Chapter 594: If We Fight, We May Yet Survive (1/2)
It was a message from Ling Xueshang. ”Lu Chen, this is a ploy against us. I heard through the grapevine that Warsky had sent October Rain to negotiate with the guild leaders of Hall of Immortality, Throne Seeker, and Rose of the Holy Domain at Vanished God City. She succeeded. That is why the three great guilds launched a raid against Dark Moon City. The guilds of Sky City—Warsky Alliance, Hegemon Palace, Gods of Destruction, and more—aren’t our only opponents this time. If we count their main guild and subguilds together, each one of the guilds from Vanished God City has over one hundred thousand troops in total. The situation is extremely disadvantageous toward us!”
I smiled a little before replying, ”Xueshang, just focus on leading your guild and tackle the third guild territory with Snowy Cathaya. Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls will deal with this ourselves. Hmph, the three guilds of Vanished God City aren’t so powerful that they’re worthy of my attention, so don’t worry. If they come to Sky City, then I will fulfill my responsibilities as the host and ensure that they all die on this land!”
Ling Xueshang replied with a smiley emoji and a question, ”You sure you want to fight this on your own?”
”Of course! What else should we do during this boring afternoon?”
”Hehe. Alright! On behalf of all the players of The Monarch Descends, thank you very much for your support, Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls!”
”You’re welcome. By the way, I’ve sent Gui Guzi and three thousand elite riders to intercept Warsky Alliance’s men at the western entrance of Sky City, but that is all the players I can spare for you. You must do the rest yourself.”
”Got it. Let’s both do our best!”
”Yeah!”
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It was at this moment the key players of Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls—Beiming Xue, Li Chengfeng, Xu Yang, High Fighting Spirits, Chaos Moon, and more—appeared and walked toward me. Almost all the leaders of our guild were gathered next to the tiny blood pond of Dark Moon City and discussing about the upcoming raid—
”How many enemies are we facing this time?” Xu Yang asked.
Li Chengfeng replied, ”Our main enemies are the three guilds from Vanished God City, but the likelihood of our usual enemies, Mad Dragon, Gods of Destruction, and so on joining in on the fight is also pretty high. In brief, it’s not looking too good for us, and we’d better give it our all if we don’t want to lose Dark Moon City.”
I nodded in agreement. ”Yes, we need to give it our all. Don’t underestimate the three guilds!”
Beiming Xue said, ”I’ve built plenty of arrow towers in the territory as of late; on average one every ten steps. This is the perfect occasion to use them. When an archer enters an arrow tower, their attack power is reduced by 10%, but their attack range is increased by 50%. I’m sure this will put great pressure onto our enemies.”
Beiming Xue curled her lips slightly. ”You were focusing on developing our cavalry, so our archers were neglected. Currently, we only have 1500 archers or so. It is a bit lacking, to be honest.”
High Fighting Spirits laughed. ”It’s fine, they’re all elites, and they’re led by Lu Chen’s sister. I’m sure they are all players who can 1v10 no problem!”
I shot him a scrutinizing look. ”You’re right, but why do I feel like you’re taking a jab at me…”
Hearty laughter filled the air for a moment.
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A short time later, most of our players were gathered inside the territory. Of course, I had added all enemy guilds including Hall of Immortality, Throne Seeker, and Rose of the Holy Domain as well into the teleportation access blacklist. If these invaders didn’t deserve to be on that list, then no one did!
A thousand thoughts raced inside my mind for a moment, and I decided that I didn’t like our odds. The three great guilds numbered 300k players in total. Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls had 10k players, Bloody Mercenaries also had 10k players, and our 8 subguilds added up to 40k. Even for us, 5:1 number disadvantage wasn’t easy to beat, not to mention that the three guilds might not be our only opponents. October Rain was a smart woman. If she could convince the guilds of Vanished God City to stick their hands into the war for Sky City, then she could convince other forces to intervene as well. Long story short, this wasn’t the time to hide my cards. Dark Moon City would be in grave danger if I didn’t employ every tool available.
I opened my friend list and sought our Luo River God of the Capital’s ID. Then, I made a call request—
”Hi, Luo Luo…” I called out to her sweetly.
Luo River God of the Capital visibly shuddered. ”Cut that out, you brat! Are you trying to disgust me to death? Anyway, judging from your tone you want something, don’t you?”
”Mn. Hall of Immortality, Throne Seeker and Rose of the Holy Domain from Vanished God City just declared war on us, and I’m worried the guild can’t hold out on our own. Are you busy right now? If not, do you mind sending us some reinforcements? Dark Moon City is invaluable to Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls…”
Luo River God of the Capital replied helplessly, ”I would like to help you, but Candlelight Shadow, that bastard literally just declared a raid on our territory on behalf of Candle Dragon’s first subguild just a few minutes ago. We are probably in far more dire straits than you are…”
”Ahem, I don’t mind if you send only Moonkiss and a couple of assassins to help me…”
”No way, that’s my girl! Why on earth would I lend her to you?”
”Damn!”
”Hehe. Alright, let’s both do our best. I trust you will survive this, so don’t forget to say a prayer for Purple Lily, okay? Candle Dragon will be hitting us with everything they got, so this is going to be a big fight for us. I’m planning to ask Peach Garden to help us. That guild is weak as hell, but their numbers are huge…”