169 Chapter 169 - Black Clothed, Masked Man (1/2)
The six made their way over to Ray's Bar.
Not only did War Without Wounds gain quite a lot of face in front of the ladies during Young Master's Elite's match with Amethyst, he also learned that Gu Fei's presence in the guild was not as worrisome as what he and Royal God Call had visualized. Thus, War Without Wounds was currently in an exceptionally good mood.
As for Royal God Call, he was bitter that he had not been able to do the same as War Without Wounds and had only made a fool of himself by falling into a ditch, but the permanent skill scroll – although it was meant for a Lightning Mage – he had obtained helped ease his mood a bit. Moreover, he shared the same sentiment with War Without Wounds regarding the discovery of Gu Fei's place in the ladies' hearts. All in all, he felt somewhat consoled by everything that that had happened.
As for the other four men, their mercenary group winning another match and someone treating them to a round of drinks were enough to make them happy.
In summary, their current drinking session was a tremendously exuberant affair.
However, Gu Fei was more reserved with his drinking, as he had another guild match to participate later. From Sword Demon's past experience, all knew that getting drunk was possible in-game, but the others did not seem to be bothered by their upcoming matches and were drinking to their hearts' content. Gu Fei felt somewhat jealous of this, as it seemed that life in a large guild was pretty good with the others not needing to bear so much responsibility. This was not the case for him, though, since Amethyst Rebirth would automatically lose 50% of its combat might if he drank himself into stupor.
Only half an hour was left until the match began, yet no one seemed to have any intention of leaving and all were even getting into the drinking session more.
Gu Fei kindly reminded everyone, ”Guys, the guild match is about to start.” Now that they were in the fourth round of the guild versus guild tournament and the various guilds had been halved three times over, the remaining guilds no longer needed to queue and wait for their turn to use the teleportation array and only had to take note of the time in order to not be late.
Brother Assist and Sword Demon did not react to his reminder since they were not part of any guilds.
Upon hearing that, Young Master Han raised a glass to his lips while glaring intently at Gu Fei. Gu Fei's heart thumped faster as he suddenly recalled that he was the one who had personally eliminated Young Master Han's guild yesterday.
Gazing at the next person, War Without Wounds said to him, ”My guild has been eliminated long ago!” War Without Wounds' guild was called Home of the Warriors, and it was more like a club for aficionados. The guild's size was not large and its job class composition was extreme imbalanced. The members lacked ambition, too. In short, they possessed all the traits that contributed to an incompetent guild and none of the qualities that was essential for a strong guild. Without someone like Gu Fei or Svelte Dancer who had monstrous PvP prowess to help around, Home of the Warriors was immediately eliminated from the guild versus guild tournament in the second round by a second-rate guild.
The last one was Royal God Call, who was currently calculating inside what he could get out of the skill scroll reward he had gotten. ”Royal, are you not going to participate in a guild match?” Gu Fei asked.
Royal God Call was smiling smugly at Gu Fei's inquiry, indicating that losing one person was not that big of a deal for a guild the size of Traversing Four Seas.
”Your luck is pretty good today. Perhaps, you can get another skill scroll?” Gu Fei cajoled.
Royal God Call immediately got up, ”Let's go!”
The ladies of Amethyst Rebirth were starting to call for Gu Fei. Despite their method of fighting not changing in any way, the guild members would always gather thirty minutes prior to the match's start for July's introduction of the opposing guild. The ladies believed that knowing the opponents would better increase their chances of winning, yet they never gained any deep understanding from the not-so-detailed report of July. In fact, they were usually more focused on how pleasant-sounding the names of their upcoming opponents were than on how to properly deal with the opponents.
Gu Fei hurriedly entered the teleportation array. Upon his arrival to the 'changing room', all the fifty ladies glared daggers at Gu Fei in unison, obviously still holding grudges at how harsh he had treated them during their last PvP match. ”Hey!” he casually greeted them and proceeded to lay low in a corner.
July began to introduce the opposing guild for today's match: ”Level 4 Cloud Herder Guild with five hundred members. The guild leader is a Warrior called Foe-herder who is pretty high up on the Warrior leaderboard.”
”Eh…” As Gu Fei was thinking that the name sounded familiar, July continued, ”Something I must mention is that Cloud Herder Guild has a mercenary group. It is the same one that lost to Young Master's Elite. Everyone knows about this, right?”
All the ladies said, ”Oh” before shifting their gazes toward Gu Fei who merely smiled.
”I hope comrade Miles would treat them as viciously as he treated us earlier,” July said with a straight face.
”Of course! I treat my enemies as cold as a winter's day,” Gu Fei replied.
”Does that mean that you treat your companions as warm as a summer's day? Let's see you do that, then,” Luo Luo remarked.
”Carry on with the report, please,” Gu Fei simply said.
