SSG 231

by Cristae

Episode 231

A total of four cities. That’s a number that even most guilds have trouble keeping.

This time, among the guilds that attacked Moradin together with C.O.T.S, two—Calamity and Arc College—each had four cities, and Agora and Gunwoonghoe together didn’t even have three.

Besides, one of those is Moradin, which is vastly different from other cities.

In other words, the forces Yooseong possessed alone already surpassed those of most top guilds.

Of course, Yooseong was pleased.

‘If my income increases, I can strengthen my power in real life even more.’

That alone made this war worthwhile.

“I’ll designate the remaining cities as jointly managed by the guild. Does anyone have objections?”

Again, no one voiced any objections.

“As the guild master, I’ll manage the cities jointly owned by the guild. If anyone has complaints…”

“No complaints.”

“Just let the guild master handle it.”

“…Shouldn’t there at least be a little suspicion?”

“You’d just throw it at us if we let you, wouldn’t you?”

“That’s a guild master’s job.”

“Hmm, hmm.”

“These people…”

“Still, shouldn’t the guild master get some benefit?”

“That’s true. Let’s say the guild master gets 50% of the profit from the public cities.”

“That sounds good.”

“I agree.”

“You don’t think I’ll be committing any corruption at all?”

“If you want to, go ahead.”

“Just don’t get caught. But if you do, you know what happens?”

“That’s when you’ll have to atone by working harder as a legitimate guil—no, as guild master.”

“…Understood. I’ll make sure not to do anything corrupt.”

Aiden spoke resolutely. As the guild members couldn’t hide their disappointment, he was even more dumbfounded.

But even that ridiculous situation was a result of their trust in Aiden.

“…Then let’s decide on the joint cities that way. As for the rest of the profits, I assume you all want them to be divided fairly?”

“Yes.”

“Understood. I’ll manage the joint cities for now, and if our guild gains more cities later, we’ll discuss redistributing them.”

Thus, all the sensitive and tricky discussions ended. Although from the process, you’d never guess it was that kind of discussion.

“With this, our guild’s strength has increased tremendously.”

Aiden spoke seriously.

“Most guilds won’t dare challenge us. But that means we’ll attract attention. Of course, there’ll be plenty of jealous people. So I ask everyone to be careful from now on.”

The guild members nodded.

“Be careful managing the coordinates for our cities. One reason we achieved such a great victory this time was because the enemies neglected their coordinate management. The cities we took this time can’t be helped, but only we know the coordinates of the cities we originally acquired. In the worst case, those will become our last fortress.”

“I’d rather not even think about that.”

Losing every city except the very first ones would mean Total Demolition was being pushed to its limits.

“Still, we should bring it up at least once. The cities we just gained will be vulnerable to threats from now on. Not only us, but the original owner guilds know the coordinates.”

“They could leak those coordinates?”

“Or sell them.”

“You think so? But leaking the coordinates would make it even harder for them to take back their cities.”

If only two guilds knew the coordinates, then it would end as a battle between the two. But if the coordinates were spread, every random opportunist would be sniffing around.

“If I were them, I’d just leak them. Honestly, there’s no way our guild is at their level. The difference in scale was big to begin with, and now it’s laughable to even compare.”

“I agree. They’d probably rather profit from selling the coordinates, or just leak them out of spite.”

“You’re all right. Except the Yua Chimdae guys are different. They won’t leak the coordinates. They’ll want to take those cities back themselves, and leaking them would only hurt their interests.”

“So only they’ll know the coordinates to Delphi and Delos.”

“That’s right. But for now, we don’t have to worry much. The Yua Chimdae guys will be busy dealing with the aftermath too. And most importantly, there’s a month-long ban on wars, isn’t there?”

Cities that had just been through war could neither launch nor be attacked for another month in real time. This was to prevent reckless wars.

“So, let’s enjoy ourselves for a while.”

As Aiden finished speaking, the guild members raised their arms high and cheered for their victory.

The war that broke out as soon as the war content was introduced captured the world’s attention. And of course, the name of Total Demolition, the party involved, was once again on everyone’s lips.

-It’s Total Demolition again?-

-Whenever a new event or content is released, it’s always them lately—But they didn’t initiate it this time, did they?-

-Still, they’re definitely the hottest guild around-

But since war isn’t something Total Demolition does alone, there was a lot of attention on those who had gone to war with them.

