Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1080: Chapter 995 Pandora, Blood flows like a river!

_1 Chapter 1080: Chapter 995 Pandora, Blood flows like a river!

_1 After checking the price of gold, Xu Shenghan began to imagine how he’d enjoy life with his wealth.

It took quite a while for him to come back to his senses due to the numerous calls from his live-streamer community, before he began to display the special effects of his achievements to his fans.

The first effect: [Underwater Breathing].

It is exactly what it sounds like, it allows one to breathe underwater.

This is the third special ability that has surfaced on Pandora so far.

The first one was [Phantom Wings] after killing the Phantom Dragon, the second was [Dim Vision] after killing an elite Death God Beast, and the third is [Underwater Breathing].

By the way, the achievement name gained after killing the Death God Beast is—

[Now, who is the real Death God?]

The second effect is essentially the summoning of skateboards, snowboards, surfboards, and the like – the main equipment for board-based sports.

You can use the initial items directly, or players can purchase similar equipment to replace them.

“This seems useful…” Xu Shenghan commented.

After all, manually crafting items is quite challenging.

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Xu Shenghan was able to sculpt a wooden surfboard because he had many years of surfing experience in reality, and he intimately understood surfboards.

If it was someone else – even experienced surfers, if they didn’t have a good understanding of surfboards, they would probably need a long time and lots of effort to create a decent one.

Moreover, this skill might be useful for other challenges as well, thus saving a lot of effort.

As for the final effect: [Heart of the Strong], Xu Shenghan was a bit baffled.

This effect came without any explanation, only having options to turn it on or off.

Xu Shenghan tried turning it on and off several times but didn’t notice any difference, so he temporarily put it aside and began chatting with his live-streamer community, soothing his excited mood:

“[Burst of Strength]’s 1/3 progress gives 1 special effect, while the complete progress of [Creatures of Water] gives 3 special effects.

Lincoln really is good at math.”

“Why is Eva staring at me again?

Does she have a crush on me?”

“Aren’t you guys going to surf?

Why are you still watching my live stream?”

…

Without him urging, the information of the two consecutive ultimate challenges, once made public, doesn’t just cause an uproar on the internet globally but also throws the virtual world into chaos.

Innumerable players get up in the middle of the night, log into the virtual world, and rush into Pandora.

An absurd number of players streaming into the forest at the same time lead to a serious problem – there aren’t enough Death God Beasts.

It’s known: the number of players greatly surpasses the number of Death God Beasts.

Furthermore: the challenge mission can only be accomplished by individuals, a group defeat doesn’t count towards progress.

Question: how to complete the [Burst of Strength] challenge?

For a kind-hearted person with high moral character, this might be a huge problem.

But for the Fourth Calamity, it’s easily resolved—

Too many players?

Just kill off some!

As long as I defeat my competitors, the prey is mine!

It might be tough to kill a Death God Beast, but players are easy kills.

With everyone regularly killing each other, they’ve almost mastered it.

What’s more absurd is: as players recklessly search for the Death God Beasts, their activity area rapidly expands, which leads to frequent encounters and conflicts among players from different countries.

Killing each other within their country, they have nothing to say.

If they lose, it’s just because they’re not skilled enough.

They accept defeat and will fight again the next time they meet.

But if they’re killed by foreigners, that’s annoying.

What to do when that happens?

Call for backup, of course!

Thus, the conflicts intensify further…

…

Compared to [Burst of Strength] which has limited resources and brings about intense conflicts among players, [Creatures of Water] is much more peaceful.

There’s not much to compete for, the brave and fearless can surf together.

But the question is: where do the surfboards come from?

Also: how to chase the giant waves?

The giant waves won’t wait for you to come and surf them.

In reality, surfers often rely on water scooters or speedboats to help chase the giant waves.

Xu Shenghan relied on his tamed Yikaran Flying Dragon.

But taming a flying dragon is a difficult task, and very few players have succeeded.

Most people have to resort to smuggling themselves from the stratosphere with surfboards, gambling their luck to land directly in the area where the giant waves appear.

Such a reckless way of playing has a frighteningly low success rate.

Most people either die instantly or fail to catch the giant wave.

Those who own flying dragons simply start slicing their surfboards on the spot, then ride their flying dragons towards the giant waves.

Then they meet their end in the sea.

