Chapter 677: Just Kill More
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Translator: Nomyummi Editor: GravityTales
Letâs put the boss aside......
Even if Parade wanted to stop, the boss had to agree too! Bosses couldnât speak or communicate though. Under the hungry gazes of the three allied guilds, Parade continued to defend against the boss as their sweat drenched their backs. Martial Awareness knew that they wouldnât be able to win this time.
Their group had the terrain advantage, yet they were still instantly crushed by their opponents. Such a powerful force wasnât something that Martial Awareness could contend against, especially when a God was the one leading the enemyâs forces. What exactly was going on?
âWhat do you want?â Martial Awareness spoke hoarsely. In this type of situation, he already had intentions of shrinking back, but as a guild leader, his pride couldnât bear it. The other side was too cruel and direct, not leaving him any room to move. After crushing my forces, he wants me to sit down and chat? What the f*ck is there to talk about? Weâll have to listen to anything you say anyway.
âLetâs be allies! Weâll split the boss drops equally.â Ye Xiu said.
âHm?â Martial Awareness felt like he had heard incorrectly. What type of situation was this? They could simply step over Paradeâs corpse and take the boss. Why was he talking about being allies and splitting the boss?
Martial Awareness wondered. Is this some sort of trick? But did the other side even need to play any tricks in a situation like this? Clearly not.
Whatâs more..... The three guilds standing next to each other were already a bit weird. Along with a God like Ye Qiu leading them, Martial Awareness suddenly realized that it might not actually be a joke.
âNot just now, but later. Weâll kill them together and split the loot.â Ye Xiu followed with the main point.
âOh?â Martial Awareness understood that this was the key point. Was this going to be a long-term alliance? That doesnât sound too bad!
âHurry up and decide! The boss is about to die. If you donât agree, weâll have to steal it.â Ye Xiu said.
So direct and domineering...... Ye Xiu displayed such an attitude, after displaying their overwhelming strength. Did Martial Awareness have any choice? None. Even if he wasnât certain, he should still agree for now and see what the other side would do first.
âOkay, I agree.â Martial Awareness quickly replied.
âThen, this boss will be split between us five.â Ye Xiu said.
âFive.....â Martial Awareness repeated this number and realized that Ye Xiu counted as his own separate entity.
âYes. Do you need help killing this boss?â Ye Xiu asked.
âNo need. More people will only make it messier.â Martial Awareness said. Even though the sudden attack had previously killed several of their members, they quickly regained their foothold. Relying on their current troops, killing Sword Master Kayou wouldnât be too difficult. However, if more groups joined, they would need to worry about not accidentally injuring one another. More than one group fighting only worked when they were all from a single guild with good tacit coordination. A bunch of guilds swarming around would make things much more difficult.
âOkay, then weâll watch.â Ye Xiu said. Sure enough, the three guilds didnât go up and help. They didnât surround them and stop them from escaping either. They really did just stand there, quietly watching from the sidelines..
Theyâre really confident!
Martial Awareness thought. They were letting him kill the boss. When the boss was killed, he could quickly pick up all the loot. Even if he died, how many would drop? He wouldnât lose out either way!
This reasoning is very simple, but the other side was still allowing it to happen. What are they relying on?
Martial Awareness felt somewhat uneasy. With the boss almost dead, he didnât need to lead his guild anymore. They could do it on their own. After Martial Awareness pondered for a bit, he immediately understood.
The other side was waiting for him to express his sincerity!
Allying together to kill a boss wasnât a trap! It really was what heâs planning. After killing the boss, I need to share the loot with everyone for the alliance to be formed. If I try and take advantage in front of their eyes, I would still profit, but I would lose out on being apart of that beautiful scene.
Yes, a beautiful scene. Four guilds allied together led by God Ye Qiu. If they joined the wild boss competition, what would that scene be like? Martial Awareness was already looking forward to it. Everyone needed wild bosses, but their small guilds had another name for killing wild bosses: poaching!
Not competing or fighting for one, but poaching. Utterly despicable stealing.
But what could they do? They wanted to compete with the big guilds, but the big guilds would simply crush them. They couldnât call that situation competing, but gifting them free equipment.
The small guilds could only avoid competing against the big guilds. Picking out the ones that no one noticed and stealthily killing them, wasnât that what poaching was?
