Chapter 262 Gathering Strength

Moonlight Soliloquy went to the north gate of Cloudend City to meet the agreed-upon members, and at the same time sent a faster player to the Mercenary Hall to receive the task. In addition to the maximum number of people, advanced mercenary groups naturally have many other benefits. For example, in terms of tasks, a level 1 mercenary group can only receive one system task at a time, while a level 5 mercenary group can have five tasks at a time. Of course, privately agreed-upon tasks between players are not restricted.

In addition, advanced mercenary groups can also set the authority for members to accept tasks. For example, the speed-type player who ran to receive the task at this moment was one of the people with this authority.

Under the north gate, Moonlight Soliloquy arrived and saw the companions of the mercenary group gathered under the gate chatting. When they saw Moonlight Soliloquy coming, they hurried up to greet him, asking about how powerful "Drunk Miles" actually was.

Speaking of this, Moonlight Soliloquy felt aggrieved! Online rumors said that Drunk Miles was a mage killer, and his magic attack was extremely powerful. But when dealing with the four of them, he only used an instant movement skill that had no attack power, and then rushed at the thief to deal high magic damage when he electrocuted him. As for him and the mage, they were actually hacked to death by Gu Fei with a knife.

But in any case, the two major flaws of Drunk Miles in the rumors had now been confirmed.

First, low mana.

Second, slow spell casting.

These two major flaws seemed fatal to a mage, and very, very fatal. But this guy had actually managed to survive until now, and had even made a name for himself, being hailed as the number one expert in Cloudend City. Everyone's minds felt a little overwhelmed.

"Come on, let's all discuss it carefully!" Moonlight Soliloquy gathered everyone to brainstorm ideas.

"What's so difficult about this? If the spell casting is slow, then it's easy to dodge. And he has little mana, so of course we'll lure him to cast spells to exhaust his mana in a few moves. What use is it even if his spell damage is high?" someone said dismissively.

This was indeed a very correct idea. When Moonlight Soliloquy and the other three were in the valley, they had actually come up with this strategy. But they didn't expect Gu Fei's close combat after running out of mana to be so powerful. However, Moonlight Soliloquy felt that the main problem at the time was that "unexpected" factor. If they had been prepared, they wouldn't have been so embarrassed. Now that they had added more ruthless people, and they knew Gu Fei so well, taking him down should be completely no problem.

At this time, news came from the Mercenary Hall that the task had been completed. The mercenary task list of the Black Hand Mercenary Group now showed the player hiring task issued by the system. After waiting for a while, the leader of the small guild arrived at the north gate with a few people. Seeing the formation of the Black Hand Mercenary Group, he timidly asked if they needed to add more money.

"Of course not. We underestimated the strength of our opponent before, causing you to suffer losses as well. We should be the ones apologizing," Moonlight Soliloquy said.

To be honest, their guild was really small, so small that it couldn't even compare to the size of the Black Hand Mercenary Group. After hiring these people, he didn't regard himself as a paying customer. He always seemed a little cautious, even a little ingratiating. And the fact that these experts were so calm and reasonable made him feel flattered.

"Does your task give any hints about their coordinates?" Moonlight Soliloquy asked the people from the small guild. The task list of their mercenaries only showed that they were helping a certain guild to complete a certain task, and it did not share the task with the guild.

According to the content of this task, it had to be a member of this guild who assassinated the bandit leader to be considered complete. Then the mercenary task of the Black Hand Mercenary Group would be evaluated as complete. The final reward was only the part agreed upon with the employer in advance, and the employer's reward in this task had nothing to do with the mercenaries.

After the people from the small guild looked at their task list, they shook their heads: "It still only shows the coordinates of the valley entrance of Cloudglow Valley that were displayed when the task was released. It only said that they would escort the prisoner back to Cloudend City from there."

"Although the north gate is the closest to that direction, they may not necessarily go this way," Moonlight Soliloquy frowned.

"Do you know where they are escorting him back to in Cloudend City? We can wait for them," someone suggested.

As a result, the people from the small guild shook their heads: "It only says Cloudend City."

"Has anyone done this kind of task before?" Moonlight Soliloquy asked his brothers. Most of the people in the mercenary group were task experts. As a result, everyone shook their heads.

"Logically speaking, shouldn't prisoners be sent to prison?" someone said.

"This is a game, maybe it will end when they are sent to the task release point."

"It may also end as soon as they enter the gate of Cloudend City..."

Everyone talked at once, and Moonlight Soliloquy's head hurt more and more. The mercenary group was not a large guild, and the number of people was limited. Moreover, there were only twenty or so people who had come to the north gate, so it was impossible to divide them into n groups.

