Free Web NovelChapter 1122: Invasion of 445 players_2
As a result, with the NPCs’ arrangements, they quickly launched an attack on Zhou Tian at that time.
If not moving, as soon as those NPCs took action, Zhou Tian’s territory immediately faced a large influx of players. The reason was quite simple; the NPCs organized an event at a unified time where players could gain nearly an equivalent reward from them in addition to the original loot if they killed monsters within Zhou Tian’s territory. Thus, by doing the same thing, players could reap double the benefits, and it was easy to understand how attractive this event was to the players.
Wherever they leveled up didn’t matter as long as there were monsters to fight; those players wouldn’t care which group of monsters they were dealing with. Not to mention Zhou Tian’s newly acquired territory was not far from those NPC cities, under equal conditions, those NPCs were willing to pay the players attacking Zhou Tian some extra reward, which was enough to stir the players’ hearts.
There were no accidents in the outcome.
Once those NPCs laid out their terms, not all players dared to take part, but more than ninety percent of them were attracted by the rewards offered by the NPCs. As a result, the number of active players in the region of Zhou Tian’s newly acquired territory increased a hundredfold in an instant after the launch of the NPCs’ event.
Originally, the area where only a hundred players were active was already difficult for the monsters to handle; now, the number of players there suddenly surged to over ten thousand. Facing that change, even the monsters under Zhou Tian’s command found it hard to cope.
There were no surprises in the outcome when those players flooded into Zhou Tian’s territory; it quickly became a plundering ground for the players. Hardly had the action begun when a large area of Zhou Tian’s lesser monsters were directly eradicated by those players.
The event was far from over at that point; to participate, those players naturally needed to hunt monsters. And with an excess of players, the resources for monsters naturally seemed somewhat insufficient.
So what could be done in that situation?
The common method was to push further in, but in the case of some monsters with insufficient strength, they naturally had to choose to stay where they were.
And as those players acted, Zhou Tian soon found himself under pressure from both sides at that time.
We need not mention the impact of the players delving deeper; they had already devastated a part of Zhou Tian’s territory. As they pushed further, naturally, a larger part of his territory was now being devastated. Thus, as the players continued their actions, the losses Zhou Tian faced would keep expanding.
And because many players stayed in place to wait for the "respawn," if Zhou Tian sent out his lesser monsters, they would probably be slain by the waiting players as soon as they arrived. Under such circumstances, even if Zhou Tian had previously saved up a great deal of special energy, it was uncertain how long he could withstand such depletion.
What rendered Zhou Tian speechless was the fact that he needed to maintain this consumption continuously for the time being.
Could Zhou Tian stop maintaining that consumption?
Zhou Tian’s position seemed very stable; after taking over those new territories, he already had the capital for advancement. As long as he lived, his territories would be hard to seize from him. Hence, Zhou Tian just needed to wait it out. Even an average person, knowing the actions of those NPCs, might not necessarily respond. freēwēbnovel.com
But in fact, Zhou Tian realized when those players started invading his territory that his premonition had become reality; now, those players had indeed become a threat to him.
It’s hard to overthrow monster-controlled territories, but "hard" does not mean absolutely impossible. In fact, under sufficient conditions, even the most powerful boss could be overthrown by his subordinate monsters.
Originally, although Zhou Tian had newly taken over this territory, his foundation there was still quite solid. He had rescued the monsters of this territory from the prison cage. Zhou Tian led those monsters in fighting against the NPCs and had secured victories. Because every time Zhou Tian took action, he could eliminate those players who kill their companions.
From various actions, Zhou Tian had already established considerable credibility in the hearts of the monsters in that territory, as long as those monsters who had interacted with him and remembered his kindness existed, Zhou Tian’s foundation would not waver.
But now, as those players started their activities, Zhou Tian knew that the foundation of his new territory had become unstable.
With the actions of those players, for Zhou Tian in this new territory, it was as if facing an overwhelming disaster; the ongoing attacks by those players meant that the loss of monsters in Zhou Tian’s territory was no longer a matter of how many, but a wholesale annihilation.
And given the situation at that time, with the widespread annihilation of monsters, the monsters that were supporting Zhou Tian naturally got eradicated. Therefore, even if Zhou Tian continuously sent new monsters over to replenish, although these new monsters emerged from his Demonic Transformation Pool, as new beings, they had little emotional connection with Zhou Tian.
