This surely has been rather a slow and ordinary month regarding the updates, many of you are most likely wondering about the promised Ex700 Update which was supposed to happen in the first or second month of Year 2014.

Well, let me shed some light on this topic, in the best interest for our server, Admin Nocturnal has decided that the Ex700 update shall happen next year, due to the overwhelming amount of bugs present in Ex700. To provide us the best possible service, he has delayed the update in order to fix all those bugs, so when the update comes, it can be bug free and as enjoyable as it possible can. There has also been a small change to the in-game commands for ordinary players such as /reset or /addstat. All those commands have been removed from the game because our website is once again up and working this month and so with that, there is no further need for the in-game commands to be active. Removing those commands will also make our players visit the website much more often in order to remind them about voting for our server.

And last but not least, there was an update regarding the in-game events and their prizes. Santa's Bring Me Event and Kundun Minion Hunting event rewards are back to 1 cash point per win or 2 cash points per win if you attend those events on our VIP Server 7. Also, the prize for winning Dungeon Race event has been updated too, every time you win the race now, you will be reward with 1 cash point, or 2 cash points if you attend it on Server 7.



Nowadays, we saw many players getting banned because of third party programs/ software. So what is third party program/software? It is a reusable software component developed to be either freely distributed or sold by an entity other than the original vendor of the development platform. There are many kinds of third party programs like one hit hacks, drop hacks, teleportation hacks, auto combo hacks and the most common hacks is Disconnection Hacks.

The usage of third party programs is slowly growing out of control; their presence is mostly felt during the Castle Siege Event. And because of this problem in-game, our Head Game Masters and Community Manager Mishel made an action to solve that problem; they are monitoring the Castle Siege every Saturday to catch those players whom use third party programs/software, as a punishment, the seniors have decided to make the accounts which are associated with any kind of third party usage as "Frozen" instead of banned with 60 to 90 days duration, thus they need to surrender the cheat itself including a tutorial on how to use it in exchange of the account. And as the result of that they caught around 2 to 5 players every Saturday.

For the future Ex700 Update we are all hoping that all the hacks will disappear, and with that, we will once again be able to enjoy a hack free game where skills truly matter.



And over 9000 indeed it is, this has been a dreadful month regarding the staff teams, we might have gained few on the wagon, but many have surely fell off it. Overall nearly every team has lost at least a one staff member, GM team taking the biggest hit.

But as usual, the real life is what matters most, so all we can do is say "thank you" to those whom have departed from the staff ranks aswell as "welcome" to the newest members.

Let's all say goodbye to the following staff members of the Game Masters team: HGM Kimashi, HGM Kubrat, GM Herren, GM Barracuda, GM Perfidious, GM Koguryeo, GM Nethermost, GM McBrayden, GM Soulexodia, TGM Nduongdl, TGM dangigelo and TGM Shichiro. You all surely shall be missed and we hope that sometime in the future you may rejoin the team.
The Moderators Team: MOD Aesthetic
And the GFX Team: GFX'er .Avin and .Rhythm

They all have served our community well and thus we salute them for this. But even though we have lost many staff members this month, there are few that have joined the ranks in order to make our community better. Let's welcome the new GFX'ers whom shall help you with all your GFX'ing requests: GFX'er CONCORD, Tribalist and GOMZ, as well as lets congratulate TGM's .Dhez and iReject in becoming fully pledged Game Master.

And last but not least, a new small addition to the Journalist team, which is me or better known as Rainbow Dash.



Yes, Knight in Shining Armors, they are always the last resort of aid, may it be for a poor folk that need help, a girl in oppression or a child stuck in a water well, they will always come for your rescue, because that?s what knights in expensive armors on sturdy stallions are for, right?

But let's skip the medieval history lesson, and lets all give a big welcome back hugs to our two Senior Staffs whom have decided to aid us in our hour of need as we suffer a major staff loss this month. Both HGM Ret and HGM AFRON are back in the game, they both decided to come back and help our community in going through all the trouble we've had passed this month.

So let?s all give them a massive hug for deciding to come back and use their free time with making our community better.



It's been almost one month from when the rollback happened and we haven't fully recovered from that incident, and hackers attacked our beloved server once again, they DDoS our server that's why our server shut down.

So what is DDoS? DDoS is known as "Distributed Denial of Service", its an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DDoS attack may vary, it generally consists of efforts to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet. Our main website was also affected by this DDoS, they held us from gaining votes because they want our server to fail in our mission/goal for this month by trying to pull down our server.

For now all we can do is be patient, and please, remember that "Our Staffs are doing their Best for the Betterment of our Server".



Madness? THIS IS ZHYPER MU!
But in all seriousness, many, if not most of you are all wondering about the 5,000 credit points that were promised to us by Nocturnal as a compensation for the dreadful 21 days rollback we had 2 months ago.

