Chapter 148: Arrival of the Four Emperors

[Level 0 user "Radiant Lights Shimmering Together Every Night" has subscribed to the "Emperor Nobility" tier in the current room, obtaining supreme noble privileges.]
[Level 0 user "May I Be Like the Stars and You Like the Moon" has subscribed to the "Emperor Nobility" tier in the current room, obtaining supreme noble privileges.]
[Level 0 user "Knowing When We Shall Meet Again in Yearning" has subscribed to the "Emperor Nobility" tier in the current room, obtaining supreme noble privileges.]
[Level 0 user "Hard to Express the Feelings of This Very Night" has subscribed to the "Emperor Nobility" tier in the current room, obtaining supreme noble privileges.]

Shocking!

Suddenly, four dazzling badge special effects flashed simultaneously across the live streaming room screen, blinding the metaphorical dogs' eyes of two million viewers. People exclaimed in surprise as they adjusted their screen brightness or shielded their eyes with their hands, shock etched across every face.

If the frantic subscription of over 3,000 nobles earlier had been astonishing, then the instantaneous subscription of four emperors left nothing behind but sheer awe.

Subscribing to Emperor Nobility required a one-time payment of 10 million credits!

More importantly,

Those four impeccably neat 7-character IDs belonged to none other than the fierce and renowned female players dominating Reborn Era!

Furthermore, nobody expected that these four female players were actually together.

Leaving aside the first two—one had slaughtered through Legend of the Tang Dynasty and made a prominent name for herself in the novice village, briefly dominating the top of the Bloody Leaderboard with staggering data; the other was a top-tier powerhouse holding the 5th spot on the overall Level Leaderboard!

The latter two were equally famous figures.

Knowing When We Shall Meet Again in Yearning: Three years ago, having just turned twenty, she had already carved out a terrifying notoriety as the "Black-Hearted Fairy" in Glacier Glory.

In the late-game phase of Glacier Glory, out of the one hundred most crucial large-scale battles—fought between players, between NPCs, and between players and NPCs—she participated in a full third of them, always playing a highly proactive strategist role. The faction she supported boasted a ninety percent win rate, and countless players had fallen into the traps she engineered. Countless guilds loved and hated her in equal measure.

Hard to Express the Feelings of This Very Night: The most famous "Hawk Master" in Glacier Glory. The three giant hawks of different species she kept possessed terrifying combat and reconnaissance capabilities, worth an entire army. Her notoriety for both scouting and assassination preceded her everywhere.

Just like that, four such women turned out to be in cahoots!

What shocked the audience the most—or rather, drove them into a frenzy of delight—was that they had actually subscribed to Emperor Nobility together in the stream of this idiot streamer!

What this implied went without saying.

"The Human talent is Focus, increasing hit rate by 10%; the Elf talent is Precision, increasing critical strike rate by 10%."

May I Be Like the Stars and You Like the Moon typed out a line of text, letting the dazzling special effects keep the words floating at the top of the chat interface for a full ten seconds before all four of them successively left the live streaming room.

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"You bastard, didn't you say there were no top 5 leaderboard players in this live stream? Care to explain what this hammer is?"

The previously adamant viewer was directly targeted by everyone. Even though he was cursed to a pulp, he didn't dare to talk back, feeling utterly defeated inside.

"I'm insane. Four emperors at once is no big deal on Starry Sky Live; big spenders are everywhere these days, and they've got money to burn. The key is that the ones activating the emperors are actually these four women, and they're a team! And the one they're supporting is this idiotic stream!"

"Looks like a major piece of news is about to drop! Back then, when my bastard friends heard I was watching a stream here, they looked at me with pure disdain. I'm going right now to fiercely slap them across the face."

"Stop babbling, brothers. Let's go spread the word and drag our friends and family over. Suddenly, I feel like this live streaming room has an insane amount of prestige!"

"Damn right. The bullet comments from these two million people managed to pull off the scale of a ten-million-viewership stream. That's just overpowered."

"The main point is that you can freely curse the streamer, understand? None of you bastards are grasping the main point! You probably just jab blindly at your wives in bed at night."

