Su Lanlan sighed, "I knew you'd be like this. If you were willing to yield, you wouldn't be you anymore…"
"I still need to inspect the defense line. With the beast tide approaching, none of us can spare time for you. Jiang Kai, be careful on your own," After speaking, Su Lanlan quickly caught up with her companions.
The map BOSS battle suddenly arrived ahead of schedule, completely disrupting Jiang Kai and the others' plans.
Very soon, all major guilds in the main city of Zone 18 received official notifications from the military, requiring each guild to ensure a certain proportion of players are online, and defense positions were assigned to each guild.
Some powerful medium and large guilds were required not only to dispatch personnel, but also to send a batch of tier-three or higher members to assist the five major guilds in killing the map BOSS.
For a time, the entire Zone 18 sprang into action.
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After Jiang Kai returned to the guild, he checked the defense map assigned to the Lord God Guild.
"Hm? We were grouped with Light Ming Guild, and we have to follow their command?", Hu Yan frowned and said.
Jiang Kai shook his head, "It's clearly writte, to facilitate command, guilds sending fewer than 100 members will be grouped under other guilds for joint defense. Our number definitely doesn't reach one hundred."
Hu Yan suddenly seemed to recall something, and said, "Light Ming Guild… I don't recall such a guild among the Beta-ranked ones. Guild Leader, check the info on Light Ming Guild."
Jiang Kai immediately checked the guild profile.
With just a look, they discovered the Light Ming Guild was established after the Lord God was online.
Counting the time, it's only been half a month.
"The guild leader is Chen Chunsheng… I've heard of him, he's from Jiangzhong City's Battle God Hall, used to be in Black Tortoise Guild," Ruan Yu recalled.
As soon as Ruan Yu said this, Jiang Kai suddenly froze.
Chen Chunsheng was the Battle God of Black Tortoise Guild, but he founded Light Ming Guild half a month ago, and now was just assigned to command Lord God Guild…
Half a month ago, Black Tortoise Guild in Jiangzhong City changed commanders, He Shishi took over.
It's said He Shishi is quite shrewd, would she let a Battle God leave the guild right after taking charge?
The more he thought about it, the more Jiang Kai felt something was off.
Just then, the gate of the base was forcefully pushed open, and a group of people barged in.
"Anyone from the Lord God here?"
Jiang Kai, Hu Yan, Ruan Yu, and Shen Yi frowned and looked at each other, then all stood up and quickly walked out from the courtyard.
The incoming group had twenty to thirty people, aggressive in manner, eyes full of disdain as they looked around.
The four of them immediately walked over and questioned, "Who are you people? Why did you intrude into our guild base?"
The leading man was in his early thirties, tall and straight, around 1.8 meters, with short hair.
They all wore badges reading "Light Ming Guild" on their chests.
He sneered, "Guild? You call this a guild?"
"Get out," Jiang Kai said sternly.
After saying that, the man glanced at Jiang Kai and sneered, "So you're the hotshot Jiang Kai recently, no wonder you're so cocky."
Before Jiang Kai could speak, the man quickly added, "Don't be upset. I'm Liu Xuan, Third Regiment Commander of Light Ming Guild. I'm here to inform you, in this beast tide defense, your Lord God Guild must follow my arrangement."
"This is your assigned mission for this defense. If you fail to complete it and cause any loss, your Lord God Guild will bear full responsibility."
One of his men opened a wrist device and uploaded the data to the Lord God Guild's display screen.
Immediately, the screen showed the safety zone's map.
The area assigned to Light Ming Guild was on the west side of the safety zone, not far from the direction of Zhulu Ridge.
A red dot was marked on the map, with a note below.
[Lord God squad must have at least 4 members participate, and form a suicide squad.]
[Suicide squad mission: lure the King-level BOSS away from the defense line.]
Hu Yan immediately roared angrily, "Are you kidding me? We're all only tier-two. What guild would send a tier-two squad to lure a King-level BOSS?"
Ruan Yu also shouted, "A normal tier-two squad can't even handle a War General, and you want us to take on a King-level? Are you insane?"
Liu Xuan sneered, "Ordinary squads can't do it, but you guys, Fire God, are different. Tsk tsk tsk, just look at your guild record, it's really something."
"Tier-two championship team in the team tournament, what does that mean? You're the strongest tier-two team. Also, in the Conquest Tournament, you had three members in the winning team, even more incredible. You're the world's strongest tier-two."
"With such a strong team, of course you're qualified to deal with the King-level BOSS."
Jiang Kai was fuming. This guy was being completely unreasonable.
Yes, they won the tier-two team tournament. But first, military teams don't participate in guild competitions; second, the guild competition is hosted only by Zone 18 military, and participants are limited to Zone 18.
They won first place in the Global Conquest Tournament, but saying they're the world's strongest tier-two is clearly exaggerated.
Most importantly, even if they truly were the world's strongest tier-two, it's still impossible to handle a King-level BOSS.
Liu Xuan saw Jiang Kai and the others' dark expressions and became even more pleased with himself, "The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. Look how much our Light Ming Guild values you, giving you such an important task."
"Remember, if you fail the mission and cause losses to our Light Ming Guild, your guild will bear the consequences."
"Well then, prepare yourselves!"
Liu Xuan turned to leave with his group. As they walked out, his men laughed and waved, "The mighty Lord God Guild will surely complete the mission."
"Looking forward to seeing your performance! Hahaha."
Watching Liu Xuan's group leave, Jiang Kai punched the display screen. Hu Yan hurriedly grabbed his fist, "Kai, this screen is expensive…"
Jiang Kai looked at the screen, thought for a moment, then forcibly restrained himself and pulled back his fist.
Shen Yi, still unclear on the full situation, frowned and said, "Aren't they just sending us to die? The key is, even if we die, we probably won't complete the mission, and they can still blame the loss on our Lord God Guild."
"Kai, He Shishi must've already started planning to deal with you," Hu Yan said, "That woman is so sinister!"
Ruan Yu sighed, "Didn't expect that after driving off Huang Tong, we'd get someone even worse. Kai, you have good relations with the military, try talking to them."
Jiang Kai took a deep breath to calm down, "Old Wei and the others have already helped me too much. I don't want to rely on the military for everything. One's hand is tied when you owe others too much."
"But the Light Ming guys clearly want us dead."
Jiang Kai narrowed his eyes slightly, "Our mission is only to lure the BOSS, not to kill it. That doesn't mean we'll definitely die."
He thought for a moment, looked at Hu Yan, Ruan Yu, and Shen Yi, and finally said to Shen Yi, "Shen Yi, are you willing to go with us? We need four people. The other three I haven't met, never worked with, don't know them well."
Shen Yi hesitated for a moment, then took a deep breath, "Guild Leader, since I joined Lord God, I'm one of you. I'm willing to follow you."
Jiang Kai smiled faintly. Shen Yi did have his own agenda, he hadn't immediately shared his encounter info with them, but he was only seeking his own fair interests, and with everyone still unfamiliar, that was completely acceptable.
The key was, when the guild needed people, he was willing to stand up. That alone was already rare.
Hu Yan and Ruan Yu really knew how to pick people.
"Alright, then listen to me. I'll go to the market to buy a few sets of Nightfall gear. Tonight, we sneak out of the safety zone."
Hu Yan frowned, "Kai, what are you planning?"
"There's still a month and a half until the beast tide arrives. Before then, I want all of you to reach tier three," Jiang Kai said firmly.
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