Chapter 273: Day 1: 'One' wins the war

*Critical* "354,128,212,564"

A huge damage number appeared on the King's head as a lightning strike suddenly ambushed him, right on the top of his head.

While the indestructible crown stayed intact, his hair was charred while he lost his balance and fell from the Elephant's back.

*gasp*

Everyone around can't help but gasp as they saw the number on his head. Forgetting the damage, just the fact that an attack landed a critical hit on the King is a big deal.

After all, all kings and Queens have a passive critical resist, equal to their level.

As the King stood upon his feet while groaning in pain, a 2m big cloud descended from the sky, revealing the Queen and a mysterious Elf with a gourd in his hand.

The Queen was standing on the cloud with the staff in her hand. At the moment, she appeared majestic as she raised her staff…

The King saw magic started to gather at the tip of her staff as the cloud continued to descend before stopping a hundred meters above the ground.

He narrowed his eyes.

The players around the king who had seen the damage believed that it was the attack of the Queen. Even the king thought the same.

Meanwhile, the blazing phoenix turned normal while Rini had this shocked expression on her usual blank face. Her cold eyes which penetrate one's soul are now shaking involuntarily in fear as she raised her head to look at the Queen.

'Uncle and others are working hard to make me the Queen but 350 Billion damage? Just how in the hell I will be able to deal with that? One attack of hers is enough to kill me. Even if I have a trillion HP, three attacks will finish me off…'

She lost a bit of confidence to see how powerful this NPC is…

"Queen Searvale, that's very cowardly of you…" The King commented with a frown on his face.

"No, that's your incompetence, King Reverie. You entered our territory and yet carefree about not getting ambushed from the sky." The Queen's majestic tone echoed all over the place due to the mountains around before she pointed the glowing staff towards the enemies.

"Rise, the protectors of Searvale."

A mountain nearby disappeared and transformed into a giant earth golem.

*Screech*

Everyone then heard a powerful screech and a giant blue-colored thunderbird flew towards them. Every flap of its wing is creating a storm behind.

Followed the appearance of the bird, the volcano in the far away erupted but instead of lava pouring down, it transformed into a quadrupedal beast with spikes and little volcano mouths on its back.

And lastly, one of the rivers in the kingdom transformed into a giant snake below it crawled towards the direction of the Queen.

The Supreme Commander who was facing Uflenor with his army in the border, frowned, "Her majesty called the protectors? They can only be used as the last resort. Is she already in danger? I need to go…"

He then commanded a General to take over his position and started rushing in the direction where all the four beasts are gathering.

Back to the border between Searvale and Reverie, after summoning the four protectors, the Queen spoke in a slow tone, "Mr. Lupin, control your cloud and let us ascend. It is best if we take this battle to the skies. The beasts and the princess will take care of the rest of them."

Wil nodded and controlled the nimbus cloud to return.

As the cloud rises, the King shouted in anger, "and where do you think you are leaving…" He jumped high in the air and even passed the cloud. He then raised his sword and slashed towards the both of them.

It took Wil by surprise. He didn't expect the King's speed is this high... He wondered whether he should transform back to Angel form but then, he heard the Queen saying while shoving him to the back with her arm, "stay in the back."

She raised her staff and blocked the attack.

The staff and the sword were collided, generating sparks before she pushed him away. "Mr. Lupin, do your job."

She reminded him to not stay there and raise the height further.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wil once again let the cloud continued to rise while the King landed on the ground.

"I came here to drag you out in open and end the war. Do you think I'll let you escape…" He growled in anger, feeling humiliated because of the failure.

The King then use his flight ability and started floating in the air to chase after the nimbus cloud while leaving the players alone.

Rini turned back her attention towards the players and her eyes once again regained coldness, "Pyre, burn."

"Everyone, run…" A player shouted before the flames engulfed the surroundings, killing a couple of dozen people at the same time, earning a few War points.

As the path is narrow and long, the range of flames wasn't wide enough to take out many people. So, once she burned down the players in the front, Rini ordered the Phoenix to fly while continue to burn down.

Meanwhile, the players, especially the rangers attacked her from far away while running back, because they are scared and also to get back to a wider area to battle.

Just as the Phoenix flew almost a hundred meters away, everyone heard the trumpet of the White Elephant before its trunk was extended all the way to the Phoenix.

Grabbing the bird with its trunk, Airavata swung it in the opposite direction and slammed it onto the ground.

Rini fell off from the Phoenix. However, the Elephant didn't stop there. With its trunk, it then threw it towards the cliff, heavily injuring the bird.

"Pyre…" She shouted as she saw the bird almost lost around 5 Billion of its health.

The Phoenix shook its head, then flapped its wings before glaring at its counterpart.

Rini, who stood up on her feet, brandished her sword and dashed towards the Elephant while shouting, "Pyre, I'll take this one. You take care of them."

She pointed at the players who are hesitating whether to move forward or run away.

Looking at it, while some of them, advanced forward to face the beast, the rest of them, especially, those who are at the end of the line turned around and left now that the King abandoned them to go after the Queen.

With no leader, they thought joining Bran would be a better choice.

Just like that, the five-hundred-thousand-player army was divided into two groups. The ones that advanced forward and the ones that left.

Outskirts of the capital city, Eiron Kingdom;

The King of Eiron was bleeding heavily while the Giant Minotaur lost its left hand while its other hand was tightly grabbing the King, who was struggling to get free.

The players who were killed and the ones that are alive, regardless of which kingdom they belong to… all of them were just waiting in the premises of the capital city and watching the scene.

None of them are willing to help the king or fight the Minotaur. All they can do is to watch and capture this amazing moment.

Meanwhile, in the skies, a person in black robes and the hood was standing on a broom

He looked at the situation and nodded with a smile. "Good."

Then, he raised his staff and spoke the incantation, "In the name of One, I summon the Eternal fire of darkness to put my enemy to death."

As the sky rumbled like thunder, the black flames descended onto the both of them, turning the king into ashes.

The Minotaur wasn't harmed by the flames because of his relationship with One…

*Ding! You killed King Evaleus Onitor Eiron. You receive 100,000 War points as a reward.

*Ding! You won the war and became qualified for the second phase.

At the same time, players of all over the two kingdoms received system announcements.

*Ding! Gailzach absorbed Eiron and became an independent kingdom.

*Ding! Eiron kingdom turns into Eiron province.

*Ding! Player One is the king of the new kingdom of Gailzach.

Originally, Eiron was supposed to attack and Gailzach was supposed to defend but to their luck, a player was their king and was able to attack.

The forums are exploded with comments. It's been only 53 minutes since the start of the war and 'One' alone massacred the entire enemy forces and became the new King.