Chapter 686

Chapter 686 – Iron Blade Mountain

For lunch we hurriedly ate our hot pot . We didn’t even let the food properly absorb the taste of the broth . The entire time we were all worried about the game . Could Matcha really stand up to the pressure from [House of Prestige]? Swift thunder brought 5000 players with him for battle . These 5000 are all players that have experienced a hundred battles . They were quite experienced with virtual battles . On top of that, Matcha was only leading 500 players from the main guild and three divisions . That was around 6000 total . That wasn’t much more than the opponent . Of course that was a completely different topic compared to actual battle power . This was going to be a difficult test for Matcha .

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At 1:30 in the afternoon, I logged on!

“Shua!”

As before, I appeared in the Magma Falls Mountains . I immediately opened up the guild chat . I could see that people were already sharing the situation of the battle in the guild chat . It was a battle between [House of Prestige] and [Zhan Long] to the south of Tian Ling City . It was located in a long valley that was completely covered in bramble . Matcha raised her bloody sword and commanded people to fight while they retreated . However, [House of Prestige]’s Swift Thunder only laughed savagely and pursued them . He seemed to be cursing something under his breath . However, most people were too far from the scene to hear what it was .

[Zhan Long]’s divisions took heavy losses . They couldn’t hold their formation against [House of Prestige]’s attacks . However, Matcha did not give up and continued to lead the battle . Suddenly, archers and mages appeared from the brambles . One after another, poison arrows flew out and they carried poison vines . “Pu pu pu” they pierced through the [House of Prestige]’s players and, nailing the knights to death while they were in the valley . It was the Death God arrows . There weren’t many, probably at most around 200 . However, when they were used together and in a location like this, it was highly effective

Swift Thunder’s expression turned extremely lucky . He pulled at his horse’s reins and began to charge forward like crazy . He commanded the mages to burn the [Death God Arrow]s’ poison vines . As he shouted the orders, he continued to advance forward . He was probably telling all of his subordinates that they didn’t need to bother with the attacks to their flank . As long as they could defeat the [Zhan Long] division armies that Matcha was leading, they would have victory .

As I expected, the [House of Prestige]’s main guild had at least 2000 knight type players . They were all players with high levels and quality equipment . Under the command of Swift Thunder, they were cutting up [Zhan Long]’s advances like they were cutting vegetables . Their team battle was one of the top while [Zhan Long]’s divisions were probably around second place . The gap in their abilities was obvious .

Despite this, Matcha’s lips curled into a smile . She continued to direct the flow of battle . The knight type players stopped to battle and then retreat . They were dragging out the site of the battle . If it were to continue like this, then [House of Prestige]’s explosive power would be greatly decreased . Furthermore, they would suffer even more damage from the flank attacks .

Matcha was very smart . She had situated quite a few players on the two sides of the mountain . [Lullaby] and [Scattershots] trapped the [House of Prestige] players . They retreated as soon as they attacked, whittling down [House of Prestige]’s numbers . Within 20 seconds, they had lost over 2000 of their players .

“Pa…”

I softly pressed the exit button on the interface . There was no more need for me to worry about the battle situation there . Wolf and Fox would do everything to execute Matcha’s orders . Looks like they really weren’t exaggerating . In terms of military strategy, Matcha was definitely the top commander . This battle was just one piece of proof . Knowing this comforted me . In the future guild battles and nation battles, I will definitely not be the only one leading the battle . I would most likely be the commander of the entire situation, but I would leave the details of the battles to Matcha, Wan Er, Qing QIan and Li Mu . Nevermind, actually, I don’t like being the kind of commander that only strategizes in the tent . I’d must rather be a general leading the charge . Besides, in a game, those two didn’t necessarily conflict with each other .

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I closed the guild chat and glanced at my side . Wan Er and Dong Cheng had already logged on . Li Mu, Wang Jian and the others were grinding levels in the Magma Falls Mountains . This mountain range was at least 5000 meters above sea level . It was truly astonishing . The peak of this fire mountain was actually a sea of flames . In reality, a mountain that was 5000 meters above sea level was probably an icy wasteland . For example the Himalayas . But 5000+ meters above sea level, it was pretty much locked in ice .

Li Mu cut off the head of a Flame Tailed Scorpion . He looked up at the cave of the volcano and he licked his lips . With an expression full of curiosity and adventure, He smiled at me, “The higher we go, the higher level these monsters were . Just now that Flame Tailed Scorpion was Level 127 . I think that the monsters near the opening of the mountain will be around Level 129 . ”

I smiled, “You want to head over there?”

Li Mu nodded, “The entire map is still completely black when you look at it from a map . Aren’t you curious about what’s behind the mountain?”

“Yup!”

I gripped my fist and said, “However, we can’t just all go en masse . The monsters up there are too high level . They’re close to Level 130 . Any players around Level 110 would be easily killed . And so, we can only pick out the elites . Yup, pick up 1000 players from the 5000 we brought . The rest can grind levels at the central area of the mountain . There’s enough monsters here for all of us . ”

Li Mu chuckled, “Yes sir!”

