I summoned the Fourth Scourge in Warhammer

Chapter 98: Outsiders want to get in, insiders suffer.

"What?" Upon hearing this, Ai Ge immediately jumped out of the game pod, took a few steps to Xiao Cai's side, leaned in, and said urgently, "Quick, quick, click in!"

The two brothers quickly finished reading the update post. After all, Bit never used flowery language; he always wrote in a straightforward manner and only needed to express himself clearly, so the post was not very long.

In summary, this update covers five key areas.

First, there's an upgrade to the accelerated thinking speed, jumping directly from 1:3 to 1:10. However, this requires entering deep sleep mode. In other words, before this update, players could exit the game by disconnecting their neural links, but that's no longer possible after this update.

If you want to enter the game, you must go to a deep sleep; if you want to exit, you can only find the exit button in the game, or there will be situations such as the game pod running out of nutrient solution or the power being unplugged.

Secondly, there is a change to the quest system. Previously, completing a quest would only reward you with merit points. After this update, there will be a chance to trigger a quest that includes items or skills as rewards.

Third, the store interface has been revamped. There is now a permanent lottery wheel in the store where you can randomly draw any item or skill. It is worth mentioning that the update did not mention the upper limit or lower limit of this wheel.

Fourth, a new trading market has been added, where players can list unwanted items to attract other players to buy them and exchange them for real merit points.

Considering that some players may have skills they don't need at all, Bit has thoughtfully prepared the "Skill Itemization" function. Simply put, it allows you to turn skills into corresponding skill books, while the original skill disappears. In this way, the skill book becomes an item and can be listed on the trading market.

So, once other players get this skill book, can they use it immediately? No, you can only directly master skills obtained through quests or the gacha system. A skill book is truly just a book that teaches you how to learn and use that skill…

Some might ask, what's the point of this setup? For Bit, extracting and injecting data from players should be a piece of cake. If he can do it once, why can't he do it a second time?

Bit could certainly do it a second time, but it didn't want to. For it, the first time it injected and retrieved data it had obtained in other worlds into the player was a process of observing, stabilizing, and strengthening itself, but a second time would be a pure waste of computing power.

Not to mention that once this trading market goes live, many skills will change hands multiple times. For Bitcoin, it is obviously not worthwhile to waste a lot of computing power repeatedly running programs that it already knows. So this seemingly abstract setting was born - if you want to master the skills you buy, you have to learn and practice them yourself.

This setup is obviously incredibly troublesome for ordinary players, but it may not be so for top players. The abilities they acquire through their own learning obviously offer more variety than the fixed routines directly provided by the system.

However, for ordinary players, skills are mostly unnecessary. Those things are clearly designed for elite special forces; for regular soldiers, a single artillery shell is far more practical. Currently, skills with the power of an artillery shell are extremely rare, but the number of towed artillery pieces has exceeded five hundred since Zhongchao began large-scale production resumption, and it continues to grow.

Fifth, the game's closed beta has now entered its final stage, with 1,000 slots available daily, with no upper limit. The official launch date, as stated in the post, is when the final two enemies—the Orcs and the Dark Eldar—are defeated and order restored to Pedithia. For the two brothers watching, the most important aspect of this update wasn't even the 1:10 upgrade to Mind Acceleration, but rather the launch of the trading market.

It's important to understand that those undergoing Astartes modification surgery are undoubtedly the "special forces" among the player community.

Moreover, both brothers are loyal fans of fighting and action games, and after entering the Warhammer world, what they enjoy most is the thrill of wielding a knife and hacking and slashing people, experiencing the visceral pleasure of punches and kicks.

Originally, they didn't expect to get classic moves from games like The King of Fighters, Dynasty Warriors, and Mortal Kombat, but the launch of the trading market gave them a glimmer of hope: they might not be able to get the skills they wanted, but with so many players, surely someone would get them.
For the two brothers outside the game, this update was incredibly exciting; but for Nguyen Van Bo, who was still in the game as the Commander of the Deathbringers, the experience was quite different.

First came the thousand new players who joined all at once, like a flood that came out of nowhere, instantly pouring into the camp of those going to their deaths.

Fortunately, the soldiers who went to their deaths had already established an effective organizational structure. The existence of the Military Committee acted like a sturdy dam, playing its role immediately. Without Nguyen Van Bo issuing detailed instructions, the various units spontaneously sprang into action, setting up their positions in the barracks square and launching a vigorous recruitment campaign.

"New guy! Like chainsaw swords? Like the thrill of beheading an alien with a single strike? Come over here!"

"For those with sharp eyesight, patience, and the ability to send enemies to their deaths from a kilometer away with a single shot, we need sharpshooters like you!"

"Lazybones who don't want to walk, look here! Airborne training course, learn it in one week! Let you experience what real ace air combat is like!"

Whether it's a tough guy who enjoys passionately hacking and slashing at enemies, a sniper who likes to deliver a fatal blow from the shadows, or a guy who longs to fly in the sky, they all quickly found their place in this noisy world.

There were even a few players who ignored all the companies' offers of service, walked straight through the crowd, headed straight for the foundry, found Redito who was adjusting the equipment, and piously expressed their desire to be his slave... no, his apprentice.

When Ruan Wenbo saw this, his lips twitched involuntarily. He really couldn't understand the thought process of these players. But then he thought, everyone has their own preferences, and he couldn't very well stop them. After all, an efficient production line was also crucial for those going to their deaths.

“Never mind,” Ruan Wenbo shook his head and muttered to himself, “Anyway, the Legion of the Dead is their eternal home, and they are welcome to come anytime.”

Even though the military committee took on most of the recruitment work, the subsequent logistical arrangements still took Nguyen Van Bo a whole day. Fortunately, the ratio of recruits to staff was increased to 1:10 after the thinking was accelerated. If it had been the original 1:3 ratio, with such things happening every three days, Nguyen Van Bo would have been unable to do anything but approve documents and fill out forms.

(End of this chapter)