Chapter 779 - Number One Team Under the Heavens (1/2)

Reinforcements from Asskickers United arrived in the village 30 minutes after the reports came in. An eerie silence hung over this place. It was deserted with corpses of both NPCs and players strewn everywhere. It looked like a complete massacre.

The perpetrators were clearly from the Evil Faction, because players from the surface generally didn’t kill NPCs as well.

A gust of wind blew through the village, kicking up a cloud of dust. It appeared quite bleak and desolate.

“Report the situation here back to Watchful Snail.”

“Understood!”

Before long, Guo Huai received word of the massacre. He clearly sensed this matter wasn’t simple. It would require a team of top elites to wipe out an entire village, both players and NPCs, within such a short span of time.

A group of players like this arriving in the Abernathy Great Grasslands was anything but good news.

Guo Huai immediately dispatched a team to investigate this matter, starting with questioning the players who had been killed by Blood Devil’s team.

Over the next few days, Guo Huai received another 15 reports of villages being attacked. The death tally reached 300 NPCs and 7,000 players.

After getting to the bottom of the situation, Guo Huai immediately contacted Nie Yan through the game capsule.

「What’s wrong?」Nie Yan asked. Guo Huai knew he was in the World of Darkness and would only contact him in case of an emergency.

「Recently, a group of 60 players from the Demon Tribe showed up in the Abernathy Great Grasslands. All Silver Wings. They’ve already wiped out 15 villages, killing 7,000 players and 300 NPCs,」Guo Huai said. He sent over all the information he had gathered to Nie Yan.

Before Guo Huai could say anything else, Nie Yan recalled a certain event from the previous timeline.「Is it the Blood Reaver Corps?」

「H-huh, how did you know?」Guo Huai asked in surprise.

「Those guys are rather famous. I didn’t expect them to arrive on the surface so soon,」Nie Yan replied. Truthfully, he rarely paid attention to the going ons in the underworld. It was just that the Blood Reaver Corps was simply too notorious in his past life. So, his impression of them was fairly deep.

Back then, when the Blood Reaver Corps started running wild on the surface, Nie Yan was only a Level 130 Great Thief. The Viridian Empire did have some Masters, about 70 or so. Meanwhile, the Demon Tribe had about 500 Silver Wings, and a single team, the Blood Reaver Corps, accounted for more than 10% of that with all 60 of their members being Silver Wings!

Apart from this, the teamwork of the Blood Reaver Corps was impeccable, and their strange battle tactics left the players of the Viridian Empire completely dumbfounded. Many Masters had fallen at their hands.

The Blood Reaver Corps had stalked the borders of the Viridian Empire and Satreen Empire for over two months, killing hundreds of thousands of players. No one ever survived their ambushes. The first to take action against them was the Viridian Empire, mobilizing 20 Masters to put a stop to them. A great failure. Losing five of their own and killing only two of the enemy, they became the laughingstock of the entire game. It wasn’t until Masters from the Satreen Empire suffered a similar fate that their reputation was somewhat restored.

The Masters from the Viridian Empire and Satreen Empire tried to corner the players from the Blood Reaver Corps on their own for more than a month without success. In the end, with no other option left, they teamed up. A force of 70 Masters and several dozens of guilds was what it took to lock down the position of the Blood Reaver Corps. In the battle that followed, both sides suffered immense losses, including seven Masters and 16 Silver Wings. After encountering this kind of setback, the Blood Reaver Corps finally retreated back to the Underworld.

Though they achieved their goal of forcing the Blood Reaver Corps back to the underworld, this was by no means a victory. The Masters of the Viridian Empire and Satreen Empire didn’t feel pride, but rather great shame.

Although Silver Wing was the highest rank class for the Demon Tribe, it was simply not on the same level as a Master. In terms of class bonuses, Silver Wings were strictly inferior to Masters. For the outcome of the battle to end up like this, rather than celebrating their victory, the Masters of the Viridian Empire and Satreen Empire opted to drown this disgrace with alcohol.

After this escapade on the surface world, although they had been defeated, the Blood Reaver Corps’ fame skyrocketed. They were known as the number one team under the heavens. No other team could compare with them.

The Blood Reaver Corps was founded by Blood Devil. The members of the team were all old friends of his that he’d been playing virtual reality games with for more than 20 years. Their average age was over 40 years old. They had no interest in founding a guild. In fact, the only reason they’d set up a gaming organization was for some extra income, something they did in a somewhat extreme way. They would hunt experts and strip them of their expensive equipment, then sell it for gold. Many guilds had suffered at their hands. They killed indiscriminately. This of course meant they made many enemies, most of whom had tried to surround and ambush them. But they always managed to escape, only to come back later and make the guilds behind these attacks suffer greatly. As time passed, this happened time and time again, even against the large guilds. In the end, no one dared to provoke the Blood Reaver Corps anymore. As long a certain line wasn’t crossed, they would turn a blind eye. After all, these fellows were too scary.