Outside a cabel, bubble tea shop in the town of Seven Lakes,
"Melon has run away," a group of girls were gossiping outside the building of the berserker guild.
A female friend who introduced Melon to the NPC skill issue, expressed her concern, "For the past three days, there have been strangers coming in and out of our guild non-stop," but she wasn't really worried about Melon.
When the conversation turned back to this topic, the gossiping friends became anxious, "We don't know who the guild leader has been contacting, or what he's been involved in."
"The real question is whether or not we will unintentionally get caught in the crossfire!"
"sigh... None of us played games as our main profession. We entered this guild because our workplaces are all located in Seven Lakes city. If the guild leader causes some trouble, will we still stay in this guild?"
After work, they were like other employees who continued to play games.
The girls were all immersed in their thoughts while relieving stress with bubble tea. Then, one girl dressed as a priestess asked, "Zhu zhu, you've played this game the longest and witnessed the most events. What do you think?"
Zhu zhu was a close friend of Melon-chan. She looked outside the shop and saw more people bustling about than usual, so she turned back and pondered, "Given the number of people entering the city is more than usual, there's only one possibility: the guild leader must be spearheading an attack on others for sure."
"But why wouldn't they tell us?"
Zhu zhu rolled her eyes back and forth. "Hmm, that's worth considering, and it can only mean one thing: the other party must be very terrifying, to the point that if they told us, we would probably have to run away for sure."
Everyone agreed. "Anyway, he's the guild leader. If he wants to attack another guild, he just needs a good reason, and he can always ask us for support. There's no need to hide it from us like this. What's uncomfortable is that he's using the guild's place to welcome these outsiders."
Then everyone thought of one person, someone so terrifying that they had to run away, who was not far from the town of Seven Lakes at all.
The girls turned to look at each other and simultaneously exclaimed...
" Probably not/Impossible/ Probably not/Impossible"
There was no word "no"!
At that time, everyone received a message from the system simultaneously.
[Announcement: Player Sagittarius declares war on the city of Seven Lakes]
[Negotiation terms: Expel the berserker's guild from the city]
[Terms of surrender: None]
[Announcement: Player Sagittarius declares war on the city of Seven Lakes]
[Negotiation terms: Expel the berserker's guild from the city]
[Terms of surrender: None]
[Announcement: Player Sagittarius declares war on the city of Seven Lakes]
[Negotiation terms: Expel the berserker's guild from the city]
[Terms of surrender: None]
the system reported three times to everyone in the city until the listening was complete. This was the step to let everyone know that the city was entering a state of war. And as soon as the sound from the system ended, it caused...
all activities to come to a halt for three seconds.
Then cheers erupted from inside this bubble milk tea shop.
"I never thought that visiting the Seven-Colored Lake, I would get to witness the wartime of the metropolis too!"
"This is so exciting."
"Seeing might not be certain, but we will get to be in the midst of the chaos, just like a real war!"
"Exciting, exciting, exciting, exciting! If it were a real war, we would definitely be very scared, but this is a game, we are going to be running away in the middle of a war now."
"But the level is decreased, the items carried will drop, you know?"
"Hehe, look, I'm not wearing a single luxury item at all."
Of course, these people were tourists, so they were excited like tourists to be in the midst of the battlefield.
But the contestant was not excited at all.
Sighing and staring at the tourists, zhu zhu regained her senses after glimpsing her friend opening game windows, poking here and there, she screamed, "What are you doing!?" Even though she already knew in her heart.
Her friend narrowed her eyes and said, "You guys can guess why Lord Sagittarius declared war. Our leader didn't tell us that we were going to fight with Lord Sagittarius, so he already treats us as outsiders, then who is going to stay!" followed by pressing.
Leave the guild immediately.
As someone leads, others follow, creating a scene as if the Titanic was about to sink - find a lifeboat as fast as possible!
Zhu zhu herself went along with them. She pressed to leave the guild and hurried to deposit all her items and money at the bank immediately.
The chain reactions of the berserk guild members were very much like those of the gossiping girls' gang sipping on bubble milk tea.
