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Chapter 33 – He's Here to Make a Fool of Himself, Right?
After quickly killing off the Midnight Phantom Cat, he picked up three Midnight Cat Fingernails. Adding onto his original six, he now had a total of nine. He had already reached what he wanted, so he felt extremely gratified. Apart from this, Ye Xiu also gathered four Midnight Cat Claws. He didn't need these, but there were people that did. After he helped them break the clear record, he believed that they wouldn't refuse to give the items that he haggled for.
Ye Xiu thought of this and let Lord Grim leave the dungeon. He directly logged out of the game for Chasing Haze. He rested for ten minutes to recover from the critically ill state. Then, he returned to beginner village and learned a few skills using up all of his 1255 skill points. Usually, players only had 1250 skill points when they reached Level 20. But Lord Grim had obtained a skill book that gave him five points, so he had a bit more.
After learning new skills, he immediately left the beginner village and officially stepped into Glory's mainland.
Starting from here, the system wouldn't help split the crowd. The areas surrounding Frost Forest were packed with players. A lot of dungeons in Glory didn't have a single fixed entrance. For example, in Frost Forest, the entire forest was a dungeon. It could be entered from any direction.
"Which side are you guys on? I've arrived at the surrounding areas of Frost Forest." The areas outside of Frost Forest were bustling with liveliness. After leaving beginner village, the marketplace gradually grew. The areas outside Frost Forest became the first market. A lot of people established a place here and started a business. While Ye Xiu walked, he randomly looked into two stalls. The prices were all a mess. Inexperienced players were afraid to sell low and suffer losses, so they all priced high. Experienced players wouldn't sell any uncommon materials. They would only sell equipment Level 20 and under.
But these equipment would be seen by new players who only completed quests to level up the whole way. After all, most quests only gave Green equipment, which were lower than Blue equipment by one grade. Players like Lord Grim, who had cleared dungeons to level up the whole way, they already had a whole set of blue equipment.
After quickly glancing at a few stalls and not finding anything, Blue River had already replied to Ye Xiu's message telling him their coordinates. Ye Xiu rushed there at once. In a moment, Blue River's team saw the name Lord Grim and all four sucked in their breath. The first expert that they aroused their interest in the tenth server was too stylish. He had a set of mismatched equipment of all different styles. What the heck was this?
The four stared dumbstruck when they identified Lord Grim's equipment. Glory didn't have any identifying or checking the player's profile function. It all relied on a player's naked eyes to identify the equipment by looking at the equipment's model and details. On Lord Grim's body were the five different types of armor: cloth, leather, light, heavy, and plate armor.
This type of style could be seen frequently in beginner village, but wearing it in Glory's mainland was extremely weird because those that left beginner village were all Level 20 and had already changed classes. After changing classes, it wasn't that equipment couldn't be worn randomly, but because each class had their own equipment that they were proficient in. As a result, normal players would choose the types of equipment that their class was proficient in. Occasionally, they might wear a few different typed equipment because of special requirements. But players like Lord Grim, who had their entire body filled with equipment from all five types, truly didn't exist.
The four sat there at a loss. Ye Xiu had already brought Lord Grim beside them and said "Hello hello" to test his mic.
"I can hear you." Blue River said.
"Hi everyone." Ye Xiu greeted.
"Hi….."
"I'll introduce us. Bound Boat, Flower Lantern, Thundering Light, are all elite experts from Blue Brook Guilds." Blue River introduced the other three party members.
"Hi everyone, hi everyone. Could you guys wait a bit longer? Sorry about this." Ye Xiu said this and his character stopped moving. Taking advantage of the fact that Lord Grim still hadn't joined the party, they began crazily typing out ridicule in their party's channel.
"You didn't find the wrong person, right?" Flower Lantern asked.
"Nonsense!"
"He hasn't class changed yet?" Thundering Light asked.
"He said he would soon……"
"If he's like this, can he help us break the record?" Flowering Lantern doubted.
"If we can't then we can't. The main purpose is to see this person's background." Blue River said.
"The rest we don't know, but I know his ID's background." Thundering Light said.
"What?"
"Lord Grim means that he doesn't want the players to laugh. He's here to make a fool of himself, right?" Thundering Light ridiculed. (TLNote: Another way to translate Lord Grim is Gentlemen, Don't Laugh)
"Everyone, don't judge people by their appearances. This player still hasn't changed classes, so wearing equipment like this is still normal." Blue River also didn't know what to say, so he made up a reason for himself. For Lord Grim to mix and match all of his equipment, even he didn't understand. During all of his years in Glory's mainland, he had never seen anyone dress so boldly and freely.
"This player didn't class change. Does he want to play as an unspecialized character?" Bound Boat, who hadn't said a word the entire time, suddenly started talking. He was a considerably old player and knew that there was once an period when unspecialized characters were popular.
"Unspecialized player? That's of the past! Wasn't that because Level 50 awakening quests hadn't been made yet, so they couldn't continue leveling?" Flower Lantern wasn't as old as Bound Boat, but he also had experienced much and knew of such a time.
At that time, on the opening of Glory's third new server, Glory increased the level cap for the first time. The original Level 50 cap had increased to 55.
And in order for characters to level past 50, they had to complete a Class Awakening quest. Unspecialized characters didn't have an Awakening quest, so their level cap stayed at 50. 5 Levels was only a small difference in terms of equipment and skills, but that was only the beginning. As the level cap increased higher and higher, the gap between unspecialized characters and specialized classes would continuously increase. Everyone understood that staying as an unspecialized character had no meaning.
"Could it be that he wants to play til Level 50 before changing classes?" Flower Lantern said.
"Then wouldn't he lack attribute points playing like that?" Thundering Light was unconvinced. Every class had different attribute growths. The difference in attributes between a Level 50 Blade Master and a Level 50 Elementalist without equipment were obvious at a glance. Unspecialized characters would naturally grow differently from other classes. When they hit Level 50 and then changed classes, would their attributes lost from Levels 20-50 be repaired?
"Who knows……are there still people who care about this issue?" Flower Lantern said.
Everyone fell silent. They were all experts, elite experts, but they truly never did pay attention to this issue. They never needed to, who wouldn't change classes at Level 20? They had never seen this type of person in all of their years.
"Why are we guessing? Let's just directly ask him." Flower Lantern immediately walked up to Lord Grim and said: "Brother, if you're not going to change classes, then are are you planning to play as an unspecialized character?"
No response.
"Brother, you there?" Flower Lantern yelled.
"He said to wait, just a moment ago. He might have left." Blue River said.
"If he's an unspecialized character, then is he carrying weapons from every class?" Thundering Light curiously circled around Lord Grim two times. At this moment, Lord Grim's hands were empty, not carrying a weapon. This was because the weapon Thousand Chance Umbrella had already been taken by Ye Xiu and put into the equipment editor. The weapon no longer showed its original appearance. Instead, it showed a blueprint, which the editor had automatically extracted. The Thousand Chance Umbrella was extremely complicated, showing several pages of the design on-screen.
Currently, Ye Xiu was carefully taking out the Midnight Phantom Fingernails and carefully bringing them to the pointed ends of the umbrella ribs on the Thousand Chance Umbrella blueprint.
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Chapter 34 – Some More Damage
One, two, three……
Ye Xiu's face didn't show that usual half-dead, dejected state. His two eyes didn't blink and his expression showed a look of extreme concentration. His steady right hand dragged the Midnight Cat Fingernails in one by one. After putting in eight without a mistake, Ye Xiu let out a small sigh of relief. He shook his right hand and chose the blueprint showing a flipped-over umbrella. He once again, bit by bit, took out the runner on the shaft that linked together the eight umbrella ribs.
The model of the runner was elaborate, but after Ye Xiu took it out, he quickly put it aside next to the Dark Opal. After clicking on the "copy" option, a progress bar jumped out. The Dark Opals continuously whirled around, getting polished. After the progress bar finished, it transformed into the exact same shape as the Thousand Chance Umbrella's runner.
The runner was put back into the editor's data library while the duplicated Dark Opal runner was reassembled into the Thousand Chance Umbrella. When he inserted the eight umbrella ribs into the runner, each one let out a faint click sound. After inserting them all in, the design shown on the blueprint had already returned to the umbrella's original appearance. Ye Xiu carefully inspected it and then finally let out a sigh of relief.
Looking towards the blueprint in the editor, Ye Xiu lit a cigarette and stared out in a daze, his mind wandering.
The best feature of self-made equipment lied in the research on the blueprints and the necessary materials in the editor. The research for the Thousand Chance Umbrella had already been finished for the most part and he already had a basic idea of what to do with the remaining incomplete parts. Currently, the only completely unknown parts were the upgrades needed for Level 50 and up. After all, when the research and making of the Thousand Chance Umbrella was done, the highest level for Glory was only Level 50.
Ye Xiu clicked on the "Confirm" to create the weapon in the editor. Another progress bar appeared and the editor animated the creation process on the blueprint. When the progress bar completed and the animation stopped, a few of the modifications could already be seen. The sharp pointed ends of the umbrella ribs were now the eight Midnight Cat Fingernails.
Ye Xiu closed the editor and returned to the game. He opened up Lord Grim's inventory and looked at the changes in the Thousand Chance Umbrella's attributes. With a move of the mouse, Lord Grim shook the umbrella in his hands and the umbrella formed into a battle lance shape. The lance tip and the eight Midnight Cat Fingernails could be used to stab and hook. A cold glint reflected off of the tip, displaying its exceptional sharpness. Looking again at the Thousand Chance Umbrella's attributes, they had impressively changed.
[Thousand Chance Umbrella (Lance Form)] – Level 15
Weight: 2.3 kg, Attack Speed: 5
Physical Attack: 290 ; Magic Attack:220
Compared to the original umbrella, the Magic Attack hadn't increased by much, but the Physical Attack had increased by an impressive 110 points. It was 5-25 Levels better than Purple, Blue, Green, White lances of the same level.
Lord Grim's sudden flipping of his weapon made the surrounding Blue River and others jump in surprise. After looking at it, none of elite experts could recognize the battle lance.
"Brother, you're back?" Blue River went up to talk and sent him a party invitation.
"Yup." Ye Xiu responded and joined the party.
"Why don't you join our guild first? This way the dungeon clear record will be under our guild's name." Blue River sent him an invitation. Guilds could be made after players left the beginner village at Level 20. Blue Brook Guild had naturally prepared and set it up right after leaving the beginner village.
"Understood." Ye Xiu accepted and became a Blue Brook Guild member. Only if a party, with five members of the same guild, broke a record, would the record be under their guild's name.
"Then let's start?"
"Hold on……" Ye Xiu said this and looked at everyone's equipment to determine their classes.
Blue River, Swordsman Class Blade Master, Purple Level 20 Flaming Sun, a light element sword.
Bound Boat, Priest Class Cleric, Purple Level 20 Saint's Cross.
Flower Lantern, Priest Class Knight, Purple Level 20 Guardian of Justice, a battle axe.
Thundering Light, Mage Class Elementalist, Purple Level 20 Copper Staff.
Besides weapons, the four player's equipments were mostly blue equipment with a few purple equipment in certain places. All of the equipment suited their respective classes. It had only been a day since the opening of the new server yet their equipments were already at such a level. This clearly wasn't from their luck, but rather from their guild's power.
"Is there something else?" Flower Lantern was starting to get impatient.
"If we want to break the record, then I suggest that we change up the classes a bit." Ye Xiu said.
"Change what?" Blue River asked.
"We don't need the Cleric!" Ye Xiu directly said.
"……" Bound Boat, the Cleric, hadn't yet said anything when Flower Lantern shouted: "Don't need a Cleric? What a joke."
"Drop the Cleric and add a high DPS class." Ye Xiu said calm and unhurried.
"Brother, isn't your proposal a bit unreasonable?" Blue River was a bit more patient.
"The pressure will be a bit big, but everyone here's an expert. If you just concentrate on your positioning and dodging, then there's no need for heals." Ye Xiu said.
"We never needed heals. The heals are for the MT[1]."
"Yeah, so……What I'm saying is the MT isn't needed. The Knight has low DPS too, so we should also change him for more damage!"
"F*ck!!!" Flower Lantern had just come to Bound Boat's aid, but he didn't think that, in the blink of an eye, he would also be kicked off, "No MT? When there's only small monsters fine, but what about against the BOSS? Who's going to control the aggro, you?"
"Yup." Ye Xiu said.
"The f*ck does your yup mean!" Flower Lantern became extremely angry.
"I'm going to control the aggro." Ye Xiu said.
"……" The entire team was speechless. Now that Ye Xiu was in their party and in their guild too, the four couldn't privately whisper to each other. Blue River furrowed his eyebrows and said: "So you're saying that all five party members should have high DPS?"
"Right, this is the fastest clearing party." Ye Xiu said.
"Did you do this in beginner village?" Flower Lantern yelled.
"It doesn't matter what dungeon, all DPS is obviously the fastest." Ye Xiu said.
"That's true, but the problem is an all DPS team can't finish the dungeon!" Blue River said.
"Of course it's possible. Only, I hope that you'll let me lead." Ye Xiu said.
"……" Blue River finally felt as if he had been shot by a gun. After kicking two people, this guy also wanted his leader position.
"Fine!" Flower Lantern suddenly shouted: "Let's see how good you are. Bound Boat, leave the party and call for others." After speaking, Flower Lantern left the party, but Bound Boat was still hesitant. Aside, Thundering Light rushed up to Flower Lantern and yelled: "Hey hey, you guys are leaving the party, so that you won't lose out when we die, right!?"
"What a loser! The fight hasn't even started yet." Flower Lantern disdained Thundering Light and urged Bound Boat:" Bound Boat, hurry up and leave. I've already called people to come."
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Chapter 35 – One Wave Rush (1)
Clearly, Bound Boat was not as impulsive as Flower Lantern. He stayed in the party and didn't move. He sent Blue River a message: "What should I do?"
