I can't be an NPC

Chapter 324 Player Power

"Li Wen..."

The first thing Li Wen saw after walking out of the teleportation array was Helen's eyes as clear as amber.

"came back?"

"You know it all?"

Helen looked at Li Wen with an inexplicable love in her eyes.

"The movement is so big, everyone is spreading it, how could they not know?"

"It seems that there are quite a lot of people who care about this matter, ahaha~"

Li Wen laughed.

"We are ready for battle."

Helen suddenly said softly.

Behind her, the army of Jianfeng City was quietly displayed on the open square next to the teleportation circle, and from the high platform where the teleportation circle was located, it was impossible to see the edge at a glance.

The flag with the shape of a long sword wrapped in the breeze fluttered high above the square, fluttering with the wind.

The morning sun shone on the black armor of the soldiers, and the matte black luster shone into Li Wen's eyes.

The resolute eyes of the soldiers under the spiked helmets show their determination to defend their homeland to the death.

But... Among them, there are many children.

Li Wen glanced at those figures, and the countless faces looking at him were filled with some inexplicable emotions-respect, expectation, and yearning.

"We cannot join this war."

Li Wen looked away.

"No! You must fight."

Helen's eyes were unexpectedly determined.

"what?"

Li Wen looked at Helen suspiciously, are you out of your mind too?

"I'm afraid you will be wronged."

"..."

Li Wen waved his hand.

"No need... by the way, what does the kingdom say?"

"Also mobilizing troops."

"Are they going to help us?"

"No...they plan to counterattack."

"?"

"Take the opportunity to see if you can bite off a piece of Dreiser..."

land……

Li Wen pursed his lips and turned to look at the border between the two countries.

In this way, maybe I have to run twice?

"You guys continue to prepare as you should, and I'm going to try another way."

When things came to an end, even with Helen's mentality of having seen countless storms and waves, she couldn't help but ask nonsense.

"Can it be done?"

Li Wen smiled at her and shrugged slightly, "Who knows? It's up to people."

……

"Have you seen the news on the forum?"

"It seems that there is going to be a fight on the Gaia continent."

"Dreiser State attacked Jianfeng City..."

"They are all talking about which side to join... It seems that they are all recruiting soldiers. Oh, the three kingdoms themselves are also recruiting soldiers. Now it's a lot of fun."

Even Bobby's team in the bronze-colored moon world also received this news because of the forum.

"Should we go back and help Lord Poppy?"

"I think we'll do the best job for Mr. Poppy if we do this task well, right?"

"But I read on the forum... In the world background of the Gaia continent, Dreiser State and Jianfeng City are not at the same level..."

Some players may not be very interested in the background of the world. When the content of the game is not boring enough to grow grass, don't force any background stories or origins!
Where to kill?How many to kill?That's the only question they care about.

But there are also some players who care a lot about the world background and take pleasure in it.

And in their investigation, one thing can obviously be found——

The size of Jianfeng City and Dreiser State are not at the same level.

Jianfeng City is just a city in the Golden Lion Kingdom, and according to players' statistics, there are at least forty or fifty similar cities in the entire Golden Lion Kingdom.

And what about Dreiser?One-fifth of the Violet Kingdom!

The Golden Lion Kingdom and the Violet Kingdom are about the same in strength, so use one-fifth to fight one-fiftieth, and use your ass to figure out who can win.

As for the two kingdoms themselves... It seems that in order not to expand the scale of the war, they both rationally maintained restraint, and did not take any action to declare war. Of course, the actions of secretly probing and recruiting soldiers in the players have not stopped.

It's just strange that after this argument was posted on the forum, not many players agreed with this comparison of combat power.

Although Jianfeng City is small, as the star city of the game "Gaia Continent" since its service was launched, it has a pivotal position even in the hearts of all players in the three kingdoms.

Would it be so simple to be hanged unilaterally?

That's Bobby's hometown!

As soon as Bobby made a move, an army of hundreds of thousands or millions came and took your ashes away.

