Chapter 1366: Human Path

"《Fantasy World》 officially enters the main storyline—The Blood Moon Tide!"

A strange-looking news headline climbed to third on today's trending searches.

Not only on Weibo, but Twitter also had a popular trend with a similar title, with view counts reaching hundreds of thousands, and even many celebrities leaving comments.

Being able to attract such massive attention was mainly because 《Fantasy World》 is currently the hottest game, its popularity even surpassing League of Legends.

An incredibly realistic and fascinating world holds infinite temptation for those with spiritual emptiness.

In reality, we are inconspicuous, ordinary people, but in the Fantasy World, we are saviors, we are omnipotent supermen, and we are winners beloved by everyone.

It's not that there haven't been such games before, but they all lacked one most important factor: a sense of reality.

Fantasy World possesses this sense of reality; players can converse with NPCs inside and develop various storylines that you absolutely cannot predict based on experience.

Many people feel that these NPCs in the Fantasy World are living, breathing people.

Aside from being unable to be touched and unable to appear in real-world events, they are no different from real people.

What's most exciting is that Miss Luo Quan previously said she invested in a brain-computer interface, and it has been quite fruitful; it can already allow monkeys to play games using their brains.

It is believed that in at most twenty years, technology will be developed to allow people to enter a virtual world and be immersed in it.

By then, the spiritual comfort that the Fantasy World can bring will likely exceed everything in reality.

As for the present, it remains the hottest game globally, with the cumulative number of registered users already exceeding ten million, and no matter the time, the number of online players is always over five million.

This means that in the game, you can encounter at least as many real people as a small country, as well as countless NPCs who love real people even more than real people do.

Such a game completely fits the definition of the metaverse in the capital circle.

Therefore, many related businesses have begun hyping around 《Fantasy World》.

This has also made its fame grow larger and larger, as if it already has the appearance of a second world.

And this second world, after nearly half a year of public beta, finally announced that everything was on the right track, and subsequently seamlessly connected to the official server launch.

Various welfare activities are constantly being released, and most importantly, the game's main storyline has also officially begun to appear.

As mentioned before, the game's plot is entirely determined by designers setting a general direction first, and then the AI fills in the details.

Once the general direction is set, it will no longer change, but the details are subject to dynamic adjustments.

To put it plainly, which NPCs in the game will die and which will live, even the designers don't know; it will be decided based on the various behaviors of players in the game.

Of course, this is under the condition that players do not enter the grand world.

If one plays single-player, then the game plot will be controlled by the player themselves.

If one goes online, then the game plot will develop in the most perfect form.

So-called perfect means popular characters live, and the villains most cursed at must die.

But if it is a villain with relatively high acclaim, then they might be left with a glimmer of life and not have the coffin lid completely nailed shut.

After experiencing the public beta version that only had side stories and no main storyline.

Now the main story has finally arrived, and various major events are also poised to start.

Such a major change, of course, sparked heated discussion among countless players.

For such a ten-million-level popular online game, once a version change occurs, the scale is truly terrifying; the popularity is no less than that of the neighboring 《In the Name of the People》.

It is worth mentioning that the 1.0 Blood Moon Tide plot also very ingeniously arranged for players to have the identity of a transmigrator.

After the plot begins, a scene will appear of the player sitting in front of a computer editing a video.

At this time, the player is still in the real world, with the identity of a gaming expert, making a living by relying on game strategy videos.

And the game they specialize in, 《Fantasy World》, is an open-world online game independently developed by Unreal Studio and Antarctic Emperor Penguin.

As early as many years ago, Emperor Penguin was already the world's largest game company, holding countless game IPs in its hands.

So when producing 《Fantasy World》, Emperor Penguin Company integrated elements from many classic games, creating a hodgepodge in the new project.

Can a game producer's work be called stealing? This is called borrowing, called paying tribute!

Thus, a great online game with a grand background and filled with tribute scenes was born.

Of course, the reason it is called great is not just because it gathered the strengths of many, but also because it used two revolutionary new technologies: the brain-computer interface and intelligent AI.

