Volume 6, Chapter 6 – Cavalry Charge

Watching the guild players and those solo players who had “come for the fame” launch nonstop attacks on the NPC army, Kongjing’s guild master Danqiu Yibai, the one who had personally guided things to this point, was actually very pleased with himself.

“They’re just NPCs from the Underground World. All it takes is a bit of brainwork to deal with them easily.”

Looking at this NPC legion that had originally been the invading side but was now being counterattacked, the scorn in Danqiu Yibai’s heart slowly grew.

Of course, as a guild master, Danqiu Yibai would not underestimate the NPC army just because things were looking so good right now.

So even though he felt somewhat proud and somewhat disdainful, Danqiu Yibai also understood clearly that the NPC army in front of him did not represent all of the invading NPC forces.

The army before him was only the vanguard.

“Guild Master, the time is about right. The NPCs across from us have already been worn down until they’re mentally exhausted and their morale is low. Next, all we have to do is send in our most elite brothers and we can steamroll them.”

“Mm. After three days of attacks without distinction between day and night, I imagine those NPCs are at their most exhausted right now. This really is the best timing.”

Hearing the player beside him, Danqiu Yibai showed a satisfied expression and nodded in agreement.

“Send in the most elite brothers in the guild. This time, we aim to wipe out this vanguard force before the NPC main army even shows up.”

With Danqiu Yibai’s order, a group of players whose gear was all high tier equipment glowing with light, and whose levels were more than a dozen levels higher than the average player around them, charged out at the forefront.

Very soon, once those players joined the fighting on the very front line, the situation that had looked evenly matched before was instantly broken.

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“What’s with these outsiders?”

With those players joining in, the Minotaur army that was holding the line at the front and resisting the outsiders, in other words the player legions, began to fall back step by step.

The burly Minotaur who was in charge of commanding the front line troops, an Epic-ranked figure, had disbelief written in his bovine eyes.

“What’s going on? Weren’t the outsiders just a bit more numerous? Why have so many high tier outsiders suddenly appeared?”

Shock, anger, confusion.

No matter how this Minotaur commander tried to process it, the steady collapse of the front line had already become a situation beyond saving.

“Dark Elves, get those Dark Elves to provide spell support, now.”

Watching more and more Minotaur soldiers on the front line die horribly, the Minotaur commander immediately thought of the Dark Elves’ spell support.

However, what this Minotaur commander could not accept was that after he sent the request for Dark Elf spell support, the Legendary Dark Elf in the rear who commanded the vanguard forces instead led most of the Dark Elf mages in retreat.

Not only that.

Before that Dark Elf left with the mages, he even issued an order to this Minotaur commander to “lead the Minotaurs and cover the retreat.”

“They run the moment things look bad? As expected of Dark Elves.”

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He was furious inside.

But even in his anger, the Minotaur commander still had no choice but to accept the Legendary Dark Elf’s act of shrinking back at the critical moment.

“General, the outsiders have already surrounded us.”

With the Dark Elves retreating, the outsiders on the front line seemed to sense something and began pushing forward madly.

It looked like they were planning to cut off the fleeing Dark Elves.

“Have the brothers at the front fall back. Hold the line while shrinking the defensive perimeter.”

“Yes.”

The Minotaurs might be numerous, but after three days and nights of continuous fighting, most of the Minotaur soldiers had not had any real rest.

So in the end, the Minotaur commander gave the order to pull the line back.

However, once the NPC army deliberately started shrinking its defensive line, far off in the distance, Kongjing’s guild master Danqiu Yibai, who was directing the players’ offensive, immediately saw what the NPC army intended.

“Trying to buy time to rest? Interesting.”

“In that case, we just need to encircle them and take them apart bit by bit.”

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Looking at the Minotaur army that had already turtled up into a tight ball, Danqiu Yibai knew in his heart that it was only a matter of time before these Minotaurs died at his hands.

As for the templates that would drop from these Minotaurs, Danqiu Yibai planned to hand most of those over to the solo players.

The main target for his guild was those Dark Elves who had just pulled back.

“Dark Elves are good at magic. On top of that, those Dark Elves also have high agility bonuses. Whether in close combat or at range, their templates are extremely valuable.”

“So we leave the Minotaur templates to those solo players who’ve been fighting for us for three days and nights, and our guild only needs the Dark Elf templates.”

That was Danqiu Yibai’s plan.

So, because that was his plan, Danqiu Yibai proceeded to act on it.

With a single order from Danqiu Yibai, the guild players who had barely made any moves over the past three days finally began to go all out.

Very soon, while those solo players were still focused entirely on killing Minotaurs to get Minotaur templates, large numbers of guild players were already on horseback, chasing after the Dark Elves who had just recently retreated.

As the warhorses galloped, clouds of dust rose into the air.

As guild master, once Danqiu Yibai had confirmed that the Minotaur army surrounded by the solo players had no way to break out, he personally led his guild’s player legions to chase after the Dark Elves who were fleeing in panic.

After a chase lasting several dozen minutes, they finally caught sight of those Dark Elves.

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“Hm? Legendary?”

The moment they caught up to the Dark Elves, Danqiu Yibai sensed the presence of a Legendary aura among them.

“Interesting… if the Legendary Dark Elf drops a template, will that bring a Legendary combatant to my guild?”

Feeling that Legendary aura, Danqiu Yibai began to picture the scene of his guild gaining a second Legendary after they killed this Legendary Dark Elf.

At the same time, as the distance between the player army and their quarry shrank, the fleeing Dark Elves also seemed to realize they had no way out.

So the fleeing Dark Elves came to a stop.

“Planning to put up a last struggle?”

Watching the Dark Elves raise their staffs and listening to their loud chanting, Danqiu Yibai’s lips curved into a mocking smile.

“Do these NPCs not know? Mages are most afraid of enemies getting up close.”

“Especially a cavalry charge.”