Silence. Deathly silence.
The focus. The focus of everyone's attention.
The one who said this was just a small character in the mercenary group. Unsworn Sword, who was counting, turned around in shock. Seeing this guy, he smiled calmly. "Tell your leader to talk to me!"
The man nodded. "Our leader told me to. Our whole group agreed. We're withdrawing from this mission."
Only then did Unsworn Sword take this seriously. He slowly stood up, his face already filled with anger. Withdrawing from the mission at this time was no different from adding fuel to the fire. Unsworn Sword's member count was mostly done. Currently, there were more than 300 of them. A rough estimate was that Unhindered still had around 400 players. Nearly half of them were gone. The mercenary group suffered even more losses. Originally, there were more than 500, but now there were only around 200 left.
But the problem was that Unhindered's players had failed their mission and returned to Cloud City. As long as the mercenary group's Todd was still alive, their mission was not considered a failure. Moreover, they could revive in White Stone City and reach Forest Shade City in three hours. The reason Unsworn Sword had hired so many mercenary groups was to prevent a situation like this from happening. Now, however, one of the mercenary groups wanted to withdraw from the mission. Unsworn Sword believed that he wasn't the only one who felt this was too much.
But before he could say anything, three other mercenary group leaders or temporary representatives stood up. "We also want to withdraw."
"You!!!" Unsworn Sword was so angry that he didn't know what to say. The other party's tone was firm. It seemed that they were just informing him and not discussing it with him.
"Don't you think it's too much to withdraw at this time?" Many of Unhindered's players were indignant. At this time, someone stood up and said.
In the end, one of the four mercenary groups that wanted to withdraw nodded and said, "Yes, we do have some apologies. So, our group has decided to refund the deposit in full. " As he said this, he turned around and communicated with a few of his brothers. Everyone rummaged through their pockets, put together a bag of money, and handed it to Unsworn Sword.
Different mercenary groups had different rules when it came to deposits. Sometimes, employers in a hurry to find mercenaries would also use this method to attract people to take the bait. For example, the Reigning the Four Seas quest had a rule where players had to pay half of the deposit in advance and the other half upon completion of the quest. Even if the guild failed the quest in the end, the deposit would not be refunded.
However, it was the mercenary group that took the initiative to withdraw from the mission, something that had never happened before. Unsworn Sword could only hate the fact that there was no breach clause in the contract. When the other party returned the deposit, he did not reach out to accept it. Behind him, Feng Xing had already stood up and yelled angrily, "This is not about money. The problem is, aren't you being too untrustworthy?"
Apparently, the man didn't feel that what he had done was glorious either. He didn't raise his head too high, and his eyes were sparkling. He didn't look at Feng Xing, Sword of No Oath and the others, and said in a bland tone, "Sorry, we truly feel that we are not capable enough for this mission."
"So you're scared." Feng Xing sneered. In fact, anyone could imagine that there were people who wanted to retreat at this time. Apart from fear, there was no other reason.
"Scared?" He didn't expect the man to show dissatisfaction at this word. After looking at Feng Xing, he continued with his gentle attitude, "This mission, to put it bluntly, we're here to be cannon fodder. We understand this principle. If we were really scared, would we accept this kind of mission?"
Feng Xing was stunned.
"Leader Unsworn, you should remember how you lured us into this mission, right? Just for the mercenary fees? Hehe, I'm afraid none of our mercenary brothers here would have such little ambition. This mission requires us to go through five main cities. Right now, Moonlit Night, White Stone, and Shady Forest, we've already gone through three of them. In my opinion, our estimation seems to be a bit wrong. This mission doesn't have the extra rewards we imagined, and there's even a two-way mission with high risk and zero reward. After some discussion, we think that it's really hard for us to continue this mission. That's all I have to say. You guys can think whatever you want! "
After saying this, the player saw that Unsworn Sword still had no intention of taking his money bag. He bent down and gently put the money bag on the ground, then turned around and waved his hand, "Let's go."
Several players immediately separated from the crowd and returned to the forest without looking back.
The other three mercenary groups that wanted to leave felt that the brother just now had said everything he could, so they silently put their money bags on the ground, turned around, and left.
Unsworn Sword was about to say something, but this action unexpectedly spread like a plague. One after another, five mercenary groups stood up, silently put down their money bags, and silently turned around to leave.
"Hey, you guys …" Feng Xing angrily wanted to chase after them, but he was pulled back by Unsworn Sword, who shook his head and said, "Forget it, let them go!"
Looking around again, Unsworn Sword said in a deep voice, "Is there anyone else who wants to leave?"
The remaining mercenary groups looked at each other. Among them was the largest mercenary group in Cloud City, Black Hand Mercenary Group. Although their leader, Black Index Finger, had died, they did not retreat. At this time, Drifting was still in the group, calmly standing at the head of the group.
