My Notoriety Spreads Throughout the World-Chapter 447 - 384: King’s Side Gambit

"Damn these grand guilds are just too overbearing!"

"Exactly, they leverage their numbers to sacrifice our interests deliberately and deliberately choose this remote town as the meeting spot, claiming it's to avoid conflict. That Smiling Knight is just using it as an opportunity for personal revenge."

"It's grand guild affairs, so we have to sacrifice the interests of smaller guilds, and they don't even inform us. What kind of nonsense is this!"

"Are we really going to swallow this bitter pill, President?" someone asked anxiously.

"There are other guild members all over the place, thousands of players; the ownership of the stronghold doesn't belong to us anymore. What can we do if we can't swallow this bitterness?" 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

The man with glasses sat opposite Xu Xiaoyou, across a chessboard.

Facing the anxious inquiries from everyone, Xu Xiaoyou did not answer directly but lifted the white pawn on e2 and moved it to e4.

The man with glasses decisively moved the black pawn from e7 forward by two squares to e5.

Xu Xiaoyou chuckled lightly and moved the white pawn to f4. The man with glasses was silent for a moment before capturing her pawn on f4 with his pawn.

The man with glasses raised his head and adjusted his glasses,

"President, you mean the King's Gambit?"

Xu Xiaoyou stayed silent and continued her offensive, moving the white knight from g1 to f3.

The King's Gambit is a relatively old chess opening.

As its name implies, the white side sacrifices its pawn to continuously weaken the black side's king's wing, creating opportunities for open lines and initiative.

The man with glasses moved his g7 black pawn to g5, consolidating his f4 pawn and attempting to prevent the opponent from attacking h4, relinquishing the defense of the king's wing.

Xu Xiaoyou moved her h2 white pawn to h4, beginning to position against the enemy's king's wing, her mind racing with thoughts.

In this situation, how can we break the stalemate?

The Light Chasing Garden recently acquired the 'Fog Village Port' stronghold, and their two-day occupation points placed them in 33rd on the overall leaderboard.

Black pawn on g5 moves to g4.

White knight on f3 hops to e5.

Xu Xiaoyou knew very well that the guilds behind were closely chasing. The Light Chasing Garden didn't have any other stronghold points. Losing the 'Fog Village Port' pawn meant stagnation, and soon they would be surpassed by other guilds, buried in the endless sands of the battlefield.

The struggle, similar to the current chess game, changes with every passing second, the clash of arms reverberating, the roars shaking the heavens.

Both sides advanced and retreated, capturing pieces in succession, and the situation reached a temporary stalemate.

White pawn on d2 moves to d4.

Bishop on f1 steps to c4.

White king short-castles from e1 to g1, and the rook on h1 charges to f1.

Everyone held their breath, keenly watching the chess match's progression. Initially, White was briefly passive after losing a piece, but as the control of the open line gradually fell into Xu Xiaoyou's hands, successive moves continually constrained Black's king's wing, and the situation unknowingly reversed, with Black falling into check, White's pieces launching an Electric Whale Cutting offensive against the vulnerable king's wing.

Pawns roared with the king's decree, knights neighed with the bishop's call.

Knight moves to g4, queen emerges on d3, the king's wing is breached!

A drop of sweat slid down the man with glasses' forehead; a momentary slip had cost him the initiative on the board, leaving him as a fish on the chopping block, helpless as the meticulously laid defenses crumbled, the once impregnable kingdom collapsing like a sandcastle!

Facing the girl's unrelenting offensive, the man with glasses was forced to retreat the king to h7, attempting to use the queen on d8 and rook on h8 along with his remaining pawns to rally, to rebuild the defenses.

Xu Xiaoyou gave her opponent no time to breathe. Although the opponent's experience was richer, her decisive speed in making moves left the man with glasses with no extra time for thought. Fatigue would inevitably lead to oversight, and an enemy's oversight meant opportunity.

And she never lets any opportunity slip by.

