Chapter 86: Welt Changes Time Zones and Sneaks into Bloodborne

"The night is almost over. Will you choose to wake up from the dream, or die with the nightmare? A new masterpiece by Haxxor Bunny, Bloodborne."

With the new year comes a new game to surprise the players.

Elden Ring proudly claims the title of the best game of the year, which is what everyone had hoped for.

As the new year arrives, a new game is born.

"It's been three months! Do you know how we've spent this time? We've been dominating in Apex every day, with new content available periodically!"

"Hurry up and invite Teacher Yang to play!"

"Apex updates!!! Its not enough!"

"Is the new trailer for a game similar to Elden Ring?"

"Why does the name look like a horror game?"

The moment the trailer is released, it feels like an early celebration on the internet.

Bronie reads some comments while observing Bronya's reaction.

"Tsk, what's wrong with Apex updating every two seasons? Isn't the content from the battle pass enough? And introducing a few new legends each year is already quite productive!"

Bronie complains about the first comment.

"Yes, Sister Bronie, Bronya see it. You work intensely every day. To be honest, everyone in the orphanage hopes you can take a break and do more of what you love."

Apart from accompanying, it's all work. The more they see Bronie like this, the more obedient everyone becomes as they are afraid of causing too much trouble for Bronie.

"Making games is also a hobby. The work it brings is not entirely painful. Doing what you love is also realizing self-worth. Seeing the netizens having fun playing, I'm also quite happy."

Bronie doesn't see anything wrong with it. Although this kind of life is indeed somewhat monotonous, Bronie is already used to it.

She had been through her last life like this, what's there to be unaccustomed to?

Every day, there are her own work goals, from making games to saving the world from Honkai, and watching the children grow up batch after batch with new clothes.

Bronie feels that this kind of life is indeed quite fulfilling.

"Oh! Teacher Yang is live! But the game won't be released for a while, right?"

Homu accompanied most children through an interesting childhood.

Although this yellow-skinned rabbit looks a bit strange, in essence, it's similar to Disney.

Everyone loves Homu, but in this Honkai world, the young people who like Homu may be a bit too high in number, and even their sense of aesthetics has gradually gone astray.

Fortunately, now, Bronie's games have changed the hobbies of quite a few people.

In the search rankings, Homu is still quite high, followed closely by Ranni, and the rest are those who like Stella and Sans.

....What's wrong with the people in this Honkai world!

Forget it, the more she think about it, the more wrong it gets. Bronie just shakes her head and shakes off the messy thoughts in her mind, then explains to Bronya, "This is also a way of promotion. The developers use continuous live streaming to let everyone know about their works. And by sending the game to some special anchors in advance, although it lets everyone see the game content in advance, it also arouses everyone's desire to purchase it."

"Oh, Bronya is actually very interested in Sister Bronie's new game!"

"I'm lazy, so basically I only release trailers near the game's release. Sometimes I use the opening CG of the game. And this time, the game will definitely not be too easy, so don't expect too much..."

Bronie is still clear in her mind. The good thing about Bloodborne is its music and art. The whole game is like a work of art.

Both the action and level design are very interesting.

But games still need to cater to players, and overly high difficulty will always deter a lot of people.

Then it will lead to a wave of rhythm, although Bronie doesn't care much, but the kids can't stand it.

At that time, they will directly join the war of words, contaminated by the bad internet atmosphere, and they might suddenly learn how to curse one day.

Hmm, by then, Sin will have learned a lot of curse words. When she gets angry, she won't be able to control her mouth.

"When has Sister Bronie ever made a bad game? Bronya believes that the games made by sister Bronie are all masterpieces. Let's watch Teacher Yang's live broadcast!"

Bronya is quite eager to see the first-hand news of the game.

...

"Cough cough, everyone, today is a long-awaited live broadcast. The Homu series comic has been updated, so don't urge me for updates. Today is a special session for Bloodborne. This game will be released tomorrow, but I specially found Haxxor and got the opportunity to complete the game a few hours early."

