Here is not SAFE!

K86, what am I doing here? Yes, I know very well, this is certainly not a server suitable for hunting. It's full of monsters, which ones? Well, we're talking about WxD. Real monsters, whales. Just a look at strongholds to realize the only thing to do was leave.

And yet, for some absurd reason, I ended up there. To be honest, it wasn't that absurd; I had found two accounts without bubbles that alone would have earned me some merit.

There are times when hunting is easy, and you find many beautiful, unprotected castles, and times when it's really difficult and you find nothing. This was precisely a period when I didn't find many castles to hunt. Hearing myself described like this makes me feel very pirate-like, but the form of pleasure tied to the thrill of the hunt that the game provides is what pushes me to improve from the beginning. An eternal challenge with myself.

Getting back to us, in K86, one of the most dangerous servers I think currently, I had found two castles with a scout, each with 8.5 million troops and 2 million troops.

A total of 10 million troops, but they were well-positioned because they were full of T3 and T4, so with both I would have gotten a loot of around 12 million merit. Gone were the days when I periodically jumped in to hunt Sabrina, and gone were also the days when I could stay on a server for several days. Many things had changed, so even the hunt had to adapt, and now it was increasingly common to find myself on a terribly difficult server.

The challenge here was therefore extremely high even if the targets were rather small. My only great luck was that I hadn't found two targets from the main alliance, but rather two accounts belonging to an alliance that seemed to be full of alts. Honestly, I'm in no condition to attack a whale and I don't know if I ever will be, so those two small targets were my only chance in that place. But would I have been able to avoid an attack?

Well, first of all, I had to avoid being seen. So I had to jump quite far from the two castles and use a lot of speed-ups. I also had to avoid leaving my troops too exposed and always keep them hidden when they weren't in battle. Finally, I had to not panic and continue acting as if I were in the calmest of places. The emotional factor was something that could play terrible tricks on me. I knew it; it had happened to me before. But that was precisely the challenge: managing to control myself so much during the tension that I could finish the battle perfectly.

I didn't know how it would go, but I wanted to try. The more I thought about it, the more excited it got and the more nervous I got. It was a vicious cycle, but I wanted to overcome it. I jumped into the server completely ready. I had everything I needed.

However, I had forgotten just one thing: to restart the computer before the invasion.

I had been using the computer heavily all morning, and just as I was ready to fight, I realized I still had an update pending. To be honest, I realized it a little too late, when I had just launched my troops against the first castle.

My mouse was paralyzed, slow, jerky. In that moment, all my psychological preparation for battle had just been thrown away like a gust of wind. My troops were advancing without speed up. Slow as ever. And I was in total panic.

There was no way, my mouse was paralyzed. I felt like I was in a dream, my legs unresponsive and moving at a crawl while everything else was collapsing around me. I had started to sweat, not simple agitation. Tangible, almost visible panic. My castle was also quite far away, so seeing my troops advancing with an illogical calm was even more distressing for me. Then, for some reason, suddenly the mouse responded to my commands again, and right there in that moment, I think I used anything I could to speed up.

At that moment, anyone with any sense of logic would have considered abandoning the mission. But when someone like me, panicked and using a near-hysterical speedup, never even considered giving up. I wanted to finish! I wanted to capture those lords and get the merit I was looking for! It wasn't the excitement of battle anymore, it was stubbornness! My computer slowed down by the update, my mouse acting stuttery, the certainty of death on a very dangerous server, and I had to give up?

Yes, I really felt that way. In retrospect, it makes me laugh, and those are things that are fun to talk about later, but at the time, I wasn't very cheerful. The first attack had ultimately landed far too well for what was happening. I had captured the lord on the first try.

The opponent was an inf account very similar to the one I had in the past, but in rebel gear. Probably he had Rhea as his lord because that was the only thing he needed to have active bleed. He also had a lot of cavalry inside, and for some unknown reason, they were on the front line with the spears. His infantry was only in the third line. That hit had gone so well that I hadn't realized at the time that I had captured a lord with 8 million troops inside. By now I was in a rather unrealistic situation, I had almost surrendered to a fate I couldn't control, or maybe it was just the mouse? Anyway, I launched an attack on the first castle again and immediately after on the second.

The second was much smaller and had just over 2 million troops. A partially infantry formation in this case too, but still with no signs of synergy. The battle on the second castle ended rather quickly and I managed to return and hide the troops.

Honestly, after all those not-so-positive emotions caused by the panic over my mouse, I hadn't fully enjoyed my 12 million merit. All I wanted from that moment on was to jump off that server where I felt absolutely unsafe and reboot my computer that had finally finished updating. https://youtu.be/q9ld4H5qC8U