In the map opened all the time in front of him, Bloom was now focusing his gaze upon the two roads that suddenly showed up three caravan markings.
"Strange," he muttered before trying to select one of the dots there to see their info.
"System alert: Player can't do that."
"What the f&ck!" Bloom cursed out loud, "I can do this to any other caravan!"
"System alert: Player can't do that."
"System alert: Player can't do that."
"Not a single f&cking explanation!" Bloom was furious by this, yet he couldn't do anything to the system. He was sure this was something the enemy devised, yet he didn't know what it was.
"Trying to act like a merchant caravan?" When Bloom finally caught up with the caravan led by Panty, he noticed the arrangement and the guarding of it seemed much like the merchant caravan he once hijacked.
"Should I hit him now?" he thought to himself before deciding to wait. "My secret ally doesn't show up yet," Bloom thought to himself before checking the map again.
Just as he watched the map and silently followed the distant caravan, he watched the other two caravans get separated at the next road branching point, each heading to a different direction.
'Where are you now? Send me your coordinates.'
Muna immediately sent him the coordinates and Bloom compared these with the map. "As I thought," he muttered before sighing, "trying to bluff me? You are too young for that!"
Bloom then closed the map and started to totally focus on the distant caravan. "If this caravan had the quest item, then I should be able to take it by me alone. However" he hesitated, recalling the system warning.
"What Panty would do if I attacked him? What would I do in that scenario?" he started to think about the odds of the quest item being too far from here. "If so then I will try to stall the attacker as much as I can, while buying time for others. Also" he paused while thinking deeper, "if it was in Muna's caravan, then I should make them move away fast, change their direction at once."
His thoughts ended up here to find that attacking this single caravan now was the best option he had. "No time to waste then," he started to catch up speed, running directly towards the distant caravan while taking out his sword.
"A thief!" Suddenly this shout came from far when he became clearer to those standing behind the caravan.
The caravan had five wagons, dragged by strong horses. One hundred NPCs were already on their horses, arranged around the five wagons to protect them.
And they were surrounded by hundreds of players, led by someone Bloom recognized from far. "Here you are," Bloom smirked, "don't run fast, it's showtime."
The moment Panty heard the shout, he ran towards the rear as he was expecting to see a familiar face. Yet the one he saw was totally different from Bloom.
"Who are you? State your business!" he shouted with a strong tone while the caravan stopped, and the NPC started to turn around.
"Tsk, it's not here," Bloom sighed. If the quest item was inside this caravan, then the optimal response was for them to run away, not stop and welcome the fight.
"Where are you little one?" he muttered while taking some tokens from his inventory.
The next moment a small army of beauties appeared all of sudden in front of everyone's eyes, out of nowhere.
"Hahaha, are you trying to fight us using these beauties? C'mon man, we won't be stunned by their sexy aura," Panty laughed yet his voice seemed quite affected by the dolls of Bloom.
"Attack," Bloom simply muttered, "leave none alive."
His tone was low, yet Panty and many heard him perfectly. "Boys, I promise you to sleep with these girls in the night after we kill him," Panty laughed as he took this as a funny game.
Yet Bloom ignored him as he kept summoning his dolls, increasing their numbers to reach a hundred before he opened the map.
"Muna is still heading her way," he thought to himself before opening the chat as he hurriedly sent: 'Any update?'
'You attacked Panty, and we were asked to come to his aid.'
'Really?' Bloom was surprised before it hit him. 'Damn! It's there.'
He didn't wait any more moment here while turning around and started running.
"Too late my foolish friend, I already said I'll kill you," Panty's voice came from behind while the next moment Bloom heard the loud hooves of the NPCs.
"I should have known this," Bloom blamed himself, "there is not a single shrine of life elder here."
As he started to run, the sound of hooves were getting closer and closer. He just passed a turn in the road before finally turning around. "Time to stop this meaningless chase," he muttered and then added, "shade doppelganger festival."
He was at level seventeen, and so he could summon seventeen clones. The next moment he and the clones welcomed the incoming riders while he made sure the title was in place.
"NPC nemesis: any NPC you draw your sword on his face will have his level and stats reduced to be one level lower than you."
Just as he went to meet the riders, he noticed an evil smile over their faces. They seemed to take this as a childish play, yet when they swords were clashed they changed their minds instantly.
"Kill them all," Bloom muttered while adding, "dash!"
The next moment he headed towards an NPC he threw to the ground off his horse back. Just before the NPC could adjust his position, he was hit by Bloom's dash and stunned.
"Next," Bloom laughed as he just stabbed him thrice before the NPC finally fell down. He turned to meet another one, and another, sending them all flying off the backs of their horses while laughing as he enjoyed his time.