Jianye, Snow Rose Mercenary Group's headquarters.
Just like Shanhai City, Jianye City also had a festive Lantern Festival. Gaia also launched the Lantern Festival, making the Royal City even livelier.
After the carnival, not to mention the city square, even the streets were littered with rubbish.
Although there were no pedestrians on the streets, there were still lanterns leading the way. Ouyang Shuo and his party walked out of the teleportation array and smoothly arrived at Snow Rose's headquarters.
More than 3,000 people walked on the street, carrying a large amount of equipment, but it was silent.
Because tomorrow was the battle for the satellite city, Snow Rose's headquarters was loose on the outside and tight on the inside. As soon as Ouyang Shuo and his party arrived at the headquarters, they were seen by the guards and immediately ran to report.
Seeing Ouyang Shuo, Lin Jing was greatly shocked and asked, "Little Shuo, it's so late, what are you doing here?"
Ouyang Shuo inadvertently glanced at the street outside and said in a low voice, "Let's talk inside!" On the way here, he noticed that someone was secretly monitoring Snow Rose's headquarters.
This further confirmed Ouyang Shuo's guess.
Seeing Ouyang Shuo's strange expression, Lin Jing immediately realized the seriousness of the matter and said, "Come in quickly!"
After entering the headquarters, Lin Jing arranged for people to receive the Divine Martial Guards and the guards, and led Ouyang Shuo to the president's office. Xie Siyun received the news and also rushed over.
"Little Shuo, tell me, what happened?" Lin Jing asked.
Ouyang Shuo didn't know where to start. After all, it was Ouyang Shuo's personal guess that Silver Hand was going to deal with the guilds. There was no real evidence, so it was not good to say it clearly.
"You are going to fight tomorrow, so I temporarily sent a batch of equipment." Ouyang Shuo said vaguely.
Lin Jing was suspicious, "Are you okay? Sending equipment in the middle of the night?"
Xie Siyun smiled to resolve the awkwardness and said, "Where can I find equipment from the sky?"
"What kind of equipment?" Lin Jing asked.
Ouyang Shuo said, "One hundred Three Bow Eight Bull Bed Crossbows and five thousand Divine Arm Crossbows."
Lin Jing also smiled and said, "That's a big deal."
Ouyang Shuo didn't stay for long and said directly, "I got the information that someone is going to harm you in the battle for the satellite city tomorrow. I can't say too much about the specific matter. In short, you have to be fully prepared and don't fail. The opponent this time is not easy to deal with. It's very likely that they're here for me. "
Lin Jing and Xie Siyun looked at each other and saw the seriousness in each other's eyes.
Even though they were joking, they knew extremely clearly in their hearts that Ouyang Shuo was absolutely not a person that spoke without reason. Since he suddenly paid a visit like this in the middle of the night, then the matter had surely reached an extremely serious state.
An enemy that was capable of causing the current Ouyang Shuo to be afraid of it was obvious how strong that enemy was.
Lin Jing nodded solemnly and said, "Alright, it's not convenient for you to tell me in detail, so I won't ask. With this batch of equipment, we'll have another layer of protection. No matter what tricks the enemy has up their sleeves, we are not to be trifled with. "
Ouyang Shuo stood up. "Then I'll be leaving first."
Ouyang Shuo had already reminded him of what he needed to. As for the outcome of tomorrow's battle, it was better to let Lin Jing and Xie Siyun decide.
Lords could not directly intervene in the battles for the satellite cities.
Leaving behind the equipment, Ouyang Shuo and the Divine Martial Guards hurriedly left the Snow Rose encampment.
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In the shadow of an alley diagonally opposite [Snow Rose]'s station, there were two men in black robes.
Seeing Ouyang Shuo and his entourage walk out of the gate, one of them said, "That's right, it's How Wuyi. What is he doing so late at night? "
"How would I know?" The other person said.
"Could it be that he found out about us?"
"It's impossible. I'm guessing that Dali's actions made How Wuyi suspicious, so he specially came to warn [Snow Rose]. According to Di Chen and the others, he's an old fox and very suspicious. "
"Then, should we take this opportunity to kill him?"
"How? Didn't you see that he has a large army protecting him? Even if we set up an ambush on the street, it won't be able to trap him. This person is indeed cautious. He came out so late and still has so many guards. "
"What cautious, I think he's just timid."
"No matter what, let's not beat the grass and startle the snake. Let's go! "
"Alright, I'll listen to you. That kid is lucky."
After a while, the two disappeared into the boundless night.
Gaia Fourth Year, February 14th.
At nine o 'clock in the morning, the Nine Great Royal Cities made an announcement at the same time.
"Royal City Announcement: In order to divert players and explore the mysterious Underworld, a satellite city is specially opened. Anyone who obtains a satellite city token and inserts it into the conference hall of the mayor's mansion of the satellite city will automatically obtain the right to defend the satellite city. After 24 hours, other guilds of the royal city can lead troops to attack the satellite city. If the defending guild successfully holds out for 24 hours, it will obtain the right to defend forever. If the attacking guild shatters the stone tablet of the satellite city, it will also obtain the right to defend forever. "
…
Along with the royal city announcement, a dazzling golden light flashed on the outskirts of the nine royal cities at the same time. Like a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion, the golden light shot up into the sky. Even a thousand miles away, it could be seen clearly.
