Chapter 45: Played Out?
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Huang Kun directed other players to hold off the Boss’ attacks while telling another player next to him, “Carry the message back and bring more people over to kill off this Boss.”
“Ok.” The other player nodded immediately.
PING!!
The sound of something knocking into another item was heard. The player who was fending off the boss got his weapon sent flying.
But just when he was about to die, the player next to him immediately helped to take over.
He had gone up in level.
The injuries on Wang Tiezhu immediately healed.
After going up in level, his own abilities had gone up significantly as well.
There were a lot of players here, but they didn’t seem to be able to handle him at all.
However, Wang Tiezhu was attacking the players while still constantly taking note of the changes around him.
After fighting for some time, another two of the Mountain Bandits he brought along were killed.
Even though the outlanders had killed them, Mountain Bandits never really died.
But the three days it took for them to respawn wasn’t a short time.
Wang Tiezhu always remembered what their mission was.
That was to kill as many outlanders as possible.
If all the Mountain Bandits were to perish here, then no matter how powerful he was, there was no way that he could use one knife and his two hands to kill off all the outlanders by himself.
Suddenly, the strength that Wang Tiezhu put into swinging his knife increased significantly and it seemed like a tiger roar was being let out of it.
The fierce large saber instantly swept across most of the players and one of the players was actually sliced into half.
Shortly after that, Wang Tiezhu took the chance to get out of being surrounded.
Then he also hacked up a few players who were fighting it out with some of his fellow Mountain Bandits.
“Retreat!” He gave the order and the other Mountain Bandits immediately gave up whoever they were fighting and started moving backwards.
As for Wang Tiezhu, he had already returned to the Mountain Bandits campsite.
This sudden turn of events confused all the players.
But very soon, Huang Kun’s furious voice instantly broke the short period of silence, “Block them! Don’t let them get away!”
At this time, if he let a Boss get away, then it would be like trying to draw water with a bamboo basket. He would go back empty-handed.
As for why a Boss suddenly just left like that, Huang Kun didn’t have time to think about so much now.
He had told a player to call for backup, so as long as he could drag it out a little longer, this Boss was definitely going to be defeated, and he wasn’t going to let the target he was almost about to get just fly away like this.
“All of you go ahead, I’ll cover everyone,” said Wang Tiezhu when he looked at the situation.
The other Mountain Bandits listened to his command and moved along.
When a player came forward to kill any of them, they would move away because a large blade would come swinging towards them.
But by the time the players wanted to surround him, Wang Tiezhu didn’t attack them anymore and just ran for it.
After this happened several times, the players couldn’t catch up with any of the Mountain Bandits and couldn’t surround the Boss either. Worse still, they lost some players in the midst of all this.
When he saw this, Huang Kun was about to go mad from his anger.
What was this even?
Did he just get outplayed?
Did the players actually just get outplayed out by a Boss?!!
He didn’t know what to do at all.
After all, among all the Bosses in the games he played before, even those who were intelligent were never as smart as the players, and with a little bit of wit, the players were still able to surround the Boss and kill the Boss off.
Getting outplayed by the Boss like this wasn’t just something Huang Kun had never seen before. None of the other players had run into a situation like this.
For some time, Huang Kun wasn’t sure what to do next.
………
At the Respawn Zone, bright beams of white lights flashed.
Liu Qinghong, Fu Moyan and the others appeared in this place.
“Oh my, Liu Qinghong and even Fu Moyan?”
“Who on earth was able to kill both of them and make them appear here?”
“Oh my…judging from this, I’m afraid the entire team was wiped out.”
Many of the players in the vicinity noticed the two of them as well as the never-ending beams of white lights appearing one after another, and they started discussing this matter.
Liu Qinghong and Fu Moyan were considered famous within Starter Village #23012.
After all, there were only those few who were at Martial Entry-Level Four and above.
But Liu Qinghong and Fu Moyan didn’t care about the heated discussion between the players around them. The two of them were shocked by the message they received from the system.
“You have been killed by the Liangshan Stronghold Chieftain!”
The Liangshan Stronghold Chieftain?
What Liangshan Stronghold Chieftain?
The two of them couldn’t help but be reminded of the incident that caused a huge uproar not too long ago.
The news of how a Boss had annihilated starter Village #10021 had already spread through all the forums long ago.
Since they were the first Starter Village to be completely destroyed by an NPC, it was worth the other players’ attention.
Liu Qinghong and Fu Moyan didn’t check the forums, but the words ‘Liangshan Stronghold Chieftain’ was undoubtedly very familiar.
After finding out at whose hands he died, Liu Qinghong’s expression became especially grim. He looked at Fu Moyan and said, “I didn’t expect this Boss to go to Mount Mingai.”
“Given his terrifying capability, I’m not surprised that he could do this.”
“I don’t think we can go back to Mount Mingai now. But I’m worried. Do you think his target this time would be our village?”
Fu Moyan’s expression was uncertain and uneasy.
The appearance of the Liangshan Stronghold Chieftain had clearly rocked him to his core.
That terrifying swing of the blade in particular made him shudder.
This was a pressure that came with facing absolute power, and it seemed to have evolved into a different level altogether.
Fu Moyan saw that he had fallen back to Martial Entry-Level Four, and it was a terrible loss to him.
He had spent two whole days to level up from Martial Entry-Level Four to Martial Entry-Level Five.
But now, those two days of hard work were gone to waste.
This affected his progress in the beginning stages of the game by too much.
Besides, all the players he brought along with him had all respawned, which meant that the entire team had dropped by one level. This ended up increasing the gap between himself and other players of the same level.
It wasn’t going to be that easy to make up for this difference.
After that, Liu Qinghong and Fu Moyan exchanged a few sentences, then left with different troubles on their minds.
This matter of the Liangshan Stronghold Chieftain taking over Mount Mingai.
It was not a small matter at all.
If they didn’t deal with it carefully, they might end up with the same fate as Starter Village #10021.
Also, if they could kill off a high-level Boss who was powerful enough to eliminate an entire starter village, they would be able to get so many valuable items from him.
Even though these two knew that the Liangshan Stronghold Chieftain could be really terrifying.
They still carried this tiny bit of hope deep in their hearts.
………
Inside one of the rooms, Liu Qinghong and another ten players were gathered together.
But everyone had a rather nasty expression on their face. There were even a few who still looked terrified.
Liu Qinghong looked at them and said in a low voice, “Nobody is to tell anybody else about how the Liangshan Stronghold Chieftain has taken over Mount Mingai. Is everyone clear?”
“Got it,” everyone else nodded in reply.
After that, Zhang Jie asked puzzledly, “Qinghong, do you have some plans in mind?”
“Since the Liangshan Stronghold Chieftain was able to destroy Starter Village #10021, it means that he is indeed a rare high-level Boss. But since he’s such a powerful Boss, it means that if we can kill him off, then all the items we can pick up from him will be extremely valuable.”
Liu Qinghong paused for a while after he said this.
“But no matter how powerful a Boss is, it’s all temporal. During this time, we must use everything we have and level up first, then find a chance to make that Liangshan Stronghold Chieftain die.”
“But we’re not the only ones who know about how the Liangshan Stronghold Chieftain is now in Mount Mingai. If Fu Moyan’s side…”
“Don’t worry, Fu Moyan won’t say anything either.”
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