Chapter 112: Oh No, Are the Players About to Defect?

Ninja Novice Village,

An endless Blood Wasteland, everywhere filled with ruined buildings and ancient castles built from countless bones.

Every castle houses the most terrifying creatures on the wasteland: Vampires.

Dressed in black robes embroidered with purple cloud patterns, hundreds of Dawn Organization players continuously unleash skills toward a massive castle.

A brilliant ocean of energy constantly slams into a single figure.

The black-red suit is tattered, hanging off the shoulders like rags, while behind him are blood-colored wings like a bat's, over ten meters long; each flap stirs up blood Magic, blocking the Dawn players' skills.

"Containment squad, don't skimp on the Recovery Potions, don't let the skills stop!"

Konan, wearing a paper flower, commands the entire battle crisply and efficiently, seizing the moment to hunt the Pollution Source.

"Understood, for Dawn!"

The containment squad consists of exactly fifty people, all level 15 Rune Mages.

Everyone has mastered only four containment-type skills; they are a team heavily cultivated by the Dawn Organization specifically to contain Pollution Sources.

Besides the containment squad, there are also the Tank squad, the high-resistance squad, and the combat squad.

The two hundred Dawn players have all mastered skills suitable for team combat; although their individual combat ability is weak, once gathered, they can erupt with unimaginable, massive power.

"Combat squad, find a way to sever the Vampire Baron's wings!"

Konan's gaze is cold and sharp; the paper wings extending from her back keep her floating in mid-air,

and sheets of paper containing the aura of Talismans drift across the entire battlefield, following the force of her movements.

The paper talismans that land on Dawn players erupt with a cyan-green light, condensing into illusory cyan-green bronze armor to increase defense.

The paper talismans that land on the Vampire Baron erupt with scorching flames or crackling lightning, causing the Vampire Baron to let out painful hisses.

"Containment squad, you must not let him escape!"

Taking advantage of the chaos in the real ninja world, the perfect timing of the war breaking out among the Five Great Ninja Villages,

Konan leads the Dawn Organization to search the Blood Wasteland for the final Pollution Source: the vampire 【Kelar】, who belongs to the Blood Source Castle and holds the title of Baron.

Compared to the Underworld wanderer Sarina, Kelar is much more troublesome.

It is not that Kelar is stronger, but that the Vampire Baron is as slippery as a loach, possessing a special skill that allows him to teleport to any castle built of bones on the Blood Wasteland within a short time.

The players who hunted the Ghost Mage have long since upgraded their gear after this period of diligent spending.

The moment Kelar sees his HP drop to the danger line, he activates his teleportation ability and hides in a random castle.

"If we miss this opportunity and let the Vampire Baron escape, we will only be able to use the stupidest method: destroying every single ancient castle on the wasteland one by one, which is impossible to do with the manpower of the Dawn Organization alone."

A bottle of energy Recovery Potion is consumed, and Konan continues to unleash the power of the Talismans.

The destroyed castles are reconstructed by blood Magic every so often, appearing endlessly.

If we cannot hunt the Vampire Baron before players from all other factions react, we will have to face competition from players of the Five Great Ninja Villages, Noble players, and caravan players later on.

"Otherworld humans, we can make a deal."

Seeing his left wing severed, the Vampire Baron feels anger in his heart, but also fear.

A pair of wings is the foundation of blood Magic; once broken, the power of the blood Magic he unleashes weakens, and his defense and attack capabilities drop sharply.

"Let me leave, and I will bestow this medal upon you; you will possess Kelar's friendship."

As he speaks,

two sharp Jiangji strike through Kelar's right leg, causing his massive body to kneel to the ground.

【Knight Medal of Blood Source Castle】

Type: Pollutant

Effect: After use, can obtain 200 points of pollution Reward Points.

Note: Proof of identity for a pollution faction; can be used to purchase items from the pollution faction.

"Pollution Reward Points?"

This is the first time Konan has seen pollution Reward Points; does it mean one can purchase items outside of the Game Mall?

……

Behind the screen,

the white-haired loli is full of panic, lying on the soft sofa, exclaiming: "Master, this is bad, the cunning Blood Source Castle faction wants to poach our players."

It has always been like this;

the powerhouses painstakingly cultivated by the World Consciousness are poached by the olive branches thrown out by the pollution faction, only to turn around and attack their original world.

The Ghost Mage hunted previously was a wanderer from the Underworld and had no pollution faction.

But the Vampire Baron is different; he belongs to the Blood Source Castle, and that pollution medal is a high-level product specifically designed to make the World Consciousness fall.

The thing she feared most has indeed happened.

A Fu raises her head,

but sees Fang Yi's face is calm, and she immediately says anxiously: "Master, this matter is extremely serious; countless World Consciousnesses have been destroyed because they lost the ability to resist pollution after most of their powerhouses were poached by such methods from pollution factions."

If the players are all turned, the Reincarnation Space will become an empty shell.

"Don't panic."

Fang Yi rubs her head and smiles: "It's just a pollution medal, can it really scare you like this? Even if the players accept it, so what?"

Facing the white-haired loli's terrified appearance, he sneers: "I have long considered the occurrence of this situation; how could the Polluted World, which can destroy countless worlds, be stupid?"

"Especially since you mentioned the matter of Reincarnators being turned, I have been on guard for a long time."

Looking at Fang Yi's fearless expression, which seems to have an inexplicable infectious power, the white-haired loli A Fu also calms down slightly and asks: "Then what should we do? Directly block the communication between the players and the Polluted World?"

Fang Yi taps A Fu on the head lightly and says: "Blocking is the stupidest method. Even if we can block it in the short term, as there are more and more players in the future, they will inevitably have frequent contact while hunting Pollution Sources. It is impossible to block it completely, and it would also consume a massive amount of Reward Points."

A Fu says in a weak tone: "But if we don't block it, the players will defect to the pollution faction."

"Then let them defect."

Fang Yi smiled quite sinisterly and said, "Don't you forget, the bodies inside the game are not the players' real ones at all, but artificial bodies I created by expending my origin!"

"The players' Reinforcement is all branded within the Novice Village of the Samsara Game; every time they log in, it's like an angel descending in a Magic world, or a god being summoned into a body in a Daoist world, channeling the power branded in the Novice Village into the artificial bodies."

"Therefore, even if players defect to the Polluted World forces, without my permission, they can only take away an artificial body devoid of any origin."

A Fu nodded blankly, only clearing things up after a moment.

The origin that players obtain from hunting the Pollution Source is all exchanged for various Reinforcement and equipment; these items are products manufactured by Fang Yi, and although handed over to the players, they cannot be taken out of the Samsara Game without Fang Yi's permission.

To put it in layman's terms, players only have the right to use all game items, while the ownership belongs to the Samsara Game.

Is it reasonable?

The origin that players risk their lives to hunt for, and the items they scrimp and save to buy, end up only having usage rights!

Even Fang Yi, the originator of this, felt it was very unreasonable; isn't this a predatory clause?

"Sigh, in order to save and protect the world, and to resist the Pollution Source and the Polluted World, I can only let the players suffer a little first."

(End of this chapter)