Sword Among Us c1-1268

by Black Swordsman Online

"You don't just have refinement materials in your stall."

  "I've already given you my explanation as to why I don't want to entertain you. Consider this as me begging you, stop holding me up from conducting my business, okay?" The young stall owner looked as if he was defeated, and he pointed at the other items sold at the stalls and said, "The very first thing you asked of me when you came over here was to ask me what I was selling. Now, I'll tell you. These items are quest items that can only be obtained after doing certain quests from the Murong Clan. Besides, only the Murong Clan disciples can use these items, so are you telling me that you want to buy them? How about this? Why don't you tell me the name of your friend at the Murong Clan? I might actually know that person."

  The young stall owner mocked them with every sentence.

  The Wild Wolves, who really just wanted to test this person, had their expressions turn so dark at that moment that they truly wanted to immediately kill the young stall owner.

  "I'll buy all these items at double price!" As if he wanted to regain his dignity, Golden Rakkhasa said with a hostile tone.

  The people in the area s.u.c.k.e.d in sharp breaths.

  'Buying those items at double price? That's practically a major deal that came out of nowhere!'

  A group of nosey people near the stall stared at the young stall owner with envious and jealous gazes. Their gazes were practically saying, "Bro, you sure know how to spin your words. You offended them so much, but you ended up with getting all your items sold at double price? You're rich now!"

  "Hurry up and agree to the deal!"

  "After all, they have so much money that they don't know how to spend it! You've got yourself a major deal!"

  But a strange thing happened.

  Just when everyone, including the three Wild Wolves, thought that the young stall owner would stop mocking them and quickly complete the deal, the young stall owner had an even more disdainful and mocking look appear on his face, and he spoke even more plainly, "Ooh…? Getting embarrassed, are we? I'm telling you, I won't fall for your tricks. You want to get my name and information through the trade, don't you? By doing that, you can regain your dignity, and in the future, it'll be easy for you to take revenge on me. Do you think I'm actually stupid enough to agree to the trade?"

  The young stall owner actually resolutely decided to pack up his things in the stall at that moment, and under countless players' dumbfounded gazes, he cackled smugly, "Well? Unless you actually have the guts to attack in the city, or else, I'm actually not scared of you."

  Some were rendered speechless.

  "Awesome."

  "He's too sharp. I can't believe he actually thought of this."

  "If I were in his place, I would have definitely agreed to their trade, not knowing what was going on…" A player patted his c.h.e.s.t with lingering fear in him.

  These were three elites with full sets of fourth-echelon demon vessels and divine weapons. The force behind them could easily destroy a normal player with no background. In fact, they could just as easily destroy a player with powerful backing.

  Indeed, the losses outweighed the gains if they gave up on a few years worth of work and hard work to just get twice the profit for these goods, and these three fierce-looking people looked as if they could very well do something like what the young stall owner just mentioned.

  Many people approved of the young stall owner's quick mind. When they stared at the three Wild Wolves, their gazes turned incredibly strange, as if they were on guard against something.

  The three Wild Wolves were completely speechless this time.

  They did not expect that this slight probe for information had actually led to things developing to this extent.

  This was a keen young man with an incredibly wild imagination. Perhaps he harbored an incredibly great hate for the rich, and perhaps he ran into too much unfair treatment in the past, which was why he acted this way…

  All three looked away simultaneously before they turned around and were prepared to leave.

  A top-class elite will definitely not bring around a bunch of useless materials on his person. He was also dressed in the clothes belonging to Murong Clan disciples, and he also had the quest items unique to the Murong Clan. Clearly, this person was completely different from the one they were looking for.

  "What? Leaving now?"

  The young stall owner placed his hands on his h.i.p.s smugly. He still had the presence he had while he argued verbally with them, and he held himself in the manner and presence of a general.

  "I thought that you would attack desperately for the sake of your dignity.

