Chapter 498 – The World as the Enemy (2/2)
Behind me, I saw that Wan Er, Qing Qian, Li Mu, and Wang Jian had all caught up. Even though there were quite a few players in Ba Huang City, not everyone there wanted to pick a fight with [Zhan Long]. Besides, our players were going to be hunted for 24 hours, that was plenty of time to fix up equipment and make full preparations. Of course, [Flying Dragon], [Wrath of the Heroes], [Hero’s Mound] and [Thousand Burial] definitely weren’t going to let up a chance like this.
I dashed through the Ba Huang Forest, leading around 1500 of [Zhan Long]’s players. We moved in a circle formation, while I stood at the forefront. It would be a humiliation to me if they were to make me hide at the center of the circle. Besides, with my stats and skills, it would be a waste to not let me fight.
“Careful!”
Qing Qian looked forward and said, “There’s people over there. It looks like it’s a team of [Flying Dragon] players. They probably want to ambush us!”
“Be careful of [Beast Traps]!” I shouted.
A row of Mages in the front immediately reacted and activated [Revealing Light], illuminating all of our surroundings. Just as I expected, there were quite a few [Beast Traps] all around the forest. This was an Archer’s fourth advancement skill. When their traps had been revealed, the Archers shot out long range attacks, destroying their [Beast Trap]. Dong Cheng flew up and opened a path for us.
“Kill!”
The sounds of battle rose from the bushes and [Flying Dragon]’s 300 man grinding team charged at us. They were too rash!
Mu Tian raised his battle axe and shouted, “Don’t kill people that don’t have red names! Pick out the people with red names and kill those, there are battle point rewards! The more red name players we kill, the higher chance of getting a Saint Tier equipment at the end! Brothers of [Flying Dragon], we must not miss this once in a blue moon opportunity! Even if it means that we have to die!”
The crowd of people all shouted and charged over. For the sake of money, people will die, for the sake of food, birds will die*, they’re probably acting on that principle.
*TL Note: Chinese proverb
With a slight tremble, my blade cut into the crowd with a [Seven Star Fragment Slash]. I then used a [Seven Stars Teleportation], and “Shua!” Moved right to beside Mu Tian. Mu Tian freaked out and immediately activated his [Berserker God] skill. Unfortunately, that skill only avoided magic damage, what use did it have against me? I stabbed my Dragon Reservoir Sword right through his chest and activated [Wind Blade] killing him in one blow!
Looking at Mu Tian’s widened eyes, I smiled, “Too bad, you are destined to die before you kill even one!”
Countless arrows and spells covered the sky and flew right at us. Both sides were starting to increase the firepower. We had quite a few players that had red names, and the enemy was only attacking those players, turning them into red names in our names. We then fought back, making it even more clear which side was which.
Li Mu, Old K, Dong Cheng Lei and One Second Hero charged at the front, quickly slashing apart the 300 people from [Flying Dragon]. Our 1500 man army advanced forward, leaving the ground covered with nearly 300 bodies!
“Shua!”
One critical health Swordsman charged at me and threw a [Fire Spear] at my shoulder. At that point I was attacking another person and couldn’t dodge the attack. All I could do was take the hit, but whatever. However, right at that moment, Chi Yu Han suddenly threw out a punch. “Peng!” That poor Swordsman flew out a dozen meters, and ended up in a thorny bush.
Dou Qi energy revolved around Chi Yu Han’s arm. He took a deep breath and said, “My strength is slowly recovering….”
I nodded, “That’s good, or else we really won’t be able to hold off Ba Huang City!”
Chi Yu Han’s arm trembled, and he slowly condensed the Heaven’s Spite Sword and softly said, “Don’t worry, I, Chi Yu Han, will definitely not allow my friends to fight on their own!”
“Ok!”
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At that moment, I started hearing people charging towards us from behind. Wan Er furrowed her elegant brows and said, “Ba Huang City has sent out their NPC cavalry to hunt us down! The cavalry is relatively fast, we have to hurry up and enter into the Green Qilin Abyss to fight on the defense, or else it’ll be too difficult for us to fight like this!”
“Agreed! Everyone, advance at full speed!”
However, the number of players we had with us were far too many. With a blink of an eye tens of thousands of players and countless NPCs chased up to us. Our movement speed was far slower than that of the cavalry. Furthermore, we were slower because we had to heal ourselves.
“Not good, there’s no way for all of us to escape!” Li Mu gritted his teeth and said, “Guild Master, you take the brothers and go first! I’ll take the Valiant Bravery Camp’s 100 people to hold them off!”
I nodded, “Brother, promise to meet me in Green Qilin Abyss, alive!”
Li Mu smiled, “Alright, brother, just because of what you’ve said, I will do all I can to make it back to Qilin Abyss alive. However, the prerequisite is that you have to take Chi Yu Han alive to Green Qilin Abyss. Don’t waste everyone’s efforts. Everyone’s hoping to get a lot of rewards from this quest!”
“Yup you got it!”
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The number of players ahead of us was increasing steadily and I was starting to get more and more worried. The true enemy hasn’t even appeared yet. [Vanguard] will definitely try and interfere with this [Zhan Long] event. I just don’t know when Jian Feng Han plans on acting!