Sword Among Us Novel - Chapter 1232
Chapter 1232: Howling Moon Grabs the Plate
In the Chinese plains, all the players gathered together!
At Lovely Land’s headquarters were more than one hundred supreme-class elites fighting for Heavenly Saber Song Que’s legacy.
In the blink of an eye, the seventeen supreme-class elites who were the first batch of people to get to the top were forced to fight the most intense battle for the plate!
There was no warm-up for it. They just entered the most intense and brutal fight!
Weapons clashed. Sometimes, someone fell from the air and died.
Some of them were attacked by multiple people at the same time, and they were forcibly thrown off the tower. There were some who were ambushed by others while they were fighting, and some slid off the edge of the marble slab because they were too focused on the fight.
These supreme-class elites were disqualified within three minutes since the tournament began, and they died with regrets in their hearts.
This brutal sight caused countless elites who came to watch the tournament to feel nervous. They sighed.
This tournament seemed to have happened suddenly, and it was incredibly unfair.
There were people who formed groups to fight on the tower. To those who fought alone, they would not be able to see even a single shred of hope in winning. They did not even have the chance to truly show off their strength, and they died just like that.
Phantasmal Shadow, Lin Xiao, and Wandering Know-it-all were all shocked by the scene in front of them.
As they watched an endless stream of supreme-class elites being thrown off the top or middle of the tower and subsequently being disqualified, they gave Happy puzzled glances.
They could not understand why Happy would use such a unique method to choose the strongest fighter in Lovely Land.
If he did this, luck would play a huge part in whoever would end up the winner in the future!
However, the tournament had already started, and they would naturally not question the rules of the tournament. They could only squash down the puzzlement and questions in their hearts as they continued watching the fight.
Happy and Ji Feng’s expressions did not change. They watched the ever-changing situation on the tower with unfathomable expressions.
Twenty…
Very soon, twenty people were disqualified.
These people returned to the audience seats near the stage where the hosts were after they were disqualified, and their faces were full of regret and loathing.
Some people could not hold back from dragging their companions and walking out from the crowd to the stage of the hosts.
“Sect Master, you should have said that we’re not allowed to work together beforehand. We were attacked by Howling Moon and four of his friends just now. We just weren’t his opponents.”
“That’s right! I don’t think there’s any fairness in the tournament if they win using numbers. You’d also lose your original purpose of the tournament if you choose your winner like that.”
“I think the same!”
These people voiced their indignation and displeasure at the same time.
Phantasmal Shadow, Lin Xiao, and the others were not surprised by these people’s appearance. Every supreme-class elite in the Chinese plains had their own pride. It was very normal for them to express their opinions in this sort of opinion.
Besides, they were both very puzzled as well. They waited for Happy and Ji Feng quietly, wanting to see how they would answer and deal with the matter.
When he heard this, Happy smiled. “It seems like you won’t be able to watch this calmly if I don’t explain things clearly to you. But I have to continue discovering those who performed well during this tournament. Vice Sect Master Ji, please explain to them.”
“Understood!” Ji Feng smiled and turned around to face the group. “Regardless of where you are, human relationships are a manifestation of strength. All of you have not joined Lovely Land for long, so why is it that they can work together, but you can’t? Why is it that they know how to use their companions’ strength, but you can’t?”
“This is…”
Some in the crowd came to a realization, but some remained indignant. Right when they wanted to speak up to retort, Ji Feng raised his hand and stopped them from speaking.
“I know what you want to say. Some of you joined early, and some of you joined late. But this is also a form of advantage, and they are just using their advantage in a reasonable manner.
This group of people noticed that Ji Feng spoke in measured tones and in a rhythmic manner. It was as if he had prepared this speech a long time ago and was just waiting for them to come up and question him. The loathing and gloominess in their hearts slowly faded away, and they listened to his reason seriously.
“You mentioned just now that if the competitors worked together, it would affect the fairness in the tournament, and we won’t be able to truly be able to choose the strongest in Lovely Land this way.
“But I have already discussed this with the sect master. The strength of the members in the sect are about the same. Even if we do manage to choose someone in the end, you will not be able to accept it. You believe that you will be able to defeat that person if you just trained for a little while longer. This method is the only method that will truly allow our sect master to be able to fulfill his initial goal of discovering supreme-class elites whose strength stand above other people.” Ji Feng stopped talking for a while. As the group of people gradually understood what he said, he continued. “Otherwise, why can’t we just choose the strongest among these people?”
Even though some were still not completely convinced, these people felt delight bloom in them when they heard Ji Feng’s explanation.
Supreme-class elites whose strength stood above the rest!
Indeed, they might not be outstanding, but Howling Moon and his group might not be able to stand until the end too.
There were other people on top!
Hence, these people were able to suppress the loathing and regrets in their hearts. They returned to their seats and continued to watch the intense tournament.
As time passed, all the people who were the first to reach the top of the tower were sent flying down, and only Howling Moon as well as his party were left.
“The one called Howling Moon is pretty good.”
Happy had been paying attention to the fight on the tower all this while, so it was only natural for him to have noticed that this person had been leading his four companions in secret. He coordinated their attacks and forced the others down the tower.
Even though the others formed a temporary alliance later one, Howling Moon still used all sorts of methods to break their alliance in a short time. He was not an easy person to deal with.
