203 Chapter 203 - Mission Accomplished! (1/2)

With the situation in the bar restored to a state of normality, all the leaders began to privately collect their thoughts. Many of them promptly tried adding Drifting as a friend and expectedly received the [Player Drifting is currently not accepting any friend request.] system prompt. Those who were sitting near Drifting even started to strike a conversation with him.

Of course, with how War Without Wounds had greeted Gu Fei earlier and how Gu Fei had exchanged furtive glances with Brother Assist, the others could not shake off the feeling that these people actually knew one another. Still, it was true that their payment of 100 gold coins was well worth it if they could get to know the number one Mage in Parallel World, Drifting. Now that the crowd had calmed down and recalled the purpose of their visit, they realized that the important thing to do now was to interact with Drifting before anyone else had the chance to do so. All the other matters could take a back seat.

Despite Drifting becoming the focal point of this conference, he oddly remained unresponsive. Suddenly, he raised his hand with his five fingers upright and waved it toward Young Master Han and Brother Assist, as if he was greeting them.

Brother Assist was momentarily stunned by his action. It seemed that Drifting was willing to act his part in this charade and was even reassuring them. What a great guy! Brother Assist felt immensely touched and he quickly waved his hand back at Drifting. However, Drifting completely ignored him.

Next to Brother Assist, Young Master Han raised his hand as well and waved it slightly, his three fingers at attention.

Almost immediately, Drifting retracted his thumb with only his four fingers remaining upright.

In response, Young Master Han retracted his ring finger and left his forefinger and middle finger upright.

Drifting handily retracted three fingers, left just his forefinger up, and wagged it toward Young Master Han before putting his hand down.

All the players saw Drifting waving his hand to greet the two event organizers, but none of them noticed Young Master Han sneakily answering back. Only Brother Assist, who was right beside Young Master Han, witnessed their whole exchange. When the two finished their finger gesturing, Brother Assist asked, ”What was that all about?”

Young Master Han began to explain, ”He asked for 5000 gold coins, and I rebutted with 3000 gold coins.”

Brother Assist began to piece everything together, ”So when he asked for 4000 gold coins, you gave him the price of 2000 gold coins?”

Young Master Han nodded his head.

”Then… He voluntarily dropped his price to only 1000 gold coins?” Brother Assist could not understand this part.

”That finger movement means that we will discuss this matter after this,” Young Master Han corrected.

”Do you guys know each other?” Brother Assist asked. It was hard to imagine two perfect strangers being able to successfully communicate with each other using their fingers alone.

”No, we don't. This is just a matter of IQ,” Young Master Han said matter-of-factly, leaving Brother Assist quite dejected.

After all their finger gesturing, Drifting was now gamely playing his role. He even took the initiative to stand up before anyone could discern the true nature of his relationship with Young Master's Elite and addressed the crowd, ”This is my first time in Yunduan City, so I hope that everyone here will take good care of me from here onward.”

”Of course! That is to be expected!” all the leaders eagerly agreed to his request. Everyone present was rather prominent in Yunduan City, but that was still nothing compared to Drifting, whose name was well-known throughout Parallel World. If an unknown player was the Insta-kill Mage, all these leaders could still dream of successfully headhunting him. But since the Insta-kill Mage turned out to be such a huge character, at least half of them understood that their chances of recruiting Drifting were slim and nearly zero. Only Oathless Sword, the guild leader of Traversing Four Seas, which was the largest guild in Yunduan City, was extremely happy at this turn of events. He believed that out of all the leaders present in the conference, he had the best chance at recruiting Drifting.

As an experienced gamer that was often in the limelight, Drifting was able to easily handle the attention of all these influential figures and to casually socialize with them. But despite Drifting's excellent social skills, mingling with everyone was still not possible for him, and this resulted into quite a few people being left high and dry. All the present leaders were distinguished by their own right, so none of them could stand being disregarded by anyone, even someone as popular as Drifting.

These people were of course feeling unhappy at having spent 100 gold coins without managing to acquaint themselves with the number one Mage, but they were not so unreasonable that they would blame this outcome on Young Master's Elite. But Silver Moon could see just how frustrating they were feeling inside, and he was currently scheming on causing everyone to get mad at Young Master's Elite once more.

Silver Moon had attempted to sabotage the 'meet and greet' event by getting everyone to view Young Master's Elite as a common enemy earlier, and in the end it was the many leaders who were treating one another as enemies instead since they were all competing to get close to Drifting. When his plan had fallen through, Silver Moon had gone back to quietly observing the situation. Seeing the few disregarded leaders' desire to vent their frustration on someone, he knew that he had found another opportunity to create trouble for Young Master's Elite and hurriedly cleared his throat, ”Ahem. I say, there's no doubt that Drifting is the number one Mage—”

”Number one, my foot!” Royal God Call indignantly interjected.

”Mhm-mhm. I know that Royal bro was also very glorious back then…” Silver Moon threw a half-hearted flattery at Royal God Call. He tried to divert everyone's attention from Drifting by pointing directly at Gu Fei and saying, ”I don't know what this guy's intentions are, but he was making a scene just now by claiming to do a 'Bounty Mission'. Somehow, I got the feeling that he is well acquainted with you all based on the interactions you lot were having just now!”