Chapter 145: Come Out And Face Superman!
“Gray-clothed Demon?”
“A newly risen major power?”
After hearing this, Tanya searched her memory, but no matter how she tried, she could not remember any major power in the surrounding cities being called the Gray-clothed Demon.
“Young lady, should we send more people for support?” a man from the Nine Streets Gang asked.
“Support?” Tanya glanced at the gang members still fighting low-level monsters in the distant hall. Their number was now under one hundred, and dozens had already died along the way. She said without hesitation, “Summon everyone here. This is already the critical moment. There is no need to worry about whether other factions can get in.”
By now, in the city proper of Emerald Sky, all the major powers had mostly finished their exploration and taken almost everything worth taking. They had also gained a lot.
Now they had begun clearing out the monsters that emerged in the Martial Artist Association. As long as they cleared those monsters, everything in the Martial Artist Association would be theirs for the taking. There was no need to waste manpower to stop other factions from entering.
Especially now that there was a powerful Gray-clothed Demon side fighting desperately. Continuing to block them would be extremely unwise.
“Yes.” The man from the Nine Streets Gang immediately left to inform the scattered Nine Streets Gang members.
Just as the man from the Nine Streets Gang left, Mo Ke, who had entered the Martial Artist Association, also walked out.
“Miss Tanya, the Warehouse Area of the Martial Artist Association is almost cleared, but a mid-level monster has appeared. We need to join forces,” Mo Ke said excitedly. “Once we take down that mid-level monster, everything in the Martial Artist Association warehouse will be ours.”
The Martial Artist Association of a city might not be as wealthy as the senior official factions managing the city, but in terms of rare monster materials, it absolutely had the most.
As long as they got their hands on these rare monster materials, not only could they greatly speed up their cultivation on the martial path, they could even forge a powerful faction that did not lose to the city proper powers, becoming a great help for their future.
“Alright.” When Tanya heard this, she could not help being delighted.
After spending most of half a day, they finally cleared almost all the monsters in the warehouse area of the Martial Artist Association. Next, they just needed to kill that mid-level monster, grab the Martial Artist Association’s reserves, and run.
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Outside the city proper of Emerald Sky.
“Retreat?” Brajiji looked at the message on his smart watch and, for some reason, felt a sense of relief.
After fighting until now, Brajiji was truly somewhat afraid of these Gray-clothed Demons. They seemed endless. Even if those above chose to send support, it would only delay the time before the Gray-clothed Demons entered the city proper.
“You are retreating too?” Jia Siwei looked at Brajiji, who had begun forming up to leave, and could not help laughing.
“Yeah, orders from above, we are to regroup,” Brajiji nodded and said with a smile as well. “Now we can finally say bye-bye to that bunch of lunatics.”
“Exactly.” Jia Siwei agreed deeply. “I never want to run into those lunatics again. Every single one of them either doesn’t care about their life or is obsessed with stripping equipment. I really don’t know how that faction turned those people so insane.”
As for the Gray-clothed Demons, all he felt now was a chill.
That kind of battle did not feel like fighting humans at all, but truly like fighting a group of demons. Even powerful wilderness monsters feared death, but the Gray-clothed Demons did not. They would seize any chance to drag you down with them.
After so many battles in one night, not only his subordinates, but even he himself, after witnessing so many fights to the death, had developed an instinctive fear. Especially when he saw companions, full of unwillingness, being grabbed by Gray-clothed Demons, the Gray-clothed Demons laughing in delight, and then all of them pierced through the chest by a bolt of lightning.
Jia Siwei started to understand why those wilderness gangs would rather charge at them than dare to face the Gray-clothed Demons.
Over ten minutes after Brajiji, Jia Siwei, and the others led their teams away, Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others also ran over excitedly, ready to do it again.
But when Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others saw the empty street, they were all dumbfounded.
“Where did all my elite monsters go?” Yi Ye Fu Yun looked at the empty street and searched for a long time, but did not find a single figure.
They had just farmed over two hundred sets of A6 battle armor, counting on this batch of elite monsters to charge for the top of the rankings.
“The game manufacturer must have fixed this bug.” Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang looked around and found that nothing had been left behind. Even the corpses on both sides of the street had been completely burned, not leaving them even a hair. Only the game developer could be so ruthless.
