MMORPG: Divine Mech Hunter

Knowing Li Yao's first target, it's not difficult to deduce his second target.

The main army led by Li Yao is too formidable, definitely not something a few guilds can handle.

In less than half an hour, he captured a city. When this news broke out on the forum, countless people were shocked, especially after seeing the video of the main army fighting and the promise made by Li Yao, as well as Li Yao fulfilling that promise during the march, recording the three types of guilds with the most military merits.

This caused a further frenzy, with countless people, including players already engaged in battles, searching for Li Yao's live stream.

Especially players from the Dark Camp, many started regretting not joining the main army.

Because until now, the vast majority of guilds are still fighting to the death, and those that have taken a city have paid a heavy price.

Many guilds even had their foundation damaged due to the war, losing the capability to continue capturing cities.

But looking at Li Yao's side, the losses are minimal compared to the gains, almost negligible.

Countless people summoned their powerful armies for military merit; with the warships breaking down the city walls, they only needed to utilize their methods to fight.

Too many guilds started regretting and even trying to contact Starfire through various means to join the main army, but it's basically not possible. The main army has become the envy of all three factions.

On the Drying Sun, the military merits of the three guilds were publicly announced, and their tax revenue share was recorded. Li Yao continued excitedly, "After testing, this rule is not bad. So for the next cities, we will still follow this rule, and for the guilds that received city shares, to obtain the tax share of the second city, the second military merit must be at least 30% more than the first, or they will lose qualification."

Although the three guilds that obtained city shares were slightly unwilling, the rest were all eager to fight for shares. They were first this time, and the next time the opportunity is naturally greater, so they will naturally be targeted.

Just like each event when Starfire is targeted, it's just that this time, no one dares to compete with Starfire, nor can they compete.

"The second city, Muddy Fortress." Li Yao doesn't care what the players think; he mainly aims for energy units. Although capturing a city is brief, the exchanges are fierce and with high casualties, Li Yao's energy units have spiked. Now the worker insects have completed the cleanup of the battlefield.

Even though the Lizardmen had anticipated Li Yao's second target and made defenses.

A battle is actually already occurring here, with several large guilds united to siege the fortress, but the fight is deadlocked and hasn't progressed.

Many Lizardmen, guessing Li Yao's route, came here. They also need military merits, and the best way to obtain them is naturally to repel the counterattacks of the three major factions.

Particularly, Li Yao's main army has attracted a large number of Lizardmen players here to assist in the defense, clearly planning to use this as the strongest barrier and the frontline in intercepting the main army.

They must fight, as capturing this fortress will allow Li Yao to enter Lizardmen territory and start genuinely counterattacking their cities.

Lizardman NPCs have allocated shares to many guilds, tying the players closely to them.

So when Li Yao arrived with the main army, a massive army was already gathered here, with several Dragon Head-level big shots present.

But Li Yao had no intention of entangling with them and directly issued the attack command.

Two Sky Warships rampaged across the sky, with the Drying Sun bombarding the city walls while the Queen constantly launched Plague Barrels, wreaking havoc below the city.

Lizardmen players deployed a considerable force to deal with the two warships, but due to the shield, they couldn't truly break through the outermost defense of the warships and could only become live targets for the players on the deck and the warship's guards.

Despite the Lizardmen's craziness, the city walls were still crumbled, the ground army was in a frontal battle, and they were at no advantage in the sky.

This major battle lasted a bit longer, but the furious slaughter only continued for less than an hour before the Lizard-Man Army collapsed and scattered, while the main army mercilessly pursued them.

The initially attacking guilds wanted to share the spoils, thinking they had first attacked the city and that Li Yao was stealing their rewards, but Li Yao didn't even meet with them.

Only their military merits were verified, and the players in charge as quartermasters from Starfire ignored them, stating that their submitted strategy prompted the Staff Department to make adjustments, advising them not to choose to attack this city, yet they obstinately stood in the main army's path.

The guilds were helpless and realized they had no place to reason. Not only couldn't they find the faction big shots, but even if they did, explaining the situation would result in ridicule for disobeying the Staff Department's orders and disregarding the New Warlord's plan. How could they blame anyone but themselves? Encountering such subordinates, the faction big shots wouldn't care.

Then they aimed for a secondary option, wanting to join the main army. After all, they have seen the benefits of joining the main army, capturing two cities in half a day with minimal costs. Even small and medium-sized guilds had the chance for shares, a huge temptation for them.

However, the situation is more compelling than individuals, and the main army, which Starfire initially wanted more numbers in, is now sufficient. Their attempt to join was decisively rejected by the Staff Department.

It was Phantom's suggestion to deliberately create a gap, allowing some main army guilds and players to feel superior and indicating that joining the main army isn't an open entry. There are many battles ahead and many opportunities; it's their opportunities, not those on the fence.

The effect was quite evident, as the Staff Department only needed to provide outcomes, and naturally, the main army's players would bash the few guilds. In less than ten minutes, the guilds were faced with overwhelming criticism and slunk away, outnumbered and humiliated.

The reasoning is simple: the main army is already short on resources, barely enough for themselves, so adding more to share the spoils is absolutely unacceptable, hence their unified stance against outsiders.

Even though many saw through Starfire's tactics, understanding it was deliberate, it didn't conflict with the results. For their interests, they had to act this way.

In contrast, they actually hoped for Starfire's approach even more.

Li Yao awaited the Witherer to lead the NPC army to occupy the fortress, and his insects tossed everything from the battlefield into the conversion pool, gaining a substantial number of energy units, naturally feeling very satisfied.

"The Military Governor will start attacking the Lizardmen cities soon, and though it's not my place to say, I still want to remind that we can only effectively occupy the outermost cities, the closer we get to the enemy's main city, the harder it is for us to control." Witherer advised as Li Yao boarded the ship.

"I understand. I will use three days to sweep the outskirts of the Lizardmen, then consider advancing to attack the main city,"...