Declaring war on the city of Seven Lakes might have piqued their interest, but it didn't cause them much alarm. However, a war declaration with the terms of negotiations being the expulsion of their guild from the city made it clear the target was his guild. They had all seen the guild leader's "activities" over the past couple of days very well, hence the girls' inconsistent conjectures.
"guild leader, oh guild leader, you're looking for trouble yourself," beep, OUT!
"The metropolos lord has put a bounty on your head; who would want to stay and be slaughtered with you!" beep, OUT!
"Oh nooooo, our guild's name is rising up obviously!" beep, OUT!
"It's the leader's own mistake, bringing in so many unknown people into the guild," beep, OUT!
Beep, OUT!
Beep, OUT!
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The Berserker Guild was considered one of the medium to large-sized guilds in the southeastern area of the continent. It had over ten thousand members in its main branch and over twenty thousand members including all branches. However, just ten minutes after Sagittarius declared war in the city where the main branch was located, the number of guild members plummeted by 95%!
Columbus1492, checking the guild members on the guild leader's interface, couldn't help but roar out in frustration, "Only about fifteen hundred members left!? This is madness. Ungrateful fools, the guild has taken good care of you all, and when it faces trouble, you all run away!"
The former lord of the city, Rigel, slapped Columbus1492 across the face to bring him to his senses and stop him from cursing his own guild members, saying urgently, "Before the NPC mayor kicks us out of the city, you must hurry!"
"Hurry? Hurry for what?" Columbus1492 still didn't know how to solve the problem of being kicked out of the city yet.
The former city lord, Rigel, pointed around, shouting, "We are all city lord players, capable of taking over cities. The game system allows for overlapping wars. We should seize the opportunity before Sagittarius sets out from the city of Chandra to pressure the NPC city lord... Take the forces we have now and capture this city. Then let one of us, the city lord players, take control of this city before getting kicked out!"
If you get kicked out of the city, you won't be able to fulfill the promises made to these city lords, including having to make statements to that group of people who supported him both in and outside the game.
Columbus1492 agreed, "Hurry back to the city lord's house and capture the city lord!"
Zhu zhu left the bank feeling elated and grinning from ear to ear. Now, she didn't have a single piece of clothing on her body. In her dimensional bag, she had already cleared the items deposited in the bank. Even though it was just a stray shot in the war and the bank had been destroyed, there was no way anything would drop.
"Heh heh, alright, now it's best to hurry to the company and finish the pending work. Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, Sagittarius will lead his troops here; that will give me some time to enjoy the spectacle of the war over the city," she thought. Once she was safe, it was time to get excited. "I hope this NPC city lord won't burst a lung kicking out the Berserker Guild from the city without even trying to negotiate."
She did want to see this city siege war.
At that moment, zhu zhu had to stop and stand, looking at a huge crowd of thousands of people, making their procession towards the western road. She pondered for a moment, then her eyes widened as she recalled her guild leader's strategy: "Hey! Are they planning to siege and overtake us just like that?" That way was her city lord's home.
She glanced at the clock slot at the bottom right corner of her vision, which showed 11:00 AM according to the server's Asia-Oceania standard time — it was time for her to start her job at the company. Zhu zhu was in two minds about this intervening event; she wondered whether she should skip work from today to follow the unfolding action at the edge of the field.
Besides the working class, most employees and workers who could perform their duties in a virtual world did not have to work the traditional 8-hour day as in the past, but rather a 4-hour day, only half the time. This is because AI could assist in tasks, eliminating the need for routine work (tasks that are done on a daily basis and repeatedly). This significantly reduced the normal working hours. Furthermore, employees could work flexible hours between 8 AM and 5 PM or compensate for previous days.
This is because the measure of work in the modern era is based on the output under each employee's responsibility, not the working hours. For example, if there was a task to build a wall, in the past the focus would have been on whether the mason worked from 8 AM to 5 PM. But nowadays, it's only a matter of whether they can complete the wall within one week, which in the end yields a completed wall within the same timeframe. Perhaps the mason might want to finish early in order to do something else between 8 AM and 5 PM on the remaining days, so we see many cases where masons complete the wall ahead of schedule.