Strictly speaking, Haxxor didn't give Teacher Yang too much convenience.

Just change the time zone a little, and you can experience playing the game.

Welt suddenly realized that if he could progress through the game faster than most people, there would be many more viewers for his livestream!

Money flowed in like the wind, with donations pouring in. If he continued to livestream, he might even be able to make a fortune to make Arahato!

Every little bit adds up, Mr. Welt thought his livestream wouldn't attract Otto's attention, let alone expose his identity.

"The game has been pre-downloaded, so let's start playing!"

Entering the game, Welt looked at the familiar logo of Haxxor and once again remembered the magical girl with extraordinary powers.

Although she wasn't a Herrscher, the power she possessed was so similar to his own that Welt couldn't help but wonder if Herrschers existed in other worlds, only to be affected by the Honkai.

...

At the top of a dirty bottle, a drop of blood slowly dripped into the liquid below, signaling the official start of the game.

Next appeared on the screen was a huge Victorian-era town under the hazy moonlight.

The town's bell rang, and the view shifted to the streets of the town. Baby carriages were left on the road without any babies in sight. The streets were dirty and chaotic, giving off a very ominous feeling.

Then came the sound of a cello.

"As soon as you start, it's a dog. This dog reminds me of the Scarlet Rot Dogs in Elden Ring. Children shouldn't watch it. It's easy to have nightmares. It seems that I probably know what style Haxxor made this game in."

Looking at the architectural style and the villagers' attire, history enthusiast Mr. Welt immediately understood the approximate era background of the game.

Perhaps Otto himself would be more familiar?

A hunter holding a saw cleaver slowly dragged the corpse of a zombie dog into an alley. When the blade was pulled out of the body, the scene of blood and flesh made Welt's scalp tingle with countless details.

"If encountering Godrick the Golden is more of a curiosity type of horror, with some funny and dissonant elements, then the dark streets of the Victorian era we just saw, along with the hunting scene, fall into the category of bloody horror. It seems that there will be a lot of blood this time. Remember, children should watch under the accompaniment of parents, and if you feel uncomfortable, please close the livestream in time."

Bronya grabbed Bronie's hand.

"Although Bronya is not afraid of bloody scenes, it's also good to have parents around, right?"

"Yeah... I'm not going anywhere."

Bronie was still quite happy, but her mood was also very subtle.

How should she put it?

The change from being a foster daughter to being her child indeed deviated slightly from Bronie's plan. Day by day, her pseudo Hikaru Genji Bunny Plan is collapsing.

But let's go with the flow. This Bronya is also obedient and adorable.

The cleaver transformed, and what Welt saw was scenes of continuous hunting of villagers and dogs.

The hunter was merciless, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and the villagers on the entire street were slaughtered, leaving only the last one. When the camera zoomed in, everyone realized that this villager had long turned into something else.

The muzzle pointed at the head of the monster-turned villager.

"Bloodborne"

The game officially begins.

"Well, as always, similar to Elden Ring, not all of the story is revealed upfront; you need to find it yourself in the game. This kind of fragmented narrative is probably something only Haxxor Bunny can handle, and it also requires powerful graphics, wonderful music, and extremely high gameplay to support it all."

"Oh, right, Paleblood..."

The screen went from blurry to clear, and what appeared was an old man in a wheelchair who had appeared in the opening CG before.

The tall top hat almost obscured his face, but his frail body gave the impression that he could die at any moment.

The dimly lit room was only illuminated by a small lamp next to the wheelchair.

"Well, you're in the right place. Yharnam is the Land known for Paleblood. You just need to uncover her mysterious veil. But as an outsider like you, where do you start to understand?"

The old man pushed the wheelchair, and the light gradually brightened.

"It's simple, you just need to give yourself some Yharnam blood... But first, you need to make a covenant."

The screen entered the character creation process.

