Chapter 713: Swear an Oath with Blood-smeared Lips (1/2)
Damn, doesn’t everything seem to be happening a little too quickly?
I didn’t waste any time in making my next decision. I immediately sent an order via the guild channel: ”Everyone, listen up! I don’t care what you’re doing or where you are right now, I want every player from Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls to return to the city immediately. Repair your equipment and replenish your potions before using the teleportation formation to hop over to Dawn City. I want the leaders of our subguilds to issue the same orders as well! Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls will defend Dawn City with everything that we’ve got! We will defend our northeastern corridor if it's the last thing we do!”
”We got it!” the commanders in the chat immediately replied.
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I sat astride my Ice Qilin Horse as I stared at the Windy Trail in front of me. Fucking hell, this Nation War crept up on us like a thief in the night. Since we didn’t have any time to prepare for this, the Northern Alliance shouldn’t be too prepared either, right? Ah forget it, we won’t even have time to think about these kinds of things once the Nation Wars begin in earnest.
Beep!
I received a message from Hot and Sour Noodles, the administrator in charge of China’s VRMMO alliance. ”Lu Chen, I need the three leaders of Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls to immediately go to Dawn City’s royal palace. We need to discuss the upcoming Nation War. Things are happening far too quickly, so I hope that we can gather as soon as possible…”
”Yeah, I got it!”
I glanced at He Yi and Murong Mingyue. It seemed like they had received a similar message as well. So I immediately turned around and addressed Chaos Moon, Li Chengfeng, and Gui Guzi. ”I want the rest of you to lead our elite Dragonlight Cavalry to the entrance of the Windy Trail. Set up camp there and go offline. I need all of you to come online at 10 pm sharp. We need to weather the first wave of attacks and buy enough time for the rest of our allies to gather!”
Gui Guzi nodded his head before replying in a solemn voice, ”Even if we have to sacrifice ourselves, we definitely won’t allow the players from the Northern Alliance to charge into our territory!”
Li Chengfeng laughed and replied, ”Robbing the rich and giving to the poor is my duty as a cop!”
Chaos Moon smiled cheerily at me. ”Don’t worry about us!”
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I immediately took out a return scroll and crushed it. It would be faster for me to return to Sky City and teleport to Dawn City from there.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Hot and Sour Noodles was sitting on a dais in front of the royal palace that was covered in fallen maple leaves. His sword was by his side as he twirled a maple leaf roguishly in his mouth. He looked just like one of those battle-crazed generals from a period drama.
”Ah, you’re here?”
”Yup.”
He Yi helped Murong Mingyue dismount as I swung myself off the Ice Qilin Horse. We immediately kept our mounts in our mount space and stood to the side as we waited for the rest of the guild leaders to assemble. Hope fluttered in my heart as we waited. Lin Yixin should be among the players in attendance too. After all, we were gathering to discuss a most important matter! The long-awaited Nation Wars had finally begun and we had to score a win in our very first fight!
People kept streaming in one by one as all the guild leaders hurried over. Candle Dragon and his men arrived first, and Warsky, October Rain, and Lin Bing Dou Zhe arrived right behind them. A few minutes passed before Luo River God of the Capital, Moonkiss, Stranger of Three Lifetimes, Dominating Heaven Blade, Wei-Jin North-South Dynasties and the rest of the guild leaders arrived. Nearly all of the leaders of the Top 20 guilds in China had arrived, but there was one extremely conspicuous exception. Snowy Cathaya’s guild leader, the Fruit Knife Goddess Wind Fantasy, wasn’t here today. Purple Marquis and Clear Perfume had arrived in her stead.
”Qingqing?”
I stepped forward and asked in astonishment, ”That…”
Sun Qingqing grinned at me. She knew what I was going to ask even before I had opened my mouth. ”Yiyi is holding up the deal she made with her dad. She won’t be able to see you for a while and she’s already gone offline to eat a meal with her dad to apologize on your behalf. You dumbass, why did you provoke Lin Xiao like that on the forums? You totally wasted Yiyi’s previous efforts…”
”Keke…”
”Alright, the meeting is about to start. Pay attention…”
”Okay.”
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Once everyone formed a circle around the dais, Hot and Sour Noodles instantly grabbed the sword that was lying beside him and shot to his feet. He said, ”Comrades, the Nation War is upon us, so let’s cut the bullshit! Get all of your guild members to teleport to Dawn City immediately. Our greatest enemy is the Northern Alliance who is attacking from our northeastern corridor. We have to defend Dawn City or die trying!”
Warsky nodded his head and said, ”I already got Laughing At The Heavens to take Warsky Alliance’s crack cavalry unit to the Windy Trail. They went offline after setting up camp there. The moment the server reopens, we will be the first to greet the enemy. We’ll buy enough time for everyone, no matter the cost.”
Hot and Sour Noodles shot him an appreciative gaze as he continued. ”We have gathered everyone here under the banner of the CGL and our main purpose is to discuss how we are going to divide our forces. After all, all of us are leaders of super guilds, so we can’t just pool all of our forces in Dawn City. We’ll have to defend the positions that lead to the city as well.”
Candlelight Shadow cut in, ”Zhang Chun, just speak your mind. What do you have planned for us? As long as it makes sense, everyone here will definitely fall in line.”
Hot and Sour Noodles nodded his head. ”Okay. The Windy Trail is long and narrow, so we have to make best use of this stretch of land. In my opinion, we should get Blazing Hot Lips to set up camp in the mountain directly to the west of Windy Trail. Warsky Alliance will set up camp in the mountain to its east. Both of these forces will be in charge of laying down suppressive fire and providing support for our allies in the valley proper. This will definitely be a punch in the mouth for the Northern Alliance.”
Stranger of Three Lifetimes and Warsky nodded their heads. ”We got it, we will definitely send our best players to reinforce that position.”