Chapter 1486 Carnival

Seeing the announcement, all players naturally clicked on it to view the details, wanting to see how much revelry this event named Carnival would bring.

As soon as they entered the Carnival's homepage, they saw a dark, gloomy ghost staring at them, accompanied by the sound of eerie wind. Players with weaker hearts almost had theirs leap out of their throats. In the scorching summer, a chill rose from the bottom of their hearts.

Summer Carnival: Hundred Ghosts Parade!

The bright red words then jumped out. At this time, the players had no festive mood. This event was clearly meant to create a terrifying atmosphere, right?

Looking at the event details further, the content was simple: catching ghosts. It was somewhat similar to catching Christmas thieves during the Christmas event a couple of years ago, except this event was planned in more detail and was more complex, as it wasn't just dealing with a holiday.

The Hundred Ghosts Parade event would last a week. The system would release a certain number of big and small ghosts every day, and the players just had to find and kill them. The ghosts themselves had a chance to drop experience, money, materials, equipment, and other rewards. As for the higher-end rewards, that would naturally be Glory's consistent style: leaderboards.

The leaderboard statistics weren't just based on the number of ghosts killed. The released ghosts could grow. In the process of killing players, their power would continuously increase. The more powerful the ghost, the more points players would receive when it was killed. The leaderboard statistics were based on these points.

In the normal servers, there were detailed level divisions, while in the Heavenly Domain, it was simple. There was only one level range: Level 75. In addition to the points leaderboard, there were also various achievement leaderboards, similar to first clears in dungeons. Only the first person to complete it would be qualified to receive the achievement reward.

Experienced players understood after a few glances. Glory's events were never too complicated. The characteristic was competition. Only the rewards obtained through competition were the most generous. As for relying on killing ghosts to get drops, that was just a participation award.

Although ordinary players certainly wouldn't expect to be at the top of the leaderboard, Glory's tradition was to tie the final rewards to the leaderboard rankings. No matter what your ranking was, there would always be a reward corresponding to your ranking, so everyone would try their best to compete. Squeezing a few more places forward on the leaderboard would result in a slightly more generous reward.

July 7th, the second Monday of July this year, was the day the Hundred Ghosts Parade event began. When the system maintenance was completed and the players logged in, they found that the entire Glory world, like the event's homepage, had become gray. The sky was covered with dense, impenetrable dark clouds, with no sunlight and no rain. The whole world was immersed in a gray gloom.

There were no ghosts yet. The first wave of ghosts would refresh at 7 p.m. tonight, and every day at 7 p.m. would be the time for the daily ghost refresh.

In the gray world, players continued to do what they did every day, looking forward to 7 p.m.

At 7 p.m., the entire Glory world suddenly rang with the sound of bells. No matter where they were in the world, even in dungeons, the bell would accurately reach everyone's ears. After seven rings, the system released a bright red announcement with only four words: Hundred Ghosts Parade.

"Ah!!!" In a certain main city, a scream pierced the sky. A female Swordsman character backflipped four times in a row, but still couldn't shake off the chase of a pile of wooden barrels in front of her. This pile of wooden barrels was originally just an ordinary decoration on this street. Players walked past them every day and didn't pay much attention to them. At most, some bored players would step on them and jump around.

But now, as soon as the Hundred Ghosts Parade announcement came out, this pile of wooden barrels suddenly seemed to come alive.

The female Swordsman player was still leaning against this pile of wooden barrels, vigilantly waiting for the ghosts to refresh, but she didn't expect that there would suddenly be movement behind her. She turned her view and saw that the pile of wooden barrels behind her were all alive, able to bend and twist. When she turned around, a few of the wooden barrels even lifted their lids, looking as if they were about to swallow her.

The female player screamed and retreated quickly. When the surrounding players noticed this, they saw a pile of wooden barrels chasing after the female player. The female player couldn't avoid them, and her Swordsman was instantly engulfed by the pile of wooden barrels. Then, the wooden barrels scattered, and the female player died. A belt was dropped on the ground. She actually dropped equipment!

The players were shocked!

Killing a person in an instant, this wooden barrel ghost didn't seem as simple as people thought.

Unsure of the situation, the surrounding players didn't dare to step forward easily. As a result, the wooden barrels took the initiative to attack, choosing another player on the street and charging over. Some rolled on the ground, some hopped, and some even jumped several meters high and pressed down like Mount Tai.

"What's going on?!" This player screamed, wanting to avoid them, but the pile of wooden barrels actually formed an encirclement, surrounding him from all directions, and finally squeezed him in the middle. Then, the wooden barrels engulfed him, and another player died.

