MMO: Pierce Heaven Til' It Breaks
Chapter 74: Brawl

Chapter 74: Brawl

Li Yi’s hands shone with red light and he instantly crafted a large pile of black arrows.

As soon as he acquired the Intermediate-level Arrow Crafting Skill, Li Yi immediately learned the Hawk-feathered Arrow Crafting Guidebook he had bought from the Auction House.

[Hawk-feathered Arrow]

[Damage 5–20]

[Shooting range increased by 20 yards.]

It was only when he had crafted more than 3000 arrows, using up all his materials, that Li Yi finally stopped.

He had already used up the Blood Wolf Arrows, so the appearance of the Hawk-feathered Arrows was a great cause of relief for Li Yi.

The Frost Longbow added 10 yards to his shooting range while the Hawk-feathered Arrows added another 20, so in total, he had 30 more yards to his shooting range now. In that case, Li Yi was confident that nobody could beat him in kiting.

Although Archers had a certain level of ATK when it came to melee attacks, their advantage still lay in ranged attacks!

His regular shooting range was 40 yards, and once he added the extra 30 yards to it, his shooting range was now sufficiently long enough that even the Warriors’ Charge would no longer pose a threat to him. (The range of the Warriors’ Charge attack was between 5–30 yards.)

The mysterious treasure map fragment had dropped, and he had also learned the Intermediate-level Arrow Crafting Skill. Now, the only slight bit of temptation that Pinnacle of the Fire held for Li Yi was the equipment that could be gained there.

Collecting the treasure map fragments was an enormous undertaking, and although Li Yi knew where most of the treasure map fragments were produced, he was still uncertain if he could collect them all.

RNG was always a very strange thing.

Using the Trickery Ring to alter his appearance, Li Yi left Shattered Frost City and headed for Pinnacle of the Fire.

He did not appreciate getting threatened at all. If he did not give those guys some just desserts, he would not deserve to call himself Li Yi anymore.

Within a mere five hours, he had achieved more than 200 player kills. Of course, this was on the condition that he only killed red names, or else the number would have been several times higher.

“A sneak attack, who shot that sneaky arrow?”

“Find ’em, find me that Archer!”

There were more than three hundred players high and low, all over the mountain, but they could not find Li Yi at all. On the other hand, the black arrows flew at them now and again, taking away another life with each shot.

“I see that Archer, he’s a Giant.”

“I saw him too, it’s a Dwarf with a large golden beard.”

“Stop messing around, he’s obviously a Dark Elf, got it?”

Chaos erupted all over the mountain. Everyone saw someone fitting a different description, and spittle flew everywhere as they argued incessantly.

“I get it, there’s more than one enemy, it’s a whole group of them!” Someone figured it out and screamed their findings out for everyone to hear.

“Leader Scum, our brothers can’t take it. There are just too many Archers, at least 100 of them.”

“Guild Master Hua, we can’t deal. There are at least 300 enemy Archers, and the losses are heavy on our side. Please think of something, quick…”

“Dammit, there are at least 1000 enemies. How the hell do we beat an army of 1000 Archers? They just have to shoot one arrow each and we’re done for…”

The rumors about the Archer Army grew more exaggerated with each retelling. When he heard someone say that he had at least 2000 people on his side, Li Yi could not help but laugh out loud.

Li Yi’s PK hunt was still ongoing, and at the same time, Dark Empire had also officially made their move.

The location of the battle was Pinnacle of the Fire. Upon Chu Tiange’s orders, anyone who managed to kill the opponent would be rewarded, and those who killed Old Green would be rewarded ten times more.

Heroes will rise to the occasion when there is money on the table. There was absolute truth in that saying.

The members of Dark Empire, over 400 of them, launched into an all-out war with the 600-and-more players from the other two guilds combined.

This was not a one-on-one battle. There were enemies to your left, right, front, and back, surrounding you on all sides. Corpses littered the ground like candy. The battle now was twofold, firstly a test of manpower, and secondly a test of funds!

Losing EXP and levels was still tolerable, because players could regain those by putting in a bit more effort for a couple of days. However, their equipment’s Durability would drop by 30% each time they died, and it was quite expensive to repair them. It was fine if you only died once or twice, but if you died infinitely as they did now, that maintenance fee would be devastating.

This was a Guild War, so it was only natural that all their losses could be claimed from the guilds. That was also the reason why the average joes were completely fearless, hunting other players desperately in order to get a cut of that sweet bounty.

