Chapter 770 - New Years Battle (1/2)

Chapter 770 - New Year's Battle

The next day, I had to resist the urge to rush back home and log onto the game, since I didn’t bring the helmet with me. I followed Wan Er to the local shopping district for a stroll. She spent another couple dozen thousand on clothes and accessories. I was utterly defeated by her. Thankfully, her father was happily willing to pay for her clothes. After all, the assets from the Tian Jin Corporation were more than enough to satisfy her needs for many many lifetimes.

After lunch, I took Wan Er back to our apartment.

By the time we returned, it was already one in the afternoon. Dong Cheng had yet to come back. Most likely due to the fact that Dong Cheng wouldn’t allow his precious daughter to leave too early. But, thinking about it, Dong Cheng was probably anxious to come back. Just as expected, I received a call from her before I even got the chance to log on. When she heard that Wan Er and I had returned, she then suggested that we all eat dinner together.

……

Log on!

“Shua!”

I appeared in the middle of Tian Ling City. I summoned my Flying Scythe Horse. I leapt onto the saddle and charged straight towards the Royal Army camp. The guild chat was filled with new year's celebrations. I quickly sent out a group text to everyone, and then sent individual greetings to all of the core officers. After that, I turned off the communications device. I had just reached the Royal Army camp.

Outside of the camp, I saw a group of cavalrymen training their horseback riding. A group of them saw me and respectfully greeted me, “General!”

I nodded, “Continue!”

“Yes sir!”

I rode my Flying Scythe Horse straight into the camp. There was an enormous gap between the level of skill that each of the training grounds displayed when I first arrived. In one of the training grounds, I saw Han Yuan circling the grounds on his horse. He was training a group of barbarian soldiers the art of defense and advancing in the Shield Camp.

“General!”

Han Yuan had spotted me and shouted to me from a distance, “General’s finally here. I haven’t seen you for a day, and here I thought that the general had forgotten about us!”

I smiled, “How’s that possible? Never in a million years. How has the training been so far?”

Han Yuan patted his chest with pride, “Even though I can’t assure you that the battle power of the Royal Army is number one in the empire, but just our foot soldiers‘ power is enough to get us into the top three. I think, that besides the Flame Dragon Army and the Xia Yu Army’s elites, the Royal Army’s battle potential is number one!”

I nodded, “That’s good!”

Han Yuan then added, “General, when will we return to Dragon City?”

I said, “There’s no need for me to organize that. You guys decide. Everyday, we’ll pick two thousand men to scout the Ice Ridge Mountains. While they’re there, they can kill off some of the scattered monsters. Don’t forget to bring some good archers. By fortifying those areas, we can decrease some of the pressure on Ba Huang City and Dragon City.”

“Yes, I will immediately set that up! That’s right…”

Han Yuan walked forward and lowered his voice, “Long Xing went to the palace by himself today. Based on my friends in the guard, Long Xing went to see Prince Theodore. That b*st*rd must be planning something. He must’ve told the Crown Prince Theodore all about our training techniques!”

I smiled, “Its fine. The Royal Army is not ashamed of anything. After all, we aren’t doing anything behind anyone’s back. If Long Xing wants to make secret reports, then he can. As long as he doesn’t turn his back on the Royal Army!”

“Yes sir!”

……

Very soon, Han Yuan picked out a two thousand man scout team. Everyone brought with them a set amount of rations. Afterwards, they left the camp and went straight for the Ice Ridge Mountains. Despite this, I still felt worried. Tian Ling City must not only face the pressure from the main cities, Moon City, Port City, and Flame Cloud City, but it must also face ambushes from the Hybrid Demon Territory. This kind of pressure must be there to hone the experience of the players, right?

Right at that moment, I heard Li Mu’s voice from the guild chat——

Li Mu: “D*mn, are the Japanese players from Port City really making a move? What the f*ck do they mean, they’re coming out to hunt. Do they think we’re some free city?! Where they can take whatever the f*ck quests they want?”

I asked, “Li Mu, what’s going on?”

Li Mu said, “Port City is owned by the Japanese and the Koreans. The second strongest Japanese guild——New Moon has over 100,000 players. They’re known to be almost on par with the number one guild Casualty. And so, they’re particularly arrogant. The vice guildmaster of New Moon, Battle Thunder, recently entered into Tian Ling City territory by himself and hunted down several Chinese Players. At first, only a dozen of them came. After that, several hundred came in and another thousand. Today, over ten thousand Japanese players entered. It’s as though they’re trying to chase us out from the War God River territories!”