“Ji Feng, your subordinate is pretty like you.”
A soft cough rose behind him, and it was immediately followed by Ji Feng’s explanation.
“Sect Master, I have definitely never revealed the tournament’s rules to anyone.” He sounded nervous.
“I know. Their actions are all spontaneous. Your commanding skills might be pretty good, but this guy’s style is rather different from you. He knows how to protect himself even more.” Happy’s answer caused Ji Feng to release a breath of relief. He wiped off the cold sweat on his brow.
If he were accused of cheating, he might have all his hard work in Lovely Land denied.
But Ji Feng did indeed not reveal anything to others, just like he said.
Ji Feng had revealed some things because he knew that Howling Moon had pretty decent commanding skills and was very strong as well, which meant that he had a chance of seizing Heavenly Saber Song Que’s legacy.
Still, Howling Moon performed too beautifully.
This inevitably attracted Happy’s attention!
If someone said something like that, they would usually be sending a warning, and the other possibility behind it… would be because Happy had indeed noticed Happy’s ability!
It was not because of Howling Moon’s commands.
Instead, when Howling Moon and his party got rid of their competitors until there were only two people left, he calmly ordered one of his party members—he was extraordinary with the saber—to grab the plate suspended in the air.
Howling Moon did not go to grab the plate by himself. Instead, he asked someone else to grab it.
That boldness caused Happy to regard him differently.
Even Phantasmal Shadow and Lin Xiao regarded him differently!
“Congratulations!”
“Congratulations, Sect Master Happy!”
“You have an amazing fighter!”
“Haha! It’s still too early to say that.” While Phantasmal Shadow and Lin Xiao congratulated him, Happy smiled in a relaxed fashion, but his gaze never wavered from the tower.
Howling Moon was good!
Even if he did not manage to get Heavenly Saber Song Que’s legacy, he could be considered as one of the excellent members, and he would train him as one of the pillars of Lovely Land.
There were quite a number of great fighters in the people remaining. These people were just as talented as Howling Moon, and they would not allow Howling Moon to get Heavenly Saber Song Que’s legacy so easily.
“Three minutes… Half a minute has already passed. How could you still remain calm?”
Happy smiled calmly. He slowly grabbed the teacup in front of him and sniffed it. To him, even if he did not use his eyes, he could still check the situation on the tower.
“Rushing down the tower isn’t practical. There are still two more minutes left. We just have to make sure that the plate remains in Monkey King’s hands during the last two minutes, and we’ll be the final victor!”
Howling Moon’s tone was grave and serious.
“From now on, protect the plate with everything you have! If anyone appears, attack them with hidden weapons…”
The five people distributed their tasks and showed great teamwork. They had their backs against each other while they formed their formation and waited calmly.
Just as they expected, once news that the plate was taken by someone, a huge ruckus swiftly broke out in the crowd underneath.
Many people who had been fighting while they were making their way up stopped. They started charging to the top from all directions.
But Howling Moon was already prepared a long time ago.
They listened to the wind to judge the locations of their enemies.
When one person popped up at the edge, a dense wave of hidden weapons and throwing knives charged at him. That person’s true qi then spilled out of his body.
“Ah!”
With a terrified scream, that person was pinned full of hidden weapons and throwing knives, and he fell off the tower.
His scream as he plummeted from 325 feet brought fear to the heart.
Two people were thrown off the tower one after another by Howling Moon and his party, because they focused their firepower on them.
The party’s confidence increased.
But the more their confidence increased, the more anxious the people below them became. They became even more insistent on getting Heavenly Saber Song Que’s legacy.
“Charge up together!”
A few of such voices rose up at the same time below them.
“Alright!”
“Together!”
“We can’t let Howling Moon get the plate so easily!”
The voices that rose up simultaneously around the tower caused the people underneath to become united. Howling Moon’s expression changed drastically. He knew that the situation was bad for him now.
Just as he expected, right when the voices faded away, the sounds of robes fluttering rose nonstop.
More than ten figures popped up around them from all directions. They appeared within Howling Moon and his party’s sights at the same time.
Their pressure increased swiftly.
At that moment, Howling Moon knew that he had been set up.
He stared at the man to his left. That man had an incomplete silver mask on his face. Anger and hate grew in him and he hissed out that person’s name.
“Silver Wolf!
In truth, when he heard those people shout, he knew that things were about to go bad.
He was very familiar with those people’s voices. They were Silver Wolf, Thunder, Knife, and Bar. These four people were normal players brought into Lovely Land personally by the sect master when they were in Song House. But due to the fight in Flame Town, they obtained a lot of extraordinary equipment in the sect storage, and their strength increased by leaps and bounds. Howling Moon included them in his list of powerful enemies.
He did not think that Silver Wolf would be so crafty as to have his friends speak at the same time and forcefully unite all the people below.
“Howling Moon, hand over the plate!”
Win Void, Orochimaru, Whirlwind Young Li, and the others jumped on the marble stone at the top one after another. Someone shouted at Howling Moon.
Howling Moon’s eyes lit up.
Right when he wanted to speak, Silver Wolf’s shout made his words die in his mouth.
“Why are you wasting your breath on him?! There’s still two minutes, and they’ll be able to legitimately own the rights to the legacy! Attack!”
