The King's Avatar

by Stayrr

In the online game Glory, Ye Xiu is regarded as a textbook and a top-tier pro-player. However, due to a myriad reasons, he is kicked from the team. After leaving the professional scene, he finds work in an Internet Cafe as a manager. When Glory launches its tenth server, he who possesses ten years of gaming experience once again throws himself into the game. Bringing with him the..

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Chapter 1: The Banished Battle God

Translator:Nomyummi

Editor:GravityTales

Click click, tap tap…

A pair of nimble hands fluttered across the keyboard and mouse, producing rhythmic tapping sounds much like a lively symphony. The screen flashed with bright light and the opponent fell to the ground in a spray of blood.

"Hehe," Ye Qiu chuckled as he lifted his hand to take the cigarette dangling at the corner of his mouth. The silver-white smoke had already formed long tendrils hanging in the air, but Ye Qiu continued with his work, brandishing his mouse and striking his keyboard, not in the least bit distracted. The removed cigarette was quickly extinguished in an eccentrically-shaped ashtray on the table, and Ye Qiu's hand flew back to the keyboard. Right when he was about to say a few words to his opponent, the door of his room was suddenly pushed open with a bang.

Ye Qiu didn't turn his head, as though he had been waiting for this moment. He merely asked, "Here?"

"Here." Su Mucheng's reply was also simple.

"Then let's go!" Ye Qiu declined his opponent's request for another duel and gently removed the card from Glory's dedicated log-in device. He headed to the door, grabbing a jacket from a clothes hanger on his way out.

The night had already darkened considerably, but Club Excellent Era's lights were still bright. Ye Qiu and Su Mucheng left the room and walked all the way to the end of the corridor. Located here was a spacious conference room; at the entrance, digital display screens almost completely covered the walls. They showed the rankings of the "Glory Professional Alliance" and various technical statistics.

Ranking: Team Excellent Era, number 19 – second to last place.

For a trump card team that had once won three consecutive championship titles in the league, this score was particularly painful to the eyes. It hung brightly and glaringly on the wall, as if heartlessly mocking everyone.

But the atmosphere in the room wasn't heavy. On the contrary, it was somewhat lively. The members of Excellent Era were all gathered around one person as if they were stars surrounding the moon. Most of them didn't react to Ye Qiu's arrival, and the ones that did quickly swept over him with expressions of coldness and mockery.

"Ye Qiu, the club has already decided that the newly-transferred Sun Xiang will take over your position as captain. From now on, Sun Xiang will be in control of your account One Autumn Leaf." The club manager saw the arrival of Ye Qiu and immediately turned his head to speak. With no tact or prior warning, he notified him of this in an ice-cold manner, as if he were throwing away a ball of used toilet paper.

Su Mucheng opened her mouth to speak, but Ye Qiu lightly tugged at her sleeve. He smiled faintly and shook his head at her, indicating that he wasn't fazed.

"Brother Ye, I'm sorry, I took your position as soon as I arrived." The left-hand side of the conference table was the exclusive seat for Excellent Era's team captain. It should have been Ye Qiu's seat. But Sun Xiang casually sat there as he said these few words, barely sparing a glance for Ye Qiu. This was no longer ignorance; rather, it was a form of disregard. His gaze fell instead upon the body of Su Mucheng, who had arrived with Ye Qiu.

To be fair, Su Mucheng was indeed more attractive to the eye than Ye Qiu. She was known as the Glory Professional Alliance's number one beauty. If she were thrown into the show business, she would still be considered a rare beauty.

Even the Excellent Era members who saw her every day were still somewhat stunned when they saw Su Mucheng enter. But they quickly recovered, because today there was a more important person that deserved their attention.

"Haha, Brother Xiang, with those words, this position definitely suits you." Everyone promptly scrambled for their lines after Sun Xiang spoke.

"Right, some people are already old and outdated!"

"One Autumn Leaf should really be under Brother Xiang's command! Only he can show the true strength of the Battle God."

This was the subject of everyone's focus – Sun Xiang, a genius-level player of the new generation of the Glory Professional Alliance. When he joined the league last season, Sun Xiang won the Best Newcomer title with his MVP-like stats. This season, he led the mediocre Team Conquering Clouds to eighth place, and they had strong hopes of advancing to the playoffs. But during the mid-season transfer window, he transferred to the collapsing Excellent Era. It was entirely because, although Excellent Era's performance this season was terrible, they possessed a character who was regarded as the Battle God of Glory: Battle Mage One Autumn Leaf.

Sun Xiang was young and hadn't even been a part of the Alliance for two years, but these Excellent Era members shamelessly approached him, calling him their elder brother. It was clear that Sun Xiang would be the future leader of the team, and he comfortably accepted their flattery. It was a while before he was willing to spare a glance for Ye Qiu, his eyes filled with disdain.

"Ye Qiu, hand over One Autumn Leaf's account card to Sun Xiang!" the club manager said.

Even if Ye Qiu was unfazed before, at this moment, his heart couldn't help but ache. Ye Qiu, One Autumn Leaf, the relationship between these two names was obvious. This was the name created when he had first entered the online game world of Glory.

Ten years. This account had accompanied Ye Qiu for a full ten years. The newbie of back then had become the expert Glory Textbook; the insignificant Battle Mage had turned into the famed Battle God in Glory. But seven years ago, when he entered the professional circle, he signed a business contract with the club transferring to them all of the rights to One Autumn Leaf. Ye Qiu had long known that they would part ways one day, and now this day finally arrived.

Ye Qiu's fingers trembled just slightly. For a pro-player, steady hands were a must. This old veteran had an immense, unrivaled mental strength, but right now, his hands were trembling. To the side, Su Mucheng twisted her head. She did not want to see this scene, but she was powerless to help.

Under the gazes of everyone delighting in his misfortune, One Autumn Leaf, that silver-white account card, was handed over to Sun Xiang.

Sun Xiang's eyes lit up with greed and excitement. Excellent Era had been greatly plummeting these past two years, but he had willingly transferred here solely because they had this pinnacle account One Autumn Leaf. One Autumn Leaf's former owner Ye Qiu had not performed well these past few years, and he often broke out in arguments with the club. Sun Xiang had one hundred percent confidence in replacing him.

"Mine!" In the instant he grabbed the card, Sun Xiang felt a burst of excitement. But as he tried to pull away, he felt a trace of resistance from the card.

Sun Xiang felt Ye Qiu's reluctance and proudly chortled, "Let go, Brother Ye. Look at your hands, they're shaking like this! How could those hands show off the power of the Battle God? Better leave it to me! I'll let the title of Battle God once again resound through Glory. You? Retire!"

Up until now, Ye Qiu had mostly acted indifferent, aside from that reluctance when handing over the account card. But after saying this, Sun Xiang saw a sharp flash in Ye Qiu's eyes, and he discovered in shock that Ye Qiu's trembling hands suddenly steadied.

"Do you like this game?" Ye Qiu asked suddenly, looking straight at Sun Xiang.

"What?" Sun Xiang was startled.

"If you like it, then treat this all as glory, and not boasting."

"What did you say? What does this have to do with you?" Sun Xiang suddenly lost control. At this moment, without knowing why, he felt that he was a head shorter than Ye Qiu. He didn't want to lose to his opponent in attitude. He came here to replace Ye Qiu. He came here to take the Battle God One Autumn Leaf.

"Take care of it." Just when Sun Xiang wanted to muster his loftiness, Ye Qiu had already let go of the account card. He said this phrase faintly, and turned around to leave.

"Ye Qiu!" At this moment, the manager suddenly called out.

Ye Qiu stopped and tilted his head slightly to the side, listening as the manager said behind him, "The club doesn't have any suitable account cards to give you right now. For now, you can just stay as a training partner!"

Training partner… A person who had built a dynasty in the Alliance, an expert who had earned all of the individual honors of Glory, had actually fallen now to become a mere training partner.

Sun Xiang was very interested in this arrangement, immediately laughing out loud. "With Brother Ye's skill level, helping train won't be a problem. Only you deserve to be Glory Professional Alliance's number one training partner!"

"Ha ha." Ye Qiu actually laughed at that insult. He turned towards the manager. "Training partner? I don't think that's necessary. Cancel the contract!"

"Cancel the contract? Are you actively seeking to cancel the contract?" The manager looked as if he were in deep thought.

"Right. I request to cancel the contract."

"Don't be rash!" Su Mucheng immediately rushed over to stop Ye Qiu. The Alliance had its own rules. Except for special reasons during the contract period, anyone requesting to cancel a contract had to pay a penalty fee. Ye Qiu and Excellent Era still had another one and a half years in the contract. If he were to forcefully request a termination of the contract, then the loss would be huge. But more than that, Su Mucheng feared Ye Qiu's departure.

"The boss isn't here yet, wait for him to come before you continue speaking!" Su Mucheng hoped that Ye Qiu would calm down.

Ye Qiu had noticed the trace of ridicule at the corners of the manager's mouth long ago. He shook his head towards Su Mucheng and laughed bitterly. "Mucheng, don't you understand? My departure is the boss's goal. I no longer have any value to this club. I'm only a money sink."

"No way, how could you be a money sink? Your strength doesn't lose to anyone," Su Mucheng said.

"This isn't just an issue of strength. This is business," Ye Qiu said. "And me? I've never had any business value."

"You should have had value. You chose to give it up." The manager coldly interjected at this moment.

"Right, this is my choice," Ye Qiu said. The current Glory Professional Alliance was flourishing, sponsors flocking left and right. Celebrity players in Glory were naturally sought after for advertisements or endorsements. But even though Ye Qiu was the top-tier level player, he rejected all advertising offers. He even refused to take part in interviews or press conferences. He was like an ancient netizen, carefully concealing his true identity in virtual reality.

The club was extremely dissatisfied with this matter. In their eyes, he was a gold mountain right beside him, yet they couldn't dig out even the slightest amount of profit. They were only able to put up with him because his strength was tyrannical, helping the Club gain fame and glory. But as their achievements declined, everything was now in the past.

"The Alliance's commercialization allowed us to survive, but now…" Ye Qiu couldn't say anything further. He also didn't know whether this development was good or bad. The current Alliance was full of greed. Every Alliance boss's first consideration was how to exploit the team to make a profit. Harboring a love for gaming and tirelessly struggling for glory, Ye Qiu cherished his memories of the early days of the Alliance. But now, the Alliance only strived for profit.

Su Mucheng didn't say another word. She had walked alongside Ye Qiu on this same path; she too was a veteran who had witnessed all of this. Her eyes were brimming with tears. She knew that Ye Qiu truly wanted to leave, and blocking him would only make it more painful for him.

"Since it's like this, I…"

"No need." Ye Qiu smiled, interrupting Su Mucheng. He knew what she wanted to say, and so he said to her, "Don't worry, I haven't lost all hope yet. I'll be back."

"Not bad. That's the ambitious Ye Qiu I recognize. Then, let's talk about the penalty fee! Honestly speaking, since you've been with us for so many years and contributed so much, we won't push it. If you want to leave, then let's all sit down and talk about the details of cancelling the contract. How about it?"

"Tell it to me straight. What are the conditions?" Ye Qiu asked.

"The condition is simple: announce your retirement," the manager said.

"Retirement! You call that condition not pushing it?" Su Mucheng was furious. Ye Qiu was 25 years old this year. For pro players in competitive esports, this age was already considered old, and retiring at this age was not at all strange. But Ye Qiu already stated clearly that he didn't want to quit. The Excellent Era manager's condition of retirement was obviously directed against him.

Retired pro players of course were not qualified to participate in a tournament. Although they could return, the Glory Professional Alliance had a rule stating that a retired pro player could only return after a full year. This was to prevent the team-switching games played by people retiring one day and returning the next.

Ye Qiu was already at the twilight years of his career. Every day was precious, but now they wanted him to waste a year. After one year, even if he wanted to return again, he would be old and lacking a year of intense competition to maintain his skill level. Even if he had his former fame, it was highly uncertain that a team would still be willing to accept him. In addition, Ye Qiu had his fatal flaw: he refused all business-related activities.

It seemed like an unacceptable condition, but Ye Qiu simply nodded his head. "I agree."

"Are you crazy?" Su Mucheng exclaimed.

"I've worked so hard for so many years, what's so bad about a year of rest?" Ye Qiu smiled.

"What… what are you thinking?" Su Mucheng didn't understand.

"Nothing much." Ye Qiu turned his head. The manager had already handed over the documents. Ye Qiu took a glance at them and laughed a bit. They'd really prepared for this long ago! As he thought about this, Ye Qiu put the pen to the paper and quickly signed his name.

Just about to leave…

Ye Qiu took one final look at this place where he had spent seven years. He didn't say any polite farewells and silently turned around to leave.

"I'll send you off." Su Mucheng was the only one to follow behind him.

T/N: Ye Qiu literally translates to Autumn Leaf

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Chapter 2: Area 3 Number 47

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"Chie, who do you think you are!"

"Letting him retire is for his sake. What else can he do?"

"Right right. As tactful as he is, he wouldn't think to blame the club for retiring him."

Ye Qiu and Su MuCheng left. Everyone else in the conference room suddenly recovered and began mocking him again. But Sun Xian's expression was mixed. He did not participate and moved closer to the manager instead: "I don't understand. How could he have accepted these conditions?"

"He had no other choice but to accept." the manager said.

"Why?"

"Because he can't pay the penalty fee." the manager said.

"How… … How can that be?" Sun Xiang was stunned. Ye Qiu had worked hard as a professional gamer for seven years and was also at the peak. Even if he had refused all business related matters, his salary shouldn't have been so low that he would be unable to pay for the penalty fee.

"You weren't in that generation, so you wouldn't know. In the Alliance's initial stages, the Alliance pro-players were nowhere near as impressive as now. At that time, the pro-players that had been fired ended up in terrible situations Most of their youth had been used up on gaming. But none of them were skilled enough and most of them fell into dire financial straits. Ye Qiu was that era's genius and we relied on his achievements to get to where we are today. But he had a lot of friends like that."

"So what you're saying is that most of his assets were given to those friends?" Sun Xiang's eyes widened.

"Right."

"Then if he needed the money, why would he refuse to accept business activities?" Sun Xiang asked.

"No one knows the reason for this." the manager said.

"You don't have any guesses?" Sun Xiang asked.

"It might have something to do with his family." the manager said.

"Eh?"

"No one knows anything about his family. He also never talks about them. It's very strange, which is why I suspect it." the manager said.

"This person …. … has a lot of stories!" Sun Xiang lifted up the One Autumn Leaf card that Ye Qiu gave him. He knew that Ye Qiu had made this account long before the Professional Alliance had been created. Used all the way up until now, this card was one of Glory's oldest accounts.

"Okay, let's not talk about him anymore. The boss is busy today and can't come. But he gave me this bottle of aged red wine from his collection just for your welcoming." the manager said.

"Ha ha, thank you very much! With me, Excellent Era will shine once again!"

Ye Qiu left.

Su MuCheng stood in front of the club's entrance. She stood like this until Ye Qiu disappeared into the distance. He repeatedly turned around to wave his hand. Tears had already begun streaming down Su MuCheng's cheeks long ago.

Without saying too much, Ye Qiu said a total of eight words: "I'll rest a year and then come back."

Su MuCheng did not say another word. She only nodded her head again and again. She was no longer that innocent young girl and had already assumed a lot of responsibilities alone.

Snowflakes floated in the air. This winter was very cold.

Snowing?

When Ye Qiu left the club, he hadn't thought of the next step. Having grown accustomed to a lifestyle for so many years, he had not yet adapted to the sudden change yet. He wanted to walk along like this until his thoughts cleared.

Who knew that the weather wouldn't give him this opportunity? At this moment, snow began to fall moreover more and more fell as time went on. Flying snowflakes quickly hit him wetting his shoulders. Icicles also formed on his head. If he didn't take shelter, he would die.

Ye Qiu looked around left and right and saw an Internet Cafe along the road. The lights were still brightly lit this late at night and he dashed towards it at once.

The Internet Cafe was nice and warm.Ye Qiu burst in and shook the snowflakes off of his body and went up to the reception desk.

"Area 3 Number 47." The young lady at the reception desk informed him of an open computer. She soon handed over an ID card to boot up the computer only to see that he had already left. The young lady didn't fuss over it. This type of matter evidently happened quite often. She silently put away the ID card knowing that he would have to come back to get it.

Area 3 Number 47, Ye Qiu followed the signs searching. This Internet Cafe wasn't small. There were many computers and there was even a second floor. Area 3… …Ye Qiu saw the Area Number on the ceiling. It looked like he didn't need to go up to the second floor.

Once he counted to Number 47, Ye Qiu became startled. This station had already been taken by a woman. Moreover, she was playing Glory. She was currently in the Arena dueling. Her fierce movements caused the ponytail bunched up high on her head to sway.

Facing towards her, he saw her controlling a Launcher. Ye Qiu blanked. He almost thought that Su MuCheng was sitting there.

But he quickly realized that it wasn't her. Su MuCheng was always gentle and serene. Even during in an intense PK confrontation, she always held a smile.Speaking about her, Ye Qiu sometimes watched as she smiled while causing her opponents to explode into pieces. When she then politely said sorry, he would always inexplicably tremble a bit.

As for this girl, her appearance was also beautiful and gentle. But she fumed with rage and devastated her keyboard in an all-out effort making him feel that her appearance from top to bottom was a huge trap.

"Her murderous spirit is too scary. Only what a pity… …" Ye Qiu saw the screen clearly. He saw that this girl was about to be in a terrible situation. As expected, her opponent capitalized on the opportunity as soon as she made a mistake. In two hits, what little life remaining immediately drained all at once.

"D*MN IT!" Ye Qiu heard this girl roar in rage. She slammed the keyboard directly shutting down the game.

Ye Qiu hesitated on whether he still wanted the station or not. The girl already turned her head glancing at the hesitant Ye Qiu. Furiously getting up, she asked: "Computer?"

Ye Qiu nodded his head.

"Then sit down!" The girl had already left.

Ye Qiu shook his head at the impatience of ordinary gamers and finally sat down.

Chen Guo was depressed, extremely depressed. She had just dueled 52 times in the Arena, but she hadn't won a single one. She didn't want to believe this was real.

Chen Guo rubbed the "Chasing Haze" in her pocket. Her account wasn't bad. Among ordinary players, her account would be considered quite strong and her skill level wasn't low. She had played Glory for a full five years. Her opponent's account wasn't as good as hers, but she still couldn't win over him a single time over 52 duels.

"He's a powerful expert." Chen Guo concluded.

"Boss, you haven't logged out yet. Why is that person playing?" Chen Guo was thinking as she walked, when a voice suddenly interrupted. Chen Guo tilted her head and looked. At the neighboring computer, a frequent customer at the Internet Cafe was stretching out his neck looking at the computer she had just sat at.

Not good! Chen Guo's heart dropped as she rushed back. Due to Glory's popularity, Glory log-in devices became standard computer accessories that were indispensable for Internet Cafes. Account cards only needed to be inserted into the device so in these sort of public places, everyone put away their cards after using them.

Every card only had one account. Lost cards could be reported, so stealing did not exist. But in these sort of public places, frequently, people would carelessly forget to log-out and end up having their money and equipment looted. Chen Guo had been extremely frustrated after 52 straight losses and wasn't paying attention. She hadn't logged out, but switched to the desktop instead.

Chen Guo hurriedly ran up and sure enough, that guy really was playing on her account. Only it didn't look like he was stealing equipment, it looked like he was eagerly dueling in the Arena.

Chen Guo didn't have time to bellow in rage, when a single large word popped up on the screen…

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Chapter 3 – Special Duty: Night Shift

Win?

Chen Guo was dumbfounded for a moment. The word that flashed on the screen, Glory, was the Arena's victory symbol meaning "K.O.".

Only, she had only left for how long? 40 seconds? 50 seconds? Chen Guo lifted her wrist and looked down at her watch. It definitely hasn't been a minute yet. But the result? The opponent I had lost to 52 times in a row was defeated in less than a minute?

Chen Guo even forgot to rush up and snatch back her account. She wanted to see if this person could duel again for her to examine properly. But in the end, she saw that the person had already logged-out of the game. He stretched out his arms as if he weren't too interested in the computer and glanced around left and right. Turning his head, he saw Chen Guo looking at him with wide eyes and hurriedly explained: "You hadn't logged out yet and when I sat down, the fight had already started. Don't worry, I helped you win!"

"How long have you used it?" Chen Guo asked.

"40 seconds!" Ye Qiu said.

Chen Guo's mouth dropped open when he said somewhat regretfully: "My hands were frozen cold or else 30 seconds would've been enough."

30 seconds… … 30 seconds to beat the opponent that I lost to 52 times in a row? Who is this person?

Could it be a professional gamer from the Excellent Era Team? Chen Guo suddenly thought. She knew that the Excellent Era Club wasn't too far away from the Internet Cafe . But she thought again. I would have recognized him if he was from the Excellent Era Team! Unless it's that expert that never shows his face Ye Qiu.

Ye Qiu! Chen Guo became excited as soon as she thought of the name, but thinking how low-profile this expert was, he probably wouldn't admit to it if she asked him directly. After hesitating for a bit, Chen Guo suddenly thought of something and quickly ran back to the reception desk.

"Who registered as Area 3 Number 47's guest?" Chen Guo asked the girl at the counter.

"Ye Xiu." the girl said.

"Ye Xiu… … Ye Qiu? It really is him!" Chen Guo excitedly thought. It looked like she really had uncovered his hidden identity! This showed that he really was Ye Qiu. If she had seen the name Ye Qiu written, then she wouldn't have believed it.

"Heh heh heh… …" Chen Guo's laugh could only be called sinister. She had been prepared to use everything she owned to get his signature. Ye Qiu's signature, ah! Who had it? No one!

Just as she was thinking this, the receptionist girl said without thinking: "He even forgot his ID card."

"ID card?" Chen Guo stared blankly after hearing this. Only then did she realize that she had turned silly from excitement. Internet Cafe registration had a system for identifying customers. An ID card had to be shown. How could someone use a fake ID?

"Where is it? Let me take a look." Chen Guo looked at the ID card in the girl's hand. Sure enough, Ye Xiu was written on it. A wave of disappointment washed over and she a strong urge to change the word Xiu into Qiu.

After finding out that he wasn't the low-profile expert she admired, although she was curious about this person's strength, her interest had already largely disappeared. Chen Guo angrily returned to Area 3 Number 47 and handed over Ye Xiu's ID card: "You forgot to take your ID card."

"Oh, thanks." Ye Xiu immediately answered, "Do you work in the Internet Cafe?"

"Yeah, I'm the boss."

"Oh? The boss, that's good. I just saw on the Internet Cafe's homepage, is your Internet Cafe hiring?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Ah… … yes… …" Chen Guo didn't think that this person would suddenly ask this. She had just been thinking to compare notes with this person. This would be the perfect excuse to.

"I looked at it and felt that I match all of the qualifications. Work and pay aren't a problem. How about it?" Consider it for a moment, boss." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh, then you have to beat me in a duel in Glory." Chen Guo said.

"What? There's this condition?" Ye Xiu turned around to check.

"You don't need to look for it. I'm adding it." Chen Guo said.

Ye Xiu stared blankly. Only now did he realize that his prior victory was too professional. This beautiful boss was curious about his strength, but… … Ye Xiu bitterly laughed shaking his head: "I can't beat you."

"Why?" Chen Guo startled.

"Because I don't have an account that can beat yours." Ye Xiu said.

"Account… … what level is it? What equipment?" Chen Guo asked.

"No levels, no equipment." Ye Xiu said.

"How?" Chen Guo didn't believe it. He had defeated the opponent she couldn't beat in 40 seconds. If this type of person didn't have a leveled account, then how did he practice to this level of skill?

"I gave away my original account." Ye Xiu could only say this.

"Oh, so it's like this… … how generous." Chen Guo sighed with sorrow. This person's strength was powerful, his account definitely wouldn't be weak. Powerful accounts were extremely valuable. Gifting it away so easily was very valiant.

"Yeah, too generous." Ye Xiu forced a smile. The account he had given away was the Battle God One Autumn Leaf. To only use the word "generous" to describe him was truthfully too petty.

"Is it to get ready to play in the new server?" Chen Guo asked.

"New server?" Ye Xiu stared blankly and suddenly glanced at the date.

The next day was Glory's tenth anniversary. Glory, starting from the second anniversary onwards, would open a new server on every anniversary. The registration for the tenth server had already started three months ago. Old players who weren't satisfied with the old server would prepare to enter Glory again looking forward to this day.

Now, Glory's tenth server was opening. The distant One Autumn Leaf was an account in Glory's first server. Later, in Glory's fifth expansion, a lot of experts obtained the qualifications to complete the Challenge skill becoming the first ones possessing access to all servers.

Now One Autumn Leaf had already exchanged owners. His career as a professional in Glory also left with it, but he coincidentally met up with the start of the new server. Ye Xiu's mind stirred. Ten years of memories suddenly flashed through his mind.

"New server?" Ye Xiu mumbled.

"I remember that at the start of a new server, you can transfer to it right?" Ye Xiu suddenly asked Chen Guo.

"Only Level 1 accounts can." Chen Guo said.

"Let me try." Ye Xiu fished out an account card from his pocket and quickly applied for a server transfer on the Glory home page. Chen Guo looked at the account card amazed: "Isn't this a first-edition card?"

"It is." Ye Xiu smiled. Glory had a new edition every year. A first-edition card would be from almost ten years ago.

Chen Guo looked at Ye Xiu astonished: "How long have you been playing Glory?" Cards weren't living objects. People were. Even if a card had been around for ten years, it didn't mean a person had been.

"Almost ten years." Ye Xiu answered confirming that he and the card were one.

Chen Guo had thought that she, with five years of gaming, was already considered a veteran. She wouldn't have thought that the guy in front of her had a full double her experience. Ten years. That was Glory's first group of players. To continue playing up until now yet still having interest in entering a new server, what type of drive was this?

While thinking this, the home page had already displayed "Server Transfer Successful".

"Done." Ye Xiu pulled out the account card. He once again recalled the little details contained with this first-edition card.

"Are you saying you want to become a network manager?" Chen Guo suddenly brought up this matter.

"Yes."

"Which one are you looking at?" Chen Guo asked.

"The night shift one." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh, are you fine with that?" Chen Guo surprised. The night shift one went on from 11PM to 7AM. The monthly income was greater than others by three hundred, but very few applied. After all, not many people were willing to have day and night reversed everyday. As a result, everyone had to take turns completing the task. If there truly was someone who took on the special night shift task, then everyone would be relieved.

"No problem, no problem. I like working at night." Ye Xiu said.

Chen Guo carefully sized up this person in front of her. His hair looked as if it hadn't been taken care of in at least half a month. His face didn't look too healthy. Although it was white and clear, it was that sort of sickly pale. His two eyes gazed at her listlessly. She had seen this appearance many times. The youths that frequently visited her Internet Cafe often look like this. The guy in front of her didn't look too young, but was unexpectedly also so dejected and disdained.

Disdained was disdained. As long as he wanted to be a full-time night cat, then Chen Guo would welcome him. What's more, she was also curious about the strength of this person with ten years of gaming experience . She clapped her hands on the spot: "Okay, then you're hired."

"Thank you very much boss."

"Look at the terms carefully. It'll be in accordance with those." Chen Guo said.

"No problem."

"Then good, come with me!" Chen Guo handled matters crisply. After hiring Ye Xiu, she immediately ordered him as an employee to tidy up a pile of keyboards and move them to the second floor for storage.

Chen Guo's Internet Cafe was called "Happy Internet Club", considered a fairly high-class Internet Cafe. There were two floors and over one thousand computers. The second floor was somewhat small, but was clearly luxurious — a high-class area. And the inside was a paradise hiding two small inner rooms and storage room. Ye Xiu busily moved keyboards up and down having already inspected this small room. The recruitment page wrote: Food and shelter included. Ye Xiu had just left the club and hadn't yet thought of the next step. Food and shelter, these sort of conditions, would give him time to settle down and think about what to do next. Only then did he feel interested in taking a position at the Internet Cafe.

At first glance, this small room was probably the "shelter". Although the decoration was simple, it was clean and tidy. Ye Xiu was very satisfied with it. He continued pondering as he arranged the keyboards that he brought up.

"Good, that's where you'll be sleeping." Seeing that Ye Xiu had finished the work, she pointed towards the small bed crammed into the storage room.

"What?" Ye Xiu stared blankly. He imagined that he would be sleeping in that bright and clean room. Even the drawing room sofa would be good. Here… … Ye Xiu lifted his head to look. On the west wall of the small storage room was a tiny window that directly faced the streetlights. When the storage room lights were closed, dusky light immediately shone through the tiny window as if it were haunted.

