Zhu zhu climbed up to the bell tower of the city, gazing at the waves of blue-armored soldiers breaking through the city walls from the outside. Anyone who drew a weapon, anyone who cast magic at those heavy-armored blue soldiers, would immediately be beaten by a group of ten soldiers who were singled out from the wave!
Beside her, a quick-witted young female reporter was live reporting the siege.
"Just over an hour ago, the player Sagittarius declared war on the city of Seven Lakes. According to the statement heard by many people within the city, the term of Sagittarius was to expel the berserker guild from the city. Not long after, the players led by the leader of the berserker guild, the largest guild in the city of Seven Lakes, brought allied small and big city owners to seize the city first!"
"It means there must definitely be some cunning strategy involved, for sure. The leader of the berserker guild moved! My team and I will continue to investigate!"
"But before setting out to search for the truth, I'd like to show our audience the seizure of the city of Seven Lakes by Sagittarius first! You heard it right, everyone, I, like all of you... am very surprised. Some of you may have never traveled between the territories of the city of Seven Lakes and the city of Chandra, but the movement of such a large force from the city of Chandra within one hour after declaring war is simply impossible. This indicates that Sagittarius had already been well-prepared, launching an unforeseen and swift invasion!" while instructing the cameraman to capture the image of blue-armored soldiers storming the city from every direction.
The female reporter then excitedly read the new report that her team had researched, calling over the cameraman to capture her face and exclaiming, "We have been informed by our sources that in this event, the berserker guild was seeking trouble on purpose. Over the past three days, they have gathered tens of thousands of forces into this city of Seven Lakes! The amassing of such substantial forces in a border city definitely isn't for recruiting people for dungeon conquests, and that explains why, after Sagittarius declared war, the head of the berserker guild was able to capture the city so quickly, within an hour, because they had tens of thousands of forces in their hands. According to our sources, the reason the berserker guild leader seized the city is to address immediate problems according to the war negotiations conditions set by Sagittarius that demanded the expulsion of his guild from the city," while having the cameraman show the images again. "But a few little foxes just can't compete with a tiger. From what I'm able to observe, the strength of the blue-armored soldiers that Sagittarius has brought appears to number in the hundreds of thousands!"
Zhu zhu agreed with the report of the young female journalist. The opposing side had hundreds of thousands of NPC soldiers. No matter how many high-level allies her guild leader had,
Water in smaller quantities will lose to fire nonetheless.
Zhu zhu looked from high above and saw hundreds of player parties grouped together in the standard formation for team combat, positioned across several streets to resist the army of Sagittarius. The thunderous sound of battle erupted.
But like a flash flood that is difficult to dam, even an elite party, the current champions of the MGC e-sport, couldn't continually resist the onslaught of the hundreds of thousands-strong army that relentlessly surged in.
Parties upon parties were engulfed and disappeared in the surging blue waves, heading straight for the city hall.
With the complacency that the other party would not attack that day, security was lax, plus the other party had always intended to subdue the berserker guild. Once the guild had taken the city by creating a nominee, it prompted Sagittarius to take immediate action.
When looking at the capture of this unremarkable town, the young reporter began looking for someone to interview. Turning left and right, she turned the microphone towards Zhu zhu, Zhu zhu refused outright.
A day went by, and the news of the war between Sagittarius and the Guild of Berserk wasn't considered very significant.
A metropolis seized a small town on its border, and it was conquered before lunchtime was even over—a loss beyond remedy, so it hardly drew anyone's attention.
But what the public did turn their attention to was the fact that Mewku Mewku, the lord of the metropolis Edo, traveled to the town of Seven Lakes to reorganize the town after it had been captured by Sagittarius.
The truth is that Auntie saw that the news about the Guild of Berserk that she told Kin-chan didn't really help at all. Mina was already aware of everything and did it in exchange for a comfortable 10% reduction in the teleportation gate fee. Therefore, Auntie volunteered to exert herself and reorganize the town that had been captured.
The first thing that needed to be handled was what to do with the companies and stores located within the town of Seven Lakes.
"The rental rate and the city taxes were at the level of other suburban cities of Chandra. If calculated from the rate that the previous NPC city owner collected, it would decrease by about 5%."
At the city hall, a young woman held a megaphone, speaking in a lively voice to the business owners who had gathered together.
The business owners, who gathered after the war for taking over the city in one fell swoop had ended, some of them were apprehensive that they wouldn't be able to collect rent from the players and have to find a new city to establish branches. But it turned out that the rent was even cheaper than the game system's rates.
"Knowing this, I would have rented a place in the player's city long ago!"
"I heard from my friend who has a bedding store in the territory of Sagittarius that they collect less than the system. At first, I didn't believe it, now I do."
Business owners were not initially affected by the conflicts. Regardless, GM had already backed up their data, waiting for the town to be rebuilt, so they could set up shop just like before. Now, the cost of setting up a shop has decreased even more. How could they not be pleased?
With no obstacles in sight, Mewku Mewku smiles, utters a few promotional phrases, and then moves on to the next task.
There really is a lot of work. Thus, the rulers of the metropolis are not too keen on expanding their territory without good reason.
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meeting at the final event, Mewku Mewku returned to politics, sitting at a press conference table. In front of her were hundreds of journalists from every channel of the server, including some from the real world's news agencies, showing just how much the game MGC Online had impacted societal trends.
