484. Chapter 482: 481 The Third Stronghold “Wolf’s Castle” Has Been Occupied
Chapter 482: 481. The Third Stronghold “Wolf Castle” Has Been Captured
By the time Tris and Murphy returned, Plague Town was already in full swing.
Just a few minutes ago, the Bone Biting King, who was being pulled around by the players in a long-distance kite manner, finally fell, but instead of the players using their “wisdom and courage” to knock down the desecrated remains of the Legendary Man, the Bone Biting King himself “died of exhaustion! But rather than the players using their “wisdom and courage” to bring down the desecrated remains of the legendary man, it was the Bone Biter himself who “died of exhaustion.
After all, with the players’ current strength and weapon level, even if they swarmed, they could not break the defense.
They pulled the Bite Bone King around the ruins of Plague Town in search of sunlight, and the sunlight precisely cast by Fimis continuously consumed the remaining midnight power of this skeleton, and finally succeeded in draining it to death.
In the process, the small group of players who had survived the previous difficult raids died another batch, but the good news was that this copy was eventually chewed down by them!
Although the victory gesture wasn’t as dazzling, although they themselves were heavily damaged, and although the reserve replacements from the various guilds were all wiped out, a win was a win!
They didn’t allow any powerful NPC vanguard to set foot in the town and participate in the battle, which meant that they accomplished a rather wild “0 light mode”!
Although Murphy and Tris had been wandering in the swamp’s depths in the land of creation, Murphy’s eyes, that is, the Spirit Vulture Revlono, had been observing the battlefield, so at the moment the King of Bones fell, a “Service-wide Announcement” popped up on the player interfaces of all players who were still alive on the battlefield of Plague Town:
[Congratulations to the players who have successfully completed Team Copy 003, ‘Carrion Land’!
The settlement of the replica has begun!
Please collect the loot in the ruins of Plague Town and wait patiently for the end of the settlement.
Because players relied on their own wisdom and strength to complete the team copy’s strategy and clean up the Plague Clan without any forces intervening head-on, the area where the copy is located has formed player stronghold #003.
This stronghold is currently under the custody of the Transylvania Administrative Office, and the ownership of the stronghold will be decided according to the contribution of the players’ guilds within three days.
Because of the feat you have accomplished, all the supporting forces involved in the attack on Plague Town regard you as true heroes, and they have prepared generous rewards for you.
The rewards will be distributed within three days.
Because of what you have accomplished, the threat to Transylvania in the direction of the Tainted Swamp has been declared over, and Lady Miriam, the Scarlet Consul of Transylvania, is grateful to you.
Thank yous from the Administrative Office will be prepared and distributed within seven days.
Because of the feat you have accomplished, the God of Nature has witnessed your contribution to the preservation of the swamp’s ecology, and Avalon has decided to bestow upon you the blessing of strength as a reward for your warrior’s journey.
As this reward involves the operation of divine power, it will be actualized within a month.]
This service-wide announcement was considered to be the official recognition that the players’ raid was valid, causing all the survivors in the ruins to stifle their cheers.
Today’s crushing victory didn’t just mean that a team copy had been cleared, it also meant that their “march of suffering” in the swamp over the past twenty days had been valuable and meaningful!
The sense of accomplishment attached to the reward of this kind of payment was a hundred times more enjoyable than the feeling of simply obtaining rewards.
But before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, a second service-wide announcement followed.
Compared to the first one, this second one was obviously much more explosive.
[Transylvania “Hall of Fame” first phase of the selection is over!
Congratulations to the testers, “Big Pigeon”, “Badgeron”, “Invincible Tyrannosaurus Rex”, “Spicy Goo Goo Chicken”, “KwaNoWaMeowMeowSharkDa”. and “Kono wow meow meow shark da” and “Do electronic snails dream of bionic trees” have been inducted into the Player’s Hall of Fame.
The above testers were awarded the exclusive title of “Hero of Transylvania”, which entitles them to a 10% discount on all commercial activities in Transylvania.
The above testers are invited to visit the Brotherhood of Stonemasons headquarters to customize their statues and choose their inscriptions and placement.
The above testers are invited to seek out Professor Malcolm at the Scarlet Fortress Administration Office for an interview, and your heroic deeds will be compiled into the General History of Transylvania – The Black Plague.
