<h4>1090 Announcemen</h4>
In Emerald Star Cluster, on a certain was a deste desert filled with strangely shaped rocks. Hundreds of shuttle-shaped, low-altitude battle carriers were fighting intensely, crisscrossing between mountains and cliffs, using them as cover.
Light beams crossed each other,nding on the cliffs around, causingndslides and rocks rolling down the slopes.
There were four different symbols on these low altitude carriers. One was the guild symbol of the Rivervale guild, and the other three were all symbols of different foreign clubs.
Rivervale was not in a good position right now. They were being attacked by three foreign clubs together. They had no choice but to flee while fighting back, or they would be surrounded.
Maple Moon was piloting one carrier. Her hands grabbed onto the sphere-shaped control devices on two sides specially made for Mechanics. Sparkling Mechanical Force connected the device to the spaceship, making the spaceship her extended body and allowing her to control it with ease. The spaceship swiftly made a turn, avoiding a round of fire while shooting a Main Cannon, which blew up one of the enemy spaceships.
However, a few visible ck silhouettes flew out from the mes of the carrier’s explosion. They were the yers on the ship. Among them, a Mechanic yer threw outpressed orbs that turned into a new carrier, and they continued the chase.
Seeing this, Maple Moon spoke in the team channel with resignation. “Sword, there are too many enemies. Our inventory will run out sooner orter if we continue like this. Should we just die? We can leave these resources.”
“Hold on for just a while longer. Our allies are rushing here.”
Frenzied Sword focused on dealing with the enemies. He was quite frustrated.
This was originally controlled by a small mining organization. Rivervale, Long Sky, and other guilds partnered with it by providing armed defense in exchange for part of the mining profit. This was amon scheme for the yer guilds in the freepetition zone.
However, a few middle-level officers of this mining organization were bought by a few Southeast Asian clubs. They helped them hide on this. When Frenzied Sword brought his men and came to collect this batch of resources as usual, the three clubs who had set up an ambush jumped out and surprised Frenzied Sword and the others.
The mode of conflict between yers had been bing more and moreplicated as they learned to make use of smaller organizations more effectively. They acquired skills such as bribing and threatening the NPCs. This incident was just a small one; the bigger guilds were already involved in infiltrating, backstabbing, and many other things.
The carriers of Rivervale were being destroyed one after another; the yers had no choice but tond on the ground. Maple Moon led the Mechanics to build a fortress to attack the enemies in the sky. The enemies then also sent a group of yers down. The two sides started ughtering each other on the destend. As Rivervale was at a numerical disadvantage, their situation was quite worrying.
After fighting for a while, a few battleships suddenly appeared deep in the starry sky and quickly approached. They were the Long Sky and the other allied guilds. Seeing this, these three foreign clubs instantly took off and returned to the spaceships that were on standby in the outer atmosphere. Before reinforcements arrived, they escaped with hyperdrive in a very well-practiced manner. It was clear they were prepared.
“Are you guys okay?”
Hao Tian and the other Long Sky membersnded beside Frenzied Sword’s side. They looked around at the mess around.
“s, they got me. We’ve lost quite a lot this time. Some died multiple times and lost EXP too,” Frenzied Sword said with resignation. There was a limit to the number of times the yers could die each day, and the punishment increased gradually after every death. The yers were not afraid of death, but they had to die for a reason. Clearly, dying like this without getting anything in return was a huge loss.
“These foreign clubs have their eyes on us Chinese clubs now. They’ve been working together to attack us,” Maple Moonined.
“Well, it is what it is. We’re making the most profit, after all, and our faction is the strongest.” Sleepy Winter shrugged.
Currently, thanks to the ck Star Army, the Chinese clubs were having the best time in the freepetition zone. Naturally, along with the benefits they received, they were also targeted by the foreign clubs. These clubs’ n to stir up hatred between nations failed, so they could no longer use the yers in the ck Star Army. Hence, they had no choice but to do it themselves. They had been harassing the Chinese clubs frequently over the past few months, attempting to slow down their growth.
Frenzied Sword was a little worried. “It wouldn’t matter if it was just during normal times, but if we get harassed even during the Pro League, it’s going to be very tough for us to achieve something this season.”
“If we get a champion this season too, China will have acquired the champion three times in a row. The clubs from the other countries definitely won’t want to see that,” Rainy Kim said calmly.