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Not long after, Li Mu picked out his thousand man team . I, the guildmaster, was to be on the team leader while Wan Er, Qing QIan, Wolf and Dancing Forest were all among the core group . I lead my horse forward and we all advanced in a line . On the way, we killed quite a few Magma Ox and Flame Tailed Scorpions . The experience here was very plentiful . On top of that, they had dropped a lot of gold . Everyone spread out and advanced with every kill . Seeing gold continuously drop was a very happy feeling .

After an hour, I was the first to reach the peak of the Magma Falls Mountain Range . A thick burning fog surrounded the area . Just before my horse’s hooves was a thousand league deep flaming abyss . This was a live volcano . Who knows when it will act up . If it did act up, then our entire army would pretty much be destroyed . But, our luck shouldn’t be that bad .

Wan Er raised her dagger and walked over . She looked down with her beautiful eyes and said, “Wu, I can’t see anything down there . Don’t tell me you want to grind levels by jumping into the mouth of a volcano . Then you’ll become a grilled pig… . ”

I wiped some of the sweat off of my forehead and said, “Can’t you think of some more positive thoughts . Besides, I’m not that suicidal… . ”

Qing Qian lit up a light and looked towards the south of the mountain range through the smoke and said, “South of the volcano’s south, there looks to be a map . But I can’t really see it on the big map . Should we go and check it out?”

I narrowed my eyes as I looked into the distance . A breeze blew some of the smoke in front of me away . For a short moment I was able to see a higher set of mountains that was next to the Magma Falls Mountain Range . The only difference was, Magma Falls was completely covered with streams of lava and it looked as though the entire mountain was on fire . This other mountain however, was completely dark, as though it was made of steel . Furthermore, the mountain seemed to form a sharp peak . Rather than a tall mountain, it looked like a black mountain was covered in blades

I looked at the map and made a decision, “Ok, we’ll leave the 4500 brothers to their grinding . Death God’s Elegy will lead the grinding team . The thousand of us will go around the volcano’s mouth and pass through the Magma Falls Mountain Range . Let’s go and see what those dark mountains are?”

Li Mu nodded with a smile, “Yup, this will be interesting!”

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With me in the lead, we began to go around the mouth of the volcano . My warhorse walked across the burning stones . My Flying Scythe War Horse was still ok, after all, it had hooves . The other players however, which had meat paws like Tigers, Leopards or Wolves were having more trouble . Even the players were slowly beginning to lose health . As we wandered through the smoke, some of them even began to cough . On top of that, there were quite a few Level 129 Magma Oxen and Flame Tailed Scorpions for us to deal with . There was no way this environment could get any worse .

After wandering around for half an hour, we finally reached the other side . The other mountains were starting to look more clear without the smoke to cover it up . Looking down however made us extremely disappointed . There was an abyss between the Magma Falls Mountain and this black mountain . It was so deep you couldn’t see the bottom . Wang Jian tossed a rock into the abyss but we didn’t hear an echo of it hitting the ground .

“F*ck, we came here for nothing… . ” Li Mu angrily patted his leg .

Qing Qian bit her lip, “That abyss is too deep . The Wind Elves definitely can’t fly over… . What do we do?”

Wan Er’s clothes fluttered from the breeze as she stood on the border of the abyss . She glanced around at the valley . Suddenly, she smiled and said, “I’ve got it . Everyone look over there, maybe that can be our bridge to the other mountain… . ”

Everyone looked to where the beautiful vice guildmaster was pointing . Suddenly, we saw enormous trees growing on the black mountain . Each one of them had thick vines . Some of the vines were several hundred meters long . These vines shook in the wind and just happened to swing across the two mountains . The other end of the vine was growing off of a tree on the cliff of the Magma Falls Mountain . This seemed to create some kind of a rope bridge made up of ten vines . It was also the bridge that Wan Er was talking about .

“Eh… . ”

Wolf frowned, “Isn’t that bridge a little too dangerous? Who knows how much it could hold . What if we crawl halfway and it breaks . If we fall, we’ll die!”

I picked up my sword and said, “Well, we’ll know when we try . Seeing as there’s no other way, we’ll just have to go down this road then . ”

“Ok!”

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I walked over to one side of the vines . I sheathed my swords and grabbed one of the vines . It was pretty thick . It was about as thick as a large noodle bowl’s circumference . I used all my strength to give the vine a tug . All I could see was the vines shaking in the air . But, it remained as solid as it had looked before . Yup . This should be able to take the weight of ten people without a problem .

I put down the vine and said, “Alright it’s sturdy enough . Everyone crawl onto it one by one . Do not walk on it . The wind here is strong enough to blow you away . ”

“Yes sir!”

Hugging the vines, I inched my way forward . Our method wasn’t exactly very attractive . We moved like inch worms across the vine . It was incredibly ugly . But, safety was much more important . I could hear the hash winds blow against my ear . It was incredibly powerful, proving my judgement to be correct .

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After crawling for fifteen minutes, we finally finished crawling the length of the hundred meter long bridge . Once I let go, I jumped off and lightly landed on the black mountain . I then heard a system bell by my ear——

“Ding!”

System Notification: Please Note, you’ve entered an extremely dangerous map—— [Iron Blade Mountain]!