Chapter 4418 — Uproar
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In the end, the duel concluded with the Qingtian Escort Agency winning a sweeping victory. They successfully seized the escort goods, and not one of their four men died. At the cost of two severely wounded and two lightly wounded, they managed to kill two of their opponents, and their final score was sixty points!
Such a record was already considered quite high across the entire field. After all, the participants were restricted to Golden Core stage experts, and the gaps between escort agencies could not be fully reflected—it was very hard for a completely one-sided situation to occur.
One had to know that even the strongest agency on the field, the Sihai Escort Agency, had only scored fifty points in its escort-seizing battle—ten points lower than the Qingtian Escort Agency!
However, when the escort-defending battle and the escort-seizing battle were added together, the Sihai Escort Agency instead pulled far ahead, because in its escort-defending battle against the second-string lineup of the Yongxing Escort Agency, it had won a sweeping victory and taken seventy points. Added together, that made one hundred and twenty points!
As for the Qingtian Escort Agency, although it had shone brilliantly in the escort-seizing battle, on the other side, the performance in the escort-defending battle that Qi Wenmo personally took charge of could only be described as dismal.
The reason the escort-seizing battle had gone so brilliantly was entirely thanks to Wei Zhao's on-the-spot command. Otherwise, forget about scoring sixty points—they likely would not even have been able to snatch the escort goods, would not have gotten a single point, and would have had to send several lives to their deaths.
On the escort-defending side that Qi Wenmo was responsible for, however, there was not the slightest trace of Wei Zhao's kind of command awareness. Like the other escort agencies, the most they did was instruct everyone to look out for one another; there was no properly formed or effective tactic to speak of. The only role the young master Qi Wenmo played in supervising the battle on the spot was to boost morale.
The strength of the Wuma Escort Agency was a notch above even that of the Yongxing Escort Agency, and this agency's style had always been to fight people to the death regardless of the cost. So every year, whenever they had a match, it would always develop in the direction of ever greater brutality—and this time was no exception.
In the end, of the four men the Wuma Escort Agency sent onto the field, three died on the spot, and the remaining one was gravely wounded and on the verge of death. On the Qingtian Escort Agency's side, although they had gone through untold hardships and finally managed to defend the escort goods, they had likewise paid the price of three lives!
In the span of a single stick of incense, within that small patch of ground, six lives had been snuffed out one after another. Everywhere the eye fell was dazzling fresh blood. Even though everyone present had long since grown accustomed to all kinds of slaughter in the Southern Continent's waters, their nerves long since numbed, they still could not help but find it hard to look directly at such a bloody scene—it was even hair-raising.
Qi Wenmo's face was ashen, and for a long time he could not speak. Although he had expected this match would not be easy to fight—after all, the Wuma Escort Agency was universally acknowledged as an extremely tough bone to gnaw—he had never imagined it would reach such a degree!
One had to know that in order to ensure scoring in the escort-defending battle, he had sent out all of the first-rate experts in the agency who had volunteered. The lineup's strength was a notch above even the escort-seizing lineup Wei Zhao had led. Yet the result had been such a cruel outcome—how could anyone bear it?