vrcanaries Chapter 34: The Skydrive Players, Ready to Fight
Chapter 34: The Skydrive Players, Ready to Fight
After Zhang Qiming's total level reaches 50, the experience points for personal quests also receive an epic boost.
[Current daily personal task total experience: 150000]
Looking at the number, Zhang Qiming immediately opened his custom task editor and mentally reviewed the task framework for the Bloodstained Items.
A reward of 150,000 experience points is not a small amount; it's enough to whet the players' appetites. He then began writing the quest.
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[Large-scale Faction Dungeon Quest: Bloodstained Items]
[Mission Level: D+]
[Mission Type: Large-scale raid/Station disruption/Fire suppression/Special operations]
[Target audience: Skyward Faction players]
[Maximum number of participants: 200]
[Mission Area: Outer perimeter of the Special Lockdown Zone of the Sailor Valley Manufacturing Corridor and the Office of the Holy Execution]
[Mission Summary: The Office of Sacred Inquiry has established a highly secure special asset node in the Mariner Valley Manufacturing Corridor. This node is under heavy security and is linked to multiple clandestine projects within the Church.]
The Skydrive organization will launch a special operation at this node. Participants need to enter the outer perimeter of the blockade zone within a specified time to attract, restrain, and disrupt enemy defenses, creating an opportunity for subsequent core operations.
[Core Mission Objective: After the operation begins, contain the armed security forces surrounding the Sacred Deacon for at least 20 minutes, and disrupt or interfere with surveillance nodes, automated turrets, communication relays, and traffic gates outside the blockade zone. Draw the fire of two enemy platoon-level units, preventing them from reinforcing the core area.]
Prerequisites for participation:
①The task of contacting the outer network of the Sky Drive has been completed, and the total level is not lower than 15.
② Equip basic facial perturbation prosthetics, disposable camouflage masks, or equivalent identity concealment devices; carry camera jamming patches, low-level signal maskers, or equivalent anti-surveillance devices.
③ Participants must accept temporary command and dispatch from Skydrive. Anyone who maliciously leaks intelligence during the mission will be removed from the subsequent mission chain, lose their Skydrive faction identity, have their Skydrive favorability reduced to 0, have their Skydrive faction cybernetic equipment deducted, and be listed on the Mars Red Name Wanted List.
[Task Rewards: Shared Reward Pool]
[Total Experience Pool: 150000 points!]
Experience rewards will be automatically distributed based on contribution, which can be derived from: holding off enemy fire, mitigating enemy attacks, disrupting communications, preventing enemy reinforcements, and safe withdrawal.
[Bonus Rewards]
① With the Skyward faction's reputation increased, all participants will receive a discount at the Skyward Cyber Clinic.
② Players with high contributions can receive free prosthetic installation at the Sky Drive Prosthetic Clinic.
③ The top 20 players will receive a special title: [Black Wall Breaker].
④ The top five players will receive additional high-level equipment.
[Failure Penalty: There is no mandatory failure penalty. You will be responsible for any consequences of death, capture, equipment damage, or identity record corruption during the mission.]
[Special Note: This is the Skyward faction's first large-scale raid quest. During the quest, please conceal your identity to avoid being identified by the Martian Church system. Failure to complete the initial disguise and resulting in your Martian identity being tracked may affect subsequent Covenant infiltration quest chains.]
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Zhang Qiming checked the task from beginning to end, then raised his hand and clicked the publish button.
[Should we release the large-scale faction raid quest: Bloodstained Armor?]
【Yes】
Next, he just needs to wait quietly for the two-hundred-person dungeon exploration team to take shape.
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Across Mars, especially inside and outside the Mariner Valley Manufacturing Corridor, players who were running quests, repairing their cybernetic bodies, leveling up their secondary professions, or disguising themselves as military errand runners and infiltrating the outer perimeter of the Covenant Army almost simultaneously heard a crisp notification.
【Ding--】
[The Skyward Faction's first large-scale raid dungeon quest is now open!!!]
[Large-scale Faction Dungeon Quest: Bloodstained Items]
[Currently available applicants: 0/200]
[Task Reward: A shared experience pool of 150000 points, distributed according to contribution!]
In an instant, the player who was queuing up to upgrade his cybernetic body at the Mariner Valley underground repair shop looked up. The player who was carrying ammunition boxes at the Covenant Army's logistics warehouse and doing daily quests almost dropped the box on his foot.
Most players' eyes lit up when they saw the quest details, especially the bright line of 150,000 experience points and extra rewards.
The player forums for the Homeworld world line instantly erupted in excitement.
[A large-scale D+ level faction dungeon, any brothers in Sailor's Valley planning to team up?]
[A shared prize pool of 150,000, distributed according to contribution... Isn't this first dungeon more advantageous for those big spenders in guilds? It seems like solo players without coordination will have a hard time clearing this dungeon.]
The prerequisites are a bit complicated. Are we really a terrorist organization?
[Those who meet the requirements should sign up quickly! There will definitely be hidden rewards for the first large-scale dungeon run. The Skyward faction is clearly the protagonist of the Homeworld timeline!]
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Sailor Valley, the third garrison area of the canyon industrial zone.
