Chapter 1 The Hills of Brilliance

Star-Moon Kingdom, Hills of Brilliance.

As one of the many level 50 leveling maps in the Star-Moon Kingdom, although the leveling resources weren't particularly rich, there were many ruins. Many guilds and adventurer teams in the Star-Moon Kingdom liked to come here to explore them.

In addition to the ruins, there were also some rare herbs and ores in the hills, so many free players liked to come here to grind monsters while collecting herbs and mining ores to earn money.

In front of a damaged ruin in the Hills of Brilliance, several passing players discovered two groups engaged in battle. Both sides were of very high level, the lowest being level 45, and the highest even reaching level 50. One group wore the emblem of the Burial Sky Guild, while the other wore the emblem of the Zero Wing Guild.

"Amazing! Is this what guild warfare looks like?"

The passing players stopped to watch the fighting, deeply attracted by the battle in the wild.

They were used to encountering PK (player kill) in the wild, but guild battles were beyond anything they, as free players, could compare to.

Fights between free players were usually at most a dozen people, and everyone mostly looked after themselves. It was more like a series of duels, with little coordination. Often, a single expert could change the course of the battle.

But guild battles were completely different. It was like being on an ancient battlefield. There was systematic command, more emphasis on cooperation between players, finding weaknesses in the opposing team for focused attacks, complementing each other with player skills and magic, and with many experts, a single expert player couldn't change much at all.

For a time, Burial Sky and Zero Wing were locked in a back-and-forth struggle, magic arrows flying, and the back-row healers frantically healing.

However, as the battle went on, the melee fighters at the front of Zero Wing's formation began to dwindle in numbers.

Although both sides had a hundred people, and their cooperation was quite good, Burial Sky clearly had the upper hand. This was all because of the astonishing number of expert players on Burial Sky's side.

An ordinary guild elite team would be doing well to have five or six experts leading the way.

But Burial Sky's team had more than thirty experts, while Zero Wing had less than fifteen. This forced Zero Wing to allocate more manpower, and the experts cooperated even better, easily seizing upon weaknesses that ordinary players wouldn't normally see, inflicting heavy blows, and even directly eliminating their opponents together.

As this advantage accumulated, the numerical gap between the two sides grew larger and larger, eventually forming a one-sided battle, forcing the Zero Wing team to retreat.

However, Burial Sky clearly had no intention of letting Zero Wing go. They relentlessly pursued, eventually wiping them out completely. Although Burial Sky had also suffered more than twenty casualties, it was nothing compared to Zero Wing's total annihilation.

"Guild Leader, these Zero Wing Guild members are nothing special. If the Guild Master had given the order earlier, how could the Star-Moon Kingdom still be Zero Wing's territory?"

"That's right! Zero Wing is only powerful in front of those first-rate guilds. They're nothing in front of our Burial Sky Guild."

The members of Burial Sky looked at the equipment scattered on the ground and laughed.

Zero Wing's dominance of the Star-Moon Kingdom was a thing of the past. Their Burial Sky Guild was no longer the same Burial Sky Guild of yesteryear. Now they were strong and well-equipped. This time, they had joined forces with Blackwater, and they had dispatched as many as eight thousand experts, scattered among various teams, including some experts among experts.

With so many teams led by a large number of experts constantly ambushing Zero Wing Guild's teams in various leveling maps, unless Zero Wing Guild didn't dare to go out to level, as long as they dared to come out, it would be a dead end. There was no way they could level up or do quests in peace.

Not long after the Burial Sky Guild members left, another team of twenty from the Zero Wing Guild arrived.

"Damn it, we're one step too late again!" Sword Shadow said, annoyed as he looked at the devastated battlefield.

The leveling maps were too large, and the Burial Sky Guild was attacking in too many places on the same map. The number that could be saved was very limited. Sometimes the distance was too great, and they couldn't arrive in time, leaving them with a feeling of being powerless.

Even if he led his team to hunt down members of the Burial Sky Guild, the number of Burial Sky teams he could find was too small, far less than the speed at which the Burial Sky teams were hunting down Zero Wing members.

Moreover, he had been constantly fighting with Burial Sky during this time, and he hadn't even had any time to level up.

