236 Chapter 236 - A Little Bit of Mana (1/2)

The Black Hand mercenary group! Gu Fei could not help but do a double-take at the people standing before him upon hearing that name. They were people he and the rest of Young Master's Elite would be facing in the finals of the mercenary PvP tournament, after all.

Judging from their attire, Monologue under the Moon was a Priest, and the other three were a Warrior, a Thief, and a Mage. While the members of the small guild showed a fearful look on their faces upon learning of Gu Fei's identity as the Insta-kill Mage, the four men had self-assured stances.

Gu Fei determined these four men's intention and addressed the small guild, ”Did you guys hire a mercenary group to help you? So you guys are confident of accomplishing this quest and don't plan to give it up?”

”Aren't you guys the same?!” the opposing guild retorted.

”We?” Gu Fei looked at his students and laughed bitterly. Not only was he helping these students complete their quest for free, he was also going to give them equipment when they got back… How was he a hired mercenary in this case?

Seeing that the other side was not willing to back down, Gu Fei simply pulled out his Moonlit Nightfalls and pointed it toward them, ”Since this is how it's going to be, I won't be courteous then! Twin Incineration! Incinerate!” Gu Fei flicked his sword to his left and right. Two Thieves on Stealth faded into view with a surprised expression on their faces before disappearing once more.

Gu Fei saw a similar expression on everyone's face whenever he managed to hit a Thief who was on Stealth. He really wanted to tell all the Thieves out there to stop trying to attack him while on Stealth, since it was useless against him. And if the Thieves chose to use Stealth still, they should at least careful on how they attacked him with it. ”I have an item that can counter Stealth, so don't—” Gu Fei was trying to tell these players about the redundancy of their action when he was interrupted by a cry from one of his students standing behind him. A Thief seemed to have carefully mixed into the crowd of students to stealthily dispose of the Brigand leader that was already in a critical condition. In the end, the Thief accidentally stepped on a student's foot and got revealed.

This made Gu Fei's kind words seem like a lie. Didn't you just say that you have equipment that counters Stealth? Our man has already sneaked into your group without you realizing it, so what lie are you spouting?! Still, Gu Fei had indeed killed off those two Thieves that had been trying to sneak up on him. Everyone was baffled and went into deep thought about this.

What else could that lone enemy Thief within the group of students expect at this point? He tried to get out of the group, but the students were no pushovers, so he was very handily defeated by the joint attack of over twenty of them.

Although his death was tragic, he was still luckier than those two Thieves that that had died by Gu Fei's attack. Ultimate Class 3 and the opposing guild were in the middle of a competitive quest, and only one of these two sides was bound to succeed in it. Since the only way to resolve this matter was through PvP, the game officials did not wish to be vicious with the players. Therefore, during the competitive quest, the PvP penalty for the players on either side would be under a different set of rules. Players who died during this PvP engagement would not lose a whole level but would instead lose 20% of their experience points. In addition, killing a player would not add PK value on either side's individual.

As for Gu Fei, he technically did not belong to either side. Anyone he killed would be dictated by the traditional PvP rules. Hence, those two Thieves he had killed off just lost a level each as Gu Fei's PK value had increased by 2 points.

On the flipside, those members of The Black Hand mercenary group shared the same condition with Gu Fei. Had they taken up this mercenary mission from the system, they would have enjoyed the exemptions of the competitive quest. Although they would suffer a slightly harsher penalty of a 30% experience loss instead of the 20%, it was still better than losing a whole level outright. Since The Black Hand and the small guild conducted this business deal privately, the four men would not experience this protection of the system for this mission.

The members of Ultimate Class 3 became bolder with the swift deaths of the opposing small guild's three men and they began to clamor about taking down the opponents in one fell swoop.

”What are you making a ruckus for?!” Gu Fei bellowed at them. When all the students instantly became subdued, he commanded, ”Line up and head back to the city!”

”Ah?!” the students expressed their shock.

”Leave this to me,” Gu Fei solemnly said.

”Sir!” All the students felt touched. Since they did not know that their teacher's favorite pastime was to PvP, they were adamant about not leaving Gu Fei to his death while they got away unscathed.

Left with no other choice as he could not possible kill his students to send them back to the city, he could only helplessly say, ”Retreat over to the side, then. Let teacher here give you guys a lesson on PvP.”

The word 'lesson' immediately gave the students goosebumps, and each of them showed an annoyed expression.

”Wait till you see teacher's kung fu!” Gu Fei had long wanted to demonstrate his kung fu to his students, but he had regrettably never had a chance to do so in reality.

”Oh, no! Teacher has gone crazy again,” the students whispered this to one another.

”Teacher really knows kung fu!” Ah Fa seriously told his fellow classmates.

”Oh, my! Ah Fa has gone crazy, too!”

”Is this the side effect of playing Parallel World for long?” they began to wonder.

It was Gu Fei's turn to give them a withering look. Thinking that he could only prove it to the students through his actions, he took two steps forward.

”Seems like we can only settle this through PvP.” Monologue under the Moon still had that faint smile on his lips. He had already carefully observed the enemies' composition; besides Gu Fei, the other twenty-four players were very young and therefore lacked enough combat experience. He could not help but wonder about the nature of this group. Whatever the case might be, their only opponent right now was Gu Fei alone and the others could easily be dealt with after.