160 Chapter 160 - A Twisted Stratagem (1/2)

Gu Fei finished an apple to recover his mana fully before joining Svelte Dancer on the mission to make their comeback from a score of 29 against 46.

There were currently six hundred seventy-six players of Carouse in this PvP arena. None of them was weak by any standard and was handpicked from the many great players that had offered their services to the guild.

Gu Fei and Svelte Dancer's expressions were somber, and their footsteps were heavy. To face against six hundred seventy-six players with just the two of them… They were both experts, so it was a given that they possessed at least a basic level of judgement to choose the right course of action. If they were able to clash head on with these six hundred seventy-six players of equal expertise and still be evenly matched, the game designers would really have to gather in the city to perform a mass seppuku ritual.

They could only hope to find a few stragglers of Carouse and take their heads. Naturally, Gu Fei and Svelte Dancer's concept of a few stragglers was more than just a few and would consider a group of players as such provided that it was made up of less than ten individuals.

Wandering blindly in hopes of an opportune meeting with a few enemies was obviously a bad idea given the map's huge size, so the two decided to head toward a vantage point and look around first. If the two did not find any viable targets, they would move to another vantage point and repeat the process.

This was how they proceeded toward the center of the map without encountering even the shadows of Carouse's players. July and the other two ladies were also left untouched as none of Carouse's members could be seen around at all.

”Just what is going on?” Svelte Dancer asked Gu Fei as they climbed up the fourth mountain since they had started their search. ”Could they be hiding from us despite having numerical superiority?”

The side that holds numerical superiority is hiding from the side that lacks the numbers? Gu Fei mulled over this idea as he vaguely thought of something. That was when Svelte Dancer who had reached the summit first yelled out, ”Hurry up and take a look at this!”

Reaching the peak of the mountain, Gu Fei looked toward the direction that Svelte Dancer's hand was pointing at and inhaled sharply.

A small plateau not too far from the mountain that they were on was filled with men. The wriggling crowd of men looked like a huge swarm of locust piled up from the slope to the peak of that highland....

”Ugh… It's so disgusting!” Svelte Dancer wrinkled her brows and covered her mouth, as if she wanted to vomit from the mere sight of them.

So this is the stratagem that Young Master Han came up with? Trying to make us die from sheer revulsion, maybe? Gu Fei could feel beads of cold sweat trickling down his back and quickly sent Coward's Savior another message: ”Use more strength when you punch him.”

”Just what are they doing?” Svelte Dancer calmed herself by placing a hand on her chest.

Gu Fei observed the wriggling mass of players for a while and noticed that they seemed to be moving up the plateau. It was obvious that every Carouse's member was here based on the wriggling mob's volume. They had essentially collected their manpower on that hill, occupying the high ground while disdainfully looking at the terrain below. Just how would the Amethyst Rebirth's five members be able to earn any kill points from such a formation?

Gu Fei now fully understood the reasoning behind Young Master Han's stratagem. This strategy he had in placed was a cautious overestimation of Svelte Dancer and Gu Fei's destructive force by making six hundred seventy-six players adopt a defensive position against the two of them.

Although others would disdain Carouse's move, Gu Fei had to admit that countering such a strategy was impossible from where they currently stood.

”So shameless!” Gu Fei irately remarked. He opened his friends list once more and contacted Coward's Savior. He typed out one line of instruction this time: ”Just kill him.” At the very last second, however, he refrained from sending out this message. It was best not to be too hasty as grinding levels was not easy.

”This… What now!” Svelte Dancer could also tell the severity of the situation with a few quick glances. The only possible method for the two of them to fight these six hundred seventy-six enemies was to employ sneak attacks, yet Carouse's players had positioned themselves atop the mesa which afforded them a three-hundred-sixty-degree view of the surroundings. The enemies would surely notice their movement no matter which direction Gu Fei and Svelte Dancer chose to mount their attacks.

Carouse's Archers and Mages numbered into the hundreds respectively. With so many long-range players, Gu Fei and Svelte Dancer would still be unable to get close to the enemies even if they combined their speed. The difference of kill points would be really difficult to recover at this rate.

Gu Fei and Svelte Dancer sat cross-legged on the ground and began to discuss possible tactics, not minding if they exposed their position to the hundreds of enemies in the mesa opposite them. Nonetheless, Carouse continued to hold a defensive position without taking notice of their presence.

Their Plan A of focusing on a few stragglers had already failed. Carouse apparently planned to camp out by that mesa until the match timer ended and did not plan to initiate any form of attacks against Amethyst Rebirth.

They proceeded with their Plan B next. Svelte Dancer rushed down the mountain, stood just a step outside of the enemies' attack range, and bellowed: ”If you're a man, come down and fight a deathmatch with me!” Following this, she goaded the enemies for three times by repeatedly saying, ”I dare you all to kill me right here, right now!” The players of Carouse eventually shouted back in unison: ”Lassie, why don't you just sing and dance for us?!” Thus, it was Svelte Dancer who had ended up falling for the enemies' provocation. She would have tried to rush up that hill had Gu Fei not timely intervened by forcefully dragging her back to safety.

As the two headed back to the mountaintop, Svelte Dancer furiously asked, ”Do they want me to strip and dance for them before they make a move?”

Gu Fei looked her in the eye and simply replied, ”No use. You'll only give them a visual treat. Moving their eyes is the most that they will do.”

Plan C. Gu Fei and Svelte Dancer silently stayed on the mountain as did the six hundred seventy-six men by the plateau. Quite some time later, two pretty female Fighters and one skinny female Thief arrived from the east mound and unhesitatingly walked around the foot of the plateau. Atop the mesa, Carouse's six hundred seventy-six players silently looked on at the three ladies. Completing their trip around the mesa, the three ladies then waved at them, ”Friends atop this plateau, how are you doing?”