Chapter 188 Winning the Defensive War
It was definitely the fiercest attack Midsummer Guild had suffered.
Numerous guild members sacrificed their lives to have held off the BOSSes for a good ten minutes.
The death count of players at east, west, and south increased to hundreds of thousands because the AoE skills of the high-level BOSSes were so overwhelming. Ice Giant Guardian, whom War Spirit Hall had fought against at the Ice Lake outside Shengshui City, was just a normal BOSS at level 30 yet had a powerful AoE skill of Icy Waves, which could cause devastating effect among people. Facing such a BOSS, players were bound to fail especially when without BUFF from priests.
However, the BOSSes attacking the guild now were even stronger than Ice Giant Guardian and thus were a big threat to the guild.
The guild lost heavily that even the mages and priests at back row all tried to stop the BOSSes at the cost of their lives, let alone the soldiers in the front row, all of whom had been killed over three times. Everyone was stuck in a situation where they kept being killed and then revived during the battle, their equipment dropped and damaged, their looks like that of beggars.
At the entrance of the encampment, some of them even chose not to get revived so as to build a wall several meters tall with their dead bodies, and successfully blocked the BOSSes" way into the encampment.
“Hey! The Encampment Defensive War is over! Congratulations, Midsummer Guild won its war and was thus officially established. The map within a ten-mile radius, with the encampment hall as the center, will be included into Midsummer Guild"s territory, and no wild creep would be resp.a.w.ned there.”
Regardless of the sacrifice and the loss, the result was quite rea.s.suring. The moment the system announcement rang, everyone of Midsummer Guild looked excited.
Finally, following Dynasty, the second guild which succeeded in its defensive war was officially established.
Although there were more than 10 guilds on the guild list in Huaxia District, most of them was not officially recognized because they had not won any Encampment Defensive War yet.
“Haha, we made it!”
“Never thought we would be the second guild, following Dynasty, won a defensive war! Haha, we"re making a name for ourselves in Huaxia District!”
“Yes, and more than that, we"re one step ahead of the rest, and going to rank higher on the guild ranking of Huaxia District. Besides Dynasty, we"re the only guild that has established our own encampment.”
“Yeah, the so-called top ten guilds in Huaxia District always think highly of themselves yet have little confidence to build their encampments. We"re far ahead of them now!”
“The only pity is that we failed our first Encampment Defensive War; otherwise, with the system rewards, we might be able to make it into top ten guilds in Huaxia District.”
“d.a.m.n Master Healer! We shouldn"t have made up with him! We should add his name to the killing list and hunt him until he dies!”
“Come on, sometimes, compromise could be a good choice. He has demonstrated his power through the battle against Glory last night. If we haven"t compromised with him, the day we could establish our guild might never come.”
“I agree. Master Healer is too d.a.m.n powerful and horrible. For the good of guild"s future, we were wise to have made up with him. After all, no one could stand a chance against him, not even Glory.”
The members of Midsummer Guild were cheering, and some of the management laughed with overjoy as they walked into the encampment hall.
At there, Liu Qiangwei had been waiting for them. Face covered with a veil, she looked ethereal and aloof, like both a holy fairy and a queen who was waiting for her soldiers" returning with victory; she was calm yet stunning.
Following a male player named Midsummer Leaf, the management of Midsummer Guild entered the hall one after another. When they saw Liu Qiangwei, they kept their smiles but immediately lowered their voices.
They had to behave themselves before Liu Qiangwei given that she was both the chairwoman of the Midsummer Group and the number one beauty on the G.o.ddess List of Huaxia District.
“By the way, the last round was really a narrow escape, the BOSSes made it to the entrance at south side, but fortunately, they were stopped there.” Midsummer Leaf, in his mid-age, sighed with relief.
He was the former president of Midsummer Guild as well as an officer of Midsummer Group. After Liu Qiangwei took charge of the guild, he had wanted to retire but was finally persuaded into acting as the vice president of Midsummer Guild. In short, he was an outstanding man.
“I agree. It happened at the west entrance, too. For a few times, the BOSSes even managed to take a step into our encampment! That"s really a breath-taking moment. Having one less player guard there, we would have lost it.”
“Yeah, it"s so wise of the president to have gathered all the people at these three places; otherwise, we wouldn"t have made it.”
