings contributed by him and his fellow players edited together into a short film.

Since he wasn’t a professional filmmaker and didn’t have a team operation, the short film looked crude to the point of being shabby even in Great Sion’s own view.

Its only advantage was probably the completely authentic first-person perspective and the bold “one-take” filming style adopted.

Although he had previously received permission for derivative creation from Brother Alpha on the forum, Great Sion took almost half a month to officially upload his first work largely because he wasn’t confident.

Though he absolutely believed that 《Reality Realm》 had the potential to go viral, the development team themselves weren’t in a hurry to promote it, so wouldn’t it seem a bit “presumptuous” for him to jump in?

Driven by this mindset, Great Sion simply uploaded his carefully edited CG video and didn’t bother managing it, putting on his helmet to join the game with several of his good friends to run the Rat King Apocalypse dungeon once more, but it was still “daily black hands” with no special drops or random events.

These two things have now been confirmed by players as triggerable.

The special drop “Rat King’s Echo” can be exchanged for a spirit weapon design diagram, and currently the blacksmith NPCs in the camp are paying high prices to purchase this thing, as its cool appearance has made orders at the blacksmith shop backed up to a month later.

And for players aspiring to pursue the blacksmith secondary profession, it’s absolutely essential to farm.

The random event “Cunning Ghoul Zweig” upon completion can unlock the hidden profession “Trickster/Coffin Bearer” conversion quest line, these two professions that sound “dark-themed” are equally essential for players who don’t particularly like playing heroes.

This directly leads to most players coming to the “Rat King Apocalypse” dungeon daily to try their luck, unfortunately, the lucky ones are still the minority.

However, Great Sion collected enough BOSS tokens “Rat Gang Badge” that only drop in this dungeon during this run, and happily went to the Blood Rat Gang to exchange them for Ghoul Fangs, Evil Spirit Shield, and Ghoul Eye accessories.

The Ghoul Hide set, a special dark-themed equipment sold by the Rat Gang reputation vendor, has slightly higher equipment strength than the Veteran set. After putting it on, even Great Sion with his poor skills felt confident enough to challenge the Black Iron Trial.

Well, speaking of which, it’s embarrassing that Great Sion had focused his energy on “filmmaking” during this period, making him far behind his companions who entered the game at the same time in terms of leveling.

Even in his now-fixed five-person team, he was the last one preparing to take the Black Iron Trial.

Taking advantage of the time while his companions helped him prepare scrolls, potions and items, he took off his helmet planning to have a smoke and check his video data, but when he refreshed the backend interface, the data directly exploded!

The view count and coin donations were so overwhelming that he was somewhat caught off guard, and when refreshing to today’s homepage playback rankings, his CG movie had already rushed into the top 10.

It had only been 4 hours!

The private messages had also exploded, with unread 999+ at first glance being really scary.

However, scanning through a few that were opened, they were all inquiring about information regarding the 《Reality Realm》 game, with more direct viewers asking where to download and how to obtain invitation codes, while professionals asked about the game’s specifications, why were the graphics so amazing?

“This is amazing?”

Great Sion leaned back proudly in his computer chair taking a big gulp of soda, he quite pretentiously complained:

“The quality was compressed once when transferring from the helmet to the computer, and compressed again during editing, giving it a kind of ‘cheap feel’ of games, if you saw Transia’s scenery with your own eyes wouldn’t you go crazy?”

Thinking this, he simply opened his video wanting to appreciate his “masterpiece.”

Full screen play, click start!

“Our territory is facing threats from barbarians, but I won’t give up the city established by me and you together”

Lord Murphy’s slightly distorted voice rang out from the screen along with the approaching dark scene, carrying a trace of vampire-specific gloom but not unpleasant, instead making this sentence sound rhythmic due to its unique accent and Transia language grammar different from reality.

To accommodate viewers without Computation Beads, Great Sion specifically added subtitles, even in dual languages.

Then, in the next scene as the voiceover faded out, it switched to the crazy scene of gnoll vanguards crossing the Kadman River in great numbers.

This segment was Great Sion’s proud work shot while “at the front lines.”

The slight shaking of the perspective and slightly hurried breathing represented the real fear and terror in his heart at that time. As the warhorse under him approached the gnoll army for close reconnaissance, when the perspective drew closer, the barbarian soldiers crowded across the pontoon bridge on the river and the howls from their wolf riders along with the gloomy weather made this scene full of impact.

Very much like the oppressive and epic feeling when the Uruk-hai marched at night in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

However, those unfortunate gnolls who were pushed into the water by their own people brought a hint of “schadenfreude” that wasn’t conflicting with this serious moment.

At the end of this scene, the perspective’s owner observed ahead with binoculars, and happened to make eye contact with a gnoll leader.

