Let's turn back the clock of time.

"Your Highness, the shelter has been activated!"

Ronis saluted Raphael respectfully, and behind him, a wooden pole about ten meters high, full of two people around the thickness of the body, was erected under the power of hundreds of knights, and at the top of the pole, a banner embroidered with angels spreading their wings, singing and shining in the wind.

The flagpole was deeply fixed in the center of a huge magic array, and dozens of high-ranking priests stood on the magic nodes of the magic array in a specific direction, and as they chanted in a low voice, milky white light spread out from the center of the magic array, gradually enveloping the area with the magic array as the center, covering thousands of square meters.

As the head of the Priest Corps for this expedition to Sky City, Ronis, as a bishop, commands more than 2,000 elite priests affiliated with the Holy See of Light, and their main role is to establish shelter in Sky City and also treat those wounded soldiers.

For NPCs, the Holy Light Shelter is just a base full of light power, where they can safely repair, but for players, the shelter is a very important existence, as long as the flag of the shelter does not fall, they can be resurrected directly in the shelter, although the loss of soul energy has not been alleviated, but at least they are relieved of the hardship of joining the battlefield after a long journey.

This was not the first shelter they had established, as the entire large expedition continued to advance towards the core of Sky City, new shelters were erected, and the old ones were abandoned, leaving a portion of the soldiers as guards to house those who were too wounded.

"Good work!" Raphael nodded, and picked up the information in his hand again.

Not far away, several middle-aged uncles who looked not too old were discussing something around a table, and then one of the players walked up to Raphael.

"Your Highness Raphael, according to the battle reports from the front, the seventeenth to twenty-second areas should have been cleared, the losses slightly exceeded expectations, the battle loss ratio of the seventh and eighth legions has reached a critical value of eighty percent, the staff committee suggests that the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth legions take over their work, and the seventh and eighth legions should be withdrawn for repairs."

Because the number of players participating in this expedition is too large, Raphael, at the suggestion of several influential guild leaders, set up a staff group to replace her in commanding players with almost more than 100,000 numbers, and those who can be selected for the staff are all players with military backgrounds in reality, they are naturally good at doing this, in fact, this middle-aged uncle who came to report to Raphael was originally a soldier with more than ten years of staff experience, which is what he can rely on here.

After the consideration of the staff committee, every 500 players form a legion, through the reasonable allocation of the player's occupation and combat effectiveness level in the legion, supplemented by a large number of aboriginal low-level soldiers, these legions composed of players as the commanders of each grassroots can effectively undertake the battle of cleaning up those void creatures that roam the entire sky city, and once they encounter too powerful void creatures, the elite NPC legion composed of high-level soldiers will be dispatched to eliminate these obstacles in their way.

As for the battle loss ratio he said, it is a benchmark used to measure the strength of these legions, although the player can be resurrected when he dies, but the aboriginal soldiers are really dead when they die, and the resurrection skills of the priests will not be wasted on this kind of low-level soldiers. As a result, when an Indigenous soldier belonging to a unit dies beyond a certain level, the Staff Committee considers the unit to be hors de combat and needs to be reconditioned and replenished to regain its combat capability.

In fact, if it were in reality, 40% of an army's personnel would be killed in battle, and it could already be said that it would be incapacitated, and here, the aboriginal soldiers could even bear more than 60% of the losses, which can only be said that faith has become something more important than their lives.

The soldiers who were selected to participate in this expedition were all believers who believed in the light and had a strong faith. Many soldiers can even give their lives without hesitation to destroy those void creatures.

"Yes, the repairs of the Third and Fifth Corps will be completed in two hours, and they will be able to take over the guarding of the shelter at that time." Although it was guarded by NPC troops, the staff insisted on leaving two legions to guard the shelter in order to ensure the safety of the only respawn point. "Where is the front line advancing?"

