Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan-Chapter 239 - 194: The Insect Deities’ Conspiracy, Courting Death
"Damn it!!!"
"Have these Insect People all gone mad?"
"Why are they all throwing themselves at the front lines like their lives mean nothing?"
"And have you guys noticed? Their High Tier units pretty much stopped showing up on the battlefield five days ago. Are they plotting something bigger?"
On the Blue Star side, Human Federation Soldiers, including Players, were locked in a war of attrition with the Insect People’s legions around a city in the Northern Continent.
Both sides had poured massive numbers of troops into this area.
The back-and-forth fighting had devolved into what seemed like a stalemate.
"Who the hell knows what those Insect People are thinking."
"Those guys were fighting pretty fiercely before. The High Tier ones charging back and forth caused some serious casualties for the Human Alliance Army."
"But now, not a single one of them is anywhere to be seen."
A few Players stood between high-rise buildings, looking down on the battlefield. All they could see was a solid mass of Mantis People engaged in a massive, chaotic brawl with the Human Alliance’s forward drones.
Meanwhile, on the ground, these Mantis People were using cover and trenches just like humans, trading fire with firearms.
Of course, from time to time, large-caliber artillery shells could be seen exploding throughout the city.
In just over ten days, several other cities in the Northern Continent had already been razed to the ground in battles just like this one.
During that time, if the Saint Tier Giant Dragon Sismerton hadn’t intervened several times, the Human Alliance’s front line might have already collapsed.
It had to be said, the High Tier Insect People were just too strong.
And while the Human Alliance had the Players’ help, the fact that there were still no High Tier beings among the Players was a major weakness.
Moreover, compared to the Insect People’s millennium of accumulated national strength, the truth was, this war had been extremely difficult and dangerous for the Human Alliance from the very beginning.
Thankfully, the Saint Tier Giant Dragon Sismerton, and even the Tier Nine Earth Bear, had worked tirelessly, killing many High Tier Insect People and even two or three Saint Tier Insect People. Otherwise, it was hard to say what the current battlefield situation would be.
The Players who chose to defend the real world had also suffered quite heavy losses.
Although they could just barely scrape together enough points for resurrection by risking it all and charging onto the battlefield to slaughter the Insect People, faced with the endless tide of the Insect People army, the forty-thousand-plus Players still felt overwhelmed.
During this period, if the nearly one thousand leading Middle Tier Players hadn’t fronted the resurrection points for the other Players, the Human Alliance would have been in an incredibly difficult situation on the battlefield.
The contribution of these thousand-odd Middle Tier Players was immense.
Whether it was charging the enemy lines with the Human Alliance’s high-explosive bombs, dirty bombs, or even nuclear bombs, or transforming into giant Demon Beasts to burrow underground and plant a network of explosives, they could inflict considerable damage on the Insect People.
Besides, they could be resurrected.
Therefore, on the current battlefield, the Human Alliance had placed great hope in this group of Middle Tier Players.
And because these Middle Tier Players had the full support of the Human Alliance, they were able to farm points on the battlefield at an incredible speed.
In short, compared to the Players on sabotage missions behind enemy lines, those defending the real world actually had an easier time earning large amounts of points.
Jealous?
It was bought with the number of times they died.
The pain felt before death still had a considerable psychological impact on the Middle Tier Players.
So, even though they could earn points on the battlefield incredibly quickly now, many in the Player community were still terrified by the endlessly creative ways they were being killed, over and over again. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚
’It hurts too much!’
This was a real battlefield, not a game. Therefore, even in a clone body, Players could still feel pain as clearly as if it were their original body.
It was only natural to develop psychological trauma from dying again and again.
And wasn’t this just another way for the True Game to filter its Players?
Players who couldn’t overcome the trauma of war, or were too afraid to even step onto the battlefield again, would have their development rating covertly lowered by the True Game.
At the same time, concerns about the war also led to unrest in many regions of the Human Alliance.
After all, the Insect People had countless different Abilities, so it was understandable that a small number managed to break through the defensive lines.
And these Insect People who broke through the lines naturally caused destruction in some of the cities in the rear.
Although the Human Alliance arranged for military fighters and even Players to clean them up each time, civilian casualties were unavoidable.
Thus, it was also normal for a temporary mood of panic to appear on Blue Star.
In addition, at this very moment, many voices also emerged on Blue Star’s internet.
"Where’s our Chief? What in the world is he doing behind enemy lines?"
"Why has there been no news about him for so long?"
"Can’t the Chief come back and defend the Star Gate? Blue Star’s casualties are already huge! Is sabotaging the enemy from behind really that important? Hurry back and protect us!"
"..."
There were so, so many similar comments.
So much for having a sense of the big picture.
At times like these, ordinary people were often the most shortsighted.
But both the Human Alliance and the Players chose to ignore these voices.
After all, they weren’t in the mood to deal with any of it right now.
The situation on the front lines was too dire. As for the voices on the internet, if any went too far, the local authorities would directly issue a ban and pay them a visit.
In short, the current situation had left the Human Alliance mentally and emotionally drained.
However, it had to be said that after more than twenty days of such high-intensity combat, High Tier Players had finally begun to appear among the Player ranks.
By relying on massive amounts of points, they exchanged them for Growth Level.
Among the Players now defending the real world, more than five thousand Middle Tier Players had emerged.
Among them, there were over forty-five hundred Tier Four Players.
Over four hundred Tier Five Players.
And nearly one hundred Tier Six Players.
