716 Chapter 716 - Trouble on Both Ends (2/2)
Everyone was stunned, ”Then what are the rest of us going there for?”
”Reinforce her, of course! Do you really think she's Superwoman, able to escape from a thousand-man strong encirclement?” Gu Fei exclaimed in his astonishment.
So this is his plan? Everyone wondered to themselves, but somehow all of them did not have a sense of security at all. Is this guy just casually making things up? Everyone looked at Gu Fei and his eyes looked completely untrustworthy.
”Let's do it like this. Me and Svelte Dancer will be in charge of getting close to Brave Surge, and the rest of you will be responsible for reinforcing us… Speaking of which, is there a need to help us get out? Dying would consequently send us straight back to the city,” Xi Xiaotian mentioned.
”Won't I have nothing to do if we're not reinforcing?” Gu Fei asked.
”Who asked you to be so prominent? We can't cover for you even if we wanted to. It's all because of you that plenty of Mages that wear black Mage's robes are all being accidentally killed these days,” Xi Xiaotian said.
Gu Fei had no response to this.
”Do you have a plan?” Slyris asked Xi Xiaotian.
”The plan is just that, but surely there are some details we need to iron out first? Like we need a good reason to get close to Brave Surge,” Xi Xiaotian.
”What do you intend to do?”
”Quest. With how the City War is in a state of deadlock here, the one thing that all the guilds are hoping to stumble upon is a vital quest. We can pretend to represent a small guild, tell them that we've come across a huge quest but don't have the strength to accomplish it, which is why we are planning to approach a large guild like Carouse to help and collaborate with us,” Xi Xiaotian said.
”Collaboration? Help us? How would that work out? Slyris asked.
”It doesn't have to work. We only need to meet the man face to face. Svelte, how confident are you in being able to insta-kill Brave Surge?” Xi Xiaotian asked.
”Do you have information pertaining to what equipment he got, as well as his stats when it comes to defense?” Svelte Dancer asked.
”I have a bit of information regarding his equipment,” Xi Xiaotian took out the information that she had on him and went to the side to analyze it with Svelte Dancer together, while Slyris and Cirrus, were all called in as consultants for this operation as all of them were considered to be proper expert Mages. Yan Xiaozhu and Lie Lie joined in to help with the planning as well, adopting the attacker's side to help Svelte Dancer calculate the damage necessary. Gu Fei looked to the left and right, and saw that the only one left not doing anything was Bashful Countenance, who would frantically avoid his gaze every time he looked at her. He was very lonely.
”Ahem, is there anything I can help with?” Gu Fei took the initiative to approach the others.
”Reinforce,” Their response was just that single word.
Gu Fei was in tears. He did not want to reinforce, he wanted to slay players. However, he knew that he could not partake in this task at all, since everyone in Carouse would surely recognize him. Just changing out his equipment would not be enough; he would have to keep his face covered as well. Even though it was very common to see masked Thieves, Gu Fei would have to find himself a Mage's robe with the hood sewn to it in order to achieve a similar effect, though any Mage that did so would either be pretending to be cool or have ulterior motives. Given the current situation in Yunduan City, a Mage with their face covered would most likely be Thousand Miles Drunk, and everyone would proceed to eliminate him where he stood.
Everyone had finished studying the equipment and possible stats Brave Surge might have, and all of them looked particularly troubled. Indeed, Brave Surge of the Five Unyielding Experts was not just someone who only had a high level.
”It's impossible to insta-kill him, if he does not die in a single attack, he would be able to cast his Ice Armor and Mana Support, and his survivability drastically increases with these two spells active; he would be able to survive even if you were to stand there and try to kill him. This is going to be quite challenging,” Slyris shook his head.
”This guy has gotten himself plenty of goodies huh, to actually possess so many different spells,” Svelte Dancer sighed, impressed.
”If we can't finish him off in a matter of seconds, we would surely end up failing,” Slyris warned.
Svelte Dancer shook her head. She was helpless as well. If it was simply a 1v1, she could of course slowly fight it out, but the problem was that they would be deep in the midst of the thousand players in Carouse. The moment their killing intent was revealed, the enemy would surely react accordingly, so everything will have been for naught if they could not finish off Brave Surge in those precious few seconds that they had while they still held the element of surprise.
”And we have not even considered the situation where there are Priests near him. If we were to account for Priests, then we will most definitely have to insta-kill him. The moment a bunch of Priests reacts once we fail to insta-kill the man, his HP would be swiftly filled back up,” Slyris reminded.
”With his equipment and his HP, I doubt even Miles can insta-kill him, right? Hey you, come over and check it out!” Svelte Dancer bellowed.
Gu Fei had gone over before, hoping to take a look, but had instead been driven away by the others. He was feeling bored when they called him over, so he had no choice but to trudge back over to the crowd. They were looking at the notepad in Xi Xiaotian's hands, the information about Brave Surge's equipment was recorded on it. While discussing the matter, the stats and other numbers pertaining to Brave Surge had already been calculated out. They gave it a larger range in order to account for any possible discrepancies and they were about 80% to 90% certain about the accuracy of the final result. Gu Fei glanced over the numbers and scoffed, ”How could I not Insta-kill him? A double rotation of my Twin Incineration and a slap of my Palm of Thunder would be all it takes to reduce him to ashes.”
”How would you have the time to execute all that on him!?” Svelte Dancer huffed.
