Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

“Focus on the BOSS! Why are you hitting the small ones! They keep respawning! If you’re being pursued, devise a way yourself!”

“Throw hand grenades! Aim properly! It’s right in your face, how can you still miss?!?”

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3 players fight the BOSS with their hands, and use their mouths for energetic teammate commentary. It’s a heated battle.

This is Camille Victoria and her team’s fourth-time challenging the Eye of Cthulhu.

They’ve already managed to get through the first two stages smoothly, but once they entered the third phase, the BOSS greatly increased in speed, darting around, and the effectiveness of long-range attacks, which were very useful in the first two stages, suffered significantly.

Mostly because the long-range weapons in the game attack at an absolutely counterintuitive speed – so slow that you can clearly see the trajectory with the naked eye.

Even if Camille Victoria is holding the Platinum Bow, which cost a lot to make and greatly enhances the speed of arrows, it is still difficult to hit the BOSS.

That goes double for hand grenades, hitting or not is entirely up to luck.

For this reason, the teammates came up with a new tactic: they used a rope to pull Camille Victoria into the air, then built a 4×4 wooden platform around the rope.

Camille Victoria stood on top of it, taking the high ground, standing still focusing solely on shooting.

And her teammates fought on the ground, all of them closer to the BOSS than Camille Victoria, this ensured the BOSS wouldn’t chase her. Then they circled around the wooden platform, running around with the BOSS in tow.

However, this tactic significantly reduced the battlefield area. While it makes Camille Victoria’s shots easier, it also puts higher “evasion” requirements on the players on the ground.

To increase their margin for error, they spent a lot of time mining, upgrading their Iron Armor to Tungsten Armor. The defense increased from 9 points to 16, the effect was instantly noticeable –

The damage from the BOSS’s bite dropped from about 18 points to about 15 points.

They can withstand one more hit from the BOSS without dying!

Such a huge improvement!

After all the preparations, the teammates couldn’t wait, and enthusiastically started this fourth challenge.

The first two stages, they got through successfully.

BOSS again started the third stage, ferociously chasing and biting the teammates, causing them to run around screaming frantically.

Despite this, the teammates kept circling around persistently, sticking firmly to the combat plan.

But – Camille Victoria had a nasty feeling.

During her fourth time challenging the BOSS, although she wasn’t as scared or panicked as her first time, she wasn’t being chased around screaming by the BOSS anymore.

But she was still stuck in a state of nausea and fear –

She felt like she could throw up at any moment and even prepared to quickly disconnect and flee from the game. But something seemed to be missing…

She was stuck in this horrible limbo, feeling like she might throw up but never quite doing so, it messed up her state of mind and greatly affected her aiming.

But she saw her teammates still doing their best. Even though they were making complaints, their criticism was only directed at the teammates on the ground, without blaming her for her inaccurate shots. Camille Victoria could only endure the discomfort, opened the backpack panel’s [Ammunition Slot].

She switched the [Flaming Arrow] (7 remote damage) with the more precious and powerful [Jester’s Arrow] (10 remote damage) that she had found mining.

She took a deep breath to calm herself down, then stably held her arm, slowly pulling the bowstring.

A gorgeous arrow emitting colorful starlight automatically condensed, appeared on the bowstring. Camille Victoria, fully focused, adjusted with a slight lead, and finally – released the arrow!

The fired Jester’s Arrow rapidly crossed the night sky, accurately penetrating through the Eye of Cthulhu!

After impact, it exploded into a big cluster of colorful little stars on the ground, and the light emitted from the path of the arrow had not even had time to dissipate.

“Awesome! Do it again!” Her teammates quickly sent her words of encouragement.

The glorious array of colorful starlight somewhat relieved Camille Victoria’s discomfort, so she once again drew her bow and shot another arrow.

Another accurate shot!

Followed by the third arrow, the fourth arrow…

The continuous success, along with the praise from her teammates, greatly boosted Camille Victoria’s confidence. Her accuracy improved to the point of being frightening and the time she took to aim was getting shorter and shorter.

The Jester’s Arrow emitted a dense flash of colorful stars in the sky. Before the stars from the previous arrow even had fully disappeared, another arrow was shot.

The starlight that filled the battlefield added a magical dreamy atmosphere to the dangerous BOSS battle.

—— Of course, don’t look at the BOSS’s appearance…

Finally, the Eye of Cthulhu shattered amidst a horrific roar. The flesh fragments and spoils of war mixed together into a small pile.

“Camille Victoria! Come get the spoils!”

“No! You guys take them!” Just looking at those fragments give Camille Victoria the creeps, and she had no desire to get close.

A teammate braved up and walked over. As he got close enough, a treasure bag automatically flew into his backpack.

He took out the treasure bag from his backpack while breathing a sigh of relief, “Thank goodness Lincoln has some boundaries, we don’t have to dig the spoils out of that disgusting pile.”

Teammates gathered around to look at the spoils of the battle.

“3 gold coins, 44 blocks of Demonite Ore, 38 Demon Arrows, 2 Corrupted Seeds… that’s it?”

“No,” a teammate looked at the slightly smaller pile of BOSS debris in the distance, “I think I see another bag.”

