391 Chapter 391 - Admit Defea (1/2)

At the moment, a huge mob of players was bustling their way towards the North Gate in Luori City. Among them were mercenaries from Luori City looking to assassinate their target, and also Yunduan City players rushing to assist. Both parties clashed all the way to the city, creating quite the boisterous scene.

But the first to reach the North Gate were still the players from Luori City.

This was entirely because they had a huge advantage over those from Yunduan City: Their players that had lost their lives would all respawn in Luori City. As for those from Yunduan City, their accounts were still registered back in Linshui City, so any mercenary members that were slain all revived back in Linshui City, while the members from Traversing Four Seas were sent all the way back to Yunduan City upon their deaths.

Those Luori City mercenaries that had respawned somewhere near the North Gate were naturally the first to arrive. These men hurried over to the North Gate and looked all around. Their suspicion rose, thinking that everyone around them could be Todd. They used their Appraisal skill on all the players passing by, yet they discovered nothing.

”We don't see Todd anywhere! Where has he gone!?” these players hollered across the various guild channels.

”Search every street that leads out of the the North Gate, split into groups and find them!” The order was passed down. The mercenaries formed up into groups of twos and threes and each began searching through the streets.

At the same time, these mercenaries could feel the urgency of the situation and no longer cared about the principles of a mercenary that they often spoke about, as they began calling for their friends to inquire after more information, mobilizing everything they could for this mission!

This raised the bar and made things a lot more lively. After all, even if the strongest mercenary group and the largest guild were not one and the same in most cities, the difference would not be that far off. Eternal War mercenary group was naturally the strongest mercenary group in Luori City, but the second strongest belonged to Fallen Leaves Returning to Roots, and the third strongest mercenary group was also from Fallen Leaves Returning to Roots. The guild had managed to create two strong mercenary groups under its banner!

Furthermore, the other mercenary leaders were mostly in close contact with large guilds. This single call to arms made it that much easier to call for their help as a result, so plenty of players actually came to heed the call. While those rushing in from the various grinding spots might not make it in time, those that were already in the city easily volunteered to help out with this task.

”There should not be too many of them, and there will undoubtedly be unfamiliar faces acting all secretive and looking real shifty. Take note that they will be an NPC among them!” This was the unique feature that the mercenaries of Luori City had determined about Oathless Sword, but it was entirely inaccurate to the situation at hand, since right outside the Prison at the moment, both parties were actually locked in a heated battle, and were far from being secretive!

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When Deep Waters noted that his men were no match for the indomitable Mage and Thief before them, he sighed as he called out loudly, ”Alright, hold your fire!”

But this order to hold their fire was essentially useless, since it was his men that were actually being chased and hounded at the moment. Gu Fei and Svelte Dancer had devoted their attention to slaying these men, so neither heard his cry. Oathless Sword however, heard it, but he was also worried this was a some dastardly scheme the enemy had cooked up; Vast Lushness was someone who had been baptized through a veritable nest of PvP and had seen plenty of such schemes, where a cry to cease fire would instead be exploited for an opportunity to counterattack, so she did not say a word, either.

Deep Waters was pissed after shouting himself hoarse and had half a heart to fight to the bitter end. But, Coco held him back as she stood beside him, yelling out once more, ”Stop fighting, we admit defeat.”

Only Svelte Dancer was still focused on the hunt at this point while Gu Fei immediately stopped his attack. This was all thanks to the habits he had formed all these years training kung fu, where he would often spar with someone. These sessions would only last until a certain point, so no matter how absorbed they were in the match, they were very sensitive to the words 'admit defeat'. While Coco was not any louder than Deep Waters, her usage of the correct term allowed Gu Fei to halt the slash that he was about to deal towards his current target, a conditioned reflex that had became a habit after years of training.

He turned back and saw the wry smile on Deep Waters, who was pointing over to Svelte Dancer. ”Please, stop her.”

Gu Fei nodded as he took out two apples from his pocket, taking a bite out of one first before throwing the other in a swift motion, striking Svelte Dancer on the back of her head.

Svelte Dancer grab a hold onto her head as she turned back smartly, hearing the crunch of the apple Gu Fei was biting on as he pointed to Deep Waters and said, ”That's enough. That guy's admitted defeat.”

”Eh?” Svelte Dancer turned to stare at Deep Waters.

Deep Waters's bitter smile was still hanging upon his face, ”We give up.” With that, he waved his hand to his comrades that remained and said, ”Remove the traps!”

These Hunters went forward to remove the traps that they had set, but Deep Waters could tell in a glance that there were still plenty of traps that remained because their owners had died. Since they could not safely remove those traps set by others, he waved his hand and commanded, ”Trigger those other traps, as well.”

These men all nodded as they began to search for the other traps and triggered them one by one, rendering them all immobile in that instant.

”Brother Deep Waters, there's no need to go to such extent!” Oathless Sword had once more opened his mouth to speak at this point. Both parties had only clashed due to the competitive quest they were on. Now that they had already admitted defeat and the Prison was right before them, of course Oathless Sword was feeling magnanimous and thought there was no need for them to embarrass themselves so far as to even step onto their own traps… So he quickly interrupted them in hopes of preventing them from troubling themselves.

”Oi Oi, aren't you being thinking a bit too much here!” Before Deep Waters could even speak, it was Vast Lushness who interjected as she regarded him with scorn, ”This is a rule with the trap skill. If they do not step on them themselves, does that mean those guys who have died would have to return to do so themselves? What if they respawned back in Linyin City? How troublesome would that be?”

Oathless Sword had a modicum of understanding towards this rule, but he had not thought of it at the moment. Actually, Vast Lushness only understood why they were doing this because she had spent so much time hanging out with that bunch of ruffians from Forever in Flowers.

Deep Waters gazed at Vast Lushness and said, ”This beauty sure is clever!”