Chapter 230: Chapter 192: Madness and the Oncoming Storm
In the Cultivation Room of the shop.
Mans carefully read the letter sent by the Martial Artist Association, his expression changing from initial fear to delight.
"Gang Leader! This is a great opportunity for our White Feather Gang!"
Mans looked at Gang Leader Isaac, his eyes filled with excitement and ecstasy.
The letter from the Martial Artist Association indicated a high probability of a monster tide emerging, with Chasing Light City as the first target, and even the Moving City of Azure Sky couldn’t withstand the monster tide, so how could Chasing Light City withstand it.
According to information from the front-line corps, the battle to clear the monsters was extremely fierce, even though it was a coalition army composed of all surrounding cities, more than twenty Bone Forging Realm Martial Artists had died, and over a thousand Refining Organ Realm Martial Artists, and this was while relying on towns to lure and gather monsters, using Anti-Gravity Energy Cannons, and receiving aerial bombardment support from major cities.
If this battle had taken place in the Wilderness, the casualties would have been unimaginable, and this was just a small batch of monsters gathered in the Wilderness.
Now the surrounding cities have issued mobilization orders just like Chasing Light City, requiring all city forces to contribute, with the exception of certain designated Martial Artists, all others need to escort and transport supplies to the front lines, violators will be wanted by all cities without mercy.
At the same time, all forces were notified to be cautious in the city’s outskirts.
Because the front-line army’s battle with the monsters has caused many monsters to scatter and flee, they might have already dispersed around various cities, and the Wilderness is no longer as safe. The cities have no spare capacity to clear these fleeing monsters, urging all major forces to beware for their safety.
This situation is certainly not good news for forces without Martial Artists stationed, especially for outskirts gangs, it’s practically a disaster, they must abandon most of their territory, and merely holding onto their main base in the Wilderness would be fortunate.
But at the same time, this is an opportunity for forces with Martial Artists stationed.
Under normal circumstances, while monsters do appear around the city’s outskirts, it is generally safe, and the chance of encountering monsters is low; they are mostly cleared by the Martial Artists from the Martial Artist Association during hunts, or by the city’s Defense Corps. But now, the city has no spare capacity, and the hunting Martial Artists of the Association will likely primarily hunt in the front-line areas.
For businesses that require outdoor transportation, they will certainly seek forces with Martial Artists to transport, and the wealth and resources they can gain from this are incomparable to the past.
Even if they have spare capacity, they could seize the outdoor resource areas abandoned by the outskirts gangs, and the city leaders won’t mind, as the outskirts gangs couldn’t hold on and had to abandon them voluntarily; besides, these outskirts gangs are no longer valuable, and leaving those resources idle is pointless. If any force can take over and sell to the city, it’s beneficial to the city.
For the White Feather Gang, which can continuously produce Martial Artists, this is a great opportunity for rapid development.
"You understand what I mean, right?" Isaac glanced at Mans.
"I understand. I’ll go and have them all impact Martial Artist." Mans nodded and then turned to leave the room, his excitement still lingering.
Although this plan is vastly different from the original, sending out too many unprepared Death Warriors to impact Martial Artist will result in a very high mortality rate, but now is the best time to grow, there’s no room for hesitation.
Protecting convoys heading to front-line towns is now the duty of all city Martial Artists, and only those who have participated in a transport mission can operate freely in the city.
If they don’t quickly catch this batch of front-line transport missions, the Martial Artists who succeed in impacting later won’t be able to earn money and resources from the city’s businesses and companies.
Meanwhile, many forces in the city were in chaos, none of them expected the world to suddenly become so chaotic, even those forces with Martial Artists stationed were somewhat panicked.
"Uncle Wright, what should we do now? The Martial Artist Association has already sent me a summons, I have to report outside the city tomorrow morning and follow a front-line convoy to the front." Beis, whose figure exceeded three meters and had a body covered in golden fur, looked at the notification from the Martial Artist Association on his Smart Watch, his expression somewhat flustered.
According to the mobilization order from the city, the Wilderness is clearly no longer safe, let alone heading to the front line. As an Initial Stage Martial Artist in the Wilderness Area, he is at the very bottom, and any encounter with a Middle Tier monster could cost him his life.
"Don’t worry, I have some connections in the city, I’ll be transferred to your team, just stay by my side, and I can protect you even if a High Tier monster comes." Wright reassured him.
Beis breathed a sigh of relief.
He still had a bright future ahead, and he might even qualify for the Genius Training Camp. It would be truly unfortunate to die halfway.
