Chapter 638: War of Nations


    Trantor: EndlessFantasy Trantion Editor: EndlessFantasy Trantion


    There were many strong yers who had participated in the Global Rankingpetition. However, strong or weak, was an abstract value. Even during the firstdder climbing phase, the enemies that Zhang Yang faced were B ss Inheritance yers. When a B ss Inheritance yer meets an S ss yer, the result would be likely one-sided. An intense battle is unavoidable when two sides use their Transformation skills. However, Zhang Yang stood undefeated.


    After several more fights, Zhang Yang collected enough points and met Sun Xin Yu in the random roll yer assignment. It was inevitable since she too was climbing up thedder.


    Sun Xin Yu smirked when she saw that Zhang Yang was her opponent. Being a hard-headed woman, she would not let Zhang Yang defeat her easily. The two burst out with their Transformation skills and eloped to another world in an intense fight. Unlike normal PvP arenas where yers could join the room to spectate the fight, ranking battles are held in private arenas. The most intense battle between the two strongest yers in the world could not be seen. In the end, Zhang Yang won the battle, even though there were several times when he almost got his head lopped off.


    Sun Xin Yu took the defeat proudly and bade Zhang Yang farewell. Zhang Yang had admitted to himself that perhaps the only yer that could defeat him was Sun Xin Yu. That would ce Sun Xin Yu as the second-best yer in the world. Thus, Sun Xin Yu’s true rival was only Zhang Yang and Zhang Yang alone. The other yers around were nothing but scrap that sullied the ground before her. After several more rounds, Zhang Yang and Sun Xin Yu were matched with each other again. Zhang Yang nodded his head with satisfaction. Only by improving herself intensely would she be gaining ranks to fight him again.


    There were only 160 yers that could fight in the Global Ranking battle. With that number, it was hard to fight a matched rank. There were times that Zhang Yang would have to wait for more than 30 minutes just to be matched with someone. As the rank goes higher, it would take a longer time to find a match. Hence, the speed of Zhang Yang collecting more points had be extremely slow.


    However, unlike many other match-making games, ‘God’s Miracle’ allows yers to roam around the world to fight monsters while waiting for the system to find a match. When the system finds an opponent, the system will teleport both yers to the battle arena. Once the match ends, the yer will be sent back to where they were before. Hence, it was a good time to train. Naturally, no one in their right mind would apply for a match and fight a boss. When the system forcefully teleports the yer away in the middle of a boss fight, it would be extremely inconvenient for the yer’s teammates. However, after several match-making sessions, yers themselves would get the hang of it. They would know how long would the system take to find a match. By then, if a yer knows that they have enough time, they would go ahead and fight a boss, depending on the situation.


    5 days after Zhang Yang joined the Global ranking battle, he had reached the top 20 ranks. From there on, the yers he was matched with were all A ss Inheritance holders. Naturally, the fights intensity was tweaked up by a notch. However, it was not much trouble for Zhang Yang. If he felt a possibility of him losing, he would just activate the Phoenix’s Transformation skill and own the yer! Thebination of both Zhang Yang and the Phoenix was the firepower of an S ss and B ss Inheritance in a single character! In a 1v1 fight, perhaps no one could fight him.


    A few more dayster, Zhang Yang’s undefeated killing streak had yers dubbed him as the "Inhuman", or even "Devil’s Incarnate". On the other hand, Fatty Han had been relying on the Phoenix’s strength to defeat his foes. However, the Phoenix itself was not overtly strong. Its strength could only be used to a certain extent when Fatty Han has no PvP skills. As a result, Fatty Han had only managed to hug the Phoenix’s legs up till the top 60 ranks. Any higher and Fatty Han would face a little too much trouble. He might have the firepower of a cannon when he and the Phoenix use their Transformation skills, but his skills were so bad that even though he was steering the cannons, the man could not aim properly to save his own life!


    Although the system had written the words "fair" and "equal" in the patch notes when the officialsunch the individual ranking system, it was, in fact, unfair and broken in many ways. The most prominent fact was the cooldown reset for all skills. yers could buy themselves a ton of powerful skills and used them in the fight since cooldown was not a concern for them. It was not fair in a way that poor yer or yers without proper support could not properly gauge their skills. It was not a good way of gauging a yer’s ability. Despite the bold fact, many yers did not care about it. In their own opinion, it would be a thrilling fight when all skills could be used immediately!


    10 days after the first rank match, Zhang Yang had sessfully nted his feet in the first ce in the Global All Rounder ranking board. Almost everyone, especially those who were not from China, felt it extremely odd when the Global All Rounder Champion is ranked 17th in China’s All Rounder Rank, 6th in the China Warrior Rank, and 3rd in the China Guardian Rank.


    Usually, when a yer is a Global Champion, he should be the champion for all the other ranks, including his own Region. However, Zhang Yang had purposely kept himself lower in all of the Regional ranks. If others wanted to challenge him, they would have to start from the 18th rank! Everyone in China understood that Zhang Yang does not want to fight for fame in his own nation. However, understanding and looking at the results are two different things. How could a person be a Global Champion when he is only ranked 17th in his own nation?!