As for the opposing point of view, it is——

"Everyone has been playing this game for so long, so you don't know the combat power system in this world, right? Unless the level is crushed, otherwise a legendary professional will struggle to fight ten thousand regular troops. How can Bobby go against it by himself? Oh my god? The hard gap in strength cannot be changed by just saying something."

"I see you, you don't understand Master Poppy's strength at all~"

So before the war among the aborigines officially started, the flames of war had already begun on the forum.

"I said before that Bobby is the absolute protagonist, can the protagonist be posted? It's just a backdrop for the protagonist's rise."

"Big guy said it's fun, you take it seriously, right? This game has a fart protagonist! When did you confuse "Gaia Continent" with other games? When did the development of this world take care of us? This is the real world! How can there be any protagonist in the real world? Wouldn’t the world be the same without Bobby?”

"You're right, but what strength do you think I'm talking about? You really don't know about Master Bobby's connections, do you? It looks like you're fighting against Sword Wind City, but you don't know how many opponents you actually have. .”

"I didn't say Bobby was bad, but Swordwind City is not Bobby, do you understand what I mean? Even if Bobby is the protagonist, it's reasonable to have some backgrounds that inspired him on the way of growth, right? His hometown was destroyed by war, isn't Bobby Since then, he has been working hard? Look at his current appearance, does he have the temperament of a strong man?"

"Don't take your looks as temperamental, our Bobby is a big boss! Ibi doesn't cause trouble and is not afraid of trouble! Our Bobby just looks cute, why?"

"Stop talking, read the libretto while riding a donkey, wait and see, I've signed up as a mercenary in Jianfeng City, see if I don't smash the heads of those outsiders!"

"Wait and see, I also reported to the mercenaries of Jianfeng City, if you get assigned together later, I will smash your head on the spot."

"?"

"?"

"Friends?"

"What kind of friendly army? I just don't see the behavior of bullying the weak. I'm a paladin!"

……

When encountering these things, why are the Chosen Ones more active and excited than the locals?
Every day, an uncountable number of Chosen Ones come here either through teleportation circles or across mountains and seas on foot.

When the entire Jianfeng City was isolated and helpless, it was these seemingly unreliable Chosen Ones who gave Helen the greatest comfort.

Is it justice and fairness?
Or Li Wen's reputation among the chosen ones?

Or, both.

Helen didn't know, she only knew one thing, when Jianfeng City tried its best to only raise an army of no more than 8000 people, the number of Chosen Sons who signed up for mercenaries had already exceeded [-].

outrageous.

This was unexpected for Helen.

At first, I thought I was fighting alone, but I didn't expect it to become... evenly matched?
Of course it is evenly matched.

Although the Burning Blade Legion in Dreiser State has a large organization and fierce combat power, it is impossible for all of them to suppress the border.

Not to mention whether logistics and other factors allow it, even if it is allowed, I am afraid that the Golden Lion Kingdom will not allow it.

Sword Wind City is not a border city, it is located in the kingdom, not far from Violet's territory, but not too close, there are one or two other cities with golden lions in between.

If a large number of soldiers from the Burning Blade Legion came across the border, who knows if their goal is only Sword Wind City?
And it's a bit too shameless.

Therefore, attacking Jianfeng City was a special operation that was "acquiescently approved" by the Golden Lion.

The masters of Dreiser State jointly launched a large-scale teleportation formation, and this is the real form of launching this battle.

Therefore, the number of Burning Blade Legion that launched this battle cannot be too large, and the establishment of about [-] is the most reasonable possibility based on Helen's previous speculation.

Even if the opponent also recruits the Chosen One, the limitation on the number of people from the teleportation circle makes it difficult for them to break through this limitation no matter whether they choose to use the Chosen Son as the main attack or their own Burning Blade Legion to attack.

But now what?

fifty thousand……

The [-] Chosen Ones signed up as mercenaries in Jianfeng City.

In fact, after counting this number, almost everyone in the know fell silent.

