Minecraft: I Am The Demon King

Black Blade's purpose for coming this time was very obvious, it was aimed at Xu Yuan.

He also knew, within such a large area like the Trial Grounds, looking for Xu Yuan was not an easy thing. So he had already made preparations and arrangements in advance.

Black Blade's identity, the players all understood in their hearts. Black Blade himself naturally was also very clear about this point.

Black Blade also planned two routes for the players under him.

One obvious route and one hidden route.

The obvious route was a group of players openly following him. They had earlier stood one by one in the team behind Black Blade to accept the signboard's scan.

These players, Black Blade had also told them in advance, 'After entering the Trial Grounds, meet up in the snowy terrain.'

Black Blade's idea was also about the same as Steve's. Black Blade certainly wanted to prioritize his own development first.

Even though Black Blade himself was strong enough, he would still try to reduce personnel loss as much as possible. That way, when encountering Xu Yuan in the future, he'd have the confidence to face him.

The snowy terrain, like the desert terrain, lacked resources. Almost no players would choose to start in the snowy terrain.

But such an environment was not a problem for this group of top-level players under Black Blade.

Moreover, the snowy terrain was located at the junction of many terrains, facing other terrains across the sea.

This was the most suitable place to serve as an intelligence relay hub.

Settling here was more beneficial for gathering information.

Speaking of information gathering, one had to mention the hidden route players Black Blade had prepared in advance.

Black Blade originally wanted to have some of his players infiltrate Steve's and Grayfist's sides.

But unfortunately, these two old foxes were too cunning, those sent by Black Blade didn't gain their trust.

Seeing this, Black Blade could only give up. He picked some top-level players and placed them among the solo-player teams. And he assigned them to be spread across all terrains.

These players had two options.

Either form their own faction, pulling in a group of solo players to become a power of their own. That way, those loose solo forces were essentially controlled from the beginning.

Or act as solo players and blend into Steve's or Grayfist's forces.

Although Steve and Grayfist would definitely not heavily rely on these later-joined solo players, it was still possible to gain some intel and observe some of their movements.

In other words, if the plan went smoothly, it would be equivalent to Black Blade having the intelligence network of the entire player faction.

This way, it would be convenient for Black Blade to search for information on Xu Yuan. And also convenient to know the intel of each force.

You could say it killed two birds with one stone.

As the saying goes, master and servant think alike, Black Blade and Xu Yuan really had thought the same.

Whether or not the expected outcome would be achieved in the end, at the very least, the strategies Black Blade had made were impeccable.

Of course, behind this, Pengpeng also definitely had a lot of credit.

Besides Black Blade, Steve, and Grayfist, the player side only had some solo players left.

They basically either formed their own groups or were preparing to join one of the three big sides to protect themselves.

At this point, the entire Trial had just begun, but the player faction already had a preliminary form. And the situation on the player side wasn't much different from the situation in the main world.

The monster faction also carried out the same strategy as the player faction.

They naturally understood better than the players the importance of sticking together in a new environment.

The monster faction had clearly split into three main powers.

Illagers, Blue Demon, and the iron golems controlled by the Void.

The Illager leader naturally chose the forest terrain as their gathering point. In the main world, they lived in forest-covered manor lands. So they were more familiar with the forest terrain.

Also, the Illager leader considered that other monsters would probably also choose to survive in the forest terrain.

After all, within the forest terrain, vegetation covered everything, even during the day, sunlight couldn't get through.

This also provided monsters with excellent time to develop.

The Illagers also wanted to take the opportunity to win over other monsters, to grow the monster faction strong, to withstand the crises they would face in the future.

As for the Blue Demon's side, their thinking was not much different from the Illager leader. In the main world, the only ones Blue Demon could trust were Jio and Barbecue Sauce.

But he clearly knew, to complete the Trial, relying on just a few people's strength was absolutely impossible.

Although they were confident they could survive until the Trial ended, surviving alone meant nothing. And even if they barely survived to the end, it didn't mean they could pass the Trial.

So they had to gather the power of all monsters and animals. For this, Blue Demon also made a decision similar to Black Blade's.

He, who had always been with Barbecue Sauce, did not choose to reunite with him. Instead, he told Barbecue Sauce to develop independently and go find more allies.

Even though Barbecue Sauce was a weakling, Blue Demon wasn't too worried about his situation. Barbecue Sauce was different from him. Blue Demon's abilities were special powers.

After rebirth, those special abilities would all disappear, like lightning control. But the trident techniques Blue Demon had practiced earlier didn't disappear.

Those were things he had trained repeatedly, engraved into his bones.

It was equivalent to the players' skills. Skills like that couldn't be wiped away.

This was also the reason he wasn't worried about Barbecue Sauce.

The only thing Barbecue Sauce might lose was his ability to fire stink-egg machine guns. But that wasn't his only ability.

He still had his indestructible little chicken beak, and his powerful wings gained from two and a half months of flight training.

With those two skills alone, he could handle many crises.

On the monster faction side, Blue Demon, Jio, and Barbecue Sauce represented the monsters and animals factions.

Monsters and animals didn't have hatred between them, so forming alliances in the Trial Grounds should be fairly easy.

Another force in the monster faction was the Illagers.

Though their leader hadn't contacted Blue Demon and the others before, he already intended to ally with other monsters.

From the current trend, the monster faction's powers wouldn't be as complicated as the player side. If nothing unexpected happened, all forces should unite.

And the only uncertainty left in the monster faction was the group of iron golems fused with the Void consciousness.

Although the Trial Grounds hadn't announced the content of the trial before, the red consciousness of the Void probably guessed that this trial was truly set by HIM to find a successor.

The red consciousness didn't expect much from the iron golems fused with the purple consciousness. So he pre-informed Iron Golem No. Purple-27, telling the golems participating in the trial to split into two teams.

One team would act as spoilers, disturbing the progress of the players.

The other team would try to ally with the monster faction, then stir up war between the monster faction and the player faction.

In short, their mission could be summed up in two words, cause chaos.

These golems served as disruptors. The messier the situation, the better.

This arrangement was also the red consciousness's way of buying time. Even though he didn't expect the golems fused with the purple consciousness to win HIM's inheritance, they could at least delay the end of the Trial Grounds.

Because all three HIMs were participants in the Trial Grounds, the longer the trial lasted, the longer the main world would remain out of control.

Without HIM's interference, the red consciousness could carry out his big plan.

The situation on the monster side was already relatively clear. Monsters and creatures would ally to fight the enemy together, forming a stable and powerful force.

The golems possessed by the Void consciousness were the only variable. Whether they could mix into the monster group was still unknown.

Currently, the players, monsters, animals, and the Void each had a unified strategy.

Only one independent faction remained, the Villager faction, with only a single person, Mustard.

As the sole survivor of this faction, if Mustard wanted to survive as an independent force in this trial, rationally speaking, it was not very likely.

You could say, within the entire Trial Grounds, the one with the smallest difference before and after entering, was only Mustard.

Those monsters who passed the scan all more or less had some powerful ability or skill in the main world.

After entering the Trial Grounds, some of those abilities were stripped.

The players, although they had no special powers, at least had high-quality gear. But entering the Trial Grounds, their gear was also cleared.

Everyone basically started from zero.

But Mustard was the same inside as outside. He had no special power to be stripped, no gear to be cleared.

This could be considered his strength, and his weakness.

He didn't need to adapt or change for the environment. But even though everyone's starting line was lowered in the Trial Grounds, his powerless state still left him at the bottom of the food chain.

If he wanted to survive, if he wanted to achieve his goal, he had to depend on someone else's protection.

So he had to choose a side.

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