Chapter 560: Is the Plan Successful?
“d*mn witch! You tricked us here to k*ll us… Do you really think we are easy to bully in the Abyss Demon Academy?!”
“Boss, we really can’t beat them…”
“Don’t care! How dare you slander us like this…”
“Who the hell did the stupid thing of trying to grab the Heart of Cold Wave?!”
“Boss… Should we return it?”
“Return my a**! It’s already in my hands, and you want us to spit it out? Did we just get beaten for nothing?!”
“So what should we do next?”
“Split up and run… First… get out of the Magic Capital, this place is the witches’ territory!”
While the people of the Abyss Demon Academy were fleeing in madness, a large number of other extraordinary academy members were behind them, creating an impressive scene.
This chase created a fierce reaction above the Magic Capital, as too many ordinary people saw those extraordinary beings flaunting themselves and couldn’t help but record this rare sight with their phones.
Meanwhile, with the “malicious intent” of some individuals pushing the narrative, rumors about the Abyss Demons snatching items from the extraordinary auction and causing social harm in the Magic Capital began to spread across the external networks.
This incident further damaged the already shaky reputation of the Abyss Demons.
Although… their reputation had indeed hit rock bottom.
According to estimates from representatives of various extraordinary academies, even conservatively, it would take several days for this news to spread, and players wanting to acquire this information would not take long either.
This left the Abyss Demons unable to leave the Magic Capital, and immediately expose the information regarding the Heart of Cold Wave, which would likely attract those players to the Magic Capital.
Of course, this was the worst-case scenario, occurring only if they had no interaction with the players.
It was highly likely that there were players in the Magic Capital, after all, the Magic Capital had previously had incidents caused by players.
Just as this group of people was chasing and trying to corner the Abyss Demons for a good standoff and to buy time, Xing Anlei received a communication from the crowd chasing the Abyss Demons.
“What? They appeared? How can they be there?”
As Xing Anlei’s voice spread, many people looked at her doubtfully, unsure of what was going on.
“What happened? Xing Anlei.”
“The players showed up, but at the hotel, not here.” As Xing Anlei spoke, her gaze turned towards those fleeing in the distance.
“What?”
“Are we still pursuing them?”
“Of course we are! They still have the Heart of Cold Wave! You can’t just let them escape like this!”
“So how should we do it?”
“Split into two teams, one team continues to closely track those demons, don’t lose them, the rest return to provide support, we must capture those players alive!”
“Mm.” Everyone nodded, not finding anything wrong with this arrangement.
The Heart of Cold Wave was only temporarily held by another person; the Magic Capital was so large that prior to the plan’s execution, they had already sealed the escape routes. As long as their positions were confirmed, they could share information in real time.
Those who were stationed could encircle them, preventing them from using transport. If they were left with no other options and had to escape on foot, it would still take them a while to leave the Magic Capital, providing enough time for a reaction.
Of course… an even better way would be to secretly capture these individuals and let the news continuously report until those players revealed themselves.
But now, the plan was unexpectedly going smoothly; the players appeared just as the plan was being executed.
So… they were still underestimating how quickly those players infiltrated the supernatural realm of this world; the acquisition of information was so rapid that they might not have to go through such complicated efforts.
But thinking about it, if the premise is that the other party is an invader of this world, they would indeed have an interest in the extraordinary powers of this world, and wouldn’t act too drastically until they understood this world’s foundational strengths.
Combining the previous disturbances, it seemed that every significant event had concrete reasons, such as… contacting extraordinary groups, discovering the Child of Fortune, and… learning about Extraordinary Knowledge.
But conversely, the performance of these players was also one of their ways to understand them.
However, the return route was somewhat far; they could only contact the people still at the hotel to try to delay those players. Even if they couldn’t delay them, they needed to confirm their positions and not let them get away.
This was the first collaboration between students from various extraordinary academies targeting these players. They hadn’t expected the players to show up in a place they hadn’t anticipated; they didn’t go for the Heart of Cold Wave they recognized, but chose to appear at the hotel. Surely, this couldn’t be due to a lag in information, could it?
Realizing this, Xing Anlei couldn’t help but complain. After all, everything that exceeded the plan required additional backup plans to modify.
However, this plan was proposed with too little notice. Although they indeed had prepared many plans, reality had proven to be beyond their expectations.
