Chapter 47: First Blood
“What are you all standing around stupidly for?”
“The two of them are just limit quasi-apprentices using martial skills, that’s all! Everyone, get them!”
“Kill them and there will be a huge reward for everyone afterward!”
Lante looked at the White Feather Gang members who had been frightened stiff and could not help but roar in anger.
In that instant, the people of the White Feather Gang also came to their senses. Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qing Wei were not terrifying in themselves; they had only suppressed leader Lante and captain Maiti through a combination of ambush and martial skills.
“Kill!”
“Just two limit quasi-apprentices dare to stand against the White Feather Gang, they’re courting death!”
“Archers, take out that boy and that woman in the distance for me, we absolutely cannot let them escape!”
The three White Feather Gang captains who recovered their senses each drew the modular spears from their backs. With a twist and turn, they formed alloy spears nearly three meters long and, aiming at Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qing Wei, launched an attack at once.
Although the three captains did not know martial skills, they could easily suppress Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qing Wei without martial skills by relying on the more than 300 kilograms of strength of beginner apprentices.
As Lante’s roar spread through the base, the patrolling White Feather Gang members inside immediately converged on the base gate, eager to seize merit.
Within the gang, it was extremely difficult for ordinary members to get promoted, and there were usually only two ways.
The first was to complete gang-assigned tasks, accumulating enough until one’s strength was sufficient for promotion.
The second was to kill enemies and accumulate enough contribution to be promoted from ordinary member to captain.
Now that only Lin Qi’s group of three dared to come onto White Feather Gang territory to snatch someone, this was definitely a great opportunity to grab merit.
“It’s over.” Luo Qi watched more than ten White Feather Gang members in armor charging up, as well as the archers aiming from not far away, and could not help shouting toward Lin Qi, “Run! I’ll find a way to block them!”
In Luo Qi’s view, Lin Qi had come specifically to fake a deal with the White Feather Gang in order to save her. As a limit quasi-apprentice, she certainly could not let Lin Qi, who was not even a quasi-apprentice, take the risk.
However, just as Luo Qi was about to pull Lin Qi into the vehicle to block the White Feather Gang, she suddenly realized she could not move him.
“Lin Zi! You?”
Before Luo Qi could recover from her shock, she saw Lin Qi calmly raise his other hand.
“Do it! Kill them!”
Lin Qi looked at the approaching White Feather Gang members and swung up his raised hand.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Four streaks of silver-white light suddenly shot out from behind Lin Qi and accurately struck the unprotected necks of the White Feather Gang members. The four died on the spot.
As the four fell, more than twenty figures burst out from the dead forest in the distance at the same time, each faster than the last, with several of them reaching apprentice-level speed.
This scene shocked all the White Feather Gang members. They had not expected Lin Qi’s group to be acting with a plan, nor that it was only three of them.
“Not good! Enemy attack! We’re under attack!”
“Hurry! Inform the nearby people! A gang is attacking the planting base!”
“Damn it! No signal! The signal is jammed!”
In the dark of night, a volley of arrows that could instantly kill four armored men, plus more than twenty people charging, could only mean that another gang was attacking the planting base. There was no other possibility.
“Who the hell are you people?”
“You dare attack our White Feather Gang base, are you planning to fight us to the death?”
Lante, who had joined in the siege, swept a glance with the corner of his eye at the players charging from afar. His expression was extremely grave and astonished, and he roared furiously.
Although he could not see clearly in the dark, the ten people at the front were obviously moving at apprentice-level speed, more than 12 meters per second.
In other words, the opposing gang had actually sent ten apprentice-level experts, twice as many as the apprentices in their base. Plus the two monstrous women before him, such a terrifying formation was enough to wipe out a small wilderness gang.
Yet in Lante’s memory, he did not seem to have offended any such faction at all.
The members of this gang faction were extremely conspicuous, all wearing dark gray long-sleeve T-shirts. Especially now that the distance had closed, it was clear that every one of them held a shovel. With such an obvious gang emblem, there was no way he would have forgotten them.
As for the idea that this gang had come to rescue Luo Qi, even a ghost would not believe that. In the City of Light Chasing, anyone protected by a gang would bear that gang’s mark. If anyone dared touch someone with such a mark, it meant becoming enemies with that gang.
But Luo Qi had no gang mark on her at all; she was just an ordinary employee of Azure Crystal Weapon Shop.
“This boss sure talks a lot of nonsense.” Luo Wu Shang watched Lante fighting while questioning them and could not help feeling speechless. “The game manufacturer really needs to properly adjust boss intelligence. We’re already attacking, and instead of focusing on the fight he’s asking if we mean to go all-out to the death. What’s the point of that?”
“Bear with it, it’s for the plot,” Zhang Qing Wei reminded quietly as she kept entangled with two White Feather Gang captains. “Everyone else is rushing over, let’s pick up the pace. We absolutely can’t let anyone else take this boss’s first blood.”
“Right, this boss’s first blood will definitely have extra rewards, we can’t let anyone else have it.” Luo Wu Shang dodged a sweeping strike from Lante’s spear, strongly agreeing, and followed up with another Point Star.
“You’re seeking death!”