The above testers are invited to visit the necromancer Bella at the Hut of the Dead in the Scarlet Cloisters to receive your exclusive hero mount, the Skeleton Night Ranger.
The above testers are requested to go to the Bloodclaw Clan’s Great Den to find Hogg, the Bloodclaw Chief, and trigger Hogg’s personal quest line “Bone Biter” from him.
Congratulations to the Scarlet Beasts for being inducted into the Hall of Fame!
The Scarlet Beasts guild rating is +1, and they have been granted a base of operations land lease of X1, allowing them to choose their own location in the city of Scarlet Fortress.
The Scarlet Beasts guild will be given a special 200 person test quota, under which they are free to recruit testers to join the guild, but are still subject to the limitations and restrictions of the Player’s Handbook.
The Scarlet Beasts guild will receive X200 armor and weapons from the Adventurer’s Guild.
The Scarlet Beasts guild will receive a bonus allowance from the Administration Office, which lasts for 12 months, and can apply for 10,000 gold coins per month for the duration of the allowance].
“F*ck!”
The Player Hall of Fame’s inclusion prompts were just for ordinary players to watch and envy the good fortune of these six guys, but for the guild presidents, that series of incentives looked everyone’s eyes red.
Even the always gentle and atmospheric Mrs. Water couldn’t help but say sourly:
“Rod and meow brother and Tepal are ambitious want to fight for the first, Lumina is also not willing to be so salty all the time, the results did not expect well-prepared several parties actually fell into such a running with the end, but instead is the young people who are not the slightest bit enthusiastic about this kind of thing to take the top spot.
Alas, is this perhaps the power of ‘love’?”
“They’re different from us, they’re always very serious when they play the game, and don’t even think about all the has-beens, unlike us . Alas, a few of us have been pondering the truth of the so-called ‘real vs. fake’ lately, and we’re completely unable to give it our all anymore.”
Sister Pomegranate was also a bit discouraged.
She sat down on a nearby rock and propped up her chin as she spoke to her partners:
“I was originally one of them, but I ended up following Lumina to our side, oops, sorely missing out on entering the Hall of Fame yah.
It’s your fault, babies.
Why don’t you guys try a little harder?”
“Go go go, we obviously used our brains too, okay?”
Little Vikrama also had an unwilling face as she leaned on her hammer guard and spat:
“I told you guys long ago, you shouldn’t think about all that stuff in Transylvania, what’s the point of thinking so much? You can’t solve it, right?
Isn’t this just pure mental exhaustion?
It’s better to enjoy life with all your heart, just be happy, what does it matter if it’s true or not?”
“Right, right, right, you’re right, okay?”
Mrs. Water reached out her hand to hold down little Vikrama’s head, she sighed and said:
“If everyone thought as simply as you do, there wouldn’t be so much strife in this world.
But I will admit that you are right, the problems we are thinking about now are problems that we simply cannot solve.
Therefore it is indeed only a waste of time to think about it too much more, and anyway, even if we were given a chance to quit, it is unlikely that everyone would just leave.
So I propose to put in some input in the future.
Wander around this great land with the pursuit of idle fun rather than with some sort of purpose in mind, and let the truth and whatnot take its course.”
Several others nodded in succession.
They had been quite annoyed by all the iffy information lately, especially Pomegranate, and now that they heard Lady Shui take the initiative to talk about it, they all made an unspoken agreement.
No longer looking for those real and unreal evidence, at least explicitly no longer feeling anxious and worried about it.
This scene fell in the eyes of Moe Haha, causing the physicist to skim his lips and shake his head.
The intelligence of these guys, expect them not to think too much that is impossible. Intelligent people’s brains turn fast, sometimes they can’t control the thoughts that run wild.
Alas, knowing too much is often not a good thing, this is probably the legendary “curse of knowledge”.
The girls quickly admitted defeat, but Bang’s team didn’t admit defeat so easily.
The surviving Tiger Leopard Riders agreed that the development team’s judgment was flawed.
They didn’t deny that the Student Party played a decisive role in today’s battle, but the Student Party all died at the beginning of the raid, and they didn’t participate in the subsequent attack.
The subsequent raids were all done by people from other guilds, and even if the Student Party took the lion’s share of the battle, it was a bit hard to justify not picking a few from the other survivors to join the Hall of Fame in this situation, wasn’t it?