    Once the ranking board was released to the public, nobody could say a word...


    When the ranking boards were refreshed, Zhang Yang, Sun Xin Yu, and Han Ying Xue – the real professional yers had been enlisted, recing all the previous winners. This time, it was China who dominated the Global Ranking list. The first and second ces were taken by Zhang Yang and Sun Xin Yu respectively. All in all, there were a total of 18 yers from China who had been enlisted in the top 100 global yers. The previous dominators, the Europeans had been pushed down to only 15 yers. On the other hand, the boastful India Region was being pushed to the third. Their pride waspletely extinguished. Hourss Figure was pushed down to the third ce,cking only 14 points to the second ce. Perhaps, even Han Ying Xue, who was ranked 4th could defeat her in the next Global Ranking list.


    Naturally, the Japan-Korea region was still the weakest amongst all other regions. Previous, they had 5 yers in the Global Ranking list. After the second refresh, they were shortened down by 4 yers. Out of the 4, their best yer was ranked at 46th!


    With Zhang Yang emerging in the Global Ranks, the Japanese and Korean yer had reminisced about the cruel past and were enraged. Just like that, they started a Nation War, with the intention of sacking Morning Town and entering China Region via the Ten Barren Sea portal and kill their way in.


    The officials had revamped the Nation War system and added a reward and penalty. The attacker can issue a deration of war and attack any major city. As such, the attacker’s victory will be rewarded with all yers Level +1 while the loser will receive a Level -1 penalty. The penalty for destroying one city will the same as destroying all eight cites. However, the more cities destroyed, the more Honor points will be awarded to the attackers. Honor points can be used to exchange non-tradable equipment and items. It was not a good way to earn a fortune via Honor points.


    A Nation War can be dered once every 30 real-time days. During the cooldown period, any city raiding would not be registered as a Nation War; no rewards will be given even if the attackers manage to kill all eight major cities in the entire Region.


    The Nation War system was a little rigged. The defender would not receive any rewards for a sessful defense. On the other hand, the attacker’s side – the one that calls for the Nation War, will not receive any penalty for losing. The system was made that way to encourage yers to start a world war as frequent as possible. Staying passive in the shadow would do no good.


    Ever since Japan-Korea Region yers had sessfully retaken their own Territory in the Chaos Realm, they were at great enmity between the China yers. One thinks that the world belongs to then, while the other thinks that the universe belongs to everyone. It could be said that yers were extremely emotional and they were not thinking straight when they started the war.


    There were conflicts between China and Japan-Korea region before, but the intensity of those wars was not too great. The most intense war that ever urred was when Japan-Korea region yers had charged into the China’s Ten Barren Sea. It was not considered to be an all-out war since the number of participating yers were less than Level 100 and were not up to the required number. However, the most recent Nation War had more than 50 million Level 100+ yers! It was more than enough to meet the requirements of a Nation-wide War.


    On the 10th day of Spring of the month of March, Japan-Korea region yer had initiated ‘God’s Miracle’s’ first ever Nation War. With 40 million yers, they took down Morning Town easily, destroying the town’s portal with ease which caused many yers to unable to teleport to the ce.


    After Morning Town was destroyed, Japan-Korea had positioned 10 million yers to block the entrance to the Ten Barren Sea, in case reinforcements from Chaos Realm came to help. The remaining 30 million yers then rushed into the China region in formation to destroy cities to wipe their te clean of shame.


    The news of the war spread like wildfire to all China’s yer’s ears. No matter what they were doing, be it training, raiding a dungeon, or banging someone’s brain out in bed, all yers took the news to heart and vowed for revenge.


    Zhang Yang, Snow Seeker, One Sword Stroke, and other guild masters that were on amicable terms with each other sat down to have a serious discussion. After a quick meeting, everyone decided to dispatch arge portion of their guild member to attack Morning Town and retake the Territory. All yers with Flying Mounts were summoned back, not to provide reinforcements, but to attack Winst Castle and attack Japan-Korea region directly at their major city.


    By then, even though Japan-Korea region had more than 40 million yers attacking China, only 1% of them had flying mounts. Their progress was slow. On the hand, they had also sortied their higher-Level yers to attack as well, leaving most of their major cities empty and exposed to invaders. Even though there were many yers lingering around the ce, they were all but lower level yers who were crushed instantly.


    Zhang Yang assembled his troops, taking all yers with flying mounts with him and left the remaining forces on the ground to meet the oing yers. By the looks of it, before the Japan-Korea could reach their major city, Zhang Yang would have reached their major city first.


    10 of China’s elites of the elites guilds had grouped up together in a hidden valley between mountains, 30 kilometers outside of Winst Castle. All of them had Flying Mounts, hence, the defenses of Winst Castle had little to no effect on them. On the other hand, they were all flying at the highest altitude possible for them where not a single yer in Japan-Korea region could spot them. It was possible to spot them in the sky, but that requires a yer to look into the sky with clear intent and squint their eyes hard. The other way of spotting them was if other flying yers happened to bump into them. However, literally, all yers with flying mounts were sortied to attack China.


