Quadruple split.

Chapter 2315 The Beginning Is the End

More than two thousand years ago, there was a young man named Jude Cozmore. In order to repay Marquis Finn's kindness, he joined his guard team. Although his talent was relatively mediocre, he was promoted to the position of captain within half a year with his stubbornness and passion, which seemed to have reached the upper limit of his talent.

Not only that, because of his easy-going personality and fair approach, he is very popular in the guards. In addition, even the Marquis himself remembered the dirty little pickpocket and took care of him in many aspects. Many people jokingly said that little Jude reached the peak of his life at a young age, and his life was worth it.

Although he himself did not comment on this statement in his early years, after he saved a rabbit half-orc girl during a patrol and developed a relationship with her to the point of discussing marriage, Jude himself felt that... his life seemed worth it.

  Not only that, maybe because he lost his virginity when he fell in love, Jude, who was stuck at the peak of the intermediate level for three years, unexpectedly advanced to a higher level after he came to his senses. He could even vaguely feel that the high level might not be his limit!

To be honest, even in most bard stories, this guy's situation is worthy of being a protagonist. After all, he was stuck at the peak of the intermediate level for three years, and it was already exaggerated enough that he was promoted to the high level directly after falling in love. If you add the fact that he could see the epic threshold just after entering the high level... Tsk tsk, let's put it this way, no matter how pure love this guy is, if it is put in the story with a little polish, he will have to be adapted into ten or eight confidantes, such as the Saint of Fertility, the Witch of the Night, the Clever Fox Girl, the Shapeshifting Dragon Girl, etc., and then because the family he is loyal to is tragically wiped out, he is forced to wander around the world. By chance, he discovers a shocking conspiracy, and finally goes through hardships to kill the big villain whose real identity is the father of the clever fox girl.

Hey! A cheap story worth at least three coppers!

It's a pity that the beautiful stories in the story are just stories after all, and Jude in reality did not live a life like the bard's tale. The only intersection between his life and the nonsense mentioned above was the "loyal family was tragically exterminated".

Not only that, even the extermination of the family was just a self-directed and self-acted play.

However, this so-called "drama" was played for real throughout the whole process, whether it was challenging the royal authority, rebelling, or attacking the important city in the southern part of the empire, it was all real.

The final extermination of the entire family was a literal extermination, from top to bottom, leaving no one alive.

Of course, what happened later had nothing to do with Jude, because he died on the banks of the Samler River outside the Black Onyx City long before the defeat of the Nightless King.

That's right, because he belonged to the Marquis Finn's Guard, which was extremely loyal to the Violet Family, although not the most powerful Tiger Fang Army among his colleagues, Jude was still forcibly sent to the Marquis of Nightless after receiving the military order, and he only had ten minutes to say goodbye to his wife before leaving.

Although he was only a small captain and did not understand the game between the big shots, Jude, who was good at observing people's words and expressions, realized that this trip would probably be a fatal one and he was doomed to die as soon as he saw the captain's expression.

He was not a saint, so he did not pretend to break off all ties with his wife before leaving, actually just wanting to protect his lover. He just picked up the delicate bunny girl and spun her around in a circle as he usually did when he went on a long journey, and promised to bring her more northern specialties when he came back.

Then, Jude set out with the main force and arrived at the border town where the [Nightless King] was located. After a brief reorganization, they headed north and reached the suburbs of [Black Onyx City].

Of course, although they said they were going to kill, before the siege began, Jude, like most of his colleagues, played the role of "spectators". Whenever they arrived at the so-called battle zone, the enemies had already been crushed by the elite who were at the front.

At that time, Jude and a few of his good friends secretly discussed whether the rhythm of the journey would be the same, and in the end, we, the second-rate soldiers, would go back to our homes without fighting a battle, and by the way, we would get a promotion or something for taking a trip out.

Of course, they were just talking nonsense, they were soldiers, not fools, so they could see that this was a doomed team. In fact, the pharmacist who had been chatting with Jude late at night deserted the next night and disappeared without a trace while taking a piss.

