MMORPG: The Elementalist

After Dinosaurcerer left Camp Edgar with his men, everyone from the four clans felt a sense of seriousness in the League…

At first, the ten thousand players didn’t notice anything peculiar. There were mountains of specters outside of their Fort-Knox-like defense lines. Not one specter was able to break through their defense. Even if there was a player who was killed, he or she would immediately be resurrected by the Radiant Priests and Priestesses and then pick up their gears and rejoin the fight. Several teams that were assigned to take care of the Bosses were also diligent in their tasks.

Yet, the task forces that were assigned to take out the Bosses had slowly returned to Camp Edgar after having defeated all the available targets. Then, several members of Fallen Angels, Bauhinia Clan, Executors, and Ascendant Saber Clan gathered above the Camp Edgar.

“Is something wrong?”

Due to the late shift, the Fallen Angel League members that were behind the defense line had started to discuss and whisper among themselves after noticing some peculiarities.

Several members laughed after looking at the sky. “Oh, don’t fret. All the big shots from the Five Leagues are here. What could go wrong? Now go get ready. It’s almost time for our shift.”

“Yeah, we’ll need to work as hard as we can. Let’s get our magic attacks overlap as much as we can so that we could share as much Experience points as possible.” A member smiled as he looked at the Elementalists.

The Elementalists took a deep breath and nodded.

This felt almost like in a real actual war.

However, they didn’t really think much of the oncoming Undead Horde. They were more pressured by their peers in the League and Clans.

Today, they were able to see first-hand just how fearsome it was when over 2,000 Elementalists hurled AoE attacks at the enemies all at the same time.

Every inch that the enemy took was enveloped by dozens of Tier 4 AoE Magic Attacks!

And these were all cast by Tier 5 Elementalists!

With their Magic Damage reaching 400 to 500, the total damage per second on the specters had surpassed over twenty thousand points! As soon as any specter took a step closer to them, it would be turned to dust in just a few seconds…

In the areas where Pyromancers, Solarmancers, and Electromancers were in charge, there was no need for any Warrior to help in tanking—after they had enveloped the area with their attacks, not a single specter was able to get close for counter-strikes.

As the powerful magic attacks rained the battlefield, a few people, wearing grim faces, hovered above Camp Edgar.

After hearing what Qin Ruo said, they couldn’t help but feel disheartened.

This enormous pressure they felt, it was so huge that it overwhelmed the joy and excitement they had earlier.

“I knew it! Building a city in the Underworld was not going to be a breeze. It all went on too smoothly.” Remorseless Warrior hovered outside of the circle, formed by the twenty veterans, crossing his arms and pondered.

“So, what’s the plan?” Remorseless Warrior turned to Qin Ruo and asked.

“If it’s retreating, then over my dead body.”

“No, we’re not retreating.”

Qin Ruo calmly replied.

“Of course, you’re free to quit if you want to.”

Slash, who had been keeping quiet, suddenly spoke, “We’re in the same League. If you guys stay, then I’ll stay too. If I were to die, I’d like to die with everyone here!”

Hearing this, Subjugator glared at him.

“Oh, come on! We’ve not even encountered that darn Divine Specter yet and you’re already blabbering about death.”

It was apparent that all the five clans within the Fallen Angels League all had the same idea. This was good news—there was no risk in having different opinions amongst the League members then.

“Good.”

Qin Ruo looked at everyone and spoke.

“Since we’ve all decided to stay, let’s give it our all! So what if it’s a Divine Specter? I don’t think it could kill ten thousand of us…”

“Besides, we have over thousands of pets on our side too!”

As if to agree with Wandering Soul’s words, the “Pealing Angel” behind him spread its golden wings and let out a roar, reminding everyone of its existence.

A Tier 4 Light-type Ultimate Boss… it surely would pose a great threat to the Divine Specter.

“Right.”

Qin Ruo nodded and told everyone the rough location of the Divine Specter.

“The Divine Specter wouldn’t mess with us in the first six days. During this time, I want everyone to keep this a secret, no words spilled out to the others. I want everyone to maintain their fighting spirit at the moment. Have them grind for more Experience Points.”

“The specters that aren’t Divine Tier wouldn’t pose much threat to our defense lines in this period of time. So, all we need to do now is find out the means to defeat the Divine Specter!”

Hearing this, everyone nodded. Yet, they knew just how difficult this was.

