Regular users finally breathed a sigh of relief; otherwise, if things continued like this, they wouldn't be able to clear even a single five-star map, and the game would be unplayable.
I don't know if Summer got tired of playing or disliked the game's low difficulty, but after completing all the maps and winning all the rewards that year, she just disappeared.
Later, the team-up feature was introduced. Many experienced players, after watching the amazing skills of the pro players, were hoping to ask them to team up and help them out, but unexpectedly, the pro players never logged on again.
However, the legend of the master player single-handedly clearing the game with god-like predictive ability and insane hand speed has been passed down.
Shi Qian thought for a moment and realized that he had only played this game during the few months he was on leave from school in the second year of junior high. After he recovered and returned to school, he never logged in again.
Unexpectedly, I received a notification today, and Shi Qian opened the message interface to take a look.
Shi Qian's private messages were already flooded with friend requests, and she couldn't keep up, so she simply ignored them all.
The game now only has six more five-star maps in three years compared to when he played it, whereas back then the game development team released more than six maps in just three months.
It's not entirely the game development team's fault. They did conduct research and online testing, planning to release one five-star map per month, since the difficulty is quite high and most people might not be able to complete one map in six months.
Who would have thought they'd encounter Shi Qian, who seemed to have cheated, completely disrupting the development team's plans and accelerating the pace of new map additions.
However, there aren't many five-star maps in the game right now, but there are quite a few maps of other star levels, since most people can't get five stars.
Shi Qian skipped the low-star areas and directly opened the five-star map interface.
Deep Sea Continent is a holographic game that requires a lot of strategy and fast reflexes. Currently, there are a total of 1726 maps in the entire server, including 18 five-star maps, 56 four-star maps, 108 three-star maps, 372 two-star maps, and 1172 one-star maps.
New players can farm equipment and upgrade skills on lower-star maps to advance to higher-star maps. Each map has a varying number of monsters; the higher the map's star rating, the higher the monster level and the greater the game difficulty.
As players level up, they can choose to team up for raids, with rewards distributed internally.
Because of its generous rewards and challenging gameplay, the game has attracted a large number of players and even developed into a professional esports team.
In the game, Shi Qian's class is a swordsman, which emphasizes attack speed and movement speed, requiring players to have good eyesight and hand speed.
Shi Qian stretched his wrists, put on the holographic helmet, ignored the constant pop-up notifications and the barrage of world information on the forum, and went straight into the map.
Before each map is opened, there will be a monster weakness prompt screen for about 15 seconds for reference. Different monsters have different fighting methods. If you can't effectively hit the weak points, no matter how many attacks you have, they will be wasted and will only consume your own stamina.
The difficulty of the five-star map lies in the fact that the monsters here are completely random and there are a great variety of them. There are no hints when you open the map, and it is impossible for an ordinary person to remember the weaknesses of all the monsters.
In addition, the percentage of players who can clear five-star maps is not large, and it is already difficult to clear them without any hints. Furthermore, the high-level monsters that you encounter this time may not appear in the next map, and even if you clear the same map, the high-level monsters will be different each time you open it.
Not to mention memorizing the monsters' weaknesses, so there are no game guides online like those for low-star maps that have been thoroughly analyzed by players. Everything can only be figured out by players themselves in the game.
Shi Qian spent an entire afternoon completing all six newly released five-star maps with zero damage taken and a perfect score.
A system notification popped up on the forum:
[Congratulations to player summer for clearing map #13 with five stars]
[Congratulations to player summer for clearing map #14 with five stars]
[Congratulations to player summer for clearing map #15 with five stars]
[Congratulations to player summer for clearing map #16 with five stars]
[Congratulations to player summer for clearing map #17 with five stars]
[Congratulations to player summer for clearing map #18 with five stars]
The forum exploded the moment the announcement was made!
[Holy crap! What's going on? What did S-God do this time?!]
[Holy crap! Is there a bug in the system, or am I blind?]
[Awesome! They took down six five-star maps in one go! I've never seen so many in my entire life!]
[This is terrifying, everyone! What's going on? Has the difficulty of the five-star map been lowered?]
Many new players who didn't know Summer before were spamming the forums.
Who is Summer? She seems really impressive!
[Yeah, yeah, this is the first time I've seen someone clear a five-star map without taking any damage! Holy crap, that's terrifying!]
Me too. I only got three stars, and I was just barely making it by using a guide.
Wow, that's amazing! Is Summer a boy or a girl? I really want to meet this amazing person!!!
[Don't even think about it, upstairs. S-God isn't someone you can just get to know so easily. I sent him hundreds of private messages before, and guess what? Not a single one replied!]
[Pshaw, who's the person upstairs? You think S-God will reply to your private message?]
[Exactly! Our whole dorm sent S-God private messages asking to team up, just for good luck, hehe.]
[However, the expert is probably a girl. I remember once when she was opening a map, she accidentally forgot to turn off her voice, and her voice was very nice! But she sounded quite young.]
[It sounded like a girl. I heard it too that time. She was so gentle and sweet. It seemed like Summer's mom was calling her down for dinner, and she was rushing to reply. She was so cute.]
...
The forum was buzzing with discussion, and Shi Qian's appearance had piqued the curiosity of all the players in the game.
Veteran players know Shi Qian's skill level and are used to him breaking through six maps in one go. After all, the world of a master is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people like him.
The screen was filled with replies of respect, admiration, guidance, and awesomeness.
For the newbies, seeing such a grand scene for the first time is a thrilling experience. Usually, when a player clears a five-star map, the forum gets excited and shouts "Awesome!"
Now, someone has cleared six five-star maps in one go, and the forums have exploded.
After finishing the game, Shi Qian took off his helmet and stretched his whole body. It had been a long time since he had played this game. When he played before, he wasn't in good health and could only play for a short while each day, so it would take him several days to finish a map.
Although I wasn't feeling well today, I still relied on my mental focus to control the holographic helmet. Shi Qian's mental state was much better than it was a few years ago. After completing six maps in one go, I only felt a little tired after taking off the helmet.
He knew nothing about the discussions on the forum, since he played games to relax and didn't usually pay attention to forum messages.
Shi Qian got sleepy while playing and went straight to bed without even logging out of the account.
He had just fallen asleep when a new message popped up in his game's private messages:
[S God, are you interested in joining our Island Whale Club?]
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