"It's already in the outer city!" The middle-aged uncle replied, "The mapping of the entire outer area has been completed, with the city wall as the dividing line, the outer city belongs to the outer city within five kilometers outside the city wall, and the outer area belongs to the wild area, if nothing else, tomorrow morning you will be able to cross the city wall and enter the inner city." ”

"How's the situation on the battlefield?"

"According to the latest grading system, the field is divided into two hundred and eighty-eight areas, and forty-two regiments are responsible for clearing them, so far, the security threat level has dropped from red to blue, and the lowest area has reached gray, and we estimate that after three days, the field area can be completely cleared, and then these regiments can be withdrawn and put into the inner city to advance the operation."

Under the staff hierarchy, red indicates that the area is lethal to a legion, and there are usually one or two heroic void creatures in the red area, in which case the player legion will be responsible for clearing out those non-heroic void creatures with the support of NPC's elite troops, and the heroic void creatures are in charge of NPCs.

Grey means that there are no more void creatures in the area, and only a minimum of security needs to be left.

The entire Sky City is not on the main plane of the Entagri Continent, in fact, since the last time the gods joined forces to banish the Sky City, this holy city has been wandering the astral plane, which is why so many void creatures appear here.

Players will be amazed by the vast starry sky above their heads when they enter the place on the first day, but as time goes on, the more they see this scenery, the more tired they become, and by now, players can ignore the bizarre starry sky above their heads and concentrate on opening up the film with those void creatures and fighting each other to the death.

"How's the stockpile?" Raphael handed the information in his hand to the other party, "This is the latest information from the rear, a new batch of supplies has been sent through the teleportation array, we need to determine the quantity and composition of the next stage of materials as soon as possible, so that the rear can prepare." ”

The middle-aged uncle took over the information: "Up to now, the loss of strategic materials is not obvious, the loss rate of siege equipment has not exceeded five percent, most of them are still in good condition, the only large consumption is arrows and food, the former is the main means of each legion to resist the enemy, the latter is the main reliance on maintaining combat effectiveness, in addition, the stock of bandages, replacement equipment, maintenance products and various fabrics has also decreased slightly, and some supplements need to be made, of course, if possible, The Staff Committee hopes to add fifty to a hundred small forges, and the level of equipment wear and tear among players will increase as the battle line progresses, and it will not be enough to simply replace equipment. ”

A forge is not just a furnace for burning fire, it includes a forge table, a forge workshop and a variety of forging tools, players can use the forge to simply repair their equipment, of course, the better the equipment, the higher the requirements for the player's forging level, ignoring these technical requirements, tough repairs, will only make the equipment more damaged.

"Not yet, the construction of the forge needs a stable environment, and now the speed of our battle line advance does not meet this requirement, and the field area has not been completely cleared, the safety of the forge requires additional escort legions, which will further weaken the force we use to advance." Raphael thought about it for a moment and shook his head, "In this way, let the rear temporarily transfer players with life skills above the intermediate level such as forging, tailoring, and alchemy to form a logistics corps, and they will temporarily be responsible for the equipment maintenance of the front-line legions, and then consider building a forge after establishing a solid shelter in the inner city of Sky City." ”

"No problem, in fact, the average attendance rate of a legion is now less than sixty percent, and if the repair and maintenance work can be left to professional logistics players, the legions on the front line can spend more time on combat." The middle-aged uncle nodded and agreed, "Then, I'll go back and revise the follow-up promotion plan!" ”

Since every player is not guaranteed to be online at all times, although a legion consists of five hundred players, it is almost impossible to guarantee that all five hundred players are online at the same time, and how many people are online during the battle time is the attendance rate of a legion.

Legions of players who are originally part of a larger guild will have a higher attendance rate, but those that are made up of small guilds or casual players will have a worse attendance rate.

