Chapter 444: Alliance with The Monarch Descends (1/2)
He Yi got off her mount, her beautiful eyes apologetic. She addressed the nearby players. ”Why don’t you retreat for now. Well… No matter what anyone says, Snowy Cathaya is our ally. Even though we are duking it out right now, we will still be allies in the numerous battles to come!”
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Clear Perfume, Shadow Chanel, and their party also stopped attacking.
Beep!
Lin Yixin sent me a message: ”I’ll get Qingqing and Chanel to stand down and retreat from the guild hall. You’ve won. I’ll even leave them there to help you protect your territory. Treasure this opportunity, okay? I’ll be going offline first.”
Lin Yixin did not even wait for me to reply, her name went dark the moment I heard the message.
I went quiet. Lin Yixin had a responsibility toward the tens of thousands of players who were part of Snowy Cathaya, so she had no choice but to participate in this battle. However, Lin Yixin had never been willing to make an enemy of Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls, so she had not launched any counterattacks against us just now. If not, there was no way that players like Gui Guzi, Xu Yang, and Chaos Moon would have been able to successfully kill the Fruit Knife Goddess.
I picked up both the Frozen Sword and Purple Marquis’s metal legguards. The sword was an Outstanding Spirit-grade weapon while the legguards were a piece of Outstanding Purple Gold–grade equipment. They were pretty damn good.
The players of Snowy Cathaya had gotten Lin Yixin’s order as well and they started to file out of the guild hall. I caught up to Clear Perfume and said, ”Qingqing, wait a moment!”
Clear Perfume turned around, the rim of her eyes red. She pouted as she said in an unhappy voice, ”What do you want now?”
I took out both pieces of equipment and said, ”Help me pass these items back to Yiyi and Purple Marquis. This… Ah, I really don’t know what to say either. Once I go offline later, I’ll personally go and beg Yiyi for forgiveness.”
”Hmph!”
Clear Perfume looked like she didn’t quite buy what I was trying to sell, but she took the equipment from me. After that, she smacked me with her fist as she said, ”Lu Chen, you’re an idiot! A big fat idiot!”
”Hehe, that’s right…” I didn’t deny it.
”Hmppppph!”
Clear Perfume walked away in a fit of pique. Once all of the players who belonged to Snowy Cathaya left the guild hall, the ring of a system notice resounded in the air.
Ding~!
System Notice: Attention, all players. The guild “Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls” has conquered Territory 001. If they can keep hold of the territory for five hours, they will officially gain control of this territory!
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Xu Yang rubbed his nose and said, ”Bloody hell, to think you’d have the cheek to say that we’re looking grim when you were the person who looked the most glum just now…”
I chuckled and stopped in front of the players I had just chided. I said in a sheepish voice, ”Sorry about that, brothers. I was a little too emotional just now. That… Hahaha, now that I’ve apologized, please don’t pick on me…”
Now that I’d bled the tension out of the room, the rest of them just laughed and waved it off. If they really did have an issue with what had just happened, I’d just kick them out of the guild. Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls needed hot-blooded warriors, not cold and heartless players.
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When we strode out of the guild hall, we saw that the battle was still raging everywhere else.
The two main threats we had to deal with were The Monarch Descends and Hegemon Palace. Hegemon Palace was especially threatening. Little Piglet hadn’t died yet, so his Famous General Skill, Vajra, was still active. He was currently trying to break through our lines with a horde of stalwart warriors at his back. More than a few Snowy Cathaya and Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls players had already fallen to his blade.
”Beiming, Moonlight, Gui Guzi, Eve, let’s group up and kill that dumbass Little Piglet. How does that sound?”
”Ah, it’ll be quite difficult. His defensive stats are too high. His effective Defense should be around 4000 now, if not higher. Vajra just adds too much damn Defense,” Beiming Xue said with a pout.
I cleared my throat before replying, ”Then we have no choice but to stun him before we launch an all-out assault on him. If we focus our fire on him, I’m confident we can take him down. As long as everyone has 2500 Attack, we’ll be able to do some damage to him even if he does really have 4000 Defense. Once we get rid of Little Piglet, Pillar of the Nation will lose one of his two main supports and he’ll no longer pose a threat after that.”
Xu Yang raised his longsword in the air as he exclaimed, ”Okay, let’s do that then!”
It was at this moment that Shadow Chanel stepped forward, her staff in hand. She said, ”Lu Chen, could it be that you’ve forgotten about us? My Dragon’s Roar ignores physical Defense, so I believe it will be of great help to you.”
I couldn’t help but chuckle, ”If the beautiful Chanel is willing to help us, then we’ll be overjoyed to accept that help. Ah, about what happened just now, we’re truly…”
Shadow Chanel let out a tinkling laugh as well. ”Forget about that. Let’s get this show on the road!”
”Okay.”
I nodded my head and continued from where I left off, ”Remember not to jump the gun, everyone. Let me slip in and launch a sneak attack first. I’ll take the opportunity to knock off half of Little Piglet’s HP bar.”
”You can even enter stealth?” Clear Perfume was rather shocked by what I had just revealed.
I chuckled as I used Earth Escape. My entire avatar dissolved into a few rays of bloody light as I melted into the ground. Clear Perfume’s mouth dropped open in shock as she said, ”Fuck, what sort of lousy stealth skill is this? Your movement speed is so slow too…”
I ground my teeth together at that insult as I said from below the ground, ”Even if I am moving slowly, all that matters is that my stealth works. Also, erm… Qingqing, your panties are black…”
”Damn you!” Clear Perfume yelled as she stomped on the ground. ”Lu Chen, you bastard! Ooh, you are so dead! I’m definitely gonna get Yiyi to kill you after this…”