“It is a big deal! Faction leader Snow Roland is going to take players to the front lines to clear monsters!”
Such a post popped up in the Starry Sky Forum.
A faction leader going to the front to clear the monsters?
This looked like a nonsense title.
Speaking of Snow Roland, some of the players in the first closed beta were lucky enough to meet him. He usually lived in the palace and the only time he appeared in public was the day when the two-way teleportation circle between Imperial City and Orchid Moon City was successfully built.
His CP with Si Sheng might occupy half of the country but speaking of which, this NPC was more mysterious than the marshal.
Such a person actually led the players to the front lines to clear monsters? The person posting this probably had a mental illness, right?
The fans of the game from all walks of life and the second closed beta players who couldn’t go online because of something could only stay on the forum and they sneered when they saw this post.
Then they clicked on the post and saw the main post.
[Interstellar Beast Clearance Plan (2)]
[Description: The beast wave three years ago destroyed countless cities in the Roland Empire. Now only five cities remain. Between these main cities, there are countless interstellar beasts.
The interstellar beasts blocked the roads, turning the five cities into isolated islands in a sea of beasts. Now teleportation circles connecting the five cities have finally been established. The Roland Empire is determined to unite the power of the five cities to remove the beasts, recover the lost land and restore the glory of the empire.
Warriors, follow faction leader Snow Roland to the front line and kill the enemies!]
[Mission content: Please bring the weekly order as proof, find NPC Li Lai to join the sixth army and follow Snow Roland to the battlefield to clear the interstellar beasts on the Glass Sea Plains.]
[Rewards: Lots of experience points, equipment, materials, etc.]
The mission screenshot looked like this and… in addition to the mission screenshot, there was also a photo of Snow Roland!
It was a very clear, close-up photo. The background was the front-tier barracks and the shadow of the flying shuttle could be faintly seen.
The silver-haired young man in the picture didn’t wear a crown and luxurious clothing as he did during the live broadcast. He was wearing a simple military uniform in a fabric style. This was obviously more advanced than others.
Even with such a picture, the onlookers didn’t believe it.
[I stamp it with the needle of photoshop!]
[Haha, this photoshop technology is so amazing. I almost thought it was real.]
[It is true. There are several UP hosts who are streaming live.]
[……]
Under such guidance, everyone went to the live broadcast room to eat melons.
In the live broadcast screen, they saw four or five thousand players gathered in the square. Their scattered appearance was in sharp contrast to the well-trained NPC army next to them.
They had all been integrated into the sixth army. According to their level and skills they had mastered, they were divided into five battalions. They were currently getting acquainted with the members of their battalions.
Deng Jianan didn’t miss this incident. At this moment, the audience could see through his live broadcast screen that he had added several voice channels.
It included the sixth army, the fifth battalion, the tenth squad, etc.
His live broadcast camera captured the high platform. His audience could clearly see the figure of the silver-haired young man. There were several generals standing beside him, all respectful and careful.
It was only at this time that the fans of the game accepted reality. The posts in the Starry Sky Forum had long exploded.
[F*k! Does His Majesty really want to personally go?]
[What is going on in this game? Is Roland gone? What about Si Sheng? What about Li Zhecheng? They actually asked the emperor to personally go to the front line? They are sick!]
[D*mn, are there any other members of the imperial family in the Roland Empire now? If Snow dies, will there be anyone to succeed him?]
[It seems there is a little prince who is only 10 years old.]
[The game group is crazy, right? This is only the second closed beta! The public beta hasn’t even begun yet they are making such a big move. Isn’t this death?]
[I didn’t go online for a day. How did my house collapse? I like His Majesty Snow so much. The dog planners aren’t people. This arrangement isn’t reasonable at all!]
[So why let Baby Snow go to the front line? He is only 18 years old. He isn’t fighting material at first glance!]
The game group was really going crazy.
They didn’t know why this NPC called Snow suddenly ran to the front line!
They had given him such a rough life because they didn’t want him to go to the front line, okay? Why was he starting to look like the former emperor and others…
Then they thought about it and suddenly figured it out.
