Chapter 245: Magic Crystal War Car!
["Catastrophe OL" System Announcement: Black Wind Castle is recruiting new equipment testers!]
——Offer your souls to the Lord Demon King! Mwahaha!——
Dear Catastrophe OL Warriors:
The Black Wind Castle Armory is now recruiting a group of fearless, death-defying, and uniquely-boned warriors to participate in the latest military equipment development test!
This test project: Magic Crystal War Car (codename: "Hell's Flames!")
The test content includes but is not limited to:
Speed Test — See if it can outrun wild demons (or maybe it's you running).
Firepower Test — Stand beside it or inside it to personally experience the shocking power of the war car's cannon! (Close-range fire control system observer)
Defense Test — You are the Undead Clan, and tanks are heavy units. Let's see who's tougher! (Front armor and bumper tester)
Extreme Driving Challenge — This war car is powered by Demon Crystals and steam, capable of sharp turns, hill climbing, crushing, and disassembling on the spot... Are you ready to become the soul of the tank?
Warriors participating in the test will receive:
An early experience of the new map in Black Wind Castle that has not yet been released!
"Skeleton Repair Service" provided by the War Department! (Accidental fractures don't count as work injuries)
Free driving of the Magic Crystal War Car! Experience unprecedented battlefield mobility!
Exclusive honorary title from the War Department — "Hell Test Driver"! Make your tombstone more unique!
Important Note: Since the test content involves certain high-risk operations, testers may experience events such as car destruction, bone shattering, out-of-body experiences, or being sent back to the resurrection point by a cannonball, though these are unlikely. Our armory operates on a small budget and only reimburses resurrection expenses. Please evaluate the risk of participation yourself!
Recruitment Target: Skeleton Players
How to Apply: Find NPC Oke or Oke's assistant at the Oke's Magic Workshop in the Great Graveyard to register, and proceed to the Teleportation Array to wait patiently.
Available Slots: 50 people, first come first served! (High mortality rate recorded, additional slots will be announced!)
Let us jointly inaugurate a new era of warfare in Black Wind Castle! The warfare mode of Hell will be rewritten by the Great Graveyard!
——Demon King Luo Yan
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The moment the new system announcement was released on the Catastrophe OL official forum, it immediately sparked widespread discussion among players.
Catastrophe Iron Man: "Whoa! Tanks! Finally here! Hell's industrial revolution, brothers!"
Extreme Ash: "Wait... why do I feel like we're just cannon fodder?"
King of Meal: "When did you get the illusion that you weren't cannon fodder? (Funny)"
Soul Car Drifter: "Don't hesitate! I haven't caught such a great opportunity many times, I want to be the first to charge in! Save me a driving seat!"
Catastrophe Old Driver: "Dare the devs make a PVP mode for tank vs. tank? Hell's armor collision test? (Excited)(Excited)"
Gou Shi: "Demon King: No, war cars are more expensive than you. If you want to play bumper cars, build them yourself. (Funny)"
Beast Senior: "I'm out, I'll just keep playing with my flowers and plants."
Osteoporotic Dream: "I've barely been on the battlefield for a few days, even my dead mom wouldn't recognize me... Damn, I'll just sign up first."
Let me ask you: "Are you speaking Chinese with that sentence?"
"..."
[Current number of sign-ups: 1999]
Although the event itself was full of complaints, players in the Great Graveyard still enthusiastically signed up to participate.
After all, it's a game. Interesting and fun are the most important things, and the Pork Rib Party is after all the minority.
The final result was as Luo Yan had anticipated; he didn't even need to scatter too much bait to catch plenty of fish.
In fact, because the number of applicants far exceeded expectations, the Magic Crystal Cannon Factory in Black Wind Castle had to expand its recruitment temporarily, allowing "more skeleton players a chance to experience new ways to die".
At the same time, not all players from the Great Graveyard played the role of testers; quite a number of excellent life professional players participated as designers in this wave that would soon rewrite the game world's warfare mode.
Like the "Thinking Group" from Iron Teeth City.
Upon receiving an "exclusive hidden task", Brother Yikou early on led a group of mole people brothers into the Magic Crystal Cannon Factory, communicating and exchanging ideas with the local goblin engineers, including a series of technologies like Netherworld Language technology.
For the amazing technical prowess of the Great Graveyard and all kinds of imaginative ideas, the goblin masters of the Magic Crystal Cannon Factory were not only astonished but also deeply impressed.
Especially the factory director Kun Bu, the word "incredible" almost never left his mouth.
Watching the mole people gesturing with blueprints in hand, he finally couldn't help but ask.
"Are you really the mole people from the Maze?! I mean... were you born in the Maze?"
The mole people exchanged glances and chattered noisily.
"You're the one born from the Maze!"
"Yeah! You're the thing from the Maze!"
Seeing the really upset little guys, Kun Bu quickly waved his hands in explanation.
"I, I didn't mean to look down on the Maze, I'm just... surprised at what you used to do."
One of the mole people jumped out, puffed his chest, and, thumbing his nose, proclaimed.
"I used to work for the Hell Dwarves!"
"..."
Kun Bu looked at him blankly, took a long time to squeeze out a sentence.
"I've been to the Hell Dwarves' territory too, how come I didn't see them having these amazing things?"
The dwarves did have something called the Magic Stone Gun, but its power was just on par with firearms, absolutely different from the Magic Crystal Canyon of the Great Graveyard.
The former releases magic power, whereas the latter compresses and re-compresses magic power within a confined space before launching it in the form of a shell over several kilometers to explode... in terms of power and range, they are by no means comparable!