After that, the girls of Amethyst Mercenary Group did not retreat. Other than the Childe Elite Group, they were the only ones who did not suffer any damage. With how weak they were, this was practically a miracle.
After that, the perverted men from the Great Hunt were also there. They did not suffer any damage in the forest battle, but their main losses were in Moonlit Night City.
Other than that, there were two normal mercenary groups that did not choose to leave at this time. Of course, the six members of the Childe Elite Group were also there.
However, Unsworn Sword did not care too much about these six mercenary groups. Instead, he looked at the seventh mercenary group and very emotionally called out, "Little Shang."
"Ouch …" Yutian Shenming immediately made a painful expression, as if he had been poisoned to death.
"Don't call me that disgustingly, call me by my full name, Gu Little Shang!!" Gu Little Shang said angrily.
"Thank you for staying," Unsworn Sword continued to be emotional. Even his own guild members could not stand it. Feng Xing coughed violently on the side.
Other than these seven guilds, there were also a few people who were stunned on the spot. They were the players of the Silver Moon Mercenary Group. Currently, they were truly a group without a leader. Even if the leaders of the other groups were not present, they were still in the channel, and the decisions were still made by the leaders. As for them, although Silver Moon was still in name, everyone had already ignored him. Even if he had something to say, no one would listen. For a moment, there were many different opinions in the channel, and so far, no one had come up with a plan.
Unsworn Sword recognized these people and nodded to them, saying, "Everyone, I'm afraid that mercenary group can only be considered to exist in name. However, as long as you continue, I will still pay you the remaining half of the money."
"For the five of us?" the five of them asked. The Silver Moon Mercenary Group had a total of 40 people. Originally, it was supposed to be split among 40 people. If it was given to five people, it was equivalent to raising the price.
Unsworn Sword nodded, "Brothers who have just been sacrificed, as long as you are willing to continue, you can all get a share of the money."
"Okay, okay!" The five of them readily agreed. They did not dare to hide this information, and relayed it to the others in the channel. As a result, there were those who were willing to come, and those who were not. This group of people was settled just like that.
Unsworn Sword stared at the remaining mercenary groups and was about to say something when he suddenly saw Childe Elite Group's Qianli walk out in a drunken manner. His footsteps were as silent and firm as the players who had left.
"F * ck!!!" Unsworn Sword was enraged once again. He should have known that these people would definitely hit him when he was down and give up at this crucial moment.
Gu Fei, who did not want to come out, said, "Leader Unsworn, is there anything else? If there's nothing else, hurry up and go offline. "
"Ah? Go offline? " Unsworn Sword was startled. He did not expect Gu Fei to come out and ask such a simple question. He did not even understand what Gu Fei was talking about. Why would such an expert say that he wanted to go offline at this time?
"Yes, it's getting late." Gu Fei nodded eagerly, confirming that he was an anomaly.
"Oh, go offline, oh!" Unsworn Sword snapped out of his daze and quickly said, "We still have to escort Todd to the dungeon and temporarily detain him. Let's hurry up!"
Everyone's expression immediately became alert. It was obvious that Water Depth and his group would not simply give up the mission just because they were out of the forest. However, in the town, the players of Cloud City would not be afraid of them at all. At the moment, they still had more than 600 people on their side, and there was no lack of experts among them. If Water Depth really wanted to fight to the death, then everyone would fight to the death.
With this kind of indomitable momentum, the players of Cloud City officially entered Forest Shade City.
Most of the houses and other buildings in Forest Shade City were made of wood, causing its village atmosphere to be more intense. In addition, the streets were filled with the figures of busy players. When a large group of strangers suddenly appeared, they would also be curious and vigilant, which was no different from other main cities.
At this time, Brother You, who was good at observation and summary, quickly discovered a problem.
"Did you notice?" Brother You said, "The player professions here are very unbalanced. Warriors, Knights, Priests, and Grandmasters of Combat, these four professions, how many of them have you seen along the way? "
"Very few indeed!" Everyone recalled.
"The streets are full of archers!" Everyone sighed.
"And it seems that most of them are Lurkers." Brother You said, "Did the surrounding environment create the abnormal development of the professions in this main city? No wonder many people said that they had friends in this city before, but they all moved away... "
"Hey, friends of Cloud City, how are you?" Suddenly, a voice came. Everyone turned around and saw Water Depth sitting cross-legged on the roof with a smile, one hand hugging his knees, the other raised and waving at everyone.
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[Butterfly Knot: Uh, the number of chapters in the previous chapter is wrong, but this can't be changed... So, let us mourn the disappearance of Chapter 335 ~]
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