Li Yi sent Nirvana Inaction a message. “Sorry, I got a little caught up in some private matters, so I don’t think I can carry you guys into Heart of the Fire now. Where are you? I’ll return the money.”

Nirvana Inaction was silent for a moment before replying, “Just carry us whenever you’re free, I’ll leave the money with you for now.”

“That works too. When I settle this private business, I’ll message you again.”

“Haha, sure. Oh yeah, I heard that your guild, Dark Empire, is at war with another two guilds?”

“Yeah.”

“Do you need our help?”

“It’s fine. This is our guild’s mess, we won’t want to get you guys involved.”

Nirvana Inaction laughed drily. “Haha, you’re being too polite. If you ever have a need for our help, feel free to ask.”

“Will do.”

After Li Yi ended the call with Nirvana Inaction, he could not shake the feeling that Nirvana Inaction knew more than he was letting on. It was a strange feeling that made him very uncomfortable.

“Where’s Brother Yi? I hear that Dark Empire’s gotten into a fight with some others, you okay?” Chen Yang sent him a message.

“I’m fine, don’t get involved in this.”

“No can do, all of my equipment was obtained from the time Dark Empire ran the Party-level Dungeon. I gotta help with something like this, I’ll get Delicate to add me to the Guild.”

It was not just Chen Yang. Even Fire Ice, who blushed whenever she spoke, took the initiative to join the Dark Empire at a time like this, using her actions to prove her stance.

Li Yi took the first kill of a Heroic Dungeon, and Chu Tiange was rich and generous, which meant that the benefits from joining the guild were extremely tempting. Judging from their current reputations, Dark Empire’s was several times better than Century Flower’s and Huashan’s.

Add that to the fact that many players who did not like Century Flower and Huashan also chose to join Dark Empire at this time, and the guild’s membership suddenly rose to around 700 members.

Over the first three days of battle, Dark Empire was the overwhelming victor. Some of the guild members took a family photo, standing on top of Scumbag Wang’s and Hua Feiwu’s corpses, and they even posted it to the official site.

Chu Tiange was overjoyed and rewarded the members handsomely before ordering them to continue with the massacre. It seemed obvious that he would not stop until he forced both guilds to disband.

Li Yi had always been acting solo. Over the past three days, his number of player kills had also risen to more than 800, his Honor Value approaching 1000.

Chen Yang and Fire Ice ¹ had also long since joined the battle, but their achievements were a long way from Li Yi’s.

Chen Yang’s Natural Summon was great for farming monsters, but it was somewhat lacking when it came to fighting. It definitely did hurt when the Fire Spirit’s attacks landed on the enemy, but unfortunately, this creature had the SPD of a snail. If the target started running, the Fire Spirit would not be able to hit anything.

Fire Ice’s situation also went without saying, she just was never cut out for PK. Whenever she raised her Staff up high within the crowd, she would either hit the enemy once with a Light Ball or accidentally heal the opponent again…

An Archer who had taken the enemy’s HP down to 3 could only watch as Fire Ice tossed a healing skill their way, refilling the enemy’s HP…

“Big Sis, whose side are you on?” The Archer was flabbergasted.

Fire Ice’s face was flushed with embarrassment, and she no longer dared to use her spells. Instead, she took her Staff and physically fought the opponent. In the end… she was ended with one enemy stab.

Li Yi was not overly worried about Chen Yang and Fire Ice. The one he was concerned for was Jiaojiao.

Ever since the last time when they completed Heart of the Fire, Jiaojiao’s DP ²had been grayed out.

In the past life, Jiaojiao had only played for a few months when the game first started, and then she had taken a year-long break before coming back to the game.

‘Has she… stopped playing?’

At the thought that they would only meet one more year from now, Li Yi felt as though a large boulder was pressing down on his chest, heavy and suffocating.

The battle still continued fiercely. Century Flower and Huashan Sect were holding out a lot better than Li Yi expected they would. Just like cockroaches, they got up every time they fell, and came rushing at Dark Empire fearlessly, weapons a-flailing.

‘Strange, there’s something very weird going on here…’

The Guild War went into the fourth day, and the situation changed. The number of fighters from the Century Flower and Huashan guilds suddenly rose to more than 1000 players, instantly turning the tables around.

This time, Dark Empire were the ones who were killed until they had no chance of even getting up. No matter how much money Chu Tiange threw at them, they could not get up…