"What do you think?" Blue River replied.
"I'm pretty curious. I just have some regrets because I've been kicked out, so I can't see it with my own eyes." Bound Boat.
"Doesn't it seem like he's just talking big?" Blue River said.
"It doesn't look like it. Maybe it's because he hasn't changed classes yet that he dares to not bring a Cleric. If it's urgently needed, he can also heal." Bound Boat said.
"Yeah, I don't think he's here just to waste everyone's time. Let's try it out!" Blue River said.
"Okay, then I'm leaving then." Bound Boat left the party.
"Returning Cloud come over. Most of the guild has already reached the dungeon entry limit." Flower Lantern said. Returning Cloud had originally been an elite member of their party. But because Lord Grim took the spot, he left. Now, he would be returning to the party. Filling in the last spot would be hard though. All of those in the elite group were experts who actively looked to do dungeons. Besides Blue River and the others, who intentionally waited, those who hadn't reached the dungeon limit were currently doing their last run.
In the end, the experts, who saw Flower Lantern's call, curiously chatted. They all knew that Flower Lantern's party already had the guild's three highest DPSers. If all three were online, then what was he calling out for?
"Are there any players who can still run Frost Forest? The more damage the better. Hurry up and come to help us beat the clear record!" Flower Lantern didn't explain and only messaged this in the guild's channel.
"I'll come!" Finally, someone replied. Flower Lantern saw that it was Lunar Grace. This was a girl. In the elite group, there was a considerably low number of female experts, so these female players were treated as treasures. Parties fought all over for them and brought the girl over to clear a dungeon as if she were there for their social welfare. As a result, the girl experts never had a fixed party.
"Grace, then you come!" Flower Lantern didn't say anything more and told the rest that she was coming.
Returning Cloud and Lunar Grace quickly arrived and joined Blue River's party. Returning Cloud was this party's original member, so he knew the situation. Lunar Grace, on the other hand, was somewhat at a loss. This party didn't have an MT or a healer and had an unfamiliar person too. Class……he didn't have one?
"Oh Great God, are these two suitable?" Flower Lantern said to Lord Grim sarcastically.
Thus, Ye Xiu really did look at them carefully: "Yup, they're fine."
Returning Cloud was also an Elementalist. His weapon was a Purple Level 20 Vivid Staff. As Level 20 Staffs, Vivid Staff and the Copper Staff attributes were about the same. Their difference was their additional properties. One of them added 1 level to Flame Explosion, while the other added 1 level to Frost Ball. From these staffs, it could be seen that the elemental paths they took as Elementalists were different.
As for Lunar Grace, she was a Witch. This was another choice among the magic classes. They were known as the scientists among mages. They used large amounts of magic items to do battle and possessed a certain close combat strength.
Lunar Grace used a Purple Level 20 Crystal Wand, which wasn't a Broom, the weapon exclusively for Witches. As a result, Ye Xiu couldn't tell from her weapon what skill path she took, so he asked: "What path?"
"Dark Style Path." Lunar Grace said.
"Have you added any to Doll Shururu?" Ye Xiu asked. Doll Shururu was a type of Witch skill that taunted monsters.
"Auto Level Up." Lunar Grace replied. Auto Level Up meant that when the skill could be leveled, a skill point would immediately be used to level it up.
"Oh, that's great." Ye Xiu said.
"Is God satisfied?" Flower Lantern asked.
"Yup, it's good. Let's get ready to go!" Ye Xiu said.
Lunar Grace still didn't completely understand the situation. In the end, she heard Blue River announce: "Everyone, listen. For this dungeon, Lord Grim will lead."
"You're leading?" Lunar Grace was extremely surprised.
"Yup." Ye Xiu said.
"Why?" Lunar Grace couldn't understand.
"For the clear record." Ye Xiu said and had already walked towards the dungeon.
"Hey hey……" Blue River yelled for him, but he had already disappeared. Clearly, he already entered the dungeon. Blue River was sad! They had to discuss their plan outside of their dungeon. After they entered the dungeon, the timer would start. At that moment, explaining would just be a waste of time!
"God has already entered. What are you all waiting for, hurry up and go tremble at his might, oh mortals!" Flower Lantern laughed out loud.
"When I come, I'll be looking for you." Blue River cursed and promptly entered the dungeon along with the others.
Frost Forest monsters were green-skinned blue-nosed Goblins. There were long-ranged, melee, and even magic ones. Clearly, they weren't as boring and pattern-following as the ones in beginner village. In addition, these Goblins all looked the same, so until they attacked, there was no way of telling what type they were.
After Blue River and the others entered the dungeon, the dungeon timer officially started. No one foolishly sat around the entrance. They rushed forward while hearing Ye Xiu lead: "Having a Witch will make things much easier. We'll One Wave Rush."
Blue River jumped up in fright: "How do we use One Wave Rush?"
"You don't understand what One Wave Rush means?" Ye Xiu was even more astonished than Blue River
Of course Blue River knew. In Glory, One Wave Rush meant that all of the monsters would be pulled and then completely killed in one turn. But this method could only be used when the party level was much higher than the dungeon's. They also needed a powerful MT. They had never heard of a One Wave Rush done by parties at the same level as the dungeon.
"One Wave Rush is……"
"I understand, I understand. I just don't understand how you're going to use One Wave Rush." Blue River said.
"I'll pull the monsters. Then, Doll Shururu to group up the monsters. Raging Flames and Blizzard to attack. Then……"
"It's like you didn't say anything. It's fine, you go start then! We'll One Wave Rush." Blue River's cheeks streamed with tears. He knew the basic course of actions, but the pivotal point lay on the player pulling the monsters. If he couldn't bring back a wave of monsters alive, then it'd be a problem. In the end, this person played down the four words "I'll pull the monsters" and skimmed over the most pivotal point. Blue River knew that saying anymore would only waste their time.
The other three looked at Blue River and had the same thoughts. They all accepted their fate and a waterfall of cold sweat washed over their faces. In the end, Ye Xiu typed out a smile and yelled: "I'm going."
Lord Grim ran out. Blue River and the others looked at his back and felt the same feeling as if he were a hero that would never return.
"I have to say, he's quite heroic. I admire him." Thundering Light ridiculed him.
"Everyone keep up." A shout came from in front of them. The four with a waterfall face kept up with him. They saw that Lord Grim had already approached two Goblins. One of them started throwing rocks, while the other started casting Ice Arrow. The four all said together: "What a tragedy. We start and there's already two long-ranged ones."
The rock and Ice Arrow flew out, but Lord Grim seemed to just shake twice and the rock and Ice Arrow flew past him.
"D*mn, could it be? Z Shake!" Blue River cried out.
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Chapter 36 – One Wave Rush (2)
"Z Shake" was just a quick direction-changing movement. Move left, move right, while continuously moving forward. The track looked like a "Z". But when this movement was made extremely quickly, the distance moved became extremely small. If the character completed this movement in the blink of an eye, then it looked as if he hadn't moved, only a shake.
If it was just to make the character "look as if he shook", then many players could do this. But for a player to use the "Z Shake" in an actual battle, then he definitely had to be a great expert. Just relying on this small movement to dodge the attacks, it showed just how precise this person's decision making and control was.
It wasn't only Blue River, but Thundering Light and the others all understood this. At this moment, while they were still shocked by this exquisite play, they saw Lord Grim rush up to two Goblins and hit them with his palm. A gust of wind blew out and the two Goblins flew out.
Level 15 Battle Mage Skill: Falling Flower Palm. This skill had a strong Blow Away effect. Goblin's were light, so with this palm, they flew out several meters into the distance.
Lord Grim didn't stop to rest. His figure rushed to a different side. That area had two Goblins. As soon as a player entered their aggro range, they would immediately take out their big sticks and attack you in close combat.
This time, Lord Grim didn't move close to them and continued past them. Ahead, the two Goblins that were Blown Away had already gotten up. One was getting ready to throw a rock, while the other was casting Ice Arrow. When Lord Grim still had two meters between them, he swung out his battle lance. Pu pu two sounds. The rock wasn't thrown out and the Ice Arrow was interrupted. Lord Grim swept with his lance and the two monsters fell. Stepping over them, he ran forward.
The next targets were two Goblins in the 10 o'clock direction. This time one of them held a stick and the other was casting Ice Arrow. When the Ice Arrow flew out, Lord Grim immediately jumped and also conveniently flew over the Goblin with the big stick. In midair, he had already readied the lance and interrupted the Goblin's Ice Arrow. After landing, he whirled around and moved behind this Goblin in a flash. One of the Goblin's turned around, while the other lifted his big stick and chased after him. Lord Grim raised his hand and used Falling Flower Palm again. The two monsters were blown back and with perfect accuracy, smashed into the two ranged Goblins. The two Goblins sadly had their casts interrupted again and fell over.
Like this, every Goblin in every place, whether they were standing guard or patrolling, were all alarmed by Lord Grim through either pulling or blowing them away. The melee Goblins neatly brandished their big sticks, shrieking while chasing Lord Grim. The ranged were all busy using their skills. All of a sudden, Frost Forest became unusually lively. Blue River and the others all chased behind and were all hesitating. They couldn't deny that Lord Grim had skills, but……to create chaos in the dungeon as if there were birds flying about and dogs jumping around; why did this look like a high-leveled player came over to roll through the dungeon?
At this moment, Blue River and the others had already lost Lord Grim. In front of them was a large mass of shrieking Goblins that continuously pursued what was in front of them. What about Lord Grim? Blue River could only figure out he was alive because of two reasons. One was from their party list. Lord Grim's health was still over half, still quite healthy. Two was because they could see Lord Grim jumping from time to time. In a flash, he landed and his body was blocked by the Goblins again.
"There…..There's already 20 of them……" Returning Cloud's voice slightly trembled. To be able to do this as a Level 20, this was too grand.
"Still don't kill?" Lunar Grace had already prepared to use Doll Shururu.
"I just want to know how he's going to come back to us." Thundering Light looked towards the mass of goblins that had all been pulled. His tone carried admiration.
"He doesn't want me to just throw out the Doll Shururu like this, right? It won't work!" Lunar Grace was worried. Because there were ranged and melee Goblins, there were pretty much two armies. One army carried big sticks and persistently pursued their target. The other army maintained their distance and would only run closer if Lord Grim went out of range.
"What's he up to? Are you asking me? I don't know either." Blue River said.
Right when his voice fell, Thundering Light suddenly bounced up and down. With great effort, he wanted to see the situation behind the mass of monsters. Although the bouncing was hilarious, they didn't laugh. Blue River immediately asked: "What's the situation?"
"The crowd's been gathered quite beautifully!" Thundering Light said.
"Oh?" Blue River also had the urge to bounce up and down, but as one of the Five Great Experts of Blue Brook Guild and the Guild Leader in the tenth server, he still had to maintain a bit of dignity. As a result, he could only ask dully: "How does he do it?"
"How would I know. In any case, they're coming in group by group." While Thundering Light said this, he continued bouncing about. Everyone suddenly heard a series of whacks.
"Falling Flower! D*mn, that palm was so crisp!" Thundering Light shouted. The other three also saw that the Goblins in front of them were in confusion. Who knew how many Goblins were blown away by the Falling Flower Palm. The Goblins with big sticks that were blown away smashed against the ranged Goblins in the back. In one move, a large number of them fell. The field of view in front of the four opened up. They saw Lord Grim with his right hand carrying the lance and his left palm facing forward in front of him. His clothing flapped lightly in the wind and he still maintained the Falling Flower Palm pose. Around him were Goblins on the ground, in complete disorder.
The screen paused on this moment for less than a second, but Lord Grim's mighty pose was instantly imprinted into the four player's minds. After a second, the Goblins in disorder had already climbed back up and fearlessly prepared to rush up again. Lord Grim leaped. Thundering Light immediately ridiculed: "What is he doing? Is he planning on flying over?"
In the end……
"He's flying. He's actually flying." Thundering Light's cheeks streamed with tears as he yelled out.
After the Lord Grim that faced them jumped, he did a 180 degree turn. Soon after, a gun sound rang out and he suddenly flew in back towards them. Blue River and the others were all knowledgeable people. They saw through it with a glance. This was a Gunner mid-air movement skill. In the air, the player open fired and used the gun's recoil to fly backwards. The greater the recoil, the farther they would fly backwards. The recoil looked as if it were created by a Rifle or higher grade gun. Flying backwards, he directly crossed over the monster's heads. When he landed, he ran behind the four.
The Goblins crazily turned around and rushed at them like the tides. The targets that faced them were Blue River and the others. The four all began sweating profusely. Immediately, they heard Lord Grim's voice: "Mages attack. Get ready to use Doll Shururu."
They looked forward with great alarm.
In this moment, the crazily chasing Goblins: the ranged ones let out their attacks without moving, the melee Goblins hurried towards them. All of the small monsters were bunched up perfectly. It was definitely the best opportunity to group attack.
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Chapter 37 – One Wave Rush (3)
"Quickly, quickly attack!!" Blue River immediately yelled. The hardest part of One Wave Rush was pulling the monsters and to their surprise, it was done by the guy who hadn't changed classes yet. But to eliminate the entire mass of monsters wasn't easy either. Two spells by each of the mages definitely weren't enough to completely kill them all off.
Thundering Light and Returning Cloud didn't dare to be slow. One used Raging Flames and the other used Blizzard.
The two spells were from two different paths. Although they were skills of the same level, their effects were different. Fire magic's specialty was burst power. Right when Raging Flames was cast, a wave of flames washed under the Goblin's feet. The flames soared from the ground to the sky, reaching at least three meters high.
