Chapter 92: Gathering

Sihai Weijia brought nearly thirty people and aggressively rushed into the Giant Wood Maze. Players around quickly moved out of the way.

Leading at the front, Sihai Weijia suddenly stopped. He received a message from the scout team.

“Six of them were wiped out by just four people in less than a minute?” Sihai Weijia frowned. The situation was beyond his expectations.

“Let’s go! Speed up!” Knowing they couldn’t delay, or else the Four Seas Guild would suffer heavy losses.

Other guilds did not know how to develop the Giant Wood Maze, but actually the Four Seas Guild had gotten the chance to develop it very early. It was just because they accepted a very rare quest. Once the quest was completed, the rewards for the Four Seas Guild would far exceed directly developing the Giant Wood Maze.

There was still a little over a day until the quest’s completion, but unexpectedly the situation had now changed.

To reach the top would take at least an hour or more, but Sihai Weijia was not very worried. He knew better than anyone how strong the defensive forces were up there. Those four were powerful, but no matter how strong they were, they couldn’t destroy his quest within just over an hour.

About ten minutes after the Four Seas Guild entered the Giant Wood Maze, another large group arrived grandly.

“Boss Da Qing Shan, Sihai Weijia brought the Four Seas Guild members to the upper levels of the maze twelve minutes ago.”

At the entrance of the Giant Wood Maze, a player saw this group and quickly ran over to report to Da Qing Shan.

“Well done! After we fight the Four Seas Guild, you will be heavily rewarded!” Da Qing Shan praised him. That player immediately showed a very happy expression. Although he had only followed this Boss Da Qing Shan for a couple of days, Boss Da Qing Shan kept his word—when he said he would reward, he rewarded without delay.

The group of players behind Da Qing Shan looked at the reporter with envy. Damn, why wasn’t it them guarding this spot? Then they would be the ones rewarded. Boss Da Qing Shan’s rewards were worth at least half a month’s wages for them.

“Everyone, get your spirits up! Sihai Weijia came here surely for that important matter. As long as we can sabotage their quest, everyone will be heavily rewarded!”

“Yes! Boss Da Qing Shan!”

Da Qing Shan turned and shouted loudly. The players behind him excitedly responded, each rubbing their hands in anticipation. The Four Seas Guild was formidable, but for Boss Da Qing Shan’s reward, even if it was the Four Seas Guild, they would fight!

Da Qing Shan listened to the group’s response, nodded with satisfaction, waved his hand, and led the large group grandly into the Giant Wood Maze.

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The top level of the Giant Wood Maze.

Chen Mo stroked Big Fatty’s smooth head. Big Fatty looked at Chen Mo with teary eyes.

After killing two Silver Giant Apes, despite the urgency, haste makes waste. Big Fatty had little Health Points left. Without Big Fatty, they would have a hard time killing those Giant Apes. The four of them did not rush into battle but sat on the ground, waiting for Big Fatty to recover Health Points. June Rain continuously healed Big Fatty, but with only 10% healing effect, Big Fatty’s Health Points recovered very slowly.

“What a cute pet! Look at those eyes, so pitiful and adorable.”

The three female players, Golden Phoenix and the others, had no resistance to cute creatures like Big Fatty. Moreover, Big Fatty wasn’t like those Flower Fairy pets—pretty but useless. This was a cute and powerful pet. Golden Phoenix and the other two were extremely envious. Even Little Demon, who didn’t talk much, couldn’t help but stroke Big Fatty’s head a few more times.

“Hehe, too bad you’re not Hunters,” Chen Mo teased.

Capturing monsters as pets was unique to the Hunter class in the game. Even Summoners, who could summon more pet followers, couldn’t directly capture monsters as pets. They had to learn various Skill Books to summon corresponding pets.

There were many female Hunters in the game. These female Hunter players chose the Hunter class precisely because they could capture all kinds of cute monsters as pets.

While laughing, Chen Mo also reached to stroke Big Fatty’s head, but the Flower Demon Battle Spirit crouching on top of Big Fatty’s head stayed there defiantly, not letting Chen Mo touch it. Chen Mo got angry and immediately flicked his finger. The Flower Demon Battle Spirit was flicked aside by Chen Mo and tumbled over to the side of Big Fatty’s head.

The Flower Demon Battle Spirit was furious. It stood up, placed its hands on its hips, and chattered angrily at Chen Mo, though no one knew what it was saying.

