Chapter 1 Clemency Fortress

At Clemency Fortress, headquarters of Angel Corps, a middle-aged man in a black decorative robe entered the hall. He looked up and saw Angellic Triumph, clad in demon hunter leather armor, sitting in a chair.

"Brother Liu, how have you been?" he said with a slight smile.

"Brother Cao, what brings you here?" Angellic Triumph asked, narrowing his eyes. Their relationship wasn't as harmonious as it seemed to outsiders. They had many conflicting interests. If they didn't have the common enemy of Nirvana Guild, they probably wouldn't be able to maintain their current cooperative state.

"I'm implementing a plan that requires Brother Liu's cooperation," Cao Xu said, sitting down in a chair beside him.

"Brother Cao, please speak frankly. If there's anything I can do to help, I'll do my best," Angellic Triumph said straightforwardly, wondering what this old fox Cao Xu wanted.

"Brother Liu must already know about the Bloodfiend Knights' activities in the Greenland Empire."

"I've heard something. It should be Brother Cao's masterpiece."

Cao Xu smiled and said, "The Bloodfiend Knights should give Nirvana Guild a headache for a while. I hope we can work together. I've already bribed about a thousand people from Nirvana Guild. Brother Liu should have quite a few on your side as well. If we can cooperate, we can at least make Nirvana Guild decline in the short term."

"That's possible, but I'm afraid it'll be a bit difficult to bring down Nirvana Guild with just that," Angellic Triumph said. Having fought Nirvana Guild for so long, he was quite clear about their methods.

"This is just one of the things. I plan to spend a lot of money to buy off players from the Mo'ai Tribe and the Undead Empire, so that they will go find trouble for Nirvana Guild. I don't expect to inflict too much damage on Nirvana Guild, but just to buy us some time, so that we can have a few more top-tier classes," Cao Xu said. This was also a helpless move. The gap between them and Nirvana Guild was too large. Nirvana Guild had been expanding recently. Once they consolidated their dominance in the Greenland Empire, they would probably start a war with Angel Corps and Century Financial Group.

"I will use all the strength of Angel Corps to cooperate fully," Angellic Triumph said. He understood that Angel Corps' greatest enemy was Nirvana Guild. The conflict of interest with Century Financial Group could be temporarily put aside, and they should first aim their spearhead at Nirvana Guild.

The two strongest forces in the Saturn Empire began to work together and launched a series of actions in secret.

The power structure in the underground world had undergone some changes under the activities of Century Financial Group and Angel Corps. One player team after another accepted missions and began to set off for the surface.

On Nirvana Guild's side, the guild's thieves group had been searching for the traces of the Bloodfiend Knights, but the Bloodfiend Knights seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and no trace could be found.

Nie Yan and the others couldn't stay in the city all the time. Those who needed to level up leveled up, and those who needed to farm bosses farmed bosses.

Nie Yan went to Emerald City alone. He had obtained some information about the remaining two components of the Abak Set.

If he could collect the Abak Set first, he would be more confident in dealing with the Bloodfiend Knights.

Emerald City. Ever since Zhishen's Sword (Sword of the Gods) submitted to Nirvana Guild, Nirvana Guild had obtained absolute control over Emerald City. It had been much calmer here. The major guilds within Emerald City were all well-behaved, and no major conflicts had occurred again.

Nirvana Guild's influence in Emerald City was growing, and it was already what the people wanted. If any guild wanted to go against Nirvana Guild, it was estimated that it would collapse from the inside first. Because in their opinion, Nirvana Guild was too powerful. There would be no good consequences for provoking Nirvana Guild. When Nirvana Guild first entered Emerald City, it was resisted by several guilds. Nie Yan gave an order, and those guilds suffered a joint attack like a thunderous storm from the Mad Rogue Alliance and Zhishen's Sword, and were forced to disband. Since then, no guild dared to offend Nirvana Guild. At that time, the other guilds were uneasy, thinking that Nirvana Guild would eventually annex them one by one, but Nirvana Guild convinced people with virtue, and only formulated a relatively fair treaty for all guilds in Emerald City, and these guilds were settled down.

Seeing the general trend, Zhishen's Sword had no choice but to bargain with Nirvana Guild, and then accepted Nirvana Guild's reorganization. Since then, Nirvana Guild had absolute authority in Emerald City. The players of Nirvana Guild could walk proudly on the streets of Emerald City and be respected by the players of other guilds.

Nie Yan walked through the streets of Emerald City, walked out of the city gate, and headed towards the outside of the city.

His destination was a cemetery outside the city. The mission clues showed that one of the remaining components of the Abak Set was there.

It was only a thousand yards away from Emerald City, and it was only a few minutes' walk.

Nie Yan activated Gale Step and sped towards the direction of the cemetery.

