Chapter 73: The Evolving Minions and a Sudden Ascent

“Wait, look, don’t these minions seem a little different now?”

Although the player controlling Ara had never played *Battle! Heiankyo*, being a girl, her observations were quite meticulous.

Noticing the minions had subtly changed, a hint of doubt arose in her mind, prompting her to ask.

These minions were all common paper figures, typical of Japanese-style yokai.

The initial ones were simply small red paper figures, clad in crude armor, wielding tiny sickles and miniature soul-summoning banners.

Now, however, the central paper figures had transformed, growing larger, with shuriken strapped to their backs and katanas clutched in their hands.

Crucially, where there had once been four small paper figures—two in front with sickles and two behind with soul-summoning banners—

Only three remained.

The two smaller paper figures in the middle, one with a sickle and one with a soul-summoning banner, had vanished, replaced by a much larger, katana-wielding paper figure!

Anyone not utterly careless would surely notice the discrepancy.

“Reinforcements have arrived!”

Enenra glanced indifferently at the large, katana-wielding paper figure.

“They’re essentially like the siege units in other games—minions with higher health and attack power.

For us, they’re just more valuable targets, nothing to worry about.”

“You scared me to death! I thought some new anomaly was appearing again.

So it’s just a mechanic from the original game?”

Ara patted her chest, exhaling slowly.

“But are this game’s minions really so insignificant?

Even these siege-type units should be harder to defeat, shouldn’t they?”

“What if I told you this is a game where you win by relying on minions? Would you believe me?”

Enenra cast a look at Ara, then casually continued farming minions as she spoke.

“You probably wouldn’t, but it’s the truth.

This is the hardest MOBA game I’ve ever seen to turn around once all three lanes are broken in the late game.

If you’d witnessed the super reinforcements and the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, you wouldn’t doubt my words.”

“There are *super* reinforcements too?

This one isn’t considered a major unit?”

Hearing Enenra’s words, Ara immediately asked, brimming with curiosity, before quickly realizing her mistake.

“Oh, right, there are super minions when all three lanes are broken.

Speaking of which, aren’t we considered to have lost our high ground?

Why aren’t any super minions attacking?”

“Are you really so eager to die?

You think you can defeat a super minion at level one with no equipment?”

Kaguya rolled her eyes at Ara, speaking with undisguised disdain.

“This is where the system’s balance comes in; it wouldn’t pit us against an unbeatable enemy at level one.

Your fretting about why super minions haven’t appeared is as pointless as wondering why we don’t have minion waves, or why all three of our lanes were already broken the moment we spawned.

You’re asking nothing but nonsense!”

“But I don’t know, can’t you just explain it nicely!”

Having been scolded frequently, Ara habitually began to whine.

If it were her original appearance, it might have been endearing, but seeing the domineering CEO-like image of Ara act so coy was truly nauseating.

“Hmph!”

Kaguya snorted disdainfully, falling silent.

*Swoosh!* A brilliant white light flared, signaling a glorious level-up, a dazzling firework display.

For everyone else, it likely appeared as a captivating bloom of life.

“Damn it! How did you level up?!”

Kaguya shrieked, and for a moment, the others didn’t react, but one individual was far from slow.

“Farewell, humans!”

“Poison Bloom” quietly unfurled, and a white figure sprang upwards.

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