480 Chapter 480 - Slyris and Her Friends (1/2)

Right outside the Government City Hall's courtyard in Xiawu City, two teams appeared. One was made up of six Mages, while another was a team of six Thieves. The leaders for the two teams were also famed players of Xiawu City, the Mage Slyris and Thief Yan Xiaozhu.

After conversing with Young Master Han and informed that this arrangement was for Gu Fei's quest, the two ladies, who had previously expressed their interest in his quest, readily agreed to lend a hand. Young Master Han was elated by this development and simply passed the duty of gathering the respective teams to the more personable Slyris. Gu Fei was naturally the one footing the bill for this task, and the favor would of course also be Gu Fei's to bear. After all, Young Master Han was just paying lip service as the intermediary here.

As for the imitation aspect… That was truly just Gu Fei and Sword Demon's wishful thinking. Truthfully, Young Master Han's plan had no need for such nearly flawless impersonation. He merely wanted to create confusion and do some harassment, enough to divert the attention of the men from Flowergazing in the Fog.

Those Mages and Thieves that Slyris introduced were no slouches either, each of them skilled in their own rights. The Mages stayed within the fog and tossed out their spells, changing their position after every completed casting; meanwhile, the Thieves specifically targeted the weaker and slower individuals among the enemies. Stealthing in to stab them once before activating their Fleetfoot to flee from the scene, their actions were completely in line with the fighting style of the Shadowmist Assassin.

In several minutes, however, the two teams realized that there was practically nobody left beyond the walls of the courtyard.

”Sis, where's everyone?” Yan Xiaozhu was perplexed.

”It seems that they have all scattered and retreated back to the courtyard,” Slyris answered.

There was no fog within the courtyard, so this harassment tactic of theirs could not continue. The two sisters had not thought that they would so quickly run out of things to do, nor did they have any idea if they had completed their task successfully. Whatever the case might be, they first hailed Gu Fei to inform him of the current situation.

”Ah? How did it turn out like this…” Gu Fei was stunned. They had thought that if the harassment continued endlessly, it would force the hands of their enemies to fortify the defenses outside the courtyard by reassigning the manpower from within the courtyard to outside. Who knew that the enemies would instead opt to retreat in the face of their actions? They had decisively removed all their men from outside the courtyard and got them back into the safety of the compound, rendering further harassment impossible.

As such, not only did Gu Fei and Sword Demon not see a reduction to the amount of guards within the premises, they even saw an upsurge to it. Either man could only laugh bitterly at this.

”Hey, your method isn't working!” Gu Fei sent a message over to Young Master Han. Having taken an hour to carefully make these preparations, it was really unlike Young Master Han for his plan to fail so soon.

”What?” Young Master Han asked.

Gu Fei relayed the situation over to him once over.

”Any changes in the courtyard?” Young Master Han asked.

”Yeah, there're a lot more people present now…” Gu Fei replied.

”Be a little more patient and watch,” Young Master Han said.

”What else is there to see—ehhh?!” Gu Fei was just about to write his reply out when he realized that there was a disturbance among these players from Flowergazing in the Fog.

Originally, a whole horde of players was evenly scattered all over the entire compound. Now, it was like they had been called to arms, as these men from the backyard suddenly began to head toward the courtyard. Since Gu Fei and Sword Demon were in the direction of the backyard, a good portion of the building obstructed their view, so they had no idea what was happening in the courtyard of the Government City Hall. Was the harassment successful? But their action had clearly forced the enemies to retreat into the safety of the compound, so why would they suddenly reshuffle their positioning like this?

”Of course, the operation was successful!” Young Master Han said. ”Do you really think that this operation hinges upon imitating you two experts? I really commend you two geniuses for thinking of that. Have you two made sense of what these men from Flowergazing in the Fog are doing yet?”

Neither man responded.

”Their quest requires them to maintain that d*mn courtyard's peace and tranquility and not hunt either of you down. They couldn't even be any happier if the two of you were merely harassing their men on the outside; nobody would give a hoot about either of your presence.”

”But now?”

”Now? This is a form of harassment right now, except those people are not trying to impersonate the two of you but guilds from Xiawu City!” Young Master Han clarified.

”Guilds? Why is it guilds again?”

”After your upheaval the other day, Flowergazing in the Fog is currently on high alert. This is definitely an inopportune time to mess with their guild quest, so there's no way any guild would be willing to strike right at this moment; that is why a vertical integration strategy wouldn't work. However, in order to truly draw the attention of our enemy this time, we need them to have the misconception that there are guilds mounting a massive assault on them,” Young Master Han said.

”So? Is that misconception embedded in them now?” Gu Fei asked as he gazed at the players rushing about in the backyard.

”How would I know… Aren't the two of you the ones on site right now?”

”But aren't there only twelve players harassing them?” Gu Fei found this hard to believe.

”These are not just any twelve players,” The two men were unable to see the smile plastered across Young Master Han's face right now. ”These are players hand selected by one of the Five Unyielding Expert, Slyris, so they are all, at the very least, strong players of some renown in Xiawu City. Even with this fog, it is difficult to conduct sneak attacks without revealing themselves, and while we may be unaware of the identities of these twelve players, the members of Flowergazing in the Fog would at least be able to recognize them. In MMOs, a well-known expert would in a sense represent a guild, or in another words, give them the illusion of a guild behind them.”