☯A Martial Clan Faction☯

Johnathan was staring at the fire while he was in deep thoughts; he didn't know what to do at this point. He felt that his free life has been shackled by these guys and would probably use him because there would be no reason to return back and bring him along if he wasn't useful for their plans, and their actions towards him proved his assumptions.

Although he knew what's going on, he really can't talk and ask about it to confirm his assumption because despite the atmosphere between these guys were calm and peaceful, he was still afraid of them.

Seeing his faction got annihilated by these guys quickly, he knew that he was in deep sh!t.

Johnathan took a peek on the beautiful girl sitting in front of him, her blonde hair was actually silky that the light of the fire gave brightness to it, her eyes were deep blue, and it was alluring to stare at.

When he removed his gaze at her, he sighed deeply before looking at Mark.

"…" He was startled when he saw that the quiet Mark was staring at him, giving him a deep gaze, Johnathan couldn't help to have his heart skipped a beat as coldness enveloped his soul.

"You…" Mark spoke with a faint cold voice, "What's your faction called?" he asked.

Johnathan was startled before quickly responded, "T-The hunters…"

"You called yourself hunters, yet you all got hunted instead. If you think about it, it's pretty ironic right?" Mark removed his gaze at Johnathan before looking at Kate with a smile.

Kate laughed faintly, "Haha, yeah. That's quite amusing…" She looked at Johnathan as she asked, "Do you know other factions in this area?"

Hearing her question, Johnathan straightened his back and replied honestly, "Of course, we've encountered many of them and usually avoid them when we know that we can't fight them head-on…" Although despite being careful, their faction was still annihilated by these three-person team.

And thinking like this, she felt like she wanted to laugh out loud but tried to resist because she felt that it would be too rude even for her.

"Hm, I see… can you tell us one of these factions that we need to put our eyes on?" Mark asked because he can't expect Kate to ask the same question with her while trying to hold her laugh.

Oblivious on what Kate felt, Johnathan looked at Mark. He looked down, and his eyes squinted together and recalled something from his memories.

"Yes… There are potential factions that might threaten your group. During these past few days, factions are emerging from the dark and build a reputation in this region. We learned this because multiple lesser factions that don't have a strong foundation and mostly friendly will often convey news between these smaller factions to avoid these aggressive factions." Johnathan explained.

The two on his front turned quiet, even Ray behind them who are sitting on the bed opened his eyes and had his ears listening to him.

"As of now, five factions are growing in power, they've become so powerful that they're the only ones that can compete with each other." Johnathan seriously said while giving an in-depth look on the flickering fire in front of the three of them.

*Ray's P.O.V*

After hearing this after I woke up from my meditation, my curiosity went to its peak. I've never thought that there will be over five factions already growing in power because these kids were amateur and expected to fail to lead ten people.

I guess I underestimated these guys.

Well, what can I expect? Even the three of us are already considered scary by these people who have offended us who end up getting killed in the end and never had a chance to have our existence spread across these regions to make others wary of us.

That might be good, but I am fed up being disturbed by these guys who are sending themselves to death without putting a good fight. Even Mark and Kate are annoyed by these.

I hate senseless fight, I do love crazy fight but I can't like something that the others don't enjoy especially those guys who are filled with a helpless look on their faces, it just makes me feel uncool.

However... Hmm, I think we should take out the fifth powerful faction and make a name for our selves for these guys to avoid us.

I think that's a good plan!

I looked at the three people sitting around the campfire, "Okay guys, it's decided!" I proclaimed while smiling at them. I stood up and approach the three of them.

Suddenly, the new guy twitched, and fear was revealed across his face.

Dude, am I that scary?

"Chill, I won't do anything to you. You're already important on this group." Assuring him, I didn't wait for him to respond and excitedly looked at my friends.

However, before I could even say something, Kate lifted her hands, and her fragrant and soft finger held my mouth together.

Ah~ Such tenderness.

"I know what you're thinking Ray." Kate smiled.

Huh, you actually read my mind how lovely your fingers are? Wait, no, that's not right.

Seeing me did not respond and finding an answer, Kate frowned, "What are you thinking again?" she asked.

My god, this girl is hard to talk to!

"Nothing, but tell me what you've guessed," I asked her instead and avoid the question, like hell I'm going to say that. Mark might kill me, she's his girl now.

Kate smiled softly, "I guess that we will attack one of these dangerous factions that this Johnathan spoke of." She hinted.

I'm actually not entirely surprised by this, but I still smiled in the end. When I was about to confirm this, a voice rang out as Johnathan shouted at us, "What!?, You're crazy, you guys are sending yourself to death!"

