Chapter 1 The Silence

As the guild system notification sounded, the entire conference hall fell silent, as if time had frozen. After a full three seconds, the members of Baihua Palace finally recovered from their shock.

"Donggu Town has been captured? How is that possible?"

"What exactly did Xinghuan Guild do?"

"Quick! Contact the people in Donggu Town immediately and ask them what went wrong! Why was Donggu Town captured by Xinghuan?"

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Soon, the guild executives present issued orders to their subordinates to investigate the matter thoroughly, their faces filled with anxiety, losing their previous composure. Even Mu Yun, the vice guild leader, looked grim and flustered.

Donggu Town was one of the top three important towns of Baihua Palace.

The reason it was so important was that Donggu Town was close to the level 60 to 80 neutral map, the Thorn Ridge, making it convenient for players to level up and acquire resources. It was the perfect place for the current player levels, so the guild valued it highly, and it was not far from developing into an intermediate town.

The number of players guarding Donggu Town on a regular basis was thirty to forty thousand. Although most of them were elite members, with only about a thousand experts, it was not a place that could be easily captured. After all, to prevent other forces from attacking, eight turrets and ten arrow towers had been built in Donggu Town. Not to mention a thousand NPC hired soldiers, war weapons, and Tier 3 summoning scrolls and Tier 3 large-scale destruction magic scrolls for emergencies.

But under such strong defenses, Donggu Town was captured without them even receiving a single message...

How could they not be worried that such an important town had been easily captured?

While the members of Baihua Palace waited, the news from Baihua Palace quickly returned. However, after seeing the news, everyone's faces turned even gloomier.

"Vice Guild Leader Mu Yun, what's the news from Donggu Town?" Shi Feng couldn't help but ask Mu Yun.

"News has come from Donggu Town that the Xinghuan Guild first blocked the transmission of information from Donggu Town, and then suddenly thousands of Tier 2 experts from the Xinghuan Guild appeared in the Donggu Town's residence. Because it was too sudden, our people were caught off guard, and the Xinghuan Guild snatched the town building order." Mu Yun looked at Shi Feng with a complicated expression.

This surprise attack tactic was exactly the same as when Zero Wing dealt with the Starlight Alliance.

It could be said that the Xinghuan Guild likely did this after seeing Zero Wing's tactics. If Zero Wing hadn't used such tactics, Xinghuan wouldn't have been able to take such an important Donggu Town so easily.

Although this allowed the members of Baihua Palace to see Zero Wing's strength, this kind of indirect help might make more of Baihua Palace's executives resent Zero Wing.

"Our guild's town raid tactics?"

Hearing Mu Yun say this, Can Yun and the others beside Shi Feng couldn't help but be stunned.

Although they felt a little sorry for the people of Baihua Palace, Barbarian Bone and Can Yun and the others still felt a little pleased.

Before, Baihua Palace was confident that they could resist a super force like Miracle Guild, just like Zero Wing. But now, because of the tactics used by Zero Wing, they directly lost an important town.

Shi Feng was not surprised by this, because in his previous life, after an adventure team used this tactic to destroy a guild town, such things happened frequently. After all, who wouldn't be tempted to take down a town so easily?

However, there were conditions for using such tactics.

First, you needed strong enough combat power.

Second, you needed the ability to teleport large groups over long distances.

The second condition was difficult to achieve, because most teleports were single teleports. Short-distance group teleportation items were extremely rare, not to mention long-distance group teleportation items. Generally, only Tier 3 group teleportation scrolls could do it, but the rarity of such magic scrolls was comparable to Tier 4 magic scrolls, and they were not something you could get just by wanting them.

This was why Shi Feng regarded the Seven Luminaries Ring as a pseudo-divine artifact. Just the ability to teleport groups was extremely rare, not to mention the other abilities.

"That's not the main point. After our people's investigation, the Xinghuan Guild also sent a large army to attack another important town of our Baihua Palace, Xiyue Town!" Mu Yun shook her head and said, "According to our investigation, the initial estimate is 300,000 people. They have now blocked the roads and news around Xiyue Town. This is news from offline."

300,000 elite troops!

It could be seen that Xinghuan was absolutely serious about taking Xiyue Town.

So many elite players were equivalent to three-quarters of Baihua Palace's elite members. Now that Xiyue Town was blocked, not only could the town not be teleported to, but it would take a long time to mobilize the same number of troops. The number of players defending Xiyue Town was only thirty to forty thousand. By the time the people arrived, Xiyue Town would probably be gone.

If Xiyue Town was also lost, it would probably be impossible for so many people from Baihua Palace to develop in the Dark Night Empire. After all, the development of the major guilds now relied on establishing guild towns in various resource treasures. Without guild towns, the upgrade resources for that area would be gone.

"Guild Leader, what should we do? It will probably take us one or two hours just to gather more than 100,000 elite members, and it will take at least four or five hours for the army to reach Xiyue Town. With Xiyue Town's defenses, I'm afraid it won't last that long."

"Not only that, the roads leading to Xiyue Town have been blocked by the Xinghuan Guild. It will probably take us even longer to break through with a large army..."

"Then how should we rescue Xiyue Town? Now that Donggu Town is gone, if Xiyue Town is also lost, we will really have to leave the Dark Night Empire."

Everyone spoke one after another, feeling extremely anxious about the current situation. They didn't expect the Xinghuan Guild's offensive to be so fierce, not engaging in any more wilderness battles, but directly attacking the key point of the siege.

"The only way now is to organize a small number of experts to break through Xinghuan's blockade as soon as possible. I have Blood Source Potions here. As long as a large number of Blood Source Potions are sent to Xiyue Town, the defense of Xiyue Town can be greatly increased, so that the subsequent army can come to rescue." Fei Xin said loudly, "And there are two roads closest to Xiyue Town for us to go to. It is very dangerous to break through on a single line, because these two roads are not far apart and can be easily supported. Therefore, we must break through on two lines. Any line that breaks through can act as bait, so that the other line can quickly reach Xiyue Town and send the Blood Source Potions over."

"Mu Yun, aren't you very optimistic about our alliance with Zero Wing? Then let us see the power of Zero Wing. If they can't even do this well, I don't think Zero Wing has the ability to resist Xinghuan!"

"This..." Mu Yun couldn't help but glance at Shi Feng, looking a little embarrassed.

This time, she invited Zero Wing's experts over just to let the people in the guild know about Zero Wing's strength. But Shi Feng only had a dozen or so people. To directly engage in such a large-scale battle, how could they fight?

"That's no problem. It just so happens that Zero Wing can also prove to everyone present whether Zero Wing has such ability." Shi Feng nodded and said calmly.

Mu Yun could only helplessly contact her own expert subordinates in secret. After all, she was the one who advocated the alliance, so she couldn't let Zero Wing lose face.

"If that's the case, then let's hurry up and split up. Xiyue Town won't be able to hold on for long." Fei Xin glanced at Shi Feng and smiled faintly.

For this operation, she didn't count on Zero Wing from the beginning. She only said that to let Zero Wing watch how she led her people all the way to Xiyue Town.

Afterwards, both sides immediately took action. Fei Xin began to organize the experts she brought, while Mu Yun led a large number of her subordinates and Shi Feng and others directly to the designated location.