Sword Among Us c1-1268

by Black Swordsman Online

  Those people were smart. The evil cult had declared that they were millions of people strong, and no one knew the situation in front of them clearly. If the players attacked recklessly, they would definitely lose their lives. That's why they intended to have the people in front of them fight first while they got a clear grasp of the situation and waited for a better chance to attack.

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  "Look! It's the people from the evil cult!"

  Once they traveled a few miles, a disciple from Emei Sect noticed the enemy. She shouted a word of warning without hesitation and jumped up with a few more Emei Sect disciples. Their speed increased instantaneously, and they pounced over.

  The sounds of robes fluttering could be heard in the forest.

  The black figures moved very quickly, but the movements of the disciples from Emei Sect were clearly much better. They used the branches as leverage, and with a whoosh, they blocked a few Ming Cult disciples with unfamiliar faces.

  The Ming Cult disciples looked at each other. They did not speak and just drew their weapons from their sheaths.

  "Set up the formation!"

  The disciples from Emei were agile and moved through the area like butterflies among flowers. The light from their weapons flashed continuously. The moment they exchanged blows, they managed to completely suppress Ming Cult disciples, and soon, those Ming Cult disciples died under their weapons.

  Clang!

  The Emei Sect disciples sheathed their weapons without further ado. They waited for the larger group to arrive before they smugly said, "Those people from the evil cult are only so much."

  After saying that, they rushed into the depths.

  When Happy saw that, a hint of worry appeared in his eyes. "If you hunger after achievements, you will definitely die," he mumbled under his breath.

  Zhou Zhiruo said nothing, but she had clearly heard Happy's murmurs. She turned her head around and glared at him, but she seemed to have remembered something as well and increased the speed at which she moved to catch up to Mistress Annihilation.

  "Mistress, some of my senior sisters have gone too far into the depths. They might be in danger. Should I go and call them back?"

  Mistress Annihilation frowned. Right when she was about to say something, pained screams rose one after another in the forest ahead of them. They should have come from those Emei Sect disciples.

  'This is bad!'

  Mistress Annihilation might have a cold and hard heart, but she was not completely merciless and heartless. She was not unaffected by her disciples' deaths. Her expression changed, and without another word, she shifted a few times to rush in the direction from which the pained screams came.

  Happy and a group of Emei Sect disciples quickly followed after her.

  When they arrived, Mistress Annihilation had her hand wrapped tightly around Heavenly Sword. Her gaze was cold, and she stood near a few Emei Sect disciples' corpses with raging killing intent. There was not a single shadow of Ming Cult disciples which could be seen in the area.

  "Curse you, spawn of the evil cult!" Anger raged in Mistress Annihilation's heart, but she had nowhere to vent it. "From now on, no one is allowed to move forward recklessly because of your d.e.s.i.r.e for achievements!"

  "Understood!" The Emei Sect disciples answered together.

  "Mistress." At that moment, an Emei Sect disciple came up to Mistress Annihilation to suggest a plan. "I have a method to reduce the casualties from Emei Sect."

  Happy immediately recognized the woman to be Zhou Zhiruo's senior sister Ding Minjun. She was a woman with evil thoughts, and he wondered what sinister plot she was cooking up right then.

  "There are many wandering heroes, so why don't we have them serve as the vanguard? We could keep our strength to fight at Light Summit later," Ding Minjun suggested softly.

  The expression of Mistress Annihilation instantly changed. "Alright!"

  Soon, under Mistress Annihilation's awe-inspiring and righteous words to motivate the martial artists, a large group of great martial artists following behind Emei Sect answered her call, lifted their weapons, and rushed up the mountain.

  A moment later, more Ming Cult disciples who were tasked to protect the road heading to Light Summit appeared. The martial artists from everywhere in the game then engaged with the people in Ming Cult ahead of Emei Sect.

  Emei Sect's disciples walked together with the large group of players behind them.

