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Chapter 329: The Soldiers’ Great Battle

[They say that those who are courageous are always naive. LOL. The people over there always said Legend Guild, Legend Guild, but what did Legend Guild really do there?]

Then, Doctor Ranker, the person most knowledgeable about all of the rankers in the world, appeared.

[Genie. Real name: Im Jihye. One of Korea’s top rankers and was the master of the Former Legend Guild. Although Legend Guild, the guild that she led, was only a small guild, it was considered as Korea’s best guild. But then they declared their guild’s dissolution suddenly. She subsequently joined the ‘Let's Eat Sect’ , a new guild led by Food God Player Minhyuk, as the vice-guild master. There has been a lot of discussion over this matter.]

[A lot of discussion?]

[Oh! The great doctor has appeared!]

[Yes. There has been a lot of discussion over Locke, Ascar and Crow’s love triangle. There’s also talks about Food God Minhyuk fighting an 18:1 battle against the Legend Guild to absorb the guild. However, what’s certain is Legend Guild, once known as the best guild in Korea, disappeared so suddenly, only to reappear as a strange guild called Let's Eat Sect. However, the problem begins here. High Class and Royal Class have appeared all over the world. However, contrary to all of the players’ expectations, the members of Legend Guild did not seem to have produced any High Class players.]

[Great doctor. Do you think that getting High Class is easy? From what I heard, Legend Guild is only a group of twenty people. Isn’t it more logical that they do not have any High Class players?]

However, Doctor Ranker rebutted almost immediately.

[Not at all. They’re different. The four major guilds in Korea have twenty-one people in the top 40, but Legend Guild alone has over fifteen players in the top 40.]

Everyone that saw this was both shocked and impressed. They were truly the most prestigious guild in Korea, enough to compare against the four major guilds.

[But, they haven’t transferred to a High Class and there are rumors that they have disbanded for real. In other words, it’s just a waste of time.]

These were the final words of the great and trusted doctor. The people listened attentively to the words of the doctor, not knowing that the doctor’s true identity was actually Ascar, a member of Minhyuk’s guild.

Ascar was sitting in a suite in a five-star hotel in Korea. She looked out of the window before turning her attention back to her computer and tapping on her keyboard. Then, she took a sip of tea to moisten her throat while thinking, ‘It started.’

Everything was going according to Genie’s ‘plan’. Right now, their counterattack had already begun.

***

Ever wondered what the Let's Eat Sect did when the Asgan Continent and Cairon Continent got connected through the Continent Cloud?

At the appearance of the Continent Cloud, the guild master, Minhyuk, told his guild members to watch the war situation for a while as they made preparation for emergencies and contingencies.

“Uncle Roadol, please set up powerful traps around the territory to make sure that none of our enemies can enter.”

Ilhwa Construction’s president, Roadol, had the legendary class Master Trapper. Upon Minhyuk’s request, he began setting up a huge number of traps around Atlas Territory.

Installing traps was basically something that the players did not want to do. First off, a trapper was considered to be the worst class to have, especially during PVPs. However, Roadol was different. He was also excellent in close combat with his gigantic ax. His class then changed to the legendary class Master Trapper after he used his amazing skills in making bombs from real life, to make bombs without the help of the Athenae game system. In fact, the members of the Let's Eat Sect had seen his traps at work before. However, it was more fitting to call them mines, rather than traps. It was because they had an explosive power that could blow up everything within an entire four meter radius area!

“...Uncle.”

“Yeah?”

“You’re not really going to wipe out the illegal buildings in our country, right?”

“If I could, then I would? Hahahaha! Explosions are thrilling!”

“...”

Minhyuk was speechless after discovering another surprising side of his Uncle Roadol. On the other hand, Uncle Smooth, the Poison Master and the president of Nottogi, was the only person that could handle thousands of poisons in Athenae. The most surprising fact was that he walked the same path as Roadol. Smooth was basically an expert when it came to food distribution, but his sense of ‘taste and flavor’ might as well be in the gutters. However, the fact that he was an expert in food distribution meant that he knew how to use food as poison.

“I really don’t like uncle’s class…”

“...Eh?” Smooth gasped at Minhyuk’s incomprehensible words.

However, Smooth could plant a variety of poisons anywhere possible, whether it be in fruits, animals or even the land. The apples that he planted might look delicious and ripe for the picking, but anyone that ate the apples would definitely experience instant death. If the skunk that he planted poison in farted, everyone in the vicinity might faint.

Just like that, Minhyuk went through a lot of preparations for the upcoming war. As they continued to monitor the situation in the Continent Cloud, the mission to recapture the attack base located in the center of the continent had been issued. That was when Minhyuk concluded that Atlas territory’s power was enough to withstand whatever attack they might receive. So, for the first time, Atlas territory flew in the sky.

However, there was only one problem that they did not expect. Atlas, despite becoming the City in the Sky, was extremely slow. It was still some distance away, but the Korean rankers were already being pushed back. When he saw this, Minhyuk judged that joining the fray at this time would not change a thing. So, his following strategy centered around defending territory and accepting the fleeing rankers. After giving his orders, Minhyuk went to see Ellie.

