206 Chapter 206 - Does it ever end? (1/2)
After insta-killing the man with one stroke, Svelte Dancer retreated to her original position. Her ghostly attack wowed all the leaders in the establishment as they had never seen something like it before.
What was more; Svelte Dancer's one attack was clearly not backed by a skill but was merely her inherent Attack Power. This left the leaders tongue-tied and made them question themselves. Had they been the recipient of Svelte Dancer's attack, would they have been able to dodge it? And if they could not, would they be able to withstand that one blow? Each of their faces paled when they thought up to that, and they all came to one conclusion:
When she was back into her original position, Svelte Dancer asked aloud, ”Spouting nonsense. Do you lot even know the rules?!” She then carefully wiped her dagger clean as her eyes swept through the crowd of guild leaders, as if she was looking for her next target.
The remaining man of Silver Moon at Ray's Bar did not even dare to make a peep. However, just because he had stopped speaking did not mean that others would let him do so. Young Master Han had an expression of taking joy in calamity and delight in disaster as he pointed the man out, ”That friend over there, didn't you have something to say?”
”Nope! None at all!” the man quickly denied.
”Really? You were so talkative moments ago!” Young Master Han continued to say.
The last man looked at Svelte Dancer quickly. Feeling her eyes on him, he nearly peed his pants as he mumbled, ”I really have nothing else to say.” This was what a guilty person would say; otherwise, a person would not be so nervous.
It was the man's fearful expression that further deepened the shadows in the leaders' hearts and they no longer dared to speak arbitrarily. Young Master Han did his best to stifle his laughter. Just as he was preparing to say something that would give the leaders an out for today's matter, the bar's door was suddenly pushed open from the outside and a man walked in.
”Eh? Why are you lot still here?” the person exclaimed while looking at the congregation.
Young Master Han looked at the newcomer and almost coughed up blood. Gu Fei had the worst possible timing to return to the bar. If this dragged on and on, when would the matter ever end?
”What are you doing here?!” Young Master Han's face was black from barely suppressed ire.
”'Bounty Mission' It's for real this time, though!” Gu Fei answered.
”Oh…” all the leaders happily exhaled as realization dawned on them. Had Gu Fei not said that, none of them would have recognized him. After all, Gu Fei's face was covered the last time he had been in the bar. Without it, none of them associated him to the Mage from before. Mages wearing black robes were a dime a dozen in Yunduan City, and in fact, the newest attire available for level 40 Dark Priests was colored black. Moreover, differentiating between Mages and Priests was difficult without scrutiny. Would anyone use Appraisal on every random person who entered a tavern just to determine his or her job class?
Once Gu Fei uttered 'Bounty Mission', everyone immediately knew who he was. They were even more certain of his identity when he took out Moonlit Nightfalls from his dimensional pocket. With Guild Leader July calmly staring at them, all the guild leaders could do nothing but blush at Gu Fei's sudden reappearance.
It was Gu Fei who took the initiative by slowly walking toward them. Unlike his earlier arrogant demeanor, he was currently giving off an apologetic vibe as he courteously said to the leaders, ”Please let me through; I'm on a 'Bounty Mission'.”
The few leaders awakened from their daydream and quickly stepped aside. One of the more quick-witted leaders even helpfully asked, ”Who are you looking for? Want me to help you?”
The person's question held a lot of weight behind it. After all, many of the people currently inside the bar were influential individuals by their own right. For two leaders to clash with each other, it would very likely escalate into a guild war. Thus, it could be seen how much importance the person had placed to attracting the talent Gu Fei. To compete for Gu Fei's attention, he did hesitate to start an altercation with others.
If an altercation did start because of him, Gu Fei would surely be compelled to lend a helping hand, and it was clear which side he would aid at that time. Once Gu Fei was forced to choose a side, whatever happened afterward would just create many chances for the guild to entice him in. While this scheme might seem moronic, it was actually a very sophisticated psychological attack.
It was just a pity that this person had no understanding of where Gu Fei's interest lay. He was doing 'Bounty Mission' to have a valid reason to slay people, so why would Gu Fei let others take his target? After rejecting the offer, Gu Fei immediately pointed to someone in the crowd with his sword and said, ”It's you! The rest of you, please make way!”
Scrambling to make a good impression to Gu Fei, all the leaders hurriedly moved to either side for him in a way that resembled the parting of the Red Sea.
Gu Fei's target was a distinguished guild leader, yet the person was currently not feeling very distinguished. Gu Fei had singled him out and was now rushing to him. No matter how much he wanted to ingratiate himself to Gu Fei, there was simply no way he would willingly expose his neck to the latter for him to chop off. Right now, the guild leader could not stomach Gu Fei's self-assured attitude.
was what the person thought to himself. With a wave of his hand, he brought out his claymore. The man was a Warrior. Applying the basic logic of online games for this fight, the two's proximity to each other was clearly fatal to the Mage, a job class that was at a disadvantage in melee, and the limited space the tavern provided was also helpful to a Warrior, making it that much easier for him to force this melee.
Unfortunately for the Warrior, Gu Fei was an existence that defied logic. Ye Xiaowu was so hung up over Gu Fei precisely because the latter was a walking anomaly in-game. If Gu Fei had chosen to be a Warrior, Fighter, or any melee job class and proceeded to use his kung fu, Ye Xiaowu would not have paid much attention to him. But since Gu Fei had a Mage job class, his use of kung fu in close combat had changed the way his job class would normally be in-game. This was why Ye Xiaowu had regarded Gu Fei as an existence that could break the balance of Parallel World.