Chapter 90: Desperate Gambi (1/2)
I had already made up my mind. Beiming Xue was a Dark Archer with amazing strength and beauty. She would be a great addition to Bloody Mercenaries, and it would be like someone had buffed us with Encourage, Forge, Valor, Homecoming, Iron Wall, and other skills!
Who were Gui Guzi and Du Thirteen? They were the kind of people whose attack power, hit rate, tenacity, willpower, and facial skin thickness would skyrocket if a beautiful girl were to join the workshop! To them, it would be like welcoming their second spring!
Man, I’m such a wise leader!
Practically speaking, our workshop had been in dire need of a powerful long-ranged player since a long time ago. We were especially in need of a young and mostly honest girl like Beiming Xue.
“P-please give me some time to prepare…” Beiming Xue’s cheeks were red as she said, “This will be the first time ever I leave my home!”
I asked, “We’re ready. What else do you need?”
“How many people are there in the Bloody Mercenaries?” Beiming Xue asked carefully.
“Three.”
“Are there girls in your workshop?”
“There will be once you join us.”
Beiming Xue immediately looked nervous. “I’m the only girl? What if someone bullies me?”
“Don’t worry, I’ll protect you!”
“What if you bully me?”
This time I didn’t know how to answer.
Suddenly, I felt something warm gripping my hand. Beiming Xue had finally accepted my hand with a smile. “I’m just joking. I’m not so young and inexperienced!”
I asked, “Alright. What is your name, and where do you live?”
“My name is the same as my ID, Beiming Xue. I live in the Xishan District, Wuxi.”
“Oh, that’s actually pretty close. You and Gui Guzi come from the same hometown. When are you coming over to Suzhou?”
“Give me half a month. As I said, I would need to prepare…”
“Alright. From today onward, you are an official member of the Bloody Mercenaries workshop!”
“Right!”
……
I was extremely excited by the good news, so I added Gui Guzi, Du Thirteen, and Beiming Xue into a party to introduce everyone to each other.
“Wow, Beiming Xue? Isn’t… isn’t she that amazing archer on the Heavenly Ranking?”
Du Thirteen shouted. He stared at Beiming Xue’s avatar on the party screen and smiled. “Hello, Beauty Beiming!”
Beiming Xue smiled back at him. “Hello!”
Gui Guzi asked, “Boss, do you know Beiming Xue?”
I replied with a smile, “I didn’t until just moments ago. I’ve successfully invited Beauty Beiming to join Bloody Mercenaries, so from today onward we’re all family. She’ll be meeting up with us in real life in half a month.”
Gui Guzi smiled in high spirits. “This is great news! Our workshop has always lacked a powerful long-ranged DPS, but now that is no longer an issue. Welcome to Bloody Mercenaries, Beiming Xue!”
Beiming Xue was a very polite girl. She greeted everyone with a smile on her face.
I said, “Since Beiming Xue just joined our workshop, why don’t we organize an event of sorts and deepen our relationship with each other?”
“Sure, I’m fine with anything!” Du Thirteen said. Of course he’s fine with anything, he could run through a hill of blades or swim in a sea of fire if it meant spending time with pretty girls.
Beiming Xue smiled. “What a coincidence, I just accepted a quest that can be shared with up to five people. Let’s do this quest together, shall we?”
“Sure!”
A short while later, the system dinged to notify us that the quest was being shared. It was a quest to kill a Level 50, B Rank boss at Violet Forest. It was definitely a lucrative bounty quest!
After Beiming Xue had shared the quest with us, she stuck out her tongue and smiled at me. “To be honest, this wasn’t a quest that I could complete myself, but with you and Gui Guzi around that is no longer the case! Thank you, Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand!”
I nodded and returned the smile. “Just call me Lu Chen in the future.”
“Oh? Is that your real name?”
“Yeah.”
“Alright, sure, hehe!”
……
Half an hour later, Gui Guzi and Du Thirteen both arrived at Violet Forest. After the official introductions were over, Du Thirteen started staring at Beiming Xue with shining eyes. Beiming Xue was naturally beautiful, and the leather armors of this game were designed to look sexy to begin with. Therefore, the combination was more than enough to unsettle Du Thirteen’s fickle determination.
Thus, I walked up to Du Thirteen and warned him in a low tone, “Thirteen, stop staring at her like that! I’ll annihilate you if you dare lift a finger against Beiming Xue when she comes to our workshop, you hear me!?”
Du Thirteen nodded repeatedly. “Rabbits don’t eat the grass around their nest. I understand that much!”
In front of us, Beiming Xue snorted as if she could hear our conversation. Oh right, I forgot that Archer has extraordinary senses and perception. It makes sense that her listening ability would be cream of the crop.
The four of us started venturing into the forest. The Bloody Mercenaries workshop was steadily growing, and excluding Du Thirteen we were now three ace-level players strong. Gui Guzi was an invincible tank, I was a powerful melee attacker, and Beiming Xue was a long-ranged killer. All we needed now was a priest, and our party would basically be complete.
Of course, I had no intentions of recruiting a token member into our group. Murong Mingyue was a good choice, but she was a busy woman and she belonged to He Yi. Therefore, I had to hunt for my priest somewhere else.
……
Violet Forest was a dying place where the dead was strong, and the wind was often mingled with ghastly wails. Hordes of Violet Undead Knights roamed the area ahead of us as we journeyed deeper and deeper into the forest. The knights further in were Level 57 and very powerful, but were nothing but a minor inconvenience for our elite party.
“I’ll be the tank!”
Gui Guzi gripped his Silver-grade shield and charged straight toward a Violet Undead Knight.
Bang!
The skeletal knight thrust its spear toward Gui Guzi and hit his shield with great momentum. Sparks flew off as metal screeched against metal!
174!
+35!
Beiming Xue was stunned by Gui Guzi’s performance. “Wow! Gui Guzi’s Defense is amazing!”
Gui Guzi was incredibly pleased by her compliment. Du Thirteen went to test out his own mettle, but all he got was a brush with death.
I charged forward and swung the Ghost Ice Soul, executing my infamous Pardon + Slayer Slash combo!
MISS!
1984!
The incredible damage I dealt stunned everyone to silence as usual. Not to be outdone, Beiming Xue fired two consecutive arrows of her own toward the enemy!