The Fourth Disaster: People become gods through high martial arts and gaming

Chapter 192 Madness and the Approaching Storm
The training room inside the shop.

Mans carefully read through the letter sent by the Martial Arts Association, his expression slowly changing from fear to delight.

"Chief! This is a golden opportunity for our White Feather Gang!"

Mans looked at the gang leader Isaac, his eyes filled with excitement and ecstasy.

The letter from the Martial Arts Association indicated a high probability of a monster tide, with the City of Light as its primary target. However, given that even the mobile city of Azure Sky couldn't withstand the monster tide, how could the City of Light possibly resist it?

According to reports from the front-line legions, the battle to clear the monsters is extremely fierce. Despite being a combined force composed of all the surrounding cities, more than twenty Bone Forging Realm warriors and over a thousand Visceral Refining Realm warriors have already died. This is the result of using towns as a base to lure and gather monsters, employing anti-gravity energy cannons, and receiving aerial bombardment support from major cities.

If this battle had taken place in the wilderness, the casualties would have been unimaginable, and this was only a small group of monsters gathered in the wilderness.

Now, the surrounding cities, like the City of Light, have issued a mobilization order. All forces within the cities must contribute. Apart from a designated group of martial artists, all other martial artists in the cities must escort and transport supplies to the front lines. Anyone who violates this order will be wanted by all cities without exception.

At the same time, all factions were notified to pay attention to the wilderness areas of the city in the future.

Because of the battle between the frontline army and the monsters, many monsters have scattered and fled, probably to the outskirts of various cities. The wilderness is no longer safe, and the cities are too busy clearing out the monsters to deal with the scattered ones. All major forces are advised to be careful.

This is undoubtedly bad news for forces without martial artists to oversee them, especially for wild gangs. It's a disaster for them, forcing them to abandon most of their territory and barely managing to hold onto their main base in the wild.

However, this also presents an opportunity for forces with martial artists in command.

Although monsters are active around the city, it is generally safe and the chance of encountering monsters is very low. Most of them are cleared out by the martial artists hunted by the Martial Arts Association or by the city's garrison. However, the city is currently short of resources, so the martial artists hunted by the Martial Arts Association will probably mainly hunt in the front-line areas.

Companies that need to transport goods in the wild will definitely seek out forces that use martial artists for transportation. The wealth and resources they can acquire will be incomparable to what they used to have.

If they had the resources, they could even take over the wilderness resource areas abandoned by the wild gangs. The city's higher-ups wouldn't say anything, since they couldn't even protect the wild gangs themselves and gave them up voluntarily. Besides, these wild gangs weren't worth much anymore, so the resources were just sitting there. If a powerful force could take over and sell them to the city, it would be a good thing for the city.

This presents a great opportunity for the White Feather Gang, which is constantly producing martial artists, to develop rapidly.

“You know what I mean, right?” Isaac glanced at Mans.

"Understood, I'll go and have them all attempt to become martial artists." Mans nodded, then turned and left the room, his excitement lingering on his face.

Although this plan differs greatly from the original one, sending too many unprepared assassins to attack the martial artists at once would result in a very high mortality rate, but now is the best time to strengthen our forces, and we cannot afford to be stingy.

Protecting transport convoys to the front-line towns is the duty of all martial artists in the city. Only martial artists who have participated in a transport mission are allowed to move freely throughout the city.

If they don't catch up with this batch of frontline transport missions as soon as possible, the warriors who succeed in the subsequent assaults will not be able to earn money or obtain resources from the businesses and companies in the city.

Meanwhile, many forces within the city were in chaos, none of them expecting the world to suddenly become so chaotic. Even forces with martial artists in charge were somewhat panicked.

“Uncle Wright, what do we do now? The Martial Arts Association has already issued me a summons. I need to report outside the city first thing tomorrow morning and join a front-line transport convoy to the front lines.” Beth, who was over three meters tall and had golden hair, looked at the Martial Arts Association notification on his smartwatch with a somewhat panicked expression.

According to the mobilization order sent by the city, it is clear that the wilderness is no longer safe, let alone going to the front line. As a low-level martial artist, he is at the very bottom in the wilderness. If he encounters a mid-level monster, it could kill him.

"Don't worry, I have some connections in the city. I'll transfer to your team. As long as you stay by my side, even if high-level monsters come, I can protect you," Wright reassured him.

Upon hearing this, Beth breathed a sigh of relief.

He has a bright future ahead of him, and he might even get into a talent training camp. It would be such a waste if he died halfway through.

On the other side, the Bei'ao family.

