790 Chapter 790 - Statemen (1/2)

Black Index Finger had at least managed to somewhat get his revenge. Forever In Flowers was no more than a bunch of rabble in his eyes, so The Black Hand Syndicate did not need to coordinate much when dealing with them. There were plenty of ways to deal with such a team that was overly specialized in just a single job class.

”Okay, we've hunted them quite enough by now,” Black Index Finger saw his Archers running further and further away, even going so far as to start splitting up to hunt them down and chase them separately, so he quickly sent this message out to stop them. Even though the men from Forever In Flowers were rabble, they would surely have their own ragtag tricks that he might not have the means of safeguarding against.

Presently, the Stealthed Svelte Dancer was nearby, close enough that she even had Black Index Finger in her sights. Even though Black Index Finger was still wearing a cloth over his face, his equipment was better than decent since he was an expert and a guild leader to boot; Svelte Dancer had memorized what his equipment looked like while she was assassinating him the last time, identifying him in a glance right there and then. She saw him standing in the crowd with the slightest smirk of satisfaction and the revulsion she felt made her grind her teeth.

Just as Svelte Dancer was uncertain about what she should be doing with all her anger, she suddenly saw a figure swiftly breeze past herself. Svelte Dancer lifted her eyes and looked, and who else could it be but Gu Fei. When Svelte Dancer saw the man, all the players from The Black Hand Syndicate had also spotted him. Black Index Finger received quite the shock and opened up his mouth to shout for his men to 'fire', but soon realized that his Archers had all been sent to chase after the men of Forever In Flowers, and even quite a few Thieves had joined in the pursuit as well.

Everybody knew that Thousand Miles Drunk was someone who focused on Agility as well, and it was when Black Index Finger thought about this point did he blurt out, ”Oh crap, we got tricked!! Mages, stop him!!”

Black Index Finger quickly directed his Mages to unleash their spells so as to prevent Gu Fei from getting close. However, the range for Mages was all the same, so when his group of Mages was chanting their spells, Gu Fei was also doing the same as well. Gu Fei was casting this at the maximum range that a Mage could cast, and promptly retreating after he was done; there was no way that the Mages could hit him with their attacks.

Meanwhile, the Mages were still rather happy with themselves, believing that their spells had stopped Gu Fei from advancing. However, Gu Fei's spell only appeared after their spells had ended. Flames came crashing from the skies as well as flames that came rising from the ground, and that naturally caused everyone to descend into disarray. Just a single AoE spell from Gu Fei was fine, but having two spells cast together like this made things uncertain.

Svelte Dancer dashed out to Gu Fei's side as well, as he turned his head around to say, ”What are you doing? There were so many Archers that ran off, why aren't you heading over to have your fun?”

”How did you know that?” Gu Fei had mentioned that he was still clearing his PK Value when Svelte Dancer sent a message to him before. Never did she expect for him to have been so quick with it, not only managing to get back in time to intercept but had even used the time to get up to speed on everything here.

”I read that from a message. Sakurazaka Moony had been messaging me this entire time,” Gu Fei explained. This was completely not part of the plan. Sakurazaka Moony had really intended to merely take advantage of their current situation and minorly benefit as best as he could, while at the same time, help create a chance for Svelte Dancer to strike. In the end, he had failed terribly on this part, though in the process while he absconded from the place, Sakurazaka Moony had also discovered that their attempt had accidentally lured all the enemy's Agility-focused job class away from the bulk of the 300-man escort. Without any of these speedsters, would they not end up becoming no better than a cripple when pit against the attacks from someone that had invested heavily into Agility?

As such, Sakurazaka Moony had very quickly sent a message to Gu Fei. He was the only one who could bear such a heavy burden at the end of the day. Even if most players had devoted their points toward Agility, there was no way that anyone would be able to go toe to toe with the enemy without the power to insta-kill them.

Gu Fei did not get stained with too many PK points this time, so he had cleared himself of it all while Sakurazaka Moony and his men were trying to take advantage of the enemy's disarray. He had been wondering just what he could be doing next when he received the message from Sakurazaka Moony. While reminding them that there was no need for them to be so bold anymore, Gu Fei also knew that it would be too much of a waste if he were to let this unintended opportunity slide, so he began sprinting over as fast as he could. From that point on, the escape of Sakurazaka Moony and his men became an actual stratagem, and the plan was to lure those players as far away as possible.

