Volume 5, Chapter 41 – Be A Little More Cautious In Everything

One and a half months had passed since the last game update.

As one of the relatively fortunate former Lord players, after his territory was destroyed in an instant, Fanster took a hard lesson to heart.

After giving up the “foundation” he had built up in his Stronghold, Fanster very shrewdly chose to throw himself under the banner of Yunchou of the Kingdom Faction.

Not only that, because Fanster had previous experience as a Lord player and was also the first commoner Lord player to join Yunchou’s command, Fanster very luckily gained Yunchou’s favor.

After successfully obtaining the Legendary Template that Yunchou awarded him, Fanster also became one of the top powerful existences among the players.

And because he believed he had seized a Legendary victory, Fanster in the real world also became wildly swollen with pride. Because the Legendary Template given to him was a True Template, in the real world Fanster practically became someone who could swagger around wherever he went.

His powerful strength made Fanster act without scruples in reality. In just a few short days, he had already become someone pursued and flattered by those rich people in the real world.

As for in the game, Fanster rose straight into the sky. Not only did he become a general within the Kingdom Faction leading a massive army of players, under Yunchou’s deliberate nurturing he also became a so-called “big shot” in the eyes of the Subworld’s players.

Right now, Fanster, whose life was practically already complete, was personally leading a vast army of players, advancing on the Elven Empire in the Main World that had already declared its independence.

Of course, Fanster’s advance on the Elven Empire was also an order from Yunchou. The game world by now had, along with the update of the game world, been thrown into complete chaos. As the fact that True Templates could affect one’s strength in the real world gradually entered the awareness of the players, the pursuit of templates had already stirred up a frenzy in the entire player group.

After the update, some players discovered a shortcut to obtaining True Templates in the game.

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And that was… killing those NPCs!

So long as a player killed an NPC, that NPC would definitely drop a True Template matching its own tier.

Granted, in terms of strength, the vast majority of players really were not stronger than NPCs. However, players had numbers on their side.

Not only that, before players obtained a True Template, they were existences that could respawn indefinitely. Exactly because of this precondition, countless players began to harbor ill intentions toward the NPCs around them.

Killing NPCs.

Over the course of more than a month, all across every corner of the Main World, NPCs being killed by massive groups of players had already become commonplace.

Of course, during this process, there were also some players who condemned this behavior, saying that although NPCs were data, they were also “intelligences” with their own personal feelings. Killing them for the sake of strength like this, was that not far too cruel?

However, those who voiced doubts did not manage to stir up many waves beneath the tide of the greater trend. As time went on, more and more innocent NPCs were cruelly slain by players.

The place where NPCs died the most would have to be the western region of the Main World, which had turned into a chaotic land of intermingled Neutral Faction NPCs after the Graveyard invasion, as well as the Kingdom Faction now ruled by Yunchou.

As the news that killing NPCs could make templates drop became more and more widespread, under Yunchou, who ruled the Kingdom, a vast and uncountable number of players had already gathered.

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Although the player group was still very weak right now, when these weak existences all had the same direction for their efforts and shared the same interests, they could form a terrifyingly large group.

And this group was precisely the countless, unnumbered, endlessly respawning player army under Yunchou’s command.

After the unrest within the Kingdom Faction was pacified, Yunchou became the nominal ruler of the Kingdom.

After that, Yunchou began directing the player army under his command to wage what seemed like endless campaigns. At the main route between the Dawn Faction and the Kingdom, which was to say the area outside the Northern Fortress, he directly stationed a million troops.

While making these deployments, a large player army also began invading the chaotic land in the west of the Main World where Neutral Faction NPCs were gathered.

At the same time, while sending Fanster south to attack the Elven Empire, Yunchou personally led a portion of the player army to confront the Arcane Empire army that had come from afar in the east.

It could be said that now that the Subworld had developed to this point, the changes were truly enormous.

At this moment, Fanster, who possessed Legendary strength, had already led his army south. The player army marching behind him stretched on mightily into the distance, and just the sight of all those heads was enough to make a person’s scalp tingle.

Although the combat strength of the player army was not all that great, just the number of players Fanster had brought on this march made people recall that seemingly endless sea of Undead the Graveyard had fielded in the past.

“Brother Fan, ever since we went south, the Elven Empire has been avoiding battle the whole time. Are they scared to fight us?”

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On the march, a trusted player who was always followed by Fanster’s side subconsciously said this to Fanster after reading the safety report sent back from the Assassin players who had been dispatched ahead.

“You can’t put it like that.”

In response to his trusted follower’s dismissive words, Fanster’s expression was solemn.

“You can’t drop your guard against others, brother. Being a bit more cautious about everything is absolutely never wrong… after all, that’s the Elven Empire that had the courage to break away from Nature.”

“Mm… Brother Fan, what you’re saying makes sense. But Brother Fan, having the Assassin players search within a fifty kilometer radius for suspicious presences… isn’t that making a fuss over nothing?”

“Making a fuss over nothing?”

In response to his trusted player’s words, Fanster showed an expression of “I knew you’d say that”.

“No, no, no, being a bit more cautious about everything is still a good thing. What if there’s an ambush ahead? What if those Elves have some military method of long range strikes? Long range strikes… tsk, I almost forgot. Pass down the order, send out another batch of Assassin players. Expand the scouting range to a radius of one hundred kilometers!”

Looking at this extremely cautious Fanster in front of him, even this trusted player who had always followed at Fanster’s side could not help going blank for a moment.

Back then, the image of Fanster when he was still a Lord, high spirited and flinging his arms about as he issued bold commands, was still vivid in his mind.

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And now, after experiencing failure, Fanster had already risen up again. Not only did the number of players under him increase, his strength had also grown.

However…

While his strength grew stronger, Fanster’s mindset had become cautious.

“There’s no need to go this far… Brother Fan… if the Elven Empire really had some military method of long range strikes, they might’ve already used it. Why would they still wait for us to advance for so many days…”

“You say they don’t have it, so they don’t have it? Are you a general of the Elven Empire?”

“But… but a radius of one hundred kilometers really is a bit…”

Just as the trusted follower opened his mouth to say something more, a piece of intel from an Assassin player was relayed over.

“Report, roughly fifty kilometers in front of our army, we discovered a suspected NPC little girl approaching our forces!”