The band members looked at him and then at the Razors' players. They nodded to him and moved behind his back into the jungle where the other leaders were hiding with Vice.
While they moved back, Grave stared at the Razor guild. 1000 s of there were staring at the band members but none move even a step forward.
He saw fear in most of their eyes. This fear started from the moment they heard Abyss's name.
There were few who just stared at the Razors' guild master and the person beside him. This was enough for him to distinguish skilled players from normal players.
As the LIBERTY ONLINE became the livelihood of many gamers, they became rigid in the game, not wanting to offend others and just staying on the safe path that let them earn enough.
Due to this reason, many low-guild players stopped striving to reach higher cities in the past life. They preferred being the head of the chicken to the tail of the Dragon.
Just like every guild, Razor was no different. Play safe and steady.
He saw the elite leader beside the Razor guild master commanding, "Back away everyone."
The moment word came out, he found 90% of players started moving back. It was like they were desperate to move back.
As he saw this scene, Grave realized one mistake. He assumed every guild to operate with the same mindset, but no, he was wrong.
'Fck, if our guild pokes them too much, it most likely they will go to the shell.' he thought to himself. He realized Razor could choose to hide away from the war for this month.
It was absurd, but he knew many cases from his last life where many guilds just choose to hide.
'Clicked' Grave clicked his tongue. He had to convince these cowards to fight seriously.
'fck every one can move back but me,' He was mad to be in this forced situation. He did not know why Blaze was attacking this city, but he would make sure to fck them.
He looked at the Razor guild master and said, "Come on, come here to this tree."
Razor guild master looked at him and start walking to the tree.
"May I join you guys?" the elite leader asked him.
Grave stared at the elite leader and the Razor guild master said from the side, "He is my most trusted teammate."
With a poker face, he said, "Sure no problem." Grave knew nothing about the elite leader, but he saw that there were many players that looked at the elite leader instead of the Razors guild master.
'Do all guilds have an inner faction in them?' he thought in confusion. He did not know if this was some guild inside thing or if Razor's situation was the same as Abyss's. 'fck the past me' cursing his past stupid self, he sat down on the branch.
Both the elite leader and razor guild master climbed the tree to the same branch as him.
"You guys can relax here," Grave said while swinging his legs.
They stared at him and then sat at his side. There was a few seconds of silence, then Grave said to them while looking at the cave. "So you guys know about the situation city is in, right?"
The Razor guild master said, "It's something out of our control."
The elite leader beside him said, "We have no hand in this situation."
Grave turned his head to them. "I know you guys, no hand."
Razor guild master said with raised eyebrows, "Then why did you do that?"
Grave looked at the cave and said, "Well, it was required?"
The elite leader asked, "Are you not gone explain the reason?"
Grave sighed and said while looking up at the sky, "You want to know the reason, but then tell me what you will do with that. It not like you will attack the guild?"
The Razor guild master and elite leader clenched their fist.
Grave continued to speak. "Tell me why you think the city situation escalated to this point."
"So you blaming us for that?" the elite leader said in a low voice, "so this cave attack is your warring to us."
"It is warring, but…" Grave shook his head and said, "It's not for you."
Both the guild master and elite leader stared at him. They wanted to ask more, but they knew digging further had no benefit for them.
The Razor guild master change the topic and asked the most important question "What about the Abyss' stance on the city?"
He turned to them, looked into their eyes, and smiled at them while asking a question in return, "What do you think is abyss stance?"
The elite leader said, "From what we know, Abyss gave up this city but then…," Both of them looked at him
Grave nodded his head. "Yup you guys are right, guild did give up on this city but not me. So they made me the in charge of the city before the ultimate loss."
The razor guild master asked with a frown, "Why are you telling us all that?"
"well we both are in the same position, you see." pointing to himself he said, "We both do not want to lose the city."
"hehe, you are wrong," the razor guild master shook his head, "Does it matter if someone else rules over the city? We are 2nd and we would still have that position."
The elite leader also added, "Yeah did not matter who rule, but we do understand that we will have no problem maintaining this position."
Grave nodded his head at them. As he expected, they were going with the safest approach. He launched rapid fire at them. "But do you know anything about the other guild? Do they contact you? Do you think the other guild will corporate with you?…"
"Stop!" The elite leader asked, "Why you are caring about us now?"
Grave turned to him and looked into his eyes. "why the fck do I care about you? No, no," he shook his head, "instead I am asking, do you want destruction or not?"
"Stopped with this fake warning?" The razor guild master said, "You are in no position right now."
"haha I am such a bad actor," Grave laughed it off and then said in a calm tone, "You see, I want an opponent for my guild for this month and I want to have a war with you."
The elite leader asked, "What's in for us then?"
Grave stared at them and nodded his head. Somewhat surprised but he knew there was greed everywhere. "I want all of you members to go all out against Abyss for this entire month and in return, you rule the Dark Forest from now on."
"What!!!"
Both of them looked at him in shock. They knew the value of the Dark Forest for the Abyss if the cave mine was their backbone then the Dark Forest was Abyss.
"You can't be serious, what is the catch in there?" the guild master asked.
"You sure are smart. The catch is both of our guilds would be at unofficial war, so they will invade each other hunting ground, right?"
The razor guild master and elite leader looked at each other and he saw them nod their head.
The elite asked, "Care to tell how many will participate in this war?"
"Only the player available in the city," Grave said to him.
The elite leader once again asked, "It looked good, but then what kind of war do you want?"
"The only rule of this war will be not to fight in the city, that's all."
They raised their eyebrows at that. Razor guild master asked, "But I don't think it's enough for us to convince all the players to use all our power in the war."
Grave smiled at them and said, "Well it's your choice, but I do want to see for how much time you will able to control yourself."
The razor guild master looked at him and asked while pointing to the elite, "Can we discuss."
Grave just stared at the sky and nodded.
Both guild master and elite just jumped down the tree and moved away a little.
Grave stared at them and smiled. From the way they acted, he knew Razor would prefer Abyss over some new guild.
….
The Razor guild master asked, "So what you think?"
"Guild master, I think it's best for us, but we are dealing with Abyss."
Guild master nodded his head. "Yeah, the chance of them following the condition is rare, but still, I think we will have control over the Dark Forest for at least 1-2 months."
"Yeah, within those months we can do so much from there, and even if they lose we still have this month to farm there."
Razor guild master asked the elite leader, "But what about war? They can invade the forest."
The elite leader slammed his chest and said with a confident voice, "Guild master, don't forget they don't have an elite team, but we have. If they really go crazy, then I will lead the elite team and raze them." with a smile he continued, "it would be a perfect opportunity to take the revenge."
Razor Guild master asked, "So going with this final right?"
The elite team leader nodded at him, "Yep."
Both of them climbed back up the tree.
Razor guild master said to Grave, "Sure we have a deal," and move his hand for a handshake.
Grave did not shake hands with him but said, "Are you sure about it? All-out war means all-out war if you backed, down don't blame me for consequences."
Razor guild master said, "Haha no problem Razor and Abyss were working so well together. We will not back down on our promise until and unless you back down on your."
Grave smiled and shook hands and said, "The Dark Forest is yours from this moment," saying that he jumped down from the tree and moved toward the city.
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