My Players Are So Fierce-Chapter 402

Today’s forum was as lively as ever.

Although there have been rumors among little players that a more convenient and public-oriented third-party platform is being developed, the 《Reality Realm》 forum remains the main channel for players to exchange information.

As more people entered, the forum, which originally had only a few functional areas, now has different sections.

There’s the “Transia Daily Morning Post” for game content discussion and official update posts, the “Sunset Tavern” for discussing plot directions and game details, the “Torrent Fort Senate” which is the base for RP parties, the “Stonemason Guild PR Department” specifically for craftsmen and manufacturing players, and the “MI:8” for exchanging various military information and monster intelligence.

Over 2,000 players and casual browsers intensively surf the forum daily, causing this forum to now generate massive amounts of “junk information” every day.

If Murphy had to manage it manually, the vampire lord would basically be unable to do anything else now.

Fortunately, Murphy has an assistant, and Xiao Cui has fallen in love with the feeling of “surfing the web”. Best of all, the Blood Vulture Grand Duchess has been a century-old homebody in “reality”, which gives her plenty of time to wander around the forum all day.

However, today’s forum scrolled out a bombshell message in the afternoon, sourced from a player’s sudden information post in the “MI:8” section:

【High-level elite monsters have appeared in Smuggler’s Woods! Our fleet suffered heavy casualties! Brothers, come support quickly!】

The guy who posted was called “Mountain Demon Ganpu”, he has his own small guild “Eight Demon Elite Group”, not very well-known among the player community but very active.

These eight brothers, who knows what they do in reality, have plenty of time to surf the forum every day, but their actual gaming time is very limited and quite irregular.

This post quickly got attention because assistant Xiao Cui marked it as a featured post.

Onboard Joy Stick:【@Mountain Demon Ganpu, I read the post, you only said there was a group of abnormally large gnolls attacking Smuggler’s Woods, but didn’t explain the cause and effect. This game won’t have random ‘Martian soldiers’ spawning for no reason, all random events have causes and effects.

So I must ask, what’s the reason for this attack? Do you know?】

Moon Demon Lan:【F**k, Brother Stick, we’re players not detectives, who knows why those crazy gnolls are attacking us. But the new players doing quests in Smuggler’s Woods are being slaughtered like pigs right now, they’re riding fierce dire wolves charging around everywhere, cutting down anyone they see.

We can’t even escape in time.

The Computation Bead’s detection gave the result ‘invincible’, come quick! We can’t hold on! If this continues, these crazy gnolls will kill their way into Blood Claw Camp.

Wasn’t it said that NPCs in this game won’t respawn once killed?

If Chief Hog is killed, won’t the Blood Claw Clan be finished? This is a faction we players helped build ourselves. Sh*t! They’ve broken through the outposts! The Blood Claw Clan’s barbarian soldiers can’t stop them at all, they’re about to collapse! Come quick!】

Sword Saint Ashina:【@Moon Demon Lan, Silver Moon Pride team is approaching Smuggler’s Woods, report location quickly!】

Frostfang Claw:【Blood Rat Gang outpost has received distress signal, I’m coming through the portal with NPCs now, hold on.】

Border Town Wanderer:【Shadow Intelligence Bureau professional special ops team is heading to the battlefield, brothers hold on, Lady Adele’s side has triggered a random event, our NPC reinforcements should arrive soon.】

Meow King:【We’re too far away so won’t join the fun, but @Border Town Wanderer, brother wanderer when did you join this organization that sounds so extraordinary?】

Border Town Wanderer:【Hey, not only are we now official agents of the Shadow Intelligence Bureau, but we’re also on E-Sister’s warrior quest line.

However, this organization doesn’t accept regular players currently, to join us you need to first pass a 7-ring quest chain, I posted the specific intel before.

Brothers who aren’t confident in their stealth and tracking skills shouldn’t try.

I can only say the difficulty is quite high.】

Scholar Xiao Zhou:【Holy shit! E-Sister is also recruiting warriors!? Wow, painfully lost 5 million ah, I love E-Sister the most, I even had her body pillow custom made】

Master Ziwei:【The Intelligence Bureau is also recruiting logistics personnel now, the recruitment conditions for this position are quite relaxed, if you’re interested you can come too.

Besides E-Sister, Miss Dorothy and Miss Dana have also started warrior recruitment, their quest lines are a bit simpler than E-Sister, and there are enough slots, brothers interested in getting a ‘warrior’ title shouldn’t miss out.】

Mountain Demon Ganpu:【F**k, brothers stop chatting! I just barely killed one with a wave of human bombs, the identity of these gnolls is clear!

They’re elite barbarian soldiers from the Gnawbone Clan, according to information from the Computation Bead, these guys are from a place called ‘Plague Town’ in Foul Swamp.

Why do I feel like this random event is plot guidance buried by the dev team?

