Chapter 192: Second Step (2/2)

All he needed now was a cowardly lion, however, on second thought, he would rather have a strong brave lion. He would like to have someone who wasn't scared to help him deal with any wicked witches of the west that he came across in this huge world of Haven.

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It had been a long day for Zixuan who had been working hard on a rare armor set, that a boss monster from the town siege in Errinisworth had dropped. Sadly for him, even though he had been working on it for the entire day he had only completed 1 percent of it.

Letting out a long sigh he opened the door to his office and made his way over to his favorite blue lounge chair that was located by the window. Flopping down onto it, Zixuan got into a comfortable position ready to relax.

Not even a second went by before the peaceful atmosphere he created for himself was interrupted by someone bursting through his door. He could only silently berate himself, he should have known better and locked his office door as soon as he was inside.

However after seeing that it was only his friend Xafnir looking angrily flustered, his upset about being bothered disappeared. Watching his friend slowly go crazy was always a more enjoyable pastime. Sometimes he wondered if he was a sadist.

”I told you time and time again to keep those miscreants in line, but you never listen do you!” Xafnir shouted as soon as he walked in,his face completely red.

Smirking slightly, Zixuan continued to laze against his chair, casually saying, ”What did they do now?”

”What did they do?! What did they do?! I will tell you what they did!” Clenching his jaw, all Xafnir wanted to do right now was throttle his friend who was acting so nonchalant. ”They stalked each and every high tiered member of the Fallen Blades guild and killed them, that's what they did!”

Leaning his head against his arm, Zixuan looked at his friend and said, ”So? What's the problem with that?”

”What's the problem, he says. Soul, if they figured out that it is people from our guild who is killing them, we might have a guild war on our hands!” Shouted Xafnir, not understanding what his friend isn't getting.

”Isn't that what they want?” Zixuan asked thoughtfully. Sitting up in his chair, Zixuan stared at Xafnir questioningly. ”The Fallen Blades hired professional player killers to hunt down our weak non-combatant guildmates and killed them. They then proceeded to camp their bodies until they lost five levels or left our guild. Since they did all of that, doesn't that mean they want a guild war?”

Shocked, Xafnir took a step back at the revelation that his friend gave him. ”It was the Fallen Blades who ordered that?! But they were so friendly to us.”

”They were just pretending. They have been trying for ages to get me to merge my guild with theirs, but now that our guild won the town siege they are getting desperate.” Zixuan told the man while laughing humorlessly.

Xafnir was feeling a little panicked since Fallen Blades was a huge guild with tons of sponsors. However, he wouldn't allow another guild to walk all over them, not now or ever. ”What should we do?”

”We are going to show them the true power of our crafting guild,” Zixuan replied, malice glinting in his eyes. ” They will soon learn that nobody messes with the Forged Connections guild.”