Sword Among Us c1-1268

by Black Swordsman Online

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  The barbarian beside him bowed and nodded. Then, he looked up and said to Jin Xiangyu, "Are you Jin Xiangyu, the owner of Dragon Gate Inn?"

  "Hmph."

  Jin Xiangyu had been wandering in the world for many years, and she had great judgment. However, when people started causing trouble in her territory, she would not be nice to them as well. She snorted coldly, "I don't have extra tables to serve you, I'm truly sorry. It would be better if you search for other places to rest—"

  Before Jin Xiangyu could finish chasing them away, the barbarian spoke in Chinese and brought out a sack from his sleeves before he tossed it to her.

  "Our men were too rough just now, so please forgive us for our bad manners. This is a small token, and please consider it as us making it up to your shop."

  Jin Xiangyu's hands moved quickly. She seized the item in her hands, and the anger in her eyes slowly faded away when she received that sack. She calmly stuffed the gold into her bra, and like magic, a coquettish smile appeared on her face. "Everyone who wanders about the land will run into things that don't go their way. Since you're a logical person, I wouldn't chase you out.

  "Young Wu!

  "Are you blind? Hurry up and join the tables together! Then give them wine and food!" Jin Xiangyu ordered her employee as if nothing happened, and she calmly dissolved the tense atmosphere in the inn. This ability of hers made many of the players in the inn speechless.

  A young employer with a towel wrapped around his head turned around and grabbed a hammer from the kitchen.

  Cling! Cling! Clang! Clang!

  In a few movements, two broken tables and their chairs were repaired. Even though they did not look pretty, when they were put together, they would still make do.

  The people in the inn then looked at their tables and chairs. It was only then that they realized that their tables and chairs were not that much better than that table's. They found themselves speechless again. By the looks of it, the tables and chairs in Dragon Gate Inn had gone through hell and back. They wondered just how much money Jin Xiangyu managed to get from extorting her customers for breaking her tables and chairs.

  The group of red-clad Lamas did not seem to have the intention to sit down at the entrance.

  The barbarian who spoke Chinese did not immediately sit down even after Jin Xiangyu urged him to sit. Instead, he surveyed the customers in Dragon Gate Inn. His gaze fell on the old man and the teenager for a moment before it finally moved to a side hall at the right.

  "Owner, please ask the people inside to come out. My master does not like noise, and it would not be convenient for us to sit in the hall. This is your fee for your hard work."

  Jin Xiangyu had just put on a troubled expression when she saw the handful of gold, and the expression immediately faded away. She went off to do her task.

  Just as everyone expected, right after Jin Xiangyu used her charming gaze, two tables' worth of wanderers in the side hall immediately surrendered to her charms and moved to the hall. However, no one knew whether they were truly convinced to move by Jin Xiangyu, or whether they were intimidated by the Lama elites.

  "Many thanks."

  The barbarians sat down while they were protected by the red-clad Lamas. They occupied the side hall to the right.

  "What would you like to eat?"

  The Chinese-speaking barbarian cast a deep glance at Jin Xiangyu. "You do not need to serve us, owner. My master has a habit of not eating food from inns. That's why we always bring our own food wherever we go."

  "Our liquor and mutton are very famous. Since you're so generous with your money, I can make it cheap for you." Jin Xiangyu flapped her handkerchief in a coquettish manner. "You're traveling. No matter what, hot food will always be better than dried food."

  The three barbarians ignored Jin Xiangyu. The Chinese-speaking barbarin stood up, raised his hands, and clapped.

  Clap! Clap!

  The rhythmic sounds instantly attracted everyone's attention.

  Violent wind gushed in. Dragon Gate Inn's not entirely sturdy door was opened once again in response to the sound.

  A row of barbaric women with alluring bodies covered by black satin walked in leisurely. Each of them held a golden pot, and they looked like a beautiful scene. They gave all the people in the inn a feeling as if they had just breathed in fresh air.

