49 Darkness Falls, Camp Activity

Now that the World Guild had a chance to make a comeback, World's Best, of course, wouldn't forget the humiliation that he had suffered the day before.

The guilds in Kelop City that had taken advantage of the World Guild's situation had already been destroyed with the undead creature disaster's arrival.

Even if those guilds' senior executives could rebuild their guilds, they wouldn't be able to regain their strength in a short period of time.

After dealing with those people, World's Best's next target for revenge was undoubtedly Liu Ming, the person who forced them to leave Lotter City.

On the surface, World's Best did not have much of an expression, However, deep down, he thought, Floating Cloud, just you wait. I'll bring someone to look for you soon.

World's Best naturally thought this way because he had some confidence. The reason for his confidence was the EXP that players gained when brutally fighting with players from the opposing camp after the Camp System was established.

After the Camp System came online, players were able to gain 5% of another player's—from the opposing camp—EXP after killing them.

Players who received Camp Quests would be able to gain double EXP and cause the other party to lose 10% of their EXP.

In other words, players that received Camp Quests would generally be able to advance by one level after killing ten players one level higher than themselves or tens of players of the same level.

As a player's strength increased, the difficulty of killing a player of the same level might not be lower than that of killing a high-level elite monster. The system had at least given World's Best an opportunity to increase his competence rapidly.

In just a few hours, World's Best had already made up for the EXP he had lost.

The arrogant World's Best thought that he could catch up with Liu Ming in level and use the Darkness Camp's power to clear his name and restore the reputation he previously ruined. However, he didn't know that Liu Ming had already strengthened his weapon to Refinement Level 20. Otherwise, he would not have thought so.

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In fact, except for a few main cities like Lotter City, most of the main cities experienced the same events that occurred in Kelop City. Of course, there were also some main cities where the NPCs from the Darkness Camp did not manage to get their way because of the intervention of the Light Camp's players.

Hence, as the number of cities invaded by the Darkness Camp increased, the matter of the Darkness Camp causing trouble was completely exposed to the Light Camp's players.

The system announcement also appeared timely in the camp channel.

[System Announcement (Light Alliance): Darkness has invaded, and a calamity has struck. The evil heretics have invaded the Eric Kingdom. The king of Eric Kingdom, King Maur V is infuriated. He has issued orders for every city and state to recruit their own armies to annihilate the kingdom's heretics.]

[Adventurers, please head to the Adventurers Guild and the City Guard Barracks' main halls in your respective main cities to report and register for quests and join the battle of justice against Darkness.]

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The announcement immediately made all the players, who had yet to understand the cause and effect of the matter, feel flabbergasted.

[God Of Shooting (Light Alliance): Damn it! Is this a Camp Quest?]

[Little Wang (Light Alliance): I was wondering why the Darkness Camp constantly created trouble everywhere today. It turns out there's a major event. I'm going to call my friend to come online and kill all the Darkness Camp's b*stards.]

[Invincible And Unparalleled (Light Alliance): Wake up. You probably don't know how terrifying the Darkness Camp is. In my opinion, the players are just going to fight and try to gain some credit during this Camp Activity. You can think about getting huge rewards next time.]

[Silly Iron (Light Alliance): To the person who left the comment above, you seem to have forgotten about Big Shot Floating Cloud. Other big shots might be a little incompetent, but Big Shot Floating Cloud will definitely be able to obtain great results.]

[Invincible And Unparalleled (Light Alliance): To the person who left the comment above, you're overthinking it. For this Camp Activity, both major camps have deployed plenty of high-level NPCs that are at least Level 50 and above. No matter how impressive Floating Cloud may be, he's only Level 30. The difference is too great.]

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The group of players chatted, and the discussion topic soon changed from the methods they should use to deal with the Darkness Camp to who would obtain major rewards in this Camp Activity.

After all, the rewards for Camp Activities—also known as Camp Quests—were handsome. They were even greater than most of the hidden quests at this stage.

However, Camp Quests' rewards were given according to merit. This Camp Quest was so difficult that the vast majority of players felt that it was unlikely for even top-tier players like Liu Ming to gain a decent amount of merit.

Liu Ming, who was one of the main topics of discussion, was in Lotter City's City Hall at this moment. In reality, before the official announcement from God Domain was released, Liu Ming had already received a message from the City Lord, which allowed him to know about the Camp Activity in advance.

Liu Ming was not the only player who stood in the City Hall at the moment. Those here were players getting nurtured and were of high importance to the major guilds or top-tier solo players like Liu Ming.

In short, these players basically had high Camp Reputation, just like Liu Ming. Only players with the highest Camp Reputation would be qualified to know about Camp Quests in advance. Of course, Liu Ming and the other players would definitely be given higher-level quests since they were told to go straight to the City Hall.

Soon, Lotter City's City Lord entered the main hall and looked at everyone sternly, "I'm honored and pleased to see all of you here at this juncture. However, the next quest that I am going to arrange for you guys is extremely difficult. Once a failure is committed, you will face consequences that will very likely be hard to accept."

As soon as Lotter City's City Lord finished his sentence, the quest information appeared in front of Liu Ming.

[Lotter City's City Lord has released a Legendary Battle Quest. Failure to complete the quest will result in the Adventurer's level decreasing by five at least. Adventurer, please carefully consider whether to accept it or not.]

As soon as he saw the quest information, Liu Ming frowned slightly, while a look of depression formed on the faces of the players beside him. They did not know if they should accept the Battle Quest.

Although Battle Quests were divided into five levels, just like the regular quests, a Battle Quest's difficulty was basically two levels higher than that of regular quests in the same stage.

Of the five levels of Battle Quests—namely Normal, Championship, Legendary, Epic, and Mythical—Legendary Battle Quests were the third most difficult. They were equivalent to regular quests at the Hell level.

Although players had completed Hell-level quests, the completion rate had never been higher than 5%.

Besides, if the quest was just a little more difficult, it would not matter much. After all, even if they encountered players from the Darkness Camp and ended up getting killed by them, they would only lose one level. However, the mission this time would cause them to drop by at least five levels if they failed.

Losing five levels of progress at once meant that one could potentially fall directly from the first tier to the second. If one were to lose ten levels, though unlikely, it would mean that they would be out of touch with the mainstream player community for a short period of time.

This was the reason for their hesitation.