Sword Among Us c1-1268

by Black Swordsman Online

  It went from fighting alone against seven to fighting alone against ten, then twenty, then thirty…

  The final dozen powerful players were forced into the middle of the forest from every direction. They were drenched in blood, and their movements gradually became numb. When they looked around, they saw that at some point in time, the forest had filled up with a black mass of Beautiful Robes Faction members. They were on the ground and the trees. Their gazes were cold and brutal, and they formed a net of death that brought despair.

  Chapter 354 - Counterattack!

  By paying the price of more than one thousand and five hundred faction members, Beautiful Robes Faction won against Class One Hall, who was considered to be superior to everyone. All four hundred or so of Class One Hall members had died, and not a single one escaped.

  Once the battle ended and she received the figures, even Phoenix Dances could not believe that it was real.

  She remembered hearing that Class One Hall could not be defeated so easily.

  Even though Beautiful Robes Faction had indeed brought out an unprecedented fighting spirit and a determination to fight to the death, their rationality told them that Class One Hall's ambush should not have been so simple. There had to have been something else as well.

  But all four hundred or so members from Class One Hall had really died in the forest.

  Even though Beautiful Robes Faction's sacrifices were not small, they were much lower than what Phoenix Dances estimated. Also, they had managed to retrieve all their weapons, and no one lost anything. They had actually gained more than one hundred masterpieces from the people from Class One Hall. There were even a few first-echelon masterpieces among them, which could be considered to make up for some of the losses Beautiful Robes Faction had suffered.

  But Phoenix Dances still did not feel at ease.

  Even though all the people from Class One Hall had died, she felt that there was something off. She thus sent a letter to her comrades guarding the headquarters.

  [What's the situation at the headquarters?]

  Soon, a messenger pigeon returned with the news that everything was peaceful there!

  Phoenix Dances said nothing. She released a breath of relief, but the puzzlement in her heart only grew.

  Class One Hall's ambush, which had seemed very powerful, showed up to be very weak. There was also the problem that a member had just reminded her of that the leader of the branch in Wengcheng, Promise Clouds, and his elites had never showed their faces.

  "Search for their location!"

  Phoenix Dances did not dare to be careless and sent a message for everyone to search for Promise Clouds' location.

  Their location ten minutes ago should have been around the spot where they had been fighting furiously.

  Soon, a messenger pigeon flew back.

  Phoenix Dances cast a glance at the coordinates on the paper. Her heart sank, and she cast a glance at the forest in the distance. She summoned her steed and jumped on it.

  "Puffy, lead our people and escort the injured back to the city! Our comrades who died will have priority over the contribution points from our loot!"

  "Got it!"

  Then, Phoenix Dances looked around and said loudly, "Tea Words, Glutinous Rice, Rampaging Dragon, Flying Dragon, choose four hundred members and come with me to the other side of the forest. I suspect that someone helped us block off the people from Class One Hall."

  "Alright!"

  Regardless of whether it was Phoenix Dances' orders or her act of leading the members in the attack, it convinced many Beautiful Robes Faction members to be under her rule. The seniors and juniors completely accepted Phoenix Dances' status as the faction master, especially after they won. Once they heard her, they answered her call, and thousands of people jumped on their horses.

  Rumble!

  When they charged into the other side of the forest in a mighty manner, the group saw from the distance that there were five corpses laying strewn outside the forest. Their equipment seemed to be pretty good as well.

  "They're from Class One Hall!"

  The people who charged ahead of the others jumped down from their horses and checked the corpses. They then looked up with pleasantly surprised expressions and shouted at the crowd. "Promise Clouds is also here."

  The group had shocked but pleased and relieved expressions.

  The slight unease that remained in their hearts completely disappeared at the moment Promise Clouds and the others' corpses were found.

  "Faction master, how did you know that someone helped us?"

  "Happy told me."

  When Phoenix Dances answered, there was a faint, blissful smile on her face.

  The group was stunned speechless.

  Qi Ci rode forward with his horse and sized up Phoenix Dances with a strange expression while he mumbled something under his breath. "That brat… How could he put his hoes so far ahead of his bros? I sent him a letter, and he never mentioned that he sent reinforcements. Did he actually just tell you alone?"

  The people around wore subtle looks that showed that they understood what was going on.

  Phoenix Dances did not turn her head around. She only sat on her horse quietly with a smile.

  Happy did not send her a message though.

  In fact, he had not given her any instructions, and it was precisely because of his ease with the situation that Phoenix Dances was able to tell certain things.

  Phoenix Dances did not provide any explanation. She only ordered her faction members to enter the forest and investigate the area to see whether there were any remnants of Class One Hall there.

  Soon, twenty or so corpses were found.

  The Beautiful Robes Faction members were stunned.

  Based on the people's injuries and the condition of the surroundings, the battle should not have lasted for long.

  But based on the fading equipment of the corpses, those people were definitely stronger than the four hundred they had handled.

  If the elites with such great equipment had appeared in their battlefield, they would have been a destructive force! Beautiful Robes Faction would have had a hard time resisting them.

