Tug of War and All-Out War

It was late at night on Blue Star.

The internet was abuzz with activity.

Many cloud gamers were too excited to sleep, agitated by the various news from Zhenhai City.

They were constantly following the news about Zhenhai City… “Shocking! East Asia Allied Forces Collectively Teleport to Zhenhai City, Suspected to Avenge Innocent Players Killed!”

“Calculated Scheme or Act of Justice? The Great Battle of Zhenhai City is Imminent!”

“Great Xia Daily News: It is Irrational to Overreact to Certain Conflicts in the Game!”

“Numerous Great Xia rogue players plan to teleport to Zhenhai City to participate in the first major free-for-all since the game’s launch!”

Zhenhai City was gripped by an atmosphere of extreme tension.

All eyes in the world were drawn to it at this moment!

The inner city teleportation array, usually almost deserted, was exceptionally busy today.

In a private room of a restaurant next to the square in Dongcheng District.

Representatives from the Allied Forces and high-ranking members of Star Palace were negotiating here… According to Zhou Yue, what was there to talk about? It would all come down to a fight in the end!

But Bai Youyou and Mo Suqing persuaded her otherwise!

They treated it as a game of walking a dog… Anyway, Yang Jian was still ‘unconscious’!

“We have no other intentions; we just can’t stand your blatant bullying!”

“It’s a game! You kill me, I kill you, it’s quite normal!”

“You meticulously and systematically hunted down our country’s high-level players; is this kind of behavior still normal?”

“It’s a game! Do you even understand what a game is, Uncle?”

“I… I’m only 36 this year, and you call me Uncle?”

“You’re 36, and you still think you’re 18?”

The three Vice Guild Masters listened as Xia Mingruo started arguing with the person, finally understanding how Yang Jian usually got stumped by her!

“When you’re old, you have to accept it! Don’t always think you’re still young… You’ve already raised the average age of us young people…”

“You… so young, yet so sharp-tongued!”

“Ah, yes, yes, you’re absolutely right. My mom said to respect the elderly…”

“I… The warrior on the opposite side just wanted to grab his weapon but was stopped by a group of people behind him!”

“Don’t cause trouble in the city; you’ll be beaten to death by the City Guard…”

The leader of Little Japan stepped forward.

His eyes gleamed with lewd light as he looked at the five beautiful women in front of him.

A standard ninety-degree bow was the first thing he did!

“Excuse me, everyone! But, we need to know, is your side not planning to negotiate anymore?”

Mo Suqing seemed not to notice the evil gaze of the other party.

She casually brushed over the recent interlude.

Although a hero doesn’t boast of past glories, when she was in charge of Tianhai Group, what kind of lewd stares hadn’t she seen?

Many of them didn’t even dare to speak to her… they only dared to steal glances at her from a distance!

“Of course, we’ll talk! My little sister is young and ignorant; please be more understanding!”

Yes, she’s young and ignorant, but you, at your age, are also ignorant… The Little Japan leader also didn’t want to cause further complications.

Their main forces were definitely leveling up smoothly in Dongji City, transitioning steadily.

Those who came here, to put it bluntly, were cannon fodder meant for the arena… If the problem could be resolved at the negotiating table, that would be for the best!

“Our demands are very simple. Your side must make a commitment on the official website in the name of Star Palace not to maliciously target players from other countries, and to compensate players who were maliciously killed by you within the past 48 hours!”

Mo Suqing nodded, looking as if she was listening intently!

Little Japan saw this and thought, this matter… seems promising!

“Second, our personnel who came here for peacekeeping will not leave, but since we are here for the peace and stability of Zhenhai City, we hope Zhenhai City will reimburse our travel expenses!”

Mo Suqing’s face remained impassive, while Xia Mingruo behind her really wanted to unleash a well-aimed Pyroblast on this Little Japan devil!

Bai Youyou pulled Xia Mingruo, who was seething with anger.

She sighed, marveling at how different the personalities of twin sisters could be!

Seeing her third sister, Xia Minglan, looking nauseated and hesitant to speak, she decided to only bring the twin sisters!

