Firmament Age 13 September 1375—Night Whisper Village—Midnight.
The autumn sun had set long ago and the silver crescent moon hung high up in the sky. All the Adventurers that had gone out to level up had returned to the village, and most of them had already gone offline. Only a small number of them were still inside the Tavern of Night Whisper Village, flirting with the beautiful owner or telling each other one's gains and adventures of the day.
The casual Civilian players, on the other hand, took advantage of the moon being out and viewed the rarely seen beautiful scenery. The night scenery of Night Whisper Forest was extremely pretty, be it the sky filled with stars; the moon, which looked like a painting; or Night Whisper Village, which was filled with glittering light. The scenery was as charming as a landscape drawing, and this was the best place for dating, especially for couples in love. Occasionally, couples hugging each other could be seen on the benches along the stone pathway or in the between the bushes under the moonlight. Although unlocking the OOXX system required quite the amount of Scroll Points, it was still one of the most popular paid services among Civilian players.
Within this romantic atmosphere, it was a completely different scene in the forest not far away from Night Whisper Village.
There were Goblins, Gnolls, Kobolds, Human Bandits, and all kinds of various monsters completely filling up the gaps between the trees. These monsters had started gathering at that place at 11 PM. Now, after an hour had passed, a few hundred of them had assembled. Although this number sounds small, it was totally different if one saw it with their own eyes. The whole place was packed with monsters—it was quite a spectacular scene.
"So, how's the situation in the village now?" asked Xiao Yu impatiently.
"I've finished scouting, Boss. Aost of the Adventurers have already gone offline. Now there are less than 10 Adventurers in the village, though there are quite a few Civilian players. However, they don't have much battle strength, so there's no need to worry at all."
"Got it. That's good." Xiao Yu nodded in satisfaction. He then took a look at the black panther beside him. "Death Claw, why aren't your few friends still not here? If they do not come soon, we'll have to attack without them."
The black panther stretched his back slowly. "No need to be impatient, isn't there still a few minutes before 12 AM? Ah, look over there. They're coming."
Xiao Yu looked towards the place where the black panther had pointed towards and could only see a group of white figures rushing through the forest like ghosts. Only when they came closer did Xiao Yu see them clearly. They were a pack of white wolves, and there was a huge wolf as big as a calf leading them.
Beowulf (Wolf King of the Forest)—level 16 Rare Elite. He was actually a grade higher than Death Claw.
"Good evening, everyone!" The white wolf instantly charged to the high ground and jumped onto it with a light leap. The seven or eight white wolves immediately stopped. They were as tidy as a well-trained army.
The white wolf squatted beside black panther. So this was the army the black panther had mentioned. It was quite a spectacular sight.
"These are?"
"They are my pack of wolves. You don't need to worry, they completely obey my orders," Beowulf explained. "Actually, we, the Wolf race, have relatively weaker battle strength than other Wild Beasts, so it would be extremely disadvantageous for us to go one on one with them. Therefore, after advancing to Wolf King, I was able to recruit underlings, and these white wolves are all my subordinates."
"I see, so I don't need to worry. Is there anyone else?"
Just as Xiao Yu finished, thump, thump! A violent vibration and sounds of trees being snapped could be heard. From all the movements, a huge bear came of the forest.
Teddy (Enraged Dire Bear)—level 16 Rare Elite.
"Good evening, everyone. How could I not be present if there's a fight?" Teddy's voice was deep and resonant like his sturdy body size. He climbed to beside the small mound but did not jump onto it, as its body size was almost as high as the mound.
"Only that bird is missing. It can't be that he's too afraid to come, right?"
"Hey, blind bear, it's not a good habit to speak ill of others behind their back." A hoarse voice descended from the sky with a swoosh. It was a huge eagle with a wingspan of two meters that landed on one of the tree branches
Ace Pilot (Black Swiftwind Eagle)—level 14 Rare Elite.
"Alright, all my friends have arrived."
Xiao Yu looked at the four ferocious beasts in front of him and wondered if it was possible that this was the legendary combination of the wolf's ears, the eagle's eyes, the bear's strength, and the panther's speed. Alright, such a combination still looked quite cool.
"Since everyone has arrived, let's start. We'll move according to what we planned!" Xiao Yu took up the role and started to arrange the combat missions. As he spoke, he took a tree branch and started to draw a simple map on the ground. "Firstly, we will gather firepower and destroy the gate. Afterwards, we will charge inside using the advantage of our numbers. The strongest in Night Whisper Village are an Ancient Tree of War and two Ancient Tree Guardians, so by then, we will need to gather firepower and kill these three ancient trees first.
"The Ancient Tree of War's HP is 3,000 and it is a melee unit. The Ancient Tree Guardians' HP is 1,800. It canould be a melee unit or it can throw boulders. They are both heavy armor units and have high Defense, but they have a weakness. They are afraid of fire, so we will need to concentrate all troops that can use fire attacks.
"Golden Tooth, don't you have Kobold Diviners? Let them use Fireball attacks. Together with my Flame Missile and Blake Rhode's underlings' Difia Firestarter, it should be possible to quickly get rid of those three big trees. Then we will be able to annihilate the enemies' remaining strength.
"Derek, your Gnoll army is the strongest, so you'll be in charge of attacking Night Whisper Village's shrine and killing the Archdruid within.
"Blake Rhode, you'll bring the Human Bandits to annihilate what remains of the garrison.
"Golden Tooth, your Kobolds should try their best to kill civilians and create chaos.
"Death Claw, you and your friends will cooperate with part of the Human Bandits and be in charge of the Tavern. There are a few Mercenaries and Adventurers inside there. The lot of you are responsible for killing them. Ace Pilot, you will have to fly into the sky to scout and guide us. If anything unexpected happens, you'll have to inform us immediately. Does anyone have any questions?"
"Wait, why are you doing the commanding? Since we all have our missions, then what are you in charge of?"
"I am…" Xiao Yu purposely pretended to be hesitant as he explained, "I am in charge of occupying the resurrection point, or course. Many Adventurer players will come online after hearing that the monsters are attacking the village, so I'll need to stop them there."
The monster bosses instantly revealed dissatisfied expressions.
"F*ck, why do you get to take it easy when I have a tough nut to crack?" said Derek in discontent. It was clear that Adventurers definitely would not come online simultaneously, but one by one. No matter how prepared they were, it was completely possible to kill them. Just imagine the amount of EXP and equipment that could be obtained!
Not only was it not dangerous, there were many benefits. Compared to that, attacking the shrine was just drudgery as the Night Elves had a theocratic society, which meant that there was no Mayor's Hall. The political core of the whole Night Elf village was the shrine, so the village head Archdruid also lived in the shrine. Thus, it was obvious that the shrine would definitely be the hardest place to attack.