Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

After watching Super Tomato’s video, they casually liked it, then sent a large group of people to search for stalactite caves.

Soon, someone found a technique for [mass production of stalactites] on the Vortex Forum.

The method is simple: build a pool with [water dripping blocks], put a continuous flow of water sources in it, and stalactites will naturally grow under the [water dripping blocks].

The speed is not fast, but it’s definitely faster than finding thousands of stalactites.

Thus, outside the circle surrounding the Obsidian Fortress, [stalactite farms] and [lava factories] began to appear on a large scale.

Inside the Obsidian Fortress, Baekje players could not escape the game but were not disconnected from the internet. They looked at the [lava factories] outside, searched for information online, and quickly understood what was going on.

Now it was a big deal!

Since entering [World No.6], they had initially taken advantage of their numerical superiority to launch several surprise attacks on the local players, enjoying a few victories.

But they were soon beaten by Daxia and Izumo players working together.

In small-scale confrontations, they won some and lost some, but as long as the number of players exceeded 100, Daxia players would almost always have a crushing advantage.

A wave of frontal charges, and Baekje players hadn’t even reacted before collapsing like a landslide.

On the side of the Daxia players, they didn’t resort to any high-end techniques – it’s impossible to have any fancy moves with a group of more than 100 players.

The only difference between them and the other side was that they would instinctively assist their teammates – slashing people is indeed enjoyable, but saving a teammate’s life is also quite fun!

As a result, this small gap quickly broke the stalemate and led to a series of steamrolling victories.

After the upgrade to a 500-player team, the Daxia side immediately saw the emergence of armed forces using hot weapons – [suicide bombers].

Armed with TNT blocks, they charged into the enemy crowds, laughing maniacally as they took down several enemies with a single blow.

The team behind them took advantage of the situation to break through, splitting the battlefield and infiltrating the enemy lines, all without any need for commands, relying purely on instinct.

Izumo players were not as fierce, but their equipment was even better!

It’s unknown whether Daxia players loved the excitement too much and had more equipment exploded, but in this battle, they were mostly still wearing iron armor.

Having basic protection enchantments was already quite rare.

But the Izumo players were like born mining experts and risk avoidance geniuses.

Armor enchantments were pretty common among them.

Even multiple enchantments and high-level enchantments were not uncommon.

The craziest thing was that more than 40 full sets of diamond armor emerged one after another! It was outrageous!

And diamond armor represents a very special watershed – TNT explosives can’t kill them in one blast!

So, when forty fully equipped diamond armor players, with protection enchantments, charged with TNT, they were truly an unstoppable force! Anyone who saw them would have to turn and run!

Baekje players retreated one after another until they had no choice but to retreat to their lonely fortress, relying on the indestructible obsidian defenses to fight a defensive battle against the Daxia and Izumo forces.

But as time went on, this state of not being able to do anything and just waiting for the opponents to give up made many Baekje players feel increasingly tormented.

Especially when they found out that the Daxia and Izumo players had no intention of giving up.

By the time they saw Super Tomato’s video and noticed that their opponents were planning to pour lava on their heads, a large number of Baekje players had reached their limit, and so-

Retreat began to grow in their hearts.

They began to discuss passionately in the team channel, with some thinking they should give up, while others feeling that giving up showed a lack of backbone and calling others cowards.

Those wanting to retreat were scolded, so of course, they would not quietly leave. Instead, they immediately fought back, calling their opponents fools who didn’t know how to adapt, and that they deserved to die.

Some joined the heated argument, some excitedly watched the commotion, while others took advantage of the situation and quietly quit the game when everyone’s attention was diverted.

…

Without waiting too long, Daxia and Izumo players finally completed their preparations –

Three siege soldiers held precious diamond pickaxes, and the logistics team of 12 people per group all carried backpacks full of lava, stepping on the path paved by the engineers in the front row and rushing towards the Baekje player’s Obsidian Fortress with a fearless mentality!

At the same time, countless teams with similar configurations also launched their charges!

“Ding ding ding! Ding ding ding -”

The sound of diamond pickaxes hitting obsidian was rapid, reflecting the players’ tension and excitement.

Finally –

“Crash!”

In a crisp sound, the obsidian block shattered!

Almost simultaneously, “crash” and “crash” sounded again – the other two siege soldiers also completed their tasks.

The Obsidian Fortress had three skylights broken open at the same time.

“Pour the lava!!!”

Logistics players who had been ready to go for a long time had already poured a bucket of lava before the sound resounded. As the sound fell, the second and third buckets of lava were continuously poured in.

In this way, the logistics players did not stop for a moment, pouring bucket after bucket of lava down until they had completely emptied their backpacks.

The enemy did not counterattack or try to save themselves, and the attacks they had imagined, or enemies popping out of gaps, all failed to materialize.

All their psychological preparations were in vain, and they even felt a little disappointed.

“And they just die without a word?”?

Everyone was puzzled.

