Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors

The Mo Blade Team each wielded their Mo blades, moving forward like a wall, leading the soldiers undauntedly, and swept through all resistance.

Thus, the tide of battle shifted in an instant. After the Mo Blade Team sealed the breach, the Liang Army regained its footing and reformed its formation. Li Gaoling even led his elite infantry to maneuver behind the enemy lines, pincering the rebels from both front and rear.

By evening, having fought since midday, they decisively defeated the enemy in half a day, slaying sixty thousand men.

It is evident, therefore, that the victory in this battle greatly depended on Li Gaoling's personal valor.

Had it not been for Li Gaoling single-handedly killing dozens of Cavalry, the Mo Blade Team could not have been invigorated to seal the breach. Had the breach not been sealed, the Liang Army might have been dispersed by the rebels in the initial chaos.

Then, the outcome of the entire battle could have been drastically different.

With the correct answer already known, looking back on this solving process seems somewhat incredulous.

It was much like the Cavalry Trial; similar to a primary student facing advanced calculus, where all problems seem to be marked "thus easily proven" or "evidently achievable."

Not to mention, how did Li Gaoling, alone in the front lines, manage to kill a dozen or so Cavalry after removing his armor?

The enemy Cavalry were also elites. Though their horses were not heavily armored, the riders themselves wore armor, whereas Li Gaoling did not!

Indeed, the Mo Blade was very powerful and long, but the enemy Cavalry wielded long weapons like lances and spears too!

Moreover, the enemy wasn't foolish. After the front Cavalry were slain by Li Gaoling, wouldn't the others simply switch to mounted archery or other forms of ranged attacks?

Even if removing his armor meant significantly less weight, allowing Li Gaoling to wield the Mo Blade with greater force and agility, thus increasing its lethality, his defense was utterly diminished to zero.

That is, any long spear, blade, or arrow could seriously injure or kill Li Gaoling, forcing him out of the battle.

Of course, the players possessed the Reclaimer's talent, had Li Gaoling's physical and muscle memory, and had initially experienced the power of the Mo Blade in previous battles.

Yet the difficulty level was still comparable to someone who just learned basic boxing steps challenging a champion boxer.

This difficulty was absurd!

At this point, Luo Ying finally gained a clear and vivid understanding of the game's difficulty.

However, he was not disheartened but rather felt eager.

"Does that not mean that theoretically, I could indeed perform such feats?"

For someone suffering from ALS, this was something quite hopeful.

Thus far, Dark Sand had released many instances, including highly difficult ones like Trial Illusion, yet numerous players had completed them.

Hence, while the instances in Dark Sand seemed challenging, they generally didn't present the players with insurmountable obstacles.

Consider this instance.

Compared to the historical Li Gaoling, players not only possessed his physical capabilities and the enhancement of the golden talent, but they could also retry repeatedly.

The only real differences were combat experience and muscle memory.

But these could be gradually honed through repeated deaths.

For Luo Ying, an ALS patient, daily activities were severely limited. But in this instance, he could control Li Gaoling's body, which was nothing short of a human-shaped Gundam, and indulge in exhilarating combat!

Pain? Injury?

For Luo Ying, these were novel and even delightful sensations.

After all, his senses were dulled in reality, often numbed or afflicted with spasms and severe pain. These pathological sensations significantly affected what normal people would feel.

In the game, though injuries also caused pain, this "normal" pain felt almost blissful to someone with ALS.

With this thought, Luo Ying tightly gripped the Mo Blade in his hand.

"Kill!!"

He strode forward, charging into the ranks of the enemy Cavalry!

It must be said, Li Gaoling's physical prowess was indeed formidable. Historically, renowned heroes who left a legacy of valor often lived up to the term human-shaped Gundam.

Luo Ying remembered a simplistic documentary he had seen online that had attempted to replicate a Mo Blade. They casually had someone chop at meat, and when they failed to cut it, they concluded that historical descriptions of the Mo Blade "shattering both men and horses" were highly exaggerated and impossible in reality.

At that moment, Luo Ying had wanted to argue—their replication wasn't accurate!

Li Gaoling was one of the rare super warriors throughout thousands of years of history, comparable to, if not beyond, a modern unrestricted mixed martial arts champion.

Li Gaoling, towering over two meters tall, wielded a ten-kilogram Mo Blade with swift skill, recognized as the best in the military. Yet a careless show was suggesting he couldn't cut through flesh just because someone random couldn't?

That was as absurd as saying Michael Jordan couldn't dunk because I couldn't.

At this moment, Luo Ying truly was in history, controlling Li Gaoling's body, facing the overwhelming swarm of Cavalry.