Sword Among Us

Usually, the more powerful a person was in World of Martial Arts, the more they liked turning their pain setting up. The highest setting was fifty percent, and that percentage can stimulate a person’s pain senses very greatly, because the higher a person’s pain scale was, the more they would feel as if they were truly in the world of martial artists as well as the sense of danger that would descend on them against their will. While they faced all sorts of fights, they would also instinctively dodge enemy attacks and not just attack while standing around like total newbs where they would exchange blows without caring about the damage on their bodies.

The pain scale could improve a person’s fighting skills, and they could also work hard to figure out the essence within their martial arts.

Practically all top-class players had their pain setting set at fifty percent.

But because of this, they also had to suffer a lot when they played the game. They might end up with their entire body in pain after one day of playing. Even though the official developers had already stated that the pain scale would not affect a person’s health, there were still plenty of times where it would still cause a person to feel incredibly helpless in the face of that pain, just like Happy now.

Even though he could not feel the true pain of his bone breaking, the pain of his virtual bone breaking was still very strong, and his body had even reacted in an exaggerated fashion.

At the moment the bone in his forearm broke, Happy widened his eyes, and his body convulsed. His body broke out in cold sweat, and he was nearly unable to stop himself from screaming in pain.

But Happy still reacted in time to clench his teeth tightly before he screamed, and hence, he did not end up wailing among the enemies.

An enemy’s scream was the best tool to increase an army’s morale. It would also cause Happy to turn completely useless and weak. Happy did not care about how viciously he trembled and did not care about how the waves of pain crashed against his pain receptors. He just gnashed his teeth tightly together and refused to let himself release even a single sound.

“Your bones are pretty tough, huh?” Flame Wolf did not hear the scream he expected, and he scowled a little because he was not quite able to enjoy himself to the fullest. He snorted coldly.

He checked Happy’s pulse and heartbeat and started laughing again. “Alright, if you won’t scream, we’ll continue!”

As he spoke, he moved his right hand up Happy’s forearm, and with three fingers, he gripped Happy’s elbow joint as if he was gripping a branch.

This part was actually very easy to destroy if he exerted force. He only needed to use a tiny bit of strength to deliver pain that was even more severe than the pain from a fracture.

Flame Wolf gave a wicked grin and clamped down with force.

With it, he delivered hidden force into Happy’s body, and the scene of Happy’s bone dislocating did not appear as he expected.

“Huh?”

He had used three-tenths of his strength, but he did not manage to break the joint of a heavily injured person without any body fortification. This truly made Flame Wolf stunned.

Meanwhile, Happy spoke laboriously while he was at Flame Wolf’s mercy, and he did so with a ridiculing tone, “You’re so weak… are you trying to… scratch an itch for me? Stop being a sissy… and hit me harder!”

“You…” Flame Wolf was first enraged before he showed a cruel and cold smile in the face of Happy’s mocking expression. “Alright, brat, you asked for this!”

Crack!

He increased his strength.

Happy’s arm fell to the ground limply.

In an instant, Happy’s forehead was covered in cold sweat. His body stiffened into a straight line for a moment, but he still kept his teeth clenched and did not make a single sound. He just used a cold gaze to stare at Flame Wolf, who was grinning at him brutally and coldly.

“You have a good body constitution.” Flame Wolf cackled coldly before he unhesitatingly crushed Happy’s arm. “Still refusing to scream, huh? Good, you’re very strong, and I like tormenting people like you the most.”

The fourth bone!

Blood and sweat mixed together, and they flowed down Happy’s body.

Happy’s gaze turned even colder, and now, he had even managed to put on a mocking sneer. “You’re Wild Wolves, and this is all you can do?”

The Class One Hall members who passed by saw this scene, and they felt chills from the bottom of their hearts. They subconsciously quickened their footsteps when they passed by. They did not dare to stay for even a moment.

‘They’re crazy!’

Flame Wolf was crazy, but Happy was even crazier!

One of them was brutal to others, and the other was brutal to himself.

