FB: Chapter 132 – Hole City Has A Hole

Hole City, it was poetic in a certain way, being back here where my ascent began and I would cap things off. It would be nice to retire on top and after this no one would ever be able to question that ever again.

I would focus on casually leveling going forward after this or take a vacation. Not that it would matter much once I won. Trying to run a super guild had been a fun idea, but I just didn’t have the connections to keep one going. Without a nation or a very large corporation behind it, it just wasn’t possible to keep a grip on something so large while being a player in game.

Perhaps there was someone more competent who could be the god player and run a super guild, while fighting off other super guilds, but I had reached the limit of my ability in that regard. The Mercenery Guild would continue after this on my sheer reputation. Or I would lose everything if I failed, not that I was going to fail.

Quant Z truly was a menace. Countless players dressed up like me wandered around Hole City. My fans had learned of this and had joined in as well. While HeroTen tried to lock things down, the players weren’t causing any issues and banning cosmetic choices was incredibly difficult in game. Really the only restriction on freedom of expression was not insulting the Human Emperor to his face. Otherwise you could get away with quite a bit in the troll category.

And this was a huge troll. Scantily glad Foxy cosplayers were all over the city. Some even had fake capes, going all out. HeroTen had moved everything back to their main headquarters in preparation for my assault.

I carefully replaced my amulet with a 5,000 platinum amulet, which had one purpose. To block the Eye of Vigilance. This was why super guilds would set up in cities, so they could leverage NPC protection. I knew that HeroTen had the NPCs looking for me in this city at this very moment. By using this item, I avoided being registered on the NPC surveillance system.

Apex got caught up in their own ideas, which was why they had set up in their own little mountain fortress, which had failed them. Cities had a very solid defensive and security plan. There were too many trolls otherwise. But what they had a hard time stopping was terrorism on such a scale, it was probably the singular most shocking thing the dark guilds ever accomplished and they did a lot of terrorism.

My current position was a restaurant on a building on one side of the Bottomless Pit. HeroTen had their headquarters on the opposite side of the Bottomless Pit which was walled off. The Illuminati had needed funds and time to set everything up, but it wasn’t that difficult since I knew what to do.

It was the biggest terrorist event that had occurred my last time around and one of my few remaining pieces of knowledge that was still useful.

HeroTen had done such a wonderful job on their guild headquarters. Creating a blend of modern, yet Chinese classical. A twenty story building along with everything else on the block. Hole City was unique in that the Bottomless Pit was at the center of the city where a plaza would normally exist.

QAI or whatever person had been contracted to design the place had made it unique in this regard compared to other cities. While each of them tried to have a little theme, like waterfalls, perched on the side of a mountain, or some other nonsense tied in with the lore, Hole City was unique in that there was a giant freaking pit in the middle of the city.

The game engine or whatever QAI was doing in the background, kept everything stable. There were no earthquakes, and after a certain point underground, water just disappeared. There was no variable water table in game. If you dug you could hit water, but water didn’t evaporate or go through a water cycle.

This was important, since everything looked fine on the surface, but once you started digging, and I actually meant that, things started to get a bit wonky. QAI didn’t want people becoming mole rats, living underground in super bunkers. That was why the ground tended to cave inwards unless there was a special exception like a dungeon or a massive hole in the center of the city.

Looking about, it was impressive how much HeroTen had invested into this place. Players who had gotten into crafting had set up shops. Bars, inns, and everything else their player base wanted had all been set up in Hole City.

Attacking a city was seen as a joke since the NPC guards were level 100. The highest level players were around 120 like myself. It just didn’t seem worth the risk being sent off to some horrible prison. There were some thieves and criminals, but they mostly stayed in the towns and avoided the cities due to the risk.

“More juice?” the NPC waiter asked me.

“Of course, juice me,” I replied with a smile and held out my glass which was refilled. Now the greatest terrorist attack in game was about to happen. After the Shimmering Mines were flooded and now this, I almost felt sorry for HeroTen if they hadn’t teamed up with the other super guilds to crush me.

It was almost time and I felt my anticipation build.

It was time to help the entire player base answer an important question. What happens when the wall of the Bottomless Pit is broken? Not just a small hole, but I mean a large chunk removed, what would happen?

