691 Chapter 691 - Far from being a True Exper (1/2)
”Tell everyone to get ready, it's time to haul in the catch,” Young Master Han said.
Gu Xiaoshang nodded and sent the word out to her men.
”Just remind Oathless Sword once will do,” Young Master Han said.
Gu Xiaoshang chuckled, ”I've already done that.”
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Disaster was about to strike Oathless Sword, but his heart was all aflutter, and it was obviously because Gu Xiaoshang had sent a message of concern to him. The people around Oathless Sword found it extremely admirable when they discovered that their guild leader Oathless Sword was still able to smile so naturally despite his circumstances. Traversing Four Seas had been routed to a point where it was unrecognizable that they were still a guild, and it was useless no matter who was doing the talking. Gu Fei had not even managed to acquire 100 kills appearing and disappearing mysteriously all over the place, but after that pyramid of huge rocks they stacked had collapsed, the rocks that eventually rolled in every direction caused Traversing Four Seas to lose a third of their forces. However, this catastrophe had yet to end. The study of physics had made it known that the greater the mass of an object, the greater the inertia involved. As such, these huge rocks were also rolling along quicker and quicker as they gained greater momentum rolling downhill at this time!
”Oathless Sword, we need to leave quickly,” someone beside Oathless Sword reminded him, and this player was one of the closest friends he had.
”Thousand Miles Drunk's about to appear,” The joy Oathless Sword was still holding onto from receiving Gu Xiaoshang's message had finally ended, as he now understood that it was Thousand Miles Drunk who was being valued here.
”Oh, who sent this information?” Everyone began to take in their surroundings vigilantly.
”Xiaoshang told me,” Oathless Sword could not help but chuckle to himself when he mentioned her name.
These intimate friends of his naturally knew about Oathless Sword's 'illness' when it came to that person, and that was when they realized why Oathless Sword was able to smile like that. A single bead of sweat streaked down each of their faces: No wonder he's able to smile so sweetly.
”But no matter how you put it, we've got to leave this place first,” Someone said. Oathless Sword was currently positioned too close to the battle. Even though the disaster with the huge rocks had rippled out to affect even the spectators, Oathless Sword had yet to come into direct contact with it yet. However, everybody could tell it was only a matter of time before they reach them seeing how all the rocks tumbled indiscriminately. As such, this had prompted all these players around them to begin their evacuation away from the battlefield!
”Let's go!” Oathless Sword concentrated hard to not think about Gu Xiaoshang as he led his men and start to withdraw as well.
Looking all around, Oathless Sword saw many of his guild members running helter-skelter. It was only at that moment when he thought of their distress and wanted to say something to console everyone in the guild channel, but he had no idea what he should say. As the saying went: A rout was like a landslide. What words could he say that would help tidy up the mess?
Oathless Sword was completely out of any schemes by this time, when he suddenly heard his comrades beside him yell, ”There's an Assassin!” A whole crowd of players quickly came running over and draw close around Oathless Sword in his defense. A single black figure appeared in front of them at the same time, and the player it struck immediately turned into a shaft of white light. Having created a path straight to Oathless Sword, this figure did not relent in its assault at all. Dashing right in, it soon became apparent that the player's sacrifice before had mitigated most of the damage. Oathless Sword fell to the ground from the impact of the blow, but he did not die from it.
Heals from Priests showered upon Oathless Sword. When talking about a squad with a balanced job class composition, the group of players that tightly surrounded Oathless Sword was no doubt the most elite bunch. They had people with the ability to detect Stealth, which was how they had anticipated Sword Demon's sneak attack and were able to rapidly deploy themselves to protect Oathless Sword. Were it not for the overpowered Shadowmist Assault that Sword Demon possessed, there would most likely have been no need for any of them to lose their lives in this attack.
However, losing that one person did not really shake these men much. Their eyes were all gathered on Sword Demon, and the person who first announced that a Stealthed player was near quickly reminded everyone, ”Be careful, there's still another one here in the 4 o'clock direction!”
The clock position method.
