Chapter 15: Interrupts Gain Fame (2)

He lacks the skill for quick decision-making or the finesse in using skills like other high-level players. For example, an assassin who can dodge and roll around without getting stomped by a golem.

If Sagittarius were to appear on the city wall, he might have a way to evade and find a path in his mind, but he's not skilled enough to use evasion skills proficiently.

Because of his lack of expertise, Mewku Mewku had Sagittarius go fight orcs outside the dungeon first, until he became accustomed to using skills.

She nodded and said, "Let's try your plan again. If we can buy ten seconds, we don't need to find a faster way to defeat the last boss."

The other girls nodded as well, while Melon-chan looked at the only man in the group with mixed feelings. At first, she thought he was a cunning person, luring a large group to bid on items and become bait for the dwarves to mobilize their army. But now, she sees him as a skilled strategist...

"Pretty impressive..." Melon-chan then shook her head vigorously. She would try not to let the fact that she was saved by him earlier in the day be a reason for judging him.

But it was impossible. Emotions and feelings are what make humans different from AI.

In the artillery turret, the dwarf captain continued to order the barrage without interruption, ignoring everything else. He turned to the dwarf signalman who had rushed in.

"The king's forces are assembled?"

When the signalman confirmed, the captain nodded and immediately shouted, "Cease fire!!"

When humans have no plan, the dwarves will make one themselves.

On the killing fields, after the sound of hundreds of cannons ceased, the players were momentarily stunned. Then, they all thought the same thing: the enemy is out of ammunition, now is their time.

"Hey!! Charge!!!" Many guild leaders who hadn't yet respawned ordered their guild members to approach the city walls.

None of the players waited for their leader's orders; everyone ran to the city walls, grabbing the hanging ropes left by those before and climbed up.

They had broken through!

The players passed by the golems standing still like a chessboard, then jumped off the walls.

Run, run, run.

Run, run, run.

Now they felt something was off.

"Why... aren't the golems attacking us?"

"Yeah," two guild leaders looked at each other, confused. Then their eyes widened as they realized and shouted,

"Get back up and hit the golems first!!!"

But... it was too late.

The dwarf AI was very clever, it could even set traps!

"Haha, you foolish humans," the dwarf king turned toward the player who was clinging to the king, trying to play the role of trickster as best they could.

But this time, the cunning trickster could only smile slyly, watching millions of players descend into the slaughterhouse arena.

Outside the city was already a killing field; inside, it was even worse!

Millions of players ran through the modern structures built by the dwarf tribe. Suddenly, the cannons on the walls activated again.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

And then what the two guild leaders, who had exchanged glances moments ago, feared most happened: the golems on the walls turned around!

Thud! Thud!

Spotlights illuminated the entire area. The players stopped running, nervously glancing around, and then the spotlights on the outer and middle walls flared up.

That's right, don't forget there's a middle wall!

And the middle wall is equipped with cannons and golems!

On the western wall, the dwarf king swaggered out, laughing disdainfully, speaking into the microphone.

"You foolish humans, surrender now."

Despite falling into the trap, the players couldn't just surrender and lose face. They would rather let their levels drop!

An archer standing nearby aimed a long arrow and shot it up.

Thwack! It hit!

"Argh!!" The arrow struck squarely in the chest, but the HP wasn't completely depleted. The dwarf king staggered, nearly falling, then roared, "Destroy them all!"

Boom!!! Boom!!! Boom!!!

The massacre scene happens again, but this time the GM doesn't need to brighten the moonlight. The dwarves used a strategy to lure millions of players into the outer city, then ambushed them from both the front and rear.

This time, it's really bad.

The audience in the VIP seats in the sky and at home are all grief-stricken.

This is not a low-grade movie with no content anymore. It has a twist!

A twist where the players are about to lose miserably.

A highly skilled assassin evaded the golems' onslaught. Once they paused their attacks, he leaped off the wall together with the other players, invading the heart of Celias City. However...

Boom!!!

A rocket and cannonball whizzed past his head. The assassin still managed to dodge proficiently, showcasing his high-level skills. Left and right, players were blown away. Only he continued evading incessantly. In less than ten minutes, the advanced technological area of the dwarfs was left in ruins, but a few players still remained, hiding among the debris.

"Collect! Collect! Collect!"

Some gathered items dropped by their newly respawned friends, while others scavenged items from the dwarfs' homes. This profession existed in inter-city wars, though it wasn't part of the game system. These individuals were called "Scavengers," performing the role of, well... cleaning up and collecting all dropped items.

In this war, some were professional scavengers, moving from battle to battle and collecting in every field, while others were scavenging for the first time, having survived and seeing others pick up items decided to follow suit.

For player-dropped items, entering war meant fully equipped gear. Thus, if you could collect and sell them, the price could be high enough to cover a condo's rental for a month. As for whether the original item owners would come looking for trouble for selling their belongings, that was another matter.

But there was another group of players who upheld the principle of collecting only the items they earned through battle! This attitude was common among top players. The assassin was one of them. Now, with the area completely devastated, the dwarf king dispatched golems to scour the land, seeking survivors to clear out and eliminate.

