When Night Rain Misty messaged him that the Heavenly Alliance had rallied several hundred, perhaps even over a thousand people toward the Novice Village's West Gate, Ye Luo did not pay it much mind and politely declined her offer to send people to help.
After ending the call, Ye Luo looked at Yan Hua Yi Leng and briefly explained that the Heavenly Alliance had incited players to come looking for trouble with them.
Yan Hua Yi Leng's tone remained as calm as ever. "Several hundred, maybe over a thousand? Nothing to fear. Those people probably heard the system announcement earlier and saw our IDs on the equipment rankings, so they want to try their luck."
Ye Luo did not care much about those people either. He swept his gaze around. "If it were somewhere else, I might be a little worried about several hundred or a thousand people. But this is the Novice Village's West Gate. We've already gone deep into the Poisonous Swamp. What is there to fear?"
The Poisonous Swamp was thick with toxic miasma and crawling with venomous snakes. Anyone below Level 18, without enough Detoxification Pills and medicine supplies or a few pieces of Bronze Grade equipment, would likely find it impossible to move about here.
Several hundred or a thousand people sounded like a lot, but their levels varied greatly, and their equipment was two or three tiers below Ye Luo and Yan Hua Yi Leng's. They would be doing well just to protect themselves against the venomous snakes. Of so many people, less than a tenth could probably reach where Ye Luo and his group were.
"By my estimate, it would already be impressive if a hundred out of those several hundred or thousand people made it here. And just dealing with these venomous