The Goblins that had been attacked were suddenly blown up into the air. The Raging Flames surged on and the Goblins screeched, but this skill wasn't fireworks. Flames pillars leaped up and then scattered in less than a second. With its disappearance, the Goblins fell to the ground. But at this moment, Returning Cloud's Blizzard had already smashed on top of them. Hailstones mixed with snowflakes, each around the size of steamed bun, relentlessly crashed towards the Goblins.
Raging Flames ended just like that, but Blizzard rained down every second for four seconds. In terms of total damage, Blizzard was higher. But in terms of burst damage, Raging Flames was clearly more ferocious. These were the specialties between the ice and fire path.
"Doll Shururu!" Ye Xiu yelled. Lunar Grace was already prepared and she immediately cast "Doll Shururu" in the center of the mob.
"Doll Shururu" was a type of ragdoll. Monsters in a 2 radius meter around it would be Taunted, forcing the monsters to aggro onto it. Of course, this had restrictions. First, Doll Shururu's level couldn't be lower than the monsters. Second, a normal Doll Shururu had no effect on Elites, BOSS, and Emperors. Only having the passive skill "Doll Shururu Upgrade" with it would work. At the moment, Lunar Grace wasn't at a high enough level to learn "Doll Shururu Upgrade", but her "Doll Shururu" was auto-leveled, so the levels on it weren't a problem. When she casted it out, all of the Goblins ran towards the "Doll Shururu".
"The Taunt won't last long!" Lunar Grace immediately yelled after casting it. Doll Shururu's effect lasted very long, a full 20 seconds, but the problem was that this small ragdoll didn't have much HP. Monsters that were taunted wouldn't just stand around and watch, rather they would attack. With such a large mob of Goblins, Doll Shururu would be destroyed in the blink of an eye.
Thundering Light's Raging Flames and Returning Cloud's Blizzard had cooldowns too. One of them needed 6 seconds, while the other needed 8 seconds. Now, the two were madly throwing out their single target spells to attack. Facing this giant mob of Goblins, their spells clearly weren't as effective as they had hoped.
"Enough!" While Ye Xiu said this, he controlled Lord Grim to rush forward. With Doll Shururu's effect, the Goblins were even more bunched up. The melee Goblins all surrounded Doll Shururu and the ranged Goblins had already begun attacking Doll Shururu. Doll Shururu had only been out for a mere second before it was destroyed. But in this time, Lord Grim was able to rush up close to the Goblins. His battle lance was gone. In its place, his left and right hands held Tonfas. He grabbed a Goblin and did a Back Throw.
Back Drop's shock wave rippled out and the surrounding Goblins all neatly fell down.
"Blade Master, get ready to use Falling Light Blade! Use it when they get up." Ye Xiu yelled.
Blue River, who hadn't been give any instructions up until now, was startled, but he quickly responded and he lifted his sword Flaming Sun and hastily advanced forward.
All of the Goblins were now neatly climbing back up. Blue River had already leaped into the air and targeted the middle of the mob. His two hands launched his sword, which rapidly crashed down.
Blade Master Skill: Falling Light Blade
For Falling Light Blade, the higher the user jumped, the higher the damage and the larger the radius of the shock wave was. Blue River deserved to be called one of the Five Great Experts of Blue Brook Guild. After Ye Xiu yelled out the command, Blue River immediately understood his intention. This Falling Light Blade was used perfectly. After the shock wave spread, the Goblins that had just climbed back up fell back down once again.
The AoE attacks in quick succession weren't used for the damage, but rather to make sure that the bunched up monsters stayed down without a chance to get up and attack. However, Back Throw and Falling Light Blade also had cooldowns. These two skills alone wouldn't be enough to completely crowd control them. Doll Shururu's cooldown was even longer, 30 seconds, and couldn't be counted on in such a short time.
"What other AoE attacks does this guy still have?" Blue River thought. His mind recalled all of the skills that could be learned before changing classes and that also had effects similar to Back Throw or Falling Light Blade. In the end, he heard the next command: "Shadow Cloak."
"Right!" Blue River suddenly understood. He saw Lunar Grace step forward. With a wave of her hand, a violet black cloak flew out from her sleeves and wrapped around the bunched up Goblins. The cloak tightened around them and the Goblins shrieked as they were bound tightly into a ball, falling down again.
"The skills should be off cooldown now." Blue River calculated the cooldowns of the skills that were used, but while doing so, he heard the next command: "Raging Flames."
Sure enough, Thundering Light's Raging Flames came off cooldown and casted it as soon as he heard the command. Once again, the spell was released right when the Goblins were about to stand up again.
The flame columns roared up towards the sky and the Goblins flipped in the air. When they fell down, another two seconds had passed. Blue River suddenly realized that this spell also turned out to be a Crowd Control skill.
An expert, he really was an expert. He unexpectedly utilized these skills that weren't originally meant for Crowd Control as Crowd Control. To be able to complete a same-leveled dungeon with One Wave Rush, he truly was too strong!
Blue River understood. As this point, as long as no one made any mistakes, this One Wave Rush could be considered as done.
Blue River understood, but how could the others not have either? Amazed, they followed Ye Xiu's commands, using one skill after another. The Goblins flew up and fell down, constantly struggling. Only after an assortment of items dropped, covering the ground, did the four recover from the shock. The twenty or so Goblins had actually all been killed in one rush.
"Hurry up, let's keep going." The other side didn't even look as if what had happened were anything miraculous and immediately yelled for them to continue forward.
Blue River and the others immediately followed. After give a few glances at the items that dropped, they didn't find anything of worth, so they just left them. When going for a clear record, who had time to waste time doing that?
Outside of the dungeon, Flower Lantern sent a message: "How is it? Speechless?"
"God, he's a real f*cking God!!" Blue River replied.
"What are you talking about?"
"One Wave Rush! One Wave Rush!"
"My ass! What are you talking about?" Flower Lantern couldn't understand.
"We're rolling through with One Wave Rush!" Blue River said.
"You're joking, right?" Flower Lantern didn't believe it.
"Just wait til we're on TV, ha ha ha!" In Glory, players called being shown on the system announcement as "on TV".
Flower Lantern stupidly closed the message box, while Bound Boat asked: "How are things?"
"They're… pushing forward through One Wave Rush." Flower Lantern said.
"One Wave Rush?" Bound Boat was also dumbfounded.
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Chapter 38: What's Damage
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They advanced through the dungeon astonishingly fast. Blue River looked extremely happy. Ye Xiu also felt worry-free. Blue River and the others were much better than Seven Fields and his group, whether it be in equipment or skills. After he led them through One Wave Rush the first time, he basically didn't need to yell out instructions again. Moreover, after the four understood his intentions, they could determine the most suitable time to act by themselves.
Using this method merely two times, the monsters en route to the first BOSS were completely cleared. Blue River looked at the time. They hadn't even used five minutes. Monsters were no longer an issue, so next up was the BOSS.
The first BOSS, Goblin Patrol Guard, was stronger than normal Goblins. He carried a Barbed Wolf Fang Stick with extremely high physical attack. Although this BOSS didn't have any fancy skills, just him plain swinging his stick caused players to feel helpless.
The reason for this wasn't the BOSS itself, but rather because normal parties used an MT to pull aggro. Like this, the MT could only rely on his defense and vitality to tank the BOSS's high damage attacks. If the stats didn't reach a certain mark, then the MT could only rely on their technique. But technique wasn't something that could be obtained so easily. As a result, if their stats didn't meet the requirements, then only experts could cope. Normal players would have to buy better equipment to improve their stats.
In terms of technique, Blue River didn't have any doubts for Lord Grim. He was an unspecialized Level 20 and could already pull 20 Goblins to go running round and round in circles. If anyone said that this type of person had no technique, then Blue River could only disagree. But against the BOSS, Blue River wasn't worried that Lord Grim would die by the Goblin Patrol Guard, but rather worried about whether he could pull it properly. If he made a mistake and the Patrol Guard's big stick hit the mage, then the mage would instantly die.
"I'll pull, do your best to put out damage." Ye Xiu said.
"How long do we need to wait?" Blue River asked very professionally. Normal MT's pulled by fighting the BOSS alone for a few seconds to accumulate enough aggro, so that others wouldn't just directly OT it when they attacked.
"There's no need to wait. Once it's pulled just go in." Ye Xiu said.
"Once it's pulled go in?" The four all said at once in awe.
"Yeah, to beat the record, you have to hurry up. I'm starting!" Ye Xiu already hit the keyboard to let Lord Grim rush up. Blue River and the others were startled a bit, but didn't dare complain. Although hey had saved a lot of time clearing the small monsters, they still felt that they should steady the BOSS first. As a result, they didn't move and just watched as Lord Grim stabbed towards the Goblin Patrol Guard.
Dragon Tooth, Sky Strike, Double Stab, normal uppercut, normal stab, another Sky Strike……
"What are you waiting for?"
Hearing this, Blue River woke up as if he had been sleeping, but was still at a loss. Starting from when Lord Grim had begun pulling, this Goblin Patrol Guard had been tumbling around in the air the whole time. What gorgeous endless juggling! The four couldn't help but think about counting how many times Lord Grim could combo and wanted to see when this BOSS would drop……
But with this yell, the four realized that they weren't admiring a video and immediately began casting. Flipping over their magical items, taking out their swords, they all rushed over at once.
Flames, Ice, Starshine, Sword Light……The irregular attacks of the four arrived with charming effect. None of them blocked each other's line of sight and wouldn't block their positions. However, every one of them held a thread of wariness in their hearts, they were all afraid that their attacks would do too much damage and the BOSS would switch his big stick's target to them.
Although Lord Grim told everyone to spare no effort and attack, he, after all, wasn't a specialized MT. Specialized MT's like a Knight, after changing classes, they didn't just gain many new aggro control skills, but they also had many aggro-related skills from before Level 20. Although Lord Grim could learn these skills, he hadn't brought these type of aggro-control skills with him.
As a result, the four attacked moderately and didn't go all out. They professionally controlled aggro. They were attacking and attacking until they suddenly heard Lord Grim said: "Go all out! It won't OT."
Seeing how confident he was, not giving him face wouldn't be good, so they clenched their teeth and fought. Everyone began gnashing their teeth and madly attacked with all their might.
Glory didn't have any assist tool for aggro calculations. Damage and healing were also done after they cleared the dungeon. The four were all experts and all had their own set of ferocious battle methods. Before, everyone was holding back, afraid of OT. Now, in the depths of their heart, it seemed as if they were hopeful for OT. If they didn't OT, then it would appear as if their damage was laughable.
In the end, the Goblin Patrol Guard didn't even glance at the four of them. That big stick only went towards Lord Grim. Lord Grim moved extremely quickly, even more amazing was that none of his movements affected his ability to attack. He was never not moving and kept on running around the Goblin.
Blue River was also a melee class. Now, the more he looked the more he was fearful. With Lord Grim's method, the BOSS responded extremely quickly and continuously turned around to chase him. Thus, no matter if he turned left or turned right, the BOSS wouldn't be left behind. Therefore, he could only barely dodge the BOSS's attacks. But if he were PKing, this sort of battle method would be enough to make a player vomit from dizziness. It looks like this person was also good at PKing.
The Goblin Patrol Guard finally collapsed. The four ultimately weren't able to grab a bit of the BOSS's attention. The four felt a bit embarrassed to say that what they had done was simply them ganging up and bullying the BOSS. They surrounded him and spared no effort to attack it, but it felt like the monster they were beating up didn't even know about the their existence.
"Brother, how did you pull it so steadily?" Blue River couldn't help but ask. He felt that even with a specialized MT like Flower Lantern, his damage would've caused the BOSS to OT several times.
"As long as my damage is greater than yours, then it's fine." Ye Xiu replied.
Blue River stiffened, Returning Cloud was shocked, Lunar Grace was speechless, and Thundering Light said: "He originally wasn't an MT, he was also a damage dealer……"
The four's cheeks streamed with tears. Right, Lord Grim had just done more damage than them and nothing more.
Without stopping to rest, Lord Grim began pulling a mob of Goblins. The four followed after him and whispered.
"His damage was actually even greater than ours." Returning Cloud muttered.
"And by quite a bit too, How else could the aggro be so stable." Lunar Grace said.
"I acknowledge his skill, but to be able to pull it so steadily, his attack definitely isn't low. Do any of you guys recognize that lance?" Blue River asked.
"I don't. It looks strange like a big clove of garlic." Thundering Light said.
"Your family's garlic looks like that?" Returning Cloud said.
"It was an exaggeration. Do you know what that is?" Thundering Light said.
"Get lost." Returning Cloud disdained.
"All of you shut up. He's started pulling, let's concentrate." Blue River said.
In front of them, Lord Grim started pulling monsters. The four didn't dare complain. Although they had already done it twice successfully, they were fully aware of the risks. If they made any mistakes with their skill's timing, then might lose a few Goblins. The results would be disastrous.
Pull monsters, gather monsters, kill monsters.
Each player completed their roles perfectly. After two waves, they killed all of the monsters en route to the second BOSS. Facing the second BOSS, Blue River and the others weren't polite and attacked with all of their might. In the end…… in the end, the four once again silently chased after Lord Grim.
"So fast. We'll definitely beat the record." Thundering Light suddenly sighed.
"And by a large margin too." Blue River was extremely gratified.
"Yay!" Returning Cloud also appeared happy.
"……" Lunar Grace didn't know what to say.
Damage and what not. They didn't want to think about it.
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Chapter 39 – Frost Thain
The Frost Forest's final BOSS was the Goblin Emperor Frost Thain. Just by looking at the name, a player could figure out this BOSS was even more important than hidden BOSSes in the beginner village.
Thain's body wasn't very different from a normal Goblin, but his fierce face seemed more sinister and cunning. At least, he didn't have an eye-catching funny blue nose like normal Goblins. This was because the Frost Thain's skin was all sky blue. When he turned around and didn't show his face though, he looked like a cute house pet.
