715 Chapter 715 - Extremely Heaven Defying, Established! (1/2)

Guild names were fervently solicited. A person's personality would always be made apparent when coming up with names. Sword Demon immediately ignored everything that both Royal God Call and Fireball came up with, not even wanting to entertain them at all. Southern Lone Blade and his gang were utilitarian men of action, so none of them had any thoughts about things like names. Actually, what they wanted was something more substantial. In light of the fact that their current income was now linked to the popularity of the workshop, the seven simply suggested naming it Thousand Miles Drunk's Workshop, figuring that they could help promote it at the same time. Sword Demon obviously felt that such a name would end up confusing players easily, nor did he have some noble ambition of forging his guild into a workshop, so he rejected that idea of theirs.

With a name such as Bashful Countenance, the lady was more timid than a mouse, immediately shrinking into a corner once everyone started talking. Every word that Xi Xiaotian said would end up being stared down and pricked at by a disgruntled Gu Fei, so she did not speak up either. Cirrus was the only person among the 20 that had no background or any sort of relationship with anyone present, so he did not suggest anything either, being careful with what he said and did seeing that he was still considered a stranger.

Then there were the four ladies from Amethyst Rebirth. Svelte Dancer was a lot more proactive, and she was extremely arrogant to boot. She felt that the name Extremely Heaven Defying was acceptable, but in view of how this name came to be because of Gu Fei being present, she felt that it was completely reasonable to go even further and call it 'Most Heaven Defying' since she was included.

”I don't think the word 'most' is good,” Gu Fei said. ”As the saying goes, when one loses pride, one gains in modesty. I feel like we should be a little bit more modest, which makes Extremely Heaven Defying the most appropriate option. Calling ourselves the most heaven defying would not be modest at all.”

”Is that so?” Svelte Dancer said. ”But I'm only stating facts. With both you and me, aren't we considered the Most Heaven Defying?”

”While that may be true, but remember the other saying: It's best to leave some leeway in all things, so as to leave room for the future. We should really leave ourselves a bit of flexibility here. We might be the most heaven defying existence now, but what if there comes a day when we aren't playing the game anymore, what then? Wouldn't such a name become untrue? That would just leave such immense pressure on the guild members! We need to keep their well-being in mind as well,” Gu Fei elaborated.

”Oh, that makes sense,” Svelte Dancer nodded vigorously. ”How surprising that you actually have a bit of brain in you! Now that's what I call extremely heaven defying!” With that, Svelte Dancer turned to the NPC, ”The guild will be called Extremely Heaven Defying. Thank you.”

Sword Demon was in tears. How did this become set in stone? Furthermore, to claim that extremely heaven defying was modest, just what sort of modesty was that!? Sword Demon could already foresee that this guild would be tough to handle down the road with such members; the jury was still out on whether the re-establishment of a guild of his own was a blessing or a curse.

Fortunately, the NPC was not as casual. Sword Demon was the one creating the guild at the moment, so the NPC was not about to take the suggestion from some random passerby and name his guild in such a fashion. Thus, it simply ignored what Svelte Dancer had said and was only concerned with what Sword Demon would say.

”Hmm, it's not listening to me huh?” Svelte Dancer was annoyed that she was being ignored, so she turned around to look at Sword Demon as he confirmed, ”Are we really naming it 'Extremely Heaven Defying'?” He proceeded to look around at the others, ” Does anyone have any qualms?”

”Who's gonna have qualms?” Gu Fei and Svelte Dancer called out in unison. Anyone who had any concerns simply swallowed their words. Take Brother Assist for example; he had originally been thinking of a name, but when he saw this scene unfold, he became certain that he would be beaten black and blue by the pair of heaven defying maniacs present if the name that he came up with immediately superseded Extremely Heaven Defying. It was better if he kept quiet and live a few years longer!

Brother Assist was a man who adapted very well with the situation, thus he immediately expressed, ”Extremely Heaven Defying is a good name; it rolls off the tongue easily. Sword Demon, don't you think it highlights your past ambitions as well?”

”Brother Assist…” Sword Demon understood Brother Assist's temperament well. He refused to believe that Brother Assist liked such a pompous name, so he must have deferred to the imposing character of the two, immediately choosing to take refuge under the shade that these two opinionated players provided.

Gu Fei was not someone who was incapable of reading people's moods. It looked like Sword Demon minded quite a lot about what the guild name would end up being, so he decided to give Sword Demon a chance to speak, ”Sword Demon, do you think the name isn't good? What are your thoughts on it?”

Sword Demon was having a headache! He enjoyed smoking, which was why he had once called himself Smoking Addict. When he did not wish to use this name afterward, the job class of the character that he had happened to have been playing before was a Magic Swordsman, which was why he then called himself a Sword Demon. It was apparent that Sword Demon was rather incompetent when it came to coming up with names, but this was the last chance that he had to refute what both Gu Fei and Svelte Dancer were suggesting. Sword Demon thought long and hard about it, squeezing out every bit of juice in his brain before finally coming up with one. ”The Brotherhood Association. How does that sound?”

Half of the players present nearly wanted to vomit. Gu Fei tapped into his superb resilience as a martial practitioner and he repeated it once more, ”The Brotherhood Association? What does everyone think about it?”

