Zhou Liye was also very excited, so much so that he stood up and jumped around a couple of times.
But after all, he had been to the opening ceremony of the carnival and had seen big scenes. After calming down, he noticed a... small problem.
Zhou Liye asked timidly, "A new game? A new game, could it be...?"
The agent exclaimed happily, "It's Lao Jiu! That horror game! The famous 'Healing Hall' was Lao Jiu's demo. They must have seen your video and thought it was excellent, so they invited you to audition!"
Zhou Liye: "..."
Wow.
Two wide, thin tears slowly streamed down Zhou Liye's face.
The tears I shed today are the result of the foolishness I had yesterday when I was being pretentious and reckless.
Is he really a lucky charm? Really?
Why does he feel that he's actually so incredibly lucky that he's naturally unlucky...?
...
As June approached, the most anticipated event in the Sixth Star Province was no longer Dragon Hunter or the mysterious new game on Blue Star.
Instead, it's "Iron Horse and Ice River," a national war game launched by the Dragon Slayer Studio after a year of silence!
There are many player-versus-player games, many war simulation games, and open-world sandbox games have been emerging one after another since Minecraft.
However, there are not many games that dare to directly call themselves "national war games"!
The promotional video for "Iron Horse and Ice River" is very simple and follows a very formulaic approach.
The story begins with an empty city, and as the timeline unfolds, residences, barracks, training grounds, logging camps, mines, taverns, and more are gradually built within the city.
At first, the city was just as people were used to it, something they had seen too often in other games.
But gradually, more and more houses were built, and the facilities became larger and larger. The residents were crowded together, moving around like ants, which was terrifying to look at.
But this is not the end.
Elevated bridges rose from the ground, siege towers reached into the clouds, flying dragon cavalry blotted out the sun, and the sound of war drums seemed to beat in people's hearts.
The background music becomes incredibly grand, as if witnessing the arrival of a legendary kingdom.
Wars involving thousands of people are already overwhelming.
Once the number exceeds ten thousand, it will cover the entire horizon.
If the number exceeds 100,000, it will blot out the sky and create a scene of "dark clouds pressing down on the city, threatening to destroy it."
Swords rained down like rain, close combat ensued, and the sounds of clashing swords and galloping horses echoed in the air.
Blood, smoke, and the sound of horses' hooves form an eternally recurring theme.
"What kind of war can be considered a battle between nations?"
"Come to Iron Horse and Icy River, and we'll teach you the true art of war!"
"Killing one person is a crime, killing ten thousand makes one a hero, killing a million makes one the king of kings!"
The Dragon Slayer Sword Studio's advertising has become more and more arrogant each year.
But this time, it was so exciting that it made people want to be born on that battlefield and fight to their hearts' content.
The Dragon Slayer Sword Studio doesn't do any of that nonsense.
Right from the start, you're greeted by a majestic and imposing city, and then by a bloody battlefield of national warfare.
After the war, a magnificent picture of a beautiful land and nations paying tribute to the emperor immediately emerged.
Men get goosebumps looking at it, while women are moved to tears.
The launch of "Iron Horse and Ice River" also follows the consistent style of the Dragon Slayer Sword series, opening a hundred servers first, showing its great financial resources!
Each group of servers actually represents a large region.
A total of one hundred regions make up the large map of "Iron Horse and Ice River".
After the enthusiastic young people who watched the promotional video flocked to the game, tiny cities began to appear sporadically in these regions.
The city is small and dilapidated, but the players' hearts are burning with passion.
They were eager to build their homeland, to create a royal city as awe-inspiring as those in the promotional videos…
Then, not long after, about a day or two later.
They looked at the cost of the city upgrade, and their enthusiasm cooled a little.
After looking at the resource requirements for building cities and recruiting soldiers, my enthusiasm cooled down a bit.
Finally, they looked at the small pit where they had been digging so hard, and then at the 8868 deluxe gift pack in the mall, and their enthusiasm cooled completely.
Then, three days later, the first batch of players who entered the game finally left the newbie protection period.
In the game "Iron Horse and Ice River", cities are unprotected and can be attacked at will.
While these players were still leisurely mining, planting trees, and harvesting crops, and had only just assembled a small "army" of a dozen or so people in their newbie barracks, they suddenly discovered that the rich neighbor had already led his army to their city gates!
They peered out from behind their bamboo fence.