Chapter 72: The Brave Fights the Demon King

Jiangning, Food Court.

It was evening and the square was crowded with people. The doors of all the stalls and shops were full of people, and the air was filled with the aroma of various delicacies.

Chen Ba, along with Dong Ge and Xiao Lu, walked into a restaurant called Jingzhou Authentic Grilled Fish, and saw Wang Kun, who had been waiting for a long time, at table 7.

"Why are you taking so long? Oh, right! Didn't Zhang Xiaojuan come with you?"

"I'm working on a DLC recently, so I'm quite busy."

After explaining the reason for being late, Chen Ba glanced at Wang Kun's disappointed expression and couldn't help but complain: "No, what do you mean by asking Xiao Juan alone instead of asking others?"

This kid has bad intentions!

He discovered this the last time the studio moved. Wang Kun probably liked Zhang Xiaojuan but was just too embarrassed to say it out loud.

During this period, A Kun often found various reasons to invite Chen Ba, Xiao Lu and others out for dinner. I'm afraid the invitation was fake, and the real purpose was to find opportunities to get in touch with Zhang Xiaojuan.

"If you want to date her, then go ahead!"

After all, they were good friends, so Chen Ba didn't hide anything and simply said frankly: "You keep inviting us here, but we are not very familiar with you. It's embarrassing to come again after a few times."

KunKun is a bit stupid.

I felt embarrassed to ask the girl out, so I found an excuse to ask her colleagues out to create opportunities for contact.

But this kind of dinner party is okay once or twice, but if it happens too many times, the girl will become shy and feel that the relationship is not that close, so she will naturally feel embarrassed to come again.

"It's like this..."

Yang Dong also noticed Wang Kun's intention towards Zhang Xiaojuan, and offered a suggestion: "Next time, don't ask us out, go ask her out directly. If she is interested in you, you can use this opportunity to cultivate feelings for her."

"What if she's not interested in me and can't make a date?" Wang Kun asked stupidly.

"Then try another way!"

Chen Ba held the menu with a speechless expression: "I don't understand why you like Xiaojuan? If I remember correctly, don't you like the cute and pure type?"

“She’s so cute when she smiles!”

"That's it?"

Chen Ba didn't expect that Wang Kun liked Zhang Xiaojuan for such a simple reason. Was it because she smiled cutely that he fell in love with her at first sight? "The girls my parents introduced to me were pretty, but I didn't like their personalities. I felt they were not the type of women who could live a down-to-earth life."

Beer was served, Wang Kun opened a bottle and said, "She is indeed not that pretty, but I like gentle and cheerful girls like her. I am very happy to be with her."

"Okay then, we'll try our best to help you."

Now that things have come to this, Chen Ba thinks he can try to bring them together. It's hard to say whether it will work, but he has to help his brother.

Dong Ge and Xiao Lu also expressed that they would act as wingmen and try their best to create opportunities for Wang Kun.

A man who eats someone's food is soft-hearted, and a man who takes someone's favor is thankless.

A-Kun treated everyone to so many meals, so it wouldn't be a big problem to help a little. But again, no one could guarantee that it would be 100% successful.

"Come on, come on, eat fish, eat fish!"

After getting assurances from several wingmen, Wang Kun was very happy and asked everyone to start eating quickly so as not to waste the delicious food on the table.

"By the way, Brother Ba!" While picking up food, Wang Kun asked curiously, "After finishing "Star Emperor", will you make a new game?"

“Yes!”

Chen Ba, who was eating with his mouth full of oil, said without raising his head: "Regarding the new game, Brother Dong and I have already discussed it. It will probably be an RPG adventure exploration game where a hero fights a demon king."

"The hero fights the devil?"

“That’s right!”

Before Chen Ba opened his mouth to speak, Yang Dong took the initiative to explain: "It may sound a bit old-fashioned, but it's not what you think."

“In the story background, the player will play the role of a summoned hero, obeying the king’s order to rescue the princess who was kidnapped by the devil…”

To be honest, this kind of old-fashioned story of a hero fighting a demon king is not very interesting and everyone is tired of hearing it.

But that shouldn't have mattered.

In adventure games, the important thing is the adventure process, not why you take the adventure. The hero goes to rescue the kidnapped princess just to lead to the subsequent adventure.

This is Tianba Studio's first attempt at this type of RPG adventure game.

To this end, Chen Ba also specially conceived a set of equipment and profession systems, as well as a complete framework of a Western fantasy sword and magic world.

“The game has multiple maps, and players need to explore them, recruit teammates to unlock more powerful equipment and advanced professions, and improve attributes to defeat the devil.”

The game content is quite rich.

Although it sounds like a mindless game of killing monsters, entering dungeons, improving character attributes and equipment, and finally defeating the devil.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

But that’s not actually the case.

The game has a high degree of freedom, and although the plot is very rough and concise, there is a lot of content for players to explore.

For example, the favorability system! There are multiple towns in the game, each with its own characteristics, some are dwarf gathering places, some are elf tribes...

In these town maps, there are a huge number of NPCs living. If the heroes are tired of defeating monsters, they can also chat with these NPCs.

When the favorability reaches a certain level, the NPC will follow the hero, and if the favorability is high enough, the hero can even marry the NPC.

"This is good, this is good!"

Wang Kun clapped his hands and said, "It seems like it would be nice to have a romantic relationship with an elf girl in another world."

"sure!"

Yang Dong smiled and said, "Don't even mention the elf girl. You can marry any duke's daughter, a dashing female swordsman, a cute female wizard, or a dwarf blacksmith."

"When the time comes, you will form a large harem group to defeat the Demon King, and show off your affection in front of him..."

In a game with a high degree of freedom, these are completely possible.

However, the core gameplay of this game is to recruit and train teammates. A brave man must have helpers to defeat the devil.

In most other games, teammates are assigned to the protagonist, which means that the members of the "brave team" are arranged in advance.

But their new game is different.

"I think that the teammates assigned to the heroes by the game developers cannot possibly match the wishes of every player."

Chen Ba swallowed a mouthful of grilled fish and said with a smile: "So in our game, there are no fixed teammates. Players can freely choose their favorite partners and embark on the journey to defeat the demon king together."

This is the core gameplay of the game.

Players can form the most satisfactory team of heroes according to their preferences, and then train them to fight the devil together.

You can form a team of brave warriors that are all cute elf girls, or a team of muscular men, or even a harem group...

There are no restrictions.

After NPCs join the brave team, you can collect and create equipment for them, promote them to specialized combat professions, and improve their various attributes.

Even if it's an old-fashioned village chief, a street vendor selling apples, or a tavern owner with a lame leg... after careful training, they can accompany you to defeat the devil! (End of this chapter)