Participating in thepetitions was a way to acquire fame. Fame meant traffic, and traffic meant profit. The ultimate goal of all clubs was to make profit.
The International League was the onlyrge-scale openpetition for the pro teams to increase their fame. There were no other tforms that had asrge an audience.
Therefore, if the Chinese had it all, it meant that they had obstructed the others’ way of making money. No clubs from the other countries were content with just participating, so some of them were causing problems for their opponents by any means necessary. They were allpetitors, and when one side became too strong, the others would definitelye together to be against it. It was unavoidable.
Beep beep beep!
At this time, themunicators of everyone present suddenly rang simultaneously.
They exchanged looks of surprise and looked at theirmunicator. When they saw what it was, they were all slightly stunned.
“ck Star Cup?”
On themunicators was a new army announcement.
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Army Announcement—The ck Star Cup Army Tournament
To the entire army, the ck Star Army has been walking the path of high-speed growth. As our business expands, so does the number of members. In order to let the members of the various departments get to know each other more, increase our unity, and select talented people from the various trades, the army has decided to host an event with the nature of a military parade. The preparation for the first season of ck Star Cup Army Tournament starts today. For details, refer to the Competition Rules and Regtions (Expand/Copse).
All members of the army are able to take part. If you can achieve excellent results, the army will not be petty about the rewards. You’re wee to participate.
Army Commander, ck Star.
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The people did not feel much by just looking at the content of the announcement. However, when they expanded thepetition’s rules and read the contents, their eyes became brighter and brighter as they were shocked by the scale of the ck Star Cup.
“My god, the scale of this faction event is way too big!” Maple Moon covered her mouth in shock.
“We can even request certain activities?” Twinkle Fried Rice’s eyes widened.
The yers present were overjoyed just by reading the introduction. They could not wait for it.
Compared to the scale of the ck Star Cup, the International League was tiny.
Frenzied Sword and Hao Tian exchanged looks. Both of them thought of the meaning of this event beyond the surface.
“This is an amazing opportunity to increase our fame!” Frenzied Sword’s tone was excited. “Events like this definitely don’tck spectators, and there are close to ten million army yers as the default audience.”
“That’s right. Although this is an event hosted by an NPC, as long as it’s popr, it’ll also bring traffic. It might be an even better recement for the International League!” Hao Tian expressed his agreement.
Hearing this, the look in everyone’s eyes changed. The way they looked at this announcement was as if they were looking at a mountain of gold.
Everyone had noticed that this was probably the new tform for professional yers to shine. Furthermore, it had way more activities than the International League, which would bring an extremely high amount of exposure.
Although the clubs in the other factions could not participate, which meant that the Chinese clubs had nopetitors and it was not aspetitive as the International League, was this not an exclusive exposure opportunity to the army yers?
Also, it was now the early to middle stage of the version, so the Pro League was still far away. This was the exact time the yers needed an entertainment show, and the ck Star Cup filled this void!
If it was popr enough, they were even willing to bring out as much passion as during the International League to prepare for the ck Star Cup, turning their umted EXP and wealth into strength.
Why do we make money? To spend it when needed of course!
Such an amazing opportunity hasnded on us Chinese yers again...
Thinking of this, they could feel the blood flowing in their body turn warm. They were touched.
ck Star might be a member of the Communist Party!
...
“ck Star Cup?”
Seeing the army’s public announcement, the many foreign clubs were filled with jealousy.
Every club knew that this was an excellent opportunity to gain exposure. This was exactly the stage they needed.
However, only the ck Star Army members could participate in the ck Star Cup. These clubs belonging to other factions could do nothing but watch this opportunity slip by.
The foreign clubs could still put up with the mission benefits the ck Star Army was already getting, but now such an amazing exposure opportunity had appeared, the determination of many clubs not to change factions was shaken.
Why can the ck Star Army hit our soft spots so easily?
Should we just... give in?
...
“What is ck Star doing?’
On the other hand, some Beyond Grade As were confused about this.
To some of them, not only did events like this damage profit and affect efficiency, it would also eat into a lot of time that could be used for work.
However, after some thinking, quite a number of Beyond Grade As felt they understood ck Star’s intentions.
With the development union, the chances for us to take part in battles in the future will probably decrease, which is not beneficial to maintaining our individual image. ck Star might be searching for a new way for us to disy our strength to the outside world.
Quite a number of Beyond Grade As were touched.
The Vice President is thinking so far into the future. Now this is what it means to help us obtain more benefits!