The former allows players to enter the game world immersively; everything you hear, touch, and see in the game will bring corresponding stimulation to your senses.

And the latter allows NPCs in the game to possess the same behavioral logic as real people.

NPCs will make speeches and actions based on their own and the player's identity, rather than cycling through the few lines of dialogue set for them by the designers.

With these two technologies, 《Fantasy World》 is no longer a simple online game; it is no exaggeration to say it is a brand-new world.

Precisely because of this, 《Fantasy World》 was already in the spotlight during the internal testing period, and after the public beta, it swept the globe, with the number of online players breaking ten million.

Introducing the story to this point, the players are likely already dizzy.

Isn't this just the situation of this game in reality?

How did it become the game's background?

So are they playing the game in reality, or are they in a virtual world?

With this setup, let alone immersion, it simply makes people feel like they are there!

Immediately following, the story begins to enter the main topic, with segments of text paired with CG scenes, letting players understand their past.

The players are fossil-level old players who existed since the internal test.

From the 1.0 "Blood Moon Tide" version to the 5.0 "Pride of the Stars" version, a total of 2192 days, perfect attendance!

Because they love it too much, players enter this world every day, rain or shine.

Once they encounter a major version, they even turn on liver-emperor mode to play all night.

However, don't look at it as wearing a helmet and closing eyes while playing the game; the brain is actually always in an excited state, not much different from playing games with eyes open.

So after livering the new version for three consecutive days, the player directly fell into a coma due to excessive brain use.

When the player opened their eyes again, they discovered that they had actually transmigrated into the game, and it was the Fantasy Continent, full of disputes and crises.

To be precise, this continent is named the God-Given Continent.

The time point the player transmigrated to is Holy Calendar year 1240; ten years later, Blood Slaughter, one of the four chaos evil gods, will break through the blockade of the space-time torrent and descend upon this world.

At that time, this deity, the most violent and warlike of all planes, will impatiently set off the Blood Moon Tide, bestowing war and fear upon this pitiful world.

This catastrophe will last for a full six years, taking away hundreds of millions of lives, and causing damage to the Dwarf Empire in the north of the continent that even time will find hard to repair.

And this is just the beginning.

The 2.0 "Kings of Purgatory" and 3.0 "Return of the Old Days" will all bring even deeper disasters to the people of the God-Given Continent, and the entire plane will once be on the verge of collapse.

It can be said that this is a terrible world filled with danger, where life can be devastated at any moment.

Good news: the player has a system and can grow rapidly, becoming a powerhouse in a very short time.

And they can clearly understand the major and minor events about to happen in this world through the system, and can also foresee the vast majority of dangers and opportunities.

Bad news: the player transmigrated into the 1.0 version Boss who hasn't grown up yet.

At the same time, the game's official website also appeared with relevant news about this character, among which the most interesting thing is the player's title.

Besides the official title 【Beloved Child of the Blood God】, players are also affectionately called Father-Hater, Mother-Love War God, First Wrench of the God-Given Continent, Player Cyber First Night Raider, etc.

As the final Boss of the first half of the 1.0 plot, the character played by the player is an unquestionable demon.

With a twisted personality, in order to gain power, he did not hesitate to sell his soul to the evil god Blood Slaughter, sowing the Seeds of Bloodthirst bestowed by Blood Slaughter throughout the entire Turinhan Empire, causing the innocent people of most of the kingdom to be infected with the Blood Plague, transforming into hideous and cruel bloodthirsty monsters.

During this period, in order to fight for power and cover up his ambition, he poisoned his father-in-law, Sir Reyek, who had been devoted to him, plotted to kill his godfather, Grand Lord Grain, who had treated him like his own, and finally killed his biological father, Duke Lude Shufanke, with his own hands.

Soon, the entire Turinhan Empire turned into a human purgatory in his hands, and he also obtained power from Blood Slaughter as he wished, promoted to an epic-level Chaos Great Demon.

