Volume 5, Chapter 47 – I’m Back~

Taking back the Northern Fortress.

Yunchou’s proposal sounded very easy, but after hearing what he said, the dozen or so players present traded a few looks, and one of them stepped out to give his opinion.

“Boss Yunchou, are you treating taking back the Northern Fortress like it’s some easy job? It’s easy to say, but what if before we take it back, that Throne-tier from Dawn comes back?”

“Oh?”

Hearing this player, Yunchou raised his eyebrows a little.

“What you’re saying is… you don’t want to go?”

“N-No, Boss Yunchou, it’s not that I don’t want to go. It’s just that anyone with eyes can tell this whole thing is a flaming pit. Boss Yunchou, the brothers all follow you willingly. If you keep doing things where you use us up then kick us aside, aren’t you afraid the brothers’ hearts will go cold?”

“Mmm… what you’re saying does make some sense.”

Yunchou didn’t show any anger at the player’s rebuttal. On the contrary, after listening, he narrowed his eyes, the corners of his mouth lifting in a gentle smile.

“So going by what you’re saying, the Northern Fortress is a flaming pit and we absolutely can’t go there?”

“With all due respect, Boss Yunchou, anyone with eyes can see that.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

“Boss Yunchou, there are a lot of us players, but we’re also fighting on multiple fronts. In this situation, attacking the Northern Fortress again really isn’t a wise move.”

Seeing that Yunchou seemed about to change his mind, the players hurried to speak up one after another, trying to shake his stance.

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Of course, in Yunchou’s eyes, this kind of talk-only persuasion was completely meaningless.

“Since you all feel the Northern Fortress is a flaming pit, I won’t force you any further. However, the leak during our last military operation makes it very hard for me to trust you again, so all of you need to leave here.”

“How about this… after the Graveyard invasion, those Factionless Neutral NPCs established a power base of their own in the far west of the Main World. That area was originally the ancestral land of our Kingdom. Not long ago, the player army we sent to attack was blocked by those NPCs. You can take a portion of our players to go support them.”

“Once you reclaim our old homeland over there, then I’ll choose to trust you again.”

“This…”

Yunchou’s sudden change in tune left the players present wavering.

Seeing all of them looking so hesitant, Yunchou was still all smiles.

“What’s the matter? Do you all not believe what I, Yunchou, say? Or are you afraid I’m pushing you into a flaming pit?”

As soon as his voice fell, the players present felt the temperature in the tent drop by several degrees.

“Haha, since Boss Yunchou put it that way, how could we still refuse~”

“Yeah, yeah, it’s just a bunch of Factionless Neutrals, what’s there to be afraid of? Besides, we’ve already got a bunch of brothers over there. Add in the reinforcements we bring, what could those Factionless Neutral NPCs possibly do to stop us?”

“Exactly, exactly, Boss Yunchou, you can leave everything over there to us. We definitely won’t let a single one of those NPCs remain!”

Watching the players change their expressions one by one and rush to take a stance under the pressure he released, an even gentler smile appeared on Yunchou’s face.

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“Then I’ll leave the matter of the Kingdom’s west to you. If by then you still haven’t taken back that territory, I’ll be coming to you for answers.”

“Definitely, definitely.”

With his eyes half narrowed, Yunchou calmly nodded.

Of course, there was still one piece of intel that Yunchou hadn’t mentioned.

That was that within the Factionless Neutral power, there was a silver-haired girl called Yivrea whose strength was Legendary.

And this silver-haired girl named Yivrea just happened to be an old acquaintance of Dawn’s one and only Legendary paladin, Fisiel.

Not only that.

Having gone through countless “restarts”, Yunchou had actually dug up another piece of intel a long time ago.

That was that Dawn’s Throne-tier, Tianyin, just like Fisiel, was also an old acquaintance of Yivrea.

Not only that, Yivrea had even been the very first “enlightening teacher” Tianyin met when she, as a “vessel”, made contact with the Main World…

Of course, Yunchou himself had no intention of ever bringing up intel like this.

“After all, sometimes quietly screwing people over until they die and such, isn’t that fun?”

Thinking of this, a delighted curve tugged at the corner of Yunchou’s lips.

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“And besides… what I’m best at is getting others to kill for me…”

A few days later, while Yunchou was still silently keeping a line against the Arcane Empire’s army, a vast army of players marched grandly out from the Kingdom Faction toward the power that the neutral NPCs had established in the west.

Of course, the march of a great army was extremely slow. Even with teleportation arrays helping, that mighty army of players still spent the better part of half a month before finally reaching the present-day western border of the Kingdom.

With the arrival of this player army, the delicate balance that had been evenly matched between the Kingdom and the Factionless Neutral NPCs was completely broken.

You could say that with this player army’s arrival, the newly established power of the Factionless Neutral NPCs had already become precarious.

……

At the same time, Tianyin, who had also spent half a month rushing on the road, finally returned to Dawn, returned to Eden.

“Master, Master, you’re back!”

“Muu… Sis, Sis finally came back… Muu muu muu… I thought Sis didn’t want me anymore…”

When Tianyin came back, the first thing she saw were two small figures who had been waiting for her for quite some time.

However, standing in front of those two figures was an elf girl whose smile alone was breathtaking.

The moment she saw the elf girl, the exhaustion that had been weighing on Tianyin’s mind these days eased all at once. In her heart, she felt a faint, gentle warmth slowly flowing through.

“Sister Xiaomu, I’m back~”

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Tianyin walked up to the elf girl and, under everyone’s gaze, openly spread her arms.

“Mm, welcome back, Xiaoyin.”

The elf girl gave a light smile and, as she spoke, slowly and gently drew Tianyin into her embrace.

Feeling Sister Xiaomu’s arms, so reassuring and incomparably warm, Tianyin suddenly had the illusion that she could just fall asleep in Sister Xiaomu’s embrace like this.

“Sister Xiaomu.”

“Mm, I’m here.”

“Hey, Sister Xiaomu, I suddenly feel like I want to just keep being held by you like this forever…”

“You can. As long as Xiaoyin wants to, it can always be like this~”

Of course, Tianyin, lost in Xingyu Muxi’s embrace, didn’t notice the two resentful gazes fixed on her.

“Hmph… S-Stupid Master…”

“Muu, Sis, why is Sis like this… so cute… awu (a scream of pain from biting her tongue)”