<h4>Chapter 565: Deration of War</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion <strong>Editor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion


    Before Jiang Fei could even greet Isabe, a chain of system notifications red.


    “Ding! The Faction Region has been open to the world!”


    “Ding! All yers can ess the Faction Maps via the Teleportation Circle in each Main City.”


    “Ding! Please set your Faction affiliation before entering the Faction Maps. yers who choose the Light Faction will be sent to the Divine Light Fortress. yers who choose the Shadow Faction will be sent to the Demon me Fortress. yers who choose the Neutral Faction will be sent to the City of Sinners.”


    The system notification was repeated but Jiang Fei had already known about it. Hence, he ignored the notifications and chatted with Isabe for a bit before heading to the Demon me Fortress. When he arrived, there were already yers roaming around the ce. More and more yers were constantlying out of the Teleportation Circle.


    In Faction Region, the concept of yers belonging to a city was removed. Instead, the entire yer base was divided into three; the Light, the Shadow, and the Neutral. yers from all cities over the world were gathered in this Demon me Fortress. Since they belonged to the same Faction, they were not enemies but allies. Hence, their name tags were all green.


    Each yer that arrived in the Demon me Fortress would be given a choice to follow an NPC guide. It waspletely optional to join the induction program. However, it was best to follow since the NPC had done a great job in exining the concept of the Faction Region as well as the marvels of the Demon me Fortress.


    Two hours into the game, another system notification popped.


    “Ding! The Nephilim King Augustus of the Shadow Faction has dered war on the Light Faction!”


    That was the notification that Jiang Fei saw. The yers in the Light Faction would also receive a notification but in their perspective, the leader of the Light Faction was the one that dered war on the Shadow Faction.


    “It’s finally time!” said Jiang Fei to himself. All of the yers, including Jiang Fei, had their characters locked as the system took control. The game was now in cutscene mode.


    TOOOOOT!


    The horns of war were blown from the top of the Fortress. Concurrently, the same thing happened in the Divine Light Fortress.


    Jiang Fei’s vision was taken over by the system. Like watching a movie, Jiang Fei’s perspective cut over to the front of the Demon me Fortress.


    Bang Bang Bang!


    Tens of thousands of soldiers were seen marching out of the gates of the Demon me Fortress. After several more tens of thousands of soldier marched out of the fortress, they formed a neat formation and marched on.


    From the corner of the Demon Fortress, a Demon Ranger was seen shooting out a whistling arrow that made a loud ring noise as it flew into the clouds. It was the signal to let the Aerial Knights know it was their time. One squadron at a time, the Aerial Knights flew upwards and joined the rest of the ground troops to the battlefield.


    The perspective changed once more this time, everyone was fixed to see Knight’s Commander Heinz, riding on his Skeletal Horse while waving his sword as he gave his speech.


    “Today! Shall be the day! The day when we will take down and destroy the hypocrites and deceivers of the Light! Today, we shall bring the hammer of justice down upon them! O, brave soldiers! We march to fight the enemy! We march for glory! WE MARCH FOR VICTORY!”


    Right after Heinz roared out thest phrase of his speech, everyone in the demon army cheered on and marched their way to the Light Faction’s fortress with fervor. The cutscene ended after that and all yers were given control of their character.


    “Phew! That made my blood boil!” said Jiang Fei to himself. During the cutscene, Jiang Fei had taken note that there was at least 30 corps of soldiers. Each corp had at least 10,000 soldiers! By the looks of it, the war between the Light and Shadow would be spectacr!


    “Oh my god. Did you guys see that as well? It’s so cool!”


    “Come on! What are we waiting for! There’s got to be some loot to pick in the front lines!”


    “Wait for me!”


    “Geez... I wonder if I could be as swol as the soldiers.”


    Many of the pub gamers started to make their way to the middle of the battlefield. While they were busy getting themselves shot in the face by stray attacks, yers that were in guilds waited for orders from their guild officers.


    “How are you going to take things now?” said Jiang Fei in the guild’s officer chat group.


    “Gather yers and start farming levels. The coordinates that you had sent? Turns out there’s no one there yet. There’s good monster spawn rate and we are currently grinding there right now,” said Lady Casanova.


    “That’s a good idea. Levelinges first,” said Billy Boy.


    “Alright. Persuade more yers of the guild to join you. Split up if the map gets too crowded.”


    Jiang Fei ended the chat satisfyingly. He had feared that members of Empyreal Dragon were like the pub gamers; getting all hyped up for no reason and rushing to the battlefield.


    Jiang Fei cannot deny that the cutscene was good but it was merely the introduction of the Faction Region. This new patch content if it was not permanent, it would be for a long term event. Hence, there was no reason to charge into the battlefield at Level 50. There was literally nothing for them besides getting themselves killed.


    Jiang Fei opened up the Level Ranking Board and saw a few changes to it. First of all, since they were in the Faction Region, the Level Ranking Boardbined all yers from all four major cities and sorted them out. The City where they came from did not matter anymore.


    Jiang Fei was holding on to the first spot at Level 69. The second ce was taken by Seven Star Warrior as he had been very diligent in taking yers of the guild into dungeon crawling repeatedly. He was at Level 50 by then. The third and fourth ce were Level 49 yers. Jiang Fei was not familiar with their names as they were from another city. As such, only Jiang Fei and Seven Star Warrior were the only two yers of Empyreal Dragon that had taken a spot on the Level Ranking Board.


    The current average level of all yersbined in the Shadow Faction was Level 45, while the Light Faction had Level 47 as their average yer level. There was a good reason behind this.


    When Jiang Fei defeated Cosmic Dragon, he did it in the form of the Nephilim while Cosmic Dragon was in his Celestial form. During Faction affiliation, more yer had chosen to join the Shadow Faction. Those that joined the Light Faction were loyal fans and allies of Cosmic Dragon. There were some that preferred to affiliate themselves to the light purely because of personal preference. Nevertheless, there were many strong yers that were in the Light Faction.


    As many yers had only joined the Shadow Faction so as to hop on the hype train, the number soared and since there were more heads to factor in, the average level dragged down the bell curve.


    However, having a lower average level did not mean that the Faction’sbat power was weak. To be honest, the Shadow Faction was so much stronger than the Light Faction due to sheer numbers. Hence, to bnce it out, the system had arranged for NPC soldiers to fill in the gaps.


    All the NPC soldiers that were filled in were Level 70. If yers wanted to participate in the battle and not be overwhelmed by the NPCs, they would have to raise their level to Level 62 in order to cancel out the Level Suppression system. Due to this simple reason, guilds with smarter guild masters had forbidden their members from joining the battle. If they wanted to have a fair fight, they would need to increase their current level. Like Empyreal Dragon, many of them got together to form a party and started grinding levels in hot spots. The monsters’ experience points in the Faction map were so high that grinding in the Faction region was at least 5 times faster than in the main city!


    Jiang Fei had basically explored all the regions around the Demon me Fortress. Hence, he chose to do nothing but fly around with Isabe. At the same time, he was on the lookout for potential grinding spots for his guild. The current map that Jiang Fei had informed Lady Casanova about was tens of kilometers around the Demon Dragon Fortress. Within these few days, it should be the yground reserved specifically for members of the Empyreal Dragon!