Elf Kingdom: Game of the World Tree-Chapter 46 - : Red Name Mechanism (Please Vote for Recommendation!)
Chapter 46: Chapter 46: Red Name Mechanism (Please Vote for Recommendation!)
Editor: Henyee Translations
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“Tch—”
Fried Tomato spat regretfully and withdrew his wooden sword, his expression just as displeased.
Li Mu quickly pieced everything together. He suppressed his anger and forced himself to say calmly,
“If you leave now, I can pretend nothing happened.”
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The game differed from reality.
Compared to the real world, where morality and law bind people, the game world was much freer and more unrestrained. It was also easier to stir the other side of human nature.
Three hundred players couldn’t possibly all be united.
With 26 Divine Blood Crystals, amounting to 20,800 contribution points, this was worth at least 20,000 RMB in the early game.
It was unsurprising that someone would be willing to risk it.
However, it was clear that this player named Fried Tomato was not prepared to confront all the beta testers. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have used his ultimate skill immediately, hoping to kill Li Mu with one strike before he noticed him.
Elf Kingdom really was different from other virtual MMORPGs.
In this nearly 100% realistic game, “one-hit kills” were not uncommon.
Although the probability was low, as long as the timing was right and the vital point was hit, even a lower-level player could one-hit higher-level monsters.
While this differed from typical game mechanics, players thought it felt more realistic.
This also made Elf Kingdom’s combat more dramatic and engaging.
Outsmarting sometimes mattered more than just comparing stats.
At least, this was true when level differences weren’t too significant.
Fried Tomato dared to attack Li Mu based on this factor.
If Li Mu were killed unknowingly, he couldn’t explain the Divine Blood Crystals, and Fried Tomato would naturally steal all the boss treasures smoothly.
Unfortunately, he underestimated Li Mu’s reaction time, and his assassination failed.
The two were at a deadlock in an instant.
Li Mu wasn’t a combat-oriented profession. As a support-type Druid, he hadn’t drawn any attack skills so far.
In Elf Kingdom, skills were powerful, especially those granted by Eve.
If natives of Segus learned skills, they’d go through recognition, practice, familiarity, and mastery…
But Eve’s granted skills were different.
She connected with player consciousness, directly imprinting the method of skill release into their minds and assisted their skill deployment through the game system.
For players, this meant a 100% skill proficiency.
This meant the skill’s effect far exceeded standard damage.
Therefore, Li Mu didn’t have the confidence to win one-on-one against Fried Tomato, a warrior.
As a commander, everyone knew his skills, and he wasn’t confident he could escape from Fried Tomato’s grasp if a conflict broke out.
If Li Mu remembered correctly, this Fried Tomato was quite the expert among the three hundred players. Apart from Boxed Lunch, few were more skilled than him.
*Despite being furious, Li Mu could only try to stall for time and persuade the player in front of him,*
“Fried Tomato, I can more or less guess what you’re thinking. I’m not going to comment on anything else, but since you didn’t kill me right away, there’s no point anymore. I think… you don’t want to be at odds with the other 71 beta testers, right?”
Appropriate threats were necessary.
Of course, hope should be given too.
“So, again, if you leave now, I can pretend nothing happened.”
Li Mu said calmly.
Fried Tomato’s expression shifted slightly, and he seemed to struggle for a moment before sneering,
“So what? It’s just a game. This is only a beta; even if I offend seventy players, getting 20,000 contribution points is worth it. The open beta hasn’t started yet. As an online game, faction wars will happen sooner or later. I never intended to keep playing house with you…”
“Moreover…”
He said, as his expression turned slightly playful,
“It’s just the two of us here. Even if I kill you, what evidence do you have that it was me?”
Upon hearing his words, a hint of disdain flashed across Li Mu’s face, but it quickly turned grave.
Fried Tomato was right. Only the two of them were here. If he was killed, he had no evidence to point out it was Fried Tomato.
He was only a temporary team commander and hadn’t truly established his prestige.
Moreover, Fried Tomato seemed so fearless that he probably had a backup plan.
*He likely wasn’t alone, or…* he had probably already set up an alibi before coming for the attack.
By then, as long as he adamantly denied it, there would really be no way to explain it…
*Damn it, doesn’t this game have a red name mechanic?*
At this moment, Li Mu couldn’t help but complain inwardly.
“Haha, stop stalling for time. Let’s have a quick fight.”
Fried Tomato let out a mocking laugh, raised his wooden sword again, and charged with the skill [Charge] toward Li Mu.
Li Mu’s face changed as he hurriedly sought the cover of a tree while beginning to chant a spell.
However, his skill wasn’t instant-cast, and he was still a step too slow.
Fried Tomato’s slash disabled the arm holding Li Mu’s magic wand.
Blood spurted everywhere.
“Heh.”
Seeing a quarter of Li Mu’s health bar drop instantly, the corner of Fried Tomato’s mouth curled up slightly.
However, before he could continue attacking, a system prompt suddenly appeared in all the players’ views…
[Warning! Warning!]
[Player “Fried Tomato” has maliciously attacked player “Li Mu” and has been judged as a junior red-name player.]
[Junior red-name penalty: Under this status, experience point gain reduced by 50%, contribution point gain reduced by 50%, can be attacked by all players. Items seized under red-name status will be forcibly returned to the original owner upon death.]
[Junior red-name penalty lasts until death. Ignoring perfect resurrection count, level forcibly lowered by 1 upon first red-name death, banned for 24 hours.]
[Current kill bounty: 50 contribution points]
Fried Tomato: …
Li Mu: …
Did Elf Kingdom have a red-name mechanic?
Of course it did.
As an old MMORPG player, Eve could never forget this point.
When Fried Tomato attacked Li Mu, she was watching.
With 26 Divine Blood Crystals, the conversion to divine power was conservatively estimated at at least 35 points. Such immense wealth worried her about any mishaps.
Had it not been for not interfering with the game’s mechanics, she would have directly reclaimed the Divine Blood Crystals from Li Mu.
So, when Li Mu left Feilengcui, Eve was always monitoring his movements, but she didn’t expect to see such a spectacle.
Eve felt quite disdainful toward Fried Tomato.
Though if he took the Divine Blood Crystals, he’d eventually sacrifice them to her, he broke the game rules.
At a certain moment, Eve even thought about just banning the guy permanently.
However, as the game GM, she needed to consider more things…
The game was different from reality, and players couldn’t all be united.
In society, countless laws, rules, and morals bind human life, maintaining a proper functioning society.
However, this also stripped humans of some freedom feelings, especially the release of certain biological instincts, desires, greed, violence…
Conflict and war accompanied human history, and the genes for killing and destruction lie within humans, even though civilization has dulled humans’ edges, making them more moral. The darker side hasn’t been completely erased.
These traits wouldn’t show up when rules were in place, but once rules vanished, they’d quickly be exposed.
Games easily brought out this other side of human nature.
Games don’t adhere to real-world rules!
Moreover, for many players, indulgence in games became a means of entertainment.
But Elf Kingdom was more than just a game!
So, if Eve wanted players to listen, rules had to bind them too.
Eve’s chosen rule… was the red-name mechanic!
The criteria were player “malice” and the extent of harm.
Of course, this limitation had to be appropriate; it shouldn’t discourage players while maintaining some order.
This wasn’t just for player order but for preparing for the Elf Clan’s return.
Eve didn’t want to see her followers become players who treated elves like grass and acted recklessly!
After all, you could never predict players’ standards.