Gu Fei did not bother answering with his words, opting to physically demonstrate it for everyone to see. He pirouetted, pulling his sword out in the process as he chanted the spells, his right hand whirling out two round licks of fire while his left palm thrust out to the thin air in front of him after he completed his first rotation. The entire process did not take more than two seconds.
Everyone was reeling from what they witnessed. It was so fast that everyone felt it was a little unfathomable. This was a game! The speed of a player's movement was closely linked to how much stats they had. Just how much Agility did he have in order to achieve such speed of draw?
”That's impossible. How could you have so much Agility?” Svelte Dancer was in disbelief.
”How many times must I tell you guys; this isn't about speed, but tempo! By joining the motion with seamless attacks, it would, of course, look like it was quickly executed to the naked eye. I could have been even faster, were it not for the fact that I needed to chant the spells.” Gu Fei said matter-of-factly.
”It's such a pity that you won't have a way to blend in with the crowd,” Slyris sighed.
”That is why it was as good as not saying a thing; We've got no options here, since I can't even insta-kill him,” Svelte Dancer was truly regretful.
”Sword Demon might be able to do it,” Gu Fei looked at the data in front of him and added.
”How did Sword Demon get himself such a high attack power?” Svelte Dancer was astonished. She was willing to admit that she could not beat Gu Fei, but how was there also Sword Demon who was even stronger than her?
”He's got an overleveled skill, and its attack power is really indomitable,” Gu Fei explained.
”But Sword Demon might have a very difficult time trying to blend in as well. Even though he might not be as prominent a target as you, the whole city at least knows that he is the enemy as well,” Slyris pointed out.
”As things stand, we cannot just put this all on one person. We'll need more people to make the move at the same time, coordinate their attacks in such a manner that they are able to take down Brave Surge in one fell stroke,” Xi Xiaotian said.
”That is the only way,” Slyris nodded in agreement.
And so, Gu Fei was sidelined once more, as these people began a new round of discussions, leaving Gu Fei all alone by himself.
Everyone began to study all the data that they had on hand regarding Brave Surge's stats, and even though they more or less had a general idea of how to execute the kill, they still felt it was rather knotty. Svelte Dancer was a must, but even the insane damage output from Svelte dancer could not effectively threaten Brave Surge's life, which only showed just how impressive and top tier his equipment was. Adding to the fact that he was a Mage, that meant his magic defense was outstanding. Slyris's equipment was quite impressive as well, but her potential damage output was a little restricted because of this. Meanwhile, though Yan Xiaozhu had a high level, her equipment was fairly average and did not really bring anything exceptional to the table beyond her Blindness skill. Aside from these three ladies, the others were all just players with ordinary damage output. After a round of calculations, they came to the conclusion that having five players attack Brave Surge all at once would be the safest solution for them to secure the kill, and none of them had any room to make a mistake. This was because Brave Surge would most definitely react by casting the two defensive spells that were aforementioned, and the Priests beside him would most definitely react by Healing him. In such a fashion, any bit of error in the execution would allow their enemy to react accordingly and kill them all off.
”We gotta find somewhere to practice,” Everyone shared this same belief, thus they all left Gu Fei out again and ran to a corner to practice their coordination with the monsters around. However, Gu Fei was not at least lonely this time; They were all seeking to execute their attack in unison, so getting a grasp of each of their own tempo was a must. Different job classes have different styles of attack. In order for them to better grasp how they could better achieve the perfect synchronicity for this insta-kill attempt, who else would be a better expert on this matter other than Gu Fei?
The expert came forward and instructed everyone. In the beginning, everyone had no idea how to achieve this, but with Gu Fei correcting their mistakes several times over, everyone finally got a sense for what they were attempting to achieve and realized that Thousand Miles Drunk was not just a one-trick pony who only knew how to bring about a massacre all by himself. Under Gu Fei's tutelage, all of them soon had a good grasp of the tempo with everyone and they were able to demonstrate their ability to insta-kill the monster they had been practicing on in a single wave of attack. Even Gu Fei had difficulties separating out the different attacks with his sharp eyes.
After repeated testing with the monsters as Brave Surge, they finally learned how to identify a signal and how to strike in unison when the time came. The next step was to find Brave Surge and accomplish this deed for real, and all of them were brimming with confidence. They ignored their instructor Gu Fei by this time and appointed him to inquire about Brave Surge's whereabouts. Gu Fei was depressed! How was he going to inquire about this? He had so few friends on his friends' list, so he decided to fire off a message to Sword Demon and the others with him, ”Have any of you spotted men from Carouse?”
”Carouse? They are in the northeast encampment. What's the matter?”
”We're attempting to assassinate Brave Surge,” Gu Fei answered.
”Stop joking around. Do you know how many players are out here?” Sword Demon asked.
”We've got a plan,” Gu Fei proceeded to tell him everything once more.
When Sword Demon had heard the whole plan, he spoke, ”Isn't Brave Surge in the encampment? The moment any of you step inside, the system would prompt everyone and everyone would be exposed even if they had no intention to.”
”Ah… That..” Gu Fei surprised. None of them here had actually considered that problem. The veteran Sword Demon did indeed live up to his name as the guild leader, having considered the fine details more than these lasses here.
In the end, when Gu Fei relayed Sword Demon's point, and Xi Xiaotian laughed, ”Who says we're going to go up and find him? We're gonna ask him out. Who knows, maybe the heavens will be on our side and he would think to only bring a handful of players out when he realized how short a trip it was. Wouldn't that save us a lot of trouble?”