Night’s Nomenclature-Chapter 819: Luring and Killing

"Did you hear? People from the Phoenix Guild are chasing White Light. They’ve been chasing for two kilometers," someone whispered in the city of the main world.

"Isn’t that something from World 8? How did it get out?"

"Oh, when White Light was escaping, he casually killed two onlookers with his hand crossbow. These two dead players posted about it on the forums, cursing White Light."

Others were puzzled: "...He’s being chased. How did he have time to kill bystanders?"

"Who knows…"

Now, World 8 has unprecedentedly opened a new game mechanism, becoming a hot topic online.

This is a major event that only happens once every few decades, like a feast in the Virtual Realm.

Although nearly 300 people have been deleted and had to restart, just thinking about participating in this large-scale battle royale is exciting. What’s the big deal about being deleted? In the Virtual Realm, deleting and restarting is common.

Now, someone has compiled a list of the participating players and is updating the progress and the top 100 players’ kill counts on the forum in real time.

Currently, Pluto, ranked first, is in the center of Red River Valley, killing wildly. This necromancer has already summoned more than 300 skeleton warriors.

Judging from the shrinking poison circle, Pluto’s location should be the final battleground. Other players must survive against him to clear the game.

Pluto is a popular streamer, and many people can see his first-person perspective.

News came out that the vice presidents of the four major guilds have started contacting Pluto’s assistant to negotiate prices, hoping Pluto could help their guild members pass the level and see what the World 8 clearance reward is.

Viper, ranked second, is a girl. Her profession is an assassin, and she is frantically upgrading in the second layer outside the central circle.

Ranked third is White Light.

Pluto has 311 kills, Viper has 112 kills, and White Light has 27 kills.

The kill counts of the top three players drop sharply.

This is normal. After all, Pluto is an S-class combat master. Even if others are strong, there’s a huge gap between them and Pluto.

"Viper and White Light will eventually meet Pluto in the center of Red River Valley. They’re definitely no match for Pluto."

"Need we say more? White Light was only F-Class when he entered. He’s already strong enough to have killed so many people. Let alone meeting Pluto, he can’t even get past the Phoenix Guild. However, he’s the one who opened this instance; his ability to find game mechanisms alone is amazing. It’s a pity he’s made a wedding dress for others."

Ordinary players admit Qing Chen is strong, but in their opinion, it’s impossible for him to clear World 8.

Someone approached the Phoenix Guild president and tentatively asked, "Why are you chasing White Light? Do you have a personal grudge?"

The Phoenix Guild president just logged in and was stunned. "We’re chasing White Light?"

He was just investigating intelligence. It was said that a Demi-God Awakened One suddenly appeared in Blackwater City, attacking a level 2 church and killing everyone inside.

The Duke of Blackwater is furious and is investigating who did it.

The other three parties are busy proving their innocence: "We didn’t do it."

At such a tense moment, if the Phoenix Guild president hadn’t been thinking about recruiting White Light, he wouldn’t have logged in.

As a result, he just logged in and heard that his guild was chasing White Light…

Nima…

He asked his subordinates, "Who gave you the order? Didn’t I say I wanted to recruit him?"

His subordinates were also wronged, "How dare we secretly order his assassination? It must be an insider in our guild slandering us."

The president immediately reacted, "Damn it… Let’s get our insiders in other guilds to act. If we can’t get him, no one else can. Go chase White Light!"

At this moment, Zhong Yu, covered in blood, was walking towards the entrance of World 8 with a group of people. Although he couldn’t enter the instance anymore, he also wanted to join the fun. … …

On the plain, Qing Chen was still running, dodging skills from behind.

He was covered in wounds—three on his legs, seven on his arms, and two on his back, all from being chased.

The medicine in the airdrop was gone, the arrows were gone, and he’d thrown away his hand crossbow. But there were still dozens of pursuers behind him, and he couldn’t kill them all.

Moreover, the number of pursuers was even slowly increasing.

"Why are you chasing me?" Qing Chen was confused. "I just harvested a wave of leeks in World 136. Do you have to chase me like this?"

He was running clumsily ahead, while dozens of Phoenix Guild members chased behind him, looking determined to kill him.

The key is that these guild members were different from ordinary players.

Because the major dungeons were basically controlled by the four major guilds, it was difficult for ordinary players to obtain professions. At most, they could inject a few doses of Gene Medicine.

But these guild players had professions!

Some were surrounded by ice stars, others were surrounded by flames. Ice and fire mages were gathered together by Qing Chen.

