383 People Change, Including Players (2/2)

After he made the decision, he began to practice Nourishment of Life.

He had to double the time in Nourishment of Life later in order to increase his mental power in reality, so that he could understand and apply the magic knowledge from the game.

Soon, night fell. Roland finished his half-day training and washed up, before he entered the game again.

The following days in the game were rather monotonous. Roland conducted experiments in the Magic Tower every day and checked up on the new apprentices now and then.

Occasionally, he would spend some quality time with Andonara. Though he couldn't really have sex with her, Andonara, as a young woman who had received special lessons from the royal family before her marriage, knew a lot of ways to play.

In the meantime, Andonara made a fortune by helping the players transform into Great Swordsman.

This dull but busy life lasted about a month, until an event was exposed on the forum, shocking everybody, including Roland.

A sheriff player asked for help on the forum.

The sheriff was hired by Winterwind. It was one of the results of the royal family's divide-and-conquer policy.

But the player treated his job solemnly. After all, he was paid regularly every month, and he had a bunch of NPC soldiers as his subordinates. He was more successful and powerful here than he was in reality.

However, for reasons he didn't know, the guys of Jalan Temple and Silver Wings all came to Winterwind.

Also, those two parties were in conflict. At first, they were fighting on a hill outside of the city, and the sheriff, with his men, looked at the intruders in fear.

The players caused such a racket that everybody in the city was scared.

But as they fought on, and after multiple deaths and resurrections, they really burst into fury.

Eventually, Winterwind was involved in the battle.

The resurrected players fought right near the Temple of Life. Soon, the whole of Winterwind became their battlefield.

Though the players had intentionally kept a distance from the civilians, it was not easy for them to pay enough attention to outsiders when they were enraged.

The spellcasters, in particular, could easily hurt civilians by accident with their area skills.

The archers might accidentally shoot civilians too.

Even Warriors might crash into a house, causing civilian casualties if they missed their target during their charge.

Some civilians tried to escape, but more hid at home, too scared to come out.

After all, where could they possibly flee to?

There was no food or shelter for them outside. Because it was early winter, they might be frozen in the frost.

The civilians were not professionals. They were less sturdy against unfavorable circumstances.

The sheriff cried in his video that more than three hundred civilians had been killed, and that he had no time to calculate the number of wounded. He called for someone to help the ordinary people in Winterwind and stop the players from fighting in the city.

The post immediately attracted the attention of the players, and those two guilds were reprimanded by other players too.

Normally speaking, the players who were accused on the forum would lay low after they stirred public indignation.

However, the two guilds did not stop at all. Instead, they fought harder and harder.

The other players were all confused about why the two guilds hated each other so much.

But then, an anonymous player threw a bomb on the forum.

”Although I'm a member of one of the guilds, my conscience can't stand it anymore as I watch the innocent civilians fall. Let me tell you the reason. Jalan Temple and Silver Wings discovered a high-purity gold mine on the hill outside of Winterwind. They're fighting for the gold mine.”

At this point, more than a thousand civilians had been killed in Winterwind.