Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan-Chapter 236 - 191: Player Sabotage Behind Enemy Lines, Individual Gains
Green Saturn, in a small Insect Person village.
At this moment, a large number of Players were fighting to the death here.
They left almost no survivors in their wake, paying no mind to Insect Person children or elders.
In the Players’ eyes, most of the Insect People simply looked bizarre.
To make matters worse, the thousand-Player squad was currently ambushing a type of Insect Person that looked just like giant green caterpillars.
"FUCK!!! These Insect People actually explode into goo!"
"So fucking disgusting!"
An Earth Realm Player shattered the chest of a screaming, fleeing caterpillar-like creature with a single punch.
He ended up getting drenched in the splattered guts of the Insect Person.
"Damn it, don’t even talk about it. This place is too disgusting!"
"I don’t know what our Captain Monk was thinking, choosing to come kill this kind of Insect Person."
Another Player hastily blocked a Low Tier Insect Person’s sudden attack with a shield bash, adding speechlessly.
"Blame the region we had our Descent in."
"This whole area is filled with these giant cabbage worm-like Insect People."
"We definitely can’t take on the big cities, so we can only raid these small villages and towns."
"These things are fat and slow, so they’re actually pretty easy to kill."
"That’s true, but this world is basically a modern-style world. We should hurry up and kill them."
"Once we’re done slaughtering this village, we have to get out of here immediately."
Several Players scrambled to kill every Insect Person in sight, their expressions indescribably crazed.
"Points +1... hmm, points +3? Heh, it was an Insect Person on the verge of becoming Entry Tier. What a score."
"Damn it, you animals! This village only has a few hundred Insect People. Don’t kill them so fast, there won’t be enough to go around."
"What’s there to share? First come, first served."
"Besides, after we’re done with this village, we’re splitting up into squads to act separately. There will be plenty of Insect People in the small villages for you to kill then. The only question is whether you can handle them."
"Kill what? Let’s see if all ten of our squads can even escape the pursuit first."
"What’s so hard about it? We’re all at least ’Entry Tier Strong Persons’ now. Who knows how many years this world has had Magic, yet a tiny village like this only has two or three Middle Tier beings."
"There are only a dozen or so Low Tier Insect People. If we scatter and run, and just hide ourselves a little, evading pursuit will be a piece of cake."
"I refuse to believe these guys can spare much Power to deal with us in the middle of a world war."
The massive group of Players chatted as they killed.
Meanwhile, in the center of the village, the Tier Six Player ’Masked Monk’ had already killed the village’s official, an Insect Person.
He opened the village’s storeroom.
"Well, I’ll be. A small village like this actually has firearms."
"The Insect People of this world even issue weapons to their village officials? But we didn’t see them use any just now, did we?"
Several squad leader Players stared at the nearly one hundred assault rifle-like weapons in the warehouse, their eyes lighting up.
"They’re just basic firearms. For Middle Tier beings like us, it doesn’t really matter if we use them or not."
"If we’re talking about something remotely useful, it would have to be a creation similar to a sniper rifle, right?"
"But this was a surprise attack, so they didn’t have time to use snipers to counter-hunt us anyway."
As he spoke, a Player squad leader picked up a Magic Rifle and closed his eyes, infusing it with Magic Power.
"This is good stuff! I only had to infuse less than one percent of my Magic Power into this Magic Assault Rifle, and it was already full."
"And I can sense that a single full infusion of Magic Power is enough to fire almost a hundred Magic Bullets."
"Huh? That powerful? In that case, this is basically the perfect rapid-killing tool for Low Tier Transcendents."
Another Player picked up a Magic Assault Rifle to sense it, and the result was, without exception, the same.
The weapon was incredibly simple to use, with no complex operations.
All you had to do was infuse it with Magic Power, then pull the trigger and spray.
This Player even tried it out on the spot.
The moment he pulled the trigger, everyone discovered the advantages of these Magic Assault Rifles.
The recoil was minimal, if not nonexistent.
And the power of each Magic Bullet fired was in no way weaker than a conventional firearm from their reality.
PEW PEW! The shots were just like the ’Six Meridian Divine Sword,’ leaving everyone amazed.
"We were so stupid!"
"We never thought to steal some guns to use from the start. If each of us had one of these, slaughtering a small village like this probably wouldn’t even take half an hour."
"Luckily, it seems this world has been at peace for too long. Similar to our Blue Star, they don’t normally have garrisons of a Lord’s army like in a Medieval Magic World. Otherwise, we might have suffered some minor losses during our earlier raid."
"Indeed. This thing poses a significant threat to Transcendents at Low Tier and below."
"Anyway, what are you all standing around for? Divide them up! Hurry up and divide them! We have ten squads, so a dozen or so for each squad should be enough."
"Commander, what do you say?"
Seeing the excited squad leaders, Masked Monk immediately nodded.
"These things should definitely be distributed."
"But don’t forget to check if they have any tracking marks or other such Magic Power signatures on them."
"In any case, if there are no problems, having these things will certainly make it much easier for us to cause havoc behind enemy lines."
"I was caught in a bit of a logical loop myself. I was only thinking about using Extraordinary Power for melee combat and completely forgot that this world has a modern-like level of civilization."
"Firearms are indeed good things. In that case, perhaps we should change our approach going forward."
"We have to find a way to get our hands on a batch of munitions first. If we get the chance, we should even try to infiltrate some big cities and find opportunities to detonate their armories. All in all, causing destruction behind enemy lines with this approach should be much simpler."
