Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors-Chapter 552 - 280: The Brutal Siege War

The ground began to rumble and tremble.

Then, enormous rifts appeared.

The Citadel of the Glorious Reorderers rose like a colossal ship, breaking the ground and forcefully merging with this historical slice!

During the previous Return Order Expeditions, the historical slice’s specificity often prevented the full transfer of the entire Citadel, leaving only the projection of players to enter and combat the monsters in their own domain.

But clearly, this time was different.

Meng Yuan and another hung suspended in the air, currently invisible to both players and monsters.

They concealed themselves while simultaneously observing the entire battlefield, ready to adapt to any changes.

"Feilian and Xingtian haven’t focused their main efforts on stopping us from decoding the core of the slice.

"It’s good news and bad news.

"More players can enter the ultimate trial, and during the trial, they can let loose and use their skills freely. However, this also means that during the phase of the Return Order Expedition, the battlefield will be much more vast, and we will face an even greater demonic power."

The other gave a brief analysis of the current situation.

Compared to the brainless Xingtian, Feilian was obviously more adept at deception.

Of course, Feilian wasn’t the most cunning among the monsters; his real forte was mobility.

Which is to say, escaping.

But regardless, Feilian’s intelligence level shouldn’t appear so low.

And there was clearly a reason for that.

For these great monsters, there are only two ways to defend the altered historical slice: through intelligence or brute strength.

If relying on intelligence, they would alter key figures in the historical slice and hide its core layers, limiting the amount of power the Glorious Reorderers could project into it.

For example, in the Great Sheng Dynasty’s historical slice, players had to find specific altered historical figures to pass through.

In the process, they inevitably engaged in wits and bravery against the monsters.

However, the problem with this approach is that, once the hidden core is decoded, the balance of power between the monsters and the Reorderers would be at a clear disadvantage.

The monstrous power is finite; the more used to distort characters in the slice for combat, the less they have.

But if relying on brute strength, monsters usually wouldn’t alter key figures or create puzzles but would prefer to brutally strengthen the existing villains within the slice.

Whether it’s foreign Jin soldiers or treacherous officials like Qin Huizhi, they simply reinforce what’s already difficult to increase the obstacles for the Reorderers.

The advantage of this approach is that although the Reorderers needn’t spend much effort decoding, they must still solve puzzles based on the original ideas but will face a much stronger army of monsters after.

In other words, if monsters play smart with the Reorderers and lose, they will be at a disadvantage in the following battle;

Conversely, if monsters contest strength with the Reorderers, they can still focus a substantial amount of demonic power for a counterattack, even if the core is broken in the ultimate trial.

For the monsters, intellectual combat or strength contest, each has its pros and cons; it depends on the choice.

This historical slice is the result of the fusion of two slices and is guarded by the great monsters Feilian and Xingtian.

Feilian realized in the instance of the Great Sheng Dynasty that this batch of Reorderers was tough to handle, and that using brains was futile.

It had set many puzzles in the Great Sheng Dynasty’s slice that made it proud, only for these new Reorderers to solve them at an astonishing speed, rendering them useless.

So this time, it teamed up with brainless Xingtian without expecting its puzzles to stop players.

Naturally, it also didn’t attempt to twist characters or make similar meaningless attempts in the Qi Dynasty’s instance.

Their collaboration aimed to use the combined force of both monsters to press down on these Reorderers with brute strength!

It must be said, it was a decent strategy.

This historical slice, being the result of two merged slices, was already massive and could therefore contain more Demonic Qi.

And Feilian and Xingtian clearly intended to use their absolute strength to overpower finesse!

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On the vast land, the Citadel of the Glorious Reorderers erupted from the earth.

This time, without any special hindrances and having ample space, Meng Yuan and the other easily transferred the historical slice that contained the Citadel in its entirety.

And now, the main battlefield of the Return Order Expedition was precisely near the capital of the Qi Dynasty, next to Da Liang City!

Here was where the disgrace of Jingping took place.

In fact, there were many possible battlefields within this historical slice, such as the Sixteen States of Yan Yun, Yan City, or even Tong’an City in Xixia, to name a few.

But the great battle was ultimately chosen near the capital where the Jingping incident occurred.

The primary reason was the open plains, without a defensible position nearby!

For the monsters, this was the best news.

In the distance, countless black clouds could be seen converging from all around.

And beneath the black clouds, vast troops marched.