Ironwood Village is very far from Takuta Village, and it would take at least five days and five nights to walk there.
Ai Lan doesn't have a mount, so this round trip may take half a month. Naturally, he needs to make some preparations before setting off.
In addition, there is an elite gardener Kaka waiting for him in the village.
After some consideration, Ai Lan decided to set the departure time for tomorrow evening.
During the free day and night, he planned to go to the village to fight monsters and earn some contribution points.
If you want to compete for first place, you can't let your points be lowered too much by other players.
As the game has been open for longer and longer, a lot of data has begun to become clearer and clearer.
Currently, the players active near Takuta Village have been counted by interested parties.
In total, there are about 72 internal affairs players, 33 combat players and 8 lord players operating in this area.
This amount really exceeded everyone's expectations.
There are only so many players at the birth point of a newcomer. The setting of the new world being vast and sparsely populated has been implemented.
According to this data, there should be no more than 10,000 players in Chiba Forest.
This means that the competition for the rankings this time will not be too intense.
As long as you are a combat-type and lord-type player, you can get good rewards if your luck is not too bad.
As a server-launching event, Forest Defense War is undoubtedly qualified.
Of course, players born in other continents and other regions will also have similar activities.
The types may be different, but the final rewards won’t be much different.
The best spot to fight monsters near the village must have been occupied by the Godless Sect. Ai Lan is too familiar with the virtues of the Grand Guild.
With his current military strength, it is not impossible to fight forcibly, but it is not necessary.
It's only been a day since the server was launched, and it's not time to fight to the death.
There are not many lord-type players in Takuta Village, and few have five soldiers. The competition is not very fierce at this stage.
Ai Lan found a flat land a little far away from the village, released the tree guards, spider guards and all the stone-throwing dwarves, and started wandering nearby.
The little monsters will be attracted to the town and automatically run in this direction. As long as they stay near the village, they will not be afraid of not encountering monsters.
But how many you can meet depends entirely on your face.
Halfway through, he saw a lumber mill, which was an asset of Takuta Village.
If you don't want to start a war with the village, the resource points near the village have nothing to do with them for the time being.
In this event, Ai Lan predicts that monsters may attack the city in the later stages, and that is the best time to earn points.
But this is just his guess after all. No one can say for sure whether there will be monsters attacking the city.
Therefore, he cannot drop down the usual points ranking.
If there are too many points behind the first place, there will be no chance to catch up later.
Ai Lan patiently wandered around the open space with his human shields and long-range soldiers.
The first day when the game was launched passed by without even realizing it.
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"No, I have to take a nap for a while."
After fighting continuously for a day and a night, Ai Lan couldn't hold on any longer.
His current ranking is just in the top ten, less than 60 points away from first place.
"Get some sleep and continue playing, and try to reduce the gap to less than 30 points."
Of course he won't go offline, otherwise he will be passed by others again.
In this case, it is necessary to use a virtual hosting system.
The so-called virtual hosting system uses big data to analyze the player's usual behavioral logic, and then uses simple artificial intelligence to host the player's virtual character.
It sounds complicated, but to put it bluntly, it is an intelligent hang-up system.
The managed artificial intelligence is far inferior to the players themselves in terms of efficiency, response, subjective initiative, etc.
The biggest advantage of the virtual hosting system is that it provides players with a choice to maximize their interests.
He set a three-hour alarm for himself, then called up the hosting system to exit the game and go to deep sleep for a while.
At this moment, a rapid sound of horse hooves suddenly came from a distance.
"There's a situation!"
Listening to this movement, it seemed that a large group of cavalry was approaching quickly.
Ai Lan quickly released all the soldiers, formed a defensive formation, and was on full alert.
"Boom."
An extremely dazzling figure, holding a half-man tall centaur battle ax, passed by him.
Two small groups of centaurs followed closely behind, charging into each other.
After the group of centaurs left, a large cloud of smoke and dust suddenly rose from the flat ground.
"Cross!!"
How could Ai Lan not recognize this figure?
His biggest competitor in this forest defense battle is this battlefield Valkyrie.
Unexpectedly, he would meet her here.
"What an arrogant woman."
Usually in this kind of competitive activities, when players encounter competitive opponents in the wild, they will try their best to suppress them.
The defensive formation Ai Lan put up just now was not weak at all.
But when Cross passed by, he didn't even look at him.
He could clearly feel that Cross regarded him as air.
"I was ignored." Ai Lan's chest felt a little tight, which was much more uncomfortable than being looked down upon.
The strength of the two small groups of centaurs was not much higher than his.
If there is a real fight, it is not certain who will lose or win. Who will you look down on?
"I won't sleep anymore, I won't sleep anymore!" He felt a bird's breath for no reason, and he couldn't sleep anymore.
Ai Lan took a look at his talent and awakened the tree man (remaining cooldown time is 24 hours).
"I can't believe it. You can lose with such a good start."
