Server 1157

The ruthless system had strangely done them a great favor and sent Luca and Yolimar to the same time zone of this terrible world, albeit a few minutes apart. To the first weeks of this world that this server's part has just been put into use…

Luca and Yolimar hid in secluded lands, escaping the hive of the disintegrating alliance.

Since the server was just established, the people who were gradually transferred to this world found themselves in a world without rules and became brutal due to some impositions of the system… was putting people in a kind of race for points and creating an environment where it was very difficult for them to survive without hurting each other. As long as they don't turn to alliance formations… Because the points earned in the events of the system were calculated as cumulative if they joined an alliance.

Still, the chances of surviving without harming other players by remaining unallied were very low, Vato had the ability to do just that. As husband and wife, they chose not to join any alliances and managed to evade the dictates of the system by earning high scores in activities such as ancient temple explorations, monster-slaying quests, etc., that other players could not overlook.

Thanks to Vato's mastery of the sword arts, of course… Yolimar was also on the way to becoming a good knight compared to the server average thanks to her husband's teachings, but due to his motherly nature, he could get some of the points he earned with the help of Vato. For example, she wasn't bear to kill even the terrible monsters that attacked to kill them, so Vato was neutralizing them, leaving the final sword blow to her.

Of course, Yolimar also managed to keep up with this order over time. Although she still wasn't as a high-level swordsman as Vato, she could now hunt alone.

Even if they hated this world, they had no choice but to continue living by sticking to a single motto. They would never harm other players…

According to the rules of the system, there was peace on the entire server for the first 12 days of every 2 weeks, and only the last 2 days were ME (The Murdering Event). Therefore, just living those 2 days very carefully was enough for them not to be noticed. Because in non-ME times, all players with or without alliances were under the protection of the system, and the penalty for any attack was much greater than the gain from the attack.

Even though they continued their lives in desolate lands, out of sight, the new rules declared by the system every day were making it very difficult for them to stick to their oaths.

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— [World Chat is on] —

[NEW KING'S MAIL]

[NEW RULE ANNOUNCEMENT]

[ATTACKING NON-ALLIED PLAYERS 7/24 IS ALLOWED FROM NOW ON]

[ALLIANCED PLAYERS ARE STILL UNDER PROTECTION IN NON-ME TIMES]

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— [/WC] —

"WHAT!" Yolimar was alarmed when she saw the proclamation of this rule, which had been proclaimed by the new king who had been crowned the previous day.

"Damn!" Vato likewise did not like this development at all, but he had not made it clear to her so as not to worry his wife further.

"Luca, you know…"

Vato didn't let her finish her sentence. "Do not worry, my love. We're both still strong enough to protect ourselves without hurting other people."

However, the facts in the following weeks increased Vato's concerns even more.

The system kept deleting the lowest-scoring players from the database, that is, indirectly killing them every weekend. therefore, they both had to earn enough points from non-kill-themed events to get on the radar of other players.

On the other hand, low-score players did not give many points when they were killed by other players. Therefore, players with low scores from other events were chasing non-allied players with high scores not only in ME but every day of the week.

In short, players named VatoLuca and Yolimar announced their names as the most appetizing non-alliance players on this server…

Vato and Yolimar's life had now turned into a cat-and-mouse chase for survival rather than controlled side-quest completion. It was now nearly impossible for them to hide in the shadows all the time and do other events.

They would be relieved if they joined an alliance, but they couldn't for two reasons.

First, alliances were just forming, and internal betrayals were happening all the time. Therefore, Vato felt that he could not protect his wife Yolimar more safely in the hives of many people he did not know.

The other was the real reason Vato was here. His long-term mission is to somehow manage to defeat the system and save both his wife and the numerous players here. For this reason, he was ordered to join the strongest alliance of that server. However achieving this was much more difficult for Vato than achieving the other possibilities.

Because, according to the current scoreboard, the strongest alliance for that period was the Bloody Revenge, namely the BRe union, and they suddenly turned to a very different policy with a decision they took.

Although the shortest way to survive in this world was to kill other players, the result was that they were in an environment of players forced there against their will. Therefore, most of the allied players still rejected the logic of harming other players. Those who carried out this bloody action could easily be identified as their eyes turned red, and the alliances did not accept these red-eyed players. Except for the BRe alliance. The BRe alliance recently announced that their player capacity is nearing full and they would only accept players from one category in the future. Red-eyed ones above a certain score point…

Although they had earned the hatred of all other alliances because of this decision they somehow began to turn this bloody power they had begun to gain to the advantage of their server. They were constantly sending their red-eyed members to kill other red-eyed players on the server. They were eliminating dangerous players in the server…

In a short time, the number of red-eyed players, except those in the BRe alliance, had decreased a lot. This not only made the server safer but also increased the BRE alliance's overall score, making them the only force to dominate the entire server.

Other alliances were not satisfied with the final situation, but much more blood was shed in the previous scenario. On the other hand, because they were more secure, they were able to channel their members to other activities and collect more points than they used to, thus being more protected against the system's low-score penalties.

And for these reasons, Vato could not use this second option either.

As a result, both of them had no choice but to try to survive in much more difficult conditions. Because, thanks to the conditions created by BRe, the number of red-eyed players who thought to attack them or other unallied players who hadn't killed anyone yet but were afraid of dying due to low scores were much reduced, but they still existed…

Although these concerns were mostly Vato's and could not explain her all, Yolimar believed him.

And with her beloved husband, they were still somehow able to survive... Until that day...