The players were in a hurry, impatient.
When Lin Ruoyu noticed the gates of Hegrande City opening behind him and thousands of soldiers from the Count's Army pouring out, he realized he had made a mistake... he had forgotten about the NPCs inside the city.
This was an oversight on Lin Ruoyu's part, but he could hardly be blamed. Any veteran player would have grown accustomed to one particular thing.
When you played an online game and NPCs took part in a quest, they usually weren't much help.
They either moved too slowly, were terrible fighters, or let you down at the crucial moment, leaving players to face powerful enemies alone... some didn't even bother pretending and charged straight at the enemy to throw their lives away, forcing the players to charge along with them.
Only now that the gates had opened did Lin Ruoyu realize his oversight. His first thought was...
"Fuck, these bastards are coming out to throw their lives away!"
Lin Ruoyu immediately wanted to make the Expeditionary Army stop, slow down, and wait for the Count's Army so they could cover its exit from the city.
Unfortunately, good as his intentions were, the other players wouldn't listen!
Boom, boom, boom...
The heavy drumbeats set their blood boiling. The plates of their Fish-Scale Armor clanged with every forceful step, like thousands of steel blades scraping against whetstones.
"Left, right, left... left, right, left..."
At the very front, Black-and-White Bear unconsciously bellowed the cadence he knew best. The Han-Tang Warriors beside and behind him, along with the Heavy Infantry players from other warbands, couldn't help marching to his rhythm.
The simple chant spread like wildfire. Soon, the entire Heavy Infantry force was marching in step, chanting that powerful cadence.
"Left, right, left... left, right, left..."
Two thousand pairs