The greatest advantage that came with using such a method was that the 12 o'clock direction was different for everyone. At this time, even though Sword Demon also knew how to interpret the clock position method, as well as hear who was the one called out his 4 o'clock position, he had no idea which 4 o'clock direction this was, because he had no idea what was the 12 o'clock direction that Oathless Sword and his men would habitually take reference from.
In the meantime, their Mage had already tossed out an AoE spell right in the 4 o'clock direction that they knew.
As the fiery glow ignited, a lone figure had similarly darted out from the affected area. Yan Xiaozhu had no choice but to abandon her Stealth at this time, the look of slight amazement was affixed on her face. This was not the first time she had been exposed to a skill that could detect Stealth, but this was definitely the first time that she came across something that would so accurately determine her position in the process.
”Sword Demon, is there a need for us to do this?” Oathless Sword glumly asked.
Of course, Sword Demon had no deep animosity toward Oathless Sword, so he pulled off the cloth that covered his face as he smiled at Oathless Sword, ”It's all part of the content that the game has put out, so I hope guild leader Oathless will not take offense to this.”
”I know, but we're already good friends. Meeting in such a fashion would really make things a little awkward,” Oathless Sword had pulled out the relationship card.
However, Sword Demon did not appear to be moved. Instead, he solemnly reminded Oathless Sword, ”Guild leader Oathless, you better not pull your punches, otherwise our victory would hardly be seen as elegant.”
”Sword Demon bro—”
”Guild leader Oathless,” Sword Demon interrupted what Oathless Sword was saying, but he sounded earnest. ”If you keep on talking like this, the skill I just used would have finished its cooldown.”
At the end of the day, Sword Demon was an honorable and principled person. He would hardly have been moved if Oathless Sword had really wanted to attempt to bribe him with any sort of benefits, but playing the relationship card and appealing to his emotions would have poked a pretty critical soft spot of his. But while Oathless Sword had originally wanted to take the time to have a chat, Sword Demon was also using this time to earn more time for his Shadowmist Assault to finish its cooldown. However, directly revealing this hand to Oathless Sword had also expressed his intention to continue with this mission that he had gotten at the same time.
Oathless Sword found the way Sword Demon conduct himself to be very admirable, so he nodded, ”Then I'm sorry, we'll have to offend each other like this.”
They were not exactly afraid of Sword Demon. While that ghost-like skill of his was really frightening, but because Sword Demon had just revealed that it was on cooldown, everyone immediately used this opening to pounce on him. None of them believed that they would be able to avoid that indomitable skill he possessed, so their best option here was to finish off Sword Demon before his cooldown ended.
As all of them dashed forward, Sword Demon turned around and ran off instead. Aside from Blink, there was nothing else out there that could allow a player to instantaneously catch up to him, considering the movement speed that he possessed. Oathless Sword and his squad were soon in tears after taking several steps on their chase. Sword Demon might conduct himself very honorably, but this style of fighting was anything but honorable. Now that he had run off like this, everyone will have to spend quite some time giving chase, and that would be giving him time to finish his skill cooldown. Whoever was the fastest to chase after Sword Demon would undoubtedly be the first to die in the moment he counterattacked!
Despite being an elite squad from Traversing Four Seas, their numbers were not great, so there was no way that they could try to execute a large encirclement and trap Sword Demon within. They tried to call out for additional support in the guild channel to no avail, seeing as everyone was busy escaping with their own lives and could hardly care to take note of the messages appearing in the guild channel. At the end of the day, it was still Gale Force and Youthful Reflection, the two core members of the guild, who were more concerned with the bigger picture pertaining to the guild. The moment that they saw that these cries of help came from Oathless Sword, they quickly responded, ”What's the situation!?”
”We bumped into Sword Demon. That guy is attempting to kite us to death. Quick, bring some men over and assist us.” Oathless Sword quickly said as he sent a set of coordinates along with it.
Youthful Reflection had just died all by himself and was sent back to the encampment, but there were many other players from Traversing Four Seas who had similarly died and respawned, so he quickly began reorganizing the squads as he soothed emotions. Gale Force had not died yet, plus he was leading a small squad of his own that was currently in the process of evacuation as they avoided the rockslide disaster in the area. The moment he received Oathless Sword's message, he immediately raised his arm and hollered, ”The enemy has revealed themselves. Everyone, to me!”