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Chapter 95: Another Scheme
Chapter 95: Another Scheme
The bandits were no match for the players.
Within ten minutes, all bandits below level 20 were driven out of the Shadow Canopy.
However, the players wouldn’t leave the Shadow Canopy.
Leaving the Shadow Canopy would expose them to the bandit mages' spells, which would be a significant setback.
After the bandits were driven out, the players received a game notification for completing the "Drive the Bandits Out of the Canopy" quest.
The 1,500 experience points were 15% of the experience needed for a level-up, making it a breeze to obtain. Additionally, they received 50 Spirit Coins.
The players turned around, looking at Su Yu with gratitude.
If it weren't for Su Yu, where would they find such a rewarding quest?
Seeing the players' smiles, Su Yu rubbed his chin, lost in thought.
Now that the situation was back in their favor, could he pull another scheme?
Maybe he could use the same trick again?
No, the princess wasn’t a fool.
If Su Yu made the players retreat and pull back the battle line again, the princess would definitely notice something was off.
"But I can use that method."
Su Yu's eyes brightened as he thought of something.
He decided to go all out, ending the battle and maximizing the benefits.
With this in mind, he quickly sent a message in the guild chat:
"Everyone, pay attention! Now, send your most powerful players to their deaths, but don’t resurrect them. Stay in soul form and follow me. We need about 50 to 80 players, with more mages and archers, but no healers."
This time, the guild leaders didn’t ask questions. They immediately followed the instructions after receiving the message.
Only True Red Dragon Black asked, "Do you have another plan?"
Su Yu sent a "smile" emoji: "You’ll see."
After sending the message in the guild chat, Su Yu switched to the guild channel: "Thousand Cups of Wine, Sky Dragon, you two, go find the bandits and get yourselves killed. Then follow me in soul form."
Sky Dragon and Thousand Cups of Wine: "Why?"
"You’ll see. Sky Dragon, is your Heartpiercing Arrow skill off cooldown?"
"No, it’s still got 11 hours left."
Sky Dragon regretted it, wishing she hadn’t one-shot the unlucky streamer.
Su Yu: "No worries, you’re well-geared, so you can still follow."
At this moment, Winged God Dragon, who had joined the guild with Sky Dragon, spoke up: "Do you need me to follow? My gear isn’t bad either."
Su Yu: "No, this time we won’t bring healers. Winged God, are you familiar with the guild's internal management?"
Winged God Dragon: "Of course. In the previous full-scale game, Realm of Magic, our 'King of Games' guild ranked in the top ten across all servers. True Red led the elite team, and I managed the guild's internal affairs."
Su Yu: "Great! After this battle, we can discuss the guild's internal management in private."
Winged God Dragon: "Sure."
Sky Dragon, however, was unhappy: "Hey! What are you guys up to? Why am I being left out?"
Su Yu: "Nothing, I know a hidden quest to get a panda pet, and I was planning to tell you."
Sky Dragon: "Panda!!!!!!!"
Su Yu: "Hehe, do you want to know more?"
Su Yu spent the next few moments “drawing a pie in the sky” for Sky Dragon.
In his previous life, late-game, high-level pets were common, but Sky Dragon had always carried a very ordinary panda pet, showing her deep love for pandas.
Now, just by mentioning "panda," Su Yu had easily captured Sky Dragon’s attention.
While Su Yu was chatting with the three guild members, a large number of players' souls gathered behind him.
Su Yu couldn’t see these souls, but he still felt a chill run down his spine.
Soul-form players could still send messages, like now.
Snow Leopard (Spirit): "Senior, we've gathered 80 people, mostly archers and mages. Are you ready to proceed with the next step of the plan?"
Su Yu: "Yes."
...
The plan was officially underway.
Su Yu turned to face the royal princess, Aijie, standing beside him. His expression was serious as he said, "Princess, I have an important matter to report to you."
"What is it?" The princess looked at him, a faint smile on her lips.
The princess was in a good mood. The battle was about to be won, and her personal guard had suffered minimal losses. This was the best possible outcome.
So she was particularly kind to Su Yu.
Su Yu spoke earnestly, "There's an old saying in our world: 'Capture the leader to defeat the bandits.' If we can take down the leader of these bandits, the rest will fall apart on their own."
Su Yu looked up at the top of the canyon, where the bandit leader, a close confidant of Lantilus named Baptist John (Level 70), stood. His class was a Berserker.
The princess nodded. "Of course, I know that capturing the enemy leader will secure victory. But Morningstar can't participate in the battle, and I have no way to take down the enemy leader. Do you have a plan?"
Su Yu nodded with a smile. "Of course. If I'm not mistaken, you must have a treasure on you that can help us turn the tide. If you can give me that treasure, I can find a way to take down the enemy leader!"
Su Yu had experienced many such battles in his previous life.
The key NPCs in these battles often carried a special item that could either buff the players or weaken the enemies. If the players and enemies had a significant power gap, the NPC would use this item to help the players (to prevent the scenario where there were too few players, and the battle couldn't be won).
The princess must have brought such an item this time as well, but she hadn't used it.
Su Yu intended to use his persuasion skills to get the item from her.
...
"Here, take it."
The princess directly pulled out a golden badge, filled with holy light energy, and without a second thought, handed it to Su Yu.
In her eyes, the victory in this battle was entirely due to Su Yu's foresight and the help of the extraplanar adventurers he had recruited.
Now that Su Yu had brought it up, she naturally had no hesitation in giving him the badge.
This made all the reasons Su Yu had prepared irrelevant.
Su Yu respectfully accepted the badge. "Princess, I will not disappoint your expectations. I will definitely take down the bandit leader!"
Badge of Equal Distribution (Consumable)
Remaining Uses: 1
Effect: Within a 40-meter radius, all targets' levels will be averaged and then evenly distributed among all targets. Duration: 3 minutes.
Note: Can only be used during the Giant Tree Canyon Encounter battle.
"Ah, what a pity."
Seeing the effect of the consumable, Su Yu sighed inwardly.
He glanced up at the stratosphere, where Cian and Madeline were already engaged in battle high above the clouds.
If he could use the consumable to take down these two, he might get some high-tier legendary equipment as a drop!
Unfortunately, Su Yu couldn't fly and thus couldn't use the badge on them.
The badge could only be used to take down Baptist John.
...
Of course, Su Yu didn't forget to maximize his gains.
He would definitely post a quest for this mission to kill the bandit leader.
Soon, all players received a game notification:
"Ding! Player 'Kesheng' has issued the quest [Kill the Bandit Leader]. Do you accept?"
"
"Accept."
"Ding! Congratulations, you have triggered the side quest [Kill the Bandit Leader] in the scene battle."
"Quest Requirement: Kill the bandit leader [Baptist John (Level 70)]."
"Quest Reward: 1000 experience points, 10 Psychic Coins."
(End of Chapter)
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