But every player knew that this guy wasn't cute at all. In his right hand, the Frost Thain held an Ice Blade, which was about as tall as his short and small body. When it brandished the blade, cold wind would whirl out. The distance he could attack from was farther than a normal player could see. Due to this, the BOSS had a few special attacks, so the MT would often be contained there. As a result, Frost Forest guides all recommended that a party bring two MTs, which would also reduce the pressure when facing the first BOSS Goblin Patrol Guard and the Goblin Thain.
As for Ye Xiu, how could he be one of those ordinary players who followed guides? When he saw the four people had arrived nearby, he said "I'm going", and Lord Grim rushed forward with his battle lance raised. He also did it this way because this party's quality was indeed very high. If he switched them with Seven Fields and the others, then he'd have to explain what they had to do and would also have to look after them during the battle. On the other hand, Blue River and the others were worry-free.
Blue River and the others also didn't say anymore and followed up. Lord Grim was at the very front intending to pull the Frost Thain. This BOSS's reaction speed was twice as fast as normal Goblins. It's two short legs swung around like wheels. And in an instant, it rushed up to meet Lord Grim.
But in the end, in a mere second, the Frost Thain had already been launched into the air.
So strong!
Blue River and the others silently watched and silently praised. It couldn't be seen as a mere attack. With the Frost Thain's speed and nimbleness, it definitely wasn't easy to hit the target Just pulling this BOSS was a difficult point. For example, if their usual MT, Flower Lantern, was here, he would only able to hit him for the first time on his third try. Afterwards, a few small combos would be needed to fully establish the aggro. That was already considered a pretty good achievement. If it was a normal party, oftentimes, the MT would be hit until he was almost disabled and even then, the aggro still wouldn't be established. In the end, the Cleric that healed the MT would often take the aggro.
Lord Grim launched the Frost Thain into the air and then followed up with several skills, making a combo in midair. But the Frost Thain was a named BOSS, how could such a BOSS be juggled endlessly? While in mid-air, a blue light suddenly flashed and it immediately disappeared. Blue River and the others didn't make a fuss about it. They knew the Frost Thain had this sort of teleportation skill.
Right when they were looking for this guy teleported to, the four all heard a "pu", the sound of a hit. Looking towards the source, they saw Lord Grim's battle lance still on the Frost Thain's body going poke poke poke……
Blue River and the others were startled and looked again at the original spot. There, they also saw Lord Grim.
Shadow Clone Technique……The four players could tell. They'd seen these skills many times before. There was nothing to fuss about. But the part that surprised them was that Lord Grim could immediately chase down the Frost Thain with his own instant movement. Thinking of this, Blue River and the others were all somewhat horrified. They knew that the Frost Thain would give a few signs before teleporting similar to how a mage did. While chanting, it raised its hand pointing to a spot. By looking at this, the general teleport location could be seen. However, all in all, this was a teleportation spell and the sign only lasted for a short short instant. Yet Lord Grim could still clearly catch its teleport location. Couldn't this only be done in theory?
Of course, the Frost Thain's teleport had a cooldown too. After using it to no effect, it was once again beaten up by Lord Grim. They reckoned that this BOSS had never felt so annoyed before. It wanted to slice down, it wanted to cast magic, but its opponent was always a step ahead, destroying him.
"Everyone go." Blue River discovered that the four all seemed as if they were admiring a dueling video again. He hurriedly called out and rushed up.
Fighting with the Frost Thain was originally a battle where everyone walked on the brink of death. Parties like Blue River's where they only brought a single MT needed to control the aggro between the Frost Thain and the MT well, in order to avoid OT. But now, under Lord Grim's method, where his strong attacks never missed, the four had absolutely no worries. Even if the Frost Thain's main target wasn't on them, they rarely made mistakes either. Frost Thain's teleportation really was too quick. Moreover, it wasn't a stupid BOSS that just stood there attacking the MT.
Teleport! It teleported again! Blue River and the others cursed. As soon as the skill went off cooldown, the Frost Thain would cast it again. But today, against this opponent, Lord Grim used the Shadow Clone Technique to teleport too and wasn't slower than it. Finally, only Blue River and the others were left. They gloomily hit their keyboards to switch directions and chased after it. They had done this several times already.
"Careful, it's almost at red blood." At this moment, Ye Xiu suddenly said.
"Ok." The four answered. They had been wary of red blood, such a serious status, long ago. When the Frost Thain reached red blood, it would be buffed with Super Armor, so its magic couldn't be interrupted by normal attacks. Moreover, it casted magic faster. A teleport along with an AoE Ice Whirlwind was extremely deadly towards a party that had just been surrounding and attacking it.
"Hurry and retreat!" Blue River suddenly saw an ominous glint in the Frost Thain's eyes. The large Ice Blade danced around displaying a pretty pattern. Right when the Ice Whirlwind was about to unfurl, he yelled and took the initiative to retreat away from the Frost Thain. The other three didn't need to stick close to the body to attack it, so they weren't as nervous. But they also quickly focused their minds and adjusted. This Ice Whirlwind didn't have any target. After it was sent out, it scattered around randomly.
Who knew that with a rumble, the Ice Whirlwind didn't appear. The Frost Thain had actually been thrown down onto the ground.
Back Throw. Lord Grim used a Back Throw. This skill could break Super Armor.
"Why are you running? Did you not learn Wave Wheel Slasher?" Ye Xiu was puzzled.
Blue River knew he was talking to him. Wave Wheel Slasher was a Spellblade skill and could also break Super Armor. Because it was a Level 20 and under skill, after changing classes, Blue River could also learn it. Moreover, most Blade Masters put a point into it. It wasn't for damage, but for breaking Super Armor.
Super Armor Break skills could interrupt magic even if they were in a Super Armor state. But the problem was that this was Frost Thain! This was the BOSS that when the MT pulled, the aggro would often switch to the healer! Who would dare bet their entire team's life onto whether he could accurately hit the Super Armor Break skill?
Actually, Blue River wasn't so unsure of himself, but rather because a single slip could destroy their entire situation, he chose the safer option. But in the end, he was called out on. Blue River was a bit embarrassed, so he shamelessly replied: "Yeah, I didn't learn it."
Hissing sounds rang out, but the three understood Blue River's mood, so they didn't hiss for too long.
"You should learn it. Breaking Super Armor is very useful." Ye Xiu said.
"I know……I just didn't have enough skill points, so I haven't learned it for now. I'll put in a point later." Blue River was flushed with shame. He was currently being taught basic knowledge…..
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Chapter 40: New Record
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Blue River resentfully returned to attacking. I want to use Wave Wheel Slasher on the Frost Thain to regain my dignity again, but I just said that I hadn't learned Wave Wheel Slasher. If I suddenly used it, how would I explain it? I had accidentally learned it before and hadn't seen it? F*ck, too clumsy. Just thinking about it made his face redden.
The menacing Ice Whirlwind should have been the greatest threat, but Lord Grim's confident display of skills neutralized all his fears. It also didn't have any new tricks up its sleeves. Under the five player's violent attacks, it finally collapsed. Equipment dropped, but Blue River and the others didn't care. They were all staring at the system announcement window.
"Congratulations to Blue Brook Guild's players: Blue River, Thundering Light, Lord Grim, Returning Cloud, Lunar Grace, for breaking the Frost Forest clear record. Time: 20:24:11."
Blue River and the others all knew, all the way from when they first did the One Wave Rush, that as long as they didn't make a mistake, they would definitely set a new record. They weren't surprised by this result, but by the incredible difference between their record and the previous record made the four extremely excited.
The previous clear record was made by Herb Garden with 26:12:48. But, in one try, they beat this record by 5 minutes.
How could such a thing like records be broken by such a wide gap? Players such as Blue River and the others all knew that even trying 8 or 10 times to beat the record was considered few. And they knew, that every time they beat a record, it was always by less than a minute. To directly improve the time by 5 minutes, like how Blue River and the others did, was truthfully a bit unreasonable.
Comparatively, when other players saw the system announcement, they were completely shocked.
After changing classes at Level 20, Seven Fields and the others went to Frost Forest and looked for a player to join their party. They were currently in the dungeon and were getting beaten black and blue. At this moment, they hadn't even cleared halfway through the dungeon. When they saw this system announcement, Seven Fields and the others were all startled. That newbie who had mixed in with them, Immersed Jade, already yelled out: "Look, it's God. God's on TV!!!"
The newbie had picked up "TV", this new phrase, pretty quickly.
"Yeah, you're right……" Seven Fields and the others gloomily answered. They were a bit bitter in their hearts. Blue Brook Guild. They obviously knew that it was one of Glory's Three Great Guilds and only this sort of peak guild could match brother expert's strength. As for their second-rate guild second-rate players, to be able to have brother expert lead them twice on TV, they should be satisfied, right?
The three were all laden with grief. But Immersed Jade was still muttering: "Frost Forest? Isn't that the dungeon we're doing now?"
"Right!" Seven Fields said.
"20 minutes……We've also been doing this for 20 minutes. Where are we now?" Immersed Jade asked.
"Halfway……" Seven Fields said depressed. See, this was the poisonous influence that was spread after they became familiar with brother expert. Comparing both sides, brother expert's achievements were on a completely different realm. From this, they would begin to doubt themselves. This was a very serious problem.
At this moment, their party's fifth member was a Cleric called Endless Night. He was focused on healing, so he hadn't really spoken much. Hearing the four's discussion, he suddenly interrupted: "Your guys mainly relied on this guy to get the first clear records?"
Seven Fields was startled. They really had been up on TV before. For example, Immersed Jade had joined and worshipped them for this reason. This made Seven Fields and the others feel even more pressure when recruiting strangers. If they met a stranger, who was someone like Immersed Jade, and joined their party because they recognized their godly party. Then, without brother expert how could they show off their godliness? They would be embarrassed when the time came.
After the Cleric called Endless Night joined the party, he didn't say any of these amazed remarks. He had only done a few normal greetings and communicated when they were fighting monsters. Seven Fields and the others all assumed that he hadn't noticed that they were members of the first clear team. Following the three of them, the party had only finished half of the Frost Forest in 20 minutes. But that Lord Grim broke the clear record in 20 minutes and went up on TV. This clearly showed that in the first clear team, Lord Grim was the true expert, while the others were all smuggled goods.
In the end, the awkward moment still came. Seven Fields and the others could only helplessly reply: "Right, it was all on that brother."
"D*mn. I thought so. I've been with you guys for 20 minutes and I couldn't see any of you as experts." Endless Night said.
"Aren't you a bit too direct!?" His words only added to their embarrassment. Seven Fields and the others weren't in a good mood.
"Okay okay. Starting from now, follow my lead." Endless Night suddenly brightened up.
"Why?" Everyone asked.
"I'm an expert from Tyrannical Ambition, Endless Night. Before, I wanted to see your strengths, so I didn't say anything. I've already endured for quite a long time. Your directions are all over the place. I'll do it." Endless Night said.
"F*ck!" The original leader Seven Fields was even more gloomy. What person was this! What type person would call himself an expert. Comparatively, brother expert was so modest and only used his skill to speak.
"No need." Seven Fields wasn't scared at all by the fame of Tyrannical Ambition.
"Brother, don't be like this! We need to hurry and clear this dungeon. I still have things to do!" Endless Night said.
"I'll do it! I'll do it!"
"I'm begging you."
"F*ck. You do it. You do it." Seven Fields let it go. What f*cking expert was this! He felt as if the word "expert" had been shattered.
"Okay, follow my lead from now on." In the blink of an eye, Endless Night switched equipment. In his hands, he held a Cross. The silvery light glimmered off of it. With just a look, they could tell that this wasn't any ordinary item.
"D*mn, this guy was faking it the entire time!" Seven Fields and the others finally saw through it.
While Endless Night led, he sent a message to the guild: "We made a mistake. In that first clear party, only Lord Grim is an expert. The rest are all trash."
"It's too late. Lord Grim has already been taken in by Blue Brook Guild. They beat the record by five minutes. Too scary. It must be because they added this guy."
"Ai ai ai ai." Endless Night sighed.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm f*cking carrying these trash through this dungeon." Endless Night replied.
Meanwhile, after the clear record had been broken, the previous holders, Herb Garden, were in an uproar.
"20:24:11! F*ck, that's too crazy! That guy Blue River doesn't have that strength." Plantago Seed, the Herb Garden's guild leader and the expert that led the party to set the previous record, loudly discussed.
"It's that Lord Grim! It has to because of him that their strength increased." A teammate, Malva Nut, said.
"F*ck, I'll ask Blue River!" Plantago Seed said this and sent Blue River a message. They were all the elite experts of the Three Great Guilds. They all knew each other in the Heavenly Domain and had even added each other as friends.
"Hey hey, that's not fair, you got such a great expert!" Plantago Seed messaged Blue River.
"Ha ha ha ha. You mad? You mad? 20:24:11. Can you break it when you're Level 25?" Blue River said proudly. In front of Lord Grim, he felt slightly bitter and pressured. But other than that, he still gave them a lot of face! Heh. Blue River thought.
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Chapter 41 – A Simple Leave
When Blue River and the others left the dungeon, Bound Boat and Flower Lantern were still waiting outside. Before the party went up on TV, the two had already prostrated before Lord Grim in admiration. They were the original party members and they clearly knew the party's strength. Lord Grim was 100% the reason that they were able to break the clear record by five minutes.
Flower Lantern, who had previously doubted Lord Grim, also felt extremely embarrassed.
Finally, he mumbled: "You really are a God. I bow down, I bow down. I was lacking in manners before."
On the other side, Bound Boat asked Thundering Light how they cleared the dungeon. Thundering Light spoke, splattering spittle everywhere. Returning Cloud and Lunar Grace repeatedly raised their eyebrows: could you be anymore ridiculous? If you say it like this, then it seemed like we cleared the dungeon in ten minutes.
