"How could it be him?!"
Yuan Tiexin's expression froze as he stared at the imposing middle-aged man carrying a life-sized bone bow on his back among the Crimson Jade Legion.
Seeing Yuan Tiexin's expression turn serious, Zi Qiong followed his gaze, but she did not notice anyone particularly remarkable enough to draw attention.
Suddenly, Zi Qiong thought of something and asked, "Uncle Yuan, could there be... Dark Blade members among them?"
Sometimes, even a super guild like the Pantheon did not want others to know what it was doing, so it secretly established a department called Dark Blade. It specialized in tasks the Pantheon did not wish to handle openly—such as secretly killing people for treasure so no one would know the Pantheon had obtained it, assassinating upper echelons of other guilds and framing other guilds for it, or deliberately stirring up wars between guilds to profit from the conflict.
However, those were nothing much.
Dark Blade's true purpose was to secretly assassinate the opposing guild's commanders during guild wars.
To achieve that goal, when guilds trained these players, everything from their choice of skills to weapons, equipment, items, and even attribute point allocation was designed almost entirely around killing a single player. It was an extremely specialized combat style, but it had to be said that this kind of focused specialization gave them an enormous advantage against players who pursued balance. At the same combat standard and with weapons and equipment of the same quality, balanced players were no match for them and could only be utterly crushed.
Of course, this extreme combat style made players exceptionally weak in terms of survival, fighting monsters, and running dungeons. Their leveling speed also suffered greatly, so they had to rely on the guild to arrange people to carry them while leveling.