After the gnolls launched their all-out assault on Blackflame Pass, more and more hot-blooded, battle-hungry newbies came running over from the "safe zone" to join the fight.
Players below the Black Iron rank hadn't been called up to the front, but that did nothing to dampen the newbies' determination and courage to contribute to Lord Murphy's "grand plan" and Transia's rise.
Ask them, and they'd all say they were full of courage and willing to give everything for victory. But in truth, the main reason was that staying in the rear was just too "boring."
There were basically no monsters worth drawing a sword against in Transia right now. The only thing players could do there was run errands for the NPCs.
At the Wolf Fort in the Filthy Swamp, the Bloodclaw Clan did offer combat missions to clear out swamp tigers, crocodiles, or wandering skeleton troops. But after seeing the grand spectacle of the Black Calamity War, even the newbies felt that going back to fight tigers and skeletons just wasn't satisfying enough.
That wasn't COOOOL at all!
More importantly, over the past few days, several "veterans" from the Ode to Loyalty guild had been teaching the newbies how to use whatever resources they had on hand to set traps for killing enemies in the swamp. Brother Loyalty's munitions factory had also dedicated a production line to constantly churning out various models of antipersonnel mines, along with some dangerous "butterfly mines."
Lord Qin had told the newbies they had to turn the Filthy Swamp into a guerrilla-warfare hell before the first two lines of defense were breached.
The proposal had already been approved by Lord Cudell, commander of the Maginot Line. As a direct result, as long as the newbies stayed at Wolf Fort, they had to lay at