MMORPG: The Elementalist

Remorseless Warrior’s secret discussion with Qin Ruo was not heard by anyone else. All that the many spectating players saw was Qin Ruo poking at the air consecutively and Remorseless Warrior walking away later, shaking in his head in shock. It left a hilarious aura of mischief in the air.

Remorseless Warrior waved his hand and led his crew to camp for the Gorefiend Spider Demon for the Fallen Angels as promised. Upon seeing that, Subjugator, Black Rock, and the other busy-bodies hurried to Qin Ruo’s side and surrounded him.

“Hey, Clan Leader, what were you two talking about?” Imitating Qin Ruo, Dinosaurcerer poked his finger at everyone’s face. “What’s this poking about?”

They were not the only ones curious about what had happened, even the more level-headed Violet Orchid and Slayer’s Heart leaned over. It was obvious that even they were curious…

“Hey, don’t pry into our business, okay?”

“Damn. If you tell us, we won’t be prying…” Black Rock, loyal to his snooping habit, insisted. Qin Ruo finally sighed and gave in.

“Okay, okay. Remorseless Warrior wanted to know how many more Angelic Wings do we own… That is, how many more people from the three Clans here have fused with Divinity crystals.”

“That’s it? That’s enough to spook him?” Permanent Lock suddenly appeared out of thin air, coming out from his Stealth Status and surprising his surrounding teammates.

Qin Ruo gave him a glare and continued, “I don’t know if he’s spooked. But that was all he asked. Then he shook his head and left… That’s all.”

“So, what did you tell him?”

“What else could I have said?” Qin Ruo explained, “It’ll only be a matter of time before the world knows about your wings. So, I just told him everything. There’s no need to lie.”

“Sure, you told him the truth. How did you word it though? How many wings?”

“Can’t you count yourself?” Qin Ruo glared at Subjugator spitefully.

The latter wore a bitter smile. “Boss, how would I know who in these three Clans fused with their Divinities, or how many more Divinities you gifted out? Only you have the full picture…”

Black Rock and the others nodded their heads. “Yeah, we were so surprised to see Xiaoxiao spread out her wings earlier.”

“Clan Leader, just tell the truth. Just how many more Divinity crystals do you have…”

Violet Orchid, Homme Fatale and the others, who were standing outside of their circle, were dumbfounded after they heard that. Apocalypse wiped off the cold sweat on his forehead and stuttered.

“…What a sight. Several Field Commanders interrogating their Clan Leader like that.”

Nonetheless, they were curious too. Just how many members from the three Clans had fused with Divinities?

“How many do you think?” Qin Ruo gave in.

“As all of you know, we got two Divinities from the Galbis. Then, Majestic Hero, Black God, and I destroyed two Liches in the Buried City together—so that’s two more Divinities (Majestic Hero and Black God opted to keep the Legendary gears). So, we had four in total yesterday… Subjugator and Snowleaf each fused with one of the two we got from the Galbis; the other two crystals, which I obtained from the Liches, I gave them to Dinosaurcerer and Judge.”

“Huh? What about Xiaoxiao?”

That’s the Divinity crystal I acquired from completing my Tier 5 rank-up mission. The crystal was a Water-type one so I saved it for her.” Qin Ruo was not lying. They knew Xiaoxiao and Qin Ruo were “colleagues and friends”, so it was normal for him to give her special treatment. Besides, the other Tier 5 members from the Fallen Angels, except for Fateless and Permanent Lock, were already in possession of their own Angelic Wings…

However, what they did not know was… one could actually acquire a Divinity crystal from Tier 5 rank-up missions.

“If we had known that you could get your hands on so many Divinities, we wouldn’t have refused your offer earlier… Too bad for us.”

Slayer’s Heart felt extremely dismayed after he hearing that. Suddenly, his voice boomed.

“Wait! If you could ‘box-out’ the Lich with ease… why didn’t you, Majestic Hero and Black God just complete the rest of the four missions you had?”

“Yeah!”

It was a eureka moment for everyone. If they could open up the Buried City in advance, they did not have to trouble themselves to fight with the Executors for the Gorefiend Spider Demon’s parts.

They would have owned all the ten keys by then and connected the Buried City to Angel Faction. Entering the Buried City would just require a leap into the Warp Portal.

Qin Ruo nodded and explained.

“I thought the same too. But… there was this other mission in the Buried City that would yield a great prize, and we hadn’t completed it yet…”

Everyone’s eyes beamed with curiosity.

“Mission? What mission? What mission could be more important than connecting the Buried City to Angel Faction?”

“There’s one Revenge Mission. The prize is a Dark Gold Legendary Ring…”

“Just one ring?”