"Eh, it's a little lacking. Just put up with it for now… … In reality, my Internet Cafe isn't lacking people. With you, we don't have too many. Without you, we don't have too few. The recruitment fliers you saw are a fairly old." Chen Guo said.

"Oh, so it's like this! No problem no problem. This is pretty good." Ye Xiu declared at once. His approving attitude made Chen Guo feel very apologetic. This small storage room truly wasn't a place for living.

"In your free time, you can go on the computers and play. It's not a problem, employees don't have to pay." Chen Guo said.

"Boss, you're also very generous!"

"Cough, as if I cared about a single computer among a thousand!" Chen Guo said.

"How is the flow of customers ordinarily?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Not bad. Enough for me to be satisfied." Chen Guo said. "Of course, there won't be as many in the night shift. Most of them are students from the nearby university pulling all-nighters. There's really not much to say. You'll see when it's time."

"Got it."

"In order for you to adapt to the workplace, how about starting today? I also want to observe and see your ability to work all night." Chen Guo said.

"No problem. My energy's at full capacity." Ye Xiu gave her two big thumbs-up showing that working all night was his specialty.

"Okay then. Let's go down. I'll treat you to a midnight snack." Chen Guo said.

"Oh? To eat what?"

"There's not much at this time. There should be a small restaurant nearby that hasn't closed yet. Go look and buy a few dishes to bring back. I don't eat celery." Chen Guo said as she fished out two hundred dollars from her pocket and slipped them to Ye Xiu

"It's snowing though!" Ye Xiu said.

"It's just across the road. How much snow would get on you? Hurry up." Chen Guo said.

Ye Xiu had no other choice. He crossed the road and bought a few midnight snacks. He had just been hired but had already been ordered in quick succession. But he wasn't feeling depressed at all. After speaking with her for only a bit, they were no longer strangers. This sort of natural friendliness made him feel comfortable. Ye Xiu suddenly realized. Even after all this, he had never asked for his boss's name.

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Chapter 4: Mysterious Expert

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"Sister Chen, you're eating midnight snacks again..."

After buying the midnight snacks, Chen Guo called all of the Internet Cafe employees to enjoy them together. The smell of the dishes recklessly filled the Internet Cafe immediately causing a wave of wailing and protests from the guests. The time for dinner had already passed yet they were being forced to smell the sweet fragrance from the dishes. That wasn't pleasure. That was a trap.

"Line up orderly if you want instant noodles." Chen Guo called out.

"Sister Chen should eat kitchen food everyday. We'll eat instant noodles then." No one rejected the temptation. They could only grab Internet Cafe instant noodles and eat while jealously watching the employees eat their full course meals of six dishes and a soup.

"If you also want to go out and eat, don't ask my employees to go on an errand for you." Chen Guo said.

"Next time, could you tell us in advance? Can't you help deliver it to us?" A person said.

"The Internet Cafe only has so many people. How could we deliver it all back? Enough of this nonsense, if you really want to eat so much but are too lazy to buy it, go ask for their phone number. Wouldn't they be willing to deliver it?" Chen Guo said.

"Sister Chen do you have their number? Lend it to me so I can copy it down." A person said.

"What would I do with their phone number? I have people to run errands for me. Why would I inconvenience the restaurant?" Chen Guo said.

This time, not only the Cafe guests, but the employees cried together until their cheeks streamed with tears. Ye Xiu found an opportunity and took advantage of it to ask: "Boss is surnamed Chen right?"

"Yup, Chen Guo. I've seen your ID card. You're not as old as I am, so I don't mind you calling me sister. You also won't lose out." Chen Guo said.

"Whatever you want..." Ye Xiu forced a smile.

"Today's shredded meat with chili sauce is so spicy. Little brat, go eat it all." Chen Guo hadn't eaten much. She only ate a mouthful before throwing away her chopsticks and rushing to the drinking water. After carrying a glass of water back, she kicked Ye Xiu's stool: "Are you done yet? Hurry up."

"What's the rush?" Ye Xiu asked.

"It's almost time." Chen Guo lifted her wrist to let Ye Xiu see her watch. It was currently 11:53 PM. There were only 7 minutes until the opening of Glory's tenth server.

"You're also going?" Ye Xiu was a little surprised. After playing Chen Guo's account Chasing Haze, a fifth sever account, if it had started on the opening of the server, then it would now be a full five years old. Of course, although that account couldn't compare with his professional peak level account, it was still quite good among ordinary players. It wasn't that easy to just simply give it up.

"Take a look at the excitement." Chen Guo said.

The opening of a new server really was quite exciting. What had originally been an ordinary day became a time when Happy Internet Cafe exploded with business. The area was packed with players. As far as the eye could see, all of the people had already opened up the registration interface waiting with their mice hovering over the still gray tenth server icon.

Entering the server, players rushed to get on the leaderboards, to clear the first dungeon, to be the first to kill a boss, etc. There were too many things waiting for the players. The opening of a new land caused people's hearts to bounce in excitement. Chen Guo looked towards these guests and couldn't help but be aroused by this sort of atmosphere. She looked back at Ye Xiu, who was still picking his food. She was surprised that he was unexpectedly unaffected by this sort of atmosphere, lacking that inner pioneering quality.

"Well what are you waiting for?" Chen Guo looked as if she were more anxious than the guests.

"What's the rush?" Ye Xiu truly was calm; he wasn't faking it. But he couldn't deny Glory's successful marketing. Glory's competitiveness among players ranked high in every category. These relied on genuine skill which couldn't be casually made up with money and luck. Only, to a famed veteran who had once bathed in glory, these things were only ordinary and mediocre.

Only after seeing how Chen Guo's expression was filled with murderous intent, did Ye Xiu begin considering that it was worth it to give the boss some face. Finally, he reluctantly put down his rice bowl and looked for a computer station to sit at.

"F*ck, it looks like I'm forcing him play. What type of person is this?" Chen Guo berated Ye Xiu behind his back. The employees all suppressed a laugh. They discovered that this network manager was little different. To be able to casually make their big boss go into a bad temper, this wasn't something an ordinary person could do.

Chen Guo sat at the station beside Ye Xiu and registered her Chasing Haze account. The popularity of the other nine servers hadn't dropped much because of the opening of the tenth server. The older the server the more this was true. This was because starting in Glory with a new account wasn't easy. Chen Guo had played on Chasing Haze for five years until it was considered a fairly good account by ordinary standards. How could it be abandoned so easily? What's more, later, everyone would try to rush to the cross-server Heavenly Domain.

This Heavenly Domain wasn't a single map. It was another world. The map was as big as the combined worlds of five other servers. This place had difficult instance dungeons, powerful equipment, precious materials, and also freedom. All experts would meet up there. The Heavenly Domain was a player's final destination.

It was about to be midnight. In the final ten seconds, the Internet Cafe had people who couldn't help but begin to countdown. As the sounds grew louder and louder and the final "ZERO" erupted, the dull gray color of the tenth server login window faded away. Everyone in the Internet Cafe united into one. They collectively extended their hands and inserted their account cards into the login device. Their mice clicked on the tenth server.

Chen Guo turned his head towards Ye Xiu and nearly spurt out blood. While everyone entered the game, this guy leisurely opened up a web page to look at. Raising her eyebrows, she saw that it was some sort of beginner handguide on the sequence of missions to take.

"F*ck, you don't even know how to do this? You even need a guide?" If it wasn't for that genuine first-edition card, even if she were beaten to death, she wouldn't have believed this guy had ten years of gaming experience.

"I haven't done this in so long, there's no way I could remember!" Ye Xiu slowly and unhurriedly said.

"You've never helped someone do it before?" Chen Guo said.

"This type of experience... I really don't have any." Ye Xiu said.

"No sense of community." Chen Guo disdained.

"I had no time." Ye Xiu said.

"People with no time wouldn't come to play. Gamers are people with spare time." Chen Guo said.

"I was busy playing games." Ye Xiu said seriously.

"Then what's your job?" Chen Guo asked.

"Playing games!" Ye Xiu exclaimed.

"Oh, are you a professional gamer?" Chen Guo said.

Ye Xiu laughed: "I was a pretty high level one too."

"A pretty high level one? Pro-gamer?" Chen Guo stared blankly.

Ye Xiu proudly nodded his head.

"Then you've retired!" Chen Guo said.

"How did you know?"

"Obvious, you're already so old." Chen Guo said.

Ye Xiu bitterly laughed.

"I was wondering how you were able to beat that guy in 40 seconds. It turned out you were a professional even if you're an amateur." Chen Guo said.

"Amateur?"

"I know all of the professional experts. Ye Xiu? I've never heard of the name. If you're not an amateur, what are you?" Chen Guo asked.

"Ha ha, so it's like this." Ye Xiu laughed.

"Don't fake it. You actually haven't retired. It's just that you were unable to win a seat, so you were kicked out right?" Chen Guo said.

Ye Xiu was speechless.

"No offense..." Chen Guo realized that her words had somewhat stabbed at his sore spot.

"It doesn't matter." Ye Xiu let out a sigh.

"Don't be discouraged. 25 years old isn't that old. If you keep practicing, maybe you can fight your way back." Chen Guo said.

"That's what I plan on doing." Ye Xiu smiled.

"If that day really happens, then I need to request something from you." Chen Guo said.

"What is it?"

"Signature." Chen Guo said.

"Why wait until that day? I'll sign it now!"

"How shameless! Who wants your signature? I only want you to ask for my idols' signatures." Chen Guo said.

"Oh? Who?"

"Su MuCheng and also Ye Qiu. Ye Qiu might be a little difficult. That person likes to hide." Chen Guo said.

"Oh so it's like this?" Tears streamed down Ye Xiu's cheeks. Ye Qiu was currently chatting with you face to face, sister.

"Yup. Only he almost never appears in public. Even if you're an amateur, I didn't know you were this out of touch. You didn't even know about this?" Chen Guo said.

"I know. Of course I know. Let me tell you a secret. Actually, I'm Ye Qiu." Ye Xiu said.

"Really? Then let me tell you a secret too. Actually, I'm Su MuCheng." Chen Guo said.

"I really am Ye Qiu." Ye Xiu cried.

"I really am Su MuCheng." Chen Guo said.

"I..."

"Okay, stop playing around. Let me see your plan!" Chen Guo waved her hand. She would no longer get angry at Ye Xiu's slow and unhurried attitude.

But after her line of sight returned to the screen, Chen Guo still couldn't help but say: "If you don't understand something clearly, you can just ask me."

"I want to research a bit first. I'll only do missions for attributes or skills. Other missions with rewards such as experience or equipment, it's faster to go to instance dungeons." Ye Xiu said.

"Right. This is the type of thinking a veteran should have. Only, you don't need to research it by yourself. Flip to the last page of that guide!"

"Oh?" when Ye Xiu flipped to the last page and looked, a sudden wave of shame hit. Thinking about it, this hand guide hadn't changed much over ten years. This was something players couldn't update any further. For missions that veterans would choose, how could noone have come up with this type of strategy already? Right now, he needed this type of strategy. Just as Ye Xiu was ready to follow this strategy to take missions, tears immediately began streaming down his face. He was once regarded as textbook level figure! Now with a beginners guide in his hands, how could he endure this shame?

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Chapter 5: Skill Match

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The road to receiving quests was a bumpy one. There was heavy traffic on the opening of a new server. In the history of Glory, when the second server opened, the incoming players exceeded the limit in the beginning village causing all the players to freeze. The people who had not logged on also couldn't get online. From then on, on the opening of the server, Glory would temporarily increase the server limit in the village. The disaster that was the opening of the second server never happened again.

This time's preparation for the opening of the tenth server was sufficient. The entering players were divided equally into every village. Although players could be seen as far as the eye could see, it wasn't packed enough to be a problem. But receiving quests from a NPC was a different problem. Everyone looked for the single NPC to accept quests from and in a short moment, they had crammed together into a lump around him. Glory wouldn't let bodies overlap or pass through others thus people formed ring after ring. The ones inside couldn't come out and the one outside couldn't come in. Many players were bouncing up and down energetically trying to pass over by going above other people's heads. But at this point everyone was still level 0. Their jumping abilities were too poor and there was no way they could jump high enough. Everyone repeatedly bouncing up and down was truly a cute and beautiful scene.

In this situation, even the experts were helpless. Aside, Chen Guo was actually overjoyed with a face of "I knew it would be like this". She looked at Ye Xiu and recorded his username: Lord Grim.

Within the constant shouting made by countless players, the situation slowly improved. How was it solved? They made way for a small exit path to let the players who had finished accepting a quest come out.

Ye Xiu commanded Lord Grim to take a few quests and began completing them one by one. Most of them were to let the players adapt to the controls and environment. The quests were all educational ones. Ye Xiu was certainly not that bad as to need such advice. After experiencing kill stealing, lining up, squeezing, etc. anyways the ones that were all people created problems, all of the quests that could be finished in the first wave were finished. Chen Guo also observed this process from time to time. Finally, these extremely simple quests unexpectedly took a full two hours causing even Ye Xiu to helplessly sigh with sorrow: What's the point of an expert? In the vast ocean of people, experts didn't mean anything.

"Finally done, I'm now Level 7." After turning in the last quest, he had leveled up again. He turned around to Chen Guo saying this, but found that boss Chen had already fallen asleep. Yet her head still faced the screen!

Does she still need to test my ability to stay up all night? Ye Xiu looked down and threw his jacket onto Chen Guo's body. He turned around and went back to his playing.

Looking at the panel, after completing the first wave of quests, Lord Grim already possessed 340 skill points.

In Glory, learning and upgrading skills required skill points. Different skills required anywhere from 10 to 50 points. Currently, if a max level, level 70, character finished all of the necessary quests, then it can have up to 4000 skill points. But this wasn't the limit. The skill point limit was 5000 but the remaining 1000 skill points required a certain amount of luck and strength to obtain.

In the ten years of Glory, not a single account possessed 5000 skill points. Even the famous Battle God One Autumn Leaf peak account only reached 4840 points, still 160 points away. 160 points wasn't a lot but it wasn't few either. If a player used all of those points on a 50 point ultimate skill, then he could learn three of them or upgrade an ultimate three times. For a peak level expert, this was a huge advantage.

Therefore when taking these beginner quests, quests with experience and equipment rewards could be ignored but skill points were a must. Apart from this, those that rewarded attribute points were important too. Glory characters had four basic attributes: Strength, intelligence, vitality, and spirit.

Strength affected physical attack, defense, and increased maximum inventory weight.

Intelligence affected magic attacks, defense, and MP.

Vitality naturally affected HP as well as stamina.

Spirit affected the resistance to and duration of status effects.

The four main attributes naturally grew as the character leveled. Only after level 20, when players began changing classes, did the growth rate change. As for quests with attribute point rewards, those were fair game. Strength was strength. Intelligence was intelligence. For classes specialized in strength, you could choose to only do strength quests, but quests rewarding intelligence were also open to complete too.

This was also saying, if after growing as a specialized class, with a max level account that had finished all of the quests, the four main attributes would be at the exact same level. Therefore all these quests should all be completed. Afterwards, equipment could be used to raise the necessary attribute.

As a result, attribute points could not be ignored. After looking at the panel, he immediately let Lord Grim learn skills.

In Glory, players can do a class change at level 20. Before then, there was no class and any skills from any profession could be learned as long as there were enough skill points. This was also for the convenience of the players. After advancing to level 20 and finding an interesting class, all of the points learned before would be returned. But after changing classes, a player can only learn from his own class's skills. He cannot become a jack of all trades.

Even though Ye Xiu had forgotten what quests to do and how to beat certain instance dungeons, his skills would never be lost. Glory was very balanced. Low-leveled skills also had their own function. Every person could assemble their own skill set however they liked. Though, the amount of skill points was limited. Under normal circumstances, 4000 skill points was nowhere near enough to max out all of the skills. 5000 points was also not enough so players needed to choose carefully.

With respect to choosing skills, Ye Xiu naturally had his own set. Although his One Autumn Leaf's class was a Battle Mage, he himself had once been regarded as a textbook. How could he have only been able to play a single class? Inevitably, only those proficient with every class had the qualifications.

Ye Xiu almost without thinking, first went to the beginner skill tree and learned two level 5 beginner skills: Swift Run, Roll.

The beginner skill tree was something every class could learn skills from. The two skills Ye Xiu had learned were very convenient. These 10 skill points would let the character to move in two different ways.

Swift Run increased running speed. The skill had no cooldown but used up stamina. After the stamina was depleted, the player would return to normal walking speed. To recover stamina, a player had to either walk or stand still. Walking would recover it slowly, while standing still would be a bit faster.

Roll, as the name implies, lets the character execute a rolling movement. Rolling forward, rolling backwards, rolling left, rolling right, rolling slanted, rolling walking, rolling running, rolling whatever. It also had no cooldown but used up some time to complete.

Ye Xiu had mastered these two skills long ago. He also clearly knew which skills were practical to him at this stage of the game.

First was Sky Strike, a Battle Mage skill. Every class had this type of knock-up skill. Their characteristics were all the same. After attacking, the target would be knocked up. The higher the skill level, the higher they would knocked up and the greater the damage. This was a commonly used skill. Ye Xiu had originally been a Battle Mage, so he chose the Battle Mage skill Sky Strike.

After that, Dragon Tooth, another Battle Mage skill. It was a direct attack that would cause the enemy to be stunned. Ye Xiu also easily learned it because of his original class.

He then learned the Sharpshooter skill Floating Bullet, the Mechanic skill Machine Trace, the Spellblade skill Wave Splitting Sword, the Grappler skill Backdrop, the Ninja skill Shuriken, the Blade Master skill Guard, the Elementalist skill Electric Ring, and the Priest skill Heal.

These skills didn't require a lot of points. They were all within 20 points. Lord Grim was also only level 7, so the number of upgrades he could make to skills were limited. So in the end, there were still some leftover points. Ye Xiu didn't learn any more skills. To him, he already had enough to deal with any situation at his level.

But if this skill set that had been picked by peak-level expert like him was seen by ordinary players, they would definitely laugh.

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Chapter 6 – Thousand Chance Umbrella

How could the skills chosen for Lord Grim be laughed at?

First, the lower levels went by quickly. Carefully matching skill skills was completely unnecessary. Many people simply chose to be a piece of blank space, figuring it out after they reached level 20.

Second, even though level 20 and under allowed players to figure out their own profession, many incoming players already had a general idea: mage, swordsman, or gunner related? There were players like this, but players like Ye Xiu? They went as far as to tread every class. But although players below level 20 could learn any type of skill, their strength was limited by their weapons.

For example, if you learned Sharpshooter skill Floating Bullet, there was no way the skill could be used with a sword. So for Lord Grim to learn this skill, he would have to carry weapons from every class. Repeatedly exchanging them back and forth would be extremely inconvenient. And for those in the initial stages, looking for so much trouble, wouldn't that be the same as looking for punishment? Only the once popular unspecialized players would do such a thing.

What were unspecialized players? They were players without a class. But this was something that happened back when the level cap was 50. When the level cap increased and the class awakening was introduced, the unspecialized type of playing style disappeared. The current players looking at Lord Grim's skill set would never think of unspecialized people, they would only laugh.

Ye Xiu seemed as if he hadn't thought of this. Lord Grim only had a blank Bronze Sword on him. And when he passed a random store, Ye Xiu actually also sold this weapon.

Soon after, he directly headed to the storage chest in the warehouse and opened it. An equipment unexpectedly lay inside.

Accounts that transferred servers should be empty. What empty means is that experience, gold, backpacks, storage chests, and even mail were all empty.

But Lord Grim, which had just transferred to the tenth server, unexpectedly had an equipment inside.

No one knew how this happened, but it seemed as if Ye Xiu had been expecting it. He knew that he would find an equipment here, but after finding it, there wasn't a trace of happiness in Ye Xiu's expression. On the contrary, it was filled with grief. A rare tremble once again emerged on his right hand. The last time this appeared was when he lost One Autumn Leaf. Now, it appeared when he was going to take out this equipment.

The mouse moved up.

[Thousand Chance Umbrella] – Level 5

Weight: 23 kg, Attack Speed: 5

Physical Attack: 180 ; Magic Attack 180

That was it. It didn't even have additional properties. It was practically a blank weapon.

But the word color of the Thousand Chance Umbrella wasn't white, rather it was silver.

In Glory, the tier of an equipment could be seen by the color of the words separated into: Orange, Purple, Blue, Green, White. White equipment did not have any additional properties. Green Tier equipment were given through quest rewards. Blue equipment dropped in dungeons though a few quests had them too. They were the most mainstream equipment. As for Purple and Orange equipment, those were high-end goods. Whether it be character or money, players had to be outstanding in some way to obtain them.

The silver word color of the Thousand Chance Umbrella didn't belong to these five colors. If Chen Guo woke up and saw, she would definitely be amazed. Silver, those were only given to self-made equipment. Self-made equipment were a large feature of Glory. They weren't made through manufacturing skills in the game, but through an equipment editor. They were considered endgame content.

There was a popular saying in Glory: self-made equipment weren't necessarily powerful, but all powerful equipment were self-made.

Self-made equipment could surpass Orange Epic Tier equipment. In the Professional Union, every club invested in a specialized team that researched self-made equipment. The Battle God One Autumn Leaf held the self-made Silver Battle Lance Evil Annihilation! It was an outstanding and famous weapon and one-of-a-kind.

A self-made equipment's feature was that it was extremely difficult to create but each was unique.

Only, it could be a unique surpassing peak Epic equipment or it could also be a unique piece of trash.

The Thousand Chance Umbrella? Was it trash or treasure?

If Chen Guo awoke, if she found about the weapon's properties, then she would be able to immediately make a decision.

Top Quality. Thousand Chance Umbrella was truly top quality surpassing Orange equipment of the same level. 180 Physical Attack and Magic Attack. That was equivalent to a Level 10 Orange weapon. But high attack weapons were often heavy and slow. Thousand Chance Umbrella wasn't heavy and had an average Attack Speed of 5. Even compared to Level 10 Orange weapons, just relying on this point was enough to surpass them.

But the weakness was also obvious: Thousand Chance Umbrella only had the fundamental attributes with no additional increases. Besides, Level 5, this was a level that would be passed in a flash.

But Ye Xiu did not think of these because he knew that this Thousand Chance Umbrella was a true heavenly work. After countless experiments and failure, to be able to create this Level 5 Thousand Chance Umbrella was already a great accomplishment. A feature of self-made equipment were that after reasoning and planning, they could be continuously upgraded. So self-made weapons could never go out of date and could be continuously upgraded through equipment editor.

Ye Xiu gently retrieved the Thousand Chance Umbrella and placed it in Lord Grim's hands. "Let's start!" He said in a low voice and immediately controlled Lord Grim to the Green Forest dungeon. It looked as if Lord Grim had heard his command.

Green Forest was a 5 person dungeon that required a player to be Level 5 to enter. Achievements by players Level 10 and above were not valid meaning that they could not participate in the different leaderboards for this dungeon. Numerous open parties sat outside the dungeon. When Lord Grim arrived, he received quite a few invitations. Ye Xiu didn't carefully choose and picked a team that needed one more person.

"Nice nice nice." Just as he entered, Ye Xiu heard that party leader Sleeping Moon shouting.

"How are we going to split the drops from the hidden BOSS?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Oh? How thoughtful!" From Sleeping Moon's speaking without thinking, it looked like he wasn't a newbie. At least, he didn't ask what a hidden BOSS was.

The party had to be formed to have a chance at meeting the hidden BOSS. The system would give a few hints on entering the dungeon. The hidden BOSS's strength was stronger than the dungeon's final BOSS by a bit, but equipment that wouldn't be dropped by a normal BOSS could burst out from it.

Actually, with Ye Xiu's peak professional level, he had enough skill to solo the small dungeon. Forming a party was necessary to meet the hidden BOSS though. He also wanted the materials dropped by the hidden BOSS because those would definitely be needed to upgrade the Thousand Chance Umbrella. Ye Xiu understood clearly. Compared to leveling up Lord Grim, upgrading the Thousand Chance Umbrella was much harder. He decided that he would start now.

In low-level dungeons such as Green Forest, no matter how good of an equipment was dropped. It would soon die out, so it had no value. Apart from experience, materials dropped from the hidden BOSS attracted players. These materials would never grow out of date. Even in the old servers, there were many people that entered Green Forest for these materials.

Sleeping Moon evidently knew of this, so he quickly announced the distribution proposal: Everything dropped by that toy is worth money, so everything dropped will be decided by rolling dice!

"Okay." He could only say this. How could he take them all for himself? This was a wild party. There were no grounds to.

"Good. Now that we're all ready, let's go." Sleeping Moon said. After receiving everybody's reply, he entered.

Ye Xiu had been talking to Chen Guo so he hadn't put on headphones. Now, he took them out and put them on. Just as he entered the dungeon, he heard a roar: "D*mn! What luck! A hidden BOSS already!"

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Chapter 7 – Midnight Phantom Cat

Glory supported speech and it was extremely lifelike. Only one individual spoke at present. The system had a sound spreading algorithm, the distance directly influenced how loud or quiet the sound was. The game didn't have any background noise. Only the wind blowing across the grass and other similar sound effects could be heard. When the headphones were put on, it felt like he had become a part of the world.

Ye Xiu guessed that the person shouting was Sleeping Moon. He had already found the hidden BOSS Midnight Phantom Cat's location. Ye Xiu typed out a "ha ha" and heard Sleeping Moon's voice: "Speak, why type?"

"There's someone sleeping so it's inconvenient." After Ye Xiu typed it out, he fished out a cigarette from his pocket. He held it in between his lips crookedly and lit it.

"Oh." Sleeping Moon indicated that he understood and followed: "What about everyone else?"

The other three all said something. Sleeping Moon said disappointed: "Ah, no pretty girls!"

Within the sounds of laughter, the team set off.

Green Forest was a low-level dungeon to let players familiarize with the game. How hard could it be? What's more Sleeping Moon obviously wasn't a newbie. He directed the whole journey and killing was smooth and unhindered. After Ye Xiu made Lord Grim cast two Heals, Sleeping Moon immediately used him as a Priest turning him into a pure support role. Actually, this type of low-level dungeon didn't need this type of iron triangle battle tactic, but Sleeping Moon was already used to it and directed it as if it were a normal routine. He himself became the main tank in the party though. The other three players were in the front lines dishing out damage, Lord Grim was appointed to the rear and he became the big logistics leader.

Killing and shouting sounds could be heard between the five person party as they advanced quickly. Ye Xiu's excellent technique handling received the team leader's unbridled praise. Ye Xiu's mind was in a daze. When was the last time he went in a dungeon with other players? How long had it been since he had this sort of feeling?

Seeing the monsters collapse one by one, Ye Xiu 's mind drifted off. He recalled all too well. Adventuring in the Green Forest made him remember of those memories from ten years ago.

At that time, he played Glory with his good friend. He would never forget those memories. You saw clearly, spoke well, planned well, but in the end because of a single unexpected accident, your dreams and hopes all disappeared into nothing leaving only this incomplete Thousand Chance Umbrella to me.

"You originally had talent in Glory, a successful talent… …" His fingers gently wiped over the keyboard. With a quiver, Lord Grim cast a heal onto Sleeping Moon's body. When Sleeping Moon promptly praised him again, Ye Xiu's mind was no longer in the game.

"Okay, here comes the Midnight Phantom Cat." After Sleeping Moon cut down a monster, Ye Xiu heard the three words Midnight Phantom Cat and his train of thought immediately returned. The hidden BOSS didn't necessarily have to appear after completely finishing the stage. Following the system's guidance, a scene may appear midway. This time, the Midnight Phantom Cat would appear here.

"The Midnight Phantom Cat's attack may cause you to enter a Cursed state. But being cursed isn't something to be scared of. However this animal is quick, so it might take a while for me to aggro it. Everyone start supporting me, don't be panicked and stay together." Sleeping Moon arranged a tactic.

Everyone nodded his head and Ye Xiu didn't say anything. There was nothing wrong with what the party leader said.

"The system hasn't announced it yet. Comrades, we might be the first in the tenth server to kill a hidden BOSS!" Sleeping Moon excitedly said raising everyone's morale.

"Forward." Sleeping Moon ordered and the five continued advancing. Black clouds covered the sun casting a gloom over the Green Forest. Everyone's footsteps in the forest could be distinctly heard. No one said a thing, everyone put their full attention onto the surroundings.

"Fallen Sun. There's no need to keep looking at the sky. The Midnight Phantom Cat's not going to fall from up there." Sleeping Moon suddenly said. Glory was in a first-person perspective. The screen basically showed a perspective from a real human's perspective. Because the particulars were so outstanding, when looking up at the sky, the character had to lift up his head. Sleeping Moon kept seeing everyone constantly lifting their heads so he couldn't help but point it out.

"Ha ha ha." Everyone laughed. Ye Xiu suddenly heard a rapid rustling sound from within the forest. This type of sound wasn't from footsteps. It was from the rubbing sound between a body and leaves.