They spat loudly, and also gathered a group of people intending to go to the forums to give hard feedback.
But before they could act, they were stopped by Stick.
“Don’t go and fucking embarrass yourself! Get your asses back here and honestly search the loot! Finish this before evening, we still have to go back to our position to continue supervising the construction of the defense line.”
Happy Stick stood on his weapon, but revealed a sense of weakness. This weakness came not only from the long kite he had just lured the BOSS to step on the sunlight, but also from the fact that that vampire bitch Melia had just asked him to “replenish her magic” again.
She also said that because she was weak due to the acceleration spells she kept adding to Stick, this weakness had to be doubled by Happy Stick and other nonsense, and Stick thought that vampire girl was intentionally making things difficult for him!
“Stick! We’re being mean to you! It’s not even if you’re an asshole who doesn’t take kindly to it, what do you mean you’re embarrassed?”
Hearing Happy Stick’s chiding, Tiger Leopard Rider-Dou, who served as the scout leader, instantly retorted in displeasure:
“Are we wrong? The student party’s role was indeed great, we wouldn’t have been able to attack the Warlock Tower without their divine work, but the follow-ups, including the Gold BOSS, were all taken out by us.
Isn’t this difficulty worth a Hall of Fame?”
“So what do you guys take that hero title for?”
Happy Stick was all laughed out of breath as he sat on a rock and grunted under his breath, saying:
“Do you really think that you can get the ‘hero’ title just by casually making a copy? Before it was that we didn’t know the arrangement of the two BOSSes behind this group, but you guys know it now that we’ve finished fighting.
Let’s not talk about the Crippled Claw’s terrain battle, but you guys have seen the strength of the last ‘Desecrated Bone Biting King’ with your own eyes.
I’ll ask you guys, if it wasn’t for the student party seducing the giant snake and the King of Bitten Bones to fight to a standstill, can we rely on our current strength to complete this copy in the next eight days?
Not at all!
Get it!
The development team didn’t even think about letting us finish this raid alone, and that gold boss at the end is proof of that, they’ve raised the difficulty to a level that players have no way of dealing with at this stage!
But it was because of the student party’s stupid operation that we not only beat the copy, but also completed it ahead of schedule.
They’re not just in the Hall of Fame because they lured the giant snake to breach the Warlock Tower, you tough-talking idiots!
It’s because those six guys turned the ‘impossible’ into the ‘possible’!
They broke the development team’s difficulty blockade in their own way, directly affecting the battlefield and the trend of events, and if this was in reality, their actions would be fully deserving of a second-class honor.
I’ll put it this way.
Before the student party lured in the giant serpent, Plague Town was the wall that would not fall, but after the giant serpent stormed the position, a randomly picked group of veteran players could have chewed it down with a head iron.
So what’s the point of just being able to fight!
It’s fighting a war!
You guys have to rely on your brains!
You guys are commanders now, how can you still think like soldiers?
All of you go back and write me a proper review and hand it in tomorrow morning!
The Black Plague is coming!
If we can’t turn the corner with our thinking, the Maginot Defense Line we’re in charge of probably won’t end up too well.”
The members who were severely scolded by Brother Stick all hung their heads in shame, they had the intention to retort but Brother Stick no longer had that time to break up all this with them.
Now that Plague Town had been taken, it meant that the Maginot Line that Stick was defending would have an additional “salient” deep into the swamp, and the two places would complement each other enough to allow Happy Stick to come up with more usable tactical solutions in the subsequent battle, and as a commander, his mind had already begun to work frantically.
“My lord, I can’t understand your hectoring of your subordinates, you’re striking at their fervent loyalty.”
Melia whispered in Stick’s ear:
“In fact, I can sense that you are also displeased in your heart, but you are able to suppress this fighting mind turning to more distant developments.
Are you really as impartial as you appear to be?
Don’t you want that ‘Hall of Fame’ status and to use it to make a name for yourself among your countrymen?”
“I guess I’ve been thinking about it since the beginning of this event.”
Facing the servant with whom he had a bloodline contract, Stick didn’t hide what was on his mind.
He said:
“But I don’t have time to feel sorry for today’s small failure, it’s less than fifty days since the start of the Black Plague, and that war I set out to win is close at hand.
I know that is where I am destined to shine, where I will forge the legends of war and through those victories I will accomplish true heroics.
