Day 8 of Water Blue Star's invasion of another world.
Sakura Island Novice Village No. 6, weather: clear.
Northwest wind level 3, temperature: 4,500 degrees Celsius.
The entire novice village was full of familiar faces.
Su Nian had been spewing dragon breath in Sakura Island Novice Village No. 6 for more than two hours.
Of course, he wasn't continuously breathing fire the whole time.
After all, even with rapid recharge, his dragon breath still had a cooldown period.
Moreover, condensing dragon breath consumed physical energy.
This meant that after breathing fire for a while, Su Nian had to fly to nearby plains or oceans to devour something.
The entire ground of Sakura Island Novice Village No. 6 had crystallized. Dense smoke filled the sky as mushroom clouds rose and dispersed, transforming into black and green-tinged storm clouds.
Su Nian circled within these dark clouds.
Appearing and disappearing intermittently.
Now, the players of Sakura Island Novice Village No. 6 were caught in a death loop.
This was because the entire novice village was covered in cyan magma. Every time a Sakura player respawned, they would land in magma and instantly be incinerated.
Su Nian silently watched from the sky.
The respawn rate of Sakura players was becoming increasingly slower.
Until at one moment.
All players in Sakura Island Novice Village No. 6 entered respawn waiting.
A system notification suddenly appeared before Su Nian's eyes.
[Congratulations, host has destroyed a novice village]
[Sakura Island Novice Village No. 6 has been erased from the map]
[Congratulations, host has obtained Novice Village Core Fragment x1]
[All players from Sakura Island Novice Village No. 6 will respawn randomly at other novice villages, locating...]
"Wait, these Sakura players can still respawn?"
"How did I manage to destroy the novice village?"
Su Nian was bewildered and was about to fly down to investigate.
Suddenly, he heard Anna's light cough behind him.
It was probably because the gunpowder smell was too strong here.
Since this novice village was already destroyed, there was no need to stay.
In Su Nian's heart.
Anna's health was definitely more important.
With this thought, he didn't linger and flew a bit farther away, carrying his confusion with him.
[Ding! Locating complete, Sakura Island Novice Village No. 6 players' newest respawn location is Sakura Island Novice Village No. 1]
Su Nian: "..."
Should he consider these Sakura players lucky?
Or unfortunate?
Random allocation and they all ended up at Village No. 1.
After a moment, he gradually came to understand.
One of the conditions for destroying a novice village must be putting all players into respawn waiting.
The system provided a detailed explanation.
[Complete destruction of player settlements (villages, towns, cities, countries) requires meeting two conditions]
[Condition One: All buildings in the player settlement must be destroyed]
[Condition Two: No players belonging to the settlement can be alive within a 5-kilometer radius]
Su Nian pondered for a moment and realized that these two conditions seemed simple but were actually quite stringent.
First, the novice village buildings were extremely durable.
Despite being a fourth-tier dragon, it took him a full hour to burn down these novice village buildings, and this was just the most basic novice village.
As players developed, they would surely build towns and cities. By then, who knew how formidable the defenses of those buildings would be.
Second, all players belonging to the settlement had to be eliminated.
Though there was a range limitation.
It was still annoying.
Players weren't fools; they wouldn't just stay put in their territory. Trying to eliminate them all at once was too difficult.
This revealed that the entity who digitized the world greatly favored players. The two rules were designed to protect novice villages—truly unfair clauses.
However, this wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
If novice villages weren't destroyed, players would continue to respawn there.
Rather than jumping to other novice villages like today.
This made it more convenient for him to farm them.
Thinking this way, Su Nian's frustration instantly cleared.
After all, he was a major consumer of system points.
Wasn't it a good thing if players could freely farm for him?
But it seemed that destroying a novice village also gave a special item.
"System, what exactly is this Novice Village Core Fragment?"
"What's it used for?"
[Collecting four Novice Village Core Fragments can condense into a pure Village Creation Token, which the host can use to establish their own faction]
"That's it?"
Su Nian laughed when he heard this.
He had kobold master builders under his command, and they reproduced rapidly. Why would he need a Village Creation Token? This thing wasn't even worth being called a chicken rib.
[Please don't underestimate the Village Creation Token]
[As the host has seen, player novice village buildings have extremely high defense]
[This is because they contain a trace of rule power]
[If the host possesses a Village Creation Token, they can also construct such fortified buildings]
[Furthermore, buildings influenced by the Village Creation Token have many special functions, such as easier relocation, more efficient construction speed, etc.]
[And, as the town level increases, the host will gain more permissions]
The system rattled on like an insurance salesperson, blabbering a whole bunch of information, just short of plastering "you're an idiot if you don't use it" on his face.
And the tone was so urgent, even a bit resentful—what was that about?
Su Nian scratched his chin, thinking that perhaps this so-called Novice Village Core Fragment was something the system had painstakingly extracted?
After all, there were the words "pure" in front.
The implication was that the players' power had been stripped away.
Su Nian felt he had discovered the truth.
No wonder only one fragment could be obtained from each novice village.
And no wonder the system was so anxious.
After all, its efforts seemed to be undervalued by the host—how could it not be anxious?
"Then what are we waiting for, system-chan? Let's go slaughter a few more villages today and grind out the monster village that belongs to me."
Su Nian pulled up the map and began looking for other novice villages closest to him, but the system stopped him.
[Host, this system does not recommend doing so]
[Continuously destroying novice villages will greatly increase the host's exposure level. Too high an exposure level will mark you as a World BOSS, revealing your coordinates and level. With the host's current strength, it may be difficult to resist tens of thousands of players]
Upon hearing this, Su Nian immediately closed the map.
It wasn't that he was scared.
Mainly, he had no interest in becoming a World BOSS.
However, this exposure level concept did fit the status quo of the otherworld.
Dragons, after reaching adulthood, would plunder treasures, expand territory, and wage wars.
Evil chromatic dragons would even engage in city massacres.
During this process, their fame would grow increasingly louder, subsequently attracting numerous dragon slayers.
But in this world.
This kind of exposure was called reputation or legend level by human adventurers.
Su Nian didn't want to confront all players so early.
Nor did he want to be labeled as a World BOSS.
Even a barbed tail could figure out what would happen after being marked as a BOSS with exposed coordinates.
Those maniacs who kill anything with a red health bar would definitely travel thousands of miles to his dragon's nest to play house with him. """
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