Black Rock smirked. Then, he suddenly recalled something and quickly asked, “Wait, what did you say? Legendary? What’s its attribute?”

Qin Ruo then briefly told them the stats of Darius’ Ring of Vengeance. After they heard about it, everyone took a deep breath…

“That’s so overpowered!”

“Now that’s understandable… Dual recovery… dual absorption… and it throws in another extra skill that’s akin to Berserk… Mother of God, this thing’s insanely powerful… and it was quite a hassle to get our hands on it too!” Subjugator frowned.

“We’ll have to take on a Tier 6 Megaboss and another twelve Tier 5 Megabosses. Even if we all join in on the battle at the same time, it might not even flinch. And it’s got a time limit too since it’s in the Buried City… This will take up a lot of our time. Why not just activate the Warp Portal and send us all in that way?”

As he finished, Judge interjected.

“No, we have enough time and manpower. Since we’ve completed six Golden Key Missions, we have people from a total of six Eternity Peaks coming together… The Hall of Heroes, Black Prison, and us… There’ll be a militia of up to twenty men… enough to take on a Dark Knight Commander.”

“Judge’s words exactly.”

Qin Ruo nodded and continued, “If we activate the Warp Portal now… everyone from the Angel Faction will swarm in. Then, we won’t be the only ones after the Dark Knight Commander and the Ring of Vengeance… Anyone with a little bit of muscle could join the fight, and in the midst of that chaos, it would be very difficult for us to obtain the Ring of Vengeance.

“Besides, the Demon Faction’s progress in the Buried City’s missions has been behind us. And we haven’t seen anyone from their faction appearing down at the Buried City too… Majestic Hero, Black God, and I have a theory… that it’ll take another two or three days for them to complete their missions and open up their Warp Portal… So, we have two days to prepare our plan to take out the Dark Knight Commander.”

“Two days? We could just butt in right now and complete it immediately, right?”

“No!” Qin Ruo shook his head. “There are ten Revenge Missions in the Buried City. Other than the one mission that the Executors have completed, there are still nine missions left…”

“Nine?!”

“You mean there are ten Rings of Vengeance!!”

Everyone’s blood was boiling!

Dinosaurcerer finally understood too.

“Sh*t, and here I was… wondering why the Executors needed to fight us for the entrance to the Buried City when they already got a Tier 5 Summoner who can teleport people on a whim… They were probably after the other Rings of Vengeance too. They wanted to send more of their Clanmates to the other Eternity Peaks and determine the locations of the Dark Knight Commanders.”

“Exactly!”

Dinosaurcerer’s words cleared everyone’s doubts; it also helped Qin Ruo clear his own doubts.

Qin Ruo nodded. “The Rings of Vengeance possess extremely powerful stats, and they can aid players in tremendous ways… So before we open up the Warp Portals, we’ve got to kill as many Dark Knight Commanders to gather as many Rings of Vengeance as we can!”

As he finished, Qin Ruo raised his glance at the Ruins and continued, “Okay, enough talk. With the help of the Executors, there shouldn’t be any more Clans or Parties that would dare to contest for the Gorefiend Spider Demon’s components… You guys keep on camping for Gorefiend Spider Demon. I’ll continue on from here.”

“Yes, sir!”

After the Executors lost in their duel, the other Clans and Parties had retreated from the Ruins, leaving only the Executors camping at the spawn points. Qin Ruo and his crew did not have to pull their punches at that point—who else was powerful enough to contest with the combined might of the Fallen Angels, Executors, Bauhinia Clan, and Violent Army Clan?

Not even Netherspirit’s Claw!

***

After he stepped out of the Aricus Underground Ruins, Qin Ruo quickly entered Moonrise City and joined the fights on the Mythical Battlefield!

Even though they won in their duel, for the first time, Qin Ruo felt a difference in power between the Executors and his friends (the Fallen Angels, Bauhinia Clan and Violent Army Clan).

While they did win four battles consecutively, Dinosaurcerer as well as Xiaoxiao merely used the geography of the area to their advantage and landed their vital strikes when their foes least expected it. The real actual victories, determined by pure strength and power, were his and Homme Fatale’s…

The Executors may have been a Clan without fame, but their strength was undeniably formidable.

Other than the fact that they all had equal footing in terms of equipment, they also had powerful high-tier Pets. Their combat prowess was also above any Field Commander he knew, perhaps even on par with Black Rock’s and Judge’s.

All they lacked were just Divinity crystals…

And the sheer combat experience that winged Champions possessed.

Qin Ruo did not feel much joy from beating those people. Besides a tiny sense of triumph, he felt a much heavier thump in his heart…

The Fallen Angels still had a long arduous journey to weather through if they wanted to be the top Clan in the entire game—in the whole of H&G!