Reigning Four Seas' probing attack only lasted a few seconds before they were crushed by the system's pincer attack. Thinking about the 800 guild players behind them, Unsworn Sword did not give the order to retreat. They would not suffer any losses even if they died, so they might as well fight to the last man.
Reigning Four Seas no longer had the chance to take a step forward. The sudden appearance of the assassins was more than enough to deal with. In addition to the ranged attacks from the top of the wall, the two rows of infantry at the base of the wall did not even have to move before Reigning Four Seas' army was completely annihilated.
When Unsworn Sword came out of the resurrection point, he saw that Feng Xing was already there waiting for him. After a short pause, he suddenly complained, "You saw that we were ambushed by assassins, why didn't you bring anyone to help us?"
Reigning Four Seas did not go all out in this battle either. He only sent out the Archers and Priests, while the other melee players stayed behind to watch the battle.
Feng Xing was also stunned for a moment, "You didn't say anything!"
"I can't see clearly because I'm closely involved. You should've seen the situation better from the outside. You should've made a decision at a time like this! Even if you're not confident, you should've reminded me! "Unsworn Sword said.
Feng Xing did not say anything. He felt that Unsworn Sword's words made sense. They might've been too focused on the enemy to think too much when they were charging in. He was supervising the battle from the back and should've sent reinforcements at that time. The number of assassins that appeared was not too high. If Reigning Four Seas' melee players could've helped at that time, they wouldn't have been defeated in this wave of attacks.
Unsworn Sword sighed, feeling that it was a great pity. At that moment, Countercurrent's voice rang in his ears, "Guild Leader Unsworn, you've worked hard!"
Countercurrent estimated that Unsworn Sword was about to die and hurried over to the resurrection point, just in time to greet him. As for whether he was here to console him or to watch him make a fool of himself, only he knew. Although Unsworn Sword was annoyed, he would not show his dejection in front of his competitors. When he heard Countercurrent's voice, he immediately straightened his chest and adjusted his equipment. He turned his head with a solemn expression and said, "Guild Leader Countercurrent, the system is not easy to deal with this time."
"Yes, we all saw it." Following Countercurrent were a few other presidents of the convention, and all of them had solemn expressions on their faces.
"Unhindered's trip to the Four Seas wasn't in vain. The catapults can still attack like this, and they even have assassins in hiding. This is something we've never seen in our previous battles," Cloud Shepherd's Guild Leader, Muddy Cloud, said.
Unsworn Sword sent a heartfelt gaze of gratitude to their Guild Leader, who had spoken up for them. He wasn't the kind of person who only knew how to go against the flow. He was now seriously analyzing the pitiful information that he had obtained by sacrificing himself. "If the catapults' attacks are like the ones that appeared just now, I don't think there's much to worry about. With the support of the priests, they should be able to hold on for a while. After they come into contact with the enemy's soldiers, the catapults' attacks will definitely stop. Otherwise, no matter what kind of stones they use, they will hurt their own people."
"Yes!" Everyone nodded.
"Although we have 170,000 people, it's too much of a waste to charge like a swarm of bees. Perhaps the system has predicted the number of guilds in each city, so it has set up a strategy that is targeted at them. I suggest that we arrange our people according to the size of the area, and try to widen the formation as much as possible. The brothers who survive can be substitutes at the back! When the brothers who charge first fall, the substitutes will follow up, and the brothers who fall will rush back from the resurrection point. I don't believe that we can't break through this cycle. " As Unsworn Sword spoke, he actually managed to make some sense out of it. Looking back at it, he was quite impressed with himself. He had only wanted to casually analyze the situation to prove that even though he had died quickly, his death wasn't in vain. However, the more he spoke, the more ideas he had. After explaining the rotation system of the main force and substitutes, Unsworn Sword felt that it was a great idea.
