Chapter 94: 94, Start taking action! 1
Translator: 549690339
The battlefield was gradually growing tense.
After a period of probing, the players had smartened up. If they encounter bandits above level 20, they don’t directly engage in combat, using the tanks’ [Taunt] skill to draw them in and moving them next to the Princess’s personal guard, leaving them to be taken care of by the soldiers of the guard.
As for bandits under level 20, they rushed in and beat them mercilessly!
One by one, the bandits fell, spilling equipment, spiritual energy coins, potions… all over the ground.
However, no player picked them up.
It had been agreed beforehand that the loot dropped after the battle would be collected by Snow Leopard, who would then calculate the total market value and divide the resulting spiritual energy coins equally among all the players present.
All of their energy was poured into the battle, fighting fiercely.
Under the players’ coordination and the guild leaders’ command and dispatch, the bandits’ offensive momentum was quickly curbed, and the balance of victory tipped in favor of the players.
In fact, viewing the entire campaign, it was pretty easy to get through it.
The guilds present were all top guilds in the game, filled with experts.
The other players too were all elites, and there were even top players like A Thousand Cups Unintoxicated.
Plus, with battlefield command on the level of a brigadier general like Snow Leopard, if they couldn’t easily win this scenario battle, then the difficulty level of the game would be off balance.
The third minute after the battle started.
Su Yu roughly scanned the battlefield situation and knew that victory was assured!
At this rate, the Princess’s convoy may not even suffer 5% losses, and at most it would be around 3%.
The players all wore confident smiles, knowing that they were certain to win this battle!
Since victory was assured, Su Yu was bound to start “causing mischief”.
Not showing off when ahead didn’t fit his personality.
So, Su Yu said in the chatroom: “Listen up, everyone! Send out a notice. Let the players in the front deliberately expose their weak spots so the bandits can kill them. Healers cut off healing, mages sit down and drink potions to pretend they’re low on mana, as for archers… figure out how to slack off on your own.”
Red -Eyed Black Dragon: ???
Snow Leopard: ???
Shepherd in the Clouds: ???
Summer: ???
A string of question marks came up.
We’re about to win this battle, what’s going on?
Su Yu sent a “smiling” emoji and explained:
“To be honest, the tasks I assigned to you were all obtained from the NPCs. You guys have to appear defeat after defeat for me to get better tasks from the NPCs. Otherwise, if we’re close to winning, how would the NPCs want to release high-reward tasks to you?”
The guild leaders looked at each other.
They weren’t clear about the details, but since these are the words of Nemesis, well…
The guild leaders: “Okay, we’ll listen to you.”
Under the arrangement of the guild leaders, the originally splendid battlefield situation suddenly turned for the worse, like the plummeting stock price of some “Sauce-flavored technology”.
The players began to slack off.
Tanks stopped using their damage reduction abilities and crashed directly into the blades of the high-level bandits, assassins were hacked to death after charging into the enemy lines without activating [Stealth], and priests and mages sat side by side, drinking their potions.
With everyone slacking off, the battle line crumbled in an instant.
The bandits charged forward with unstoppable momentum, continuously pressing forward and quickly shifting the battle line to the edge of the Princess’s convoy.
A high-level bandit slashed at the rear carriage, and the “degree of convoy loss” value jumped from 0% to 2%.
Princess Alyssa saw everything, and she was anxious.
Everything was fine just then, how could the line suddenly collapse? Was it because the adventurers from another world were not strong enough, or was the enemy too powerful?
She didn’t know about the occurrence of a traitor in her ranks using the “guild channel” and “chatroom”, and even if she thought about it she couldn’t figure out that someone had turned traitor, and it was an all-encompassing betrayal like in the Conan Brewery.
Seeing the timing was right, Su Yu respectfully said to the princess: “I’m sorry, Your Highness. My subordinates are weak and might not be able to withstand these bandits.”
The nearby players sighed in unison, very much in line with Su Yu’s performance.
“Then what should we do?” the princess frowned.
Cat Morning Star could transform into a dragon and run away with her (for some reason Morning Star couldn’t participate in the battle), but this hundred-man guard was her elite force! If they were all lost, she would definitely be pained for a long time. Moreover, the negotiations with Duke Anzu Seifer would naturally come to nothing, which she could not accept.
“I still have a last resort.” Su Yu’s face became particularly serious:
“There’s an old saying in our place, ‘great reward leads to the brave’. I want to give these adventurers a generous reward to boost their morale. Of course, it’s all out of my own pocket, all you need to do is allow me to act in your name.” “This…” Princess Alyssa was stunned.
Nemesis was willing to help her through the crisis again at his own expense.
The only explanation she could think of was that Nemesis wanted to assist her in ascending the throne, exchanging early investments for later rewards.
But how could such a good deed not touch people?
“Okay, go ahead!” the princess looked at Su Yu, her eyes especially soft.
“Ding! The favorability of [Princess Alyssa] towards you +5.”
Su Yu spun around and shouted to the players: “Hold on everyone, muster your courage! If everyone can drive the bandits out of the Curtain of Shadow, Her Highness the Princess will bestow 50 spiritual energy coins to each one present!”
At the same time, all the players on the battlefield received a game prompt:
“Player ‘Nemesis’ issued a task to you [Drive the Bandits out of the Curtain], do you accept?”
Of course, the players chose to accept.
Ding! Congratulations on triggering the scenario campaign side-mission
[Drive the Bandits out of the Curtain].”
“Task requirements: Push the front line outside of [The Curtain of Shadow].” “Task rewards: Experience Points X1500, Spiritual Energy Coin X50.”
This time the spiritual energy coin reward for the task is fixed, and Su Yu can’t increase the experience points by reducing the spiritual energy coin.
But Su Yu didn’t mind, to spend fifty thousand spiritual energy coins for 15,000 experience points, which is unacceptable for normal players, was extremely worth it for him!
Moreover, there’s the 5-point favorability of the princess. This kind of thing probably can’t be exchanged even with tens of millions of spiritual energy coins from goblin merchants.
After receiving the task, the players stopped slacking, each one bursting out their peak strength!
Tanks activated their damage reduction skills and charged forward, the mages who had already recovered their full magic power roared like turrets, and the healers poured down large swaths of healing light.
The bandits were most deeply affected.
A moment ago, these otherworldly adventurers were like chicks under their blades. Why had they suddenly become so fierce?
It was simply a transition of battle power from being chicks to being geese!
The bandits were caught off guard. As the players counterattacked, their bodies piled up, and the battle line was pushed several meters away from the convoy. Stimulated by the task, the players were full of momentum, while the bandits were so flustered by the sudden change that they lost their feet.
With one increase and one decrease, the scales on the battlefield were again tipping towards the players..