"The 'Tyrant's Solitude' forces, feigning a retreat, had concealed themselves in a ravine not far from the canyon entrance.
'Misty Clouds' had also arrived with their members and had already rendezvoused with him," Jian Zhi Cang Tian replied.
At this moment, Tian Ya Kuang Dao and his group were less than five hundred meters away from Chu Tian.
He could already see Chu Tian and Luo Luo, leaning against the mountain wall.
Chu Tian's face was filled with terror.
Tian Ya Kuang Dao sneered inwardly, "Finally caught you."
Soon, he stopped less than a hundred meters from Chu Tian and the others.
He shouted, "Deity Chu? Heh, where do you think you can run this time!"
Upon hearing his words, Chu Tian smiled. The terror on his face had vanished completely.
"Was I running? I was merely enjoying the beautiful scenery.
I grew tired here and decided to rest for a bit."
The three guild leaders, seeing Chu Tian's continued composure, felt a jolt of unease. Da Feng Xiaoshuo Wang.
"Could he have some hidden trump card?"
Wu Ya Zi, the guild leader of 'Wu Ya Zhi Guo', was an elder in his fifties.
He surveyed the surroundings and thought, "Could there be an ambush?"
"Gentlemen, let's settle this quickly. Delay could lead to unforeseen changes."
Cang Xue Yi Dao Zhan, the guild leader of 'Shui Yu Zheng Feng Rong Yao', heard his words, looked at his expression, and scoffed.
"Wu Ya Zi, the older you get, the more timid you become.
I've already had my men scout these cliffs. Unless they can fly, there's no way up."
Tian Ya Kuang Dao and Wu Ya Zi were considerably reassured after hearing his words.
"I am not a Druid. Let's settle both old and new scores. Prepare..."
Tian Ya Kuang Dao waved his hand, about to give the order to attack.
"Uh... well, I won't be accompanying you to settle accounts. You can do that when you get back! Goodbye..."
Chu Tian suddenly interrupted him.
Exchanging a glance with Luo Luo, he produced a strange barrel-shaped item.
With a "bang," he fired it towards the mountain cliff behind them.
A rope shot out.
"Damn, it's a rope launcher! Fifty gold a pop, and they actually bought them!" Wu Ya Zi exclaimed.
As he spoke, Chu Tian and Luo Luo had already ascended over ten meters.
"Ranged, shoot them down!" Tian Ya Kuang Dao yelled.
"Boss, the ranged are at the back of the formation. Their range isn't enough," a player in the team shouted.
Their formation rapidly rearranged. Melee players parted, creating a path wide enough for one person to pass.
The ranged players were rushing forward along this path.
Boom...
Suddenly, a cannonball descended from the sky, landing less than ten meters in front of Tian Ya Kuang Dao, exploding with a thunderous roar.
"Ranged, stop firing skills randomly! If your range isn't enough, don't just shoot blindly."
Boom...
Swish...
Intense magical fluctuations suddenly filled the air.
Countless arrows, bullets, and cannonballs, accompanied by innumerable magic skills, rained down from above.
"It's not us! It's from the cliffs above, there are..."
Before this player could finish his sentence, he was annihilated by the barrage of skills.
The three guild leaders also spotted people densely packed on the cliffs.
Their magical skills, as if limitless, were hurled into the valley.
"We're finished!" Wu Ya Zi stumbled, nearly falling.
"Rear guard becomes vanguard, charge out!" At this moment, the calmest person was surprisingly Tian Ya Kuang Dao.
"Boss, the entrance is blocked by people from 'Feng Hua Wan Dai' and 'Xi Zhu Yun Jian'!"
"What? Break through and fight your way out, quickly."
The magical chaos in the sky, with countless area-of-effect attacks descending, plunged the entire canyon into disarray.
An ambush, planned by the three guilds in conjunction with the "Ni Shen Meng" leader, lasted only ten minutes.
The over twelve thousand players from the "Sha Lu," "Wu Ya Zhi Guo," and "Shui Yu Zheng Feng Rong Yao" guilds who entered the canyon were all slaughtered.
The "Ni Shen Meng" suffered no casualties, expending only ten rope launchers, worth five hundred gold.
A single rope launcher could fire enough rope for twenty people to climb to the cliff top.
One barrel of the launcher could fire ten ropes.
This time, the "Ni Shen Meng" had an ambush force of two thousand ranged players on the cliffs, armed with numerous area-of-effect skills.
The "Feng Hua Wan Dai" and "Xi Zhu Yun Jian" guilds suffered slightly heavier losses, as they had to intercept at the canyon's mouth.
Both guilds committed four thousand players, and both suffered losses of over two thousand people to successfully intercept.
They prevented any player who entered the canyon from escaping.
The loss of two thousand people was minimal, as their equipment was scavenged by their own allies.
Effectively, they only lost about twenty percent of their experience.
When calculated, the "Ni Shen Meng" had the larger loss. Although there were no personnel casualties, the ten rope launchers alone represented a five-hundred-gold expenditure.
However, the "Ni Shen Meng" could claim seventy percent of the over ten thousand pieces of equipment from within the canyon.
When converted, Chu Tian still profited more than the other two guilds.
As for the guilds led by "Sha Lu," they were truly miserable.
They had been wiped out twice in one day, suffering incalculable losses.
At this moment, a deathly silence had fallen over their three guilds.
"Ding... Congratulations to player 'I Am Not a Druid' for successfully defending the God-Tier Talent Scroll: Teleportation!"
The entire world saw this message. Unexpectedly, and without suspense, what was anticipated to be chaos in the Northern War Zone was instead easily navigated through the twelve-hour period.
In fact, Chu Tian himself hadn't anticipated this. After all, in his previous life, he had experienced many instances of God-Tier Talents appearing, which invariably led to widespread chaos in the world of "Tian Dao."
Originally, he had planned to rely on his movement speed to outrun his pursuers for twelve hours, as the mount system had not yet been activated.
However, at Night Town, he changed his mind.
He had long since noticed Misty Clouds, the guild leader of "Xi Zhu Yun Jian," following him.
He thought she was quite intelligent and had Qi Xi attempt to contact her, hoping to forge an alliance and set a trap for "Sha Lu."
What he didn't expect was that as soon as Qi Xi contacted her, she readily agreed.
Later, the involvement of "Feng Hua Wan Dai" was also something Chu Tian hadn't foreseen.
It turned out that another guild leader of "Xi Zhu Yun Jian," Xi Zhu Luo Shui, and Tyrant's Solitude were old classmates in reality, and Tyrant's Solitude had been infatuated with Xi Zhu Luo Shui for many years.
When Xi Zhu Luo Shui approached him, it was naturally without any suspense.
This led to the scene at the canyon entrance, where Solitude feigned cooperation with Tian Ya Kuang Dao and the others.
In reality, he was luring them into a trap while simultaneously gathering intelligence on their movements.
Before entering the trap, he feigned a falling out with Tian Ya Kuang Dao, withdrawing from their sight, and hiding in the ravine, ready to counterattack at any moment.
Each step of the plan was based on possibilities proposed by Chu Tian.
Then, these possibilities were meticulously formulated by three women: Qi Xi, Xi Zhu Luo Shui, and Misty Clouds.
This included Chu Tian leading the scouts from the three guilds on a wild goose chase, leading them to mistakenly believe Chu Tian was constantly evading them.
Author's Note
The last day of the monthly burst of updates. Yesterday I posted ten chapters and feel like I've been hollowed out.
Today I continue the burst of updates, not sure how many more I can manage, but hoping to surpass yesterday.