She hadn’t expected an unexpected bonus: they were utterly fearless in an argument… “Third…”

“Don’t go too far! Why is there a third point? Do you not want to negotiate properly?”

Mo Suqing’s originally smiling face hardened.

After all, she had been a high-ranking executive, a CEO of a group company, for several years.

Her stern face was quite intimidating!

Little Japan, who had been happily setting conditions, also stiffened.

Fortunately, he still knew what he was doing.

He immediately began to argue logically.

Mo Suqing stated firmly, “My willingness to talk to you here is already giving you face; don’t be ungrateful!”

Little Japan immediately responded that with so many people gathered here, it would be unreasonable not to let him finish speaking.

So, the two went back and forth for a long time, arguing over whether there should be a third point!

…Just when the Little Japan representative thought they had finally reached a consensus on the third point.

He heard Mo Suqing raise another question.

“I think this first point is also unreasonable. What’s wrong with dying twice in a game? Can you say you’ve never died once, like when you wiped during a wild ADD pull? It’s a small matter, why compensation?”

“You didn’t object earlier?”

“Am I not objecting now?”

“Are you treating me like a Little Xi Ba?”

The Little Xi Ba nearby: …? Are you being polite?

“Aren’t you Little Japan? It’s the same…”

Little Japan suppressed his anger and continued to discuss the legality and necessity of this point with Mo Suqing!

…“This second point is also unreasonable, isn’t it?”

Little Japan couldn’t even maintain his fake smile now!

“What’s unreasonable about it?”

“You all came here yourselves; we didn’t invite you! Why should we reimburse your travel expenses?”

“Isn’t this for peacekeeping… peacekeeping! It’s normal for you to give some money! It’s not much… just reimbursement for travel!”

“Well, if you put it that way, if the remaining fifty million players from the Eastern Continent all teleport over later, wouldn’t we be instantly poor? This won’t do… this is unreasonable!”

Little Japan must be a professional negotiator.

He didn’t find anything wrong with this point-by-point rebuttal.

However, the players from various guilds watching the negotiations noticed something was off.

Adopting a gamer’s mindset, it became clear that Star Palace had no intention of negotiating properly!

While they were still stalling here.

A portion of the supporting players decided to go out and level up!

Since they weren’t planning to leave anyway, they might as well treat it as their own home!

Waiting around was pointless!

Unexpectedly… “You’re still ambushing our people outside the city? You never intended to negotiate properly, did you?”

At this moment, Mo Suqing also received news.

Earlier, four teams of players had planned to leave the city to level up.

They were directly dealt with by the assassination squad!

Bai Youyou checked the time; it was already three in the afternoon in game time!

A fight was definitely still going to happen… to boost guild cohesion and to screen for qualified guild team members!

After all, one of life’s four closest bonds is having fought together!

With this entire guild war against a 60-nation allied army, what could be more cohesive than this?

Delaying for a while was just to wait for Yang Jian to complete his transformation and make a king’s return!

So, Bai Youyou nodded to Mo Suqing!

Mo Suqing stood up and said regretfully, “How boring. Why are you in such a hurry to level up! I thought I could string you along a bit longer!”

Zhou Yue saw this and thought, negotiations broken?

Excellent!

Zhou Yue raised her right hand, startling the dozen or so players on the other side!

A white light enveloped the five members of Star Palace.

Two seconds later, the five disappeared!

“Teleportation? And group teleportation?”

“Is she playing the same game as us?”

…“Still chatting? The army is already in full-scale battle outside the city!”

“Let’s go, let’s support them!”

Yes, it was a full-scale battle!

As the first four teams that left the city were killed, it clearly ignited the anger of this group of people.

The players who came to Zhenhai City had experienced several emotional roller coasters.

Their emotions that day were like a roller coaster… When they first heard they were coming to cause trouble for Great Xia.

They all felt a tightening in their guts, as if the sky had fallen.

When they saw seven or eight thousand people arrive one after another.

They felt that Zhenhai City wasn’t something that couldn’t be contended for after all!

When they saw that the so-called number one guild in the game also had to sit at the negotiating table to talk about a settlement.

They felt that Star Palace was nothing special… But now, the other party started fighting directly without a word?