  "Tch! And here I am, getting excited over nothing. Do you already know that I'm supported by Gusu City's governor, and there are a few Myth Realm elites guarding my organization?"

  The three Wild Wolves were in the process of turning around to leave when they suddenly heard that young stall owner's words, and they stopped moving.

  'This guy… he's seriously rotten to the core!'

  'It's no wonder why he kept on mocking us! So, he intends to provoke us foreigners so that we would end up being hunted down by Myth Realm elites…'

  Golden Rakkhasa, who was the one who had the shortest temper, had cold sweat break out on his skin. 'What the heck! That's sinister! Thank goodness I held myself in check! If it isn't because we still have something else later, I might have already fallen for his provocation and attacked just now… This person is really cunning. Did he set this up right from the beginning?'

  Different thoughts flashed in the trio's minds!

  It was also at that moment that the trio's wariness toward the young stall owner dropped to the lowest. Their last vigilance and suspicion toward the young stall owner disappeared like smoke.

  In fact, they found themselves feeling relieved because they thought they were lucky.

  But at that moment, something no one expected happened.

  The young stall owner, whom countless players were certain was actually weak, suddenly slid behind Golden Rakkhasa like a phantom and attacked like lightning. He actually took the initiative to cause trouble and attack the three Wild Wolves!

  The young stall owner attacked too quickly.

  The onlookers' attention was mostly on the three Wild Wolves. Hence, the people who saw this through the corners of their eyes, and they practically could not believe their own eyes.

  In an instant, their breathing froze.

  What did they see?

  This was an ambush that only top-class elites would be able to do!

  The young stall owner suddenly seemed to have turned into someone else, and his smug attitude was instantly gone, replaced by a grave presence and an air of self-restraint. His gaze was sharp, and he moved like lightning, but he attacked silently. When he attacked, he easily seized Golden Rakkhasa's neck, even though he was decked from head to toe in fourth-echelon demon vessels and divine weapons.

  'He's mad! He's definitely mad! Does he want to get rich so badly that his mind went bonkers?!'

  The players around the area witnessed the young stall owner seize Golden Rakkhasa's neck, and all they could think of at that moment was something along those lines.

  If someone killed a top-class elite with a full set of fourth-echelon demon vessels once and were lucky enough, they could make them drop one piece of equipment, and they would indeed no longer have to worry about their lives anymore.

  However, the failure rate for recklessly attacking an Inaction Realm elite was so high that there was a 99.9% chance that they would fail, and this figure was already infinitesimally close to 100%!

  And this young stall owner even took the initiative to attack. If he did this, regardless of whether the Inaction Realm elite could react to it, he would end up getting killed no matter what, because if the Inaction Realm elite killed this young stall owner in the city, he would be killed by a Myth Realm elite!

  However, before they could recover from their shock, the sound of bones cracking suddenly ros
e, and Golden Rakkhasa's neck was crushed like it was brittle wood.

  At that moment, countless people had their thoughts fly into disarray.

  Chapter 972 - Old Acquaintance

  "Big Bro Young Li! BIG BRO YOUNG LI!"

  Whirlwind Young Li was focusing on feeding small white rabbits with Joined Finger at the backyard in the Murong Mansion. She suddenly heard someone call out to him while making a ruckus. He could not help but get up and stare at the person in surprise. "Didn't you go and set up a stall at the market? Why are you back so quickly?"

  The person who came in while shouting was his junior brother, Wen Yuan, a normal player whose talent in the game was not really good. Just like him, they were not really outstanding in the Murong Clan, but they had wild dreams of getting ultimate techniques like Joined Finger and Shifting Stars.

  "Big Bro Young Li, come with me quick."

  Wen Yuan pulled up Whirlwind Young Li in great excitement and headed outside.

  The latter quickly stuffed that half stick of a carrot in his hand into the rabbit pen and opened the pen so that he could get out. "What do you want us to do? You're so rash… Stop bothering me, I have a quest."

