Chapter 141-4: Campaign Victory, Bully Strengthening (4) |
The remaining players rushed toward the Territory Nodes on the island.
After players made contact with the Territory Crystal, three spatial black holes appeared on the island in succession.
During this time, the area of Emperor’s Mound Village also expanded rapidly.
Challenger Notifications also sounded in succession at this moment:
[Challenger Notification (All Channels): Congratulations to the player legion for successfully completing the Purify the Evil Spirits mission and earning extra contribution ranking rewards…]
[Challenger Notification (All Channels): Congratulations to the legion for successfully containing the Territory Node: Black Dragon Pass (ore resource node). The area of Emperor’s Mound Village has expanded.]
[Challenger Notification (All Channels): Congratulations to the legion for successfully containing the Territory Node: Heaven-Spout Island (spiritual energy resource node). The area of Emperor’s Mound Village has expanded.]
[Challenger Notification (All Channels): Congratulations to the legion for successfully containing the Territory Node: Coral Isle (spiritual energy resource node). The area of Emperor’s Mound Village has expanded.]
The last core node where the high tower stood was the level 3 spiritual energy resource node, Coral Isle.
Players all looked up at the crescent moon.
Just then, after rapidly twisting, the crescent moon suddenly dissipated. The sky was like a torn curtain, sliding down to both sides with the crescent moon’s position as the starting point, and finally vanished.
The afterglow of the setting sun replaced the Evil Moon to illuminate the world. Sea breezes passed over the island that had not felt them for a long time and brushed the players’ faces.
Whether the players surviving on site or those watching the livestream in the little black room, all cheered with joy.
This battle was far more difficult than players had imagined.
Although they had the advantage most of the time, the Black Tide was extremely tenacious, getting strengthened in bursts and driving them off the island several times.
But with the unlimited revival tactic, they ultimately claimed victory.
Every time they fought together, the participating players felt full of a sense of accomplishment.
And the Rotbane Evil Spirit became a stepping stone on their path to higher heights. In this battle all participating players received massive sacrificial power returns, and quite a few players’ Inherited souls even rose by 3 levels in a row.
As the great battle ended, the Challenger Notification sounded in their minds to begin settling campaign contributions.
At the same time, the Honor Album appeared once again.
The album’s background page was a panoramic view of the battlefield at sunset. Golden afterglow spilled over the island battlefield where smoke had not yet dispersed. Players’ silhouettes stretched in the light, appearing both small and great.
Click the video at the center of the background to see the edited progression of the campaign.
It began with the players’ appearance and their clash with sea Evil Entities, continued through the killing of the Rotbane Evil Spirit and the purple-skinned Evil Eye, and ended with the destruction of the Evil Eye Tower.
A line of text was also displayed below the video.
[On this land that lost the long ages, we used sweat and hot blood to write together an immortal legend that will be recorded in the annals.]
Next came a continuous stream of highlight moment screenshots added to the album.
In the first photo, a player stood in midair with hands clasped behind his back, a rotating spirit weapon formation behind him.
Clicking the photo showed five seconds of footage. The player extended a hand to point ahead, the spirit weapon formation spun out, and swathes of Evil Entities were shredded.
In the second photo, a low-health player gripped three psionic bombs and without hesitation charged out of the team toward the Black Tide, opening a path with his life for the team.
In the third photo, a group of players surrounded the purple-skinned Evil Eye. In the end the Evil Eye exploded, and splendid colored rain of light filled the air.
The fourth photo…
The battlefield’s highlight moments were all filmed and recorded by Guide and collected into a photo compilation of this campaign’s highlights.
At the lower right of the album you could also see the squad honor rankings for this campaign and the individual player contribution rankings.
All of this would be preserved permanently, and it was also an important node on the player legion’s road to rise.
During this process, the island’s area shrank rapidly, and in the end less than one fifth remained.
Large numbers of players fell into the sea. Players who had been cheering excitedly a second earlier were instantly swept to the seabed by the backflowing seawater.
In contrast to the island, the area of Emperor’s Mound Village expanded by nearly two thirds.
Qi Sheng, who had been watching the entire campaign from behind the scenes, also smiled.
At this moment Guide’s feedback data flooded into his mind.
In addition to the containment of territory area and resource nodes, this campaign brought him 74.63 million in sacrificial power earnings.
This meant a new round of mass recruitment could begin again.
This time he planned to open one more exploration node and also carry out renovation and upgrades to the main city (Emperor’s Mound Village space).
But before that, he needed to plan out the allocation of sacrificial power in detail.
He had to ensure there would be no overspending.
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Several hours later.
Large numbers of players returned to Emperor’s Mound Village.
Players flush with sacrificial power either raised their body tempering levels, went to the test tower to reconfigure star vein combinations, or went to the Armed Vehicles Factory to upgrade their vehicles.
Players who suddenly had money began revenge spending.
At this time, in front of the Armed Vehicles Factory space in Emperor’s Mound Village, God King, having finished modifying his armed vehicle, walked out of the factory gate.
Summoning the guild panel, he could see the guild’s member list and the guild details.
At the top right was the average level of the guild’s players.
The guild members he had recruited were among the first tier of the player camp. After this battle the average level had reached 36.5, with an average body tempering level of 2.9 and an average of 4.7 opened star vein slots.
