240 Chapter 240 - Students need to prioritize studying (1/2)

The Black Hand's mercenary channel burst into activity once more. The four players who had been killed by Gu Fei began arguing and criticizing one another. Finally, they put all the blame on the poor Hunter, ”You sh*t. Making us wait for him to step on to your Hunting Trap. Step, my *ss!”

The Hunter felt maligned but could not refute their claim. In retrospect, he had really made a tactical error by making the others wait for Gu Fei to initiate the attack, which had allowed the latter to effortlessly insta-kill the four of them.

While these four men continued to bemoan their fate, the rest of The Black Hand rushed over to the west gate. How would they make it in time, though, when Gu Fei and his two students promptly sprinted toward the NPC prison upon entering Yunduan City? With all the winding streets and intersections, the routes Gu Fei and company could take were as plentiful as the hair off the back of a cow. How would The Black Hand's mercenaries find them when they did not even know where the three's destination was?

Although quite a few guild quests were obtained from common locations, such as taverns, many similar quests and missions ended in places like the prison, Bounty Assignment Hall, and so on. The Black Hand's players only numbered to a hundred, so they dared not split up their force too much upon knowing how strong Gu Fei was. The only option left for them was to comb through the entire city, yet they soon received bad news from the small guild: The system announced that the quest had ended!

”Ohhh!” Ultimate Class 3 Guild's players over by the north gate also received a similar system notification. Receiving the huge experience points from the successfully completed guild quest, quite a few of them leveled up on the spot. White light flashed continuously for a time. Meanwhile, some players of the opposing small guild that were nearby looked on with envious eyes.

Besides experience points, the students also gained a few item rewards which were randomly allocated. Most of the items they received were average blue- or white-tier equipment, yet these students still considered them as rather valuable.

Since the equipment ignored job class when it was randomly allocated, these students once more displayed their outstanding unity by exchanging the item rewards with one another according to their job classes. The din they made left those players of the small guild salivating once more.

Monologue under the Moon was extremely incensed right now. His face was blackened with anger as he stalked over to the north gate. Their client's competitive quest failed, so their mercenary mission also failed as a corollary. Since they had picked up this mission through the system, their mercenary group's name over by the rankings in the Hall of Mercenaries had regrettably been given a '1' digit for their failure. Moreover, there was still the indemnity clause that their group had established to worry about. Not only did Monologue under the Moon have to return the small guild's deposit, he also had to compensate the small guild by shouldering its quest completion fee.

The students completed their guild quest and earned experience points and equipment. The small guild might have failed the competitive quest, but it at least earned quite a sum from The Black Hand mercenary group, so the loss was not that big.

Overall, the one that got the shortest stick in this whole business was The Black Hand. A few of its members lost a level, the group was obligated to pay the client a tidy sum for failing the mission, and The Black Hand even lost its flawless record. There was a big commotion on the mercenary channel as the group leader, Black Index Finger, expressed his dissatisfaction at how the matter had unfolded.

Monologue under the Moon, who was in charge of overseeing this particular mission, failed to complete it and also caused a substantial loss to the mercenary group… This made it quite difficult to free him from blame.

”Thousand Miles Drunk!” Monologue under the Moon grinded his teeth when Gu Fei coincidentally bumped into him on his way back to the north gate with the students. He was about to hand out equipment to his students once more.

”Oh. You're here, too!” Gu Fei spotted Monologue under the Moon and the small guild's players squatting by the north gate and felt quite surprised. The quest has ended, so why are they loitering here for? Are these people intending to do something? Gu Fei internally prepared himself to fight at any moment.

”Sir! Sir!” The students surrounded Gu Fei upon his return and showed off their newly acquired equipment.

”Mhm. You've all done quite well for yourselves! Follow me; I still have some with me!” Gu Fei brought his students to the warehouse, feeling quite disappointed that Monologue under the Moon did not make a move in the end.

The warehouse contained all of the equipment Gu Fei had farmed from level 0 to level 40. There were low level and high level – the good and the bad – among the items he had brought out and threw on the ground.

The students cried out in jubilation and crowded around the equipment on the ground to snatch what they could. It was like Chinese New Year had arrived earlier for these students, causing the other players who had come to the warehouse to gawk at them. Some of them even thought that this was robbery in progress, so they dared not approach the students.

”Don't snatch. Line yourselves up first!” Gu Fei yelled for the students to stop their ill-disciplined ways.

The students promptly lined themselves up as Gu Fei tasked a few of them to arrange the items according to job class. Ah Fa's suggestion to let the ones who did not receive any item rewards from the completed quest pick first was received with approval from everyone. The students came forward one by one and picked out equipment. Although not all of them would end up being satisfied, they were just glad that this was even happening.

Some of the students were above level 30, while the others were low level, with three being newbies. Gu Fei felt very gratified to see the pile of equipment before him being put to good use.

”Teacher is really cool!” The students praised their teacher sincerely. As a gesture of appreciation for what Gu Fei had done for them, Ah Fa told his fellow classmates, ”Take out the mage equipment we've got and let teacher have a look; maybe, there's something teacher can use.”

The Mages among the students willingly stepped forward to show Gu Fei the equipment that the system had rewarded them for the completed quest.

Gu Fei did not even look at them and merely waved his hand, ”No need; keep the items for yourselves!”

”Teacher has reached level 40, so these items aren't up to his standard anymore!” The students enviously expressed their awe, unaware that the equipment Gu Fei had was even more polarizing than what they thought.