Sword Among Us

Panda Novel

The death rate at the first level of the royal mausoleum was always the highest.

All those who entered the royal mausoleum were immediately attacked by Knife-throwing Ninjas. The ones who entered first would find that all firepower was concentrated on them, and they were usually the ones to die!

In the ten or so days since the royal mausoleum had been opened to the public, many people intentionally avoided being the first to enter the royal mausoleum and allowed some rash hotheads or people who believed themselves to be good to enter ahead of them.

Those who entered first would basically all die. Almost no one survived it.

Even though Knife-throwing Ninjas were just in Blessed Realm, the damage of the splitting throwing knives was extraordinary, and the rapid and frequent attacks were something that even One Circle, who had high level defensive martial arts, found hard to withstand. And if he had a hard time, then it was even more so for normal players.

There was no hiding in the first hall of the royal mausoleum. After just a few rounds of attacks, almost everyone’s body fortifications would be torn through, or their qi would depleted, and they would die.

Lu Mingyue had forced Happy to be the first to enter the royal mausoleum and then guarded the entrance. He wanted to ensure that Happy stayed inside for a long time and suffered a lot of the Knife-throwing Ninjas’ attacks.

Even though Happy had an astonishing defense based on the fight just then, Lu Mingyue felt that it was not as strong as it seemed. He believed that Happy still had his limits, which was why even if Ghost Face Wall could not kill him, he would still need to use up a lot of his medicinal pills.

Lu Mingyue wanted to use this chance to deal a huge blow to Happy.

It had to be said, Lu Mingyue’s scheme was incredibly sinister!

But he would consider the possibility that Happy had already thought about this when he entered the royal mausoleum because many similar cases had happened in his previous life.

When challenging the royal mausoleum, many sects worked together to lock down the entrance so that the first group of people who entered would die. Then, once the goal of dwindling their enemy number was accomplished, they would also enter in an orderly fashion.

When Lu Mingyue attacked even more aggressively than before, Happy could already tell what he was thinking.

But he did not reveal his plan. He just decided to beat Lu Mingyue at his own game!

He entered the royal mausoleum, and the light around him dimmed. Happy soon heard the sounds of throwing knives tearing through the air! There were many of them, and they came nonstop from ahead of him!

Boom!

He activated his Golden Bell Cocoon with a bang. An ancient and simple golden bell blocked the knives. Clanging sounds rang out nonstop. All sorts of throwing knives were instantly intercepted and fell to the ground, shattered, or changed shape.

Happy did not dare to stop for long.

He switched to his Silver Aquatic Dragon Set straight away. He grabbed his Noble Sword, ignored the countless dazzlingly white throwing knives charging at his face, and rushed at Ghost Face Wall at full speed.

Boom!

With one unhindered swing, he left behind a terrifying crack on Ghost Face Wall. He could vaguely see a group of Knife-throwing Ninja’s indifferent expressions behind it.

He instantly delivered a few more slashes without slowing down. A hole that could allow people to enter swiftly appeared on Ghost Face Wall.

Once Seven Stars Sword Styles reached Grandmaster Realm, its damage reached 2,500 points, and Noble Sword’s own attack was at five hundred. When Happy activated Mystical Realm, his attack increased by 30%, and his damage reached around 3,900 points.

Yet after making the hole, he did not go through it.

He swung his sword, and a sword glare charged into the gap where it struck the ninjas behind Ghost Face Wall. Two Knife-throwing Ninjas fell on their faces the moment they turned around. Happy used that chaos he created to go in.

The hall instantly fell silent.

Meanwhile, in the tunnel, more than half of the Knife-throwing Ninjas died. Once Happy activated Wind Spirit Spin with his Seven Stars Sword Styles, not a single Knife-throwing Ninja could withstand a second hit from him.

Happy had noticed when he was outside that there were plenty of good players who came to the royal mausoleum, which meant that he had many competitors. He thus did not intend to waste his time. He slaughtered his way through in one breath and killed all forty or so Knife-throwing Ninjas in the tunnel.

His Golden Bell Cocoon remained unharmed, and he quickly picked up his loot before vanishing from the tunnel like a phantom.

Time was money!

*****

On his way, aside from killing two rather large groups of ninjas, Happy never stopped moving. He moved forward at his fastest speed to the trap—Life and Death Circuit.

The side halls and small halls were left behind in perfect condition.

Doing this allowed him to save time, and he also hoped that the players who chased after him would stop for a while there and give him more time to venture into the depths of the royal mausoleum.

He activated his Phantasm Body Movement Skill and charged forward at full speed. He moved like a plume of smoke, and soon, he appeared at Life and Death Circuit.

At that moment, Happy no longer felt any sort of pressure when dealing with Life and Death Circuit.

With Silver Aquatic Dragon Set, his Golden Bell Cocoon did not need to fear being attacked by a group of ninjas.

Happy had used no technique whatsoever the second time he challenged Life and Death Circuit.

He just murdered and slaughtered his way through until the place was empty!

He crushed two brocade boxes, took the things inside, and left.

His luck was pretty average and he did not receive any red ginseng. The two boxes contained a high-grade saber and a normal Blessed Realm high-tier martial art manual.

However, the group of ninjas in Life and Death Circuit contributed greatly to his spoils. They gave him four middle-grade armor and two high-grade weapons.

Happy did not even look at the attributes of those items. He just tossed them into his Universe Bag and vanished from the square hall that was Life and Death Circuit to go deeper into the tunnel.

*****

The people outside waited for a full five minutes at the entrance of the royal mausoleum!

Lu Mingyue did not stop them from entering anymore, because if he continued holding them back, he would make them miss the time to enter the royal mausoleum. If that happened, they would get hostile toward him.

He moved aside, and the people went in by groups of three and five.

The entrance of the royal mausoleum was rather wide, so most of the two hundred or so people went inside very soon.

Lu Mingyue stood at the entrance and hesitated for a very long time. But in the end, he could not quell the excitement in his heart and entered the royal mausoleum as well.

Boom!

The moment he entered the royal mausoleum, he was just in time to witness Ghost Face Wall being crushed.

Lu Mingyue did not care about that. Instead, he cautiously rose into the air with his flying needles. At the same time, he looked around for Happy’s body without noticing the gazes from the players around him.

‘Hmm? He’s not around?’

Once Lu Mingyue searched through the area, he did not find Happy nor his corpse. After realizing that, his expression grew strange.

A few seconds later, he noticed that the gazes of many of the people around him when they looked at him were somewhat peculiar.

They were incredibly odd and mocking!

A hint of unease rose in his heart.

He quickly noticed that the people in the front were not stopping to fight behind Ghost Face Wall. They just charged swiftly into the tunnel…

He flew at the top of the tunnel and saw that the Knife-throwing Ninjas there had been killed a long time ago.

When he linked this to the fact that Ghost Face Wall had just been destroyed, Lu Mingyue found himself unable to think. The unease in his heart grew greater.

Where did Happy go?

‘Could it be?’

Lu Mingyue’s eyes sparkled for a while. He looked at the people swiftly leaving further away into the tunnel before he gritted his teeth and chased after them at full speed.

But he could not use Needle Tide in such tunnel, and he could not close the distance between them in a short moment. In fact, the distance between them just kept widening…

Lu Mingyue’s face instantly turned red with rage.

But it was fortunate for him that he did not catch up to them; otherwise, he would have heard the remarks from the front regarding his act of blocking the group from entering the royal mausoleum just then, and he would definitely have been so angry that he would have coughed up blood!