Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Seven drivers quit on the spot and disappeared into the virtual world, while a slow-witted one had their chemical protective suit removed and was thrown into the tank.

After regaining consciousness, he went offline, rushed into the bathroom, and began taking frantic showers, over and over, as if to scrub off a whole layer of his skin. He hasn’t left the bathroom until now.

Camille Victoria did not show up in Metropolis.

Although she also wanted to get the last [Dragon Pearl] as soon as possible to see what would happen when the seven dragon pearls were gathered.

However, Connar came to her house again, so Camille Victoria went back to the house without hesitation to accompany her.

Cooking for Connar, preparing snacks, playing with milkshakes together, and trying out clothes for Connar one by one – these were all bought by Camille Victoria, who had scoured Metropolis and Virtual Xiajing City specifically for her.

They didn’t go to Night City because Night City doesn’t sell children’s clothes, and there are even hardly any children’s facilities in the entire city.

Obviously, that city was not very welcoming for children to play in…

What made Camille Victoria the happiest was that today, Connar agreed to let her into the changing room to help her change clothes.

Camille Victoria believed that this was evidence of their intimacy reaching a higher level.

‘If there is more time, maybe Connar would let me help her bathe?’ Camille Victoria thought while she was helping Connar change clothes.

Unfortunately, there is only one day left for the New Year’s activities.

When the final giant dragon appears, Connar was supposed to go back, right?

Thinking like this, Camille Victoria was even more reluctant to leave Connar and go to Metropolis to fight with her elders.

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The final giant dragon finally appeared.

Unlike the previous appearances of all giant dragons, accompanied by a thunderous sound that echoed through Metropolis, the giant dragon with a thin layer of lightning wrapped around its body suddenly appeared on Qiang’s house.

The players guarding here were surprised –

Their muzzles were still pointed at the sky, and the shadow above their heads suddenly grew huge, with their nostrils filled with pungent odors – that was ozone generated by a powerful discharge effect of lightning.

But the astonishment lasted only for a moment, as the experienced players unleashed their full firepower and poured it into the Thunder Dragon, which was close at hand!

It doesn’t matter how the BOSS appeared, just empty the magazine!

However, they ignored one thing: as they emptied their magazines, other players were also “emptying their magazines,” and it was a more thorough “covering fire.”

“Boom!”

The violent explosion destroyed the rooftop in an instant, and Qiang was once again a homeless refugee.

Those guarding the rooftop were hit by this round of artillery bombardment, and without any exceptions, were all sent to the sky.

[Free Map] doesn’t have any friendly damage reduction, and there were too many people to pull into a single group anyway.

To the players, bombing other players carries no guilt.

It might even be somewhat enjoyable…

But strangely, there was no sound of a wailing Thunder Dragon after the explosion.

When the smoke cleared, the Thunder Dragon appeared again in front of everyone.

A ring of lightning surrounded her body, and all the bullets and shells that shot at her were punctured by thin lightning at the moment of entering, melted quickly, and merged into the ring of lightning.

The Thunder Dragon stood there quietly and elegantly, not moving a single step.

Unexpectedly, instead of attacking without hesitation, she asked, “So you still don’t plan to return Connar to me?”

Her tone was calm, but also contained strong anger.

The gunshots subsided, and the firepower of the players suddenly dropped.

But it was not because of a guilty conscience stirred by her words, but because they each pulled out large swords, katanas, giant axes, and long spears… threw out grappling hooks and rushed to the rooftop!

“Don’t even speak of finding the Dragon Girl because even if we do, she’ll be taken home to warm our beds—not to be handed back to you!”

With these words, the Thunder Dragon went into a rage in an instant, spread her wings, and let out an angry roar toward the sky.

The familiar scene played out once again: thick thunderclouds rolling in, obscuring the sky.

The players thought it was going to rain again and continued shooting and charging nonchalantly.

But the development of the situation was not quite like what they expected—

What fell from the thunderclouds wasn’t rainwater, but lightning!

One lightning bolt after another struck within a one-kilometer radius, targeting all players!

The dense lightning formed a forest, with blinding light, scorching heat, piercing ozone odor…

And… the coming of the Grim Reaper!

The players were charred by the dense lightning, their bodies collapsing like harvested wheat, and the dense death light effects rising in the thundercloud forest.

The furious Thunder Dragon showed no respect, using its ultimate move right away, causing heavy losses to the unprepared players.

But to wipe out the players, this was far from enough!

The max level effect of [Assassin Bloodline], although it couldn’t slow the lightning down to a crawl, it was enough to allow the players to react and have a chance to dodge!

It didn’t matter if they didn’t dodge once, after all, a single lightning bolt couldn’t kill them.

If they didn’t die immediately, they had a chance to find cover or charge with something insulated!

Just like that, the players in front were killed like crazy, and the ones behind continued to charge forward.

The battle turned into a race.

It was either the Thunder Dragon killing enough players to leave, or the players forcing the Thunder Dragon’s health to 25%.

…

It took a full thirty-eight minutes for the players to finally push the Thunder Dragon’s health down to 50%.

But before they could breathe a sigh of relief, the Thunder Dragon’s second big move came—

It raised its head once again, letting out a distant dragon roar toward the sky.

The players were on high alert, their vigilance at its peak.

But after waiting for a full ten seconds, nothing happened.

Although somewhat puzzled, they assumed the Thunder Dragon had no other moves and charged again.

After another minute of fierce battle, the dragon’s roar sounded again on the battlefield.

Amidst the chaos, the players looked up, following the sound, only to discover that the originally pitch-black lead clouds in the sky had been dyed red at some point.

A gust of wind blew, the fiery red clouds slowly dispersed, and a familiar giant dragon broke through the clouds!

“Fire Dragon!” someone shouted to warn everyone.

But before the shout was finished, they saw another giant dragon with green body pierce through the clouds, which was—

“Plant Dragon!”

Then it was—

“Ice Dragon!”

“Metal Dragon!”

“Wind Dragon!”

“Rock Dragon!”

His voice changed from vigilance to panic, then shock, and finally, utter despair.

Seven dragons gathered!

How can they fight this?!

“Thunder Dragon’s 50% health ultimate move is…shaking people?” Super Tomato was shocked.

“It should be called ‘shaking dragons’.” Yelang corrected.

Yi laid down on the ground and said, “You guys go ahead, I give up.”

Quite a few players had a similar mindset as Yi: giving up the struggle and waiting for death on the spot.’

They simply couldn’t figure out how to simultaneously defeat seven giant dragons.

Seven dragons, seven attributes, and seven ultimate moves – even if they didn’t wipe out the world, they were more than enough to wipe out a city!

This concern was immediately realized—

The seven giant dragons took to the sky, flying over the city while launching large-scale attacks on the players in the city.

Under such indiscriminate disaster-level attacks, the players suffered heavy casualties within just 30 seconds, and the battlefield had turned into ruins.

Continue for a few dozen seconds more, and the players might face complete annihilation!

But at this desperate moment, with a “beep” sound, the little Connar in Camille Victoria’s arms suddenly disappeared.

She tugged at her hair, which had been standing on end due to static electricity, and logged into Metropolis without hesitation.

—The moment she saw the Thunder Dragon, she realized: this Thunder Dragon was very likely Connar’s mother.

After all, Connar also mastered the power of “electricity.”

The runaway young girl was finally about to reunite with her mother.

The plot of the [Giant Dragon Invasion] event was also about to come to an end.