766 Chapter 766 - The Final Showdown (2/2)
”I know that, but the problem is that I could lose 15 lives if I were to die once,” Sword Demon was not a careless man. He had not forgotten about the fact that he was a guild leader, and that numerous City Assaulters had picked him for the mission that would consider him as a possible Honor Kill target.
”Oh, then it's best if you play it safe a bit,” Southern Lone Blade was talking to Sword Demon from behind his sword and shield. He did not have anything complicated to be in charge of aside from this team of Warriors that he was in command of. He was in charge of coordinating the attack, defense, and Healing. Sword Demon merely nodded while he was squatting to one side, watching without seeing any issues with Southern Lone Blade's command. ”A talent indeed.”
”Take heed! Another wave of attack is inbound!” Southern Lone Blade bellowed.
”Is it your turn?” Drifting asked Slyris.
”There's still another wave!” Slyris answered.
”Is that so?” Drifting glanced at his mana. ”That's not right! Why is my mana off?” Drifting was an expert Mage. He did not need to count and could simply tell that it was almost time to swap based on how much mana he had expended.
”Do you have all your necessary equipment?” Slyris asked.
Drifting did a quick check of himself. He had previously been running all over the place, and he used different equipment for combat and questing. Sure enough, he noticed that he had forgotten to swap a few pieces of equipment over now that he checked. ”You're right,” Drifting mused even as he made the necessary changes, quickly rallying the group of Mage he took command of to unleash their spells. Mages needed to replenish their mana, which was why Slyris and he had split all the Mages into two groups, each taking turns to rotate.
Slyris waved her magic staff and unleashed her arsenal of spells, decimating that wave till only stragglers were left.
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Watching this scene unfold, Gu Xiaoshang was shaking her head repeatedly, ”Facing such devastating firepower, there's simply no way for us to charge in! Our people won't be able to expand the battlefield!”
”It can't be helped. These people aren't going to listen even if someone asks them to stop,” Young Master Han expressed his helplessness. He was of course someone who was capable of determining the trajectory of a battle in advance but working together with Colored Clouds on this one, he found it difficult to demonstrate his prowess because there were too many people around.
”However, they can't hold on for too long either; they don't have enough Priests! It seems like the casual hires they rented have expired,” Young Master Han continued to say.
”If this continues on, the Priests might well become our point of breakthrough,” the same line was being uttered by Southern Lone Blade to Sword Demon. They were not only lacking in numbers, but their mana expenditure was also actually much higher than than the Mages.
”Let's just do what we can…” Sword Demon said.
”Just count ourselves as lucky if we come out on top?” SLB grinned.
”It's 200 versus 200,000! There's no way we can get lucky,” Sword Demon replied.
”It would be a miracle!” Southern Lone Blade declared.
Compared to the hot-bloodedness of the city assaulters, it was evident that these players on the side of the city defenders were a lot more composed. Indeed, to these players, achieving victory was too much of a stretch, so much so that they had trouble digesting the incongruence. For 200 plus players to succeed taking on 200,000 players, the ensuing victory from this battle… Such a record would go down the annals of history had this not have been achieved in a game.
”Can Miles make it back?” Southern Lone Blade asked.
”He said he's gonna need some time…” Sword Demon answered.
”He's never too far away if a miracle is to happen…” Southern Lone Blade stared out into the distance.
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In the control room under Yunduan Lake, Gu Fei had successfully opened the watercourse beneath the lake after he was done studying the controls. However, never would he have thought that this contraption required the player to continuously operate it, otherwise the magic array that had been in place would automatically resume, resealing the watercourse and rendering all the work that he had done prior for naught. Gu Fei deftly worked the half magic, half mechanical control panel in the control room, but what he was doing was simply too uninteresting. In fact, he could not even personally witness the effect of the destruction that he was doing. All he could do was inquire after what's happening via messages, and they were letting him know that he had been rather successful with his operation, causing catastrophic floods to the five encampments.
”When are you coming?” It was around this time when this question was thrown at Gu Fei.
Gu Fei sighed deeply. Did he not wish he could just leave? But because he was required to continue his operation of the contraception here in the control room, all he could do was send out plain text to everyone.
”Have you guys arrived yet?” Gu Fei was also blasting his own messages.
”Almost there! This grid isn't easy to count out!” Xi Xiaotian complained.
”You've reached the grid already?” Gu Fei was elated.
”What you told us isn't wrong, right?” Xi Xiaotian confirmed.
”That's right. I double-checked while you guys were making your way over,” Gu Fei confidently said.
”In that case, we're done!” Xi Xiaotian said.
This time, Gu Fei was fortunate enough to get an audience's perspective and learn how it looked when he arrived at this control room. He saw as the circular plate in the middle of the control room suddenly conjured a pillar of light. In a short while, Xi Xiaotian's character stepped out from the pillar, and right behind her was Svelte Dancer and Royal God Call.
The entire experience of depending on the weak glow of the torch to discern the four cardinal directions and walking on the grid in that inky darkness was extremely cruel, and he was currently wearing an expression that was as pale as a ghost.
”There's no need for everyone to go through with it. Royal didn't do it, and he still got transported over,” Xi Xiaotian told Gu Fei.
”It was only telling him just in case!” Gu Fei said.
”Where is this place?” Xi Xiaotian asked.
”I don't have the time to explain this. Head over there and you can read the instructions,” Gu Fei pointed.
Xi Xiaotian went over to take a look.
”After you're done, come and take over my spot,” Gu Fei continued.
”Okay, you can head back to the battlefield!” Xi Xiaotian waved her hand.
”We don't have to stay here as well, yeah?” Svelte Dancer asked.
Gu Fei froze, suddenly feeling a little hesitant.
”Best to leave one other person behind, just in case I'm up to something,” Xi Xiaotian did not take her eyes off the instructions and had softly said this for all to hear.
”Let's go, we'll all go.” All of them had been working together this whole time, and even someone as inattentive as Svelte Dancer could tell that the relationship between Gu Fei and Xi Xiaotian was contradictory yet tacit. It was very strange, and it was still the same right now; Gu Fei still maintained his suspicions of the lady the entire time.
”I can stay behind,” Royal God Call coughed.
”There's no need, we're leaving!” Gu Fei suddenly blurted out.
”Oh?” Xi Xiaotian was surprised.
”I doubt you're so talented to the point where you are able to figure out that we would get to this step and devise a scheme for us,” Gu Fei said.
”You can't say that for certain, I am very gifted,” Xi Xiaotian giggled.
”Well genius, it's time you head over there,” Gu Fei prodded.
”I know,” Xi Xiaotian quickly paced over and officially took over Gu Fei's job.
”We're leaving,” Gu Fei said.
”Alright,” Svelte Dancer and Royal God Call nodded. ”How are we getting out of here?”
”We're gonna die,” Gu Fei said.
The two were dumbfounded.
”It will send up straight back to the city, no?” Gu Fei pulled his sword out and the spells from above and below were all cast at once, leaving them as nothing more than three flashes of white light.