  When they thought of it, the Beautiful Robes Faction members were shocked and fearful. In the end, they could not help but begin to make guesses: just what sort of power could allow whoever did it to ambush a group of elites from Class One Hall and kill them all within a short amount of time? The elites who had been hiding had not even had the chance to fight back or rush into the main battlefield, which made Class One Hall lose completely with their whole army destroyed.

  Only a few elites in the game could do such a thing!

  Even knowing all that, Beautiful Robes Faction could not figure out who could have done it for them!

  But Happy was clearly far away right then! To avoid being hunted down by Embroidered Uniform Guards, he was forced to hide in the second level of a crystal mine. It was impossible for him to appear in their fight.

  "Who is that person?"

  "Could he be Happy's friend?"

  Even though Happy had not revealed Silver Wolf's information to anyone, the people from Beautiful Robes Faction was still pretty accurate in their guess.

  "Brothers and sisters!" Phoenix Dances' expression had changed multiple times earlier, and she lifted her Silver-spiked Staff high in the air before shouting with a firm tone, "Class One Hall killed our brothers and sisters, shall we forgive them?!"

  "NO!" the group answered in a voice that shook the heavens.

  "Good! Hold your weapons and recover to your peak! We will now march to Wengcheng and completely eradicate Class One Hall from Wengcheng!"

  When they heard Phoenix Dances' firm words, everyone's eyes lit up!

  Sweep through Wengcheng and destroy Class One Hall's branch?! "Alright!"

  To them, being able to strike down Class One Hall and protect Beautiful Robes Faction's headquarters was already something had to believe, much less destroying all those from
Class One Hall.

  So none of them had even thought about taking the initiative to attack and demolish Class One Hall's branch.

  Phoenix Dances' words enlightened them, and everyone's blood boiled again!

  B.u.t.t Shaker even started howling madly and fearlessly. "Kill them! I'll kill those bastards again and take revenge for Rascal!"

  "We can't delay this matter, faction master!"

  Everyone was incredibly worked up.

  When Phoenix Dances saw that everyone's enthusiasm had been stirred, she no longer wasted her breath!

  "Let's go!"

  More than one thousand people changed direction and headed to Wengcheng.

  Rumble!

  The ground roared.

  Chapter 355 - Rise to Fame

  On the second day Class One Hall's branch was built in Wengcheng, it was destroyed by more than one thousand people from a nameless large faction, and Class One Hall had no way of fighting back.

  News related to Class One Hall was almost always of interest to the informants of various organizations. Besides that, that particular piece was a shocking development. At the moment it became known, the entire game was stunned by it!

  When the players saw it, their first reaction was: whose idea of a joke is this?

  Practically no one believed that it was real. There might not be many people in Class One Hall's branch, but their combat abilities were extraordinary, so how could they have been destroyed by one thousand people from a nameless faction?

  Did they think Class One Hall was useless?

  What a joke!

  Class One Hall claimed that they had more than fifteen thousand players in Mystical Realm, and they were a super sect with no weaknesses. Even among the three top sects, their strength was indisputably at the top.

  However, once everyone watched the battle replay and gained a deeper understanding as well as concrete proof, they fell silent.

  A group that seemed to have been formed by thousands of students showed how outstanding they were through a high number of deaths that brought them great pain. In less than half an hour, they showed a terrifying fighting spirit after being ambushed, and it left people dumbfounded. They killed most of Class One Hall's people, then they destroyed the fighting spirit of the remaining survivors.

  'Class One Hall was careless.'

  That was the reaction most people had once they finished watching the battle replay.

  But there were also people who chose to continue investigating the matter. Then, more secrets were discovered.

  Class One Hall faced a tragedy after that.

  They could only say that it was a disastrous day for them.

  Class One Hall had clearly chosen the wrong opponent. They had decided to target a young sect that was so unified that it was unheard of, and the ambush was without any sort of standard whatsoever. Aside from killing more than one hundred people from Beautiful Robes Faction at the start, they had been dragged into Beautiful Robes Faction's strategy of using their large numbers to fight against the few. They were completely caught in a war of attrition.

  They wanted to use the power of a branch to fight a war of attrition against a faction with nearly ten thousand people? Aside from saying that they were dumb, the players who watched the fight could only admire their courage.

  *****

  On that day, Beautiful Robes Faction shot to fame!

  Even though they suffered greatly in the battle, Class One Hall had suffered a great deal of damage as well, and for the first time ever, they lost, even though they had home advantage.

  Beautiful Robes Faction won a group of cheers for the horrifying battle and their persistence!

  What caught the people's attention even more was Phoenix Dance, who was the female master of Beautiful Robes Faction. When she led a thousand people into the streets of Wengcheng, she convinced countless players in Wengcheng of her leadership. Her robes had been drenched in blood, her face was filled with a heroic air, and her Silver-spiked Staff was mighty and domineering. When she charged through the streets, all of Wengcheng trembled!

  One thousand people surrounded Class One Hall's branch and drenched it in blood. Their resolve was firm and resolute!

