MMORPG: The Elementalist

After killing all four buggers at lightning speed, Qin Ruo’s Honor Point dropped down to 39. With four Honor Points as the price, he had only obtained one trash-tier Violet equipment. This might be the worst trade that Qin Ruo had dealt since he started playing H&G. He did not really care as from his point of view, Honor Points were nothing much but just points to him.

Thinking that he should not be too wasteful, Qin Ruo blew off the dust from the loot and stored it in his inventory. After catching up with Slayer’s Heart and the others, he called out to Dinosaurcerer and Brother Da, “This place is too complicated, you all best be careful. Let’s wait until everyone is strong. Then, we can discuss about creating a Squad.”

Dinosaurcerer curled his lip with profound resignation and nodded in agreement. He did not expect that the situation in the Mythical Battlefield to be in such a complicated mess. Violet Orchid also mentioned that there were a lot of scouts in the League who would sacrifice “newbie teams” to the people of Demon League. Their job was to send the information of the parties that had below average strength players with inferior equipment to the enemy team, helping the enemy League to earn easy Battle and Honor Points.

It took 2,000 Battle Points to create a Squad. On the other side of the spectrum, members of Citadel’s had managed to accumulate negative Battle Points.

In terms of strength, they surely were at the bottom of the Mythical Battlefield. Now, there was even an organization who sold newbie parties, making their lives even harder.

Although Dinosaurcerer was greatly dissatisfied, he bit down his rage and accepted the cold hard truth.

Fortunately, there was a good opportunity in front of them.

By following Qin Ruo, Slayer’s Heart, and the team, even if they could not fully dominate the entire Mythical Battlefield, they could still reap the benefits of the field.

Yesterday’s reward was a few Gold equipment and 10,000 gold coins shared among all party members. Brother Da and him. They had at least 20,000 gold coins altogether! It was a large sum of money. If they could repeatedly earn such an amount, Dinosaurcerer had the confidence to build a Squad.

***

“Eh?”

After walking for a while, Brother Da asked, “Captain Heart. Where we are heading to leads to the Silentdeath Jungle. Do we proceed?”

Slayer’s Heart merely answered with a nod and without turning around, he said, “Before the scouts are completely weeded out, we can’t reveal our real destination.”

As soon as he finished his words, several people at the back were stunned, including Qin Ruo.

Qin Ruo glanced at the general direction of several corpses. Then, he quickly scanned the surrounding and kept quiet.

Among the girls in the team, Violetmoon Devilite was the smarter one. When she does not fully understand what was going on, she would just be silent and just follow everyone’s step, obeying the given orders.

On the other hand, after hearing Slayer’s Heart remark, Gold Digger Babe could not control her curiosity and asked, “Just now, those who died… were they not the aforementioned scouts?”

Violet Orchid turned around and said, “It is not that easy to get rid all of them. These people are experts. They know that we are from the Bauhinia Clan. They will not just send four people to track us down. Surely there are others who had not stuck their necks out just yet…”

After listening to Violet Orchid’s remark, Gold Digger Babe had a sudden realization.

She looked around. She could not see any of them, but she could tell that the escorts were of the Bandit class. Once these people activated the Stealth at about a hundred meters away, not even a Bowmaster could detect them since it was too far away.

Dinosaurcerer and Brother Da burst into a cold sweat after hearing this.

What a haunted place!

It was no wonder that people described it as “hell”. Not only did they have to deal with the people of enemy League, but they also need to be careful about people on their side. Not to mention, the difficulty to detect scouts. It was like a test to measure one’s endurance.

“Captain Slayer’s Heart, how do we get rid of these people?”

“Just head straight to the forest, they will surely catch up with us. By then, just leave the killing to Little Qin. Elemental Perception: Water has the ability to detect invisible unit. Surely hunting them would be an easy task,” Slayer’s Heart replied instantly.

Dinosaurcerer and Brother Da felt ashamed once again.

No wonder he could be part of the big League. He has rich combat experience and was able to plan everything spontaneously. From the abilities that he displayed, one can easily see that it is no mystery that his clan could survive in such a tough environment and stand firm in H&G. As for the Bauhinia Clan, perhaps they are strong in every aspects, with no weakness at all.

They sighed silently and marched into Silentdeath Jungle again.

***

When the ten people entered Silentdeath Jungle, there were a few mysterious sounds outside of the forest.