The shaped charges went off, one after another. They sounded like fire crackers at this distance, but I could see the flashes of light from the explosions and the tumbling dirt as a massive chunk of the wall of the Bottomless Pit closest to HeroTen’s headquarters. QAI or whatever program was trying to figure things out was probably having a very hard time right now.

The Bottomless Pit was an important game structure, that just couldn’t be filled in. But the charges had blown through the wall all the way to the portion of ground that didn’t have this special exception tied to it. The charges had been set off quite low and at an angle, cutting upwards. The opening of the Bottomless Pit was also quite large.

Two more rounds of explosions went off and more dirt and rock were blasted outwards. I was recording this all of course. It would be going on my personal highlight reel, of why you don’t mess with Foxy. The Illuminati had done good work, but I would be taking the credit outside the game. Even if they were connected with me after this, that was fine. That would only inspire more terror and elevate my legend to new heights.

I felt the ground shake as a massive chunk of Hole City began to slide into the Bottomless Pit. A couple high value items to reduce the weight of their headquarters temporarily, and it could be shifted. My personal fans were everywhere, from all around the world.

There were screams as people panicked and ran, but it was too late to stop things now. It was also the time for a major meeting at their Headquarters, since I had leaked that I would be attacking today. They had brought back their Champions to protect their main structure, but that was the trap.

Enjoy your trip down the Bottomless Pit for ten hours or so. They would probably die before hitting the bottom, but that was fine as well. All those items and skill shards they would lose would be cataclysmic. Since super guilds had huge financial power and a massive player base, their Champions didn’t soul lock their skill shards except for a couple key personal ones.

There was also a secondary effect. The lore for the Bottomless Pit had the monsters contained due to the nature of some device that was protected by high level NPCs, keeping the monsters in the pit. It was the entire reason for this city being built here, to contain the monsters.

Anyways, as a chunk of the city slid into the Bottomless Pit, the devices or enchantments that kept the monsters in the pit failed. All the NPCs were scrambling as the high level monsters began rushing out of the pit, past the falling debris to attack the various players and NPCs. I watched one player that was dressed up as a sexy Foxy run screaming as half her body melted from a wall spitter.

Another male Foxy was consumed by a tunnel worm bursting out of the road and biting down on them. Then all the Illuminati members began throwing fire bombs everywhere, setting the perimeter of the city ablaze along with the airship port. I watched one airship try and take off, but a ranged attack hit it. The airship went plummeting down near the edge of the city and exploded. I would say it caused even more chaos, but as three player Foxys ran by on fire and screaming, I might have gone a bit overboard. But it was necessary to beat the super guilds.

Well, none of it was real, so it was all okay. I sipped my juice watching the chaos unfold. Some people might think it was time to act, but it wasn’t time. The rest of the customers in the restaurant had fled along with the wait staff, but I remained calm. This was one of the safest places to be, high up away from massive angled slope on the other side of the Bottomless Pit.

Time to employ my ultimate weapon that made even me shudder. The rabid fans. Three portals opened up in the city around HeroTen’s complex. It was amazing how much national pride I could stir up. The other super guilds wouldn’t intervene. That was key. They didn’t have an alliance against me, merely a working arrangement, hoping the others would fall to my actions.

They would urge their regular members to participate, or not stop them at the very least. As long as they weren’t the target, the super guilds and the people controlling them salivated over this kind of event. The money HeroTen lost from the chaos unfolding would be impacting China’s GDP this year and it would only get worse.

My fans poured in wave after wave, killing and looting everything in their path. I scanned the sky, no more airships and no easy way to escape since emergency teleports were tied into the cities and towns. Even with the huge disaster, there was only a small window of opportunity before the Human Empire intervened with its fast reaction force. I had another half an hour before a swarm of high level Vigilance Paladins teleported in and swept through the city.

I tapped on a screen and sent a mass message to all my rabid fans. Indicating where the vault for HeroTen was. About a third of them made for the vault like bloodhounds smelling drugs, or crazed players smelling loot. The vault hadn’t fallen into the Bottomless Pit. It was a separate compound from their headquarters and there would be a large force of Champions there. A force I didn’t want to deal with, since I knew they were ready to counter me.

I might be good, but without a team, I was no match for a build adjusted group of player Champions. They would all be running poison resist with lots of control skills to pin me down. So annoying, but smart.