With this back and forth motion right now, Gu Fei had managed to trick the enemy Mages into attacking, and at the same time tricking them into a situation that fulfilled the conditions for him to launch a passive retaliation. Seeing Svelte Dancer run up beside him, it just so happened to allow him to save a Blink as he pointed to the roof beside him and said, ”give me a hand.”

Svelte Dancer understood what he wanted, so she folded her arms as Gu Fei unceremoniously stepped onto this makeshift foothold. Svelte Dancer tossed him upward, allowing Gu Fei to jump up into the sky, but he saw that the strength she used was not enough to get him up to the roof. He did not have the time to be too precise, so he very swiftly stepped on Svelte Dancer's head so as to boost the force.

Even though Gu Fei had no choice but to do so, Svelte Dancer was of course greatly angered by what he did. To actually use her head as a stepping stone was simply too much. Svelte Dancer dusted off the dirt on her head even as she kept yelling at Gu Fei. The man was already up on the roof by now and he was using the linked rooftops to circle around past the area where the enemy was burning.

”Rooftops! He's up on the rooftops!!” Black Index Finger was in a hurry pointing up to the roofs as he alerted everyone. However, Gu Fei was crouching low up on the roofs at this time, so the players below were completely clueless as to where he had repositioned himself to. These Mages could only make blind guesses and toss out their AoE spells randomly all over the rooftops.

They had no idea if they managed to damage Gu Fei at all, and the only thing there was certain was that Gu Fei did not die from this. He had just poked his head out and waved his sword, causing the pinch of fire spells from both the sky and the ground to appear once more. The men from The Black Hand Syndicate were all squeezed into the streets below, so the pain they felt was immense. This was especially true since Gu Fei had actually been dishonest with where he pointed his sword while he was doing his spell incantation. He had even used a kung fu feint so even the more experienced Mages were completely incapable of determining where Gu Fei ended up unleashing his spells. With the street momentarily devoid of a portion of Thieves and all their Archers, the remaining 200 or so players all felt that their position was being assaulted; everyone was ducking and taking cover everywhere, people bumping into each other as they started a stampede. It was a scene of utter chaos.

”Don't panic! Everyone, don't panic! You won't die!” Black Index Finger was bellowing loudly, absolutely dissatisfied with how easy it was for his underlings to be thrown into such a state of disorder.

The players from The Black Hand Syndicate heard their guild leader's voice, yet none of them paid any heed to it at all. Their guild leader had equipment that helped bolster his HP so that he might not really die from two of Thousand Miles Drunk's AoE spells, but the rest of them? A good majority of them were not at all confident that they could survive from such an attack!

While Black Index Finger was shouting all this with a calm and composed expression on his face, he was of course standing still, not at all creating further chaos by joining in the frenzy of movement. In the end, Gu Fei's delayed spell cast had finally arrived, the flames from above and below shrouded Black Index Finger and those underlings who believed him….

Meanwhile, all the other players who were safe from this bombardment were not only not feeling anxious for their guild leader, they were instead thinking, See? Because you weren't trying to take cover, you're now burning up!

Everyone was thinking along this line, yet nobody said it out loud. But sometimes, eyes were able to speak volumes by themselves, especially when they were all giving off the same look together. Black Index Finger could feel himself lose face and was infuriated by this, but what else could he do against Thousand Miles Drunk. He continued to shout for those Archers that had run off to quickly make their way back as he kept yelling at his Mages to continue and blindly bombard the rooftops.

However, Gu Fei had already leaped off from the roofs and was diving down to the street. The tip of his sword was accurately aimed right for Black Index Finger.

Black Index Finger was stupefied, quickly waving his sword in hopes that he could kill Thousand Miles Drunk outright with this cleave.

All Gu Fei did was twist his body and his Moonlit NIghtfalls parried Black Index Finger's sword. Sliding along down the length of his sword and a quick incantation, the flames from his Twin Incineration caused Black Index Finger's own sword to glow red, and when Gu Fei lifted his left hand, his Palm of Thunder had made Black Index Finger's little face light up with its blue radiance.