As Masked Monk said this, the eyes of the surrounding Players lit up.
That’s right.
This kind of thing was an old tradition for the predecessor of the Eastern Continent’s army.
The Players from the Eastern Continent were all too familiar with it!
Yes! Yes!
This was the kind of behind-enemy-lines sabotage that was actually interesting!
The weak defeating the strong, no matter how many High Tier or Saint Tier enemies there were.
The Players could completely break into smaller units, use various items to hide themselves, and then aim to cause the greatest possible destruction.
And just as this squad had their sudden breakthrough in strategy...
...many other Player squads had already begun to implement such a strategy.
"BOOM!!!"
"BOOM! BOOM!!!"
On Green Saturn, in the Central Domain, a terrifying explosion suddenly erupted within a ’City-level City’ of the Celestial Beetle People, stunning countless Insect Person citizens.
"What happened?!"
"Did a chemical plant or a Magic Power Factory have a massive explosion?"
"I’ve had it with those bigwigs in the city hall. This has to be the third Magic Power Factory explosion case this year, right? What are they even doing? Just taking money and neglecting their oversight of the Magic Power Factories?"
"Alright, alright, stop talking. We’re at war right now. A lot of Magic Power Factories are probably looking to make a killing on munitions, so it’s normal for things like this to happen."
In the city, the Celestial Beetle People who heard the explosion all took to the sky.
These two-meter-tall Celestial Beetle People flapped their wings, gazing toward the site of the explosion and discussing it amongst themselves.
"Hmm, something’s not right. That place, in that direction... I seem to recall it’s the site of the reserve military barracks, established by the city hall in response to the Empire Army Department’s war order, isn’t it?"
"Such a huge explosion... This is bad, really bad. I reckon some of the bigwigs in city hall are about to be in deep shit."
"More than just deep shit. If the losses from something like this are severe, they’ll probably end up in a military tribunal!"
"Absolutely. I remember city hall announced last month that our city had just finished building six Magic Courtyards. Those are Magic Barrier Wells meant to protect the city. You even need those facilities to launch a Magic Forbidden Curse."
"If something goes wrong with them, the entire city hall and some of its associated departments are going to suffer."
The ordinary Celestial Beetle People citizens chattered on, some gloating over the misfortune, others naturally worried.
It had to be said, their worst fears were realized.
Just after the massive explosion occurred at the Celestial Beetle People’s military barracks...
...two more terrifying explosions suddenly erupted in succession, one to the northwest and one due east of the city.
The massive explosions created powerful Magic Power shockwaves.
Many Celestial Beetle People were knocked out of the sky by the impact of the Magic Power shockwaves, plummeting to the ground.
And so, under the shocked and panicked gazes of over a hundred thousand Celestial Beetle People...
...they saw two terrifying mushroom-cloud-like explosions rising into the sky to the northwest and east.
Their power was only a few times weaker than the lowest-yield nuclear bomb ever deployed in Human Race history.
Of course, the explosion itself was manageable.
There was no radiation or an excessive amount of light and heat.
"It’s over!!!"
"The Magic Wells exploded!!!"
"This is definitely not an accident!!! It’s an attack!!"
"An attack like this is either the work of the Defying God traitors, or it must be an attack from an evil civilization from an Otherworld!!!"
"..."
At that moment, even the most foolish Celestial Beetle Person knew that this chain of explosions had to be deliberate.
And the scene that followed happened to confirm their suspicions.
"Audacious villains!!!"
In the city center, a terrifying presence suddenly shot into the sky from below the city hall, roaring with fury.
This being who shot into the sky was none other than a Saint Tier City-State Emissary, a standard deployment for every ’City-level City’ of the Taven Insect People.
The Saint Tier City-State Emissary shot off in the direction of the explosions.
At the same time, a large number of High Tier Celestial Beetle People from around the city hall had already rushed to the three explosion sites at the first possible moment.
Of course, that wasn’t all.
Suddenly, a dense swarm of flying ant-like insects rose into the sky above the city.
Seeing this, even the dimmest of the ordinary citizens understood.
Things had gotten serious!
In their panic, a large number of Celestial Beetle People immediately began searching for cover to avoid the aftershocks of the potential great battle to come, or even further attacks.
After all, in any world, mortals without Extraordinary Power were always the majority.
Meanwhile, the Players who had caused these three terrifying explosions were going wild with joy!
Although many of these Players had died in the explosions, returning to the Dark Space where their clones had originated in the True Game...
...at this moment, all these Players who had died and returned were laughing their heads off.
"Score!!! A huge score!!!"
"Hahaha, I died, but it was so fucking worth it! I got over a thousand points!!! Hahaha, that’s enough for me to revive ten times."
"I’m happy too, but why do you have more points than me? I only got a measly six hundred."
"Maybe it’s related to how much effort we each put into blowing up the Insect People’s armory?"
"Fuck off! I put in a lot of effort too, okay? Wasn’t my contribution big enough when I basically committed suicide to lure the enemy away and create an opening for you guys to sneak in?"
"Damn right! I’m a scout! Without us scout Players infiltrating the city for the initial reconnaissance, would you guys have had such a huge success later on?"
"Shut up, you’ve got over two thousand points. What are you even complaining about!"
"..."
Over three hundred Players argued endlessly in the death space.
Meanwhile, the few Middle Tier Players from the first main squad had already gotten far away from the city.
They observed the now-exploding city from their hiding spot in a mountain hollow.
These Players looked at the points they had received, feeling truly overjoyed.
And these few Players were none other than members of the Chosen Group.
