Chapter 333 – One After Another (1/2)

“I’m more than glad if they have designs on my city.” A sinister smile graced Bai Xiaosheng’s lips. “Then when the time comes to turn against each other, I won’t have to be polite with them and thank them for helping me capture Hero City.”

“Impressive, that’s Uncle for ya.” Fatty gave a thumbs-up.

No wonder Bai Xiaosheng invited so many higher-ups from other guilds, he was waiting for them to jump into his trap here. At that time, when they gathered their guild members and put up a life or death fight to steal Hero City, only to find out that no matter how hard they struggle, they could never outmatch Bai Xiaosheng, one could imagine their despair.

Beep beep. Bai Xiaosheng’s communicator rang. He took the call, listened to something, and sneered after the call was finished.

“Many players are rushing to this place. I see they’re all starting to deploy people here. Very well, we can just wait for these free slave laborers to come now.”

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There was nothing special on the way. In the seemingly boundless space of Heavens Scar, the group had traveled for more than half a month, going at least over ten thousand miles in without seeing any sign of Hero City.

Along the way, they came across numerous monsters. There were large-scale armies of both human and demon spirit soldiers, and even monsters bred from the soldiers’ hostility during their lifetime.

There were so many monsters to the point it was annoying. Except for the human soldiers that retreated after Bai Xiaosheng took out the Tower of Heroes, the players had to kill everything to the very last monster to proceed. Fortunately, they didn’t bump into anything too powerful, such as those that general had mentioned, the thousand-year-old fellows that survived the grand war. Slaughtering for more than half a month, the whole team of 200 over players all advanced two or three levels.

When they had annihilated the Undercrows, Fatty had risen to level 55. Currently, he had gained another level and reached 56.

In addition to levels, the harvest of items had been even more worthwhile. Needless to say the numerous Violet gears, there were also plenty of blueprints, recipes, tools with special functions, and even damaged artifacts leftover from the grand war that absolutely delighted the players.

Aside from the two blueprints at the beginning, Fatty gained another called the Demon Dragon Cannon Blueprint. It was siege equipment used by the Demon race, with an appearance like a type of terrestrial Demonic dragon, hence the name. The Demon Dragon Cannon could shoot a black beam that was corrosive and therefore had a destructive effect on the buildings of the Human realm.

“Uncle, they should all have arrived by now, let’s stop taking detours,” Fatty whispered to Bai Xiaosheng.

“How did you know I was taking detours?” Bai Xiaosheng was surprised.

Rolling his eyes, Fatty pointed at a distant place on the ground.

“We have passed that thrice. Please, Uncle, even if you want to take detours, be a little more professional and stop passing by the same place.”

“My bad, my bad, I’ll pay attention next time.” The hint of a smile flashed past Bai Xiaosheng’s ever calm face.

“Guild Master Bai, how far are we? Why do I feel like we’re just walking in circles?” asked a guild master. From the looks of it, others had noticed this as well.

“Cough… My apologies. I’ve also just realized this now thanks to Fatty. According to the map, Hero City is not much further away. Please keep up the good work, everyone, we should arrive soon.” Bai Xiaosheng pretended to look a little abashed.

If a person looked down at the ground from a bird’s-eye view, they’d see right away that Bai Xiaosheng’s group was being followed by over a hundred other teams of players that arranged in the shape of a fan. Those teams kept a certain distance from each other, showing that they wouldn’t provoke others, but wouldn’t be merciful if being provoked, because the death of each player of another guild meant one less obstacle on the way to claim Hero City. During this short trip, at least a thousand players had boarded the flight to the death altar in Heavens Scar and turned into the Darkness God’s new slaves.

Every once in a while, HeadofGod sent the brothers of God Familia to record the situation behind and bring it back. And then, Bai Xiaosheng, Fatty, and HeadofGod would hold a secret discussion. Now that they thought the time was ripe, Bai Xiaosheng started leading the group in the direction of Hero City.

The farther the players went, the more frequent and stronger the monsters appeared. At last, they finally ran into a bunch of very powerful ones.

They were the Demonic spirits of dead Demonic soldiers who varied in bizarre appearances. Some had human bodies but animal heads, some had human heads and animal bodies, some had several heads or more hands than others, some could be recognized as aquatic at first glance that people would wonder how they even survived on land.

These Demonic spirits didn’t just randomly gather together. Like the previous human soldiers, they rushed towards the players in a combative formation.