This battle had raised the guild’s average level by 3.2, a substantial increase in strength.
With the campaign already over, God King thought of those Territory Nodes in the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range region.
He had calculated the approximate average power level required to take different nodes and felt that now was about the right time.
Taking advantage of this wave of skyrocketing power, he needed to make a move quickly before the Earthmind Evil Spirit caught up.
Take as many as possible. Otherwise, if the Earthmind Evil Spirit suddenly had a growth spurt, they would be mired in hard fighting again.
Although the great battle was over and he felt somewhat mentally fatigued, he still decided to organize a joint operation.
With the idea in mind, he immediately summoned the contacts list and opened the group chat ‘Pinnacle Players.’
The group members were guild leaders from major guilds or those in management.
God King: Brothers, while our strength is surging, interested in a joint operation to take a node in the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range region?
Before long, a group friend replied.
Vosnidia: God King, are you on steroids? I am dead tired right now, gnawing on spirit fish at the coast. So delicious.
Divine Wings: Your energy is really something. After 9 days of grueling war, I only want to log off and get a good sleep. You still want to fight. You a combat robot or what?
May the Prince Bless You: Take a break. Organize again in half a day. We are humans, not robots, okay.
God King: Do not. Think carefully about how much effort we have put in to take the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range region. Strike while our strength is surging and catch the Earthmind bully off guard. If we do not move now, once it fattens up we will not be able to beat it.
Turns Out There Is An Expert: I agree with God King. With this surge in strength we have already opened a power gap with the Earthmind Evil Spirit. Although we cannot take the Evil Eye Tower at the Abyss of Heaven node and kill the bully, taking one Territory Node would still be good.
Hopeless Salted Fish: Up to you. Let me know when you have decided. If we are going to fight, I will contact our brother guilds to gather at Emperor’s Mound Village.
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After discussion, under God King’s patient persuasion, the higher-ups of the major guilds began summoning guild members.
They decided to make a move against the Earthmind bully while the power gap was in their favor.
The target was the Territory Node ‘Star Chamber’ to the northwest of the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range.
This node was relatively close to Ripple Pool and far from the Abyss of Heaven node, making it a node where Black Tide support in the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range region was slower.
The organizing process took 2 hours.
During this period quite a few guild members were in the test tower reorganizing star veins, or their armed vehicles were only half assembled, so they could not break away for the moment.
Once personnel had assembled, God King opened warband team mode in the Emperor’s Mound Village space, added management from the major guilds to the warband, then had the management of each guild pull their own guild members into the teams.
By looking at the statistics on the warband panel, God King found that the players participating in this joint operation were basically all guild members.
This was indeed the case. In past joint operations there would also be powerful solo teams joining in droves, but this time the vast majority of solo players were gathered at the coast celebrating after the campaign, enjoying the cool night sea breeze and food, and were not willing to join the fight at all.
God King could only feel helpless about this.
After all, solo players were not guild members, did not enjoy the guild benefits he issued, and were under no obligation to heed his call.
Once all assembled players had joined the warband, God King issued the order in the voice channel.
“Brothers, out of the village. Fight the bully.”
God King had great confidence in this joint operation.
After a round of strengthening, the strength of guild players had increased significantly, and taking a node should not be a problem.
When the members of the joint warband rushed to the Star Chamber Territory Node in the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range region, intending to take it in one fell swoop, an unexpected situation occurred.
The surging Black Tide ahead fluctuated violently, constantly breeding and generating Black Tide Evil Entities.
Large numbers of Black Tide system units emerged rapidly from the Black Tide.
Many were new hunt level units that players had never seen before.
Doomsday series: Demonic Forerunner, Despairer, Dark Roar, Annihilation Orb, Ash Plunder, Doomsday Devourer Beast.
Death-catastrophe series: Death Propagation, Necromancer, Nether Reaper, Soul Walker, Death Calamity Knight.
There were also others like the natural-catastrophe series, death-catastrophe series, destruction series, fear series, ruination series…
The members of the joint warband were dumbfounded at the sight.
They suddenly realized one thing. The number one bully of the starter village map, the “Earthmind Evil Spirit.” had once again cheated and grown stronger.
“Disgusting, too disgusting. How did it get stronger again, and with so many new units. Do we not get to live?”
“Feels worse than swallowing a dead fly. Strengthening should have a reason. I will accept an intelligent learning system, but suddenly powering up is too much.”
“Exactly. Monster strengthening can be understood as part of the setting, but the setting needs some reasonableness. Did the Earthmind Evil Spirit eat another airdropped Skyfire hierophant king while we were fighting?”
“Huh? The Skyfire hierophant king came to deliver experience again. For real? Damn it. The Earthmind bully must have feasted.”
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At this moment the Earthmind Evil Spirit was just as depressed.
Seeing the player legion attack again, his previously pleasant mood was shattered in an instant.
Those cursed things had appeared again.
This made him realize his earlier assumptions were all wrong. The player race had not changed battlefields, nor had they left. They had simply vanished for several days for some unknown reason and were now sweeping in again.
It was foreseeable that under his control the Black Tide would once more gradually enter a phase of resource strain.
“Disgusting. Is this never going to end?”
Standing on the high tower platform, the Earthmind Evil Spirit cursed viciously.
The Evil Eye floating behind him nodded repeatedly in agreement.
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