Volume 6, Chapter 7 – Chain of Contempt

In fact, on the battlefield of this so-called “game world” that is the Subworld, aside from those with powerful templates, there is also a so-called “chain of contempt” among ordinary unit types.

Cavalry are a hard counter to ranged unit types like Archers and Mages, who have low HP and poor mobility.

At the same time, what Archers and Mages counter are melee units like Infantry, who have short legs and can only fight in close quarters.

Of course, against cavalry, melee Infantry do not really hold much of an advantage either, yet if the melee Infantry handle things properly, there is not much cavalry can do to them.

And right now…

Within this chain of contempt, the ones who are naturally and completely countered by cavalry, the Mages, in other words those Dark Elves, had no idea what they were about to face.

Of course…

Although the Dark Elves did not understand it in their hearts, faced with the “outsider cavalry” galloping toward them, some of the Dark Elves with more brain cells vaguely sensed that something was wrong.

In general terms, a Mage’s chanting requires a “casting bar”, which also means that a Mage’s magic is not instantaneous, but instead needs channeling time.

So those Dark Elves only felt that something was off. For them, who had never truly taken part in war, as long as they finished chanting Dark Elf magic, every problem would be easily solved.

Yet in reality.

The things that got easily solved were not the difficult problems those Dark Elf Mages thought they could deal with.

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On the contrary, at the very moment when most of the Dark Elves were about to fill up that “casting bar”, in other words about to complete their chanting, Danqiu Yibai, who had still been a fair distance from their position a moment ago, had already led the player cavalry right up in front of the Dark Elves.

“Charge!”

Faced with these Dark Elves who looked like they had very pretty faces, the players did not have any thought of sparing fragrant jade or leaving them a way to live.

The instant they rushed to stand before those Dark Elves, the players led by Danqiu Yibai showed no mercy at all as they drove the weapons and gear in their hands straight through the slim bodies of Dark Elves who still did not know what had happened.

Because this is a “game”, even when those Dark Elves had their bodies pierced through, their HP bars emptied, and all signs of life disappeared, even then there was not a single spray of blood from their bodies.

After all, setting aside Legendary, or those Throne-tier beings above Legendary, for NPCs, once you die, that is death in the truest sense, the kind of death where there is no trace of you left, as if your existence has been erased.

Even so, by this point, almost all players already believed that the Subworld was not just a purely “Virtual Game”.

What it might be connected to is a real world that exists somewhere else, or exists in some other cosmos, or in some other dimension.

However…

Even though they understood this fact in their hearts, understood that the NPCs of the Subworld, just like them as players, possessed souls, independent thoughts, and independent personalities, even so, the players who vaguely understood all of this still felt absolutely no pressure or psychological burden about killing these NPCs.

Because for the players, even if the Subworld is a real world, so what?

The rules of the Subworld do not affect who they are in the real world, and in the Subworld, killing NPCs has already become an act that almost all players accept.

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Everyone thinks that killing NPCs is right, that it is correct.

So whether it was Danqiu Yibai, the Guild players under his command, or those solo players who had already encircled the Minotaurs and wanted to kill them and bring them down, every single one of them felt this was only natural.

Boom!

A chilling, ghostly aura seemed to drop from the sky.

In that instant, as a Legendary, Danqiu Yibai instinctively sensed a powerful presence that could kill him.

So at the first possible moment, Danqiu Yibai immediately took evasive action and dodged.

In the span of a single breath, Danqiu Yibai had retreated more than ten meters.

At the same time that Danqiu Yibai reacted and pulled back, the warhorse he had been riding, which should have stayed where it was, turned into drifting motes of light at that very moment.

At the same time, large swaths of players turned into white light and, after flickering a few times, disappeared from Danqiu Yibai’s sight.

“Who is that?”

That sudden strike just now had come so abruptly that, although he had pulled back in time, even as a Legendary, Danqiu Yibai actually had not seen clearly who had launched that strike.

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Of course, among these Dark Elves there was also a Legendary. Yet Danqiu Yibai was certain that this Legendary Dark Elf who had fled the battlefield at the last moment definitely could not have pulled off such a sinister sneak attack after seeing him give chase.

No, the idea of ambushing him was pure fantasy.

Although Danqiu Yibai was a bit arrogant, as a Guild Leader, he did have his reasons for becoming the Guild Leader.

Right from the very start, Danqiu Yibai had already locked firmly onto the position of that Legendary Dark Elf within this group of Dark Elves.

Precisely because he had been secretly watching to see whether that Legendary Dark Elf would use any underhanded move, Danqiu Yibai had actually been holding back the whole time.

And that was also why, when that attack suddenly appeared just now, Danqiu Yibai had been able to sense how dangerous the situation was with sharp awareness and take evasive action in time.

“Oh my? Looks like your reaction is pretty fast, huh?”

As Danqiu Yibai gathered the remaining players closer together and wondered in his heart who could have made that move just now, he heard an unhurried girl’s voice.

With that girl’s voice, an Elven girl in a pitch black dress, with delicate features and a powerful aura radiating from every part of her, suddenly appeared within Danqiu Yibai’s field of view.

“Who are you?”

Although the girl did not look like she had any intention of attacking, at the instant she appeared, Danqiu Yibai felt a terrifying sense of oppression coming from her.

Even so, Danqiu Yibai still forced out his question word by word from the bottom of his heart.

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“Who am I? Oh my, it is only natural that you would not know me, Mr. outsider~”

Hearing Danqiu Yibai’s question, the Elven girl slightly lifted her pitch black skirt, rose up on her toes, and gave the kind of courteous courtesy a lady should.

“My name is Seles.”

“At the same time, I am also the master of this group of fools who have already lost their will to fight~”

“Fools? Master?”

Looking at the Elven girl before him, whose smile alone seemed flawless, Danqiu Yibai fell into deep confusion.

“What do you mean?”

“You are asking me?”

The Elven girl named Seles bared her pearly teeth in a smile as she spoke.

“The fools are the Dark Elves, and I am the master of these fools~”