Chapter 212: Steve’s Small Step, a Big Step for the World Situation!!

Ever since Xu Yuan previously visited the Nirvana Guild and returned the Blade of the War God to Steve, Steve also had a huge change in his opinion of HIM.

Although he didn't have the same level of belief in HIM as those zombie players, at least now he no longer sees HIM as an enemy.

Previously, Steve had more or less been somewhat hostile towards HIM.

After all, not long after he entered the game, he encountered HIM and saw how he designed and brutally killed players.

But as the game progressed and he slowly grew, he also saw many things more clearly.

In any game, monsters and players are opposing sides. Monsters killing players and players killing monsters is a natural and righteous part of the game rules.

Thinking it through, HIM isn't beyond redemption, he hasn't done anything outrageously evil. He's just following the survival rules of this world, that's all.

After figuring this out, Steve made a huge decision. The Nirvana Guild began recruiting players again.

Although this decision doesn't seem like a big deal on the surface, for the Nirvana Guild, or rather for Steve himself, it's absolutely a significant decision.

It had been a long time since the Nirvana Guild recruited anyone. The last time was when Xu Yuan had just acquired the infection ability. Shortly after Xu Yuan infected a few waves of players, the Nirvana Guild stopped recruiting players.

This was because Steve noticed the matter of the half-infected.

Earlier, Steve had always been very concerned about HIM's activities. After receiving news about the first batch of infected players, Steve kept a close eye on the situation. This made him realize that HIM was using the location of the half-infected to find the locations of player guilds.

Since then, the Nirvana Guild stopped recruiting.

This also indirectly showed Steve's attitude, back then, he still treated HIM as an enemy. Now, opening recruitment again is first because there's no longer a need for defenses. HIM seems to no longer rely on the half-infected to find players' locations.

Secondly, it's because Steve has changed his thinking.

Because he knows very clearly that HIM is not dangerous, and he no longer needs to do anything to guard against HIM. To Steve, this was just a small step in overcoming his own prejudice against HIM. But to the world situation, it's a significant leap.

Right now, the world situation is a chaotic war among multiple factions.

Void, HIM, Villagers, Creature Association, Players.

Among them, the player faction is even more chaotic in its division. There are regular players, zombie players, and player rebels like Grayfist.

Although a few zombie players voluntarily got infected out of a desire for power, most zombie players more or less have some belief in HIM. So zombie players can basically be considered part of HIM's camp.

What's left are regular players and player rebels.

Steve can be considered the leader of the regular players. And now that this leader has changed his mindset, it's reasonable to guess that other players likely think similarly to Steve.

Although it's still uncertain whether regular players will join HIM's camp, at the very least, they no longer see HIM as an enemy.

As long as they are not hostile, there's room for cooperation. This is undoubtedly a huge change for the world situation.

As for the player rebels, their numbers are still small, and the attitudes of a few can't change the opinions of the majority.

This situation is undoubtedly favorable to Xu Yuan.

From the words of the Ender Queen, the Dread Lord, and others, you can tell, in the previous war against the Void, almost all factions took part.

Back then, HIM wasn't fighting alone. He united the power of all the factions to achieve victory. And from the conversation between the Ender Queen, Dread Lord, and Pengpeng and Black Blade's group, we can also know: they are familiar with the player faction. Which means the player faction also existed back then.

However, from their tone, they didn't seem to have a good impression of the player faction.

Though it's unknown whether the previous player faction also participated, what's certain now is that if a war with the Void breaks out again, the current player faction will most likely participate.

Even though the player faction isn't particularly strong, they can revive endlessly. If used properly, they are definitely a force of unimaginable combat power.

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After the event where HIM returned the Blade of the War God, on the official forum, the survey for the Divine Realm Competition instance was flooded with positive reviews from players.

"Five-star rating!! When's the next round?!"

"Hurry up!! Roll out the next one quickly!!"

"More of this kind of instance!! Don't just do weapon artifacts, give us some armor too!"

"Can you show some love to the builder players? Give us some builder artifacts!!"

"Wait… HIM didn't even seem to care about that weapon, why is everyone still so excited?"

"At least it proves HIM won't steal the weapons!! And besides, what level is HIM and what level are we? He looks down on it—does that mean the weapon is weak??"

"Getting an artifact is for a better gameplay experience, not for slaying gods, thank you."

Although players didn't know the attributes of Steve's Blade of the War God,

there was one thing they were sure of, HIM wouldn't snatch the weapons from the Divine Realm Competition.

Just this one point was enough.

The idea of slaying gods is something every player thinks about, but deep down, they all know it's impossible in this game.

But the artifacts from the Divine Realm Competition truly give them a boost. Naturally, players were all happy to see more of such competitions.

Their positive feedback could be seen as a perfect score report card for the Divine Realm Competition.

At this moment, inside the Zero Point Company's meeting room, "The player feedback on this Divine Realm Competition is extremely good! In critical moments, you still need Notch to step up!"

"Since that's the case, let's make this Divine Realm Competition a permanent instance. How often should we run it?"

"The Divine Realm Competition has always been handled by Notch and Rookie, let's ask Notch's opinion."

The executives turned to look at Rookie, who was spacing out.

"Didn't we tell you to call Notch to the meeting? Where is he?"

After a long silence, the meeting room was still quiet.

Old Wu saw this and quickly picked up the thermos cup on the table and smacked Rookie on the head. With a loud clang, Rookie finally reacted.

Seeing Rookie was awake, Old Wu quickly smoothed things over, "Told you to get Notch!"

"Oh…" Rookie rubbed the bump on his head, now slowly swelling, and left unhurriedly.

When he got to Notch's office, he saw Notch seemed to be getting ready to enter the game capsule. Seeing Rookie arrive, Notch waved at him and said, "You came at just the right time."

"I want to create a new character to play the game, and I hate coming up with names."

"Hurry and help me think of a name."

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