And this is not the end yet, every minute and every second before the start of the war, there are still one after another the Chosen Ones joining in one after another.

The nobleman who was packing his luggage and planning to run away with his family suddenly heard the news, his fat body froze, and he put down the pure gold vase in his hand in a daze.

"This is still running a ball..."

……

"Too much...too much..."

The quartermaster murmured in despair but excitedly.

Their original plan was to recruit around [-] Chosen Ones. This is a reasonable prediction they made. After all, they probably figured out the resident The number of Chosen Ones is around [-].

Unexpectedly, now that they have made [-] at once, there is even a large influx in the follow-up, and the dental halls that have signed up are about to be trampled by the Chosen One.

A large number of people is of course a good thing. Even if there are so many Chosen Ones with uneven combat power, they are not afraid of death. As long as the opponent does not use out-of-spec combat power, they are guaranteed to defend the city clearly.

But what about the pay?
With so many people, how could Sword Wind City afford to pay them enough?

Mercenaries, mercenaries, as the name suggests, are hired and cost money.

This is what he needs to do as a quartermaster.

"No more recruits, no more recruits, really no more recruits, no more recruits."

Looking at the excited Son of Heaven in front of him, the quartermaster held down the clerk who was still doing the registration formalities mechanically.

The burly military officer at the side pulled away the emaciated quartermaster and stared at him.

"Recruit! Why not! Didn't they let you and the Burning Blade Legion go all out?"

Anyway, the Chosen One wouldn't really die, and no matter how many times he died, he didn't feel sorry for him. On the contrary, those young and immature recruits trained by him are all living lives.

As for the property that needs to be paid... why do you need property when people are dead?
"Enough! I mean enough, 5 people, enough!"

"Not enough! In the face of war, no amount of preparation is enough!"

Seeing the two NPCs huddling up in front of him, the players who were signing up blinked their eyes.

So annoying!

Don't you ask my opinion?
"Who said I was going to be paid?"

what?
Do you think of me as those vulgar ordinary mercenaries?
"I don't want any reward, I bring my own dry rations, sign up for me!"

"..."

The instructor and the quartermaster looked at each other without saying a word.

The clerk in charge of the registration raised his head and carefully glanced at the faces of the two, then lowered his head and started to register quickly.

Seeing this, the players who were queuing up behind this player were enthusiastic.

"I don't want to pay you, sign up for me!"

"Elder sister doesn't want to be paid, I'll subsidize the military expenses!"

"..."

"..."

The instructor and quartermaster were completely stunned.

Things are getting more and more magical.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a figure in the shadow not far away, and the quartermaster quickly trotted over.

"My lord, this..."

Helen looked at the Chosen Ones with excited faces, with a touched and helpless smile on the corner of her mouth.

Recalling a word Li Wen once said, Helen raised her chin lightly, "Open a special channel for big grievances for them, and handle it quickly."

Obviously, once some things spread out in the player community, the development of the situation often deviates from its original track.

In the face of this "national war", the players who would rather take a breath have already bet on the glory of the Golden Lion players.

"I said that Jianfeng City will win, even if he can't win, I will give him the victory!"

"I don't have any hobbies, I just like fighting, come on! Fight!"

From the beginning to the end, Li Wen never put his hopes on these players, but everything Li Wen did in the past made his status infinitely higher in the hearts of many players.

This kind of accumulated recognition and goodwill is the root cause of this change in the current situation.

Of course, the enthusiasm of the players themselves for major events or the wild tendency to like to fight are also the core reasons for this change.

"That guy..."

It turns out that this war was nothing in the first place...

Could it be that the plan that guy said was foreseen in advance?
It's really abominable to keep hiding it until the last moment before revealing the mystery.

I just don't know... If his hole card is the Chosen One, why did he disappear again?
……

Dark Bobby, who was standing on the deck of the conch ship, grinned with a "quack quack" with his mouth open in the face of the wind that smelt of mud.

"Let's go! The Brain Shell is going!"

"Ah Chiu! Who scolded me?"

(End of this chapter)