“These game manufacturers really are all the same. Any bug that benefits us players, they fix at incredible speed,” Yi Ye Fu Yun said speechlessly.
“It’s good enough,” Ye Qinglu did not mind and comforted them. “A bug like this disrupts game balance too much. We managed to farm over two hundred sets, we should be satisfied. I bet other teams did the same. Next we should hurry to the city proper so others don’t get ahead of us.”
Yi Ye Fu Yun, Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang, and the others nodded. They felt this bug had indeed earned them a lot, and there was no point in arguing over its fix. The most important thing now was to get more contribution in the city proper.
Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others then rushed into the city proper of Emerald Sky and soon disappeared along the street.
“Those major powers in the suburbs are just giving up?” Qin Mu stared wide-mouthed at the players entering the city proper.
Previously, he had always thought what the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was doing was pure suicide.
But after a whole night of battle, he did not expect that the final winner would be the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. The major powers in the suburbs truly did not plan to stop the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall from entering the city proper. It was not a trap. Everyone had retreated completely.
“Since there is no obstruction from the suburban major powers, let’s go inside and take a look too,” Hou Fei suggested.
Now the formal members of the Martial Artist Association were underground, trying to shut down the power source of Emerald Sky and stop it. The garrison personnel on the surface like them were quite idle.
Without members of the suburban major powers stopping them, they could absolutely go into the city proper to have a look. Maybe they could get their hands on something good.
“Alright, let’s go take a look too.” Qin Mu nodded. Of course he could not let such a chance slip.
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Emerald Sky, city proper.
“Sister Wu, according to the map we found, the Martial Artist Association of Emerald Sky should be just ahead. There should be plenty of good stuff in there,” Twilight of the Gods said, glancing at the paper map in his hand and pointing to the end of a street.
“Alright, everyone be careful. When we came in before, we discovered quite a few monsters in the city proper. There are not only low-level and mid-level monsters, but even high-level monsters moving around,” Luo Wu Shang softly reminded all the Heavenly Might members gathered.
Previously, she, Zhang Qing Wei, Zhao Hu, and a dozen others had fought their way into the city proper. Relying on agile movement techniques and powerful perception, they killed many of their pursuers in the alleys, which finally made the pursuers give up.
However, during their dozen-person exploration of the city proper, they discovered that the city was extremely dangerous. Monsters hiding in the dark would come out to attack from time to time.
They had even been attacked by a high-level monster and got killed before they could obtain any good items.
Fortunately, after getting killed, they learned the method to farm elite monsters. Over this night, they had farmed many A6 battle armor sets and, just before the bug was fixed, managed to get more than one hundred and fifty sets of A6 battle armor. It was a huge profit.
Now that the city proper was open, the most valuable places were the city martial artist universities and the Martial Artist Association, which existed specifically to serve martial artists.
As for the residences of the major powers in the city, although they wanted to find them, without a power distribution map of Emerald Sky, searching blindly in such a huge city, they could not possibly find them without spending several days.
But the martial artist universities and the Martial Artist Association were different. They were landmark buildings. With any map, even if one could not read, one could recognize them.
Just as Luo Wu Shang and the others approached the Martial Artist Association, a few figures appeared on another street.
These figures were all wearing silver-gray long-sleeved T-shirts. Although their strength had not reached advanced apprentice, their movement speed was extremely fast, leaving afterimages behind. It was clear they were very proficient in Leopard Shadow Steps.
Among these figures, Luo Wu Shang saw a few familiar faces.
“Lu Fanchen! Li Tianxing! Lin Xinyao! Why are they here?” Luo Wu Shang’s beautiful eyes were filled with a hint of shock as she looked at the three figures on the street.
Mythical Paradise and Heavenly Might were long-time rivals in Pilgrimage. Even in offline events, the Saint-level members of both sides met often. It was no exaggeration to say they knew each other well.
Although the three looked somewhat different from reality for some reason, each taller and more imposing, their overall appearance had not changed. They could be recognized at a glance.
“Luo Wu Shang and the others are here too?” Lu Fanchen also noticed Luo Wu Shang and her group at this moment, and his brows furrowed.
