"Hehe, don’t forget I have this thing!" Xiao Hua pulled out a large, black object from the warehouse.
"Super Magic Bomb?" Piāo Líng understood immediately. She glanced at Xiao Hua speechlessly; this bomb could kill anyone, even a level 10 player could use it to take down Bingfeng Tianda. It was ironic that Xiao Hua talked about needing skill!
Xiao Hua understood Piāo Líng’s implication and explained, "Using this bomb to kill Bingfeng Tianda is easy, but to make him suffer and hate me every time he thinks of it—that's not something everyone can do!"
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Two days passed in the blink of an eye. During these two days, Xiao Hua and Piāo Líng spent their time grinding monsters at a relatively remote leveling spot. Although they wanted to farm experience in dungeons, Xiao Hua discovered that a team of well-equipped Bingfeng Guild players was guarding the dungeon NPCs when he tried to sneak in.
Guarding the NPCs was a foolish and wasteful activity, but since Bingfeng Tianda had made threats, he had to take some action. Xiao Hua didn’t want to engage in petty skirmishes with them. Given the current levels and equipment of Xiao Hua and Piāo Líng’s group, they wouldn’t stand much of a chance even if they ambushed the high-level and well-equipped players of the Bingfeng Guild. Therefore, they chose a secluded spot to grind more experience.
During these two days, Bingfeng Tianda apparently exerted significant pressure on the Paradise of Beauties guild. Even though there were only forty members left, several were attacked by the Bingfeng Guild while on quests.
When this happened, Xiao Hua knew that someone in the remaining members must have been bought off by Bingfeng Tianda. However, there was nothing he could do about it. The Paradise of Beauties guild couldn’t offer much in terms of benefits, and some people would inevitably succumb to the lure of Bingfeng Tianda’s offers. This was why Xiao Hua was willing to spend a lot of money to seek external help; otherwise, no matter how much money he had, he couldn’t hope to develop the guild in Snowfall City step by step.
With such quick attacks on the guild members, panic naturally arose within the guild. Xiao Hua advised everyone not to reveal their whereabouts to avoid betrayal by spies.
On the morning of the third day, Xiao Hua stopped grinding and appeared outside the Bingfeng Guild’s headquarters, stealthily watching from afar.
Initially, he planned to use the Super Magic Bomb to hurt Bingfeng Tianda severely, but thanks to Piāo Líng, who was once an elder of the Bingfeng Guild, he saved himself a lot of trouble.
From Piāo Líng, Xiao Hua learned that this week was the time when elite bosses of various levels respawned. Elite bosses respawned weekly, and there were ten of them for each level. Different elite bosses spawned at different coordinates, and even the same boss would respawn randomly within a limited area.
Due to the random spawn locations and moderate difficulty, a group of several dozen to a hundred players, with enough knights and priests, could defeat an elite boss in about ten minutes. Every week, major guilds would prepare to snatch these elite bosses, and smaller guilds would try to take advantage of the chaos.
According to Piāo Líng, large guilds like the Bingfeng Guild were particularly enthusiastic about capturing elite bosses. Capturing an elite boss could yield valuable loot worth nearly a million gold coins. These items would be auctioned within the guild at slightly lower prices than the market rate, with the proceeds mostly distributed to participating members as rewards or compensation, leaving only a small portion for the guild fund. Therefore, many guild members actively participated in such activities.
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In the past, when Piāo Líng was still in the Bingfeng Guild, she often led teams to hunt elite bosses and was very familiar with the process. Xiao Hua quickly learned what he needed from her.
With his master-level stealth and Aburi’s assistance, tracking a large group of people was relatively easy. He patiently waited outside the Bingfeng Guild’s headquarters.
The players who could participate in the boss hunting event had already returned to the headquarters early in the morning. They were laughing and chatting, waiting for instructions from their guild leaders.
After a year of training, these players were quite familiar with the boss hunting procedures. Usually, a player skilled in command would create a raid team, and the other players would join according to their usual habits. Then, based on the actual number of participants, the team leaders would adjust the composition of the teams accordingly before heading out to hunt the bosses.
However, the current situation was different from the past. Previously, even during boss hunting times, many players couldn’t log in due to various reasons, plus some lifestyle players and those unwilling to participate in boss hunting, resulting in only around seven to eight hundred participants. Now, with the game temporarily unloggable, the Bingfeng Guild actually had only 2,100 active members, with over five hundred offline and a couple hundred who quit the guild upon learning they couldn’t log out.
Despite this, over 1,100 members were participating in this event!
"Xiao Yao, find a few capable commanders, create three more teams, and lead them to hunt the level 40 elite bosses," Bingfeng Tianda frowned as he looked at the chaotic teams.
The Bingfeng Guild usually organized seven to eight teams dedicated to hunting five level 50 elite bosses and two to three level 40 elite bosses. Hunting level 50 elite bosses required significant strength; without it, it was almost impossible to secure them, as numerous guilds competed for them. Unless you got lucky and killed the boss before other guilds noticed, you’d end up in PvP battles.
The PvP caused by boss hunting was interesting. Initially, when the game started, PvP during boss hunts usually aimed to wipe out the opposing team to strengthen one’s own morale and weaken the enemy. While this was common, it led to significant losses for some powerful guilds, causing them to fail in guild defense battles and allowing weaker guilds to benefit.
Guild leaders soon realized that the massive losses incurred from hunting a single boss weren’t worth it. Their goal was to strengthen the guild, but instead, it weakened them. Thus, many guilds formed semi-alliances. These alliances varied; for example, guilds with good relations would agree that whoever discovered the boss first would claim it. Those with neutral relations allowed ambushes but permitted surrender when one side was losing, ensuring that clerics could resurrect fallen members to minimize losses.
Regarding dropped items, guilds also had agreements to keep boss hunting focused on the bosses and avoid escalating into large-scale PvP, as such conflicts could harm both sides regardless of the winner. Over time, this would weaken a guild, allowing others to gain an advantage.
Of course, such agreements typically existed among the top twenty guilds in a city, but most guilds didn’t have such arrangements, especially if they encountered rival guilds. In such cases, the fights were brutal, ending only when one side was wiped out.
Bingfeng Xiaoyao nodded and efficiently organized three new teams. Seeing this, Bingfeng Tianda gave the order, and the team leaders led their respective teams out of the guild headquarters towards their targets.
In total, there were ten teams, and Bingfeng Tianda naturally led the core elite team. Among elite bosses of the same level, some were better than others in terms of drop rates and loot quality.
Riding his mount, Bingfeng Tianda led his elite team north towards the spawn point of the Frost Spider, a level 50 elite boss. This boss was discovered when the guild headquarters was relocated here. Initially, only they knew the spawn location, and it had a high drop rate, making it easy and enjoyable to hunt, provided the clerics didn’t mess up.
However, a month later, the spawn location became known, attracting up to ten guilds competing for the Frost Spider. While the Frost Spider was closest to their headquarters, other guilds didn’t care; the game wasn’t owned by them, and the spider wasn’t their pet. Everyone wanted a share of the valuable loot.
Xiao Hua had been waiting in the woods for a long time. Seeing Bingfeng Tianda leave the headquarters with his team heading into the forest, he instructed Aburi to follow them from the sky while he stealthily trailed behind.