Chapter 583: Recruiting Talented People (2/2)

Freezing Point took out a return scroll and disappeared before my eyes. Lu Buyi grinned at me and added me as a friend before he used a return scroll as well. After all, he was still one of Freezing Point’s men.

……

After I saw off the members of Waste and Burn, I continued to wander through the Windmill Forest. I killed Mad Dragon players whenever I encountered them and if I met any squad below a hundred men, I’d just charge in and kill them. After that, I would use Earth Escape to disappear without a trace. They didn’t have many high-level players, so they couldn’t see through my Earth Escape, so it was the perfect “getaway car”.

There were quite a few dragon bones scattered around the Windmill Forest and Agave grew abundantly around these bones. I had a wild time harvesting all of them and I had collected nearly a hundred bundles of Agave by the time two hours had passed. Countless Mad Dragon players had died under my blade by then, and Roaming Dragon desperately chased after me with Coldmoon Rose, Iron Pardon, and Inconstant. However, with my hit-and-run guerilla tactics, they’d never be able to find me in this huge forest. It was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Beep!

Gui Guzi sent me a message: “Boss Broken Halberd, are you having a lot of fun in the Windmill Forest? Mad Dragon is currently gathering a few of their subguilds and they said that they’re going to flatten the entire place.”

I laughed loudly: “It’s been alright. Oh right! Little Gui, what’s the situation in the Cyan Tiger Forest right now? How many Cyan Tiger mounts did our guys manage to tame?”

Gui Guzi replied: “It’s been going really well. We’ve already managed to catch more than four hundred Cyan Tigers. So even the most conservative estimate would put us at over two thousand Cyan Tigers by the time we finish sweeping through this map. Basically, all of the magic knights and wanderers in the main guild will have a Cyan Tiger mount by the end of the day. Heh heh.”

“That’s great news! Well done. Tsk tsk, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that our main guild’s cavalry troops will be invincible at this current stage of the game! Keep hustling!”

“Yeah, you too!”

“Okay!”

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I closed my chat window and burrowed my way into a little copse in the woods. Two assassin players were slowly creeping forward in stealth mode, but it was their unlucky day. No one could hide from my Dark Pupils. I burst out of the ground and swiftly cut through both of them. To my surprise, I saw Mad Dragon’s main force just ahead of me. Roaming Dragon had gathered more than three thousand people in a vast clearing in the Windmill Forest.

“Ahhhh!”

As he waved the spear in his hand, Roaming Dragon raged about angrily, “That bastard Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand is being too much! Comrades, we only have one mission today and that is to kill Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand! We’ll do it even if we have to flip the entire Windmill Forest upside down! I’ve already summoned four more subguilds here! They will completely secure the Windmill Forest and protect all the Agave!”

Inconstant said in a soft voice, “Guild leader, Lu Chen seems to have picked the area clean of Agave plants. There isn’t even one-third of them left…”

The muscles on Roaming Dragon’s face spasmed as he roared, “Fuck Lu Chen’s granddaddy!”

I grinned when I heard those words. My granddaddy? Too bad, I only had a Third Uncle and he was currently happily harvesting his watermelons...

……

I fished out a return scroll. I had already gathered more than enough Agave for my needs, so I didn’t need to continue playing with Mad Dragon any further. After all, killing players didn’t earn me any experience points.

Wooosh!

I returned to Sky City and I could see Lu Buyi and Freezing Point recruiting people in the distance. I checked on them and saw that the eighth subguild had swelled to more than four thousand eight hundred people. They were just about filled up.

I walked over to the my warehouse and sent a message to Lu Buyi: “Buyi, come over to the warehouse manager at the eastern gate plaza. I have something for you…”

“Oh?”

Lu Buyi soon appeared. He ran towards me and grinned, “Guild leader Lu Chen, what can I do for you?”

I took out a fan from my warehouse and tossed it to him. “There, this is the weapon that will help you become a top-tier tactician. Consider this a welcoming gift for joining our guild!”

Lu Buyi caught the flaming fan. When he saw the fan’s stats, he froze on the spot, nearly dropping the fan from his nerveless fingers. His entire body shuddered as emotions danced wildly in his heart.

Burning Fan (Earth-grade, Outstanding★★★★★): 750~1020 Attack, Intelligence +150, Stamina +145, Tactics +50. Passives: Increases user’s stratagem’s effectiveness by 25%, increases user’s max HP by 30%. Outstanding Property: Strategy, the corresponding stratagem’s Attack boost is increased by an additional 15%. Level Requirement: 130.

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“Guild leader, this… this present is way too expensive, isn’t it?” Lu Buyi said as he audibly gulped. “I… I’m only an insignificant grunt who just joined the guild, but you’re actually giving a 5-star Outstanding Earth-grade weapon to me!? This is…”