Terra Nova Online: Rise of The Strongest Player

Chapter 340: End of event

( 5 minutes until the event ends )

Luke returned to the bar lobby 5 minutes before the event officially ended having gained a total of +48 levels from the event.

He managed to clear ‘Strategic Battle’ ( Stage 4 ) and had gained most of his levels by playing that game.

While 48 was still two levels away from his preferred goal of gaining +50 levels from this event, in retrospection, he felt satisfied with his profits as he knew that these 48 levels were going to save him about 6 months worth of leveling efforts and help him leapfrog the rest of the common players by a huge margin.

Although he had no idea as to how the other players would perform within this event in comparison to him, he was happy with his share of the spoils at least for now.

“This event is too big of a cheat… if this event is repeated again next year, I think the risk appetite of the players will increase ten-fold” Luke muttered as he tried to analyze the psychology of the rankers based on his interactions with them so far.

Based on his interactions, Luke felt as if all the rankers were inherently very competitive and felt very conscious about their ranks.

For most, being a ‘ranker’ was their whole identity and personality and losing that position or dropping too far behind the rest of the group was going to deal a big blow to their ego, prompting them to take bigger risks should the event ever be repeated.

“If anyone from the thousand rankers participating in this event makes windfall gains from this event, it will make the rest jealous and more willing to take big risks” Luke concluded, as with the event timer now at under 2 minutes, he just wanted to see what were the gains that most players had managed to achieve.

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[ System Notification – TIME UP!

You cannot enter any new game lobbies now nor place any new bets…. All gamers will now return to the common lobby once their on-going game is over ]

A system notification informed all players that the bets were closed as it returned all the players who were not within a game already back to the general lobby, which was the garden with a massive tree.

Luke, Leo, Cervantez, Big Daddy and a couple other rankers were the first to be returned to the general lobby as they had not entered any game lobbies when the event timer hit 0, while the other players returned one after another later on.

“SkyLion! How was the event for you? How many levels did you gain?” Cervantez asked excitedly, as the smile on his face was enough for Luke to understand that he had made significant gains from the event.

“I gained 48 levels guildmaster, what about you?” Luke replied as Cervantez gave him an energetic thumbs up.

“I gained 52 levels from this event. Seems like both of us made a killing–” Cervantez said, as his words caused Big Daddy to frown deeply.

“What? You guys gained so many? I only managed to gain 12 levels from this event.

At one point I was up by 40 levels, but then I went on a brutal losing streak on blackjack.

Thankfully I did not make a loss, but I was down 2 levels at one point before making a recovery to +12” Big Daddy said dejectedly as the ashen expression on his face was enough to convey just how disappointed he was for not gaining more levels.

“Only 12? Mate what’s wrong with you? They gave 3 free tokens worth +5 levels each at the start.

I know they were not directly convertible to levels, however, you still took +15 levels and converted it to +12” Cervantez said, rubbing salt in Big Daddy’s wounds as the poor ranker buried his face in his palms.

“What about you Leo? How many levels did you gain?” Luke asked his brother, as Leo tried to immediately change the topic by pretending to be interested in the tree.

“Wow…. Look at that tree brother. Reminds me of those Banyan tree pictures we have seen in books… so majestic–” Leo replied, as Luke felt completely unimpressed by his response.

“Did you gamble away your gains?” Luke asked coldly, his voice making Leo tremble as he was forced to come out clean.

“No… no…. I made about as much as you–” Leo said, scratching his chin nervously.

“So 48 levels?” Luke asked.

“No like, yours plus Big Daddy’s” Leo replied.

“So like 60 levels?” Luke asked again, insisting on a precise figure.

“Plus DarkEmperors…..” Leo said, as this time Luke felt his left eye flutter with anger.

“So 112 levels??” Luke asked, as Leo nodded his head and gave him a thumbs up.

“Exactly 112 levels–” he said, as listening to his number, both Cervantez and Big Daddy frowned deeply.

“A 112 LEVELS?” Big Daddy asked, sounding completely shocked, as he felt even worse about his +12 gains now than he did before.

“This is it…. I’ve blown it, I’ve blown my chance to stay a ranker.

You guys have a 6-8 months headstart on me… I’ll never be able to catch-up to you guys ever again” Big Daddy said pulling his own hair, as he regretted not taking bigger risks at this moment.

“A 112 levels is really too much. What games did you play to win so big?” Cervantez inquired, as he could not believe that someone broke his previous life record of gaining +75 levels from this event and managed to gain 112.

“I played ‘Strategic Battle’, ‘Darts’ and ‘Monster Battle’ …. It was a lot of fun” Leo replied anxiously, as he purposefully hid the fact that he played ‘dragon tower’ too.

” Well, I also played strategic battle, what multiplier did you get on the first round?” Luke inquired excitedly as he wanted to compare notes with Leo.

” First round? I won the fight under the set time limit for bonus gains and did it without losing any soldier, so I gained a lot of levels from it.

I don’t remember exactly, but 20 to 25 I think” Leo replied, as Luke’s face instantly darkened.

He had won the hill-top battle only with great sacrifices and had not gotten any bonus multipliers.

This result by Leo hence shattered his pride as a strategic genius, as while he had studied proper warfare from the Knight Academy, Leo had not received any formal education whatsoever and had still performed better than him.