"It's here." Ye Xiu saw that typing might have been slow, so he immediately yelled vaguely. His mouth still held onto the cigarette! Meanwhile, his fingers lightly tapped twice and Lord Grim leapt back and turned around in a single breath. He had already pinpointed the Midnight Phantom Cat's general direction.

Everybody saw Lord Grim's movements and knew that it was this comrade that immediately warned them at this pivotal moment.

"Everyone retreat back." Sleeping Moon shouted yet he himself didn't move back. He wanted to become the Midnight Phantom Cat's first attack target.

After the other three retreated back and stood beside Lord Grim, they maintained a certain distance from Sleeping Moon. Everyone held their breaths and stared, but the rustling sound made by the Midnight Phantom Cat had unexpectedly stopped.

"What… …" Right when team member Fallen Sun said these two words, a black shadow flew out along with a shrill cat shriek. The first attack really did fall onto Sleeping Moon.

"Good timing!" Sleeping Moon stood without a trace of fear and brandished his sword. The Midnight Phantom Cat had a small body and moved quickly. This type of monster tested a player's precision. Ye Xiu had figured out these four player's skills long ago. He guessed that aggroing the Midnight Phantom Cat would take a bit of time. He was a even a little skeptical thinking that his healing might snatch away the enemy. Only it wouldn't be a problem if that happened. Ye Xiu alone was enough to deal with a Midnight Phantom Cat.

In the end, Sleeping Moon's ability burst forth. His sword timing was quite precise and sliced down just as the Midnight Phantom Cat missed hitting thin air. Moreover, he quickly executed a roll to avoid the Phantom Cat's pounce, saving a Heal from the already prepared Lord Grim.

Although the Midnight Phantom Cat missed, it reacted extremely quickly. It turned over its body and scratched again with its claw. Sleeping Moon erected his sword blade to block it. "Dong!" The sword knocked against the Cat's claw and Sleeping Moon slid back half a step. He immediately raised his sword ready to attack again.

Beautiful! Ye Xiu couldn't help but praise him. Sleeping Moon had used the Blade Master skill Block with perfect timing. His counterattack wasn't the least bit sloppy either. Although his leading skills were superb, he hadn't expected this. Did he make an error in judging him? This Sleeping Moon's skill was above his expectations!

Sleeping Moon knocked back the Phantom Cat and followed up with an earth-shattering thrust. Afterwards, he pounced at it and chopped down with a dark-violet sword light. This combo made everyone cheer loudly. Sleeping Moon didn't give it time to recover and slashed twice in quick succession. He shouted: "Slaughter it."

The three team members were already prepared. They immediately brandished their weapons and unleashed all of the skills they had learned. Sleeping Moon no longer needed to dodge left and right and mixed in with the others. Reliant on Lord Grim's healing, they trapped the Midnight Phantom Cat into a steady position.

The situation looked good. The Midnight Phantom Cat let out cries wave after wave. Everyone was extremely happy. Those three new players had already figured out, from Sleeping Moon's explanation, the value of the hidden BOSS. Everyone looked forward to the Midnight Phantom Cat would drop. But Ye Xiu thought differently.

"Red blood. Keep up the healing." The Midnight Phantom Cat's life quickly dropped to under 10%. Players all called this status red blood. A lot of BOSSes will have a few new patterns when they reach red blood. Green Forest was only a newbie dungeon. BOSSes didn't have any special abilities, but the Midnight Phantom Cat was different because it was a hidden BOSS. It wouldn't be one if it didn't have any special abilities.

But Midnight Phantom Cat's transformation was relatively simple. It went berserk letting its attack speed and damage increase. Thus, the pressure for healing also increased during this period.

Ye Xiu guessed that with Sleeping Moon's skill, if he dodged a bit, killing it wouldn't be that hard. Who would have guessed that this guy would continue to directly fight the Midnight Phantom Cat? Moreover, his counterattacks looked a bit held back.

"No mana?" Ye Xiu sweeped across the party panel. It clearly wasn't the problem. Then this Sleeping Moon's sudden change to not trying now confirmed his prior thoughts. Just when Ye Xiu was about to warn them, he heard Sleeping Moon shout: "F*CK! OT[1]!!"

1 Off Tank – aggro goes off Main Tank and onto other party members

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Chapter 8 – A Life and Death Struggle

The Midnight Demon Cat suddenly tackled flinging aside Sleeping Moon. It clawed at the nearby party member Fallen Sun.

"AH! So sorry!" Fallen Sun was by himself. How could he have avoided the swift attack? Only then did Sleeping Moon hastily apologize. This was all because Sleeping Moon had taught these three newbies all along the way. He had definitely taught them the chance of an OT[1]!!" mistake could not be blamed on the MT[2]!!".

"Stop. Don't attack it." Sleeping Moon told Fallen Sun to immediately stop attacking. He rushed up to aggro it again. Who could know that after clawing at Fallen Sun a few times, the Midnight Demon Cat would pounce towards a different party member.

"F*CK, a chain OT!" Are you kidding me?" Sleeping Moon angrily roared. The party member that was being attacked just stood there confused. He was also a mage wearing cloth armor. Being clawed by the berserk Midnight Demon Cat was disastrous. His life crashed down, but Ye Xiu reacted beyond fast. He immediately ordered Lord Grim to begin casting a heal. But some things couldn't be solved relying on skills. A cloth-armored mage resisting a berserk hidden BOSS's attack, how long could he keep him alive?

The answer came quickly: seven seconds. Lord Grim's Heal was still on cooldown. And the berserk Midnight Demon Cat tore him apart smoothly. Sleeping Moon pounced over to rescue him, but couldn't aggro it back fast enough and the mage died.

In Glory, when a player died in a dungeon, he would be forced to leave the dungeon and wouldn't be able to come back. In other words, the original five member party became a four member party.

"F*CK, Lining up to OT. You guys are KILLING me!!" Sleeping Moon crumbled. After the mage died, the Demon Cat did not get aggroed back to him and instead sharply clawed at the third member.

The third member was also a cloth-armored mage but this time, Ye Xiu didn't order Lord Grim to heal him and instead healed Fallen Sun.

Using Heal could only save him from death for seven seconds, but these seven seconds were crucial to Fallen Sun. This was because other than the attack speed and damage increase from the berserk status, the Midnight Demon Cat also had an additional ability: Bleed.

The Midnight Demon Cat had unfortunately made Fallen Sun bleed. Ye Xiu had payed attention to his declining life bar. Even if he healed the mage, it would only be for seven seconds. In these seven seconds, not only would the mage die but Fallen Sun would die too. He might as well try to save one of them.

Ye Xiu had lost faith in Sleeping Moon and directly abandoned the mage to heal Fallen Sun. This sudden act made Sleeping Moon extremely angry and he roared: "WHY ARE YOU HEALING HIM?"

Ye Xiu didn't reply. Without assistance, that mage collapsed in an instant. While Sleeping Moon angrily cursed at him, the Midnight Demon Cat pounced onto Fallen Sun without hesitation.

Fallen Sun, scared witless, meekly asked: "Attack?"

"HIT HIM YOU F*ING IDIOT!" Sleeping Moon complained without knowing why. He swore while chasing the Demon Cat to pull aggro.

Thirteen seconds.

Ye Xiu calculated a time. He couldn't tell if Fallen Sun had bad luck attached to him. Right when the Bleed status wore off, the Midnight Demon Cat swiped at him again causing him to Bleed yet again. These types of status inducing attacks only had a small probability to appear. But it seemed as if someone added a 100% percent probability halo around Fallen Sun. Cursed, Bleed, every status effect that the Midnight Demon Cat could give, he possessed.

Thirteen seconds. This was the amount of time Ye Xiu could keep Fallen Sun alive for. In this time, Sleeping Moon could pull aggro and save him. But what was Sleeping Moon doing?

That sharp Sleeping Moon that began the battle was now always hitting as if his hands kept slipping. Slice after slice, his sword hit nothing. In the middle of his cursing and yelling, Fallen Sun finally collapsed.

The Midnight Demon Cat finally attacked Sleeping Moon. Lord Grim was considered the least threatening because Ye Xiu's skill was too good. He didn't make any unnecessary operations so the aggro range only covered a small circle.

"Brother, stand your ground! Do you still have mana?" Sleeping Moon encouraged and welcomed him.

"You should be the one to stand your ground." Ye Xiu typed out.

"Don't worry. Us two match well. Beating it down won't be a problem." Sleeping Moon heroically said. In the end, his hands slipped again and the sword hit air. The Midnight Demon Cat clawed at his face.

"ADD ADD, ADD, ADD, ADD!!!" Sleeping Moon wildly howled.

No response. Lord Grim had been healing promptly and well the entire time. But at this time, he didn't cast a Heal onto his body.

"I can't add. It'll OT." Sleeping Moon saw what Lord Grim typed.

"You… …" Sleeping Moon suddenly turned his head and saw Lord Grim leisurely sitting under a big tree and coldly looked at him. Sleeping Moon realized the situation wasn't looking too good. This Lord Grim wasn't a newbie. It was still early for it to go OT. How could he have made such an error?

"It won't go OT. Hurry up and add." Sleeping Moon could only yell this. But in the end, there still wasn't any reaction.

The Midnight Demon Cat had already reached him. Sleeping Moon's reaction suddenly quickened. He sliced horizontally and blocked the claw. He immediately leapt and began skillfully attacking as he had been when he first began the battle. Sleeping Moon suddenly stopped missing.

But this time, his combo hadn't been as smooth because it was a berserk Demon Cat this time. Sleeping Moon's movements almost couldn't keep up with its increase in attack speed and damage. After leaping up, his combo attack finally missed and the Demon Cat bit down.

"HURRY UP AND ADD!!!" Sleeping Moon was worried now. Although he could fight better than the cloth-armored mage and Fallen Sun, he wasn't unequaled.

"Add what?"

"Add life!"

"What does add life mean? I only see that you're bleeding."

"You… …" Sleeping Moon was beyond angry.

"What a pity, if you only you could fight the hidden BOSS. Then, you could've rotated the party order and leader. That way, team members wouldn't leave their posts and the hidden BOSS would've been yours."

"Only how regretful. Your skill isn't good enough, so you needed to rely on others to kill the BOSS. As a result, you deliberately aggroed it properly at first and then let the BOSS OT at the right time. The other team members would have been wiped out leaving you with a low-health BOSS to solo. The items also would have certainly been yours. Whether or not you could finish the dungeon wasn't important at all compared to the hidden BOSS."

After Lord Grim sent out these two messages, Sleeping Moon's forehead broke out in a cold sweat. He didn't think that this guy, who had only said a single sentence along the way, had seen through his entire plot. Correct, he had let the Demon Cat OT onto the other three members to kill them. His original plan was while the healer was still frantically healing the other three members, he would have the BOSS aggro onto him. But he didn't think that Lord Grim would suddenly give up healing. Could it be that this guy had seen through his own own plan at that time? That guy he knew that he couldn't save anyone else, so he deliberately controlled the aggro so that it wouldn't fall on him. Could it be that he wouldn't heal him and let him die under the Midnight Demon Cat's claws?

"Brother… …" Sleeping Moon saw that this person wasn't a virtuous crop and immediately began trying to persuade him: "For now, let's not argue about this matter. It's not like you know those three players. Let's team up to beat this Demon Cat. We'll each have a 50% chance of getting each of the items, isn't that pretty good?"

"50%? I like 100%!"

"Fine… …" Sleeping Moon grinded his teeth, "Materials won't usually be the only drops. When the time comes, you first take your pick and I'll give up on it. Everything else, let's roll die for. I can give all the equipment to you too." Without the assistance of heals, Sleeping Moon knew that he definitely wouldn't be able to beat the BOSS. He could only say this.

"This, who could believe this!"

"Then what's your proposal?" Sleeping Moon immediately answered. His life had already dropped to half. He couldn't deal with the Demon Cat after it turned berserk. Having to negotiate with Ye Xiu only made it more difficult. He had already secretly written down Lord Grim's name. He swore that he would definitely humiliate this guy one day.

"You don't need to worry about what I'm thinking. Be at ease and drop dead!"

"You… …You're crazy. If I'm dead, wouldn't you be dead too? Then, no one would be able to take the items." Only a quarter of his health remained.

"Friend, there's no need to get into a life and death struggle!!" Only a fifth of his health remained.

"You're an idiot!" A seventh.

"Lord Grim, you haven't gone mad have you? Do you know my Full Moon Guild's strength?" One ninth.

"You're finished!" One hit point.

"F*ck… …" The Midnight Demon Cat clawed down and the world turned quiet.

Lord Grim had not moved up until now. But he also hadn't escaped. After settling the matter with Sleeping Moon, he immediately pounced over.

Ye Xiu laughed faintly. His left hand flew across the keyboard hitting a few keys and his right hand moved the mouse. Lord Grim brandished the Thousand Chance Umbrella and opened it. Furthermore, he opened it extremely exaggeratedly and the umbrella actually flipped the other way. He retracted the umbrella a bit and now the Thousand Chance Umbrella looked like a lance.

The lance-like Umbrella had already whooshed towards the Midnight Demon Cat.

Battle Mage Skill: Dragon Tooth.

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Chapter 9: Ye Xiu's Two Hands

Translator:Nomyummi

Editor:GravityTales

Chen Guo actually didn't have a habit of pulling all-nighters. Only, today was the opening of a new server, so she came to see the liveliness. After seeing it, she quickly grew sleepy and fell back on her chair only half-conscious.

This type of sleep quality was obviously quite poor. It was just that Chen Guo was too lazy to get up. In this half-asleep half-conscious state, her ears couldn't help but drift to the frantic keyboard tapping and mouse clicking sounds. To a boss at an Internet Cafe, these sounds were very familiar to her. But the sounds Chen Guo heard were somewhat different. These sounds were hurried and then slow, gentle and then heavy. Hearing this mechanical rhythm, Chen Guo had never thought that the tapping of a keyboard and mouse could sound like drums. Was she dreaming?

Chen Guo suddenly woke up and listened again carefully. It seemed like it truly wasn't a dream. These sounds came from beside her — from that newly hired network manager, Ye Xiu.

Chen Guo sat up wanting to see and the jacket slid off of her body. She promptly grabbed it at it and recognized it as Ye Xiu's jacket. It looks like this person's quite attentive." Chen Guo said secretly. Only, how long has this jacket not been washed? It's kind of smelly.

Chen Guo picked up the jacket and sat down. Right when she was about to talk to Ye Xiu, she all of sudden sat there dumbfounded.

A pair of hands that made people's cheeks stream with tears appeared in front of her eyes — Ye Xiu's two hands.

These two hands looked extremely thin. His fingers were long and slender and his joints weren't rough like ordinary male's were. His fingertips were thin and his fingernails were clean and tidy. This was completely inconsistent with his sloppy outer appearance.

Chen Guo had originally never been a very attentive person. But after a lady with extremely beautiful hands came to the Internet Cafe, she became influenced and gradually began paying attention. Now, she was astonished by Ye Xiu's two hands.

The hands were beautiful hands. The tapping sounds were also like music. But his actions… …Ye Xiu's left hands bounced around on the keyboard. Cheng Guo only had one feeling: his hands moved extremely slowly.

Hand speed, the amount of actions done in a certain amount of time, usually counted in minutes, were abbreviated as APM. Glory wasn't a strategy game. Players only controlled a single character, but skill usage was complicated. As a result, the number of fine actions that needed to be done were high, so high hand speed was a must.

A player with a high hand speed made quick and meticulous moves. The strength and duration of each keystroke all directly influenced the extent that the in-game character moved. These changes added further complexity to battles. Only, these types of good or bad changes had differences. For example, some people only raised their APM to look good and never stopped making actions. But making every action count and having high APM, only pro-level players could do.

200 APM. This was the publicly recognized skill level divide in Glory. When ordinary players tried to go above 200 APM, they were basically hitting their keys randomly. Even for pro-gamers, going above 200 APM needed a certain battle scenario. The level of the opponent couldn't be too weak, so that they needed to go over 200 APM to fight.

For ordinary players, 70% of the players were between 80 to 120 APM. 25% couldn't even reach 80 APM and the other 5% exceeded 120. Though among experts(5%), it is said that there was no lack of players that could reach 200 APM, that professional level of skill.

Chen Guo's hand speed hovered around 120 but could exceed that under certain circumstances. Therefore, Chen Guo believed that she was among that 5%, an expert among ordinary players.

But for Ye Xiu, Chen Guo didn't doubt that his APM hadn't even reached 80. Right when she noticed this, Chen Guo suddenly found that that rich rhythmic tapping sound also disappeared. The sounds she had heard could only be heard so distinctly because of his slow movements.

"Am I dreaming again… …" Chen Guo shook her head. She wanted to hear that previous dreamy sound, but found that it wouldn't appear no matter how hard she listened. The hands she noticed now operated as if they were disabled, yet were also hands that made people jealous.

Chen Guo was now engrossed in these two hands so much that she even forgot to look at the screen. But soon, Ye Xiu's two hands stopped. Only then did Chen Guo react and look at the screen. She immediately widened her eyes: "Midnight Phantom Cat?"

After saying this, the Midnight Phantom Cat had already fallen down from up above dropping numerous items.

And at this moment, Chen Guo saw an eye-grabbing system announcement flash through the screen: Tenth Server, Midnight Phantom Cat First Hidden Boss Kill: Lord Grim.

"D*mn!!" Chen Guo slapped her hands onto Ye Xiu's back: "You have real skill!" It didn't matter whether his hands were disabled or not. To be able to be the first one to kill, this was something that Chen Guo had never achieved before. " Right when Ye Xiu was about to look at the dropped items, this slap truly came unexpectedly. It almost made him swallow the cigarette in his mouth. In the end, only a strand of silver-white smoke fell freely onto the keyboard. Chen Guo, who had originally been peeking at how Ye Xiu worked, saw this scene. Everything about being the first to kill the hidden BOSS had already been completely forgotten. She pulled at Ye Xiu's headphones and snarled next to his ear: "Who let you smoke here?"

"Huh?" The cigarette in Ye Xiu's mouth hadn't been extinguished yet. He didn't really understand what Chen Guo meant.

"NO SMOKING, did you not see that!?" Chen Guo pointed at the wall.

Ye Xiu turned his head and carefully examined the two words on the wall: "Are you kidding me? No smoking at an Internet Cafe?"

"This area is no-smoking. The smoking area is on the other side." Chen Guo pointed. 。 "Then let's go over." Ye Xiu said.

"No, smelling smoke makes my head hurt." Chen Guo said.

"Then what do we do?" Ye Xiu looked as if he had encountered an impossibly difficult problem.

"You can't smoke one less cigarette?" Chen Guo furiously said.

"I can't or my head will hurt." Ye Xiu said.

"You you you… …" Chen Guo discovered that she had begun to understand this Ye Xiu. Although he could casually accept living in that tiny storage room, he was definitely not an easy person to deal with.

"I'll go to the smoking area myself then. Boss, you should go rest." Ye Xiu said at this moment.

"Wait a second, you never said how you got the first kill!" Chen Guo said.

"Nothing much. The team all died. The BOSS's life was low. It was easy pickings." Ye Xiu said quite casually.

"Oh so it's like this." Chen Guo's tone still carried admiration. The reward for being the first one to kill this sort of low level hidden BOSS wasn't special. It was at most some extra experience and money. There wouldn't be any top quality equipment. But this would be forever recorded on the standings and he would be a legend on this server. A lot of players liked this sort of feeling. To the majority of ordinary players, getting on this sort of standing could only happen in the beginner levels. Once the dungeons became harder, no matter if it was a regular or a hidden BOSS, killing it required a certain amount of skill to beat. When they got to the heavenly domain, even those highly skilled teams had no chance. All of the records there were set by professional teams.

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Chapter 10 – Shameless Novice

"What did it drop? Envious, Chen Guo moved closer to see what the Midnight Phantom Cat dropped, "5 Cat Fingernails, trash; 1 Cat Fur Breastplate, might as well wear it, low-leveled equipment aren't important; 2 Midnight Cat Nails, 1 Midnight Cat Claw, 1 Midnight Opal. Okay, okay, not bad. Hidden BOSS materials are definitely worth a lot of money; one skill book… …Damn, what type of luck is this?"

Although Chen Guo had yelled it, Ye Xiu was also astonished. For a low-leveled hidden BOSS to drop a skillbook, what type of good luck was this?

What was a skill book? It wasn't used to unlock new skills. It increased skill points. Its value could be seen just by looking at the orange colored words. This was one method to exceed 4000 skill points. But this item couldn't be traded, so using money to buy it wasn't possible. It could only be obtained through luck. The book Lord Grim picked up didn't add much, only 5 points. But to have it drop from a hidden BOSS, it was still ridiculously lucky.

The skill book that had just been dropped was used in an instant. Among the materials dropped from the Midnight Phantom Cat, the Dark Opal and the Midnight Cat Nails were materials needed to complete the Thousand Chance Umbrella. Ye Xiu's mood was good. He unexpectedly let Lord Grim immediately leave the dungeon.

"You're not going to finish it?" Chen Guo astonished. Although Lord Grim was the only remaining member of the party, this type of newbie dungeon could easily be soloed. Even though she knew of Ye Xiu's disabled level APM, Chen Guo didn't think that his skill level was that low. For him to destroy her opponent that she lost to 52 times in 40 seconds, this accomplishment had just recently happened!

"I need to change computers!" Ye Xiu had already been prepared to leave the game. Chen Guo glimpsed at the screen and suddenly shot her hand to stop him: "Wait a second, what situation is this?"

She only saw on the chat window a wall of identical messages.

"The shameless novice Lord Grim, in order to steal the hidden BOSS for himself, didn't heal the party members on purpose and let them die. Everyone be careful."

"The shameless novice Lord Grim, in order to steal the hidden BOSS for himself, didn't heal the party members on purpose and let them die. Everyone be careful."

These identical messages mixed together with other anger and hate. Although the system automatically blocked profanities, people's intelligence were boundless. They used same sounding words to complete their mission. (TLNote: If you guys are interested in what this means: https/en./wiki/Baidu_10_Mythical_Creatures)

Ye Xiu looked at them carefully and found the name Sleeping Moon among these spammers. He even saw the other party members Shutting Sun and a mage. Because he was the first one to come out, he actually reversed what was right and wrong.

"How could it be like this?" Chen Guo asked Ye Xiu.

Ye Xiu, helpless, could only explain it to her.

"D*mn. Shameless! How shameless!" Chen Guo raged when she heard this.

"Yeah, too shameless." Ye Xiu Said.

"Why aren't you mad?" Chen Guo was baffled.

"I'm very angry." Ye Xiu said.

"Are you angry? How come I can't see it at all?" Chen Guo was puzzled. This Ye Xiu stared at the screen looking at the wall of slander but his face hadn't changed at all.

"Just because I'm angry doesn't mean I have to show it." Ye Xiu didn't look angry. He was even smiling. While doing so, he logged out of the game and shut down the computer. Changing over to the smoking area was still his current ambitious dream.

"What type of person are you? I turn my head and then there are suddenly so many events. You meet a hidden BOSS, a skill book drop, and even formed enemies. Tomorrow morning I'll see if you're dead." Chen Guo said.

"See you later boss!"

Chen Guo went to rest while Ye Xiu went to the smoking area. As expected, a blanket of smoke lingered around in this area. Even the high-frequency frantic ventilation had no way to purify the air around here. It could only limit the smoke's assault on the non-smoking area.

These smokers also didn't have any emotion towards second-hand smoking. Ye Xiu also lit up a cigarette at once blending in with the sea of smokers. Sweeping across the area, he saw that this place was clearly more crowded than the non-smoking area. When pulling all-nighters, very few could do so without the stimulation from a cigarette.

It was good that the Internet Cafe was large enough. Ye Xiu turned around and found an open computer. Without choosing carefully, he went over and sat down. Happy Internet Cafe was relatively high-class. There was a small wall between every computer station to protect people's privacy. Even if they didn't, everyone was wearing headphones and immersed in Glory. No one payed any attention to outside matters.

Ye Xiu re-logged into the game and put on his headphones.

Lord Grim was still sitting outside Green Forest. Even though the place was overcrowded with people, it wasn't so noisy that he couldn't hear anything from his earphones. There was no difference between walking here and walking into a bustling market. It wasn't so lively that he couldn't hear what others were saying. As for those players constantly spamming to join a party, those could be drowned out.

Ye Xiu's eyes sweeped over the chat box and saw that the messages about Lord Grim had already disappeared. Finding out when a character went offline was possible through a certain game function. Sleeping Moon was a veteran, so he was already familiar with these sort of methods. After Lord Grim had gone offline, he stopped with the messages. Only players over level 20 could leave the beginner area. When that happened, PK'ing would be opened up. In the meantime, those level 20 and under could only point fingers and argue.

But Sleeping Moon was now being quite malicious. Lord Grim appeared on the First Hidden BOSS Kill announcement, so everyone learned about him. When Sleeping Moon raged using his name, it was very easy for people to take note of it. As a result, Lord Grim couldn't find a party to join. All of his requests were all totally denied. Even if players didn't actually believe in Sleeping Moon's remarks, they had already started to defend against Lord Grim.

Ye Xiu could only helplessly laugh. When he formed a party, he truly only came for the hidden BOSS. He needed those materials. But now that he couldn't form a team, his leveling speed would only increase.

In Glory's dungeons, the fewer the people the more the experience. Efficiency had to be considered though, so in the end, having more people was more effective. But Lord Grim was different. He held the Silver Level 5 Thousand Chance Umbrella. For regular players, they mostly relied on Blue and Green equipment. When compared to the Thousand Chance Umbrella, Blue and Green equipment were inferior by three to four grades. In Glory, every grade was equal to five levels. In other words, the Thousand Chance Umbrella was equivalent to a level 20 Blue or a level 25 Green weapon.

This superiority in the low-level stages of the game could be considered overpowered. Because the damage done by Lord Grim's weapon was equivalent to four or five weapons. Adding in the influence by a character's attributes, Lord Grim was equivalent to three people. Furthermore, with Ye Xiu's skills, he wouldn't be slower in clearing a dungeon than a five man team. He might even be a bit faster.

Lord Grim began walking, ready to enter the dungeon. But after a few steps, a player suddenly blocked his way. Ye Xiu looked and it was actually Sleeping Moon. To be able to find him in this crowd of people, this guy has sharp eyes.

"Hello hello." Ye Xiu lifted his headphones up and down testing to see if the message went through.

"Hello my a*!" Sleepy Moon wasn't polite in the slightest.

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Chapter 11 – Missing a Person? Add Me!

Ye Xiu actually laughed and asked: "What's up?"

This dull and casual tone made Sleeping Moon speechless. He was almost convinced that this wasn't the person that he had raged at for half a day. Although the masses believed that he had been cheated, he and Lord Grim were both well aware that this was a false accusation. But how could this guy act like nothing had happened? Did he not see the previous messages?

"The shameless novice Lord Grim, in order to steal the hidden BOSS for himself, didn't heal the party members on purpose and let them die. Everyone be careful."

Sleeping Moon immediately sent out the stored message twice and looked forward to Ye Xiu's reaction. But in the end Ye Xiu said: "You're still doing it? You're not going to level up?"

"I… … I want you to know my might! Do you now know that my Full Moon Guild isn't to be messed with?" Sleeping Moon had prepared these words for a while now. But now that he said them, he felt that the context was completely off. It was as if his words were like a knife stabbing through cotton, not impressive at all.

"I know. I can't find anyone to party with anymore." Ye Xiu said.

Hearing this, Sleeping Moon felt a little more at ease and laughed out loud: "Let's see you offend me again."

He didn't think that Ye Xiu said: "Aren't you missing a person? Why not add me?"

Sleeping Moon was immediately dumbstruck: "Damn, how low are you… …"

"Ha ha, add me add me. Now that we know each other more, why don't we work together?" Ye Xiu unexpectedly took the initiative and sent him a request.

Sleeping Moon did indeed have a four player party and it obviously wasn't the previous team. The other three players were all members of Full Moon Guild. Establishing a guild could only be done after leaving the beginner village, so these were all members from old servers that transferred over to the new tenth server. And in the end, they were all put into the same beginner village. Before, when Sleeping Moon wanted the hidden BOSS to himself, it was obviously inconvenient to do it with his own guild members, so he went and found four other random players. Unfortunately, he bumped into Ye Xiu, who helped and then betrayed him. Right after, he immediately asked the guild for help and also conveniently got the former members to help slander Ye Xiu. He wanted to defame Lord Grim right then and there.

But the result? The result was this, the guy didn't seem to care at all. With no one wanting him, he bluntly requested to join his party. Looking at his request, Sleeping Moon didn't know whether to accept or decline it.

