P4RTYStoppa Kills A 2.5bil

P4RTYStoppa was still looking through reports from his previous hunts when another message arrived from Thanix. By now, this was becoming a familiar routine. Thanix would find something interesting, send a couple of screenshots and let P4RTY decide whether it was worth the trip. Most of the time, it was. This time was no different. The moment P4RTY opened the pictures, one number immediately caught his attention. The target had 2.5 billion power. That alone was enough to make him stop what he was doing and open his scout account.

The target was named TamHoang from VNV alliance. P4RTY quickly switched kingdoms and started scouting him for himself. The report looked almost too good to be true. The castle contained a massive amount of higher tier troops and very few lower tiers protecting them. The wall itself was a complete mess. The commanders had no synergy, the formation looked weak and there was nothing about it that suggested a proper defensive setup. On top of that, TamHoang was sitting in rebel gear. The deeper P4RTY looked into the report, the more tempting it became.

He was already preparing to port when another detail appeared on his screen. The scroll cost. It was expensive. For a moment, P4RTY paused. The target looked incredible, but the jump itself was going to cost him a lot. Then there was the target's size. Two and a half billion power was not a small castle. Even with a weak wall, there was no guarantee he could finish it alone. He spent a few seconds looking between the report and the scroll cost before making up his mind. Big targets always came with risk. This one simply came with more risk than usual...

A few moments later he was inside the kingdom and preparing his first attack. The opening report looked fantastic. His infantry lineup pushed straight through the weak wall and removed a huge amount of troops. More importantly, the losses were completely manageable. Looking at the report, P4RTY immediately felt confident. The target was massive, but it looked killable. He healed his wounded troops and launched the second attack.

The second report looked just as good. More troops disappeared and the target's power continued falling rapidly. The third attack followed and again the results were excellent. By the fourth attack, P4RTY felt like everything was under control. The castle was slowly collapsing and there was nothing in the reports suggesting the hunt would become a problem. The target was huge, but the reports kept coming back exactly how he wanted.

Then things slowly started changing. After the fourth attack, the losses began adding up. The target was simply enormous. Every hit removed huge numbers of troops from TamHoang, but every hit also cost P4RTY something in return. He healed again and prepared another march, but now he started noticing something he had not paid attention to earlier. His troop count was dropping much faster than expected...

The fifth attack still looked good, but the situation was becoming more expensive than he originally planned for. By now, P4RTY had already started retraining troops in the middle of the hunt just to keep the attacks going. It was not something he expected to do when he first saw the report. The sixth attack followed shortly afterward. The target continued weakening, but so did P4RTY's account. More troops disappeared, more speedups were spent and the cost of the hunt kept increasing.

At this point, the excitement from the beginning of the hunt was being replaced by concern. Every report looked good on paper. The merit gain was huge. The target was dying. Everything was technically working. But every time he healed troops and prepared another march, he watched more resources disappear. More speedups. More troops. More resources. The hunt was becoming one of the most expensive solo kills he had attempted in quite some time.

Then another problem appeared. P4RTY ran out of gold. For a moment, he simply stared at the screen. The target was already heavily damaged. Walking away now would waste everything he had already invested. But continuing would require finding another solution. The easy option would have been stopping. The difficult option was pushing forward with whatever resources he still had available. P4RTY chose the difficult option.

Instead of relying on gold, he switched to blue diamonds to keep healing his troops. It was far from ideal, but it allowed the hunt to continue. Then came another adjustment. Rather than retraining more higher tier troops, he started mixing T2 troops into his marches together with whatever stronger troops remained available. The lineup was no longer perfect, but it was enough to keep moving forward. At this point he no longer cared about having the perfect march. He just wanted to finish the target.

The seventh attack landed. Then the eighth. The target was hanging by a thread. Every report showed the same thing. TamHoang was getting weaker and weaker, but P4RTY was paying heavily for every bit of progress. By now, stopping was not an option anymore. Too much had already been invested. The only thing left was seeing the hunt through to the end.

The ninth attack finally ended everything. The remaining defense collapsed, TamHoang was completely zeroed and the lord was captured on the final hit. After nine solo attacks and countless wounded troops, the hunt was finally over. P4RTY opened the reports again and scrolled through them from the beginning. The first few looked almost comfortable compared to the later ones. Back then he still had troops, speedups and gold to spare. Looking at the last reports, it was hard not to laugh at how quickly that changed.

As he prepared to leave the kingdom, P4RTY took one final look at the now empty castle. The hunt had started with excitement, turned into a resource nightmare halfway through and somehow still ended in success. By the end he was using blue diamonds, retraining troops between attacks and throwing together whatever march he could still build.

The target was dead. The lord was captured. Nearly 68 million merit had been secured. The scroll had been expensive, the troop losses hurt and the missing gold would need replacing later. Those were problems for another day. For now, P4RTY was just happy he had not given up halfway through. Sometimes stubbornness was enough. This time, it carried him all the way to the last attack!