A cool breeze blew across the plains and caused the grass to sway a little. Swallow Ear Canton was situated next to Undead Hills, and at least a million God’s Domain’s players were entrenched at the latter right now. We had no plans of fighting them to the death on Undead Hills, however. They were the locals here, so they had to know the terrain far better than any of us. The obviously superior strategy here was to attack Swallow Ear Canton directly and force God’s Domain to engage us on the plains.

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The ground trembled beneath our cavalry’s hooves. Our 14k-strong Dragonlight Cavalry and 5k+ Dragonlight Archers had fought several fierce battles and slain countless, but our losses were minimal up until this point. We had lost single players, but none of our military units had been lost so far, so we were fully capable of assuming the forward position of this war. The moment we began the assault on Swallow Ear Canton, Purple Grape City was sure to dispatch their strongest force as well. As the saying goes, good steel should be used to make the blade of a weapon.

We stopped...