Meanwhile, at the Baelon Clan.
"Patriarch, now the Peiwen and Bain families hope we can do them a favor." Giant Handro looked at the still cultivating Patriarch Kedewen and respectfully said, "Their juniors have not been assigned to a team with them, and they hope we can request a reassignment."
"Those damn parasitic vampires in the city, the city is already facing a monster tide, yet they are still thinking of making a profit from us." The stooped Kedewen frowned as he looked at the summons from the Martial Artist Association, "Alright, have them prepare a gift and send it over, and I will help them resolve this matter."
"Yes."
Giant Handro glanced at the smart watch on Patriarch Kedewen’s wrist and understood that their Baelon Clan was likely in the same situation, with all the martial artists not assigned together but rather dispersed, the purpose being none other than to squeeze a profit from them.
Chasing Light City, Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
"Hall Master, currently many of the Wanderers in our territory have been cleared out, and with the city’s sudden mobilization order, those Wanderers seeing us transporting supplies to the front line will likely become more reckless against us." Meng Wei reported with a headache, glancing at the association’s summons on the smart watch.
Normally, Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall has ten martial artists, but now with twelve martial artists present, holding the ground of Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, those Wanderers can’t cause much trouble.
But now the Martial Artist Association is engaging all martial artists for supply transportation; with only a few thousand people left at Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, confronting the sneak attacks and assassinations by the city’s Wanderers is not an easy task.
Wanderers are a group of desperados. In terms of combat level of the same tier, they are generally higher than members of the major city gangs, and when it comes to sneak attacks, they might even kill across levels.
"Let these Wanderers confront us if they want to; sheltered flowers don’t grow. Next, all you need to do is arrange the investigative work." Lin Qi smiled, completely unconcerned.
For players, what could be more fun than hunting monsters, especially for newbie players who usually encounter experts from various factions and end up being slaughtered, offering little positive feedback.
Now, this group of Wanderers is generally weaker than the suburban forces, usually extreme apprentices and quasi-martial artists, wearing either A6 Level Battle Armor or B1 Level Battle Armor, which is much weaker.
Now the newbie players can both cultivate and improve while battling opponents of the same level or slightly higher levels, completing tasks enthusiastically, making even veteran players envious.
Previously, he worried that all the Wanderers in the territory had been wiped out, leaving no tasks for the newbies, but now he didn’t need to worry, as even future newbie missions needn’t worry.
If possible, he’d really like to thank these Wanderers for enhancing the experience of the game "Descent of High Martial," making players more active in cultivation and improvement.
"I’ve already assigned this task to two apprentices who are familiar with this type of work, and I believe they will satisfy your expectations, Hall Master," Meng Wei said.
"Alright, you should go back and prepare then, we set off tomorrow morning." Lin Qi nodded, "This time although we’re moving with a logistics team leader and a deputy leader from the Brand Clan, it’s not absolutely safe."
Currently, Estina has arranged everything, including the recently breakthrough One Leaf Floating Cloud and Chen Ya. All twelve martial artists from Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall will escort the logistics convoy.
Even though a large number of martial artists on their side are in one group, the monsters in the Wilderness Hunting Area are not comparable to those near the city, being true predators, generally middle-tier monsters.
Middle-tier monsters are no match for initial-tier monsters. Refining Organ Realm martial artists, even without B Level Battle Armor, can individually kill initial-tier monsters, but middle-tier martial artists without B3 Level or B4 Level Battle Armor, when encountering middle-tier monsters, basically face death.
Even a middle-tier martial artist with B3 Level Battle Armor struggles to kill a single middle-tier monster and is most likely to be killed by them instead.
Normally, hunting a middle-tier monster requires more than two fully armed middle-tier martial artists working together, so the Martial Artist Association always advises that initial stage martial artists should not hunt alone, and if they do, they should join a martial artist team to reduce their chances of dying.
"Yes, I will go prepare right away," Meng Wei replied, bowing as he left.
In reality, the preparation is mainly to prepare some Type One Healing Potion for use when injured. Although the effect of Type One Healing Potion is far less potent than the Type Two Healing Potion for martial artists, it can somewhat stabilize injuries.
After Meng Wei left the rest area, Lin Qi sent an emergency transport task to all players who became martial artists, requiring all martial artist players to complete it or face expulsion from the martial arts hall.
"What’s going on? It’s a must-do task for martial artist level players?"
"Is game planning up to something?"
"Damn! Look at the task level!"