Chapter 280 Unrestricted Competitive Mercenary Mission

Oathless Sword immediately ordered the team to slow down, then gathered a bunch of leaders to discuss the significant discovery.

“Unrestricted competitive mercenary mission…” All the mercenary团长 (tuanzhang, mercenary captains) muttered to themselves. In fact, most of them had never experienced such a mission, and at this time, when it was mentioned, there was actually a hint of envy.

“But, we can’t be sure!” Gu Xiao Shang said, “Maybe they are just a guild, just not wearing badges.”

“Xiao Shang, you and I think alike again,” Oathless Sword said, touched.

“Don’t just say ‘again’!” Gu Xiao Shang said angrily.

“The situation is like this.” Han Jia Gongzi said nonchalantly, “It can already be determined that the opponent is part of a two-way mission link. If it's just a single mercenary group, the threat can be ignored; if it's a guild, then we just identified four of them, all around level 32. May I ask, which large guild would recruit players who are just over level 30?”

Everyone nodded in agreement. Take Zongheng Sihai for example; a powerful guild like them that has reached level 5 has an average level that has already entered the first-tier realm of level 40. Guilds that are slightly worse than them at most have some level 37 or 38 players. Level 30 is simply a novice in their eyes, and large guilds are simply impossible to recruit people of such a low level.

"Han Jia Xiongdi (brother)'s meaning is, regardless of whether the other party is a single mercenary group or a guild, we can be sure that they are not a threat to us, so what we need to be nervous about is the unrestricted competitive mercenary mission?” Oathless Sword said.

Han Jia Gongzi nodded.

“In that case, those guys were just stragglers, and the real threat hasn’t arrived yet,” Oathless Sword said.

“If it’s an unrestricted competitive mercenary mission, then we need to understand which of the stronger mercenary groups are here. Oathless 会长 (Hui Zhang, Guild Leader), you couldn’t have not done this homework, right?” Han Jia Gongzi said.

“Of course, I have some understanding,” Oathless Sword said, his expression already dignified. “Speaking of mercenary groups, there is indeed a very famous one here in Sunset City, called the Hundred Battles Mercenary Group. The团长 (tuanzhang, captain) is Baishi Jinglun, one of the Five Little Strong. In Sunset City, the status of this Hundred Battles Mercenary Group even exceeds their strongest guild, Falling Leaves Return to Roots. This is unimaginable in any main city.”

“That strong…” Everyone felt a little frightened. It should be known that the number of guild members is completely unequal to that of a mercenary group, and the mercenary group can actually overwhelm the strongest guild. Wouldn’t every member of this mercenary group have the strength to fight more than one at a time? More importantly, everyone believes that the strength of the strongest mercenary groups in each main city should be about the same. The fact that the Hundred Battles Mercenary Group can suppress the strongest guild in Sunset City is probably superior to the current Zongheng Sihai.

Oathless Sword continued to narrate his understanding of this mercenary group: “The biggest feature of this mercenary group from the outside is that the Grappler class accounts for a considerable proportion of the团 (tuan, group).”

“Many Grapplers…” People who heard this information were a little dazed.

The Grappler class was a weak group in Parallel World during the closed beta. Although this situation has improved after the official operation, these fresh forces that poured in later had no time to rush to the top. Therefore, among the high-level experts, the proportion of the Grappler class is the smallest. This has also led to a considerable number of players having very little experience in fighting against Grapplers. Some people have even never PKed (player kill) with a Grappler in the game to this day.

“Collecting so many Grapplers shouldn’t be a coincidence. Is there something strange about this mercenary group?” Luo Luo asked.

“Uh, according to rumors, the people in this mercenary group are very good at fighting. Some say they are a bunch of hooligans, some say they are a bunch of martial arts gym owners, and some say they are retired soldiers…” Oathless Sword’s understanding of this information is exactly the same as Jian Nan You's.

Everyone looked at each other. How to deal with such an opponent, everyone had no idea for a while.

Just when they were helpless, the players at the front of the team sent a message: Someone is blocking the way.

“Protect Todd!” Oathless Sword quickly shouted, and took the lead to the forefront of the team, while running and making arrangements: how the arrow formation would step forward in secret, how the thieves would outflank, how the priests would distribute their positions, how the mages and warriors would match, which mercenary团 (tuan, group) would be responsible for which position, and so on. Oathless Sword issued a series of orders in one breath, but the further he went forward, the more surprised the eyes of his companions who received the orders became.

Finally, Oathless Sword came to the forefront of the team, and swept the legendary “blockers,” immediately understanding why the brothers were so surprised.

Five people! Only five players blocked the center of the road, causing the Cloud players' team to stop. Facing five people, Oathless Sword made such a big fanfare of arrangements, no wonder the brothers were surprised.

