"Make the major guilds acknowledge us?" Mu Xin let out a rare, bitter smile. "This is the only provisional seat that has any real chance of being obtained. How could the major guilds just give it up?"
"There are six provisional seats this time. Why do you think the major guilds voluntarily gave up the other five?" Shi Feng asked in return.
"That goes without saying. Obviously because those five super guilds are far too strong for any other guild to contend with." Mu Xin stared at Shi Feng, her heart full of bewilderment. She had no idea why he was asking such a question.
The fact that five of the provisional seats were already claimed was common knowledge.
Otherwise, the major guilds wouldn't be fighting tooth and nail over the sixth seat right now, willing to pay any price.
"Exactly. It's because those five super guilds are strong enough," Shi Feng nodded. "That's why the other guilds don't dare compete."
"You mean you want the major guilds to think we're so strong that we're untouchable?" Mu Xin's beautiful eyes widened. She felt like Shi Feng was spinning a fairy tale and shook her head. "That's completely impossible."
"Our Frost Heaven's Sword doesn't have that kind of strength right now."
"Indeed. Frost Heaven's Sword doesn't have it now, and can't possibly have it," Shi Feng said without the slightest tact. "That's exactly why we need to go absolutely berserk — berserk enough that every major guild feels fear and dread. Only by forcing ourselves to the brink of death can we claw our way back to life."
Defending was not an option now. There was simply no way to hold the line.
With the five super guilds excluded, when every other guild was an enemy, even he couldn't turn the tide alone. This was a contest of resources, not a straightforward test of combat strength. Even if he seized an entire island, he would still lose, because there were seventeen other islands to account for.
Moreover, seizing a whole island by himself was practically impossible.
The entire No. 3 large-scale island was like a Level 100 neutral zone. With guild players scattered and hiding everywhere, even with a magical domain, tracking them down would be enormously tedious — let alone the fact that these were all Tier 3 experts. Without a domain blanketing the area, they could move incredibly fast when they ran.
Put bluntly, it would be like trying to hunt down tens of thousands of pigs scattering across an island. He simply couldn't kill them all. And on top of that, he needed to capture and secure numerous resource nodes.
"But how do we do it?"
"Even if we go berserk, we need a target!"
Mu Xin understood what Shi Feng meant, but she truly couldn't imagine any method that would make the major guilds fearful — fearful enough to voluntarily withdraw from the competition.
"Of course there's a way," Shi Feng said with a smile. "And there's already a ready-made target."
"You mean the Miracle Guild?" Mu Xin shook her head. "Miracle used an open scheme against us, but even if we wipe them out completely, the other guilds probably won't back off."
"No. Not Miracle. How could Miracle possibly have that kind of weight?" Shi Feng shook his head with a smile. "Didn't you already spell it out clearly earlier — what kind of guild would make all the major powers too afraid to provoke?"
"You mean…" Mu Xin's breath caught sharply.
"That's right. The five super guilds." Shi Feng nodded. "Of course, our target isn't going to be all five. We only need to pick one — Vision Myth."
In his previous life, Vision Myth had propped up the Miracle Guild to power. Since they had already clashed with Miracle, a confrontation with Vision Myth was inevitable sooner or later. He might as well strike first and seize the initiative.
"Isn't that completely insane? They're one of the five super guilds!"
The mere thought of making an enemy of one of the five super guilds sent a tremor of fear through Mu Xin.
The five super guilds were like blazing suns in the virtual gaming world. People might talk about surpassing them in casual conversation, but actually daring to challenge them was an entirely different matter.
For the major superpowers, the stronger they themselves were, the more they feared those five super guilds — because the five hid their true depths so well that no one could see where their limits lay.
"This isn't insanity," Shi Feng said, shaking his head with absolute seriousness. "This is Frost Heaven's Sword's only way out."
"As for whether your Frost Heaven's Sword wants to claim that seat, that's a choice your guild has to make."
After that, Shi Feng said nothing more, leaving it entirely to Mu Xin to relay this to Yu Long Qi Jue. Whether they did it or not depended entirely on how the guild master chose to think.
"Go to war with Vision Myth directly? Has Black Flame lost his mind?" Yu Cang nearly jumped when he received the news, hastily contacting Yu Long Qi Jue. "Guild Master, that's Vision Myth — one of the five super guilds! Forget about our single Frost Heaven's Sword; even three Frost Heaven's Swords combined probably wouldn't stand a chance!"
"I know." Yu Long Qijue's face was grim, his tone tinged with helplessness. "But if Frost Heaven's Sword wants to secure that seat, we only have two options — go to war with the major guilds, or go to war with Vision Myth. There's simply no other possibility…"
The Miracle Guild had played its hand far too viciously.