My Notoriety Spreads Throughout the World-Chapter 427 - 367: Heroes Compete for Supremacy

The all-pervasive coldness invaded, the basement was pitch black, with the sound of water flowing through the pipes in the upper left corner of the room, water droplets seeped from the metal pipe walls, dripping down.

Not far away, faint light slanted through the scattered windows, illuminating the bent outline of a creature.

In the darkness, a nearly pungent smell of rust spread, like rust wetted by rain, mixed with a strong stench of decay.

Tat-tat, tat-tat, tat-tat.

The rustling footsteps echoed, as the creature moved, sensing something in the room, it paced back and forth. Its outline stood nearly two meters tall, with bones protruding prominently, spine elevated, occasionally pausing half-bowed, nostrils faintly flaring, with long whiskers swaying under the gray-white light, red eyes like a pair of strange lanterns, swiftly approaching Xu Xiaoyou.

Xu Xiaoyou said nothing, rather she was quite composed. She seemed to be positioned in an underground clinic, evident from the surrounding medical infrastructure like scalpels, saws, and pliers, casually resting in the corners without any antiseptic awareness.

Nearby, the medicine bucket contained mint, citrus, garlic, and spicy pepper powder.

The thick rust smell was not emanating from its fur, but overflowed from the stacked earthenware in the corner, likely filled with viscous, foul-smelling blood.

Not far away, that tall creature was the 'doctor' of this underground clinic. The slanting light stretched the shadow of the earthenware long, Xu Xiaoyou noticed, the creature had sharp long claws, with forearms slender as bamboo poles, hunched over, eyeballs bulging prominently.

Looked like a... an oversized rat?

The small basement was silent, only the 'tat-tat' noise from the creature's wandering and Xu Xiaoyou's faint breathing.

Xu Xiaoyou was in no hurry to break this silence, she was lying under a hospital bed, the dirty yellow sheet laid down flat, covering the gap between the bed and the floor, the creature seemed yet to discover her, sniffing the air for her scent.

Clicked open the world chat channel, the world channel was lively, filtering out recruitment information from the grand guilds, Xu Xiaoyou quickly scanned for useful content.

"Death Dao, come quickly, any guild will do, too many monsters, the newly captured stronghold can't be held!"

"Don't come to the botanical garden, there's, there's a huge flea ahh!"

The voice abruptly cut off, presumably the person sending this message faced misfortune.

"We've secured the stronghold brewery, the Love and Peace Guild is ready to station, guild leaders interested in cooperation and win-win strategy should add me as a friend to discuss sharing stronghold rewards."

"Nanjia Wood: Lu Shuhang, are you shameless? Our Golden Navigators were clearing monsters just fine at Death Dao, what's the meaning of Assassin's Creed sending people to ambush us?"

"Nanjia Wood: ?? Killed! Do you think our Golden Navigators are spineless?"

"Haha, Lu always doesn't speak, only always bullying the weak."

"Lu Shuhang: Last time you blocked our people in the wild, I just wanted an explanation, your people made the first move, since you don't want civility, I'll help you keep it civil."

"Hahaha, this never-ending cycle of revenge."

At this moment, a full server broadcast from 'Golden Horn' caught everyone's attention.

"Smiling Knight: Silent Sequence intends to form a Guild Alliance, to first clear out a considerable safety zone, ensuring logistic transportation to the front line, what do you all think?"

Soon, many small guilds quickly responded to the call with loudspeaker messages.

"Love and Peace Guild is in!"

"We're All have a Wonderful Tomorrow Guild has no problems."

"Sir, bring our Steel Ambition along."

"..."

Xu Xiaoyou waited roughly, realizing that most responses came from small guilds, while the top grand guilds were silent, none took the lead to officially respond.

Understandably, people chase profit, those grand guilds are likely organizing internal members to capture personal strongholds, busy dividing that big cake, who has time to aid in clearing a joint safe zone?

Watching the constantly fluctuating guild rankings, Xu Xiaoyou thoughtfully opened the 'Light Chasing Garden' guild channel, where several guild members were casually chatting energetically.

"Black Crow: @Silver Light, come to the brewery, clear out Love and Peace's people."

"You guys say, after this world instance ends, which guild will take first place on the ranking list?"

"Definitely Silent Sequence, they have big ventures and professional analysis and logistics teams, unmatched by other guilds."

"King Race might stand a chance, last time during the Golden Creatures incident they nearly secured first if it weren't for being backstabbed by Heterogeneous Front."

"It's certainly not Golden Navigators."

"Strange, this season Empress announced a comeback, why aren't they participating in this world instance?"

"Nakamura Yuri: Light Chasing Garden." 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

"Eh?"

"It's the president!"

"Nakamura Yuri: Light Chasing Garden will take first place on the ranking."

"Sigh, President, we know your ambitions are grand, but I believe we should consider securing a decent position first."

"Yeah, yeah, Dark Gold Rose also acknowledges we're just in the thirties, and Silent Sequence has nearly four hundred people, hard to compete."

"Dark Gold Rose must be jesting with us, didn't you get it?"

"Nakamura Yuri: I said this battle should win gloriously, I am at least your president, can't you give some confidence?"

"Mori Natsuki: Exactly! Can you give You some confidence?"

Looking at the half-joking banter among her guild members, Xu Xiaoyou sighed helplessly.

She truly intended to vie for the first rank, why did no one believe her?

If word got out, probably all of Oasis would think she's crazy, even if the Dark Gold Rose reputation is big, Light Chasing Garden is merely a fresh guild, unable to compare even with the bottom ranking Era of the Dead.

In this stronghold raiding war, member count critically measures guild strength, her Dark Gold Rose might conquer one stronghold at best, her guild members' taking one or two strongholds would be fortunate.

Despite members' quality over quantity, like two hundred trained elite cavalry certainly can charge three thousand infantry formations head-on, defeating enemies decisively. But the premise is trained elite cavalry, her recent recruited guild members, except for 'Black Crow', 'Silver Light', those Three Tier strengths, the rest are no more than misfits.

No wonder her guild members weren't holding faith; such disparity is stark, let alone the cake, it'd be fortunate to have a share in this chaotic world.

But Xu Xiaoyou wasn't worried about these.

She stood up from beneath the bed, the creature sensing her presence instantly, screeching, leaped toward her.

Xu Xiaoyou's skirt merged into the ground shadow, two massive dark hands lunged, snapping the creature midair in half.

"HP—300! You dealt a piercing damage to the 'Life-Devourer'. "

The eerie chewing echoed in darkness, beautiful amber eyes opened, like ghostly candle flames.

Xu Xiaoyou naturally had her means, achieving her goals.