“By the way, Rose, why did you withdraw all the people from north side? Your strategy turned out to be successful, but I really wanted to know what caused you to make such a decision at that critical moment,” said Midsummer Leaf.
He was a prudent man, that"s why he had objected Liu Qiangwei"s idea of having all the people at north side withdraw to the other three sides. If not for that a commander was not to be doubted, he would have strongly opposed the plan.
“It confused me too, president. Wouldn"t it leave the north side defenseless with pulling all the people back? However, I didn"t hear any noise of people fighting from there during the long battle, so, no creep was sp.a.w.ned there?”
Some other people of the management joined in the discussion. Most of them were the leaders of the branches or teams and led the battle against BOSSes at east, west, and south side, so, they knew little about the situation at the north side.
In fact, Liu Qiangwei also felt surprised at the peace at the north side because she had constantly received news of emergencies from the three sides but none from the north side.
Peace somehow meant safety. Generally, the Golden BOSS at the north side should be the toughest one to fight, however, Liu Qiangwei didn"t hear any news, good or bad, from the side.
The BOSS, who should have caused Midsummer Guild a great damage and to lose its defensive war, failed to even approach the encampment through the battle.
Liu Qiangwei remained silent for a moment. Xiaofeng"s thin figure came into her mind, but she found him offline now; she could not connect him at the moment.
Liu Qiangwei ended the discussion by simply explaining that she asked someone for help. She did not tell them the man was Xiaofeng because she knew many of them still held grudge against him. In the following days, they had something more important to do.
That was to make up their loss during the battle and build their encampment. Although they had won the war, they suffered a huge loss at the same time, and it would take some time for them to regain their strength.
Soon, the news that Midsummer Guild had won the Encampment Defensive War spread over the Huaxia District and caused a stir among the guilds, who could not believe it.
“Huh? Did I hear it wrong? Midsummer won the war?”
“So, following Dynasty, the second guild that has won Encampment Defensive War appeared? And it"s Midsummer?”
“That doesn"t make sense. During their first try, they had system reward and more members on its side yet failed. How did they make it this time?”
“Maybe they became more experienced in defending this time, but still, it shouldn"t have made any difference since they had far less people this time.”
“By the way, didn"t Master Healer partic.i.p.ant in this war? What? Midsummer has withdrawn its killing order of Master Healer? The two parties has made up with each other?”
Discussion broke out among all the big guilds in Huaxia District. They knew very well how hard it was to win an Encampment Defensive War, and they also had witnessed Midsummer Guild"s failure during its first try.
They never thought that other guilds would win a defensive war just as Dynasty did, because as the number one guild with strong power in Huaxia District, it was nothing surprising that Dynasty could make it.
However, Midsummer should have made it too! At the fact, many guilds, both as strong as Midsummer and even those stronger ones, all were itching for their own defensive wars.
Despite having obtained their tokens and established their guilds under NPC"s management in the main city, those guilds had little confidence in winning their Encampment Defensive Wars and thus had not built any encampment. On hearing the news of Midsummer"s victory, the management of these guilds immediately gathered together to make further plans.
Only a few people managed to get some information on Midsummer Guild"s Encampment Defensive War from the people they planted in the guild.
“You said a mysterious master helped Midsummer Guild defend its encampment? And even guarded one of its entrance against the BOSS"s attack during the last yet critical round?”
“A mysterious master? Who is it? Are you sure it was not some other guilds but a single man that helped Midsummer?”
“Really? Are you sure? You saw a single man hold off an offensive BOSS at one side? Who is that man?”
“No guild name was displayed, neither was the character name. What about the equipment? Did the man hide it too? He couldn"t have hidden his weapons, could he?”
“He had a staff with him? Could he be a mage? He held off the BOSS at one side on his own?”
“No, it was not a staff but a scepter! The man was a priest, not a mage! In the entire Huaxia District, only one priest was capable of that!”
That night, the server-wide event would start, and n.o.body knew how long it would last. Thus, Xiaofeng went offline earlier than before that afternoon so as to tell Xiao Ling and Ning Keke not to wait for him if he did not go offline at meal time.
When Xiaofeng found the two girls at a video arcade, Xiao Ling was busy with playing a video game while Ning Keke was attentively watching a cooking show, seemingly learning the cooking methods.