Gu Fei was kept updated with their coordinates even as he called Eternal Dominion, “Quick, over here!”


    “You have news about their whereabouts?” Eternal Dominion was naturally happy about this, since he was the one earning the money!


    “Quick!” Gu Fei shouted as he continued to weave through the streets. Poor Eternal Dominion had not allocated all his Stat points to Agility like Gu Fei, nor was his footwearparable to Gu Fei’s, so he wasgging behind quite obviously when they are sprinting like this.


    “Why are you so slow?” Gu Fei shouted back at Eternal Dominion, feeling quite aplished. His usualbat partner was Svelte Dancer, and she would always be the one leaving him behind to eat her dust, shouting those same words. Today, it was finally Gu Fei’s turn to enjoy the sensation.


    Unfortunately, while the faster was able to slow down, the slower had no means to speed up. No matter how much Gu Feiined, all he could do was slow down and match Eternal Dominion’s pace as the two men headed towards the coordinates they were given.


    This set of coordinates was naturally not just rted to Gu Fei alone, but also Sakurazaka Moony and the entire mercenary group, The Great Hunting, over the mercenary channel. Everybody was rushing over, ready to lend a hand to Gu Fei.


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    At the moment, it was like rumors were already flying all around Linshui City, as yers would randomly see others sprinting by with their weapons unsheathed. Curious yers were all inquiring, wondering just what was happening.


    The experts from Young Master’s Elites were dumbly waiting by the Warriors’ Encampment. There was supposed to be five of them, but Brother Assist was actually not present, leaving just the four others.


    “Why is Brother Assist gone for so long...” Young Master Han nced at the time as he watched several yers rushing past him in a hurry. “Looks like everything is about to begin.”


    “Ask Miles how things are on his end,” Young Master Han ordered.


    The other three stared back at him. “Ask him yourself!”


    While Young Master Han was without a doubt their mercenary group leader, and they would listen to the man when it came down to his ns and strategies, they were nevertheless still experts. Of course they had their pride, and they were all unhappy with how Young Master Han would dictate orders to them like they were his secretaries.


    Young Master Han had no choice,but to ask Gu Fei himself, which only got him a single word reply, “Busy!”


    “That rascal’s actually pretty efficient! He actually got everything in full swing so soon?” Young Master Han muttered.


    “Miles has already located Southern Lone de?” War Without Wounds immediately stood up from the wall he had been squatting by the moment he heard this, lifting his weapon to the ready. Death was all that awaited their target once Gu Fei found him, so that meant their own fight was about to begin, as well!


    “How is he so quick, the show hasn’t even started yet!” Young Master Han grumbled. He was still discontented over how quickly Gu Fei had located Southern Lone de.


    “Forget about all that, let’s get ready, everyone,” Sword Demon pulled out his daggers and engaged his Stealth right by the entrance. Any yer that appeared in the designated safe zone would not be able to escape his sight.


    “I’m getting into position as well!” Royal God Call lugged his three bows and climbed up a nearby roof, locating a spot that would afford him a good angle to fire.


    “What about me?” War Without Wounds asked Young Master Han.


    “Same as always; protect me,” Young Master Han answered.


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    Linshui City, Fourteen Street...


    Southern Lone de and his squad of men had arrived after circling through the back alleys. They had weaved through the streets along the way, feeling as if every single yer they saw sprinting might possibly be targeting them, taking detours as necessary. What could have originally been a perfectly straight route wound and meandered across many streets instead, sessfully avoiding those yers from Blue Umbra that were after their heads thanks to their experience. The route the seven had chosen was long and changed erratically, causing the Hunter from Forever in Flowers to have quite a hard time keeping pace with them, and he was finally spotted by Southern Lone de and his men.


    They pretended to be unaware, taking a turn at a certain intersection beforeing to a halt. That poor Hunter had no idea what wasing, as he quickly gave chase the moment he saw his targets took a turn. In the end, Southern Lone de sent a sword cleaving down the moment he peeked his head round the corner. Even though his head was not chopped off, he nevertheless disappeared in a sh of white light.


