739 Chapter 739 - Elite Mage Squad (1/2)
Gu Fei quickly passed along Drifting's idea to Sword Demon, and the man poked his head out and took a look at the surroundings before replying, ”What? There's such a position?” At the end of the day, Sword Demon's job class meant he needed to get into melee range with his enemies. He did not really have such an in depth knowledge of matters when it came to such ranged sneak attack methods.
”We are currently in a state of deadlock right now, so why don't we consider testing his idea out?” Gu Fei advocated.
”Okay, go and gather your manpower for this!” Sword Demon said.
”How many people can we have hiding here?” Gu Fei asked Drifting.
The Mage thought about it for a mere moment before replying, ”If we squeeze, we can get 6, no problem.”
”Just so few?” Gu Fei was quite surprised. He thought they could hold over a dozen men, given the size of the roof.
”6 players are able to take up the most optimal position. Any more and we would just expose ourselves instead, or maybe we might be required to take a step back. But doing it that way means our line of sight would be obstructed, and there's no way for us to attack in that situation,” Drifting explained.
”Okay, tell me the coordinates and I'll send the Mages immediately,” Gu Fei said.
”Remember to set up an ambush over at the Mage Academy,” Drifting said.
”Why?” Gu Fei recalled how Drifting had specially mentioned the ambush in the Mage Academy before, and he simply could not understand the reasoning behind doing this.
”Because the attacks from this position happen to include the area where their Mages are grouped up, so a good number of Mages would be sent over to the Mage Academy. Why wouldn't we try and capitalize on this opportunity?” Drifting expounded.
”Oh, I get it!” Gu Fei replied to Drifting. He got Sword Demon to go arrange the ambush over at the Mage Academy, even as he began to gather the Mages needed for the assault. Naturally, those with high spell damage were picked first. Aside from Drifting and himself, Slyris of the Five Unyielding Experts was of course included as well. Flame Singed Clothes was once part of the Mages' Ten Great Adepts, so his equipment was up to standard. Now that he had managed to level himself back up, he could also be considered as one of their stronger Mages among the two guilds. Then there was also Cirrus; even though he was not as outstanding a player as before, he was at least nowhere as average as Fireball. Fireball wanted to tag along as well, but Gu Fei immediately took his active participation card and directly benched him. Gu Fei knew too well just how strong Fireball really was, and in such a crucial juncture like this, it was better if they sought for excellence.
The five Mage still lacked their last player, and of course, the ladies from Amethyst Rebirth were not strong enough to step up to the task. In the end, they had no choice but to pick up the last Mage from the sea of Mages that newly joined them. All the Mages each reported their own spell damage and it all became clear, but the name of the player with the highest spell damage out of the rest left everyone feeling very discouraged. The Mage's IGN was actually ”Loser”.
”He's the one then! I am curious, however. Just what sort of extraordinary person would actually come up with such an IGN?” Gu Fei said over the party channel for the Sneak attack squad.
”You can't think like that, judging someone by their IGN is equally as unpleasant judging someone by their looks. Most IGNs are created like that because the person themselves thought it sounds funny and/or nice, looks nice or perhaps they are just memorable; there's hardly any deeper meaning to the names, most of the time. Take Royal God Call for example. Can you explain the meaning behind such a name?” Drifting said.
”I swear. I'm gonna kill you!!” Royal God Call bellowed.
”Alright everyone, let's welcome the Mage Loser into our squad,” Gu Fei said thusly. The Mage Loser had already entered the party channel, and the man was very polite. The first thing he did when he joined was to greet everyone with a ”Hello everyone” and that gave everybody quite a good impression of him as a result.
Drifting then sent out the coordinates and the route to take to get there, and everyone made their way over. These people of course passed by Royal God Call's ambush position, and the man was presently grinding his teeth in anger, endlessly cursing Drifting behind his back.
