Chapter 189: Trying to Decipher Panty's Arrangements
Chapter 189: Trying to Decipher Panty's Arrangements
Suddenly he grabbed a horse and jumped over it. he didn't have the ability to obtain a ride, but he found the idea of snatching one tempting.
And the moment he rested on the horse back, he was surprised to find that he could use the horse!
"Grab their gears and jump over their horses and fight them," he instructed and his clones simply followed his orders.
Then the fight turned upside down. Instead of them being harassed by the NPCs, Bloom and his clones had the upper hand now. Any NPC wouldn't take five hits from his, ten from his clones to fall.
At the same time Bloom could hear the sound of fighting come from the front where Panty was dealing with his dolls.
"Tsk, you are really a lucky bastard," Bloom sighed, "I have to first crush the quest then come back at you. Follow me men, we have a quest item to steal."
Bloom turned the horse and started running away from the place. This time he was moving extremely fast on the back of the horse when a system notification kicked in.
"System alert: player has no right to obtain a ride yet. Player can hijack other riders and take their steed, but this is only limited to one day."
"One day is fine by me," Bloom laughed.
"System alert: After one day the ride will turn into a token and the player can store it inside his inventory if he wished."
"What?" Bloom suddenly recalled the good horses of the first caravan he left behind. "Damn! I lost a lot of good horses back then!"
Just as he went towards the front, the remaining riders were hot on his tail. There were less than twenty left, yet they were dead settled on reaching him.
"Are they stupid?" he sighed before adding, "boys, turn around and kill them."
He also turned around and went directly to clash with the NPCs. The first couple he threw off were nothing, but the third was someone special.
All the NPCs were wearing a long brown cloak that seemed a sign for some sort of faction inside the village. When that NPC was thrown off the horse, the cloak was torn apart showing another cape under it.
This was a silver with white long strides cape. Bloom realized from the first glance this wasn't a normal NPC.
"Don't tell me" he muttered as he turned his horse around, stabbed a couple of nearby NPCs, and then headed directly towards that special NPC.
The moment the NPC stood up, he took a long scepter from his inventory with a shining jewel on top of it. "In the name of the shrine of life, I curse you."
Bloom was suddenly hit by this realization that confirmed his doubts. "Damn! He was so near yet I wasn't able to sense him!" Bloom was confused, yet the next moment he had a possible explanation there.
"It should be that lizard tattoo special effect," he couldn't find any other explanation but that!
The moment the NPC cursed him, he received a system alert yet he ignored it. "I don't mind having one more layer of curses, hehehe," he sneered before hitting the NPC and sending him flying again before running after him.
It took three more hits and that elder was instantly killed. Despite achieving that, Bloom wasn't happy. Instead he was in a dilemma right now.
"Damn! Why is your quest so hard to crack?" Bloom gnashed his teeth before making up his mind. "I'll go after that caravan and see your reaction then."
He hurriedly killed all the NPCs here, and made sure to strip them naked before summoning more dolls and letting them ride over the horses.
The dolls seemed to be happy by the horses, and some even joked and laughed like they were on vacation not in war.
Bloom didn't mind that, as between the two caravans lied a lot of distance to cross. "If not for these horses, I would have needed quite a time to catch up with this caravan," he muttered to himself as in less than five minutes he managed to spot the caravan in the distance.
"What a guarding party," he laughed when he saw the main bulk of the guards and players Panty hired were there. 'Any updates?' he asked Muna before drawing near to the caravan.
'The orders changed, we were asked to turn around and head towards the third caravan direction.'
Bloom smiled before asking, 'What about Panty?'
'He is also coming, that's what I heard from others.'
'Good,' Bloom laughed before pointing towards the distant caravan and said, "First me and the clones will clash with the riders and take them slightly away. The rest of the players will be left to you," he said to his one hundre dolls before stressing, "don't clash with NPCs left around the caravans. Only aim for the players, alright?"
"Sure thing master."
He wasn't concerned about the dolls, but about losing many of his aiders at this moment. Despite everything finally heading his way, he still had this annoying hunch that it wasn't close to being over.
"Damn, I won't rest until I kill that bastard couple of times like Derick," he cursed while starting to clash with the NPCs with his clones, while his dolls stayed slightly behind, waiting for them to clear a path.
Nothing stood in his way. He moved like an arrow while followed by his clones and dolls on horses. No NPC managed to stop him, and in less than a minute, all of the two hundred NPCs on the back of horses were thrown on the ground.
"Sigh, I should have bought more dolls," he muttered before turning his horse and heading towards the fallen NPCs. "They are all yours," he said to his dolls before starting his massacre here.
Part of the NPCs belonged to the life shrine, and all cursed him. He didn't care about the accumulated system alerts, as he didn't have the time or time to check them yet.
"I have curses at Bloom ID, and now I have more curses at Sunny ID. It seems I should create another ID to be free of all curses," he laughed as he enjoyed this little game so far.
Yet when he hit the twentieth NPC, a sudden strange thing happened. He couldn't kill that NPC!
"What the hell?!!" he was shocked before he tried to stab him again, yet the NPC took the hit, showing the damage only in big zero. "How come it's a miss?" he couldn't believe it, yet he received a system notification and this time he selected to show it.
"System alert: Player has accumulated more than twenty layers of shrine of life curses. The final protection curse is activated and the player can't kill any NPC belonging to the shrine of life for one day."
"What the hell is that?!!" Bloom was speechless for a moment before turning angry the next one. "If I couldn't kill them, how can I crush this quest?"
He suddenly recalled the system advice from before. "Damn! You knew this all along, don't you?" he gnashed his teeth and glanced over his clones for a moment.
"Wait a second," he paused before he hit the NPC again with another stab, sending him flying further backward, away from him. "My boys can still kill them."
He then turned towards his dolls to see them fighting some of the elders of the shrine of life. Despite the odds, a group of five managed to slain one of the NPCs after paying the lives of another two of them. "Other than me, anyone can kill them hehehe."
He didn't keep his hand anymore, and the next instant he took his tokens and started summoning the fallen dark agents of the battlefields. "Go, kill them all," he ordered when he summoned over fifty of them, pointing towards the NPC that was only one foot away from death.
The NPC managed to kill one of his agents before falling. "Bring forth his gears and everything he had, then go and kill the others," he coldly said while summoning more agents to the battlefield.
Instantly the battle changed, and the adversary he once had was shifted to his side. "Waiting for the mercy of the shrine of the dead elder? Screw you system, I will never be at someone else's mercy!"