Chapter 217 - Interviewing after Young Master’s Elite
Only Gu Fei did not react to High Cloud rcenary group leader Cirrus’s request, as he knew nothing of the underlying implication behind the latter’s request. The founder of a rcenary group had to pay an exorbitant sum to the system when he or she was establishing it, and to raise a group to level 4 like the High Cloud rcenary group... It could be seen how difficult this task was just from the fact that Yunduan City currently had few level 5 rcenary groups. For most people, even if they were unhappy with their rcenary groups, the most they would do was kick existing mbers and recruit new mbers once more to improve the groups’ overall strength. As for Cirrus, he was actually thinking of abandoning his rcenary group just to join Young Master’s Elite.
Cirrus let his action speak for him, and the mbers of High Cloud behind him suddenly exclaid in shock, “Leader Cirrus just left the group!” Leaders could disband their rcenary groups. Fortunately, Cirrus was not that inconsiderate, and he rely opted to quit High Cloud of his volition. When a rcenary group leader quit, the vice group leader would automatically take over his post.
Hearing the surprised exclamation of the mbers of High Cloud, Gu Fei turned his head to address Young Master Han, “Who’s our vice group leader?”
“Our group only has six mbers, so why would we need a vice group leader for?” Young Master Han answered sarcastically as he waved his hand grandly.
From this exchange, Cirrus found out that Young Master Han was this rcenary group’s leader, so he sincerely focused his gaze on him half the ti.
“Ahem. Treat to a few rounds of drinks first and I’ll consider your request,” Young Master Han said.
“Ugh! You’re so corrupt!” War Without Wounds expressed his indignation when he heard Young Master Han’s extorting attempt. However, his negative reaction was not due to him having high sense of justice but rely due to him not being interested in imbibing liquor. In the end, he suggested, “Why don’t we make him pay a mbership, instead?!”
“mbership? That’s right! mbers should pay mbership fee!” Having an epiphany, Young Master Han exclaid in agreent, “You five should pay as well, being mbers of my rcenary group and all. Let set the rule: All mbers must pay the group leader 10 gold coins as mbership fee every day.”
“Shaless!” all of them cried out in frustration. So mbers of High Cloud who had overheard their conversation also voiced their disdain regarding Young Master Han’s attempt to earn money from his fellow rcenaries.
“I think you shouldn’t trust this type of person,” Gu Fei seriously advised Cirrus, knowing full well that the latter had already resolved to treat Young Master Han to a round of drinks at the other’s request.
“I strongly concur,” War Without Wounds solemnly nodded his head.
“I, too!” Royal God Call seconded.
Cirrus felt stunned at these few n’s antics of ridiculing and badmouthing one another without hesitation. This atmosphere was very similar to his High Cloud rcenary group. In fact, Young Master’s Elite was even worse compared to High Cloud when it only had six n.
Cirrus watched the six n bicker on as they walked away. Mmm... I’ll observe them in greater detail first! he decided not to pursue the six n for now. Turning around, he saw his ex-rcenary companions still standing beside the teleportation array. Uhm... This is kinda awkward. But they probably don’t think of as their comrade to begin with, anyway! Cirrus smiled wryly and quietly left without bidding any of them goodbye.
“Actually, we do need to find a Mage for our group,” Brother Assist suddenly said after they had walked for quite a distance.
Gu Fei did not say a word, knowing that he did not really count as a Mage. Although his Magic Attack Power was insanely high, he could only cast three or five spells and would have to eat fruit afterward to replenish his limited mana pool.
“Cirrus’s skill as a Mage is pretty average,” Royal God Call opined.
“Yeah... His equipnt is so-so, as well,” Brother Assist added.
“His skills at giving commands are acceptable, but I’m still far better. More importantly, he can’t hold a candle to my looks,” Young Master Han said. As none of his fellow rcenaries bothered to comnt at his words, he rely concluded, “In short, he does not et the criteria we have for our group.”
“There are few elites out there, so we can just nurture one,” Sword Demon suggested.
“Let’s look around for soone with potential; we’re not really in a hurry to acquire a new mber, anyway,” Young Master Han drawled, showing his lack of interest in adding new mbers to the rcenary group.
Although the rest of them were discussing the matter, they were not really that into developing Young Master’s Elite further, given Young Master Han’s leadership style. This rcenary group was no more than an avenue of entertainnt to all of them. Frankly speaking, they were more concerned with increasing their fa than enhancing this rcenary group. Moreover, it was currently not ideal to develop the group since the Five Unyielding Experts were the foremost experts the public had acknowledged to dominate Parallel World. Young Master Han and the lot were no more than hidden powers biding their ti in Young Master’s Elite. They were in a whole different ball ga altogether.
“Man, it’s so fun killing in today’s match!” All of them moved on from discussing about recruiting a new rcenary for their group into the activities they had in today’s match. War Without Wounds was flexing his muscles; it was rare for him to get a chance like today to gain kill points with this bunch of experts.
“Still, won’t Young Master’s previous set up be for naught now?” As usual, Brother Assist was being a worrywart.
Young Master Han rely laughed his worry off, “In today’s match, our purpose is to gain a bit of fa. Right now, our nas have beco pretty well-known. The way we fought this match would most likely throw any rcenary group that we et from here onward into a tizzy. I feel that things are about to get interesting now.”
Everything had more or less unfolded as Young Master Han had intended. Young Master’s Elite’s win brought the six n into the quarterfinals. No rcenary group out there would believe Young Master’s Elite had just rely gotten lucky to reach this far in the rcenary PvP tournant.
This was especially the case after Young Master’s Elite’s match with High Cloud. No matter how severe High Cloud’s internal conflict, Young Master’s Elite’s utter demolition of its eighty-man group without one casualty or employing the Grand Kiting strategy only made the group appear all the more horrifying.
