425 Chapter 425 - Information about Xiawu City (1/2)
The two boats that Young Master's Elite were aboard docked by the shore. The six men leaped off the boats and paid the fee, as the two boatmen rowed off. Young Master Han lifted the spyglass and turned it toward the direction Southern Lone Blade and the rest had headed, but all he saw was thick fog.
M*th*rf*ck*r! Young Master Han cursed to himself. The other five had gathered around and took turn at the spyglass to check their surroundings, each shaking their heads and sighing.
”Shall we head to Xiawu City first?” Sword Demon suggested.
Everybody nodded. Since they were here, they could not just give up and return even though they had no idea where Southern Lone Blade and his squad were, for that would just be too shameful.
”Wounds, go destroy their boats,” Young Master Han said.
Everybody was in low spirits, and War Without Wounds was no exception. He marched over to where Southern Lone Blade and the others had hidden their boats and dragged them onto the beach. Fishing out a battle axe from his dimensional pocket, he savagely wrecked the boats into splinters, venting out his frustration in the process. Young Master Han had already collected a sizeable bundle of kindling from the surroundings and tossed it to the ground. He even fished out a booklet from his pocket and tore a few pages out, calling to Gu Fei, ”Ace, lend me a light.”
”Fireball!” Gu Fei extended his sword and chanted, creating a ball of flame on its tip. Young Master Han reached over and set the booklet in his hand ablaze and stuffed it into that pile of kindling, before looking over to War Without Wounds. ”Activate your Cyclone.”
”What for?” War Without Wounds asked.
”Give it a little air.”
Thus, War Without Wounds activated his Cyclone upon his request. With the additional wind, the fire spread from the paper to the kindling – kindling to the splintered wood that was once the boat. Some of the wood was still wet, so the ensuing fire and heat only caused it to billow out a black smoky haze as it burned. This made them all flee from the smog cursing, since they had all circled around to watch the fire burn.
War Without Wounds was coughing a fit as he got enveloped in a heap of ash when he ended his Cyclone. He coughed and hacked loudly as he fled, yelling to the others, ”Won't such a huge smoke expose our presence?!”
Young Master Han continued to look around the fog that surrounded them even as he muttered, ”It'd be great if we can lure out Southern Lone Blade's group just like that.”
It was unknown whether the fog was simply too dense or Southern Lone Blade's squad had never once looked back, but the blazing fire continued to belch out smog that attracted no one, becoming no more than a release for their frustration. In the end, the splintered wood from the boat were too wet to be burned, as War Without Wounds stared at the remaining pile of wood and grumbled resentfully, ”I wish I could just piss on this.”
The others glanced at him, not bothering to address the man's crudeness. The game allowed players to eat and drink because those were a form of enjoyment, but it saw no point in simulating pointless things, such as needing to use the toilet. If there was indeed such a sensation, people would surely rush to log off, since that would just lead to them pissing in their pants!
”Let's head to Xiawu City!” Young Master Han pointed forward and began to stride off. Sword Demon and Brother Assist were right behind him. Gu Fei wrapped his hand round Royal God Call's shoulder and asked, ”Hey, Royal, why are you quaking in your boots?”
”What nonsense are you talking about? Who's quaking?” Royal God Call lowered his head to look. He was indeed feeling rather nervous, but to say he was quaking in his boots would be an exaggeration. Gu Fei laughed. ”You'd better follow us closely, then.” as Royal God Call quickly tagged along. In the game, coordinates were provided to help with positioning, so the fog was not that big of a deal in any sense. However, with how inept Royal God Call was when it came to reading coordinates, an idiot like him that had no sense of direction could only depend on visible markers and landmarks to determine where to go, so the existence of Xiawu City could really be considered as a nightmare to him.
The six men had left the shore for quite some time and were slowly entering the fog in proper. They were no longer able to see the body of water that they had left behind when they looked backward just now, as their vision had been entirely obscured by the fog. Young Master Han, who was very sensitive to distance, coordinates and the like, was able to conclude soon after, ”We have around 50 or 60 meters of vision around us. Royal, can you see further with your Eagle Eye?”
”Ah?” Royal God Call looked all around, but he had no idea how to compare how far he could see. Young Master Han had no choice but to pick something to take as a reference. Pointing in a certain direction, he asked, ”Do you see that vague outline of the tree in the distance?”
Royal God Call stared at where he was pointing for a bit. ”Where? Why can't I see it?”
”F*ck, Eagle Eye, my foot…” Young Master Han snorted.
”That's a tree? I think that's more like a house. Royal, do you see that house?” Gu Fei gazed at the same direction Young Master Han had pointed and saw a house instead of a tree.
”Nope. All I see is a huge rock,” Royal God Call answered.
Everybody was speechless. It was truly far too foggy out here. Although Young Master Han claimed that they had a maximum vision of 50 to 60 meters, they were not even able to tell if that thing 50 to 60 meters ahead of him was a tree, a rock, or a house. It was as if they quite literally had no vision at all.
”I think it's best if we hurry on our way. Perhaps, things will be better once we reach the city.” Brother Assist flipped through his booklet as he said this. He had some general information about Xiawu City's coordinates. The reason he had forgotten about this city's existence was that they had been too focused on the waterway routes set by the system.
”This way!” Brother Assist looked at the coordinates and led the way, even as he gave a brief overview of the city, ”Everyone has already seen the unique feature of this city. This heavy fog we see now is apparently a bit better in the city than here. The largest guild in this region is called Flowergazing in the Fog, and it's a level 6 guild; there are plenty of level 5 mercenary groups as well. In terms of experts, there are four players who are listed among the Ten Great Adepts: the ranked seventh Warrior is Three Sighs of Flowing Maple. He's the guild leader of the Flowergazing in the Fog Guild; there's also the Thief that's currently ranked fourth on the leaderboards, Cool Apple; Windchord is ranked eighth as a Fighter; and then there's… the Mage that is ranked second on the job-class leaderboard, which is also one of the newest entrants to the Five Unyielding Experts, Slyris. I'm sure everybody finds this name familiar?”
”Yeah,” Gu Fei answered.