MMORPG: Divine Mech Hunter
Chapter 1367 - Chapter 1367 Chapter 1367 Tit for Tat

Chapter 1367: Chapter 1367: Tit for Tat Chapter 1367: Chapter 1367: Tit for Tat All three sides immediately began to allocate personnel, hoping to temporarily ally themselves to take down Starfire’s team.

Tongtong angrily said, “It’s really detestable, it’s bad enough those people are after us, but even those from the Ross Camp want to target us.”

The enchantress said coldly, “This is only to be expected. The rules this time are meant to have us kill each other. Moreover, there’s an old saying in our Huaxia, ‘The taller a tree stands, the more likely it is to be blown down by the wind.’ Right now, you could say we are conspicuous, and naturally, others want to take us out first.”

Li Yao tapped his brow, rousing the dormant Worm Mother, and laughed, “We’ll just have to see if the wind is strong enough. We’re not so easily felled. Are they just outnumbering us? It seems they’ve forgotten my elite profession is Dark Ranger. When have I ever been afraid of large battles? I don’t like to oppress others with my might, but I don’t like being bullied either.”

As Li Yao commanded, ten ethereal gateways appeared around Starfire’s team, and the skeletons under Li Yao’s control emerged one after another. These skeletons, once elites in their own right, each with their own professional traits, now seemed like iron robots clad in molten Armor.

Soon, over two hundred such robots were guarding Starfire’s team, leaving everyone dumbstruck.

Edward furrowed his brow slightly, “This time, we truly miscalculated.”

A blond player sighed, “Prairie Fire’s strength has made everyone overlook his profession. Merely with a bow, he is already invincible, causing people to forget his extraordinary pets and even more so, that he is the disciple of the queen and has inherited the true legacy of the Dark Ranger.”

“More importantly, this is the battle power Prairie Fire had before. Don’t forget, he has now become a true Race leader. Each of these skeletons has become a leader in their own right. The key point is, who can guarantee that now, as he has become a Race leader and leveled up to fifty, these two hundred skeletons are his limit? If the melee continues, his opponents can only get stronger as they fight,” Edward’s analysis was sharp and to the point.

“So do we stop them or not?” the blond player hesitated to ask.

Edward gritted his teeth and said, “We must stop them. The role of the Red Crystal Ant Queen is too significant. We must get our hands on it. It relates to whether our guild’s strength can break through the current bottleneck. We can’t spare any cost, and even if it’s the destruction of the Ant Queen, we cannot let Starfire have it.”

Now, both players and guilds are facing a huge bottleneck – the problem of military force.

As players’ legions increased, many found a serious problem: they couldn’t afford them.

This is a realistic and cruel issue. Although they limit players from recruiting main forces within their camp, they do not restrict players from obtaining forces through other channels.

But even the most economical Skeleton Army requires a certain amount of undead energy daily, the army’s maintenance requires buying or acquiring undead essence on their own and using a simple Array to dissolve essence for the army to absorb.

Even this simplest of Undead Armies is not too precious; one can either slay creatures in undead areas or engage in war mode, even the wealthy can use undead crystalline ore.

But the more advanced the legion, the greater the consumption. Intelligent humanoid beings, even if asleep in the war space, still require resources.

They are not Elemental Beings that only need to eat and drink, but also require allowance – which is a significant amount of money.

And not to mention the advanced troops, such as the Griffin Legion. Gryphons are natural carnivores, and their daily meat consumption alone is no small matter.

Although war mode has been popular for a while, players increasingly want to sell their legions to other players or their own camps. Maintaining an army is not easy.

Players feel this way, and so do guilds.

The issue now is not how many troops the camp limits them to maintain; the key issue is how much money they have to sustain their legions.

In fact, many individual players or those who like to venture have even given up on war mode, as it’s too costly.

Take Li Yao and Starfire as examples. Although the Starfire Guild hasn’t had financing, its revenue had been substantial, but once the real mode kicked in, it began to outspend its intake. Starfire is in such a hurry to develop its finances because sustaining an army is costly.

Sandy Harbor fared better with its rich resources, including seafood produced by the Murloc and Naga navies and the abundant resources of the sandbar, allowing tens of thousands of pigmen to be self-sufficient.

Desolate Port, however, couldn’t manage. While trade was plentiful, the surrounding resources were poor, ultimately limiting growth.

Li Yao personally maintained an army of millions, envied by many, but that was because he had a vast prairie and three cities as support, with the Worm Tribe being one of the easiest legions to sustain, even with poor soil and ores. Coupled with the vast amounts of energy accumulated during wartime, Li Yao had no worries.

But for the guild’s growth, the Red Crystal Ant Queen was a must-have.

This was also the real reason Edward wanted to get his hands on the Red Crystal Ant Queen.

Seeing that Starfire’s side had suddenly gained over two hundred leader-level skeletons, their forces’ complexion changed drastically, and they began to secretly discuss uniting against Starfire. This was no longer something they could handle with just a few dozen people.

“Fall back to the hall’s passage; if they want to annihilate us, I would have them wiped out first,” Li Yao spoke louder, “And I don’t mind telling you that I have now become a true Race leader, and Dark Arrow has also been upgraded. All the skeletons I summon have become junior leaders. Mutations like Flash could even lead to mid-level and high-level leaders. And I can make it even clearer that the current upper limit of skeletons I can summon with Dark Arrow has reached one thousand. You want to unite against me? That’s fine. But you’d better be prepared for a total wipeout. And every person I kill means one less for you and one more leader for me. I’m curious to see who will come out on top today.”

Starfire’s team quickly retreated towards the passage. The blond player shouted, “Don’t be scared, everyone! Starfire is just bluffing. What he says may be true, but so what? Right now, at most, they are just over two hundred strong, while we number over five thousand when united. With a Thunder Strike, some tie up those uncommanded skeletons, some kill Prairie Fire, and what waves can they make after that?”

“That’s right, Starfire’s existence is like a fishbone in our throat. If we don’t get rid of Starfire, once we’ve all but decimated each other, we are bound to be slaughtered by Starfire. It’s better now while we haven’t suffered much, to unite and root out Starfire Team first, then each can rely on their own means,” Starfire’s determination to destroy inspired the Scorpion Lion Camp…