141 Chapter 141 - Slow or Fast? (1/2)

The players participating in the mercenary PvP tournament gathered at the square outside the Hall of Mercenaries' entrance with ten minutes left before 7 P.M. Official statement stated that a teleportation array would send these players into their respective PvP arenas.

Players who had the participation-was-more-important-than-the-result mindset showed their high level of responsibility at this point and, as long as they were part of mercenary groups, made sure to participate in the PvP tournament. As such, the square was crowded with players like canned sardines and even the many roads leading to the square were filled with people.

The current scene naturally made the game company of Parallel World extremely exhilarated. At this moment, the game officials sent an emergency system announcement: [With this being the first round of the mercenary PvP tournament on the first day of the event, the amount of players participating has hit the maximum limit and exceeded our estimation. There will hereby be an extension to the time each player will take to enter his or her PvP arena. Can the players please hurry?]

The players, including the six members of Young Master's Elite mercenary group, voiced their complaints when they heard this. The six had gotten separated from one another on their way to this square. Gu Fei discovered that the crowd had somehow been divided based on the players' Strength, with the stronger ones being able to squeeze their way to the front and the weaker ones like himself naturally being pushed to the back of the line to wait for much longer. Before he knew it, all the players around him were now made up of weak Mages that looked as if they could be killed with just a lift of a finger. ”Where are you guys?!” Throwing this question on the mercenary channel, Gu Fei saw that the other five men were also asking this same question.

In the blink of an eye, it was already 7 P.M., yet Gu Fei had not even advanced one step forward. It was at this point that the game officials finally permitted the players to enter their respective maps.

The human traffic started to flow. The players within the square started disappearing one by one in bright lights as they went through the teleportation array, allowing the players at the back to move forward and take the vacated spaces in front. Ten minutes later, the system sent another announcement: [Due to the current special circumstance in this first round, there will not be any time limit to entering the maps. All players may take their time to enter the teleportation array.]

”I'm in.” The first one among Young Master's Elite to arrive at the teleportation array was actually Young Master Han.

”How's that possible?!” Gu Fei exclaimed in shock. ”Logically speaking, War Without Wounds should get there first!”

”It's seduction! Seduction!” Royal God Call resolutely stated, making Gu Fei wonder if he had been the victim of seduction himself.

Gu Fei went into deep thought. Given Young Master Han's astonishingly beautiful looks, pretending to be a woman would be far too easy for him. He reckoned that the other players must have mistaken Young Master Han as a beautiful lady and demonstrated their chivalrous spirit by effortlessly allowing him to afford of their 'ladies first' practice.

”The opposing mercenary group seems to have finished with its preparation.” Having entered the map, Young Master Han reported accordingly, ”It's just one man!”

This was not a rarity. Quite a number of players enjoyed playing the game by themselves, so quite a number of mercenary groups had only one member. Thus, bumping into this sort of mercenary groups in the first round was a common occurrence.

The ensuing messages sent by Young Master Han's fellow members on the mercenary channel had the same content: ”I'm not going, then.”

”B*st*rds!” Young Master Han cursed on the mercenary channel. No matter how much of an expert he was as a Priest, he did not possess the necessary power to kill off his opponents, even if said opponent was alone. Upon closer inspection, he realized that only four messages of ”I'm not going, then” had arrived on the mercenary channel. This meant that someone among the members had not said a word about this matter.

”Miles?” Young Master Han gingerly probed. The matter at hand was precarious; although Young Master Han was the leader on paper, everyone was of equal standing in the mercenary group. Therefore, Young Master Han could not oblige anyone to do his bidding. Since four had already declined to go and were nowhere to be seen, the Priest Young Master Han would have to face the opponent by himself if Gu Fei declined as well.

Thankfully, Gu Fei was someone who would not pass up any chance to PvP and immediately sent a positive reply, ”I'll go!”

Young Master Han exhaled hugely in relief. With fear still lingering in his heart, he coldly said to the others, ”I'm gonna remember what you four did here.”

”TSK!” The four scoffed at his empty threat.

Gu Fei had no way of squeezing through the crowd, so he could only follow the motion of the people and move closer bit by bit to the teleportation portal. Half an hour had passed by the time he finally got to the teleportation array and entered the respective map.

A blue sky, white clouds, an unending field, and Young Master Han were what greeted Gu Fei when he entered the map.

”Let's begin!” Young Master Han said impatiently.

Originally, the match would automatically begin at the appointed time for the mercenary PvP tournament. Due to the removal of the time restriction for players to enter their respective PvP arenas, the official time for the PvP tournament to start was canceled as a corollary. Each match would now begin once the system received the application of both parties stating that they were done with their preparations.

Once Gu Fei nodded his head, Young Master Han promptly handed in their group's application and the system immediately began a five-second countdown. When the timer reached zero, white lights flashed and the two were sent to their real PvP arena.

Compared to the plain and simple field from before, the map they were in now was much more lush and abundant. Since only three people were participating in this battle, they were assigned the smallest PvP arena in the tournament. The terrain had highs and lows, water and trees, and birds flying among the many clouds in the sky. High hills were designated as the boundary for this map, reaching steepness of ninety degrees.

”Over there,” Young Master Han pointed somewhere in front of him as he observed the map.

As this map was very small, the two could clearly see the four sides of the boundary surrounding them and their opponent standing no more than two hundred meters away from them.

Originally, this sort of single-member mercenary groups had the strongest participation-was-more-important-than-the-result mentality, as they essentially stood no chance of victory unless they met other single-member mercenary groups, but when the opponent saw that he was up against two players in this match, he felt that he still stood a fighting chance. Rushing forward with confident steps, the opponent arrived at a land depression and quickly disappeared from the two's line of sight.

”Let's go!” Gu Fei pulled out his sword.

”Mhm!” Young Master Han agreed, following behind him.

The two immediately caught sight of the player hiding in the depression. Gu Fei and Young Master Han were dressed in their respective job classes, allowing the opponent to tell at a glance that one was a Mage and the other was a Priest.

The opposing player was a Warrior. After identifying the two's job classes, the hopeful thought he had in his mind intensified. If the Warrior had been up against melee job classes with a Priest in tow, he might have discarded his hopes of winning the match. Since it was a Mage and a Priest, he only needed to engage them in melee. With the Mage's inherently low HP, the Priest beside him would surely not be able to sustain his life for long.

Gu Fei proceeded forward ever so slowly as he was matching Young Master Han's walking pace. Halfway there, Young Master Han suddenly said, ”Go ahead and finish him off; I'll head up that hill and take a look around.”