Volume 5, Chapter 27 – The Chaotic Kingdom Faction

Yunchou.

The only Throne among the current players.

After Yunchou became a Throne and drove the game’s version update, he became someone countless players looked up to.

When the update ended, Yunchou also became the one many commoner players chose to throw in with.

Yes.

Now that the Subworld had been updated, the entire world changed along with it.

Setting aside how those items in the game that carried the True prefix had effects that science could hardly explain, there was also the fact that a player’s strength in the game could now be carried into the real world at one hundred percent.

Just this one point was enough to change the trends of the real world.

People began to chase after powerful strength. Among some groups of young people, strong stats and abilities became a symbol of worship and longing.

As the only Throne among players, Yunchou naturally became the “idol” worshipped by young people in the real world.

Yunchou’s Throne-tier strength also attracted the vigilance of the upper echelons of the Galactic Alliance in the real world. So after finding Yunchou, the Alliance held some secret talks with him.

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Meanwhile, in the game world, the Storm Kingdom of the Main World fell into an unprecedented age of chaos with the death of the King of Knights.

On the very day Yunchou successfully inherited the King of Knights’ Throne power, he went straight into Storm City and captured those Legendary Paladins who had taken part in the selection for King of Knights one by one.

When he failed to force those Legendary Paladins to submit, Yunchou very decisively killed them all one after another.

The deaths of a large number of Legendary Paladins left the Paladins of the Kingdom without a leader. At the same time, as he killed those Legendary Paladins, Yunchou also obtained a considerable number of True Legendary Templates.

Under Yunchou’s hand, some commoner players began to throw in with him. After Yunchou carefully screened them, some relatively reliable commoner players very successfully received Legendary Templates bestowed by Yunchou.

With the clear example of those commoner players in front of them, more and more commoner players and solo players joined Yunchou’s banner. Yunchou welcomed them all, using Templates that carried the True prefix to win over players with strong gaming skills, while also starting to consolidate the huge number of ordinary players who had chosen to side with him.

As Yunchou’s power gradually grew, the Storm King of the Storm Kingdom naturally entered Yunchou’s sights.

Very soon, before long, Yunchou ordered the Legendary players under his command to lead a large number of players in an assault on the royal palace of the Storm Kingdom. The Storm King, who never understood why Yunchou wanted to deal with him from beginning to end, was brutally killed by those players.

So, not long after Yunchou inherited the Throne power, he directly launched a coup and seized the throne of the Storm Kingdom.

Likewise, not long after Yunchou’s coup, the other nations of the Kingdom, under the instigation of the remaining Paladins, began to join forces against Yunchou.

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So, before Yunchou even had time to integrate the territory, army, and power of the Storm Kingdom, he was already facing a joint attack from the remaining few Kingdom nations of the Kingdom Faction.

Very soon, before Yunchou even had time to react, the NPC coalition easily seized the vast majority of Storm Kingdom territory.

Of course, the momentum of the coalition finally came to a halt.

Because once Yunchou responded, players who possessed powerful Templates began to appear in the path of the coalition, leading massive player armies.

On top of that, most of the players were blank-stat characters who could revive infinitely. After facing these vast, seemingly endless player armies, the high command of the NPC coalition once again felt as if they were facing the undead tide of the Graveyard.

As Yunchou began his chaotic war with the NPC nations of the Kingdom Faction, those lord players who had previously thrown in with the Kingdom also sensed an opportunity.

So, while the Kingdom was already embroiled in widespread war, those lord players announced that they were breaking away from NPC rule, then began madly expanding their own territories in the rear of those NPC nations.

Not only that, when they saw the Kingdom Faction fall into such chaos, the Academy Faction, which had always remained neutral and aloof from worldly affairs, also suddenly made a big move.

The Arcane Empire established by the player Andrew began to send troops against the Kingdom, using this opportunity while the Kingdom was in turmoil to devour territories belonging to the Kingdom Faction.

Meanwhile, on the Nature Plane, the Elven Queen, who had once been gravely wounded by Sargus, entered a state where she could die at any moment.

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As the Elven Queen hovered at death’s door, the struggle between the great powers of Nature over who would become the next Throne also entered a white-hot stage.

Of course…

None of this was anything Tianyin, who was focused on reaching the Fortress, needed to care about.

While the Main World was gradually descending into chaos, Tianyin had only just arrived at the foot of Mount Hyjal.

『Mm, so this is Mount Hyjal?』

Having come to Mount Hyjal, the site of the final battle between the Graveyard and the Seven Great Factions in the past, Tianyin looked at the endless, cloud-piercing peaks of Mount Hyjal that filled her vision and could not help letting out a sigh of wonder.

「Xiaoyin, this is Mount Hyjal. On the summit of Mount Hyjal stands the holy tree of the Elven race of Nature, the World Tree, of course.」

『World Tree? Mm, Samael, does the World Tree have any special function?』

When Samael mentioned the World Tree, Tianyin could not help feeling curious again.

「It is not particularly special. The reason the World Tree is the World Tree is actually only because it is bigger than ordinary trees. The Elven race of Nature is the race that loves trees the most, and as for the trees within their own territory, the Elves of Nature treasure them very much.」

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『Mm, so it is just a relatively bigger tree?』

Tianyin nodded with a look of understanding. Although she was a little curious what the so-called World Tree actually looked like, she could still tell what mattered more.

After all, the reason she had come here was for the power of Sloth that existed within the Fortress.

『That aside… we have already reached the foot of Mount Hyjal. Next we just need to find the entrance to the Underground World at the foot of the mountain, right?』

「Yes. I think it should be easier to find this time. After all, the dungeon we went to last time belonged only to the Neutral Faction, while this time it is the Fortress. The entrance should stand out more than the Neutral Faction’s, right？」

That was Samael’s line of reasoning.

An hour later, just as Samael had predicted, Tianyin very easily found the entrance to the Fortress of the Underground World in a valley of Mount Hyjal.

『Mm, it really was much easier to find than the entrance we found last time.』

Looking at the two rough-hewn, gigantic Dwarf statues set on either side of the entrance, Tianyin complained a little regretfully.