Ever since the emperor made his announcement to the world, a lot of martial artists from the Chinese server arrived in this place, and an endless number of people moved through some camps in an endless stream. They received and triggered quests, and the sight was incredibly lively and majestic.
The group of people smiled.
"Hmm… let's go over there."
"Let's see how we can go about this quest."
The large group of people surged to the camp in a mighty wave.
"Damn it, where did all these players come from?"
"Don't you know how to open your eyes to look?"
"Mu…"
Since war had not broken out, the armies on both sides were basically keeping themselves to their camps. Many people waited nearby for more quests, but they did not choose to leave.
Because of it, countless players from the Chinese plains gathered near the camp. In fact, some of the entrances to a few places had heavy traffic. No one moved in front of those entrances, and even after a long while, no one managed to move even the slightest bit.
When Happy and his group arrived at the place, the situation did not become any better.
Little North grabbed someone nearby to get some information, and from it, he learned that the emperor had set up six auxiliary camps and two main camps at the back of the military camp for the sake of gathering the martial artists from China together to form an effective fighting force.
The main camps were there to distribute fighting quests, which meant that aside from being in the midst of all the action in battles that were a little more intense, they will be tasked to harass their enemies' flanks, go around and intercept their enemies' food supplies, or be involved in fights that were of rather large scales.
These quests might be rather big quests that involved a lot of people, but they will happen at the most intense battlefields, which will involve the players in direct confrontations. This meant that this was the best chance to acc.u.mulate points. Usually, some of the players who were rather skilled will join these quests and fight against the Mongolian Army and the Mongolian elites. To balance the power between both armies, the system will also reduce or add to the fighting power between both camps.
The first main camp was in charge of distributing quests and assessing the players' war achievements.
The second main camp was in charge of logistics. They were in charge of the exchange of the points from the war achievements as well as the mobilization of soldiers. Once the players had acc.u.mulated a certain degree of points, they can exchange their points with rewards or titles on the spot over here.
What surprised Happy and the rest was that there was a War Achievement Point Rank in the first main camp. All those who had points could find their names on the ranking board. They could then check their ranks, the titles they could get, and how they could use their points.
The second main camp also had a ranking board, but the second ranking board showed the players' fighting abilities once they could lead their own squads. This would show their comprehensive fighting ability, along with the new quests they could trigger based on different combat abilities.
For example, a group of the most common infantrymen could only trigger scouting or reconnaissance quests around the area. In one day, when they reported their work in time, they will only get fifty points.
But a large group of cavaliers could trigger large-scale quests to harass the enemy army's flanks as well as intercept their food supply, and since these tasks will bring about great effects to the effects of the war, the points the players will acc.u.mulate from these quests will be very high. The highest possible points they could acc.u.mulate was one hundred thousand points, and that was not including the points they will acc.u.mulate when they killed enemy soldiers during the quest period.
This news caused Happy and his party to have a different view toward the way to acc.u.mulate points based on the quests at the borders.
Happy had Little North check on the situation because of how fast he moved. And when he came back, he told Happy what he had expected. There were many quests, and the areas they covered was incredibly wide. Over the month, the points that will be produced will definitely be more than twenty million points. Perhaps it will be at two hundred million points, and perhaps even more.
As for the six auxiliary camps, the first auxiliary camp was in charge of using bows to attack the enemies.
Those whose archery skills passed the test could join the bow camp, and they will just be like a legitimate army. These players will move together with the bow camp and join small-scale battles. As they acc.u.mulated more points and had the number of enemies they killed increase, they could join the archer camp, longbow camp, and even the divine archer camp.
There was also the infantry camp, cavalier camp, and shield camp!
Each of these camps will have their different fighting zones.
Aside from these four auxiliary camps, there was also the fifth and sixth auxiliary camps. The fifth camp was in charge of ambushes and assassinations. They took quests to infiltrate deep into the enemy lines, and they will mainly take up quests to assassinate enemy generals or great martial artists. But there were fewer people in these two camps, because the people who can accept these quests were all people who must have certain war achievements.
These two last camps provided quests that could give out a lot of points. The chances of the players getting these quests were not lesser than the chances of the players getting quests to go out and fight for the army, and there will be no one who will interrupt them while they did their quests as well!
Happy, Wind Void, and Phantasmal Shadow met up with each other to talk.
"Looks like we'll need to change our plans a little."
"Yes. I originally thought that joining the quests at the frontlines will be the best chance for us to get points, but by the looks of it now, the situation is not as easy as we thought it to be."
"The system is very fair in giving everyone a chance to gain points."
"The safe quests will give you very few points…"
"There will also be a lot of people joining the dangerous quests. If we gather together, we should be rather strong in terms of combat abilities, but the points we get from the quest will not be much once we split it up among ourselves."
