Inside the fast food restaurant Muqiu felt like being squeezed to death. This place was so crowded! The Internet Café was across the street from the club building of team Excellent Era, so many Excellent Era fans would go there – hoping they to bump into one of their idols. A few steps further was the McDonalds, in which Muqiu feared for his life. Logically having team Excellent Era's main roster avatars as figures would cause many fans of the team to come over, especially since the team wasn't that far away. Hell would break loose, if the people knew that team Excellent Era's captain – pardon, former captain – was waiting in the line right now! Luckily no one knew or paid attention to Muqiu.
Never in his life had he thought that he would spent almost an hour in the waiting line, but now it just had happened. When getting back on the street, he let out a sigh and then hurried back to the Internet Café. Poor Ye Xiu must be starving by now! During his time waiting to get to the counter, Muqiu also started to feel hungrier with every passing second.

When entering the Internet Café, he saw that Ye Xiu was busy with dealing with the costumers. Some wanted a computer, some wanted to pay and leave. While he had been out, more people had come and now the small Internet Café looked as if there was no space left. It was amazing how popular Glory was, even after so many years. There were still about three hours left until the new server would open. Maybe it was because of Ye Xiu's Lord Grim that people were so hyped? Were they hoping for another miracle? Hoping that Lord Grim would come to the new server? Or that someone like Lord Grim would appear? Well, they weren't that wrong. If Muqiu started in the new server, things would be very similar to what had happened in the previous one. How could a bunch of guild experts compete with a god? With the expert amongst the experts? The god amongst gods? His opponents always had struggled against him. How could the guilds go against someone, who even caused other gods to tense up? Muqiu would feel sorry, if he cared.
He sneaked behind the counter and sat down in the empty chair next to Ye Xiu. Those who regularly come to the Internet Café around this time, where used to Muqiu by now. They didn't know his name, so to them he was just the nice strange with questionable fashion choices. In case, they needed something from him or where talking about him, they always used his tenth server account name. Calling someone by their account name wasn't uncommon. Even Ye Xiu was mostly called Lord Grim by the costumers, although most of them knew his name – at least his last name. When Ye Xiu was just One Autumn Leaf, Muqiu had called him Ye Qiu – yes, he had been too lazy to write or say the other one's full account name. This habitat hadn't changed, even when he found out that Lord Grim and One Autumn Leaf were the same person. Even now he sometimes would call Ye Xiu Ye Qiu. When the other one had informed him that the real name was Ye Xiu, Muqiu had busted out into laughter and it became even louder when hearing that Ye Xiu had a twin brother called Ye Qiu. "Have you called your avatar after your brother?", Muqiu had asked once. "No, it was an accident", had been the answer.
Muqiu had placed the bag with the food on his lap. Was it fine for them to eat here? Somehow Muqiu doubted that Xiu's boss would be happy about it. Thinking about it, he had never encountered his friend's boss. He knew that said boss was a woman, but nothing else – oh, and she was so done with Ye Xiu's personality, which was quite understandable. Ye Xiu's obsession with Glory was second to none! Not even Muqiu would not say he was equally obsessed, less even more. Yet, he really liked that part of his friend and since he shared the other one's love for Glory, he had no problem dealing with the other one's obsession. People that weren't into gaming or Glory, would probably have some issues with it – or people that could live without Glory.
"You're finally back?"
"Yeah. Honestly, I thought I wouldn't make it out there. But don't worry, I got you one of the figures."
All costumers were dealt with for now, so Ye Xiu also sat down and immediately took the bag from Muqiu's lap to look inside in search for the figure.
"Ah, that's great. You even got the right one without me saying anything. Now you only need to sign it. Well, Mucheng's Dancing Rain would have been better, but I guess, it's already sold out. Your sister is just too popular!"
Indeed, Muqiu had tried to get Dancing Rain at first, but since she was sold out, he had taken the second best choice. Ye Xiu hadn't told him, if he needed a specific figure and until now had never shown any particular interest in team Excellent Era's avatars besides their strengths and weaknesses. So, when he asked for a figure Muqiu concluded – after a round of thinking in the waiting line – that it was for someone else.