*****

While Flame Wolf publicly started torturing Happy, Wind Assault Tower descended into a perilous situation.

As Happy was defeated because of an ambush, Wind Assault Tower lost an elite who could fight against Evil Emperor’s might. More than two hundred top-class elites and dozens of aces from Wild Wolves worked together to attack Wind Assault Tower from two directions, and they tore open two gaps in the defense line effortlessly. The main hall and the left side of the headquarters was instantly engaged in a chaotic battle.

Evil Emperor stood on the roof and watched from above. He never attacked and just used his pressure to affect the people around him, as if he was declaring to the world that there was no longer anyone in Wind Assault Tower worthy enough for him to personally attack them.

“For Wind Assault Tower! Brothers and sisters, we fight!”

*****

“Wind Chimes, leave immediately!”

“But…”

“Master Wandering Know-it-all already told us that if the situation ends up unsalvageable, you must immediately log off and leave! Your situation is unique, and nothing must happen to you. Right now, no one can stop Class One Hall! If you don’t leave, it’ll be too late!”

“We’ll be fine, we can recover if we rest for at most one month, but you’re different, if you die, all the years of effort will be wasted…”

Under the Wind Assault Tower elders’ persuasion, Wind Chimes logged off while Wind Assault Tower’s headquarters was filled with cries for murder and the shadows of weapons.

*****

In less than five minutes, the front hall of Wind Assault Tower crumbled.

In less than ten minutes, most of Wind Assault Tower’s elites died, and even the Tang Sect elites who came to provide reinforcements died one after another.

Very soon, the left yard was also completely defeated.

The other two directions immediately faced pressure that came from various directions. They could no longer suppress Class One Hall’s advance. Their enemies moved like a tidal wave and surged into the headquarters from all directions.

This legend in the Chinese server was falling and fading away from splendor as their headquarters in Beijing was invaded and as their sect foundation began to sway.

*****

“Very good!” Dream Clouds finally smiled in high spirits while she stood on the roof on the street across the headquarters. “Wind Assault Tower will no longer exist in Beijing after today!”

Nearly three hundred top-class elites and countless powerful players led a powerful offense, and the tens of thousands of Wind Assault Tower members were trapped. They could not set up an effective defense line, and they could only fight for themselves. Right now, even if a powerful player appeared, they could not change the fact that Wind Assault Tower’s headquarters would be destroyed.

‘But…’

Dream Clouds redirected her gaze, and she looked at a small spot where the crowd had deliberately avoided and cleared. Over there were Happy and Flame Wolf.

Flame Wolf had her back turned to her while Happy leaned against a wall. Their current situation reflected Wind Assault Tower and Class One Hall.

Wind Assault Tower no longer had any strength to fight back!

Class One Hall was just tormenting the remaining forces in Wind Assault Tower and whittling down their final strength. Once Happy and Wind Assault Tower’s bones were both completely crushed, both would perish together.

But Dream Clouds’ expression was slightly dark.

In truth, she had personally made arrangements for Lion’s Roar Shi Huasheng and the hidden forces elite, Luo Jing to attack Happy, and she also suggested to Evil Emperor to use Flame Wolf to ambush and kill Happy. One of the reasons was because she wanted to quickly clear out all the obstacles standing in Class One Hall’s way, and the other reason was to protect Evil Emperor’s reputation. Instantly killing Happy was still better than dragging out the fight endlessly.

Now, even though they managed to defeat Happy, the situation still brought Dream Clouds slight regret and made her mood sour.

She was already incredibly troubled when she had One Emperor as her opponent. She did not expect that Evil Emperor’s appraisal for Happy would be slightly above One Emperor’s.

This meant that even if she managed to secure Beijing and the Chinese server this time, there would be a long period of time in the future where she had to be threatened by Happy and One Emperor and be targeted by two peerless elites.

One Emperor was elusive. His sword moved so quickly and killed so swiftly that no one could stop him.

