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Season 5: Chapter 184. The Enemy Strikes Back (2)

Before the match started, Tortilla declared to the coaches, "We're going with walkie-talkies too."

All the coaches nodded slowly as if they'd been waiting for this to some degree.

"Good."

"Right. Let's accept the advanced methodology."

They murmured words of agreement back and forth. Originally, a true strategic battle began with acknowledging the opponent's strength. Without that precondition, coaches would only get carried away with trusting their players' individual skills.

"Yes. Turns out the only way is to acknowledge what needs acknowledging. Their strategy is overwhelming ours. We were also completely read in Group A's second match and suffered a total defeat."

Tortilla quickly accepted the opponent's strength and devised a strategy to counter it.

"We..."

He began drawing the plan on the provided whiteboard.

"We won't be compressing into four teams. We'll use walkie-talkies while keeping our five teams."

The coaches had been quiet, but now expressed confusion.

"What?"

"Hm?"

Dispatching inherently made the dispatched team split up. Compressing five teams into four was the basic logic. Naturally, everyone found it odd to break that. Looking at the whiteboard, everyone had no choice but to accept it.

"The dispatch system's weakness is that there's no clear countermeasure when the dispatch workers die one by one. If we do it this way, those disadvantages disappear too..."

Here, the first kick Tortilla had prepared came out.

"The opponents won't even know we're using walkie-talkies."

Everyone had puzzled expressions.

"Are they stupid? How would they not know? The players have been changed."

"Oh. Yes. That's from our perspective."

Ding.

Tortilla put up a reference screen. It was a scene of playing Survival mode in first-person. The content itself was nothing special. It was just a first-person scene of jumping into a chaotic teamfight, intercepting enemies, and then getting killed.

"This is just a typical user's Survival mode gameplay video. Can you tell how many teams were involved here?"

Numerous players were visible on screen, but there was no way to tell how many teams.

"Two teams?"

"Three teams?"

"Hmm..."

All the coaches were confused.

"You can't tell."

It would be even harder to tell in the Platform Showdown's chaotic 25 vs 25 fights.

"It's hard to grasp without counting the total head count. In a situation like this, confirming nicknames is extremely difficult."

There were fifteen players after slowly scrolling through the reference footage and counting heads.

"Fifteen are visible, so this appears to be a teamfight involving three teams."

In the video, three teams were actually fighting.

"There's no other way other than grasping things through a total head count. If a total of six players move together, enemies will catch on that we have a walkie-talkie. But if it's five?"

Everyone's eyes went wide.

"Five people with one person exchanged per team from the walkie-talkie group. Unlike Cheese, our opponents don't even know which team will take the walkie-talkie role. Will they still be able to tell?"

The probability of genuinely not knowing was high because players were all seeing it from first-person.

"R-right."

"Wow..."

Seeing everyone accept it, Tortilla wiped the whiteboard clean.

"Good. Why hiding it from the enemy matters... you'll understand when you see what we do with this walkie-talkie system."

Tortilla turned to the next page of materials with resolute eyes. This was the second kick.

"We'll kill every enemy walkie-talkie."

The enemy wouldn’t be able to respond because they wouldn't even know the other side had walkie-talkies.

OrangeKing's scream echoed through the entire stadium.

AHHHHHHHHHHH!?

Paprika had walkie-talkies!!"

"What...?"

Even the casters were confused. Paprika had even managed to trick the commentators watching from above.

"Different teams are mixed in! Among the five players, one is from a different team and...!"

"What!?"

"Hm?"

Both the caster and analyst looked at the minimap again in surprise, but they couldn't tell.

'What? Can't see it.'

Cheese teams were yellow, and Paprika teams were red on the minimap. A common color was applied.

"Look carefully at the player names!"

Only by looking at names would one know. Even then, they had to match those names against the team roster.

Different team players were mixed, but they'd dropped in groups of five as if they were one team.

"So! One walkie-talkie was sent out with four players! No wait! This isn't a dispatch strategy!"

Calling it a dispatch was inaccurate. Tortilla had never once called this a dispatch strategy.

He’d said, "This is... an exchange strategy!"

— What

— What?

— HUH?

— What does that mean??

— Wow lmaooo

— Insane

— Wow

"The members were exchanged with each other! Paprika's four teams each have one walkie-talkie! The walkie-talkie team, all five of their members, are from different teams! It’s a combined force!"

The exchange strategy was another application of the dispatch strategy. The logic was simple. Instead of the walkie-talkie team dispatching workers, they exchanged one member with each team.

In Cheese terms, switching Zelo and Lemon would give walkie-talkies to the Knights. Like this, the original Can't Can't Can't would all spread to different teams.

Anyone would naturally wonder.

"Wow... wh-what's the reason for doing it this way!?"

The caster was astounded at this complex composition.

"There are multiple reasons! But look at the experience right now, and you'll see!" OrangeKing mentioned exp first.

"They're dividing experience among four instead of five, right?"

"OHHHH!?"

Fundamentally, Paprika was dividing experience between four players. It was effectively an automatic Split Strategy.

"It's a small difference, but it keeps widening the gap!"

Cheese had already fallen behind in exp due to early time waste. Even when hunting at the same speed, the gap kept widening. This was a difference coming from numbers. Even with the dispatch workers not eating exp equally on both sides, Paprika’s side only had four players instead of five.

— Oh

— Wow

— Right

— That's why they're faster

— Is the gap that big?

"There is a difference, but they're still the same level two right now... Hard to say how it'll play out..."

Before the caster finished his words, a signal came.

[Level Up!]

[Lv.2 → Lv.3]

The first level three appeared on Paprika's side.

Hm hm hm!?

At that moment, red dots all started moving at once.

"Wow!?"

"They’re clearly communicating through walkie-talkies, right!?"

