MMORPG: Divine Mech Hunter - Chapter 1041

Chapter 1041: Chapter 1041: The Heart of Architecture Chapter 1041: Chapter 1041: The Heart of Architecture The people of Starfire were jubilant and enthusiastic, whereas those of Prosperous Era were filled with immense sorrow and anger, cursing as they stubbornly resisted. However, as more Crossbow Arrows were deployed, their formation quickly began to collapse.

The Crossbow Arrows could shoot in an arc, covering a wide range, and although they were not as precise as regular crossbow bolts, the sheer volume of arrows, especially the explosive ones, was overwhelming.

As one explosive arrow after another detonated, the vulnerable rear ranks of Prosperous Era were swiftly slaughtered.

The massacre of the vulnerable led to a situation where their output and healing could not keep up, resulting in the rapid disintegration and collapse of the enemy’s melee tank formations.

Beast Speaker and the cousin of Prosperous Era felt extremely frustrated. Even though Prosperous Era was much stronger than Starfire, they couldn’t showcase their strength, and tens of thousands of players were trapped in a tavern, leading to its ruin. Tens of thousands were now fleeing for their lives.

What was even more infuriating was that Starfire was plundering their guild’s assets and brazenly setting up defenses in Prosperous Era’s city. It was clear that Starfire had no intention of settling the conflict peacefully.

It must be noted that the fight had started so abruptly, and Starfire’s attack was so swift that the people of Prosperous Era were confused and overwhelmed, resulting in their city defenses being compromised before they could even be utilized effectively.

Now, Starfire was using their own city defenses, in addition to Starfire’s Crossbow Arrows, to fortify the position, which deeply grieved them.

“We can’t hold on, Vice President, you should escape quickly. We can’t support much longer.”

“Exactly, we still have hundreds of thousands of brothers outside waiting for your command. If we die here, all hope is lost.”

“We can’t all leave, or once they discover it, no one can escape. I’ll hold them here; you go, the command is entirely yours now,” said the cousin of Prosperous Era, knowing that Beast Speaker was more capable.

Thus, he completely relinquished control to Beast Speaker, because this was the only chance for Prosperous Era to turn the tide.

“You should go, I’ll hold on a bit longer here.” Beast Speaker wasn’t sure he could escape either, and the responsibility was enormous.

“When I tell you to go, you go. If Starfire had attacked and then immediately withdrawn, we wouldn’t have been able to do much. But, they are too greedy. They want to plunder our assets and also destroy every building in our guild, which will take some time. That’s our opportunity. As long as you lead the rest of our brothers here to kill all of Starfire’s riff-raff, they won’t have much power left. Then, take the remaining people to destroy Starfire’s two stations, and we will turn defeat into victory,” explained the cousin of Prosperous Era.

“I’ll do my best,” Beast Speaker said with a bitter smile. The idea was promising; their forces were at least five times that of Starfire, but the problem was that Starfire’s achievements were too outstanding; who knows what other tactics they had in store.

While it was said to be a hundred fifty thousand people, damn it, they lacked even the most basic besieging equipment. Not to mention cannons, they didn’t even have siege ladders to scale the walls; relying solely on hook locks, it was, frankly, exasperating to even think about.

He said nothing as he made his way into the council hall under the cover of some players.

Within five minutes, the last of the resistance in the council hall was eliminated, eradicating all players and NPCs from Prosperous Era.

“Bring another five thousand men, hurry to take whatever you can, and then spread out to attack all the guild buildings, leaving none intact,” ordered Unparalleled Beauty, and Starfire’s troops dispersed once again.

It can be said that apart from the city walls, all the guild buildings were being destroyed and attacked.

Li Yao sat at the top of the highest Arrow Tower and opened the guild interface.

Three miniaturized locations appeared before him: the main base on the sandbar, Desolate Port, and a Pirate camp; Li Yao continuously reviewed the building attributes of all three bases.

Each guild building has its own basic attributes, mostly in the form of passive aura-like properties that are effective only within the base. For instance, barracks not only provide living quarters for soldiers but also offer morale bonuses based on the building level. For NPCs, this morale boost translates into the courage to fight to the death, often allowing soldiers to perform better while players receive an increase in attack power.

Upgrading the building level slightly increases the morale bonus, but guild buildings also have qualities.

The quality of guild buildings is similar to the classification of Warship gear; currently, all of Starfire’s buildings are of ordinary quality, and upgrading a building’s quality requires a corresponding building core.

Li Yao knew that high-level building cores could also drop from outdoor buildings, albeit at a low rate.

There were two ways to obtain a building core: one was by defeating another guild and destroying their buildings, which would yield a building core of the corresponding level.

For instance, upgrading an ordinary guild building to an excellent quality one just needs one corresponding building core, while advancing from excellent to elite requires three.

Each quality upgrade enhances three aspects: randomly boosting the durability and defensive power, adding a passive enhancement effect, and subsequently obtaining an active skill.

The outdoor building cores have specific qualities and attributes; they can directly upgrade a building to the level of the outdoor structure but will also replace the original building’s qualites and attributes.

Li Yao directly used a building core on the barracks.

Suddenly, Li Yao saw that the barracks at Starfire’s base on the sandbar had upgraded to excellent quality, with durability and armor receiving corresponding enhancements and gaining a passive effect that increased all soldiers’ stamina by 10%. The active skill acquired was ‘Morale Surge.’
‘Morale Surge’ is an active skill that significantly boosts soldier morale with a cooldown of one hour.

While Li Yao was enhancing his guild’s buildings with cores obtained from destroyed buildings, the first group of Prosperous Era players finally arrived.

However, what met them were Starfire’s players prepared for battle. Seeing that their own Prosperous Era walls were now manned by Starfire players infuriated them greatly.

Yet, they had received orders from the Beast Speaker, prohibiting them from starting the engineering work.

They were fewer than ten thousand, and the number of players with Hook Locks was limited; their assault on the city was akin to suicide.

So, the people of Prosperous Era regrouped far from the walls, awaiting the arrival of their other players.

The people of Starfire didn’t mind them; seeing no attack coming, they moved finances and destroyed buildings even faster.

The players of Prosperous Era could only watch furiously as guild buildings dimmed one by one on their guild interface, darkening of each building signifying the destruction by Starfire, fueling their anger…