88 Chapter 88 - The Ninth Team (1/2)

The Past Deeds Eradication Army currently had fifty players stationed at each of the five spawn points that they had seized, with another thirty players stationed outside the Priest Academy. These two hundred eighty players were needed to keep up the pressure in the six spawn points. Thus, Sword Demon could not deploy them to another location even if he wanted to.

Without these two hundred eighty players, Sword Demon's group and the sixty-man group assaulting the underground prison could only form a team of about one hundred eighty men at Yueye City's north gate. Conversely speaking, Past Deeds would have somewhere around one hundred players if the team situated in the underground prison could join the team in Youye Valley. Sword Demon did not know how many players were needed for his group to make up for the gap in terms of skills, gear, and other factors with the enemy team. After all, this was the first time he had taken part in such a large-scale fight in Parallel World.

However, there was one point he was aware of: The fewer opponents they needed to face, the better the odds would be for them. Thus, Sword Demon decided to have his group attack the Past Deeds' players first to prevent the enemies from improving their odds of victory.

Unfortunately for Sword Demon's group, a large portion of them had low Agility. The Thieves, Archers, and the other job classes had to match their speed with the Warriors and Priests'.

Every job class counted in such a large-scale PvP, after all. In other MMOs, it was rare for the different job classes to have varied speed. Therefore, the Thieves and Archers in Sword Demon's group fervently wished for their Warriors and Priests to grow an extra leg or two in order to hasten their pace.

Fortunately, Sword Demon and his team did not receive any news from Dusky Cloud of the enemy group managing to form up, as they marched onward. Dusky Cloud, who was in charge of monitoring the Past Deeds' movement, excitedly told Sword Demon that he could now see the latter's squad from his location of a few hundred meters away.

That's great! Sword Demon thought to himself. He assumed that the Past Deeds' thirty-man team must have taken a detour to not arouse suspicion, increasing the time they needed to form up with the team in Youye Valley.

After a while, Dusky Cloud sent another message, ”That's odd. I've been searching for a long time in the team I'm monitoring, yet I can't seem to find that shrew, Vast Lushness. Has anybody seen her?” Dusky Cloud bore a deep grudge against Vast Lushness. Not only did he want to lead his brothers to a new future, he wanted to 'settle' his grudge against her along the way as well.

”I don't see her here, either!” the people holding the fort at the Priest Academy reported.

”G*dd*mn! Where did that shrew go?”

”She's a woman! Maybe she became scared of the upcoming fight, so she retreated under the comfort of her blanket while hugging a pillow?” someone ridiculed. Dusky Cloud was not the only one holding a grudge against Vast Lushness, after all.

Dusky Cloud furrowed his brows. He knew that Vast Lushness was not that simple-minded. Actually, she was very similar to Dusky Cloud and his buddies: hot-blooded, bloodthirsty, and loyal. The only difference between them was that Vast Lushness was a woman, so she did not curse as much as them.

If Dusky Cloud were her, he would fight until his level was reduced to zero. He would never choose to retreat or hide from a fight. Undoubtedly, the like-minded Vast Lushness would be the same.

”Big Boss Sword Demon, it's very unusual for that shrew to be missing. Something's not right here,” Dusky Cloud privately messaged Sword Demon.

”What?” When it came to familiarity with the local players' thought process, Sword Demon could not compare with Dusky Cloud. After all, this was not Sword Demon's home ground.

”That shrew is not the type to retreat. I'm still waiting to fight with her to death! I think that there's a scheme in play here, since she's nowhere to be found,” Dusky Cloud speculated.

”Who are the core members that you can see over there?” Sword Demon asked.

”I only see Vice Guild Leader Blue Ease over here,” Cloud Demon replied.

”Are there few Thieves in that team?” Sword Demon asked, thinking of a possibility.

Dusky Cloud thought of the same thing as well. Was it possible for their opponents to have already finished forming up and only appear few in number because the Thieves had gone on Stealth? However, this did not seem to be the case upon closer inspection, ”Nope. All the job classes are present; the Thieves don't seem to be lacking in number either.”

”Anyway, we're almost there. Let's talk about this more after we eliminate that team!” Sword Demon said.

”Alright! ...Hmm? OH, WAIT!” Dusky Cloud suddenly shouted.

”What?” Sword Demon had asked this question when he himself could already see what was happening in real time. On a distant field, seventy odd players of Past Deeds could be seen scattering and rushing from all directions in pairs of twos and threes. They were leaving the should-be battlefield in separate units.

”They've dispersed! What's going on?!” Dusky Cloud hollered.

Past Deeds was already on the losing side with their smaller number, so only by joining together could they have a powerful combat strength. However, the Past Deeds' seventy players still chose to split up right before the huge fight. What were they thinking? Sword Demon and his group only had to form a few strike teams of Thieves and Archers with Agility-based builds and they could easily take care of over half of the dispersing Past Deeds' players! Sword Demon gazed at the heavily geared Warriors and low-Agility Priests running across the plains and could absolutely not understand what Past Deeds was thinking.

”Let's go, Big Boss Sword Demon! We won't lose as long as we take them down one by one!” someone beside Sword Demon suggested when he appeared to be hesitating. This bunch of people could not help but salivate upon seeing the Past Deeds' players filling up the hills and plains before them.

This truly is not the proper time to be hesitating. Sword Demon nodded his head and raised his hand, bellowing, ”CHARGE!”

”CHARGE!” everyone roared in unison. At this moment, the Thieves activated Fleetfoot and dove straight toward the scattering enemy players. The Archers sent arrows whooshing through the air as well. These two job classes became the main offensive force of Sword Demon's group right now. From time to time, the Mages would throw out fireballs. As the Warriors and Priests, they mostly provided support from the rear.

Sword Demon bravely took the lead, heading for a player and plunging a knife using Backstab.

Although Dusky Cloud considered the Past Deeds' players to be outstanding individuals, they were still incomparable to Sword Demon. Sword Demon had dug his dagger deeply into his opponent before the latter could even retaliate. And with two stabs under Fatal Blow, he made short work of the player.