And right now, the Red Dragon Order was chasing after Conir and Aruvel deep inside Atlas territory. Rumel, the Red Dragon Order’s vice guild master, was leading the chase. Although he was not as good as Luca, he was still a strong player that no other assassin could keep up to.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

Rumel quickly turned to look at the direction where the huge explosion rang.

[Vice Guild Master Rumel: What’s going on?]

[Cairo: Rumel! Bacoh, Ruthinue and Calo have been logged out from the sudden explosion.]

[Vice Guild Master Rumel

: What…?]

Rumel was shocked. They were assassins that were expert at stealth, quick attacks and digging through the enemy’s traps. They even received the passive skill ‘Trap Search’?the moment they changed classes and became assassins. All of the members of Red Dragon Order had already reached Level 7 of the Trap Search skill. Reaching this level meant that every member of their guild could easily discover a trap just by looking at it. However, it seemed like the skill proved to be useless in front of some trap. And that was not even the end of it.

“Keuaaaaaack!”

“Keheok!”

“I…I can’t breathe! Aaaaaack!”

Screams rang loudly among them.

[Vice Guild Master Rumel: What’s going on again?!!]

[Kaiden: Rumel, poison suddenly spurted out of an unknown flower.]

[Vice Guild Master Rumel: What… are you telling me that you’re poisoned…?]

[Kaiden: That’s not all! A skunk suddenly appeared in front of us and farted before running away. Now, our guild members are melting.]

Was this the murderous fart that he had only heard of?

“...”

Vice Guild Master Rumel was left speechless. Assassins were,of course, very resilient against poisons. No, in fact, the Red Dragon Order’s ability to withstand poison could be said to be the strongest in the continent. But the poison that they encountered was strong enough to ignore their passive skill ‘Poison Resistance’?

‘We’ve underestimated this territory.’

Only then did Rumel realize that this was their plan all along. The enemy had deliberately led them deep inside their territory.

[Vice Guild Master Rumel: Everyone, retreat!!!]

Alas, it was already too late. Counting all of those that had been caught in the trap and poisoned, it seemed like the only one left was him. Then, the boy that they had been chasing suddenly appeared in front of Rumel. The boy said, “Conir!!! Conir got a hostage!!! Hostage!! Eat ramyeon!!!”

“What…?” Rumel asked dumbly, not understanding the situation that he was left in. Then, the boy suddenly attacked him, leaving him unable to resist. In the first place, the boy was an opponent that he could not fight against. Then, the boy covered Rumel’s eyes with a blindfold and brought him somewhere. When Rumel opened his eyes again, all he could see were white walls and a small handcart. And…

“Eat ramyeon!!!”

…the boy cooked ramyeon for him.

“Please, please stop… stop feeding me ramyeon!!!”

“I’m Conir!!! Hostage attacked Conir first! So, Hostage must tell Conir valuable information, otherwise Hostage eats ramyeon!!!”

“Keheok! I’ve already eaten thirty bowls of ramyeon…!!! No, why the hell do you put chocolate in ramyeon!!! N…no…! Not ramyeon and orange juice…! Keheok!”

It seemed like Conir had learned how to torture using ramyeon. Right now, the second Ma Zheonu was screaming.

***

Meanwhile, in Atlas territory.

The Korean rankers were all shocked after watching the Red Dragon Order disappear through the crystal ball.

“My…my goodness…”

“This…this is ridiculous…”

The Korean rankers saw how fast the Red Dragon Order moved. It was to the point that they knew that they would not survive an attack from them. They were all rankers, so it was not difficult to determine the power of their opponents.

“B…but, can skunk farts really melt the enemies…?”

“So, this is the murderous fart that we’ve only heard of…”

“I’m pretty sure it can make your lungs rot the moment it enters your system,” Genie said after coming back from who knew where.

‘My goodness! What terrible poison, right?’

None of them had heard of such a terrible poison before.

“So, this is the only place that can guarantee our victory…?”

Ali made it clear to them that they would find a way to victory if they followed the plants. All of the rankers could tell that protecting this territory was their path to victory. However, there was a problem. No matter how strong the territory was, it would be useless if the top rankers were all weak. Their Chinese enemies still had a lot of trump cards hidden up their sleeves. Even during this battle, their high rankers still had not appeared yet.

“Let me take command of the battle,” Carr said. It was only reasonable since he believed that the strongest player here was him. It was also true that the person that could survive the longest should be the commander.

But then, Genie said, “You can’t be the commander.”

“What?” Carr asked in disbelief, his face distorting in anger. Who was supposed to be the commander, if not him? Of course, this was not his territory, but if Genie asked for a cooperation, it would not be impossible. It was clear that she also needed the power of all the rankers present here.

Genie just gave them a clear and blunt answer. She said, “Because compared to our guild members, all of you are weak.”

“What bullshit! You think we’re the same? You haven’t even changed into a High Class…” Carr’s words faded after seeing the glint in Genie’s eyes.

“Who said that?” Genie asked as she looked everyone in the eye. Then she continued to say, “We don’t have any High Class members? More than half of our guild members have already transferred to High Class.”

“...!”

“...!”

“...!”

“...!”

There were a total of nineteen key members of the former Legend Guild. From what Genie said, half of that number had transferred to High Class.

“...”

“...”

“...”

Everyone was shocked and speechless. The silence that enveloped them was only broken with Carr’s words. He said, “My god…?”