If Snow Roland really died on the front line, wouldn’t the Xu family agree to delete the file and start over again in the public beta?
It seemed like it wasn’t impossible…
They had such small calculations and didn’t intervene in this incident. No matter how the players collapsed and abused them, they didn’t make a sound.
Xu Sili didn’t care about what others thought. Even now, there were several generals trying to persuade him and Admiral Joyce almost knelt to him.
This was what he had expected a long time ago, so his expression was indifferent. The moment he released the coercion of a three star elementalist, these people were speechless.
Speaking of which, Si Sheng had taught him this coercion. He burst out his spiritual power in an instant and caused psychological oppression for the other person. It was very suitable for use at this time.
Sure enough, the officers looked at each other and said under the coercion, “Your Majesty’s strength…”
“Oh, I just arrived at three stars yesterday,” Xu Sili said lightly.
Their jaws almost dropped in shock. It had to be known that less than four months had passed since the star seal had been lifted! His Majesty actually rose to three stars!
Previously, Li Zhecheng broke through to two and a half stars and became stagnant. This showed that improvement was more difficult in the later stages.
Yet His Majesty…
“Aren’t I now the second strongest in the empire?” Xu Sili tilted his head slightly. “Besides me and Si Sheng, are there any other three star elementalists?”
It was over.
Admiral Joyce knew that no one could stop the emperor…
“Your Majesty successfully breaking through to three stars is indeed a major event worthy of a national celebration. Your Majesty wants to get revenge for the former emperor and your siblings, which is understandable but…”
“Isn’t it too risky to lead the 4,000 braves? Let the ministers organize elite soldiers to escort you into battle to kill the enemy!”
Xu Sili stared at them deeply and said in a low voice, “In fact, there are 4,580 braves and they are all elementalists. Two-thirds of them are from the spiritual department and none of them has a level below one star.”
Most of them were Lv 15, which was one and a half stars. The highest level even reached Lv 23.
“Admiral Joyce, you must know best how many one star elementalists are on the front lines, right?”
Roland had lost too many elementalists three years ago. Now the number of surviving elementalists above one star were only a few thousand and the spiritual department was even fewer. They were precious people.
This was unlike players, who were all elementalists and could learn skills with one click!
Xu Sili sometimes couldn’t help feeling envious.
He saw Admiral Joyce’s ugly expression and continued. “They are the foundation of the empire and I don’t want to let them take risks easily. So let the braves explore the way first.”
“But…”
“Admiral Joyce, you have to know the racial characteristics of the braves, right?”
Admiral Joyce was speechless for a while. Then he saw the laughing braves in the square and still tried a final struggle.
“Your Majesty… now the teleportation circle has just been established. In fact, there is no need to hurry to clear the interstellar beasts…”
The young emperor didn’t interrupt but Admiral Joyce’s voice became weaker and weaker under the emperor’s calm gaze. Finally, it almost disappeared.
“Born in sorrow and died in peace.”
Xu Sili looked in the direction of Imperial City. “Admiral Joyce, tell me… how many years can the guardian circle that my father opened at the cost of his life last?”
Admiral Joyce was startled before he showed an expression of regret and shame.
He was one of the people at the top of Roland’s power and he knew about what happened back then.
He opened his mouth. Finally, he sighed deeply and only said, “Your Majesty is wise!”
Admiral Joyce recognized it so what could the other senior officials say? In addition, the emperor’s words just now made them feel ashamed.
They spent three years and hadn’t cleared a complete road, let alone half of it. So what qualifications did they have to dissuade His Majesty?
Admiral Joyce gave up the persuasion and looked at the square again.
He had already understood the racial characteristics of the braves. It even made his jaw drop in shock at first…
Now he turned his head to look at Lieutenant Colonel Li Lai’s dull expression and actually felt a strange sense of superiority in his heart.
Li Lai was probably the last NPC of the escort team that went to Orchid Moon City to know that players could resurrect.
After he sent people to Orchid Moon City, he had tracked down the missing squad to the trial place.
