Brother, Grab Your Pipes-It's Time to Do Your Duty! Bonus Chapter 930

(Bonus chapter 4/5 for "Awaiting Linxian")

"Fighting's broken out over in Shadow Vale! Even the staff officers have grabbed their weapons. Holy crap, Five-to-the-Wheel is so brave, so badass! His bayonet skills are the kind where he kills anyone who gets in his way, man or god. And that final massive suicide blast took out at least a dozen gnolls.

Badass!

With a performance like that, it's hard to believe he's a newbie who hasn't even passed the Black Iron Trial!"

News of the battle in Shadow Vale soon reached the warriors carrying out Operation Gaia's Wrath, spreading through forum discussions and live broadcasts from Transia's taverns. They eagerly discussed the battle unfolding at their own base, even describing in precise detail the spectacular heroics of particular comrades who had fallen in battle. They were also analyzing the newbies as if they were fighting crickets, trying to decide which one had the best stats.

Watching them, Domestic 007, who was coordinating the operation, could only look helpless. It was one thing to get carried away chatting, but couldn't they at least do some work? They were leaving everything to the NPCs. Damn, they really had figured out that NPCs who understood the bigger picture wouldn't refuse or push back in a situation like this, hadn't they?

That said, the players weren't actually slacking off.

The excavation work had been completed without a hitch. Five to seven meters beneath the gnolls' main camp, they had carved out a blast chamber the size of a soccer field. The People's Army and Arsenal demolition experts were currently laying explosives inside, with a few rather "criminal" players lending a hand.

This was the final stage of the operation, and also the most technically demanding.

It wasn't as if the players were just sitting around