Chapter 1051: Reave Town
While Gentle Wind and Autumn Breeze caught up in their latest antics amidst the lively atmosphere, elsewhere, the atmosphere was no different than a ghost town.
Bilgewater, Reave Town
Just a few miles across and near the Twilight Glades stood the Reave Town.
Despite its initial glamorous opening, the town appeared to have multiple openings that enabled monsters and Bounty Players to camp around.
There weren’t many NPC guards patrolling the vicinity, and there were less than 2 digits of players that remained in the town.
These players that remained didn’t stay because they preferred Reave Town.
Instead, they were broke and had no other option but to stick around.
"Ugh, if only I didn’t blow all my spending to co over here." A player lanted at a desolate tavern to his companions.
"Sa here. I can’t believe I got scamd into coming to this godforsaken place. I’ve been killed and PKed so many tis that I’m on the verge of quitting altogether."
"It’s all Reaver Guild’s fault. Actually no, it’s all the Illuminati’s fault. Why in the world are they trying to compete with soone clearly superior?"
As soon as the Reaver Guild and Illuminati’s nas were dropped in the tavern, almost every player within the tavern exhaled deeply simultaneously.
Nothing could be more frustrating than placing your investnt in hopes of winning big, only to end up losing everything.
What made it worse was that the investnt appeared to be prosperous and booming initially!
anwhile, so Reaver Guild mbers sitting in the sa tavern frowned deeply when they overheard these players lanting and blaming their guild once again.
"Fuck, these players are really scum." A Reaver mber clenched his fist tightly and hoped to knock so senses out of these whiners.
Not once had they ever forced anyone to co to their town and invest heavily.
All they did was offer the exact sa thing as advertised.
Moreover, they even lowered the prices in so many venues, enabling these ungrateful players to save a lot of money.
Yet they acted as if they didn’t reap any benefit and shifted all the bla to their Reaver Guild.
"Save your breath. They’re openly dissing us because they know if we make a move against them now, then the only one in shambles would be us." Another Reaver mber comnted and shook their head.
"Are you not frustrated by the circumstances?" Asked their companion.
"What’s there to be frustrated about? The opposing side is superior and the players aren’t brain dead to not know what benefits them more." They shrugged their shoulders and proceeded to eat their al.
While this was happening in the tavern, it was also happening all across the town.
Town Hall
At the town hall, an ergency eting was being held.
Situated at the center of the eting table was Scythe aka Gao Zhong.
"Miss representative, I wonder what other marvelous idea you have in mind." Gao Zhong turned his attention to one particular woman and asked sarcastically.
"You have beco very famous as of late. Every other first-rate and Super Guilds are looking at us, scrutinizing our every action and movent."
Needless to say, the person Gao Zhong was speaking to was none other than Natasha of the Illuminati.
She had promptly returned to the Reave Town after being harshly criticized and reprimanded by the higher-ups. In the end, she got off with a severe warning and was ordered to salvage the declining situation in Reave Town.
Who could have imagined the mont she returned, she would be facing this useless heir’s questioning?
"I may have t with a mishap, but that’s because soone failed to identify a mole in his own guild." Natasha tapped her fingers on the table repeatedly, her eyes scanning around the mbers in the eting room.
As she finished scanning around, her eyes turned cold and fierce. "Besides, you have the ti for sarcastic remarks, but how co you don’t have the ti to handle the PR issues? And why has the NPC guards’ patrol decreased by a sharp margin? Who would want to co to a town without any security insurance?"
Being bombarded with a series of questions, Gao Zhong’s body jolted slightly.
He didn’t anticipate his attempt to reclaim authority from Natasha would end up backfiring hard on him.
’Damn, what is her actual identity? How co the Illuminati just let her off easy like this?’ Gao Zhong cursed silently, feeling like so nepotism was at play.
Little did Gao Zhong realize it, but he was also a beneficiary of the nepotism practice.
"Why haven’t you answered my questions, Mister Scythe?" Natasha questioned coldly.
"I— uh..." Speechless, Gao Zhong didn’t know how to answer any of them.
Just when he thought he was going to be made a fool, a voice suddenly intervened.
"Replying to Miss Natasha, it’s not that the Guild Leader refuses to deploy more NPC guards, but we lack the necessary funds." Hundred Ghost stood up from his seat and said, "If we didn’t push for many discounts and low prices to attract players to compete with the Vanguard Guild town, then we would have enough funding to stabilize the town’s defenses instead."
"And you are?" Natasha raised an eyebrow.
"He’s Hundred Ghost, one of my trusted subordinates." Gao Zhong quickly explained and appeared quite prideful.
Never once had Gao Zhong anticipated this usually disappointing subordinate of his to step up and assist him greatly.
’This Hundred Ghost truly is one loyal subordinate.’ Gao Zhong thought to himself. To save him from enduring another round of embarrassnt and regaining the montum was definitely sothing he appreciated.
anwhile, Jason and the other Reaver Guild’s higher-ups were stoned when they noticed Hundred Ghost was taking the lead to rise.
With the atmosphere turning tense, Natasha was about to lash out when she received a ssage notification.
In the blink of an eye, she opened it and read the ssage.
"The Vanguard Guild responded that the peace talk isn’t available at the mont due to the influx of traffic in their town." She took a deep breath and relayed the news to the people in the eting room.
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