Looking up at the not far away, all teams’ attacks were going smoothly, with no one being sniped. It was as if there were no enemies at all.

Hold on—

“Fuck! These bastards couldn’t have just run away, could they?!”

“Can’t be that cowardly, right? Playing games with this kind of trick?”

As they complained, they quickly ran to the inner circle, chose a fortress to break open, jumped down to take a look, and found it empty. Even the respawn point (bed) was gone.

“Damn it! What a waste of emotion!” said the assault player, frustrated, as he struck the floor with his diamond pickaxe. “With such determination, they dare to boast about taking over an entire world? And it’s such a forward one like World No.6?”

“I wonder where their confidence comes from? All from dreams!”

After the ridicule, he quickly reminded the members of the large team: Baekje players ran away!

Everyone verified and finally confirmed: They really did run away!

Not a single enemy left behind in all these fortresses, clean and neat.

Daxia players were very disappointed.

On the other hand, Izumo players were extremely excited.

For Daxia players, since these Baekje people ran away, their goal was achieved.

—Although it was very disappointing, as long as they didn’t continue to jump around and play dirty tactics like a retreating horse, the team building of Daxia players would end. They could disperse right after.

But for Izumo players, victory in battle was far from the end!

Launching an Internet counter-attack on Baekje and mocking them like crazy was the real victory!

As the two sides said their friendly goodbyes, some Daxia players went to Baekje’s Internet to watch the excitement, while the rest went offline to rest and prepare for dinner.

Izumo players, meanwhile, excitedly flooded into Baekje’s Internet in large numbers, beginning to reap the fruits of their victory in the true sense!

*

Baekje.

Anchor Kim Dong-jun was talking in his live broadcast room, explaining to his fans the reasons for this failure in a serious tone—

“The key mistake in this failure should be the habitual use of Chinese characters when issuing the statement, which was discovered by Daxia and Izumo players. If we had used our own text, we wouldn’t have been discovered so quickly. By the time they realized it, we might have filled up the server! This way, the enemy would be halved!”

“Then there’s the strategic issue of not gathering for a corps battle, but spreading out and causing destruction in small teams. Not aiming for an ultimate victory, but using long-term battle and destruction to wear down the patience of other players in the server, forcing them to leave.”

“The final retreat, of course, was not out of fear. Since the general trend was gone, why stay if not to die? This is called a strategic retreat…”

As he talked animatedly and saliva flew, Kim Dong-jun suddenly stopped—A large number of new viewers began to pour into his live broadcast room!

The originally 300,000-viewer room jumped to 400,000 in one leap, then jumped again to 500,000, and continued to rise rapidly by 30,000-50,000 viewers at a time, showing no signs of slowing down.

Seeing the surge in viewers, Kim Dong-jun became instantly excited—

‘Am I going to be famous?’

While excited, he was also a little confused, not understanding what was going on, which caused him to stutter as he spoke: “What… What’s going on? Why are there suddenly so many new viewers?”

Facing Kim Dong-jun’s question, the new viewers immediately passionately revealed the answer to him:

“Bullshit! Do you really think there are no Izumo players who understand your disabled text?”

“Shameless! Small team operations? Small team operations will still get you beaten to shit!”

“Shameless, still talking about strategic retreats? It’s just a group of garbage that runs away when they can’t win, spineless cowards!”

“Afraid to fight and die is one thing, but not even knowing how to admit defeat gracefully? And still shamelessly boasting here? Where’s your face!”

…

A massive volume of comments instantly overwhelmed the normal discussion among Baekje viewers.

—The Izumo netizens participating in the Internet counter-attack were far more than just those tens of thousands of players.

Kim Dong-jun’s excited heart suddenly sank, and his face turned extremely ugly.

Fortunately, many Baekje viewers in the live broadcast room immediately fought back and cursed back, not needing much thought to do so.

After all, the Internet fights between Baekje and Izumo netizens had almost become a muscle memory.

Suddenly, the live broadcast room was flooded with all kinds of dirty words, and the comments were impossible to read.

The room administrators were busy, frantically blocking Izumo players, but facing hundreds of thousands of Izumo netizens, they simply couldn’t keep up. After all the fuss, the live broadcast room was still engaged in an endless battle of words, with an increasingly uncivilized vocabulary.

The scope covered everything from the anchor himself, to his entire family, to all viewers in the live broadcast room, to all Internet users in Baekje, and finally to the entire Baekje nation’s ethnic inferior roots…

Daxia viewers who were watching the drama in the live broadcast room stared dumbfounded at Izumo netizens’ full firepower.

—Many Daxia’s swear words that they had never seen before were expertly taken out and used to spray people by Izumo players.

While marveling at their national essence, they didn’t forget to take out a notebook and write it down.

As for Kim Dong-jun, the anchor, he had been sprayed until his face turned green.

He had never hated his own education as much as he did now, allowing him to understand every sentence spoken against him without any barrier…