Zhan Yue

At this point, in the chaotic battle, the Chaotic Grade Boss was down to 7% health. But due to there being too many players around, its berserk mode was really strong and its stats increased by over 50%. One Fireball could insta kill someone and it was a random attack. Not only With You players, even Vanguard players couldn’t avoid it.

I dashed forwards to Backstab him!

With it, I drew aggro and the Boss started to attack me. But under Darkness Transformation state and also with the heals from Little Bell and the Priests, added with my 200+ stacks of Swallow Soul, I could solo this boss without much difficulty. As long as he couldn’t insta kill me, I could rely on lifesteal to recover

Thus, I attacked the boss while paying attention to With You’s battlefield. With You’s frontline was gone. Light Lantern, Haotian etc led the Sika Deer Cavalries to attack and the battlefield was a mess. Fushen Thousand Blades had led 400+ Vanguard elites into our formation and we were in an intense battle!

Firepower support!

I turned around to use Apprehension+Wooden Dummy and then hit the boss a few times. I then turned around to use Muddy Waters on dozens of Assassins such that they couldn’t use skills. Everyone knew that most Assassin skills were active, now that they lost vision, they were all in chaos.

“Flame Whirlpool! Flame Laser!”

Gu Ruyi commanded while tossing out Lightning Dragon Storm. Muddy Waters and AOE skills intersected and Vanguard players fell to the ground.

“Shua!”

Not far away, Lin Xi used Assault and her sword slashed across Fushen Thousand Blades’ head.

“En!?”

He just killed out high level Archer Guan Guan and used his daggers to block. Sparks flew and he was forced back by her sword. When he rolled two meters back, his body disappeared. It was One Jump again. Although this skill distance was short but the CD was too. In just three seconds, it was suitable for an Assassin!

In the end, the moment he jumped in front of Shen Mingxuan, Lin Xi used Ancient Totem. It stuck right on his nose. If he wanted to kill Mingxuan he would die. But behind him, the horse hooves were intense. Lin Xi rode the White Deer over and was about to use Horn Stab.

“Hai!”

His gaze turned cold and he sighed helplessly. He jumped once more to leave our formation and he said, “Retreat!”

At that moment, the boss’s health ran out. After I critically struck it a few times, his body fell to the ground and dropped a flag. I grabbed it and now the formation flag belonged to With You---

“Ding!”

System Notification: Congratulations Deputy Guild Leader July Wildfire for obtaining Badger Valley (S Grade), With You’s points +100!

……

I held the flag and tossed the boss’s items into the guild treasury to deal with later. I then pointed forwards, “With You now we can clear the battlefield!”

The backline players charged up. After we got the flag, Vanguard’s attacks became much weaker.

“Form up!”

Fushen Thousand Blades was back in Vanguard’s formation and he said, “Get the flag back within 10 minutes. Quick, form up our frontline. Let’s have a good formation battle against With You today! Brothers we haven’t lost!”

“Yes Guild Leader!”

He was Vanguard’s soul, a few words could cheer up the dejected players. Their frontline gathered quickly and their backline players got into positions. Unfortunately, Not Fish and Little Pudding were killed by us and it would take 20 minutes to run here. Most probably they would miss out.

On the contrary, our main damage dealers were here. Shen Mingxuan, Gu Ruyi, Light Frost, Warm Sun etc were all alive. Just this alone meant we had an advantage.

“Form our defence!”

Lin Xi rode White Deer over and turned around to face Vanguard. She said, “Form up, our next target is to get the high ground completely and chase Vanguard away!”

“Yes Guild Leader!”

Light Lantern, Cal, Haotian, Yixue etc got into positions. In just 30 seconds, With You chose to attack. Frontline heavy armored players, middle damage, backline heals. Especially the frontline, we had the absolute advantage. Vanguard only had Wild Returning Light and Don’t be Foolish which were strong but With You had Lin Xi at the helm, that was the gap.

Vanguard’s advantage was in their assassins and ranged team. One could say that Not fish and Little Pudding were no weaker than our ranged team. But their assassins met ours. Mundane Slaughter, Moonlight Firely and myself weren’t much weaker. We were even stronger than them.

Thus, although they had many people and their organisation skills were strong, even after losing the flag they could gather up strength to battle us again which showed their tenacity, but we were a black horse. We were more all rounded. Our heavy armor, ranged, assassins and support classes were much stronger than them!

……

Five minutes later.

We clashed and they went all out. It was obvious that they were suffering. Lin Xi, Light Lantern, Cal etc all could insta kill people. Along with me, so Vanguard’s frontline switched spots very frequently. Not many of them could continue fighting. As for the backline, Shen Mingxuan and Gu Ruyi’s firepower was too strong such that their heals were spent on their own ranged players and not the frontlines.

“Eat this group!”

Lin Xi used Horn Stab diagonally to stun Wild Returning Light. She then used Double Hit+Return Slash+Gale. She even used her combo. Her skills exploded at once and Wild Returning Light was shocked. Before he recovered from the stun he was insta killed. The backline healing was too slow and things happened too suddenly. A deputy leader was killed by Lin Xi just like that, the gap was huge.

“Peng peng peng!”

Cal, Light Lantern, Haotian etc pushed forwards to clear out the vanguard frontline within five yards, pushing us 5 yards forwards. Fushen Thousand Blades didn’t dare to charge. Each jump would be close up and he would definitely get hit by Ancient Totem like it was made for him. The guy said to be the top assassin didn’t have much room to deal damage and he had to pay attention to Lin Xi’s attacks.

Just like that, five yards after another, in just ten minutes, they were pushed out by us and could only stay on the hill and get hit by us.

One must know that the game was quite realistic. Attacking downslope had buffs and heavy armored players’ charging damage would increase. The momentum and stun duration would increase too. Ranged players’ range would also increase. The Archers’ arrows would deal more damage and break through armor more. Anyways, if one had the high ground, one had basically a 30% increase in combat strength.

……

“High ground is gone!”

Fushen Thousand Blades retreated a few steps and his eyes were filled with helplessness, “Brothers back out, let’s stop fighting!”

He shouted towards us, “Lin Xi let’s stop!”

“Oh?”

Lin Xi held her bloodied Fallen Frost Sword and smiled, “Are you giving up? Guild Leader Fushen?”

“Yes.”

He sucked in a deep breath, “Highground is gone, it feels so tough to fight now. This area belongs to you. We were indeed weaker today. For With You to rise up in Winter Sun City, really is amazing.”

“Scoff scoff…”

Mingxuan squinted her eyes and smiled, “Just one sentence and he wants to leave? Is Vanguard a bunch of cowards…”

Lin Xi said softly too, “Right, forget it. It is best if we don’t PK, we suffered huge losses too.”

“En!”

I walked forwards, “Actually, don’t be dejected. I think Vanguard is stronger than Limitless.”

“Really?”

Fushen Thousand Blades and Don’t be Foolish asked at the same time.

“Yes.”

“Hahaha---”

The two of them laughed and waved toward us, “Time to go! Brothers let’s push north and find a new area. Leave this place to With You!”

……

Standing on the high ground, we watched as they left. 9000+ Vanguard members joined and now at most 4000+ were left. The small Badger Valley was like a meat grinder that caused both sides to suffer huge losses. But similarly, this battle was great for us. After all, such an opponent was rare. To make them go all out, was a test for us too.

After all, we might have even stronger competitors above them.

Elements, Legend, these two. Be it stats or past results, they were stronger than Vanguard and Limitless!