Retrograde Gaming

Chapter 47: Guild Interest

The fight that took place in front of Lava Crack was extremely intense. The Spiritual World Guild kept their eyes wide open. Night Flyer and his men saw Li Huailin kill over 20 people between the countless fireballs and flying arrows on the scene before finally dying in a flash of white light as the signal that he returned to the respawn point.

While gasping hard once more, Nine Song found himself quite lucky that he survived the ordeal. Just like last time, he felt extremely exhausted as if they just killed a boss in a dungeon.

“What are our losses?” Nine Song asked while looking at remaining guild members standing behind him. Less than half of them were alive.

“27 died this time. We lost 3 pieces of Blue equipment and 11 Green ones. Although we tried our best to take them back, only 1 piece of Blue equipment and 4 pieces of Green equipment were retrieved,” one of the guild members said.

“Damn it!” Nine Song couldn’t help and swear once more. He then reported their losses to Ask Sky, the latter was still in the respawn point.

“That motherf**king bastard! He sneak attacked!”

Having been sent back to the respawn point twice, Ask Sky had almost lost his mind. He roared his command,

“Nine Song, bring the second, third, and fourth team together! If one team isn’t enough, I’ll bring 200 people to tear him into pieces within a second!”

“Leader, sending 50 men to siege one single player is already an impetuous decision, I must say. Our close brothers and sisters are all in Team One, they wouldn’t spread what happened around irresponsibly. However, since there are free players in the rest of the teams, If one of them ever posts something on the forums saying that Kickass Brother can destroy 4 teams from the World Destruction guild on his own, our guild will become a joke,” Nine Song hurriedly reminded Ask Sky, knowing that the leader was getting carried away. Nine Song then added, “The Spiritual World guild also already knows about this, and now they’re standing aside to watch. Leader, please don’t turn our guild into a joke from the rest of the leading guilds.”

“This…” Nine Song’s words slightly calmed Ask Sky down. He was indeed right to some degree. Even if he managed to kick the bastard back to the newbie village at a great cost, his guild would still suffer unbearable loss. This would instead do huge harm to the reputation of his guild. What a big guild cared the most wasn’t equipment or money, but reputation. Right now, all the leading guilds were focusing on challenging Hell Mode. Were they doing this for several pieces of equipment? Not at all. What they truly wanted was the reputation and fame that came along being the first to clear it.

If other people learned that he lost half of his team just to kill one man, they would definitely be impressed by Kickass Brother’s bravery and openly mock his guild.

“Oh? So you’re the leader of the World Destruction guild? You sent an entire team to kill the Kickass brother and lost half of your men, right?”

Once Ask Sky imagined the ridicule that he could face from this, he couldn’t help and frown. He definitely didn’t want this to happen. However, upon recalling Li Huailin’s arrogant face, Ask Sky just couldn’t control his rage.

“You have a point.” Ask Sky first agreed with Nine Song to show that he had not completely lost his mind. “Nine Song, this fight is still inevitable. That maniac is just going to keep making trouble. Since he wants our territory, shall we just throw in the towel and give it to him? This is also an absolute disgrace to us if other people learn of this.”

“Leader, we can actually solve this problem easily,” Nine Song spoke. “He said it earlier, didn’t he? That he was here for the Flame Flowers. Why don’t we just let him take the flowers?”

“Let him take the flowers?” Ask Sky was a bit surprised with this suggestion.

“Yes, that’s right. No matter how kickass he is, he’s just a single player, but we have a few hundred people working here. We’re way faster than him. We can simply send a small party to scout out the area in case he comes. No matter where he goes, we’ll inform our people in the area to leave. The rest of our men who are at a distance away would simply continue working. He wouldn’t be able to take a lot from us, right?”

“Well…” Ask Sky nodded in agreement. “Continue.”

“If he asks more people to come here and harvest flowers, we’ll directly kill them. It’s impossible that his friends are going to be as kickass as him,” Nine Song smiled as he was happy with this plan. “Because he’s on his own, our losses would just be mild. We’ll probably only lose up to ten flowers every day.”

“Aren’t we being cowards like this?” Ask Sky frowned and exclaimed, “He killed me twice. Twice! How can I just let this go?”