Black Index Finger, who had been quiet all this while, as if he wasn't used to being a guild leader, suddenly sighed and said, "Everyone, the 170,000 we have is just a theoretical number. As for the actual situation, I've asked people to look around. We have more than 800 guilds, and more than half of them are beginner guilds. Some of them don't even have 50 people. Many of them are around level 30, and some are even wearing white equipment. Not all of these 170,000 people are as elite as the members of Unhindered and Singing To Wine. It's hard to say whether or not a portion of them can be counted as combat power in this battle. I'm sure everyone has a rough idea of the strength of the system guards. They are quite strong, and if we were to fight them one on one, I'm afraid none of you would dare to say that you would definitely win, right? "
"Yes!" Everyone nodded, and Unsworn Sword didn't say anything. He had really fought one on one just now, and if it wasn't for the support of a few Priests, he really would have lost.
"However, I think that Brother Unsworn's suggestion is very good, but I think we should seriously investigate the members. Those who aren't strong enough, we might as well not let them participate in the battle, or else it might cause problems in our coordination." Black Index Finger said.
"That's true, but I don't know if these people are willing!" Unsworn Sword said.
As soon as he said this, the other guild leaders all sighed. They were all guild leaders, and they all understood this difficulty. Their levels were low, and they were weak, but they were still players, and they were on equal footing with the Five Roaches. If they were willing to follow the arrangement and not cause trouble, it was considered reasonable. But if they refused to comply, and wanted to play in the contents of this city war, there was no reason to stop them.
Black Index Finger laughed and said, "There are a total of four gates in the main city. We'll focus on one, and the other three are empty. Those who aren't willing to cooperate with us can go to the other gates to play. Even now, there are still many guilds who aren't willing to cooperate, and are trying to find their own ways to deal with the other gates, right? "
Unsworn Sword and Against the Current both felt their hearts skip a beat. Black Index Finger's meaning was clearly to reduce the number of people, and get rid of all the slackers, but it seemed like he wanted to concentrate as many points as possible in the hands of these people! Anyone with a bit of knowledge could see that in order to take down this city, everyone had to work together. A guild with only a thousand or so people wouldn't be able to do much on their own, not to mention that apart from these five guilds, there weren't any thousand-man guilds in Cloud Peak City.
"Don't worry, everyone. You can leave this task to us. We, Black Hand, came from a mercenary group, so we know quite a lot of people, "Black Index Finger said.
"What do you think?" Against the Current looked at the others.
Only then did Unsworn Sword realize why Against the Current had gathered so many people to go to the resurrection point to pick him up. In fact, it was because they didn't want too many people to talk. The people who came were all guild leaders, so they avoided the leaders of the smaller guilds, and decided on the plan. Then, those people would follow along, and it would be over.
"I have no objections." Mudi of the Cloud was the first to express his opinion. Following that, quite a few other guild leaders agreed with Black Index Finger. In the end, Unsworn Sword and Against the Current also nodded in agreement. With that, the matter was settled. Black Index Finger immediately left to gather manpower and conduct a detailed selection of the people before him.
"Guild Leader Unsworn." At this time, Mudi of the Cloud appeared beside Unsworn Sword and pulled him back.
Seeing that Mudi had something to say, Unsworn Sword didn't reply. Instead, he sent a message to him, "What is it?"
"Don't you think that Black Index Finger came prepared?" Mudi of the Cloud asked.
"What do you mean?"
"There are thousands of guilds in Cloud Cloud City, and we have 820 of them here. How many guild leaders have you called out of the 820 guild leaders? "Mudi of the Cloud asked.
"This … there are probably only a few dozen of them!" Unsworn Sword reacted after answering the question. Previously, when Against the Current discussed with him, he said that he wanted to contact all the guilds in Cloud Cloud City, and Unsworn Sword did his best to do so. However, the guild leaders he knew were at least Rank 4 or 5 guilds. How could he possibly know those newly formed, beginner guilds? But now, more than half of the 800 guilds here were these small guilds. How did these people get in touch? Who knew so many small guild leaders? Against the Current, or was it Black Index Finger? No matter who it was, to be able to gather so many scattered guilds in an instant, this person must have prepared beforehand. At the very least, they must have gone to the guild building to prepare for class and memorized the information of all the guilds and guild leaders in Cloud Cloud City. To be willing to put in so much effort, this person must be planning something big in this city war.
"For this Black Index Finger to dare to take on this task, he must know at least a few hundred guild leaders, right? Even if he's from a mercenary group, he shouldn't have that many connections, right? In fact, his so-called connections are similar to ours. He's just a bit more famous, and more people know us. But on the other hand, we don't really know much, "Mudi of the Cloud said.