Not only that, that bitch even carefully collected some specific information about the [King of Nightless] army before leaving, including but not limited to the number, arms, and supplies, intending to sell out her master for fame and fortune, and use this information, which she thought was very important, to go to [Black Agate City] to exchange for the job of Smoke-beating General (a sinecure used by the Cang Yue Empire to gild the children of nobles since ancient times. It is responsible for beating drums and lighting smoke before a battle to boost morale. It is also often used as a reward for those who have made great contributions but have no ability. It is useless except for the intimidating name).

As a result, this guy didn't even get to see the city lord. He was beheaded at the city gate by two guards who had heard the whole story. There were two reasons for this. On the one hand, normal soldiers generally despised such traitors and deserters, and the villainous face of the military doctor made them even more infuriated. On the other hand, the scout troops of [Black Agate City] were trained extremely well by a certain ancestor, and the information that could be stolen by such low-level soldiers was of no value at all.

As a result, the shameless deserter was killed on the spot, but his story spread. To this day, there is still a folk proverb in the Violet Empire that says "I'll be the first to become a general when the enemy attacks us", which is full of irony and utmost contempt for the despicable act of desertion.

However, leaving aside the despicable military doctor, most of the soldiers who fled when the [King of No Night] was heading north simply did not want to die, because everyone knew that in the case of openly rebelling against the royal family and with only two marquis families responding, the ultimate fate of both the [King of No Night] and his soldiers could only be death.

After all, not to mention the increasingly violent royal family in recent hundreds of years, even hundreds of years ago, this kind of blatant rebellion would have been met with a sure kill, and at most only a few relatives would have been spared.

However, Jude, a high-level warrior who might not be caught even if he ran away, did not choose to leave. Perhaps he really felt that his life was "worth it". Although he was not crazy loyal to the Finn family, and did not think of himself as a death warrior, he still followed the army to [Black Onyx City] in the end.

And then, Jude's story ends.

War was so cruel that on the night after the army arrived, [King of No Night] issued an order to attack the city. But this time, neither the Iron Cavalry of the Kules family, the Tiger Fang Army of the Finn family, nor the Black Crow Guards under the [King of No Night] appeared on the main battlefield. Instead, they were arranged to scout the rear, gather their strength, and watch from a distance.

As the main force in the second round of siege, Jude died in obscurity on the city wall of Black Onyx City after sunset the next day.

It was just an ordinary attempt, and Jude's death was the cheapest and most insignificant price paid by both sides.

He was targeted by elite scouts from Black Agate City after he displayed his high-level strength and killed several defenders head-on. He was surrounded and killed by three of them.

It's quite passionate, but not spectacular.

His killer was unknown, and the name Jude Cozmore became history at that moment.

This kind of history actually happened on the second day of Melody of the Frost Moon in the year 7215 of the Holy Calendar.

however--

At the same time of the same day, in the [Black Onyx City] in the mirror space S7215-3690, Jude Cozmore did not sink into the cold Samuel, but climbed up the towering south wall and became the first soldier to reach the top of the city.

Behind him and to his sides, countless men in armor, loyal to the [King of Nevernight], rushed forward one after another, attacking the city wall that had never experienced such a test in hundreds of years.

Just because of a simple, direct, and easy-to-understand order from the man who replaced the Nightless King:

Deploy the reserve team and push the main force forward.

To put it simply, it means - general attack!

No need to test.

No pulling required.

There is no need to confuse the enemy.

No need to hesitate. Press forward and kill.

Kill him until the blood flows into a river, kill him without leaving a single piece of armor, kill him until the sky is dark and the sun and moon lose their light.

There are no sophisticated and mysterious strategies or tactics, no pleasing twists and turns, no interlocking chain of tricks, only killing.