But with an alliance, their four guilds could compete with everyone else. It wasnât like the small guilds had never thought of it before, but with the struggle between the guilds, establishing an alliance wasnât easy. They would always scheme against one another, unable to cooperate. Like that, they couldnât compete against large Club guilds. It wasnât like there hadnât been any precedent.
But it was different this time. Martial Awareness turned around and glanced at that top-heavy guy. The difference was that this time, they had a God.
God Ye Qiuâs status was too overbearing. They did not like it, but they couldnât deny that his skill far surpassed their own. Only words that came out of someone like him would be able to persuade anyone. Only someone like him could be trusted.
Of course, more importantly..... The wild bosses were practically being monopolized. The small guilds kept throwing medicine at a dead horse trying to break this monopoly. To make this happen, as long as the method sounded plausible, they would be willing to try it.
After Martial Awareness thought about it for a bit, he decided that he wouldnât be someone who lacked foresight. He would have Parade join the alliance and split the wild bossâs rewards among everyone.
The boss fight was nearing the end. When Sword Master Kayou dropped to 10% of his total health, the situation became a bit messy because of his Enrage, but Martial Awareness led his group and held on. Despite the casualties, they let the others know that they werenât so bad as to be unable to take down a wild boss by themselves.
Finally, Sword Master Kayou fell. Parade didnât express any joy though. There were six hundred players watching them. How could they be excited? The boss died, but they could still die at any moment.
âOkay, the items are here.â Martial Awareness didnât immediately pick up the items and instead called out to the three other guild leaders and Ye Xiu.
He was being thorough with his actions. If he immediately picked up the items, only he would know what items dropped. If that happened, Martial Awareness could say what had dropped and hide items that he didnât want to give away. The drops from wild bosses werenât fixed. With good luck, there would be more drops. With bad luck, there would be fewer drops. There could be a difference of ten between the best and worst luck.
Martial Awareness stayed far away and didnât pick up any of the items. Instead, he called for them to come over. The others couldnât pick any of them up, but they could still look at them and see how many there were and what had dropped. Martial Awareness was very careful in his actions.
âOkay.â
The others replied and came over to look. The three guild leaders and Lord Grim went up to Sword Master Kayouâs corpse and checked the drops.
âA total of 21 items.â Martial Awareness said.
âOur luckâs pretty good! The last one we killed only dropped 19.â Ye Xiu said.
Forest Guardian Vich. Martial Awareness knew which boss they were talking about. When a wild boss was killed, the system would announce it. Thinking of how the the big guilds were busying PKing and unable to do anything else, he saw, as one of the small guilds, that the big guilds looked down on them and took these bosses one after the other. It made Martial Awareness feel overjoyed. He checked the global chat again and again, enjoying the announcement saying âGuild Parade has killed Sword Master Kayou.â
â21 drops split between five guilds. Parade can take the extra one. After all, they were the ones to kill it.â White Stream said. He hadnât gotten anything from Forest Guardian Vich. Seeing the drops displayed in front of him, he was starting to feel impatient.
âAn extra one? How shameful! They did all the work. We didnât do anything at all and weâre just going to give them one extra? Thats no good!â Conquering Cloudâs Yue Ziqin wasnât greedy and spoke fairly.
Martial Awareness heard them speak and he thought of the future. He laughed: âIt must have been tiring coming all this way from so far. No worries. Weâll split it that way!â
âWhat are your thoughts?â Loulan Slash was still annoyed at his overthinking from before. Now, he wanted to hear from Ye Xiu. So what if he acted like a b*tch or a little kid?
âI say thereâs no need to be so picky. There are plenty of bosses. We can just kill more.â Ye Xiu said.
How domineering!!
The four guild leaders quietly thought.
Snatching wild bosses was an extremely difficult task in Glory and he just casually said âJust kill more.â It was as if they were eating together and someone said âJust eat more.â Such a casual and nonchalant reply really made the four guild leaders respect him. That was air of a God.
âOkay! Weâll split it between everyone and Parade will take the extra!â Loulan Slash said.
The other two didnât say anything. Martial Awareness heard Godâs words and picked an item. The others took turns taking an item. They didnât bicker over the details. Why? Because Ye Xiuâs words had knocked them off balance. After killing a boss, there was no need to bicker over who should get more or less. Just kill more. The more they killed, the more total drops thereâll be. Every small difference in drops would average out in the end and become negligible.