572 Chapter 572 - Isve long since wanted to beat you up (1/2)

”The plan could still be considered as quite a success!” Blue Ease said when he walked up to Young Master Han and Brother Assist. One of his underlings was tasked with purchasing the magic staff. Even though Vast Lushness had informed this person of the time to make a bid right down to the very last second, it was still not particularly easy to achieve this. Moreover, with how the man managed to get an auction panel despite the quandary that they were in, Blue Ease felt that his comrades had done him proud this time, and this thought greatly comforted him. Even though his men were now crowding around Gu Fei, requesting for him to show them that earth-shatteringly powerful sword of his again, which brought Blue Ease some embarrassment, but… Frankly speaking, the stats and traits of Gu Fei's Moonlit Nightfalls were so certifiable ludicrous even he could not help but hope to admire it a little longer.

”Successful, my *ss!” Young Master Han was livid, and seeing Blue Ease happily run over to praise his plan, it was only natural for him to lash out at the man.

”What's the matter?” Blue Ease gawked.

”With that guy messing things up, how would Southern Lone Blade fall for the trap?” Young Master Han pointed at Gu Fei, who was currently surrounded by Blue Ease's men, when he gave this reply. Even Fireball was surrounded by a handful of players after he got lucky enough to use Moonlit Nightfalls once; the kid was beside himself with joy at this.

Blue Ease, of course, knew what Young Master Han meant by 'messing things up', so he helplessly answered, ”That can't be helped. It's actually a good thing that Brother Miles came up with such a plan to divert people's attention, giving us the chance to snatch a spot by the auction panel. Otherwise, we would've gone through all that trouble for nothing!”

Young Master Han patted Blue Ease heavily on his back. ”Bro, let me remind you, but what we're doing now is still for nothing.”

Blue Ease was stunned but then realized that his words made sense. They might have managed to win back the magic staff in all their haste, but they had all seemingly forgotten what their purpose was for putting it up for bid in the first place. From this perspective, not only did they fail to make Southern Lone Blade fall for their trap, everyone had also nearly lost the magic staff by putting it up for auction. All they got from this ordeal was a heart-pounding memory of everything that had happened, and their payment of the handling fee that the system charged for the auction.

”Uhh…” Not wanting to admit that the exciting bid his party had managed to pull off was entirely meaningless, Blue Ease struggled to put a positive spin into this. ”At least, we didn't lose the magic staff!”

”If that's the goal we had in mind, why even put it up for auction?” Young Master Han asked.

”Uhm… perhaps Southern Lone Blade and the others still fell for it. There's no telling that they didn't!” Blue Ease comforted.

Young Master Han looked at the sky. ”It'd be great if they were as stupid as you are.”

”WHAT DID YOU SAY?!” Blue Ease was infuriated. He already had his prejudice about Young Master Han, yet for the sake of a pleasant cooperation, he adopted an 'achieving concord after discord' sort of mentality. However, it appeared that a happy cooperation was just wistful thinking on his part, since this man evidently believed that this cooperation was a total failure.

”Southern Lone Blade's not going to fall for it; you guys had better continue protecting Vast Lushness' magic staff!” Young Master Han said matter-of-factly.

”Do you think we can't protect her?” Blue Ease seethed.

”You guys?” Young Master Han threw him a contemptuous look before sneering. ”Hadn't it been for Miles, you guys would've already auctioned off the magic staff by now. How are you going to protect anything?”

”You're the one that came up with the plan! Why didn't you consider that such a situation might occur?!” Everyone had overlooked the possibility of the Auction House filling up to the point there being no space for them to get in. Young Master Han should not be the only one to blame, and Blue Ease had no intention of blaming anyone for it either, but feeling slighted by Young Master Han's disdainful comments, all he could do was use this very incident as ammunition after failing to find an impactful rebuttal at the moment.

Realizing that the situation was taking a turn for the worse, Brother Assist was about to step forward and mediate between the two when Young Master Han placidly replied, ”Why would I have overlooked such an outcome? I was merely using the situation intentionally to get Vast Lushness's magic staff sold for real, turning the charade into reality to lure Southern Lone Blade out.”

It's over… Brother Assist sighed to the heavens. The moment he had made sense of Young Master Han's true plan, he was already carefully thinking of how to hide this from others. Who would have guessed that Young Master Han would just casually reveal this by himself, though? He did not even look like he was forced into making the confession, nor did it seem that it was a slip of tongue in a moment of impulse. Young Master Han revealed it entirely because Blue Ease happened to raise the issue; thusly, he organically told the truth.

”What did you say?” Blue Ease was utterly startled. It was apparent how impactful this revelation was. The contempt that the two had for each other could be written off as mere bickering between compatriots, but Young Master Han's admittance was severe enough to turn friends into foes.

”Unfortunately, it failed!” Young Master Han shrugged, looking hardly affected. Brother Assist was almost in tears as he stood by watching this; this man's arrogance was just too abominable. Why must I be the one here at this place?! Why couldn't it be Sword Demon, Miles, Royal, or Wounds? Why are the whole lot of them not here instead of me?

Before anything happened with either party in the center of the storm, it was the onlooker Brother Assist that got twisted in the wind.

”What you just say… repeat it once more,” Blue Ease spoke haltingly.