  Phoenix Dances grace was spread by countless people online, and she became known as the strongest female mafia boss after the three leaders of the three great sects.

  On that day, countless players in Wengcheng showed a great d.e.s.i.r.e to join Beautiful Robes Faction, but they were all rejected.

  *****

  When the matter of the battle spread through the entire game, it was only natural that the people in Class One Hall's headquarters could not remain calm.

  Quite a number of people had been summoned back for an emergency meeting.

  Barren Murderer's face was cold, and he snorted before speaking in a mocking tone. "Sacrificing a large number of your own to kill even more of your enemy's people? Promise Clouds, he sure did well…"

  Dream Clouds, who had been sitting at the top of the table, stood up. The silver veil that covered her face swayed slowly, but faint worry could be seen in her eyes. "Sacrificing a large number of your own to kill even more of your enemy's people cannot be used to describe this fight."

  "That's right." The handsome Blood Robes looked up. "What we sacrificed were elites. What Beautiful Robes Faction sacrificed were just their normal members. They lost only a few of their real elites. We lost a lot in this fight."

  When he said that, Blood Robes paused for a moment and pressed his hand against his forehead, then rubbed it slightly. "But Silver Wolf's sudden appearance was out of our expectations. We can't blame Promise Clouds for the failure of his plan, but the destruction of our branch has resulted in one-third of our elites being trapped in the branch and unable to escape or log off. In the end, they died twice. This is… something we can't forgive."

  "This is what I meant as well. He did not know how to observe the situation and make judgments after he lost. We will have to demote Promise Clouds for the time being." Dream Clouds made the decision to change Promise Clouds from being a core member to a mere member without any hesitation.

  Barren Murderer and Blood Robes' expressions did not change.

  "I did not expect that Silver Wolf would be so strong, but we can now be sure that he has chosen to be in Happy's group.

  "If we knew about this earlier, we would have definitely bought over Silver Wolf beforehand. Happy… as expected of a person with the top-selling battle replay. Five million can be considered to be nothing to him. He sure is bold."

  The greater Dream Clouds' appraisal for Happy was, the greater the worry in her eyes became!

  "Barren Murderer, Blood Robes, we are currently in a very bad situation."

  Barren Murderer and Blood Robes said nothing, but they nodded.

  Even though they had around a dozen branches, the combat ability of their members was above many sects, and they looked like the leaders of the game… the person in Shennongjia was growing stronger at a maddening pace. He could simply not be ignored! Even though he did not personally lead his clan and was still a free man, his invisible strength could already make them feel threatened, as if there was a needle poking at their backs.

  His Beautiful Robes Faction was a huge faction with nearly ten thousand people. They occupied the resources of multiple cities and were supported by the man himself, who provided resources for them. They developed at a steady pace, and the day they stood among the top-class sects was just around the corner.

  Mu Clan was also a rising sect that had Happy's shadow behind it. On the day it rose to power, it already made Class One Hall, Towering Palace, and Cold Moon Palace suffer a defeat. Mu Clan took the fertile resource points in Shennongjia and even quelled the conflict between the sects. There were even signs that the alliance of the five sects was on the way of setting up a firm stronghold in Shennongjia.

  Once Mu Clan took its time to gather plenty of resources and became one with Beautiful Robes Facti
on, even great sects like Class One Hall, Chivalry Sect, and Towering Palace would have to regard them at eye level.

  They would be equals with them!

  There was no other possibility when they were successful in gathering resources from the game.

  Also, Happy, Thunderous Battle, Little North, All-powerful Medicinal Stone, Beautiful Robes Faction's One Circle and their higher ups, along with the mysterious player Silver Wolf, who had only appeared briefly, had gathered together. They could be said to be a group of top-class elites that was like an impenetrable fortress.

  "It's a pity that Five Venoms has been destroyed, or else we could organize people to secretly target Beautiful Robes Faction and hold down their development. Based on their current speed, one of these days, Happy will appear in Class One Hall's headquarters," Barren Murderer said in a regretful tone.

  "It'll be good if he comes." Blood Robes smiled faintly, and his cold intentions were revealed. "I was actually feeling distressed because I couldn't find a suitable partner to test my martial arts. By the way, Barren Murderer, you'll have to hurry up with your quest, or else, when Happy comes, you'll have to hide—"

  "Get lost!"

  "Alright, stop arguing. Send my orders to have someone monitor Happy's every move in Shennongjia. From now onwards, I need to know everything he does."

  Dream Clouds' cold voice seemed to have come from another dimension.

  Chapter 356 - Destroy Stone King

  "Beautiful."

  Once Happy learned of what happened in Wengcheng, he could not help but sigh with a well of emotion in his heart.

  Phoenix Dances had finally managed to move out of his shadow and started to display her talents and glory. She also began to show her qualifications and status as the master of a faction.

  Once he got over his bounty period, he had planned to immediately leave Baokang and head to the nearest Class One Hall branch to make Class One Hall pay a price and reap some benefits for Beautiful Robes Faction, but Phoenix Dances had managed to do it herself.