Phantasmal Shadow analyzed the situation for a while before she said, "The quests that will provide the most points and has the highest chance for us to encounter fortuitous events cannot be immediately received… We must move forward step by step… I have a suggestion.
"Instead of splitting up and adding the risk to ourselves or splitting the points from the quests, it's better to rely on our own strength. Let's help a few of our own people to get military titles first and form a cavalry unit. Then, we can trigger large-scale resistance quests."
Phantasmal Shadow's suggestion caused Wind Void and the others to have their eyes light up, and even Happy nodded.
"That's what I think as well. Instead of going with the entire group or going with other groups to fight for points, it's better for us to create our own points, but if that's the case, we might have to go our own ways."
"If anything happens, let's contact each other via messenger pigeon."
"Alright!"
Chapter 803 - Enemy of Ten Thousand
When Happy got back, he had Silver Wolf gather everyone together.
He made some general calculations. Among the Mu Clan elites who had already arrived, the aces such as Rampaging Dragon, Knife, Thunderous Battle, Momo, Feng Zhi, and Little North numbered to more than twenty, their first-class fighters who had full sets of four-echelon grade one equipment with them numbered to more than five hundred, and if so many people were used to acc.u.mulate points, even Happy found it a wasteful expenditure.
Hence, Happy ordered more than ten of his brothers to head to different camps to gather information about the quests before handing them to Phoenix Dances and Glutinous Rice, who were in charge
of organizing those quests.
They were to reorganize and categorize the quests based on different quest information, different soldiers, different quest regions, and different levels of danger for each quest.
Large-scale quests could obtain the highest points, and they were most suitable for them to arrange large groups of men over to handle the quest.
The girls also had to list out the required military rank, soldier type, number of soldiers they were allowed to bring, and the number of points that were necessary for them to trigger large-scale quests that will grant them a lot of points.
They worked for nearly half an hour, and the categorization of information from the eight camps was basically completed.
The people from Mu Clan formed a temporary camp one-sixth of a mile away from the military camp. They also set up guards in all directions of the camp and did not allow anyone from going near them. Once they gathered all information, Happy, Thunderous Battle, Silver Wolf, Phoenix Dances, Rampaging Dragon, Momo, and some others sat together in a circle to listen and digest the comprehensive list of information.
The sky was blue and the clouds were white above the plains. Hundreds of people guarded the area without letting even a single drop of water pass through them, and a group of people sat within the camp for a meeting, and it was even a military meeting. They listened to the occasional sound of horse hooves and horns in the distance, and the group of people were all very excited. The atmosphere made them feel as if they were about to go to war, and they became even more immersed in the situation.
"The period of time where the number of quests for points will be the highest during the war at the borders will definitely be during the last few days the two armies fight against each other. Armies numbering to the millions will mean tens of millions of points…"
Phoenix Dances now had her presence she created at West Region completely immersed in her spirit. Her gaze and actions were very clear-cut and straightforward. She looked very heroic, and her words were simple and charming. She had the air of a wandering heroine, but she was also cautious in her actions.
"The quests during the final parts of the event will definitely be very intense. At that time, we'll have plenty of competitors, and whether or not we can benefit from it will entirely depend on our strength and luck. We'll set that matter aside for now." She paused for a moment before she listed the information she had, "Aside from the war during the final day, the quests that will grant the highest points are assassination and protection quests, along with the hidden quests at the flanks as attacking and looting the enemy rear.
"The military title required for the quests to assassinate enemy generals and protect our own generals is a senior-rank captain, which is a 1,000-man commander. To get that title, you will need at least one hundred and twenty points."
"One hundred and twenty points? What the heck? Are you saying that we'll need to get a secret quest and kill more than ten thousand Mongolian cavaliers before we get the chance?" Little North cried out in shock. He could hardly sit still when he heard this.
"Yes!" Phoenix Dances cast him a glance before she nodded and answered, "The assassination quests are known as Enemy of Ten Thousand. Only those who are very famous in the army will be able to get acknowledged by the commander, and he will promise to let them go to the enemy ranks and take the risk to perform assassination quests."
"Enemy of Ten Thousand…"
Little North was not the only one affected. Quite a number of them felt chills down their spines.
Phoenix Dances explained, "It's impossible for Enemy of Ten Thousand to appear at the beginning stages of the event, and it's impossible for anyone to swiftly reach the levels of a senior-rank captain. Our first goal should be to let a few people from Mu Clan become middle-rank captains.
"The requirements for middle-rank captains are not too high. We only need eleven thousand and two hundred points to get the title of a middle-rank captain! A middle-rank captain can lead one hundred and twenty-five people. If he or she gets a full team of cavaliers, we will just need to form three of such teams, and we will be able to trigger the quests to harass the enemy flanks, which are the quests that will get us the lowest points when we lead cavalry units."
