"The Starrealm Colossus's fifth-floor left flank has fallen! Repeat, the fifth-floor left flank has fallen! All the sentries are dead. We paid for it with casualties, but we killed the two Greater Daemons that broke through. The line has suffered an irreparable breach, and warp energy from the Sea of Chaos is flooding in!
"We, the last of the auxiliary troops, are planting reality-rate bombs. We're turning this place into a no-man's-land!
"Until the Fractured Singularity disappears, nobody come to reinforce us!
"Keep fighting, brothers and sisters!
"For victory! Keep fighting!!!"
The mournful yet resolute voice of frontline squad leader Xu Gou echoed through Happy Stick's comms, making General Stick clench his fist and slam it against the divine stonework in front of him.
The fact that a player had sent in a report like that meant the situation there truly could not be salvaged. Two minutes later, the tremendous crash from below and the spreading warp energy of Chaos showed that the players had held nothing back in their final moments. With their lives, which they regained only once every three days, they had honored their oath before the decisive battle in the Starrealm.
The cost this time wasn't just three days offline. The players stationed in the Starrealm Colossus all had bodies in the Otherworld, and they'd been fighting here in their best equipment. Xu Gou and his team's deaths meant every one of them would suffer both mental and financial losses.
They'd basically wasted the past few months' work. If any of them had a weaker constitution, they'd probably throw off their gaming helmets and burst into tears.
But Happy Stick didn't have time to worry about Xu Gou's mental health. The situation along the Starrealm Colossus's defenses was already dire. The wall built by the Earth