Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Lin Jie looked at Baili Xuanyuan’s body in an indifferent manner and curved up his lips.
With the added effect of the City Leader’s Seal, Lin Jie was the No. 1 Boss in the City of Light! With all his Stats increased by 400 points, his powerful δamage was not something Baili Xuanyuan could fend off!
He took a look at the battlefield. Heeding the summons of Military General Layard and Mena, the number of Dynasty Knights and Panther Sentinels had already reached 5,000 people!
“Clean up the battlefield now,” ordered Lin Jie.
“Warriors, time to clean up the battlefield!” Layard took out his longsword and shouted, “Kill all invaders!”
Boom—
The originally still guards who were defending the City Leader’s Mansion charged forward, and killed all the players’ vanguard teams who surrounded the City Leader’s Mansion! Following that, they turned back and rushed into the warring City of Light and started killing the rebels!
Baili Xuanyuan had previously promised Eighteen Massacres and Demon Robe that they could keep all the gains they got for themselves during the siege if they lent their teams to Baili Xuanyuan. In the battle for the city, the greater the damage suffered by the NPCs and the establishments in the city, the greater the amount Baili Xuanyuan would have to pay for repairing the city. As such, one could see how much efforts Baili Xuanyuan had spent on trying to draw them to his side!
However, what the players did not expect was that a few Level 70 Elites would barge in while they were raiding the stores in City of Light. They arrested them and threw them into jail, while anyone who dared to resist would be killed on the spot!
“Baili Xuanyuan, what’s happening? Aren’t you attacking the City Leader’s Mansion? I have lost about 400+ followers!” Eighteen Massacres fumed when he was notified by his followers. He quickly told them to retreat, but it was too late—as long as they carried any items that were robbed from the stores, the players would be unable to escape the interrogation by the shrewd Panther Sentinels. The number of players being thrown into jail was steadily rising.
Demon Robe was more quick-witted though—while he ordered a portion of his followers to lead the NPCs towards the Kingdom of Glory’s members, he started retreating with most of his followers. The whole City of Light was full of screams and shouts. The only difference was that the original ‘hunters’—the players—were being hunted instead, and they were arrested mercilessly by the NPCs!
At the City Leader’s Mansion.
The bedroom door was pushed open slowly. Layard reported respectfully at the door, “My Lord, we had fought off all the enemies.”
Lin Jie turned and took down the black robe he donned.
“You…” Military General Layard’s pupils constricted, and he stood up in the next moment, glaring at Lin Jie. He exclaimed, “How dare you barge into the City Leader’s Mansion and use the City Leader’s Seal! You will be served the death penalty!”
Lin Jie looked at the corpse of Baili Xuanyuan on the ground, kicked it in front of Layard and placed back the City Leader’s Seal respectfully to its original spot. He stretched out both hands in front of Military General Layard and said nonchalantly, “Arrest me then. I indeed used the City Leader’s Seal on my own accord.”
Layard was already an elderly general. He had been fighting for his Empire all his life, and at last, was given the position of the Military General of the City of Light. He knew for sure that his powers were limited—this restriction came from a force that was all domineering and irresistible. However, when this young lad in front of him had control over the City Leader’s Seal, the seal on him had been removed. As such, he was filled with gratitude towards Lin Jie—this was something he could not explain with words.
The restriction placed on Layard was, of course, the game’s rules. Like any normal Bosses or NPCs, the usage of any of their skills would only be activated based on the game’s plot. This was why strong NPCs would sometimes be played to death by players.
Looking at this young lad in front of him, Layard felt that no matter what, he was still the person who saved the City of Light! His merits offset his faults!
Layard looked down at his hands, and suddenly shouted, “Viscount, why are you here? Guards, throw him out! Nobody can enter the City Leader’s Mansion without permission!”
“Yes!” The patrolling guards caught Lin Jie and brought him out of the City Leader’s Mansion.
On his way out, Lin Jie saw that numerous dead bodies were strewn around and stacked up on the ground. The sight of this scene was horrifying—but this was war!
Ding~
——System Announcement: Baili Xuanyuan has launched a City Siege towards City of Light, and he has failed! City of Light was damaged by 65%! To rebuild City of Light, Construction Missions will be launched! Players can receive Construction Missions from the Holy Church’s Consuls and earn plentiful rewards for completing them!
——System Announcement: Verdict on those shameful sinners! All people who attempt to destroy our peace should be punished! City of Light is distributing Arrest Missions, and all players can receive Arrest Missions to capture and kill the people who were involved in this City siege to earn plentiful rewards!
——System Announcement: City of Light is conducting a series of training! All transaction-type NPCs’ levels will be raised by 40 levels and become Elites, while all Patrol Guards’ levels will be raised by 20 levels, and become Enhanced Elites!
As a result of this war, City of Light was left in ruins. However, this wasn’t a totally bad thing—at least for the players. 30 Construction Missions were classified as a group, and other than gaining large amounts of EXP and Reputation points, completing a group of Construction Missions would allow players to get a Construction Gift Bag, which could give them a lot of great items.
Other than that, the Arrest Missions attracted lots of players too! Other than Kingdom of Glory and Dark-Robed Knights, the other guilds which followed Baili Xuanyuan were just second class or even third-class guilds. These guilds’ members were extremely weak, but the rewards for the Arrest Missions remained the same if one arrested these players: anyone who killed a player who was involved in the City siege would be rewarded with 30,000 EXP and a silver coin. To many players, these Arrest Missions were like just giving out EXP and money for free!
