The Game of Global Mining

[Vice President Uriel]: You’ve all felt the frenzied atmosphere here; there’s no room for us to retreat now. When the battle gets intense, you can retreat first in the landing craft.

[Pava Landing]: Vice President, I am willing to fight to the end, but I will first cover the members’ retreat.

[Shoe Angel]: Ladies, I mentioned before that I would fly you away in case of trouble; leave it to me.

[Wine Angel]: I promised too that if we can keep the escape craft intact, I’ll return to continue fighting...

[Bast]: I think...

[Duodolin]: Bast, you’re scared!

[Bast]: I’m not!

...

Chun vaguely understood; the Ten Lords are trying to score points again! All-out death for everyone!

But NPCs don’t have that point-scoring mentality, even though they can normally revive. NPCs don’t have the seasoned revival mentality of players; NPCs only consider their current life as their sole existence. Of course, Gods are exceptions; Gods know they won’t die, like the Black Iron Guardian God and Earth Mother, who view death as reincarnation. It’s just a different setup.

The angels present here are all former guardian gods, probably having this setup of not being afraid of death. But the female mercenaries are not gods and are very afraid of death. Just like back then, when we first left the city to do the Black Dragon Fortress task and encountered that Chaos Beetle, at the mention of the power to slay gods, they ran as fast as they could.

Actually, everyone ran fast!

Chun couldn’t sit still anymore; at times like this, he can’t treat them as revivable NPCs, ignoring their life or death, but considering they truly have only one life! It’s also possible this is exactly the plot twist Uriel intends to use to take out the shareholders!

How to act? When to act? Don’t worry about it! As the president, I will make a grand appearance. I’m worried about nothing — well, worried that Michael’s monsters would no longer attack, and the ship’s cannons would blast me to death directly!

"Queen, get a bit closer!"

"Okay, Master..."

Turning the "corner" of the twisted space, having just seen smoke and dust ahead, Chun suddenly saw a "sun" explode violently, and his screen was filled with white light!

— System Tip: Warning! You’ve been hit by Rachael’s apocalypse impact...

Holy Shit!

"Pull back first!"

The Ten Lords Rachael, only seen ranked on the leaderboard, yet have never been witnessed by any players, is unexpectedly in such a high-end scene in the Void. And such an awe-inspiring debut, perhaps my worries were needless?

When the light dissipated, Chun got closer to see, only to witness a massive rolling blue-purple light screen enveloping the entire battlefield. Barrier? Domain? Can’t see a thing!

At this moment, Chun tried contacting Hua for Nan, previously worried the signal might expose her, but now signals are clashing everywhere...

Hua’s perspective immediately connected, precisely inside the Black Dragon Battleship’s command cabin, and the vibrations on Chun’s screen also shook with it!

Through the command cabin’s large screen, Chun saw the Super Boss, an enormous creature resembling a Giant Whale, its entire body sparkling like it was covered with a layer of mineral crystal armor. The massive blue domain seemed to be released from its armor.

A voice inside the warship delivered: "General, assessments show Divine Realm Sage’s apocalypse judgment weakened the main target’s mana and physical strength by 10%, failed to break its defense! Number One Divine Artifact strike weakened the target’s physical strength by 5%, defense remains intact! Divine Artifact Number Two successfully reached Number One’s drop point, defense still intact!"

"Divine Realm Sage, transform into a fireball towards the drop point of Artifacts Number One and Two!!!"

Uriel stood up sprightly: "Salute the bravery of the Divine Realm Sage!"

On the large screen, a meteor streaked through layers of electric grids and hit the Giant Whale, making its blue armor emit a crisp sound!

The report was animatedly excited: "Report! Defense breach achieved!!"

It seemed the General’s NPC shouted maniacally: "All heavy cannons on the ship, focus attack on breach point! Bravery knows no enemy lines. Salute the warrior!!"

Chun was stunned! The nuclear explosion earlier didn’t hurt it at all! Actually, it might have injured quite a few small creatures, just didn’t kill them?

The next moment, the cannonfire all raged, and the large screen was engulfed in white again!

Followed by another massive quake from the warship!

"Report, hit by Void Thunder! Warship barrier loss at 35%, emergency backup charging initiated..."

"37 S-class creatures emitting high-voltage electrical reactions; suspected suicide crash towards our warship!"

"50 side auxiliary cannons on the right, shoot down suicide attacks..."

"Report!! Main target is launching all-out charge at the enemy battleship!!"

"Aid the enemy ship..."

But Uriel stood again: "General! The target’s charge has further exposed the wound we just breached in front of us. Our usual support is useless; it would be best to have the entire ship rush and crash into its wound! The enemy ship will cooperate! Survivors go directly into land combat!"

The General suddenly stiffened: "This—"

Subordinate Officer: "Report! Enemy ship full-speed loading at 200% and releasing landing boats, launching head-on self-destructive charge at the target, inviting our army to charge together!"

Uriel directly activated privileges: "General!! It concerns the Black Dragon City’s honor, charge!"

With the atmosphere so intense and preparations so well in place, the General roared: "Charge! Secure your seatbelts for impact preparedness!"

Uriel shouted: "Leave land combat to our guild! All guild personnel, board the landing ship!"

Aimee then said joyfully: "Vice President, will you come?"

Uriel righteously declared: "I will live or die with the entire ship!! You hurry aboard!"

...

Chun was utterly "Holy Shit"-ing!

Though knowing this is the Ten Lords scoring points, throwing out big moves and Divine Artifacts, and after that fighting desperately... However, even those two massive battleships self-destructed desperately too, this is your own game, you set this up...

But fortunately, the guild members boarded the ship! My goal is clear – first escort the landing ship away from the battlefield, then come back to see if I can pick up any leftovers.

If scavenging for leftovers, then exposing is a no-go; have to covertly escort!

The next moment, the blue light screen encompassing the battlefield suddenly shattered, and the explosive flames lit up the entire Void!

Chun finally saw the scenario, with one battleship smashed to pieces, while the other half-pierced into the Giant Whale like a long spear.

The Giant Whale howled again, a lightning-sparkling vortex storm erupting in the center of the battlefield, sweeping across the field!

Through Hua’s view, Chun noticed the landing craft Nan boarded also rolling and spinning in the storm.

However, couldn’t care less about them, as the storm swept, he couldn’t help but start to tumble as well!

Queen exclaimed: "Master, shall we escape first!"

Alright, they are NPCs, they can revive if it isn’t a storyline death. But the Queen... Chun doesn’t even know what she is. If she’s a wild creature, she’d really be gone if she dies. Even if refreshed next time, it might not be the same one nor a version improved in the second upgrade.

Actually safeguarding the Queen first might be the most responsible choice...