Chapter 169: First Battle In The City
“Dead?”
“What exactly just happened?”
The Iron Heart Gang members below the platform stared at the elder lying on the stage, all of them stunned.
Although the gang elders were all quite old, most over fifty, with their qi and blood greatly declining, they were still genuine limit quasi-martial artists. Their bodily reactions and sharpness of their five senses were simply incomparable to ordinary people.
Let alone dodging a supersonic arrow from a hundred meters away, they might even dodge it from fifty meters out. Not to mention that the gang elders were all wearing B1-grade battle armor, and their body reaction speed was faster than that of ordinary martial artists. Dodging a supersonic arrow from fifty meters away should have been ridiculously easy.
Yet now one of them had been killed in a single shot, or rather by two arrows, with one arrow’s rank two acceleration boosting its speed so much that even a gang elder had no time to evade. It was downright terrifying.
“Who is it! Who dares come to our Iron Heart Gang to run wild!”
“Do you intend to fight our Iron Heart Gang to the death?!”
Fu Yihai looked at the elder who had been taken out, then turned his head toward the small plaza entrance, his gaze icy cold.
Right when the Iron Heart Gang was about to rise by riding the momentum, someone had killed an elder on the spot. This was an enormous humiliation.
On the bustling street outside, there was a dazzlingly gorgeous woman, clearly not a martial artist, holding a B2-grade compound heavy bow with lightning coiling around her hand. She was obviously the one who had loosed that arrow.
Next to this woman stood a familiar figure, followed by a large group of people in silver-gray clothing. These people completely blocked the entrance, not allowing outsiders to enter, clearly here with ill intentions.
And that familiar figure was Meng Wei.
“Vice gang leader Fu, my people are already here. It is time you released the four elders, don’t you think?” Meng Wei looked at Fu Yihai and said loudly.
Meng Wei’s appearance instantly caused an uproar.
“Vice gang leader Meng Wei actually really came!”
“Those people in silver-gray clothing, are they from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall?”
“Less than three hundred people dare to come to our Iron Heart Gang. Are they tired of living?”
The Iron Heart Gang members looked at the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall members blocking the street. Their initial tension quickly faded, and as they looked at the still-calm Meng Wei, it was as if they were looking at a fool.
That stunning arrow just now had indeed scared everyone, making them think some incredible major power had arrived.
But now it was just fewer than three hundred Obsidian Martial Arts Hall members plus Meng Wei, the former vice gang leader. This level of strength was nothing in front of the more than four thousand gang members gathered by the Iron Heart Gang, not to mention the eight hundred elites of the Four Major Powers.
It was no exaggeration to say that Meng Wei and the others were here to cause trouble.
“Meng Wei, if you want me to release them, of course that’s possible. Come over and surrender, and I will naturally release these four traitors!” Fu Yihai swept a glance over the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall members and laughed. “Or do you think that with fewer than three hundred people and just your word, I will release them just like that?”
Right now, the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had brought a little more than two hundred people, most of whom were still ordinary people. Although among these ordinary people there were some wearing A6-grade battle armor, showing that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall did indeed have some foundation, it was still not enough if they wanted to rescue anyone.
Hearing this, Meng Wei could not help but sigh.
In the end, there would still have to be a fight.
He immediately turned around and respectfully said to Luo Wu Shang, Ye Qinglu, and the others behind him, “I will have to trouble all of you.”
“Elder Meng, please rest assured,” Yi Ye Fu Yun said with a smile at his side. “We will definitely rescue these four elders.”
Luo Wu Shang and Ye Qinglu both nodded as well, their eyes shining as they looked at Fu Yihai and the others.
With this hidden plot triggered, besides the rescue task issued by hall master Lin Qi, with every person rescued the entire group would receive five hundred contribution points and two thousand points. They had not expected to unlock an advanced team dungeon as well. This was a windfall.
“Is this hidden plot really this profitable?” Fang Zhen looked at the enemies filling the field and the fully armed elites of the Four Major Powers, extremely excited. “Brothers, time to work!”
Although he had earned quite a lot of points through limited-time events before, it was only after breaking through to martial artist that he realized this game’s spending had only just begun.
Leaving aside the fact that after becoming a martial artist, cultivating cultivation methods required energy ore, even attempting the breakthrough to martial artist in the first place had cost quite a lot of energy ore.
But that was still not the most important part. The most ruthless thing about this game was that if players wanted to increase their cultivation speed, they had to rely on training rooms built by themselves using energy ore.
As for entering the mine secret realm to cultivate, too bad. The devs had just pushed a patch, and hall master Lin Qi directly announced that only disciples below martial artist level were allowed in. Martial artists and above could no longer enter the secret realm.
This meant that players who had become martial artists and wanted to improve quickly had no choice but to build their own training rooms. And the price of energy ore was outrageously high now, directly raised to two hundred points per kilogram. People could understand this, since it was still the internal test phase and price adjustments were normal, especially as player levels rose and they earned points faster, while energy ore was a necessary item only for martial artists, so it being more expensive was normal.
But building a training room without tens of tons of energy ore was impossible. And once built, the training room would consume energy ore with continued use and would need constant replenishment. The expenses were enormous.
And just recently, everyone had gone crazy over the martial arts hall disciple outfits.
That was right. No one had expected High Martial Arts Descend to turn out to be a game that devoured both time and money. Disciple outfits came with attributes, and redeeming one cost three hundred thousand points, with completely random attributes. But by spending another three hundred thousand points, you could refresh the outfit’s attributes.
Disciple outfit attributes came in many varieties, but the ones actually useful to players were only a few, such as qi and blood improvement, qi and blood recovery, stamina improvement, and thought speed improvement.
To gain a thought speed improvement attribute and break through to martial artist faster, he had spent tens of millions of points, yet still had not rolled it. It was simply a bottomless pit.
Now, just for a disciple outfit, he had almost drained himself dry.
At present, if players wanted to earn quick money, they could only grind team dungeons or run into people they could rob.
And this team dungeon before their eyes had thousands of people at a glance. All of them were points.
Next, the nearly three hundred people of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall moved like a swarm of bees gone mad, all charging toward the platform in the plaza, intending to rescue the four half-dead elders.
“Courting death!”
“Kill them all for me!”
Fu Yihai looked with disdain at the nearly three hundred people charging over and directly ordered the thousands below the stage to encircle and slaughter them.
He did not know how the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had produced two more martial artists. Including Meng Wei, they had three martial artists in total. But facing the Iron Heart Gang’s more than four thousand people, even if there were ten martial artists, none of them would leave today.
In an instant, battle cries shook the entire small plaza. Even in other street blocks several kilometers away, people could hear the deafening shouts of killing and fled in panic for fear of being caught up in it.
But just as the four thousand-plus of the Iron Heart Gang closed in to surround and kill the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall members, those members each took out a B2-grade arrow. Some tossed their arrows into the air; others had them hover in front of them. Lightning wrapped around their hands as, one by one, they slapped their palms onto the tails of the arrows.
This scene left all the Iron Heart Gang members present baffled, yet they still charged in.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
In just an instant, nearly three hundred incomparably scorching beams lit up the entire dim small plaza. More than five hundred Iron Heart Gang members fell to the ground, each with a blood hole the size of a bowl in their bodies, some with several of them, blood spilling all over the ground.
For a moment, everyone was shocked.
