That's right!
The Imperial forces had begun a massive retreat, and the players still secretly "farming mobs" in that city quickly caught wind of it.
As soon as the news spread, it immediately drew the serious attention of a huge number of players.
There had to be two or three hundred thousand Imperial troops—that meant at least two or three hundred thousand "mobs"!
Based on the current figures, where a single Astartes space marine was worth at least a thousand contribution points and an ordinary Imperial human auxiliary soldier was worth at least ten, that was at least ten million contribution points!
The real number might even have been several times higher.
Without any quest rewards involved, that many contribution points were not particularly significant to large war guilds, but they were still extremely attractive to individual players.
Especially now that each contribution point could be exchanged for fifteen yuan, the players were even less willing to let those ducks already in their mouths fly away.
In short!
After the news spread, most of the five thousand players who had once fought bloody battles in that city and had respawn points there killed themselves and rushed over. Without any quests or weapon resupplies, they began fighting the roughly twenty thousand Imperial human auxiliary troops assigned to cover the retreat with reckless abandon.
At first, the offensive did not go smoothly because players who respawned there could not bring weapons or equipment with them. But when large numbers of players flew in aboard transports, landed, and joined the battle, the rear-guard Imperial human auxiliary troops became increasingly unable to hold their own as more and more players arrived.
Then, as the battle continued, at least half of the rear-guard Imperial soldiers were wiped out by the players. Only a very small