System Notification: Mutant Slime King’s Favorability toward you increased by +10!

A System Notification that Chen Mo never expected appeared before his eyes.

Chen Mo narrowed his eyes. A pet’s Favorability could actually increase? He had never heard of such a thing happening!

It seemed Big Fatty really disliked the Flower Demon Battle Spirit. By bullying the Flower Demon Battle Spirit a bit, he easily won Big Fatty’s Favorability.

Chen Mo looked at the Flower Demon Battle Spirit, his gaze turning somewhat unfriendly. However, Chen Mo did not continue to bully her.

It wasn’t the right time yet. The upcoming battle still relied on the Flower Demon Battle Spirit to heal Big Fatty. He had let Big Fatty rest for so long also to wait for the Flower Demon Battle Spirit’s Healing Skill cooldown.

The Flower Demon Battle Spirit’s Healing Skill Cooldown Time wasn’t ten minutes, so it was probably half an hour. By now, she should be able to heal Big Fatty again. If he angered her now, who knew what might happen. It was better to be patient for now. If he wanted to bully her to increase Big Fatty’s Favorability, there would be plenty of time after the Giant Wood Maze quest was over.

“That’s about enough. Let’s continue! Eve, please lure the monsters over again, but this time lure them from a place further away. Be careful.”

Big Fatty’s Health Points had recovered to 90%. Chen Mo called for the other three to get up and continue fighting.

“Don’t worry, they can’t catch me!” Eve said confidently, then dashed off to lure monsters.

There were very few monsters left. After killing a few more, they could rescue Eliya!

Chen Mo and the others were not in the same place as before. Considering the increased chance of encountering multiple monsters later, they found a narrower passage. There, once Big Fatty came out, he could completely block the passage, and only one Giant Ape monster could get through at a time. That way, Big Fatty would only have to endure attacks from one monster.

Of course, to minimize the damage Big Fatty received, the four of them would first fight at a fork in the narrow passage. If only one giant monster came, Chen Mo would step forward to draw Aggro, and Big Fatty would hardly lose any Health Points. If multiple monsters came, they would retreat into the narrow passage.

“Good, it’s one monster!”

Eve soon lured a giant monster over. It seemed that after resting for over ten minutes, the Hatred from the Giant Wood Tray side had decreased a bit.

After fighting three giant monsters at once, facing just one giant monster was no pressure for the four of them.

The giant monster was quickly killed. The four felt their luck seemed good, as the next several monsters were also lured over one by one.

According to a rough estimate, there were less than fifteen monsters left on the Tray.

However, Chen Mo continued to patiently kill them without rushing to rescue Eliya.

It couldn’t be that killing only half the monsters would allow them to rescue Eliya. If that were the case, the quest would be too simple. Just going over like that would likely result in being gang-beaten by over ten giant monsters.

Facing three giant monsters at once had already been hard for Chen Mo’s group to handle; over ten monsters would leave them with no chance of survival.

Another half hour passed.

Giant monsters were killed one after another. In the meantime, there was no situation where three giant monsters chased them at the same time; the most was two giant monsters at once.

Big Fatty’s Health Points naturally dropped sharply, but the Flower Demon Battle Spirit contributed again, restoring Big Fatty’s Health Points to nearly 90% in one go.

If not for that, Chen Mo and the others would have had to rest for over ten minutes after killing those two giant monsters.

“Only three giant monsters are left on the Tray. Even if we can’t defeat them, they won’t be able to kill us. We should be able to rescue Eliya now.”

Chen Mo decided it was time to start rescuing Eliya.

Over an hour had passed since that six-person team died. He had a vague feeling that their companions would arrive soon.

Those people were very familiar with this place. They wouldn’t take several hours to get here like the four of them did.

But Chen Mo underestimated Sihai Weijia’s speed of advancement.

Just as Chen Mo and the four decided to head toward the Giant Wood Tray to rescue Eliya, over twenty members of the Four Seas Guild appeared from the other end of the Giant Wood Tray.

The Four Seas Guild had a secret route through the Giant Wood Maze!

“Mr. Cait, what on earth happened?”

Looking at the almost empty Giant Wood Tray, where the twenty to thirty powerful giant monsters from before were now reduced to just three, Sihai Weijia couldn’t help but ask in shock the strange man Cait who came out of the wooden hut.