Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors
Chapter 393 - 240 The Beginning of War

Chapter 393: Chapter 240 The Beginning of War

"Oh? So my target as an assassin is to assassinate Wanyan Sheng?"

"That makes sense."

Upon hearing the plans of the forest outlaws, Li Hongyun instantly realized that this must be his mission target!

What is the mission of an assassin’s trial? To kill the emperor!

And now that the assassin role had appeared again, what should the main objective be? Isn’t it obvious?

In fact, since the opening of "Dark Sand," the role of assassin players had always been slightly awkward.

Infantry players could achieve glory on the battlefield, able to fight as if one against a thousand;

Scholar players could maneuver through court politics, making impassioned arguments;

As for Ranger players, though their presence was also relatively weak, they could still harass, flank, and lure the enemy in small-scale battles, lacking major famous scenes but certainly not short of minor ones.

Only the assassin players had a somewhat awkward status.

It wasn’t that assassin players were completely useless—after all, their combat capacity was not weak, particularly during urban defense battles, where they could play a very important role.

Xia Ruoling had previously played a significant role in the defense battles of the "instance" during "Waiting to Seal the Coffin" and "Nobility Is Not My Desire".

Moreover, after completing their upgrade trials, assassin players gained talent skills that gave them a certain impact in direct combat.

But many assassin players were still not entirely satisfied.

To them, it seemed the unique characteristics of their class hadn’t been fully utilized!

Many who received the assassin identity after passing through the trial of assassinating Emperor Yanling developed a delusion—that they were now incredible, that assassinating an emperor was as easy as grasping something in hand.

Some players even thought that while other players were racking their brains to get through, they could just assassinate the final boss, and wouldn’t the instance fall apart of its own accord?

A surefire way to skive off classes!

Only when they actually entered the Trial Illusion did they realize it wasn’t so.

Forget about assassinating a real emperor, even assassinating some key characters in the instance was extremely difficult.

Take, for example, the instance involving Emperor Taizu of Sheng where players took on the role of "commander" and faced a do-or-die battle with the Northern Barbarian Cavalry at Wulan Tula Mountain. Could an assassin player really charge into the midst of thousands of soldiers and directly assassinate the Barbarians’ leader?

That was simply impossible!

So many assassin players felt a bit stifled—not because they played a small role in the instances, but because there seemed to be a gap with the positioning of their class.

Many players had complained about this online as well.

Similarly, no official personnel had responded.

However, "Dark Sand" as a game had been operating for so long, and players had become accustomed to its tone—they had learned to find their own answers.

Hence, many players puzzled out their answers.

"Perhaps as we approach later dynasties, the higher officials and commanders have more stringent guards around them, making assassination increasingly difficult?"

"That makes sense. If you look at historical records, those famous assassins all appeared before the Chu Dynasty, especially before Great Yan. Rangers and assassins were very active then. Later on, only the ’Ranger spirit’ and ’assassin spirit’ remained."

"This is because after two successive grand unifications, in order to maintain their rule, the dynasties cracked down harshly on local powerful forces, and it became rare for anyone to keep retainers. Naturally, rangers and assassins became less common."

"Later dynasties also placed great emphasis on this, so as time went on, there were fewer famous assassins, and they had all but disappeared."

"But does this mean that the assassin is actually a late-game class? Perhaps when we progress to the instances of Great Chu or Great Yan, the assassin can play a pivotal role."

In any case, after much analysis, players still managed to begrudgingly accept an answer for themselves, temporarily quelling the rage of assassin players.

For Li Hongyun, he wasn’t as troubled as the other assassin players.

After all, he wasn’t exactly a serious assassin.

However, now that assassins seemed to have a mission target of their own, he was quite excited.

"To assassinate Wanyan Sheng, ah, the thought of it is thrilling!"

"So, what should I do?"

"A simple plan first: Step one, survive by lying low and hiding, try to stay alive before the first onslaught of the Jin soldiers; Step two, wait for the moment when Jin’s highest commander, Wanyan Sheng, appears in my field of vision; Step three, shoot him dead with an arrow.

"A perfectly comprehensive plan!"

Compared to other assassins, Li Hongyun’s biggest advantage was that he could use bows and muskets to snipe targets at a distance.

Modern assassins use guns, don’t they? As long as you kill the target person, it counts as an assassination, no problem.

Once he had a target, the rest was straightforward.

Li Hongyun scouted out several suitable hiding places within Cen Bridge Inn, planning to lie low there once the Jin soldiers breached the town.

Several of these were high up, such as on the roofs of various buildings.

After all, just hiding wasn’t enough—he also had to keep an eye on his surroundings, to spot Wanyan Sheng as soon as he entered the town and find a way to get close and shoot him.

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