The Furious Attacker

He nodded and gave her his Green Bubble number.

A moment later, the phone in his pocket vibrated.

He opened it and saw a friend request.

'Take Her Eyes With You' has requested to add you as a friend.

The profile picture was a cartoon of two girls leaning against each other and smiling at the camera.

Shen Xing glanced at Xia Wanyin beside him and accepted.

As for how a blind person could use Green Bubble, chat apps these days naturally had accessibility modes.

With advances in AI and voice functions, she could communicate just as smoothly.

"All right, we're friends now."

Xia Wanyin sounded delighted. She turned around and said, "It's still early, so let's explore the mist for resource points."

"Sure."

Shen Xing had been thinking the same thing. He still had several hours of lantern exploration time left today, and he couldn't waste it.

He then led Hellscream and half the orc troops toward the village entrance.

Gorehowl and Da Hou stayed behind in the territory with the remaining forces.

"Whoosh..."

The lantern was lit, its orange glow illuminating an area thirty meters around it.

Shen Xing sat in his wheelchair, which an orc carried on his shoulder, while five more orcs followed beside him.

Xia Wanyin was surrounded by more than a dozen Light Spirits.

The group, numbering more than twenty in all, carried the lantern into the mist and disappeared.

Gorehowl and Da Hou patrolled around the territory with the remaining orcs and skeleton soldiers.

Meanwhile.

In a clearing shrouded in thick mist, several hundred meters from the territory.

A brown-haired young man held a spyglass to his eye, watching Shen Xing's group disappear into the distance as his lips curved upward.

"Heh heh... They've left. It's our turn to take the stage."

"I didn't expect this newbie's territory to have a Moon Well and two troop nests. That's enough for me to make a fortune."

Chapter 40: The Furious Attacker

As an established lord in the area, Gideon had attacked other newbie territories before.

Unlike the nervousness and apprehension he had felt at first, he was used to it now. He even treated hunting other newbie lords as part of his daily routine.

After all, each job earned him at least a hundred thousand, and he didn't have to bear any legal responsibility. Where else could he find such a good deal?

In the real world, he was just a professional troll who stayed at home and liked posting outrageous takes on various websites.

Here, because he had entered the game earlier than other lords, he could use his strength to bully newer lords as he pleased.

Watching those newbies beg and struggle before him, even wag their tails and plead for mercy, gave him a perverse sense of satisfaction.

"Aren't you afraid they'll retaliate, when you keep treating these newbie lords as prey and going after them?" asked the hooded woman, turning her head, her red hair blazing like fire.

"Retaliate?" Gideon chuckled and said disdainfully, "They'd have to get the chance first."

"In this area, who can stand against me unless a Tier Two transcendent lord shows up?"

"Besides, after a few more jobs, I'll have enough money to buy the materials to break through to Tier Two and get transcendent troops."

"When that happens, the newbies in this area will have even less room to resist. Even that blind girl will have to submit to me!"

He muttered to himself, a perverse smile on his face.

The red-haired woman said nothing. She merely gazed at the distant territory, a complicated look flashing through her eyes.

Gideon didn't attack immediately. Instead, he waited where he was for half an hour.

As a veteran at this sort of thing, he was quite cautious.

Only after confirming that Shen Xing was well and truly gone did he wave his hand and say, "That should do it. Let's move."

With that, Gideon took the lantern and walked at the front.

Behind him followed a group dressed in coarse linen, looking like ordinary villagers.

Yet their beastlike eyes and the vicious aura they unintentionally gave off showed that they were no ordinary people.

At that moment, Da Hou and Gorehowl, who were in charge of guarding the territory, were leading the orc infantry through strength training.

Suddenly, the two arrow towers at the village entrance attacked again, and arrows whistled through the air.

Despite the earlier incident in which they had mistakenly attacked Xia Wanyin, they hadn't let their guard down. They immediately led all their forces into battle readiness.

The orcs formed ranks at the village entrance, with six skeleton archers standing behind them.

As they watched, a yellow light rapidly approached.

Immediately afterward, more than a dozen figures stepped into the firelight.

"Heh heh heh, one elite three-star, one elite two-star, and so many ordinary three-star orcs."

