Chapter 77: What You Don’t Dare To Do, We Will
Many people in the plaza spoke the three words “Gray Robe Gang,” and the leaders of the various gangs on the stage could not help sizing up Lin Qi and the others as they walked over.
“Are they that Gray Robe Gang?”
“The strength of these people is not that great. How did Gana from the White Feather Gang get taken out by them? Could it be because of those B2-grade weapons?”
The wilderness gangs present were very familiar with the name Gray Robe Gang. In fact, over these past days, they had been the focus of discussion among all the major wilderness gangs.
In a single battle they took down a Quasi-Martial Artist of the White Feather Gang and more than twenty powerful apprentices. Such a record had not appeared in the wilderness for many years.
Many gangs suspected this was fake news, deliberately spread by vagrants of the human race.
After all, anyone who had investigated the Gray Robe Gang knew this gang had only been founded recently, and was composed of unregistered nomads of the human race. No matter how you looked at it, it seemed impossible.
Although the thirty-one members of the Gray Robe Gang now displayed considerable strength, with Lin Qi as an Limit Apprentice leading them, four Advanced Apprentices, sixteen Intermediate Apprentices, and the others all Beginner Apprentices,
with such strength they were qualified to compete with gangs ranked around the top hundred in the wilderness, but it was still not enough if they wanted to keep a Quasi-Martial Artist like Gana.
After thinking it over, the gangs present saw only one possibility: the B2-grade standard weapons in the hands of the Gray Robe Gang.
B2-grade weapons did not require much effort to pierce A6-grade armor. If a group of Advanced Apprentices were to cooperate with an Limit Apprentice to launch a surprise attack on a Quasi-Martial Artist, two fists could not beat many hands. It was indeed possible to take down Gana.
“As the rumors said, they really are bold. So many B2-grade standard weapons; these Gray Robe Gang people are not afraid of being robbed,” Hou Fei below the stage looked at the ten players carrying B2-grade standard weapons on their backs and could not help clicking his tongue.
B2-grade weapons were generally worth five to six hundred thousand. While many wilderness gangs could afford to purchase them, they could not afford to use them.
The wilderness was incomparably dangerous. Compared to monsters, people were even more dangerous. Carrying B2-grade weapons was like carrying great wealth, easily drawing others’ greed.
Furthermore, B2-grade weapons were the main weapons for hunting monsters. Ordinary Martial Artists might look down on them, but for those just entering the path of Martial Artists, vagrants who were not even Martial Artists carrying B2-grade weapons were walking ATMs.
And besides Martial Artists, if gang members from the suburbs saw them in the wilderness, they would rob them without mercy. If you seized it, you profited; there was no reason not to.
Therefore, in the wilderness, aside from a few top experts, even if someone could afford B2-grade weapons, they usually only used A6-grade weapons. Those who dared to use B2-grade weapons were all extremely bold.
Ten B2-grade standard weapons were openly displayed. That meant either ignorance, or a big heart that did not fear being robbed.
“Gray Robe Gang?”
Isaac, Gang Leader of the White Feather Gang, suddenly looked at Lin Qi and the others with sharp eyes, faintly carrying killing intent.
“This Gray Robe Gang’s strength is indeed decent. No wonder Flo was willing to offer a 20% share.”
Valrod, Gang Leader of the Green Sparrow Gang, was somewhat surprised. He had not expected that the Gray Robe Gang Flo spoke of would be willing to take out ten B2-grade weapons. Even their Green Sparrow Gang could not manage such a grand move.
“That Yi Ye Fu Yun is actually still alive, and his strength has even reached Intermediate Apprentice. It seems this Gray Robe Gang is indeed extraordinary. No wonder the gang members are so willing to fight to the death.” Fischer looked at a somewhat familiar figure in the crowd and could not help raising her opinion of leader Lin Qi by a few degrees.
“This Gray Robe Gang really is not simple. It is not just Yi Ye Fu Yun; even Hall Master Lin’s strength has improved astonishingly. Now he likely already has the strength of an Limit Apprentice.” Flo at the side saw leader Lin Qi and could not help feeling both shocked and relieved.
In only twelve short days, to go from Intermediate Apprentice all the way to Limit Apprentice, such a rate of improvement was as fierce as if he had injected those gene potions.
Ever since the City of Light Chasing was destroyed a hundred years ago, with a large number of Martial Artists dying, the newly developed gene potions had become the city’s lifeline.
As long as an ordinary person injected a gene potion, they could rapidly advance in a short time, directly reaching Limit Apprentice. However, because these potions greatly forced open one’s potential, they would also drastically shorten the user’s lifespan. Someone who could normally live to one hundred would be fortunate to live to forty or fifty after injection.
Even so, many people were still willing to inject them, allowing the ruined City of Light Chasing to produce a sizable number of Martial Artists again in a short period.