…

That night, Pandora was a river of blood.

But until Lincoln woke up the next day, no one else had completed the [Ultimate Challenge].

When Lincoln woke up, he was hit by a flurry of news ——

[Mobile ball], [Titan Manufacturing], [Closed beta leakage], [Ultimate Challenge]…

Especially the content related to [Ultimate Challenge], it was so much that it was scary.

He stared in shock at Mavis, “Death surfing?

It was completed yesterday?”

“Yes!” Mavis nodded, “It was Xu Shenghan.”

“Is this guy that strong?” Lincoln was deeply impressed.

He couldn’t even complete the eight challenges without cheating, so he had deep respect for anyone who could.

But——

“Wait!

Is the trophy ready?”

“No.” Mavis shook her head.

She saw Quentina’s message to Lincoln early in the morning —— As soon as Quentina saw the challenge completed, she immediately rushed the goldsmith, asking them to speed up and produce a trophy!

“Hmm…” Lincoln thought, “Why don’t you help me find his number and we can ask Xu Shenghan?

What if he wants cash or a gold brick?”

“No problem!

Leave it to Mavis!”

Xu Shenghan was an anchor for Cloud Dream, and his phone number was naturally registered.

Seeing that it wasn’t too early, Lincoln dialed directly.

“Brrr——Click!”

“Hello?”

The phone only rang once before it was quickly picked up.

Lincoln was a bit surprised and said with a smile, “Hello, this is Lincoln.

I didn’t expect you to pick up so quickly.

I thought you would be so excited that you wouldn’t be able to sleep until late last night, and the phone would ring for a long time before it would wake you up.”

On the other end of the phone, Xu Shenghan’s eyes were bloodshot: “You’re right, I couldn’t sleep – I still can’t sleep.”

“Ahem, well, let’s get to the point quickly so you can rest,”

“No, no,” Xu Shenghan shook his head repeatedly, “Boss, you’re my idol.

Let’s chat a little longer, I can handle it.”

“Haha,” Lincoln laughed loudly, “Health is more important.

Let’s get to the point first.

Do you want the trophy, the gold brick, or shall I convert it into cash for you?”

“Trophy!” Xu Shenghan responded without hesitation.

“Are you sure?” Lincoln asked again, “The trophy can’t be spent directly.”

“Sure!” Xu Shenghan was resolute.

No matter how foolish he was, he knew that the [Pure Gold Commemorative Trophy] was worth more than plain [Pure Gold].

The trophy melted into gold bars was indeed worth more than ten million, but the trophy itself might be worth more —— potentially several million more, or even doubled!

Xu Shenghan was not short of money now, so he decided to keep the trophy and not rush to cash it.

After all, the value of pure gold could not be lost, it was completely possible to bet on a significant increase in value.

“Alright,” Lincoln nodded, “then the trophy it is.”

“You’re generous, boss!” Xu Shenghan immediately gave him a compliment.

“But the trophy isn’t ready yet, you’ll have to wait a few more days to get it.” Lincoln explained the situation.

“Understood, no problem.” Xu Shenghan nodded in understanding.

Before hanging up the phone after talking, Lincoln suddenly remembered one more thing, “By the way, before you get the prize, remember to prepare about two hundred million.”

“Huh?” Xu Shenghan was confused, “Why?”

Paying 200 million before receiving the prize?

It sounded like a scam.

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“For tax,” Lincoln explained, “I’m not very familiar with this area either, but I guess carrying 25 kilograms of gold home might not be tax-free…”

“What?” Xu Shenghan was completely baffled.

He had heard of prize money being taxed, but he had never heard of trophies being taxed!

But after thinking about it, it seemed to make a lot of sense considering that this was a trophy worth tens of millions…

“So, you mean, if I want to bring the trophy home, I have to empty out my cash, and even borrow some?”

——His net worth was certainly not low, but net worth and cash are two different things!

Xu Shenghan was left with a headache.

Lincoln, on the other hand, had already calmly hung up the phone and went downstairs to eat breakfast.

After breakfast, he had to go to the laboratory and do some prep work.

By tonight, “Dark Soul” and “Gravity” would be starting their closed beta, and he had to be fully prepared to sort out the Hibernation Warehouse perfectly in the afternoon, so as not to delay his enjoyment of the evening show.

He could hardly wait to see the surprised faces of the players!