Chapter 327: Taking Over the Imperial City (Bonus Chapter 17 for Average Subscriptions)

PS: It was just like this the first time taking Sand, so why do people still say it isn't the original flavor...

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"Everything around here tastes so awful!" Boss Fang stretched himself fiercely and lay back in his computer chair.

He had already eaten instant noodles for breakfast, but as for lunch and dinner...

Boss Fang suddenly missed Xiaoyue's cooking a little. Clearly, this guy Zou Mo was not as naturally gifted in the culinary arts as Xiaoyue, so Boss Fang still bought his food from outside.

"If you're really sick of it, just change places to eat," Xi Yue, who was beside him, spoke up. "The shops with decent flavors in this city aren't just limited to these few nearby. I actually know of a very good place over by the Eighteenth District, it's just a bit far..."

"This..." Boss Fang thought about it, "Then this boss won't go..."

"Lazy yet still wanting to eat good food?!" Xi Yue rolled her eyes at him.

Immediately following that, Fang Qi waved his hand toward Zou Mo and pulled out a handful of crystals: "Xiao Mo! Take this to the Eighteenth District to buy some food, and by the way, bring back a portion for this boss!"

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"Boss, do you still have a conscience?!" Unable to watch any longer, Xi Yue remained silent for a long moment before instantly erupting in a loud roar, nearly deafening Boss Fang's ears.

"You want to eat it yourself, yet you make someone else run so far!" Then she muttered another sentence in righteous indignation.

Boss Fang said in all seriousness: "There are so many people in the shop now, we can't just leave no one to watch the place like at the very beginning, right?"

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"People from the Royal Clan, come to the Zuma Temple to clear them out!"

"Wooma Temple! Wooma Temple needs reinforcements!"

There was a bout of shouting and yelling in the internet cafe; clearly, they had fallen into a tragic and bloody slaughter.

At this time, Boss Fang did not have the slightest sense of urgency that a great battle was imminent. After all, Boss Fang was going to act as the referee.

He casually played a few rounds of The King of Fighters and a few games of Plants vs. Zombies, appearing exceptionally relaxed and free-spirited.

"Clang!" A lunchbox was heavily placed onto Boss Fang's desk. Turning around to look, he saw it was a girl dressed in red clothing with eyes like arrows.

"I say, Miss Ruan, what are you glaring at me for?" Fang Qi looked at her strangely, "And how did this boss's boxed lunch end up in your hands? Where is Xiao Mo?"

"You still have the nerve to ask!" The eldest Miss Ruan stood with her hands on her hips, glaring furiously at Boss Fang, looking exactly like a tigress, "If this lady hadn't happened to run into him, Xiao Mo might very well have been mugged by someone! Knowing that his cultivation isn't high, why did you still make him go so far out?!"

"I'm sorry, Boss!" Zou Mo looked full of apology, with a purplish-blue bruise still on his face.

"Someone actually dares to mug our Against-the-Heaven Online Games Guild now?" Boss Fang looked astonished, "Is the injury serious? If it's not heavy, have Sister Su Yao cast a Healing Spell on you, it shouldn't be a big problem."

"This lady kept watch, so of course it's not heavy!" Ruan Ning snorted coldly, "This city is so big, even if the Four Kings walk on the streets without bringing a hundred or so guards, not everyone will necessarily recognize them. Which little hoodlums would recognize you?"

Zou Mo scratched his head, looking apologetic.

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The small interlude seemed to pass very quickly, so no one paid any mind to such an insignificant matter.

Needless to say, now was precisely the time approaching the grand event of the Sand City Hegemony War, so even fewer people would pay attention to it.

Zou Mo's injury indeed healed very quickly after the Healing Spell was cast. As for Boss Fang, after finishing his meal, there was still some time before the evening's siege war, so he simply went upstairs to cultivate.

From the previous quest, he had obtained the permission to enter the Game Cultivation Room.

"The Guild War map doesn't seem to drop equipment!" someone in the internet cafe suddenly shouted.