The Zongheng Sihai arrow formation was already ready at this time. Seeing that the 会长 (Hui Zhang, Guild Leader) had also squeezed to the front, they immediately sent a message and asked, "会长 (Hui Zhang, Guild Leader), should we just do it?"

Oathless Sword swept the five of them, four Grapplers and one warrior, and had already guessed their origin. In this way, the judgment of “unrestricted competitive mercenary mission” was not wrong at all.

"Wait for my order." After Oathless Sword spoke to the archers of the arrow formation, he stepped out of the crowd and looked at the five people.

The five people looked calm. Oathless Sword didn’t know if it was his psychological effect, but he just felt that the five people seemed to have a lot of momentum just standing there casually.

Oathless Sword finally opened his mouth: “The five of you must be members of the Hundred Battles Mercenary Group of Sunset City?”

“I didn’t expect guests from out of town to be able to recognize our identities at a glance,” one of the five said calmly.

"What's your advice?" This sentence was a knowing question.

"Mission." The other party was concise.

"Just the five of you?" Oathless Sword looked around vigilantly. He felt that there must be some ambush around. No matter how strong they were, five people would clean up their hundreds of people, so would they still be allowed to play?

"I dare not." The other party replied, "The five of us are here to say hello first, and by the way, we can also let you see our skills first, so you can be mentally prepared."

"Oh?" Oathless Sword frowned upon hearing this, "How do we see it?"

"It's very simple, you can just pick a few people and practice with our brothers." The other party said.

"Then what if you win? What if you lose?" Oathless Sword said.

“The main thing is to let you understand our strength first. As for winning or losing, it doesn’t matter, because how can you possibly win?” What the other party said was quite arrogant, but there was no arrogance in their tone or expression.

“Let me try!” Feng Xing on this side couldn’t bear it anymore and jumped out of the team. Oathless Sword wanted to stop him, but it was too late. Feng Xing had already strode towards the other party. Oathless Sword thought it was okay, so he took this opportunity to see what the legendary “very good at fighting” was all about.

Feng Xing seemed to be rushing fiercely, but in fact, he didn’t use his full strength. He intended to suddenly accelerate after approaching his opponent, giving the other party a surprise. The object he wanted to attack was the second one on the left hand side of the five opponents, the one who had been speaking all along.

Seeing Feng Xing rushing up, others thought that the opponent had five people, and Feng Xing would inevitably suffer if he went over alone, so without waiting for Oathless Sword to order, players in the guild who had a good relationship with Feng Xing jumped out to help.

But although there were five people on the other side, only one made a move. It was the one Feng Xing tried to attack.

Before Feng Xing could force his way in front of him, he had already taken the initiative to attack. Similarly, he strode out, and his speed was comparable to Feng Xing's.

“Hi!!” Seeing that the two were not far apart, Feng Xing suddenly accelerated two steps, followed by a "Charging Meteor," which was naturally faster and faster. The other party's expression changed slightly, and then he immediately stood firm and twisted his body to the side.

Although the main direction of Charging Meteor cannot be changed after it rushes out, the direction of the fist can still be controlled. Feng Xing quickly crossed his arm and wanted to hook him when he passed by the other party.

But this change seemed to have been calculated by the other party. Before Feng Xing’s arm arrived, the other party was already squatting down, followed by a horizontal sweep of his leg.

Feng Xing’s arm didn’t hit anyone, but his foot was swept by the other party’s leg. He staggered under his feet and almost fell directly. He felt terrified. His Charging Meteor had not ended, but it was interrupted by the other party's horizontal sweep, indicating that the other party's sweep was judged to be above Charging Meteor. This time, it was only considered a normal attack. Did this Grappler in front of him actually add strength?

There are few people playing the Grappler class, so there are few controversies about the class's stat allocation. Generally, people agree with adding agility and spirit. The strength or weakness of any class is reflected in the skills. No one would use normal attacks to conquer the world. And the skill damage output of the Grappler class is not outstanding. Strength points can indeed increase damage, but the greatest advantage of the Grappler class is the short skill cooldown. The general rule of online games is that the more outstanding the characteristics of one's own class are, the stronger it is. Countless people have studied this idea, and based on some introductions and prompts from the system, they finally developed the combo route for Grapplers.

This route can make up for the lack of damage output, and more importantly, it is very handsome, and it is immediately loved by the public. Since then, everyone has focused on spirit, and agility is of course an essential element for combos, so stat allocation is mainly in these two, without controversy.

But today, Feng Xing, who is also a Grappler famous on the level榜 (bang, list), encountered a non-mainstream stat allocation. Before he could criticize the other party’s incorrect stat allocation, he staggered, and the other party seized the opportunity, bounced up, and kicked him in the back of the heart. Feng Xing, who was already unstable, flew out like a kite with a broken string.

“Feng Xing!!” Those players who rushed out to help didn’t expect Feng Xing to be kicked away in just two moves, and quickly waved their weapons to rescue him.

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