The NPCs in City of Light had increased in their powers and levels too. It was a pity that a lot of NPCs had been killed in the battle for the city, and hence the Favorability the players earned from them were all refreshed. This did result in many complaints by the players
Lin Jie hurried over to the Blacksmith’s Shop, and was pleased to discover that not only was Master Blue unharmed, he was also a Level 50 Elite now, and his combat abilities were increased tremendously! In contrast with the neighboring Potions Shop and Material Shop… all of the NPCs in those shops had been killed, and they had been robbed of all their formulas and materials. Master Blue’s fate was indeed considered lucky.
Well, but this made sense—Master Blue was backed by the Earth Sword Saint, after all!
Baili Xuanyuan would definitely cry out loud if he saw the losses he suffered. Other than wasting 200,000 gold coins, he would be jailed for a month! To a leader, this was something extremely terrifying. Furthermore, his lackeys, Eighteen Massacres and Demon Robe would be persecuted forever in the game—not only by the players but also by the NPCs.
Many shops’ NPCs had distributed the below missions immediately after they were respawned: Persecute the robbers from Kingdom of Glory and Dark-Robed Knights! Other than rewarding EXP, the Potions Shop would reward 10 groups of Middle-Grade Health Potions and Magic Potions; the Materials Shop had already prepared a dozen sets of rare materials as rewards; the Leather Shops had prepared Gold-grade Leather as rewards… Killing members from Kingdom of Glory and Dark-Robed Knights would not only allow players to gain the Arrest Missions’ rewards, but also additional rewards by the shops!
All these showed a fact: don’t ever mess with NPCs! This was the iron rule in the game!
As for Lin Jie, his gains from this battle were unexpected. The favorability of Military General Layard towards him was raised to ‘Friendly,’ and he gained 65% of the Citizens’ Support from City of Light! If he gained 100% Citizens’ Support, he could gain the city safely!
The Military General Layard was the Commander of the Military Forces in City of Light! His Favorability was one of the hardest to gain out of all NPCs around. Yet now, even a higher-ranked Commander or Leader would not dare to be impudent towards Lin Jie—all because he won Layard’s favor!
It’s a pity that he couldn’t sneak the City Leader’s Seal out with him, or else he would really make it big…
“Fu Sheng, thank you,” commented Baili Changcheng in a tone as if he was relieved of a great burden. “Now, my uncle would probably need to stay in jail for a while, correct?”
Lin Jie laughed. “Of course, a city siege was a rebellion after all.”
“That’s great. Hoo, I am really tired, I need to get some sleep offline.”
“What’s so tiring about trying to stall the City Leader?”
Baili Changcheng said in a depressed voice, “Do you think it’s easy trying to stall him? I couldn’t persuade him to stop returning to the City at first. It was only until I held onto the City Leader’s wife and talked about the story of ‘The Little Mermaid,’ then she persuaded him to stay.”
“Oh, what happened then?”
“Then? … Then she dragged onto me and requested me to tell her more stories, and the City Leader could only wait for her. Damn it, I have only read those few stories, I even made up a story of how the Black Cat Detective fell in love with Cinderella! It wasn’t easy, dude…”
Lin Jie almost puked blood when he heard this. He consoled him quickly, “Oh, then do go offline and get some sleep. Remember to read a few more fairy tales next time.”
“It’s damn tiring. I will go get some sleep, see you around.”
Baili Changcheng ended his call. The Silver-Feathered Eagle, which was circling the skies above the City of Light, discovered the disguised City Leader couple at the first time when they returned.
Lin Jie smiled. ‘Since they are back, I suppose that group of bandits should have received their ransom?’
A ransom of 1,000 gold coins was not a small amount. Lin Jie hurried to Qifeng Mountain. The bandits were all gathered in the main hall.
After this battle, the Bandits’ Boss had already become a Gold-tiered monster and had risen to Level 25. After all, this was a robbery of 1,000 gold coins! To earn such an amount, these bandits would have to toil long and hard.
The Bandits’ Boss greeted Lin Jie as soon as he caught sight of him, and he wore a stern expression on his face. All the 20 followers who went to kidnap the City Leader’s wife were also present, and they were all upgraded to Silver-tiered Bosses now.
“Bro, I have something to discuss with you,” said the Bandits’ Boss in a serious tone, “look, now we are all famous people. However… we still don’t have good names. We are uncultured people and don’t know any better. Why don’t you help us with our names?”
Now, he was a Gold-tiered Boss but still didn’t have a name… Probably the Bandits’ Boss felt a bit ashamed of this.
Lin Jie laughed, and jokingly commented, “Hmm, then how about the name First Blacky, and your brothers can be named as Second Blacky, Third Blacky… so on and so forth. How’s that?”
“Oh, great!” The Bandits’ Boss brightened up at this and laughed merrily. “Brothers, from today onwards, we have grand names of our own! Hahaha!”
Ding~
——’The Leader First Blacky’s Favorability of you has increased by 300 points.’
Lin Jie was dumbfounded. He didn’t expect these guys would be so easily satisfied.
The names above the monsters’ heads changed gradually. Other than the normal monsters, all the rest who had higher ranks were all changed to the name ‘Blacky.’ A bunch of ‘Blacky’ flashed around, and it did seem rather humorous.
“Oh yeah, Bro, thanks to you, we earned 1,000 gold coins this time!” First Blacky waved his hands and commented, “however, we need to use this amount of money to help forge equipment which our brothers need, or else our next action won’t go as smooth. How about this, maybe you can go to Sixth Blacky there, and get whatever you want! Consider this some sort of repayment by us.”
Lin Jie raised his brows in surprise. If the Bandits’ Boss was still as unreasonable as last time, Lin Jie had plans to kill him again, until a more reasonable leader was respawned.
‘It seems like this guy’s not bad, he’s turning clever!’