How should he put it, Welt actually lacks a sense of humor. When creating the character, he didn't go in an outrageous direction, almost making minor changes from the default face model.

Of course, the audience doesn't like to watch this kind of thing, and combined with the experience of Elden Ring, this face will only appear briefly in the cutscenes, and it's hardly noticed most of the time.

"After completing the character creation, unexpectedly, I entered the blood transfusion process directly. But during that time period, this was quite popular."

"Through blood transfusion or bloodletting for treatment, this represents a very dark period in the history of medicine. However, it's essential not to attempt these methods. After all, different blood types could pose life-threatening risks. The development of medicine has been paved with the bodies of countless patients, so one should never easily attempt unorthodox treatment methods."

As Welt continued speaking, the screen suddenly shifted to his side. A pool of blood appeared on the ground, and within it, a figure slowly emerged. A werewolf covered in blood approached slowly but suddenly burst into flames and died at the protagonist's feet. Meanwhile, some kind of even more bizarre pure white figure gradually climbed onto the protagonist's body, making Welt's scalp tingle.

"This thing reminds me of Cthulhu. It seems that in addition to the Victorian background, the style of this game also includes the eerie, the bloody, and the indescribable. It seems that Miss Haxxor is challenging a very novel theme."

At least for now, in the gaming industry, there really aren't many similar themes like this.

As for Cthulhu, that thing is even more niche, and many viewers in the chat don't know what it is.

The protagonist slowly rose from the operating table, and at the bottom right corner appeared the words "Iosefka Clinic," indicating the location where the protagonist is now.

"The surroundings are really messy. Is this really a clinic? But the protagonist is here for blood therapy. It seems that this so-called blood therapy seems to have a magical power that can genuinely heal people's bodies. The currency in the upper right corner is similar to runes, right?"

Pushing open the door and crossing the corridor, in a room filled with operating tables, a strange creature seemed to be gnawing on something on the ground.

"Werewolves, creatures that often appear in many literary works. It seems that this clinic has been occupied by monsters, and our mission seems to be to hunt down these monsters. And unexpectedly, this werewolf is in a severely injured state. Perhaps we have a chance to kill it!"

Roll!

It a very ery embarrasing roll, although the werewolf's desire to attack is not very high, Welt speculated that the damage caused by this werewolf might be very high!

So Welt played according to the gameplay approach of Elden Ring.

"I have to say that Haxxor may want to create a landmark game, just like Bloodborne, which we can also call a Ring-style game?"

If Dark Souls came out first, it would naturally be called Souls-like games, but Bronie first made Elden Ring, which is relatively friendly to beginners. Therefore, everyone calls Bloodborne a Ring-style game.

"Oh, why is the damage of this fist so low! Does Haxxor want to bring a wave of plot deaths every time? I don't believe it!"

Welt was like a god of war, fighting back and forth with the werewolf. Unfortunately, the werewolf could make countless mistakes, but Welt could only make one!

[You Died.]

"Cough cough, well, who made us start without even a weapon? This is inevitable. And more importantly, we actually don't have a jump key! We don't even have a jump! It means that we can't even perform a jump attack. With charged attacks, there is a greater risk, and you may not even be able to stun the opponent. Indeed, this is a plot death for players."

Looking at himself arriving at the Hunter's Dream, he advanced along the path, and encountering those strange white figures again.

They held weapons in their hands, and players need to choose one from three weapons.

"This is the Saw Cleaver in the CG, right? It seems that the main feature of this game's weapons is the ability to transform. The Hunter's axe seems a bit cumbersome, with high Damage, but everyone who has played Elden Ring knows that such cumbersome weapons often require powerful armor. Let's not consider it for now. But this cane is interesting."

Elegant, full of gentlemanly demeanor, just looking at it is difficult to think that it is a weapon.

Although the attack power is a bit lower, it's only compared to other weapons. At first sight, Welt determined that this weapon would be his starting weapon.

"Let's go! Let's go back for revenge! Let that werewolf see how capable we are!"