  "Senior brother, I want to bring you to meet someone."

  "To meet someone? Who exactly is so important? Don't you see that I'm feeling rabbits here? Tell him that I'm not free. Also, what the heck happened to your clothes? You're the one who can't meet someone with how you look right now, right? Were you robbed?" Whirlwind Young Li sized up Wen Yuan. The boy was dressed in white underclothes. He looked like a real sleazy bastard.

  "I wasn't robbed. I ran into something good."

  "Did you get into a love scam?"

  "What the heck?! What in the world are you thinking of?!"

  "Hurry up with it, then. You scared my rabbits, and if they don't eat my carrots, I'm going to make you regret this…" Whirlwind Young Li continued his grand adventure of feeding the rabbits carrots.

  Wen Yuan was so anxious that he rolled his eyes repeatedly, but when he saw that his senior brother did not seem to be bothered by what he said, he could do nothing else but start from the beginning.

  "Senior brother, just now, when I set up a stall in the market, I ran into someone strange. He says he knows you and wanted to buy my clothes—"

  "I definitely don't know that person." Before Wen Yuan could even finish talking, Whirlwind Young Li interrupted him and said seriously, "Among the people I know, who would be stupid enough to buy your clothes? You're just using second-echelon grade two equipment for the time being before you can slowly progress to better stuff, anyway…"

  "That's not the main point. At that time, I was worried that people will look down on me because of my equipment, that's why I wore the normal clothes for the Murong Clan—"

  "...I knew it, you got involved in a love scam." Whirlwind Young Li sighed without even turning his head around.

  "Senior brother!" Wen Yuan was so indignant that his face turned red.

  "Alright, based on the fact that the first thing you thought about after you were humiliated, you can continue telling me your story…" Whirlwind Young Li held back his laughter and toyed with the rabbits.

  At this moment, Wen Yuan found his temper completely gone. He was also released from his previously excited state.

  "That person says he knows you, and then, he bought my clothes and all the items in my stall. He gave me two million taels of silver." Wen Yuan's tone became much calmer, and when he mentioned money, his expression was also rather dark. "He says that he knows you, and when you come back, I was to give you something."

  Whirlwind Young Li said nothing, but this time, he finally turned his head around.

  "Hmph. You sure are enthusiastic once you hear that something belongs to you," Wen Yuan said angrily.

  Whirlwind Young Li shook his head. "I'm just curious. How did you manage to sell that worn down garbage of yours for two million? One million is already pretty decent… I'm interested now. Who's that idiot?"

  "Don't you want to know what he asked me to give you?"

  There was no need for Whirlwind Young Li to even guess, because Wen Yuan was already so excited that he brought out that item.

  "Demonic Black Sky Body… Are you joking with me, you brat?"

  But Whirlwind Young Li's expression was extremely strange.

  As of current, most of the normal first-class elites in the game were using Life and Death Realm body fortification techniques. Those who used Moksha Realm body fortification techniques all had certain statuses in the game.

  Demonic Black Sky Body was rather famous, and it could be considered as a high-grade body fortification technique. Its value was around fifty million taels of silver, and it could be worth even higher. It was not something Whirlwind Young Li could buy, much less the person in front of him.

  However, this just made Whirlwind Young Li not believe in Wen Yuan's words.

  Why would someone on the streets call out to Wen Yuan and buy a set of normal clothes for Murong Clan disciples, which were not worth more than one hundred taels of silver? Why did he use two million taels of silver to buy Wen Yuan's trash, which was not even worth one million taels of silver? And he even found himself at an ease of mind to casually pass over a Demonic Black Sky Body, which was worth more than fifty million, to a stranger.

  The first thing Whirlwind Young Li thought of was that Wen Yuan struck an unexpected deal, and then, in a fit of great excitement, decided to boast about it in front of him.

  "Senior brother, that person really told me to give this to you."

  "I can't be bothered with you." Whirlwind Young Li squatted down on the ground.

