Volume 6, Chapter 16 – Xiaoyin Would Never Drop the Ball

Seles was still alive.

After Yivrea suffered backlash from Astrology, this was what Tianyin began to suspect in her heart.

She still could not quite understand why Seles would still be alive, but since she could confirm that Seles was alive… there was one thing Tianyin could be sure of.

That was… that Underground World army that had come to the Main World would definitely come knocking.

Since Tianyin did not yet know that the Kongjing player forces had already been dealt with by Seles, she had no idea that her thoughts would be confirmed on the very next day…

“If Seles is still alive, then Seles is definitely my enemy…”

Given the extremely vile things Seles had done to her before, Tianyin had instinctively listed Seles as her enemy.

“If she is the enemy… then can I make the first move and strike first?”

Now that Sister Xiaomu was no longer around, Tianyin, who had always relied on Xiaomu, found herself hesitating.

When it was just about fighting, or about herself alone, Tianyin could act without any hesitation.

But when it concerned the entirety of Dawn, Tianyin had to think things through.

“Right, intel… Sister Xiaomu said that intel is the prerequisite for victory in war. Only by fully grasping the enemy’s intel can you secure a decisive edge in winning…”

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“So then… when it comes to intel, how should I go about it?”

Tianyin began recalling the methods Xingyu Muxi had used before to gather intel.

“Wuu… send out the Half-beast scouts to probe the enemy’s movements… then gather intel on the real world forums… mm? The real world?”

The moment she mentioned the real world, Tianyin could not help getting a headache.

Because she herself was an NPC, as an NPC, how was she supposed to go on the game forums and gather intel?

Climb out along the network cable?

“Wuu, then what should I do? Should I just set this problem aside and wait until Sister Xiaomu comes back?”

“Or should I rely on Xiaomengyao to go on the forums and gather intel?”

“Wait, wait, wait…”

While she was thinking up countermeasures, Tianyin suddenly remembered a divine artifact the System had rewarded her with before.

“Posting quests… right, I have that divine artifact that can post quests, don’t I? Even though that golden exclamation mark is full of embarassing material, if I have someone carry that exclamation mark around to post a quest about gathering intel, wouldn’t that work?”

Thinking of this, Tianyin could not help inwardly marveling at her own brilliance.

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“That’s right. Since I can’t go on the game forums, I can use another way to make use of the players. With how players do things, as long as there is a quest, once players see it they will definitely take it…”

“And the quests I post, all the quest rewards are sponsored by the System, so there is no loss for me at all. So posting quests is actually a win win for everyone…”

Thinking about it, Tianyin had to sigh over her own cleverness.

Mm… even if she was a bit dumb in her daily life, at critical moments there was no way she would drop the ball~

So that very afternoon, on Dawn’s border, an NPC appeared with an exclamation mark floating above their head, whose sole purpose was to post quests.

Although people did not understand why this NPC’s quests were all about espionage, the vast majority of players, after seeing the “generous” quest rewards, all rushed to accept those quests.

Of course, all of this was Tianyin’s handiwork~

……

A new day arrived again. By now it had been quite some time since the game update, and in the real world today, ever since the Subworld update, things had become completely different from before.

The powerful strength brought out from the game could almost contend with regular armies.

After a few people with power appeared and started making trouble everywhere, the real world governments also began consciously recruiting those players who had high tier ranks in the game as official personnel.

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Of course, the impact Subworld had on the real world was far more than just that… because while Subworld granted people power, they could also obtain mysterious items in Subworld that real world science could not analyze.

As time went on after the update, more and more players in the real world saw their appearance begin to change, and they gradually assimilated toward the appearance of their characters from the game world.

Just like the Undead incident that had happened before, the look of the game world and the real world were synchronizing.

Only at this point did everyone realize that the Undead incident back then had not been some coincidence, nor some prank by a few people. That incident… had actually already foreshadowed the fact that players would overlap with their characters from the game world.

The Subworld update brought chaos to the real world.

However, after a series of “timely” reactions and measures from the government, the disturbances in the real world only lasted for a short while.

Of course, the Subworld update was quietly reshaping the real world from underneath the surface.

At the very least… those players who possessed high tier ranks had already become people that many others admired in the real world.

After all, no matter where you were, the strong would always be the focus of the crowd.

Precisely because of that, Yunchou, the first player in Subworld to reach Throne-tier, had become someone that many people in reality chased after and idolized.

And of course, there was also the Legendary player named Andrew, who controlled the Academy Faction and was also the “Emperor” of the “Arcane Empire.”

In the real world, these two players were equally popular.

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In the game world, these two players also each commanded their own armies and “confronted” one another.

Facing Yunchou, who was a “Reborn,” Andrew could be said to be at a disadvantage in every respect.

Although in the early stages he had taken advantage in a few battles by bribing players under Yunchou’s command, later on, even though Andrew completely crushed Yunchou in both quality and quantity of troops, once he actually went onto the battlefield, Andrew discovered that whatever he wanted to do, Yunchou would always be one step ahead of him.

For example, when Andrew planned to circle around and launch a sneak attack from the rear, halfway through his maneuver he ran right into an ambush that Yunchou had already set up.

Or say Andrew planned to take advantage of Yunchou’s unpreparedness and launch a night raid, only to strike nothing but air and instead have his own rear torn wide open by Yunchou.

You could say… that almost every supposedly foolproof plan was seen through in advance by Yunchou.

If Andrew’s close aides had not all been Academy Arcane mage NPCs, Andrew would have suspected that Yunchou had planted spies among them…

However… precisely because Yunchou always anticipated the enemy first, Andrew had started to value Yunchou more and more.

Up to this very moment… Andrew was still locked in a stalemate with Yunchou’s army along the Kingdom’s border. At this same time, elsewhere.

On Dawn’s border… a massive army composed entirely of NPCs had finally arrived…