Volume 3, Chapter 85 – Struck from the Rolls

Ever since Subworld, this virtual game, was launched, it has not only set records for the highest number of concurrent players, but the intelligence of its NPC characters is also absurdly high.

Of course, putting aside the intelligence level of the NPCs in Subworld, in just the half year since Subworld’s beta began, this virtual game has gradually become shrouded in mystery.

And the biggest reason this game has become so mysterious is actually the incident during the Graveyard War, when the undead appeared in reality.

Although this incident was ultimately suppressed by the relevant authorities, for the players who know it happened, they no longer look at Subworld, this virtual game, with the mindset of just looking at a game.

And as everyone knows, on the surface the game world inside Subworld has Eight Great Factions.

Graveyard, Inferno, Fortress, Kingdom, Stronghold, Nature, Academy, Sanctuary.

Regardless of relations between the Eight Great Factions, in terms of the entire game world, the Eight Great Factions are the powers standing at the very top of the game world’s pyramid.

However, after the first expansion pack, the epic storyline of the Undead Invasion began, and the Eight Great Factions that had originally seemed evenly matched started to change.

The Elven Queen of Nature was heavily wounded by the Grand Duke of the Undead, her days numbered, so the elves of the Nature Plane fell into endless internal strife. Naturally, the Elven Empire in the Main World also began to pay lip service while disobeying the orders coming from the Nature Plane. One could say that today’s Nature Plane no longer has the prestige it once had as one of the Eight Great Factions.

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Because of the infighting in the Nature Plane, those elves became the first to notice how important players were. Before the other factions had even reacted, the high ranking elves of the Nature Plane deliberately began to win players over, granting them high tier elf exclusive classes while also using those players to fight for power on their behalf.

After all, the players’ unlimited resurrection ability was just too much of a bug, so the elves used players as much as possible to expand their own interests.

In that scramble for power and profit, among the many players who had joined Nature, there was a player whose race was also elf who stood out and was chosen by the elves backing them as the first in line to inherit the title of Elven Queen.

This news caused an uproar among the players.

In the defeated Graveyard Plane, the players who had not withdrawn from Graveyard in time also encountered the opportunities they deserved. Because these players did not defect at the critical moment, the undead high command that had retreated back to Graveyard placed great trust in them.

And after a series of baffling maneuvers, a player named Duansheng Tingyu was elevated as the new Grand Duke of the Undead.

However, this Grand Duke of the Undead did not have Throne-tier strength, and some of the Graveyard high command opposed the appearance of this Grand Duke.

The opposing Graveyard executives put forward the Legendary-tier undead knight Karl as the Undead Emperor, to compete with the newly elected Grand Duke Duansheng Tingyu for leadership over Graveyard.

The struggle between Graveyard and Nature was extremely intense, and the appearance of that struggle also made some players realize there were opportunities to be had.

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On the Academy side, there were also players who successfully entered the Academy and became arcane mages there, and among them, a player named Andrew caught the eye of the Academy’s Throne-class arcane mage and was accepted as their final disciple.

Andrew did not let his teacher down. In just a single month, he pushed summoning arcana within the arcane arts to its peak and even came up with new developments.

No one knows the specifics. Players only know that after that player perfected summoning arcana, he founded his own player faction with the Academy’s support, called 【Arcane Empire】.

Although the Arcane Empire belongs to the Academy Faction, it still possesses a considerable degree of independence.

On the vast stretches of unclaimed land that Graveyard had occupied and then abandoned, besides the players who chose to side with the Kingdom or Stronghold, there were also some ambitious lordly players who set themselves up as independent rulers.

Because the Kingdom and Stronghold had been battered by Graveyard, and were further held back by various trivial matters, they had no way to spare the effort to deal with the players who had set themselves up on their lost territories. In the end, they could only send the players who had pledged themselves to them to go crusade against those self-proclaimed lords.

So, because of that kind of decision, on a large part of the Main World’s land, there were chaotic annexation wars everywhere between players.

Among the Eight Great Factions, aside from Fortress and Inferno still skirmishing in the underground world, only the exalted Sanctuary remained, watching the show from beyond the Main World…

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In such a chaotic Main World, the struggle between Stronghold and the Kingdom over the Northern Fortress did not attract much player attention. However, in just the past few days, a piece of news spread through the entire player base in an instant.

“The Kingdom’s paladin… that beautiful knight princess, Fisiel, has defected!”

Fisiel.

As long as they have played Subworld, most players know of this girl’s existence.

The girl already had extremely high looks, and coupled with her special identity as a knight girl, that kind of character setting was very popular among players.

Moreover, in the earlier Graveyard War, this knight girl shone brilliantly on the battlefield. Her overwhelming strength and her beautiful figure like a Valkyrie made this knight princess gather a huge number of fans before anyone realized it.

On the game forums, players had even created a fan club just for this knight girl, and this fan club was ranked second only to the fan club of the mysterious number one “silver haired loli”.

Because she was such a lovable knight girl, the news of her defection spread so quickly.

“Ah… the goddess actually defected! I mean, it is very normal even for a paladin to betray their own country, but betraying their own faction like this seems to be a first in history!”

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“No matter what, a goddess is still a goddess… even when she defects, she goes straight to defecting from her own faction. Truly worthy of being a goddess!”

At most, the players just sighed with emotion over the news of Fisiel’s defection.

Inside the Kingdom, after the high ranking NPCs learned of this news, their reaction was the complete opposite of the players’.

“This is a disgrace to paladins! To actually betray her own faction! Fisiel is no longer a paladin!”

After learning of this, the Holy King of Knights not only revoked Fisiel’s qualification as a candidate for King of Knights, he also directly declared that Fisiel’s status as a paladin was stripped.

From then on, Fisiel was struck from the rolls of the Kingdom’s paladins.

And of course, the Knights of the Round Table under her command as well…