Martial Online.

Chapter 417 The Patch Notes

?The Internet was on fire with anticipation and excitement as gamers around the world eagerly awaited the release of the new update.

After unwrapping his presents, Jesse returned to his room with a sense of fulfillment and took a seat at his computer.

After turning on the computer, he went straight to the Martial Online forums and saw that the forum had also changed to fit the Christmas theme.

New posts from excited players came every second, flooding the forums with messages of holiday cheer and anticipation for the upcoming update.

"Ah…" Jesse leaned on the chair. 'I wonder how Bella is doing. The servers are currently offline. I hope she's fine.'

He grabbed the mouse and checked the ForeverTube and ForeverStream channels for any updates or news about the server's status.

There wasn't anything except that the servers should come up once the countdown reached zero. It was also very hard to find any streams to watch on ForeverStream as there was heavy traffic, making the website slow.

'There is still about half an hour, so what should I do…' Jesse pondered.

"Sigh…" Jesse spun the chair around and opened his palm to reveal a small, golden knife made of his Inner Power.

He then threw it across the room, and it stabbed into one of the hardcover books on the bookshelf, narrowly missing the book 'Ambrose, the Immortal Man.'

"So bored…" Jesse spun the chair around, staring at the ceiling in boredom.

At that moment, he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket.

After taking it out of the pocket, he saw that he had a call coming from Moriarty.

"Him?" Jesse straightened his posture and accepted the call. "Hello?"

"Merry Christmas." Moriarty's monotone voice came from the other side. "I hope you haven't forgotten to meet me in Hightown today."

"I haven't." Jesse said. "I'll be there in a few hours."

"Aight, I am already there." Moriarty replied.

"See you there." Jesse said, and the call then ended.

'There is still no information about when the tournament starts.' Jesse thought to himself.

"Might as well wait inside the virtual space." He stood up, took his headset, and took a comfortable spot on the bed.

Then he pressed the button and transferred his consciousness into the digital world.

The vision changed from the fancy room of a mansion to a world of white, stretching as far as his gaze reached.

As he opened his interface, it showed a countdown on Martial Online, and before it reached zero, he couldn't enter it.

Jesse took a comfortable seat on the ground and waited for the countdown to reach zero.

After nearly half an hour of waiting, the final minute of the countdown ticked slowly down.

Jesse sat up, excitement building in his chest.

He thought he had lost this childish excitement one would feel towards something, but now he couldn't help but let it consume him once again.

Each second felt like an eternity.

At last, the countdown reached zero, and Martial Online became available once again.

Jesse didn't hesitate even a second and immediately clicked the "play" button.

His avatar vanished from the world of white and went straight to Martial Online.

…

Ambrose opened his eyes and saw that he was hovering in a dark world, with only light coming from the glowing interface in front of him.

[Log In]

[Check the Patch Notes]

[Log Out]

Ambrose hovered his finger in front of the 'Check the Patch Notes' and gently pressed it.

The interface changed and started showing everything that the update had brought to the game.

Ambrose's eager eyes started reading through them with a racing heart.

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[The Second Update of Martial Online]

[The Path to Dark Continent: A Way to Enter Dark Continent has been opened—You can now change your citizenship into Dark Citizen, making you a citizen of Dark Continent—all your stats will be halved, and you will change from human into one of the Dark Races—You will also move to live in Dark Continent]

[WARNING!]

[Living in Dark Continent is extremely dangerous!]

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[Dojo Wars: You can now challenge rival dojos to a war—the war will happen in a separate dimension—other players can bet on the outcome and spectate the battles!]

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[The Race for the Tournament: Once the countdown hits zero, players will compete in a race—the first 10,000 duos to cross the finishing line will qualify for the second round!]

[Countdown: 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 50 seconds]

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[Underwater City of the Atlantic has appeared after thousands of years of disappearance!]

[Atlantic: An underwater city that is home to Waterfolk, the race forgotten by history—it is the most beautiful and dazzling city in existence, but its sudden appearance is peculiar and might be a signal of something sinister coming in the near future!]