Sleeping Moon was at a loss. Learning from his mistake, he felt that this person wasn't a simple character. What was his goal? As he hesitated, a brother on the side privately messaged him: "Add him. This guy's asking for death. Once we enter the dungeon, what can he do?"

Sleeping Moon thought about it. He had four allies on his side. There was absolutely no reason to be afraid of him.

Thus, Ye Xiu entered the Green Forest with these four people. This time their luck wasn't too good and they didn't encounter the Midnight Phantom Cat. Ye Xiu laughed and asked: "Do you still need me to heal?"

"No need. Everyone will attack together." As Sleeping Moon said this, the four had already rushed up to attack the monsters. These four clearly weren't newbies. Their skills were very veteran-like and with this skill level, two or three people were enough to easily clear the Green Forest dungeon. Adding in another person, their efficiency flew through the roof. Ye Xiu also didn't speak much. He swung his Thousand Chance Umbrella into a lance and attacked.

Sky Strike, Dragon Tooth, these two were attack skills. Of course, besides these skills, the character also had normal attacks. Players, through the direction and strength of normal attacks, controlled many kinds of attack patterns such as straight stabs, horizontal slashes, vertical chops, uppercut, etc. When these sort of attacks were fully utilized, they were sometimes extremely similar to skills, except their effects were different. For example, Sky Strike was a type of uppercut attack, but the knock-up effects and damage were much stronger than a normal uppercut. Dragon Tooth was a type of straight stab. Its stabbing speed was much quicker and could also cause the opponent to be stunned for a small duration. When a character was stunned, he would not be able to put out any actions.

Ye Xiu didn't need to use these skills. His normal attacks were already enough to kill those Green Forest monsters with ease. It was just that when he withdrew his lance in an area with no monsters, a monster would suddenly be pushed onto him by the others. Ye Xiu laughed and accepted it. He knew that it was Sleeping Moon and his other helpers deliberately pushing these small monsters onto him. They wanted to put him into a situation where he was surrounded on all sides.

But surrounded was surrounded, how could Ye Xiu not be able to deal with it? He had been surrounded by five Green Forest monsters more than once. sending a Sky Strike onto a monster, he broke out of the encirclement. With a horizontal sweep, his right hand chopped and slashed and the five little monsters lined up to die. The other four just watched and looked on without lifting a finger to help. But in the end, they saw how Lord Grim dispatched the monsters at lightning speed. His might was tyrannical. Seeing this, the four were even somewhat jealous.

"This guy's skill is really good." A party member called Seven Fields nodded his head expressing his approval.

"He's a veteran. Looking at his skill, he could easily solo the Green Forest dungeon." Another person said.

"He knows his stuff. He soloed off the berserk Midnight Phantom Cat. I wouldn't have thought that his skill level was above mine." Sleeping Moon said.

"With this skill, there's no way he would die in Green Forest." A person concluded.

"How about we go to Spider Cave when we hit level 10?" Seven Fields said to the other three.

Spider Cave was a level 10 to 15 dungeon. It was much harder than Green Forest. If Green Forest's purpose was to give players time to get used to the game, then once they hit level 10, from Spider Cave onwards, players needed to start using actual strategy and skill to clear it. It was called Spider Cave because the monsters were spiders. There were two types. One type was long-ranged and spit out webs that had a chance to bind. Players that were bound wouldn't be able to move. The other type was melee-ranged and its bite had a chance to poison. Players that were poisoned would continuously lose health. In Green Forest, only the hidden BOSS had these sort of status inducing attacks.

Besides normal monsters, Spider Cave had three BOSSes: a long-ranged one, a melee-ranged one, and a Spider Lord as the final BOSS. The hidden BOSSes were Spider Elite, Spider Warrior, and a Spider Emperor.

Because levels 1 to 10 went by quickly, there were still many that hadn't gotten used to the game yet. When they opened up the Spider Dungeon, they wouldn't come out alive. Thus, the beginner guides never recommended it. The only ones that would consider this dungeon were people like Sleeping Moon because they already possessed some level of skill as veterans.

"If we kill this guy in the Spider Cave, we'll only have four people. Will we still be able to clear it?" Sleeping Moon hesitated.

"As long as we don't meet the hidden BOSS, it shouldn't be a problem." Seven Fields said.

"If we meet a hidden BOSS, even he won't be able to beat it. The Spider Cave is a lot harder than here." A person said.

"True. Then let's first hurry and level up. When we get to level 10, let's head to Spider Cave." Sleeping Moon said.

Suddenly, a member that hadn't spoken the entire time said: "Then we're going to bring him to level up? And then kill him?"

Sleeping Moon heard this and was startled. Hearing this, his plan was indeed stupid. But Seven Fields already found an explanation: "It'd be better to say, we'll first let him do all the hard work and then kick him out."

"Right right right. It'll be like this." Sleeping Moon felt relieved.

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Chapter 12 – Spider Cave (1)

The four guys were very aggressive. They sneakily discussed on one side and let Ye Xiu do all of the hard work. It was good that they hadn't completely seen Ye Xiu as an idiot. After arguing, the four went up and helped Ye Xiu clear monsters. While they cleared, they slowly explained: "Just a moment ago our guild had some business to take care of. We were a little out of focus. We're good now."

"Come on guys." Ye Xiu dully said a few words as if he wasn't suspicious at all.

The four were secretly delighted. If they cooperated together, the four veterans and the expert Ye Xiu, they would easily cruise by this dungeon. Every person killed happily. Their outer appearance didn't show any signs of an ulterior motive.

"Have you noticed that this guys damage is very high?" Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon muttered quietly.

"It looks like it. I've never seen that lance-like weapon before." Sleeping Moon said.

"I don't know either. I don't pay attention to low-level lances." Seven Fields said.

"It'd be good if it dropped when we kill this guy." Sleeping Moon said.

"So what if it dropped. No matter how high of an attack it has, it's still a low-level weapon. We won't be able to use it for long." Seven Fields said.

"True." Sleeping Moon nodded.

Each side did not provoke the other and cooperated harmoniously. Going in and out of Green Forest, their efficiency was extremely high. It was unfortunate, however, that they didn't meet the hidden BOSS Midnight Phantom Cat again.

After clearing it a few times, Lord Grim was the the first to reach Level 10. The First Hidden BOSS kill gave him an ample amount of experience. Green Forest only had one hidden BOSS so far. Just relying on this, Lord Grim was already pretty far up on the tenth server level leaderboards. Only the first to reach level 10 was not him. That player was called Blue River. This was already his second time to be announced by the system. The first time was when he and four others were the first to clear Green Forest.

Seeing that Lord Grim was the first among them to reach level 10, Sleeping Moon felt a fit of nervousness. They were afraid that this guy would just leave them. Who knew that Lord Grim only laughed and said "I've leveled up". After a few sounds of congratulations, he entered the Green Forest with the other four again.

The experience gap between them wasn't too great. After clearing this dungeon, Sleeping Moon and the others all reached level 10. The five of them also obtained quite a few equipment.

"Brother, we work quite well together. Now that we've all hit level 10, why don't we go and tackle Spider Cave together?" Seven Fields went up and asked Ye Xiu. Sleeping Moon and Ye Xiu once had a disagreement. Now this sudden change of heart made him feel a little odd. In addition, Sleeping Moon still continued to look at Ye Xiu maliciously and just let Seven Fields play the role of a mediator.

Ye Xiu heard this and agreed. Only he first said that he would go and learn skills first. For skill points, it didn't matter whether they were given as quest rewards, leveling, killing a certain amount of monsters, or dueling, these would all only allow him to reach the 4000 skill points. From level 7 to level 10, he didn't have many skill points accumulated. But the most important part was that level 10 was another period when new skills could be learned.

The other four were obviously going to learn too. Thus, each of them looked for a teacher to learn from. Afterwards, they grouped up at Spider Cave.

There weren't many people at the entrance of Spider Cave. After all, they had leveled up relatively fast compared to ordinary players and newbies wouldn't consider going to this dungeon.

Outside, there were only only a few randomly made parties. Because the dungeon was difficult, they would all ask about each other's equipments. Forming a party wasn't so carefree. Ye Xiu and the others were straightforward. Without saying a word, they directly entered. Only this time, Sleeping Moon and the other three helpers began to act evilly.

"Should we immediately kill him or look at the situation first?" One person asked quietly.

"Why don't we look first. If this person truly is an expert. Let's use him first. Why don't we plan again when the BOSS comes?" Seven Fields suggested.

"Okay." The other members had no other opinions. Truthfully, those members had no enmity with Ye Xiu. The person in front of them was so outstanding. He was also the one with the most DPS in the group. They were a little unwilling to part with him. But to give their friend Sleeping Moon some face, in the end, they still went forward with the plan. Although no one said anything, they were all quite regretful.

"You all brought antidotes?" Seven Fields asked everyone, which everyone replied with a yes. Only Ye Xiu actually laughed: "No need."

"This guy's looking for death." Sleeping Moon didn't feel too good about Ye Xiu's confidence.

"Then let's go." Seven Fields said happily.

The inside of Spider Cave was gloomy and spider webs could be seen everywhere. From time to time, scattered skeletons could be seen. It looked sinister and terrible. Sleeping Moon and the others all looked a bit nervous. When a character died in Glory, they would lose experience. In the normal world it was a 10% decrease and equipment also had a chance of dropping, though the chances were fairly low. But when the a player reached the heavenly domain, dying became scary. The player would lose 20% of their experience and equipment had a high chance of dropping.

Looking at Lord Grim again, he walked in large strides with his battle lance as if it were the same as Green Forest. Sleeping Moon and the others saw that this guy took the initiative to detect the mines. It was a good thing for them anyways.

Towards these low-leveled dungeons, Ye Xiu had pretty much forgotten what was in them. He remembered that he had once done a guide for Spider Cave, but he couldn't recall it at all. It had already been almost ten years.

Just when Ye Xiu was sighing, a shadow suddenly leaped out from a crack in a rock directly towards Lord Grim. Ye Xiu's left hand tapped the keyboard and his right hand dragged the mouse. Lord Grim rolled backwards to dodge it and launched Sky Strike.

A melee-ranged green spider pounced onto him, but was hit by Sky Strike in midair. Adding attacks while the opponent was knocked up was a fundamental skill in Glory. How could Ye Xiu miss this opportunity? After an intense burst of keyboard typing and mouse clicking, Lord Grim leaped up brandishing his lance. From up in the air to down on the ground, he slashed madly at the green spider. Pu pu pu pu four strikes landed in quick succession. The green spider was hit aside onto a rock.

"F*ck, no way!" Seven Fields said with great alarm.

"He comboed it four times in mid-air!!" Another person also cried out in fear.

"He can combo four times at level 10?" The third person.

Sleeping Moon could only open his mouth in shock, speechless.

A four hit combo in mid-air, this was a widely-known Battle Mage Combo that few players could execute. It was simple in theory. It was just a normal straight stab, Dragon Tooth, and then two hits from the Level 10 Battle Mage Skill Double Stab to complete it.

"I heard only players with an APM of 170 or higher can execute this sort of combo." Seven Fields said.

"Can't that only be done by a professional Battle Mage after his speed has been buffed?" Another person reminded.

"He's still only a unspecialized character… …"

"How big is the difference in speed between a unspecialized character and a Battle Mage?"

"I don't know. You'd still have to consider equipment. But it doesn't look like any of his equipment increases speed." Lord Grim was pretty much the same as theirs.

"What about weapon? Could it be his weapon?"

"Let's not worry about the reason. Even if you were a Battle Mage and wore a set of speed increasing Flowing Light equipment, could you guys combo it four times in midair?"

Silence. If they could do it, they wouldn't be so astonished.

"Just who is this person? The three members looked towards Sleeping Moon.

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"I say we shouldn't offend this guy." Seven Fields said in a serious tone towards the other three, but his gaze faced Sleeping Moon.

"Right, to have a 170 and up APM, he must be a great expert!" Another one agreed.

"170 is only a conservative estimate. He's a unspecialized character without any equipment yet he can still combo four times in mid-air. I feel like his APM would probably be above 200, right?"

"200 APM… … In our guild, I'm afraid only our guild leader has this level of skill, no?"

"Not only should we not offend him, we should try to rope him in."

"This type of expert probably has a special background."

They discussed this issue one by one and only Sleeping Moon didn't say anything. He understood their reasoning very clearly. Actually, after all of these dungeons, Sleeping Moon's hate for Ye Xiu had already weakened. If he could successfully cause this guy to die, then he would be satisfied. But now that he knew that this person was a great expert and that going against him wasn't easy, his hate once again arose. He himself couldn't explain this feeling clearly. He was envious, jealous, etc. he had them all. Right when he was going to say something, he saw that his three brothers were all watching Lord Grim in awe, their mouths repeatedly gasping in surprise. Sleeping Moon also turned around to look and found that this guy's incredible skill really did exist.

The monsters in Green Forest were too weak. With Lord Grim's high damage, he killed monsters too quickly for him to judge properly. Although the BOSS had more health, all of them ganged up to attack it, so it wasn't clear either. Now that he was attacking these high HP spiders, his skill level could be seen clearly now.

"His combo has already reached 17."

"It hasn't been broken ever since he made that four hit combo… …"

"It looks like he's using the wall to rebound it and then using a normal uppercut."

"I really didn't think he would've been able to connect that Sky Strike."

"Too beautiful."

The three people all repeatedly gasped in amazement making Sleeping Moon feel extremely disgusted. Right when he was about to say something, Seven Fields had already turned around towards him: "Hear me out. Let's not make things difficult for this guy. It's okay for you to be on bad terms with him, but let the rest of us negotiate with him!"

Sleeping Moon nodded his head in silence. He was a little bitter, but he knew that Seven Fields and the others were already preparing to rope this player in. What guild wouldn't want such a highly skilled player? By comparison, he himself was only a normal member of Full Moon Guild. No one would make things difficult for this type of expert just for his sake.

"How beautiful!" That green spider had been killed by Lord Grim in the span of a single breath. Seven Fields and the others all immediately circled up and gasped in admiration. They didn't need to fake this because this player's skill was indeed incredible.

"Brother, I now see that your skills are truly out of the ordinary!" Seven Fields said.

"It's nothing much." That player was still so humble towards this type of admiration. It seemed as if the player that Sleeping Moon had told them to frame was a completely different person.

"Brother, in the other servers, what guild sent you here to this new server?" Seven Fields asked. But he felt that the likelihood was low. What guild would send him here alone? This person was most likely by himself.

"None. I'm by myself." As expected.

"Really? You actually aren't part of a guild? Brother, this level of skill can't be found so easily. How could any guild not want you?" Seven Fields pretended to be astonished.

"There are no guilds in this server yet." Ye Xiu said.

Seven Fields stared blankly. This server didn't have any guilds yet, but what about old servers? It wasn't possible for this type of expert to have just started playing Glory! Although the player wouldn't say, Seven Fields reckoned that he probably had a disagreement with his former guild which is why he sulkily ran to a new server to play. This was an opportunity! It was the perfect time to make this player feel that their Full Moon Guild was a warm environment.

"Brother, what server were you a part of before?" Seven Fields began questioning.

"I haven't played in a while." An irrelevant answer. He had dodged the first question.

"Oh oh… …" Seven Fields could only say oh. How could he break the ice? Seven Fields was stuck at a wall.

In the end, it was clear that he wasn't interested in chatting and continued to advance. But this time, Seven Fields and the others all surrounded him inseparably close as if he had already become the core member of their party. Sleeping Moon felt awkward, but he could only stay silent.

With this expert overseeing them, they advanced smoothly through the dungeon. The four members that brought an antidote, sure enough, didn't need to use it because Lord Grim aggroed all of the spiders onto his body and dodged by using running, rolling, and jumping type skills. The four would sometimes even lose themselves to Lord Grim's beautiful movements and forget to attack the monsters.

"If I remember correctly, there should be a bunch of spiders up ahead. After killing them, the first BOSS will appear, but we won't know whether it's poisonous or web-shooting. It's one of the difficult parts of this dungeon. Let's… …" Seven Fields, at this moment, saw that Lord Grim had already rushed up and began killing. He could only helplessly correct himself "Okay, then let's go… …"

Seven Field's memory was correct. This part of the cave did indeed have a lot of spiders. There were a total of seventy, thirty poisonous and forty web-shooting. They were all linked too. So right when they closed in, all seventy of them neatly rushed out.

"Hurry up!" Seven Fields called out to his three brothers. He wouldn't dare command Lord Grim. He didn't know how far apart their levels were. Only, this time there were seventy spiders. No matter how good Lord Grim was, there was no way he would be able to aggro all of them. After all, he was only level 10. He didn't have any crowd control skills yet! So he called out everyone to go forward and relieve some of Lord Grim's pressure.

In the end, with a "hua", Lord Grim shook the battle lance in his hands and a half-circle slashed out. Four spiders were split open in an instant. Two spiders rushed up and two spiders spit out webs. Lord Grim leaped backwards avoiding the spider webs. At the same time, he spun in mid-air and with another shake of the battle lance, pu pu two spiders behind him were hit. After landing, he flipped sideways and avoided another spider web. He got up and executed a Sky Strike. The seventh spider was knocked up into the sky. It couldn't even spit out its web.

The four others all immediately went into disarray.

"Is he still even a person??" The four people all wanted to say this, but Glory, that wretched voice system would let him hear it. That wouldn't be good. But besides saying that, there were no other words to describe how they currently felt.

"A 180 degree horizontal sweep, my god!" Everyone held their breath and could only type it out.

"To be able to spin his body after a short hop backwards and then strike accurately two times!"

"And that perfect Sky Strike right after the roll!"

"That's not human!!" Everyone firmly believed. Although all of these were the combination of basic skills, not everyone could do them. For example, the 180 degree horizontal sweep was just a normal attack, but the sweeping angle depended on mouse control. The faster the mouse movement the larger the angle. It also had to do with the character's attack speed. At level 10, a 180 degree horizontal sweep wasn't something that could be done by any ordinary person.

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Chapter 14: Spider Cave (3)

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Everyone bowed down and worshipped him. Even Sleeping Moon couldn't help but admit it. This person forcibly used skills in a way that couldn't be done by a level 10. It was ridiculous.

"Brother, the way you use these Battle Mage skills… …is too tyrannical." Seven Fields truly meant it. If he didn't say this, he would have received internal injuries from holding his breath for too long.

"Ha ha. It's not bad." Lord Grim had been surrounded by seven monsters. Stabbing, cutting, slashing, chopping as if were handling a butcher's cleaver with ease. The others felt embarrassed to be there just watching him. They were all veterans and could all control aggro well. They wouldn't mess up Lord Grim's control over the seven spiders. What they had originally thought was too difficult, in the end was easily resolved. But all four of them understood, that to set up this abnormal situation, if he wasn't there, then it wouldn't have been possible.

Right after the seven spiders were killed, they heard a strange shriek. The first small BOSS had brilliantly arrived. Everyone hadn't yet seen the spider yet, when they first heard the shriek and then a cloud of dense purple mist spurted out.

"It's a poisonous spider." Seven Fields yelled. But this cloud of purple mist came out too suddenly. The range was extremely large. Two members weren't able to dodge it in time and immediately pulled out to antidotes to use. After using them, they turned greatly alarmed. Their life was still declining!

"Why isn't it working?" The two alarmed.

"The grade of the antidote is too low." Ye Xiu said.

"F*ck!" The two players cursed. They hadn't come to this dungeon when they were low-leveled. After reaching high-levels and returning, this dungeon wouldn't have such a problem. At that moment, they were still under-leveled compared to the monsters. How could they have thought to detoxify the poison? They had carefully prepared two antidotes, but in the end, they couldn't use it when the BOSS came. Hadn't they been cheated?

Lord Grim swung his arms and casted heals onto each of them. Afterwards, he rushed up to the BOSS #1. At the same time, he began directing the two non-poisoned players Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon and pointed his lance backwards, yelling: "Seven Fields stand at 1 o'clock. Little Moon Moon go stand at 4 o'clock."

"Little Moon Moon… .." Sleeping Moon almost coughed up blood, but this wasn't the time to argue. Seven Fields, without questioning him, ran towards the 1 o'clock position. Sleeping Moon also ran to his position without delay. BOSS #1's poison mist had already rushed out. This guy was big and beefy and was at least thrice as big as normal spiders. This type of massive freak was much easier to hit than the small Midnight Phantom Cat. But large monsters had a different advantage. Due to their relatively heavy weight, knock-up or other displacement skills had a reduced effect. How much it was reduced by depended on its weight and the attacker's strength.

This BOSS #1 in front of them could be considered a huge monster. When Lord Grim stabbed forward, it didn't even tremble. It was clear that this sort of normal attack would not knock it up at all.

The experienced Ye Xiu was not surprised by this. His fingers flickered and Lord Grim did another four hit combo. The big spider screeched. It raised its head and spit out a thick fog. But Lord Grim had already turned around swiftly and slipped away.

Although this BOSS's body was big, its actions weren't slower than a normal spider. Its jumping power was also remarkable. It jumped as if it were Mt. Tai wanting to crush Lord Grim. He flipped over and rolled away. The one called "Little Moon Moon" silently said: "Hello? Do you want us to stand here so you can fight by yourself?"

"Then you two, one of you move to 7 o'clock and the other to 9 o'clock." Ye Xiu yelled.

"How much of a gap between us?" The two people ran while asking.

"A 2 meter radius!" Ye Xiu said.

After falling into position, the four people had already formed a circle. They looked at each and had no idea what they were doing. Seeing that he was still soloing the BOSS, was he just arranging seats for them to watch him play the game?

Lord Grim dodged left and right finally bringing the BOSS running towards them. The four people immediately prepared for battle. The BOSS suddenly jumped high up into the air and it looked like it was going to squash Sleeping Moon. Sleeping Moon wanted to dodge, but heard Ye Xiu shout: "Don't move!!"

Revenge! This guy seized the opportunity to take revenge. Sleeping Moon felt that his mind was a sheet of dazzling light. Without thinking, he ignored Ye Xiu's words and rolled away. But when he turned around and looked, Lord Grim had already used a Sky Strike on the spider BOSS's stomach. Sky Strike, a specialized class's knock-up skill, was obviously going to have a greater effect than a normal uppercut. After the falling spider received this, it turned sluggish in mid-air, and had already shifted direction. Although the Sky Strike didn't have much of an effect, the monster had already been in mid-air. When it changed direction, it fell nicely in the center of the four people.

"Seven Fields Front Kick it. 9 o'clock Lunge. 7 o'clock Repel. Little Moon Moon hurry up and return to your position!" Ye Xiu and the four players had been together for a long time. He had already seen all of their skills. Now that they had surrounded it, Ye Xiu even directed what skills they should use.

Seven Fields rushed up and Front Kicked it. This was a Striker Skill and had a small-knockback effect. Although the effect was reduced on the big spider BOSS, it would still push back the BOSS a little.

The player at 9 o'clock also jumped up to execute a Lunge. This Blade Master skill also had a knock-back effect like Seven Field's Front Kick. The kicked back BOSS was hit again. At this point, these experienced players already understood Ye Xiu's intent. The 7 o'clock player welcomed it and used Repel.

This was a Knight skill. From the name, the effect of this skill was the most outstanding one among them. But the BOSS was pushed into the 4 o'clock position where no one was there. This was originally Sleeping Moon's position, but because he thought Ye Xiu wanted to kill him, he dodged to the side. Even though he was already running back to his position, it was already a little too late.

Everyone already understood that Ye Xiu wanted them to play billiards with the BOSS as the ball. This reasoning could only have only been made through the strong points of each of the four players. What were their strong points? Familiarity! The four players were all veterans that came together as friends. They had some mutual understanding between them so they could do this sort of formation.

Only now, this easy situation had been destroyed by Sleeping Moon. Even Seven Fields and the others were a little unhappy.

At this crucial moment, when the BOSS was about to leave the encirclement, Lord Grim suddenly appeared at the 4 o'clock position.

Everyone was startled. Lord Grim had been standing at the 11 o'clock position. They hadn't seen him move, how could he have suddenly moved to there? They looked towards the 11 o'clock position and discovered to their astonishment that there was another Lord Grim.

"D*mn!" Seven Fields suddenly understood.

Level 10 Ninja Skill: Shadow Clone Technique.

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Chapter 15: Spider Cave (4)

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Shadow Clone Technique was a type of deception(ing) skill. Only towards experienced opponents, it was easy to see through the trick. As a result, the trick really only worked on NPCs. When players dueled, the Shadow Clone Technique was most commonly used by the Ninja as an instant movement skill.

Now, Lord Grim used it like this. The fake body was kept in the original position while his real body used the Shadow Clone Technique to instantly move to what was originally Sleeping Moon's 4 o'clock position.

Everyone was still worried though because level 10 Battle Mages didn't have any displacement skills yet. How would Lord Grim knock-back the spider BOSS?

They quickly realized that they were worrying too much. Lord Grim didn't have any skill that could do so, but he had technique. A Sky Strike knocked-up the spider BOSS a little bit. Using this short time frame, he immediately rushed forward and hit it twice, pushing the spider BOSS towards Sleeping Moon.

Sleeping Moon was already standing on Lord Grim's original 11 o'clock position. Lord Grim's fake body still stood next to him. At this moment, Sleeping Moon felt absolutely embarrassed. He even hoped that Lord Grim would reprimand him a few times. But in the end, Lord Grim didn't say a thing and just accurately pushed the BOSS towards him.

Sleeping Moon understood what he needed to do. With a Lunge, the big spider was once again kicked away.

Sleeping Moon mentally prepared for the incoming criticism from everyone, but in the end, he heard everyone amazed: "It's bleeding."

It wasn't a person that was bleeding, it was the spider BOSS. The Bleed status effect couldn't be made through a normal attack. It had to either come from a weapon effect or a skill effect.

At the present, no one's weapon had this effect.

But there were skills that could cause this effect.

Double-Stab, a Battle Mage skill. Only, the Bleed effect from the Stab was a hidden effect. It wasn't triggered through chance. It relied on the player himself to trigger it.

The method to activating it was by having both strikes from Double-Stab hit the exact same spot. This didn't mean that both of them hitting an arm was fine. It meant that the second strike had to hit the hole that was stabbed open by the first strike. Only after doing this would there be a chance for the Bleed effect to take place. As for the probability of this happening, especially for a hidden effect, the data didn't display it. After players tested it, it was believed to have more or less a 50% probability.

This probability could already be considered quite high. Only, it could only be done after completing a specific action. It was easy to perform this action on a dead target, but in non-stop combat, it required precision and reaction speed.

Glory had a lot of similar hidden skill effects, which all required difficult actions to activate.

If a normal player were to Stab out a Bleed, Seven Fields and the others would've considered it to be luck. But for Lord Grim to do so, they all considered it to be skill. With regards to Ye Xiu's skill, they were already thoroughly convinced. It wasn't just his individual skill, but his command over the team in this BOSS fight too. He wasn't an ordinary expert, he was an expert among experts.

Seven Fields already felt somewhat embarrassed over trying to rope in Ye Xiu because their Full Moon Guild wasn't even considered a top guild. In the heavenly domain, they were ranked over fifty. They held no records in any of the dungeons there. In this sort of common guild, Seven Fields felt that they couldn't accommodate for this player.

The others didn't know if they all had the same thoughts as Seven Fields, so everyone just silently attacked. In the process, it was hard to avoid a few minor slips. But Ye Xiu promptly warned them, so disaster never occurred. Just like this, BOSS #1 was easily killed. After looting the corpse, they found a Blue equipment. But because it was low-leveled, no one really cared much about it. It would become outdated in an instant anyways. At this moment, however, they all required that Lord Grim picked it up. Even though Sleeping Moon didn't say anything, he also silently chose to give it up.

Ye Xiu looked and saw that it wasn't much better than a Green Level 10 Belt. But since everyone renounced it, he could only courteously accept it and wear it. They continued forward.

Afterwards, they employed the same tactic. BOSS #2 was a web-spitting long-ranged type spider. Annoyingly, It would frequently spit out webs onto the cave flying and jumping around like Spider-Man. But under Ye Xiu's leadership, the five finally brought this fellow into a corner. Only this time they didn't play billiards with it, instead they used skills that stunned one after another. Ye Xiu dispatched BOSS #2 through chain stuns, so it wouldn't be able to spit out webs again.

Naturally, the four players began worshipping Ye Xiu to a whole new level. This person was their MT as well as their main damage dealer. From time to time, he would even Heal them. After doing so, he would plan tactics and then carry it out……The four could no longer use words to describe him and could only worship, worship, and worship him again.

The Spider Cave's Spider Lord was another difficult part of the dungeon. This guy had the strengths of both small spider BOSSes: web-spitting and poisonous. It had eight hairy legs and a belly full of patterns. It was twice as big as a small BOSS and was extremely nauseating.

Confronting this final BOSS, Seven Fields and the others weren't nervous at all because they knew that under Lord Grim's commands, there wouldn't be any problems beating this two-in-one boss.