They had entered the city proper with great difficulty using special methods, and he had not expected to encounter Luo Wu Shang and the others here. This was quite unfavorable for their exploration of the Martial Artist Association.
Now, Heavenly Might had many people in High Martial Arts Descend, while Mythical Paradise only had a few. Their three strongest were only at intermediate apprentice level, still a bit short of advanced apprentice. If it came to a fight over loot, they would gain no advantage.
While both sides had different thoughts and quickly approached the towering Martial Artist Association, the entire street suddenly shook, and then everyone felt the world rocking.
Boom!
The plaza in front of the Association Building suddenly exploded.
A three-headed giant snake over fifty meters long, its body wreathed in flames, burst out. The three-headed giant snake attacked itself and let out earth-shaking hisses. Its voice echoed for several kilometers around. Its terrifying pressure was unlike anything Luo Wu Shang and the others had ever seen.
Then, from the collapsing plaza, hundreds of people emerged, fleeing frantically in all directions, each with unprecedented fear on their faces. Many of them were carrying various metal boxes.
One look was enough to tell that these metal boxes were all high-grade goods, absolutely incomparable to ordinary storage boxes.
“Everyone, run with the boxes! Run as far as you can!”
“Anyone who brings a box back alive will be greatly rewarded with a family elder seat! Anyone who dares to steal it will be hunted to the ends of the earth!”
After rushing out from underground, Mo Ke shouted orders to all those fleeing, then grabbed a metal box himself and sprinted madly toward a less populated direction.
On the other side, Tanya, over four meters tall, emerged holding two metal boxes. She issued the same order and fled toward another sparsely populated area.
“What is going on?” Twilight of the Gods stared at the terrifying giant beast and the large number of gang members fleeing from beneath the plaza, not understanding the situation.
“Grab them! Everyone, grab those treasure chests! The items in those treasure chests must be extremely valuable!” Luo Wu Shang reacted quickly and immediately gave the order to seize the metal boxes.
Everyone present quickly reacted as well. They must have triggered a battle royale plot. What happened next depended on whether they could grab a treasure chest and escape.
“Hurry! Rob that Winged Tribe guy with the golden treasure chest!” Lu Fanchen reacted even faster, immediately targeting a Winged Tribe strongman not far away, who was carrying a metal box shining with golden light in the sun.
In an instant, Lu Fanchen and the other two blocked the fleeing Winged Tribe strongman. Facing this elite monster at quasi-martial artist level wearing A6 battle armor, the three of them each struck out with a Lightning Palm.
Because of Fire Energy, the power of their Lightning Palms could contend head-on with a Gold-Devouring Unicorn Rat. With three attacking at once, the unprepared Winged Tribe strongman could only take one strike head-on, while the other two landed cleanly. Fire Energy and Lightning Force erupted inside his body and instantly took his life.
“Damn it! Kill those three and take back the storage box!” Mo Ke roared in anger when he saw this from afar.
There were only nine golden storage boxes in total in the warehouse of the Martial Artist Association, placed in the deepest area. Aside from the three taken by him and Tanya, the remaining six had been given to his trusted subordinates. For one to be snatched now was something Mo Ke could not tolerate.
“Tianxing, take the treasure chest and go!” Lu Fanchen handed the treasure chest to Li Tianxing as he saw more than ten Winged Tribe suicide squad members killing their way over from all sides.
Li Tianxing said nothing. He grabbed the treasure chest, activated Heaven-Treading Steps, stepped several times in midair, and leaped directly to a rooftop over thirty meters high. Once on the roof, he took several more steps in the air and dashed to the rooftop of another building dozens of meters away.
The whole process took less than three seconds. In the blink of an eye, Li Tianxing was already on a tall building nearly a hundred meters away, leaving the Winged Tribe suicide squad members who had intended to pursue him stunned.
“Walking in the air? How is that possible!”
“How can a person fly?”
Mo Ke stared at the distant Li Tianxing, his eyes full of boundless fury, now also filled with shock.
Even Winged Tribe martial artists could not accomplish walking in the air like that, yet a human race apprentice had done it. Who would believe this if it was told?
