Chapter 373: Sophie Liya's Game

It all started ten years ago.

As Youfilia's foster daughter, Sophie Liya naturally received a Spartan-style military education from childhood. The teacher's requirements for her had always been very high. She not only needed to be outstanding in personal combat power but also could not fall behind in fields such as military strategy.

After all, the battlefield is not a duel. It doesn't pay attention to one-on-one single combat. No matter how brave your personal combat power is, as long as you haven't reached the level of a Sage, there is still a possibility of being surrounded and overturned by others.

So as a general, although personal combat power is important, military strategy is actually more important.

And Sophie Liya, as an Angel Witch, has more talent in magic spells. As for her martial arts talent in the combat method system, it can only be said to

At first glance, she doesn't look bad, but if you consider Madeleine and the Young Lady—those two true martial arts geniuses who grew up wild—then she falls a bit short; after all, those two never had the privilege of being personally coached by a peak Martial God like her.

However, she did learn military strategy quite well, and she even received praise from Lord Long Wang once.

Of course, when it comes to military strategy, you naturally cannot just engage in empty talk; you need appropriate practice. But Sophie Liya started learning these things at the age of six, and you can't expect a six-year-old little witch to really go to the battlefield to lead troops in war. Even if she dared to go, others wouldn't dare to trust such a young general, right?

Therefore, generally speaking, the practice for learning strategy is at most playing chess or something similar, using chess pieces to represent armies. But as a natural disaster race and a high-level civilization, witches naturally have other ways to practice.

For example, the simplest way is to directly buy two auxiliary armies and let these two auxiliary armies have a real war. This is for witches with average family conditions. If it were a little witch with better conditions, she might directly start a war between two real countries.

As for those born into wealthy families, it's even more incredible; they have many worlds at home, and losing one or two for a child to play with as a toy is not a difficult task.

In her previous life, Dorothy could only play games like Civilization on a computer to experience the joy of farming. But here, witches can play with real civilizations. There are even big shots on the market who have actually created those world spheres where you can freely adjust the flow of time. You can experience the feeling of a Creator who creates from nothing and leads a civilization to brilliance.

It's just a pity that this type of toy belongs to high-end luxury goods, and ordinary little witches can't really afford to play with them.

However, given the teacher's family background, if Sophie Liya wanted to, she could really play with them as she pleased. But in the end, she didn't choose this cruel way of learning and instead went to the Mana Web to play games.

With the realism of the Mana Web, it falls short for duel competitions that require high precision and a sense of reality, but if it's for war simulation, it's just about enough.

After all, cruel wars come down to numbers, magic, technology, logistics, and so on in the end. What matters is a grasp of the big picture. As for those details, having them be roughly correct is enough.

Who would demand that the combat visuals of a farming strategy game be as meticulous as those of an action game?

Sophie Liya played a game called "Fleet Collection," where players act as the admiral of a fleet, raising a fleet from scratch and then commanding the fleet under their command to wage war against other players.

This is also the most popular strategy game on the Mana Web. It is said that the game's manufacturer has investment from the witch military behind it. Many warship data, unit data, and so on are so realistic that they are terrifying to think about. There is even data on those legendary psychic warships, which is very scary.

However, this is a good thing for the Pure White Witch; the more realistic the battlefield, the more she can learn.

In fact, in order to better hone herself, Sophie Liya deliberately didn't upgrade her fleet. She just put together a normal-level witch fleet and stopped there, not bothering with those flashy legendary warships or forming a dream fleet.

After all, there's no point in that. In reality, she couldn't possibly assemble such a luxurious lineup, and it's more realistic to command an ordinary fleet.

To be fair, the game is indeed good. Even someone like Sophie Liya, who doesn't really like playing games, was slightly addicted for a while. And in the repeated battles against various players, the various military strategies the teacher taught her were rapidly digested by her.

And in that short gaming experience, there were two battles that the Pure White Witch found quite unforgettable.

The first one was when she encountered a wealthy player who came to "seal club." That guy with the game ID "Fleet Girls Are All My Wives" was truly rich. Heaven knows how much money she spent; anyway, her fleet was entirely composed of legendary psychic warships. The oppressive force of that dream fleet was truly impressive.

You have to know that in the "Fleet Collection" game, there are only two ways to obtain warships: one is to build them yourself in the game, and the other is to buy them from the mall using game currency.