  The Ming Cult disciples were dressed in black shirts and pants, so they were very easy to recognize. They fought against the Life and Death Realm martial artists from other parts of the game, and both sides suffered casualties.

  "Attack!"

  Mistress Annihilation no longer hesitated.

  Before the Emei Sect disciples could attack, Happy and Momo lifted their swords to rush into the battlefield from the left and right.

  Once he was in the chaotic battlefield, Happy did not dare to be negligent. He resolutely changed into his Golden Armor Set to prevent arrows from reaching him and defend himself against all kinds of unexpected situations.

  Wherever he went, his Noble Sword shone and moved about with ease. Happy deliberately moved to places with a lot of Ming Cult disciples, and the system continuously told him about the points he gathered.

  Momo refused to lose to Happy.

  Even though the damage of sword techniques was not great, she had already improved her Throw Spirit Sphere. With one slash and one flick, she could usually take away someone's life. She killed without hesitation, and she did so without form.

  Ancient Wind and a few elites were spurred on by the duo and moved as well.

  "Kill them!"

  Countless players charged into the battlefield like a swarm of bees. Once they cleared the enemy, they headed with the other martial artists to Light Summit without stopping.

  The curtains for the major battle had been completely drawn!

  Chapter 410 - Kill Zhang Wuji

  "Why don't they drop any items?"

  "Damn it, we can only gather points! They don't drop items!"

  "This is a point acc.u.mulation quest?"

  Many players in the surging crowd noticed that even if they killed Ming Cult disciples, they only received notifications from the system telling them that they had killed the disciples and how many points they gathered. No matter how hard they looked, they were unable to find on Ming Cult disciples' corpses.

  "Look at Happy. He doesn't search through the corpses at all. He definitely knows something."

  Some observant people noticed that Happy's kill count was very high, but he never bent his back to search for the loot from the corpses on the ground. He passed them by, focusing solely on acc.u.mulating points. He did not investigate the corpses at all. It seemed like he knew from the start that the Ming Cult disciples would not drop any loot.

  "But those guys are also from Emei Sect, and they're checking the corpses…" There were also people from the crowd who took note of Ancient Wind and the others' actions.

  "Maybe Happy doesn't care for the loot from those nobodies in Life and Death Realm."

  "Yeah, it's possible."

  "Ahem…"

  When Ancient Wind and the others heard the discussions that were not soft, they felt slightly awkward. They were also elites, but they did not realize that such a small detail would make them look like low-class people.

  However, they were filled with admiration toward Happy!

  Regardless of the rumors from before or the provocation from Blood Robes a bit earlier, no one could match the might of the top-ranked player on the Famous People Rank. No one in the world seemed to be able to catch Happy's attention and make him wary of them, regardless of whether they were Class One Hall or the teachers from the six great system-allocated sects.

  Happy led the people in a charge against the Ming Cult disciples. He displayed confidence that the players behind him did not have. His Golden Armor Set made him look like a general charging in a battlefield. Ther
e were at least one hundred mooks who died in his hands.

  His attention was never diverted while he was on the way, and when the battle ended, he did not bend his back to check for loot. His calm demeanor caused him to display the presence of an elite martial artist.

  "Not bad." Mistress Annihilation had never attacked. She watched Happy as he walked back with an admiring glance and nodded slowly. "As expected of a top disciple from the Murong Clan. Your sword technique is indeed extraordinary."

  The disciples from Emei Sect were also people. When they killed, they naturally paid attention to Happy's graceful movements and extraordinary skills when he charged into the enemy's ranks and fought against them.

  "Mistress, you praise me too much." Happy wrapped his fist in his palm with incredible calm before walking back next to Zhou Zhiruo.

  Her gaze was no longer cold. For the first time ever, she stared Happy in the eye for a few seconds, allowing him to see her ethereal and beautiful face. It looked like she had acknowledged his position among the Emei Sect disciples, because when he fought, he had extended a helping hand to the Emei Sect disciples.

