Sword Among Us

Panda Novel

Less than fifteen minutes after Happy left the square-shaped hall, the people from four sects arrived at a calm pace.

Before they entered the hall, they saw seven Knife-throwing Ninjas’ corpses strewn over the ground. They also saw the chaotic but closely packed corpses in the small hall to the left. There were about a dozen of them, and the group instantly went on guard.

“Look over there!”

When someone gave a reminder to the group, Wudang Sect’s Ouyang Qing, Shaolin Temple’s thirteen staff-using monks, Emei Sect’s Yue Hua, and Beautiful Robes Faction’s Phoenix Dances, who walked in the front, put on wary expressions and looked toward the small hall to the side. A group of ninjas stood guarding that place while staring at them with hostility.

‘Strange!’

The hall’s strange atmosphere caused the group to not dare to be negligent. They carefully sized up the area, and Ouyang Qing gasped in amazement. “That brother is really good!”

“True.”

The thirteen staff-using monks had grave expressions.

He had come alone and did not touch the boxes that provided a battle of a lower difficulty—they usually only had to face three to five ninjas for those boxes—but had instead triggered the battle in the hall that would bring a large group of ninjas. Once he killed them, he retreated with every part of his body intact.

His skills were really great, and perhaps even the thirteen staff-using monks would not be able to do what he did so beautifully!

“I’m even more curious as to which sect he belongs to now.”

While she spoke, Yue Hua had a face full of smiles. The eyes of the Emei Sect mistresses behind her also sparkled. The image of the blue-robed young man that had been imprinted their minds previously instantly became much greater and mightier.

“The item in the hall on the right doesn’t seem to have been touched. If there were so many ninjas guarding it, then it’s definitely much more valuable than the boxes we opened all this way. Who should go?”

The four sects were slightly tempted.

But once they observed the situation, Shaolin Temple chose to back down first.

“You should go. We already have a hard time dealing with just three Knife-throwing Ninjas, but there are four Cloning Ninjas. We won’t fight for it,” said the leader of the staff-using monks, Strength Star.

“Cloning Ninjas are indeed very troublesome.”

The people from Emei Sect and Wudang Sect observed the situation in the small hall to the right while they deduced in their heads just what sort of price they would have to pay to handle that group of ninjas.

The reaction of Beautiful Robes Faction was rather strange.

The Three Lonely Wolves brought a few people and ran into the small hall to the left. When the others saw it, they were worried that some sort of trap would spring up again.

“Careful!”

They ran in after them.

When they ran past the seven Knife-throwing Ninjas’ corpses, Phoenix Dances, Tea Words, and the others looked at the ninjas who lay dead in a straight line. Their gazes then fixed on the last corpse. They sized it up repeatedly, and the shock in their eyes could not be described with words.

“What is this sword technique?”

“No injuries were left behind!”

“It’s the will of the sword!” Glutinous Rice said with a somber expression. “Based on the wounds on the other ninjas, all of them died in one hit. That person must have used a high-tier sword technique that has a requirement of at least Mystical Realm. If he can use the will of the sword, then his technique must be at least above the ninth realm. By the looks of it, he’s an incredibly good player!”

‘Duh.’ The Three Lonely Wolves looked at each other and rolled their eyes. ‘His title as the first on the Famous People Rank wasn’t given to him on a silver platter! Happy’s the guy who managed to remove Five Venoms from World of Martial Arts by himself, you know? If that isn’t enough to be considered as extremely good, who else can be considered good? But…’

Young Lonely White had sharp eyes. He crouched down next to a corpse and searched through it. Then, under the people’s incredulous gazes, he brought out a Universe Bag from beneath the corpse.

Everyone else was so dumbfounded that they were speechless.

‘No way! I’ll let it slide that he ignored those normal boxes, but after such a hard fight, he didn’t even take away the loot?’

The Three Lonely Wolves reacted the fastest.

“Hurry up. Search through the corpses over there as well. Gather up all the loot,” Young Lonely Seven whispered urgently.

The eyes of people from Beautiful Robes Faction lit up.

They quickly ran into the hall, and just as expected, they found quite a lot of Universe Bags. There were actually three bundles of Soaring Eagle Swords, which were hidden weapons that provided an extra three hundred damage. They also increased the user’s shooting range by thirty-two feet. There was a total of fifty swords in each bundle. The group found a grade two masterpiece known as a Three-pronged Sword, a Katana, and a Bamboo Hat as well.

When Phoenix Dances heard her faction members reporting to her, she could not help but be stunned.

Even though Soaring Eagle Swords were consumables, their attributes were great. Each set was worth at least ten thousand taels of silver. There was not even any need to mention the worth of the other three masterpieces.

No matter how she looked at it, it was a great fortune!

If someone told her that someone could not regard such loot with any importance, she would not believe them even if they pointed a gun at her head. There was only one possibility then.

The person did not have time to pick up the ninjas’ loot nor had the chance to do so. That meant that there should have been more ninjas than the dead ones around them, and their numbers should have been so high that mysterious player could not handle them and had to give up on the spoils. He had to have been forced to flee!

When she thought of this possibility, Phoenix Dances sucked in a deep breath and said to One Circle, “Things might not be as simple as they seem. One Circle, hurry to the other tunnel and observe the situation. Be careful. If you run into any ninjas, come back quickly.”

She felt that something was not right.

“Got it!”

The others had also guessed it. They put away the delight on their faces and became solemn.

Butt Shaker could not quite come to a decision. “Then what about these things? Should we consider them as part of our loot in this mission and put them into our faction’s storage?”

“No!” Young Lonely White instinctively pushed at the air on the bridge of his nose. “We’ll keep it for that guy for the time being.”

“Yup, that’s what I think as well. It’s not worth it to offend this sort of elite player for a small benefit.”

Phoenix Dances’ reply caused the people to nod vigorously.

At that moment, Shaolin Temple’s thirteen staff-using monks finally noticed the situation in the hall to the left. They smiled wanly in envy. “You’re really lucky. You got these masterpieces without spending any effort for them.”

“You shouldn’t say that. We’re just temporarily keeping them for that person. Once we meet them, we’ll return them.” Phoenix Dances quickly showed her stance in the matter.

The thirteen staff-using monks looked at each other, stunned. Then, they placed their palms flat against each other.

“Amitabha. It is no wonder why you were able to form such a great faction. You have a magnanimous heart that average people cannot compare to. I admire you for that.”

“You praise me to much.”

Phoenix Dances wrapped her fist in her palm and returned the salute.

When they saw this, the people from Beautiful Robes Faction all had the same expression.

They cringed.

*****

In the end, Beautiful Robes Faction gave up on the loot in the side hall to the right. They just watched Emei Sect and Wudang Sect attack together. One of them obtained the items in the weapon box, and the other sect obtained the loot from the ninjas.

With their numerical and geographical advantage, they managed to trap the Knife-throwing Ninjas in the small hall, then surrounded and killed them with mighty force.

Just when they distributed the loot, a plump figure returned to the hall from the other tunnel. He ran swiftly back to Beautiful Robes Faction and pointed outside while gasping for breath.

“There’s… a ton… of ninjas…”

The expressions of the people in the hall changed drastically!