After this, it is the group-raid-the-Boss segment that players love to see.

At this time, the player's half-brother will appear in time, guiding people into the younger brother's lair, and after the younger brother is beaten back to his original form, he will destroy his relatives for the sake of righteousness, using the sharp sword in his hand to end his younger brother's life full of sin.

As the first raid boss of 1.0, 【Beloved Child of the Blood God】 is not high in difficulty; the first-kill group only used one week and wiped less than three hundred times before clearing it.

The player was one of the members of the first-kill group at that time, and the profession used was the Paladin, which has the highest popularity in the game.

This is also the profession of the character played by the player before falling into depravity.

The above is the background setting.

After learning their identity, the players' mood can be said to be quite spectacular.

Before this, all game protagonists were in the form of a challenger, going to raid the game's final boss.

Along the way, they would encounter countless events, but the ultimate goal was always to make the protagonist stronger and stronger, and finally obtain the power to defeat the boss.

But this time, the plot of Fantasy World pulled a fancy trick, letting the player themselves become a boss who hasn't grown up yet.

In the plot, the character played by the player is to be attacked by the game players in the plot.

And now what the player has to do is change their own destiny, letting the future boss become a hero who saves the world!

Undoubtedly, the designer of 《Fantasy World》 is doing a very new kind of plot.

That is, letting players play players in the game, and then fabricating a group of Fourth Calamities controlled by intelligent AI to carry out a duel on the side.

Although it sounds a bit convoluted, the novelty of the plot is absolutely unique among all games in recent years.

And the one most surprised by this plot is none other than Miss Luo Quan.

This identity the player transmigrated into, isn't it Vivienne?!

Yesterday she had just chatted with Vivienne and learned about what her father had done.

And she also learned from the Shadow Demon that her father would kill her mother in the future, and then guide Vivienne's blackening.

It's just that in the established plot, Vivienne would defect to the Blood God, killing all enemies including her father, as well as countless innocent people.

She did indeed become a heinous sinner, but it was also thanks to her own father.

And Vivienne was finally set to die at the hands of her half-sister.

This means her father's plan ultimately succeeded.

The evil Vivienne was destroyed by her sister for the sake of righteousness, and the hero Alice became a great hero who saved the world, ascending to the throne as Empress.

This is the original plot.

But with her own meddling, Vivienne went straight to hell.

Even if she blackened, it is unlikely she would run into players in the 1.0 version.

Not to mention she is now aspiring to be an angel in hell, wholeheartedly towards good, looking more and more like a righteous protagonist.

After the butterfly wings flapped, the plot also underwent huge changes.

Now the player has taken over Vivienne's original position, and Duke Lude Shufanke will continue to do evil, harming countless people for the throne.

But this time, the players discovered his conspiracy in advance, and will engage in a struggle with him in the future plot, and kill him.

Originally, the 1.0 version boss was the blackened Vivienne.

Now, the 1.0 version boss has directly become Duke Lude Shufanke.

This change is not insignificant.

Thinking of this, Miss Luo Quan still feels quite emotional inside.

If she hadn't entered the Fantasy World, she definitely wouldn't have met Vivienne.

Her destiny would have been as miserable as the original plan.

But precisely because of her own variable, Vivienne was saved, the true villain met retribution, and this directly turned into a fairy tale.

Miss Luo Quan believes that if this plot is also added to the game, it will definitely make it appear more ups and downs.

If the character is shaped well enough, it might be deified.

It's a pity, this matter she can only let rot in her own stomach.

At least until everyone realizes that the Fantasy World actually exists, it cannot be revealed for half a year.

Of course, even if Miss Luo Quan told it, it is estimated that no one would believe it, only thinking she is promoting the game.

In short, this extremely rare yet highly immersive plot immediately made countless players flock to it, scrambling to give the game high scores.

In an instant, the number of players was countless.

When Miss Luo Quan saw the data in the background heading towards ten million online, she knew this game was truly hot to the point of exploding. ===== CHAPTER 1367 =====