In the chaos, the scattered adventurers, suspected and ostracized by various mercenary groups, could only wander aimlessly across the battlefield like headless flies.
The sudden shout was like a lifeline for the scattered adventurers who couldn't find a team and had almost no teams to accept them. Even though this lifeline might be a trap, the scattered adventurers quickly gathered in the direction of the shout. Because in such a chaotic battlefield, a team was simply too important.
Amidst the constant shouts, scattered adventurers quickly gathered and joined the defensive formation. In just ten minutes, more than five hundred people had assembled.
Wang Han understood the current situation, and so did others. Soon, people in other places began to follow suit, gathering scattered adventurers. Mercenary groups are already teams, so they wouldn't let untrustworthy, scattered adventurers into their groups to avoid sabotage. However, since they were already scattered adventurers, surrounded by enemies, their situation was already the worst possible. Even if a traitor infiltrated, it was still better than having no team at all.
"Someone's starting to gather these scattered adventurers. It seems there are some clever ones among them." Tianmo, the leader of the C-rank Tianmo Mercenary Group protecting the caravan, breathed a long sigh of relief as she watched the adventurers begin to organize and stop their chaos. If they had continued to let these adventurers remain in disarray, it would not only have weakened the caravan's overall strength but also significantly impacted their mercenary group.
As time passed, the factions in the battle gradually became clearer, and many people identified some of the traitors and began to launch counterattacks. However, many more people were still unable to distinguish who the enemies were, or still did not trust others.
The C-rank Camo Mercenary Group relentlessly attacked the Tianmo Mercenary Group protecting the caravan, especially the area around the luxurious carriages in the middle of the caravan. Simultaneously, they attacked other mercenary groups and adventurers in the surrounding area, creating chaos and preventing them from supporting the caravan. In addition, the D-rank Simu Mercenary Group also desperately created chaos, constantly attacking scattered adventurers and small mercenary groups, causing them to scatter and further complicating the situation, increasing the pressure on the other mercenary groups' defenses and making it difficult for them to support the caravan and unite. Most of the other mercenary groups remained entrenched in their positions, hesitant to act rashly.
"Boom boom boom..." In the middle of the caravan, the leaders of the Tianmo Mercenary Group and the Kamo Mercenary Group, two professional sword masters, were silently fighting to the death. No one dared to approach them. Powerful sword energies clashed repeatedly, producing tremendous roars. Shattered sword energy flew in all directions, landing on the ground and among the crowd, leaving behind huge trenches and severed limbs everywhere.
The mercenaries of the Camo Mercenary Group continuously unleashed magic at the Tianmo Mercenary Group and the caravan they were protecting. The Tianmo Mercenary Group members, not to be outdone, fought desperately to protect the caravan while constantly retaliating.
"Wang Han, what should we do now?" Ye Long asked Wang Han after about a thousand people had gathered around.
"As long as the defenses are good, those people are still a disorganized bunch. The more troublesome enemies are yet to come," Wang Han said. In the current situation, the Tianmo Mercenary Group and other mercenary groups would not rashly trust these scattered adventurers who had gathered together. Approaching them rashly would only cause misunderstandings and lead to attacks, and the bandits would arrive here soon.
"Hey, you guys, hurry up and go support the caravan." Just then, a group of mercenaries arrived at where Wang Han and the others were and loudly ordered them.
Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look at Wang Han, awaiting his decision.
"Hmph! Long Huayan." Upon hearing this, Wang Han sneered. Amidst the astonishment and shock of those around him and the terrified gazes of the shouting mercenaries, he suddenly opened his mouth and spewed out a torrent of red flames that covered the approaching mercenaries, burning them all to ashes in a matter of moments.
"Do they think I'm an idiot?" After burning the mercenaries to death, Wang Han sneered and said to those around him, "The situation is too chaotic right now, and scattered adventurers are the easiest to be infiltrated as traitors. Approaching the caravan rashly will only make them look like real enemies and get attacked. Their goal is to incite uninitiated scattered adventurers to approach the caravan, get blocked, be attacked as traitors, and cause more conflict. The mercenaries who are really protecting the caravan will not come after us scattered adventurers who are unsure whether we are friend or foe at this time. So they are the real traitors."
Hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement; it made sense. However, their gazes towards Wang Han changed. They had been terrified by Wang Han's burst of flames just now; he had actually managed to unleash such powerful magic without a staff.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..." Just then, a deluge of arrows suddenly rained down from both mountains, each arrow imbued with sword energy. Amidst the dense rain of arrows, there were also dozens of powerful area-of-effect spells of various elements.
"The bandits are coming! Form a defensive formation to defend against the arrows and magic coming from both sides of the mountain!" Wang Han immediately noticed the dense barrage of arrows falling from the sky and shouted to those around him.
Upon hearing this, the scattered mercenaries did not hesitate. They took out their shields and raised them high above their heads, quickly crowding together to block out the sky above them. The mages released magical shields to strengthen the defensive power of the shield formation and took shelter under the protection of the shields.
In the sky, countless arrows imbued with sword energy fell like rain.
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