Free Web NovelChapter 1118: Chapter 444: The Inevitable Battle
If the difference in strength was too great, those players would surely be completely annihilated once surrounded by the monsters, and even if the monsters did not manage to fully surround them or did not hold much of an advantage in strength, most of the players could only manage to escape in part. Overall, at that time, they were still at a disadvantage under the hands of those monsters.
Given Zhou Tian’s ability, his series of arrangements back then naturally led those players to suffer quite a bit at his hands. Even though the players managed to kill many of his lesser monsters, Zhou Tian’s strength not only remained unweakened but actually grew significantly at that time.
The NPCs may or may not have been aware of that situation, but even if they were, they probably couldn’t do much about Zhou Tian! After all, with the situation having progressed to this stage, the conflict between the players and Zhou Tian was not something anyone could easily stop. Having developed an interest in Zhou Tian’s territory, even without the NPC’s missions, it’s likely that many players would head to Zhou Tian’s territory for monster hunting on their own.
Thus, since the NPCs couldn’t stop the players from going to Zhou Tian’s territory to hunt monsters, the best they could do at that time was to increase the players’ strength, ultimately aiming to prevent too many players from falling into Zhou Tian’s hands. freewёbnoνel.com
Directly enhancing the players’ strength?
The NPCs had always been doing this, but judging from the current situation, it’s not that the NPCs lacked such ability, but even if they could enhance the players’ strength in a short time, it was unlikely that they could improve all players entering Zhou Tian’s territory at once. Otherwise, if the NPCs had that capability, they would have already led the players to eliminate Zhou Tian, instead of struggling with how to deal with him.
Therefore, the NPCs didn’t have much ability to affect the individual strengths of the players. As such, to increase the players’ survivability, the only thing the NPCs could do was to find ways to get the players to unite.
Unity is strength, when a small number of players weren’t a match for the monsters, by bringing many players together, their collective strength would naturally become much greater. Although in dangerous situations, the larger the team, the heavier the potential losses, generally, the more players there were, the stronger their chances of survival.
As a result, under the pressure from Zhou Tian, those players began to form various groups at that time. The existence of these groups turned Zhou Tian’s newly conquered territories’ wars from chaotic brawls into a series of siege battles.
When the number of players reached a certain point, their previous tactics naturally could no longer be used. After all, with a large number of people, the target naturally became larger, and with their target enlarged, how could their footprints possibly remain hidden from the monsters?
So, since there was no way to conceal their footprints anyway, instead of engaging in futile efforts and allowing the monsters to ambush them, it was naturally better for the players to clearly reveal their intentions.
I am planning to attack which area, and approximately when I will take action.
After those players made their intentions clear in this way, they then launched an attack on Zhou Tian’s territory at that time. Although, if Zhou Tian wanted, those players who encountered him were never likely to fare well. However, because there were too many players, and even groups could not act together all at once, this provided them with conditions to resist Zhou Tian.
Because Zhou Tian, no matter how strong, could only focus on some of the players, those players he targeted were definitely not in a good situation, but the other players facing Zhou Tian’s lesser bosses could very likely gain an advantage.
Moreover, Zhou Tian also had to continually expand his territory, inevitably leading to a division of his attention, and under those conditions, the frequency of his interceptions of those players naturally decreased.
Eventually, starting from some unknown time, after countless confrontations, Zhou Tian and those players gradually reached a balance. If Zhou Tian did not act, his monsters could ensure not to suffer too much at the players’ hands according to experience. When Zhou Tian intervened, he was sure to gain significant advantages. Thus, in terms of partial benefits, those players could often gain advantages from Zhou Tian. But from the perspective of the overall battle situation, Zhou Tian eventually became the ultimate beneficiary.
However, even though Zhou Tian gained advantages, those players probably wouldn’t mind it! After all, the advantage that Zhou Tian seized was reflected on those unlucky players. And how many of those unlucky players were there compared to the total number of players continuously resisting Zhou Tian? A small portion of players suffering might not be something they would care too much about themselves!
Therefore, although the outcome was not what the NPCs wanted to see, the balance reached at the end of both sides’ struggles was a result that both Zhou Tian and the players could accept.
