The Darkness invasion was imminent.
But the nations of the Gods' continent were not as unprepared as before.
In the five years of the previous version, the small dukedoms had been annexed by the grand dukedoms. The strongest professionals in the grand dukedoms were Epic professionals, so they knew a lot of things.
The grand dukedoms had prepared all kinds of military resources. They had placed cannons, catapults, and heavy-duty crossbows on the city walls. Now, they were looking for mercenaries to help defend the city.
As a result.
The mercenary market in the Legendary continent became lively.
However, only the City of Dawn was at the top. This was because the City of Dawn had close to a million regular soldiers and 3.8 million players!
They could all be hired, but the price of hiring a regular army was higher.
However, the City of Dawn had obtained countless military achievements in the war against the Orc Empire. Such military achievements were enough to make many small nations look up to them. If they could hire 100,000 regular soldiers of the City of Dawn, they would definitely be able to protect their nation.
Fortunately, the City of Dawn had a legion of chosen ones. These chosen ones were cheap and had good combat power. More importantly, they had the courage to kill.
They were a group of emotionless undead soldiers. If it was too expensive to hire the regular soldiers of the City of Dawn, it would be better to hire players.
Paul Bain's Eastern Region Mercenary Alliance and the Arctic Legion of the northern region.
But the mercenary warriors were normal people, and they would die. Even if their prices were not as high as the regular soldiers of the City of Dawn, they were not cheap.
As a result.
As a result, the players became the most desirable targets of the Darkness Invasion.
Due to the war between the Red Fire Nation and the Desert Nation, William mobilized 800,000 players.
Most of these 800,000 players were in version 1.0 and 2.0. Most of them had reached the Advanced level or were close to it.
As for the remaining three million players, most of them were at the Intermediate level. There were even some novice beginners.
Originally, these players could only do simple mercenary missions such as fighting, running errands, catching magical beasts, and other small missions.
But the Darkness invasion arrived.
The three million players instantly received the notification of the main storyline quest, and there were as many as 15 of them. If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't split themselves into two, they would have exhausted themselves from receiving these main storyline quests.
There were 15 S level main storyline missions because there were 15 grand dukedoms in the Legendary continent. When the 15 grand dukedoms submitted employment applications to the City of Dawn.
William provided these missions to the players.
Each of the 15 grand duchies had 200,000 players.
"It seems to be a little too scattered. I might not be able to hold on." The Prince, who had been studying how to make money, now felt a little regretful.
If he had known this would happen, he would have rejected a few grand duchies so that the players would not be so scattered. That way, the Dawn Mercenary Team could maintain a 100% completion rate.
There were actually two types of employment missions.
One was to directly pay a large sum of money, and the hired person would be responsible for completing the task without any additional payment.
The other was to fight every day and work together with the employer to complete the mission.
The City of Dawn was very powerful, but he did not want to attract too much hatred. Hence, he chose the second method. He would give them money to fight and work together to complete the missions.
Well …
After all, he had calculated that the second method of employment would allow him to earn more gold coins every day because he knew that the second wave of dark creatures would last for a long time.
However, this was also what he was worried about. The members were too scattered.
However, right after that, he received another message.
In order to compete with the City of Dawn, the Eastern Mercenary Alliance and the Arctic Legion had lowered their hiring prices. Hence, the grand duchies not only had the players of the City of Dawn, but also many powerful NPC mercenaries.
"Hmm, it seems that we won't lose so easily. But to prevent the players from being bullied, I have to send some experts to help. "After all, the mercenaries are not that harmonious. If not for the experts, the Eastern Mercenary Alliance and the Arctic Legion will definitely bully the cute little sheep. This shows the benefits of having a strong camp. We don't have to be afraid of being bullied by the NPCs."
When William thought of this, he heaved a sigh of relief. He had already made preparations. If the grand duchies could not hold on, the City of Dawn would exert pressure on them.
The City of Dawn exerted pressure on them, forcing them to spend money to hire their own regular army.
Otherwise, they would have to wait for the destruction of their country.
William believed that when that time came, even the stingiest king and nobles would not give up on their duchies and families. When the time came, the City of Dawn would make a fortune, and their country would survive.
It was a win-win situation.
No one would lose out.
He could also make use of this opportunity to sell equipment, skills, tools, potions, secret manuals, and so on. He could reap a good harvest.
