Chapter 218-1: Three Disasters Converge, the Ultimate Showdown (1) |
The great battle in the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range lasted for three hours.
With the Earthmind Bully’s strength, going all out could have ended the fight within half an hour.
But that is exactly what makes the Earthmind Bully so disgusting to players.
It clearly has the power to use frenzy tide series, doomsday series, and death-catastrophe series units to quickly smash through player battle lines.
Yet it refuses, insisting on using a sleazy reclamation tactic to respond to player offensives, never wasting even the tiniest bit of resources it can save.
This is also why players in squad and small group modes are unwilling to come to the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range to challenge the Earthmind Bully.
For small player teams, there is truly no spare change to earn.
The Earthmind Bully can hard-lock the health bar and nullify player damage output through the reclamation of natural-catastrophe series units.
Only in large-scale united warband mode is there a chance to profit from war mode.
They reported that the Earthmind Bully had imprisoned a Primordial Monster of the elemental type and was frantically taunting to pull aggro.
But forum players remained very calm.
It was not the first time the Earthmind Bully had pulled a stunt.
Natural-catastrophe reclamation tactics, mental taunt tactics, player infiltration tactic, treasure chest tactic, information-gathering tactic, data-simulation tactic… when the Earthmind Bully stirs things up, players are not surprised in the least.
Having antics often is the Earthmind Bully’s signature.
What is certain is that the Earthmind Bully’s AI has evolved again and discovered that the players are collecting Primordial Monsters.
So it thought of using Primordial Monsters to disgust them.
This fits the Earthmind Bully’s setting very well. As long as there is a chance to disgust, it will never let it pass.
During this time, some forum players said that the Earthmind Bully, that beast, simply doesn’t treat us players as people, always pulling stunts to mess with our mentality. Why doesn’t it go mess with the Swarm’s mentality instead!
But this question does not even need to be asked to know the answer.
The three great calamities in the starter village slaughter each other, and the only ones whose mentality keeps exploding back and forth are them and the Earthmind Bully, torturing each other.
Neither side accepts the other, constantly escalating their countermeasures.
The core theme is if I can’t kill you, I’ll disgust you to death.
As for the Battle Swarm, they have only slaughter in their eyes.
No matter how many antics you pull, you cannot affect the Swarm’s emotions. They are the purest killing machines, either fighting or on the way to a fight.
The only thing that can cause the Battle Swarm to make strategic changes is the entry of a fourth faction.
Whenever that happens, the three factions align their barrels and beat down the fourth faction to steal resources.
The Swarm may be bloodthirsty, but not stupid.
They also know that the player race and the Black Tide produce no resources. With a fourth faction joining, it is inevitable to eat the resources first and then continue the melee.
Just like a departed acquaintance in the eyes of players.
Since the server opened, the only one to achieve the epic achievement of battling the Three Disasters was the Skyfire hierophant king.
His name was forever engraved on the player forum and is often brought up by veteran players.
Newbie players can also see the brief clash between this departed ‘old friend’ and the veterans through the Honor Album.
As one forum player put it: ‘the appearance of the Skyfire hierophant king was like a meteor streaking across the starter village’s night, bringing a brief flicker, but the memory that belongs to him is forever branded in the players’ history.’
Many newbie players who have not read the Honor Album, when they first hear the deeds of the Skyfire hierophant king, even think it is a story similar to the Three Heroes battling Lu Bu.
The Skyfire hierophant king, with supreme might, forced the three calamity class factions of the starter village to join forces in battle.
After that, the three factions in the starter village never again fought in ‘joint’ operations.
Now the problem is that the Earthmind Bully has imprisoned a Primordial Monster, clearly to toy with them.
But they do indeed want this Primordial.
What players worry about most is what if the Bully kills this Primordial Monster.
Although a Primordial Monster will not truly die, the place where it refreshes after death is completely random.
This randomness is not random within the Pale Continent region, but random across all regions of Monster World.
The chance of meeting again is virtually zero.
Perhaps, in this life, they will never have the chance to see Ice Mist Breath again.
Therefore, how exactly to snatch this Primordial from the Bully became a hot topic among forum players.
At this moment, in the Pinnacle Players chat group:
God King (group owner): What do you all think, any ideas?
Vosnidia: Although Ice Mist Breath is a First-Generation Primordial, its trait effects include both control and damage. We absolutely cannot just let it go. My suggestion is to organize as many players as possible and have a peak showdown.
Divine Wings: Fight, we must fight. Don’t give the Bully any face. Provocation must come at a price. I can’t tolerate it one bit.
May the Prince Bless You: Since everyone wants to fight, let’s start making contact. There’s still a significant gap between us and the Bully in strength. Everyone, mobilize your networks and pull in as many people as possible.
Fourteen Chaotic Techniques: God King, hurry and post on the forum. Hype up the pre-war atmosphere first. Once the popularity rises, we won’t be afraid of not having players join the battle.
The plan the Pinnacle Players chat group finally reached was to summon a player army and have a long-awaited peak showdown with the Bully.
Even if they failed, they would make the Bully pay for it.
Most importantly, they had to snatch the Primordial Monster from the Bully and add a new Inherited soul to the players’ camp.
After concluding the discussion, God King immediately contacted the leaders of major guilds who had not entered the Pinnacle Players chat group, including alien race guild leaders.
They wanted to gather the strength of all players and attempt a confrontation on a historically unprecedented scale.
This process required not only God King but also the other leaders and administrators of the united warband to help.
[A/N: The Pinnacle Players chat group was jointly established by the top human player guild leaders. The united warband that operates daily in the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range was also formed by their guilds together. Many alien player guild leaders are not in the group. Among them, God King is the group owner.]
Before long, God King’s recruitment post was published on the forum:
[Family, who understands me, I’m depressed. It started like this…]
Content: …
Recruitment requirements for combatants:
Anything goes. We don’t look at Star Vein, body tempering, or Inherited soul level.
If you’re a brother, then come with me to the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range to chop the Bully.
When the Black Tide descends on reality in the future, I will be a super big shot. If any brother who participated has difficulties in real life, come find me, there will definitely be a mouthful for you to eat.
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God King’s post remained his usual meme style.
But the rally post he published also received an enthusiastic response from a large number of newbie players.
Many new players exploring in the Rimewinter Snowfield region and even the cavern world had never seen the Earthmind Evil Spirit with their own eyes and all wanted to personally see how strong the Bully in the veterans’ mouths really was.
As more and more players responded, the exit of Emperor’s Mound Village was packed to the brim.
The number of players joining the united warband broke 200,000 for the first time, and it was still growing.
As long as they applied to join the warband, the administrators would approve instantly.
During this process, the managers of major guilds were helping God King collect information on players being integrated so they could do grouping.
Guild players were easy to group, as every guild had already grouped different types of players.
But solo players, newbies, squads, small groups… these kinds of players needed to submit information to enable better grouping.
And grouping was for better command. Otherwise, once fighting started, there would be no way to issue clear orders.
It would also be very difficult for players to understand.
As time went by and grouping continued, they thought of the elusive Guest No. 1.
If Guest No. 1 helped, the grouping would certainly finish quickly.
This battle might truly be able to seize the Primordial Monster Ice Mist Breath from the Earthmind Bully.
With the idea in mind, God King immediately opened a livestream room.