However, most players buy them directly from the mall. After all, who makes this damn game sometimes too realistic?

That warship construction is literally construction. Every player's game home has a private shipyard where you can carry out warship construction work.

As for warship blueprints and materials, these can be obtained from the settlement rewards of game battles.

Because this game is only open to witches, the game manufacturer really plays it big. The warship blueprints inside are completely the real manufacturing blueprints of real warships in reality, at most with some reservations on some high-end confidential parts.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, as long as you have the ability to build ships in the game, you can completely build them in reality as long as you have the materials.

Of course, there is the assistance of various systems in the game after all, and the failure rate is not that high. It is a simulation of perfect conditions after all. If you change to reality, the manufacturing difficulty will be much higher, and various accidents will occur.

But even so, the shipbuilding realism of this game is already high enough. Theoretically, if you can build a legendary warship in the game, then you are at least a shipbuilding expert in reality.

Therefore, this game has also been jokingly called "Shipbuilding Simulator," "Designated Textbook for Shipwrights," and so on.

In short, to form such a luxurious dream fleet in this game, you are either a big spender or a true shipbuilding master.

Sophie Liya felt that this "Fleet Girls Are All My Wives" must be a big spender. After all, her technique was really average, and she actually lost to her own ordinary fleet in the end.

Of course, in that battle, the opponent's firepower suppression was too strong, so she really had to rack her brains to deal with it. Although she won in the end, it was actually a miserable victory with over 90% of her own fleet damaged.

After that battle, Sophie Liya's military strategy completely entered a brand new realm, which is why it left such a deep impression.

It's just a pity that this wealthy player's psychological endurance was average. When the Pure White Witch was reviewing the past to learn the new and prepared to play another round, that account went gray forever and never lit up again.

This was probably quitting the game directly. Because she caused the game manufacturer to lose such a big client, Sophie Liya felt quite guilty at the time.

And the second battle that left a deep impression on her was no longer a big spender. In Sophie Liya's short gaming career, she had only seen that one dream team. This second battle could be remembered by her because the opponent was also like her, using only an ordinary fleet.

That battle was completely a contest of command and strategy between the two sides. This time Sophie Liya won again, but she won with difficulty. In the end, she only completed the total annihilation of the opponent after 80% of her own warships were damaged.

But overall, this was a hearty battle. This feeling of fighting against a well-matched opponent is quite fascinating.

Therefore, after the battle, Sophie Liya rarely added the other party as a Mana Web friend, and later they would occasionally exchange strategic insights.

And this netizen is the one looking for her now.

"Apocalypse Believer," this is the other party's Mana Web ID.

Sophie Liya played the game after all for the sake of learning. Once the knowledge was digested, she quit the game. But before she quit, this netizen had invited her to conquer a new game together, but she eventually refused on the grounds of being busy with her studies.

But this netizen never gave up. After many failed attempts to persuade her, she said that they could create an account together, the account operation would be handed over to her, and she only needed to be the military advisor behind the scenes responsible for decision-making.

At that time, the young Sophie Liya didn't think much and agreed. Afterwards, the other party would often bring her some strange battle situations and ask her to help with advice. She didn't refuse these either.

It's just that as she played this game, the Pure White Witch realized something. After all, many of those battle situations were so real that they didn't feel like a game at all, not to mention that there had been a new battle group called Apocalypse rising rapidly over the years.

Apocalypse Battle Group, Apocalypse Believer—these two names, which basically didn't hide anything, made Sophie Liya frown. And when she went online to check the historical record of this Apocalypse Battle Group, she exclaimed "Good fellow" at a glance. These were all the battle situation templates she and the netizen discussed!

At that moment, the Pure White Witch was completely numb. She really wanted to question this netizen: Is this what you call a new game? Are you treating the front line as a game?

However, she held back in the end and didn't ask anything. And since she didn't ask, the other party didn't say anything either. The two of them just got along as they had in the past: the netizen brought various battle situations, and she helped with various staff work.

As time went by, the topics of the two were no longer limited to the discussion of military strategy but expanded to battle group management, battle group faith, logistical support, and so on.

Hmm, the other party simply didn't even bother to pretend anymore. She knew that Sophie Liya had already discovered the truth of the game.

But Sophie Liya had also been pretending not to have discovered the truth of the game. After all, it's really too ridiculous to accidentally create a top 500 battle group or something.

