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On November 1, the final castle siege ahead of the 3rd server transfer took place. While siege battles often lose their heat right before a server transfer because holding a castle can diminish in significance, this time was different. All four servers fought fierce battles until the very end to capture each other's castles, resulting in shifts of castle ownership across multiple servers.

The most dramatic scene occurred on Astair. The K Alliance, which had been challenging weekly with a small force, imprinted Kent Castle with a buzzer-beater just 1 second before the siege ended, preventing the No-Tongsoo Alliance from achieving a three-castle sweep. On Decon, castle ownership of Kent and Windawood shifted relentlessly; while the main castles ultimately returned to their original owners, the No-Tongsoo Alliance took the Oak Fortress, turning the overall balance upside down.

Conversely, The K Alliance prevailed on Maphr and Eva. Although both sides failed to capture the main castles on either server, The K Alliance won the battle for Oak Fortress, securing two castles—the opposite outcome of Decon.

On Maphr, with The K Alliance holding Kent Castle and the No-Tongsoo Alliance holding Windawood Castle, the flow saw The K Alliance attacking while the No-Tongsoo Alliance focused on defense.

The No-Tongsoo Alliance spread its main force broadly from Windawood Castle's gate to the flag line, forming a formation to engage the enemy over a wide perimeter. The K Alliance pressed its attack on Windawood Castle, but had to leave a sizeable force at Kent Castle to guard against a possible counterattack. With little gap in power between the two alliances, neither could easily breach the opponent's main castle under these force deployments.

Consequently, most of the siege consisted of a repeating cycle: The K Alliance attacking Windawood Castle, regrouping to attack again, and the No-Tongsoo Alliance repelling them. After both alliances caught their breath at their respective castles around mid-game, The K Alliance resumed its assault on Windawood Castle at around 45 minutes, but was blocked once again without significant progress. The No-Tongsoo Alliance also tested Kent Castle's gates two or three times, but finding little leverage, quickly pulled back to focus on defending Windawood Castle.

The final outcome was decided at Oak Fortress. By the time the No-Tongsoo Alliance abandoned its assault on Kent Castle and moved toward Oak Fortress, The K Alliance had already fully set up its defensive lines, and the siege ended as the clock hit 9:00. The final result was The K 2 vs. No-Tongsoo 1, reversing Maphr's castle ownership balance as the owner of Oak Fortress changed hands.

On Astair, The K Alliance's weekly persistence since the 2nd server transfer finally bore fruit. Although the No-Tongsoo Alliance still held an overwhelming advantage in force size, The K Alliance successfully broke through the gates repeatedly starting from mid-game.

Rather than engaging in a head-on battle, The K Alliance made full use of its small squad's mobility by shifting frantically between Windawood Castle and Kent Castle, and between the east and front gates. While they found few openings at Windawood Castle—getting intercepted at the flag line—they breached Kent Castle's east gate around 27 minutes in, gained entry inside, and completed the imprint.

The No-Tongsoo Alliance immediately counterattacked through both the front and east gates, quickly cracking The K Alliance's defensive formation and igniting a full-scale battle around the Guardian Tower. From this point, The K Alliance adopted a "rapid castle ownership passing" tactic. Whenever enemy forces rushed in, ownership of the castle was transferred to a friendly pledge, and on signal, other allied pledges immediately teleported into the castle. The calculation was to drive out the invading No-Tongsoo Alliance forces by continuously switching the castle lord.

However, the veteran No-Tongsoo Alliance quickly realized the scheme and elevated their own mobility. Past the 35-minute mark, the time gap between both alliances arriving at the gate after a castle lord swap virtually vanished, and at 38 minutes, the No-Tongsoo Alliance successfully imprinted to reclaim Kent Castle. The K Alliance was left castless once more.

With little time remaining, The K Alliance appeared to give up and headed toward Oak Fortress, prompting the No-Tongsoo Alliance to follow them in to stop them and imprint the fortress. But this was a feint. Once they confirmed the enemy had relocated to Oak Fortress, The K Alliance swung back to Kent Castle, successfully imprinting Kent Castle with about 5 minutes left on the clock.