As expected, this fight was just as easy as the last ones. This two-in-one Spider Lord was just a bit fatter and had a few extra tricks. Under Ye Xiu's commands, they controlled the field smoothly dispatched it.

First clear!

At this moment, the announcement system impressively lined up the names of their five-player party.

Sleeping Moon, Seven Fields, Sunset Clouds, Drifting Water, Lord Grim; Tenth Server First Spider Cave Clear!

Seven Fields and the others were all astonished and went into an ecstasy. Although their leveling wasn't considered slow, they wouldn't have ever thought that they could be the first ones to clear Spider Cave. This was all thanks to the great expert Lord Grim, or it else it wouldn't have gone so smoothly.

"D*mn!" And at this moment, another party of five in the Spider Cave all shouted together when they saw this announcement.

In front of them, there was only a sliver of health left on the Spider Lord. They would've been able to finish it given ten more seconds. But now, they lost to these ten seconds.

Regretful and unwilling, the five players all dreamt of the countless ways they could've made up for those ten seconds. In the end, they could only admit to reality. Their dream was to have their guild be the first to clear every dungeon in the tenth server. But just then in this second dungeon, their dreams had already been crushed.

Ten seconds. They had only lost by ten seconds.

"Lord Grim? Wasn't this the person that was the first to kill the Midnight Phantom Cat?" The Spider Lord had already collapsed. The five players had smoothly cleared the dungeon, but they weren't happy at all.

"I think so."

"Where did this person come from? This person has also been on the announced twice. Blue River, he's just like you!"

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Chapter 16: Emperor (1)

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This Blue River was also like Lord Grim and had been announced by the system twice. His background wasn't small. He belonged to one of the three great guilds, Blue Brook Guild. In the heavenly domain, he possessed the Blade Master, Blue Bridge Spring Snow, one of the five top experts of Blue Brook Guild. But as all veterans knew, peak guilds like Blue Brook Guild had a professional club backing them. The five great experts weren't their best. The experts of the professional team behind them were.

Behind the Blue Brook Guild was the Blue Rain Club's team. The number one player on their team was called Huang Shaotian. His account was a Blade Master called Troubling Rain. In the Glory community, he was known as the Sword Saint and was as equally famous as the Battle God One Autumn Leaf.

When the tenth server opened, Blue Brook Guild sent Blue River along with other helpers to be pioneers in the new server and help establish their power by absorbing fresh blood. No one else but a player from one of those three great guilds would dream of dominating the dungeon records in a new server. Who would have thought that their dreams would have ended already in the Spider Cave? Not only that but they were only off by ten seconds. His brothers were all depressed and Blue River wasn't feeling good either.

"Lord Grim… …" Discussing the name, Blue River and everyone else were at a loss. The guilds that wrestled for power from Blue Brook Guild mainly did so in the heavenly domain. After competing for so many years, they all learned of each other's experts. This time, all of the experts that were sent out to the tenth server had been scouted out. The information was thorough and accurate. But Lord Grim had never appeared in their list of names. Was it possible that it that he snuck in?

"Is there any information on his four teammates?" Blue River asked.

"None." All of the brothers said.

Get in touch with all of our brothers in each of the villages. See if anyone knows him." Blue River said. Beginners were put into villages randomly. Even their Blue Brook Guild people couldn't meet up with each other easily, most of them were on their own. While they leveled up, they also dug out future prospects. When they reached level 20 and left beginner village, they would join together after establishing a guild.

The Blue Brook Guild players that came were headed by Blue River. And his side naturally became the command center. In reality, no big guild would go so far as to cover all of the beginner villages. The player distribution was too random so it wasn't possible to be so precise. But when Blue River once again went into Spider Cave to quickly level up, the information they had requested finally arrived.

Only, this information not only didn't tell them clearly who those players were, but instead made the situation even more chaotic.

The information report told them that outside of the Green Forest at some village, just then Sleeping Moon had slandered and criticized Lord Grim saying that he had intentionally tricked and robbed them of the hidden BOSS.

"What type of hideous mess is this?" Hearing this, everyone was puzzled.

This Lord Grim swindled a player to obtain the first hidden BOSS kill and then formed a party with that player to be the first to clear Spider Cave? This odd situation made these five experienced veterans to be extremely puzzled.

"Let's not worry about this first. Let's hurry up and train. There'll definitely be an opportunity to meet them when we reach level 20." Blue River said gloomily and continued to lead his party.

Outside of some village's Spider Cave, Seven Fields and the others were still immersed in the excitement of being the first ones to clear a dungeon and couldn't free themselves from it. They were lacking compared to Blue River and those experts by several grades. As a result, with regards to a first clear, it was basically a dream come true. Who would have thought that they truly had the chance to complete it? In that moment, they were excited beyond words.

And their great leader Lord Grim? He was still deathly silent. He only dully said a few words: "Pretty good experience!"

"Expert, it's all thanks to you!" Seven Fields and the others all surrounded Lord Grim. After playing Glory for so long, today was the day they finally understood what peak expert meant. A peak expert could let novices like them clear a difficult dungeon with ease. Seven Fields felt that for this sort of expert, even leaving his guild to follow him was worth it.

In comparison to the other three in high spirits, Sleeping Moon's mood was quite gloomy. What had originally been his hated enemy turned into his brothers' hero. Not only that but just a moment ago in the dungeon, he himself looked like a vile person giving his brothers a bad opinion of him. Now, if he didn't say anything, then his face really would just fall off. Sleeping Moon grinded his teeth and jumped in front of Lord Grim: "Your skill is really good. I admit to this. Only, I swear that there will be a day I catch up to you!"

"Are you serious?" Ye Xiu laughed.

"Yes!" Sleeping Moon said in an extremely provocative manner.

"Go for it!" Ye Xiu replied back and left.

"D*mn… …" Sleeping Moon was about to go insane. You should look down on me. You should hate me! You should mocking me! Wasn't this how experts were supposed to respond to challenges? To not care and just say "Go for it!" as if nothing had happened, what was that?

"Little Moon Moon, knock it off." Seven Fields went over to ease him.

"F*ck, you're the Little Moon Moon." Sleeping Moon said angrily.

"Calm down, calm down. Let's hurry up and train." The other two brothers Sunset Clouds and Drifting Water called out. Then, they gladly and diligently caught up to Lord Grim to try make him their good friends.

"D*mn, why didn't they call me over too?" Seven Fields immediately rushed over.

While Sleeping Moon grinded his teeth, he unexpectedly received a friend request from Lord Grim.

Decline. Sleeping Moon happily declined it.

If he asked again… … Sleeping Moon thought. But that sort of development didn't happen. Lord Grim had already entered the dungeon. Seven Fields and the two others followed closely. Sleeping Moon had been swept to the side. Only after a long time did he receive an invite from Seven Fields. Sleeping Moon was depressed. When they entered the dungeon, d*mn, the four others didn't wait for him at all. They slaughtered their way through and as if he weren't there.

Sleeping Moon wanted to leave the dungeon, but Seven Fields invited him again. Sleeping Moon still enjoyed his brother's concerns, so he had seconds thoughts thinking that he couldn't ignore his brother's concern just because of that guy. In the end, he still caught up with them. Seven Fields still had a good relationship with him. He keenly discovered that Sleeping Moon wasn't feeling too good and sent another private message to cheer him up. Sleeping Moon's mood improved a lot.

This time, they breezed through the dungeon just like before. In an instant, they slaughtered their way through. Without saying another word, they entered for a third round. But when they entered the dungeon they received a system prompt: You have mistakenly entered the Spider Emperor's Cave.

"Hidden BOSS." Seven Fields cried out in alarm and then looked to Lord Grim.

If they didn't have this expert, they definitely wouldn't dare attempt the hidden BOSS. The system also empathized on this point. The hidden BOSS wouldn't stop players from clearing a dungeon. They could kill it or choose not to. Killing the final BOSS was still the end goal. Now, the players unanimously looked towards Lord Grim. They wanted to see if this expert had a way to defeat the hidden BOSS.

"Oh, there's a hidden BOSS!" Ye Xiu said, "Heh, if it's a hidden BOSS… …"

"We can't kill it?" Seven Fields and the others were a little disappointed.

"It's not that we can't kill it. I just have a few conditions. The Spider Emperor should drop Strong Spider Silk. Can you guys give me this? I'll give up on the other materials and equipment. You guys can have them all." Ye Xiu said.

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Chapter 17 – Emperor (2)

"No problem!!" Seven Fields and the others almost didn't think about the proposal before agreeing. At this moment, the value of this expert had already surpassed those precious drops from the hidden BOSS. They were more worried about finding a way to express their good will. Who would have thought that this expert would come up with this demand? That was truly a relief. Even if he wanted all of the drops, Seven Fields and the others wouldn't hesitate to agree either.

In addition, Seven Fields, this guy, wanted to express his goodwill even further. He turned around and said: "Little Moon Moon. Give the party leader over to brother expert!"

"If you say that again, I'm going to kill you!" Sleeping Moon grinded his teeth.

"Ha ha. Isn't it cute? Why don't you like it?" Seven Fields laughed, but he didn't joke too excessively and immediately followed up: "If you don't want me to call you that, then I won't call you that! Give the party leader position to brother expert."

Sleeping Moon understood his meaning. By giving him the party leader position and then letting him set up the party, they would thoroughly dispel all of his doubts towards them. He would then have complete trust between them. Reaching this step, Sleeping Moon finally understand at last. Lord Grim didn't need any plots. If he really wanted everything, then with just a word, his three brothers would have no complaints. Sleeping Moon had no other choice, so he transferred the position to him.

In the end, Lord Grim didn't make any changes and only said "Let's continue", so he continued to lead everyone.

Their killing method didn't change and everything proceeded without a hitch. Ahead, a fork appeared on the main road of the Spider Cave. Everyone knew which one of the roads led to the Spider Emperor's den. Lord Grim didn't hesitate and directly headed towards the Spider Emperor. The four others followed closely behind.

This side road wouldn't appear in the normal dungeon. On the way, there were a few spider eggs. When the players moved close to them, they began hatching. Extremely small spiders jumped out and attacked the players. Their damage wasn't high, but they were small and nimble, not easy to hit. The four players opened their eyes wide until they almost popped out. It would basically take three to five strikes to hit it once. But for Lord Grim, with a just a lift of his lance, he would hit one after another without fail, cleaning them up rapidly. Seeing that the four others were having trouble, he turned around to provide assistance. The four others all held their breath. Without this person, although they could've reached the Spider Emperor, this road would've taken them an hour.

"Do you think we'll be the first ones to kill the Spider Emperor?" Drifting Water looked forward to the future.

"This depends on our luck. We won't know if we'll meet it early enough." Seven Fields said.

"We were the first ones to clear it, meaning we were the earliest to go into the Spider Cave the second time. Our speed wasn't slow either. Now this is our third round and there hasn't been an announcement for it yet. I feel that our chances are good." Drifting Water analyzed.

"Without strength, even if we met the Spider Emperor, we wouldn't dare to kill it!" Sunset Clouds sighed.

"Luckily we have brother expert." Seven Fields said.

"Right right right." Those two parroted.

"You guys make me sick" Sleeping Moon exceptionally disdained upon how these three were always trying to curry favor with Lord Grim. He wasn't scared of Lord Grim hearing of it either.

The three players all felt embarrassed and became somewhat angry towards Sleeping Moon. As for their previous hostility, that fellow was also in the wrong, why couldn't he just move back a step? Seven Fields once again sent Sleeping Moon a private message to educate him. Sleeping Moon obviously couldn't reason over Seven Fields. In the end, he could only show off a "I'm not feeling well anyways" attitude. Seven Fields was getting impatient too. When Sleeping Moon said he wasn't feeling well, Seven Fields told him to just leave the dungeon and get out! And stop causing trouble for them.

Sleeping Moon felt sad and wronged. Did the time finally arrive for those peasants to leave him for the expert?

"We're here." Ye Xiu continued to be at the very front. Seeing that there was another cave in the Spider Cave, he knew that this was the Spider Emperor's den.

"How do we kill it?" Seven Fields asked.

"You guys wait a bit. I'm going to go look up a guide." Ye Xiu said.

The four others immediately went into chaos. What was this situation? To look up a guide when they reached a crisis, what was this sort of last-minute preparation?

"Brother expert, you……" Seven Fields didn't know how convey it. In the end, he saw that Lord Grim just stood there without any response. He really did go out of the game to look up a guide. The four were at a loss! They had already judged him as an ultra-high level expert, but how could this sort of thing happen to such an expert?

"Could it be… … he switched with someone else?" Seven Fields guessed an idea that caused everyone to be alarmed.

"As I said before! How could such an awesome expert not stay in the heavenly domain! Why would he be here alone in this new server!?" Drifting Water said.

"F*ck, it was a true expert that helped play with us, but now that a fake expert's switched in? Wouldn't he have to run off and look at a guide?" Sunset Clouds said.

Brother expert, how could you just abandon us like this? Couldn't you have at least helped us clear the dungeon!? Tears streamed down the three player's cheeks. Sleeping Moon hadn't uttered a word, but he suddenly had another guess. This person had acted so calmly and without a reaction towards him. Didn't he have the same personality as the person he had met when they first bumped into each other?

Right when he couldn't free himself this type of difficult situation. Ye Xiu had already finished the guide and returned.

"Okay." Ye Xiu said.

"Brother expert… … you … …haven't switched players have you?" Seven Fields carefully asked.

"Switched players?" Ye Xiu didn't understand.

"Has this account been played by you the entire time?" Seven Fields asked.

"Yup!" Ye Xiu said.

"Then I don't really understand. Why would such an amazing expert need to look at a guide? Seven Fields said.

"I haven't done this dungeon in so many years. If I didn't look at a guide, I wouldn't remember how to beat it." Ye Xiu said.

"Then before… …"

"I had also looked up a guide!" Ye Xiu said.

The four players were dumbstruck.

"When?" Seven Fields asked.

"After learning skills, I glimpsed at a few. But they were too long, I hadn't read up to the hidden BOSS." Ye Xiu said.

The four continued to be puzzled. They had all studied a Spider Cave guide beforehand. But there was no guide that was similar to how Lord Grim commanded. What guide did he look at?

Ye Xiu had already begun explaining how to fight the Spider Emperor: "Just a moment ago, I looked at the Spider Emperor's description. To confront him, we can still use the same strategy as we did against the web-spitting one. After surrounding it, we chain-stun it. But here's the difficult part, the Spider Emperor will keep on spawning spider eggs, which can't be interrupted by any skill or effect. The spawned spider will be similar to the ones in the passageway, but their bites will cause a three second Stasis. Everyone knows about the Stasis status effect right? You cannot move or attack, but you can't be hurt either. Although there won't be any damage, it'll break up our formation. So we definitely can't be bitten by those small spiders."

"Then what should we do" Seven Fields asked.

"Let me be in charge of clearing these small spiders. Don't worry about them. So the hardest part will be whether the four of you can continuously chain-stun the Spider Emperor until its death."

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"This is the strategy from the guide?" Seven Fields and the others weren't new players. The guides they had seen didn't have this sort of strategy. If there was such a guide, then it would definitely be criticized until there were cuts and bruises all over. Why? Because this could only be done in theory. Four people continuously chain-stunning the Spider Emperor was still reasonable. But to rely on a single person to cleanly kill off all of the small spiders, who would dare to ensure that he wouldn't make a single mistake?

If there was even a single small spider that escaped and bit at any one of the four, then the formation would be interrupted. The Spider Emperor could fly up in the air, drill into the ground, spit webs that pulled them, and spray poison mist. Of all of the hidden BOSSes, it was the strongest. If the four surrounded it and then suddenly, an opportunity to retaliate appeared, then all of them could just die on the spot.

"What do you think? Can you guys do it?" Yet Ye Xiu still asked.

"Hey hey, isn't this a problem that we should be asking you? Can you guarantee that not a single spider will leak out?" Sleeping Moon said.

"Of course. That's why the crucial point is you guys. Four people surrounding it. It's also the highest level Spider Emperor, so coordinating rhythm needs to be fast. I can't help you guys. If you hear my voice and then react, it might already be too slow, so I can only rely on the coordination of you four. What do you think? Is there a problem?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Is there any other method?" Seven Fields asked. Truthfully, the four of them weren't very confident.

"With your combination of class skills, I don't think there is any other." Ye Xiu said.

"This is a method you decided on after seeing our class's skills?"

"Correct."

The four were shocked. They were still wondering what guide Ye Xiu looked at because the several times they had done it, they had never seen a guide like that. Now they knew, Ye Xiu didn't look at a guide to look for a strategy, he was only looking at it to see the BOSSes characteristics. After looking at it, he created a strategy that fit their skills. Without any testing, without any breaking in, just directly commanding, in the end they cleared the BOSSes.

This time what shocked the four of them wasn't the gorgeous character control, the outstanding awareness, or the exceptional leadership. It was the extremely deep understanding of the game. Seven Fields and the others immediately felt that the word "expert" wasn't enough to describe him. Only an even grander term could……

But the four of them were still hesitant because this time they couldn't completely depend on him. The four had to do their part alone. Originally, they weren't any great experts, merely experienced players that were better than new players. When Ye Xiu asked whether they could do it or not. They truthfully didn't have much confidence.

The four hesitated, but Ye Xiu didn't urge them. The five of them just silently stood there outside the Spider Emperor's den. But at this moment, a system announcement suddenly flashed over their screens. The first Spider Cave hidden BOSS kill had already been completed.

Seven Fields clenched his teeth and thought It'd be best not to think of the first kill at this moment. Even if we went through a dungeon on an ordinary day, if we met a hidden BOSS, then it's not like we wouldn't even try and just give it up. If we really couldn't do it, then we could just quickly leave. One benefit of beginner village dungeons was that force quitting a dungeon could be done. Although the character still had to be resurrected, there wouldn't be any experience loss. Beginner village all in all took good care of new players.

"Shall we try it?" Seven Fields looked towards his three brothers. The three players showed fighting spirit after seeing the system announcement. They all agreed in unison.

"Bring it on!" Seven Fields represented his brothers and declared their choice to Lord Grim.

"Four people is enough to use this strategy. Recall what your rhythm was the last few times. Now just make it a bit faster. Don't think about it, feel it." Ye Xiu said.

"Understood."

"I'll start the battle." Ye Xiu said this and directed Lord Grim to the den entrance. He didn't enter. He just took out his weapon and lifted it up once. He then suddenly turned around and retreated swiftly.

"Done?" The four were stunned.

"Done." Ye Xiu said.

The four were all scratching their head in puzzlement. How did he start it? They didn't see anything. They all thought that Lord Grim would enter. Who knew that he would just stand at the entrance for a bit? This type of initiation could only be done by long-ranged classes!

"Did he bring a gun?"

"He must have."

While they guessed, a shriek rang out from the den. The Spider Emperor that had been in a nice nap had been forcefully woken up. Everyone felt the entire cave shake and knew that the Emperor was about to come out.

"Disperse to the left and right. Be careful!" Ye Xiu yelled. Seven Fields and the others separated left and right, two on each side. The Spider Emperor spat out poison and directly pounced onto Lord Grim.

Lord Grim didn't retreat and instead moved forward. He rushed forward to meet it. Right when it looked as if he were going to be pounced on, suddenly, his body lowered. With a whoosh and a bang, he slid across the Spider Emperor's belly.

"I told you he brought a gun!" Drifting Water shouted. The bang was a sound produced from a basic gunner attack.

The sliding Lord Grim then leaped up into the air. With a flick of his wrist, the lance stabbed into the Spider Emperor's butt. Using the Spider Emperor's pouncing power, he sent the Spider Emperor flying into the four-man formation.

"Up!" Ye Xiu yelled. The four acted with confusion. Prior to this, they had thought that Ye Xiu needed a bit of time to bring the monster into the trap.They hadn't thought that the Spider Emperor would've been brought to them so directly and efficiently.

"I'll start!" Seven Fields shouted and moved up to attack.

"Then me." Sunset Clouds moved up.

Drifting Water went next.

"……" Sleeping Moon had to go next.

After Sleeping Moon finished, Seven Fields cried: "My skill's still on cooldown."

"Too quick." Ye Xiu's Lord Grim had already dashed up to use a Dragon Tooth keeping the Spider Emperor stunned.

"Hurry up and get familiar with the rhythm." Ye Xiu directed Lord Grim to the just recently spawned small spiders.

"Okay!" Seven Fields looked. It turns out that the Emperor didn't immediately lay out all of its abilities when the fight began. It started out quite slow giving them some time to ease in. At this point, the great expert could still deal with a small amount of spiders while simultaneously helping them continuously stun.

"It's still too fast." After the round was over, Seven Field's skill was still on cooldown.

"Don't be nervous. Grasp the rhythm." Ye Xiu reminded.

"Fast, Drifting Water went too early."

"Still fast, it's still Drifting Water."

"It's still fast. This time it's Little Moon Moon. Drifting Water's rhythm was good. You've adjusted well." Ye Xiu helped observe who was doing well while busily hitting down the small spiders.

The Spider Emperor's life continued to drop. The spawn rate increased by one, two, three.

"Okay, this round's rhythm was good that time. Grasp it well!" Finally, this round, their coordination was just right.

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Chapter 19 – Emperor (4)

"Rhythm……. Rhythm……" Seven Fields and the others recited the word until their minds were about to break. In front of their eyes wasn't the Spider Emperor nor an attack target, only when to use their skill.

After another successful round after another, the four players felt happy. Had they finally grasped it? Although they couldn't say what the feeling was, but it felt like it was right and began instinctively releasing their skills at the right time.

Ye Xiu at this time also didn't have the skill to take care of them anymore. After saying a "Go! Go! Go!", he coiled around the Spider Emperor taking down the small spiders.

Hitting left and right without ever failing, the small spiders were killed. Currently, only Ye Xiu could do this. Although there were other players that had this level of skill, in the new server, their weapons were still only level 10. They couldn't kill the small spiders in one hit. If a small spider had to be hit twice to kill, even Ye Xiu wouldn't be able to completely clear them all.

"Be careful and concentrate! You guys can do it." Ye Xiu reminded them from time to time. He clearly knew that it was easy to grow numb from doing this sort of repeated robotic action. If their minds wandered for a bit, then a tragedy would appear.

Seven Fields didn't let their minds go astray. They fixed their attention on their brother's actions. They didn't have to time to worry about what Lord Grim was doing even though they clearly knew that clearing the small spiders was much more difficult. In addition, a single mistake would cause them to all die too.

The Spider Emperor's life had already dropped to half.

Seven Fields repeatedly did the same action and the rhythm was fast too. He felt that his fingers had turned a little rigid. They all began to doubt whether they could still continue to press on. Seven Fields boldly gave some attention to Lord Grim's situation.

Lord Grim was currently flying around everywhere. The Spider Emperor had already begun to lay six eggs at once!

Six spider eggs. After breaking open their shell, without any reason, would randomly choose a target to pounce on. Lord Grim's battle lance was jet-black. Only the tip of the umbrella had a small glint of light. With a wave and a flash of cold light, the battle lance stabbed through the small spider, which shrieked and died on the spot.

"Not good!!" Seven Field's heart dropped. He saw, from the corner of his eye, a small spider had quickly flew towards Sunset Clouds. But Lord Grim's distance was too far, it didn't look like he would make it in time.

In the end, he only heard a "bang" echo and that small spider burst into flames, exploding into small pieces.

"What happened?" Seven Fields said in a flurry. It was good that he still hadn't forgotten his task. He attacks were still on point.

"It seems as if it had been hit by a gun." Seven Fields thought. But at that time he had only seen the small spider, he hadn't payed attention to Lord Grim's movements. Thinking about that long-ranged initiation, he confirmed that this player also brought a different class's weapon with him.

Seven Fields now felt reassured, but when he looked at his brothers, he saw that they were all concentrated solely on their task at hand. Their heads hadn't even turned once. Seven Fields suddenly discovered, that during this moment of distraction, his weariness and nervousness decreased by quite a bit.

But at this moment, Seven Fields didn't dare tell his brothers about this experience. If everyone became distracted for a bit, who knew what would happen?

"I hope that there won't be any accidents……" Seven Fields silently thought in his heart.

But at this moment, Sleeping Moon felt as if his limit had almost been reached. Both hands were extremely stiff and it seemed like they had lost all flexibility. He couldn't even tell whether he had completed his action when each round passed. His gaze was fixed on the screen. When suddenly, he felt as if the distance between the screen and him widened, and everything on the screen blurred.

Feeling, I have to remember the feeling……

Sleeping Moon kept reminding himself. He was under a lot of pressure and was afraid of making a mistake. He knew that his brothers already had a somewhat bad opinion of him. Even more, he didn't want Lord Grim to look down on him.

Stand firm! Sleeping Moon clenched his teeth and persevered. In the very beginning, the Spider Emperor's health seemed to drop so quickly. But why does it feel so slow now? After all this time, why is there still left? Can I really persevere until the end?

When Seven Fields became distracted, it let him relax a bit. But when Sleeping Moon became distracted, it only added to his pressure. In the end, it didn't matter what happened though, the two players hadn't made any mistakes yet. Their chain-stunning coordination still continued.

Just at this moment, Drifting Water suddenly let out a cry.

He made a mistake!

When they had first started to break in, he was also the slowest to enter the state, unable to grasp the rhythm. After persevering for this long, he had finally made a slip-up. Just like before, he had acted too quickly! Although the Spider Emperor was still stun-locked, after Sleeping Moon went, what then? Because Drifting Water had acted too quickly, Seven Field's skill would still be on cooldown. He had no other skill to stun the Spider Emperor again.

The four player's hearts all dropped to a sheet of dead ash. They all hoped that the expert would perform a miracle and rescue them. But in the end, they saw that the Spider Emperor raised its butt and unfortunately, spawned eight eggs at this moment.

It's over…… The four gave up all hope. After Sleeping Moon used his skill, he could only sorrowfully look at Seven Fields

Seven Fields had no available skills, he had no idea what to do next. After losing control of the Spider Emperor, what should he do? This was an event that he hadn't foreseen.

"Seven Fields move out of the way!"

In the middle of their despair, a voice ignited their hopes in an instant. Seven Fields immediately moved to the side without the slightest hesitation. A battle lance streaked from the sky. Lord Grim used Dragon Tooth to stab the Spider Emperor.

The Stun status had been mended, but with no one controlling the eight small spiders, they all scattered ready to bite everyone. Everyone was at a loss. They didn't know whether to continue attacking the Spider Emperor or deal with the small spiders. In the end, they saw that Lord Grim, who had just used Dragon Tooth, moved forward two steps. The battle lance in his hand unexpectedly split into two parts. With each hand holding a different part, both arms stretched forward and held back the Spider Emperor.

"Hmph!" Lord Grim lifted both his arms. Taking advantage of the Spider Emperor raising his head, he flipped backwards. With an Iron Bridge, he toppled the Spider Emperor onto its back.

Grappler skill: Back Throw.

This skill not only did damage to the target, but also created a small-scale ripple damaging monsters in its radius. Lord Grim's Back Throw had created a ripple at just the right spot hitting all eight spiders. The small spiders all flipped over and bounced up. With a crashing sound, they all turned into corpses.

"Seven Fields!" Ye Xiu yelled. Seven Fields had been prepared. He immediately kicked it and the Spider Emperor continued to be in a Stunned state.

"Everyone be careful. I can't rescue you guys all the time." Ye Xiu said.

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Chapter 20 – Emperor (5)

Sunset Clouds, Drifting Water, Sleeping Moon, each one attacked it one after the other. They were all scared to the point that their hands were drenched with cold sweat. Every time they grabbed their mouse, they were afraid that their hands would slip. But there was no time to wipe it, they were all wide-eyed not daring to make the slightest mistake.

The situation stabilized once more. The four players that didn't dare be distracted didn't reflect on the past situation. Under their relentless attacks, the Spider Emperor's health declined. From to to …….

"It's almost at red blood. Everyone be careful." Ye Xiu reminded them.

"What do we do when it hits red blood?" Seven Fields asked. When a hidden BOSS hit red blood, there would definitely be a special effect. The guide he looked at said that when the BOSS hit red blood, it would gain Super Armor. In this state, the BOSS couldn't be Stunned.

"Kill it quick!" Ye Xiu said.

Hearing these three words, the four players no longer felt nervous, but on the contrary felt excited. They had performed the same action for too long. They would rather die than do the same actions again.

"It's red!" Seven Fields yelled.

"Sunset Clouds step on a small spider." Ye Xiu shouted.

"What?" Although Sunset Clouds didn't understand this command, he had already subconsciously face towards a small spider that pounced at him. It looked like it really had been prepared just for him.

The small spider bit towards Sunset Clouds and immediately he was incapable of performing any actions. The Spider Emperor unexpectedly also twisted its body and bit disgustingly with its big mouth towards him. Sunset Clouds cried out in fear.