Are we heading into Foul Swamp?】

Lumina Yanghen:【Brothers! Look what we got! Item link.】

Precipitation Niuniu Is Not Afraid of Difficulties:【? Vanguard Dire Wolf’s Reins? F**k, this is the first time I’ve seen a masterwork quality mount, are you sure it dropped from monsters?】

Fatal Orchid Huahua:【This thing has a pretty low drop rate, we just helped Hog’s guards repel a squad of barbarian soldiers and only got one, and this was only obtained because Little Ashina flew fast and used a net to catch a dire wolf when it was escaping.

Brothers who haven’t passed the Black Iron Trial don’t try!

Those dire wolves’ attack power is super strong, with bad luck, one bite can instantly kill you.】

Leading Pigeon:【F**k! Mount drops? Why didn’t you say earlier! @All members of Crimson Beast Team, let’s go go go! Rush it.】

Sword Saint Ashina:【Good news! Blood Claw Clan has opened small pet exchange! Hog got a batch of weird Undead Thief’s Hands from somewhere. They say this thing can help thieves steal things, Blood Rat Gang brothers want to rush it?】

Don’t Need Hands to Show Off:【Little Ashina post a screenshot, we’re already on the way.】

Seeing that the random event occurring in Smuggler’s Woods had completely mobilized the players’ enthusiasm, Murphy, who was currently lurking in the post, narrowed his eyes.

He began to ponder the logic behind this sudden incident.

The vampire’s instinct for conspiracy told Murphy that this matter wasn’t as simple as it appeared on the surface.

“This might be Hog pushing from behind.”

Murphy thought:

“But Hog wouldn’t be stupid enough to recklessly provoke conflict between players and Plague Town gnolls without my orders, and the fact that only Gnawbone Clan vanguard barbarians appeared in Smuggler’s Woods with no Plague Clan gnoll sorcerers also proves this point.

Why would Hog do this?”

He couldn’t get an answer.

Until several minutes later, when Murphy’s gaze swept across the Transia terrain map on the wall, he had a vague idea.

On that map, the area marked as Smuggler’s Woods only occupied one-tenth of Transia’s total area, with such a small place even with skeleton army harassment their numbers wouldn’t be many, especially since Hog had exchanged for the Command Scepter that can control undead from the Plague Town gnolls, and the last batch of little players had been active in that area.

It’s been almost half a month!

With the players’ enthusiasm for clearing quests, the wandering skeletons in the entire Smuggler’s Woods have probably been completely eliminated by that group, in other words, the “newbie leveling zone” that Hog is responsible for has no more monsters to farm.

Thinking of this, Murphy was already 80% certain, and immediately used the bead to contact Miriam, inquiring about the main activity areas of little players in the past week.

The Regent’s answer was that currently 60% of players were already farming Mountain Folk tribe reputation in Seicob territory and participating in refugee scavenging, while the number of players around Smuggler’s Woods had decreased by 20% in a week.

This data perfectly matched Murphy’s guess, and also confirmed that that dog Hog deliberately provoked friction between both sides to attract players’ attention back to Smuggler’s Woods.

From this perspective, the origin of that “dire wolf” that Little Ashina just captured was very suspicious.

Considering the special relationship between Silver Moon Pride team and Blood Claw Clan, the “special drop” might be the girls and gnolls “acting together”.

“Have my lovely little players finally become ‘special resources’ that can be fought over?”

Murphy figured out the reason and felt both angry and gratified.

The gratifying part was that Hog’s emphasis on and attraction to players represented that besides him and Tris and Maxim, finally other leader NPCs had discovered the value of little players.

The anger was that that dog Hog played quite elaborately.

Isn’t this the “false advertising” routine?

Little players run to the swamp to farm monsters for dire wolf reins, but when nothing drops they’ll blame the dev team and in the end we have to bear the consequences?

“Ding”

Just as Murphy was pondering, vibration from the core bead represented a private communication request.

He looked down and found it was a communication request from Hog, Murphy connected the communication and heard Hog quite honestly and proactively tell him the cause and effect of this matter.

Hog asked for Murphy’s forgiveness, saying he only realized after doing this that he hadn’t reported up, but the situation was urgent at the time and didn’t allow him to think much.

“No matter how well you explain it doesn’t change the fact that you launched an independent action, Hog.”

Murphy said coldly:

“Because of your action I have to publicly reveal information about Foul Swamp to my warriors, while in my plan, they should continue contributing to Transia’s construction efforts now. You did something wrong, so you must be punished!

Since you used dire wolf mounts to tempt my warriors to Smuggler’s Woods and from there deeper into the swamp, then I must ensure their interests are not harmed.

What you promised you must deliver!

After this conflict ends, at least 20 vanguard dire wolves must be given as rewards to my warriors, if you can’t do it, they will actively come to you to ‘collect’!”

Hog trembled in his heart when he heard this.

Damn!

Where to find 20 vanguard dire wolves?

Isn’t this asking for his old life?

But soon Hog’s eyes turned.