  The group of pretty barbaric female servants moved between the tables and placed the pots on the barbarians' tables at the side hall in an orderly manner. Then, one after another, they stood behind the red-clad Lamas.

  The last barbaric female servant opened the lid of the golden pots. In a moment, the inn was filled with a thick fragrance.

  Everyone smelled the appetizing scent.

  They did not even need to look at the food on the tables. Based on the smell alone, they could tell that the food was not any random meal. They were also definitely hot meals that were just taken out of the pot.

  Jin Xiangyu was shocked by the scene before her.

  This was the first time she saw someone bring so many servant girls and even his cooks to the desert.

  "Tsk."

  A lavish lifestyle had never attracted her, and after she recovered from her shock, she flung her handkerchief in disdain and gave up on trying to persuade these people to eat her food. Instead, she went off to serve her other customers.

  "Just who are those barbarians? They're treating themselves like the emperor even when they're just out traveling. They have beautiful servant girls at their prime and guards at Myth Realm. They even have chefs." Silver Wolf and his party sat at a spot where they could see what was going on outside the inn. At the moment the door opened, they saw quite a large camel fleet outside, and there were more than ten red-clad Lamas and more than one hundred barbarians and barbarian servant girls over there.

  "Judging by their appearance, they seem to be merchants, but merchants do not usually display their splendour like this, neither do they have a need to do this." At the same time Silver Wolf gave this comment, his gaze turned even more solemn. "I wonder if you've noticed, but the servant girls are also martial artists—"

  "What?!"

  When they heard this, Knife, Bar, and Thunder were all shocked. They s.u.c.k.e.d in deep breaths in disbelief and began to size up the alluring teenagers dressed in satin and who had their faces covered with a thin veil. Their shock became even greater.

  Indeed, even though they looked like teenagers whose sole purpose was to be eye candy, each of their gazes contained something unique to martial artists.

  Silver Wolf looked away and said, "If my guess is correct, this group of people also came for the treasure in the palace of the desert. And they might be the strongest group to compete for the treasures in there."

  Knife, Bar, and Thunder instantly felt a great pressure on their shoulders. As of current, they saw more than twenty-four Myth Realm elites before them, and if all the servant girls and the camel keepers outside also learned martial arts, this group of people could easily take over the palace.

  Silver Wolf and his party were not the only ones who noticed the barbarians' strength.

  Right now, most gazes were trained on the side hall to the right.

  Only some of the people still paid some attention to the old man who had shown extraordinary lightness skills just now, and they also paid some attention to the teenager who remained calm and did not show his strength.

  As time passed, a few other groups entered the inn.

  They were all famous elites in the world of wanderers.

  Sometimes, the people who had sat down in the inn would stand up and salute those who came later.

  The remaining tables were all filled.

  Jin Xiangyu smiled even brighter than before. She moved around the hall in the same coquettish and bold manner while she served the customers food and drinks.

  But the players basically did not dare to eat the food in Dragon Gate Inn.

  All of them
knew clearly that they were in an inn which dealt in shady business, and it was a place that would swallow them whole if they were not careful!

  Rumble!

  At that moment, someone entered the inn. Their presence was known before they even arrived. Based on the sounds of footsteps and neighs outside the door, it seemed like quite a lot of people came over this time!

  Silver Wolf and the wanderers in the inn all put on attentive expressions.

  "Owner!"

  "Ah, when a person is about to get rich, you really can't stop it. Young Wu, hurry up and clear the storage room by the side to serve the customers.

  "Please, come in!" Jin Xiangyu ordered her employee to work while her face flushed happily. She personally invited the people outside to come in.

  "Why did she come here as well?"

  Silver Wolf had his eyes trained at the entrance. When the door opened, he saw the group who walked in, and he was a little shocked.

  Knife, Bar, and Thunder were also astonished. They looked at each other at a loss.

