Chapter-28

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1st Year, 1st Month, 27th Day of the Gaia Calendar.

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# **Chapter 28: "Beast Siege, Part One"**

On the **twenty-seventh day of the month**, a **world announcement** sounded out to every player in the game, not just the China server:

> "World Announcement: In the first month of the year, new people have come into the wilderness, overcoming all obstacles with weapons and toil, plowing up the soil and establishing their foundations.
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> The beasts of the wilderness have suffered a great slaughter, and been driven into a frenzy. In three days, on the first day of the second month, under the leadership of the greatest of their kind, the animals will be attacking the territories of the player lords! They will repay their slaughter in blood, and was away their hatred in war! The lords need to prepare for war, sharpen your swords and prepare to battle to defend your honor and dignity!
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> World Announcement: The Siege of Beasts, a mandatory global defense quest, has begun. If the beasts successfully raid the village of the territory, the village will be removed immediately! If you successfully defend your territory from the beasts' attack, you will receive additional incentives.
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> The top three of the regional rankings, national rankings, and global rankings will receive massive rewards, and you can qualify in more than one list! During the period of this quest, non-lord players cannot stay in a lord's territory.
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> World Announcement: The top 10 rewards regionally are as follows: First place, 100 merit points. Each lower rank subsequently will receive 10 fewer merit points.
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> World Announcement: The top 10 national ranking awards are as follows: First place, 1000 merit points, 100 gold coins. Each successive rank, 100 fewer merit points, and 10 fewer gold coins.
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> World Announcement: The top ten ranking awards in the world are as follows: First place 3000 points, 600 gold coins. Each successive rank, 200 fewer merit points, and 50 fewer gold coins.
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> In addition, the first place will receive a random secret building, the second place a random special item, and the third place, a Basic Soldier Token."
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The announcement caused a global uproar, a surprise event out of the blue with devastating consequences to the unprepared, the weak were worried that their territories would be destroyed. While the powerful and self-confident professional gamers were all completely tempted by the system's incentives, their blood boiling with excitement. They were all gearing up to compete for the title of Global Leader! Even though he'd already known the news beforehand, the pure thought of the rewards got Ouyang Shuo extremely excited.

Hearing the news, **Ouyang Shuo** immediately visited General Shi at the village barracks to receive a report on how the training of the newly upgraded Crossbow Cavalry was progressing. **The General** reported that the training was progressing well, with all of the soldiers being promoted to rank 2 and that the **four sergeants** of the teams had been promoted to rank 3. He'd also received a report on the traps laid out around the territory, with **General Shi** stating that all the traps would be completed in the next two days.

Lastly, Ouyang Shuo asked General Shi if alchemical fire oil would aid in the village defence, at first, the General was confused as he'd not used it before. However, soon thereafter says that animals are afraid of fire and that if there was **alchemical fire oil**, they could arrange a **fire array** before the gates of the village in order to destroy the riot. With that said, **Ouyang Shuo** brought two squads of militiamen with him and soon arrived at the Basic Market. The fire oil was sold as a unit of barrels, each barrel containing 50 liters of oil and priced at 1 silver coin. **Ouyang Shuo** gritted his teeth and under **General Shi's** recommendation, purchased **1,000 barrels of fire oil** (or 50,000 liters of oil) for **10 gold coins**. In addition, he also purchased an outpost tower building blueprint to serve as an early warning beacon for the approaching waves of beasts, costing 10 gold coins.

After taking a break to have a run, and make breakfast for himself, Sun Xiaoyue, and Ouyang Bing, **Ouyang Shuo** decided to open his handbrain and have a look at the game forums. Today's discussion was particularly lively, needless to say, it was due to the ground-breaking global system announcement from last night. The top post was a survey for who posters guessed who from the top ten China rankings could occupy a spot in the top 10 Global Rankings for the event.

Undoubtedly, the Six Tyrants of Handan and Di Chen were the most popular candidates. Among the candidates, Ouyang Shuo showed up because of his sixth-place promotion to a grade 2 village. In addition to him, there was Xiongba's King Village, Wandering Magic's Fallen Leaf Village, Wufu's Stone Village, and Bai Hua's Consonance Village.

## CHARACTERS

* Ouyang Shuo
* General Shi (Lieutenant, Shanhai Village Militia)
* Zhao Dewang (Deputy Secretary, Construction Division)
* Ouyang Bing
* Sun Xiaoyue
* Di Chen
* Xiongba
* Wandering Magic
* Wufu
* Bai Hua

## ITEMS

* Alchemical Fire Oil
* Outpost Building Blueprint