Therefore, there's a reduction in preset working hours and an increased focus on looking at the end results.
And this has allowed those who work, especially in the virtual world, to have considerably more freedom.
Some players like Zhu zhu, choose to start their work at 11 AM and are not a few in number. They bear witness to the fastest seizure of power in a city in the history of gaming before they even start their shift.
One hour after Sagittarius declared war, within the city hall, there was an old lord with a scruffy long beard, announcing the handover of the city to a group of players.
"Ha ha, we've taken it!" Columbus1492 laughed, relieved to have resolved the situation, feeling a weight lifted.
"If it weren't for us preparing to attack the city of Chandra from the start, we couldn't have seized the city of Seven Lakes so quickly."
All the co-conspirators nodded in agreement, accompanied by a sound from the system.
[Player Robby tiger 0001 has declared a stacked war against the city of seven lakes and has successfully captured the city. Player Robby tiger 0001 has become the ruler of the city of seven lakes]
[Since the city ruler was changed, player Robby tiger 0001 has become the ruler of the city of seven lakes, and thus the war between the city of seven lakes and player Sagittarius has been canceled]
It was certain that announcements from this system had to reach Sagittarius
Columbus1492 laughed again, "Look, if the city isn't owned by an NPC, let's see if they dare to declare war on us again. If they dare, we'll invade their territory immediately!"
Columbus1492 was sure that the other party wouldn't dare to declare war again. The reason for declaring war previously was, on one hand, to indicate that they were aware the Berserker Guild was planning an attack on Chandra City. On the other hand, it was to pressure the NPC city lord to expel them.
Now, let's see what the player who is the city lord of the Grand City will do.
Declare it again, and I'll invade for sure!
But then suddenly,
[Announcement: The Sagittarius player has declared war on the city of Seven Lakes]
[Negotiation terms: None]
[Surrender terms: None]
[Announcement: The Sagittarius player has declared war on the city of Seven Lakes]
[Negotiation terms: None]
[Surrender terms: None]
[Announcement: The Sagittarius player has declared war on the city of Seven Lakes]
[Negotiation terms: None]
[Surrender terms: None]
Columbus in 1492 was momentarily stunned and carelessly asked, "Are they really that bold, or did they not foresee that we would invade their territory immediately?"
The former lord of Rigel, also known as Robby tiger 0001, began to feel anxious. His plan was to take this city to threaten Sagittarius that if war was declared again, they were prepared to launch an all-out attack. However, the opposing side paid no heed to the threat.
This Robby tiger 0001 had once dealt with Sagittarius and had easily lost the island of Rigel, causing him to become suspicious that the other party might have a plan hidden up their sleeve.
But before he could think any further, a barrage of messages came flooding in to him.
These were messages from the forces that had been divided to take over the city walls on all sides.
"Stupid!" Sagittarius was strolling around his own city, which he had just clearly seen beyond arcade-level graphics.
Mewku mewku, who was walking beside him, asked curiously. Sagittarius himself was reading messages from the system, telling his little sister about the city being seized.
After listening, Mewku mewku laughed amusedly, guessing the other's thoughts, "They have informants in the city of Chandra, it's like having a guild in the city of Seven Lakes... The fact that Kin-chan is still strolling around in the city must have been reported. Those people must think that Kin-chan just wants to casually announce to everyone in the city that the berserk guild is antagonistic towards Sagittarius. Don't try to mess with us. But they didn't consider... titter," just thinking about it made her laugh.
Sagittarius turned around and said to Mina, who followed him obediently, with an indifferent expression,
"Attack!"
the frequent turnover of new lords, who had just seized control, certainly meant that the gates of the city were not yet firmly shut.
Plus, the other side understood that Sagittarius declared war merely to intimidate the berserk Guild, so they were not vigilant against the hundred thousand strong invading from all directions...
The opposing force lay in wait within the city, biding their time, and he, as the lord of metropolis, could also muster his forces in secret.
But there was no need to wait for an opportunity; he would launch an attack while leisurely walking within the capital itself.