"Guild Leader Sword Shadow, Vice Guild Leader Aqua Rose has sent the latest news, saying that all guild members who want to level up should go to these four high-resource maps. She also wants some of the melee plate armor members from the Black God Legion to go to the White River City guild residence," said the level 50 ranger beside him.

"Concentrate on these four maps? Are you kidding me?" Sword Shadow asked, his mouth wide open, as he looked at the four high-resource maps that had been indicated.

Concentrating the guild members would indeed allow for better rescue and defense, but spreading them across four maps was equivalent to dividing the guild's forces into four parts, which was too advantageous for Burial Sky and Blackwater, who had a large number of experts. Moreover, this kind of defense would allow Burial Sky and Blackwater to concentrate their forces to deal with them even better.

"Vice Guild Leader Aqua Rose said this is the Guild Master's order," the ranger nodded seriously.

"The Guild Master's order?" Sword Shadow was even more confused by this. "I understand. We'll move over there now. The members on the Black God list should return to the guild residence now."

At the same time as Sword Shadow took action, guild members scattered throughout the Star-Moon Kingdom also began to move towards the four high-resource maps. This large-scale action immediately alarmed the major guilds of the Star-Moon Kingdom.

"What exactly is the Zero Wing Guild trying to do?" Misty Rain asked, looking puzzled at the news. She felt that Zero Wing's actions were simply crazy.

"Hahaha, how foolish. Did they really think we wouldn't dare to attack if they did this?" Lonely Burial laughed loudly. "Immediately notify everyone to concentrate our forces on these four maps as well, acting in units of less than a hundred people. Do not engage in battles with Zero Wing Guild on a scale of thousands of people. I want to see how Hei Yan can handle it!"

He had long since witnessed Hei Yan's methods. If they engaged in a battle of ten thousand, Zero Wing's large-scale destruction magic would be annoying, not to mention their large-scale magic-sealing skills. Even if they had a large number of experts and could win against Zero Wing, the end result would probably be a pyrrhic victory, which was not what he wanted to see.

If Zero Wing Guild concentrated all its members on one map to level up, he really wouldn't dare to send people over there again. However, he would be very happy about this because there were only so many resources on one map. With so many Zero Wing Guild members crowded on one map, even a high-resource map couldn't handle it, and it would definitely seriously affect the level advancement of the guild members. By then, the level gap between the members of their two guilds would only widen.

But now, in order to ensure the normal leveling of their guild members, Zero Wing was spreading them out to four places. However, Zero Wing only had so many experts that they could put on the table. On the other hand, they had an absolute numerical advantage. As long as they continued to engage in small-scale battles, Zero Wing simply couldn't outlast them. Over time, the guild would collapse sooner or later.

This was much easier than deploying a large number of guild members to leveling maps throughout the Star-Moon Kingdom as they had done before. Not only did it require less manpower, but the effect would also be better.

Meanwhile, in the White River City residence of the Zero Wing Guild, a hundred players wearing the emblems of Zero Wing Guild core members were standing quietly in the reception hall. Each of them was at least level 50, and some were even level 52. No matter which guild they were placed in, they would definitely be among the top players. As for their combat skills, they were definitely experts, with the lowest reaching the middle of the sixth floor of the Trial Tower, and the most powerful already stepping into the seventh floor of the Trial Tower.

However, everyone in the hall was afraid to say a word, quietly watching a man in a black cloak walk in, their eyes full of awe and admiration.

Because the man in front of them was none other than Hei Yan, the Guild Master of their Zero Wing Guild, an expert who had created many legends.

"Now that everyone is here, let's get down to business." Shi Feng glanced at the crowd in the hall, confirmed that the number was correct, and then said, "From now on, I want to give you a very important task, but before doing this task, you must sign a confidentiality agreement. If you don't want to sign, you can leave, and I will find someone else to replace you. If you have any questions, feel free to ask."

"Confidentiality agreement?"

"Guild Master, can we know what task we're going to do?"

When everyone heard that Shi Feng wanted them to sign a confidentiality agreement, they were all stirred up. They were full of curiosity about the task Shi Feng mentioned. As for giving up, they had never even thought about it.

"The Burial Sky Guild has caused us a lot of trouble during this time, and I think you should be very clear about that. So what I want you to do is very simple, and that is to destroy the Burial Sky Guild for me!"