I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
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Chapter 323: 322. Task completion status: Indescribable_1 Chapter 323: 322. Task completion status: Indescribable_1 If being on top of the global box office for a day is luck and for a week is strength, then for a month… it is generally referred to as dominance.

In the off-season for movies, maintaining the top spot in box office for several days is not difficult; sometimes, a mere twenty to thirty million a day can earn that title.

Yet at the year-end, with Christmas and New Year’s schedules, there are always several competitive films released, but “Magic Tide” continued to sweep through them like the unstoppable pack of wolves featured in the film itself.

Some attentive viewers even compiled evaluations from The New York Times and other media about Lu Ban and “Magic Tide”.

When “Magic Tide” announced its global release, their headline was “An Unknown Director from the East Attempts to Enter Overseas Markets”.

Then, when the trailer for “Magic Tide” was released, clashing with the release of “Fatal Speed 11”, and after “Cry” and “The Madman’s Mouth” were released, the media’s headlines changed to “An Indescribable Source of Horror Approaches the West Coast.”

However, on the day before the release, newspapers and news began to spread the story “An Arrogant Filmmaker Takes Over Times Square”.

When the box office results came out on the first day of release, “Magic Tide” fell behind “Fatal Speed 11” by twenty million, and these media outlets quickly changed their headlines to “Lu Ban’s First Defeat in the Metropolis”.

Now, one week later, as “Magic Tide” continued to top the global box office charts for a straight week and was on the verge of making history, many outlets changed their tune and started to praise Lu Ban’s great achievement, portraying him in their reports as “Director Lu Ban Gives a Strong Boost to the Global Film Industry”.

And back home, even many foreigners said so, so the hard-mouthed critics could only follow suit and offer their praise.

As for “Fatal Speed 11”, after a week in theaters, its box office slump was evident, yet it still held the second spot.

Mainly because the special effects of “Magic Tide” had completely overturned the audience’s worldview, like someone who has been playing pixel-style games all their life suddenly handed a high-definition texture modded Skyrim 5, everything in “Fatal Speed 11” seemed fake after watching “Magic Tide”.

Therefore, “Magic Tide”‘s explosive box office success led to the failure of “Fatal Speed 11”.

The originally estimated eight billion box office now seemed likely to be discounted.

Looking back, Lu Ban’s praise for this movie now seemed ironic and sarcastic.

One week, two weeks, three weeks.

After three weeks, “Magic Tide” still hung at the top of the global daily box office charts.

In the meantime, various fandom-driven dramas, foreign romantic art films, and Bollywood musical sci-fi attempted to dethrone “Magic Tide”, but all failed.

Only one day was an exception, when “Magic Tide”, although securing the first spot in the global box office, did not achieve the same in a single country.

That day was in the Island Country, where the theatrical release of a national-level anime, due to theater tickets coming with a concert lottery and four types of special releases requiring the purchase of four tickets to acquire, managed to outperform “Magic Tide” for the day, achieving first place in the country’s daily box office.

But it didn’t have a big impact.

Lu Ban still showed great respect for his predecessors, not all records need fussing over, so it’s better to leave some for the next generation to break.

A month later, when the film’s encryption key expired, Lu Ban chose not to extend the showing for another month; after all, he had made enough money.

Within a month, “Magic Tide” had reigned as the global box office champion for 29 days, accumulating approximately 139 billion domestically, which was close to 2.17 billion US dollars, ranking fourth in film history.

The reason it ranked so high was firstly, because the groundbreaking special effects of “Magic Tide” made all other films of the era pale in comparison; secondly, because there was no extended run, and the film’s effects could not be fully appreciated on a computer, so audience members who wanted to watch it had to rush to the theaters within that one month.

The third reason was that the film truly broke through to different groups.

Whether on Weibo or Twitter, discussions about the film were vigorous, especially in some overly conformist societies, like the Island Country, where if you hadn’t seen the film, you’d have nothing to talk about with your peers, facing isolation and bullying. Under these circumstances, “Magic Tide”‘s box office climbed like it was on steroids.

Furthermore, the public, both domestically and internationally, enjoys building spectacles and breaking records; everyone wants to have a part in it, so many who usually don’t follow these things also went to the theaters, further driving the box office.

Breaking records indeed requires breaking through boundaries.

Eventually, “Magic Tide” reached a domestic box office of 6 billion, becoming the national box office champion.

Even the overseas media that had been resisting Lu Ban admitted his success in the headlines on the day “Magic Tide” ended its run.

“The esteemed Director Lu Ban will create his own box office legend today.”

Over the course of the year, Lu Ban became the highest-grossing director and actor in the country with three films each breaking one billion.

Although many media organizations wanted to interview Lu Ban, he declined them all.

After granting Silent Media’s staff a month of vacation and handing out fifty months’ worth of bonuses, Lu Ban returned to his home.

Laika was the first to approach, snuffling and snorting like a pig as she rubbed against him.

Whenever Lu Ban was traveling around the world for promotional events, it was Qin Tiantian who fed her.

After some time apart, the once feared Hunter from the Foreign Domain, capable of crossing through time, had now become a plump Corgi.

“Indeed, the scariest things in this world are not monsters, but women.”

Lu Ban wholeheartedly agreed, and Laika beside him nodded her head too.

“What’s that? She keeps stuffing you with food for no reason, even enticing you with canned food when you’re already full? There’s such an evil woman in the world!”

Watching Laika utter these unintelligible somnolent words, Lu Ban translated.

“Don’t worry, I’m going to get you back in shape. In a few months, you’ll be a slim and handsome dog again!”

He rubbed Laika’s head and then returned to his room.

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