In the end……

In the end, nothing happened.

After the small spider bit him, he was forced into a Stasis state and couldn't move. But during this time, he was invincible, even the Spider Emperor couldn't harm him. Ye Xiu used this knowledge to give everyone time to freely attack the Spider Emperor for three seconds.

While the Spider Emperor acted out violently, it continued to spawn eggs like mad. Ye Xiu took note of this and began clearing out all of the small spiders again. Only this time, he carefully observed that the small spiders didn't touch Sunset Clouds. But it could be said that Sunset Clouds suddenly gained insight and actively looked for small spiders to bite him. Although they weren't experts, they were experienced and understood Ye Xiu's tactic.

Because the four players had surrounded and attacked the Spider Emperor, they had accumulated a lot of aggro. Sunset Clouds did the greatest amount of damage among the four of them, so the aggro onto him was also the greatest. Ye Xiu used this knowledge and let the Spider Emperor to start off his plan. The original small spiders that had once tried to interrupt their formation became their most dependable protective umbrella.

Before, this tactic wouldn't have worked because it was only until later did Sunset Clouds accumulate enough aggro onto him. Besides, it was also at this point that the Spider Emperor's spawning rate pushed him to his limits. Sunset Clouds lined up to be bitten maintaining his invincibility.

Although the small spiders did some damage, it wasn't very high. When there was an opportunity, Lord Grim would conveniently give him a heal.

The Spider Emperor spat out webs and poison. Every part of its body that could be used was used but to no avail. Only with their continuous attacks, finally, someone surpassed Sunset Clouds in total aggro.

The Spider Emperor switched attack targets, but the first one to be targeted, Sleeping Moon, had learned of Sunset Cloud's tactic long ago. And the one with the task of clearing small spiders, Lord Grim, had predicted this step too. He prepared a spider in advance to pounce towards Sleeping Moon.

This most dangerous red blood part of the battle had already been thoroughly turned into a game. Everyone was happily laughing and bullying the Spider Emperor. Finally, they teased this strongest monster in Spider Cave to its death.

First, the system announcement appeared.

Lord Grim, Seven Fields, Sunset Clouds, Drifting Water, Sleeping Moon are the first to kill the Spider Emperor."

"Sweet!!!" Seven Fields and the others excitedly cheered. If they could, they would've lifted Lord Grim high up towards the sky and tossed him. If they didn't have him, they wouldn't have been able to complete it. The continuous chain-stuns on the Spider Emperor gave them lots of pressure, but the task of clearing out the small spiders was much harder.

The scarier part was that he had rescued them midway. Finally, he accurately controlled the small spider's aggro in order to complete the entire plan……

They had nothing more to say.

Seven Fields and the others truly had no other words to describe it. They had played Glory, but up until now, let alone seeing, they hadn't even thought such an amazing player existed.

"Brother expert, four Strong Silk Threads dropped." Seven Fields ran up to see what the Spider Emperor had dropped and reported it to Ye Xiu. He happily chose to give them up.

The others also, without any objections, agreed that they wouldn't even touch them.

"Thank you." Ye Xiu said and picked up the four Strong Silk Threads.

"The rest is yours!" Ye Xiu also kept his word.

"You take them! You take them!!" After the items appeared, they humbly declined them. They knew that Ye Xiu made sure a disaster never appeared.

Besides the Strong Spider Silk, the Spider Emperor also dropped two Spider Venoms, a pair of Level 15 Chestnut Boots, an armour that added three points to Strength. Apart from this, a Purple Weapon appeared too.

[Mahogany Tachi] – Level 15

Weight: 2.6 kg, Attack Speed: 8

Physical Attack: 165; Magic Attack: 178

Strength 10, Intelligence 14

Tachis were considered Sword Class Weapons, used by the Swordsman type class, but its Magic Attack was high. Actually, in Glory, weapons either emphasized either Physical Attack or Magic Attack. The Thousand Chance Umbrella was the same in both. A player could know that it was self-made just by looking at its stats.

In comparison, the Mahogany Tachi was on the same level as the Thousand Chance Umbrella. A Level 15 Purple Weapon was equivalent to his Level 5 Silver Weapon. But this Mahogany Tachi did have additional properties. Its attack speed was higher than the Thousand Chance Umbrella by three levels and just by its attribute increases, it already surpassed the Thousand Chance Umbrella.

Ye Xiu looked at the Tachi and sighed in admiration at today's luck. Blue Equipment and hidden BOSS materials were certain drops, but the previous skill book and the current Purple weapon, those were all luck.

Although low-leveled equipment would quickly become outdated, with this Purple weapon, in the first stage, a player would still be stronger than most others. Not only that, but Purple weapons, could totally be used up until Level 25. Because of this sword, even if an unspecialized character that hadn't planned on playing the Swordsman type class, switched to it, the switch would be worth it.

The four players all gulped, especially Sleeping Moon and Sunset Clouds. Those two had been planning on playing a Swordsman type class. This weapon absolutely suited them.

"Ha ha, this sword is useless. You guys take it!" After Ye Xiu looked at it for a bit, he decided to renounce it. He also renounced the Spider Venom and Chestnut Boots and completely kept his word on their previous agreement.

"Brother expert, you should still take them!" Seven Fields said honestly, "If you didn't carry us, we wouldn't have been able to see these things!"

"Ha ha, if it weren't for your formation, even I would have trouble killing the Spider Emperor!" Ye Xiu said.

Everyone stared blankly.

Did they hear that correctly? He didn't say he wasn't able to, he only said he'd have trouble.

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Chapter 21 – The Day's Already Bright Again

Ye Xiu decisively renounced it, so Seven Fields and the others accepted it. They were all old friends and they split up the drops harmoniously. The Spider Venom would be sold for money. It didn't matter who chose it. After selling it, they would split the money up again. The Chestnut Boots was an ordinary Blue equipment, so everyone carelessly rolled for it. In the end, Sunset Clouds beautifully dispatched it with a perfect 100 points. As for the Mahogany Tachi, according to their future classes, it would go to either Sunset Clouds or Sleeping Moon. Sunset Clouds had just grabbed the Chestnut Boots. Although the value of it couldn't be compared to the value of the Mahogany Tachi, he still happily chose to renounce it. Sleeping Moon held the Mahogany Tachi both excitedly and somewhat strangely.

The first Spider Cave clear and now the first Spider Emperor kill, both times granted them huge experience rewards. Lord Grim had already risen to Level 12, while Seven Fields and the others would certainly level up after this dungeon. Killing the normal BOSS was too easy for them and they quickly dispatched it.

After clearing the dungeon, Sleeping Moon felt conflicted again. He had originally planned on leaving the party after this run, but he had just obtained the Mahogany Tachi. Taking equipment and then leaving, didn't seem like good manners. If I leave. No good; If I don't leave. Seven Fields had already told me to get out, if I don't leave then I'd lose face too.

Fortunately, Seven Fields was a good friend and took the initiative to call out to him. It seemed like what he had said in the dungeon was just a joke. And so things ended like this. With Lord Grim as the leader, everyone entered the Spider Cave once again.

Like Sleeping Moon, Blue River and his group from Blue Brook Guild were also conflicted and depressed. They weren't the first to clear Spider Cave. And of the three hidden BOSSes, two of them had already been stolen. This was their fourth time entering the dungeon. In the end, they still hadn't met one. Right as they were bitterly pressing on, another system announcement popped up. The last of the three hidden BOSSes in Spider Cave, the Spider Warrior, had been killed.

The first to clear the Spider Warrior were members from one of the three great guilds Herb Garden. And the previous hidden BOSS had been clear by members from the other great guild Tyrannical Ambition. From this, it could be seen that the three great guilds should have been evenly matched, but this time that guy, Lord Grim, had stolen it away. Lord Grim currently held the most records for first clears: three times. Furthermore, his party that followed him had stolen away two spots on the first clear leaderboards in the level 10 stage of the game. It made the Blue Brook Guild appear as if they had little face left.

As for hidden BOSSes, they could only blame their bad luck on not meeting them. But when they thought about those 10 seconds they were off by, for the first dungeon clear, they could still only throw up blood.

All of the first clears were gone. Blue River and the others all fall into despair.

"Where did this Lord Grim come from? Have that village's people pay attention." Blue River said somewhat nervously.

That Ye Xiu, who they had an extremely bad impression of, was actually in high spirits. Leaving and entering the dungeon again and again, he was awfully busy. The opening of the tenth server busily and hurriedly passed just like this. Some people were happy while some were worried.

When Chen Guo woke up from her sleep, it was already eleven o'clock, close to noon. She was usually disciplined and rarely slept in. Only yesterday was the opening of the tenth server. Following that guy and watching the excitement, made her sleep in extremely late. Chen Guo calculated the time and found that she had slept for eight hours. Satisfied, she stretched and climbed out of her bed.

Chen Guo lived in the Internet Cafe. To be more precise, she slept in the small room on the second floor, in the same area as Ye Xiu.

Compared with the newcomer Ye Xiu, Chen Guo was extremely familiar with the environment. She had grown up in the Happy Internet Cafe, eating, sleeping, and working there. During her time as a student, instead of returning home like everyone else, she squeezed into the Internet Cafe. For this reason, there were few misunderstandings.

Happy Internet Cafe was her home. Chen Guo had a deep impression of it ever since she was little. Because her parents were like this too, she carefully managed this Internet Cafe as if it were family. When the Internet Cafe was still extremely small, Chen Guo was also still extremely small. Nowadays, her home had grown extremely large, but as for her family, only she remained.

That year, at the time of her college entrance exam, Chen Guo's father suddenly passed away from heart disease.

Chen Guo didn't have a mother, at least, she had no impression of one. After arranging her father's funeral, her family relatives discussed how they would handle the Internet Cafe. When they began talking about what they would do with Chen Guo, without even thinking, Chen Guo threw away her college admission notice and took over the Internet Cafe. Her friends and family held looks of astonishment. She resembled her father and continued to manage the Internet Cafe and look after the home.

In a flash, nine years had already passed.

The current Chen Guo had enough money to buy herself a comfortable living place, but she never had these sorts of thoughts. She felt extremely satisfied living in the Internet Cafe. In the Internet Cafe, she always felt steady and serene. Perhaps this was the feeling of family. Even though she was only one person, she never felt lonely.

"Today's weather is good!" Standing next to the window, Chen Guo looked outside. The silver-white world made the sunlight all the more dazzling.

"Father should go in bathe in it too!" Chen Guo joked. Picking up the picture of her and her dad, she put the picture on the window sill..

After putting on her clothes and washing her face, Chen Guo magically and happily slipped out of the living room. Seeing that the storage room door was already open, she snuck in her head and took a glimpse, but didn't see Ye Xiu.

"Where'd he go?" Chen Guo muttered.

Pulling open the door, Chen Guo immediately entered her Internet Cafe. The Internet Cafe was already filled to the capacity, all because of the opening of Glory's tenth server. After the all-night party left, the early-morning party immediately followed. Every screen had scenes of Glory. Every person wore headphones and laughed or raged into their microphones depending on the circumstance.

Chen Guo went down the stairs and to the front desk. She asked the little sister receptionist on-duty where Ye Xiu went.

The little sister pointed to deep in the Smoking Area.

"He's still playing?" Chen Guo said with great alarm. She quickly walked over there.

The smoking area was a place filled with foul black smoke. Ye Xiu was located in the middle of the main disaster area. Chen Guo furrowed her eyebrows and tried to wave away the smoke. She rushed close to Ye Xiu and lifted his headphones: "Still playing! Are you crazy?"

Ye Xiu turned around at lightning speed and nodded his head, saying "Morning." He immediately turned back and continued making "pa pa" sounds on his keyboard.

Chen Guo sweeped her eyes over the screen: "Spider Cave!"

"Yup."

"What level?"

"17."

Chen Guo was startled. She carefully looked at the screen and saw Lord Grim's experience bar. The bar was almost full. After this dungeon, he would level up to 18.

At this moment, there were still 20 minutes before 12 o'clock. To reach level 18 in 12 hours, that had to be a new record. Even though the system announcement didn't have these sort of statistics, many players on the forum used these numbers to prove how amazing their leveling speed was.

Chen Guo glanced again and saw clearly Ye Xiu's team mate.

Sleeping Moon? Chen Guo suddenly felt that she had seen this name before. Thinking carefully, she immediately recalled.

"Wasn't this person slandering you last night?" Chen Guo pointed to Sleeping Moon on the party list.

"Yup!"

"Then why are you in a party with him?" Chen Guo couldn't understand.

"Because of his slandering, I couldn't form a party with anyone." Ye Xiu said.

"Who asked you for this reason." Chen Guo grew angry.

"For someone as mature as me, how could I be mad at his slandering?" Ye Xiu laughed.

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Chapter 22 – Ye Qiu's Retirement (1)

Chen Guo still didn't understand. Even if Ye Xiu didn't mind, why would the other person accept him into the party?

"What exactly happened?" Chen Guo asked.

"I reckon that when they first admitted me in, they had a plot set up for me. But after seeing that I played well, they felt that I would be helpful to them, so they let me go. Ye Xiu said.

"Then you just happily worked for them without any benefits?" Chen Guo felt extremely on Ye Xiu's behalf.

"It's nothing. It's okay." While Ye Xiu said this, on the screen, a lance flashed by killing off the Spider Lord that had been surrounded by the five of them. Chen Guo saw a bunch of system messages typed out neatly in the chat box. The party members Seven Fields, Sleeping Moon, Sunset Clouds, and Drifting Water all chose to renounce the equipment dropped from the Spider Lord.

"What is the meaning of this?" Chen Guo was astonished.

"I was very helpful to them, so they forced me to choose which equipment to take first. Sigh, there's nothing I can do!" While Ye Xiu said this, he decisively chose to renounce them. Through these priority picks, he had already collected a set of Blue equipment long ago. But these guys still wanted him to take a look first.

Chen Guo was dumbstruck. She felt that what Ye Xiu described was too modest. How was this working for them? Wasn't he the boss? Only the core of the party was qualified to have priority picks after finishing a BOSS,. Not only that, but the precondition was that they were all a group of friends that recognized each other. Only then would they let the player who did the most work have priority. But these party members? Before she had slept, it seemed like they were enemies. When she work up, how did they all suddenly become his little brothers?

"Clearly tell me how exactly this happened." Chen Guo wouldn't drop this matter and would ask until results came forth.

"It's because I helped them a lot!" Ye Xiu said.

"How much?"

"I carried them through the Spider Cave and Spider Emperor first clears." Ye Xiu said.

"You completed three first clears in one night?" Chen Guo was shocked. She had played Chasing Haze for five years, but she didn't have a single first clear under her name. He only played throughout the night and a morning, not even 12 hours, but obtained three first clears. This was too dazzling.

"Good luck." Ye Xiu said. He lazily stretched and stood up from his chair. The party members on the screen had already logged out. A faint farewell could be heard from his headphones. Ye Xiu took the headphones from Chen Guo's hands. He put it up to his mouth shouting "See you later!" and then logged out of the game.

"I'm so sleepy. I'm going to sleep." Ye Xiu said.

"Do you want to eat something before sleeping?" While Chen Guo said this, she sized up Ye Xiu. Truthfully, when she looked at Ye Xiu's face, she couldn't see any signs of the word "sleepy". This person had pulled an all-nighter plus a morning. He did look a little listless, but the problem was that yesterday, when they had first met, he looked depressed as if he were half-dead. She really couldn't tell that he had been wounded by the weapon of no sleep.

"No need! After I sleep, I'll eat !" Ye Xiu shut down the computer and ran. Chen Guo had given him the keys to the second floor storage room last night. After opening the door to that pitifully tiny storage room, he covered his head with a pillow and fell asleep. As for this room, it actually suited sleeping during the day very nicely. When the door was closed, the small light that slipped through the window wouldn't disturb him at all.

Ye Xiu fell asleep quickly. He slept extremely well. When he awoke, the day turned dark again. It was hard to imagine that someone who had just recently experienced such a great rise and fall could sleep so simply. Sitting up from his bed, Ye Xiu didn't turn on the lights. He lit up a cigarette and after quietly smoking it, he got up and left the room.

The doors to the two small bedrooms were all locked up. Ye Xiu knew that one of these rooms was occupied by Chen Guo and the other was occupied by young lady named Tang Rou. He heard that Tang Rou was a long-time employee at Happy Internet Cafe. She had already worked there for almost two years, but in these past few days, she had taken a break. As for other Internet Cafe employees that needed a living place, they lived in the nearby neighborhood. Chen Guo had rented an apartment for all of the employees to live in. Ye Xiu's place was a place for waiting until a vacancy opened up. Chen Guo indicated that as soon as a person stopped working, he would have the opportunity to obtain his own bed.

When he went to the bathroom at a convenient time, Ye Xiu saw a sticky note on the mirror. Bored, he took a glance and discovered that the sticky note was actually written to him. Chen Guo had already prepared a towel and toothbrush for him.

Ye Xiu tore down the sticky note and was somewhat at a loss. Mainly, he didn't think that the boss was so attentive. As for whether he was moved, this type of trivial matter wouldn't be enough, grateful would be more accurate.

After tidying the towel and toothbrush, Ye Xiu left and looked around for a bit. It was already 9 o'clock. He hadn't eaten food all day. Leaving the small inner rooms, he entered the Internet Cafe and felt a little abnormal. Even though the second floor was a more costly higher quality area, it was a little too empty. Ye Xiu headed downstairs baffled. In the end, unexpectedly, the further he went, the darker it became. The Internet Cafe's first floor actually had no lights turned on.

"Did something happen?" Ye Xiu glanced around at a loss. He discovered that although the first floor lights weren't turned on, there were a lot of people, so much so that there were quite a few trying to squeeze in. To wall in the south, a 200 inch diagonal projection hung high up. The projector streamed a scene and the sound echoed throughout the entire Internet Cafe. Everyone was extremely quiet, whether they were sitting at a computer or standing in the passageway. It seemed as if they had all forgotten what the purpose of an Internet Cafe was and treated it as a movie theatre, quietly gazing at the projection. Ye Xiu also quickly heard a voice commentating on the scene. Five words that he couldn't have been more familiar with appeared.

Ye Qiu, One Autumn Leaf.

The projection that was being streamed, to his shock, was a movie segment on the history of his professional career in Glory. The commentator also movingly described the series of accomplishments he had gained in his career in Glory.

Three time league champion, three time MVP, two time Rising Star, one time One Hit One Kill.

No matter if it was his team or other players, Ye Qiu was at the peak of the Glory Professional Alliance. He was the goal of every professional Glory player.

"Next, let's all commemorate the Battle God One Autumn Leaf that Ye Qiu controlled through these series of marvelous images." The commentator used a downcast sorrowful tone to cast. On the projection, invincible images of the Battle God One Autumn Leaf began showing on the screen. Before, any picture would have made the crowd go wild with excitement. But now, the Internet Cafe was silent. There was no yelling or cheering. Everyone just silently looked as pictures flashed by one by one. They knew, from today onwards, everything there would be a thing of the past.

On that day at noon, Excellent Era Club called for a news conference and announced the retirement of their team captain Ye Xiu.

This ever mysterious expert didn't even participate in his own retirement news conference. Everyone only saw the Excellent Era manager take out Ye Qiu's signature on the agreement stating his retirement. The Excellent Era manager soon after proclaimed, that the retired Ye Xiu had tactfully declined the club's other positions and left the Excellent Era Club by himself.

The screen continuously flickered. Duels, slaughters, records, the commentator timely made progress and gradually made his way to Ye Qiu and Excellent Era's dismal situation. Within the Internet Cafe crowd, faint sobbing could be heard.

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Chapter 23 – Ye Qiu's Retirement (2)

The Club was able to invite Sun Xiang, this type of new generation expert, that news helped uplift the mood. But the king of the first generation? He could only endure the wearing of time alone and sadly depart.

He walked free and easy, but in his heart he was absolutely unhappy. He still wanted to struggle. He still hadn't thought that his professional career had reached its end. But he already had no choice. Accept the conditions and become the Club's training partner? This would be a humiliating choice. But Ye Xiu could see through their tricks. He knew very clearly that the Club was certain that he wouldn't resign to this sort of humiliation and would definitely choose to leave.This was why they had given him the choice. If he had unexpectedly accepted it, then the Club would look for other methods to forcefully make him leave.

Although this was extremely cruel, from a business standpoint, this was the only choice. Because of the Alliance's commercialization, the Alliance had already turned merciless.

Ye Xiu hadn't reached retirement age yet. In fact, the Club also understood this point. Their option of retirement was their way of proving this. They not only wanted to get rid of this baggage, but also feared that a competitor would take this chance to grab him and easily become strong. They would rather thoroughly eliminate him than make him their future enemy.

Thus, forcing Ye Xiu into retirement was a result of their thinking. They undoubtedly succeeded. Ye Xiu saw through this, but could only follow their script and leave. A life and death struggle? He didn't want that because he still had another road to follow. Retiring for a year, this wasn't necessarily a bad situation. Going back a step opened up boundless opportunities. Although this step was bit big……

"Let's call it a day……" When the screen rolled over this caption, Ye Xiu finally couldn't watch it any longer. This sort of program deliberately tried to stir up emotions making some of the people in the Internet Cafe directly burst into tears. But the sad, reminiscing, miserable feelings, among everyone, who could compare to him? Ye Xiu squeezed out of the crowd. He stood outside of the entrance and let out a sigh. But to his surprise, he heard a sobbing sound spread to his ears. He turned around and looked. Unexpectedly, it was Chen Guo hiding alone outside the door. Her eyes were also crystal bright.

They both saw each other. Not greeting didn't seem like a good choice, so Ye Xiu called out: "Boss, you're crying?"

"You beast. You don't even have this sort of feeling?" Chen Guo said.

"Too much, if it wasn't held back, wouldn't it have burst out by now?" Ye Xiu said.

"Die!" Chen Guo cursed, "Do you have any paper?"

Ye Xiu searched his body from head to toe: "Will a cigarette case work?"

"I'll go get some." Without waiting for the boss's response, Ye Xiu promptly ran back to the Internet Cafe to look.

The sound of weeping grew loud, both males and females cried. This time, Ye Xiu couldn't hold back the sadness in his heart. He knew exactly who these people were crying for. Thinking of this, his eyes couldn't help but begin to tear up. Ye Xiu hastily went to the front desk and asked for a bag of paper napkins. Rushing out, he stuffed them into Chen Guo's hands. His back against the wall, he fished out a cigarette and lit it.

"What are you doing? Are you going to cry too? Do you need some paper?" Behind him, Chen Guo seemed to sense it.

"How could it be? How could I cry?" Ye Xiu turned his body and conveniently puffed out a mouthful of smoke towards Chen Guo's face.The tears that had just been wiped away reappeared because of the smoke.

Chen Guo waved her hands to get rid of the smoke. Unexpectedly, she didn't say anything and stuffed the paper napkins back into Ye Xiu's hands. She turned around and went back into the Internet Cafe.

Ye Xiu leaned against the wall and silently smoked his cigarette. He took out a napkin and then wiped away some mucus. He then walked towards the small restaurant nearby.

After Ye Xiu, with a toothpick in his mouth, ate his fill and returned to the Internet Cafe, the special commemoration movie of Ye Qiu had ended. But the atmosphere inside the Internet Cafe still hadn't cleared yet. Many people's eyes were still red. Most of the people there were like this, so there was nothing to be embarrassed about. On the contrary, people like Ye Xiu, who held a calm expression on his face, were easily viewed as heartless beasts by everyone else. If you didn't explain that you didn't play Glory, then you would feel quite embarrassed when greeting others.

He didn't know where Boss Chen went, so Ye Xiu went to the front desk to ask around. Mainly, to ask about how this special broadcast came to be.

It turned out that whenever a Glory competition took place, the Internet Cafe would put on this sort of special live stream. Originally, there wasn't a competition today, but for this type of big event like Ye Qiu's retirement, the e-sports stream would also quickly make this type of special program. As a result, the Happy Internet Cafe would also show the stream as if it were a competition.

In the past, when the competition stream ended, everyone would be burning with anger and rush to play the game with unprecedented enthusiasm. It directly caused the Internet Cafe to be packed with people and their revenue that day would rise sky high. But today, after this stream, the Glory players were all in a rare gloomy mood. Some even left at once to return home and cry into their pillows. Some went to three or five of their good friends and drunk together. Of course, there were people that continued to play games in the Internet Cafe. After all, not everyone were fans of Ye Qiu. There were always a few people that didn't care about his retirement. But the overall atmosphere did infect them. Although they continued to play, they did feel somewhat listless.

The entire Internet Cafe seemed very quiet. If it were an ordinary day, all the Glory players would definitely wear their headphones or shout with energy. The Cafe would be bustling with noise and excitement.

Ye Xiu was currently thinking of what to do when he saw Chen Guo come down from the second floor. He hurried over and called out: "Boss, do I officially start working today?"

"Okay." Chen Guo said, "But when you're working, you can't just casually sit down somewhere. You have to keep watch at this counter here."

"Can I play games?"

"You can. Just use that station." Chen Guo pointed to the computer that was currently being used to watch K-Dramas by the little sister at the counter.

"Can I smoke?" Ye Xiu asked.

Chen Guo looked at him in the eye and helplessly nodded her head: "You can smoke. You can smoke. But when I come over in the morning, there can't be any smoke smell or any cigarette ash."

"Understood." Ye Xiu said.

Soon after, Chen Guo taught Ye Xiu how to turn on and shut down the computers for guests. In the end, she said: "Truthfully, at this time, most of the guests pull all-nighters. At 11 o'clock, all the guests should have all arrived and their computers will automatically shut down at 7 in the morning. There's really not much for you to do. Just you being there is good enough. If the guests have any issues, they'll ring a bell."

"What happens if a computer malfunctions?" Ye Xiu asked. Although he wasn't computer illiterate, he still didn't have the skill to fix a broken computer.

"Restart it." Chen Guo said.

Ye Xiu wiped away his sweat: "And if restarting doesn't work?"

"Switch computer stations." Chen Guo said.

Ye Xiu started sweating again. Right when he was about to ask again, Chen Guo had already said: "You're on the night shift. There will be plenty of open computers, so you can just choose a random one. But write down what the computer's problem was, I'll look for a technician to come look at it the next day."

"Okay. Understood." Ye Xiu nodded his head.

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Chapter 24: Dungeon Record

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Chen Guo, who had just recently wiped away her tears from Ye Qiu's retirement, now looked peaceful as if nothing had happened. She carefully explained again the things Ye Xiu needed to know and then randomly found a station to play Glory.

Ye Xiu stood nearby and glanced a few times at her screen. He saw that Chen Guo had entered the arena and engaging in PK. But it was obvious that she had something else on her mind. While she PKed, she repeatedly made several huge mistakes, the ones that all the low-skilled players made. After losing three rounds, Chen Guo tapped her keyboard and logged out of the game. She turned her head and saw Ye Xiu, who was standing around picking his teeth as if he had nothing to do. After glaring at him, she ran back to the second floor.

Ye Xiu looked at the time. There wasn't much time left until he had to start working at 11 o'clock. The little sister at the counter also grasped the time well. The K-Drama had finished at the perfect time. After the show finished, the time just happened to hit 11 o'clock. The little sister stood up and smiled towards Ye Xiu: "Brother Ye, then I'm going now?"

"Go go!" Ye Xiu had waited for the computer for a long time. The little sister wasn't the only employee finishing work at 11 o'clock. The daytime and evening time wouldn't be as empty as the all-night time. One person definitely wasn't enough to take care of everyone. The Internet Cafe employees still weren't familiar with Ye Xiu, but they all recognized him. They all politely waved goodbye and left one by one.

The Internet Cafe turned exceptionally empty. Keyboard and mouse could be clearly heard. Compared to the excitement at last night's new server opening, the place had flipped into a completely different sight. Thinking that this was all because of his retirement announcement, Ye Xiu softly let out a sigh and sat at the counter.

Inserting his account card, he logged into the game. When he entered, he received several messages. Ye Xiu opened them and looked. It was Seven Fields and his brothers lining up to greet him.

"Brother expert, you've come!"

"Seven Fields, Sunset Clouds, Drifting Water, the three all asked the same question, except for Sleeping Moon.

"Is everyone here?" Ye Xiu responded to all three of them.

"Oh, Sleeping Moon is gone." Seven Fields replied.

"Being difficult again?" Ye Xiu thought of that little guy.

"No, he's not feeling too well. Today, wasn't Ye Qiu's retirement announced? He really liked Ye Xiu, so he's a bit depressed. He's not coming to play tonight." Seven Fields said.

Ye Xiu truly didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He didn't think that that guy was actually one of his fans. If he let him know that he was Ye Qiu and that he had despicably and shamelessly attacked his idol, he didn't know what that guy would think.