  The other players in the inn were also shocked. Then, a quiet, grave air settled on them.

  The people who came over were no one else but Wind Assault Tower and their tower master, Phantasmal Shadow!

  She was the second most influential person in the Chinese plains now, and she had arrived at Dragon Gate Inn.

  There were about sixty Wind Assault Tower members behind her. All of them were tall, strong, and imposing. The large group surged in, and the inn instantly became much more crowded.

  The group also started looking around fearlessly, and the atmosphere in the inn became strange.

  Phantasmal Shadow seemed to be shocked by the crowded sight in the inn. Still, she swept her gaze over the customers on each table with a calm expression. When she saw the old and young pair ahead of her, she frowned a little.

  When she saw the Embroidered Uniform Guards, her eyes lit up.

  And when she saw the red-clad Lamas at the side hall to the hall, her attention was completely attracted by that group.

  Chapter 1151 - Osaya

  This plot-related quest had indeed attracted a lot of Chinese players to the place, but the appearance of Wind Assault Tower members had caused many players to be wary. There were plenty of people in Phantasmal Shadow's party, and they were strong. Their party was much larger than any of the parties formed by the players in the inn. Hence, when they faced such a great threat, many people looked wary and hostile. They stared at Phantasmal Shadow's party with indignant gazes.

  Phantasmal Shadow naturally sensed the unwelcoming atmosphere in the inn, but she was completely unbothered by it while she continued sizing up the area. The people in West Region were very fierce. Since they were at the borders, Wind Assault Tower's reputation was not very influential in this place.

  "Owner, we'd like to use the side hall over there."

  Wu Kuo seemed to have come to Dragon Gate Inn before, and he knew the rules in this place. He resolutely threw two handfuls of gold to Jin Xiangyu, the money-hungry lady, so that he could have her clear the side hall to the left.

  He was very firm, revealing Wind Assault Tower's domineering style fully.

  However, while NPCs were willing to show respect to other NPCs, these NPCs were obviously not willing to show respect to normal players.

  Bang!

  The people sitting at the tables in the side hall to the left slammed the table and stood up. They drew their weapons aggressively and glared at them.

  "Damn you! You want me to move?! That will depend on how many heads you have for me to behead!"

  "You actually have the audacity to tell me to move with how puny you are?! I'm going to drain you of blood and hang you off the poles as a signboard!"

  The other players in the inn watched aloofly as the wanderers in the side hall to the left stood up against Wind Assault Tower's men, they did not move.

  The barbarians in the side hall to the right were interested. The leader wiped his mouth off a servant girl's dress. At the same time he enjoyed his wine, he looked over.

  Phantasmal Shadow did not seem to have noticed the hostile air in the inn. Her gaze was fixed for a moment on the barbarian.

  Wu Kuo did not look at wanderers who came over to challenge them. He told the tower members behind him to be quick, and immediately, a man with a long, thin, black sword walked out.

  The man who walked out from Wind Assault Tower had an aloof gaze and an expressionless face. His black cloak fluttered behind him as he walked toward the wanderers who had been rude to them. His head was held high.

  Whoosh!

  He just executed one slash, and it was a simple slash executed in a relaxed manner.

  At the moment this person took action, Silver Wolf and his party had their pupils shrink at the same time.

  They were a group of Inaction Realm martial artists, but they did not manage to last for even two breaths when they faced the Wind Assault Tower elite. In fact, they did not even have the chance to say anything else. After more than ten people died, they fled in a fl.u.s.tered manner.

  The man with the cloak looked as if he had just done something incredibly insignificant. He sheathed his sword and turned around to return to Wind Assault Tower's group.

  Dragon Gate Inn became completely silent. Then, when Young Wu brought the people's corpses down to the bas.e.m.e.nt, many people gradually snapped out of their shock.

  "His sword is so fast…"

  Silver Wolf and the other players in the inn felt that the situation was grave as well. They stared at the person. "He's fast and powerful. It should be an ultimate technique."

