Under the Snow

The nights are growing colder and colder. The sound of the wind hitting the window in the middle of the night feels like ghosts whispering, warning that terror is coming for everyone across the Seven Kingdoms. Even knowing this, many kingdoms and alliances continue their wars, and the bloodshed seems to have no end.

With the new update, we received the news that the Night King event will begin soon, and the White Walkers will advance through the Wall in search of hunting down the living across all of Westeros.

I knew that was the perfect moment to look for some fun. In a few hours, we would have an update in the game, and all players would receive a 24-hour bubble. I had a short window of time to act.

Besides the Night King event, the Siege of Winterfell season was coming to an end, and almost all the players who had trained a large number of troops for the event were still intact. In other words, there was a lot of merit scattered around, and I just needed an opportunity.

I had received the coordinates of a new target, a player with mixed troops in Kingdom 179. That was the kind of target I would never refuse, but memories of that kingdom began to resurface.

I had been to that kingdom a few times, and something bad happened during every invasion. The first time, a spearman player with millions of T1 troops tried to ambush me. I was still an inexperienced hunter and almost fell into that trap. On my second invasion, players from 6NK were looking for me and sending my coordinates in the world chat.

For this invasion, I had a big advantage. The first was that the player did not belong to the main alliance of that kingdom, but to the MBL alliance, which was a secondary group of the 6NK alliance. Second, my target was not that close to King's Landing, so I could attack him from the shadows and maybe be lucky enough not to be noticed.

But would this work? I was about to put myself at risk once again by invading those lands, but as a good merit hunter, I needed to prove to myself for the thousandth time that I was brave enough.

SirB was far from having a strong enough formation to stop my cavalry. But even so, his wall had more than 12 million purely T4 troops. He was not a powerful player, but he was a great filler.

To avoid wasting time, I parked my castle next to him. And from the moment I launched the first attack, I was exposed, and any 6NK player could attack me while I was vulnerable.

I confess that I was nervous. I was aware that two or three attacks would not be enough, but I was being as fast as possible to get out of there quickly.

SirB was melting like a piece of ice next to a bonfire. I thought that new troops would enter the wall in this impact, especially T3 and T1. However, once again, 12 million T4 were waiting for me. And 5 million of them were massacred.

While the troops were marching, I scrolled the map to King's Landing, because that was where my attention was. With every attack, SirB was losing a large part of his army. But the big problem was the members of the 6NK alliance. I was genuinely worried.

The troops returned, and the feeling of safety seemed very unstable. Even so, I launched another attack, which kept me stuck in that spot for another ten seconds.

God d***, how many troops does he have? He had lost 382 million power in 2 hits, and he still has millions of T4s in his castle? That is crazy for a filler account!

The third hit was crazier! 7.8 million eliminations and 14.52 million merit. I was really happy with that, even though I was in huge danger. SirB’s power was very reduced, which made me believe I could finally zero him and jump to another spot. And for the first time in that invasion, I cleaned the hospital and launched one more attack.

Oh My Lord! Finally! I was surprised that his army was composed of pure T4s; there was nothing else but T4s and a short amount of T3s.

I needed only 39 seconds to launch four attacks and turn that gigantic T4 army into corpses. One of the first things I learned was that I needed to be fast, and 39 seconds was really impressive.

Fifteen minutes passed, and after a long period of tension and fear, I was finally safe. I left that kingdom with the feeling that I was being watched, and I had attacked SirB with the constant expectation of being attacked. Few invasions are as tense as this one, and it is a lesson I will carry with me before ever considering returning to that kingdom again.

Thank you.