418 Chapter 418 - Just Who is the Target? (1/2)

”I think they're really waiting to kill a boss!” Vast Lushness suddenly said.

”Eh?” They looked at her quizzically.

”It's obvious that someone by that beachside bar has spread the news about the resurrection matter, and these people are those that came to ask for advice,” Vast Lushness said.

”Oh…” Vast Lushness may have said it euphemistically, but everybody were quickly able to read between the lines.

Gu Fei flashed a thumbs up to her, ”Spoken like someone who was a seasoned veteran.” Eternal Dominion and Gu Fei did not say another word. Sakurazaka Moony and Fireball were also veteran gamers, but they were not as quick to react to this line as Vast Lushness.

”Just what do you mean by that?” Vast Lushness glared at Gu Fei.

”Nothing. Just stating the facts!” Gu Fei said.

Vast Lushness had no rebuttal to that, since it was indeed the truth. Back in her glory days with Past Deeds in Yueye City, if they were to chance upon a Priest that had this ability to resurrect players, she believed she would have led her men over in an effort to ”learn more” from that player. Except Past Deeds was the dominant guild when she was at her most glorious; nobody would dare to step forward and challenge them, so there would not be a scene like this, where so many guilds would gather outside the Priest Academy to vie for the chance… Vast Lushness tried to count them, but was unable to get a good number. All she knew was that there was already six or seven guilds waiting out here.

This setting also looked somewhat familiar to her. Vast Lushness was slightly startled for a moment, not knowing if she should cry or laugh when she finally recalled the reason. There were not so many competing forces back when she would barricade people and loot them of their dropped equipment, but when she was being hunted after falling from grace, this was exactly the same scene that she saw when she was the one stuck in the Priest Academy: Countless guilds would squat outside the Academy, waiting to slay her!

Back then, she did not feel maligned, as she stubbornly refused to yield and fought to the bitter end, but now that she was aware of just how indecorous and immoral Silver Moon really was, all she could feel was a pained sourness in her heart when she reminisced about her past.

”There's so many people around here, just where is that Priest?” Gu Fei muttered.

Vast Lushness snapped back to reality and responded, ”He's probably still out there. I reckon there are people searching the whole city for him. They are sure to send him over the moment he's spotted.”

Gu Fei pondered for a while before he said, ”Their intentions are pretty obvious now. There's no way Southern Lone Blade and his men would be unaware of this, so would that Priest still be carrying that staff?”

”There's also men stationed over by the warehouse!” Vast Lushness answered. She had already noticed these things, because these were the steps that she had once ordered her own men to take, so she was very familiar with the process.

”The warehouse? Oh. I don't mean there. What I mean is that since everyone is now camping out by the Priest Academy, wouldn't they just pass that equipment over to someone else?” Gu Fei said.

”Give it to someone else?” Everybody was stunned. It was apparent to a veteran gamer that they would never accept this as a viable solution. The trust between players in MMOs was almost non-existent. Handing over such a valuable piece of equipment to someone else for safekeeping was as good as a rite to sever the friendship and go incognito.

”What? Is there a problem doing that?” It was clear that Gu Fei, who had lent Fireball two of his top tier items so that he could revel in a moment of superiority, did not see this as a crisis of confidence like the average player.

”Drunk bro!” Fireball had a look of pain, looking as if he pitied the people of the world. ”Not everyone out there would have as high moral values like I do and would return you your top tier equipment without even hesitating for a moment after use. Had you given it to anyone else, like Moony for example, that man would have taken it and ran off with it!”

”F*ck, why would I do that!” Sakurazaka Moony was outraged at this slanderous claim. ”It's not like they are Hunter's equipment!” he added.

Everyone threw a contemptuous stare at him.

”I still think that this is a possible option they might be willing to do,”Gu Fei concluded earnestly. His experience fighting with the seven men had led him to believe that even though they were a squad that dealt in such a shameful business, the bond that they shared was not false.

Besides, they were a bunch that carried out larceny together. They could be considered a business organization, and that Staff of Resurrection could be seen as the squad's collective asset. It just so happened that the Priest had to be the one using it, which was why moving it around at this point would be deemed appropriate.

Quite a few agreed with this after hearing Gu Fei's analysis, with Vast Lushness taking it a step further, ”Now that there are even more people searching for them, yet were still unable to catch a glimpse of them, I do believe they must have split up and are now acting individually.”

”Then who would have that staff?” Fireball asked.

”The Thief, perhaps?” Gu Fei suggested.

They nodded in agreement once more. Thieves had access to the Stealth skill, so they would surely be the one to have the easiest time evading a hunt. He would be the safest choice if they were to leave something valuable with someone out of the seven.

”Man, a Stealthed Thief is far more difficult to locate!” Sakurazaka Moony revealed a troubled expression. They already barely recognized the seven as they were, must less someone who could be perpetually invisible.

”There's no need to find the man. As long as we can guess what his next action will be…” Gu Fei said.

Vast Lushness stared at the crowd of players loitering outside the Priest Academy, ”Given how the chips have fallen, there's no way they would continue to stay in Linshui City and wait this out. I'm positive they must be devising a way to leave the city.”

”But you can't just leave the city as and when you like, everybody has to take a ship at the end of the day. However, they aren't able to sail out on the ferry available by the harbor. Considering that it just so happens to be a place where the various large guilds have claimed, the only option they have left is to make their own,” Gu Fei said, and turned to look at Vast Lushness. They had had experience taking such a watercraft before.

”In that case...” Vast Lushness was now speaking to Sakurazaka Moony. ”Send men out of the city and walk along the shoreline. Search through everything and don't leave anything like bushes or mounds of hay or stack of straw or anything that could be used to conceal stuff beneath unturned; a boat could be hidden beneath it. Send over the coordinates the moment a boat is found.”

”Yes, got it!” Sakurazaka Moony nodded rapidly.

”Tell everyone to be careful, as well. Be on guard for a Stealthed Thief!” Gu Fei added.

”Understood!” Sakurazaka Moony had been listening all this while and had already comprehended the crux of the matter. He immediately sent out a message to all the men in his mercenary group and had them to head to the shore to look for boats.

”Places that could be used to conceal?” The men from Forever in Flowers once more showed off their lewd mindset. ”What if we discover a pair of lovebirds underneath it?”

”Woah, that's totally possible. How stimulating!”