Players like those who prefer pounds, don't eat beef, and press ice without moving are naturally discussing the newly released base game.
The pound has now formed a fixed class of twelve, which he named [Ruby]. At this moment, the large lunchbox in the Ruby class is facing him, saying:
"Squad leader, shall we go for it?"
"A 200-player raid! It's the first large-scale raid ever for Skywalker. If we miss this, we won't even have a chance to brag about it on the forums later."
Pound Sterling looked at the task panel, but his brows furrowed.
The Ruby Class had just been formed, and not many of the twelve players actually met the prerequisites. After all, not everyone had as much experience as him in avoiding being marked as a red name.
If Ruby Class decides to take a chance, he has the connections and experience to obtain the necessary equipment.
With his current Skyward reputation, the access granted to him by the prosthetic clinic is much wider than that of ordinary players, so assembling a whole class of prerequisite equipment wouldn't be a problem at all.
Seeing that he hadn't spoken for a long time, I couldn't help but stir things up:
"Squad leader, you're not chickening out, are you? You're a Skyward Pioneer, lead the brothers and give it your all!!"
The pound looked up at him and a slight smile appeared on its lips.
"Stop being a coward, I'm calculating whether this vote is worth it."
As he spoke, he glanced at the rewards section again, his gaze finally settling on the lines "Discount at Skydrive Cyber Clinic" and "High-contribution players can receive free cybernetic installation".
Experience can be gained gradually, but the discount on prosthetics will affect the speed at which the Ruby Class will develop in the future.
Once the Legion War instance is truly launched, players will compete not only on level, but also on class combinations, cybernetic configurations, and team execution.
What the British pound wants most right now is to gradually complete the standard twelve prosthetic body parts for Ruby. Only in this way will they be qualified to get the first bite of meat in the large-scale battlefield later.
The bold get rich, the timid starve—he decided to pull off this job!
The pound closed the task panel and issued the order directly in the team channel:
"All members of the Ruby Class, assemble. Get all the prerequisites together by tonight. Anyone who is missing a facial perturbation prosthetic or an interference patch, come and report to me."
The twelve-person channel immediately erupted in cheers.
In the same garrison area, many other players saw that the British pound was preparing to start a raid and came over. Some wanted to register and earn contribution points, some wanted to join the team temporarily, and a few familiar faces directly called him godfather in the channel, saying that as long as he could be brought into the dungeon, they would let him take the first round of firepower in the dungeon.
They declined all offers of British pounds.
"This time, I'll lead the Ruby class first."
He spoke very frankly.
"My class has just been formed, so this is a good opportunity to practice our teamwork. I'm sorry, I have to get my own class strong first. If there's an opportunity in the future, I'll lead other classes to run dungeons together."
Upon hearing this, the surrounding players, though somewhat disappointed, did not press the matter further.
The British pound is now a pioneer of the Skywards, and the Ruby Squad is one of the earliest formed squads in the Third Garrison. He is going to lead his squad to fight the first large-scale raid, and no one can find fault with that.
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Meanwhile, another Covenant area in Mariner Valley was infiltrated by players.
The president of the Little Pony Express Guild, La Kuku, was sitting in the rest room on the second floor of the logistics warehouse. He looked to be in his mid-twenties, with a clean-cut face and steady eyes. He wore the Holy Covenant Army service jacket in a way that made it look like a temporary officer's uniform.
The vice president stood opposite him, in his early twenties, with a slender build and a perpetually smiling expression that seemed to be calculating accounts. He was also scrolling through the quest panel for the Bloodstained Item.
"President, this book is worth playing."
"Facial prosthetics, camouflage masks, camera jamming patches... these things are troublesome for solo players, but our guild is rich and powerful and can handle them completely. Most of the people in this Covenant Army block are from our Little Pony Express, and the most elite platoon of 48 people are all core members of the guild."
He paused, then pointed to the line indicating the maximum number of participants, and said to La Kuku:
"I suggest sending the elite platoon to run this dungeon. We can use this dungeon to practice the tactics and coordination that the guild has planned beforehand, and get familiar with the legion command gameplay."
Pull-up did not answer immediately.
He stared at the task panel for half a minute, his gaze sweeping back and forth between the shared prize pool, contribution distribution, subsequent task chains, and prerequisite disguise conditions.
After Pony Express heavily invested in Mars Line, it has poured a lot of resources into it. The Covenant Army's internal infiltration mission chain is currently their biggest foundation.
This large-scale duplication represents a huge opportunity for Pony Express.
A moment later, La Kuku raised his head.
"Let's fight then. Get the elite platoon all ready. Prioritize getting facial disruptor prosthetics and camera jamming patches from the guild warehouse. The cost will come from the guild account."
Shoukoukou nodded immediately, his fingers already starting to allocate resources in the guild management channel.
La Kuku stood up, walked to the window of the rest room, and looked down at the core players who were carrying ammunition boxes and repairing machine servants. His eyes gradually became serious.
Soon, the Little Pony Express guild channel started flooded with messages. The 48 elite players received a call-up notice one after another. The guild leader decided to lead the elite guild to tackle the first large-scale dungeon mission on Mars.
At this very moment, the top players in the Skyward faction are already gearing up for the Bloodstained Pieces dungeon.