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    The Hunter who had sacrificed himself had conscientiously reported hisst coordinates before informing everybody that he had been discovered and subsequently killed off.


    “Sorry bro!” Gu Fei was truly conscience-stricken, but he had no idea what he should say.


    It was instead Sakurazaka Moony and his men who mored as they gloated over theirrade’s misery. This was themon spirit shared by every member in this mercenary group, which would have been termed a “corporate culture” if they were a real life business.


    “Don’t worry about it. All the best, Drunk bro!” was the gracious reply that hoodlum gave, even as he personally addressed his ownrades’ eighteen generations worth of ancestors and descendants.


    “Rest assured, I’ll be sure to take him down!” Gu Fei had also felt the only thing he could do at this point was to rte to the Hunter how decisive he would be when ying Southern Lone de, in an attempt to assuage the man on the value of his sacrifice.


    At the moment, Gu Fei and Eternal Dominion were not too far away from thest coordinates they were given. The two dashed on to the street opening ahead. Seeing that they had already gotten the abscissa correct, they turned to the right and immediately spotted Southern Lone de and his men as they were about to turn the corner.


    “Over here!” Eternal Dominion sounded almost cheerful as he bolted ahead, clearly not regarding this cruel hunt as anything. Just like Gu Fei, both martial practitioners figured this would be as easy as crushing an ant between their fingers.


    Gu Fei hefted his sword and was not a beat slower than the Fighter. The squad had thought the dawn of hope would greet them the moment they dashed out of the street, yet they had not expected to be crashing into two meteors instead.


    They no longer dared to face them directly, so the only choice the seven of them had left was to retreat.


    “Ptial Balefire!” Fire Singed Clothes unleashed the same spell once more, as a ming wall surged to cordon off the street. He was about to resume and run after his sixrades, but instead heard the six of them yell in unison, “F*CK!”


    Fire Singed Clothes’s Ptial Balefire may have blocked the two men from getting closer, but Gu Fei had also cast his Electric Wall to seal their escape!


    They had purposefully chosen narrow alleys and streets in order to maximise the effectiveness of Fire Singed Clothes’s spell, yet this came back to shoot them in the foot since Gu Fei’s Electric Wall had actually became the perfect counter!


    Considering the fame behind his name, no one dared to test out the prowess of Gu Fei’s spell. That seven-man squad could only stay put, hoping that Gu Fei’s Electric Wall would disappear before Fire Singed Clothes’s Ptial Balefire did.


    “F*CK!!” While the six men were staring at the Electric Wall, waiting for it to run its course, they heard Fire Singed Clothes curse loudly. They turned back and were dumbfounded by what they saw.


    That impregnable barrier came crumbling down in their hearts when they saw Gu Fei and Eternal Dominion easily make their way past it. Gu Fei utilized his Blink with a raise of his finger, swishing into existence past the Ptial Balefire without losing a hair. Eternal Dominion got past the wall of mes in an even more outrageous manner; he ran up the slightly nted wall that was a short step away from the Ptial Balefire and had parkoured his way up to the roof with ease.


    If even Gale Force could do this, there was no reason Eternal Dominion would not be able to. In fact, he did not even need to use the Fighter skill Swallow Dropkick to get up there. Up on the roof and stepping past the spell, he leapt down to the ground in one go, conveniently utilizing his Swallow Dropkick to smash right down on his target, Southern Lone de.


    Southern Lone de’s counterattack was not a pace slower, lifting his shield over his head and caused Eternal Dominion to m his leg squarely onto that hunk of metal. Most ordinary yers would probably have ended their attack with that, but Eternal Dominion was anything but an ordinary yers. With his foot on the shield, his follow-up move had already been unleashed; still falling in mid-air, his other leg shot right out andnded on Southern Lone de’s chest with deadly precision.


    That blow sent Southern Lone de back several steps, leaving ckwater and the Knight beside him to scramble to support the man. Southern Lone de turned back and could feel his heart tremble at the sight, for just two more steps and he would have found himself snared in Gu Fei’s Electric Wall. Would he have died had hee into contact with it?