"Okay, the clear record has been broken." Ye Xiu said to Blue River.
"Right, right. Strong, strong." Blue River immediately agreed.
"Brother……" Ye Xiu greedily said.
"Here, here!"
"The items!" Ye Xiu said.
"What items? Oh, oh! Look at me. I was so happy I forgot." Blue River finally realized that the other side was talking about the promised items, "Bound Boat, the items?"
Blue River hadn't carried the items on him. Only after Blue River confirmed that they would break the record did Bound Boat go and retrieve the items. In Glory, the character's movement, jumping, and speed were all affected by how much weight they carried. As a result, when going for clear records or engaging in PK, times when they needed to be at their strongest point, players did their best to lighten up their inventory.
Bound Boat took the items and asked Lord Grim to trade. Ye Xiu accepted and the items were put into the trade box. Astonishingly, there were 72 Strong Spider Silk, 2 Mithril Pendants, and 8 White Wolf Sharp Fangs.
"What?" Ye Xiu didn't understand. This was his initial proposal and wasn't the deal he had haggled for.
"Brother, directly beating the clear record by 5 minutes, you don't know how much effort you've saved us." Blue River said.
"Oh, so it's like this!" Ye Xiu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He didn't need these materials to sell. They were all for upgrading the Thousand Chance Umbrella. He only needed 24 Strong Spider Silk. Proposing 72 at the start was just to leave some space for haggling. But in the end, the other side was more than happy to give him 72. Who didn't want free stuff? Ye Xiu certainly did, so he bluntly accepted it. Then again, what Blue River said also made a lot of sense. Beating the clear record by 5 minutes, it really did save them a lot of time. Otherwise, if they hadn't, who knew how many times they'd have to contest with the other guilds!
"Thanks!" Ye Xiu said.
"You're welcome. Brother, look……" Right when he spoke half a sentence, he suddenly grew frantic.
Left! Why did he leave already? After accepting the items, he actually just directly left the guild. Blue River was just about to ask him to stay in their guild. He gave him more items for two reasons. One was to reward him for clearing the dungeon. And the other was because he recognized that he was a super expert and deserved to be bribed.
If only I knew! Blue River thought in grief and indignation. This price had become a business deal when it should have been a way to make friends with him!
"What should I look at?" Ye Xiu, who already left, asked Blue River who had only spoken half a sentence just a moment ago.
"Do you have any space on your friends list. Let's work together later." Blue River said without spirit.
"Okay." Ye Xiu said.
"Brother, do you need to run a dungeon? Are you missing anyone? If you are, just ask me and I'll call people for you." Blue River said.
"Oh, I don't need it. I have other things to do. I'll be going first then!" Ye Xiu said.
"Oh, oh, bye bye." Blue River's cheeks streamed with tears as he sent Lord Grim off. Thundering Light, Bound Boat, and the others had already seen the "Lord Grim has left the guild" message in the guild channel. They were all astonished. When they saw him leave, they immediately recovered.
"Why did he leave?" Returning Cloud asked.
"Work's done, so of course he's going to leave." Blue River said unhappily.
"Why didn't we keep him?" Bound Boat asked.
"With his APM. Him leaving was faster than me speaking." Blue River said.
This had to do with APM? Everyone was dumbstruck. This Blue River had turned stupid from anger!
"Roping in this type of expert just relying on benefits won't work. With his skill, coming over to help us would be the same as the benefits we can give. So he didn't have to think twice. It's more important to establish a relationship." Bound Boat said.
"Right! I originally thought like that, but……" Blue River gloomily concluded. What had originally been a way to establish a revolutionary friend in the dungeon had become a business transaction.
"Ai ai, let's use a honey trap. Hurry up and notify the leader to bring some beauties over." Thundering Light said.
"Cough cough." Someone coughed.
"Then let's match him with Lunar Grace." Thundering Light added.
"……." Lunar Grace remained silent and only looked at Lord Grim, who hadn't completely disappeared out of sight yet.
"Lunar, you've been looking in that direction huh? Could it be you……" Flower Lantern circled around Lunar Grace twice.
"You've already been itching to go at it?" Thundering Light said.
Lunar Grace didn't notice what he said and calmly said: "Don't you guys feel that he's too strong?"
Everyone was startled and immediately went silent.
"We're already considered top-tier experts in Glory, right? Even if we weren't, Blue River definitely is, right? But it looks to me that this guy's still better by a level. Then what level of an expert would he be at?" Lunar Grace said.
"Cough cough, I haven't played on a low-leveled account in awhile……" Blue River said.
"We're all low-leveled." Lunar reminded.
"His weapon was better than mine. I think it's an Orange weapon." Blue River said.
"He still hasn't changed classes." Lunar reminded again. In short, everyone all had their good and bad points.
"Fine, I concede. I'm afraid this person's skill is higher than mine." Blue River discovered that he couldn't struggle for his face back, "But Glory has so many players, how can there not be some hidden experts? It's not like we haven't seen one. For example, Poplar Beach."
Once this name was mentioned, everyone suddenly went silent. They all knew that his was a name that Blue River didn't like.
This person was Blue Brook guild's recent focus of attention. He didn't have much of a name before. But in a short period of time, in the Heavenly Domain, he showed his strength in all sorts of battles. As the guild placed more and more value on him, his equipment grew better and better. A lot of people in the Blue Brook Guild had already discussed whether the Five Great Experts should be updated. Of the Five Great Experts, the one who had been compared the most with Poplar Beach was Blue Bridge Spring Snow, Blue River's main account, because the two player's classes were the same; they were both Blade Masters.
Blade Masters, due to their WuXia-like playstyle, were Glory's most popular class.
And after Poplar Beach was discussed about, he wasn't modest at all. He would often show off his damage records, kill records, what expert he beat in the last arena battle, how he single-handedly dueled how many people in a wild area, and so on, in the guild channel. He clearly wanted to show his superiority over Blue Bridge Spring Snow, who almost went and directly challenged him to a duel a round.
Before that happened, Blue River was ordered to be the leader in the tenth server. In the guild, there were already many rumors saying that this was the guild intentionally giving Poplar Beach a spot by deliberately moving Blue River away.
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Chapter 42 – A Good That Could Be Bought
Blue River was a person who worried about losing face. Being mocked by Poplar Beach made him feel as if his face would fall off. Finally, he took the initiative to invite Poplar Beach and was ready to compare notes in the Arena. Poplar Beach was waiting for this opportunity, so he happily accepted.
Members of the same guild often compared notes in the Arena. But the members of Blue Brook Guild all knew that this battle wasn't so simple. Whoever won this battle would decide who had the qualifications to be recognized as one of Blue Brook Guild's Five Great Experts.
The result, the result was that this battle was never completed. At that moment, Blue Brook Guild's leader announced that Blue River would bring members to the pioneer in the tenth server.
Blue River temporarily left the Heavenly Domain and began busily in the new server. The not so happy part was that he was also temporarily put aside. The sudden appearance of Lord Grim made him think of Poplar Beach. His friends didn't know what to say in response.
Silence. Blue River suddenly received a message. He opened it and saw it was from Plantago Seed: "Ha ha ha. Why'd the expert suddenly leave after you beat the record?"
Blue River was startled and then immediately said angrily: "How shameless. You've put a spy into our guild?"
"Don't be like this. It's not like you haven't put in any spies either." Plantago Seed said.
"I still haven't." Blue River said justly and confidently. Mutual spies was indeed common. But because it was only the second day on the new server, Blue River hadn't done so yet!
"If you're proper, you'd better not put in any!" Plantago Seed messaged.
Blue River had a sudden strike of inspiration and replied: "Ha ha, if you've actively recruited our players in, then you can only blame your lame eyes."
Plantago Seed received the message and was startled: "What do you mean?"
Blue River didn't reply.
"Chie, I know you're just trying to scare me. Old Blue, don't use this sort of small trick, it's too childish." Plantago Seed remarked.
"I don't have time for you. I'm going to go level." Blue River replied.
Blue River went on to do his own business, while Plantago Seed was still standing there confused. When the spy reported to him that Lord Grim had already left Blue Brook Build, he laughed out loud. While he was preparing to rope him in, he just had to message Blue River. But who would have thought that Blue River would have said such a peculiar line. It seemed as if Lord Grim had been intentionally let out for the other big guilds to recruit.
Plantago Seed felt that it was Blue River deliberately mystifying the situation, but he didn't dare to be absolutely confident.
With regards to spies, it wasn't easy to protect against them in this game. Being excessively confused about them would only add to his worries. But Lord Grim was different. This was a great expert. If he came into the guild, he would definitely be an important figure. He wasn't that type of casual character. If this type of person was a spy, then that would be a disaster.
Glory once had a guild that didn't lose to the Three Great Guilds in strength, but it was destroyed because of spies. At that time, all of the guild's highly-regarded experts were spies from other guilds. Finally, when the spies' influence matured, they unmasked themselves and exposed the truth. A bunch of players and goods left the guild, greatly injuring the guild's strength. But the even deadlier attack was that when the guild began recovering its power, the central core figures also exposed themselves as f*cking spies. In the end, at a crucial point of time, another batch of people left and they lost more power. Thus, the once powerful guild collapsed.
After this event, Glory's guilds were all extremely cautious about their top experts. The bigger the guild, the more cautious they were. Moreover, in the major spy event, the champions did so in the new server. Newly recruited players in the guild would start from the bottom and then slowly slaughtered their way to the Heavenly Domain. These people were tenacious and worthy of being called Glory's greatest spies.
And now this Lord Grim? He suddenly sprang up in the tenth server and became the focus of attention. This type of person would definitely be fought over by the famed guilds. But was this person a spy? Nowadays, would a spy really be so high-profile? Plantago Seed sighed with sorrow, but still decided to contact Lord Grim. As long as he took precautions on how much power to give him then it would be okay.
Lord Grim, who had left Frost Forest, now headed towards Bulls.
Frost Forest was located in the southwest border zone. Bulls was a nearby town. No matter what server a player was in, this place was the first place new players from beginner village would set foot in, so there was never any lack of liveliness. After Lord Grim left beginner village, he directly ran to Frost Forest and didn't have time to register Bulls as his resurrection location. At this location, after the character died, he would resurrect there. This was one of Glory's rules.
Bulls Town wasn't big, but it had all of the basic facilities. Ye Xiu let Lord Grim first go to a warehouse and put in his newly obtained Strong Spider Silk and other materials into there. Seeing that his storage chest had 88 Strong Spider Silk, Ye Xiu could only laugh and shake his head.
After leaving 48 Strong Spider Silk there, the rest of the items had all been taken by Ye Xiu to the equipment editor's Material Library. Right when he was about to go into the equipment editor, a message suddenly leaped up. He opened it and saw that it was from Seven Fields.
"Congratulations brother expert, before, when we were clearing the dungeon, we saw your Frost Forest clear record. How awesome!" Seven Fields messaged.
"Ha ha, it was nothing."
"Have you joined Blue Brook Guild?" Seven Fields asked.
"No, I just helped them beat the record, so I only temporarily joined. I've already left." Ye Xiu said.
"Huh?" Seven Fields was astonished.
"How many times have you run the dungeon?" Ye Xiu suddenly asked.
"Two times." Seven Fields said.
"Are you missing a person? I can still run it three more times." Ye Xiu suddenly thought to first reach the entry limit.
"We do! Of course we do." Seven Fields was first startled and then immediately recovered from the shock. Brother expert still unexpectedly wanted to dungeon with them. That really was too good.
"I'll go over right away." Ye Xiu immediately made Lord Grim leave the warehouse and hurried over to Frost Forest.
Seven Fields and the others were only normal gamers and didn't have the skills like Blue Brook Guild's experts did. Ye Xiu would have cleared faster with Blue Brook Guild's people. But he preferred to go with Seven Fields and the others. He saw through the big guild's intent to rope him in. He also knew that with Blue Brook Guild's strength, they could easily provide for the Thousand Chance Umbrella's materials. However, joining a guild meant that he would owe some kind of responsibility and commitment to the guild. The guild would provide a party to dungeon, level, and complete quests; But on the other hand, the guild also required that he would have to help others dungeon, level, or complete quests. Ye Xiu didn't want to have his hands and feet tied like this.
As for peak experts like him, not joining a guild also meant that he had the chance to cooperate with any guild. Today, he helped Blue Brook Guild set a new clear record. Next time, he could help Herb Garden.
People with some ability to judge would realize his value. Every guild that wanted to set a new record would all look for him to help.
In this way, staying as a good that could be bought was better than joining a guild and hanging himself on a tree. How could this not be more beautiful?
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Chapter 43 – Don't Need A Cleric
Seven Fields and the others had also only just left the dungeon. Under that Endless Night's lead, the second half of the dungeon went by smoothly. From this, it could be seen that this guy's skill was higher than theirs and that he was an extremely experienced expert. But Seven Fields and the others didn't worship him. In fact, they couldn't see it. It wasn't only Immersed Jade. They themselves had already been poisoned by Lord Grim. Endless Night was already considered extremely skilled among players, but they couldn't see his skill at all.
After they left the dungeon, this guy just stood loftily on one side with a "come on, shower me with praise" look. In the end, he received a message: "You have been kicked out of the party."
"F*ck, disgraceful! How could you kick me?" Endless Night was infuriated.
"Didn't you have something to do? Hurry up and go do it!" Seven Fields said.
"Now I don't." Endless Night said.
"Oh so sorry, there's no space anyways. We have a friend coming." Seven Fields said.
Endless Night heard this and his eyes brightened. He immediately remarked: "Is it that Lord Grim?"
"What does that matter to you?" Seven Fields said.