[Once you become a resident of Atlantic, you may change your race to Waterfolk!]

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[The NPCs will react more strongly from now on, depending on how you've treated other NPCs before in the game!] Googlᴇ search ɴovel(ꜰ)ɪre.nᴇt

[If you have a good reputation with NPCs, you might be able to get once-in-a-lifetime quests and receive special rewards!]

[However, if you have a poor reputation with NPCs, they might refuse to help you and even become hostile towards you!]

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[The Gambling House has appeared in all of the major cities!]

[Be careful not to get addicted to gambling and lose all of your hard-earned silver!]

[However, there is also a chance that you could win big and become a wealthy tycoon overnight!]

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[The Bath of the Spiritual Animal has been opened!]

[The Bath of the Spiritual Animal: It can be found in any major city, and by taking an hour-long bath, you can receive your very own Spiritual Animal that will follow you everywhere and help you in battles!]

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[The three main dojos—Kiryu's, Karasu's, and Yuna's—have been opened, and you can go there to challenge them!]

[Successfully defeating them grants you incredible powers!]

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[The long Crimson Moon nights have affected the undead zombies, making them faster and stronger. Be wary of them. If you get bit, you'll turn into the undead who desires human flesh for 24 hours!]

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[A new interface for building has been added. You can now build anything you want in the place of your choosing—perhaps even create your own village on one of the islands found in Dark Waters!]

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[The World Has Advanced Again]

[The architecture and the roads of the world is more advanced]

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[New Class 'Spellcaster' has been added!]

[You can now become Spellcaster, master of all magic!]

[A vein of massive magic energy has been opened in the middle of the Dark Waters. You can travel there, absorb the magic energy and therefore become Spellcaster!]

[Spellcaster: A player can choose from five magic types]

[Fire Element: Allows the player to control fire]

[Water Element: Allows the player to control water]

[Earth Element: Allows the player to control earth]

[Wind Element: Allows the player to control wind]

[Lightning Element: Allows the player to control lightning]

[War Magic: Allows the player to fuse their weapons with magic energy]

[There are still different magic elements that are yet to be discovered…]

…

Ambrose slowly finished reading all the updates and took a deep breath. It was a lot to take in, but he was excited nonetheless.

'The Dojo Wars, hmm. I could challenge someone, and there must be something that can be won. I'll probably test this later.

'You can now become a citizen of the Dark Continent…' Ambrose bit his lip thoughtfully. 'That is very interesting, and I would love to try, but I don't want to become a citizen of the Dark Continent.

'It even has a warning sign. It must be extremely dangerous to add something like that, which makes me even more interested in trying it out. But alas, I'll have to wait till I have enough time to use the ship to get there.'

'So, the tournament also starts tomorrow, that's confirmed. I definitely have to meet up with Moriarty, and if we don't have a connection to become duos, I have to hurry and find someone else.

'The Underwater City Atlantic must be located in Dark Waters. I am also interested in visiting that, but it has to wait.

'I guess I have a good reputation with NPCs, and that gambling house doesn't interest me much.

'Spiritual Animal, huh? I guess it is random what I will get, but I guess I have something to look forward to.

'I could now challenge Kiryu if I wanted to, but I would definitely lose… However, I know for a fact that some clueless players will go try.

'Zombies are stronger, huh? That could prove to be troublesome, and a new interface for building. That could definitely help Atlantis build his own island, so I suppose that's good.'

He then saw the last update, the Spellcaster update, and thoughtfully rubbed his chin.

'That class is different from the rest. This is a first class that specially uses some foreign source to draw power from. Other classes often uses man-made weapons, but Spellcaster is vastly different.

'It doesn't really fit with other classes, but I am curious of it's uses in the future.'

Ambrose then left the patch notes and pressed the [Log In] button.

He had one thing left to do before going to Hightown to meet Moriarty.

The blacksmith, Gensai, must be done with his swords!