Chapter 30 – Slaughter (2/2)

“What a sly fellow. He actually sent his subordinates up as cannon fodder, while he hid away to make use of good opportunities,” Fatty exclaimed.

“This is truly an advanced boss,” TheFugitive said with a bit of after fright. “Thank god I didn’t have time to go and try to kill the advanced boss in the depths of the Greenery Mountains because of the Fierce Dragon Gang chasing after me. Otherwise, I would have died without them doing anything.”

“The chances are slim today,” Fierce Dragon TheTalent shook his head with a sigh.

“Boss is truly smart for not getting us to get involved,” the player who tried to urge Fierce Dragon TheTalent to snag the boss monster instantly complimented his own boss.

However, Fierce Dragon TheTalent ignored him and continued to ponder. After a while, he finally stood up as well.

“Boss, is it our turn?” The hundred Fierce Dragon Gang members all stood up with Fierce Dragon TheTalent and drew their weapons.

The four other guilds’ players felt troubled. Is a fight about to break loose before the boss has even been killed?

“Retreat!” Fierce Dragon TheTalent's order caught everyone else by surprise.

Even the Fierce Dragon Gang members thought that their guild master misspoke.

“Boss, that’s an advanced boss. It’s super rare. We’re giving up without even trying to fight it?” some of the players were rather reluctant to leave.

“Do you think we can beat an advanced boss that’s at least Level 30?” Fierce Dragon TheTalent questioned.

“Why can’t we? We’ve got lots of people. We can even bury it with people,” one of the players stood forth. Brothers, are you afraid?”

“No. Boss, give the order, we’ll go and kill it right now. Let’s show the Black Tortoise City guilds how strong we are,” some of the players chatted away. Only a few players looked down silently in deep thought.

“Trying to use the human wave tactic?” Fierce Dragon TheTalent smiled mockingly, then drew a circle in the air. “Do we have more people than the monsters here?”

“Uhm…” a lot of the players stopped speaking at that.

“I want to fight the boss monster too, but we have to judge our strength. When we aren’t sure, we shouldn’t do something that will cost us losses for no reason. We’re leaving,” Fierce Dragon TheTalent didn’t want to say too much, and merely ordered his subordinates to leave.

“The Fierce Dragon Gang's leaving?” the four guild masters were first surprised when they saw the Fierce Dragon Gang players walk back to the entrance to the fifth floor. Don’t they want to fight the boss?

“Who cares, maybe they realized that they can’t get anything easy out of it. Leaving is good,” Cloud Dragon Sailing chuckled.

“Fierce Dragon TheTalent isn't’ someone like that,” East Gate BlowingWind and Wind God’s World looked at each other. “Fierce Dragon TheTalent is an expert of many games. When I say expert, I don’t just mean that he’s strong. What’s even more important is his planning. The fact that they retreated is probably because they realized that we can’t kill the boss even with their help.”

“East Gate BlowingWind, what are you saying? We can’t kill the boss? We’ve pretty much cleaned up all the small monsters already. We’re going to take down the boss soon. If you’re afraid, then you can lead your people away first,” said Cloud Dragon Sailing.

“Cloud Dragon Sailing, shut your damn mouth. Afraid? It's just a single death at worst.” East Gate BlowingWind was incensed and was merely split seconds from stabbing Cloud Dragon Sailing.

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“The Fierce Dragon Gang left?” Fatty commented with a sigh as he watched the Fierce Dragon Gang players leave. “Fierce Dragon TheTalent knows when to retreat. He’s truly a cunning one.”

“Him? Cunning? He’s more like a stupid bear” TheFugitive naturally did not have any praise for Fierce Dragon TheTalent when that person is the reason he had to run away to Black Tortoise City.

“You’ll see soon enough.”

Before Fatty could finish, over a hundred Skeletal Assassins spawned in the cavern once more.

“How’s this even possible? How could they have respawned so quickly!?” the various players watched in disbelief as the Skeletal Assassins went into stealth, then reappeared for assassinations.

This time, all of the Skeletal Assassins used Reckless Blow, one of the strongest moves that an assassin could use.

Boom.

As the players and monsters clashed together, countless droplets of blood flew into the air like when a wave hits a boulder. Over twenty Skeletal Assassins were instantly killed by the players, but even more players were insta-killed by the Skeletal Assassins’ Reckless Blow.

“Tighten the formations!” the guild masters shouted. The players immediately did as they were ordered and squished together, making the scene more of a mess.

“Jaja, jaja.” Phantom Messenger’s proud and terrifying laughter sounded out once more.

Then, a short monster even shorter than a ten years old child appeared at the entrance to the fifth floor.

“Crap, our escape path is blocked off,” Fatty said softly.

“Brother Grubber, the situation is dire right now. Lend me a Recall Scroll for now. I’ll pay you back later,” TheFugitive said urgently.

Fatty was momentarily stunned, then asked TheFugitive under the latter’s desperate gaze, “Recall Scroll? What’s that?”

TheFugitive felt like he was about to faint.

Meanwhile, when the Phantom Messenger appeared, the slaughter of players by the monsters had begun.