As for Happy, he was someone where Evil Emperor had to personally attack him and also ask someone else to help before he could defeat him, and in the fight just now, Happy had been able to move about at ease among the top-class elites. If he wanted to destroy one of their branches, even if all the aces from Class One Hall went up against him, they might not be able to stop him.

This was not good news for Class One Hall.

*****

Phantasmal Shadow and her group now stood on the roof as well. Even though they could not see what exactly was happening in the distance, the cries for murder in Wind Assault Tower could now shake the sky, and all of them that Wind Assault Tower’s headquarters was definitely bound for destruction this time.

“Tower master!” The group looked toward Phantasmal Shadow while they spoke with choked voices.

She, too, looked a little dazed.

After all, she had created Wind Assault Tower herself, and she set up her headquarters in Beijing. This could practically be considered her first home.

Right now, her home which had lasted for five years and the place which had accommodated many of her members, was about to be destroyed. This was a powerful shock to anyone in her place.

“Tower master, what should we do now?”

Phantasmal Shadow did not say anything even after a long time.

At that moment, the discussions from the crowd in the distance traveled into their ears like the plague.

“Tsk tsk…”

“Happy is a real man.”

“Yeah!”

“What’s going on?”

“You don’t know, do you? The people in front, even Class One Hall and those lapdogs from the twelve Beijing sects, are all saying that Happy seems to have ended up in the hands of someone from Wild Wolves.”

These words instantly snapped Phantasmal Shadow from her temporary daze. She regained her senses, focused her attention, and looked in the direction where the discussions came from.

‘Happy’s not dead?’

But Phantasmal Shadow’s expression soon turned incredibly dark.

“I heard that Evil Emperor has personally given the order to preserve Happy’s life so that he won’t be able to be revived in Guanlin Temple and rush over. Right now, he’s lying at the foot of the wall at the headquarters in a bloody mess.”

“Those Wild Wolves are all bastards. I heard that not only did the person from Wild Wolves dislocated all of Happy’s joints in his limbs, he even crushed a few parts of the bones in his limbs.”

“What the heck?! That’s brutal! I heard that the pain setting for elites are all very high!”

“There’s something even more amazing. I heard that even after Happy has all his bones crushed, he didn’t make a sound and didn’t do a forced log off either. He even said that it’s a shame that Wild Wolves could only do so much, and he provoked that Wild Wolf to be even more brutal with him! He’s withstanding torture head-on!”

“Hah! He’s a man of steel!”

“What do you mean, man of steel? That’s pure idiocy to be tortured by your enemy, you know? He should just bite his tongue and commit suicde—Alright, I was wrong, please don’t look at me.” A Class One Hall member snorted and said those words, but he quickly noticed that the players around him had started glaring at him, and he immediately sucked in a sharp breath before he changed the topic.

They could not kill people recklessly in a protected zone. Many people had their hostile looks fade away, and someone spoke again.

“But Happy sure is unlucky. He took the initiative to help Wind Assault Tower, but One Emperor and Phantasmal Shadow both didn’t appear. Now, look, he’s dragged to the back and tortured. I wonder how long this will last.”

“Tower master!” Wind Assault Tower’s members also heard the discussions coming at them like a tidal wave. All of them looked at Phantasmal Shadow indignantly.

This time, Phantasmal Shadow did not keep silent anymore.

She smiled bitterly and said, “They’re right. Happy is not part of Wind Assault Tower, but he bled himself dry for us. We cannot have our ally disheartened.

“Since those people don’t have the courage to attack, then I, Phantasmal Shadow, will use Happy and my blood to stir up their righteousness and loyalty!” While she spoke, Phantasmal Shadow tore off her human skin mask.

Boom!

“Phantasmal Shadow!”

“It’s her!”

“My goodness, she actually dared show up at this point of time?”

As the area burst into commotion, Phantasmal Shadow and a group of Wind Assault Tower elites surged out from the streets. Their momentum was great, and like moths flying to a flame, they charged to Wind Assault Tower’s headquarters.