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Chapter 777 – 4th System Update

Wuqi's plan had made it extremely difficult for the left troops led by Baiqi. This plan was truly vicious. No matter which side won, Mengding was destined to be left as a wasteland.

Baiqi also felt a headache because of that. Since the enemy was making use of all the civilians, Shanhai City was killing the locals. Even if Shanhai City took control of Mengding Prefecture, it would be difficult to raise their sentiments and gain their support because of the deep hatred.

But they had to fight.

Such a vicious plan was not used in Dongchuan because the Yanhuang Alliance had seen it as their territory and was unwilling to take such measures.

In contrast, Mengding Prefecture was surrounded by Shanhai City and could not be used by them, so why not?

The only pitiful ones were the Lords of Mengding Prefecture, who were buried along with them. Only now did the Lords of Yunnan City-State see that Yanhuang Alliance was just a pack of wolves.

Unfortunately, they had boarded the train and could not get off.

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Even though the advance was difficult, Baiqi was still doing other things.

Whilst attacking Mengding, the black chess piece plan was underway.

The grain and weapons transport squads of the left troops had already occupied a large portion of Mengding. A portion of the resources would disappear sneakily to who knows where.

And this was a part of the plan.

The Battle of Yunnan was slowly proceeding towards its peak. As for how it would end, it would test the chess skills of both sides.

As the 4th year of Gaia drew closer, the attention of the wilderness was temporarily taken away from the Yunnan Battlefield.

The players started to look forward to the impending system update as well as the information piece. High-leveled players also looked forward to the 1st global auction.

Even Ouyang Shuo had to make a trip back to Shanhai City.

Of course, the Battle of Yunnan would not stop because of this. However, Baiqi predicted that this stalemate-like situation would last for 10 days to half a month.

Hence, Ouyang Shuo suppressed his worries and rushed back to Shanhai City to deal with some emergency matters.

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Gaia 3rd year 12th month, 30th day, a System Notification sounded out around the world.

”World Notification: This is the 3rd anniversary since the start of Earth Online, and the game will be welcoming its 4th system update. Effective immediately, please head online to check the specific contents.”

Be it adventure gamemode players or Lord gamemode players, they all paid a lot of attention to the yearly system updates. A slight change would affect their future plans.

In the 3rd system auction, Gaia removed the Super Auction Platform, country channels, guild channel, alliance channel, and player levels.

The goal was to make the game more real.

A year had passed and after suffering from all the pain, the players had started to get used to the new rules.

At the same time, new media, film, mercenary guilds, and other groups appeared to add life to the game.

Who knows what new changes the system update would bring? The moment the notification was out, Ouyang Shuo immediately went onto the forums to take a look.

1: Relationships with imperial cities.

Imperial cities and player territories can officially have four relationships: enemy, neutral, friendly, and close.

The relationship between the two would be decided by the more negative one.

For example, if the Dali Imeprial City said it was neutral to Shanhai City but Shanhai City listed them as an enemy, both sides would be enemies.

Such a setting was to prevent one-sided relationships.

The relationship level would affect the interaction between the imperial cities and player territories. As for the specific effects, the players would need to find out on their own.

One thing could be confirmed that if both sides were enemies, it would be difficult for the Lord to recruit people from the imperial city in question. Even normal trading would be affected.

Before this, when Chengdu announced their animosity toward Shanhai City, it was just Liu Bei making a statement. This system update would allow them to confirm the relationship.

Hence, Ouyang Shuo did not hesitate; he listed Chengdu as an enemy and the rest as friendly.

Now, all that was left was to see what kind of relationship they had with Shanhai City.

Ouyang Shuo saw right through the point of this update. It gave much more room for the imperial cities to act and let them have more influence in the wilderness.

This was Gaia slowly loosening their reigns on the imperial cities.

Each imperial city was not just an imperial city. They had millions of troops and numerous civil servants and generals. Its population was also in the tens of millions.

And all these people were trapped in an imperial city that had one prefecture of land at the most.