"A small group? Where?" the leader of the team who stopped him asked in great interest.
"They are strong, all at an early stage dark gold masters… I barely ran out with my life. We should avoid that place…"
"No, we shall strike," the dark team leader grew more interested in attacking that small group of masters, "how many are they?"
"There are around five hundred of them…" John sighed, faking his desire to not take part in this, "come on man, you are insane to go there! Let's just run away with our lives…"
"A soft boned bastard like yourself can't compare himself to me!" The leader puffed his chest, turned to his team before adding, "Call out everyone, we are going to take down this small group of masters, and then show off this to my father."
John didn't care about what that dark master said. But if he knew, he'd have slapped himself many times, or even laughed hysterically about this great loot he just wanted accidentally.
He was the youngest son of one of the big dark leaders in this place, someone who held great power and reputation here. He was the youngest in a long line of sons and daughters, making him crave more for success. And that was what made him the favourite to his father.
John didn't stick around thanks to his continuous complaints about going there and fighting these masters. He just described the way there, speaking about a valley, deep in the middle of the ground.
It was actually a big groove that seemed to get created by a series of violent earthquakes or something. But it was so wide, enough to turn into a normal valley, filled with lavish green vegetation, plants, herbs, and trees.
They went there in a huge force, exceeding five thousand in John's initial estimates. When they went far enough, he took out Anjie's Message Paper, and relayed the great news over to her.
"Hahahaha! I know I'm the one who is going to win this, hahahaha!"
Anjie was quite excited, and her uncle couldn't believe such a naive plan actually worked. He led his forces and went towards that valley, setting up a trap there, one that ended up killing everyone who went there.
John warned Anjie that much more dark masters were heading there right now. That son wanted to show off in front of a big audience, to spread his name far and wide, never knowing he was misleading everyone into a place they'd never return back again from.
"We did it!" Once the battle ended, after lasting for long hours, Anjie finally relayed the great news over to John, "your plan worked! You need to do it again…"
"I'm changing location now, so I won't be suspicious," he already changed outfit, looking like normal masters, moved around and changed locations, "after I'm relocated, I'll tell you where I'm, then we'll repeat this again…"
"Fine!"
Her uncle didn't believe the dark masters were foolish enough to fall for the same trick twice in a row. But the truth proved it against his doubts. John didn't just succeed one more time, but many times in a row!
He kept changing locations after successfully pulling a mission. And that made it hard for the leaders at the very top circle to notice anything wrong about this. Yet after one month of this, they started to notice something was off.
The frontline was crumbling and cracking, infiltrated many times successfully. They didn't lose much land at first, but after one month they ended up losing a huge area of land, alongside tons of forces and monsters stationed there to protect them.
This was the frontline, something that was heavily fortified and well guarded. To get infiltrated by the masters, it meant the deeper areas were going under attack as well, under the risk of falling.
In the next week, more lands and dark masters fell. Everyone started to gather intel about anything peculiar that happened before and they missed.
"There is a rat in our troops…" they reached such a conclusion in the end. After all, the list of names John took down wasn't small, wasn't that easy to miss. It was only thanks to all the hectic battles running out there all the time that many missed this link, yet right now the leaders found it.
The dark master world was a hard one, one that would get earned by force and not with anything else. The ones who gained their reputation and position weren't anxious to go to the frontlines. But the ones who weren't favoured to control anything there were very eager and excited about this war. Whoever would make a name for himself here would secure himself a bright future later on.
And that all served John's and Anjie's best interest. The two kept taking down one big name after another. Every one of them ended up calling more forces to his aid, ending up massacring tons of dark masters and even monsters.
When the dark leaders suspected John's presence, they tried to think of a way to entrap him. They decided to send one of their favourite and strongest youngsters out there, fake falling in John's trap, while keeping in touch with a more formidable force that kept their distance away.
But they underestimated the strength of John, thinking he'd be at most at gold grade or something.
But that wasn't the case. John was at the early stage of the dark gold grade, one who could spread out his spirit sense to cover up a huge area. That ended up for him to detect the early lines of the dark force that stalked him. And very soon he knew there was a grand trap laid for him.
"Alert! There are lots of dark masters trailing me down! I need help to get out of here…" he instantly sent the message over to Anjie. And against what he expected, the latter didn't ask him to run away.
"Keep them walking towards the same place," she said, "we'll save you and take them down!"
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