  Ding Minjun swept her gaze over Happy with sparkling eyes. Then, with envy and admiration, she smiled and said, "Senior Brother Happy, our mistress mentioned that the person with the best performance among those who follow us when we attack Light Summit will obtain a reward. You come from a famous clan, and your skills are good. If you manage to perform meritorious deeds during this battle, I will ask our mistress to hand our junior sister, Zhou Zhiruo's hand to you in marriage. What do you think? Hehe…"

  "Senior sister." Zhou Zhiruo called out to her weakly and gently. Her cheeks flushed slightly red, which made her look very innocent.

  Ding Minjun cast her a cold glance. She used her status as the eldest senior sister to snort and say, "Junior sister, I'm doing this for your own good. I'm trying to look for a good husband for you, or do you think that Swordsman Happy isn't worthy of your hand?"

  Happy's mind nearly went blank.

  'What's going on?'

  He cast a glance at Zhou Zhiruo, and he was just in time to see her frown. She seemed angry, but did not dare say anything.

  "That is not what I meant."

  "Then we will have our mistress decide on this matter," Ding Minjun said without hesitation. She sounded so opinionated that she had not just caused the atmosphere in Emei Sect to become strange, she had even made some of the players who had stayed in the area in hopes of getting inside information to become dumbfounded.

  'She wants to give Zhou Zhiruo's hand in marriage to Happy?'

  'Are you kidding me?!'

  Everyone knew that Zhou Zhiruo had lingering affection for Zhang Wuji, who was someone she met when she was young. At the same time, Song Qingshu was madly in love with her. After the battle, Song Qingshu would plead for his father, Song Yuanqiao, to ask for Zhou Zhiruo's hand in marriage from Emei Sect's Mistress Annihilation. In the end, he would even betray the entire martial artist community for Zhou Zhiruo.

  If Ding Minjun's words were a key for a quest, then that quest was definitely a very troublesome one.

  Forget about the fact that it would be difficult to handle the young hero Song Qingjun, they would also have to handle Zhang Wuji, who was a top-class martial artist with Nine Yang Divine Skill as well as Heaven and Earth Great Shift.

  Countless people discussed it while looking at Happy, who was frowning.

  Mistress Annihilation spoke at that moment with a rarely seen gentle look on her face. It was focused on Zhou Zhiruo. "Minjun's suggestion is pretty good. I've watched Zhiruo grow up. She is smart, obedient, and a filial girl.

  "Swordsman Happy, you come from a famous clan, and you have extraordinary skills. You also support the righteous faction in the world of martial artists with all your strength. You two are a good match. But Great Swordsman Song's son, Qingshu, has also been taking care of Zhiruo. So, I shan't interfere too much with this."

  She paused for a moment before she added, "However, Swordsman Happy, if you can charge into Light Summit with us and display outstanding abilities during our fight to vanquish this evil cult, I will consider the matter with Zhiruo."

  Once she said those words, Zhou Zhiruo knew that her fate had pretty much been set. She frowned and lowered her head. She could not even fight back.

  However, Mistress Annihilation's words caused the crowd to burst into a commotion.

  Happy was completely speechless. He did not expect that Mistress Annihilation would use such a method to unite the people.

  Countless players nearby also stared at Happy with envy, jealousy, and all sorts of complicated emotions. They did not expect that Zhou Zhiruo, who was such an important character, would form a connection with him just because of Happy's dazzling performance. He had even strangely gained Mistress Annihilation's favor and made her promise to hand Zhou Zhiruo's hand in marriage to him.

  But when they thought deeper into the matter, they calmed down.

  It was impossible for them to charge up Light Summit. Due to Zhang Wuji's appearance, the six great system-allocated sects would not be able to destroy Ming Cult in the end. Besides, Zhou Zhiruo would injure Zhang Wuji with a stab, which would cause her to fall completely into the vortex of love, so much so that she could not extract herself from it. Hence, Mistress Annihilation's verbal promise was basically the same as none.

