After a period of probing, the players had smartened up. If they encounter bandits above level 20, they donât directly engage in combat, using the tanksâ [Taunt] skill to draw them in and moving them next to the Princessâs personal guard, leaving them to be taken care of by the soldiers of the guard.
As for bandits under level 20, they rushed in and beat them mercilessly!
One by one, the bandits fell, spilling equipment, spiritual energy coins, potions⊠all over the ground.
However, no player picked them up.
It had been agreed beforehand that the loot dropped after the battle would be collected by Snow Leopard, who would then calculate the total market value and divide the resulting spiritual energy coins equally among all the players present.
All of their energy was poured into the battle, fighting fiercely.
Under the playersâ coordination and the guild leadersâ command and dispatch, the banditsâ offensive momentum was quickly curbed, and the balance of victory tipped in favor of the players.
In fact, viewing the entire campaign, it was pretty easy to get through it.
The guilds present were all top guilds in the game, filled with experts.
The other players too were all elites, and there were even top players like A Thousand Cups Unintoxicated.
Plus, with battlefield command on the level of a brigadier general like Snow Leopard, if they couldnât easily win this scenario battle, then the difficulty level of the game would be off balance.
The third minute after the battle started.
Su Yu roughly scanned the battlefield situation and knew that victory was assured!
At this rate, the Princessâs convoy may not even suffer 5% losses, and at most it would be around 3%.
The players all wore confident smiles, knowing that they were certain to win this battle!
Since victory was assured, Su Yu was bound to start âcausing mischiefâ.
Not showing off when ahead didnât fit his personality.
So, Su Yu said in the chatroom: âListen up, everyone! Send out a notice. Let the players in the front deliberately expose their weak spots so the bandits can kill them. Healers cut off healing, mages sit down and drink potions to pretend theyâre low on mana, as for archers⊠figure out how to slack off on your own.â
Red -Eyed Black Dragon: ???
Snow Leopard: ???
Shepherd in the Clouds: ???
Summer: ???
A string of question marks came up.
Weâre about to win this battle, whatâs going on?
Su Yu sent a âsmilingâ emoji and explained:
âTo be honest, the tasks I assigned to you were all obtained from the NPCs. You guys have to appear defeat after defeat for me to get better tasks from the NPCs. Otherwise, if weâre close to winning, how would the NPCs want to release high-reward tasks to you?â
The guild leaders looked at each other.
They werenât clear about the details, but since these are the words of Nemesis, wellâŠ
The guild leaders: âOkay, weâll listen to you.â
Under the arrangement of the guild leaders, the originally splendid battlefield situation suddenly turned for the worse, like the plummeting stock price of some âSauce-flavored technologyâ.
The players began to slack off.
Tanks stopped using their damage reduction abilities and crashed directly into the blades of the high-level bandits, assassins were hacked to death after charging into the enemy lines without activating [Stealth], and priests and mages sat side by side, drinking their potions.
With everyone slacking off, the battle line crumbled in an instant.
The bandits charged forward with unstoppable momentum, continuously pressing forward and quickly shifting the battle line to the edge of the Princessâs convoy.
A high-level bandit slashed at the rear carriage, and the âdegree of convoy lossâ value jumped from 0% to 2%.
Princess Alyssa saw everything, and she was anxious.
Everything was fine just then, how could the line suddenly collapse? Was it because the adventurers from another world were not strong enough, or was the enemy too powerful?
She didnât know about the occurrence of a traitor in her ranks using the âguild channelâ and âchatroomâ, and even if she thought about it she couldnât figure out that someone had turned traitor, and it was an all-encompassing betrayal like in the Conan Brewery.
Seeing the timing was right, Su Yu respectfully said to the princess: âIâm sorry, Your Highness. My subordinates are weak and might not be able to withstand these bandits.â
The nearby players sighed in unison, very much in line with Su Yuâs performance.
âThen what should we do?â the princess frowned.
Cat Morning Star could transform into a dragon and run away with her (for some reason Morning Star couldnât participate in the battle), but this hundred-man guard was her elite force! If they were all lost, she would definitely be pained for a long time. Moreover, the negotiations with Duke Anzu Seifer would naturally come to nothing, which she could not accept.
âI still have a last resort.â Su Yuâs face became particularly serious:
âThereâs an old saying in our place, âgreat reward leads to the braveâ. I want to give these adventurers a generous reward to boost their morale. Of course, itâs all out of my own pocket, all you need to do is allow me to act in your name.â âThisâŠâ Princess Alyssa was stunned.
Nemesis was willing to help her through the crisis again at his own expense.
The only explanation she could think of was that Nemesis wanted to assist her in ascending the throne, exchanging early investments for later rewards.
But how could such a good deed not touch people?
âOkay, go ahead!â the princess looked at Su Yu, her eyes especially soft.
âDing! The favorability of [Princess Alyssa] towards you +5.â
Su Yu spun around and shouted to the players: âHold on everyone, muster your courage! If everyone can drive the bandits out of the Curtain of Shadow, Her Highness the Princess will bestow 50 spiritual energy coins to each one present!â
At the same time, all the players on the battlefield received a game prompt:
âPlayer âNemesisâ issued a task to you [Drive the Bandits out of the Curtain], do you accept?â
Of course, the players chose to accept.
Ding! Congratulations on triggering the scenario campaign side-mission
[Drive the Bandits out of the Curtain].â
âTask requirements: Push the front line outside of [The Curtain of Shadow].â âTask rewards: Experience Points X1500, Spiritual Energy Coin X50.â
This time the spiritual energy coin reward for the task is fixed, and Su Yu canât increase the experience points by reducing the spiritual energy coin.
But Su Yu didnât mind, to spend fifty thousand spiritual energy coins for 15,000 experience points, which is unacceptable for normal players, was extremely worth it for him!
Moreover, thereâs the 5-point favorability of the princess. This kind of thing probably canât be exchanged even with tens of millions of spiritual energy coins from goblin merchants.
After receiving the task, the players stopped slacking, each one bursting out their peak strength!
Tanks activated their damage reduction skills and charged forward, the mages who had already recovered their full magic power roared like turrets, and the healers poured down large swaths of healing light.
The bandits were most deeply affected.
A moment ago, these otherworldly adventurers were like chicks under their blades. Why had they suddenly become so fierce?
It was simply a transition of battle power from being chicks to being geese!
The bandits were caught off guard. As the players counterattacked, their bodies piled up, and the battle line was pushed several meters away from the convoy. Stimulated by the task, the players were full of momentum, while the bandits were so flustered by the sudden change that they lost their feet.
With one increase and one decrease, the scales on the battlefield were again tipping towards the players..
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