  Slap!

  That Demonic Black Sky Body landed beside Whirlwind Young Li.

  When he sensed the meaning behind Wen Yuan's actions, Whirlwind Young Li found his heart instantly burn with excitement. He slowly turned his head around and looked at the manual on the ground before he cast a glance at Wen Yuan, who looked incredibly serious.

  A few minutes passed.

  "Take me to him."

  Whirlwind Young Li put away that Demonic Black Sky Body. Then, with Wen Yuan, who was still dressed in white underclothes, they rushed out of the Murong Mansion to head to the market.

  *****

  However, what surprised the duo was that when they found the young stall owner, Whirlwind Young Li found himself rendered speechless, because he discovered that he had no impression whatsoever of the person.

  He had never met him before!

  But Whirlwind Young Li noticed to his surprise that the atmosphere of the trio standing in front of the stall was strange, and immediately, he got closer to the stall with Wen Yuan quietly.

  Whirlwind Young Li soon understood the confrontation between the four people.

  Even though he did not know what the four were fighting over, because of Demonic Black Sky Body, Whirlwind Young Li naturally stood on the young stall owner's side.

  'Is he wearing a human skin mask?'

  Whirlwind Young Li squashed down the excitement and curiosity in his heart.

  When he continued listening to the conversation, Whirlwind Young Li noticed some clues, and when the young stall owner mentioned that he had the governor in the city supporting him, Whirlwind Young Li and Wen Yuan were clearly stunned.

  The governor in the city was just in the house one courtyard away, but the talk about the house housing a few Myth Realm elites was plain nonsense.

  The governor's house did not have any Myth Realm elites, and the ones who were in charge of hunting down criminals were all sent by Six Doors.

  'This guy is spewing nonsense.'

  At the moment the duo looked at each other and smiled, something unexpected happened!

  At that moment, Whirlwind Young Li's breathing froze!

  The entire process of the young stall owner attacking to crush Golden Rakkhasa's neck was done in the blink of an eye, and he succeeded in killing him within an instant. Golden Rakkh
asa's neck was crushed like brittle wood, and a piercing sound of bones being crushed rose. Then, his head tilted to the side in an abnormal manner.

  At the same time, Happy already seized Flame Wolf's neck with his other hand.

  However, Flame Wolf was clearly much more wary than Golden Rakkhasa. Even though he was seized by Happy, he had already activated his body fortification, and right when Happy tried to crush him, the force in his grip turned into a power that knocked him back.

  "Urk"

  He grunted, and Flame Wolf's expression was very dark. He staggered backward in an incredibly pathetic manner.

  The neck was always an easy part of the human body to be injured.

  Even though he activated his body fortification to block the young stall owner's determined and fatal attack, when he was forced back, the force in it still nearly injured his windpipe.

  He used the momentum to retreat, and he had difficulty breathing. His face was a purplish hue, and he temporarily lost his ability to attack.

  The young stall owner had instantly killed one and injured another person out of three elites. His lightning fast attack caused the players around him to be shocked and retreat.

  "I knew it, it's you!"

  Bloody Hell Saber reacted to the situation. When he saw Flame Wolf and Golden Rakkhasa's situation, his expression turned incredibly dark.

  "You actually dared attack in a city!"

  The one who launched the fierce attack was indeed Happy.

  When he saw Bloody Hell Saber position his saber horizontally over his c.h.e.s.t while he stood in front of Flame Wolf, Happy sighed in his heart. Then, his gaze became clear. "Why wouldn't I dare?"

  Then, without hesitation, he tore off the human skin mask he obtained from Wind Chimes and revealed his true face.

  "Happy!"

  The people around them cried out in surprise.

  Whirlwind Young Li and Wen Yuan were both dumbfounded.

  'What's going?

  'Happy?'

  The person who gave Whirlwind Young Li Demonic Black Sky Body was the super elite Happy, who was discussed fervently among the people over this period of time.