Clearly, the Guild War map could be entered in advance, it was just that it hadn't started yet.

Almost in an instant, Black Demon and the others, who had been hesitating whether to put on their best equipment, all changed into their finest gear, while other players whose equipment was slightly worse and still had room for upgrades also began to borrow equipment from other friends.

Right up until it approached seven o'clock...

Many people from the Dajin Kingdom and the Morning Star Sea Region were fully decked out in top-tier items. Even Tang Yuan, the shopkeeper of the Yuanheng Pavilion, brought out his Bone Jade Staff.

As for Ji Wu, he naturally also brought along his Judgment Staff!

Within the five-hundred-man phalanx of the Dajin Kingdom, the very front row was entirely composed of high-level warriors clad in God of War Armor, holding Moon-in-the-Well swords or Purgatory Great Axes, while the mages and Taoists in the back row stood ready in strict formation.

Meanwhile, on the side of the Morning Star Sea Region Allied Forces, rows of Taoist skeletons were arrayed at the front of the troop, and many of those skeletal frames gleamed with a dangerous, dark blue light.

"Holy crap?! This guy is the boss?!" When the people of the White Dragon Mansion saw the warrior with the ID "Not Ruthless, Can't Stand Firm" attending as the referee, they were suddenly a bit dumbfounded.

Back then, they had even been robbed of a Wooma Prophet by him!

The face of Xi Chenzhou from the Panlong Mansion twitched: "You guys just found out?!"

However, these were all minor details now. Everyone's sole objective at present was to defeat the opponent and seize the Sabuk Imperial City!

"They've started fighting outside!" Before the great war had even begun, Ji Wu received a message. At this moment, both sides had five hundred people each inside the guild map, but the entrance was a different story. A reserve army of nearly a thousand people had gathered there, and outside the guild map, it was not a safe zone—equipment could even be dropped upon death. The two armies clashed, and almost instantly, they slaughtered into a chaotic mess!

(The original version used NPCs for teleportation entry, the system version changed it to a teleportation array entry, because in virtual reality it is impossible for an NPC to talk to hundreds or thousands of people at the same time)

If they could block the opponent outside, it would naturally be even better!

"Everyone outside the guild map, jump down to the lower channel! Unified command! Unified command!"

And just at this moment, Boss Fang had already announced the start!

At the Jiuhua City shop, even many non-Legend players gathered in front of the big screen.

Quite a few people had even gone to the trouble of securing sofa seats early, just waiting for this world-shaking battle between the Dajin Kingdom and the Morning Star Sea Region!

"Young Master Xiao, what are your views on this Sand City Hegemony War?" Mu Donglai was one of those who had secured the best spectator seats on the sofa early on. Watching the big screen, he asked while eating spicy sticks.

At this time, many people also looked over in this direction.

Xiao Yulv took a sip of spiritual wine bought from the Qingfeng Mingyue Pavilion at this moment, fanned himself with a folding fan, and calmly analyzed: "Right now both sides have five hundred people, the numbers are equal, so neither side has a numerical advantage. However, speaking of other aspects, such as skills, our Dajin Kingdom's side has always been superior to the opponent."

Mu Donglai hurriedly said: "Then Young Master Xiao's meaning is that the Dajin Kingdom's Royal Clan Guild will win?"

Xiao Yulv had clearly learned a lot of lessons: "The situation on the battlefield is always rapidly changing, so this young master will not make any definitive conclusions. Let us watch the match first."

Mu Donglai said: "Young Master Xiao speaks reasonably, but as people of Dajin, we can still support the Royal Clan, right? After all, the Royal Clan's chances of winning are relatively large."

"That is of course," Xiao Yulv nodded, "This young master won't brag, but as a person of Dajin, I naturally have to support the Royal Clan."

"Why does it feel like the skeletons of the Morning Star Sea Region are all blue? What kind of trick is this?" Just then, someone muttered.