Of course, Sagittarius's city captures weren't famous, but her helping Sagittarius was even more so.
Hence, the first question was
"Do you and Sagittarius have any kind of relationship, Ms. Mewku Mewku!?" a journalist from the channel Gossip suddenly blurted out.
it seems like Mukumi Mukugu has been through many battles with journalist like this. She replied calmly, "Five years ago, we were at the same party. The reason I traveled to liberate the town of Seven Lakes is because I owed him a favor. As for our relationship, even though we are of different nationalities, we respect each other like siblings."
The questions that followed were about the occupation of the town this time.
"As everyone knows, Sagi-kung can now enter the game normally. As for the reason why he hasn't been able to access the game in the brain wave mode for the past five years, I reserve my right not to answer... Subsequently, the crazed guild leader of swordsmen gathered forces. Many of the lords who had been defeated by Sagi-kung were amassing troops in the town of Seven Lakes, over twenty thousand men, not to mention those hidden in the city of Chandra, over ten thousand more. Sagi-kung knew from the beginning, but he didn't want to wait until the other side was ready to declare war on him. Internal and external conflicts within the town emerged, so he took action first. It just so happened that I was visiting my brother after not seeing him for five years, so I volunteered to help out."
when it was mentioned that a sister and brother were journalists for the gossip channel, there was no more news to promote. But when a channel had her asking gossip news again, she quickly interjected, "May I know if one of the reasons that Mr. Sagittarius acted first was due to a player named .Melon^^ who was questing with Mr. Sagittarius?? We have investigated and found that this lady was previously affiliated with the berserker Guild but has since left the guild."
Mewgu Mewgu continued to smile without changing her expression and said, "As far as I know, they first met in the starting town while doing the storyline quest. There was no prior relationship. Another thing, even though Melon left the guild, it was not part of the decision-making in waging war."
The gossip reporter probed, "So, did this Melon know from Mr. Sagittarius about the war and that's why she left the guild beforehand?"
when someone asked about things that were none of their business, it allowed Mewku Mewku to remain focused and not respond hastily. She raised her first finger and said,
"One, the head of the berserker guild, Mr. Columbus 1492, secretly ordered Miss Melon to investigate news about Sagi-kung."
Raising her second finger, "Two, journalists contacted her for interviews, but since Miss Melon is not a celebrity figure like the metropolis lord, she did not know how to handle it."
"With these two reasons, Mr. Melon, who wanted to live peacefully in the game playing, working, and earning money, left the guild."
As for the details of this war, they are not exciting, nor are there any new strategies involved. Therefore, the journalists did not ask further and dispersed to write their articles in this style. And as for the gossip journalists, they did not ask further because with just this interview, they could write a lengthy news story.
"Haha, this news will definitely sell well!"
It has been asked whether Sagittarius came with Mewku Mewku or not.
He certainly came, but he did not appear on camera.
Let the basement of the Guild of berserker, Columbus 1492, be cursed for another half day with a poison status causing paralysis, unable to move, currently sitting slumped in a chair.
It is considered one form of capture without the need for ties, and of course, it is more effective than putting in a cage or tying hands and feet, for this is a game with fantasy statuses that might allow "superhumans" to break out of cages.
On the other side, a man with a default face is sitting, reading the financial reports of the city of Seven Lakes, shaking his head and complaining, "This is a tourist city, with seven actual colored lakes? Why then is the income so low?" Then, in Sagittarius's head, multiple plans to develop tourist attractions come to mind. He dismisses the financial reports, turns his attention to Columbus 1492, and says, "If you still wish to remain a level 100, please answer a few questions for me properly, and then I will let you go without further ado."
In the gaming system where the status "paralyzed" is applied, it doesn't actually cause a human's body to become numb. It simply means that you cannot control the character to move.
However, one can still speak. Columbus 1492 says, "Ask me anything!?"
He is well aware of his own status. For those influential in the game, if he doesn't cooperate willingly, the only option left is to quit the game altogether. Even though the other party can't torture him against humanitarian laws, they can still continuously kill him to reduce his level, killing over and over until he's back to level 1.
He could choose to log out and escape now, but then his avatar would still be sitting there, certain to be slain by the other party and lose levels.
Those who have reached a high level are exceptionally protective of their level.
Sagittarius asks bluntly, "Tell me, who is behind you, and also name those who are part of your group's movement in the city of Chandra... If you can answer both, I will let you go."
Columbus 1492 paused for a moment, he himself admitted frankly, "We play games to compete... Levels and skills are very important. You know I don't want to cancel my character and start over, but if I have to answer your first question, even if you don't come and kill me repeatedly until I'm level 1, those guys would know and would have to come kill me too!"
Sagittarius squinted toward Columbus 1492 and said, "Have you ever thought even though right now I can't find the evidence of who is behind this, in the future it's not certain at all. Like you, who just gathered strength in one day—I still can tell. How hard would it be to trace the information? Thus, even if I let you go, once I find out, they will still think it was you who exposed them."
There's a reason! Columbus fell silent immediately, his gaze lost in a sea of thoughts.
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Silent enough that Sagittarius had to ask, "You didn't just log out, did you?"
"Hey!?" It logged out on its own, really.
Sagittarius didn't wait for it to log in. He walked to another room where the city's player sat.
"Hello, Mr. Robby tiger, it's been a long time since we've met..."
It's not like he could interrogate anyone by himself anyway.