Later, he followed Xu Sili and Si Sheng back to Imperial City and the players had already left. Once the second closed beta began, he was active on the front line and didn’t have time to go back to the rear.
He had heard that the braves were summoned again and the number was a lot higher, but he didn’t think much about it until His Majesty asked him to incorporate the braves into the sixth army…
He saw those familiar faces and told himself that he might’ve seen it wrong, or they were the brothers and sisters of the dead braves. This was until they came up to greet him in a familiar manner.
D*mn, none of them actually died!
It wasn’t until the facts were right in front of him that Li Lai finally believed that the braves could be resurrected! It was incredible to the extreme.
He even remembered that he had seen one being swallowed by a saber-toothed beast with his own eyes but that person now appeared in front of him alive…
He almost couldn’t hold back his desire to attack. It took a lot of discipline to barely control it. No unpleasant bloody incidents occurred.
Right now, the braves were learning new skills in the square.
Xu Sili didn’t want to die. Si Sheng would show up and save him at a moment of crisis, but it was his first battle after all. He didn’t want it to end in embarrassment.
Therefore, he made a detailed battle plan, including the skills that might be used. Then he let the elementalists teach these skills to the players without reservation.
So the familiar scene happened again—
It was like thousands of players copied and pasted the skill. They learned it at once, no matter how complex the skill was. Li Lai had already become numb.
He even felt a type of strange confidence in the upcoming battle and wasn’t as worried as Admiral Joyce and the others.
These braves were good at creating miracles, or they were the miracles themselves.
Finally, all the preparations were finished and the communicators equipped by each player were working properly. Xu Sili set off with them.
Naturally, he wasn’t really defenseless.
10 shadow guards were hiding in the shadows, protecting him at all times. These shadow guards were all dark warriors and had always been affiliated with the dark department, protecting the safety of the imperial family.
Once the level restrictions were lifted, they gained great benefits. Staying by Xu Sili’s side and listening to him sing and play the flute every day was also of great benefit.
Now the highest level one had reached Lv 24 and was only one level behind Li Zhecheng.
Li Zhecheng also followed, but Xu Sili thought he would be in the way because Xu Sili would have to worry about his life and death on the battlefield.
Players couldn’t die while shadow guards could turn into shadows and couldn’t be easily killed.
Li Zhecheng was despised and turned into a portable sword on the spot… now he was pinned to Xu Sili’s waist. If necessary, Xu Sili could even put him into a storage capsule.
It was amazing.
Xu Sili hadn’t figured it out yet. The storage capsule couldn’t store living things, but it could store the sword form Li Zhecheng. Was this state dead or alive?
In any case, there was the third strongest person in the empire, Li Zhecheng. This meant his safety was further guaranteed.
Xu Sili stood on a hovering flying saucer and flew outside the border fortifications. The more than 4,000 players were also blessed with the Light Body technique or flying techniques by the wind elementalists and they moved forward on the plains.
Four monitoring bees followed them and sent all the images back to the command center synchronously.
Outside the fortifications, the ones wandering were basically interstellar beasts around level 20-30. The one star beasts almost couldn’t be seen.
It was because these interstellar beasts were too difficult to kill. The army of Imperial City had always been stagnant here until the level limit was lifted.
However, the number of interstellar beasts in this place wasn’t large and there were no flying beasts in the sky that could threaten them for the time being.
Xu Sili glanced around and stopped in mid-air.
The players followed him uneasily, almost surrounding him. They were afraid that something would go wrong with the faction leader.
Now he suddenly stopped and the voice of the young leader was heard from the communication headset worn by everyone.
“Next, the command will be handed over to the deputy head, Zhulin Muge. Your task is to clean up the interstellar beasts as much as possible. As for the safety of your lives, leave it to me.”
“Stay within a radius of one kilometer centered around me. As long as you don’t die in seconds, this emperor will ensure that you don’t die.”
His words clearly reached the ears of every player.
The players were stunned and looked at each other. They didn’t expect the NPC leader to hand over the command so quickly.
Didn’t this mean…
They just needed to worry about clearing the monsters and leave restoring their health to him?