At this moment, Xing Anlei suddenly realized a problem: could the players that appeared at the hotel be a decoy, and their ultimate target was the Abyss Demons fleeing with the Heart of Cold Wave!
As she thought of this possibility, cold sweat broke out behind her, and she quickly contacted the people at the hotel.
“Hey, what’s going on over there? How many players are there, and are they escaping?”
“Two, two players have appeared outside the hotel and are working together smoothly, causing a lot of infrastructure damage outside the hotel. Many ordinary people have already been killed or injured…”
“Escaping? I asked if they seem ready to run!” Xing Anlei pressed again, clearly frustrated that the other party didn’t grasp the key points she was inquiring about.
It would take a while for them to return; after all, they had chased for some time. Although the zigzagging forward would take longer than directly returning in a straight line, if the other party insisted on running, those returning reinforcements would not be able to stop them!
If those players mixed in with the ordinary people, how would they find them?
At the very least, they couldn’t distinguish those damned players’ identities, because during that incident, players posed as ordinary people.
Completely just normal people in this world!
Any of them could become those players, and they had no idea how that player had done it.
“Tell them that reinforcements are teleporting over immediately; let’s see if they will run directly!” Xing Anlei said again.
At this moment, the commotion on Xing Anlei’s side also caught the attention of many other extraordinary academy students.
“What’s going on?”
“What happened?”
“I suspect the players at the hotel are trying to lure us back, reducing the frontline pursuit forces, and then they will attack to snatch the Heart of Cold Wave.” Xing Anlei explained, “I’m verifying it now.”
Before long, news came back that those players indeed showed signs of wanting to escape.
“Return! Don’t run! The players at the hotel are a decoy; go back to provide support!”
“Return? Why should we go back? The players over there have already appeared. What if you guessed wrong and we go back! Now returning to the hotel can at least help them.”
“The players have plans too! The moment they heard we were going back, they immediately prepared to escape. Isn’t this a decoy? They wouldn’t be creating a ruckus at the hotel for no reason; what are they aiming for?”
While they were arguing, a series of explosions from afar stunned them.
Such large-scale explosions, disregarding the situation in the Magic Capital, were definitely not something those left behind to pursue the Abyss Demons would do!
So the only possibility was those players!
At this moment.
The sudden explosions startled both the Abyss Demons and those pursuing them!
The roaring explosions caused severe deformation of one side of the office building, the foundation blew up, and the entire floor tilted, subsequently leaning uncontrollably towards the main road.
This catastrophic destruction instantly triggered severe collisions among pedestrians and vehicles on the road, all desperate for the slightest chance of survival.
The collapsing floors suddenly blocked their path forward.
Meanwhile, several figures floated in the sky, their weapons and combat platforms were massive, obscuring the sun directly overhead at noon.
“d*mn it, it’s those players!”
“We fell for their trap! We can’t fight back with just a few of us…”
Faced with such a scene, the people responsible for tracking immediately reacted, but their “we can’t fight back” referred to their inability to deploy methods in the dense population of the Magic Capital, while those players acted recklessly!
So they hurriedly contacted those who had previously returned, hoping they could come back to support quickly!
Just as they were urgently calling for reinforcements and dodging attacks from the players’ combat platforms, the players had already subdued those Abyss Demons who had split up and tried to escape.
After all, no matter how grand the title of the Abyss Demon Academy was, it couldn’t conceal the fact that they were merely a bunch of low-quality academies. Although their strength showed prominently with the performance of senior students, they were utterly lacking compared to those top-tier battles. Coupled with their own aberrations and other factors, they could be pursued for so long without getting caught only because the other party was letting them go.
After all, other extraordinary academy members needed to expand the impact of this incident.
“This is the Heart of Cold Wave?”
“I really don’t know how you guys wasted it from those guys. Hehe~ that just shows that those guys are even more useless!”
At this moment, a player who found the Heart of Cold Wave among the Abyss Demons spoke with a sarcastic tone, holding back laughter.
But the moment he merely touched the icy crystalline Heart of Cold Wave with his right hand, frost covered it, scaring him into quickly placing it in a special container.
Then, without hesitation, he crushed the heads of those Abyss Demons… After all, in the aesthetic view of the players, these guys were also incredibly ugly; just looking at them felt like an insult to the eyes, so he directly killed them to eliminate future troubles.