When the golden light dissipated, nine brand new cities stood in the wilderness.
Each city was ten miles long and wide. Whether it was the city walls or the city buildings, they were almost a simplified version of the various royal cities. Even so, it was a majestic city.
Countless Lord players drooled at the sight of it.
Many of the cities in the wilderness couldn't meet the standards of this satellite city.
Just this majestic city was worth tens of millions of gold coins. It was no wonder countless guilds went crazy for it.
Of course, according to the information revealed by Gaia, the guild that guarded the satellite city only had the right to use and lease the city. It did not have ownership or mortgage rights.
To put it bluntly, the satellite city's guild was equivalent to a city manager. It was in charge of the satellite city's operations and had the right to rent out shops and properties in the city, as well as collect taxes to obtain legal income.
Furthermore, half of the city's income had to be handed over to the corresponding royal city's imperial court. Of course, the royal city would not take the income for free. It had the obligation to protect the satellite city's safety.
If the Lord of the Wilderness sent troops to attack the satellite city, it was equivalent to attacking the royal city.
As such, it greatly increased the satellite city's safety. Otherwise, faced with a fat piece of meat like the satellite city, there was no guarantee that the Lords would take the risk and send troops to attack.
If that was the case, the guardian guild would definitely not be able to defend it.
Speaking of which, as the satellite city's guild's right to defend was permanent, and it was already Gaia's fourth year, there was not much difference whether the guardian guild had ownership of the satellite city or not.
There were two reasons for Gaia's rules.
First, as the guild did not have ownership of the satellite city, when Gaia calculated the players' game assets after the game ended, the satellite city would not be included in the calculation.
This was normal. If the guild obtained such a city through a major battle, ignoring the dissatisfaction of other players, it would be unfair to the Lord players.
Which lord's city wasn't built from scratch and slowly built from scratch?
Second, as the guild did not have ownership or mortgage rights to the satellite city, the guardian guild could not transfer the satellite city, nor could they use the satellite city as a mortgage to obtain loans.
This was to prevent players from taking advantage of loopholes.
As the battle for the satellite city had not begun, Gaia did not disclose the Underworld Entrance for the time being. It was unknown if it would be a Teleportation Portal or a physical entrance.
If it was a physical entrance, would there be a situation where the Underworld monsters would counterattack the satellite city?
There was also the issue of access to the Underworld Entrance that was not disclosed. Did it require the guardian guild's permission, or could all players from the royal city enter? There was also the issue of whether there was a fee.
Everything would only be revealed after the dust had settled in the battle for the Satellite Town.
…
According to the information disclosed in the announcement, the entire battle for the satellite city could be divided into two stages.
The first stage was to find the satellite city token and break through the various obstacles to insert the token into the satellite city's Castellan Manor's meeting hall, activating the satellite city and temporarily becoming the city's master.
After activating the city, non-guardian guild players would be teleported out of the city by Gaia.
The guardian guild would have a day to prepare and organize the city's defenses. At the same time, a certain number of NPC troops would spawn in the city to assist in the defense.
Of course, there would not be too many NPC troops. The main force would be the guardian guild players.
Following that, it would be the second stage, which was the guild battle stage.
One guild would defend, and the remaining guilds would attack.
The guilds that lost in the first stage had already lost the initiative. Therefore, in the second stage, they would attack the satellite city at all costs, fighting for their last chance of survival.
At this time, strategy was important.
For the guardian guild, it was to restrain their allies as much as possible, preventing them from participating in the siege, so as to reduce the pressure on the defense. As for getting allies to help defend the city, Gaia would not allow it.
For the sieging guilds, it was even more complicated. Not only did they have to contact the other guilds to attack the city, but they also had to be wary of each other, or come to a tacit understanding ahead of time, or even sign an agreement.
This was because even if they conquered the satellite city, there was only one guild that could ultimately shatter the city's stone monument. Faced with such a huge temptation, no one knew what would happen until the very last moment.
At the same time, due to the uncertainty of the first stage, the siege of the nine capital cities would not be synchronized. For this, Gaia would seal off all the teleportation arrays in the capital cities before the nine capital cities' satellite cities were established as guardian guilds.
In this battle, unaffiliated players without guilds had no right to participate. They were basically marginal characters. Gaia did not even allow unaffiliated players to participate in the second stage of the siege.
This was also to control the variables as much as possible. Gaia did not want the overall standard of wilderness players to regress because of the intense battles.
Right at this moment, another announcement sounded.
"Royal City Announcement: The satellite city token will be randomly refreshed to a player in the Royal City. The token cannot be placed in a storage bag. It will be dropped upon death. The system will automatically refresh the token's coordinates every ten minutes. "
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With that, the most tragic battle of the first year officially began.
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