Retrograde Gaming - Chapter 44
Chapter 44: Seeking Trouble (2)
It was still early in the morning when most of the players were still asleep. All of the guild channels were very quiet, but there was one exception — the Brotherhood of World Destruction had suddenly become very busy.
“Leader, I’m Qingfeng. It was my turn to guard Lava Crack today, I was killed by a guy who appeared in front of us. In fact, he killed us three easily.” The Knight-type player, Qingfeng, said in the guild’s channel.
“What? Who did it? Which guild is this guy from?” Ask Sky just woke up. Ever since his guild took control of Lava Crack, countless people had been coming to seek trouble. After all, it was a very profitable location. However, with the prowess of his guild, they managed to drive all of the pests away. Despite this, it was still a tough job for Ask Sky, he had to stay online for at least 15 hours everyday. Because things would always go wrong.
“It’s Kickass Brother,” the mage player who just came out of the revival point answered his question.
“Kickass Brother?” Ask Sky was slightly stunned. Of course he knew who Kickass Brother was. After all, the name was globally announced yesterday. He didn’t pay a lot of attention on Kickass Brother since his main focus was on Lava Crack, not the dungeons. Although he had never tried to get any dungeon information from Kickass Brother, the latter had already taken the initiative and found him first.
“How many people does he have? Which guild is he in?” Ask Sky questioned them.
“He was alone, and due to him not wearing a badge, we don’t know which guild he’s from.” the Knight-type player answered.
“He’s alone?” Ask Sky was very surprised. Although he heard that Kickass Brother killed a Warrior in one strike yesterday, he didn’t take it seriously. He thought that this was just a story made up by one of Kickass Brother’s fans. Ask Sky couldn’t help but wonder if this Kickass Brother was also extremely good at PK…
After some thought, he said, “So you’re telling me that he killed all of you by himself? What were you guys doing?”
“Leader, please don’t blame us.” Qingfeng felt very wronged because he didn’t even have a chance to fight back. “Kickass Brother killed me with two attacks, it left the Priest no chance to heal me.”
“I was killed by a single strike. My spell’s cast time didn’t even reach the end…” the Mage player added.
“Me too. I had no time to react at all.” The priest player agreed with them and continued, “He didn’t use any skills and his normal attack dealt at least 500 damage to me. I really couldn’t find a way to survive, he’s like a boss.”
“What? Really?” Ask Sky couldn’t believe his ears. His normal attack was over 500? What did this even mean? None of them could fight back and he couldn’t believe what his guild members were telling him even if their words were true.
“It’s real, leader! I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t been there with my own eyes! The Kickass Brother is indeed so kickass.” After facing Li Huailin’s absolute slashes, Qingfeng could only kneel down on the ground in his mind. He even didn’t have the intention to take revenge at all.
“Where is he now? I’ll go and take a look.” Ask Sky said.
“I…” Qingfeng didn’t know what happened after he was killed, and yet, directly telling the guild leader that he knew nothing seemed to be a bit too embarrassing. Just as he was facing this dilemma, someone on the guild channel suddenly came to his rescue.
[Guild Member] Cripple Horse: Leader, we are the No.12 collection team in Lava Crack. Earlier when we were just waiting beside a Flame Flower respawn point, a man suddenly came out and started attacking us. He didn’t say anything and he was unbelievably powerful. The five of us were all killed by him.
‘What?!” Ask Sky suddenly flew into a rage. “Was it Kickass Brother?”
“Kickass Brother?” Cripple Horse thought for a moment. “You reminded me of something, leader. He was also wearing a set of newbie clothing, so we kind of ignored him at first. For some reason, his attack was unbelievably high! He killed our priest with one strike!”
“This is too much!” Ask Sky was really angry now. His guild was also a well-known one in China, however, Kickass Brother was provoking the entire guild by himself. He was definitely not showing him any respect at all.
“Wait at the respawn point now. I’ll bring more people there.” Ask Sky immediately said, “Nine Song, call and wake up all guys in the first party. Have them gather immediately!”
“Yes, leader,” the guild’s executive officer, Nine Song, replied.
“Leader, we have trouble here!”
Before Ask Sky could react any further, another guild member exclaimed on the channel, “I am from No.3 collection team. We were fighting Fire Elementals to collect the element of fire. And all of a sudden, a guy rushed out and killed all of us with one strike. His name is Open-Minded Like A Forest, I think he’s Kickass Brother from the forum!”
“Leader, it’s the same situation here! Kickass Brother killed us!” another guild member piped up.