The words of Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qing Wei made Lante both enraged and alarmed. He suddenly slammed his spear down, blasting aside Luo Wu Shang’s Point Star and forcing her back two steps. Then he leveled the spear, muscles bulging all over his body, preparing to use his ultimate move to kill one of them first.
Although Lante could not understand why lunatics these days were so strong and threw out martial skills one after another as if they cost nothing,
treating him like a boss and daring to target his first blood?
Then he would show them just how hard it was to take his first blood.
“This boss is actually pissed, looks like he’s about to enter phase two!” Knocked back, Luo Wu Shang flipped through the air, landed precisely, and said with excitement in her eyes, “Come! Let me see how your phase two looks!”
“Damn it! You lunatic!” Lante looked at Luo Wu Shang, who showed no fear and was even itching to fight, and felt unbearably stifled.
Using martial skills placed a heavy burden on the body; using one was usually a fight to the death, either you die or I die.
But these lunatics clearly did not understand what death was. This made Lante hesitate whether to use martial skills and go all-out.
Betting his life against a lunatic was a losing deal no matter how he looked at it.
“This boss is no good, he’s taking forever to start phase two.” Zhang Qing Wei glanced at Lante anxiously. “Everyone else is about to get here. He’s not planning to gather everyone up and have us all fight over first blood, is he?”
“Damn it! You die first!”
Lante stared fixedly at Zhang Qing Wei in the midst of the fight. This woman was absolutely intolerable. He leaped directly at her, driving his spear down toward her.
Apprentice-level martial skill: Mountain Breaker.
This spear technique could boost strength and speed by more than fifty percent. One strike carried over 600 kilograms of force, enough to threaten advanced apprentices.
“So this boss’s phase two is aggro shift?”
“That’s actually something.”
Luo Wu Shang looked at Lante slamming down toward Zhang Qing Wei and could not help seriously studying him.
Zhang Qing Wei, fending off two White Feather Gang captains, had no time to evade. She could only forcefully swing the arrow in her hand, meeting him with a Rippling Wave Saber strike.
Bang!
Zhang Qing Wei was blasted ten meters away, and the arm holding the Black Steel Arrow was twisted and broken. She now looked much more battered and was no longer able to fight the other captains.
Yet just as Lante was about to show a smug expression, he saw the broken-armed Zhang Qing Wei instead reveal a look of joy.
“Wu Shang, this boss is great, he actually broke my arm in one move. If we take his first blood, maybe he’ll drop something really good!” Zhang Qing Wei called out excitedly to Luo Wu Shang.
“This boss really is good. After phase two started, his strength and speed both increased a lot, but the backlash from that move doesn’t seem small either. I can feel his aura weakening; I bet he can’t use it many times.” Luo Wu Shang nodded, her gaze even more excited, and unleashed another Point Star at Lante.
Zhang Qing Wei, for her part, ignored the other captains. She gripped the Black Steel Arrow with her other hand, stepped into Leopard Shadow Steps and turned into a black blur, charging straight at Lante with another Rippling Wave Saber.
“Lunatics! These two are complete lunatics!”
Lante watched the two of them charging in without regard for their lives. He could clearly feel that they did not care at all about their own survival and did not even know what fear was.
The only thing on their minds was his first blood.
At this point it was not only Lante who felt these people in dark gray clothes were lunatics. Every White Feather Gang member who had clashed with them also thought this Gray Robe Gang was full of madmen.
Damn it all.
They did not even use normal weapons in battle, just charged in swinging shovels. Some of them were riddled with arrows, yet instead of fearfully retreating, they pulled the arrows out, tucked them away like profit, and looked delighted.
Then they rushed forward while cursing, yelling for the archers to shoot at them.
Seeing this, the surrounding Gray Robe Gang members actually looked envious and imitated them one after another, leaving the White Feather Gang archers completely dumbfounded.
They had seen people used as shields, but never people volunteering to be shields, wearing expressions that said: if you don’t shoot me, you’re dead.
It left the archers wondering who was shooting at whom anymore.
The cruelest ones were those gray-clothed archers. When they ran out of arrows, they would ruthlessly yank arrows from their companions’ bodies and shoot them back without even blinking. So ruthless and vicious it was chilling.
On the players’ side, with Fang Zhen and the others firing constantly, White Feather Gang numbers dropped almost every moment, and their original charge quickly crumbled.
“Great!”
“This boss’s first blood is mine!”
Yi Ye Fu Yun, who had already reached Lante, gripped his spear with both hands and spun in midair, excitedly unleashing Spiral Demon Spear Kill at Lante.
Lante had just withstood a joint attack from Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qing Wei, leaving his qi and blood extremely unstable. Yet he instinctively sensed danger from Yi Ye Fu Yun’s move and leaped again with Mountain Breaker.
Bang!
With just one clash, Lante’s spear was knocked aside. A silver alloy spear then pierced through his neck, sending his entire head flying.
In Lante’s final moment, he saw Yi Ye Fu Yun, who had unleashed Spiral Demon Spear Kill: one arm already gone, blood spurting wildly all over. It was clear he would not live long.
Yet for some reason, Yi Ye Fu Yun’s face was lit up with joy as he continually shouted in celebration.
First blood.
I got his first blood.
“Damn it!”
Lante cursed in his heart. Even in death he did not understand when he had provoked such a terrifying gang. There was not a single normal person in the entire faction.
