Chapter 1161: Stirring Things Up

It settles once per quarter!

When Su Sheng saw this, his eyebrows twitched slightly, and he guessed that this national fortune system was probably the most crucial point.

Su Sheng then examined the national fortune rules carefully.

Although national fortune and merit differ in some ways, they are similar in many aspects.

Being killed does not cause a loss of merit; killing an enemy target grants merit, and the higher the target's rank, the more merit is earned. Likewise, by invading other nations' servers via the National Battle Map, killing players yields double merit points.

As for national fortune, the similarity is that killing an enemy player grants national fortune, and the higher the opponent's rank, the more national fortune is obtained. However, if one is killed, the enemy also plunders national fortune, with higher ranks yielding higher values, and the proof of rank is the merit certificate.

The difference is that changes in national fortune can only be acquired within the National Battle Map; invading other servers via the map may grant double merit for killing players, but yields no national fortune.

From this perspective, national fortune and merit are closely linked.

Furthermore, national fortune is divided into four stages: Zenith, Prosperous, Stable, and Depressed.

As for the exact criteria for these four phases, the rules do not detail them; it's left for players to discover on their own.

However, the effects of national fortune for each stage are explained.

Initially, the default national fortune for all nations is the Prosperous state.

In the Prosperous state, players who do not enter other servers via the National War System are subject to a 20% attribute suppression.

All attributes are reduced by 20%, similar to a Demonic Qi Suppression Effect, and cannot be offset under normal circumstances.

If national fortune is in the Stable state, players not entering other servers via the National Battle Map suffer a 10% attribute suppression.

In the Depressed state, it's 5%!

If national fortune is at Zenith, the suppression effect reaches 40%.

That is already an extremely exaggerated suppression.

Besides that, there is another aspect of national fortune that is closely tied.

It's the cities!

Although entering an enemy server via the National Battle Map does not grant national fortune for killing players.

However, if one enters an enemy nation's server through the map and captures the Main City, a massive amount of national fortune can be plundered.

If the Huangcheng is captured, that nation's national fortune is wiped clean, and the server that loses its national fortune is expelled from the current quarter's season!

Moreover, the initial national fortune for the next season drops by one tier.

"Merit, national fortune."

Su Sheng rubbed his chin and muttered softly.

Given the current situation, once the National Battle Map is officially opened, it must never be left unattended.

We cannot allow the enemy to invade the server through the map; otherwise they could kill our players and earn massive National War Merit.

Then they can exchange various spoils via the National War System to boost their own strength.

It's a full‑blown snowball effect; once it starts rolling, we're even less of a match for them.

When their snowball rolls, they'll inevitably attack the capital city, which would be a serious problem.

At that moment, a private chat message arrived.

Su Sheng halted his thoughts, opened the private chat system, and took a look.

Shen Wang!

What does this old kid want from me now?

But I happen to have some ideas, so I'll chat with Shen Wang.

Because of the National Battle Map's special nature, it means someone must constantly guard this side of the map.

Su Sheng thought it over briefly and formed a plan…

The four main cities—east, south, west, and north—on the National Battle Map will be defended in rotation by the major guilds, each taking a stint.

This is a National War; a single or two guilds alone cannot contest it fully.

Thus the entire server must work together.

Actually, there's also the issue of solo players later entering the National Battle Map.

Because being killed inside the map allows the enemy not only to gain points but also to plunder national fortune.

Therefore, in such cases it would be best to restrict the entry conditions for weaker solo players.

Of course, this is hard to implement.

After all, the game has been live for so long; now that we're past the Fourth Rebirth stage, leveling up is as hard as traversing the Shu Roads.

And the National War Merit from the National War System counts as another way to boost oneself.

Moreover, there are indeed some hot‑headed youths who are unclear about their own strength, and when they get a rush, they rush in to hand out benefits to others.

Especially since, according to the National War System's rules, dying on the Domestic Server battlefield incurs slightly lighter losses than elsewhere.

Thus Su Sheng thought of the massive player base on the Huaxia side and couldn't help but groan.

Never mind, let's take it one step at a time and first see what this old kid Shen Wang wants from me.

"Mo Wen Chairman, I want to take this opportunity to cause a stir; what are your thoughts?"