"Like this!" Moonlight Soliloquy pointed to several people, all of whom were excellent in speed: "You go out from the east, west, and north gates, choose different routes and head towards the coordinates of Cloudglow Valley. When you see them, judge their direction, and then we will ambush them on the road."

"What do they look like?" someone asked.

Moonlight Soliloquy pondered slightly, and easily summarized the characteristics of the team: "One adult and a group of children."

"Oh!" Everyone responded and immediately prepared to set off.

After Moonlight Soliloquy finished his instructions, he turned back to the players of the small guild and said: "Your people should not show up for the time being. They may still recognize you. Don't reveal our intentions."

Everyone said nothing more, preparing their equipment under the city gate, waiting for the scouts ahead to report. During this time, several members of the Black Hand Mercenary Group who were interested in Drunk Miles came to the north gate to support after hearing the news. For most players in the Black Hand Mercenary Group, the task was fake, and the real purpose was to see this upcoming strongest opponent.

After waiting for several minutes, the scouts sent ahead finally reported: "I saw a team of players coming towards the north gate from that direction."

"Is it one adult and a group of children?" Moonlight Soliloquy asked.

"It's still too far, I can't see clearly. Let me get closer," the scout replied. "However, this team is really neat! What are these guys doing?"

"That's right, it's them!" Moonlight Soliloquy said excitedly. "Don't get any closer, keep an eye on them from a distance and don't let them find you." After Moonlight Soliloquy gave the order to the scout, he waved to the brothers in front of him: "Here they come, let's go!"

"Then, what about us?" The people from the small guild were confused. Was the Black Hand Mercenary Group still helping them with the task? He was a little unsure.

"You don't need to go, wait for my news. I'll come and complete your task later!" Moonlight Soliloquy said with a smile.

The scouts in front constantly reported the coordinates of the approaching Ultimate Class Three. Seeing them approaching, Moonlight Soliloquy divided the entire team into three squads, one on the left, one on the right, and one in the middle, forming a fan shape and attacking from three directions.

Moonlight Soliloquy, who was in the very center, could already see the approaching opponents.

This Ultimate Class Three was marching in formation, their steps neat, and they shouted slogans from time to time, kicking their legs high. The flying dust on the plains was a signal that they were coming.

"Get ready, get ready!" Moonlight Soliloquy hid in the team, letting those brothers in the group who were not recognized by the other party take the lead, approaching the Ultimate Class Three's team as if nothing was wrong.

"First find Drunk Miles, archers get ready, kill him directly," Moonlight Soliloquy commanded. In fact, he was very confused. He felt that there were countless ways to deal with such a mage. For example, if several archers fired tracking arrows together now, could he still run away? How did this guy manage to survive until now? This question was really too profound.

The archers hid deep in the formation, drawing their bows and nocking arrows, staring with eagle eyes, searching for their target in the student formation.

Black mage robe, dark purple long sword!

This was Drunk Miles' attire. But looking around, there was no one dressed like that in the student team. They were all dressed in tattered clothes, all with childish faces. A bunch of children and one adult? There were a bunch of children, but where was the adult?

"No target, no target!" The archers reported one after another.

The priest did not have eagle eyes, and Moonlight Soliloquy could not see clearly at this time. Hearing this report, he thought that he had found the wrong person. Leading the team, they moved forward a distance, and had already met the Ultimate Class Three. Moonlight Soliloquy instantly confirmed that he had not found the wrong person. He recognized the formation, he recognized some of the faces, and they seemed to recognize him as well. Several kids were looking at him with smiles on their faces!

"Damn, I've been tricked!" Moonlight Soliloquy suddenly realized. Looking closely at the opponent's formation, he saw that the bound bandit leader was indeed not there. The other party had already expected that they would come back, and used a large group of people to attract their attention, while two or three people took the bandit leader and went to some other direction.

"The target is not here!" Moonlight Soliloquy hurriedly shouted in the mercenary channel. Those players who were responsible for being scouts before had now finished their tasks and were running in this direction, all wanting to see the style of this mage killer.

"Hurry to the city gate, send people to all four gates! The target is about two to three people, escorting the bandit leader," Moonlight Soliloquy shouted, and also privately contacted the people from the small guild, asking them to send people out to find the traces of Drunk Miles and the others as soon as possible.

The students swayed to Moonlight Soliloquy with smiles on their faces: "Teacher has something to tell you."

"Teacher? Drunk Miles?" Moonlight Soliloquy was a little confused.

"Yes, teacher said, we agreed to meet in the competition, so let's meet in the competition!"

"Damn it!" Moonlight Soliloquy was short of breath, looking at the team of children in front of him, he really wanted to slaughter them all.