There has been a lot of complains, a lot of flaming and cursing, but worry no more dear Zhyperians, your accounts shall soon see those points in them, so make sure to have your arms wide open, because those points surely will come running for a tight hug once the Webshop is open. Why webshop though? Because the Credit Points shall be given once the webshop is back online, and while we don't have a set out date on when will that be, you can all be 120% sure that when the webshop is back up, so will the credit points be.

So don't worry Zhyperians, some promises are indeed hard to keep, but as hard as they may be, they are always fulfilled.



Alright my lovely readers, in this issue of Zhyperian, let me give you some information on the Lord of Evil in our beloved Zhyper Mu Continent. Most of you will already know that elusive Boss known as Kundun, or as some prefer to call it by its full name; Kundun, the Devil of Darkness. But have any of you ever asked yourselves a question, "Why Kundun?" and not an "Evil Spider of Doom and Destruction?" Why that is when anything evil happens to our beloved Zhyper Mu Continent, Kundun is always behind it. When the Minion Event starts, we are supposed to hunt down Kundun minions, when an event in Crywolf starts, the Balgass joins his forces with Kundun, and NOT the forces of Evil Spider of Doom.

And the question yet again reappears, "Why Kundun?" what, as a player and a hero of Zhyper MU Continent, do you know about the Kundun, Lord of all that is Evil. Not much, I suppose, and thus, let me enlighten you on the topic of Kundun, and why out of all the bad guys out there, HE is the Big Bad Boss.

As the story of MU Continent goes, Kundun, the Devil of Darkness has existed thousand of years ago, long before the Mu Empire was created and before Humans had control over it. Kundun reign over the Continent was dark and evil, his touch defiled anything and the whole land was engulfed in darkness. But all darkness has to make place for the light one day, and with that, a hero named Etramu appeared, and defeated Kundun by sealing it into a magical Sealing Stone, which later became known as the Seal of Etramu.

With that, new hope was brought to Mu Continent, civilization began to spread and the humanity has taken control, but the humans were greedy and their own foolishness fueled by evil force resulted in Kundun being released, after being imprisoned for 1000 years, to wreck chaos across the Mu Continent once again. A Human, better known as Antonias, Prince of Black Knights, invaded the Mu Continent, and decided that it?s his for taking, not only was he driven by greed and lust for power, but there was also a puppet master in the shadows. An evil sorcerer named Lumelia whom sought to free Kundun from his prison was whispering dark magic into Antonias ears, seeing how greedy he was, and how fast he wanted to end the wars with feudal Lords of MU Continent in order for the Empire to become his, she sought him as a perfect puppet to control in order to release Kundun. She promised him eternal power and control over the MU Empire, only IF he was to follow her instructions.

As the Antonias' army ravaged the Mu Empire, they have finally reached the place to which Lumelia was leading the Black Prince and his armies; The Shrine of Ketthotum, where the Seal of Etramu was hidden. Antonias has ultimately found the Seal and in his hands it was shattered by Lumelias dark incantations. The seal has shattered into 8 pieces, and with its shattering, Kundun, the Devil of Darkness, was released upon the world once again, free to roam and spread evil wherever he went, and until now, he has not been challenged by anyone worthy enough to defeat him.

And that's the story my fellow Zhyperians, the question which many of you have not asked yourselves until now, has been answered, Kundun is the root of all Evil across our beloved Zhyper MU Continent, and this time, our Continent needs heroes like YOU to defeat the Devil of Darkness.

So ask yourselves this, Do you think you got what it takes to take on that God of Evil? The only way to answer that is by hunting him down and showing him once and for all that Light will always triumph over the Darkness.



Our network also has a WoW server, which has merged with another WoW server, called Wow-pwnage. (reference)

In the old days, trading Gold Pets and selling/buying for PHP were all considered terrible offences, and any caught in such acts would be permanently banned with no chance of being unbanned. When trading GPs became legal, those who were banned for this offence, remained banned.

Credits to: H.H.Holmes



You are a glorious Blade Knight Bounty Hunter trying to bring justice to the continent, in order to attain your goals you are summoned to find the most wanted mobs of the century.

Instructions:
Download the Image below and Identify all the names of the monsters and the Map where they can be found. Under each picture, Using MS Paint or any Image Editing Program simply fill in the required answer. upload it to www.tinypic.com or any external uploading site then post your answer in the Journalist Contribution hall, first to post the exact solution will win 300 credit points. Goodluck!

Please use the following format:

Forum name:
Character:
Image Answer (must contain your name to avoid ripping):

Notes:
1. You are not allowed to change entries once you submitted it
2. Ripping or any acts related to is subject to the forum rules.
3. A watermark (your name) is required in each answer, failure to have it, your entry is considered null and void.

SOTW #/Title:#161 Winner
Theme: Bokeh Effects
Artist: JinRiPark


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Artist: Eunyle


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Cheers!

ZhyperMU Staff
Journalist Team

Greetings ZhyperMU Community!

The ZhyperMU News headline is now here for the month of October.

Enjoy reading everyone !