474 Start of Battle (1/2)

At Victoria's Stronghold in the York Territory, the gamers were informing each other of the new Knights that appeared at the boundary of the Duke's Castle and an impending attack. They had to prepare their defenses.

The gamers were used to being attacked, having been attacked several times since the start of Victoria City. After every attack, the gamers would have a bounty, so they welcomed the attacks.

The Knights were going to attack them, so they were extremely happy.

Lancelot was nervous as he directed the gamers to build up the defenses, such as chevaux de frise and obstacles at the only way into the Stronghold.

Lancelot was still worried, but there were no other choices.

The troops of the Counts and Barons got close to Victoria's Stronghold.

When thousands of Knights surrounded the Stronghold, many gamers were wandering outside, and they were captured by the Knights. They were easily captured. After all, the gamers had no intention to flee.

The gamers thought that the Knights were ordered to capture them by the Duke, so they offered to be captured. If they joined the slave warrior army, they could be like Hoodlum and be at their life's pinnacle. Why would they want to flee?

The gamers didn't know that the Knights were the reinforcements of the Counts and Barons, who didn't have the intention to form a slave army to conquer the world.

To rescue the Duke, they tried their best to diminish the combat power of the gamers.

After capturing and interrogating the surrendered gamers, they killed all of the prisoners.

The Counts didn't have any prisons to keep the gamers, especially when there were thousands of them. Even if there were only hundreds of them, the Counts wouldn't hesitate to kill them.

The gamers got to know on the discussion forum and from the other gamers that defecting to these Knights would only invite instant death instead of Strange Encounter Missions.

Since there was no mission, the gamers started attacking the Counts' army.

The ambitious Steamed Dumpling felt the same hopelessness that George had.

When the battle began, Steamed Dumpling's soldiers held the upper hand and almost overran the Stronghold. The chevaux de frise and obstacles were cleared.

Then he used fire and burned all of the obstacles.

The gamers outside were captured and killed before they launched an attack at the Stronghold.

\”Count Steamed Dumpling.\” As the troops were about to attack, a Knight walked to Steamed Dumpling and said, \”The location of the Victoria camp is strategic. I thought the Victorians were only brave and brutish. I didn't expect them to have such a tactical genius.\”

\”I'm surprised too. However, this defensive Stronghold isn't a problem for us.\” Steamed Dumpling smiled confidently and said to the troops behind him, \”Bring forth our Cannons!\”

A few squires pushed three large Cannons forward.

The gamers in the Stronghold noticed the large Cannons. They never expected such a weapon to exist in the medieval ages.

However, it was nothing strange for such a thing to occur in a game.

The Cannons used by Count Steamed Dumpling weren't simple Cannons using gunpowder. They were similar to the Underworld Magic Cannons.

The energy used wasn't Mana but the power of knowledge. In other words, it was the Power of Sacred Light.

The energy for the Cannon Shell wasn't derived from a gunpowder explosion. Instead, there was a propulsion device attached at the back of the Cannon. Before firing, the device had to be filled with water, and a shell that was filled with the Power of Sacred Light was loaded into the Cannon. Only members of the Church knew the details of the Cannons.

Steamed Dumpling wasn't a member of the Church, and he wasn't interested in the mechanisms of the Sacred Light Cannon Shell. He was only interested in using it.

Steam energy didn't provide much power, so a member of the Church blessed the Cannons with Sacred Light. He chanted and engulfed the three Cannons in the Sacred Light.

The gamers were shocked. They didn't expect that the Power of Sacred Light could be used this way. With the order of Steamed Dumpling, the three Cannons fired simultaneously. The brilliant Shells flew towards Victoria's Stronghold and exploded in midair.

The explosion was blinding and destroyed everything in the Stronghold.

The wooden defenses were completely destroyed by the second volley of the Cannons. The first volley destroyed most of the Stronghold.

Only the Rune Mana Formation that was protected by Mana was intact.

The Rune Mana Formation was more than enough for the gamers to turn the tide.

…

At Victoria City.

Lancelot had just come out from the Castle when he felt something strange in the atmosphere. A lot of naked gamers came out of the Revival Point, cursing and swearing.

\”What's the deal? The Cannons killed all of us. Isn't this an online game? Why is it a Plot-driven massacre?\”