“Leader, you should also think about things differently. We’ve also killed him twice, and he lost 40% of his experience as the attacker,” Nine Song tried convincing Ask Sky. “I know you’re angry, but we still have to consider what’s best for the guild. If this doesn’t stop here, the development of the guild will be impacted. Every member in Team One has died at least once in the battles and we have already lost around 20 pieces of equipment. To compensate for the losses we took, we need half a day. We’re falling behind now. If we don’t stop here, we’ll just waste more time.”

“Damn it!” Ask Sky roared angrily, “Nine Song, I’ll leave you to take care of this. I’m going offline to find something to drink. This is killing me.”

“You don’t need to worry, I got this, leader.” Nine Song continued, “I’m sorry about what happened, leader. I understand your grievance.”

“There is no grievance. It’s all for the guild,” Ask Sky said. “This matter isn’t over. When I get a chance, I’ll get my revenge. Don’t worry, I’ll teach him a lesson when I’m ready.”

“Of course, this is just a temporary loss for us. There is always time in the future to pay him back for what he did!” Nine Song spoke in a malicious tone.

“That’s the spirit!” Ask day nodded, he then sighed and went offline.

After returning to the respawn point in the main city, Li Huailin checked his harvest again.

“2 Blue and 7 Green.” Li Huailin wore a big smile on his face as he was checking his inventory, “I’ve finally figured out the correct way of making money while playing the game. I gotta hurry up.”

He was cherishing this chance of making more money, Li Huailin quickly hurried to the bank and saved everything he gained in the fight. Then, he rushed towards the Lava Crack again with his bronze sword in hand.

Ten minutes later, Li Huailin came to the Lava Crack again. Li Huailin thought that Ask Sky and his men would be waiting for him. Surprisingly, he saw nobody from the World Destruction guild. Only Spiritual World Night Flyer and his men were there.

“Huailin!” After seeing Li Huailin run towards them, Spiritual World Night Flyer waved his hand with an awkward look on his face, he started talking, “I knew you would come back. You’ve really broadened my horizons today. 1 vs 50, and you even killed over 20 of them! You’re going to make a fortune by selling those dropped equipment, aren’t you?”

“I thought I was the only one who came up with such a great idea. Great minds really think alike! Do you wanna join me?” Li Huailin responded with a smile.

“An attacker will lose 20% of his experience points. You’ve already lost 40%, haven’t you?” Night Flyer shook his head and continued, “I’m a guild player, not like you, a solo player. For us, our equipment is provided by the guild and our levels are extremely important. I’m also not short of money. Even though It’s a lot of equipment for a single player, it isn’t for a guild.”

“So far it’s not a lot, wait until you see me take away all of their equipment. It will slowly become a great fortune!” Li Huailin laughed and continued, “If you’re not interested, I’m going on my own.”

“I’ve been worried about you for nothing. Due to the information you have on the Abyss Mode dungeon, I was afraid that some big guilds might seek trouble with you, but today, I realized that you’re the one who wants trouble.” Night Flyer patted his head and then said, “Seriously, we don’t have any control over this matter. Although the World Destruction guild isn’t as big as ours, it’s still one of the leading guilds. You really need to be careful if you don’t want to be killed back to the newbie village.”

“You don’t need to worry about it.” Li Huailin earnestly wished that they would continue coming after him. “This matter is private and I can take care of it.”

“They’ve all gone back inside for now. I don’t know what they’re going to do, watch out for yourself.” Night Flyer said while pointing at the crack. “By the way, here are 15 sets of health potions for you. I’ve also read your notes. They’re very useful, thank you.”

With that said, Night Flyer sent Li Huailin a trade request and gave him 15 sets of health potions.

Li Huailin didn’t want to accept these health potions right now, but he still agreed. There was a risk that he might lose a set of health potions if he got killed later. However, since he wanted to skip the trouble of meeting the people from the Spiritual World again, he decided to accept the potions. Li Huailin was making good money right now, he should show some generosity.

“We’ll talk to you next time. I’m going to fight them now.” Li Huailin accepted the health potions and then ran into the Lava Crack.