The other half finally vomited as well. ”Sword Demon, are you really going to be so basic? Do you really dare to go with that?” Royal God Call was the first to cry out hoarsely. Even Luo Luo, whom he was barely close to, could not stand it either. ”If you're gonna go for such a name, I'll just head back to Amethyst Rebirth.”

Gu Fei shrugged at Sword Demon, helpless. ”I've already tried my best.”

”Fine… Extremely Heaven Defying it is…” Sword Demon lowered his head with shame.

”The name isn't bad. I think the word 'extremely' is very funny. Why don't you like it, Sword Demon?” Luo Luo asked.

”It's not that I don't like it… It's just that I feel a little uneasy saying it,” Sword Demon protested.

”Sword Demon, you must be too used to being low-profile these days. I remember when I met you in-game back then, you had brought a whole entourage of underlings around, arrogantly acting like you were the bee's knees as well!” Fireball said.

”Is that so?” Sword Demon asked.

”Why else do you think Drunk bro had abused you so thoroughly that time?” Fireball reasoned.

”Let's not dredge up the past,” Sword Demon hurt just thinking about it.

”So, do you have any other suggestions?” Gu Fei asked.

”Nope, no more,” Sword Demon did not dare to come up with any other names anymore. After suffering the crowd's lampoon moments ago, he felt that he had nearly been poisoned to death by their toxic reaction.

”The guild's name will be 'Extremely Heaven Defying',” Sword Demon relented and told the NPC thusly. He still had a final shred of hope that there would already be an existing guild sharing the same name, but he knew that the chance of this was slim. Brother Assist had pretty much recorded every guild name found in Yunduan City, and a name like Extremely Heaven Defying stood out like a sore thumb. Brother Assist would surely have known if it was the case.

Sure enough, the NPC did not say a word and very quickly registered everyone. All 20 of them received the system prompt altogether: [Do you agree to be a member of the guild, Extremely Heaven Defying?]

Everyone answered affirmative, and so the next step was to pick the motif for the emblem, which the system offered an extensive assortment to choose from. Naturally, this excluded all the previous motifs that other guilds had picked for themselves. Furthermore, it even provided players with a dedicated DIY feature, but the motif that the players created through this method would immediately be compared with all the guild emblems that were already chosen. Creating a motif that was deemed to have at least an 80% likeness to any of them would be grounds for rejection.

”Should I pick one, or make one?” Sword Demon asked everyone.

”Just choose one will do. Get something that looks heaven defying,” Gu Fei said.

”You come and do it. I have no idea what looks heaven defying,” Sword Demon took a step back.

Gu Fei did not stand on ceremony, and began to flip through the catalog, immediately pointing out one in the first two pages, ”This will do.”

Everyone gathered around and took a look. All of them felt that it was extremely ugly looking and simply could not understand Gu Fei's sense of aesthetics. However, when they saw how nonchalant he looked, everyone suddenly realized that he was not even part of their guild, so he would obviously be unconcerned if the emblem looked good or ugly, since he would not be wearing it!

The irresponsible Gu Fei received angry denouncement from everyone as they chased him out of the building. They crowded around the catalog and flipped through it, and the best they could do was getting 16 of them to agree to one, and four to disagree with it. Thus, they continued to search through the catalog until everyone was tired of it, and Sword Demon said, ”Shall we create one ourselves?”

”Not everyone might like something self-created!”

”We won't use any motif, only characters,” Sword Demon said. This was the most commonly seen with self-created guild emblems. By choosing the name of their own guild, or a particular character, engraved on to the emblem.

”That… That's no longer an emblem, but a seal!” Luo Luo said.

”Then you guys can do the choosing. I don't have any horses in this race. I'm fine with everything. Call me when you're all done, I'm gonna go out and take a breath of fresh air.” Sword Demon rubbed his back as he left the Hall of Guild Creations. Outside, Gu Fei was sparring with thin air. The moment he saw Sword Demon, he ended the set he was doing and came over to ask, ”Are you guys done yet?”

”No, they are still picking,” Sword Demon looked tired.

Gu Fei was very sympathetic, ”What do you want to do?”

”I wanna smoke a stick,” Sword Demon sighed.

”Head forward and take a right turn up the street, approximately 200 meters away,” Gu Fei said.

”What, there's someone selling cigarettes there?” Sword Demon was astonished.

”No, it's a designated log off point. You can head on over and take a drag after you go offline!” Gu Fei said.

Sword Demon was speechless.

And so, Gu Fei very quickly returned to spar with the air. When Sword Demon saw this, he suddenly felt the urge as well and stepped forward to ask to exchange pointers with Gu Fei. Gu Fei had never been courteous even when exchanging pointers, beating Sword Demon to the point that he was left searching for his teeth strewn on the ground after, and that made Sword Demon feel all the more depressed. However, he was able to clarify a few things about fighting through the spar, so he at least felt a little gratified seeing that he was able to achieve a bit of an improvement. Two ladies from Amethyst Rebirth had passed by meanwhile and curiously asked what the two men were doing.

”We're still creating the guild!” Gu Fei swept his glance over to the building behind them.