Chapter 641: Earthfire Realm (2/2)
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Soon, Gui Guzi announced his coordinates, which was right in Sky Forest. Going there would only take ten minutes and that place was a 125-meter area densely covered in shadow-rank mobs. It was no wonder Little Naughty and her party would encounter them there. As for why God's Mercenaries went to attack our eighth subguild, it was probably the thoughts of getting famous getting to their heads. They didn't dare touch the main guild so they made do with bothering the eighth sub guild. Then they’d probably post screenshots and videos on the official website forums with some ridiculous caption that said ”Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls are nothing much” or something along those lines.
I crushed a return scroll and was sent to Sky City. Without wasting time, I instantly teleported to Floating City, the nearest teleportation point to Sky Forest. I gripped my sword and spurred the Broadback War Elephant to charge toward the coordinates on my map.
I reached the forest in less than ten minutes and heard combat sounds ringing out in the near distance. I charged toward the direction of the sounds and soon, a large group of densely packed players within the forest came into view. Each of them wore a crimson skull emblem on their shoulder. This must be God's Mercenaries. They do look like an intimidating bunch.
A Level 127 magic knight with a vice leader’s emblem on his shoulder raised his spear and pointed it toward Little Naughty. In a loud voice, he shouted, ”Dammit! We’ll show Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls how powerful we are! God's Mercenaries may be a small guild but we will not let others trample our dignity! Slaughter them all! We’ll let all of Sky City know that we will not stand to be bullied and humiliated by others!”
Cute Little Naughty gripped her dagger in one hand, pointed her other toward the vice leader and shouted angrily, ”How shameless of you! You’re the one who attacked us when all we did was just pass through this forest. How dare you accuse us of bullying you! Hmph! Does this patch of forest belong to you? How overbearing and hateful…”
The vice leader smirked and said, ”That’s right, God's Mercenaries has been grinding here for a week! You’ll have to pay the price for stepping onto our property! Brothers and sisters, attack! They don’t have many on their side so we’ll be done with them if we all attack together!”
The enemy started to attack as their archers released their arrows and their mages casted their enchantments. Even though the enemy outnumbered them, Cute Little Naughty remained calm and collected. A bunch of our guild members ran to the thicket to take cover but they still couldn’t escape their demise. Arrows and spells rained down on them as they collapsed with a howl.
Boom!
Galaxy Storm exploded among a bunch of enemies as a few half-health God's Mercenaries players and they collapsed to the ground and died. The caster was a Level 138 mage, a pretty high level at this stage of the game.
Cute Little Naughty clutched her dagger and positioned herself in a fighting stance. She leaped forward and used Ambush + Blade Vortex, instantly killing three warriors with a beautiful combo. Little Naughty had pretty good equipment. Coupled with her impressive mechanics, these low-level players were clearly not her match.
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I had no intentions to watch from the sidelines. I summoned the Phantom Wolf King and grasped the Cyan Netherworld Sword in my hand. I then spurred the Broadback War Elephant and charged over from afar!
Swhoosh!
The massive war elephant slammed straight into a group of players and sent them flying through the air. The elephant showed no mercy on its opponents and trampled all over them while I executed Burning Blade Slash amid a large crowd of enemies. Glittering light rays popped up as various equipment pieces scattered all over the ground.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
With a swing of my sword, I unleashed three continuous arcs of raging flames but was momentarily shocked by what I saw. What the hell! My AoE attack’s radius had actually extended to as long as 15 yards! This increase in range is ridiculous! Originally, my Burning Blade Slash could only reach 5 yards in front of me, but now this range was tripled! Mounted players truly were the kings of the battlefield!
I wrecked havoc with my Burning Blade Slash as the players from God's Mercenaries collapsed to the ground one by one. Equipment and bottles of low-level potions started dropping like flies and covered the ground. What a penniless group.
My melee skills were long-range attacks now! The Cyan Netherworld Sword was able to release crescents of energy upon enemies within a 15-yard radius. Even when I focused my attacks on a single enemy, other players within the line of attack would also take damage, albeit halved. It was just… awesome! My power had skyrocketed!
Given my high Defense and HP, I was like a tiger in a sheep’s pen. My attacks were so powerful that no one dared to come close to me. They were all scared out of their wits and could only stare at me with eyes wide open.
”Fuck! Who is this guy? Such powerful attacks…”
”It’s Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand! This guy is placed 7th in the CGL Hall of Fame! How powerful!”
”Dammit all! How did this attract the attention of Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls’ vice leader? How troublesome…”
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The numbers on my quest screen increased steadily with each player that I killed. In the blink of an eye, I had already killed 98 players! Alright! Another few more minutes and I’ll be done with the quest!
Cute Little Naughty was overjoyed by my appearance. She chuckled and said, ”Wow, Big Brother Lu Chen has come to save us! This is great! Let’s kill them all!”
Meanwhile, the dozen or so assassins that had been ambushing in the forest started to attack as they sliced through their enemies like hot knives cutting through butter.
However, the enemy numbers were simply overwhelming and I had been encircled by nearly a thousand of them! Arrows and magic spells rained down everywhere and I could not avoid getting hit. Devil Piercing Arrow and Dragon’s Roar were the worst as they dealt the greatest damage to me. Even though the enemy’s attacks were not fatal, their constant attacks from all sides caused my health to decrease rapidly.
Boom!
Thousand Ice Slash exploded amid a bunch of players and one-shot them. The Broadback War Elephant was so slow that a bunch of enemy riders easily outran it and started hacking at it. The enemy numbers were overwhelming, forcing me to retreat as I swung my swords in all directions. ”Come at me! Come and kill me if you dare!”
As I had expected, a bunch of outraged bloodthirsty God's Mercenaries players started to charge at me.
At this moment, arrows started to rain down on the enemy. What a powerful attack!
Pew pew pew!
A dozen magic knights collapsed one by one as a string of damage numbers popped up from their heads. Everyone gasped in shock as each number that popped up was higher than 15000. Furthermore, the splash effect of those arrows was also extremely powerful.
Oh? Has a powerful archer come to aid me?