He suddenly remembered there was a beast pen in the vanguard barbarian garrison in Plague Town, where dire wolf cubs were raised to supply the barbarian soldiers

But warriors currently cannot enter Plague Town, so to get those dire wolf cubs he’d have to go himself. Lame Claw needs test subjects for vampire barbarian soldiers, and the gnoll sorcerers don’t trust these Gnawbone barbarians!

A vicious plan quickly formed in Hog’s mind.

He knew this was risky, perhaps if not handled well his little life would be lost in Plague Town, however Murphy wasn’t negotiating with him, he couldn’t let his image deteriorate in Lord Murphy’s mind.

He understood very clearly.

Lord Murphy could ‘create’ one ‘Hog’, he could create a second one, he wasn’t unique, he was replaceable.

“I will accomplish it! Lord Murphy, I will make compensation to your warriors.”

The Blood Claw Chief said through gritted teeth with a beast’s mindset:

“Please wait for my good news.”

“Mm.”

Murphy responded coldly, then hung up the communication.

He walked to the map hanging on the wall carefully examining the current situation in various regions of Transia, after a moment’s thought, Murphy made a decision.

Since conflict between both sides has already occurred, there’s no point in hiding anymore.

It’s time to let his warriors truly enter Foul Swamp and begin reconnaissance and attacks against the Plague Clan, this undead town is a nail that must be pulled out, sooner or later makes no difference.

The Maginot Line is about to begin construction, if the gnolls in the swamp aren’t defeated, that line’s construction will definitely be frequently disturbed.

So, let the warriors who have rested for almost 25 days return to the battlefield, leave the work of scavenging refugees to those newcomers who haven’t yet passed the Black Iron Trial.

And regarding the fact that Smuggler’s Woods this “newbie leveling zone” has died out, Murphy also decided to make some modifications.

He picked up the core bead and sent a message to the Blood Rat Gang:

“Dorothy, have your subordinates gather in the sewers to investigate the undead cavern in the sewers that has been sealed for a month, I plan to open it in two days. These fierce undead hidden beneath the city are a problem, these unstable factors must be resolved before advancing the next step of the plan!”

“?”

Blood Rat Gang boss Madam Dorothy was completely confused when she received the message from Governor Murphy, she immediately responded:

“I can understand your handling of dangers, but Governor! There are nearly 10,000 dangerous ghouls in the underground cavern, and Wolfsbane Clan’s raid also threw 500 barbarian soldiers in there, they’ve probably become part of those ghouls.

Such a huge scale means we cannot attack them in a high-profile manner, the terrain there is too bad, large troops simply cannot deploy.”

“Release them to the second level.”

Murphy said in a low voice with order:

“It’s time to recreate the ‘Night of the Ghouls’ event, and mere 10,000 ghouls, for my warriors, it’s questionable whether that temporary ‘leveling zone’ can last a week.

I never thought there would be a day when I would be troubled by not having enough monsters in the vast Transia.”

“My Lord! Haven’t you forgotten a place?”

Dorothy said in a strange tone:

“Transia has plenty of monsters, just in the ruins of Seicob City there are 200,000 to 300,000 undead sleeping.

Lady Adele led us on an adventurous reconnaissance there before, we found that although the undead strength inside the city is extremely high, the strength of the vast numbers of skeletons, ghouls, wraiths and zombies in the outskirts of the ruins actually hasn’t reached a level that warriors cannot counter.

My suggestion is, if you’re worried your warriors have no place to hone their skills, then you’re definitely overthinking.

As long as they’re willing to fight, the land of Transia will never lack enemies for them to practice on.”

“Mm, Seicob City is indeed a good leveling zone.”

Murphy stroked his chin and said:

“Like a delicious cake waiting to be tasted, it should be able to withstand the greedy adventurers’ constant attacks for a few months right? By then the Black Plague will break out, the entire continent will be filled with hostile creatures for a long time, and I won’t have to worry about where my warriors go adventuring.

Seems their killing efficiency being too high isn’t a good thing either.

Anyway, you need to complete preparations for recreating the ‘Night of the Ghouls’ event as soon as possible.

If possible, put on a self-directed show to transfer this crisis to the Plague Clan in Foul Swamp, make warriors newly arriving in Transia realize the threat from gnoll sorcerers is right beside us.

I need to make them realize the seriousness of this matter, to prepare for the major action of advancing into Foul Swamp.

Can I trust you to handle this, Dorothy?”

“Piece of cake! Just watch me perform.”

Dorothy laughed and said:

“I haven’t exercised for a long time either, after finishing things here I’ll go risk my life in Foul Swamp, hopefully your warriors are as capable as you expect them to be, otherwise my life will probably be lost in the swamp.”

“They are capable of anything, Dorothy, they have already created miracle after miracle.”

Murphy said with certainty:

“Nothing can stop their footsteps, just as nothing can stop the footsteps of us who follow them, go ahead and do things boldly, their existence is our greatest trump card!”