That fierce face, green eyes and crimson jagged teeth with a face full of mane, strange spots and protruding wolf muzzle perfectly outlined the appearance of a truly bloodthirsty monster.

And the undisguised brutality and desire in its eyes caused the barrage of comments on the screen to explode at this moment, full of exclamations like holy crap, awesome, what the hell is this thing, suddenly became a horror movie, protect me and such.

However, in the next second, the scene turned again, under the strange purple starlight, that crimson spirit rift opened in the gnoll main camp at Anderma Hills, with Lord Murphy’s voiceover sounding again:

“We are Transians! What we want, we will take back with our own hands!”

As the soldier’s perspective rushed forward, passing through that wonderful rift glimpsing the illusions of the Astral Realm, it was like crossing into another world jumping into the core area of the gnolls.

The perspective looked around in all directions, fully armed warriors behind holding different weapons marched magnificently, fearlessly charging out from the rift.

And when he looked back next time the gnoll lunging face-to-face had its head cut off in the whistle of the black sword, while in the warriors’ battle cries, a pair of huge Blood Wings suddenly spread out in the purple phantasm of the Astral Realm tear explosion overhead.

The terrifying Astral Realm spirit energy formed a fantastic background, while the warriors’ desperate raid was the advancing story, along with the incredibly handsome midnight commander and his graceful magic sword all made this scene an indisputable “classic composition.”

Especially when the perspective raised up, seeing Lord Murphy descending from the sky with his cape fluttering and long hair flying under the purple skylight, it became even more of a classic among classics.

Great Sion actually didn’t want to have his video’s protagonist appear so quickly, but unfortunately Lord Murphy’s super good looks were still so striking even after being compressed twice.

The moment he appeared triggered another barrage explosion, obviously because the pursuit of beautiful things is necessary and unified in any normal world, let alone someone like Lord Murphy who is this type of beautiful man, not only do ladies like him, gay men would like him too.

The scene continued to advance!

Not only did Lord Murphy and Lady Femis and Lord Kudel get close-ups, the scene of vampires among the players who broke into the gnoll camp taking to the air like midnight blood vultures hunting in groups was also edited in.

Although in today’s age of information explosion, there are already quite a lot of textual and visual descriptions about vampires, this scene still sparked discussion.

No matter what vampires should be like in legend, the vampires shown in this video undoubtedly all conform to today’s aesthetics, bringing the mystique, elegance and dominance of these creatures of the night almost to the maximum.

This raid scene lasted about 20 seconds, which was screen recording from Invincible Tyrannosaurus Cheche.

The student party members were among those who helped Great Sion the most with video production, probably because Cheche and Ah Yuen and Electronic Snail were three flamboyant guys who liked to “record life.”

The third edited perspective switched to the Blood Vulture Halls.

The scene of Lady Tris presiding over the ceremony extracting spirit energy triggering the nocturne core overload was full of mysterious magical background flavor, especially Lady Tris’s own high beauty value made the barrage particularly heavy in this segment, while the Blood Vulture Grand Duchess’s seductive voice with some hoarseness in its vicissitudes also provided “voiceover” for this segment.

“The future of this city, this clan and even this land, has been entrusted to your hands. May the Night Mother bless you, warriors from another world.” At this point, the one-minute “opening” of the 30-minute CG officially ended, and as the scene transitioned to black, a line of very magical style text appeared on screen like the unique opening of spy movies:

“Year 1111, October 4, Crimson Citadel, Blood Vulture Halls, gnoll disaster officially begins, countdown to decisive battle 26 days.”

So after all this it turned out to be a “flashback” style?

Great Sion proudly watched the video he edited himself, the popularity was still rising!

He felt his “promotion” this time was absolutely amazing, but soon an annoying note popped up in the backend saying his video contained “inappropriate information” so it was taken down, and the playing screen also returned to the homepage.

This made Great Sion almost mad with anger, but the result after appealing made him feel half cold.

The reason was simple.

Not only did his CG have clear traffic redirection tendencies at the end which we won’t talk about, mainly the game called 《Reality Realm》 shown in this CG not only hasn’t been released, but there’s also no information about it online at all.

This is no longer just a matter of involving “false advertising.”

The customer service helplessly told Great Sion that to continue posting videos like this he would need to first get permission from that game developer, at least you need to prove this thing is real and not a fraud scheme in preparation!

Otherwise if something goes wrong, the website would have to take responsibility too.

Who wants to take responsibility for strangers these days.

Reasonably speaking the customer service’s reasons were quite sufficient and they also provided solutions, but the problem was that Great Sion had talked with Administrator Alpha before.

The development team’s opinion was very clear, feel free to create derivatives, but they have no plans for promotion in the near future, so authorization is probably unlikely too, and Great Sion had also heard some unverified rumors among the player community.

It was said that this game is backed by a national project, specifically set up a server for everyone to play in order to research some cutting-edge technology, all testers are “cyber guinea pigs”, if this is really the case, what’s the point of asking for authorization!