The fact that Ye Xiu pushed the figure into his hands, followed by a pen was prove for his theory.
"Who is it for?", Muqiu asked while signing the stand of the figure.
"For the boss. She's a big fan of yours and Mucheng. Well, it's unfortunate that Dancing Rain is so popular. She would have been the better choice."
Ye Xiu sounded really sad.
"Are trying to hit on your boss?"
It was a joke, but his friend seemed to take the question quite serious, since Ye Xiu looked at him as if he had lost his mind.
"No, but maybe she will increase my payment."
As if!
Muqiu didn't know what had happened, but he was sure that Ye Xiu had done something stupid and needed to calm his boss down. Giving her a figure of one of her favorite teams, a figure of one of her favorite avatars, a figure signed by one of her favorite players, was probably the best idea make up for whatever he might have done.
"Maybe you should just apologize for whatever you've done."
"I would, if I knew what I've done."
Perhaps it was his obsession with Glory that trigged his boss' agro. Wouldn't be the first time!

"Let's eat for now or else the food gets cold and that would be a waste."
Without waiting for any kind of response, Ye Xiu stated eating, while playing Glory and taking care of the incoming and leaving costumers – it was just a handful, but one had still to take care of them. Muqiu silently watched his friend playing and working.
"Want me to teach you, how to register the costumers and how to settle the bills?", Ye Xiu suddenly asked after they finished the fast food.
About two hours were left until the new server opened.
"I am not here to do your work!", Muqiu reminded the other one.
"Oh, don't be like that. You should be thankful that I am so generous to let you use a computer without charging for it and not revealing your identity."
Both sides knew that Ye Xiu did not really care, whether Muqiu helped him or not. First of all there wasn't much to do anyway and secondly they were friends and friends helped each other when needed – like all the times, when Muqiu gave Ye Xiu some money, so the latter could buy his cigarettes.
"Well, I guess, I have nothing better to do. So teach me, oh great master of the reception."
And with that Muqiu learned how to register the incoming people for a computer and settle the bills for those, who wanted to leave. Not that there was much to do, since barely anyone was coming or leaving – one and a half hour until midnight. Maybe he should have used the time to write Mucheng a message and ask her to meet up with him and give him his account cards. At least than he could play a little bit, while waiting for the new serve to start. In his despair Muqiu finally decided to ask Xiu for one of his accounts.
At the moment the other one was playing as One Autumn Leaf in the Heavenly Domain, thus Lord Grim was unused! It really was a shame that a person could only use one account at a time. Even with two computers a person only had two hands and both were needed to efficiently play with one avatar. In case Ye Xiu would ever joint the pro scene, which avatar would he choose? He could only use one avatar, could only be register with the Alliance with one avatar! One Autumn Leaf and Ye Xiu were together since the start and one could even say that One Autumn Leaf was Ye Xiu and Ye Xiu was One Autumn Leaf. However those of the tenth serve knew Lord Grim more than One Autumn Leaf, also going pro with an unspecialized was not only a challenge, but also something that had never happened before. People anticipated Lord Grim to make his way into the pro scene. For them it was just a question of time, when it would happen. Some assumed that the club simply hadn't made the right offer to the person behind the infamous unspecialized, while others assumed that Lord Grim's owner simply was not interested. A few argued that the club may have given up on the player, since it was over a year since the tenth sever had been lunched and nothing had changed. New talents had entered the stage, but none of them were Lord Grim. Although the clubs were interested in new players, in remarkable talents, they wouldn't run after them forever. Muqiu had suggested team Excellent Era to give up on Lord Grim, because he knew that his newly made friend had no interest in joining them and this had been the best decision. His friend's personality wouldn't have fit into the team, especially since Ye Xiu valued teamwork the most. Him being part of a team that seemingly didn't know what teamwork even was, was unthinkable! So wasting resources and time to chase after him was stupid and Excellent Dynasty had more important things to worry about – since they were falling behind the other guilds more and more. On the other hand, maybe Muqiu shouldn't have made this recommendation back then and let Lord Grim get more materials from the guild to upgrade his weapon.
