Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

These players were no exception. As soon as they entered The End, they moved away from the teleportation gate while observing the environment.

Then they saw pairs of crimson eyes in the distance.

The characteristic of the Enderman is: once you make eye contact, you will be attacked.

Moreover, Endermen also have a skill: teleportation. When attacking players, they tend to teleport behind the players.

So, the tragedy happened.

The Endermen let out terrifying roars while rushing towards the players who had just teleported to The End. Some disappeared halfway, teleporting behind their target players.

With the current density of these players, the Endermen appeared directly in the middle of the crowd, roaring and attacking players.

A single Enderman’s roar is already terrifying, like a hysterical scream after total destruction of the throat and unbearable torture. Now, the Endermen rushing from the outskirts and the Endermen causing chaos in the crowd were all roaring madly together, making the combined sound absolutely horrifying!

Players who had just teleported merely landed in such a horrifying environment, their minds invaded by the demonic noises. Three of them, who were psychologically fragile, triggered Mirage Console’s protective mechanism, and were instantly transported to a beautiful spring meadow full of blooming flowers.

With a babbling river, a gentle breeze, the fragrance of flowers, and extremely soft soothing music, it calmed their racing hearts and panicked emotions.

Mavis, who had been watching them intently, opened a conspicuous teleportation gate and appeared from the gate, asking the three players whether they wanted to leave.

If they left, they would be forced to log off and could only log back in after half an hour. In addition, Cloud Dream would compensate the players for the unpleasant experience.

The three players, one male and two female, were still a bit confused and hadn’t fully understood what had happened when they saw the famous Cloud Dream mascot “Mavis” appear. They were immediately excited and began to ask Mavis questions.

Lincoln originally was eating with Camille Victoria, but the moment the protective mechanism was triggered, he received a reminder—his mobile phone, which was originally on silent mode, emitted three short, sharp beeps. This was a second-place emergency reminder from the virtual world, and regardless of what Lincoln was doing, he would receive a notification from Mavis.

Without even having time to explain, Lincoln put down his chopsticks and quickly left his seat, walking a few steps to Yue Pengju nearby, opening the suitcase he always carried with him. While putting on the headband, he sat down across from Yue Pengju: “There’s an emergency in the game; I need to deal with it first.”

Not waiting for Yue Pengju and Camille Victoria to ask questions, he quickly activated the headband.

With one blink, he found himself invisible and floating above a chaotic player team. Apparently, Mavis had sent him directly to the scene.

A screen appeared in front of him, quickly explaining the cause and effect of the situation.

Without any time to think, Lincoln immediately started to modify the code, abruptly disabling all Endermen’s teleportation abilities.

His plan was, of course, not that crude. He intended to prevent Endermen from using teleportation while players were being teleported. The Endermen’s teleportation skills could only be unlocked after the teleportation gate stopped working for 2 minutes.

But this change requires a bit more content, so he doesn’t have time for that right now, and he has to resort to a blunt all-out ban.

He had to be quick; with Cloud Dream’s current user base, similar problems could escalate quickly if not addressed promptly.

As for the team of Super Tomatoes beneath him and other worlds that plunged into a similar situation, tangled with Endermen and the chaotic player groups—

Lincoln directly used his super admin privileges and began to operate.

Entered game: “My World”.

Overlay area: All end floating islands.

Target: Enderman.

Execute operation: Teleport target to the edge of the end floating island.

Final Confirmation: Execute immediately!

The next moment, all Endermen on floating islands in all public worlds and personal worlds were teleported instantly to the edge of the floating islands.

Even those in The End that had no players entering were thrown to the edge of the floating islands without exception!

Lincoln didn’t stop there, continuing to modify the mechanism of the end floating island: within each 5*5 grid, only one Enderman could make a normal sound. The voices of other Endermen would be reduced to one-twentieth of their original volume.

This modification was a bit more complicated. He remained invisible in the air and began to write the new restriction mechanism in mid-air.

Meanwhile, beneath him, the hundred-player team of Super Tomatoes all stopped in their tracks.

Just moments ago, amidst the chaotic battle, their teammates dying, and the terrifying roars of Endermen coming from all directions, they had all lost their logic in the chaos, and could only frenziedly attack the black shadows around them.

But at that very moment, all black shadows vanished, and the world suddenly fell silent.

The Endermen disappeared.

Not only those nearby, but even the Endermen that were rushing from afar vanished in a blink of an eye.