  The group moved again!

  While they moved forward, Ancient Wind and the group of elites approached Happy.

  They came to understand his temperament during their conversations, and they found that as long as they did not target him, he was actually very cordial. Hence, they were not reserved around him. Ancient Wind even grinned evilly and nudged Happy's shoulder from behind him.

  "Hehe, not bad. You actually managed to seduce Great Beauty Zhou. Zhou Zhiruo's eyes sparkle when she's looking at you now. What're your thoughts about it?

  "It's Great Beauty Zhou, you know? Tsk tsk. She's the most beautiful woman in the world of martial artists. If I were in your place, I'd rush up Light Summit even if my bones were crushed just to see whether there will be any progress in my relationship with Zhou Zhiruo.

  "Whew, if our relationship really progressed and I could make it into a battle replay, it would definitely surpass that battle of yours at Common Reed Bank. Happy, how about this? If you say yes, we will definitely fight with our lives for you to get that opportunity."

  When Momo heard the boys' vulgar conversation, she rolled her eyes. She decided to just turn her face away so that she could treat them as if they did not exist.

  "Sure, as long as you help me kill Zhang Wuji. I'll handle Song Qingshu myself. Once we're done, I'll give you 90% of the profit I get from that battle replay. How's that sound?" Happy's sentence caused Ancient Wind and the others to flee straight away.

  Only Momo continued to look at Happy's side profile while thinking about something.

  Chapter 411 - Ming Cult’s Counterattack

  Mistress Annihilation's words might have caused quite a commotion among the players, but the matter was soon forgotten during the few fights that happened subsequently.

  More Ming Cult disciples appeared, but they could not withstand the suppression from an army that numbered to millions. They were swept aside as if they were nothing!

  However, when the people entered deep into the mountains, practically all of the martial artists from all over the game who were in charge of serving as the vanguard died. Those who survived moved back.

  Happy had taken the lead in a few charges, and his status in Mistress Annihilation's heart had risen. During the fights, Happy had also taken great care of the Emei Sect disciples. He tried his best to protect their lives, and they grew much closer to him than the group of elites. Every time they saw Happy return to the group, they would smile at him.

  Mistress Annihilation even had Zhou Zhiruo bandage Happy's wounds and provide him with medicinal pills. Zhou Zhiruo did not dare to be neglige
nt. She obediently and seriously completed the tasks her mistress asked her to do.

  Whenever they saw that, Ancient Wind and the others would complain that life was unfair!

  They were also "inner sect disciples", but the difference in treatment was too great.

  However, when they asked about the acc.u.mulation of points, Happy said that he had acc.u.mulated a whopping seven hundred or so points, and the group of people instantly fell silent.

  In just two hours, he had managed to kill more than seven hundred people, while Ancient Wind and the others had only killed at most around two hundred people.

  It was no wonder then why Mistress Annihilation paid such great attention to him!

  The other players did not say anything.

  This sort of result stimulated many of the players' fighting spirit. Once they noticed that the kill count might affect the thoughts of the important characters in the story in regards to them, they no longer followed behind Emei Sect, but charged forward in a swarm. They wanted to get as many points as possible before Happy and the other elites.

  That was the reason why numerous players charged up the Light Summit like a tidal wave.

  The same situation would happen sooner or later in the groups of the other five system-allocated sects.

  Ming Cult's disadvantage was completely revealed.

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  "What the heck? Why are you still here?"

  Many players moved forward at a languid pace while on the mountainside of Mount Huangshan. At that moment, many people from the back caught up to them. They said, "The people in front are already almost at Light Summit? What are you doing? Thinking about going up there to clean up after them?"

  Those people said nothing. Their expressions were calm.

  Most of them did not believe that the quest would end with one side gaining a sweeping victory. After all, Ming Cult had also gathered quite a number of players on their side. Besides, the Ming Cult had no fewer elites than the six great system-allocated sects!