Game bosses are not without the right to issue quests, but generally speaking, it is rare to encounter them issuing quests, and even if they do, the conditions are extremely harsh, with strict player count requirements. Quests like this, with almost no conditions, are extremely rare.
Of course, quests that restrict gender are equally rare.
Xing Yuan gently stroked the eagle in her hand, her eyes flashing with subtitles, just like the game players.
[Divine Eagle, one of the Divine Maiden's pets, transmits information to the Divine Maiden's hawk-dog, serving as the Divine Maiden's eye.]
"Go! See if any of them are qualified to come over," Xing Yuan said softly.
The eagle soared in the sky, chirped a few times at Xing Yuan, and then gradually flew away.
Within three days, Tomorrow City had gathered tens of thousands of players. They gathered in small groups, exchanging information while remaining wary of each other.
With a creak, the palace gate opened, and a monk in a kasaya with tonsured marks on his head walked out.
In the eyes of the players, the monk's identity was displayed as a servant of the Divine Maiden.
The monk looked at the players with a solemn expression and said earnestly, "Have you all made up your minds? Once the game begins, there will be no turning back."
"What are the consequences if we fail the game?" someone asked rationally.
Before, everyone had been blinded by the immense benefits, but the Divine Maiden in the game was the final boss. Would she be so kind as to give them experience points?
The monk glanced at her and said without emotion, "If you fail the first stage, players will be stripped of all item usage rights. If you fail the second stage, you will be demoted by five levels. If you fail the third stage, players will receive no rewards or punishments, and the method of passing must be discovered on your own."
"Now, please, game participants, step onto the teleportation array. Those who do not participate will be temporarily driven out of Tomorrow City."
All the players were female, and in the game, they could model themselves, so everyone was very beautiful.
The fact that the reward was proportional to the effort was more reassuring. Only a small portion of people chose to withdraw; the rest were eager to try.
The monk lowered his gaze, looking at these people with apparent compassion, and said softly: [Players, please enter the game.]
[The first stage is an elimination round. Players are located in the Monster Forest. Conditions for passing: choose one of the three tasks: kill ten sixth-tier magical beasts, three seventh-tier magical beasts, or one eighth-tier magical beast. The first thousand players to pass will enter the second stage.]
"Damn it, this is too much of a rip-off!" The player "Unwilling to Admit Defeat" was full of anger. Wasn't this a case of too many monks and too little porridge?
There were tens of thousands of people here. The magical beasts would certainly not be that numerous, and they needed time to respawn.
In this place, players could not use maps, so whether they encountered magical beasts depended entirely on luck.
Xing Yuan, with great interest, sat on a small stool to watch the show. She thought that her wife must be among them, but there were too many people, and she couldn't find her for a while.
But it didn't matter. Her wife would not be eliminated so easily. She would just wait for her at the finish line.
Directly destroying the game architecture would have unpredictable consequences, so the best approach was to design another game on top of the existing architecture. Anyway, as long as she didn't say anything, who would know that she was the game boss?
After all, since the game was launched, no one had been able to reach her dungeon.
The maximum level for game players was one hundred. The highest-level player now, "Kill Without Mercy," was only level 89.
Xing Yuan ate melon seeds and watched the players being chased and battered by magical beasts, smiling sweetly.
As the game boss, she naturally possessed many powerful skills, one of which was Eagle Eye.
Literally, she could share vision with the divine eagle. Since there were too many people to watch, she only focused on the most miserable few.
In just half a day, thousands of lower-level players voluntarily withdrew.
In this game, they had obtained a game bug: immortality. Death did not mean returning to the respawn point; instead, each death resulted in a level drop, and they would respawn on the spot.
When a player was trampled to death by a magical beast one moment, and the next they opened their eyes to see the fierce eyes of that magical beast, then their vision went black, and they were directly bitten in half by the beast. This was simply a game nightmare.
Shouldn't respawning happen at a safe location? Why respawn on the spot?
If this continued, they wouldn't get any rewards, and their levels would be almost gone. Who could stand this!
[System prompt: Players cannot exit the game instance! Please try again after the number of successful players reaches one thousand.]
The players were stunned. They used the universal formula: complain.
[Sorry, after detection, the game instance where the player is located is operating normally. Please verify before submitting an appeal.]
"Damn! I don't believe it. I'll just log off." Player A clicked to exit the game indignantly.
[Hello, are you sure you want to exit the game? It is detected that the player is currently in the highest-level instance, "The Divine Maiden's Trial." If you log off, your level will be cleared, and items will be randomly dropped. Do you wish to exit immediately?]
Player A silently clicked "No" and then watched the magical beast charging at her, closing her eyes peacefully.
What kind of game bug was this? So, she was definitely going to lose so many levels today, right!
Xing Yuan burst into laughter, her bell-like laughter echoing throughout the room, filled with malice.
While high-level players were rushing to hunt magical beasts, many low-level players regretted accepting this quest. They silently prayed for the thousand-person mark to be reached quickly!
However, not all low-level players were so unfortunate. Some players, upon respawning, found that the magical beast that had torn them apart had already been killed by other high-level players.
Upon realizing they could not exit the instance, they found a relatively safe place to hide and silently waited for the game to end.
Five hours later, the last player slashed the magical beast's health bar to zero. A prompt appeared before all players.
[System prompt: The first stage has ended perfectly. Congratulations to the successful challengers. The second stage will officially begin tomorrow evening at six o'clock. Please prepare in advance.]
The eliminated players looked at their remaining levels and were almost moved to tears. It was finally over.
Who knew what they had gone through in those few hours.
Some players immediately shared their experiences on the game forum.
[The quest issued by the game boss is simply not something ordinary people can pass. She actually asked us to hunt magical beasts. If we were to hunt magical beasts, why would there be a gender restriction? You know, female players generally have lower combat power than male players.]