212 Chapter 212 - The Most United Guild and the Most Divided Mercenary Group (1/2)

”How many more rounds are there in the mercenary PvP tournament?” Gu Fei suddenly asked. Recently, he no longer found doing 'Bounty Mission' as satisfying. The participants of the PvP tournament had far better skills compared to his 'Bounty Mission' targets, and the further they went in the PvP tournament, the stronger the opponents were. Gu Fei sincerely wished that Parallel World's event would never end, so that he could keep on fighting even stronger opponents.

Sadly, Brother Assist's answer immediately killed off his wish, ”Yunduan City is now in the final 16!”

”Final 16? That means there are only four matches left!” Gu Fei exclaimed rather dejectedly.

”Speaking of which, why is it '16'? Why not 15, 17, or any other odd number?” Royal God Call asked.

Brother Assist smiled, ”In the first four to five rounds, there were indeed guilds and mercenary groups that got a bye. This is how the system made its adjustment when faced with odd numbers, plotting out the final journey by relying upon the sequence of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and the doubling at each stage. The situation that you mentioned has long been accounted for by the system.”

”There are still four more rounds!” Everyone had varying thoughts regarding this. While Gu Fei was feeling depressed that he would no longer have a chance to PvP after this, the rest were feeling sad that they had yet to display their prowess in this tournament thus far. Gu Fei's fighting ability had caused large guilds to search for him all over the city. Although it was seen as a huge joke by many, countless experts actually hoped to achieve that feat. Gu Fei already took the first step ahead, while they… They still needed to work hard.

”We'll let them see our greatness today!” Several of them cried out at the same time, especially Royal God Call and War Without Wounds who were brimming with confidence due to their acquisition of top-grade equipment.

Just as Young Master's Elite made preparations for today's match, those students of Gu Fei went to see their guild leader, Ah Fa. Ah Fa happened to be the student who had brought Gu Fei into Parallel World by giving the latter the Mage account.

”Ah Fa! Ah Fa!” Several students called out when they spotted him on the street.

”Argh! How many times do I have to tell you guys not to call me by my real name in-game? Call me by my IGN, instead!” Ah Fa was a game enthusiast whose lifelong dream was to create a legendary IGN, such as Sword Demon, Royal God Call, and the rest of Young Master's Elite, that would leave people breathless when they heard of it.

One of the students chuckled, ”Wouldn't your name still be called Ah Fa if we call you by your IGN?”

”Don't shorten it however you like! Call me Fatal Reckoning!” Ah Fa replied solemnly.

”That's a mouthful. Can't we just call you Ah Fa?” someone suggested.

”Fine. Ah Fa it is…” Fatal Reckoning helplessly accepted his fate to be called as Ah Fa. ”Why are you guys looking for me, anyway? Are people bullying you again?” Ah Fa asked upfront. They were all classmates in reality. While Ah Fa was just a nondescript student in school, he was actually the big boss in the game. This was mainly due to him acquiring a Parallel World account during the game's open beta days.

After the game was official released, the new players were able to choose which in-game city to spawn at, so all his fellow classmates naturally flocked over to Yunduan City since Ah Fa was in there. Therefore, it was truly inevitable for Gu Fei to encounter his students in Parallel World given their proximity to him.

”Nobody bullied us. In fact, we even ganked a guy who was stealing our monsters!” someone happily answered. This was the student Gu Fei was supposed to be sending to prison, serial number 19857.

”Then, what's the matter?” Ah Fa asked.

”Can you guess who we just met?” another student excitedly asked Ah Fa.

”Is it Oathless Sword? While he's the guild leader of Yunduan City's largest guild, you guys shouldn't feel so excited just by meeting him,” Ah Fa replied.

”Nope! It's Teacher Gu Fei!” the person excitedly declared. He was afraid that Ah Fa would not recall who was Gu Fei, so he said the teacher's full name.

Ah Fa immediately laughed once he heard this, ”And I thought this was some huge matter! It's not news to me that Teacher Gu is playing Parallel World, as I'm the one who gave him his gaming account!”

”What?! Why didn't you tell us about it before?!” They were all dumbfounded.

”Teacher doesn't want me to tell others about this! But I suppose it is okay now since you guys have bumped into him,” Ah Fa replied.

”Then, why didn't you drag teacher into our guild?” the students pressed on.

”That… Teacher belongs to a guild already!” Ah Fa reasoned.

”What is his guild's name?” they all asked.

Ah Fa could not answer that. He hemmed and hawed for a long time, causing all the students to laugh in unison, ”Ha ha ha! We thought you were close to Teacher Gu Fei. Turns out you know nothing at all!”

Ah Fa's silence only proved this point. He had originally wanted to use this opportunity to get close to Gu Fei by playing the game together, but he did not even manage to add him as a friend after that first day because he chose to run off with that scrupulous gaming employee back then.