High Cloud’s players hailed from various guilds in Yunduan City. Therefore, the frightening might that Young Master’s Elite had displayed in this match alone spread very fast.
Mage! Mage! Mage! The main topic of everyone’s conversation was Young Master’s Elite’s Mage.
The players of Yunduan City were in a daze. Why was it that from the open beta days until now, any topic in Yunduan City would always be about Mages?
That vicious slayer 27149 was a Mage; the player that went about doing ‘Bounty Mission’ in Yunduan City was also a Mage; the recent buzz was pertaining to an Insta-kill Mage as well; now, there was yet another rumor about a Mage that knew how to duplicate himself.
Was the strongest job class in Parallel World actually the Mage? Players who had not chosen the Mage job class began to feel regret, while those who had chosen to be a Mage started to feel fired up.
Most people were no longer worrying about how to deal with Young Master’s Elite. They, just like Young Master Han, were hoping that other rcenary groups would be dealt the unlucky hand instead of themselves.
Since Young Master’s Elite could demolish an eighty-man rcenary group, a group with less than that number would simply be insufficient to deal with Young Master’s Elite. If the remaining rcenary groups in the tournant were to mobilize their entire force against Young Master’s Elite, the said rcenary group would simply fall back to using its Grand Kiting strategy upon realizing that it had no ans to take them head on.
Their hands were essentially tied no matter how they proceeded to deal with Young Master’s Elite, so the seven rcenary groups were currently hard at work on finding ways to defeat the six-man rcenary group.
This was even more the case for Yunduan City’s number one rcenary group, Four Seas of Traversing Four Seas Guild, since it was matched up with Young Master’s Elite in the quarterfinals. Four Seas was very anxious at the thought of crossing swords with Young Master’s Elite.
In fact, Four Seas group leader Youthful Reflection, a talented strategist who also assud the role of Traversing Four Seas Guild’s military advisor, stayed up all night trying to co up with the most appropriate thod to deal with Young Master’s Elite.
It was just as what Sun Tzu’s Art of War had detailed: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” Guided by this statent, Youthful Reflection spent a whole night interviewing the past PvP tournant opponents of Young Master’s Elite.
Cloud Herder rcenary group was filled with resentnt toward Young Master’s Elite’s Grand Kiting strategy; High Cloud rcenary group still had lingering fear toward the PvP might of Young Master’s Elite; Athyst rcenary group, anwhile, was on Young Master’s Elite side despite losing to the latter and treated any person who would co to inquire for information rather coldly; as for all the other random small rcenary groups, Youthful Reflection could not find a way to contact them to ask about Young Master’s Elite; in the end, only Silver Moon rcenary group’s leader, Silver Moon, provided Youthful Reflection with so useful information.
Sword Demon, Brother Assist, War Without Wounds, and Royal God Call! Just hearing these nas had caused him to break out in cold sweat. Young Master’s Elite was indeed worthy of its na, as each mber of the group was truly elite. Royal God Call was a mber of Traversing Four Seas and was an Archer just like him, so Youthful Reflection had the chance to get to know him. Although he was just a brat with barely passable attitude, his gaming skills were definitely not run of the mill and his equipnt was above average. Unfortunately for Youthful Reflection, he was unaware that Royal God Call’s equipnt had been replaced by top-notch gear last night.
War Without Wounds held the title of the number one Warrior in the MMO community. He had held on to that position during the first few weeks of Parallel World, yet an unknown reason had eventually caused his leveling speed to significantly drop to the point of others catching up to and surpassing him. Right now, the title as the number one Warrior of Parallel World was being held by Southern Lone Blade of the Five Unyielding Experts. Had it not been for that lapse in War Without Wounds’ leveling efficiency, he would have been among the Five Unyielding Experts himself. At present, he was ranked third on the Warrior leaderboard.
Sword Demon was a na that needed no further introduction. Anyone who dared to call himself or herself as a gar would know of this IGN. It was rumored that he had set up the Heaven-defying Guild during Parallel World’s open beta days, but for so unknown reason, the mbers had ended up deserting his guild early on. From then on, he had kept himself from the public’s eyes. His na never appeared in any other guilds, either. Who knew that he would be nestling in this small rcenary group, instead? Sword Demon was highly ranked on the Thief leaderboard at first, but just like War Without Wounds, he had suffered a sudden drop at so point in ti. Many concluded that he must have dropped a level as a result of dying. Currently, he was ranked eighth on the Thief leaderboard – no, wait; he should be ranked seventh right now. Youthful Reflection looked at the most updated level rankings he had just received: the Thief Dusky Cloud who was originally ranked fifth suddenly disappeared on the leaderboard; it was most likely that he had lost a level after dying, too.
It could be surmised that had Sword Demon not experienced an accidental loss of level, the individuals among the Five Unyielding Experts would have probably been different as well.
There was Brother Assist, too. While this person’s ability to gather information was scary, his gaming skill was pitifully average. He had a rather large information network, ranging from GMs of MMOs to the insignificant newbies on the streets. Therefore, this individual should not be underestimated. After all, contacts were a very important resource when vying for domination in any online gas.
Thousand Miles Drunk and Young Master Han were two nas that allowed Youthful Reflection to breathe a sigh of relief, thinking that they were not so top-class expert with any colorful history.
However, Youthful Reflection was taken aback when Silver Moon’s revealed Thousand Miles Drunk to be the infamous Fugitive 27149 of the past. Furthermore, he was the rumored Insta-kill Mage and the real powerhouse of Young Master’s Elite.
As for Young Master Han, he was the leader of Young Master’s Elite. With the group being nad after him, the other five mbers were most likely just his underlings, which just made this person all the more fearso!
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