"Hmm, you're right. This guy, looks like he wants to do something big. "Unsworn Sword said.
"We have to be careful," Mudi of the Cloud said.
"Hmm, I wonder if Against the Current knows about this," Unsworn Sword said.
"It's hard to say. Maybe they've been working together for a long time. Otherwise, who would call out so many small guilds in the first place? You only know a few dozen guilds, and so do I. I can't call out these small guilds, "Mudi of the Cloud said.
"Yeah, I didn't notice this at first." Unsworn Sword nodded. He realized that Reigning The Four Seas seemed to be a little too arrogant after winning the tournament and completing the chain quest. They did not put anyone in their eyes, and they thought that the championship was already in their bag. When he thought about how Against the Current, Black Index Finger, or even all of them had made such detailed preparations for this city war, Unsworn Sword could not help but feel uneasy. He began to wonder if he had fallen into a trap. When he thought about it, Unsworn Sword subconsciously wanted to look for Young Master Han, but this time, Young Master Han didn't appear with Against the Current.
Even if he didn't appear, I can still send a message … Unsworn Sword thought. It didn't matter if you thought about it positively or negatively. As long as you wanted to, you could conjure up a bunch of things to comfort or scare yourself.
The attack on the north gate came to a temporary halt, and Against the Current didn't mention the wave of probing from his guild. Unsworn Sword wanted to see what Against the Current was planning, so he didn't say a word and pretended to disappear. At the same time, he kept in touch with Time's Reflection to see if he had discovered anything. At the same time, he was also thinking about the details of what happened here.
The player army didn't move. Gu Fei and Sword Ghoul were so lonely that they stood under the city gate and yawned. They didn't make it in time to capture White and Black, and they didn't participate in the second wave. They were waiting for the third wave, but the players didn't make a move.
"They're probably thinking about how to deal with it. I don't think this city is going to be easy," Sword Ghoul said. "That wave of rock attacks was really dense. There was no way to dodge."
"It's just too fake. A rock as big as a person's head can fall from such a high wall and hit their head. People won't die," Gu Fei said.
"You can't say that. Everyone in the game isn't an ordinary person. They're all strong warriors. Anyone who gets smashed to death is an ordinary person," Sword Ghoul said.
"Hmm, that's true. If it was me, I wouldn't die." Gu Fei didn't think he was an ordinary person.
The players did not move for a long time. The two of them were thinking if they should find a way to sneak into the crowd of players. In any case, the players would definitely not be able to guess that they were actually spies from the system. While they were discussing, they suddenly heard a creaking sound coming from the entrance beside them. The two of them turned around and looked at the entrance. They saw a person pushing a two-wheeled wooden cart laboriously towards the entrance. The closer they got, the more the two of them could see each other's faces, and they were both shocked.
"Xiaolei!!!!" Gu Fei and Sword Ghoul shouted in unison.
The person in front of them was the first famous person in the parallel world in Cloud Cloud City, the owner of Xiaolei Tavern, Xiaolei. Xiaolei also recognized the two great generals of the Young Master Elite Group who had been occupying his private room all year round.
"Qian Li? Sword Ghoul? "Xiaolei's face was full of surprise as he called out their names.
Sword Ghoul was quick to react to things related to the game. He immediately asked, "You also have a faction?"
Xiaolei was stunned when he heard this. "How did you know?" Then, a look of realization appeared on his face. "You two also have a faction. That's why you stayed in the city during this city war?"
"Yes! Which faction are you in? "Sword Ghoul quickly asked.
"The Business Trade Alliance. What about you two? "Xiaolei asked.
"I'm in the Assassin Alliance. He … doesn't know," Sword Ghoul said.
"Doesn't know?" Xiaolei didn't understand.
Gu Fei was embarrassed. "I joined without knowing anything. No one told me it was a faction! I didn't know who to ask afterward. "
"Xiaolei, how did you join this faction?" Sword Ghoul asked. Although Sword Ghoul wasn't Brother You, he would also study the game settings. He just wasn't as obsessed as Brother You.