About a minute later, Nie Yan arrived at an open square. This was a very magnificent mausoleum. He didn't know whose it was. The entrance in the center was built of many white stones. The entire area within a thousand yards outside was surrounded by fences. There were many NPCs at the entrance. After counting, there were a total of thirteen, all dressed in white solemn clothing. They were the tomb keepers of this mausoleum.

In addition to these NPCs, there were also many players, about two or three hundred. Many of them were chatting with these tomb-keeping NPCs, wondering what they were saying. It was estimated that they were some missions or something. One twenty-person team after another entered the mausoleum.

At this time, a clear system prompt sounded.

System: Talk to the tomb keeper Kalis.

Nie Yan walked towards the tomb keepers and scanned them. His gaze fell on one of the tomb keepers, an old man in his sixties or seventies, but he was very hale and hearty. This was Kalis, the person he was looking for. He was talking to three or four players, and there were at least a dozen people queuing up behind him, waiting to talk to the tomb keeper Kalis.

Nie Yan waited in place for a while, but the number of players around the tomb keeper Kalis didn't decrease, but instead increased. He was getting a little impatient, so he walked straight towards the tomb keeper Kalis.

"Hey, kid, are you looking for death? Get to the back, you have to pay to queue up!" A tall warrior saw Nie Yan walk over and slapped Nie Yan's head with his palm, looking fierce.

Hearing the warrior's words, Nie Yan understood what was going on. No wonder he had been waiting for so long and the number of people here hadn't decreased, but had instead increased. It was this group of guys who were slowing down the speed!

He dodged to the side, causing the warrior's attack to miss, and then lightly hooked his right foot, causing the warrior to lose his balance and fall to the ground with a thud, eating dirt.

In his previous life, there were often such a group of people in front of some popular NPCs. They occupied an NPC, and anyone who wanted to accept or complete a mission from this NPC had to pay them a sum of money. Nie Yan had encountered this kind of thing a lot in his previous life. At that time, although he felt aggrieved, he could only obediently pay like these players.

Nie Yan glanced around. There were at least thirty people nearby, all wearing the Gray Bear badge. These people were about to rush over.

Nie Yan moved his right hand, and the Zennarde's Sword suddenly appeared in his palm, burning with raging flames.

"Damn!" The warrior who fell to the ground suddenly became angry, raised his head and prepared to go berserk. His gaze fell on the Zennarde's Sword in Nie Yan's right hand, and his gaze suddenly froze. Mad Rogue Nirvana Flame!

More than thirty people on the periphery were preparing to surround and teach Nie Yan a lesson, but when they saw the Zennarde's Sword in Nie Yan's hand, they were all dumbfounded.

"Boss Nirvana Flame, we deserve to die, we didn't expect it was you, sir."

"Boss Nirvana Flame, we're sorry, we'll immediately die and go back, you don't need to do it yourself, sir."

They quickly apologized, one by one bowing and scraping. The game was their livelihood, and they were all some idle professional players, while Nie Yan could smash their rice bowls at any time. As long as Nie Yan said a word, the major guilds could chase them down to level zero in no time. This was a very terrifying power. So after seeing Nie Yan, they were all scared silly.

Seeing that this group of guys were as weak as lapdogs, Nie Yan lost interest in fighting them and said lightly, "Get out of here in two minutes, all of you. I don't want to see you here again in the future."

"Yes!" This group of guys ran away with their tails between their legs.

Nie Yan walked to the side of the tomb keeper Kalis.

"Respected Great Prophet, Light Arbiter, Holy Shadow Dancer Nirvana Flame, hello." The tomb keeper Kalis bowed deeply.

The surrounding players looked from a distance, and when they saw the tomb keeper Kalis being so respectful to Nie Yan, they were shocked. They often leveled up here, and they knew how lofty the status of the tomb keeper Kalis was in Emerald City, equivalent to a marquis, but in front of Nie Yan, he was like a servant.

"Mr. Kalis, I would like to ask, have you seen this thing?" Nie Yan opened Shadow of Darkness and pointed to one of the pictures, asking.

The picture showed the Abak Swift Boots. Nie Yan could only ask this way, otherwise it would be difficult to explain clearly.

Kalis showed a pensive expression and nodded, "I once saw this thing with the archmage Lefis, but..."

"But what?" Nie Yan asked. He saw that Kalis was hesitant to speak.

"May I ask, Great Prophet Nirvana Flame, are you looking for this thing?" Kalis asked.

"Yes."

"Archmage Lefis is a very eccentric person, and he hates others coveting his things."

"Then how can I get the Swift Boots from him?"

"You can only defeat him," Kalis said.

Hearing Kalis' words, Nie Yan raised his eyebrows. An Archmage-level NPC? He didn't know how strong that guy was.

~~There will be updates later......