The Hall of Gathering Heroes was in chaos. Over a hundred elites were wiped out, and the guild was forced to retreat.
Zongheng Tianxia, leading a group of over two hundred people, was heading towards the small town. During the journey, members of the team began to leave one after another.
Zongheng Tianxia tried to reassure his members, but with little effect.
After all, a hundred elite team members, all level seven or eight, had been annihilated. They were even ambushed in the graveyard, losing at least three levels.
With only over two hundred members in their second-tier group, how could they possibly win this battle? It was better to observe, and if things got too bad, they could leave the guild to protect their equipment and levels.
Some even rejoiced. With the elites wiped out, they, the middle-tier players, could directly become top-tier players in the novice village of 1370.
As their group drew closer to the small town, instead of growing, the team continued to shrink, leaving only one hundred and eighty-three people.
Just as Zongheng Tianxia could see the wall of shield warriors from the Reverse God Alliance at the town entrance.
The guild chat of the Hall of Gathering Heroes became noisy again.
Players leveling in the wild, who had not gathered, were attacked by 'Reverse God Alliance' players.
Before attacking, every Reverse God Alliance player shouted, "Members of 'Hall of Gathering Heroes', retreat and be spared!"
Then, without giving them a chance to leave the guild, they attacked directly.
After being surrounded and killed, these players were stunned and directly teleported back to the graveyard, automatically reviving.
They were then ambushed by over a dozen thieves and died once more.
The functions of dying and becoming a soul state, needing to speak with a resurrection angel to revive in the graveyard, or running to their corpse to revive, were all rendered useless.
They didn't understand what was happening, but Chu Tian knew that after entering the guild war, the system had implemented settings targeting warring guilds. Players without guild strongholds would be resurrected at nearby resurrection points after death.
Guilds with guild strongholds would have their players teleported directly to the guild stronghold for resurrection upon death during a guild war.
However, perhaps because Chu Tian's guild stronghold was in the main city, the players who died during that chaotic battle were directly teleported back to the teleportation resurrection point of the 1370 small town.
According to Heng Dao's statistics, the Reverse God Alliance had lost thirty-seven people. It had to be said that the opposing side's equipment was very strong. If it weren't for his design, they might not have lost this battle, as he would have participated personally.
But the losses were definitely not small. When the opposing side was left with only eighty-odd people, his own side, with over three hundred people, had surrounded and killed them, yet still lost thirty-seven people.
During guild war deaths, a level was lost. Even non-red name players were guaranteed to drop one piece of equipment. The Hall of Gathering Heroes had suffered considerable losses this time.
As for his side, they were continuously growing stronger, which was the benefit of "fighting to sustain fighting."
Zongheng Tianxia, who was only a few hundred meters away from the small town, had to turn his team around to rescue players at various leveling spots, but distant water couldn't quench nearby thirst.
By the time they arrived at the locations requesting reinforcements, the Reverse God Alliance players had long since disappeared.
This was, of course, inseparable from Chu Tian tracking the opposing team, gathering intelligence on Zongheng Tianxia's movements, and providing information.
Before the rogue's stealth skill was upgraded, entering stealth reduced movement speed by fifty percent, making it unsuitable for tracking and reconnaissance. Therefore, these reconnaissance scouts had to be done by himself.
Although his movement speed was only reduced to 83.5% after entering stealth, it was still barely enough to keep up with them.
Moreover, with his experience from his previous life, he was familiar with the map's locations and, based on their route, knew where they were going.
After a round of hit-and-run tactics, the players of the Hall of Gathering Heroes couldn't take it anymore and began to return to town.
The members of the Hall of Gathering Heroes had tried to log out, but the system informed them that they could not leave the game during the guild war. They would only be kicked out of the game when the game entered its hibernation period, which was when the game closed at eight in the morning.
The players of the Hall of Gathering Heroes, who were lucky enough to have their free town scrolls off cooldown, directly returned to the small town's safe zone.
Those who didn't have town scrolls could only run towards the small town.
Even members of Zongheng Tianxia's team began to leave, using town scrolls or retreating towards the small town.
In the end, only his loyal confidants remained in the team, but their numbers were less than fifty.
"Boss, we should retreat too!" Zongheng Tianxia's bodyguard said to him in reality.
"Retreat? Where can we retreat to? Do you think that group of shield warriors at the town gate is just for show? Have you found any information about that 'I'm not a Druid' I asked you to investigate?" Zongheng Tianxia's eyes were cold.
"We've investigated, but we couldn't find anything. The security system of Tiandao Group is too strict, and we couldn't infiltrate it. Moreover..." the bodyguard said.
"Moreover what?" Zongheng Tianxia looked at him.
"Moreover, we don't even know where Tiandao Group's headquarters is. We only know about the operating companies in various countries, but there's nothing there, only assembly lines for helmets and game pods!"
"Is that so? I didn't expect Tiandao Group to be so powerful! Continue the investigation! Inform me immediately if you find anything!"
...
Outside the small town, countless players from the Hall of Gathering Heroes had gathered, keeping a distance of seventy meters from the town gate.
Fear filled their eyes.
Just as they arrived, they saw a group of players in the guild attempting to charge into the town.
They directly collided with the shield warriors guarding the town gate of the Reverse God Alliance.
The impact force of dozens of people only caused the shield wall to tremble slightly.
What followed was the bombardment of magic, arrows, and cannonballs from the town wall. Dozens of people were instantly wiped out.
Then, a gap opened in the shield wall, and a shield warrior swaggered out, cleared the battlefield, and made a gesture towards them, saying, "Come here!"
Then he returned within the shield wall, and the shield wall closed again!
From a distance, 'Bu Guo San Qiang', who had left the guild and was now only level three, saw this scene.
He secretly thought, "Indeed, there are no useless arrangements. Is that their guild leader? That Druid player who is level one? If so, he is truly terrifying!"
He shook his head as he thought about it. Having been in the gaming world for so many years, he had never been killed to the point of losing five levels.
Fortunately, he was not red-named and managed to keep some of his equipment. He then walked towards the small town.
"Look, isn't that Vice Guild Leader 'Bu Guo San Qiang'?"
"Mm-hmm, it's him, but he's left the guild!"
"What is he doing? Going to his death?"
Bu Guo San Qiang was now within three meters of the shield wall formed by the shield warriors!
Suddenly, a gap opened in the shield wall, and he walked in!
"Look, he went in?"
"Could he be a mole sent by the other side to our guild?"
"Doesn't look like it. Didn't you see he was killed down to level three?"
Discussions erupted from the location where the players of the Hall of Gathering Heroes were gathered!
Some shrewd players quickly ran towards the small town, quitting the guild as they went.
Under everyone's gaze, these people were allowed into the town.
Seeing this, everyone understood and began to leave the guild and run towards the small town.
Among them were some opportunists who removed their guild badges and hid their character names, intending to blend in.
However, all of them were killed at the town gate.
They thought that by hiding their characters, they wouldn't be discovered. Little did they know that while their character names were hidden from other players, this setting was invalid for players from warring guilds.
"Why don't we kill them all? They're all money!" Sheng Guang Hu You Ni, standing next to Chu Tian on the town wall, said.