Field reporters working overtime crouched low, crawling on the ground, relentlessly reporting the news with their mics.

A male field reporter pointed towards the ruins where the assassin and an archer, the two stars of this war, were hiding. Then he pointed to a towering golem over five meters tall, approaching the area.

เมื่อผู้เล่นที่โคตรเทพ ยังหนี ไม่ว่าจะเป็นนักเก็บขยะตัวยง หรือ ผู้เล่นที่พึ่งผันตัวมาเก็บขยะ ก็ไม่อยู่รอให้โกเล็มมาเหยียบบี้แบน พวกเขาไม่ได้รู้จักพอหรือเก็บแบบเกรงใจอันใด เพียงแต่กระเป๋ามิติ "เต็ม" แล้ว! ไหนเลยจะเก็บได้ต่อ เมื่อมีคนนำถอยหนี พวกเขาไหนเลยไม่วิ่งตาม

Both of them planned together; then the assassin dashed out of the ruins. The golem saw the human leave the hiding place and followed. As soon as he got past the ruins, the archer climbed up and drew his bow, shooting the golem in the leg, causing it to fall. This saved the assassin from being trampled. The archer then hurried along the outer city wall, following the assassin.

From the actions of the two, it was clearly a retreat. This indicated that the remaining players...

When even the top players are retreating, neither the hardcore scavenger nor the novice scavenger stayed to be crushed by the golem. They weren't being modest or considerate in their scavenging; it was simply because their dimensional bags were "full"! How could they keep scavenging when they couldn't carry more? With someone leading the retreat, how could they not follow?"

Of course, the best fighters must be in the front line, which means the group that strayed into this encirclement.

When the rear guard, composed of players from various affiliations outside the city walls, who were dodging artillery shells, saw a man stylishly jump back over the iron fortifications, followed by a wave of people jumping back, the minor players, seeing this, stopped advancing forward.

They hesitated for a moment as the other side ran past them...

The front retreated, and the rear retreated as well.

It turned into a complete withdrawal!

In the north of the American continent,

the strategy manager was lounging comfortably on a large sofa, watching TV and sipping a milkshake. When he saw the image of tens of millions of players' forces retreating, he laughed with delight.

"Ha ha, attacking head-on without war tactics, relying just on brute force. Did they think the dwarf AI wouldn't learn from their mistakes? Their intelligence has picked up on the players' tricks by now. They're currently mimicking the strategies of the five city lords, luring the players' vanguard into a trap... Ha ha, how about that? From here on, the iron mine dwarves will strike back, ha ha."

He finished his milkshake contentedly.

"Although the audience might feel a bit sad that humans lost to AI, a good event must mix some joy and sorrow to be fully flavored. Winning straightforwardly would be no fun at all, right? Ha ha."

The plan laid out by the managers had worked perfectly, filling him with satisfaction. He celebrated by drinking milkshake.

But

while a beautiful moderator in the studio was sorrowfully narrating the defeat, along with the live footage showing the retreat, and players unable to defeat the dwarves anymore,

suddenly, she pressed her earpiece, her expression changing to an excited announcement: "We interrupt the program. While tens of millions of players are collaborating in the World Invasion The Empire of Dwarf event right now,"

a dungeon skeleton record image appeared.

[Players Sagittarius, Mewku Mewku, Guinevere 28, .Melon^^, and MylittleChuuuuuuu have set a new dungeon skeleton clear time record of 1 minute 47 seconds.]

The beautiful moderator smiled and said, "While we've been glued to our TV screens, they took the opportunity to level up in the playerless dungeon and broke the dungeon record twice. The first time was 1 minute 59 seconds, and now they've beaten it by twelve seconds... Anyone watching the broadcast and planning to fight the dungeon boss will be disappointed, as the final boss has already appeared tonight." She tilted her head cutely, smiling about the three top players' opportunistic boss steal.

In the earlier show comments, there were all sorts of depressing remarks, calling the defeat boring and expressing sadness.

All comments were negative, especially once the players retreated, but once these three troublemakers interrupted the show:

"Ha ha, it's tough being famous. To set a dungeon record, they had to find a playerless time."

"Well, well, just look at the names, all of them are girls. Sagittarius is in a harem party, isn't he?"

"Hey, hey! My beloved Guinevere is not to be mocked!"

"I've been following the dungeon records since just now. Did they break their own record again?"

"You idiot! Being a city lord and messing around in a dungeon, breaking records too."

".Melon^^ and MylittleChuuuu aren't even well-known players. Those three didn't hire pros to set records like the rich folks usually do, but managed to break the dungeon record themselves. Absolutely amazing."

"Yeah... that's impressive"

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In summary, the plan to muddy emotions has been entirely overshadowed by the record-breaking of the small dungeon. The strategy manager could only hold his head and dial the phone to give orders to his subordinates.

"Have the dwarves launch an immediate counterattack!"

Initially, he planned to let the border town next to Sirius City gather itself together after the withdrawal of ten million players, but he changed his mind. Otherwise, the momentum of defeat would dissipate."