Chapter 2607: Chapter 870: Day of War · Maginot’s Trial

"Can’t stop it now."

Polluted Swamp, Wolf Castle, Temporary Command Post of Old Qin.

All the young staff officers are here now. Old Qin’s deputies—an old soldier from the Qing dynasty and Five Wheels—look serious too. Before them is a swamp model shaped by Spiritual Energy, more precise than the one used in the Desolate Mountain War Zone before, provided by Goatman Spellcasters adept in Spiritual Energy shaping.

On it, the entire area’s tunnels and tactical nodes in the Polluted Swamp are marked in detail. The green dots represent active player squads or Transylvania NPC tactical groups, the red dots represent Werewolf activities, and the blue dots represent our fortresses in the swamp.

Now, the model is already covered in red spots, densely packed and intimidating at a glance.

The progress and breakthrough of the Werewolves in the Polluted Swamp are clearly unstoppable without much explanation. The number of red dots is even a hundred times that of the green defenders and continues to move forward.

"Estimating the worst-case scenario, the breakthrough in the Polluted Swamp will occur within a day or two."

Five Wheels murmured:

"Bad news from the Avalon Church— with the increasing numbers of Werewolves in the swamp, the domain of The Master of Hunting’s Divine Power has spread through these worldly nodes, suppressing the growth rate of the carnivorous plants in the Polluted Swamp, while carnivorous beasts have become more violent under the influence of the wild hunting intent.

Goatmen in the town located southeast of the swamp have already suffered several attacks from swamp creatures.

This means the God of Nature’s blessings to the swamp are temporarily failing.

The remote contest between divine spirits is coming to an end; it seems the god of the Werewolves truly wants to see Transylvania plunged into chaos."

"Player squads’ activities have been suppressed to the limit. Especially after the God Slayers were redeployed, it’s difficult for ordinary players and newbies to withstand the Werewolves’ positional breakthroughs everywhere, and even the tunnel system is being taken over by numerous Gnolls."

The old soldier from the Qing dynasty, responsible for frontline combat, said wearily:

"Though leveraging the previous weapon re-equipped gave our side a local battlefield firepower advantage, even the Gnolls are affected by The Master of Hunting’s wild intent. Those cowardly creatures are highly motivated now, and more must be killed to make them scatter. Plus, the rapidly worsening condition of the tunnels due to unmanageable corpses is causing quick degeneration.

Players can’t stand it anymore, let alone the NPCs traversing the tunnels.

Those corpses could likely cause a plague; hence, I have ordered the NPC hunters to withdraw to the Maginot Line, leaving only the players to continue fighting in the swamp. But Lord Qin, loss here is merely a matter of time."

"It’s been a matter of time since the beginning, especially after we learned specific information about Split Claw’s dark tide. I never intended to completely annihilate this army in the swamp; that was simply an unachievable strategic goal."

Compared to the others’ gloomy moods, Commander Old Qin remained calm, showing no sign of defeat, and instead, he turned to domestic 013 beside him and asked:

"Is the battle casualty ratio statistic out yet?"

"Yes, it’s been completed, sir."

Domestic 013 immediately took out a document. She glanced at the surrounding people and cleared her throat as Old Qin nodded, reciting:

"As of 9 PM last night, the ninth day of the Polluted Swamp blockade battle, data from player squads calculated through the Calculating Pearl was retrieved, and with the assistance of player Ruyi, accurate estimates of both sides’ battle damage were devised.

During these days of combat, we suffered around 3,000 player losses, 76% of whom were newbies who had been in the game for less than three months. Veteran player casualties showed a qualitative improvement compared to previous battles. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

This fully proves our player community has received rather good training in the Black Disaster War, particularly those who entered the silver tier. They can hold their ground against Werewolf elites of the same tier, thanks to equipment advantage, proving the overall quality of players is rapidly being elevated.

In contrast, the Werewolves on the other side suffered losses.

Based on our estimates, Werewolf troop losses are at least 15,000+.

These losses include deaths, missing, severe injuries, and disabilities. Although this impressive casualty ratio was achieved under the extremely unique combat environment in the Polluted Swamp, credit should still be given to the National Armory for producing various explosives. The use of these war weapons has inflicted truly devastating morale damage on the Werewolves.

The exchange rate between the two sides is nearly 1:5. This ratio has already far surpassed the prior two battles.

Please note, this statistic only accounts for Werewolf losses; Gnoll Servant Army losses are not included, but those numbers must be incredibly exaggerated.

Using the elimination of the opponent’s living forces as the standard of measurement, our swamp blockade achievements are truly brilliant. Considering the player three-day resurrection reality, we can proudly proclaim that Transylvania consumed three of Huggesen’s Pioneer Legions without exhausting a single soldier."

"Alright, this battle result is indeed very glorious."

The old soldier from the Qing dynasty frowned and said:

"But compared to Huggesen’s vast military strength, these casualties are almost insignificant and haven’t caused structural damage at all."