Volume 6, Chapter 13 – The Kongjing Guild’s Predicament

The Kongjing guild’s Guild Leader had been confirmed dead in-game.

It had already been five days since the news of the so-called Inferno invasion began to spread.

And on this very day, the news about the Kongjing guild’s Guild Leader, who was also the guild’s only Legendary, dying… spread across the entire game forum.

With that news emerging, and with a few “enthusiastic” Kongjing guild players stepping out to admit it was true, a heated discussion about the Kongjing Guild Leader’s death erupted on the forum.

Of course… while part of the discussion focused on why Kongjing’s Guild Leader, Danqiu Yibai, had died.

Some people also started to talk about the NPCs invading the Main World this time.

“According to a friend of mine on the front lines, there were no demons at all among the invading NPCs this time… and the one who killed Kongjing’s Guild Leader, Danqiu Yibai, was also a Dark Elf, not a Demon Lord.”

Very soon, a player directly laid out the real situation behind this NPC invasion.

Naturally, most players still treated what this player said with suspicion.

“You talk like you saw it yourself, but what if it really is an Inferno invasion?”

“Exactly. An Inferno invasion might not affect our real world much, but it will still impact some of our in-game interests. So whether it is real or fake, we still have to stop this Inferno invasion.”

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“Wait… interests? I don’t get what the guy above means. What does an Inferno invasion have to do with your interests?”

“You don’t get it? An Inferno invasion might not directly harm us players, but it will break the ecosystem we worked so hard to build. So what is this so-called ecosystem for us players? It means we can casually obtain powerful items and powerful templates, and strong players will protect us, so we don’t need to worry about being punished by powerful NPCs.”

“But once Inferno invades, all of that will definitely be affected. After all, Inferno demons are not called demons for nothing. How could those demons just stand there and watch you take away their items, and how could they possibly let you slaughter their NPC underlings as you please?”

Where people gather, arguments follow. There were people with differing opinions all over the place.

Everyone believed that their own view was the correct one. Of course… There were also people who would only instinctively believe the things they personally wanted to believe.

Even if those so-called facts were not facts at all.

As the discussion grew more and more intense, more and more players who had been watching from the sidelines began to turn their eyes toward the north of the Main World.

There, aside from the declining Stronghold and the newly risen Dawn, there was also the Kongjing guild, which had just lost its Guild Leader, Danqiu Yibai.

With Danqiu Yibai’s death, the Kongjing guild had now fallen into a state where the dragon had no head, and it could split apart at any moment.

Because the Kongjing guild had already ended up in such a miserable situation, most of the players who had previously remained on the sidelines began to focus more and more on Kongjing.

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Because… Many ambitious people felt that the death of Kongjing’s Guild Leader, Danqiu Yibai, might very well be an opportunity.

Maybe… as long as they relied on their own strength or their so-called charm, they could seize control of the entire Kongjing guild.

Leaving everything else aside, almost every player who thought they had the ability started thinking about how to bring Kongjing under their own banner.

Among these people were not only representatives of influential families and financial conglomerates. There were also a few players blessed with great luck or outstanding talent by nature.

And among these players, naturally, there were two particularly well-known ones.

One of them was the player from the Academy Faction, an Arcane mage who called himself the Emperor of the Arcane Empire, with the ID Andrew.

The other was the first Throne-tier among players. By relying purely on his own strength, he had forced a mandatory update across the entire game. He was the Paladin player named Yunchou.

Of course… when it came to taking over a guild that had lost its leader, both Yunchou and Andrew acted as if victory was already within their grasp.

However, while these top players were mulling over how to absorb Kongjing, with Danqiu Yibai’s death and the appearance of the Underground World’s main army.

The players, who had previously been pushing the Underground World NPCs back, suddenly found that the situation was slowly shifting into a state of evenly matched battle…

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Not only that, as time went on again, the situation on the battlefield was practically changing every hour. By the time the sixth day arrived, almost every player who had fought those NPCs had dropped two or three levels.

“The NPCs from the Underground World are way too strong… Minotaurs have thick skin and tons of HP, and the Dark Elves are incredibly agile. Each one of them is a broken existence that can fight as a Mage or Archer at range and as an Assassin or Warrior in close combat…”

In the end, a player posted such a helpless summary of his experience fighting those NPCs over the last few days.

By this point in time, although a large number of the players who had stayed on the sidelines were beginning to feel tempted to get involved, in the end almost no one actually chose to act.

Well… because those two big Buddhas, Yunchou and Andrew, were still weighing down over everyone’s heads.

“Looks like God Yunchou and God Andrew are not interested in the Inferno invasion, huh?”

“No way. They might not care about the Inferno invasion itself, but bringing Kongjing under their wings is definitely a way to increase their own strength, right?”

Some players on the forum started to speculate about what those two top players were thinking.

But… how Yunchou and Andrew really thought, those players were only guessing anyway.

In fact… Yunchou really was thinking just like the other players guessed. He had his eye on the Kongjing guild.

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But… At the same time that Yunchou set his sights on Kongjing, Andrew, who had been clashing with Yunchou constantly and kept getting the short end of the stick, had also set his sights on Kongjing.

However… Even though they both had their eyes on Kongjing, what the two of them had in mind was completely different.

Andrew’s goal was to take Kongjing and turn it into part of his own power. After all, the players in Kongjing could strengthen the forces he controlled.

Yunchou’s goal was much more straightforward.

Because Yunchou’s attitude toward the Kongjing guild was purely one of seeing it as something “with no value at all”.

The reason Yunchou regarded the now leaderless Kongjing guild this way was actually very simple. He really did not think it was worth his attention.

“After all… a guild like that will only drop the ball at a critical moment later and drag you down~”

As if he had remembered something amusing, Yunchou’s lips curved upward slightly and he could not help laughing.