Gideon's gaze swept over Gorehowl and Da Hou, his eyes gleaming as though he were looking at prey. "For a newbie lord, you've developed pretty well."

"But unfortunately, all of this will be mine soon."

Gorehowl and Da Hou also knew the visitors meant trouble. They immediately tightened their grips on their weapons, their eyes blazing with ferocity.

But he didn't act rashly. Instead, he waited patiently for the enemy to enter attack range.

"Surrender obediently. As long as you pledge your loyalty to me, I'll spare your lives," Gideon said mildly, the same confident smile still on his face.

"Where did a yellow-haired rat like you crawl out from? You think you're worthy of making the great Lord Gorehowl submit?"

Gorehowl cursed without restraint. "Get back to your gutter and lick a toad's ass!"

"That's right, get back and lick ass!" Da Hou chimed in, raising his twin axes.

Gideon's expression stiffened, then he forced a sneer. "Very well. Since you're looking for death, don't blame me for not giving you a chance."

"Attack! Leave none alive!"

He swept his hand forward, and the eyes of the dozen or so villagers behind him instantly turned blood-red.

Their swelling muscles burst through their clothes, gray manes sprouted wildly from beneath their skin, and their limbs turned into sharp claws!

"Awooo-"

More than a dozen giant gray wolves let out a long howl and charged toward the village with a ferocious air!

In the churning mist, a point of firelight moved steadily through the darkness like a wandering firefly.

Before long, they stopped in front of a pitch-black tower.

"Hum~"

As the lantern lightly touched it, a dazzling pillar of light shot into the sky, and the dormant Black Crystal Tower once again emitted a mysterious glow.

[Black Crystal Tower successfully lit. Black Crystal production has increased...]

Shen Xing looked at the resource points lit up on the map, then at the girl in a white dress waiting quietly beside him. The look in his eyes grew even more complicated.

In half an hour, they had lit up three resource points in succession, at a rate of almost one every ten minutes.

What the hell did that even mean!?

When he had explored alone before, he might not have managed to light up a single resource point in an entire day.

After all, visibility in the mist was far too poor, and the lantern could only illuminate an area a few dozen meters across.

A resource point might be nearby, but he could pass it several times without ever discovering it.

Yet she led Shen Xing from one resource point to the next with ease, as though she had activated a full-map scan.

"Spark, your starting territory is in a good spot. There are quite a few resource points nearby," Xia Wanyin said, her eyes closed and her usual smile on her face.

"How... exactly did you do that?" Shen Xing finally couldn't help asking.

Xia Wanyin thought for a moment, then replied, "It's a special ability of mine. Don't tell anyone else, okay?"

Shen Xing nodded and didn't press further.

He guessed that Xia Wanyin might have some ability to see through the mist or directly sense nearby resource points.

But whatever it was, there was no need to dig too deeply.

She was willing to tell him her secret and lead him to resource points because she trusted him.

Just as Shen Xing had his own secrets.

It would be rude to ask any more.

"All right, let's hurry to the next place."

Xia Wanyin sensed the surroundings for a moment, then continued, "About three hundred meters ahead and to the left, there seems to be a Green Crystal Tower too."

"Okay."

Shen Xing nodded and was about to direct the group onward when his expression suddenly changed.

The Flower of Mist on his arm began spinning faster, giving off waves of intense heat.

[Your territory is under attack by another lord. Please respond promptly...]

Looking at the notification before him, his gaze turned cold.

"Spark, did something happen?" Xia Wanyin seemed to sense that something was wrong.

"My territory is under attack, and it's another player." His voice grew low.

"What!?"

Xia Wanyin's expression changed, and then she realized something. "It must be that guy called Gideon. He ambushed my territory while I was out last time, too."

"That bastard! Let's hurry back and help!"

She turned around urgently. The orc squad and the Light Spirit guards also tightened their grips on their weapons, their eyes blazing with killing intent!

Someone had actually ambushed the territory while they were out. It was simply unforgivable.

Shen Xing wasn't as anxious as one might have expected. Instead, a smile appeared on his lips. "Don't worry. He can't take my territory."