A nerve-racking final showdown ensued. The No-Tongsoo Alliance surged toward the Guardian Tower and re-imprinted with 2 minutes remaining, making it seem as though a three-castle sweep was sealed. Yet, refusing to give up, The K Alliance launched an all-out assault just before the siege closed, successfully imprinting Kent Castle with a buzzer-beater literally 1 second before the end.

The final result was No-Tongsoo 2 vs. The K 1. Not only did they stop the No-Tongsoo Alliance from sweeping all three castles, but The K Alliance also claimed a castle on Astair for the first time in a long while, bringing the final siege battle before the server transfer to a close.

Eva featured a relatively calmer combat dynamic compared to the previous servers. With the No-Tongsoo Alliance holding Kent Castle and The K Alliance holding Windawood Castle, The K Alliance spent the entire siege pounding away at Kent Castle.

However, the intensity of the assault was weaker than the previous week, lacking the power to push back the No-Tongsoo Alliance's defense-focused forces. Pledges such as Dolgyeok (Assault) and Jeonseol (Legend) took turns pushing forward, shifting directions from front gate to east gate and back again, but were repeatedly turned back without breaking through the front barricade line.

After nearly 50 minutes of assault on Kent Castle ended without meaningful results, both alliances gave up on capturing the main castles, shifting the stage to Oak Fortress. Amid a chaotic rush to imprint the fortress with multiple blood pledge crests tangled together, The K Alliance emerged victorious. Forces from The K Alliance, including Jeonseol and Dolgyeok, held their ground surrounding Oak Fortress's Guardian Tower until the end, and the No-Tongsoo Alliance's attack failed to culminate in an imprint.

The final result was The K 2 vs. No-Tongsoo 1. Just like on Maphr, The K Alliance defended Oak Fortress to secure two castles.

Decon saw both sides seizing and reclaiming castles from each other right from the start.

Right at the start of the siege, the No-Tongsoo Alliance attacked Windawood Castle, breaching the gate within 3 minutes and completing the imprint in 4 minutes. While The K Alliance's counterattack appeared weak, their main force had actually crossed over to Kent, where The K Alliance seized Kent Castle to swap castle ownership.

After stabilizing Windawood Castle, the No-Tongsoo Alliance re-entered Kent Castle and successfully imprinted around the 12-minute mark. However, The K Alliance launched a counteroffensive led by the Avengers pledge to reclaim Kent Castle around 25 minutes in, before the No-Tongsoo Alliance reclaimed Kent in about 2 minutes, seemingly bringing the chaotic battle to a temporary lull.

But the battle on Decon was far from over. Seeing the No-Tongsoo Alliance commit heavily to Kent Castle, The K Alliance attacked Windawood Castle and successfully retook it, prompting the No-Tongsoo Alliance to move back to Windawood and re-imprint at 39 minutes. In the meantime, Kent Castle fell to The K Alliance once again, and the No-Tongsoo Alliance immediately broke through defensive lines to re-imprint the Guardian Tower and restore Kent. That immediately led to Windawood Castle falling back to The K Alliance. It was a chain reaction of endless castle lord swaps.

With 10 minutes remaining, movement between castles ceased and the final showdown unfolded at Windawood Castle. Gates were constantly breached before barricades could even be established, leading to a frantic melee where ownership of Windawood Castle changed hands three to four times in just 10 minutes. Forces from both alliances remained tangled around the Guardian Tower until moments before the siege ended, but this time the end of the siege arrived before any re-imprint could finish, leaving The K Alliance defending the Guardian Tower and holding Windawood Castle.

However, the No-Tongsoo Alliance, which had maintained the upper hand and controlled the attacking initiative throughout, managed to secure Oak Fortress amidst the chaos. The final result was No-Tongsoo 2 vs. The K 1, flipping the castle ownership dynamic on Decon.