Seeing the private chat sent by Shen Wang, Su Sheng's expression shifted, and he roughly understood Shen Wang's intention.

The National War System has just opened, and only servers with level‑80 Fourth Rebirth players can officially connect to the National Battle Map.

And now, throughout the Zhu Lu Game, the server with the most level‑80 Fourth Rebirth players is undoubtedly the Huaxia server.

In this situation, it's definitely the best time for them to seize the chance to cause trouble.

More players = advantage!

Su Sheng twisted his eyebrows and replied, "Which one?"

A two‑word reply directly shows that Su Sheng grasped Shen Wang's idea.

Regarding Shen Wang's idea, Su Sheng also agrees.

As for the current National War Mechanism, Su Sheng knows without thinking that other servers will definitely team up against the Domestic Server.

If we can take advantage of our current superiority to do something now, thereby curbing some clearly hostile servers, it would be very beneficial.

However, even though they have the advantage now, they certainly can't deploy everyone; each city must keep at least one squad.

It wouldn't be surprising if other servers also have similar thoughts, especially Ying Jiang's side.

At present, the best‑developed server in the Zhu Lu Game is unquestionably the Huaxia Domestic Server, followed by Ying Jiang and Mao Xiong, then the tiny kimchi sticks.

Next come the Kangaroo Nation Little Days and the like.

It must be said that although the kimchi sticks cling tightly to Eagle Dad in reality, they are quite talented in the gaming entertainment world.

"Hehe, Chairman Mo Wen, as expected a wise person, will definitely start the blood feud first!" Shen Wang replied almost instantly.

Su Sheng understood instantly.

"Then we certainly can't all go out, right? In each city we must leave some manpower, just in case."

Su Sheng didn't hesitate and voiced his thoughts directly.

"That's natural, so I think we should ask Chairman Mo Wen to come over and discuss together how many people we send out and how many we keep to guard."

As the former big brother, Shen Wang could naturally anticipate any issue Su Sheng thought of.

"Alright, which Main City are you in? I'll come over."

After receiving the reply, Su Sheng used the Teleport Array to go to the Main City where Shen Wang was.

At this moment, the Southern Main City of the National War System had already gathered the leaders of various guilds.

At the current stage, among Domestic Server players who have reached level 80 Fourth Rebirth, 90% are members of the major guilds.

Or rather, all of them!

Because there were originally a few Solo Players, but now any Solo Player who reaches level 80 Fourth Rebirth is naturally targeted and recruited by the major guilds.

Thus, those few Solo Players who have reached level 80 Fourth Rebirth have all become members of the major guilds.

Although those masters who have reached level 80 have not joined any guild, they are all Solo Players yearning for freedom.

But for ordinary players, joining a guild may restrict their freedom.

For masters of this caliber, the major guilds offer conditions that are very generous and relaxed.

They can obtain generous benefits without overly restricting freedom, so they can naturally attract them.

Yanhuang, Shenhua Guild, Huanyu, Dawnbreak, Morning Star, Hongmeng, Imperial Dynasty, War to Stop War, Tian Sheng Changge… all have representatives present.

The recently split Qiancheng Muxue and Qiancheng Lihualuo have no one present.

Peak Guild and Greedy Wolf Guild also have no one present…

Peak Guild, because it recently clashed with Shenhua Guild, suffered a big loss, and now no one has reached level 80 Fourth Rebirth.

As for Greedy Wolf, during the last three‑faction joint operation it also took a hit, and likewise no player has reached level 80 Fourth Rebirth.

Regarding Qiancheng Muxue, the original Qiancheng Lihualuo had reached level 80, but now has been demoted.

Du Xue and Qiancheng Gongzi have also reached level 80.

But obviously, the newly split Qiancheng Muxue and Qiancheng Lihualuo now have no energy to go to the National Battle Map.

Thus, everyone present now comes from these Nine Great Guilds.

As for other medium and small guilds, at this stage no one has reached level 80, since even the once‑prestigious Peak and Greedy Wolf could not have players rise to level 80 due to certain events, let alone the smaller guilds.

The crowd gathered together.

Regarding Shen Wang's proposal, everyone naturally had no objections.