-Do we know which guild it was yet?-

-Yeah-

-I want to watch-

-There’s no stream-

-Wouldn’t happen. Any troop movement is a major secret during war—But they must be recording it, right? I bet there’ll be edited or full VODs uploaded later—Can’t wait to watch-As people waited, the chance to get the info everyone wanted arrived.

“Hello, everyone! Great to see you!”

“You’ve been waiting a while, right?”

“I’m live now!”

The guild members of Total Demolition all started streaming at once. Viewers flocked to their channels.

Chats exploded up the window. Seeing this, the members of Total Demolition beamed wide smiles.

Even though cities had become a new source of income and made streaming less essential, the attention, wealth, and fame brought by streaming still made them more than satisfied.

Excited, they began sharing their experiences.

Back when the war ended, they’d already decided in a meeting how much information to reveal on stream.

The conclusion was this:

‘Is there really anything we need to hide?’

Because of that, the Total Demolition guild members shared every bit of information they had without hesitation.

“Can’t you tell who won by looking at my face?”

“Who won? Of course, we did!”

“No one here doubted we’d win, right?”

Naturally, the very first information they shared was their victory.

<Ohh, victory>

<LOL, you can’t beat Total Demolition with most forces>

At first, viewers weren’t that surprised. Total Demolition already had a reputation as an elite guild, and their power had ballooned after the introduction of city content. There weren’t many guilds who could easily beat them.

However, the identity of the invading forces that was revealed next was beyond the viewers’ imagination.

“To say it directly—the guilds that invaded Moradin were an alliance of five guilds in total.”

<Five?>

“Calamity, Arc College, Agora, Gunwoonghoe, and…”

“The Yua Chimdae bastards.”

<Calamity? Arc College? Agora? Gunwoonghoe?>

<Weren’t they all guilds that owned cities?>

<Wait, who? Yua Chimdae? C.O.T.S?>

The viewers were shocked at the unbelievable lineup.

But there was an even more surprising fact.

Combined, the five guilds owned over twenty cities. Their numbers and quality of players were second to none. And after all, C.O.T.S was involved in the alliance.

No matter that Total Demolition owned the maximum possible number of cities for their guild size—no one thought they could win.

Yet they did.

“Yua Chimdae did join in, but not with their full force. The ones we fought were from Apollon’s forces, one of their vice guild masters.”

<Oh, so it was just Apollon’s force…? You really think that explains it?>

“Honestly, when we first heard the news, we felt hopeless. It didn’t seem possible for us to win.”

“We really thought we’d lose Moradin at least.”

“But still, hey? We had guild loyalty. We couldn’t run away, so we pooled all our troops to help.”

“But then, there was a message. There’s a plan, they said.”

“In that short time, Yooseong and our guild master devised a plan just like that!”

“I honestly didn’t contribute much. Most of it was Yooseong’s strategy. I just executed the orders.”

Each guild member’s story changed depending on their thoughts and perspective. But that made it even more interesting.

“Now here’s a new fact. About the refugees. I think the other guilds will figure it out soon, so let’s just say it now.”

“There are way fewer unknown maps these days, so the influx of refugees has shrunk, right? But we found a new source of refugees.”

“Remember when we lost the city with the Teleport Tower and couldn’t go to some areas until Yooseong got Moradin? A lot of cities were destroyed back then, right?”

“The people from those destroyed cities hid nearby and became new refugees.”

That was a startling revelation.

<Really?>

<WOW, Total Demolition really is on another level LOL>

“Since C.O.T.S’s Apollon was on the opposing side, they must have assessed our general power before attacking. That’s why they allied with the other four guilds.”

“But guess what? Their info was wrong from the very start, haha!”

“We can’t share precise numbers, but with just Yooseong’s Moradin and Prochenhau cities, we could make the enemy believe all our forces were focused there.”

<It’s not just ‘a lot’, that’s insane!>

“It’s not quite that extreme. As we said, it was tricks and ruses; it’s not like we truly had the power of nine cities.”

“So, in the initial stages, only Yooseong’s two cities’ power fought the enemies, with the rest of the guild joining in later.”

“It was only possible because those two cities had elite forces.”

“Even then, we never fought head-on. If it looked bad, we always retreated right away. Thanks to that, we didn’t suffer much damage. Of course, neither did the enemy.”

“We were pushed back as far as the inner castle.”

“No hesitation about retreating. It wasn’t all-out war, just them trying to capture Moradin. We set a trap that way.”

Viewers listened to their continued stories with fascination.