"I was confused too. Once, I went to the Business Association to accept a mission. Suddenly, they sent me a document saying that I'm a member of the Business Trade Alliance," Xiaolei said.
"Huh? You do missions too? "Gu Fei interrupted. He was quite surprised. He thought Xiaolei stayed in Xiaolei's tavern 24 hours a day.
"Occasionally," Xiaolei said.
"What's the faction reward?" Sword Ghoul asked.
"The tavern's tax rate is 20% lower than before," Xiaolei said.
"This …" In Sword Ghoul's eyes, this kind of reward was even worse than trash. He then asked, "Is there no skill type?"
"Skill? I chose a bartending recipe. Where's Gongzi? I haven't seen him in a long time. "This was the most unique thing about Xiaolei. Compared to everyone else who hated Gongzi Han, he really liked this person. Most tavern owners loved drunkards very much.
"He … is outside the city now!" Sword Ghoul said.
"Come to my place when you have time! I'm the only one in the city who has this new wine. Even the system tavern doesn't have it, "Xiaolei said excitedly.
"Is that so?" Gu Fei replied. He patted the big wooden barrel on Xiaolei's wooden cart. "What's this?"
Xiaolei said, "Aren't we going to divide the territory in this city war? I discussed with a few friends who also run taverns in the city. We felt that the territory was related to our tavern, so we temporarily formed a guild to participate in this city war. As a result, when I came online today, I was thrown into the city alone. I looked everywhere but couldn't find anyone. I sent messages to my friends saying that they were enemies, so I couldn't send them. Later, I went to the business association and they sent me a mission to transport military supplies to the front. "
"Military supplies? What is it? "Gu Fei patted the wooden barrel again. As he patted, he put his head on it to listen." It sounds like water. "
"There's a cover." Sword Ghoul pointed at the barrel.
Gu Fei immediately went to lift it to see. Xiaolei was anxious. "Hey, hey, don't break the mission item."
"I'm just taking a look. How can it be broken?" Gu Fei said as he lifted it. His face turned red, and he loosened his hand. "I can't lift it."
Xiaolei let out a sigh of relief. He was afraid that these two would do something again. He pushed the cart around them and said, "I'll send it to the mission location first. I'll talk to you when I come back."
"Go, go!" Gu Fei waved his hand to let them go.
Xiaolei pushed his wooden cart away. Sword Ghoul suddenly said to Gu Fei, "I have a mission. Xiaolei also has a mission. Your faction might also have a mission."
"Yeah, that's right. I don't know what's going on here. There's been no movement for a long time. I'll go into the city to see if there's a mission." Gu Fei said.
"Okay!"
Gu Fei said as he entered the city. His wanted license was issued by the Wanted Mission Office. Gu Fei thought that his faction should be related to this organization. Gu Fei felt a chill in his heart. Could it be that his faction was a jailer or a catcher? What kind of faction was this? It didn't have any spirit at all. Six Doors? Even in the game, they wouldn't be called that!
Gu Fei thought as he arrived at the Wanted Mission Office. He pushed open the door and entered. The familiar scene was still the same. However, when he spoke to the NPC, he was told that the city's survival was at stake. He didn't have time to care about such a small crime. He needed to find something more meaningful.
Besides this place, Gu Fei thought about it. The only place that had an intersection with his mission was the Main City's City Hall. So, he walked towards the City Hall. This was a place that ordinary players didn't have the right to enter. After Gu Fei showed his wanted license, he was easily let in. Gu Fei walked around the hall twice. He remembered the incident in Xiayu City. That person seemed to be from the Guard Corps, right? After thinking about this, Gu Fei grabbed a guard, asked where the Guard Corps was, and walked over there.
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[Butterfly Knot: Some students have reported that there was a calculation error. The number of guilds was 82. Butterfly Knot looked at its own Word document. There were 820 guilds. I don't know why a 0 disappeared. Let me state here, 170,000 people, 820 guilds. It's impossible to have 82 guilds. That would require an average of 2000 people per guild. The highest level 6 guild is 1050 people. Even if all 82 guilds are level 6, that's only 80,000 people. Not to mention there are only five level 6 guilds in Cloud City.]
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