Whether this game can even enter public testing is a question.

Having his video taken down felt like Great Sion had been punched hard, he had just seen with his own eyes that his video was about to top the hot list.

Tch, really unlucky.

But thinking about it another way, his original intention in making this was to attract traffic, and his private messages had exploded now, just needing to give a group number could bring in many interested people.

So this wave of traffic directing wasn’t a complete failure right?

He squeezed his eyes, while replying to private messages sending the group number, thinking about whether to modify his video and repost it as a regular CG movie.

Hey, this time I absolutely won’t mention anything about 《Reality Realm》 so you can’t say I’m involved in false advertising right?

Thinking this, he put on his helmet and logged back into the forum planning to complain to his brothers about this mess of a thing, but as soon as he started in the community group, he got heavily scolded by Meow King and others.

Meow King: 【Your intention to help actively is good, but people online are mixed, how many of the people you called in do you think can pass Alpha Company’s test application that has now expanded to 99 questions?

You’re just increasing Brother Alpha’s workload and to be honest the efficiency is very low, taking a huge step back, if these guys really get in can you manage them?

Assume there’s someone whose brain isn’t quite working right or is antisocial or simply wants to find some fun, takes advantage of turning in a quest to give Regent Miriam a shot.】

Medical Insurance Warrior Great Sion: 【That can’t be right? What mentally normal person would attack a main storyline NPC for no reason?】

Onboard Joy Stick: 【Just because you wouldn’t doesn’t mean others won’t, in other games even in situations where forced attacks aren’t possible there are always people with nothing better to do trying to exploit bugs to kill NPCs to gain a bit of pathetic sense of achievement, this game is so realistic, there are many ways to cause trouble if someone really wants to.

Great Sion, I know your heart is in the right place.

But these NPCs around us can’t respawn when they die, let alone attacking important NPCs, even if an ordinary NPC’s death is related to us it will cause many unnecessary ripples.

If you really want to help attract traffic, you need to adjust your mindset and methods first!

We are indeed short on people now, but let’s forget about those who mix in just to cause trouble, don’t let those guys in! Best not to let them know, rats aren’t welcome anywhere.】

Lumina Yanghen: 【Your method isn’t wrong and the execution is great, just chose the wrong platform and target, this game had specific audiences and gameplay threshold from the beginning, Great Sion.

Listen to me, don’t post on big platforms!

Go to some veteran gaming groups or forums, that way the traffic we attract will be the companions we need.】

Sword Saint Ashina: 【Why go through all that trouble? Give me your phone number, I’ll have someone contact you later, let’s make our own platform, still need review?

Screw that! We won’t take that frustration!】

Feel You Poor: 【Yeah yeah yeah, making our own platform for traffic direction is great, we set our own rules, just use Brother Alpha’s set of game application questions as the entry test, and the official hasn’t established an exchange platform, there’s no auction house in game which is quite annoying.

Why don’t we make our own third-party trading platform and submit it to the development team for review, this way gold and equipment circulation would be convenient too.

Little Ashina need funding?

My fund returns have arrived again, big increase this month!】

Sword Saint Ashina: 【Great, then why not specifically establish a foundation to raise funds?】

Life Is Pretty Good: 【Good idea, I can assign dedicated people to manage, if you all trust me, I can even manage it personally.】

Meow King: 【Damn! You guys are serious?】

Feel You Poor: 【How could this be fake? If Little Ashina is willing to take the lead, we can sign contracts right now, anyone else want to invest?】

Fatal Orchid Huahua: 【Count me in.】

What Color is Loyalty: 【Me me me! Count me in! And regarding the operation and rules of our third-party platform specifically for 《Reality Realm》 game logistics service, I have some immature suggestions here.

Shall we make a small group to discuss details?】

So a small group named “Crimson Citadel PR Department” was quickly established, Administrator Alpha was also invited to the group, Lord Murphy who received this invitation was bewildered, he was still busy with new player enlistment matters in the Blood Vulture Halls and had no time to check the forum.

After learning from the little players’ various descriptions that they wanted to actively make a third-party promotion and trading platform for Alpha Company, Murphy was completely stunned.

“Wait.”

The thoughts in the lord’s mind were full of surprise:

“You little leeks are this proactive? Is it because you feel my sickle isn’t sharp enough, or do you feel you’re being harvested too little?

Are little players’ self-management awareness all so strong nowadays?”

He opened his forum administrator backend again, searched among a bunch of hidden functions, then posted in the group saying:

Alpha: 【I need to discuss your proposal with the development team, but I just confirmed the forum can connect with third-party software. However, according to the development team’s working style, they will definitely want to be fully responsible for this platform’s subsequent operation and maintenance.

If you can accept that, then I’ll submit the report now.】

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