"if we're missing a person, then Spider Cave's hidden BOSSes won't be too easy to kill." Ye Xiu said.

"Just randomly add someone?" Seven Fields suggested.

"Why don't we go to Skeleton Graveyard?" Ye Xiu said.

"Sure sure!!" Seven Fields immediately responded.

The Skeleton Graveyard was a Level 15-20 dungeon, Seven Fields and the others had thought of it long ago. They also hoped that Ye Xiu would lead them to grab a few more first clears again. But Ye Xiu's thoughts and requirements were different from theirs. Regarding first clearing a dungeon, this type of glory, Ye Xiu didn't care at all. In addition, to be the first to clear, they had to always keep their levels at the top of the standings. Ye Xiu had no way of doing this. It wasn't that his skill wasn't enough, it was that he didn't have enough time.

In the morning when he went offline, Lord Grim had been placed fifth in the tenth server level standings, but now? Ye Xiu opened up the standings and looked again. Lord Grim's name was no longer even there. The people placed at the very front were all already Level 22.

Why? Because players from big guilds were organized to level up crazily and grab first clears. An account would be used by two or three people, so the character would be online for 24 hours. They played using wheel tactics, making up for their lack of skill with hard work. No matter how great Ye Xiu's skill was, there was no way he could win against these players.

Due to this reason, the rewards for first clears were only ordinary. Besides the nice-looking name, it reflected that these troop's leveling speed greatly surpassed their actual skill and strength.

By comparison, the dungeon clearing records showed a more accurate representation of skill and strength.

This record used time as a measurement. At first, the system would set a time. If a team beat that time, then their time would be the new record. If it was beaten again, then it would switch again. This record breaking could be repeatedly done and the reward was generous. It wasn't like those first clear records with little experience and gold. There was a 100% chance of obtaining a Purple equipment while other rewards were randomly given.

This type of glory didn't exist in the beginner area because they would only start after Level 20 and higher dungeons. Ye Xiu looked and saw that the first Level 20 Frost Forest clear had already been completed. The original system record had been broken too. Behind it were the number of times it had been broken. At the present, the record had been broken three times. The current record was set by the Herb Garden team with 26:12:48 (min:sec:ms) at 18:23 in the afternoon.

Ye Xiu scratched his head a bit ashamed. He was a little fuzzy on the dungeon details, but he knew that this record would definitely be broken again. The highest level player was currently Level 22, while the final record would usually be set by a party of Level 25s. As long as a player in the party was over Level 25, then the dungeon record wouldn't count.

"Brother expert, we've already arrived at Skeleton Graveyard." Seven Fields sent a message at this time. These brothers were still at the same level as when they went offline. It looked like they were like Ye Xiu and also slept during the day.

"Okay, I'll be there right away." Ye Xiu controlled Lord Grim to hurry over to Skeleton Graveyard. Normally, they could have went to the dungeon as soon as they hit Level 15, but upgrading Ye Xiu's Myriad Manifestation Umbrella required a lot of "Strong Spider Silk". Yesterday, he made clear his demands with Seven Fields and the others. He meant that after hitting Level 15, they could switch dungeons, but he wouldn't go. In the end, the four guys stayed behind too and followed Ye Xiu to Spider Cave.

Even after all this, he still didn't have enough "Strong Spider Silk". These materials had a 100% drop rate from the Spider Emperor, and the normal BOSSes only had a small chance. Ye Xiu and them bitterly cleared the dungeon 11 times. They met the hidden BOSSes three times. One of them was an Emperor, which dropped 5 "Strong Spider Silk". The other two hidden BOSSes were Spider Warriors, which did not drop the material. And then from the other BOSSes, he obtained another 7. In addition to the 4 he got from the first kill, he had 16 in total. Ye Xiu needed 40, so he was still missing 24.

If they kept up with yesterday's pace, they would still need to do this for two more days. Ye Xiu calculated, Seven Fields and the others had stayed with him in the Spider Cave the entire time and would soon reach Level 18. When they reached Level 20, they would be 5 Levels above the Spider Cave. In Glory, 5 levels were always important thresholds such as for equipment, skills, and experience. If they exceeded the dungeon by 5 levels, then they would receive less experience. At that point, "leveling" would no longer be efficient. Ye Xiu was too embarrassed to bring Seven Fields and the others to Spider Cave again to do his labor.

Relying on these guys to do my work isn't a good plan. I have to find another way. While Ye Xiu thought this, Lord Grim had already arrived at Skeleton Graveyard. He found Seven Fields in the crowd and asked to join their party. After entering the party, Seven Fields sent another message: "Do we still need another person?"

"It's not necessary." Ye Xiu replied. Thinking again, Skeleton Graveyard had materials he needed too. He just didn't need them yet. I haven't used the Myriad Manifestation Umbrella for very long, but it's already become a burden. It isn't easy starting up again. Ye Xiu sighed and then entered the Skeleton Graveyard.

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Chapter 25 – Did You Hear What I Said?

"Brother expert, do you have any demands here?"

While Ye Xiu put on his headphones, he saw Seven Field's message.

"I want the Skeleton Warrior's Sabers." Ye Xiu replied.

"The ornamental Sabers?" Seven Fields was surprised.

"Right." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh… ….If you have demands, then let's not add anyone. It's just us four then!" Seven Field's words made sense, especially the part about demands. They would have to take a long time explaining it to the newly added person. Even then, the person might not trust them. Also, if you directly gave the party leader priority picks, then the stranger would just be scared away. Who would know whether you would give him a portion of the loot? Thus, it was still better with four friends.

"Okay." Ye Xiu also wanted to avoid this type of trouble.

Seven Fields and the others all entered the dungeon and said together: "Come on hidden BOSS!"

"Are you guys becoming addicted to killing hidden BOSSes?" Ye Xiu laughed.

The three all sent out naughty "ha ha" laughs. Ever since they followed Ye Xiu, they all had this thought towards hidden BOSSes. If there wasn't a hidden BOSS, then they would just roll through the dungeon, no pressure.

"Let's go!" Ye Xiu said. Lord Grim once again swung out his battle lance and led the way. Seven Fields, Sunset Clouds, Drifting Water skillfully tailed behind. Fine rain drizzled down on Skeleton Graveyard. Dark-green will-o'-wisps could be seen far and near. The sound effects were faint ghost cries. From time to time, two mournful groans would suddenly push forward causing their scalps to tingle.

No… …It wasn't just his scalp that tingled. It seemed as if wind were blowing into his ears?

Ye Xiu's mind was tough and unyielding. He determined that this wasn't a psychological effect but something actually blowing. Although his hands didn't stop moving, his heads subconsciously turned left and right. He saw a shining white face and a pair of black eyes stealthily staring at him without ever blinking. The cherry red lips looked as if they would drip blood……

"Pow!" Ye Xiu's left hand directly slapped the keyboard and his character stopped. This time, he had fully pressed seven or eight keys. In game, Lord Grim looked as if he spasmed and made several mistakes. It was good that they were only fighting small monsters. Seven Fields and the others quickly rescued him. Brother expert had never made any large mistakes yesterday. He just started playing today, how could he suddenly turn so foolish and start messing around? Could it be that something happened to the expert? But they had just heard his voice, that brother expert's voice!

At this moment, Ye Xiu had already turned around and quickly moved to stabilize the situation. Seven Fields and the others relaxed and then heard brother expert say: "Boss, you're staying up so late, are you running around with a facial mask trying to be a white Supergirl?"

"What?" Seven Fields was startled.

"A love affair." Drifting Waters privately messaged.

The three immediately kept silent and held their headphones tight to their ear.

"I can't sleep so I came down to sit for a bit." Chen Guo said after taking off her mask.

"Seven Fields move back. Drifting Water take the lead. Sunset Clouds pay attention to the 4 o'clock direction." Ye Xiu directed the battle.

Chen Guo quietly looked at Ye Xiu killing monsters and suddenly said: "I feel that Ye Qiu shouldn't have retired."

"Agreed." Ye Xiu said.

"It was only because his position was too high. As soon as Excellent Era had a problem, it would be pushed onto the leader." Chen Guo said.

"Oh."

"I've watched all of Excellent Era's battles. I feel that Ye Qiu and the Battle God One Autumn Leaf aren't as strong as they were back in the days."

"……." Ye Xiu was silent.

"The current Professional Alliance has become more and more developed, experts are everywhere. For example, Great Gunner, Sword Saint, King of Fighting, Magician, these players aren't worse than Ye Qiu and their accounts are just as strong as One Autumn Leaf too."

"……" Still silent.

"Nowadays, one person can no longer carry the team. But people always hoped that Ye Qiu could still show off his strength just like how he did in his glorious days. Their demands towards him were just too great." Chen Guo said.

"Seven Fields, turn back a bit. You're too far forward. Sunset Clouds, you and Drifting Waters stand together. I can handle this side by myself." While Ye Xiu directed them, he went "pa pa" on the keyboard.

"F*CK!" Chen Guo grew furious. She got up and grabbed Ye Xiu's neck. While she violently shook his neck, she roared: "DID YOU HEAR WHAT I SAID? DID YOU HEAR WHAT I SAID?"

The Internet Cafe guests all trembled. Frequent customers snuck in a glance at that direction wanting to see who dared to provoke Boss Chen Guo. With this loud of a roar, today they were afraid someone was about to meet a tragic end.

The headphones on Ye Xiu's head shook a few times and then fell off. Inside, a few dim trembling sounds from Seven Fields and the others muttered out: "I heard I heard……"

Even in this situation, Ye Xiu still maintained steady hands and persevered through. In game, Lord Grim continued to perform perfectly, but his master Ye Xiu already had a hard time breathing and was about to be strangled to death.

Right when Ye Xiu's tongue was about to fall off, Chen Guo released her hands. Ye Xiu coughed loudly, but his gaze still hadn't shifted away from the screen. He asked Chen Guo: "What did you say?" While he quickly picked up his headphones, he shouted towards the headphones, "Seven Fields back. Move back."

After throwing his headphones on, his hands quickly returned to the keyboard. He didn't even have time to put them on properly. In the game, the four of them were currently battling a BOSS. They were originally missing a person. They needed Ye Xiu's Lord Grim.

Chen Guo saw that this guy wasn't mad at all. I can't just strangle him to death, can I? Helpless, she sat back down. She turned on a computer in front of his station: "Play with me."

Ye Xiu turned his head and glanced: "That's the server computer!"

"I'm the boss." Chen Guo said.

Ye Xiu had nothing to say. That rule had more power than the rule to never use the server computers.

"How do I play with you?" Ye Xiu didn't turn his head to ask. He was currently fighting an intense battle with the BOSS.

"I have an account in the tenth server too." Chen Guo fished out a card waving it at Ye Xiu. In the end, Ye Xiu just went "Oh" and still didn't turn around. Furious, Chen Guo cursed. I really should just strangle him to death and then dig a hole for him to be buried in.

"Then, first do the intro missions." Ye Xiu said.

"I won't do the missions. Bring me to a dungeon." Chen Guo acted a bit rashly. She already decided that she would do the opposite of whatever Ye Xiu said.

"You're still Level 1, how can I bring you into a dungeon?" Ye Xiu said. Green Forest was the lowest level dungeon, Level 5-10. If she wasn't Level 5, then she couldn't enter it.

"Think of something." Chen Guo said.

"Okay, let me think!" Ye Xiu humphed. Afterwards, his hands went "pa pa" again. Suddenly, he quickly grabbed his headphones: "Drifting Water go back to your position, you're about to be surrounded. What happened to you guys? So many mistakes!"

After throwing down his headphones, he heard a few knuckle-cracking sounds from behind him. Chen Guo grinded her teeth asking: "Did you think of something?"

"Thought of one." Ye Xiu immediately said.

"Oh?" Chen Guo was astonished. This was something that simply wasn't possible under the system's setup. How did he find a way?

"Don't think about missions, just kill monsters until you're level 5." Ye Xiu said.

"I'LL KILL YOU FIRST!!"

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Chapter 26 – Forgot to Look at a Guide

Of course, Chen Guo didn't kill Ye Xiu and couldn't enter the Level 5 Green Forest as a Level 1. In the end, Chen Guo could only start completing the missions alone. No matter what was said, it was still faster than only killing monsters.

In his busy schedule, Ye Xiu made room to turn around and quickly glance at the character on her screen: "Chasing Haze? Where have I seen this ID before?"

Chen Guo almost knocked down the monitor with her head. Baring her teeth, she turned her head: "This is my main account's ID!"

"Oh, I thought so!" Ye Xiu's head had already turned back. Chen Guo suddenly discovered, Besides that time when I walked in with my face mask, I haven't seen this guy's front again. It's only the Skeleton Graveyard and nothing more. Does he really need to concentrate so hard?

But thinking about that, her temper cooled because he really did need to concentrate so hard. In the Skeleton Graveyard, monsters would often randomly pop up. A scattered skeleton in an obscure location could suddenly converge together into a skeleton or a skeleton might suddenly dig out of the ground. This dungeon didn't have a set route or a set number of monsters. The dungeon would change every time testing player's concentration and reaction time. What's more, Ye Xiu's party only had four members, so they needed to concentrate even more.

Looking at it like this, Ye Xiu's actions were reasonable. Her anger wasn't though. Chen Guo could only gloomily continue to complete her missions.

At this moment, it had only been a day since the opening of the tenth server. Beginners were still everywhere like clouds causing Chen Guo to advance with her missions very slowly. It had taken even Ye Xiu that sort of peak expert two hours to complete them all, Chen Guo needn't be said. Although the situation was better than yesterday, lining up, kill stealing, these patterns still existed.

During the process, she suddenly heard a cold laugh float by: "I knew it'd be like this."

Chen Guo grew angry, Is he making fun of me? But when she turned her head to look, Ye Xiu had his headphones put on properly and continued to dungeon with his party! Was he talking to himself? Chen Guo muttered to herself. In the end, it was best not to make trouble and continued to silently kill monsters.

To Ye Xiu and the others, this time, clearing the Skeleton Graveyard was more threatening than dangerous. The road was quite bumpy because Seven Fields and the others couldn't react in time to the dungeon's difficulties, to that sort of scare by the skeletons suddenly popping out.

When the final BOSS collapsed, Seven Fields and the others were all covered in sweat. If it weren't for Ye Xiu and instead had Sleeping Moon as the leader, they definitely wouldn't have cleared it. This didn't mean that the dungeon required a peak level expert to lead them, rather it was because the players would take a lot of damage and required a Priest to heal them. Evidently, this was the beginner village's lesson on dungeons letting them know the importance of class combinations.

In the end, with Ye Xiu's Lord Grim who could heal and kill monsters, they rolled through the Skeleton Graveyard. After coming out, Ye Xiu looked back. Chen Guo was still in the beginner area lining up and wasn't paying attention to him, so he entered again. Seven Fields and the others were a little nervous. They were holding the expert back a little. With brother expert's skill, he could easily find three other much more skilled partners. If they didn't perform well, would brother expert leave them?

As a result, Seven Fields and the others concentrated 120% it. Carefully and cautiously, they clearly improved when reacting to those skeletons suddenly popping out. Their clearing speed increased by a lot.

Skeleton Graveyard also had three hidden BOSSes: Skeleton Warrior, Skeleton Mage, and Skeleton King. But the dungeon wouldn't give any hints if a hidden BOSS appeared because these three hidden BOSSes could come out of the shadows at any time. Only then would the system give a prompt. Often, in parties with bad luck, a member may have already been killed off by the time the system prompt came out.

With Ye Xiu leading, this type of careless error would never occur. Only, after clearing the second dungeon easily, the hidden BOSS still hadn't appeared yet.

They had already cleared the dungeon twice. Ye Xiu turned his head again to look at Chen Guo's progress. She was in the middle of kill stealing with others outside of beginner village. Ye Xiu searched a bit more and saw her character's level. It was already Level 4 and she was about to hit Level 5.

"Better hurry up and start again." Ye Xiu thought to himself and entered at once. Seven Fields and the others also didn't hesitate.

Kill kill kill, move move move. Suddenly, in front of them, a crooked gravestone gently shook. Seven Fields and others hadn't noticed this and continued forward. Ye Xiu had already hastily yelled: "Move back."

The three heard Ye Xiu and without thinking, immediately followed his command, neatly retreating. Lord Grim's figure had already moved past them in a flash. After that gravestone gently shook, suddenly, it flew out of the dirt towards the four of them.

Ye Xiu shouted "Careful". The prepared Seven Fields and the others quickly dodged it. Half of a skeleton body arose from out of the hole where the gravestone flew out of. Seeing that intact skeleton, they knew it wasn't any ordinary monster. The system also solemnly announced: You have entered the Skeleton Warrior's place of eternal rest.

"We've finally run into one." Ye Xiu was gratified.

"How do we fight it?" Seven Fields and the others immediately asked.

The half-exposed Skeleton Warrior leaped out of the cavity like a rocket showing off his powerful jumping ability. In midair, polluted dirt rolled out from his body crashing down onto the ground like rain. In his hand, he carried an enormous but extremely damaged sword around the size of a person.

"Too bad." Ye Xiu said.

"What's wrong?" Seven Fields and the others all asked.

"I forgot to look at a guide." Ye Xiu said.

The three felt like throwing up blood. Brother expert you're too mystical!

"I can help you look." Sunset Clouds yelled.

"No good, if he attacks you then you're dead." Ye Xiu said. The Skeleton Warrior had already dropped to the ground causing the earth to quake and the mountains to shake. The attack range was extremely large. Drifting Water was too slow and didn't dodge in time. He was hit by the shock wave and fell flat on his face.

The Skeleton Warrior's two black eyes swept over them as if searching for a target to attack.

"Then someone draw it out. I'll check a guide!" Sunset Clouds said.

"No need." While Ye Xiu said this, he took off his headphone and turned around to shout: "Boss, boss."

"What!" Chen Guo tapped her keyboard replying, but didn't turn her head.

"Help me look up a guide." Ye Xiu said.

"Guide? What guide?" Chen Guo was astonished and looked towards him.

"A Skeleton Warrior guide." Ye Xiu controlled Lord Grim while pointing to his screen.

Chen Guo's head almost knocked over the monitor again: "You starting looking up a guide after you've met the boss? What have you been doing up until now?"

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Chapter 27 – The Guide Says 24 Times

"I forgot." Ye Xiu replied simply, which made Chen Guo unable to pick at it. She was currently lining up to steal kills and nothing more. She wasn't in any danger at all, so she quickly switched out of the game and searched up a Skeleton Graveyard guide. She asked Ye Xiu: "Which BOSS?"

"Skeleton Warrior. Mainly look for how to make it so that he drops the Saber 100% of the time." Ye Xiu said.

"Saber? 100% drop?" Chen Guo hadn't done this type of low-level dungeon in five years. She knew what the Saber was because she would bring others to look for this item from time to time. But she didn't know about any guides having this information. After all, her memories were all of her rolling through the dungeon with her main account, why would she have needed to look up a guide?

"Yeah, use that as the main subject." Ye Xiu replied with confidence. Although he forgot the details, he knew that it definitely existed because he had written about it before.

Chen Guo promptly searched the keywords "Skeleton Warrior", "Saber", "100%" and sure enough results appeared. Seeing the forum post's date, it was already ten years old. Chen Guo clicked on it and looked. She was immediately surprised: "It's a post by Ye Qiu." The original poster's name was, to her shock, One Autumn Leaf. This wasn't a secret in the Glory community. Everyone knew that before the Glory Professional Alliance came into existence, Ye Qiu's ID had already become a famous expert. Otherwise, the Professional Alliance wouldn't have invited him as a pro-gamer.

"Right, that one. See how many times I need to hit the Buckle fastening the Saber." Ye Xiu said.

"What?" Chen Guo had never seen this post. For a moment, she had no idea what Ye Xiu was talking about. She quickly skimmed over the post and finally found what Ye Xiu wanted.

"24 times. There are also pictures of where to hit it. Do you need to see it?" Chen Guo said.

"Enlarge it so I can see." Ye Xiu said.

Chen Guo opened the diagram and enlarged it: "Hey, look!"

Ye Xiu turned his head like lightning and stopped on it for less than a second before turning back.

"You're done?" Chen Guo was flabbergasted.

"Yup." Ye Xiu said.

"Do you need anything else?"

"No." Ye Xiu said. He remembered that he needed to do enough damage to the targets. Although he didn't remember exactly how much, but with the Thousand Chance Umbrella's 180 Physical Attack plus his strength, he believed that Lord Grim reached that requirement.

"Seven Fields, go to the left; Sunset Clouds, go around to the back; Drifting Water move back a bit or the next shock wave will hit you." Ye Xiu began directing the three into position, while he continued to look for an opportunity to attack. Before, the four players were only dodging. Without Ye Xiu's orders, no one went in to attack. When Ye Xiu was looking for a guide, Seven Fields and the others didn't know that he wasn't looking for a guide on how to beat the Skeleton Warrior, but rather on how to make his Saber drop 100% of the time.

This Saber was only an ornamental equipment. It had no effects on a person's strength which is why there was such a 100% drop method. But the method still required exceptionally high skill to pull off.

Chen Guo had already thrown away her game and stood behind Ye Xiu. She wanted to see how Ye Xiu would hit the Saber Buckle 24 times. She had looked at the guide. That buckle was located on the Skeleton Warrior's waist. The player would have to hit the small buckle from every direction. From the screen, if the player didn't get in close to at least two meters, then there was no way to hit it.

Ye Xiu had already controlled Lord Grim to meet the BOSS face to face. When he healed the party, the Skeleton Warrior had locked onto Lord Grim as the number one target. Lord Grim had been dodging left and right the entire time while Seven Fields and the others wandered around waiting for Ye Xiu to tell them when to attack.

After Ye Xiu got a hold of the guide, he arranged the three far away. The three didn't know Ye Xiu's intentions and could only listen to his orders. Seeing that Lord Grim met the Skeleton Warrior face to face, their hearts tightened: the battle was finally going to start.

The Skeleton Warrior rushed up in large strides. From head to toe, the skeleton screeched out an ear-piercing friction sound. Ye Xiu directed Lord Grim to quickly face it, but his gaze only looked at the Skeleton Warrior's waist. Chen Guo, who was standing behind him, discovered: it was much more difficult than it seemed. The guide made the targets on the Buckle easy to see. But in battle, the Skeleton Warrior swayed back and forth. Its movements inadvertently masked the targets on the Buckle.

The Skeleton Warrior raised its body-sized sword two meters away from Ye Xiu. Calm and unhurried, Ye Xiu quickly attacked. His Thousand Chance Umbrella's attack speed of 5 was definitely higher than the gigantic sword. Usually, gigantic swords had an attack speed of 1. In this distance, although the Skeleton Warrior's gigantic sword was huge, its length couldn't compare to a battle lance's.

Ye Xiu calmly pushed his mouse. Lord Grim's battle lance shot out late but arrived first, stabbing it head-on with a Dragon Tooth. While the Skeleton Warrior's was briefly stunned, Lord Grim had already closed in at used a Sky Strike.

The Skeleton Warrior's body was heavier compared to the Midnight Phantom Cat's, but was still lighter than that big-headed and fat-bellied Spider BOSS. After a Sky Strike, the Skeleton Warrior was knocked up neither high nor low. Lord Grim took advantage and slashed. The attack made a sound that completely differed from the sound made by hitting the Skeleton Warrior's bones.

"You hit it." Chen Guo excitedly shouted.

"It's only once." Ye Xiu spoke without thinking. With a flick of his fingers, Lord Grim turned around and struck again. He swept the floor with his lance and the Skeleton Warrior that had been flipped over by the Sky Strike was hit again with a "peng" sound. This attack had also hit his buckle.

Ye Xiu wasn't greedy. After two hits, he immediately controlled Lord Grim to retreat. As the Skeleton Warrior got up, he hit the ground to support himself creating a small 360 degree shock wave. This was to prevent shameless players from endlessly comboing him with a knock down and floor sweep skill. The majority of BOSSes had these sort of shock wave attacks when getting up.

Chen Guo watched and saw that he had hit the buckle twice. At first, she felt excited for Ye Xiu's good beginning. But after reflecting on it, she felt that the two precise hits onto the small belt were quite frightening. While she stood distracted, another "peng" sound echoed through her ear.

Lord Grim had jumped out at the perfect time, dodging the edge of the shock wave. After the shock wave attack passed, Ye Xiu already directed Lord Grim to rush up once again. With a thrust, his lance stabbed the buckle again.

The Skeleton Warrior's two hands crashed down. Lord Grim swiftly rolled back and that gigantic sword smashed past him. Even the spectating Seven Fields and the others couldn't tell whether Lord Grim had been hurt or not. They quickly looked at the party list showing his HP and MP and discovered that he had completely dodged the sword.

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Chapter 28: Professional Level

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Seven Fields and the others held their breaths afraid of disturbing Lord Grim's battle. At the same time, the three also took precautions, ready to listen to an order and begin attacking. Unexpectedly, they waited left and right watching Lord Grim and the Skeleton Warrior fight surrounded by perils. But there was no call for them to help. Seven Fields and the others, one on the left, one on the right, and one right behind the Skeleton Warrior, all steadily stopped the Skeleton Warrior's shock wave attack from time to time.

"He's not planning on soloing it is he?" Sunset Clouds sent Seven Fields a message.

"Honestly, I'm also having my doubts." Seven Fields said.

"Soloing a hidden BOSS?" These few words that Sunset Clouds typed made them all feel horrified.

"It's not like it's impossible……." Seven Fields said.

"Brother expert, you're too good. Where did you come from? With this skill, I don't even think our guild leader can match you." Sunset Clouds said.

"Definitely not a match." Seven Fields concluded. The pitiful Full Moon Guild leader became the leader because everyone worshipped his 200 APM hand speed. In the end, only a day had passed since the start of the tenth server, but he already had three traitors in his ranks. To the boss, this was already disdainful beneath contempt.

At this moment, Drifting Water also sent a message: "I don't think he'll solo it, right?" The voice system in the game only had a single channel so voice messages couldn't be sent privately. The three relied on voice communication. Because they stood at a distance, they would have to speak a bit louder. As a result, they were afraid to disturb brother expert's fight with the monster, so they all sent private messages.

"It's possible." Seven Fields and Sunset Clouds both replied to Drifting Water's message.

"Too amazing. Should we record it?" Drifting Waters asked. The game had a built-in video recording function.

"Brother expert didn't talk about this. I say we shouldn't!" Seven Fields said.

"Okay." Drifting Waters answered. Without saying another word, the three continued to watch Lord Grim fight. He truly did wield the battle lance with matchless skill. Dodging, sidestepping, it seemed as if he were fighting in a wuxia film. Seven Field and the others had their eyes opened to a new world. Compared to this, normal players fighting monsters or PKing was the same as sticking their chests out and comparing specs. Rough, too rough!

Chen Guo stood behind Ye Xiu and tried her hardest counting how many hits he made. Her spectator perspective of the game couldn't compare to Seven Fields and the others because she was the same as Ye Xiu, she saw Lord Grim in a first person perspective. Looking at it this way, she couldn't see a lot of Lord Grim's movements. On the contrary, because Lord Grim's line of sight kept continuously spinning, Chen Guo nearly fell down from dizziness. She couldn't keep up with that lightning fast whirling at all. Often, with a sudden turn, she could no longer figure out what direction his character faced and even more so, where the Skeleton Warrior was. Buckle? She could barely even tell where the Skeleton Warrior was most of the time to say nothing of the buckle.

But while watching his complete mess of a screen, Ye Xiu's hand movements were still crystal clear. The dizzy Chen Guo looked towards the movements done by Ye Xiu's two hands. She discovered that Ye Xiu's left hand clearly jumped about faster than yesterday. His right hand holding the mouse moved even faster, but didn't move much. Oftentimes, after a movement, he would immediately left click or right click.

Chen Guo was extremely amazed. She knew that a left click was a normal attack, a right click was a skill attack, and that the cursor pointed to the direction and position of the attack. Ye Xiu's movements and clicks were direct and efficient without the slightest sloppiness. She discovered that no matter how fast the screen spun, the mouse always moved to the right position and sent out an attack without the slightest shake.

Ye Xiu's right hand wasn't only quick, but also steady, exceptionally steady.

"Professional level really is different." Chen Guo exclaimed in admiration. And at this moment, the headphones on Ye Xiu's neck sent out another "peng" sound. Chen Guo heard it clearly. She could only rely on this faint sound to count. Twenty, this was already the twentieth hit on the buckle. But Lord Grim's life? In this entire process, he hadn't taken a single point of damage, which meant that the Skeleton Warrior hadn't hit him once.

"Sunset Clouds, Collapsing Mountain!" Ye Xiu lowered his head and yelled into his headphones.