The Divine Specter was surely much stronger than the Liches…

Unless they equipped elite equipment and possessed the strength of Veteran Champions, ordinary Tier 5 players would be hard pressed when taking on a Lich.

And there were probably only less than two hundred members in the League that could deal significant damage to the Divine Specter, including the Pyromancers and Solarmancers.

Despite that, their damage would probably be not great compared to the Divine Specter’s total HP. On the other hand, these players, including Qin Ruo himself, could risk instant-death when facing off the Divine Boss.

“Without intel on the Divine Specter, I have no idea what plan to devise. So, we might need to devise that during combat…”

Hearing Qin Ruo’s words, everyone was stunned.

Graveyard of the Gods… Buried City… Sin City… Grand Tournament… every time Qin Ruo was able to turn the tables beautifully with his brilliant plans. Everyone had gotten used to him being the master schemer for battle plans. And yet…

“Devising a plan during combat? Wouldn’t that be too late?”

Homme Fatale was the first to point it out.

After hearing about the Divine Specter, the usual calm and cool Homme Fatale too had felt an intense sense of incoming danger that he’d never felt before.

“Yes, it’s indeed too late,” Qin Ruo nodded and replied.

“However, there’s still a chance.”

“Even though the Divine Specter is strong, we too have our own advantage…”

“Huh?”

Not just Homme Fatale, this time everyone looked at Qin Ruo curiously.

“Firstly, we are greater in numbers. There is only one Divine Specter. We could send in at least two hundred men to fight and we have thousands of Radiant Priests and Priestesses supporting us. As for the others, they could help taking out the other distractions, giving us more space to fight it.”

“Besides, we’d known the location of the Divine Specter first hand. We also have five days to prepare. On the sixth day of Project Pioneer, we will then clash with it.”

“And don’t forget. We also have our allies. If things have gotten dire, we have the help of Netherspirit’s Claw, Hall of Heroes, Scarlet Dynasty, and Black Prison.”

Hearing this, everyone’s confidence was finally boosted.

Yet, Homme Fatale still had more questions.

“Wait… didn’t Yaegar say that the Divine Specter would attack on the final day of our city building? Why do we want to attack it one day before that? Wouldn’t it be better if we use the one extra day for more preparation? Besides, even if we couldn’t defeat the Divine Specter on the final day, we could still send waves after waves of our people against it to stall for more time for the Artisans to complete the city.”

Many others nodded, agreeing to what Homme Fatale had said.

Qin Ruo and Violet Orchid, however, didn’t think so.

“No, we can’t.”

Violet Orchid spoke.

“The League Master’s right. We stand a better chance at defeating the Divine Specter if we act on the sixth day. If we fight on the last day, it would give the Divine Specter more leverages in combat.”

“After all, we don’t really have anyone who could take it on directly. If the Divine Specter were to aim at the construction site and head toward it in a bee line and if we are too weak to stall it, there’s nothing that could stop it from killing our Artisans right away.”

Hearing this, everyone finally understood.

“Sis Violet, League Master… so you mean… we should commence the pre-emptive strike and draw its attention away from the construction site?”

“Exactly.”

Qin Ruo confirmed and acknowledged Violet Orchid’s plan with a nod.

“On the sixth day, we’ll need to call upon all our brethren to push the defense line outward more, creating a new space for battle. We must make sure that the specters do not get too close to our base.”

“Creating a new space for battle?”

Many inhaled sharply after hearing this. This was quite a lot of work.

There were waves after waves of high-tier specters surrounding Camp Edgar at the moment. There were occasionally Bosses appearing amongst the Undead Horde too. If they were to push these specters further away from the camp, it would be much harder than just holding the line! Besides, they were also trying to open up a new space for the veterans to fight the Divine Specter—the space they needed would surely be quite huge too.

In fact, they would need more men, enough to garrison two cities, to accomplish this… the risk and danger… they were unthinkable!

Looking at everyone’s grim face, Qin Ruo spoke, “Don’t worry. On that day, I’ll ask our allies to send help from the Mythical Continent. We should have enough manpower to pull this off.”

After hearing Qin Ruo’s reaffirmation, they felt as though a heavy burden was lifted off of their shoulders.

Yeah, how could they forget that their League Master were friends with the other big shots in the faction. After the friendships forged in the Grand Tournament, they should be able to get help from all the Four Leagues.

***

After a long meeting with Qin Ruo, everyone had now understood what they needed to do during this five-day period.

And all that was left… was to wait patiently…