Overgeared

"Wow, it’s a good thing that they don’t resurrect.”

The God of War Ares had once competed with Grid for the position of First King. He was one of the few players who had made Grid feel tense, one of the bigshots who had made Grid reach out to him first. Ares had been outclassed and hadn’t become the first king, but everyone respected him still. He was the first player after Grid to found a kingdom.

Ares had founded Valhalla, which became very powerful through a deal he had struck with Grid. In the kingdom’s early days, Ares used to bow to Grid to gain a supply of blacksmiths. But since then, the two factions had formed an equal alliance because Grid relied on Ares’ skills to train powerful soldiers.

Interacting with Grid on an equal footing? This was rare for players, even rarer for NPCs. As Grid kept achieving great things, so did Ares.

"Grid and the Overgeared Guild have already destroyed over a hundred Full Moon Fortresses guarded by these monsters, right?”

Ares roughly wiped a cultivator’s brain matter off his clothes and took a refreshing sip of coke. Since Valhalla’s industry had been steadily developing, it was now producing canned drinks. Thanks to this, Ares could happily and conveniently drink cold coke. As Valhalla’s civilization progressed, his satisfaction from playing Satisfy also increased.

Well, until the S.A. Group launched this ridiculous update.

Ares was angrier than anyone else when he heard that cultivators were showing up in the world after the update. He even sold a number of his S.A. Group stocks. He had played all types of games over the past few decades. Therefore, he was very insightful. He had witnessed many games decline over time. Ares came to the realization that Satisfy was approaching ruin.

The price of the S.A Group’s stocks had been at the bottom for a while anyway. Why did the company suddenly drop such a strange update? Ares couldn’t understand what Lim Cheolho’s was thinking at all. Did the chairman not take care of himself despite having so much money? Did he become senile already?

Fortunately, the cultivators were NPCS. Once they died, there was no coming back for them. The cultivators who had spread like cancer cells in Satisfy were on the verge of extinction, their numbers finally dwindling. This was all thanks to Grid and the Overgeared Guild, who always played well.

"Let’s wrap this up quickly. If we deal with the rest of the cultivators, maybe this update will have a positive outcome after all.”

The core of this update was the expansion of the game’s worldview. New items and new skills had appeared in the game, as well as all sorts of resources and pets that had never existed before. The fact that most of them came from the cultivation world had made the cultivators stronger, but this problem could be easily solved if all cultivators disappeared.

People had high expectations for the future of Satisfy now that the cultivators’ items and skills were left behind in the game world. In fact, the S.A Group’s stock price was on the rise again.

Valhalla’s generals were displeased. “We want to wrap this up, but...”

They were all very strong and intelligent. They led tens of thousands of elite troops. Yet, surprisingly, they didn’t perform that well. The Absolute-level cultivators were a problem. There were also a small number of late-stage great ascension cultivators in the East Continent who persistently tormented the elites of Valhalla, especially the generals. This was enough to make Luck, who was hailed as Kraugel’s rival, click his tongue.

"Numerical superiority is meaningless. Even if we want to attack, we can’t keep up with their speed.”

"What are the Four Auspicious Beasts doing?”

"The immortals are keeping them busy...”

"Immortals... Can’t the daoist immortals from the Chivalrous Robbers deal with them?”

"Yeo Yulan? She is an immortal in name, but there is a significant difference in skills between her and the immortal cultivators.”

The front line was gradually getting pushed back. The elite forces, who didn’t know fear thanks to the AOE buffs of God of War Ares and the generals, were slowly retreating. They realized that no matter how strong they became, they were powerless against the Absolutes. Every time the Absolute-level cultivators used their Treasures or performed mystical arts, hundreds of troops would die. Morale naturally dropped.

"Um.”

more serious as he observed the battlefield. He was rolling

“......”

battlefield suddenly became silent, reflecting the generals’ willingness not to disturb their king’s thoughts. Their neat orders silenced the soldiers. The soldiers who had been seriously wounded by the enemy and screamed, the ones who finally spotted a window of opportunity to turn the tables and shouted, the ones who sobbed in fear, and so on... All of them fell silent as if they were possessed. This wasn’t

result

Absolute-level cultivators by

stop them from flying first,” Ares

Just then—

Thump!!

but to consume them and

battlefield. The sky was

The stage where the battle was taking place, which had been dyed red with the blood of the soldiers, suddenly changed

Arts? Or is

this. They realized that they were isolated. They were confined to a small room with a low ceiling. Hundreds of thousands of troops

What a stupid trick.

[Bah!]

was the Earth Escape Arts or an illusion. Their mystical scripts

However...

a

didn’t

echoed all

my mental world. I strengthen my allies and create

insight he had of the battlefield and communicating with the soldiers. It was an

one way out of this place. They had to get rid of all the enemies who were blocking the only way out. It would take a lot of time if the number of enemies was in the hundreds of thousands, but no more than an

to die, I will make your

the room. Just one of them could slaughter tens of millions of

Step, step, step...

cultivator approached the enemy without hesitation. His expression didn’t change even

"Aghhhhh!”

disturb the soldiers’ ranks. The soldiers of Valhalla remained unfazed by the untimely death of their comrades. They stood their ground and attacked the approaching

the

the influence of drugs? Your

He burned all the soldiers who blocked the road, tearing them apart, melting them, and stepping on them

passed? Ares’ voice echoed in the passage that was filled with the blood and internal organs of tens of thousands of dead soldiers. His voice trembled slightly as if he was frightened. Of course, Ares himself tried not to show his emotions. The energy detection of an

heard, you don’t see people

a term used

His moves became more vicious. He didn’t just kill the enemy soldiers who stood in his way. He gouged out their

was one’s mental power.

wrong. Ares’ heart didn’t break even as a hundred thousand soldiers

see your people as people.