Qing Chen didn’t look back, afraid that he would be killed by a skill.

But why were they doing this? He hadn’t done anything to provoke them, so why were they targeting him?!

Had his Knight identity been discovered?

It shouldn’t be!

Qing Chen had reached D-Class and gained a new thunder skill: Thunder Strike.

This skill involved the specific movement of the thunder plasma in his body, finally releasing a roughly five-meter-range thunder attack from his palm.

Qing Chen judged that this skill was feasible in the real world; at least the students of the Cultivation Myriad Gods Thunder Technique could use it.

Gradually, the pursuers surrounded him from both flanks. A group of energetic elite players, facing the battered Qing Chen, were like a pack of wolves calmly chasing a lone wild ox.

Someone used an ice wall to block the road. Qing Chen could only narrowly avoid it each time.

Sometimes, he lost his balance and had to crawl and roll on the ground, covered in mud.

The players sneered, "This is White Light?"

However, before they could gloat, at the edge of the forest, Qing Chen suddenly accelerated and rushed into the dense forest.

Dozens of Phoenix Guild members stood at the edge of the forest, "Should we continue chasing? The visibility in the forest is poor. He’s running this way. Maybe there’s a trap."

"Chase," a crocodile man said coldly. "He’s at most D-Class now. He can’t make any waves."

"Chase! He’s at the end of his rope. Let’s kill him!"

Dozens of players chased into the forest. Because the forest was too large, their formation gradually dispersed.

A player carefully walked in the forest. When he passed a large tree, he saw a ‘patch of grass’ behind him come alive and slowly stand up.

He heard the sound and was about to turn around, but he saw a dagger extending from behind, neatly severing his neck.

When the player looked at the killer, he only saw the other person crouching and moving towards another direction.

This wasn’t the clumsy appearance he had before.

The killer’s body was covered in weeds. White Light had somehow woven a ghillie suit using the vines in the instance!

Judging from the time they’d been chasing him, it certainly wasn’t woven on the spot. He had prepared the ghillie suit here and could use it anytime to lure people in to kill them.

At this moment, someone nearby suddenly fell into a pit full of thorns and was pierced through the heart.

The thorns in the pit were about half a meter long, and more than ten of them pierced through the player’s body, binding him to the ground, looking extremely terrifying.

Before this player died, someone else was entangled by vines, hanging in the air.

The player bent down and used his laser sword to cut the vines. As soon as he fell to the ground, a thick tree trunk fell from the other end of the vines, smashing him to death.

The Phoenix Guild players were startled. They had also been to World 8, but they hadn’t heard of hunter’s traps here.

They then remembered that White Light entered the instance earlier than them, and his state hadn’t changed in more than a day.

In other words, he used the advantage of entering early to make these preparations and waited for someone to take the bait.

Too cunning.

Who would idle around making traps in an instance?!

Ordinary players in the Virtual Realm usually rely on professions, levels, skills, and equipment. But White Light, like S-class combat masters, treated this place as reality, even cutting vines to make ropes and digging pits to make traps.

Like a real hunter in the real world.

So it wasn’t that they chased White Light in, but he lured them in. This was the battlefield he’d chosen!

Even if it wasn’t them, other organizations and guilds would be lured to their deaths by White Light.

These traps were clearly aimed at large-scale enemies. He wasn’t as battered as he looked.

"White Light wants to level up quickly!" The pursuing players were shocked. "Does he want to jump directly from F-Class to S-Class and compete with Pluto for the final victory?"

As they spoke, they saw him pass by a tree. Qing Chen, with his legs wrapped around the branches, hung upside down from the tree crown, and after wiping the player’s neck, he returned to the tree crown.

Surrounding players bombarded the tree crown with skills, but when they calmed down, they found that he had already jumped away from the tree crown like a monkey.

Someone carefully looked and found that his agility was extraordinary, as if he had already planned which branches to step on.

Everyone usually played on a two-dimensional plane map, fighting on the ground. But White Light turned it into three dimensions, creating a path in the dense tree crown.

Are you a monkey?!

… …

Outside World 8, players suddenly found that White Light’s kill count had increased by 6, from 27 to 33.

An increase in kill count isn’t unusual, but the key is that White Light was being chased by the Phoenix Guild. Other eyewitnesses said that dozens of people were chasing one person, and he was a new account when he entered.

Dozens of people ganged up on one, and were killed by 6. You guys are quite good at playing!

Players outside the tree hole looked at the Phoenix Guild president, their expressions expressing their doubts: "Are you this bad?"