To make sure the opening assault on the Black Order went smoothly, they planned to send out every combat-capable player they had and form a proper raid group.
The team was split into two parts: a tank group and a damage group.
The tank group's job was simple. They would charge in one by one and offer up their lives as sacrifices.
The damage group would attack from every angle. Between each attack window, they would rush in, land a hit, and retreat as fast as possible.
The tactical layout was simple enough to understand at a glance.
(Tactical Chart)
Their top priority target was Ebony Maw.
Based on multiple tests, they had confird that Ebony Maw could control players into killing each other.
And just like that, they were ready to move.
Everyone, wish them luck.
["You really didn't consider having a few dozen people grab Ebony Maw's arms and legs, then go for a decapitation while he is pinned?"]
["Holy hell, the guy above is a gaming genius!"]
["A man lives for Mai Sakurajima and killed Mai Sakurajima with an AK: That kind of street-brawl tactic might actually work!"]
["Mai Sakurajima blew up the guy who lives for Mai Sakurajima with a grenade: Shocked. So your street fights just start with beheading people?"]
["A dagger killed the guy who lives for Mai Sakurajima and Mai Sakurajima: Can you really fight a boss like that? If we cannot beat them this ti, can we try this thod? Please say yes!"]
["Brothers of the Muscle: Are the three of you organizing a team just by na alone?"]
["The Creed of Berserkers: I am now deeply curious about the physical engine in this ga."]
["An assassin's faith is greatsword tower shield: Engine? What engine? It is a virtual reality MMO. New technology."]
…
In fact, by this point, the Black Order was already panicking.
No one had expected that, after coming out with so many underlings, they would still get ground down by the Kryptonian Empire's endless wave tactics and its soldiers who never seed to know fear.
Even worse, the Black Order and Thanos were now trapped on Nidavellir. They could not leave. It seed so kind of barrier had sealed the entire planet.
Thanos was studying how to break through it, while the Black Order's job was to keep the Kryptonian forces from interrupting him.
"Damn it. From start to finish, the Kryptonian Empire hasn't sent a single real powerhouse. They've only used these trash units against us!" the Deadly Blade said angrily.
If they had lost to the Kryptonian Empire's elites, that would have been one thing. But the problem was that the Kryptonian Empire seed to think so little of them that it had only sent in disposable troops.
And yet the Black Order really was being forced into a corner by those so-called disposable troops.
It was absurd.
"WAAAGH!"
At that familiar battle cry, the Black Order's faces changed.
They knew imdiately that those lunatics were back.
What else could they be if they were fearless enough to throw themselves at death without hesitation?
The real question was, where had the Kryptonian Empire found so many madn? They had not even existed as a nation for very long.
"Deadly Blade's weapon is mine!!!"
"Charge! The first artifact-level weapon on the server is ours today!"
The players surged forward and surrounded the Black Order, imdiately beginning their glorified scratch-fest.
Ebony Maw took the most concentrated fire, but he remained composed and easily manipulated the bullets flying toward him. Just then, he spotted a soldier being hurled forward by his own allies, one after another.
Realizing sothing was wrong, Ebony Maw tried to freeze that soldier in midair.
But at that exact mont, a player in the distance fired a plasma energy blast.
"Loyal plasma never overheats!!!"
That forced Ebony Maw to defend against the plasma first.
The plasma fusion rifle was one of the players' heavily funded trump cards. They had pooled money to exchange for it, and it could fire hypersonic plasma energy that produced temperatures in the hundreds of thousands of degrees. On contact, it could vaporize almost anything.
To Ebony Maw, that was a far more serious threat.
Then, after being thrown a certain distance by the other players, that soldier exploded.
A blinding flash ripped across the battlefield, followed by a dull, thunderous boom. A small mushroom cloud rose into the air, and several hundred square ters around the blast were swallowed by the shockwave.
Ebony Maw and the other mbers of the Black Order standing nearby were engulfed in a wall of fire.
A micro-nuke.
Or, more precisely, a new elent warhead, the ultimate weapon Drex Valen had sold to Earth as a replacent for nuclear bombs and hydrogen bombs.
It was only miniaturized, but the power was still terrifying.
When the explosion faded, Proxima Midnight was dead on the spot.
Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, and Supergiant were all badly wounded.
Corvus Glaive was unhard only because his battle blade had not been destroyed, but even he had been shocked.
The micro-nuke's power was too imnse. He had practically been erased in an instant.
As for Proxima Midnight being dead, that did not matter much to Corvus Glaive. A wife was nothing special. He could always find another one.
But for the Black Order as a whole, this was an unimaginable blow.
What was the Black Order?
They were Thanos's five strongest subordinates.
They had followed Thanos across the universe and destroyed countless civilizations. Their reputation was infamous.
Deadly Blade was the Black Order's commander. He possessed immortality, super strength, super speed, and truly exceptional combat skill.
Ebony Maw was a yellow-skinned, white-haired elder. He was not especially impressive in direct combat, but he had super-intelligence and powerful psychic abilities. Through spoken suggestion, he could invade a target's mind and brainwash them. His ntal control was so strong that even the Sorcerer Supre, Doctor Strange, could not resist it.
At the sa ti, Ebony Maw was also a genius scientist. He could create weapons and armor that dramatically enhanced combat power, and he had extraordinary experience in developing super soldiers.
Proxima Midnight was a nimble female warrior. The spear she wielded was a divine weapon forged personally by Thanos. Once thrown, it split into three tracking beams of energy, each one carrying the mass and destructive force of a star's core.
That was roughly the sa as having three Mjolnirs dropped on you at once.
Even powerhouses like Hyperion or the Hulk would be pinned down by the sheer mass of those three star cores if struck by the spear, taking severe damage and being unable to move.
Supergiant was a blue-skinned female psychic in a white robe. She possessed extrely powerful ntal abilities, capable of psychic domination and telepathic transmission.
Even Black Bolt, the leader of the Inhumans, could not withstand her ntal control, and the Oga-level mutant Iceman had once been seized by her on the battlefield and turned against his fellow X-n.
The weakest mber of the Black Order was Cull Obsidian.
Cull Obsidian was a pure fighter with super durability, super strength, and super regeneration, with combat power on par with the Hulk.
And now, this sa group had actually lost one of their own under the siege of the Kryptonian Empire's army, and not even to the Kryptonian Empire's true powerhouses, but to a swarm of disposable soldiers.
Humiliation.
A profound humiliation.
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