Soon, the skeleton armies of both sides were already locked in hand-to-hand combat. Fire charms and magical lights whistled. Amidst a sea of blazing flames, the skeletons of the Dajin Kingdom could be seen collapsing in droves. The skeletons here were not like the original version where only the stop and attack commands could be given; skeletons controlled through the spirit were obviously far more flexible. The Morning Star Sea Region's horde of level-seven skeletons, blue to the point of turning black, turned into a sea of bones, breaching the defense of the Dajin Kingdom's rib-cage array in almost a brief moment and charging right in front of the Dajin Kingdom's martial artists!

Among them, a colossally huge flame demonic beast was particularly eye-catching. Every thick pillar of fire it spat from its mouth caused the health of several warriors to drop wildly.

And at this time, the spells of the mages in the rear came smashing down like an all-covering blanket. Even the thick-skinned warriors of the Dajin Kingdom immediately had many among them fall dead.

"Hold the front!" Ji Wu shouted frantically in the Penguin channel, "Where are the people outside?! Hurry up and reinforce!"

Yet at this moment, outside the entrance of the Guild War map, it was even more chaotic than inside. Two to three thousand people were squeezed together; flames and sword lights danced wildly, thunderbolts and corpses flew together. The entrance to the Guild War map had already become the core target of various area-of-effect skills. Almost anyone who drew near would be submerged by a massive amount of ranged skills!

At the Jiuhua City shop, everyone watched as the Royal Clan army fell into a disadvantage, yet the reserve personnel failed to show up for the longest time: "Where are the reserves?!"

"Keep your eyes locked on the entrance!" In the Morning Star Sea Region's combat command channel, a new Penguin room had already been opened to direct the people outside, "Anyone who dares to approach, kill them all for me!"

"People outside, don't be afraid! Smash the Fire Walls and Explosive Flames all the way forward! Don't be afraid of dying!"

Even if someone managed to force their way in, they would be left with pretty much only a corpse—which was the legendary flying corpse.

Reserves? Nonexistent.

As the level-seven divine beasts inside the Guild War map, leading a massive army of level-seven skeletons, tore open the defensive line of the Dajin Kingdom's warriors, and the mages' magic began to target the back row of the Dajin Kingdom's Royal Clan Guild, the war had basically entered its final stretch.

By this time, the elite reserves had already charged into the fray, but it was starkly apparent that the speed of their reinforcement could no longer keep pace with the sheer velocity of the slaughter.

The elites warring outside had fallen more times than could be counted; whether they belonged to the Morning Star Sea or the Grand Jin Empire, it felt as though the exterior was the true crucible of battle, an endless tide throwing themselves forward into the meatgrinder, where equipment littered the ground with no one to spare a single moment to retrieve it.

The numbers within dwindled rapidly, while the reserves outside failed to bridge the gap, and everyone watched with hollow, stunned gazes as the royal elites of the Grand Jin slowly thinned, then sharply plummeted, until finally they were wiped entirely clean.

When the cultivators of the Morning Star Sea at last set foot upon the ramparts of Sabac Imperial City, the great masters looked down upon the fires of war and the swirling throngs below, a sudden, surging tide of hot blood rushing from their spines straight to their heads.

"Ah—! Yeah—!" Before the players within the game could even raise their voices, Xi Yue, sitting right beside Fang Qi, was already cheering aloud, for her father was standing upon those very ramparts at that exact moment!

"Incredible!"

"The Morning Star Sea Alliance is invincible!"

Across the screens and within the game, numerous players still locked in combat outside paid no heed even as enemy blades bit into their flesh, tearing off their virtual reality headsets to join in the wild, frenzied roaring.

"Hahaha!" Tang Yuan, the shopkeeper of the Yuanheng Pavilion, also pulled off his virtual visor, staring at the character standing proudly atop the city walls on his screen as he threw his head back and laughed toward the heavens.

It was as if, in this fleeting moment, they had truly become the sovereigns who held the entire world in their grasp.