As the guild leader, July tactfully refrained from joining Luo Luo and the ladies into teasing Gu Fei and instead chose to continue presenting the information about the Cloud Herder Guild's high-level members and job class composition. July's report simply could not hold a candle to Brother Assist's detailed report, which also pointed out the unique individuals to be wary of. Still, she managed to cover a lot of details.
Unexpectedly, the opposing guild's PvP participants remained at fifty even as the match was about to begin in five minutes. The ladies found this to be very strange. When everyone was teleported into the PvP arena, the five-hundred-strong Cloud Herder Guild still only had fifty men present; instead, Amethyst Rebirth was the one that that had hit fifty-one with the inclusion of Gu Fei.
”Just what is up with Cloud Herder?” The ladies discussed the perplexing matter among themselves.
Gu Fei meanwhile was clear on why this had happened, immediately understanding what Young Master Han meant with affecting the large-scale PvPs with his strategy.
Cloud Herder Guild only sent out fifty men, not because its four hundred fifty men were absent but because it had intended this. The reason behind this was that Cloud Herder's men were fearful of the small groups and guilds' fighting style that that had been dubbed on the forums as the 'Huge Kite'. Cloud Herder's mercenary group had fallen under such a strategy before. Since their current opponents had managed to beat Yunduan City's number two guild, Carouse, by using the same strategy yesterday, every Cloud Herder Guild's member could not help but feel apprehensive right now.
The guild members firmly resolved to not be victimized of the same tactic. After a thorough investigation of Amethyst Rebirth, they had discovered that, besides the indomitable Svelte Dancer, its members were average. All the experience points she had gained in the last few days of the guild versus guild tournament and mercenary PvP tournament shot her up to level 42, obtaining that coveted throne of the one and only player at that level. She was now the highest level player in the entire server of Parallel World.
They also learned that this guild of beauties had one male member. All of them were positive that some extraordinary reason for such a unique exception must exist, so they resolved to take special note of this said male player. The Cloud Herder's members tried to single out a few other individuals of Amethyst Rebirth to come up with better strategies to deal with them, but honestly speaking, the majority of Amethyst Rebirth would definitely be the weakest guildmates if they were to join Cloud Herder. For these players to receive special attention from Cloud Herder, it was essentially similar to treating the trees and grass as actual soldiers.
Whatever the case might be, Cloud Herder had still opted to send out just fifty players for this match to defend against the Huge Kite strategy. By doing this, they had wholly fallen for Young Master Han's ploy for the entire PvP event of Parallel World.
Amethyst Rebirth actually benefited from Young Master Han's ploy. ”Are you really okay with making a bridal dress for someone else?” Gu Fei had actually posed this question to Young Master Han back then.
”If I were you, I would intentionally lose this match to Cloud Herder Guild, so that my overarching strategy would take an even bigger step toward perfection,” Young Master Han opined. As Gu Fei became absolutely speechless of his selfish suggestion, Young Master Han continued, ”Naturally, you would be unwilling to do anything like that, so just go ahead and kill all you want! Let them experience the gap between experts and mediocre players and the true meaning of being oppressed! Also, cover your face! Not letting them know that you are part of our mercenary group is beneficial to us.”
Covering his face was not a big deal, so Gu Fei pulled out a black scarf and tied it to his face, quickly drawing the ladies' attention to him.
”Why are you covering your face?” the ladies asked.
”It's a strategy, not that any of you would understand,” Gu Fei shrugged their question off.
”Tsk!” The ladies clicked their tongues in annoyance.
”Our opponents have the same number as us, so let's not run around like headless chickens and fight them head on instead!” Gu Fei suggested.
”Sure!” the ladies agreed; those with fast speed immediately matched their pace with everyone else's.
”Svelte, come back. The guild has decided to advance together,” Gu Fei sent Svelte Dancer this message.
”When did the guild decide that?” Svelte Dancer asked back.
”Moments ago,” Gu Fei replied.
”F*ck. You should have told me earlier. I already have the enemy in my line of sight,” Svelte Dancer glumly made her way back to the pack.
The ladies would look quite imposing with them all gathered together if it were not for their constant chattering. After walking for how many meters, the ladies actually realized something: ”Since we are not charging at them at our pace, why not just wait for them to make their way to us?”
The rest of the ladies immediately agreed to this suggestion, so they stopped proceeding forward and proceeded to set up their PvP formation, patiently waiting for their enemies to head over to them.
In no time at all, Cloud Herder Guild's fifty men emanating strong killing intent arrived by the Amethyst Rebirth Guild's PvP formation. With this 'one for all, all for one' mentality, everyone of Cloud Herder was determined to not leave one guildmate behind and let the enemies earn a kill point.
”Kill!” Seeing that their opponents were set up before them, the Cloud Herder's men high-spiritedly charged toward them together.
”Archers! Mages!” July shouted. The Archers of Amethyst Rebirth moved forward and fired off arrows.