    Since the Nation War was started without warning, there was no strategy to properly counter their attack. There were only around 3,500 yers, although they were the strongest of the strongest around China, and as many as 1,500 C ss Inheritance holders, not everyone had their Transformation ready to be used.


    "How do we fight when there are only so few of us?" asked many guild masters.


    Zhang Yang took themander position and exined, "There’s no need to kill yers to win a city raid. As long as we can kill the high ruler of the city, it’s our victory. During a city raid, the ruler’s level is not fixed at a certain level. The Level of the ruler will be the average level of all yers within the city, +30 Levels. From my calctions, I think the boss should be Level 145. It should be a Mythical tier with around 500 million HP. We’ll gather 20 yers with the strongest ss Inheritances and attack the main target. On average, each of our DPS should be 100,000, 20 of us should be 2 million DPS."


    Everyone listened with their full concentration while Zhang Yang continued. "It’s really that simple. All we have to do is to attack the pce. 20 of us will take 5 minutes to fight the boss while the rest of us will guard the entrance. After the boss is dead, we will retreat. Any questions?"


    Everyone could not believe what Zhang Yang had just exined. It was too simple!


    The truth? They were more than capable toplete the task. Flying mounts granted them the ability to skip most of the defensive formation and directly attack the pce. However, there was one more threat. The Dragon Riders in the major cities. They would require luck to ambush the pce from the sky. After all, the Elite tier Dragon Riders do not behave like their level. In fact, their difficulty could be greater than the ruler in the pce! If everyone is preupied by the Dragon Riders, it would be aplete waste of time that might lead to failure.


    "There’s only over 3,000 of us. There’s no way in but to ambush." Sword of Light agreed with Zhang Yang. "Time waits for no man. Let’s get going."


    All guild masters nodded and informed their own guilds about the strategy. With Zhang Yang taking the lead, all yers soared to the sky and hastily went over Winst Castle, undetected and entered the portal that led to the Japan-Korea region.


    "GO GO GO! DON’T STOP!" Zhang Yang cried. With great speed and silence, everyone made sure their mounts made no noise as they entered the first major city of the Japan-Korea region, Hansung Castle.


    On the other side of the world, news was ryed to Zhang Yang about the enemy who were making their way towards the Level 80 maps. Their target was Emerald City. In truth, they wanted to target White Jade Castle because of their hatred for Lone Desert Smoke and Zhang Yang. White Jade Castle was the main city of Lone Desert Smoke. However, they had changed their target because they knew about Queen Serena, the god-like entity resides within the castle. It would be suicidal tounch an attack.


    Unlike the iing enemies, Zhang Yang assault party had flying mounts. They were much faster than the enemy. In just 4 hours, they had entered the airspace of Hansung Castle and dived straight into the castle. One by one, the assault party dove past the magic cannons attack range and entered the interior sector, and into the royal pce.


    Right then, the defensive squadron of the Hansung Castle started to retaliate against Zhang Yang. As Zhang Yang feared, the defensive force were the powerful 3,000 Dragon Riders!


    Zhang Yang no choice but to implement theirst resort n. With 1,000 yers deducted from the assault party, the remaining 2,000 yers swept past Dragon Riders and headed straight into the royal chamber.


    In reality, a ruler would be hidden from sight. However, in the game, unless there are specific events the require the king to be at some ces, the ruler of the will definitely be in the royal chamber, waiting to be killed! While the Dragon Riders were preupied, the ground forces were left to deal with Zhang Yang’s assault team. However, no one could match the speed of the flying mounts. With little trouble, Zhang Yang’s assault party managed to make their way into the royal chamber. 20 strongest yers activated their Transformation skills and entered the chamber while the remaining forces stayed behind to prevent anyone, yers or NPCs to intrude upon the battle.


    "Assassin!"


    "Protect the King!"


    Behind the 24 giant pirs, a total of 48 fully armored Elite tier soldiers, with ridiculously high levels, came out and attacked Zhang Yang’s party.


    "Take down the guards first!"


    A small part of the 20-man party split off and drew the attention of the guards, allowing the remaining yers to directly attack the king.


    Even though they were China’s strongest attacking squad, the number of yers were just too little. 3,500 yers were not enough to fight against an army of NPC soldiers of a major city. However, all yers had ced their unrelenting faith in Zhang Yang’s n. Rush in, attack, and run! With no seconds to spare!


    Mounts were disabled in an interior environment; hence all flying mounts were forcefully disembarked from their masters. yers like Zhang Yang, Sun Xin Yu, and Wei Yan Er still possessed flight capabilities for their Inheritance Transformations granted them wings.


    Shush! Shush!


    All unupied yers rushed towards the boss and attacked with all their might. 20 yers are not exactly a crowd, but they were still the best among the best. Besides Zhang Yang, Sun Xin Yu, and Han Ying Xue, the rest of the 10 yers were all A ss Inheritance holders, and 7 yers were B ss Inheritance holders. Fatty Han and Zhang Yang had the Phoenix pets, dealing particr high damage.