"Is it finally our turn?" Sunset Clouds originally thought the three of them weren't needed. But hearing Ye Xiu's yell, without saying anything further, he raised his sword and rushed up. Right then, Lord Grim executed a Sky Strike and knocked the Skeleton Warrior up towards his direction. Sunset Clouds held up his sword and used Collapsing Mountain striking the Skeleton Warrior down from the air to the ground. He comboed it 8 times, the limit for Collapsing Mountain.

"Guard!" Ye Xiu still reminded Sunset Clouds, but Sunset Clouds already had this thought. Ye Xiu hadn't yet finished his interjection when Sunset Clouds took up a guard position. The Skeleton Warrior rose up and the shock wave ripple hit his sword. With a "dong", Sunset Clouds was pushed back. Sunset Cloud's Guard was already Level 4, able to reduce incoming damage by 70%. This shock wave attack also wasn't a major maneuver, so the reduced 30% damage didn't do much.

Ye Xiu's Lord Grim jumped to avoid the attack and then immediately countered with a Dragon Tooth, stunning the Skeleton Warrior. Sunset Clouds understood tacitly and without a reminder, already prepared to use his Stun skill.

"Seven Fields, Drifting Water." Ye Xiu shouted. The two had already rushed forward and quickly understood his tactic. The also prepared to use their Stun skills at any time.

"What happened?" Chen Guo didn't understand why Ye Xiu suddenly needed their help.

"Did you not see?" Ye Xiu asked. He immediately let Lord Grim lower his head to let her look. Chen Guo immediately saw that its Saber quietly lay there next to the Skeleton Warrior's feet. The buckle had unexpectedly already been broken off and dropped.

"How could that be? Wasn't it 24 times?" Chen Guo was flabbergasted. Although the headphones were a bit far from her, she could clearly hear that "peng" sound during his battle with the Skeleton Warrior. Chen Guo didn't think she had made a mistake.

"It was 24 times!" Ye Xiu said.

"How come I only heard 20 times?" Chen Guo said.

"I used Double Stab 4 times. It hits twice and in rapid succession too, so you probably didn't hear it. Adding in these 4 times, doesn't that add to 24?" Ye Xiu said.

Chen Guo was stunned: "Double Stab hit the same spot twice? Then did you make the hidden BOSS bleed? How come I didn't see it? 4 times and it still didn't bleed? Does it not count if it hits the buckle?"

"Skeletons are immune to Bleed, right?" Ye Xiu said.

Chen Guo blushed. Glory had a lot of monsters that were immune to Bleed and skeleton types were one of them. It didn't have any flesh, how could it Bleed? This was the reasoning behind it. This was very basic common sense. Chen Guo, a veteran, had unexpectedly forgot it for a moment.

It's all this guy's fault. With the camera angle spinning around everywhere, I would've overlooked any monster he fought.

Chen Guo angrily sat back in front of her computer. There was still a giant crowd outside of beginner village. Monsters still had to be kill stolen. While troubled, she heard Ye Xiu ask: "Boss, are you preparing to pull an all-nighter?"

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Chapter 29 – First Clear Team

"Why?" Chen Guo asked in reply.

"If you're going to play all-night, then you stay here, I'm going to the smoking area." Ye Xiu said.

"If you go to the smoking area then are you on duty or am I?" Chen Guo asked angrily.

"Oh, then do you want to switch seats? Didn't you not like the smell of smoke?" Ye Xiu said.

Chen Guo's cheeks streamed with tears. Although she clearly understood that he was trying to take care of her, but what was this feeling of being ignored?

Ye Xiu already held a cigarette box in one hand hinting that it was time for Chen Guo to choose to either take over for Ye Xiu's shift or move elsewhere.

"Forget about it. I won't play. I'm going to sleep." Chen Guo angrily logged out of the game and got up to leave.

Ye Xiu turned around and followed Chen Guo with his eyes. He found by surprise that Chen Guo left her account card on the table and didn't take it. This wasn't being forgetful, but rather Chen Guo thinking the Internet Cafe as her home. It was quite normal to randomly leave things in the home. A thought immediately popped up in Ye Xiu's mind and he hurriedly yelled: "Boss, you didn't take your card. Do you want me to help you level up?"

"Do whatever you want!" Chen Guo spoke without thinking the matter through.

Ye Xiu nodded his head. His hand, approaching a 300 APM speed, quickly lit a cigarette and then put it in his mouth. The Skeleton Warrior's killing continued, but Ye Xiu speaking didn't have any effect on his ability to light up a cigarette. Now, he continued to concentrate on the game, and in a bit, the Skeleton Warrior was killed off. Ye Xiu's Saber was already laying on the ground. He went over and picked it up. He gave up on the rest of the items. Seven Fields and the others also didn't push him. They split up the equipment and randomly put the other materials in their bags. While they did this, Seven Fields said: "Brother expert, we're going to keep the high-grade materials that you didn't want from the other few hidden BOSSes yesterday. Later, when the prices are high, we'll sell them. Right now the server just opened, so all of the swindlers are buying them from newbies at low prices. Later, when the prices are standard again, we'll sell them and then split the money with you."

"I've already taken my share. That stuff is yours." Ye Xiu said.

"More able people should earn more. Brother expert, you're too modest." Seven Fields said.

Ye Xiu laughed and didn't say anything else. The four continued to clear dungeons. Seven Fields asked: "Do we need another person?"

Ye Xiu understood his meaning. He had already gotten what he wanted. Having another person would make their efficiency a bit faster.

"Up to you! But today, I'm only training to 20. Afterwards, I need to help my friend level." Ye Xiu said.

"Okay okay, that's fine. Do you need our help?" Seven Fields said. Actually, they hadn't turned off their headphones when they heard Ye Xiu and Chen Guo talk. Seven Fields vaguely heard quite a bit.

"No need. You guys can do your own things." Ye Xiu said.

"Okay." Seven Fields and the others didn't say anymore. They had known Ye Xiu for a day. Although people established relationships quickly over the Internet, as adults, they all knew proper behavior.

After leaving the dungeon, Seven Fields began shouting in order to add a player. It was too easy to form parties in the new server. A string of requests came and in the end, Seven Fields picked a Level 17 female player.

The female player was called Immersed Jade. After joining the team, she became excited seeing the party list.

Seven Fields, Sunset Clouds, Drifting Water, Lord Grim, weren't this the party that first cleared Spider Cave and the Spider Emperor? She would never have thought that she would be able to join such an expert team. After connecting to the voice system, she conveyed her excitement to everyone.

Because the voice system in Glory was popular, it put an end to fake gender players. When players moved about together, they would definitely directly used their voices to communicate. What type of female would only type and not talk? If they did, everyone would immediately have their doubts. Of course, if you were male but sounded like a female, this sort of gift couldn't be warded against.

While Seven Fields and the others heard the girl speak, they all accidentally caught up to in front of the girl and met. But Ye Xiu knew that they were trying to get a look at the girl's appearance.

Glory's character model had two kinds, a male and a female one. The details of appearance and build were done through an editor. A self-designed one worked too. A random generated one also worked. If you liked reality, then you could directly take a picture and put your own face into the editor. After providing basic body measurements, the editor could automatically create a character model that looked the same as the original player. As a result, all the male players wanted to know whether a female player's appearance was the same as the person herself. It is said that some experienced wolf-natured players could tell whether a female player was fake or real with just a single glance.

Seven Fields and the others didn't seem to possess this "wolf" attribute. After standing in a circle and observing Immersed Jade, they could only arrive at the conclusion "average". Whether her appearance was fake or real, they didn't know.

But Immersed Jade was awfully energetic and after worshipping the first clear team, she expressed her honor to join their team. Finishing, she once again was amazed that their expert first clear time was still Level 18. Finally, she requested to see if there she still had an opportunity to be a permanent member of their first clear team.

Seven Fields could only regretfully explain that their party still had another brother. He just couldn't come today.

Immersed Jade looked looked utterly lost, but she still didn't give up. Even if she couldn't become a main member, she started to apply to see if she could become a substitute member. Furthermore, she asked about what guild and organization they were from.

This question made it difficult for Seven Fields and the others to answer. It was obvious this stranger worshipped them as experts. They still hadn't entered the dungeon, Immersed Jade too. But after entering the dungeon and playing, experienced players would immediately recognize that the only expert in the party was Lord Grim. The rest weren't worth mentioning.

Immersed Jade's questions and expectations could only fall onto brother expert's head. Now she asked again what their guild was…… Seven Fields and the others had a guild, but now they were under brother expert's godly halo. If they told her their guild's name wouldn't that be the same as slapping their face?

"Oh, let's hurry up and enter!" Seven Fields diverted the subject and took the lead. Sunset Clouds and the others followed closely. After entering the dungeon, naturally, Ye Xiu began directing. Right after he said something, Immersed Jade already asked in bafflement: "Hm, who's talking?"

When she first joined the party, she chattered non-stop with Seven Fields and the others. It was Ye Xiu's first time speaking.

"Lord Grim, our party's god. All of our first kills were because of him. If we didn't have him, our party wouldn't be worth mentioning." Seven Fields found the opportunity to tell her the truth. After speaking, he immediately relaxed.

"I pay respects to the great god!" Immersed Jade typed out a message and said aloud.

"Ha ha, let's go!" Ye Xiu laughed and began leading the group forward. Commanding, killing, not long after, his expert demeanor had already been revealed. But in front of his presence, Immersed Jade unexpectedly didn't show much excitement.

Seven Fields and the others could see that this girl was a true newb.

"This little sister's ruined." Sunset Clouds secretly said.

"Ugh, her starting point is too high now. She's still a newbie and she's already met such an extreme expert. Later, how is she going to mix in with normal players?" Seven Fields said.

"A tragedy!" Drifting Water sighed with sorrow.

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Chapter 30 – Two Hidden BOSS Clears

Immersed Jade was undoubtedly a cute noob. Starting from when she first entered the dungeon, she kept silent, carefully listened to directions, and earnestly carried them out. Although she still made beginner mistakes, she always apologized for them. As a result, everyone also didn't feel too good pointing out her faults. When Immersed Jade made mistakes, Seven Fields and the others were even more nervous than her. They were afraid that brother expert would feel impatient because of this! A lot of experts didn't have much patience towards these inexperienced newbies.

But after clearing more than half the dungeon, Seven Fields and others finally relaxed. Although brother expert's skill level was so high, he wasn't that sort of arrogant expert. To newbies, he was actually even more patient than Seven Fields and the others. Regarding commands that Immersed Jade didn't understand, brother expert even went so far as to explain to her those special terms.

Though with this additional player, their pace slowed down. Seeing that brother expert didn't care, Seven Fields and the others didn't point it out. While they killed monsters, they helped teach the newbie and were actually all very happy.

Chatting with her, they found out that it was Immersed Jade's first time in a dungeon. Before, she only completed quests to level up. The only quests left were the ones that required her entering a dungeon. Only then did she mix in with the crowd outside the dungeon and in the end, joined such a famous party. Naturally, she was extremely pleased.

Under the expert's advice, after clearing the dungeon, they went in for another round. Immersed Jade had already transformed. Only she hadn't played Glory for very long, so she still hadn't graduated from her newbie status yet.

Finally, after countless dungeon clears, Lord Grim and the others reached Level 20, while Immersed Jade was still a little off at Level 19. Ye Xiu saw that they might as well go through the dungeon a few more times and bring Immersed Jade to Level 20 too.

During this time, they encountered two hidden BOSSes. Ye Xiu lead the party and killed them easily. But they hadn't seen any Purple Equipment today, only a few uncommon materials. Of course, Immersed Jade didn't know that these materials were actually the most valuable items in low-leveled dungeons and only drooled for those rare equipments. Only, under brother expert's watch, they felt a bit embarrassed, so they explained the value of these items to Immersed Jade. In the end, Immersed Jade really was too loveable. Telling them that she was only a newbie and that she wouldn't need the dropped materials, she chose to give up on them.

Seven Fields and the others immediately had their good impressions of this little sister multiply by a hundred. They told her that they would remember this favor. After selling the materials, they would split the money with her.

"Okay, then I'll be going off first." Exiting the dungeon, Ye Xiu said goodbye to the party.

"Brother expert, you're not going to pick a class?" At level 20, everyone would have to pick a class and then leave beginner village."

"Not now, you guys go first!"

"Then brother expert, let's keep in touch." Seven Fields said.

"Goodbye Great God!" Immersed Jade had already mixed in with everybody as if they had been together for half a lifetime. Moreover, after constantly hearing about Seven Fields and the other describing Lord Grim's might, she finally decided to call him great god.

Ye Xiu laughed and said goodbye to them. The four returned to beginner village to get their class quest. While Ye Xiu brought Lord Grim to Green Forest's dungeon, he turned around and put in Chen Guo's account card. He logged into the tenth server with this Level 5 Chasing Haze.

Correct, even though Glory couldn't open both games at once, it couldn't prevent players from playing two accounts on separate computers. This was Ye Xiu's plan. As long as there were two or more players in a party, then they could meet a hidden BOSS. Ye Xiu still needed a few materials from that Midnight Phantom Cat!

The hidden BOSS didn't appear on the first round. Without saying a word, he directly exited the dungeon. Both characters went into a critically ill status. In this status, their HP and MP would be almost completely depleted and all of their attributes would decrease by 80%. They were pretty much useless and needed 10 minutes to recover. But this method was still faster than going through the dungeon. Lord Grim already didn't gain experience from Green Forest. Originally, he was going to bring and level up Chasing Haze, but Chen Guo said he could do as he pleased, so Ye Xiu did as he pleased.

He got up, smoked a cigarette, drank some water, walked around, and when he returned, Lord Grim and Chasing Haze had already recovered. Entering the dungeon, the hidden BOSS didn't appear again, so Ye Xiu chose to exit the dungeon again.

At ten minutes a round, in one hour, he could enter six times. If he cleared the dungeon, then he would need 15-20 minutes each time, so he saved a significant amount of time. This method could only be done in beginner village though. After beginner village, real dungeons had a limit. One day five times, one day three times, or even one day one time, one week one time. Each dungeon had their own limits.

This time, Ye Xiu went to look at a guide in these ten minutes. He had forgotten quite a bit of beginner things. Always running in the dungeon and then looking at a guide also wasn't a good habit.

After ten minutes, he entered Green Forest but the hidden BOSS still didn't appear. Ye Xiu wasn't hurried and exited out again to look at a guide.

Four times, five times……

Ye Xiu looked as if he were going to waste the entire day doing this. When he entered the fifth time, the hidden BOSS still didn't appear. Finally, on the sixth time, the system announced the appearance of the Midnight Phantom Cat. Ye Xiu relaxed his breath and began fighting. In theory, after Chasing Haze entered, she was useless and would be thrown at the entrance not moving. But Ye Xiu thought that she might as well be brought along to leech some experience. As a result, he began moving both them. First, he brought Chasing Haze into a good spot and then Lord Grim killed monsters near her so that she would leech some experience. Switching characters left and right, he was awfully busy.

All of the guests that passed by the counter after using the restroom saw this and were all dumbstruck.

"Brother, you might as well just play on your own. Playing on two computers, isn't that a little too crazy?"

Ye Xiu turned around and laughed. But he didn't speak and kept on playing. As long as the Midnight Phantom Cat came out, he wouldn't care about the rest. The material Ye Xiu needed dropped 100% of the time, but luck determined the amount. In the end, Ye Xiu was lucky and obtained four Midnight Cat Fingernails. Adding in the two from the first clear, he already had six. Ye Xiu needed a total of eight, so one more run was enough.

After killing the Midnight Phantom Cat, Ye Xiu beautifully exited the dungeon again. He continued to use the ten minute per round method.

First round none. Second round none. On the third round, his luck failed again, but this time, a system message suddenly popped up. He opened it up and saw that the player Blue River wanted to be his friend. He didn't know whether to accept or not.

Blue River? Who was that? Ye Xiu looked around in Lord Grim's vicinity. He didn't see any name like that. Then he thought that maybe it was because he was a Level 20 standing outside Green Forest, so the player wanted to add a high-leveled friend to carry him. Ye Xiu clicked ignore. In the end, he discovered another request. He ignored it again. Another one, another ignore, another one……

He kept on ignoring the requests. In these ten minutes, this player called Blue River unexpectedly didn't give up and sent a total of 18 friend requests to Lord Grim.

Ignore wasn't a reject. A message that was ignored could be sent again. Ye Xiu was deeply moved by this player's persistence. As a result, he flipped open a message and clicked accept.

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Chapter 31 – This Is A Talent

"Hi, let me introduce myself. I'm Blue River of Blue Brook Guild, my main account is Blue Bridge Spring Snow." Right after accepting the friend request, the other party messaged him. He didn't say any "you there?" nonsense and directly introduced himself. He could tell that this was a very self-confident person.

"Hi." Ye Xiu simply replied. After all, he had been a part of the Glory community for ten years. He recognized the name of one of the three great guilds, Blue Brook Guild. As for Blue Bridge Spring Snow, Ye Xiu didn't really know about this player. If it was Huang Shaotian and his Sword Saint Troubling Rain, then Ye Xiu knew a bit more.

Blue River clearly didn't know that he was dealing with an expert more skilled than he was. After all, his Blue Bridge Spring Snow's name could have already intimidated many in the gaming community. Blue River confidently believed that the other side knew who he was. As a result, he advanced a step and said: "What are you doing brother?"

"Clearing." Ye Xiu didn't stick around to chat. At the same time, Lord Grim and Chasing Haze already entered the Green Forest.

"Oh? Which dungeon?" Blue River asked.

"Green Forest."

Blue River was dazed for five seconds. Afterwards, he guessed what he felt was the only possibility: "Carrying a friend?"

"Kind of……" Ye Xiu said.

"Oh, we're missing a member for Frost Forest. Are you interested in joining brother?" Blue River informed.

"Oh? Why me?" Ye Xiu asked.

Why you? This question made Blue River made him sigh with sorrow. This question had come up from a while back, from a full one day ago.

At first, Lord Grim's party stole two Spider Cave first clears making Blue Brook Guild lose a lot of face. Everyone felt quite angry. But after asking about Lord Grim and his team's situation, Blue Brook Guild discovered a few abnormal matters.

A member in this guy's team, who first cleared with him, had unexpectedly slandered him previously.

That raging Sleeping Moon said that he had been cheated of the hidden BOSS. Looking at the time of the event, this was when Lord Grim solo killed the Midnight Phantom Cat. The slandering messages said that Lord Grim intentionally caused the death of the rest of the party in order to take the BOSS for himself. Then, how did this shameless and despicable guy form a party with Sleeping Moon?

He didn't know what exactly happened during this process, but this at least said that the party, which first cleared the Spider Cave twice, weren't friends to begin with. They were strangers and were also a random party with internal conflicts.

To have such a team steal away two first clears, his strength couldn't be so simple. And it was also clear that Lord Grim was this team's focal point. This shameless novice, who had caused the death the party just for the hidden BOSS, had unexpectedly been able to be re-admitted again. Who was this person?

Besides this, there was also one detail that the Blue Brook Guild told them to pay attention to. This unknown team that took two Spider Cave first clears had different player orders both times. The first on the list had to be the party's leader. The first time, this party's team leader was still Sleeping Moon. But the second time, the party's leader switched to Lord Grim.

Party leader, this status, was extremely serious. He could kick players and assign the player order. And for the party to willingly give this position to a shameless BOSS stealing person, what did this mean?

All of these indicated their dependence on this player. Without this player, there was no way they could have gotten a first kill.

This person was a true talent and had a high possibility of being a talent without a guild.

A talent from a guild wouldn't be by themselves in a new server; A talent from a guild also wouldn't be on 24 hours.

Blue Brook Guild's players analyzed this through asking about and observing for an entire day. Finally, they came to this conclusion. Because of the saying that it was easy to raise an army of one thousand, but hard to find a good general, this type of person should be actively won over. Only then did Blue River send 18 consecutive friend requests. When he sent the first one, the request was neither accepted nor declined, so it must have been ignored. Blue River decided to keep sending more of them to show his sincerity. In fact, his method succeeded. His 18 consecutive friend requests made the originally ready to ignore Ye Xiu finally accept his friend request.

But now, the other side asked him why he searched for him. Blue River, of course, wouldn't give some long and complicated explanation. He only said that they had noticed his three first clears in the new tenth server. As a result, they saw him as an expert and hoped they could be friends.

"To be honest, right now we're preparing to break the Frost Forest clear record, but we're missing a brother like you, who is a peak level expert. If we break the record, we can give up the purple equipment for you, how about it? Our guild only wants the record." Blue River didn't hurry to rope in this player into their guild. Glory had existed for this long. Everyone knew of famous guilds, but this Lord Grim actually didn't care about them. Blue River reckoned that this person was an expert from some guild playing casually in the new server. If not, then he wasn't interested in guilds and an expert from the wilds.

If he was the first type, then they couldn't do anything. He certainly wouldn't be roped in. At least, if he was the second type and didn't care about guilds, they still had a chance.

As a result, Blue River decided to invite this person to dungeon with them. First, they would become friends. And with everyone being an expert, they would play together happily and then they could easily come to an understanding with him. They first had to see this player's strength though and see whether he was worth being roped in. As for their promise to give him the purple equipment, that was just their show of good faith and bargaining chip. Frost Forest would only reward a Level 25 Purple Equipment at best and that would soon be outclassed. They didn't need to haggle over a low-leveled equipment. Frankly, if the other person was truly a great expert, then he also wouldn't care. But at the moment, it was the biggest bargaining chip they could really give at this stage of the game.

Seeing this invitation, Ye Xiu's eyes lit up. He quickly gave Blue River a response: "I don't need the Purple Equipment. If it's possible, I want something else."

"What?" Blue River asked.

"Uncommon materials." Ye Xiu said.

"Ha ha, you're very understanding, brother." Blue River could see that the other side wasn't naive. He didn't care about low-leveled equipment. Currently, the most valuable items were these uncommon materials. These materials could be used in the late stages of the game and would never grow outdated.

"72 Strong Spider Silk." Ye Xiu offered.

"No problem." Blue River responded frankly. Although Strong Spider Silk were uncommon materials, beginner dungeons could be cleared with no limit. In addition, even normal BOSSes had a chance of dropping them and could regarded as very cheap among uncommon materials.

"And also a White Witch's Mithril Pendant." Ye Xiu said.

"Okay, I can give them to you now." Blue River replied while smiling. The Mithril Pendant was similar to the Saber Ye Xiu hit off of the Skeleton Warrior. They were ornamental without any value. Only a girl who liked it would wear it as jewelry.

"And also White Wolf's Sharp Fangs, I need 8." Ye Xiu said.

"This……Brother, you need Strong Spider Silk, the Mithril Pendant, and now Sharp Fangs? Isn't this a bit too much?" Blue River was a little unhappy.

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Chapter 32 – Haggling

White Wolf, White Witch were Frost Forest's hidden BOSS. The Mithril Pendant was only an ornamental item so Blue River let it pass without any regrets, but the White Wolf Sharp Fangs were very valuable.

Frost Forest wasn't a part of the beginner village's educational dungeons. Every person could only enter at most four times. It was hard to say whether they could meet a hidden BOSS within those four times. Moreover, there was a chance that the hidden BOSS wouldn't be a White Wolf.

If Ye Xiu only wanted these 8 White Wolf Sharp Fangs, then Blue River wouldn't hesitate to give them up. But as for 72 Strong Spider Silk and 8 White Wolf Fangs, Blue River felt this person was a little too greedy and deserved to be called a shameless novice that killed his party for a hidden BOSS. No matter how good this person's skill was, his personality was no good. Was such a person suitable to be roped into their guild?

Blue River had already started hesitating, but Ye Xiu replied neither fast nor slow: "Too much? Then I don't need the Mithril Pendant, good enough?"

Blue River didn't know whether to laugh or cry and quickly replied: "Brother, we all understand that we didn't care about the Mithril Pendant, but as for the Strong Spider Silk and White Wolf Sharp Fang……."

"Then how much is fitting?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Pick one of the two." Blue River said.

"This……is too hard to pick!" Ye Xiu said.

"You can't have your cake and eat it too, brother." Blue River said sincerely.

"Then the White Wolf Sharp Fangs!" Ye Xiu said.

"Okay." Blue River let out a sigh of relief.

"Some Strong Spider Silk as a small gesture of goodwill too?" Ye Xiu said again.

Blue River almost threw up blood.

"How about 40?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Brother, you……"Blue River was somewhat speechless.

"30?"

"Uh……"

"25. This is fine right?" Ye Xiu asked.

Blue River remained silent for a long time. His hands rested on the keyboard and he couldn't find any suitable words to type.

"24?"

Blue River's heart suddenly softened. This guy had already began reducing the price one by one. For the grand Blue Brook Guild to haggle over some Strong Spider Silk, how shameful was this? Blue River immediately typed out: "Fine, we'll settle it at this!"

"Okay."

Right when Blue River let out a sigh of relief, he found another message pop up: "Then you should give a few more Mithril Pendants, right? I mean you said you didn't care about them."

Blue River fell off his chair with a crash. What was this person? Mithril Pendants weren't worth anything, yet he still needed to haggle for them?

"What do you need these items for?" Blue River couldn't understand him.

"These items are worthless in our eyes, but may be valuable to others." Ye Xiu said.

Blue River obviously knew that Ye Xiu was talking about those girls that liked these sort of ornaments. Did this person really want these to pick up girls? If he wanted one, then whatever, but to want so many at once, how many girls did he want? Blue River deeply disdained this person and asked: "Then how many do you need?"

"I thought you didn't care? Then how about all of them?" Ye Xiu said.

"We don't have that many, only two……" Blue River lied and deeply regretted how he said "didn't care". Indeed, these toys didn't have much value, but they were still uncommon ornaments. Giving a few to the sisters in the guild were a good choice, so just giving them away freely made his heart hurt a little.

Ye Xiu returned a few ellipses, which only made Blue River flushed with anger. His lies really were pulled off extremely clumsily, but he had already said them. Blue River just said thick-skinned: "Then it's settled?"

"If a hidden BOSS comes, how do we split it?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Everyone rolls for it!" Blue River replied happily.

Ellipses, ellipses again. Blue River sighed. He wouldn't let a person who tried hard to take advantage of them sudden con them. Rolling seemed fair. But Blue River and the others were all friends. If the lone outsider rolled, then their chances were four to one. They held a huge advantage. This person clearly understood this point.

"Ha ha, we're just kidding……" Blue River promptly typed out ha ha, "After killing the hidden BOSS, we probably won't be able to beat the time record, so we don't want brother to be busy for nothing. Brother, you can pick from the items dropped by the hidden BOSS first, how about it?"

"Okay, then it's settled." Ye Xiu replied.

"Then brother, when can you come? We're all waiting at Frost Forest!" Blue River said.

"Oh, wait a moment for me to finish this dungeon." Ye Xiu said.

"Okay." Blue River nodded his head. He took a look at Ye Xiu in his friend list: "Brother, don't you want to change classes first?"

"No need. I'll go like this!"

Blue River was startled: "This….."

"Let's not talk for now, I need to hurry up and finish this dungeon." Ye Xiu replied.

As a result, Blue River closed the chat in silence. Thinking over the past and future, he felt something wasn't right. He carefully pondered for a long time and then suddenly slapped his thigh.

Think about what? His purpose was to dungeon with this guy in order to make friends with him. But in the end, he kept haggling over the rewards, which made the situation completely different. It made it seem like he was inviting him to work for them. Did the great Blue Brook Guild fall so low as to hire mercenaries to do their work?

Thinking of this, Blue River suddenly felt regret over his haggling over those rewards and felt as if had given them away for free. But suddenly, he thought of the conditions for these items: breaking the clear record.

Blue River suddenly stared blankly.

Missing a person, breaking a record, those were all excuses. Their Blue Brook Guild had brought a total of forty experts to the new server. How could they not be able to form a full party? Missing a person was just a reason for them to invite him over. As for breaking a record, that was just a way to have everyone fight for the same goal and connect more easily.

To be honest, Blue River didn't think that inviting a person would be able to let them clear a record. Shortly after 12 in the morning, the dungeon record had been broken. Blue River had already led a party of Blue Brook Guild's strongest experts into the Frost Forest three times, but had kept a steady disparity between their record and Herb Garden's record. If this new person really could help them beat a record, then wouldn't his strength be better than their guild's elites?

Blue River felt that Lord Grim was a talent, but he didn't feel that he was an even stronger talent than their guild's elite. But in the end, he had seriously haggled over the clearing rewards, was it worth it? He was only Level 20 and hadn't changed classes yet either. Could such a person break a new clear record?

"Blue River, are you done contacting him?" Right at this moment, Blue River's teammate Bound Boat asked.

"I've invited him. He'll be here in a moment, who's going to give up their position?" Blue River said to the party.

"Oh, then I'll rest for a bit then!" Someone said.

After Blue River said "Okay", this player left the party. The rest of them sat outside of the dungeon's entrance waiting for Lord Grim's imperial chariot to arrive. Blue River still felt hesitant in his heart.

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