White rook charges f4, checkmate the king!

The smoke of battle rose, the black king on the battlefield lifted his sword and looked around, only to be bewildered; the royal city was in ruins while he was deeply besieged by the enemy. The queen wielding a long whip strode forward, her steps steady, followed by thousands of troops, all with murderous red eyes, vowing to destroy him utterly!

White queen moves to g7, checkmate.

The pillars supporting the heavens and the earth collapsed with a thunderous crash, the swirling dust obscuring the sky, the kingdom on the chessboard reduced to a mere speck of history.

"I... lost." The man with glasses exhaled deeply, looking respectfully at the blond girl across the board. "As expected, President, you're a step ahead in chess."

"Thanks for going easy, my logistics minister?" Xu Xiaoyou smiled.

"So, You, what should we do next? Withdraw from Fog Village Port?" Chichu Chun asked worriedly.

"If we do that, which stronghold should we attack next?"

"Nobody has ever taken anything from my hands." Xu Xiaoyou stood up, her eyes indifferent.

"Whatever goes in, must be returned to me tenfold."

"Well said, President, we should just blow up the meeting room and send those bastards to the sky!" Tyrant Bear shouted.

Everyone looked at him helplessly, Xu Xiaoyou even more speechless.

Could it be possible that your beloved President is in that meeting room too?

"Of course, we can't do that. Just like the chess match earlier, my strategy is the King's Gambit."

Everyone perked up their ears, while Angelina at the door symbolically lifted her wolf ears.

"With our power, going head-to-head with the whole server's guild alliance is impossible, so the Fog Village Port stronghold must be abandoned."

"But, but we worked hard to capture it," someone protested.

"That's right, it's obviously us who took it down, and President, you were the one who drove away those covetous hundreds, yet they so naturally took over. It's just too much!"

"No, let's just fight them!" someone suggested. "President, just give the word, and we'll drag that Smiling Knight in front of you, let him know there's a price for messing with the Light Chasing Garden!"

Xu Xiaoyou sighed.

Was her core cohesion too strong? What kind of armed force had she cultivated?

If these words were to spread, in less than a minute, they would be surrounded by hundreds, crushed in this basement under the guise of justice.

She raised her hand to interrupt the people who were about to voice more radical opinions, especially Fei Yueyue, who was chanting in the corner.

"Ugh, so annoying, dare not give face to the President? Smiling Knight, huh? Someday I'll kill you, kill you, kill you, kill you, kill you, kill you..."

Answering a call, the pink-haired girl with cute buns turned back with a sweet smile.

"What's the matter, President?"

"Whatever the next instruction from the President is, I'll gladly accept and execute it, never acting out of line!"

No one spoke; they just moved a few steps away from the murderously intent Fei Yueyue.

Xu Xiaoyou rubbed her temples, seeing the guild members with eager eyes, she cleared her throat and continued.

"When the meeting commences without surprises, they will propose dividing the strongholds. At that time, we will propose to attack the advanced stronghold within the Royal City alone. They, in reason, will not refuse, and might even send reinforcements."

"Choosing this advanced stronghold is particularly crucial; it can't be the easy-to-conquer Death Dao, Brewery, which would attract Jackal Wolf's covetousness, nor could it be core strongholds like the Bastion, Royal Botanical Garden, Poisonous Sewer, or King's Castle, as these conflict with grand guild interests."

"Eliminating all unfavorable choices, the final answer is evident: prison below the Bastion, due to terrain and monster spawn issues, it's the hardest to attack, plus it yields the lowest daily score, a tough bone even dogs don't want."

"However, it can impact every direction, be it the Bastion, Poisonous Sewer, King's Castle, or Botanical Garden, prison is the necessary path."

"Regardless of their private thoughts, what we currently need to do is outwardly comply, inwardly defy, ensuring our sharp blade..." Xu Xiaoyou looked up,

"can silently grasp the throats of all guilds before turning tables."