Of course, with her personality, if it could be utilized, she wouldn't mind utilizing it, but...

The Shenwang Qing Sect or whatever is really too much of a dark history. That "I am the God King" ideology was a statement from her middle-school-syndrome period. Now she feels ashamed looking at it herself, but she doesn't know why so many people still believe it to be true.

In short, she doesn't really dare to take the blame for this. If she really takes it and Lord God King blames her one day, she will be stunned.

Moreover, such a large battle group is no longer the game account the two talked about online at the beginning. The interests involved are too great, and the other party is just a netizen. This credibility...

Being overly cautious, she doesn't really trust anyone except the teacher and the Young Lady.

Although the two agreed online that this account would be shared, the other party would operate it, and she would make decisions, everything has changed now. The other party is already the commander of a powerful battle group, while she is just a witch student who hasn't graduated from the Witch Academy. She doesn't think she can compete with the other party for the control of the battle group; the gap in power between the two sides is too vast.

Moreover, that Apocalypse Battle Group is an Angel Witch battle group, and she...

Thinking of her mixed-blood background that is rejected by Angel Witches, Sophie Liya shook her head.

Now is not the time to confess. Everything will wait until she passes the trial of the God King's Holy Son. If she doesn't succeed, then everything is over, no need to mention it. And if she succeeds, then this Apocalypse Battle Group might become a force in her hands.

In short, for various reasons, the two have maintained a strange relationship for ten years: I know you, you know that I know you, but neither of us is being honest.

"What's wrong? Did you encounter any difficulties in the game again?"

When the Mana Web video was connected, Sophie Liya asked habitually.

It was just that when she saw that there was more than one person on the other side, she was stunned for a moment, and then she was slightly nervous.

What's the situation? Why are there so many people on the other side? Is this finally planning to show their cards?

Thinking of this, the Pure White Witch felt slightly uncomfortable. Perhaps she shouldn't have used her real name as her Mana Web ID like the teacher did back then; otherwise, she wouldn't have exposed her identity directly.

Fortunately, the familiar red-haired figure on the other side spoke quickly.

"It's not that something happened on our side, but on yours, Saintess. Now the Ancestral Court has been taken down by the Inquisition. I think your opportunity has come."

Maria on the other side said so.

Because this Saintess was cute enough to use her real name as her screen name, she naturally knew long ago that the netizen she had been cooperating with was actually the current student council president of the Witch Academy.

It is precisely because of this that Maria is full of confidence in the future of the Shenwang Qing Sect. After all, although she doesn't know who the student council president's paternal mother is, her maternal mother is well-known: it is the eldest daughter of the Academy Principal who has already gone crazy.

And what does this represent? This represents that this Saintess is the legitimate successor with the direct bloodline of Lord God King! This claim is as stable as it can be.

Of course, it's quite difficult to get to the top just by having a claim, but now something has happened to the Ancestral Court, so isn't their opportunity here?

This wave, this is the orthodoxy of the God King Sect belonging to my Qing Sect.

"As long as you are willing, we will return immediately to support you in taking the position. This position of Pope of the God King Sect should have been passed to you in the first place."

Sophie Liya: "....."

Ah, this, is this wave asking me to be forcibly crowned with the yellow robe?

You guys are thinking too much, okay? I didn't want to be any Pope. What's the use of that position? What I want to be is that God King's Holy Son, okay?

Besides, the current Pope is the Academy Principal, and that's a Sage. You guys aren't enough for a Sage to fight. You want to commit treason with just this?

And the Ancestral Court was taken down by the Inquisition? What the hell is this?

The Pure White Witch, who had been too busy to go online, was a bit confused. But when she frowned and scanned the memory of her avatar, Lucifer, she suddenly understood, and then her expression became even stranger.

"That's the teacher and the Young Lady, right?"

Sophie Liya recognized the identities of the Grand Inquisitor Miejin and the Clown Grand Inquisitor at a glance. After all, she knew these two too well; she would recognize them even if they turned into ashes.

It's just that she had known for a long time that the teacher was a member of the Inquisition, but when did this Young Lady also run to the Inquisition? Didn't you say you wouldn't be an armed witch?

The Pure White Witch thought speechlessly.

Sophie Liya, just you wait. Within a week, I will definitely make you the God King's Holy Son.

At this time, the Young Lady's previous joking words rang in her ears.

Good fellow, you are really serious about this.

... The Pure White Witch is thinking...