“Patriarch, the Pevin and Bain families are asking us for a favor.” The giant Drok looked at Patriarch Kadwin, who was still cultivating, and said respectfully, “Their descendants were not assigned to the same team as them. We hope we can find someone to arrange it.”

“These damned vampire parasites in the city! The city is already facing a monster horde, and they still want to make a quick buck off us.” The hunched-over Kadwin frowned as he looked at the call to arms from the Martial Arts Association. “Alright, have them all prepare a gift and send it over. I’ll take care of this for them.” “Yes.”

The giant Rodcock glanced at the smartwatch on the wrist of the family head, Kadwin, and understood that their North Ao family was probably the same. All the warriors were not arranged together, but scattered, with the purpose of squeezing money out of them.

The City of Light, Obsidian Martial Arts School.

"Master, we've cleared out quite a few vagrants from our territory, but with the city suddenly issuing a mobilization order, those vagrants will probably be even more unscrupulous in targeting us now that we're transporting supplies to the front lines," Meng Wei reported with a headache after glancing at the association's mobilization order on his smartwatch.

Normally, the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy has ten martial artists, and now it has twelve. With these martial artists stationed on the Academy's territory, those wanderers can't cause much trouble.

But now the Martial Arts Association has sent all the martial artists to transport supplies. With only a few thousand people left in the Obsidian Martial Arts School, facing attacks and assassinations from wanderers all over the city, this is not an easy task to handle.

The wanderers are a group of desperados. In terms of combat skills at the same level, they are generally higher than the members of the major gangs in the city. If they really want to launch a sneak attack, they can kill someone of a higher level without any problem.

"Let these wanderers fight us if they want. Flowers that thrive in comfort cannot grow. All you need to do now is arrange the investigation." Lin Qi smiled, completely unconcerned.

For players, what could be more fun than fighting monsters? Especially for new players these days, they usually encounter powerful players from various factions, and they are always fighting monsters that are much higher level than them. Such battles rarely provide any positive feedback and are almost always resulting in being slaughtered.

These wanderers are generally weaker than the major forces in the suburbs, who are full of ultimate apprentices and quasi-martial artists, and wear A6 or B1 level armor.

Now, new players can train and improve while also engaging in back-and-forth battles with opponents of the same or higher levels. These new players are having a blast completing the quests, and even veteran players are incredibly envious.

He was worried that once the wanderers in his territory were wiped out, the new recruits would have no missions to do. Now he no longer has to worry about that, and he probably won't even have to worry about missions for new recruits in the future.

If possible, he genuinely wanted to thank these wanderers, who added a lot of fun to the experience of the game "High Martial Arts Descends," encouraging players to cultivate and improve more actively.

“I have entrusted this matter to my two disciples. They are very familiar with this area and I believe they will satisfy you, Master,” Meng Wei said.

“Alright, you should go back and prepare too. We’re leaving first thing tomorrow morning.” Lin Qi nodded. “Although we’ll be traveling with a captain and a vice-captain of the Blanc family’s transport team, it’s not absolutely safe.”

Estina has already made all the arrangements, including the successful breakthroughs of Yi Ye Fu Yun and Chen Ya today. All twelve martial artists from the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy will now escort the transport convoy together.

Although there are many martial artists on their side, and they are all grouped together, the monsters in the wilderness hunting area are not comparable to those near the city. Those are true predators, and most of them are mid-level monsters.

Mid-level monsters are not comparable to low-level monsters. Even without B-grade armor, a martial artist in the Refining Organs Realm can kill a low-level monster single-handedly. However, a mid-level martial artist will basically die if they encounter a mid-level monster without B3 or B4 grade armor.

Even a mid-level warrior with B3-level armor assistance would find it difficult to kill a mid-level monster and would most likely be killed by the mid-level monster itself.

Normally, to hunt a mid-level monster, it requires two or more fully armed mid-level martial artists to work together. Therefore, the Martial Arts Association will give advice to novice martial artists during the certification process: do not hunt monsters in the wild. Even if you really want to hunt, you should join a martial artist team, so as to save novice martial artists from dying.

"Yes, I will go back and prepare immediately." Meng Wei bowed and left after hearing this.

The so-called preparation was actually just preparing some Type 1 healing potions to use when injured. Although Type 1 healing potions were far less effective for martial artists than Type 2 healing potions, they could still stabilize the injury to some extent.

After Meng Wei left the lounge, Lin Qi also issued an emergency transport mission to all players who had become martial artists, requiring all martial artist players to complete it or be expelled from the martial arts school.

"What's going on? This is a mandatory quest for martial arts level players?"

"Are the game designers going to pull some kind of stunt?"

"Holy crap! Look at this mission level!"

(End of this chapter)