It was completely different from the earlier Paprika.

— Wow lol

— Exchange strategy is actually broken fr

— Wow

— Turtle again this time?

— Wow what?

"Once you're level three, the Red Turtle is much easier. Both Paprika and Cheese have been seen obsessing over this Turtle. It’s probably the same this time, and Paprika has methodically been pairing up with that in mind...

hm?

They were moving simultaneously, but not in the same direction.

"Why are they all scattering!?"

"Spreading out... They're spreading out!?"

"This doesn't look like the target is the Turtle?"

They weren’t targeting the Turtle. This was starting to look like...

"This is a formation for catching opponents coming for the Turtle!!"

— Wow

— I see

— What

— Oh no

— So that's it

"They’re using the advantage of being level three to engage in raw combat once!"

They were trying to get ahead in levels and properly capitalize on that. Not through hunting Turtles, but through hunting enemies.

"Cheese! Are they all going to the Turtle!?"

Cheese was, of course, all preparing to naively contest the Turtle.

"Ohhhh...! M-most of them are moving toward the Turtle! But they’re all level 2! Or even level 1 among them!"

OrangeKing pointed to one spot. "

Hm hm!?

W-wait!?"

Only one team had similar levels.

"Why are they level three?"

"What? Why are they gone?" Sweet Radish was puzzled from the start.

The enemies weren't where they were supposed to be.

"They didn't divide the map either? Looks like they all scattered."

Paprika always dropped precisely and divided the territory like a north-south demilitarized line. This time, there was no sign of that. It was hard to even find them, and they ran when they were spotted.

Haah...

damn. Not there either? Over."

Zelo took out his frustration on the other walkie-talkies.

"Hey, you slaves! If they're not there, they're not there! If they are, they are! What do you mean you don't know!"

— lmaooooooooooo

— lmaooo slaves

— Slave catching slaves lmaooo

— As expected the slave catcher is Zelo

— Slaves are harder on slaves smh

Zelo, naturally being short-tempered, was one thing. Even Sweet Radish felt like shouting if he could.

'It’s a big time waste. Something... something has changed.'

Almond said from beside him, "We're not going to get all the experience like this. Should we split?"

— Another Split Strategy LOL

— lmaooo from now?

— lmaooooooooooo

— fr only the Knights can split

The only two things in his head were the Split Strategy and the Turtle.

"We need to hit level three for the Red Turtle. Enemies running away means they're just hunting..."

The Knights had no choice but to get anxious since they hadn't dropped near the Vault either.

'Split Strategy...'

Almond's suggestion couldn’t just be brushed off.

Sweet Radish nodded and gave the order. "ForeverAlone."

"Yes."

"Tell the teams near the Vault to handle it on their own. The situation has changed. Even with the risk, we need to take a big return. The enemies are playing defensively."

"Yes."

ForeverAlone briefly passed orders to all the walkie-talkies, and the Knights split. Almond, Lemon, and ForeverAlone grouped up. The rest formed another team.

"Wow..." ForeverAlone seemed pleased to be on Almond's team. "I-I'm finally a people person, guys."

— No you're not

— And that's a three-person team...

— What lmaooo

— You're still an outsider here...

ForeverAlone had been attached to Almond for a simple reason.

'Someone who can think normally needs to be next to Almond.'

Sweet Radish couldn't put Zelo in the same group as Almond!

Through splitting, the Knights could catch up somewhat in experience. When they reached level three, Almond mentioned the Turtle again.

[Dumb Young Man: Shouldn't we take the Turtle? We need to contract too.]

[Sweet Radish: But we're already a bit behind. I think we should just settle for the octopus.]

Sweet Radish quickly read the situation. He'd already sensed the enemies were ahead in levels. Getting the octopus would be better for later.

[Black Tea: But we split and our levels aren't bad...?]

Black Tea lent weight to Almond's view.

[SweetPotato: Right! Let's fight a bit instead of just giving it up!]

SweetPotato also backed them.

Sweet Radish had to inform them of the reality.

[Sweet Radish: No, among Cheese, only we're level 3. The enemies will all be level 3.]

[Black Tea: Really...?]

[Sweet Radish: Yeah.]

It was an astonishingly precise prediction.

[Dumb Young Man: Then shouldn't we go contest it at least? The Turtle? Just giving it feels...]

Even so, Almond wouldn't let go of his fixation on the Turtle.

HMMM!?

" Zelo suddenly screamed.

Sweet Radish didn't know why because he couldn't hear.

[Bubblegum: AHHHHHH! What the hell are these guys!?]

Bubblegum also screamed.

"Oh no, Bubblegum hyung!!"

With Zelo's lament, dire news rang out.

[An Ally Has Fallen!]

[Omelette → Bubblegum]

Bubblegum suddenly became a rune spirit. Fortunately, the situation ended with just Bubblegum. No further dire news came.

'Only Bubblegum died...?'

Sweet Radish thought something was odd.

Zelo asked Sweet Radish, "Sweet Radish, do we need to go revive him?"

Can't Can't Can't couldn't be revived by the team they were with, so a nearby team needed to do it.

Hmm...

Zelo, but what's the situation? Why did he die?" Sweet Radish was cautious.

"Does he usually have a reason to die?"

— LOL

— lmaooooooooooo

— Hahaha

— lmaooooo

Sweet Radish was almost persuaded, but asked again.

Zelo relayed the reason. "Well... they say the enemies only took out Bubblegum and just backed off. Three guys with guns suddenly appeared and took him out."

Sweet Radish's eyes widened.

'Could it be?'

Were the enemies specifically targeting and killing Can't Can't Can't? That thought was still fresh when more news arrived.

[An Ally Has Fallen!]

[Fry Guy → Acorn Jelly]

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