Chapter 140: Splitting the Loot

Drako Yau stared back at Dakki with no intention of backing down. Instead, he nodded in acknowledgement as he said, ‘You’re right, I don’t trust you all.’

‘Woah!’

Those from Sky Dominion also exclaimed. Even Sky Chun’s complexion turned cold at Drako Yau’s words.

Not paying heed to their reactions, Drako Yau continued, ‘Don’t you think it’s weird? We only agreed to join hands yesterday. One day later, Empyreal Spire tries to hunt me down right when we mobilise. Not sure if you noticed it, but they also headed out at the same time as we did. Apart from the few members who hunted me down, another elite squad from Empyreal Spire was headed for the bear king too.

‘That means there’s a spy.’

Drako Yau proclaimed before everyone that there was a spy—the most hated people among all guilds—within their group.

Unlike the actual world, it was way too easy for a spy to infiltrate another guild. Even Underworld, a guild known for their members’ loyalty, couldn’t be sure that not a single spy was in their guild.

‘Because I don’t trust you all, I only told the ones I trust how to defeat the bear king. Also, when dodging Bloodred Laser, it was an instant order so the spy won’t have time to report back.’

‘Dammit! Who’s the spy!’ Sky Chun slammed his palm onto the coffee table, smashing it to pieces.

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Drako Yau turned to look at Dakki. Even though his face was concealed by his mask, everyone could tell he was staring at her. That only pissed Dakki off even further.

‘Ha! So you’re suspecting me now?’

Drako Yau shook his head. ‘It’s King Zau.’

‘What?’ Dakki’s jaw dropped to the ground.

Meanwhile, Empyreal Spire’s base was a picture of gloom.

Chau Yu, seated on the guild master seat, had a stressed look. In the bear king incident, Empyreal Spire had almost gone all out. All their elite players had lost a level, except Hau Ngai because he had been pursuing Windstrider, who had knowledge of Bloodred Laser and pulled away from the affected region.

The elites who died included the best of the best such as Tripurity and Handsome Scholar. The five attribute points gained from levelling up were also lost along with the level, meaning they could only regain the points after levelling up again. For them, who had always been used to becoming stronger, being weakened was very unpleasant.

Thankfully, they were quick enough to return to the site. They managed to pick up the equipment they had dropped from dying along with the equipment of other dead players, or else it’d really end up in a total loss for them.

「或許……」周瑜緩緩開口，所有天雲樓成員的抬頭看向主位。

「或許，我們用錯了方式。」

‘Perhaps…’ Chau Yu said slowly, gathering every member’s attention to the guild master seat. ‘Perhaps we used the wrong method. We were too bothered by Mask… Or should I say, I was too bothered by him. I was scared of letting him grow stronger so I wanted to suppress his growth, but that only stretched ourselves too thin.’

Chau Yu stood up and looked at his guild members with a smile.

‘In truth, Empyreal Spire has no reason to fear him even if he does. From tomorrow onwards, all actions targeted at Mask are cancelled. Focus on levelling up: our next target is getting the first kill of the Level 30 dungeon in the Highlands of John!’

‘Understood!’ Everyone answered with vigour.

At that moment, someone raised his hand and asked, ‘Guild master, then I’ll…’

Chau Yu looked at him, then said, ‘There’s no need for that, rejoin us instead. It’s my blunder for revealing you so soon. It’ll be difficult to control Allurers from now on… Unless they’re morons, they’d probably realise it's you. It isn’t worth getting yourself killed when they find out for real.’

‘Understood!’

A message then flashed through Allurers’ guild channel: ‘King Zau has left the guild.’

Dakki turned pale and gritted her teeth.

‘All members of Allurers, kill King Zau on sight! Five hundred gold coins for anyone who kills him! He’s a spy!’

Allurers’ guild channel exploded with furious curses. Dakki bowed gently at Drako Yau and said, ‘Sorry, Brother Mask. How foolish of me to doubt your intentions.’

Drako Yau waved his hand; such small matters didn’t really bother him at all.

However, the young elementalist girl groaned in a small voice, ‘But the masked weirdo still snatched all the bear king’s drops…’

Looking at the young lady whose thinking was just as naive as her appearance, Zephyrwolf sighed and laughed, ‘You dumb? We’re stealing a boss, are we gonna just sit there and split the spoils before leaving? Those players are gonna shred us to pieces when they see us.’

As if approving Zephyrwolf’s explanation, Drako Yau posted all the drops he had picked up onto the squad channel then said, ‘Pick what you want. Go with rock paper scissors if more than one person calls for an item.’

Everyone dropped their jaws upon seeing the equipment posted onto the squad channel.

It was truly worthy of the Failed Rampaging Bear King, the Level 30 world boss. It dropped over ten pieces of equipment, and even the worst drop was a rare grade equipment. There were drops for every class as well, not to mention that they were all Level 25 equipment.

Everyone was in high spirits. It didn’t take long for them to split the loot, leaving behind five pieces of epic equipment.

A warrior laughed merrily as he defeated Danting and collected a Level 25 greatsword, Bloody Berserk. Danting cried about it while tugging onto Drako Yau for a long while afterwards…

The Level 25 epic mage robe, Silky Red Robe, ended up in Idyllic Poet’s item bag under the jealous gazes of the beauties from Allurers who lost the game of rock paper scissors.

Having special classes didn’t necessarily mean they had to equip special equipment. For example, Danting wore leather armour which belonged to the Hunter class while he wielded a greatsword, a weapon for berserkers.

As for Dakki, her weapon type was rather special—ribbons. It was equipment meant only for hidden classes, and thus their prices fluctuated greatly. However, she still wore cloth armour of the mage and cleric class.

Soon, only one piece of epic equipment remained—Soul of Bartos, an epic equipment with a special effect attached to it. It was the first time anyone had seen equipment with such effects. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});

‘Soul of Bartos. Endow the soul of Bartos, the god of guns, into a rifle. When attacking or casting skills, there is a certain chance to trigger Soul of Bartos.

Special effect: Increase Attack Speed by 20 per cent.’

Soul of Bartos was a hunter-exclusive Level 25 epic equipment. Awestruck by the item, Windstrider received it in a daze. It could be sold for at least five-digits if auctioned at the trade centre.

It was understandable why people would go nuts about it because it had a special effect. Yet Drako Yau alone knew that when the game reached its later stages, almost every piece of epic equipment would come with a special effect.

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