"What kind of nonsense are you spouting..."

Huang Yunshuo, who had resolved to "turn a blind eye to live stream affairs and farm dungeons after slaughtering chickens," had no idea what was happening. By this time, he had already returned to the small town, seeing along the way that all the monsters had respawned.

"Before the update, I didn't do the flag-capturing. Once I'm done with everything, I'll just head over to God of Law's Rise to farm some contribution points and exchange them for a few more town portal scrolls to carry on me. Relying purely on two legs to run everywhere is severely unfair to my Cloud-Walking Boots."

"Granny!"

Huang Yunshuo barged into the tailor shop and let out a loud shout, causing an old man behind the counter to instantly wear a gloomy expression.

"Damn it, why did the tailor shop hire an old geezer?"

Huang Yunshuo dryly laughed: "If I give you a little rooster feather..."

"Then I shall forgive your rashness, respected Champion Warrior!"

The old man, who had looked gloomy just a moment before, instantly switched to a smiling face.

Huang Yunshuo: "???"

What on earth are you saying, looking so pleased with yourself.

"If I give you 80 little rooster feathers, you'll give me a surprise, right?"

Huang Yunshuo asked again.

"Yes, yes, yes, absolutely correct!"

The old man was quite passionate and excited, even walking out from behind the counter to shake hands with Huang Yunshuo. Not to mention, that withered old hand had quite a bit of strength to it.

"Old man, are you sure you know what kind of surprise I need? Don't end up giving me something I can't use, or I'll demolish your shop, you hear me?"

Huang Yunshuo asked suspiciously.

"Rest assured, my shop has been here for many years. I've hosted anywhere from one hundred thousand to eighty thousand adventurers like you."

"???"

Unable to care whether this old man was reliable or not, Huang Yunshuo simply pulled out all the little rooster feathers in one go and handed them over. Considering this fellow would definitely skim some off the top, he didn't use a polite tone either: "Hurry up and make a surprise for me, you bastard!"

The old man scurried off to the back in a flurry, leaving Huang Yunshuo feeling increasingly uneasy.

Damn it, why is there an old man in the tailor shop? This isn't right.

In all known small towns, NPC roles for various positions were identical.

For example, if Stone Terrace Town had Wang Dachhmmer, then Cherry Terrace Town would have Li Dachhammer, and XX Town would have Gao Dachhammer—they were definitely vigorous and highly skilled strong men.

The tailor shop should be the same. Although he had only visited the tailor shop in Cherry Terrace Town, an old granny working there made complete sense. Now that an old man had popped up in Stone Terrace Town...

Surely tailor shops in all the towns wouldn't be staffed by old men, right? That artistic style would be way too bizarre.

Waiting here absent-mindedly all this time, Huang Yunshuo had no idea how upside-down and chaotic his live stream room had become.

Aside from the descent of the four emperors, another event had just occurred: the arrival of the Overlord's Glory sightseeing tour group.

The Overlord's Glory sightseeing tour group not only brought over four hundred guild members this time, but also brought countless players from Purple Lightning Thunder in a grand procession to gawk at the big shots.

Speaking of Purple Lightning Thunder, they had been badass ever since the first generation of Glacier Glory all the way until the supreme constitution announced the cessation of operations three years ago, boasting powerhouses like rain and elites like clouds.

Although a small fraction of fresh blood had been infused due to the passage of three years, it didn't affect Purple Lightning Thunder's combat effectiveness in the slightest.

At this point, Purple Lightning Thunder's core members had already occupied hundreds of player towns, with roughly one million players pouring into almost every town—similar to the approach taken by Anthem.

The only difference was that Anthem had a total of four million people, and Cherry Terrace Town was their sole main base.

Meanwhile, Purple Lightning Thunder had more people than they knew what to do with. Hundreds of towns were occupied, and this was even after the upper echelons desperately tried to get everyone to disperse and develop separately; otherwise, given Purple Lightning Thunder's numbers, let alone hundreds, even a thousand towns wouldn't be enough.

Yet, like all its old and new rivals, no matter how glorious its past had been, all its thunder had been stolen by a single person over the past few days.