In the end, Endless Night refused to leave and shamelessly circled around the four of them. Seven Fields felt vexed and had the heart to chop this guy to pieces. But he was an expert from Tyrannical Ambition, so Seven Fields didn't dare pull off an evil scheme. If he didn't want to leave, then what was his purpose? Seven Fields guessed and came to a conclusion. He couldn't help but feel even more annoyed. To fight with this type of expert, they wouldn't win! With their mediocre strength, they were already lucky to be able to dungeon with brother expert a few times. Right now, if a Tyrannical Ambition expert chose him, would brother expert still play with them? They had only known each other for a day and still weren't really friends yet!
Right when his thoughts were in turmoil, Lord Grim's figure had already gradually approached. Immersed Jade had already yelled: "God!!"
In the game, the louder the voice, the farther it would go. But the problem was that the sound volume depended on the real person to produce. They could imagine Immersed Jade at this moment, whether she was at her house or in an Internet Cafe, she was truly shouting…….This, if there were other people nearby, she'd look quite foolish.
Lord Grim put away his battle lance, which could be considered his greeting. Seven Fields and the others were ready to meet him, but Endless Night ran faster than a rabbit. With a whoosh, he had already rushed forward.
"You're Lord Grim? It's an honor to meet you. I am Endless Night, an expert from Tyrannical Ambition." Endless Night introduced himself.
"Hi." Ye Xiu responded and then turned around to ask Seven Fields: "You're friend?"
"That's right, Brother Seven Fields and I became good friends in this dungeon." Endless Night said.
"F*ck, who are you!" Seven Fields had never seen such a shameless guy.
"Brother Seven Fields, don't be like that!" Endless Night said.
Seven Fields wanted to kick this guy to death. He first gave brother expert a party invite while yelling at Endless Night: "We're going. Go do your own business!"
"Bring me too, bring me too!" Endless Night repeatedly yelled. How was this an expert? When they carried newbies in the old server, even they weren't as shameless as this. They at least typed it out.
"There's no space." Seven Fields said.
"Good sister, can you give your spot to brother?" Endless Night had even found the party's weak spot and shamelessly bothered Immersed Jade.
Since Immersed Jade was a newbie and had never seen such a shameless guy, she was at a loss. Not knowing what to do, she looked as if she were going to compromise with that guy, when Ye Xiu suddenly interrupted.
"Are you a Cleric?" Ye Xiu asked.
"Yup, my skill is very good, expert." While Endless Night said this, he brought out that bright silvery Cross. Seven Fields all didn't recognize that item, but they could see that it was definitely a good item.
"Crystal Cross, an Orange weapon!" Ye Xiu said.
"Wow, you really are an expert. Good eye! Why don't you bring me along?" Endless Night praised.
"We don't need a Cleric." Ye Xiu said.
Instant kill!
This was an instant kill!
A five word instant kill!
The previously lively Endless Night went speechless. Seven Fields and the others truly did worship brother expert.
We don't need a cleric! Wow, how powerful. If he was switched with a normal player and the player stood outside Frost Forest and said "We don't need a cleric", even Seven Fields would call him out for boasting. But brother expert was different. If brother expert said they didn't need a cleric, they obviously didn't need a cleric. Cleric, go play somewhere else!
"Go in, go in, go in." Seven Fields loudly said.
No one paid any more attention to Endless Night. Endless Night just stood there like a statue and saw the party go into the dungeon.
"Brother expert, how do we kill?" Seven Fields entered and then directly asked Lord Grim.
"I'll pull and you guys just do your best to output damage." Ye Xiu said.
Although One Wave Rush's hardest part was on the MT's ability to pull monsters, it also had high requirements for other players. With these guys, Ye Xiu didn't have confidence in their damage.
With brother expert watching over, Seven Fields and the others felt that clearing this dungeon would be carefree and relaxed. Only the student Immersed Jade wasn't sensible and unexpectedly asked brother expert: "God, can we set a new record?"
Wasn't this question disgracing yourself? There was no way they could set a new record. The problem wasn't brother expert, but rather on them. Seven Fields and the others all felt ashamed and helped brother expert answer this embarrassing answer.
They advanced through the dungeon smoothly. They gave all of the items dropped by the BOSS to Ye Xiu. Only, if there was equipment their classes were proficient in, Ye Xiu still gave them.
They breezed through the dungeon twice. The hidden BOSS never appeared and no amazing equipment dropped. Lord Grim could still run the dungeon once more, but Seven Fields and the others had already reached the entry limit. They could only regretfully leave. In the end, when they left the dungeon, they saw Endless Night standing outside. The first time they went through, this guy had already left.
Seeing these five, Endless Night immediately ran over.
"No more runs left?" The little punk happily said, which made Seven Fields have an exceptionally strong urge to beat him up. Endless Night had known that they could only run the dungeon twice more.
"I can still run it once." Ye Xiu said honestly.
"What a coincidence! I can run it once more too!" Endless Night said.
"Is that so?" Ye Xiu laughed.
"There's still something that's an even bigger coincidence! See, I have three friends who can only run it once more too. Don't you think that's even more coincidental?" Endless Night said. Three people had already come over from the crowd. Their guild name Tyrannical Ambition displayed above their heads.
"That really is a coincidence." Ye Xiu said.
"Since it's such a coincidence. Why don't we just all run it together?" Endless Night said.
"Why don't we set a new record again?" Ye Xiu asked.
"Okay okay!" Endless Night was extremely excited.
"If we're going to set a new record, then I have two conditions." Ye Xiu said.
"You can say them."
"One, I charge a fee." Ye Xiu said.
"Oh, that'll be easy." Endless Night said, "And the other?"
"We don't need a cleric." Ye Xiu laughed.
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Chapter 44 – Different Fees
"HA HA HA HA……." Seven Fields and the others laughed out loud. Now that was an act. Previously, Immersed Jade made them look a bit foolish to the bystanders when she yelled out "God". But this time, their laughter had already made the bystanders think they were mentally ill.
The many players that heard this loud laughter all turned around to look. In the end, they saw a player called Endless Night furiously type out around twenty exploding cartoon faces in the common chat box.
"What happened?" The players all asked each other, but no one knew. As a result, everyone carefully shifted their characters over and tried to listen in.
Then, they heard Endless Night, who had just relentlessly raged in the chat box, grind his teeth and say: "Then what class do you need?"
"Three Fire Elementalists with magic attacks greater than 430. A Level 22 or up Doll Shururu Auto Leveled, and a Witch that can use Shadow Cloak. Their technique needs to be good and their hands need to be steady. They can't make any mistakes." Ye Xiu said.
Endless Night stared blankly. Bringing three elementalists, this was a party with the highest DPS. Elementalists had low defense and low health. Witches only wore leather armor, which was just a bit better. The entire party all had extremely high attack but low defence. One OT could spell utter destruction. It was sure enough, a zero-mistake party. Zero-mistake meant that they couldn't afford to make a single mistake.
As for this type of harsh requirement, Endless Night didn't have too many complaints because the current record was 20:24:11.
If they wanted to break this sort of record, they naturally needed to use extremely harsh methods. If a member made a mistake, then saving him would waste a lot of time. This would only destine their party for failure.
"I might not be able to gather such a party right now." Endless Night said. Actually, it wasn't just right now, they weren't able to gather such members in such a short period of time. It wasn't only Tyrannical Ambition, other guilds didn't have three Fire Elementalists with 430 Magic Attack and above either.
430 Magic Attack signified that the weapon had to be a Level 20 Purple Staff. How could a Purple Staff be so easy to find? Not to mention, it had to be a Fire Element one too. Currently, Tyrannical Ambition had three Purple Elementalist Weapons and unfortunately, none of them were of the Fire Element.
"No problem. When they've been gathered, contact me again." Ye Xiu said.
"Besides that, are there any other options?" Endless Night said.
"Level 25." Ye Xiu said.
Level 25 was a completely different realm. New equipment, new skills, everyone's strength increased. Like this sort of Level 20-25 Frost Forest dungeon, in the old servers, all of the records were made by a party of Level 25s.
"Fine, I'll add you first as friend then!" Endless Night said.
"Okay." Ye Xiu and Endless Night added each other as friends.
After Endless Night, who had pretended to be decent, friended him, he revealed his true colors : "Then, we don't need to set a record right now. All of us can do one more run. Why don't you come with us for a run?"
"F*ck!" Seven Fields and the others gasped in surprise. This person truly was an immortal, invincible, shameless, ultra, unequalled c*ckroach.
"Okay." But Ye Xiu also replied, "I can lower the fee a bit then."
"You need to charge a fee for this too? Don't tell me you charged them a fee too?" Endless Night said.
"I didn't charge a fee, but all of the equipment was given to the party leader. I was the party leader." Ye Xiu said.
"That's fine, we can do the same." Endless Night said delightedly..
Seven Friends and the others listened to this and felt extremely uncomfortable! In their party, all of the equipment really did go to brother expert, but they knew brother expert was kind and honest. He never fought over items that suited them. When they were at the Spider Cave, he even gave the Purple Weapon to Sleeping Moon, a player who had been on bad terms with him!
"As you can see, I still haven't changed classes, so I want all of the equipment." Ye Xiu said.
"It's just a few equipment that's all. Go go, let's head out." Endless Night repeatedly sent party invites. They were all automatically declined by the system because he was still in a party. Finally, Ye Xiu left his party and had Lord Grim join Endless Night's party. This was a standard one MT, one healer, three DPSers party. Once Lord Grim joined, Endless Night gave the party leader position to him.
"Then let's go!" Ye Xiu directed Lord Grim into the dungeon.
"Go!" Endless Night led the three others and caught up. He was still very satisfied with this outcome. He wasn't worried about the record. He just wanted to see how good Lord Grim really was.
Ice and snow drifted in Frost Forest. Everywhere was silent. The five people stood there in a line. No one moved and no one talked.
A static screen stayed there for about half a minute.
"Hey hey!" Endless Night seemed as if he was testing his headphones.
"What are you heying for?" Ye Xiu asked.
"Did someone say something? I haven't heard anyone say anything." Endless Night said.
"I don't think anyone said anything, right?" Ye Xiu said.
"No one said anything." The other three agreed.
"Why aren't you talking?" Endless Night said.
"Who are you asking?"
"You!"
"Why do I need to speak?" Ye Xiu asked in response.
"To lead!" Endless Night said.
"I'm leading?"
"Yes."
"Leading fee."
Twenty exploding faces were typed……The other three were all in chaos: "Brother, you're not going that far are you?"
"Ha ha." Ye Xiu laughed.
"What's the leading fee?" Endless Night discovered that he had met his match today. Sigh, no other way. Who told me to curry favor with this guy? Endless Night thought angrily.
"Ten White Wolf Bristles!" Ye Xiu said.
"Brother, how evil!!" The four all said in unison. The White Wolf's hair wasn't the Bristle. The Bristles had a chance to drop by Frost Forest's hidden BOSS White Wolf. It was considered an uncommon material.
"I don't have to lead!" Ye Xiu said.
Endless Night thought for a bit. In order to see an expert's inner qualities and skill, he had to see his leading for himself. As a result, he clenched his teeth and said: "Fine, but I can only give it after we exit the dungeon. I didn't bring any with me."
"Can I trust his word?" Ye Xiu asked the other three. Big guilds wouldn't go back on their word. For example, after he made the deal with Blue River, Ye Xiu trusted Blue River. But this Endless Night was so outrageously shameless, so he had to express his doubts.
"You can trust him." The other three said immediately.
"Okay then!" Ye Xiu replied.
"Hurry up and go!" Endless Night said.
"Okay. MT pull the monsters. DPSers go up. Healer support the MT." Ye Xiu directed.
The four stared blankly and their screens seemed to be frozen again for half a minute.
"That's it?" Endless Night asked.
"Of course."
"What type of leading is this!?" Endless Night crumbled.
"You're all experts. You guys should know what to do." Ye Xiu said.
Endless Night felt that he had been duped. If he used the standard routine, then their party didn't need any leading. Everyone could do it on their own and they'd be fine. No good. I have to make sure these ten White Bristles are worth their price!
"No no, this won't work." Endless Night called, "You have to lead us step by step."
"Okay……" Ye Xiu said, "Knight, pull the two Goblins at 10 o'clock. There are three possibilities. If the two are long-ranged, get close to them as fast as possible. If you're attacked while you're closing in, use Descending Phoenix Hammer. You'll be able to jump over their attacks and the shockwave will cause the two monsters to flip over. When you've gotten close, pull any one of their aggros steadily. If there is one melee and one long-ranged, use Falling Star Hammer to interrupt the long-ranged one's attack. When the melee one comes close, use Repel. Pull the long-ranged one's aggro first. If there are two melee ones, use Descending Phoenix Hammer and then Repel one of them. Establish the remaining one's aggro. Do you understand?"
The Knight's cheeks streamed with tears: Giving me this sort of step by step leading. Do you think I'm stupid?
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Chapter 45 – Original Strategy
30:8:71
This was their clear time that Ye Xiu made with Endless Night and the others. This was a very normal time. All of the ordinary five man parties cleared Frost Forest in around 30 minutes.
There was nothing to say about the time, but Endless Night was fuming with rage and grinding his teeth the entire time.
They really did give away the leading fee for free! From the start to finish, Lord Grim never stopped to direct them. But instead instructed them like how he did to the Knight. He simply explained to them the ordinary strategy. If the four of them were newbies, then they would have benefited from this. But to Endless Night and the others, they ran that dungeon for nothing. In the entire course of the dungeon, they couldn't see anything especially remarkable about him.
In the end, he led the four of them especially oppressively. They were also considered experts, but this strategy was entirely ordinary. It really made them look like idiots.
Endless Night felt that Lord Grim intentionally faked it, so he made mistakes on purpose to arouse the great expert's inner qualities.
Instead, the great expert patiently explained what Endless Night's mistakes were. You should do this this and this……
Hearing his three brothers sneakily laughing up their sleeves, Endless Night understood that he truly was being taken as an idiot.
