Sword Among Us

The forest was quiet.

Chief Promise Clouds of Class One Hall had already replaced the paper fan in his hands with a high-grade masterpiece, Profound Green, which was surrounded by green light. His Profound Green was a first-echelon sword. Its attack reached 600 points, and its attributes made it a weapon that a normal player could not obtain.

However, even as he held the first-echelon Profound Green tightly in his hands, it did not give Promise Clouds any sense of safety.

Thud… thud!

Behind him was a young man in his twenties. He held a sword in one hand while he pressed against a wound at his stomach with the other. He stared at the forest around him with a pale and frightened face. Blood poured out swiftly from between his fingers and dripped slowly on the ground.

There were nine Class One Hall elites who were well equipped around Promise Clouds. Each of them had different degrees of fear on their faces. They had their weapons drawn, and they formed a circle while feeling anxious as they stared at the forest around them. Everyone had a lot of wounds on their bodies.

Beyond the circle formation were around a dozen corpses strewn all over the road. Based on their equipment, their strength should not have been inferior to that of the people still standing.

“Damn it…”

Promise Clouds stayed vigilant of his surroundings while he retained a defensive posture. He gritted his teeth, and not a single hint of relaxation could be detected from his eyes. His palms were drenched since a long time ago.

Their group had decided to set up an ambush based on Beautiful Robes Faction’s progress. They were formed by twenty-five core members from Class One Hall, and their battle prowess was only slightly inferior to that of Evil Wolf. Every single one of them could take up big responsibilities for Class One Hall.

Such a lineup was supposed to be able to easily cut through a lot of Beautiful Robes Faction’s people, but right when they were prepared to launch their ambush while listening to the sounds of battle, they were attacked from everywhere in the forest, and those attacks came in a bizarre fashion.

The hidden weapons came very suddenly, and they were also very quick! No one in the group could grasp the attack trajectory, and the first wave of attacks instantly killed five people! When they activated their body fortifications and prepared to charge into the forest to drag out the ambusher, they noticed in fear and despair that the hidden weapons had the effect of breaking their defenses.

Eleven people were killed on their way into the forest without even the chance to cry out for help. One boomerang was enough to destroy their body fortifications, and they would get stabbed right through the moment after. All of those who were hit lay dead by the side of the road.

How many enemies were there? They did not know!

Who was their enemy? They did not know!

In fact, even the people who had been ambushed did not receive any notification from the system.

It was the first time Promise Clouds had ran into such a situation, but even though he had been stunned by the two quick rounds of attacks, he still instinctively chose to protect himself. Once the others formed the circle formation, they saw that no hidden weapons appeared again from the forest.

Promise Clouds forced down the anger and humiliation he felt from the bottom of his heart and quietly reminded his people, “Be on guard and retain the formation. We’re leaving the forest.”

‘That’s right. Leaving the forest is currently our only good option. The enemy has used some sort of method to bypass the system notification. He even used to forest to conceal himself. If this continues, even when we die, we won’t know who killed us.’

The worst part was that as time passed, a brilliant fire arrow serving as a signal rose from another part of the forest. It was a request for reinforcements that they had promised each other to use only during urgent situations.

This meant that something unexpected had happened in the battlefield over there, and they were almost unable to hold the fort!

If they continued fighting in the forest, there was a high possibility that the four hundred people would all die. After all, Beautiful Robes Faction also had quite a lot of elites who were in Mystical Realm and had good equipment.

*****

Whoosh!

Right when the circle formation moved, a black arc tore through the air and destroyed the silence in the forest. It cut off the way forward like lightning.

When their path forward was blocked off, Promise Clouds and the others became even more vigilant, but right when they increased their guard, the sound of air being cut reached their ears.

Blood flew into the air.

“Go!”

“Charge out!”

It was the sign that the intensity of the ambush was about to increase. Promise Clouds was alarmed. He called upon his qi in a frenzy, and the group jumped into the air at the same time. They used their fastest speed to head to the edge of the forest.

Their robes fluttered.

“Urk!”

There more hidden weapons slicing through the air as they had expected. Under the protection of the trees, they were like black threads that accurately hit two people’s bodies.

Two more were gone.

Eight were left!

They were all Class One Hall’s core members. They might not have created any fame for themselves in the game, but they were definitely very valuable to Class One Hall.

When Promise Clouds saw his party members fall to the ground, he felt his heart bleed. He could not even stop to pick what his dead comrades had dropped. He led his group out and continued to flee far away until they squashed the pain they felt in their hearts.

However, their hate for the enemy who had ambushed them in the forest only increased!

The attacks from the forest came one after another, and they grew stronger than the previous two waves!

The sound of air being cut became more frequent. The boomerangs came wave after wave, and their speed was astonishing. They were so fast that Promise Clouds and his group broke into cold sweat. They felt as if a very powerful demon was approaching them swiftly.

One… Two… Three…

Promise Clouds’ companions continued dying and thereby leaving the team.

However, they had already reached the end of the forest.

The sudden brightness that swiftly expanded in their field of vision filled the five remaining people with enthusiasm. The attacks from behind them also suddenly stopped at the moment they were about to leave the forest.

“We’re save!”

Smiles bloomed on the faces of Promise Clouds and the rest. They were the type sported by people who had just survived through a disaster. However, those smiles froze on their faces when they saw a person standing not too far away from them and blocking their way.

The man had two swords and stood quietly while his cold eyes shone through the incomplete silver mask.

He exuded a cold and familiar killing intent. The boomerangs that were arranged neatly in front of the group caused the four to freeze. They sucked in sharp breaths and instantly stopped in their tracks.

Parting hooks and boomerangs!

Promised Clouds’ gaze focused. He suddenly stopped moving and remembered Evil Wolf mentioning someone in private not too long ago.

He was a mysterious and powerful player who showed that he was equal in strength to Lu Mingyue when he fought against him in a town whose name no one remembered. Later on, they had lost sight of him.

It seemed like the mysterious player Evil Wolf had mentioned was the person in front of him.

“Silver Wolf!” Promise Clouds called out to the person across him to test the waters.

He could not be sure that Silver Wolf had been the one who did all those things previously, or to be more specific, he did not dare believe that Silver Wolf alone had been responsible for twenty of his companions’ deaths!

Silver Wolf looked up slightly and cast Promise Clouds a faint glance before he said indifferently, “Take one more step forward and you’ll die.”

“It’s you, you’re the one who killed my brothers!”

Before Promise Clouds could say anything, the four people behind him rushed out. They did not know Silver Wolf, so when they saw the enemy reveal himself, they wanted to vent all their anger without hesitation. The only thought they had in mind was revenge.

Silver Wolf moved his hands together and picked up two boomerangs with great agility. The two boomerangs looked as if they had slipped from his hands and veered off course, causing them to miss the four people by several feet before they went into the forest.

The four people laughed viciously at the same time. They thought the man had been scared silly.

Only Promise Clouds remembered something when he saw it, and his expression changed drastically.

“Careful!”

With a sweeping kick, Silver Wolf sent ten throwing knives flying upwards in the air.

He swung his parting hooks with both hands, and ten boomerangs flew out like a woman’s hair blown by the wind. They traveled in strange arcs toward the four people.