Chapter 305:

Words : 1971 Updated : Oct 13th, 2025

“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? Ṟá₦о₿ЕŞ “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. 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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