CH 10: When you declare a war, you better make it menacing

"You want me to join your guild?" Hao asks, with his lip tilted upward a little before continuing. "No offence but this sound quite sketchy. I have no idea who you are; I have never heard about this so-called Asgard guild. Not to mention, why should I join you and your guild?"

While Hao certainly doesn't care about the Asgard guild, he still wants to learn as much as possible about the current situation of the Asgard guild. After all, there is a vast difference between the future and the past and the Asgard guild.

And in Hao's mind, he could strike down or make the guild disband while they are still at their weakest.

Some of you may ask, why would he do this? The answer is simple.

It's because he can, nothing more, nothing less.

'Oh~ Just thinking about it makes me excited!' Hao thought

"I see; your scepticism is fair enough." The group leader responded, "Our guild is led by a person named Joseph Wareal; I think that name alone should make you interested. After all, everyone knows who that person is."

"Ho? Of course, he is pretty popular, after all. So, if this person is the one leading the guild, are you saying that you are being paid by joining the guild?"

"You get on pretty fast."

"Oh please, it's not that hard to guess. When a son of a billionaire leads your guild, you are probably being paid handsomely by being in the guild alone. Also, is that the reason that you will tell me why I should join this Asgard guild?"

"Exactly! Pretty simple. Oh, I never introduced myself, didn't I? My username is EliteTao." The leader, now known as EliteTao, answered.

"EliteTao, eh?" Hao muttered quietly to himself, 'Ah, so it's him. I didn't recognise him at first because of his equipment, but it makes sense that it's him.'

EliteTao is Joseph's right-hand man; he is the most loyal one of all people in the guild. He would also be the one that carried out most of the crucial orders from Joseph. While someone like Joseph has no skill or mind to back up his talent as a leader, EliteTao, on the other hand, is the exact opposite.

He will be one of the best players in the game in the future, and in Hao's eyes, EliteTao's skill is probably one of the best. After all, while he is certainly not the leader of the Asgard guild, EliteTao could be said to be why Asgard was very successful in the first place.

After all, you can have as many players as you can in a guild, but the number alone would not make up for the quality of the guild. That is where EliteTao come in, who brings the potential of the Asgard guild members by leading them.

You could say that EliteTao is the real leader of the guild. At the same time, Joseph is nothing more than a puppet being controlled from the shadow by EltieTao, something that even Joseph himself doesn't know about and only feel elite and high-ranking player know.

The only reason that Hao knows about this is because of the amount of research he did in the past while learning as much as possible about the game, which also includes the players and guilds, causing him to stumble upon these pieces of information and connect the dot on his own, before learning about the truth of the Asgard guild.

"So what do you say?"

"Well, the offer is pretty tempting, not to mention the amount of money I could earn from joining the guild..."

"Right? With someone like you who has that much skill to clear dungeon solo, you could earn a lot of money, you know? So you are joining us, right?"

"Well... The offer is very tempting..." Hao said, looking straight at EliteTao face with a smile that seemed to be mocking him, which EliteTao overlooked. EliteTao, who sees the situation, cannot help but smile, thinking that he finally got Hao to join the guild.

"But I refuse!"

"What!?"

"One of the things I, as a gamer like the most, is to find someone who thinks they're some hot shit and say 'No' right to their faces!" Hao said while one of his eyes was comprehensive, the other eye was not open as wide as the other due to the massive grin on his face.

EltieTao cannot help but step back a little while people in his group seem to flinch after seeing the smile on Hao's face.

"Are you insane!? Don't you see this is a golden opportunity here! There will be no offer like this after you refuse, you know that!! The amount of money you can earn from this is something you could never imagine!!"

"Oh please, do I look like I care about joining your worthless guild? No matter how much money you offer me, I will never be under someone's command again! As for whether I'm insane or not? You could say that, yes, I am!" Hao said while still having an insane smile on his face.

For Hao, he would never join a guild again; after his bad experience, he would never do it again. While earning money would undoubtedly love to make more money but to earn money while also being pressed by someone in the game is something Hao does not want to repeat.

As for whether Hao is insane or not?

Well, if you know the definition of insanity, then you know it's mean to do the same thing repeatedly, and Hao, who had been playing GEP for the past five years, does the same thing repeatedly, never changing, so you could say that Hao is a little bit insane.

A little bit.

"You bastard!! I have enough of you and that shitty attitude of yours!!" One of the players in the group shouted, pulling out his sword and rushing toward Hao.

Swinging his sword down, Hao quickly intercepts it with his dagger, blocking the attack.

"Oi, oi. Did you attack me while we were in the middle of the city? Did you forget that we are in a no-PVP zone?" Hao said while holding back the sword that was pushing toward him; he was losing in the deadlock due to his low-strength stat. However, Hao did not panic at all.

"And since you attack me first, you know what that means~," Hao said playfully, and with a rush of movement, Hao moved out of the way of the deadlock to the side, causing the player who attacked him, who was still pushing his sword down, to miss his swing and make his sword hit the ground, which leaves him wide open.

Hao quickly takes this chance and starts to swing both of his daggers; with the cracking sound echoing throughout the city, many cuts appear on the player's body, and before Hao's attacker could notice, he is already dead.

'That was... fast.' Hao thought, 'I guess he only spends all of his points on strength, and judging by the equipment, probably also not highly defend stat.'

Hao quickly turns back toward the four remaining players, who can only stand there shell shocked, seeing how fast Hao dispatched one of their friends.

"Do you want to join him too?" Hao asks while leaning forward with a grin still on his face.

But before the situation could be escalated any faster, EliteTao quickly intervened.

"No, we will be leaving now. He was an idiot for attacking you first anyway." Elitetao said before narrowing his eyes toward Hao, who was still smiling. "But let me warn you, this will not end well for you. So think about it; I will give you another chance to join us, and if you don't..." EliteTao trialled off.

"You probably know the answer, so tell me, join us or not."

Hao can only shake his head amusedly.

"You sound like a broken record, you know? As for the answer..." Hao said before walking forward and standing in front of EliteTao's face, only a few inches away. "You could go and tell your boss to fuck off," Hao said before taking a step back.

EliteTao smirked after hearing the answer.

"Well, if that is your answer, we have no business here anymore," EltieTao said before motioning to other players in his group, who quickly nodded and left. "But remember this, all actions have consequences."

"Tell me something. I don't know why would you?" Hao sarcastically ask

"Then you know this is a declaration of war toward our guild, right?"

"Of course I do. After all, this is my intention in the first place."

"Is that so?" EliteTao muttered with raised eyebrows. He then starts to walk away before turning back at Hao. "I hope you will not be a disappointment like the other," EliteTao said before quickly disappearing via teleportation.

'They already have a Telegorn in their guild base? I expect nothing less from a whale.' Hao thought, 'But a war against a whole guild?'

"This gonna amazing." hao cannot help but say out loud, not caring about the surrounding.