  Once the side hall to the left was emptied, the people from Wind Assault Tower had a place to sit.

  The side hall to the left was crowded, and those who did not manage to make it in filled up the remaining two tables in the hall.

  At that moment, there were people in the hall who could not keep quiet anymore.

  "I am Niu Dali, sect master of Stained Shirt Sect. I've heard of your great name before, Shadow Empress. Allow me to toast to you."

  A built and skilled-looking player stood up to lift his cup in Phantasmal Shadow's direction.

  Phantasmal Shadow turned around and lifted her cup.

  "You're the qi expert who has inherited Eighteen Stained Shirt Drops, the wrestling champion of West Region. I've heard of your name for a long time."

  "I'm just slightly famous, and I must be a joke to you, Shadow Empress. Allow me to drink first as a show of respect to you." Niu Dali drank the entire cup in a boisterous manner.

  "A toast to you!"

  Phantasmal Shadow did not show a perfunctory attitude when she drank.

  "Haha! How delightful!" Niu Dali might seem to be a carefree person, but his subsequent words showed that he had a s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e side. "I didn't expect that you would arrive so soon, Tower Master Shadow. You are indeed quick. I thought that the elites at the centre of the Chinese plains would only be able to arrive earliest by tomorrow after they received the announcement from the system."

  "Ha, I have to say, it is a coincidence. Yesterday, I had a quest near Shennongjia, so I came over to look. I didn't expect that I would run into something so amazing."

  "I see, looks like you're really lucky when it comes to the desert palace. I hope that you will be victorious and be able to obtain the treasures in the desert palace." Once Niu Dali said those words, the other players' gazes in the inn instantly turned even colder. Their gazes on Wind Assault Tower became even more hostile.

  "Only those who possess great morals will be able to have the desert palace. Even though I want it, that will depend on my luck. Brother Silver Wolf, did your sect master come to the desert as well?"

  Whoosh!

  When the players in the inn saw Phantasmal Shadow looking at an insignificant corner in the corner, countless gazes were instantly trained on Silver Wolf and his party, who had been keeping a low profile.

  "Hiss…"

 
"The people from Lovely Land?"

  "I didn't expect that the people from Lovely Land would be here as well."

  Quite a number of players in the inn put on shocked and hesitant expressions.

  Lovely Land was different from Wind Assault Tower.

  Even though Lovely Land had just been built, they had the two peerless elites in the Chinese plains, and Happy's fame had been shooting up recently. He was already showing signs of becoming even more famous than Evil Emperor now.

  One Emperor had also been viciously destroying Wild Wolves' momentum outside the borders.

  And ever since rumors about the competition in Lovely Land to figure out the strongest player in Lovely Land spread out along with rumors of Heavenly Saber Song Que's legacy being offered as the prize for the competition, a new piece of news shot up in the Chinese plains: in just a few days, its members had increased to three hundred thousand.

  Right now, Lovely Land's lineup and strength had already surpassed Wind Assault Tower's. In fact, it showed signs of surpassing Class One Hall's when it was at the peak of its power.

  If Lovely Land intended to join the party as well and Happy personally took part in it, their hopes of gaining any treasure would be largely reduced.

  For a moment, when these people stared at Silver Wolf, their gazes were incredibly complicated and wary.

  Silver Wolf might be a little displeased when Phantasmal Shadow exposed his identity, Phantasmal Shadow was still the tower master of Wind Assault Tower, the second most influential person in the Chinese plains. He had to stand up.

  "I didn't expect that you would remember someone as insignificant as us. It is my honor."

  Even though he said those words, he was neither humble nor arrogant. He showed no intention of l.i.c.k.i.n.g Phantasmal Shadow's boots.

  "Brother Silver Wolf, you're too humble," Phantasmal Shadow schooled her expression and said, "There is no way you're insignificant. After all, Sect Master Happy regards you highly. I admire your abilities as well."