This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 246 - 169: Unifying the Whole Zone? Unifying the Whole Server!
"Don’t Leave After School: Marble Storm" was initially designed as a multiplayer online casual party game.
What we mean by a party game refers to games like "Bean Man", "Overcooked", "Goose Duck Kill", and "Human Fall Flat".
The art style is quite cute and cuddly because, after all, they are elementary school students, so the characters also look quite adorable.
The game leans towards being casual!
It’s all about childhood nostalgia, gathering three to five friends for a team game of marbles, enjoying that feeling of childhood amid laughter and fun.
Yes...
Chen Ba swears to the heavens, that was his original thought and intention when he started.
But the result was beyond his expectations.
It was supposed to be a casual party game, focusing on relaxation and joyful play, but does the current game environment have anything to do with "casual"?
Casual?
If you have no ambition, and do not want to become the server ruler above all others, then you can play however you want. The game is indeed quite casual, not grindy nor pay-to-win.
But if you aspire to that throne of server dominance and want to experience turning official servers into private ones, then this game is far from casual.
It’s definitely a strategy game of power and intrigue!
And these power struggles are all player-versus-player, unlike other strategy games where you easily crush unthinking AI.
The players in this game are quite shrewd.
Everyone is an ambitious person, each with eyes on the "Principal’s" chair. To cut a path through in such an environment requires extraordinary courage and wit.
The game’s setting is in a primary school, with all the students being players.
Originally, everyone was just a student, playing as they wished, but once someone broke new ground by becoming a principal as a player, dominating server resources and players, everyone’s ambitions became uncontrollable.
Take Zone Three for instance.
Tianba Third Primary School was the first to ignite the flames of war and remains the most populated and frequently changing zone.
After Ghost Emperor’s downfall and exit.
A female player named [Cherry Pie Filling] indeed had the means, using black silk photos to rally a large group of loyal hitters.
She had permissions to grant benefits to her subordinates, showcasing substantial financial strength. She had permissions to mute dissenters and ambitious players, preventing them from speaking in the chat channels, which is a major advantage in the battleground of public opinion.
Combining these two points with her establishment of the "Cherry Forbidden Guard", she stands strong and exerts absolute influence in Zone Three.
But she is not without challengers.
With so many players in Zone Three, not everyone is her flunky. Where there’s oppression, there’s rebellion, with more than a dozen insurgent player factions.
The most sizable among them supports the restoration of [Ba’s Little Coquettish Wife] to power and the Dubhe Sect, which claims to fight in Ba’s name to end the chaos.
These factions are quite populous.
However, speaking of which, Empress [Cherry Pie Filling] learned from past lessons, actively capturing high ground in public opinion by posting in the Tianba Community, gaining support not only from hordes of flunkies but also a loyal batch of female players.
These insurgent factions are disjointed masses unless they unite, they simply can’t compete with the strong army of [Cherry Pie Filling].
"Zone Three is essentially concluded now!"
Chen Ba sighed, saying: "[Cherry Pie Filling] is really skilled; she’s rallied public support, with flunkies and female fans backing her, her position is firmly secured."
Unless betrayed or assassinated, Chen Ba couldn’t conceive any way she’d lose that position.
"Indeed!"
"At long last, chaotic Zone Three can take a breather."
Yang Dong nodded, saying, "But compared to Zone Five, this is nothing. Zone Five has a marble version of ’Romance of the Three Kingdoms’ going on."
"Zone Five?"
Hearing this term, Chen Ba was somewhat puzzled, asking: "What happened with Zone Five? From your tone, did multiple Permission Beads appear in Zone Five?"
"Yes, there are three in total!"
Yang Dong explained: "Because the Permission Beads appeared on the same day, these three players have essentially equal permissions within the server, with none able to surpass the others."
As the saying goes, the triangle is the most stable structure!
If there were only two Permission Beads, the two players would surely see each other as the biggest rival, fighting tooth and nail within the zone.
Or it could be like [Ghost Hunter] and [Cherry Pie Filling], where the weaker side waits quietly for the day the Dragon King rises...
But with three Permission Beads appearing simultaneously, and all three identities exposed, hiding was impossible, creating a very delicate situation.
When Player A developed significantly, with great national strength, meaning a high Marble Soul level, naturally the remaining Player B and Player C would ally.
We’re all from Hua Country, having learned the same lessons since primary school, the principle of "one lip falls, another tooth dies" couldn’t be unknown.
Thus, even though Zone Five had three factions, it turned out to be the quietest and most "peaceful" zone.
Don’t ask why; it’s all about balance!
Because none of the three Permission Players were able to unite the whole zone, they dared not claim the title of emperor like those in other zones, instead calling themselves kings.
The three of them had a special understanding.
When the titles of King Wei, King Shu, and King Wu reached the Tianba Community, players from other zones burst into laughter.
