367 Chapter 367 - Target: Luori City (1/2)

”Is that a guess or a fact?” one of the men asked. The final stage of games was often the hardest to accomplish, so it was common for players to make such an inference.

Southern Lone Blade actually nodded his head. ”It's a fact.”

”Is this from the same informant?” someone asked.

”No. Even that informant doesn't know what's in store for them for this final segment. In fact, I had only received this information the moment they left the harbor,” he said.

”What information is that?”

”The moment their ferry left the shore, a new mission appeared in the Hall of Mercenaries over in their next stop, Luori City, and the task for it is to assassinate the prisoner that they are escorting,” he shared.

”Mercenary mission? Their expedition has more men than a level 5 guild. Is there any mercenary group out there that can even contend with them?” one of them expressed his doubt.

Southern Lone Blade laughed when he heard this. ”The difference is that this is a limitless competitive quest.”

All these players hummed with understanding. They were very familiar with mercenary missions and a limitless competitive quest had two major characteristics that was unique to it. First was that there were no particular requisites for mercenary groups picking it up, and second was that there were no restrictions on how many mercenary groups could pick it up. However, only one group could emerge victorious and claim the final prize, which was why it was tagged as 'competitive'.

This sort of missions could be considered as the most competitive kind, as it could theoretically let hundreds of mercenary groups participate. However, rules did not have a mind of their own like humans did. Whenever such uncommon missions turned up, experienced mercenary groups would not focus their efforts on fighting with one another and would, instead, team up with several other stronger mercenary groups to obtain the upper hand in completing the mission before splitting the rewards accordingly.

With how bountiful this sort of missions was and the transparency of the listed rewards for these missions, no one was really worried that a mercenary group awarded with the completion rewards would attempt to hide anything from the others.

”Even if that's the case, there's no telling how many mercenary groups in Luori City will actually team up or if they can form a large enough army to contend with Yunduan City's players.” Some were still worried.

”Don't forget Luori City's Eternal War mercenary group,” Southern Lone Blade said.

”Eternal Dominion's mercenary group!” someone inhaled sharply. Although Eternal War was not known throughout Parallel World, the players in Linshui City had of course heard of that mercenary group given their proximity to Luori City. While they were uncertain of the finer details, they at least knew of Eternal War's amazing combat prowess. Rumors were abound that all the members of that mercenary group were people who knew how to fight in reality. Others said that they were just a bunch of hoodlums; some said that they were a bunch of martial arts practitioners; finally, a few claimed that they were retired military men.

Southern Lone Blade have had dealings with them before while conducting his ”business”, and although he had no idea where these people came from, he could say for sure that their fighting skills were out of the ordinary. Actually, he had merely came into contact with a few random members of Eternal War, so he simply could not accurately gauge the strength of their group leader, Eternal Dominion, who also happened to be one of the Five Unyielding Experts.

The mention of this mercenary group caused Southern Lone Blade and his few comrades to worry for Yunduan City's players, instead. ”With such strong opponents, there's a possibility of them getting wiped out before we even get off the ferry.”

”That is definitely a problem. That guy has 29 PK points on him. I reckon he'll lose all his equipment the moment he gets killed. Meaning, our trip over there will be wasted,” Southern Lone Blade agreed.

”I suggest we skip the ferry altogether and just find a boat to bring us to that city. They're already far off, so I doubt they'll be able to spot us.” One of them gazed at that ship that was becoming more and more obscured as it slid into the fog ahead.

”Yes, go call for a boat,” Southern Lone Blade agreed. His comrades quickly departed from the beach. They no longer needed to stay at the harbor, since they were going to use a player-made boat.

No sooner that these people left, the ferry from Linyin City banked in and docked by the harbor, and a string of men could be seen alighting off it. The boisterous and enthusiastic scene that greeted them at Linshui City's harbor caused these players to do a double-take.

The business owners by the harbor were perplexed as to why many outsiders were arriving at Linshui City over these few days. Of course, they did not intend to inquire after this matter and were merely hoping to earn a tidy sum off these players. Linshui City's unique leisure industry usually did very well stimulating foreigners like them to spend extravagantly.

However, these players showed no interest in trying what Linshui City had to offer upon disembarking. Instead, they approached those people who were soliciting to customers and asked them about the schedule of the next ferry trip to Luori City.

”It has just departed. The next ship will set sail four hours from now. If you guys are planning to wait for that ferry, why don't you come over to our bar to rest and relax while you wait?” This player that they had accosted was someone who had set up an open-air bar. He expectedly began promoting his business after answering their question without missing a beat.

”Do we have any other options?” the person at the forefront of this group asked.

”There are players who own little wooden boats and ferry potential customers, but since there are many of you, I'm afraid such a method may not work,” the man answered as he carefully counted the players present. He was amazed when he realized that almost everyone before him were Archers besides a few Thieves and Mages; this group composition was truly offbeat.

”Do we really have to wait for four hours here?” the person in the lead mumbled.