What about the hundred-step deduction, the evil-shaped formation, the center blossoming, the lions and tigers chasing the deer, the pack of wolves gnawing bones, the Miller blitzkrieg, the horizontal bear defense system, the zipper-style breakthrough, all these messy and fancy things were thrown into the bottom of the Samler River by Mo Tan as soon as he figured out where he was.

In this match, none of those things were part of the Haunted Church’s winning formula.

  Just as someone outside the stadium said, this match was very "disadvantageous" for Mo Tan. To put it more clearly, the system activated the "Black Brahma" point by giving the "Haunted Church" team the background of "war". However, due to the extreme and particular nature of this war, Mo Tan, who had long been found to have outstanding command attainments, actually could not find any room to perform!

There is no player messenger who can control the overall situation at all times and make it easy for him to do things.

He had no understanding of the warriors at all, so even if he wanted to know the composition and number ratio of his troops, he had to look at the tactical map of the Nightless King.

This was never a game that was favorable to the [Haunted Church] or to Mo Tan, but rather a terrifying and extremely evil test.

That being the case...

[Evil people still need to be punished by evil people. 】

Behind the long table next to the king's tent, Mo Tan was holding his chin, tapping his forehead with his index finger, his eyes stern and cold.

Compared to more than ten minutes ago, when everyone was surrounded by a large number of shikigami and undead and left the royal tent, Yu Chen was the only one left by Mo Tan's side. Apart from that, there were only a few logistics personnel busying around like background boards in the camera, and even the dwarf deputy general had disappeared.

The reason is simple. In Mo Tan’s own words, everything that should be done has been done.

"This is a game, not a war."

This is what Mo Tan said to Yu Chen in person two minutes ago.

As for more, Her Highness the Saint did not ask any more questions, and Pastor Hei Fan did not explain any more.

Lamolock, who was watching the game, shared his views with Gavin with a smile:

……

"Rhythm."

The chief of staff of the Dreamland Church, who had slaughtered a large area of ​​land in the northern border of Griffin, raised his lips slightly and said with an extremely happy expression: "He really didn't disappoint me. He immediately seized the biggest advantage of the attacker in this game."

Jiawen frowned slightly and repeated, "Rhythm?"

"That's right. The only thing that the attacker can control is the rhythm. What Hei Fan did was to use his highest authority to speed up the rhythm, skipping all the steps that could extend the battle by even an extra minute, and fast-forwarding directly to the final fight."

Lamolock clapped his hands and said excitedly, "Blood for blood, wound for wound, all units of both sides were directly quantified into numbers to compare the size, all factors that complicated the battle were abandoned, and the game was advanced in the most unreasonable way. He was not confused, but struggled hard in the ridiculously compressed space, trying to simplify everything. Haha... As a scheming chess player, he did not hesitate to reduce the dimension of the game content. This kind of courage is really shocking."

Jia Wen hesitated for a moment, and after a few seconds, he looked at the long-range shot that occupied the center of the screen and included the entire southern wall of [Black Agate City], and asked: "So what you mean is that Hei Fan has regained the upper hand?"

"No, what I mean is that Hei Fan was not crushed by the disadvantage. He even chose one of my favorite fighting styles and used a battle loss ratio that is unacceptable to ordinary people to tear open the situation."

Lamorok smiled as he watched countless soldiers falling from the city wall like dumplings, and said happily: "As for the advantage, it depends on whether the other cards he prepared can come in handy."

"Other hands?"

"Ms. Gawen, do you know the biggest benefit of the player team reducing the dimensionality and simplifying the battlefield?"

"do not know."

"Want to know?"

"If you don't want to say it, I don't want to know."

“That is to allow non-commanding players who would otherwise be overwhelmed by NPCs to regain their sense of ‘presence’ and thus play a targeted role.”

"Oh?"

"In other words, it's the difference between 'one hundred and one ones' and 'three thirty-threes and two ones'.

"I see. What's the purpose?"

“In the macro sense, it’s about enabling teammates to play their roles.”

"How about a little bit more detail?"

"That's a little secret that only the authorities know~"

Chapter 2306: End