Although two large mercenary teams and some small mercenary teams had snatched a portion of his profits, at least they could share the burden.
But William could also sense that the City of Dawn had sent mercenary missions to the entire Legendary continent.
He did not interfere much in the northern and western regions. He had only set up strongholds in the grand duchies. But he had made use of the immortality of the chosen ones and their low prices to seize a large portion of the mercenary market.
He had not interfered with the mercenary missions of many kingdoms, but he had already incurred the hostility of many mercenary legions. Now that they had lowered their prices to compete with him, it seemed like they could still compete fairly. But they had to compensate for the deaths of their members. If they continued to do this, they would definitely incur losses.
In the future, they might even join forces against him.
"Sigh, it's not time to worry about them. Although I've seized a large portion of the mercenary market, there are only so many people in the City of Dawn. It's not like I've taken every piece of meat …" William took out a small notebook and wrote down this problem. Then, he ignored it.
What were the millions of regular soldiers of the City of Dawn going to do?
Of course, they were going to attack.
William wanted to take advantage of the fact that the second wave of the Darkness invasion was not strong enough to find the underground Devil's Dens that were scattered all over the Legendary continent. He wanted to give some legions an invincible legion buff.
In particular, the second wave of the Darkness invasion would not only target the human grand duchies.
There would also be many neutral camps, such as the Seraphkin, Half-Elves, Dwarves, and Tauren. These small tribes with only tens of thousands of members could be found in the forests, grasslands, and mountain ranges of the Legendary continent.
They were also under great pressure when facing the Darkness invasion.
William was not interested in earning their money. He only wanted to uphold his identity as a messenger of justice. He wanted to send the regular legions to help them resolve the danger. He wanted to use the excuse that it was too dangerous outside to 'bring' them back to the City of Dawn for protection.
"D * mn, I've made a killing." William laughed mischievously. This was his biggest plan. He did not dare to attack the human grand duchies, so he used the hiring method to achieve a win-win situation.
Hmm.
Anyway, he felt that it should be a win-win situation.
As for the other small factions, they did not have any backers. He would use this excuse to kidnap them and take the opportunity to increase the population of the City of Dawn.
If everything went according to plan.
After the second wave of the Darkness invasion was resolved, the City of Dawn could increase its population by a few million.
They were not Humans. They were made up of various races.
To the other factions, the cities would not be able to accommodate so many races. This would cause conflicts and even fights.
However, William's endowments were amazing. No matter how unhappy these races were at the beginning, they could only say that it was delicious under William's persuasion.
"Pa!" William closed his small notebook. He wanted to take advantage of the fact that there were no major enemies in version 4.0. He wanted to speed up his development and strive to become a high-level neutral camp on the Legendary continent.
Even if he could not become a first-tier camp like the Temple of Light, he wanted to become a second-tier neutral camp like the City of Chaos.
…
Time flew by, and soon, three days had passed.
The border conflicts between the Red Fire Nation and the Desert Nation did not stop just because the Darkness invasion was imminent. Instead, they became more and more intense.
Although there were no large-scale battles between the two sides, at least hundreds or thousands of people died at the border every day.
The three Dwarf legions often attacked the border defense line and fought with the players.
However, the equipment of the Dwarf legion was too good. The money-minded players were not afraid of death. If the Dwarf legion dared to come, they would dare to rob them of their equipment.
However, the Dwarven Army was very powerful. The majority of the Dwarven Army's members were high-tiered and intermediate-tiered professionals. Including the Attribute Amplification from their Bloodlines, each Dwarven Army could solo four or five players. Moreover, with the Dwarven Army's formation, the Dwarven Army's players had no hope of survival.
If the Dwarf legion did not want to suffer too many losses, the players would not have been able to hold on.
Therefore, the players felt that they were not getting any benefits. They felt that they were using experience points to exchange for equipment. It was a little disadvantageous.
As the players fought, their experience points would be depleted, and they would even drop levels and equipment …
"The sky is a little gloomy. I heard that the Darkness invasion will occur in the next two days. There shouldn't be any Devil's Dens appearing on this battlefield, right?" Changli Jiuge looked at the sky and sighed.
Xiao Ayin walked to him with her slender legs. She picked up a fruit that was worth three gold coins and took a bite. She said vaguely, "I don't think so. Didn't His Highness say that the Darkness invasion is mainly aimed at the Grand Duchies? They will attack those forces that have fewer Epic experts."