By the time the number of Martial Artists in the City of Light Chasing returned to its peak, gene potions had become something only a few factions in the city center could use. For other factions to obtain them, aside from the exorbitant price, most did not even qualify to purchase them.
As for gangs in the suburbs with the qualifications to purchase them, there were only about a dozen factions such as the Phosphor Fire Gang.
Now that Lin Qi displayed the strength of an Limit Apprentice, Flo felt even more certain that the Gray Robe Gang must be a gang created in the wilderness by the Phosphor Fire Gang. Otherwise Lin Qi could not have improved so quickly.
As Lin Qi and the others stepped onto the stage, everyone present once again shifted their gaze toward the White Feather Gang and the Green Sparrow Gang.
The Gray Robe Gang in dark gray long-sleeved T-shirts was indeed eye-catching, but the core of this death match was the White Feather Gang and the Green Sparrow Gang. In front of these two large wilderness gangs, the Gray Robe Gang was insignificant.
“Valrod, that lord’s disciple has arrived as well.” Isaac, Gang Leader of the White Feather Gang, smiled and glanced at a luxurious young winged tribe man under twenty, already seated high on the stage. Because of this youth’s presence, the gang representatives present were extremely respectful; even Limit Quasi-Martial Artists were no exception. Isaac said arrogantly, “You still have a chance to surrender now. Once the battle starts, if you want to regret it, it will be too late.”
After Isaac finished speaking, Sky Shattering Hammer Bot and Heavy Shield Atley each took a step forward. Their auras surged, and the blood qi of Limit Quasi-Martial Artists pressed toward the members of the Green Sparrow Gang, almost tangible.
This scene caused an uproar among those present.
“Such dense blood qi, completely incomparable to ordinary Quasi-Martial Artists. The two of them are really only half a step away from becoming Martial Artists!”
“The White Feather Gang is really about to soar now. With these two joining, they can even compete for a top ten spot.”
Many experts below the stage looked at Sky Shattering Hammer Bot and Heavy Shield Atley on the stage, their faces filled with shock and envy.
The step from Quasi-Martial Artist to Martial Artist had stopped too many people.
To be like Sky Shattering Hammer Bot and Heavy Shield Atley, with blood qi almost condensed into substance, clearly only half a step away from a breakthrough, and yet that last half step was something many people present would never reach in their entire lives.
On the stage, Valrod, Gang Leader of the Green Sparrow Gang, looked extremely unsightly.
For a moment, he hesitated whether he should fight.
If they really fought, then even if he joined in, their chances of victory were less than twenty percent. If they lost, the Green Sparrow Gang’s strength would be greatly damaged, and they would further offend the White Feather Gang, inviting inevitable retaliation afterward.
If they surrendered now, then half of those registered to fight would have to die, making their gang a laughingstock for all the others present.
“Our Green Sparrow Gang will withdraw.” Valrod gritted his teeth and forced out each word.
The difference in strength between the two sides was obvious. Even if the other gangs laughed at them, so be it. In Valrod’s view, as long as the Green Sparrow Gang’s high-end combat power remained, the rest could only laugh; they could not shake the position of the Green Sparrow Gang, already ranked in the top thirty.
“Smart of you.” Isaac could not help laughing. “All right, let twenty-five people come up and die!”
Although Isaac personally wanted a battle to completely declare the White Feather Gang’s rise to everyone present and make them understand the White Feather Gang’s terror,
for the sake of the gang’s future development, the fewer experts they lost, the better. They did not even need to give any share to the other invited gangs, which was killing two birds with one stone.
“Hold it!”
A low, deep voice suddenly echoed across the stage, making everyone turn toward its source, curious who would dare provoke the White Feather Gang at a time like this.
The speaker was a young human man in a jet-black martial robe, not even one meter ninety tall.
“Hall Master Lin, you are…?” Flo looked at Lin Qi, who had spoken up, and could not help being puzzled.
“Gang Leader Valrod, it is not good for you to admit defeat like this. Who will those deaths be counted against?” Lin Qi did not even glance at Flo. He turned his gaze to Valrod with a questioning tone.
“Please rest assured. Since your gang was invited, and we admit defeat, naturally the deaths will be counted on us.” Valrod said generously, “And we will not let your gang come here for nothing. There will be a heavy gift later.”
“In that case, we do not need any so-called heavy gift from your gang.” Lin Qi paused, then said in an unquestionable tone, “Since your Green Sparrow Gang does not dare to take this death match, then we will. When the time comes, we will take sixty percent of the share. Gang Leader Valrod, this request is not excessive, is it?”
Lin Qi was determined to obtain the energy vein. If he gave up this opportunity, who knew how long it would take to find another decent energy vein.
Not to mention that their Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had long since offended the White Feather Gang, so he did not mind offending them further.
In any case, the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would have to fight the White Feather Gang sooner or later. It was better to use this death match to first cut off one of the White Feather Gang’s claws. That way, if the White Feather Gang wanted to act again later, they would have to think carefully, buying him more time to develop.