“One for each of us?”

“Do we really have to do this …” Camille Victoria looked at her teammates each picking up their treasure bags in disbelief, seeing another bag within her line of sight.

She wanted to wait for the debris to disappear, but she was also eager to get the rewards. Eventually, to not hold her teammates back any longer, she gingerly went over to collect the spoils of war.

But despite constantly reminding herself, she couldn’t help but glance at the pile of flesh and blood that was slowly disappearing.

And then, very sadly, her “vomiting progress bar”, which had always been lingering somewhere halfway, and even dropped significantly because of the victory over the BOSS, was suddenly completely filled in that moment!

And so—

“Puke! Puke~~puke~~~~”

Camille Victoria turned her back and fell to the ground, throwing up furiously!

Lincoln’s live-streamed flight had already resulted in him puking all over the cockpit, the nausea effect he got afterward was worse than anything he had experienced before. There would be no dry retching, or reflux, or just a bit of puking; if she was going to puke, she would truly vomit!

The scene was very spectacular!

“Eww~~~” Her three teammates stepped back three steps instantly, afraid that they would get splashed.

In the live streaming room, a moment ago the viewers were still singing praises, lauding Camille Victoria as a “divine archer”, “female warrior”, “brave and heroic”. Now with Camille Victoria’s drastic change of state, the mood also took a sharp turn, and they were plunged into a sea of amusement. The live-streamer community was laughing hysterically while flooding the comments with “Vomiting Goddess”.

The few utterly heartless teammates even directly activated the recording function and started filming her!!

Camille Victoria felt like she wanted to die.

But she was so busy throwing up that she couldn’t stop, she couldn’t even die if she wanted to.

As she vomited, she wondered: How did something as joyful as defeating the BOSS end up like this?

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As Camille Victoria was grappling with her humiliating misery, many explorers had also defeated the Eye of Cthulhu.

But everyone’s combat methods were not the same.

There were people using the marathon playstyle, setting the BOSS free across the world, relying on their superb prediction skills to hit it while running, and exhausting the BOSS.

There were also people who borrowed tactics from “My World”, constructing a large area of wooden platforms in the air, and then knocking out many gaps and holes in order to ensure their downward vision.

This method basically nullified the BOSS’s ability to burrow through the ground and walls to oppress the player’s vision, so even though the combat area was smaller, the combat difficulty decreased a lot when the player could see the course of the BOSS throughout.

After defeating the BOSS, everyone started making new weapons and armor with the Demonite Ore they received.

And then—

They summoned the Eye of Cthulhu again, and started grinding!

If they could win, the efficiency of grinding this BOSS would be too high.

As long as they fought plenty of little eyeball monsters and collected the fallen crystals, they could go to the evil altar in the Land of Corruption and craft the BOSS summoning item— [Suspicious Eyeball].

This should be the lowest cost BOSS summoning method in the early stage.

Even summoning the King Slime still requires rare platinum ore or gold ore to make materials, which these people absolutely can’t spare at this point.

Quite a few power gamers felt they had found their goal, and began to focus on gathering materials and killing the BOSS, deciding not to leave the house until they had collected a full set of equipment!

To them, exploring the world is not as satisfying as having powerful equipment.

——Until now, the weapons and equipment shown in Terraria were still identical to “My World”. The outrageous weapons and items haven’t appeared yet, so it’s normal for players’ desire to explore to not be strong.

When they see other people with the laser-emitting [Space Gun], the wall-piercing meteorite-summoning [Star Fury], the larger-than-human bee-summoning [Blade of Grass], the baby sparrow-summoning [Sparrow Staff], the various bottles which can double jump, and the skyward [Rocket Boots] ……

Then their desire to explore will naturally be ignited.

In fact, Super Tomato’s livestream has already changed the mindset of many players who don’t chase progress so much.

Especially when he dug up a [Sparrow Staff] from the fifth life chest under the World Tree and continuously summoned several sparrows.

Watching the sparrows flying around Super Tomato a few times, adorably resting on his head or shoulder, numerous players were moved, and they all set off on their journeys to explore the World Tree!

Super tomato looked at the baby sparrows, and guessed in surprise, “Is this…a summoner gameplay?”

“Does this mod really put so much sincerity into it? No wonder it’s Cloud Dream, I’m super impressed!”

“Let’s go, let’s go, let’s continue exploring, there should be stronger pets!”

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On the other side, Camille Victoria finally pulled herself together and managed to force her three teammates to delete that video recording, finally getting around to crafting weapons.

Being a divine archer, of course, she had to make a higher-level [Demon Bow]!

As for the thought of playing the victim card to end the live broadcast earlier and run off, that miraculously disappeared along with the end of her vomiting episode.

Now she was looking at the remains on the ground that were almost completely gone, her heart as calm as water, without any reaction.

Since she had already gotten used to it, there was naturally no need to log off.

Plus, Camille Victoria felt that the hardest times were now past.

Now that she had overcome a BOSS of this level, she wouldn’t be scared of anything else in the future.

“Surely there wouldn’t be a BOSS more disgusting and scary than this one, right?”