Chapter 311: Hijacking Caravans
"It worked!"
Just as Tony tried, the message was sent to Bloom who smiled and said:
"I told you, now I'll send you the screenshot of that piece," he didn't delay and took a screenshot of the skull and sent it to Tony.
And the next thing was for his face to change, alongside the faces of other mayors as well. It seemed he passed the image and they all got deep shock from what they saw.
"You… are good," Tony couldn't help but shake his head, "I'll pass the words then. Hopefully some would be interested in such an offer."
"I bet some will," Bloom firmly said, "now I'll leave here. Our next meeting will be in less than two days for the fort war."
"We'll be ready," Tony said, "and I'll keep you posted about any news regarding the other fight."
"Thanks," Bloom used a random ticket before vanishing from the place, leaving the stupefied mayors behind.
"This player… isn't simple at all," one mayor sighed.
"At least he is on our side," Tony took a deep breath, "in the upcoming turbulent times we'll be blessed to have more players like him."
Bloom appeared in a new town. "The dreatos town… hmm…" he muttered while glancing around. The town had more players than the Blossom town, and that made him quite hesitant to go out.
Yet after an hour of walking in the town, he didn't find anything suspicious except for the news regarding the weak tides attacking this town.
"Sigh, traitors are everywhere here," he couldn't help but sigh before heading towards the main road of the town. "Let me check the quests I finished before."
He had succeeded in some of his quests but not all, which made him miss the grand prize given by the system. "At least I got more dark points and agents," he said to himself after reading all the alerts regarding the previous successful missions.
"Sigh, I missed two quests from before thanks to that bastard," he closed the quest page after assigning a hijacking quest to himself, "if everything went according to the plan, then I would have succeeded in all."
The interruption of the mayor to his plans cost him losing the shrine quests. There were shrine elders inside that mansion, but he was cornered by the sudden actions of the mayor back then.
"At least I got what I wanted in the end," he tried to cheer up, "and now I have to gather more coins from these caravans."
As he glanced at the map he found ten caravans going to and fro from the town. "No time to waste, I'll hit those coming here before hunting down those leaving."
He moved fast towards the nearest caravan. Each caravan here had one hundred NPCs, but for him he knew this was nothing to worry about.
"Dash!"
"Sword tornado!"
"Dash!"
"Stab!"
"Slice!"
As he attacked the first caravan, he started to use his skills first before hitting everyone. "Come forth," he hurriedly summoned his grand army of pets.
And facing those high leveled pets against the forcibly lowered NPCs levels made the battle turning into a massacre. "Hit those stunned and those I'm fighting only," he warned his pets as his title effect was only limited by these conditions.
In less than three minutes he managed to kill everyone. "At least I got good horses," he glanced at the tokens residing in his inventory, "I hope to find a way to extend them for more than one day."
He knew how different having horses would make in any fight. He knew he would have some ready to use at that upcoming war, but he was still slightly dejected when he thought about their short expiration period.
"All cleared," he didn't hesitate to clear everything, even leaving all the dead NPCs naked. "They are reacting slower than expected."
He glanced at the map and found the town guards still confined inside the town. "Or they don't care about the hijacking here?"
He didn't think much about the reasons. After all, the more they delay the better. "Last time I left in a hurry, but not this time," he muttered after opening the last chest and taking everything inside his inventory. "I'll kill anyone sent to stop me."
Last time he didn't have a high level or such a large number of clones and pets. So he decided no matter who would be sent after him, none would return alive.
"The chests in the town stage are very rich in coins and materials," he said after attacking the third caravan. Each chest he opened gave him fifty thousand coins at least with many materials that reached in hundreds.
"Finally they moved," he noticed the appearance of red dots moving out from the town, "around two hundred… they are underestimating me."
He didn't hesitate to jump over his horse and let it gallop the distance between him and the next caravan. "After this all that remains is those leaving the town… I hope they will give me more gears than coins."
Despite his complaints his inventory was now about to get filled with level fifty to seventy-five gears. He just wanted more, as gears were more profitable to him than coins or materials.
His attack was usually fast. He never aimed to kill, but he kept any NPC under the constant effect of his title as long as possible. With the large number of pets he had, the killing speed was simply inhuman.
But that didn't go off without some losses from the pets or even from him.
"Gallop… those staff holders are the nastiest faction here in the game," he bitterly said while watching his HP rising fast after taking that Hp potion. "I'll need to restock before going to that battle… no, I should restock after clearing this place."
He used five potions so far, as those spells used by staff holders always were the hardest to evade and caused many damage to him and his forces.
"They're all almost here," just as he cleared the fifth caravan, he found the red dots were almost upon him. "Time to play seriously then," he stopped clearing the loot around and moved his horse to the direction of the town.
"Stop right there!"
"Arrest him!"
"He is just a single man, don't let him escape!"
"Leave the dark monsters and aim for their master."
As he moved calmly to the front with the large number of pets, two hundred riders appeared with many shouts from far.
"Come… come closer my sweet fat sheep," Bloom said in a very calm domineer, and even his eyes flashed with greed, "come and give me more gears and wealth… shade doppelganger festival!"
Finally the skill he saved all this time for them was used. The next moment twenty-nine clones appeared and the next moment he took out enough horses for their numbers.
"Attack whoever we all hit," he shouted at the pet army behind, "leave none alive!"
And the next moment a brutal fight erupted between the two sides.