75: Demoted Emperor!

Ito Hidekazu had just over ten thousand points when he entered the instance this time.

With a deduction of one hundred thousand points, his points naturally reset to zero.

It was even enough for him to die ten times over.

He was, of course, directly annihilated.

Seeing Ito Hidekazu instantly crushed into a mosaic by the Sky Curtain, the Emperor's Adam's apple trembled slightly, and he began to panic.

Ito Hidekazu had always acted under his orders, so it could be said that the Emperor was at least ninety percent responsible for his annihilation this time.

If the Emperor had allowed Ito Hidekazu to surrender at that time, perhaps he would not be dead now.

A sense of pity and regret involuntarily arose in the Emperor's heart.

Ito Hidekazu was an instance genius specially cultivated by Da He Settlement, and the Emperor had invested a lot of resources in him.

Otherwise, how could Ito Hidekazu design four instances in one day? How could he instantly upgrade to LV2, becoming the fastest rising LV2 Designer?

The annihilation of such a specially cultivated individual was a loss for Da He Settlement, and even more so for the Emperor.

Of course... besides regret, the Emperor's predominant emotion was fear.

If Ito Hidekazu, an accomplice, had one hundred thousand points deducted, how many points would be deducted from him, the Commander of this instance?

The Emperor's legs began to feel weak again.

As a top-tier LV4 Challenger, he had over ten million points in reserve, so a general point deduction would truly be insignificant to him.

But Lin Ye's instance was different; it contained too many traps, with various point multipliers and stacking, completely deviating from the rules of previous instances.

So now, even the Emperor felt very uncertain.

"Emperor Takakawa, please step forward to the judgment platform!"

The Emperor exhaled deeply, dragging his shackles, and slowly walked towards the judgment platform.

Each step filled him with immense humiliation, as if he were falling into an abyss.

The dignified leader of Da He Settlement was actually being judged by a twenty-something youngster!

And he was being watched and ridiculed by everyone on Azure Star.

The short distance felt incredibly long to the Emperor.

But eventually, he reached the judgment platform.

"Emperor Takakawa, as the General Commander of this instance, you have committed heinous crimes. Because of you, countless innocent civilians on East Ying Island perished in the flames of war, and because of you, countless Da He were annihilated..."

"Your crimes committed in this instance challenge are as follows:"

"1. Inciting war! Setting the general wartime policy for all Challengers."

"2. Deceiving the populace, propagating your militaristic ideology to the people of East Ying Island! At the same time, massively conscripting soldiers, destroying the livelihoods of East Ying Island."

"3. Covertly developing a Bacterial Unit and bringing this inhumane weapon into the instance, violating the humanitarian principles of Earth Online!"

"4. Illegally invading the territory of Dragon Country, a third-party force in the instance!"

"5. Falsely surrendering to Eagle Country, yet secretly planning the attack on Pearl Harbor..."

"6. Maliciously controlling East Ying Island's media, spreading erroneous militaristic ideology..."

"..."

The Sky Curtain began to list the Emperor's crimes, a very lengthy process.

Finally, when it reached over a hundred items, the Emperor could no longer bear it; he clenched his fists and roared:

"Enough!"

"What crimes or not, it's just about the victor being king and the loser being a bandit! The next time I enter this instance, I will still make the same choice!"

"Sky Curtain, as a high-level LV4 Challenger and the leader of Da He Settlement, may I request you to give me a quick death?"

Each crime read filled the Emperor with immense humiliation, as if his heart were being cut by a knife!

These were merely rules set by Lin Ye; initiating war was originally the main theme of the instance, and the Emperor did not feel he had made any mistakes.

"The Sky Curtain agrees to Emperor Takakawa's request!"

"After review by the Sky Curtain, it has been decided to deduct 1,000,000 points from you!"

One million points?!

The Emperor shivered, his body involuntarily retreating two steps.

"This is too much!"

Just now, he had indeed thought that Lin Ye might use some tactics in the instance to cause him to lose a massive amount of points, even leading to his demotion.

However, this was merely a worst-case scenario, and the Emperor had not believed it could actually happen.

Yet, Lin Ye truly did just that, and he managed to make everything seem logical under the Sky Curtain's strict review.

Moreover, these one million points would just cause him to be demoted!

Because the Emperor's current reserve was nineteen million!

"Sky Curtain... this is unfair!"

"Previous instances, at most, only deducted a few thousand points. Now, Lin Ye's instance deducts one million at once; it's too exaggerated!"

The Emperor truly couldn't understand what strange mechanism Lin Ye had used to make a task with a base deduction of 500 points escalate to a penalty of one million!

The Sky Curtain did not respond to the Emperor's questioning but directly began the judgment.

"Esteemed Challenger, after the point deduction, your points are less than ten million, therefore your level will be downgraded from LV4 to LV3!"

"All Challengers have now completed their judgment. The East Ying Judgement segment concludes here..."

"You will be teleported out of the instance."

"No!!!"

"Don't!"

The Emperor roared.

Being demoted had too great an impact on him.

It should be known that the higher one goes, the more difficult it becomes to level up, because the Sky Curtain will heavily deduct your point rewards.

Especially the promotion from LV3 to LV4, it is as difficult as ascending to heaven! This range is a huge gap in the Hero Ranking.

It took him a full three years to go from nine million to ten million points back then.

This failure in Raging Sea was equivalent to wasting three years of his life.

And this was not the most important thing.

More terrifying were the negative effects brought about by the demotion.

The demotion of a high-level individual meant that the resource allocation given by the Sky Curtain to that person's Settlement would be withdrawn.

In that case, his reputation would be greatly damaged.

The Dahe Clan generally revered the strong and prioritized self-interest.

The Da He would feel that due to him, the Settlement declined, and his position in the Settlement would be greatly reduced, even possibly causing him to fall from the position of Emperor.

It should be known that the Dahe Clan had another newly promoted LV4, Shogunate General Minamoto no Yorimitsu!

Minamoto no Yorimitsu had not had too many points deducted in this instance, and he was now completely above him!

"Sky Curtain! Please, no!"

...

The Sky Curtain ignored the Emperor's anger and directly teleported the Emperor out of the instance.

At the same time, it displayed the instance's clearance statistics on the screens of all spectators.