"Wait a minute!" Raphael stopped the other party, "What happened to those guerrillas?" ”

The expeditionary force led by Raphael is not the only one fighting in the Sky City, and although the Holy See of Light uses the celebration as a cover and has arranged various means to attract the attention of other races, there will always be people who will discover the secrets. Raphael: They can only be said to have taken an extremely advantageous lead, but the other races are not far behind. Although the other races in the Order Camp did not send regular troops, they still sent a group of players into Sky City, and in the same way, the Chaos Camp will not just watch obediently.

In fact, from the time Raphael and them entered the Sky City to the present, the number of players from the chaotic camp who have entered this battlefield through various means is almost more than 10,000, the only difference is that unlike Raphael's orderly and well-behaved legion system, the players of those chaotic camps are smaller and more scattered, and they are completely crushed in the face of a complete army of players, so they are more inclined to attack small teams such as patrols and guards sent out by the orderly camp. And the most popular among players in the chaotic faction is naturally the battle against the logistics transport team.

"We have set up seven camps between the starting point and the shelter, each camp is guarded by a legion, and the logistics are protected by a relay method, and the actions of those bastards have weakened a lot, plus the clearing of the field area is beginning to come to an end, without those void creatures as shields, those bastards have no one to rely on, they alone can't fight against us a whole legion."

"Be careful! I don't want that to happen a few days ago! Raphael said lightly, which immediately embarrassed the middle-aged uncle's face.

In fact, since the establishment of the Staff Officer, the guild leaders and the staff officers in the Staff Corps felt that they could snatch command from Raphael in this way, and in order to achieve this goal, in the first few days, all the battle arrangements were made as far as possible without Raphael interfering.

However, problems also arise, the first is the problem of the NPC army, those aboriginal elite soldiers don't care whether you are a high-ranking official or a high-ranking staff in reality, they only listen to Raphael's orders, and without the assistance of these elite soldiers, the legion composed of ordinary players and low-level soldiers alone can only be slaughtered in the face of those heroic-level void creatures, after all, not everyone is the same as Yu Bin, relying on their own ability to compete with hero-level existence.

And the chaos camp players gave these self-defeating guys a fatal blow, when these presidents and staff officers were busy fighting for power, the more and more organized chaos camp players united to attack a whole transport team, although it was finally repelled by the player legion that rushed in, but also made most of the materials transported by the transport team burned, although the impact on the entire expeditionary force was minimal, but it ruthlessly lost the face of the staff group.

In the face of this situation, most of the guild leaders will not do it, they are bringing their subordinates to get benefits, but they are not here to help these anti-bone boys fight for power and profit, these moths put their minds on their own people, and when the time comes, if Raphael chooses to break up and take the Angel Covenant and the NPC army to do it himself, then wouldn't their guilds be completely finished?

Under the turbulence of the masses, the original staff committee was quickly abolished, and better, more capable, and more professional staff committees were established, and many of them were even active military staff officers in reality. It was only after this that the advance of the entire expeditionary force began to pick up pace.

Fortunately, the middle-aged uncle's face is thick enough, and he can be regarded as genuine: "Please rest assured, after that lesson, we have begun to merge the separate transport teams, and demarcate the time for segmented transportation, in the face of the escort of a whole legion, I think it is enough to scare off those who want to reach out, no matter how bad it is, we can hold on until the reinforcements arrive." ”

To defeat an army, it is most convenient and easiest to start with logistics. This applies in reality, and it is the same in the game, where legions of players can kill dozens or hundreds of people in order to destroy a high-level monster, but you leave them without arrows, equipment, or food to try.

Watching the middle-aged uncle return to the table and continue to discuss the next step with the other staff officers, Braid, who was standing beside Raphael, said: "I don't trust them, and those guild leaders, in order to ensure the interests of those guys, our advance speed has been greatly compressed, and the players can withstand a higher battle loss ratio, at least two or three deaths per day, and it will not affect the players too much." ”

"Too much oppression will have an impact on our next steps, at least, we need them to play the role of cannon fodder. On our own, we don't have what it takes to enter the heart of the City of Angels. "As for the loot, believe me, Lord Brad, it's a minor matter. ”