Was it possible that the emperor of the Roland Empire, who was said to be the only sound elementalist NPC, was actually a healer?
As for Zhulin Muge, it was the professional god Lin Mu. His level was currently ranked first in the game and it was convincing to have him command the players.
Lin Mu took over the command. He looked down with a solemn expression and observed the situation on the plains.
It was currently winter, which was the season for animals to hibernate. The number of interstellar beasts hadn’t decreased but most of the flying interstellar beasts had moved south. It was safer in the air than on the ground.
Lin Mu gritted his teeth and decided to fight.
It was too exciting to command thousands of people in battle! Just do it!
Finally, they landed on a plains area 500 meters away from the fortifications.
There was a lack of food in winter. The moment they saw so many humans suddenly appear in front of them, the interstellar beasts had red eyes and rushed toward the players with a scream.
Lin Mu had fought interstellar beasts before and knew some of the habits of interstellar beasts. For example, they liked to gather together and had a strong desire for revenge.
Therefore, he didn’t plan to chase the interstellar beasts to fight. He was ready to stand in one place and output.
“Metal and earth type martial artists should pull the aggro. Those with ranged attack skills, stay in the rear to output. Water and light types should keep an eye on everyone’s health bar. Wind elementalists will be on standby. Listen to my command at critical moments and lift everyone into the air…”
Orders were issued in an orderly manner and the players’ execution ability was also very strong.
Xu Sili was protected in the center of the group and secretly nodded. Sure enough, the command had to be handed over to someone like Lin Mu.
Once the players finally met the running interstellar beasts, Xu Sili also took action.
He stopped the flying saucer in place and took out an artifact from the storage capsule. It was the flute of the God of Music and the melody of Roland’s Good Night Song sounded through the plains.
Now that Xu Sili had entered the three star stage, he could control his spiritual power even more easily.
The interstellar beasts rushing over aggressively suddenly stopped. The first to bear the brunt were instantly controlled.
The interstellar beasts in the front instantly braked sharply and the interstellar beasts not so affected by the sound of the flute in the back couldn’t hold back. A large series of collisions occurred and even the interstellar beasts in the middle were directly killed.
Seeing the interstellar beasts in front being impacted by the rear…
“Earth wall in front and metal wall behind. Hurry!”
At Lin Mu’s decisive command, the earth type and metal type spiritual elementalists put their hands on the ground.
Walls rose one after another in response. They were smashed to pieces by the huge interstellar beasts but they still played a buffer role.
There were also earth type spiritual elementalists who controlled the ground, creating ditches to prevent the interstellar beasts from moving forward.
Xu Sili’s flute didn’t stop. There was a defense line formed by the wall and he only needed to control the sound elements outside the defense line.
Looking at it from above, they would find that with him in the center, the interstellar beasts that were first hypnotized formed a circle. Then more and more interstellar beasts came running over after smelling blood.
However, the road ahead was blocked by death. At first, it was possible to squeeze forward. Later, they couldn’t squeeze through at all.
They kept pressing each other and the circle gradually spread outward.
Lin Mu was stunned for a moment before shouting frantically in the channel, “Quickly! Output! Aim at the interstellar beasts I have marked. Attack all of them for me!”
The players reacted and started to harvest the lives of the interstellar beasts.
The attacks of the players generally dealt between 500 and 1,000 damage but there were too many people!
Thousands of people fought together and the two star interstellar beasts couldn’t resist at all. They were directly killed by the players in their sleep.
Seeing that there were great opportunities, the players aimed at the next interstellar beast, one after another. They basically killed the beasts in seconds and swept through them like an autumn breeze sweeping away fallen leaves.
From the players’ perspective, damage numbers and crit numbers popped up. Their screen was bright red and the levels of countless players were rising like a rocket.
Not only were they unscathed but they also gained several levels. It was like a dream!
“Hahaha, this is so cool!”
Looking at the silver-haired young man playing the flute in the center, all the players couldn’t help thinking that it was so cool to follow the faction leader to clear monsters!
This was what a faction leader should do!
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