"Give me Lord Grim", Muqiu demanded.
"Why?"
"I want to play."
"Well, I figured as much."

As someone with a deep understanding and great interest in the equipment editor, Muqiu looked at the Myriad Manifestation Umbrella first, after he logged into Lord Grim's account. Of course he could simply asked Ye Xiu, how this unique weapon had been made and how it worked, but he preferred to find it out by himself. Therefor he started to play around in a relatively abandoned area in the Heavenly Domain. Somehow it wasn't surprising at all that Lord Grim had logged out at such an isolated place. Not only was he seen as some kind of monster and obstacle in the tenth serve, the inhabitants of the Heavenly Domain were even more unpleased by his present. It was probably the best that no one besides Ye Xiu's close friends knew that One Autumn Leaf and Lord Grim were handled by the same person. Strangely enough barely anyone had a problem with One Autumn Leaf, which was probably due to the fact that while being a Battle Mage, Ye Xiu wasn't as shameless as usual. When asked about it, the other one had replied that there was no need for One Autumn Leaf to go on material hunt anymore, since Lord Grim could do this on his own now. One Autumn Leaf was mostly used to get around without standing out too much. The majority of the players in the Heavenly Domain didn't know about this once well-known avatar. Those who remembered didn't care anymore, since now there were more outstanding avatars and players. Who knew if One Autumn Leaf could even compete with them? Just because he once had been considered the strongest, didn't mean he still was the strongest. Muqiu was sure that those who now looked down on One Autumn Leaf would soon regret it. Ye Xiu was preparing for something big and whatever it was, it involved both of his avatars!
"Where are you?", Muqiu asked after playing around for half an hour.
"Dungeon."
"Which one?"
As if there were only one dungeon in the entire domain! What was wrong with his friend tonight? Usually he didn't asked so many questions, but it was not unusual for him to give such useless answers. Still, the combination of both annoyed Muqiu.
As kind as Xiu was, he gave Muqiu the needed information, so the latter could come over. He may not be able to run the dungeon with the rest of the group, but he could wait for them outside and then go to the next one with them. There was still an hour left until the new served would be opened. And even then he had more than enough time to register with his account. There were no rewards for being the first to enter the new server. Well, the chances that the name one wanted for the avatar was already taken, was higher when registering later, but Muqiu did not care much about the name. During his career in the pro scene and as professional helper of the guild Excellent Dynasty, he was used to play avatars with ridiculous names – or see ridiculous names.
While waiting outside many other players crossed Muqiu's path and although the avatars all had a stoic face, he always had a feeling of uneasiness when looking at them. It was as if he could feel the disdained and hostile looks of the players behind the monitor on him. Lord Grim was popular, but not in the good way. Of course, there were also people that like him or else the guild Ye Xiu had established in the tenth server, wouldn't have gotten any members. The same applied for the Heavenly Domain. Although the guild with the name Happy, was quite small, thus was quite weak, the big guilds did not dare to act negligent towards them. It was known to everyone that One Autumn Leaf and Lord Grim both belong to this guild – it had been One Autumn Leaf, who had opened the guild in the Heavenly Domain. Chen Yehui had broken a glass, when he had heard this. As guild leader of Excellent Dynasty, he knew who One Autumn Leaf was or had been and he knew that said player had left the guild. How dare he to make his own guild and try to rival against the well-established guilds? That person was just as shameless and despicable as Lord Grim!

"Hey, boss! Wow, you're able to play with two accounts at the same time? Amazing! Well, that explains your unsteady performance in the dungeon. You shouldn't do that!", a loud and cheerful voice greeted Muqiu's Lord Grim, which caused him to almost jump out of his chair, because he hadn't expected such a loud noise suddenly tormenting his poor ears.
The system should have given him a warning: "Warning: A loud Steamed Bun Invasion is approaching. Be prepared to go deaf."