There was no way for Black Index Finger to evade or dodge in time, and Gu Fei's sword had already brushed past his neck, while his Palm of Thunder was already pressed onto Black Index Finger's face. Black Index Finger had already taken the pinch of the two spells from before, and there had not been anyone who gave him a Heal from then till now. Adding these two even more powerful spells that were now cast on him, his tears had already rolled out from the corner of his eyes. But what else could he do? His HP had depleted to zero and he was already drenched in white light. Black Index Finger could only roar out loud, ”KILL HIM!!!”

He believed that even though Thousand Miles Drunk had killed him, he was also heavily surrounded by his guildmates right now. These comrades of his were all strong players as well, so they should not have any problem ganging up on Thousand Miles Drunk in this instance.

But how was he to know that Gu Fei would actually turn his head around after emptying out all his spells on him, lifting his head to point to the roof that he had been on. Blinking over with a quick incantation, he briefly disappeared and rematerialized up back on the rooftops. The time it took for Gu Fei to jump down, kill Black Index Finger and Blink back up to the rooftops was no more than the time it took for a person to take a breath. Anyone who blinked their eyes could just as easily miss anything that happened, and in the entire process of what happened, Gu Fei had not even landed on the ground once. He had killed Black Index Finger while he was still in mid-air and he Blinked immediately after; his movement was already so fast that any ordinary player could hardly keep up.

This time, Gu Fei did not hide himself after making it up to the roof. Instead, he stood there on the eaves and struck a dashing pose, gazing down upon everyone below, ”You're all from The Black Hand Syndicate, right? You guys are finished. Quitting the guild is your only escape, otherwise, you'll end up just like your guild leader!”

The moment Gu Fei was done with his statement, he did a backflip. He had been rushing to finish his sentence as the Mages below had already begun to launch their attack on him. Gu Fei took several steps back to avoid all the spells, ending up on the adjacent street. Naturally, none of the players from The Black Hand Syndicate had witnessed this embarrassing scene. At this time, Gu Fei had already departed, their ears were still ringing with Gu Fei's parting words.

End up just like your guild leader…

There was plenty of weight behind what he said. Without a doubt, a guild leader was the most important person in a guild, so now that even their guild leader had been slain to the point that he lost 3 levels, how would the rest of them unimportant underlings not have even greater difficulties preventing their own deaths?

How did their guild leader end up? Black Index Finger had gotten himself slain twice in succession, losing three levels in the process, and was now at level 39. He had even lost his job class advancement, and that was a huge loss to take. Players who finished their job class advancement were not just a bit better than those without, so the difference between being level 39 and level 40 was huge. Black Index Finger was now level 39; were it not for the fact that his equipment was a grade better than most, his strength in the Black Hand Syndicate would most likely be backward.

The players present would not be frightened into quitting their guild just from this alone, but no matter the case, there was already a shadow in their hearts and they began to hedge on their luck, simply hoping that they would not be the unfortunate target when Thousand Miles Drunk strikes.

It shouldn't be me. I'm just a nameless player. His target should still be our guild leader, right? Plenty of the players here were having such thoughts, and Black Index Finger of course could deduce the mentality shared by his underlings, even believing there were some who thought to kill themselves.

”You're good, to think you really managed to kill him,” At the moment, Svelte Dancer was not blankly staying in her original hiding spot. She had quickly made her escape as well when she saw Gu Fei run off, messaging him even as she made her exit.

”Sakurazaka Moony and the others sacrificed so many of their men in order to get us this one chance, so I gotta seize what I'm given,” Gu Fei answered firmly. Those among Sakurazaka Moony and his band of brothers that were still alive were all safe by now, and it was all thanks to Black Index Finger's action that had saved them; had he not have been in a hurry to call his men back from their hunt, Sakurazaka Moony and his men were no match for their pursuers in terms of speed or strength despite being of the same job class.

”So where are you going now?” Svelte Dancer asked.

”Since I've gotten some PK points now, I'll go on ahead and kill a few more,” Gu Fei said. In the beginning, Gu Fei had managed to win the opportunity to launch a passive retaliation against those Mages, but he had no choice but to take the initiative when he was eliminating Black Index Finger, so he had ended up with a single PK point as a result.

”The Warrior Encampment?” Svelte Dancer asked.

”Yeah. Even if I can't kill Black Index Finger, I would at least be able to give him a scare,” Gu Fei chuckled.

”You've really learned how to be bad,” Svelte Dancer commented.

”It was all forced unto me,” Gu Fei did not feel in the least bit embarrassed when he protested against the accusation.