”Is everyone here?” Gu Fei was in the vicinity. He was in no rush considering how close he was to the rendezvous point, so he continued to harass the players from Colored Clouds, which could also be seen as him drawing their attention toward him. A party being led by Thousand Miles Drunk was indeed different. Were it any average gathering of players that numbered between 200-300, Gu Fei felt that he would be able to integrate both ranged and melee, harassing with sneak attacks. He would have been able to kill a handful of players, but after Young Master Han took command, this contingent of players he now faced would advance and retreat in an orderly fashion, and more importantly, the men were now very patient, not in the least bit greedy. They prioritized keeping themselves topped up in terms of their HP, evidently well aware of what was the key in this tug of war.
”Yes, they're all here.” When Drifting messaged his reply, the five Mages were all already in position.
”Is there really a need for me to get up there?” Gu Fei asked. He felt that the firepower from these 5 Mages was already very strong. After all, they were all much better than Fireball, who was at the grade of the average player.
”Just in case, it's better if you come over as well!” Drifting suggested.
”Alright, I'm coming right away.” Gu Fei was still engaged in his back and forth with the players from Colored Clouds. Ducking away at this moment, he turned a corner of the street that he was in and began heading in the direction of Dirfting's coordinates. There was no doubt that Gu Fei had a faster movement speed than the Mages, and those places where most people were unable to climb up to, he was able to Blink right over. Thus, he barely took two minutes to reach his destination.
Gu Fei was acquainted with Drifting, Slyris, Flame Singed Clothes, and Cirrus, so he was able to identify the Mage who dared to call himself ”Loser” straight away. The man looked exceptionally excited when Gu Fei came forth and stood with them all.
”Hello there,” this was the first time Gu Fei and Loser met, so the former took the initiative to greet him.
”So cool,” Loser was excited. ”To think I would be able to be grouped together with the three great Mages of Parallel World. Why, why can't this game let players take a photo?”
”Hahaha…” The three great Mages laughed dryly.
”Ahem, Now that everyone is here, we may begin. They might get suspicious if we take too long; how goes the preparation over by the Mage's spawn point?” Drifting asked.
”No problems there,” Sword Demon was very quick when it came to how he handled affairs, and Southern Lone Blade had already brought his troops over to the Mage Academy and had the place completely surrounded.
”Alright, then get ready. Right in the 12 o'clock direction here, we'll do an Overlapping Five Pointed Star, with Miles taking the center. I'll take the top, Slyris top left point, Cirrus top right point, Flame Singed Clothes bottom left point and Loser on the bottom right point. Any questions?”
”Nope,” the four replied.
”What's that you talked about?” Gu Fei asked.
The five gave him the side eye. Drifting once more could not hold back as he expressed his derision, ”Are you even considered a Mage?”
”Sorry, I don't think I've ever coordinated with Mages like this before,” Gu Fei said.
”You understand what I meant by 12 o'clock direction, right?”
”Yes,” Gu Fei hurriedly nodded.
”Good. That's the direction we'll be unleashing our attack. You know the respective radius of both Descending Wheel of Flames and Blazing Tree of a Thousand Inferno, right?” Drifting asked.
”Uh, have you guys measured it out?” Gu Fei asked.
They were all at a loss as to how to respond to him.
”Do you see that guy there wearing a blue wizard's hat?” Drifting pointed out a player amidst the enemy crowd of Mages.
”I see him.”
”Good. Using him as the center of your spell, just toss out all your AoE spells,” Drifting instructed.
”Then what about that overlapping five stars and the points that you mentioned just now?” Gu Fei asked.
”When this is over, I'll be sure to give you some remedial lessons. Let's make our attack first. On the count of three. Miles will make his move when he hears one, the rest of us will do on two and three,” Drifting said.
”Why?” It was now Loser's turn to be a little confused.
”You'll know soon enough,” Drifting said to him.
Gu Fei was a little despondent, but he had no choice but to act in concert. Thus, Drifting shouted out his one, two and three. On one, Gu Fei began chanting his spell, while Drifting had grasped the timing between the two and three. This was the person who was actually the strongest Mage in Parallel World. He had already gotten a clear idea of just how long Gu Fei would take when casting his spells, and his count for two and three was perfectly measured as the other five chanted in unison. Even though there might be discrepancies between all their equipment or stats, their casting speed was still more or less the same. At the very least, none of them were grossly out of line like how Gu Fei would require an extra second to match up with everyone.