The players on the street were dumbfounded. They were waiting for the ghosts to refresh, waiting to grab points, but a pile of broken wooden barrels had already killed two people in an instant after they came to life.

"Looks like they're very powerful, huh?" A player said to his companion next to him, but didn't hear a response. He turned his head and saw that his companion, who was clearly still next to him just now, had disappeared silently.

"Shui Yue?" The player called out, but there was no answer. He couldn't find his companion anywhere. He was about to pull up his friend list to send a message when he suddenly heard a rustling sound behind him. He turned his view and saw that the big willow tree next to him had several willow branches coiling towards him like tentacles. At the same time, in that instant, this player saw a Silver Night badge hanging on one of the extended willow branches, and it was his good friend Shui Yue's equipment.

In an instant, this player understood something, but he didn't even have time to scream. Those willow branches had already climbed onto his shoulders and instantly wrapped him up. His view was immediately a dark blur, and he couldn't see anything.

Life...

The only thing this player could see was his health bar dropping rapidly. With this kind of damage, this willow tree monster was at least at the level of a dungeon mini-boss! Was this an opponent that players could face alone? Dungeons were always places where people teamed up to fight.

The player was already desperate and prepared to reunite with his friend when he suddenly heard several *cha cha* sounds, and the screen lit up again, restoring his character's vision. Where his view landed, he saw only a continuous flashing of sword light. The willow tree monster's tentacles and willow branches had been chopped to pieces.

The player didn't have time to think and quickly struggled to retreat. Then he saw that person also backflipping repeatedly. Just now it was clearly a Swordsman's slash, but suddenly a fireball popped out from between his fingers.

Fireball?

The player was a little dumbfounded. Even if this was a low-level Elementalist skill, it shouldn't have been cast from a Swordsman's hands, no matter what!

But, in the next moment, he already understood, because he saw the ID above this figure's head: Jun Mo Xiao.

Jun Mo Xiao!

Ye Xiu's unspecialized character, Jun Mo Xiao!

This player was immediately stunned. This character hadn't been around for long, but he had already become a legendary figure in the game. This player had heard from players who came up from the tenth server about the bloody storms Jun Mo Xiao had caused in the tenth server. In fact, it wasn't just the tenth server. This player, who was level 55 and had just entered the Heavenly Domain, was besieged by a group of level 70 players who were 15 levels higher than him, and they were all top players from the major club guilds.

Then, Jun Mo Xiao's identity was completely revealed, and it was the Great God Ye Xiu. It was almost from this time that it became difficult for players to encounter Jun Mo Xiao in the game.

This kind of distress was something that every famous character had. When these characters went online, the good thing was that they were just surrounded and watched, but the miserable ones would probably be chased to death. But these large-scale events were something that these characters couldn't bear to miss. Because the appearance rate of various things in the event would be greatly increased, and among them, there was one thing that was always bound and couldn't be traded. Only the character could personally obtain it, so these pro players couldn't easily ignore it.

Skill books!

This thing was rarely provided even by Wild Bosses, the highest-end equipment material suppliers in Glory. Being able to get it from killing monsters was extraordinary luck. Otherwise, if the drop rate could be higher, these pro characters would farm it until they were full, and wouldn't be 100 or 200 short after 70 levels.

The chance of skill books appearing in the event was greatly increased like everything else, and pro characters naturally hoped to seize this opportunity. So it wasn't too difficult to encounter some pro characters during large-scale events. It was just that at this time, pro characters wouldn't wear their pro match silver equipment. If they were surrounded and killed by nosy players and had it dropped, that would be a huge loss. At this time, pro characters would just find some purple equipment or orange equipment from the game to make do.

Jun Mo Xiao could also change equipment to make do, but the problem was that his original equipment was at the game level. The Myriad Manifestations Umbrella was a silver weapon, but the problem was that this equipment couldn't be replaced, so Jun Mo Xiao could definitely be called an unadorned performance.

Continuous fireballs bombarded the willow tree, and the fire gradually spread, engulfing the entire willow tree. The branches of the willow tree kept twitching, as if struggling. As the fire soared into the sky, it was completely lit and finally stopped moving completely. Jun Mo Xiao walked back, raised his hand, and the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella turned into a spear and performed a Circular Swing. The large willow tree was lifted up and finally thrown to the ground into a pile of charred fragments. It was indeed completely dead.

"Strange, it's not a first kill?"

Players on the whole street were still screaming that many things around them had actually turned into ghosts, but this Great God was already pursuing whether or not he had gotten the first kill. This was the gap...