"An ambush! Run! Run fast!"
Sato turned his body, grabbing onto Laia who was nearest to him and ran off towards the center. The enemy ambush was starting and they were caught in the frontlines of it.
"Charge! Kill!" a large group of players readied their bows and staffs as they cast their skills and barraged Sato and his teammates.
"Everyone use your defensive skills now! Don't be stingy on it!" Hayden quickly commanded his team, focusing himself once again. He had been too lax and so, had not done sufficient reconnaissance.
The enemy's attacks soon came flying in under the sky. If anyone were to be hit by more than 5 of those skills without any protection, they would surely be dead. That was currently the case for Sato. Unfortunately being a low leveled player, his current health was truly subpar. Three full attacks would be his maximum.
A fireball's trajectory was falling towards Sato, yet when it seemed like it was about to hit him, it barely misses the young man by the skin of his teeth.
"How is that possible!?" The Fire Mage that was aiming at Sato was utterly profounded when it missed the assassin.
What he didn't know was that Sato could make some calculations in his head at an inhumanly fast speed. It was what made him, Sato, a genius in University Z. In addition, being an Elven Assassin, it allowed him to have high Agility to help react to these attacks.
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In the middle of the battlefield, the bigger guilds started to panic when they heard about the commotions from the sides.
"What! We are trapped?" Yolla gritted his teeth as he thought about his guildmates that were mainly grouped at the periphery. "Quickly tell the guild to group together again. We are going to have to launch a counter-attack!"
"I knew something was fishy about this. The whole fight went far too smoothly." TextDontCall spoke with a wise intonation to his vice-leader for this war. "Carry on to earn contribution points in the center of the battlefield. I'm sure SilentNoise will likely join in the fray and counter-attack. At that time, we will have time to earn more points."
Just like TextDontCall said, SilentNoise was currently ordering his guild to move towards the sides. He needed to win this fight badly or else he would lose out way too much. "Quickly send Baldy and his group to the left, while you move with your group to the right. I will try to finish off the remaining players in the middle with my group."
"Yes sir!" SilverBullet followed Silent's orders, leaving to the right.
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"God... you sure took your time to attack didn't you?" TeaseMePlease complained unceasingly. "You guys were definitely planning to use this opportunity to chip away my guild's strength! How despicable..."
"I do not know what you are talking about..." Complexity dug his ear after hearing TeaseMe speak over their voice comms.
"..." AutumnLeaves remained silent.
"Well, you bastards better do a good job on the sides and help us cinch this win!" TeaseMePlease spoke with spite.
"Yeah, yeah." With that Complexity left the call. It made the furious HellFire leader even angrier.
"When I see him outside of this war, I am going to make sure I kill him a hundred times over!"
"..." AutumnLeaves left the group in silence.
On Complexity's side, after ending the call, he went ahead to do his job. "Continuing raining attacks on the enemy while charging in! Once we are close enough, switch to arm combat and the backline shall provide support!"
"Yes sir!" Even the guilds that were not under Complexity were completely stunned by his calm demeanor.
TeaseMePlease may have spoken as if Complexity had taken a longer route, but what he didn't know was that Complexity had already taken into account the exact distance needed to prevent enemy reconnaissance, such as Advanced Scrying, from detecting them. The reason why it felt like TeaseMe was losing so badly was simply due to the sudden gain of the Mysterious Aura on the Undead Faction's side.
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"Argh!" The death toll on the side of the Undead Faction spiked with the arrival of the two ambushes. Eventually, both factions were dead even in the death count.
Sato and his team had managed to run away from the rainfall of attacks, but everyone except for Sato was badly damaged. They did not have such fast agility nor the processing speed to react to the attacks.
"Quickly heal up using your potions. Laia, heal yourself first, then heal everyone else." Sato spoke out while watching their backs. Their group was now hiding behind a larger-than-normal tree. The enemies were close and so they couldn't spend too much time there.
"This is bad..." Hanz sighed slightly, his blade and shield were sprawled beside him. "I ran out of potions to heal myself."
For a knight like him, it was natural to run out of potions easily. Luckily, Sato did not have to use much of his potions and so he passed half of his to Hanz.
"Thank you, bro Sato." Hanz smiled warmly. He had already accepted Sato as one of theirs after all that they have been through.
"All good, Hanz. Besides...Shh." Just as Sato was about to speak, he heard the footsteps of players coming closer. To his surprise, when Sato was peaking from the side of the tree, an arrow whistled by, barely missing the assassin's head. Shit, we have been spotted, Sato thought.
"There's no need to hide anymore. Come out." A cocky voice rose from behind the tree. it was very familiar to Sato, making him smile slightly under his disguise. The cocky man had one arm around a slender lady, while his other was loosely holding onto his sword. He was none other than Tyron, his school bully.
Tyron's group immediately went over to the side of the tree that Sato's team was recovering by. Their measly group of 5 was simply too small compared to the group of 20 from Tyron. At this moment, Ming who was standing with Tyron's team did not know he was up against Sato.