As per usual, it took Jamie quite a while before he managed to stop their back and forth, those two were seriously getting annoying at this point .

“ Keep at it and you two will fall in love “

They stopped, imagined being in love with each other, got disgusted and got back to their previous positions as if nothing had happened .

“ Haha , It works every time “

Seeing their lord laugh and the other two messing around put the villagers somehow at ease, in a way Jamie achieved his first goal that was to prevent infighting which was almost a given when facing crisis . The loyalty stat doesn’t work if you order the villagers to kill themselves after all, game or no game a human thought only of themselves first .

If they risked dying, they will definitely rebel .

“ If we dig here, and place traps here there and there, we might hold on for quite a while “

Due to how scared Pompei was, Jamie trusted his plans to work decently but he knew that they could not get into the top 3 by being on high defence and alert .

“ I appreciate it Pompei but I dont intend on becoming a turtle “

Pompei gave him a look that said “ dont gamble with my life you retarded lord “ , but somehow held in his thoughts and obeyed.

“ I am about to make the most of this opportunity, and if you guys follow all of my instructions you will see how well things will work out for us “

“ Pardon me lord but It’s my job to advice you against foolishness, if those red dots that are approaching the island are our supposed enemies... I don’t think we can fight them head on “

The things Eveline was referring to were pirates, he could see around 30 medium sized ships sailing towards them .

Each would probably have around 25 pirates on and their numbers were quite worrisome but, to Jamie it was high risk and high reward .

“ Once the pirates land, they are going to have to fight the Nagga tribes that currently occupy those shores .

Dont you think it would be a great Idea to prey on the weakened ones ? “

Jamie was sure that the pirates would win against those Nagga tribes, he intended on getting his hands on the Nagga village orders and plunder the pirate ships.

“ No matter how many men they lose while fighting Naggas, they will still be hundreds in number .

We may win but we will lose a lot of men, that way we will be unable to defend the village “

Even Eve was surprised at Ralph’s thinking, they had all thought him to be a battle maniac.

“ Good analysis Ralph, so even you are able to think to such an extent.

We truly learn new things everyday “

“ Whats that supposed to mean ? “

“ Anyway, the pirates will most likely head for the Orc fortresses on the island.

They are probably trying to occupy the island to make a base for themselves and store all their plundering or human trafficking.

They probably think that they will be only facing beasts and outlanders, they wont expect humans to set a trap for them “

What he said made sense, those pirates couldn’t bring their ships with them to attack monster villages after all .

Their sea advantage was about to be their biggest disadvantage on land.

Jamie would bet his left hand that they would leave men behind to guard the ship, and he intended to prey on those poor fellas!

“ We will only hit the ones they weaken and reap the benefits, once the victor is tired we will hit him and become the sole winners of this whole battle royal “

He somehow managed to convince them, and after deciding to leave the lizardmen behind to protect his lands , he stationed all of his men and had them wait nearby.

“ What are we doing here lord “

Jamie put down the Greybeck Wolf creation den that he was awarded and a cave materialised out of nowhere .

After walking inside for a while he found out that 2 black fur wolves big enough to be mounted had spawned.

“ Greyback Wolf Den “ ( Golden Grade )

** Spawns 2 wolf mounts Daily **

“ So it spawns 2 every day, hmm , maybe one day we could make a wolf cavalry what do you think ? “

“ Sounds dumb but if you give me one of these to be my mount I’ll pretend what you said was genius and praise you “

“ I could punish you for what you just said but I’m deciding not to slay a man in love.

I wont take offence from this, Eve is quite important to me after all and news of your death might sadden her “

“ Sadden her? If saddening includes jumping from joy then yeah I agree “

Poor Ralph, everyone loved messing with him, his lord included .

And while Jamie was busy observing the map and planning his attacks, the outside world had gotten even more chaotic.

Previous headline-making news had been left in the dust. With the news that you could win real money in the game becoming a well known fact, the number of players had risen to 3/4 of the world population with the only remaining people who didn’t play being extremely busy politicians , elderly, children and religious people who saw creating a virtual world as an insult towards the true creator.

Maybe they were right, no they were definitely right but humans would even risk their soul and God’s wrath if benefits were thrown at their faces .

Such was human nature, no fear could keep them away from chasing richness and pleasure.

If Jamie knew of politicians not joining the game , he would be sure that they had not found out that you could get real life power with it. Once they find out that they are left behind and that common people will be getting stronger, they will surely vomit blood from anger .

Videos about Conquest Online became the highest form of entertainment, with CTube channels of the “ 10 Royals “ having the most watched videos together with fan debates and news channels like CON hosted by Orteo .

The influence of these people had become so huge that were now being approached by their respective governments trying to lure them in with little benefits and gain control over them .

Even mainstream media hosts had gone over to CTube and saw this new game event that was taking place as a huge opportunity. Every social media network could be easily connected with the hologram TVs that were present in every household .

On the last day before the event started, after converting the last batch of villagers into Kraken soldiers and Heavy Spearmen, Jamie was hit by a world announcement.

WORLD ANNOUNCEMENT

“ Due to the Absolute Defence event taking place, the game system has decided to make things better for the participants by adding extra rewards .

We ask for all the participants to enable streaming for the whole world to see .

For privacy and personal reasons, each participant can choose to blur their facial features . The participants will not be able to view each others streams in order to not get influenced by the other participants and their tactics. Outside interference will be blocked completely, and time will be reduced from 1 real life day = 3 in game days to 1 real life day = 7 in game days .

This feature will only be available during the event and be removed after the event finishes to maintain fairness and balance .

The top 3 players whose stream video gets the most viewers, will be rewarded with the following.

1st place: Epic treasure chest

2nd place : Platinum treasure chest

3rd place : Golden treasure chest

Do you consent ? “

This announcement shocked Jamie and the other participants just as much as it excited the rest of the world .

They were really looking forward to see how the top players performed and how good the rewards were going to be .

If the Blur Option would not be available, Jamie would have forsaken the rewards since exposing himself would mean certain death. But with the Blur option being available he would be safe so he decided to enable the stream .

WORLD ANNOUNCEMENT

“ All participants have agreed on enabling streaming , it will be in side person point of view to increase viewership pleasure and improve the experience. We wish good luck to all participants “

At that moment, 7 live streams appeared on the screens of billions of people .

Almost all the players even decided to log off the game and enjoy the event by watching alongside their families in hope that they would learn new tactics from the Royals .