All Novel Full Chapter 1107
Chapter 1107: Chapter 1017: It’s Really Launched!_1 Chapter 1107: Chapter 1017: It’s Really Launched!_1 “Buzz—Buzz—Buzz—”
The mobile phone was vibrating non-stop, seriously disrupting the peace of a good dream.
Ivan Ivanov, in the middle of a dream, tried to ignore the sound while his head was under the covers, but the vibration of his mobile had no intention of stopping.
Even if the call was disconnected after exceeding the time limit, it would ring again the next second, continuing to make a ruckus next to his head.
Ivan opened his eyes in pain, glanced at the clock on the bedside table pointing at 5:15 in the morning, and answered the phone in a terrible mood:
“Hello, who is this?”
You’d better have something important!
“‘Dark Soul’ is on sale!”
Ivan was so shocked that he took his phone away, saw that the caller was his loyal fan, and so he tried to make his tone softer—
“Ah, did your home just get internet?”
“Huh?
What do you mean?” The fan was a bit confused.
“I knew two hours ago!
It was an April Fool’s joke, Cloud Dream was messing around, and you fell for it.”
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“No!” The fan became anxious, “‘Dark Soul’ really is on sale!”“Huh?” Now it was Ivan’s turn to be confused, “Since when?”
“Just now!
10 minutes ago!
I’ve bought it already!” He bought the game but didn’t play it, instead he took the time to notify Ivan, proving that he indeed was a die-hard fan.
“!!!” Ivan was very surprised.
“Hurry up!” The fan hung up the phone immediately after speaking.
It was clear that he was also eager to play the game.
Ivan swiftly got up, put on his sleepwear, and hurried to start the console.
This night, countless players across Europe were woken up by their friends, informing them of this incredible news.
It was better for America, although the time difference was also outrageous, at least it was during the evening to midnight period.
Night owls had not gone to bed anyway, so they didn’t need to experience the frustrating episodes of [waking up at dawn]-[finding out it was a scam]-[going back to bed]-[being woken up again, realizing it was a double scam].
Players from Brazil, Mexico, and Canada quickly got the sale news, cheerfully starting their new journey.
Because America’s internet was suppressing and blocking topics related to “Cloud Dream”, it was impossible for players to get this information from the “open” internet, so their entry time to “Dark Soul” was generally slower than other countries.
This placed them at a disadvantage in the competition for the first to complete the “Dark Soul.”
The fastest to react was still Cloud Dream’s stronghold—Daxia.
The moment the [buy] button lit up, Daxia players had discovered it and purchased the game—it was still priced at 500 dollars, the standard price for major games.
Then, within just two minutes, the news about the official release of “Dark Soul” had stormed all major gaming forums.
A minute later, it was all over social networking sites.
Within five minutes, streamers had promptly received the information and completed all steps of purchase, download, and rushed into the new game.
——Well, except for Yi, who overslept and hadn’t woken up yet.
Those who had taken leave, even though it felt a bit wasteful, had no choice but to stay at home and play games.
They were all excited rushing into the game.
Their evaluation of Lincoln changed from “inhumane” to “not a good person, but at least not bad to the core”.
As for those who had indeed taken leave but found out they were tricked by Cloud Dream and returned to work under excuses such as “sudden recovery from illness,” “Uncle’s tumor was a misdiagnosis,” “Best friend/sister cheated before marriage, wedding was suddenly canceled”…
etc, they could only envy others playing the new game while regretting their decisions.
Chasing Wind Company’s HR, when everybody had already got into their work mode, suddenly ran into the middle of the office and announced loudly:
“Special leave is now in effect!
Those who want to take leave, can leave work now!”
“The time already worked will be counted as overtime!”
“Those who continue working, their pay will be calculated on the basis of a day-off overtime rate!”
The office instantly erupted in joy—
“Ohhhh!!!”
“The boss is awesome!!”
“Off work, off work!!”
…
At the same time, various media outlets were buzzing once again.
They never imagined that Cloud Dream’s grand spectacle would have a second act!
And it was only two hours apart!
It looked like they were just messing with everyone.
—No wait, considering Lincoln’s personality, they probably were messing with everyone…
The workers who couldn’t get into the game and the media who needed to scoop up the hot news and traffic all came to this conclusion in disbelief.
Then, the workers stormed Lincoln’s comment section, starting a furious rant.
The media, on the other hand, continued to work on their articles, correcting the errors in their previous reports and reporting the official release of “Dark Soul”.
Just like that, before the heat from the first “Dark Soul” headline went down, the second round of buzz kept it going.
It wasn’t until then that the “Chang’an” development team released an announcement, as if they had just come to their senses.
The gist of it was: Due to sudden technical issues, the release of “Dark Soul” had to be postponed by two hours.
Now that the issue had been resolved, they welcomed players inside the dramatically changed Divine Capital Luoyang to experience the new gameplay.
But absolutely no one believed such an outrageous reason.
The top liked comment in the comment section was: “Is the [technical issue] you mentioned named [Lincoln]?”
Even sassier was that the official “Chang’an” account even liked this comment.
Even though they unliked it soon after, probably trying to play it off as a slip of the hand, quick-eyed players took screenshots as proof and spread them everywhere, trying to stir a “storm within Cloud Dream”.
Unfortunately, the development team had already shifted their attention to the skyrocketing sales figures.
Lincoln and Xiaomeng had also switched to spectator mode.
—Going to work was out of the question, not just for today, but for the entire week, Lincoln wouldn’t be going to work.
“Don’t go out unless absolutely necessary” was his guiding principle for the coming week.
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Thankfully, with enough entertainment to last them, he and Xiaomeng had plenty to amuse themselves with—
Players from around the globe flooded into “Dark Soul”.
Just like in the closed beta, everyone’s journey started with a letter.
This time, however, as players read the letter, images also began to appear before their eyes:
Shirley received her master’s sword and set off on her journey alone after bidding him farewell.
Outside of the smoky divine capital, she released a white pigeon.
In the end, she turned back for one last deep look at the player, then proceeded straight into Luoyang City without any further hesitation.
The simple illusion came to an end here.
Next, it was time to board the clockwork airship, head straight for Luoyang City, and get to slaughtering!
In the first two chapters of “Chang’an”, there weren’t enough monsters and there were NPCs all around, making it easy to lose merit points, so the fights always felt less satisfying.
But now, looking at the trailer and live demo, Luoyang was simply teeming with monsters!
Finally, they could drop all their burdens and enjoy a good killing spree!
The closed beta players were preparing for the spectacle while also rushing towards Luoyang—they were also eager to finish the game since they hadn’t even finished the main storyline during the closed beta, and now their progress had been reset.
Super Tomato was intent on punishing those two handicapped BOSSes, then avenging Shirley.
Victoria’s intentions were much simpler—
During the closed beta, she had mainly played “Gravity”, only lightly dabbling in “Dark Soul”.
How lightly?
She hadn’t even fought the first BOSS…
So, her only thoughts right now were: She hoped the game difficulty had been lowered so that she could successfully rescue her sister.
—But unknown to her, Shirley had already been transformed into a Soul Core…
Not just her, but every player who came to Luoyang with big plans to slaughter and play the hero wouldn’t expect that Cloud Dream was about to deliver a double blow of [difficulty] and [plotline]!