“It’s the same right here, leader! I didn’t have even a second to react. His one blow shaved off my entire 1,000 health points.”
“Damn it! Stop! I already know! Nine Song, tell all of the collection teams to be careful. The elite team will be there in 10 minutes,” Ask Sky spoke in a fierce tone, he couldn’t help and grit his teeth.
In the Lava Crack, Li Huailin just killed another member from the Brotherhood of World Destruction. Including this one, he had already killed 20 of them, and his Infamy had gone under -20.
“Why are they so slow? Are they really from a big guild? How much longer do I have to wait?”
Li Huailin stretched a bit before picking up a cloth armor dropped by one of the players he killed. As expected, it was basically a piece of garbage. Since these players were from the collection teams, the best things they had on them were basically two pieces of Bronze equipment. Fortunately, he collected 7 Flame Flowers during this period of time. The flowers were more expensive than the garbage equipment.
“All right, next one.”
Just as Li Huailin was about to go on his search for the next team, he suddenly saw a large number of people come towards his direction. There were about 50 players.
“Here they are!” Li Huailin was very pleased to see them as the intermission had finally come to an end.
Ask Sky, the leader of Brotherhood of World Destruction, Nine Song, the executive officer in the guild, and the rest of the leading members were all here.
Ask Sky already knew what Li Huailin looked like because the latter’s videos were everywhere on the forum. What surprised Ask Sky was that Li Huailin showed no intention of running away. Ask Sky simply thought that Li Huailin was only seeking trouble by killing the collection teams, but now, it seemed that Li Huailin’s target was him.
“So you’re Kickass Brother?” Ask Sky approached Li Huailin and asked with a bit of hesitation.
“So you’re Ask Sky, the leader of the World Destruction guild?” Li Huailin had never seen Ask Sky before, this was why Li Huailin asked the sturdy man in his thirties who seemed like the leader.
“I’m the leader of the World Destruction guild. Kickass Brother, you killed a dozen of our guild members. What do you want?” Ask Sky said to Li Huailin in a dark tone.
“So they didn’t tell you what I want? I already said it. I’m in charge of Lava Crack now, even though I’ve made the announcement, your people are still collecting things here. This is a disgrace to me. So what’s the problem?” Li Huailin said in a matter-of-fact attitude.
“You’re in charge now?” Ask Sky was almost amused. He had already been a guild leader for eight years and he had never seen such an arrogant person like this guy standing in front of him. Despite being on his own, he still claimed that he had taken control of the entire district.
“So you’re deliberately seeking trouble?”
“Yes, I said it at the very beginning. I’m here to seek trouble.” Li Huailin nodded and continued, “I want Flame Flowers too. I think you wouldn’t have given them to me, which is why I did this. What do you want to do?”
“Impressive! Very impressive!” Ask Sky clapped his hands and slowly spoke, “I have seen so many people in my life. So far, you are the first one who wants to die so badly. You’re deliberately causing trouble with us, the World Destruction guild. Do you think we’re afraid of you just because you’re called Kickass Brother?”
“You’re not telling the truth though? If you’re not afraid of me, then why did you bring so many people here?” Li Huailin smiled and continued to irritate Ask Sky.
“F*ck! I’m gonna send you to hell!” Ask Sky instantly became furious. He waved his hand backwards and commanded his guild members, “Kill him! Let me see how a single player can beat an entire guild.”
“Puff.”
As soon as Ask Sky finished his words, Li Huailin directly stabbed his sword in the former’s chest. Obviously, the easiest way to seek death was killing the leader. This was Li Huailin’s plan.
-1108 (Critical Hit)
“Sh*t!”
Surprisingly, the critical hit didn’t manage to kill Ask Sky. For some reason, he was still alive. Li Huailin quickly checked the equipment that Ask Sky was wearing and found that his armors were shining in green and blue lights. The leader of a big guild indeed had some quite good items. In addition, because Ask Sky was a Warrior, his health points had gone over 1,100.
“Fu*king idiots! Heal me!”
The damage that Li Huailin did shocked the elite members. Ask Sky was the first one who reacted and roared in order to make them move.
“It’s too late, why are you so kickass?” Li Huailin slashed Ask Sky again and his over 500 attack damage immediately killed the leader of the guild.
“Leader!” Before Nine Song could react, Ask Sky’s body had fallen to the ground. Nine Song was both shocked and angry, which resulted in him immediately shouting, “All of you, kill him!”
All of the players in the elite group finally realized what happened. The Mages immediately began to cast spells while the close-combat classes including the Warriors and Rogues also started rushing up to Li Huailin.