I looked at him before saying, "When it comes to a decision, you're out of this." I said it simply.

He turned quiet and didn't speak, but he looked at Kate, giving her a message through his expression. Sadly, he didn't understand Kate that much, she's actually much crazier than me.

Kate has obviously seen this but shook her head instead and gave a simple smile at Johnathan, "Any challenges that are to be set upon us, we will never fail to accomplish this, as long we three are together, nothing can stop us." She said seriously.

I was shocked when I hear that coming from her mouth, and hearing it from her, the trust she has on us had given me the courage and warmth towards her.

I guess this is the foundation of our group, each of us trusts one after another, if we lost one, we could never hope to bring it back together.

Mark has also smiled as he guessed the same thought.

"For us, the bond we have is stronger than what we can have, stronger than family, and much stronger than friends..." Mark added.

"These two are right, in fact, we're unstoppable when we already have decided on something," I said to Johnathan, giving him a faint smile.

I want you to understand that even if we're outnumbered and they're stronger than us, we never fear something as long the three of us are together.

I didn't say that to him because I wanted him to understand what we're trying to convey to him, if he failed to grasp the idea behind this, I wouldn't care.

Our words shocked Johnathan as he gave us a baffling look but in the end. He ate this expression as he sighed while shaking his head. He smiled wryly, "You three are crazy... Really admirable."

Thanks for the compliment!

"It's good that you can understand that, since Ray has already said it, you shouldn't stay wary of us because you're equally important on this group now. You're the only one that has information that we don't have in this event." Kate smiled.

Johnathan nodded, his fear has gradually diminished after hearing Kate's soft voice. Apparently, this guy could only be tamed by Kate… Well, what can I expect to a girl who's beautiful and charming as her…

Since everything is now settled, I think I should start proceeding the plan to attack these factions.

"Okay, I have already a plan… To prevent killing ourselves in this process, we should attack the weaker ones first before arming ourselves with better equipment." I explained as I sat down between Mark and Kate.

The two nodded and agreed to my plan before looking at Johnathan as we expect some useful words from him.

Noticing us waiting for his opinion, Johnathan gulped a mouthful of saliva before giving a faint smile, "With your strength, I believe you guys can easily take down the top 6 of powerful faction, all though top five factions above have smaller groups around them creating a circle of power of their own, this top 6 faction is a single entity."

Hearing this made us equally interested and seeing us having our ears peered towards him, Johnathan straightened up his body, "Which means that they're the only powerful faction that has better equipment, power, and reputation that have only ten members. These guys were indeed powerful, but I know that if you guys were careful enough, I think you guys can take them down."

True, our strength base from our experiences we can take down players around the age of us and not only that, these factions are still amateurs despite their success, the way I see it, their success was only because of luck they had.

"Explain this faction that you spoke of…" of course before we could take action to these guys, we need to learn something from them.

Johnathan nodded, "Okay, these guys have earned their reputation was only because five members of this faction are brothers and sisters that belongs to a martial clan, they have experience in combat, and if I can recall, each of them has already twenty people… Such strength is already crazy powerful."

Just the word 'Martial Clan' had already made us bloody excited! Who would want these boring and easily frightened dudes when we can have someone that harvest them and beat these guys, well, although they might be strong at least these guys can put up a good fight!

"The powerful one between these siblings naturally the elder brother and their third sister. Both of them are exceptionally powerful, and they had already entered Qi condensation stage before they entered this event. The elder brother is named Johnson and the sister is named Casie." Johnathan explained while observing our reactions before he continued,

"Although I've only described only two people from their faction so far because you should put your eyes to these two people because they can be described as savage and merciless, you shouldn't also ignore the remaining people on their faction as all of them have powerful talent." He added and describe the other members of the faction, they're all okay I guess...

After describing everything from us and what he knows about this particular faction, you could only guess how excited we are!

And heck yeah! We're pumped up that I couldn't even help to shake my feet and legs due to excitement.

And seeing our excited expression, Johnathan helplessly sighed as he could only wryly smile.

"Since we've already had a target when we'll attack?" Kate asked while giving me a serious look.

"First things first, we need to prepare before we could attack, and figure out the surroundings of their base. We need to be extremely cautious on this one, we might not precisely fail, but there's still a chance that we cannot be overlooked." That's right, if we throw our selves due to excitement it's evident that this action is dangerous.

I don't want something terrible to happen, and since the enemy is unaware, I have to build the chances of success on this attack much higher.