In the end, the only remarkable point was that Lord Grim hadn't changed classes, but still did as much damage as the two DPSers on the team. His weapon wasn't bad at least. But what was this battle lance? Endless Night had never seen it before.
"Brother, you're trying to cheat us!" Endless Night said after exiting the dungeon.
"How can you say that. Did I lead wrong?" Ye Xiu said.
"……." Endless Night didn't know what to say. Although his leading was ordinary, there was nothing to pick at; he didn't miss any details. If it wasn't for Endless Night intentionally making mistakes, then nothing would have went wrong with his leading.
This at least said that this guy had solid basics. Endless Night tried his hardest to accept this and tried his hardest to believe that the last dungeon run wasn't a waste of time. I benefited from this. I benefited.
"Are you going to get the White Wolf Bristles?" Ye Xiu asked.
Endless Night's cheeks streamed with tears again! This guy was the one who benefited.
After receiving the White Wolf Bristles, Ye Xiu said goodbye and left. Endless Night's character didn't move. The player also sat in front of his computer baffled.
Suddenly, someone nearby poked him twice. Endless Night turned his head and saw that it was one of the party members who had just dungeoned with him.
On his screen wasn't the game, but instead a post on the Glory forums.
Endless Night walked over and then heard that person say: "When I heard him lead, I thought it felt familiar, look here……"
Endless Night only glanced at it and almost coughed up blood.
What f*cking basic skills, what f*cking nothing to pick at, that bastard's leading was straight up from a guide. Not a word different. Of course he wouldn't miss any details.
"We've been duped……" That brother said. Eight White Wolf Bristles! And in exchange they got 100% clear-rate guide with millions of views on the forums.
Endless Night felt even more helpless. He had been asking to be duped! The other side didn't ask to dungeon with him, yet he even shamelessly forced it onto him. The other side didn't say he would lead, yet he shamelessly demanded that he led. In the beginning, the other side didn't read from the guide, yet he insisted that the other side instructed them step by step.
Step by step? Even with their party of experts, they didn't need to be led step by step. Him putting forward this requirement made his balls hurt. Look, now it really did hurt!
"Beast!" Endless Night grinded his teeth. He went back to his seat and furiously typed to Lord Grim: "Brother, you're not kind! Did you trick us by using a guide?"
"I wouldn't. I wrote that guide." Ye Xiu said.
Really? Endless Night immediately turned his head and asked that brother: "Who wrote that guide?"
That brother clearly hadn't noticed this. He immediately went back to the first post and said: "One Autumn Leaf."
Endless Night was extremely angry. He turned back and continued pounding his keyboard: "What are you boasting for. That guide was written by the God Ye Qiu."
"Right, that's me!"
Shameless! Too f*cking shameless…… Endless Night was completely speechless.
"I have some stuff to do, so I need to go off. Let's get in touch later." Endless Night received this message from the other side.
Escape, this was escape! It's three in the morning, what stuff do you have to do? Endless Night thought.
In the Happy Internet Cafe, Ye Xiu was currently bringing a few bottles of Cola to the guests.
It was quiet the entire night.
At seven in the morning, the guests began shutting down their computers one by one and left. Ye Xiu's Lord Grim had leveled to 21. After leaving the beginner village, leveling wasn't as fast. First, the required experience increased by a substantial amount. Second, there was a dungeon entry limit. Although Level 20s could limitlessly run the Skeleton Graveyard in the beginner village, they would find that the experience gained from Skeleton Graveyard had already been substantially reduced as if they were more than five levels above the dungeon.
After Level 20, apart from dungeons, players had to rely on completing quests and killing wild monsters to level up.
At the very front of the tenth server Level Leaderboards, Ye Xiu saw Blue River, Endless Night, these names, all Level 24. Clearly, they all relied on playing in the new server all day and all night in order to attain this sort of achievement. There was a clear difference between these players who were nurtured by their guilds and normal players. Behind these top Level 24s, the Level 22 and Level 23s were almost empty. But Level 20, 21 were already the extremely hard-working players in the new server. For example, players like Lord Grim and Seven Fields. In this short of a time, they were already considered quite crazy.
Most of the players still hadn't left the beginner village!
"Morning, Brother Ye!" At this time, the little brothers with the morning shift and the little sister cashier all came to work on time and said hello to Ye Xiu.
"Morning." Ye Xiu logged out of the game and shut down the counter's computer.
"Everyone's busy. I'll be getting off work."
"Okay."
After saying hello to everyone, Ye Xiu stretched and returned to the second floor inner rooms. When he opened the door, he heard TV sounds from the living room.
"Boss, you wake up this early?" Ye Xiu said this and entered the room. In the end, he saw the TV on and Chen Guo sleeping on the sofa. She didn't have any blankets covering her and shrunk into a shrimp ball from the cold.
"Boss, you should go back to your room and sleep!" Ye Xiu went over and slapped her twice. Chen Guo flipped over and held a look of intense hate for disturbing her sleep.
Ye Xiu was helpless and saw that Chen Guo's room wasn't closed. He went inside to look for something to help cover Chen Guo. He subconsciously judged Chen Guo's room with a few glances. He discovered that the room's floor, walls, and ceiling were all quite new. But on the other hand, the decorations and bed all looked quite old-fashioned. Ye Xiu didn't think too much of it. He took the blanket on Chen Guo's messy bed and covered Chen Guo's body. He turned off the TV and turned around to go sleep in the pitiful storage room.
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Chapter 46 – Easy Glory
Chen Guo didn't know how many times she had fell asleep on the sofa while watching TV. She'd usually wake up from the cold and then slowly crawl to bed. When she woke up today, she found that there was a blanket warmly wrapped around her. The blanket felt very familiar too. It had to be hers, so the half-awake Chen Guo thought she was sleeping on a bed. She comfortably wrapped the blanket around herself and flipped her body. With a bang, she fell off from the sofa.
Chen Guo still held onto the blanket. It took a long while for her to recover from the daze. Only then did she realize that she fell from the sofa. The sofa wasn't tall. Falling down wouldn't do anything, it was funny though. Chen Guo carried the blanket and climbed up. Seeing that the small storage room's door was closed, she knew that this was all done by the newcomer Ye Xiu.
After putting back the blanket, she rinsed her mouth and washed her face in the bathroom. Someone rang the doorbell. Holding a toothbrush in her mouth, Chen Guo went to open the door. She saw a girl, carrying all sorts of bags, smiling at her.
"Oh, Little Tang you've come back!" Chen Guo bit the toothbrush and said with a mouthful of foam.
"Yeah, how'd you just get up?" Tang Rou, who was carrying bags of all sizes, found it inconvenient to take the keys out, so she rang the doorbell. As a result, she found Chen Guo with this appearance.
"I slept late yesterday!" Chen Guo, with a mouthful of foam, still insisted on chatting.
"Why don't you first finish brushing your teeth?" After Tang Rou entered the room, she put her stuff down wherever it was convenient, while Chen Guo continued forward to the bathroom.
"I heard that you've found a new employee?" While Chen Guo brushed her teeth, Tang Rou reclined outside the door and asked with her head tilted, looking a the closed storage room.
"Yup! Did they tell you?"
"Yeah."
"There's no vacant spot for him to live, so I've let him sleep there temporarily." Chen Guo said.
"I heard he had only come for a day and had already made you terribly angry?" Tang Rou clearly heard quite a bit of news downstairs.
Chen Guo was speechless. It was terrible! Yesterday night, she wanted to strangle that guy to death. On one side, this person made her angry, but on the other side, he put a blanket over her. Good things bad things, he did them all.
"What's wrong?" Tang Rou saw that Chen Guo's mind was wandering and that she hadn't said a word.
"Nothing. He's really good at Glory." Chen Guo said.
"How good? Like you?" Tang Rou laughed.
"You're dead, girl……." Chen Guo rolled her eyes. Mentioning this made her very depressed. Originally, Tang Rou didn't play Glory. Chen Guo tried to teach the game to her so that they could play together. While PKing in the Arena with her Chasing Haze account, she explained all of Glory's charm to her.
Because Chen Guo was doing two things at once, she had been beaten quite miserably by her opponent. But Tang Rou immediately expressed a "let me try", which made Chen Guo feel extremely gratified.
In the first round, Tang Rou was also beaten quite miserably. She then asked Chen Guo about a few particulars on how to perform a few actions.
In the second round, she still lost. As a result, Chen Guo took the initiative and explained to her a few tactics that the opponent might use.
Finally in the third round, Tang Rou reversed the situation and beat her opponent miserably.
"This is so easy!" Tang Rou turned her head and spoke towards Chen Guo. Her previous extremely interested look had already disappeared. Chen Guo looked dumbstruck. A completely new player used only two rounds to get familiar with the controls. After understanding a tactic, she could already beat others.
Chen Guo didn't know how good the opponent's skill was. She immediately borrowed an account, with the same class as the opponent that Tang Rou fought against from one of the Internet Cafe guests. Although Chen Guo played Launcher, she knew a little bit about the other classes. She was at least better than a person who had only touched Glory for three rounds, plus her skilled technique……
In the end, she actually lost to Tang Rou.
Chen Guo didn't want to believe it. Tang Rou, who didn't want to keep playing, was forced to fight another round with her. Although Chen Guo sometimes barely won a few times, she lost more than she won. Clearly, Tang Rou was getting more and more skilled.
And now Chen Guo discovered why Tang Rou could, inconceivably, beat her.
Hand speed! This girl was born with astonishing hand speed. At that time, Chen Guo had played Glory for three years, and thought that she was just a bit off from being an expert. Yet Chen Guo could only be endlessly ashamed.
Talent! This was talent. If someone with talent didn't play Glory, it would truly be a waste. Chen Guo began trying even harder to drag Tang Rou into playing Glory. But in the end, she failed. Chen Guo delightedly explained the charm of Glory's mainland. Time and time again, all Chen Guo saw was Tang Rou incessantly yawning, as if she were about to fall asleep.
Chen Guo tried hard for a full two months without any results. Finally, an event happened that made her thoroughly despair. Heavenly Domain Challenge Quests. To enter the Heavenly Domain, players had to complete a series of quests. Among those were a few normal monster-slaying quests, a few BOSS-killing quests, a few "look for materials" quests, and a few Arena PK Victory quests. But the quest that made players' heads hurt the most was still the Skill Challenge.
The Skill Challenge didn't only require that the player beat the opponent. It also required that the player performed actions at a certain level set by the system. For example, a certain number of combos, total damage done by a back attack, the number of air juggling that had to be done, etc.
Many players were stuck here and couldn't pass no matter what. Chen Guo was one of them. She was firmly stuck there in the Skill Challenge and couldn't reach the requirements no matter what.
In the end, Tang Rou took her account card. After researching for a few days, she helped her finish the Heavenly Domain's Skill Challenge.
Chen Guo was thoroughly speechless. She finally understood why Tang Rou couldn't find any interest in the game no matter how hard she tried. This was because most players had to try hard to win. She could do things that needed hard work and practice with no difficulty at all.
Glory was named "Glory" because they hoped that players would consider equipment, skills, and every record as glory. And players approved because these things truly were difficult to get and required hard work to obtain.
But for Tang Rou? She cleared the Skill Challenge, which many players were firmly stuck on, in just a few days. How could that produce any feeling of glory? No one would consider the task of holding a glass of water and drinking it as glory.
Chen Guo despaired, but didn't want to give up. In these two years, whenever she met a powerful opponent, she would drag Tang Rou to try. In the end, Tang Rou again and again turned her head and asked: "It was that easy?"
If she kept doing this, then Chen Guo's face wouldn't be able to stay on anymore! The other side would just turn her head towards opponents that Chen Guo couldn't beat and say "that was easy." This made it difficult for her to endure. As a result, in the recent few months, Chen Guo no longer did this often. But this time, after mentioning Ye Xiu, Chen Guo's sealed thoughts once again reignited. She suddenly wiped her mouth and threw her towel down. With her messy hair, she was about to smash at Ye Xiu's door: "I'm going to call him for you to try out."
"Ai, it's fine!" Tang Rou immediately pulled at Chen Guo: "Didn't he just get off the night shift and go to sleep? Let's wait until he gets up, okay?"
"Oh, that's fine too." Chen Guo thought for a bit and temporarily dropped the matter. She grabbed her towel and was about to go wash, when she suddenly thought of something: Right, his hands were like yours, very pretty.
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Chapter 47 – I'm Playing Unspecialized
"Help me fold the blanket. I brought you breakfast."
When Ye Xiu got up and washed his face, he saw this sticky note. After tidying the room, he went to the living room table and looked. He was speechless and choked with sobs. It was 3 o'clock, who on earth would drink soy milk and eat YouTiao at this time? They were cold too. (TLNote: YouTiao are like deep-fried strips of dough. The texture's like a donut, but they're usually salty rather than sweet.)
But saying it like this meant that the Boss specially left it there and deserved to be given face. Ye Xiu took a Youtiao and put it in his mouth. After holding it in his mouth, he left the room.
Glory's new server continued to bring popularity to the Internet Cafe. However, the Happy Cafe was big enough and there was rarely a time when all of the seats were filled. Ye Xiu turned around and looked for an open spot in the smoking area. But when he felt his pockets, he discovered that his cigarette box was empty. This was much more painful than eating cold Youtiao! The even more painful part was that he had no money either. How was he going to pass the day?
Ye Xiu felt that he should ask the Boss for his pay in advance. Although food and shelter were covered, he ate very little. Every day he only had two meals. Besides this, he didn't know if he saved enough money to smoke. However, thinking of Chen Guo's hate for smoking, Ye Xiu felt he'd have a hard time making this a reality.
While he let his imagination run wild, someone patted his back. He immediately turned his head.
