Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors-Chapter 535 - 274 Rankings_2

"But it might also be possible to wrest the Qi Dynasty from its current holders.

At that time, what kind of spiritual foundation would a founding emperor, who is virtuous and talented, with exceptional martial prowess, who rose from the grass roots and deeply won the hearts of the people, lay down for the Huaxia that follows?

Just as Emperor Taizong of Liang infused the Huaxia gene with a spirit of openness, inclusiveness, and boldness, and just as Emperor Taizu of Sheng reshaped the spirit of the Huaxia people with the ambition to drive out the barbarians and rebuild Huaxia, if General Han Fuyue really became Emperor Taizu of Chu, then why should his spirit, like now, be lamented by us in the form of tragedy?

Perhaps that would be the legend of another great monarch through the ages.

...

A white fog engulfed Zhao Haiping’s vision, indicating that tonight’s joy had come to an end.

Zhao Haiping had played the instance "Eight Thousand Li of Clouds and Moon" for a full six days.

Compared to previous instances, the volume of this one had indeed doubled.

And from the several main identities in the instance, it could be seen that this was clearly a fusion of two instances.

The first, naturally, was the exclusive instance of General Han Fuyue, which is the role-playing content for the two identities of "civil official" and "military commander" in the second stage.

The second one was the core instance of the Qi Dynasty, which was demonstrated by the storyline of "Prince Yun."

Of course, since Zhao Haiping had been wrestling with it for so long and had only cleared the military commander’s storyline, he was not very familiar with the other two storylines, and he would have to watch other players’ clear videos to understand.

So, once he woke up, the first thing he did was to visit the official website of "Dark Sand" to check the leaderboard after clearing.

For this leaderboard, Zhao Haiping didn’t hold much hope.

Because he knew that his clearing time was definitely behind.

In fact, for the three identities of the second stage, whether it was civil official, military commander, or prince, there were simpler ways of clearing.

For civil officials, the official assessment of the second stage is the lowest difficulty because one could directly replicate the treasonous route of Qin Huizhi to clear.

The difficulty for military commanders was secondary because once you get to training troops and the great victory at Yan City, you technically cleared.

The prince had the highest difficulty because there was no longer the strong support of General Han Fuyue to rely on, and one had to figure out a way to win the war that would exterminate Xixia and then win against Jin soldiers in the Jingping Rebellion. Without existing references, it was harder.

If other players had cleared just at the great victory of Yan City, they might be twice as fast as Zhao Haiping.

In fact, when Zhao Haiping had woken up before, he had heard that some player had already achieved a first clear of the instance, but at that time he had already decided to try the possibility of continuing the northern expedition as General Han Fuyue, so he had not paid attention to it.

Arriving at the official website, he clicked on the leaderboard.

However, to Zhao Haiping’s surprise, he found himself in the top three positions on the leaderboard!

[First place: Chu Ge (Civil Official Route)]

[Plot Basic Difficulty: B+]

[Plot Completion: 200%]

[Heroic Spirit Utilization: 0%]

[Second place: Zhao Haiping (Military Commander Route)]

[Plot Basic Difficulty: A-]

[Plot Completion: 180%]

[Heroic Spirit Utilization: 40%]

[Third place: Fan Cun (Prince Route)]

[Plot Basic Difficulty: A+]

[Plot Completion: 150%]

[Heroic Spirit Utilization: 90%]

This time, the leaderboard not only had the player name, route, time, and other criteria, but many other comprehensive factors as well.

With these comprehensive factors combined, Zhao Haiping had been catapulted to second place!

Looking at the many details on the leaderboard, Zhao Haiping couldn’t help but realize.

"So it turns out, it’s not just about clearing. Players can change the storylines of different identities, embark on completely different trajectories. And after changes, the plot completion can exceed 100%!

"Wow... Chu Ge is so sick!

"A Heroic Spirit Utilization of 0%? A plot completion of 200%? What is this godlike operation!

"Fan Cun, this brute, managed to hit a 150% plot completion on the A+ difficulty prince storyline? Is he cheating?

"A Heroic Spirit Utilization of 90%? How did he manage to keep using it...

"I have to watch their clear videos."

Curious, Zhao Haiping immediately started watching the clear videos of these two players.

At the same time, countless other players were also clicking to watch the clear videos of the three of them.

The clear videos basically presented an abridged version of the entire clearing process for these players, so Zhao Haiping didn’t take long to finish both videos.

After watching, he had completely understood the evaluation criteria for this instance.

"So that’s how it is, no wonder the civil official route has the lowest clearing difficulty.

"Just replicate the actions of Qin Huizhi. Wrongfully kill General Han Fuyue and you can clear? How can that not be simple?

"But this is more like a question posed to the player: For a quicker, simpler clear of the game, would you go against your own conscience to do something you originally despised?

"And once the player refuses to do as Qin Huizhi did, the difficulty of the instance shot up.

"The difficulty was only B+ at the lowest, but Chu Ge, who played Li Hao, took the route of a powerful courtier, outwardly obedient and covertly defiant to the emperor, wielding the power, secretly rescuing General Han Fuyue, and after Emperor Xiaozong ascended the throne, he blew up the ship to cut off all future troubles...

"No wonder he could score 200% of plot completion. His alteration to the character of Li Hao was too significant!