"Yes. Now that the two kingdoms have so many Epic experts at the border, they shouldn't make such a low-level mistake." Chu Liuqiu nodded with certainty.
However.
As soon as he finished speaking.
More than 10,000 meters west of the players' encampment, there was a continuous rumbling sound near the Dwarf's encampment. Many Devil's Dens were rising from the ground.
Countless Dark Creatures were like marching ants in the desert, madly attacking the Dwarf's encampment not far away. There were many demons flying in the sky.
Xiao Ayin opened her mouth and couldn't help but look at the dumbfounded Chu Liuqiu. Did he have a jinx? Did he have to be so accurate?
At the same time.
Chu Liuqiu also received a lot of transmitted messages. Not only was the Blue Mountain Dwarf army in front of them being attacked by the Dark Creatures, but the Iron Fist Dwarf army and the Hard Beard Dwarf army were also being attacked.
"What should we do? Should we take advantage of the situation and attack the Lover's Army from both sides?" someone's eyes lit up and couldn't help but shout.
"Yes, let these Dwarves enjoy the feeling of having their buttholes explode all over the mountain."
"That's not good. Although the Dwarves are the enemy, the Dark Creatures are the real enemies." Many female players couldn't bear to watch. Although they were enemies, no matter how they looked at it, the Dark Creatures were more terrifying. They were less humanoid.
They could fight with the Dwarves because both sides had accepted some kind of employment mission!
Moreover, there were simply too many dark creatures. Even if there were 80,000 to 90,000 Dwarves in front of them, there were more than 100 Devil Caverns. More than 600,000 to 700,000 dark creatures had emerged from them. If nothing unexpected happened, these Dwarves, who had once dropped equipment for them, would be annihilated today.
"Then we won't go. At most, we'll just let them kill each other while we take advantage of the situation. Oh right, Meng Meng, I've saved up a lot of money recently and want to buy a warhorse. I'll take you for a stroll when the time comes." Someone laughed and willingly played the role of a bootlicker.
Unfortunately, the girl named Meng Meng refused: "Thanks, Big Bro, but I have a big bro who bought a Griffin and wants to take me to the sky to fly and eat cotton candy on top of the clouds."
"…" The male player fell into silence. It had to be said that after the citadel started selling Dark Creatures, there were many melodramatic situations among the players.
The female players would rather cry while sitting on a griffin than laugh while riding on a horse …
"There are no Dark Creatures near the Crimson Fire and Desert Fortresses, but they're already fighting," someone reported after receiving the news.
Changli Jiuge took a deep breath: "These three Dwarven Legions are finished. The Crimson Fire Kingdom won't give the Desert Kingdom a chance to support them."
"Look, who are those people?" Someone exclaimed and pointed into the distance!
"Such dazzling blonde hair, so wild, so familiar, and such a short horse. Isn't that the vice city lord?" Someone opened his eyes wide.
"And that little girl Lancelot, that's the Lonely Mountain Squad. They're charging towards the Dwarven Legion."
"Ding dong."
At this time, all the players at the border received a mission.
[Justice Regardless of Race: The Darkness Invasion has arrived on a large scale. Our enemies just now were surrounded by Dark Creatures. Draw your swords and save the Dwarves who are fighting alone. We don't need Dark Creatures to interfere in our war.]
[Mission Difficulty: A +]
[Mission Objective: Save at least 150,000 Dwarves from the three Dwarven Legions.]
[Mission Reward:???]
[Experience Reward:???]
At the same time.
One of the Half-Elf commanders of the regular army of the City of Dawn, who had been hiding among the players, drew his sword and shouted at the countless players and professionals, "Prince William said that we don't need Dark Creatures to interfere in our war. Save the Dwarves, then we'll fight to the death."
The Half-Elf commander rode on his warhorse and slowly turned around. He raised his sword and shouted, "Charge with me!"
"Charge!!" The players were overjoyed, and their faces were filled with pride. They thought to themselves, 'As expected of His Highness. He has such a strong sense of justice.'
"Prince William is domineering!"
"Prince William is awesome."
"Prince William is handsome. Our William is the true messenger of justice, the Apostle of Light."
"That's right. We don't need Dark Creatures to interfere in our war with the Dwarves. Let's save this group of Dwarves and decide the outcome."
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