    Over on the other side of this encounter, Gu Fei had sent an opportune kick towards Fire Singed Clothes the moment he Blinked over and sent the man falling to the ground. Fire Singed Clothes was lucky; Gu Fei only had enough mana for a single Twin Incineration after casting both his Blink and Electric Wall. He nned to leave this move for Southern Lone de, so he did not sh out at Fire Singed Clothes, otherwise thetter would probably be turned into dust had he chosen to feed that sh to him.


    At the very same moment, Eternal Dominion was sent bouncing after delivering that kick to Southern Lone de. Gu Fei whooshed past him and hurtled straight for Southern Lone de.


    Southern Lone de had only managed to find his feet moments ago. His thoughts were still stuck on his back foot that came so close to the Electric Wall when Gu Fei pounced upon him like a wolf on sheep. Southern Lone de was still leaning backwards at this time, with ckwater on his left and the Knight on his right holding him up. Such a posture would almost guarantee Gu Fei to score a triple kill with that one Twin Incineration brushing past them.


    The three wanted to defend themselves, but they had no idea if they could make it in time. Gu Fei had also thought he had this in the bag as well, when he suddenly realized the spot his front foot was about to step on was shing a ring red glow.


    Gu Fei’s conditioned reflexes were indubitably formidable to be able to stop himself in time, despite hurtling himself forward with all his might. He jerked his torso forcefully in the opposite direction even as his body came sailing back.


    At the same time, a wall of raging mes shot forth from the ground. Gu Fei turned his head while in the air, and spotted Fire Singed Clothes still sprawled on the ground, stubbornly raising that magic staff of his in the air. He had saved the lives of his three friends in the nick of time.


    Fire Singed Clothes had no choice but to do this. He could tell that if he did not attempt such a move, there was simply no chance for Southern Lone de or the other two to resist that sh. But this one interception forced the six of them into an desperate situation: Being sandwiched between both the Ptial Balefire and Electric Wall like this had already limited the space they had. Gu Fei was a Mage. At this rate, all he needed to do was toss an AOE spell and they would have nowhere to run.


    But there was no use in worrying about this possibility, now that everything had climaxed to this point. All they could do now was see how much damage could the Video Mage really dish out.


    This gamble from Fire Singed Clothes had unknowingly paid off, since it had actually snagged Gu Fei’s Achilles’ heel. His AoE damage was indeed not as scary as his Twin Incineration in terms of its damage output, and he was only able to cast a single spell at this point, as well.


    Would this be a Descending Wheel of mes or a zing Tree of a Thousand Inferno? Fire Singed Clothes had his eyes glued to Gu Fei, hoping he could give hisrades the all important hint to their enemy’s next move. Yet, Eternal Dominion had also happened tond on the ground and was right beside him, casually dishing out a Seismic Toss as he reached the ground. Fire Singed Clothes was still sprawled on the ground when Eternal Dominion threw the man right into his own Ptial Balefire.


    The glow of the mes surged to the sky! Fire Singed Clothes was entirely unable to put up any sort of resistance as he was thrown into the ze of his own making, instantly losing his life before he could even give any sort of hint to hisrades.


    Nevertheless, that hint of his became irrelevant with his death. This one toss that Eternal Dominion had done may have eliminated Fire Singed Clothes, but it was truly a huge failure in their cooperation.


    Had Svelte Dancer or any other expert from Young Master’s Elites been in his ce, they would surely have made the choice to step forth and help Gu Fei intercept the arrows fired by the Archer Glue, allowing Gu Fei to sessfullyplete his incantation and bombard the six yers before them to kingdome.


    Not only was Gu Fei exposed to the Archer’s shots that prevented him from sessfully casting his spell as a result of that one throw from Eternal Dominion, he had also caused Fire Singed Clothes’s death, which meant the Ptial Balefire would instantly be harmless. There was no reason for the six veterans to miss such an opportunity now that it had presented itself, and they immediately dashed through the mes.