“They have gone in. What should we do?”

“Do we have any choice? Little Nine and Little Six, you two stay here! Little Seven and I will go inside to scout the situation. These people are not straightforward. They know that we will follow them. Either they are careless or they have deliberately set a trap for us. If they did set a trap, you know what to do.”

“Roger.”

“Leader, you be careful.”

***

Two Bandit went into the woods with Stealth activated, while the other two deactivated Stealth and revealed themselves.

Both of them were middle-aged men in their thirties, dressed in full black Bandit equipment. The two men vigilantly glanced around. Then, the sturdier one started to talk.

“Brother Six, can you tell me why that Tier 4 Aquamancer was so marvelous? Is he capable to use Stealth or Blink? Just a blink of an eye, he had escaped to behind Brother Four and the others. I can’t figure it out.”

“Stop talking bullshit!” Brother Six cast a stern glance at Little Nine. “Do you think the people of Twelve Zodiacs will spend 50,000 gold coins to hunt down a normal player party? Boss mentioned before, the combat video that they provided shows that there are at least two champions in this team, one of them is the Aquamancer who killed Brother Four and the others…”

He then sighed heavily.

“Hmph. You weren’t there when Boss and I watched the video. Good heavens, I don’t even know how to describe it. That Aquamancer is just like a phantom. He was nowhere to be seen and disappeared in the crowd of Twelve Zodiacs. It was totally chaotic at that time.

“Holy shit! Hey Brother Six, you watched that video before?” Little Nine eyes widened in surprise.

“Hehe, what do you think?”

Brother Six felt proud for a while, but then turned serious and said, “Dude, do you really think that he is strong just because he killed Brother Four and others? You haven’t watched the moment he slaughtered the Twelve Zodiacs’ members. So many fell instantly! Not even a Beastblood Berserker could escape him!”

“How is that possible? The strength of Twelve Zodiacs is not inferior to Bauhinia…”

“Are you saying that I’m lying? Everyone was killed! All except the few Elementalists who had barrier casted.”

“…”

“The one from Bauhinia Clan, the one who called Slayer’s Heart was also very formidable. You know the Field Commander ‘Saga’ right? That dude was also powerful, he brought four Elementalists and fought with Slayer’s Heart. As a result, he was annihilated by Slayer’s Heart alone. Saga did not even have the chance to touch Slayer’s Heart. How is that for a change? Surprised? Slayer’s Heart can also take a beating from a Level 47 Mutant Elite Boss, Slayer’s Heart stood strong despite its attack…”

“What the f*ck!”

When he was done talking, Little Nine swallowed his saliva and cursed silently.

“Now you know the true value of 50,000 gold coins. When faced with this sort of target, it is best just to hold them down and wait for the Twelve Zodiacs’ members to aid us… Otherwise…”

Brother Six then whispered, “If we failed, we would not only be forfeited from our pay, we also will offend the people of that party. If shit gets real, we might as well delete this account and start playing with a new one…”

“…”

Little Nine went quiet again. What he said was true. After all, their target was the people of Bauhinia. If they wanted to continue hanging around in Mythical Battlefield, they must change their names. If not, they would be killed too fast that they would not even know how their equipment were dropped. The power of those big shots League was not something that a little backstabbing little group could handle.

Just as the two were starting to doubt the success of their plan, bad news came from the silence of the Death Silent Jungle.

Both Little Seven and Boss had died. The ones who killed them were the Bandit and the Aquamancer in the team, respectively.

“In ten minutes, I want Little Nine to go in. If something goes wrong again, Brother Six will go in after twenty minutes! I don’t believe that they can hold in there for so long…”

When the order pinged in, the two started to calm down to build their nerves.

‘Shit! It seems like Boss really wants to fight them just for the 50,000 gold coins of Twelve Zodiacs!’

***

Somewhere in the Silentdeath Jungle.

After killing two Bandits within ten minutes, Slayer’s Heart’s expression suddenly turned grave.

Several people, including Qin Ruo, felt a bit troubled. Even a fool knew that these Bandits were just buying time. If they continued to deal with them, they would not be able to achieve anything!

“Brother Slayer. I say, we should just continue deeper. The jungle is so huge, I’m sure it would be hard to track us down. If we do really stumble into the Twelve Zodiac, I’ll… I’ll take the vanguard and buy some time for us all.”

The party members immediately agreed to Qin Ruo’s suggestion.