256 Chapter 256 - A Road in the Blind Spo (1/2)

While Eagle Eye gave Royal God Call superb eyesight, counting all the moving enemies by the base of the mountain was still somewhat difficult for him. A good sense of direction was necessary to account for all the moving players. Unfortunately, Royal God Call was geographically challenged.

Royal God Call counted the opponents a dozen of times, but even when they had made a full circuit around the mountain, he still had yet to finish the task. War Without Wounds, who had grown impatient by this point, asked, ”Are you done counting?!”

Having found a perfect excuse, Royal God Call hurriedly shouted at War Without Wounds, ”What was that for?! I was just about to finish my counting, but your question threw me off!”

Royal God Call's words made Young Master Han realize his mistake for issuing that command and patted the former's back, ”It's fine. No need to force yourself.”

The Black Hand's moving forms all stopped by the base of the mountain. After searching for a way up, they started ascending it.

”Is there really a need for everyone to climb up that mountain?” Royal God Call asked.

”That mountain is closer to our spawn point, and we are much more flexible since we have less people in the team. If we also tried taking up that vantage point, we would already be on the mountain peak, creating the perfect situation for us to be surrounded,” Young Master Han explained.

”Oh!” Upon hearing his explanation, everyone began to closely observe the direction The Black Hand mercenary group was heading. Their opponents were climbing the mountain in an orderly manner and were showing preparedness to respond to any sudden attack from above.

”Not splitting their force! This must be the first habit our opponents have adopted during the mercenary PvP tournament,” Young Master Han laughed disdainfully.

When the men of The Black Hand mercenary group reached the halfway point of the mountain, they hurriedly reorganized their PvP formation and placed the Archers at the vanguard. These Archers then began peppering the area around them with arrows.

”What's that for?!” Royal God Call exclaimed in shock.

Young Master Han smiled placidly, ”This is the second habit that they've adopted; they are wary of our Insta-kill Mage. Normally, Warriors would be in the frontline when advancing forward to protect the low-Strength Mages and Archers from getting killed by a surprise attack. As you have just seen, because of our Insta-kill Mage, placing Warriors at the forefront to tank the enemies' attacks is deemed as pointless. Instead, they have placed their Archers at the forefront to beat us in terms of range. They are probably positioned just outside a Mage's attack range and are initiating the attacks to prevent Miles from peeking out!” As Young Master Han said that, he turned his gaze on Gu Fei.

Gu Fei remained mum for a while before finally saying, ”My AOE spells may no longer be capable of insta-killing Warriors; it's still rather effective to place them in the frontline to waste my firepower.”

”You're a weirdo for having Twin Incineration as your strongest spell, while your other spells are weak in comparison!” Royal God Call eyed him with contempt. Other Mages would find it difficult to think that the rest of Gu Fei's spells would not be OP as well after seeing what his basic Twin Incineration could do.

Gu Fei shrugged his shoulders, ”Twin Incineration also has Physical Damage, so it's actually more useful!”

Royal God Call almost coughed up blood. Most Mages considered Twin Incineration as the weakest in their spell arsenal; only Gu Fei actually thought of it otherwise. As for Physical Damage… It was only due to his Moonlit Nightfalls that the spell could have Physical and Spell Damage. If not for that, how in the world would his spell have Physical Damage?

Young Master Han smiled, ”That faulty thinking is actually what we are hoping for them to have.”

The nonstop hail of arrows of The Black Hand's Archers in the vicinity allowed the mercenary group to successfully seize the mountain's vantage point. The players who had just done their best to occupy the mountain peak could not help but feel disappointed when no enemies were found in the location. They would really be vomiting out blood if they knew that the entire process of their climb up the mountain had been witnessed and ridiculed by the six men within the nearby forest at the foot of the mountain.

Once the The Black Hand's men secured the vantage point, they began looking all around them for the opponents.

”It's going to be hard for them from here on,” Young Master Han said, adding, ”While they can't afford to give up the mountain's vantage point, they also have no choice but to mobilize some men to find us. And whichever team ends up having the less manpower will become victim of our attacks. In this case, the safest and most effective method to this would be to evenly split their force.”

As Young Master Han was saying this, the men on the mountain peak began to move. Although they could not accurately tell how many men there were, the amount of moving men was clearly different from what Young Master Han had predicted. In fact, all the men seemed to be making their way down the mountain peak.

”HA HA HA HA! You've guessed wrongly! Everyone's descending the mountain!” Everyone ridiculed Young Master Han for his faux-pas, yet they only heard him sigh in response. He then unhurriedly told them, ”This is the third habit that they've formed. Despite there being few of us, none of them actually knows of our combat capability. They're not sure if ten, twenty, thirty, or more men are enough to face us. Thus, when they split up just now, although it made perfect sense to divide their force evenly, they deemed it as a rather risky method and instead chose to give up the rook to save the king, randomly assigning two or three men to serve as lookout on the mountain peak while the rest of them concentrate on searching for us. This way, even if those men they've left behind are killed off, they will only lose a few points, giving them the chance to recover from a potential loss.”

”If they have predicted the possibility of us assassinating the two or three men left behind, wouldn't they set up an ambush for us over there as well?” Royal God Call opined.

”That's a sound question, and the reason for why we are currently in this forest. So… Do the enemies seem to have set up an ambush for us up there?”

Royal God Call was instantly speechless. The enemies quickly left the mountain peak after rushing up there in an equally orderly fashion as before. None of them appeared to be doing any covert motion that could be interpreted as them having set up an ambush atop the mountain.