Naturally, the more selective the qualifications for the Hall of Fame, the better! For victories are never so precious as indiscriminate ones!
Only a high enough level of gold will ensure that I will feel a sense of pride in joining that group, not a sense of emptiness because I’m surrounded by a bunch of limited-edition douchebags.
Let me ask you, Melia, would you feel proud to have the same honor as a bunch of mediocre idiots?”
Melia was speechless for a long time.
She could not answer the question.
Stick’s answer reminded her of her own father, her own father who clearly despised old Edward but desperately wanted to climb to the top, even if it was only to gain the qualifications to be leveled by old Edward.
She hadn’t been able to comprehend her father’s series of grandiose bets that could be described as madness before, but now, she seemed to have tasted something.
Alas.
The damn competitive spirit of these men drove a group of dead-eyed lunatics to the point of no return!
Luckily, her “new master” who was not what he said he was, would not really die, so maybe that was why he was so screwed up?
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“The Hall of Fame? Is this the special honor Lord Murphy created for this group of exotic spirits?”
Outside of Plague Town, Miss Becky looked at the busy players in the miserable ruins, and she rode on her horse and lamented about all the fighting that had just happened.
She felt regret for not being able to join in on it herself, even pounding her chest, while the Raven Knight beside her covered her left eye with her hand.
Its right eye had become a turquoise colored snake pupil.
It was her deity observing everything happening in this swamp through her eyes.
Raven Knight didn’t know what the deity would think, but she herself was only filled with approval and emotion for this victory in front of her, only these foreign spirits who weren’t afraid of death could complete the attack on Plague Town in one day with this insane to the point of being unrepeatable method of warfare.
“If they can take Plague Town, it means that none of the Pioneer Legion’s posts on the border can stop them.”
Not far away from the two female knights, Major Ron whispered:
“Marshal Loren feels he has been vigilant enough against the Transylvanians, but I am now of the opinion that the Marshal’s vigilance is still not enough We must strengthen the defenses of our borders, if not just for the Black Plague.”
“You can’t stop it.”
Leaven shaded her eyes as she spoke softly:
“The border between Transylvania and East Prussia is too long, and unless you learn from the ancient kingdom of Calum and seal the entire border with an impenetrable high wall, there will always be places you cannot guard.
A single gap will be a clear path for the Transylvanians to attack your position, and once they’re in, there’s no way they’ll be able to make a peaceful exit.
The only way to fight them is to be their friend.
My God has just told me that He does not think the Transylvanians will lose the battle with the Kingdom of the Golden Sparrow, and yes, my God is certain of the rise of this land!
Time is running out for Marshal Loren and King Louis.
The Black Plague
The Black Plague is not only a reason for the Transylvanians to use to extort supplies, it is also a chance for all of Transylvania’s enemies to adjust their final defenses.
In the Black Plague, they will harden themselves to become the greatest warriors of all time, and the blade will not return to its sheath after drinking the blood of the Jackals.
They have too many reasons to go to war with you, and you will never choose to back down just because they are good enough, a lone wolf licking his wounds in blood, a lion with a mouth full of oil but still greedy, and a huge bear that is dying but still struggling to climb out of death.
Alas.
The Fifth Black Plague no longer marks the end of the unrest.
It is merely a symbol of the coming of an age of chaos, and all of us, except the Transylvanians, seem ill-prepared to face that age head-on.”
“I’ve made up my mind, Raven!”
Just as Knight Raven and Major Ron fell silent at the same time, Miss Bikki raised her fist high in the air as she shouted:
“I will also make it my goal to join the Transylvania Hall of Fame and become a hero of Transylvania!”
“But you said yesterday that you were going to make it your goal to become a member of the Winged Cavalry, and the day before yesterday you set yourself the goal of becoming a better swordsman than Murphy-sama.
The day before the great day before that, your goal was to find a famous blade in the war that would fit your status…”
“Shut up Raven, you’re really annoying when I gleefully tell you that my goal is because I want you to support me and not for you to count me out!”
“Uh, Becky, it’s good to have goals, but it’s not so good to have too many of them, I mean, why don’t we make a step-by-step schedule? I can keep track of your successes and failures for you, and then when we’re both old, I can pull that out and laugh at your lack of accomplishments to my heart’s content.”
(End of chapter)