Then his gaze turned to those currently being suppressed under their combat platform, revealing a murderous intent!
“Don’t linger! Their reinforcements are coming back, execute the plan first!” The commander’s voice rang in the player’s earring, with the task’s instructions and route planning surfacing in their field of vision.
“Got it! So annoying…”
The player muttered under his breath, glanced at a teammate beside him, exchanged no extra words, and with just one motion activated the power system of their armor, drawing several black shooting stars across the sky above the Magic Capital.
As the players’ combat platform disintegrated slightly after the scheduled time, it turned into countless pixel blocks, even the shells and bullets that were suppressed at this moment transformed into such a form and ultimately vanished.
“d*mn it… have those guys gone mad?!”
After the artillery fire stopped, those constantly suppressed people finally held up protection spells to check the situation.
But all they saw were ruins, as if experiencing a war; half of the building resting on the main road collapsed, and the situation was extremely tragic.
They approached to investigate, but the first things they saw were the several killed Abyss Demons.
“d*mn it… the Heart of Cold Wave was snatched away by those players!” They examined closer, finding no trace of the Heart of Cold Wave, and the Witch Academy members who took out tracking alchemical items realized that the Heart of Cold Wave’s mark had already gone far.
“What… what should we do now?”
“Cool it! Tell those returning not to come back, go chase those players, we… first rescue the victims! It’s the golden rescue time now!”
“Rescue those guys?”
“Even if this incident wasn’t caused by us, it’s still indirectly related! First, go assist… at the very least, we extraordinary beings should take action, then we can shift the blame!”
“Forget it… directly contact the Witch Academy and have everyone on campus come out for emergency rescue…”
……
Meanwhile.
After the players acquired the Technology Core, they were excited; the things they wanted were finally in hand!
But they now faced a choice: should the one who got the Heart of Cold Wave return to the hotel to lure those extraordinary beings back to catch them all or directly and safely escape?
After deliberation, they chose to pretend to return to the hotel.
They knew full well that the Magic Capital was the territory of the Witch Academy, and they guessed that this Witch Academy existed in a spatial overlay within the Magic Capital.
So boldly leaving the Magic Capital with the Heart of Cold Wave posed a very high risk—far too high! It was much better to dive straight back into the hotel, directly activating their ultimate strategy and planning how to take the Heart of Cold Wave out of the Magic Capital in safety within the absolutely secure confines of their instance.
As they turned back, the students from extraordinary academies saw the players heading in the opposite direction with their prizes.
At this moment, it felt as if they were being played with like clowns, endlessly going back and forth.
The urgency of the situation was so intense that they were unsure of what the players were actually up to.
However, it was only after they chased down the players and saw them entering the hotel that they breathed a sigh of relief.
These players seemed to be using their heads poorly; the hotel was their home ground!
Their main forces were all here!
“You can’t escape!”
“Coming back to the hotel again? You really don’t know when to give up…”
“Hehe… the first time seeing you alive, what should we call you? Players?”
Everyone surrounded the group of players holding the Heart of Cold Wave.
It was as if they were finally reeling the net in, joy over their harvest spread across all their faces.
This convoluted plan made such a huge stir, yet they ultimately triumphed, but the cost… was a bit too large.
It could be expected that news from the outside world would sweep across the globe again, but fortunately, they could shift the blame onto these guys.
“Players… it seems you do know a bit about us, acting so confident…” At this moment, the leading player spoke.
“Do you really think you can escape so easily?”
The students didn’t hold back but, facing this scenario, many felt a slight unease, sensing that something was being overlooked… what exactly could it be?
“Such arrogance… you extraordinary beings are truly too naive… too naive! To be honest, I’m deeply disappointed in you extraordinary beings!”
“Playing with you is like playing with kids; you have no sense of crisis at all, the peaceful world has dulled your bloodlust, and everything seems like a child’s play…”
“Let me show you exactly what you’re up against!”
“I feel uneasy… Go! Don’t give them time to waste!” One of the group shouted.
Whoever was shouting was no longer important; with the command “Go!”, everyone wasted no time, each deploying their skills.
But in the face of such a blockade of strong beings, these players remained unfazed, even wearing smirks of success.
The leading player stretched out his arms, as if everything was waiting for this moment to arrive!
“Welcome to… the Disaster Instance!”