After all, as long as one is an individual, a person who grew up under the red flag… excluding certain beasts, they will not have any goodwill toward the long‑standing arch‑enemy that appears on almost every page of modern history.

Naturally, there were still no objections to Shen Wang's proposal.

First, they tallied that there were over 120 level‑80 players present.

After discussion, each Main City would retain a squad of ten.

Four Main Cities, a total of forty people stayed.

The remaining over 80 chose to go to Little Days to cause trouble.

Who stays is decided by drawing lots.

Soon, the teams were assigned.

Su Sheng's luck wasn't great; he drew the stay‑behind ticket.

However, Lin Huan drew the outward ticket and swapped with Su Sheng.

No one said anything about that, of course.

Sure enough, that guy Xuan Yuan Ye also drew a stay‑behind ticket and immediately swapped his ticket with someone from his own guild.

With Xuan Yuan Ye's swapping ability, the Shenhua Guild member naturally had no complaints.

Then, under Su Sheng and Shen Wang's leadership, the over 80 Fourth Rebirth Domestic Server players set out from the Eastern Main City.

The Eastern Main City is one of the directions closest to the Main City of the Little Days Server.

The National War System opened at game time 20:30.

After the group negotiated for about twenty minutes, the current game time still had a little over eleven hours left.

Enough time for Su Sheng, Shen Wang and others to cause a big ruckus.

…

And at this moment.

At some Main City location in Little Days.

The chairmen of three of the four major guilds gathered here: Gongben Yida Liu, Xiaoqian Cilang, Yinghua Nainanzi, all silent, waiting quietly.

At that moment, a figure suddenly appeared before them.

It turned out to be the chairman of another major guild, Du bian yi tiao chai.

He had just come online.

Du bian-kun, what's the situation over there?

Gongben Yida Liu saw Du bian yi tiao chai come online, and unable to wait, he asked.

Du bian yi tiao chai collected himself, smiling as he said: "Over there, they've already started contacting the kimchi, plus the monkeys and kangaroos, together with our sakura."

"A San… right, I forgot A San hasn't opened the National Battlefield yet."

Xiaoqian Cilang had originally patted his own head.

After all, we had gone to Huaxia several times to stir up trouble, and because the Huaxia server had already linked with the A San Server, we almost always ended up dragging A San along.

So this time Xiaoqian Cilang instinctively wanted to ask A San why he wasn't joining.

Only after speaking did he realize that A San's side had been thoroughly dealt with by Huaxia, and up to now there still hasn't been a level‑80 Fourth Rebirth player appear.

"Are there only the four forces? Let's count the numbers; our four forces combined probably barely exceed 100 people."

Yinghua Nainanzi frowned and spoke.

"If I remember correctly, the number of Fourth Rebirth players on Huaxia's side has already reached over 120, nearing 130."

Gongben Yida Liu also spoke.

"Yeah, especially that Mo Wen Qianchen; just him alone feels like he could take on more than ten people." Xiaoqian Cilang also spoke, feeling a bit fearful.

Upon hearing someone mention the name Mo Wen Qianchen, everyone present flashed a hint of wariness in their eyes.

Just the name alone could make them recall the fear of being dominated back then.

Du bian yi tiao chai shook his head: "What's certain for now is just our four forces."

"However, Ying Jiang's side is still contacting other servers."

"Let's wait for more concrete news; if we could bring Mao Xiong's side on board, that would be great."

Others also nodded; Mao Xiong's strength is second only to Huaxia and Ying Jiang.

If Mao Xiong's side also agrees to join, their combined strength would directly surpass Huaxia's side in one fell swoop.

Yinghua Nainanzi shook her head: "As far as I know, Mao Xiong's side currently has an ambiguous attitude toward Huaxia; Mao Xiong's Huangcheng dungeon failed, and the nearest server to them is the Huaxia server."

"So it seems they want to cooperate with Huaxia; I estimate Mao Xiong will likely not agree to our plan this time."

"It's even possible they'll side with Huaxia."

Others listening to Yinghua Nainanzi's analysis had their faces sink.

This possibility is not low.

However, at that moment Gongben Yida Liu's expression twitched, and then suddenly changed.