When he heard this, Happy was unable to help himself but quirk an eyebrow, even though he had been keeping silent all this while. "I thought one person will need to lead a large team of cavalry units before they can begin getting quests?"
"That's only if one person leads a large group of cavaliers. It's only then that they can get the quests to harass enemy flanks. But if three middle-rank captains form a party together, they can also get the quests to harass enemy flanks, and during that period of time, they can allow other players to join them. The other players can obtain points from killing enemies during the quest, but they're not allowed to get the points that serve as rewards from the quest after they complete it."
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While Mu Clan held an emergency meeting on their side, Wind Assault Tower and Chivalry Sect also noticed this.
"We'll need eleven thousand and two hundred points to promote someone to a middle-rank captain. If we want to gather soldiers, we'll also need to use points to buy them. If we want a full team of cavaliers, we'll need more than seven thousand points, which means that if we want to build a middle-sized cavalier unit, we will need at least twenty thousand points…"
"If we want to form three middle-sized teams, we will need nearly sixty thousand points!"
"But the requirements for a large cavalier unit is too high. The title alone will require 111,200 points, and if we want a full team of cavaliers, we will need thirty thousand points. That means we'll need to kill at least fifteen thousand Mongolian cavaliers. If we need all those points on one person, it's basically impossible for us to get it done within a short period of time."
"Three people will be perfect. Lin Xiao, Red Dust, and I will form three those three teams. Everyone else, during the first few days, please create an environment that will allow us to get points."
Chivalry Sect soon decided on the candidates for the three middle-rank captains, and they began to choose the quests they wanted to perform.
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"As of current, among the quests that we can receive, the ones that will allow us to get the fastest and highest number of points should be these few…"
Wind Assault Tower's reputation grew day by day, and they, too, had built a temporary camp outside the military camp. It was set not too far away from Mu Clan and Chivalry Sect.
In fact, they were just 229 feet away from them.
Phantasmal Shadow's expression was stern. She gestured on various points on a map to Wu Kuo and the others. There were a few red circles on the map, and those should be the areas they had decided to pay special attention to.
"If we follow the army's cavalier unit to perform large-scale attacks on the enemy flanks, those battles will be nothing ordinary, but the battles will happen not too far away from the main military lines, and they should end up attracting quite a lot of solo players. Even though we will get a lot of points from it, the competition is incredibly fierce. There won't be a lot of chances for us to get points."
Even though Wind Assault Tower had gradually ascertained their position at the east of the coastal area, Phantasmal Shadow knew full well that there were plenty of powerful players in the Chinese plains. They had not become strong enough to control the situation during a chaotic war just yet and be able to harvest points as they wanted. If they wanted to centralize points, Phantasmal Shadow will need to personally kill an enemy team herself, and the difficulty in this was great.
"We can give up on these regions, but if we wander too far away, the danger will be too high. If there are elite martial artists guarding these enemy lines, it's not impossible for us to have our entire army destroyed. Hence, they aren't suitable for our target this time."
"Scouting out the food supply lines at the enemy rear as well as recon quests can create a va
luable map of the enemy rear for us. besides, we might run into quite a number of the enemy's scouts and patrol teams. The chances for us to kill our enemies will be very great. Besides, this is the most dangerous scouting quest, and the points provided for them are quite a lot. But right now, the danger level for these quests are very high, because they're all too close to the enemy's main army. If we run into the players from that side, we might not be able to escape."
Phantasmal Shadow got rid of a few quests before her tone changed. "The points are directly proportionate to the level of danger in the quests. There are many quests that are not possible for us with our current strength. But fortunately, there are a few rather frequent quests to gather medicinal herbs from our main base. The difficulty level for those are low, but the frequency is high. We can make use of it. It won't be a big problem for us to get three middle-rank captains within three days."
Chapter 804 - Set Out!
Honk!
On the next morning, the low horns spread out with a muffled tone from the main military base. The military base which had been set up for a few days suddenly moved.
Small groups of cavaliers charged out nonstop from the front row and the flanks. They quickly vanished from the horizon in the distance. Then, rows of black dragons shook the ground. Under the thunderous hooves from armored horses, batches of cavaliers rode forth in streams, and they were immediately followed by the army slowly advancing forward while flags flew in the sky.
Countless players watched the sea of people in front of them with dumbfounded expressions Their ears were filled with horn blares, hooves thudding against the ground, and the united footsteps stomping on the ground, causing it to shake.
Only the soldiers in charge of logistics stayed where they were. The six camps also remained at the military base.
'It's finally beginning.' Many people had this thought flash in their minds.
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