At that moment, the three players in the spring meadow even saw Mavis’s figure blur for a moment, but it was only for a brief instant, and immediately returned to normal.

Mavis continued with a poker face, as if nothing had happened, dealing with their various curious questions, answering those she could, and brushing off those she couldn’t with cuteness.

Players in the game, watching live streaming, countless people witnessed this scene.

Even with the “first kill competition” in the background, many viewers simultaneously watched two or three live streaming rooms to keep track of their progress.

For now, by gathering information, people discovered that all Endermen in the ongoing game disappeared in an instant.

Shortly after, a player who was building a fortress on the edge of the End’s floating island explained: they saw the Enderman being teleported from a distance right to their face, almost killing them.

Just 5 minutes later, everyone learned of the “Enderman Mass Teleportation Incident,” but no one knew why it happened.

—Because the initial three “victims” were still chatting with Mavis at the moment. Meanwhile, Super Tomato’s 135-member team, made up of scattered fans rather than close friends, hadn’t even realized they were missing three people.

In the end, players could only continue playing the game while waiting for Cloud Dream’s official announcement.

However, Cloud Dream’s employees were also waiting for the announcement—Lincoln acted too quickly, and they only saw that a super-user executed this operation, but they didn’t know why yet.

Lincoln didn’t have time to deal with these issues. He was busy writing the new limitations for the Endermen into the game system using program language.

Meanwhile, the tragedy of Super Tomato’s team was far from over.

Players who survived ate food and drank potions, while those who died revived and passed through the teleportation gate to pick up their dropped items.

Due to everyone’s death locations being too dense and many things mixing together, they couldn’t differentiate their items and just grabbed them based on memory—missing their last chance to notice their reduced number of teammates.

Then, the battle resumed.

With their superior numbers and the mysterious disappearance of Endermen interference, they had no reason to be as petty as Yi and Yelang.

As soon as the battle started, they divided their forces into ten groups, attacking the End Crystals on ten Obsidian Pillars simultaneously!

Under such circumstances, even the Ender Dragon didn’t know who to attack first. It randomly chose a target to pounce on.

The result was that the player blocked the attack with a shield, taking only minimal fall damage, just a flesh wound.

However, the Ender Dragon itself lost a chunk of health due to the dense rain of arrows. It only recovered health because of the presence of the End Crystals.

But the End Crystal healing it exploded in the next moment.

Not just one of them, but a total of eight crystals were blown up almost simultaneously!

Only the two crystals protected by a cage temporarily survived, but players had already teleported up using Ender Pearls and started breaking the cages. Soon, they could deal with the last two crystals.

What happened in the next moment made them involuntarily stop—

A countless number of Endermen suddenly spawned!

In the blink of an eye, the entire End floating island was occupied by densely packed Endermen. They flooded in from the edge of darkness, like a tidal wave, surging towards the central area where the players were, and submerged all of them in another blink of an eye.

Super Tomato could only say, “What the hell?” before being swallowed by a black wave of Endermen.

On two Obsidian Pillars, a male and a female player stared dumbfounded at the tidal wave of Endermen below, which submerged the entire ground and continuously surged like water.

“Damn it!” Lincoln cursed in the sky, looking at the Endermen raining like drops on the End floating island already in chaos. “I’m not even done fixing this, and you’re already causing trouble!”

With Yi and Yelang, every time an End Crystal was destroyed, only four Endermen appeared—because there were only two of them!

The number of Endermen spawned is twice the number of players.

The problem was, Super Tomato’s team had 132 people now!

So every time a crystal was destroyed, 132×2, or 264 Endermen, would spawn!

For eight crystals, it was 132×2×8=2112 Endermen!

When Lincoln designed this, he had thought this would happen. He prepared for such a scene while anticipating some mischievous fun.

But the issue was—he overestimated the players’ mental capacity to cope; he was still fixing the issue! How could they trigger it now?!

Even if the incident happened 10 minutes later, when the issue was patched, it would have been acceptable!

Then, he would definitely laugh at the scene.

Now he had to worry: wouldn’t this terrify the players?

However, the facts proved that he was overthinking.

The spectacular scene was too absurd and bizarre that it completely diluted the sense of terror; hardly anyone felt genuinely scared—they were only stunned and incredulous.

Just like the players on the Obsidian Pillars, upon seeing the “Enderman Ocean” below, they didn’t panic at all. Instead, they couldn’t help but sincerely exclaim:

“Amazing…”