Midgame Battle: A Fierce Offensive After an Intercept

“Nice intercept!”

I shouted without thinking.

The north side, where everyone’s attention was focused.

As both guilds charged straight toward the huge castle, an incredibly fast pair from 〈King Absolute〉 on the west side broke through toward the east.

They snatched the area tile directly in front of 〈Thousand Swords Frakar〉, which had been heading straight north from the east, by a hair.

As a result, 〈Thousand Swords Frakar〉’s members were bounced back to the tile behind them.

Due to the Protection Period, they couldn’t retake it or enter it for two minutes. In other words, they had no choice but to take a detour to head north.

This was a rough turn of events for 〈Thousand Swords Frakar〉.

But it seemed they had a backup plan, as reinforcements headed straight north from an even farther eastern tile.

They somehow managed to capture the tile adjacent to the east of the one 〈King Absolute〉 had taken...