Fight, then fight!

One of life’s three great illusions: I can do it too!

One of the main reasons Star Palace dared to go to war was cohesion.

As the number one guild in the game, and even the only guild… After all, the official Great Xia Federation currently had no intention of recruiting ordinary players.

A Level 1 guild could only recruit a thousand people, and they couldn’t even fit their own two hundred thousand members, so they had no time to recruit rogue warriors in the short term!

And Star Palace was the only hope for rogue players.

Therefore, even for reserve slots, two or three tens of thousands of people were registered!

This was after layers of screening… Currently, there were already four or five thousand players who had reached Level 10 and arrived in Zhenhai City!

It would be an exaggeration to say these players were absolutely disciplined!

But most of them could follow orders and attack where directed… And that so-called Allied Army?

A disorganized mob!

It wasn’t that Mo Suqing looked down on them… No, Mo Suqing truly looked down on them!

If they had even a shred of cohesion, they wouldn’t have been bullied by Great Xia for three thousand years… And now, they still wanted to scheme against Star Palace and Zhenhai City?

Of course, the cohesion of this first wave of battle was definitely at its strongest!

Strike while the iron is hot, then it wanes, and finally, it exhausts itself.

If they could repel the first wave, then Yang Jian wouldn’t need to intervene!

I, Guild Master Mo, can also teach you a lesson… As the great battle began.

Audiences began to pour into various live streams online… “It’s really not a movie? The graphics, the special effects, they’re almost becoming superheroes, aren’t they?”

As the two sides went to war, foreign players who had been either cowering or offline all logged on at once.

Both sides directly and tacitly began fighting on the plains outside Zhenhai City’s East Gate.

Although Star Palace could command fewer players.

Zhenhai City was not just Star Palace’s Zhenhai City.

There were also many Great Xia rogue players… “Great Xia team invite me, Level 12 powerful MT!”

“Lone hunter seeking a group, let’s go beat them up…”

“National war has begun, we must bravely kill the enemy…”

“I’m fed up, can’t you aim better before attacking? My log says I was killed by a Great Xia mage’s ‘biubiu’…”

“Great Xia players, M me to join the team…”

Forty people formed a small group, four hundred a large group.

After more than twenty minutes of chaotic fighting, Great Xia’s rogue players finally formed teams.

However, they were gradually falling into a disadvantage.

The player structure of those who originally came to Zhenhai City was ordinary; there were only so many top-tier individuals.

The players who came later were also a mixed bag.

But those foreigners who came to grab territory, although not their direct lineage, were all considered elites!

Especially the 2600+ support personnel from Little Japan and Little Xi Ba.

They were genuinely considered the first tier among ordinary players!

“Damn, they all came in pre-formed large groups, truly insidious!”

“Hey, brother, we’re in a battle! Stop chatting…”

Outside Zhenhai City’s East Gate, chaos reigned.

Flames and ice flew, arrows danced in the air, and occasionally rays of holy light, lightning, and water streams weaved through the clustered crowds, healing wounds.

On the city wall of the East Gate, a line of players stood, live-streaming the battle!

Among them, the most popular live stream, besides the official Great Xia one, was salvation Zuo Zhi Yue’s!

“Oh no, this crappy game won’t only have this batch of player slots, will it? I also want to fight Little Japan!”

“With so many people fighting in there, can you tell who’s Little Japan?”

“Then just hit randomly, if I kill someone, can they ask me for medical expenses or something?”

People from the Great Xia Federation were also watching the live stream!

Team Leader Chen’s eyebrows furrowed sharply!

“This… why does it feel like they’re fighting without any strategy?”

“Remove ‘like’…”

“However, group combat between super-powered individuals is also a matter of feeling our way through…”

“I propose that this type of training should be put on the agenda…”

The number of people in the battle group was rapidly decreasing.

With most players around Level 10, everyone’s health was not high!

Players would die if they took too much damage… Bai Youyou sighed.

“We’ve completely fallen into a disadvantage. More than twenty large teams, both inside and outside the guild, have lost over half their members. Let them guard the graveyard!”

Zhou Yue knew immediately!

It was time for her to step in and save the world!