Chen Guo was the one who patted Ye Xiu. With a turn of his head, the Youtiao in his mouth almost slapped Chen Guo's face. Chen Guo, with her temper, immediately began scolding: "You hold cigarettes in your mouth. You hold Youtiao in your mouth. What can't you hold in your mouth? Can you not use your hands?"
Thinking of hands, Chen Guo once again recalled how pretty Ye Xiu's hands were. For those hands to be blackened by smoke or oiled by the Youtiao, that'd be a pity. Could it be that holding cigarettes and Youtiao in the mouth is proper? F*ck, this is making my head hurt. Chen Guo shook her head and glared at Ye Xiu: "Come with me."
Ye Xiu followed Chen Guo to the reception desk. Tang Rou was currently sitting there. When she saw Chen Guo bringing Ye Xiu, she stood up and smiled.
"Tang Rou, Ye Xiu." Chen Guo introduced the two.
"Hi." Tang Rou extended out her hands. Chen Guo looked at these hands and felt envious of them. Ye Xiu's hands truly were pretty, but they were after all male hands. If those were a girl's hands, they'd be a bit too big. Tang Rou's hands were true girl hands. Any adjective used, fine jade, slender, soft, nimble, etc, anything that could describe Tang Rou's hands wouldn't be excessive.
"Hi, hi." When Ye Xiu said this, the Youtiao was stuffed into his mouth and he was chewing violently, so the pronunciation wasn't clear. Seeing Tang Rou extended her hands out, he immediately did the same.
The two shook hands. Tang Rou also payed attention to Ye Xiu's hands and did it while keeping proper manners. While they shook hands, she quickly glanced at it. Afterwards, her gaze continued to look politely towards Ye Xiu's eyes.
After a casual shake, they pulled back their hands. Ye Xiu didn't look any different on the outside, but he was pretty astonished on the inside. This was because he didn't think that this girl, Tang Rou, would be like this.
Her appearance and figure were all outstanding. But the part that made her feel out of the ordinary was the aura that she exuded. Form, appearance, clothes, there was no part of her that made people feel uncomfortable. No matter what angle she was looked at, she was an immortal beauty from the legends. The only different part was her short hair. At first, it looked a bit weird, but after seeing it a couple times, this type of short hair only made her look more fresh and pretty.
But Ye Xiu's astonishment wasn't about this. He was astonished because why would such an outstanding girl be willing to work part-time at an Internet Cafe for two years?
No matter how big Happy Internet Cafe was, the only one who would become rich was Chen Guo. As for regular employees, the salary here wasn't bad, but it wasn't any type of work with future prospects.
Network manager, cashier……what youth would pursue this type of job all their life? These were only temporary jobs so that they could eat their fill. Normal people wouldn't want to work in these types of jobs for two years. To saying nothing of an outstanding girl like Tang Rou.
"Come come come. You guys fight a round." Chen Guo wouldn't let Ye Xiu continue to ponder. After introducing the two, she went straight for the main subject. She looked as if she had waited all day and had to restrain herself from dragging Ye Xiu out of bed.
"Fight?" Ye Xiu asked.
"Glory! Where else can you fight?" Chen Guo said.
"Oh, you can play Glory?" Ye Xiu asked Tang Rou.
"No, I don't know how." Tang Rou smiled.
Chen Guo heard this and was extremely unhappy: "If you can't play, then what am I?"
"You really can play. I'm just so-so that's all." Tang Rou said.
"How good is so-so?" Ye Xiu didn't understand.
"Don't listen to her modesty. She really can play." Chen Guo had already dragged the two to their stations.
"Little Tang, use my Chasing Haze!" Chen Guo said and asked Ye Xiu: "And you? You reached Level 20 yesterday night, right? What class did you change to?"
"I still haven't changed." Ye Xiu said.
"What, you're not going to change?"
"I'm playing unspecialized." Ye Xiu said.
"Unspecialized?" Chen Guo was astonished. Even in her five years, the era of unspecialized characters was already long gone. She had only heard a few veterans bring it up and using their words: it was just a legend.
"How do you play as an unspecialized character? How are you going to level after 50?" Chen Guo said.
"You couldn't before, but now you can." Ye Xiu said.
"How are you going to level?" Chen Guo asked.
"Heavenly Domain." Ye Xiu said.
"Are you joking?" Chen Guo said wide-eyed, "You want to complete the Heavenly Domain challenges at Level 50?"
"I'm awesome, right?"
"Awesome, my ass!" Chen Guos said, "A Level 50 challenging the Heavenly Domain……." Chen Guo tried to analyze how hard that would be. But after awhile she hadn't gotten anywhere because it really was too difficult. She didn't even know where to start.
"If you want to see it, then please don't fire me." Ye Xiu laughed.
"You're mad." Chen Guo concluded.
Ye Xiu laughed and logged into his account: "I'm only Level 21. I'll play against your Level 70 in the Fixed Field."
"You want to use that lousy account?" Chen Guo's eyes widened.
"Then what do I use?" Ye Xiu didn't understand.
"I'll borrow whatever class you want!" This was also why Chen Guo asked what class Ye Xiu changed to. Chen Guo had many frequent customers, so she was certain she could borrow an account to temporarily use.
"Unspecialized….."
"Get lost!"
Tang Rou looked at these two, quite interested. She discovered that he was just like how everyone described. This person was really good at making Chen Guo angry!
"We can just casually fight one round. There's no need to be so serious!" Tang Rou said.
"Exactly." Ye Xiu agreed.
"How are a Level 21 and a Level 70 going to fight." Chen Guo said.
"Fixed Field!" Ye Xiu said.
Chen Guo was speechless. Fixed Field was for practice. Victory or defeat wouldn't be recorded. In Fixed Field, the system would fix all attributes and equipment. After being fixed, it didn't matter if it was a Level 21 and a Level 70 character, their attributes would be the same. But even if the attributes were fixed, the difference in the amount of skills they had couldn't be amended. A Level 21 character definitely wouldn't have skills that could be learned after Level 20. This couldn't be fixed. Even if a Level 21 and a Level 70 fought in the Fixed Field, the Level 21 would still be at a disadvantage.
"You forgot. I'm unspecialized. Level 20 and Level 70 doesn't matter." Ye Xiu said.
Chen Guo finally understood. Right. If it was an unspecialized character, level didn't matter, because unspecialized characters couldn't learn Level 20 and above skills.
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Chapter 48 – Countless Variations
"Okay, today I'll open my eyes and see this so-called unspecialized character!" Chen Guo said. From when she started playing Glory, unspecialized characters had already become extinct.
"Make a room, okay, pick that map, right, the smallest one." Chen Guo stood behind Tang Rou pointing. Glory's Arena was a joint server. After joining the Arena, a player could duel others from different servers. The character would have the server number next to the name. This way, even the those with the same name could be differentiated by servers.
"Invite him. Lord Grim. Right, those two words." Chen Guo said. Tang Rou sent the invite and the system prompted: the player you have invited is not in the Arena.
"What are you doing, hurry up!" Chen Guo yelled.
"Wait a bit, let me use my skill points." Lord Grim had leveled up last night. Leveling, clearing dungeons, quests, he had accumulated quite a few skill points and hadn't had the time to use them yet.
"So slow." Chen Guo mumbled to herself.
Although she was worried, Tang Rou, on the other hand, was calm and unhurried. Looking at Chasing Haze's equipment: "Have you recently gotten any good equipment?" Although she didn't play, her knowledge of Chasing Haze wasn't lower than Chen Guo's. After all, Chen Guo loved to talk about it!
"No, how could it be so easy!" While Chen Guo replied, she impatiently looked towards Ye Xiu, but saw that guy sneakily waving his hands at her, hinting her to come over.
What are you doing? Chen Guo muttered to herself as she walked over.
"To specially want me and her to battle a round, you don't have any particular reason, do you?" Ye Xiu asked in a low voice.
"What do you think?"
"I don't know, that's why I'm asking you! You don't need me to let her win, right?" Ye Xiu said.
"Let? Say it after you've beaten her!" Chen Guo said.
"Okay okay." Ye Xiu nodded his head and let Lord Grim enter the Arena: "Ready."
Tang Rou invited and Ye Xiu accepted. Chen Guo ran back to behind Tang Rou. Ye Xiu, however, wasn't in a rush. He stretched out his neck and asked: "Just fight like this? Do you want to do a little betting?"
"What betting?" Chen Guo didn't understand.
"For example, a cigarette pack." Ye Xiu suggested.
Chen Guo almost died from anger. Right when she was about to roar, Tang Rou said happily: "Okay! I can't smoke and I don't have any cigarettes either. Let's bet a hundred yuan, what do you think?
"Okay okay!" Ye Xiu gladly agreed.
"Then I'll testify. Here's a hundred yuan." Tang Rou took out a hundred yuan and gave it to Chen Guo.
"Do you both agree?" Chen Guo was flabbergasted.
"It's just for fun!" Tang Rou laughed.
"Okay." Chen Guo delightedly took Tang Rou's one hundred yuan: "And you?"
"I……Oh, that's nothing, I have here a rare cigarette box……."
"You've gone mad from poverty, haven't you?" Chen Guo really was happy and laughed. She took out a hundred yuan and waved it in front of him: "I'll let you borrow this. I'll deduct it from your salary."
"Okay okay. I'll return it right away." Ye Xiu said.
"How confident. We're starting!" Tang Rou said.
"Start start."
The scene changed and the two entered the Arena. The map was the smallest stage. The opponents stood on opposite sides. Chen Go served as the coach outside of the stage: "He still hasn't changed classes. This is called an unspecialized character. He'll have many skill variations. By looking at his weapon, you can figure out which class's skill he's going to use."
"Oh." Tang Rou replied. Although she hadn't officially played Glory, for over a year, she had played many rounds of PK for Chen Guo. She knew of all of the different classes.
"Then what is the weapon in his hand called?" Tang Rou pointed to the screen.
"This…… This….." Chen Guo looked for a long time, but couldn't recognize it. She directly asked: "What's the weapon in your hand?"
"Shameless!" Ye Xiu, "You have to ask?"
"It looks like an umbrella?" Tang Rou let Chasing Haze walk forward a few steps and zoomed in.
"Umbrella? There's no such weapon. It's gotta be a broom, right?" Chen Guo also leaned forward to look.
"I'm coming!" While Ye Xiu said this, he let Lord Grim run forward in a straight line towards Chasing Haze.
Tang Rou really did react fast. When Lord Grim moved, she had already moved her mouse in an instant and shot accurately. But in a blur, Lord Grim flickered and avoided the shot. Chen Guo, who was watching on the side, knew that this move was called Z Shake. The principle was simple, but was extremely difficult to pull off in an actual battle.
After dodging the shot, Lord Grim closed the distance. He lowered his body and Slide Kicked towards Chasing Haze.
"How crafty!" Chen Guo was deeply moved. Although Slide Kick was a Gunner skill, it was a body skill, so the weapon didn't matter. This attack still didn't reveal what thing he was holding onto.
Sure enough, Tang Rou's hand speed didn't disappoint Chen Guo's expectations. Before the Slide Kick hit, Chasing Haze had already rolled out of the way. She quickly got up and prepared to use a body skill to hit back. Her dodge, move, and attacks were all performed extremely quickly.
Who knew that the screen would suddenly flash with a shining white light. Lord Grim's right hand took out a sharp sword from that unknown weapon in his left hand.
This shining light wasn't merely as simple as pulling out a weapon. This was the Blade Master Skill: Sword Draw!
This attack surprised Chen Guo. Even if she wanted to switch actions, she was afraid that her reaction speed was too slow. Unlike her, Tang Rou's left hand had already tapped the keyboard twice. Her right hand pushed the mouse. Chasing Haze leaped backwards and prepared to fire another shot.
This move dodged the Sword Draw attack and returned fire. After the shot launched, using the recoil, she flew backwards to increase their distance. This was practically killing three birds with one stone. Right when Chen Guo wanted to yell out "good", she didn't think that after Lord Grim used Sword Draw, his sword had already returned to the sheath. He seized the opportunity to chain "Sword" "Belt" "Sheath" and chased after the mid-air Chasing Haze. At this moment, he had already closed in.
This change was even quicker. Chen Guo couldn't figure out which Blade Master attack used a sheath to smash. But she felt that there was still a bit of distance between Chasing Haze and Lord Grim. Then, the umbrella-like thing in Lord Grim's hands opened up. In an instant, the umbrella flipped and the umbrella bones turned upside down. They concentrated on the tip as if it were a lance and then stabbed towards Chasing Haze. Immediately following, Lord Grim flipped the handle. This lance drew a semicircle bringing Chasing Haze along with it and flipped her upside down, her head down and feet up.
Chen Guo was shocked because this wasn't any ordinary attack. This was a skill called "Circle Swing", a Battle Mage skill. This wasn't a rare skill among unspecialized characters, but the problem was that Lord Grim had used that thing to execute Sword Draw, so it should be a Swordsman class weapon. How could it suddenly turn into a Battle Mage lance in the blink of an eye?
Tang Rou was more stunned by his technique. After fighting for a bit, she was actually slower by a level. This was something she hadn't expected.
Due to Glory being a first person perspective game, this type of skill like Circle Swing was relatively strong. Having the sky and earth flipping upside down in an instant destroyed people's sense of direction, making the victim feel vexed. Chen Guo could be considered an experienced veteran, so she wouldn't go so far as to become confused. But Tang Rou only played occasionally. Although she had extremely high hand speed to carry her, this type of sudden viewpoint change was too much for her.
She hastily figured out the direction and twisted her body. But unexpectedly, Chasing Haze was unable to turn over her body. Her character raised her head to look. One of Lord Grim's feet had stepped on her, while the other was on the ground. That thing in his hand had returned back to its original shape. This time, it looked like a close-ranged pose. Chen Guo and Tang Rou finally saw that it really was an umbrella and that the umbrella's tip was aimed at Chasing Haze's head.
The two still hadn't recovered from the shock when the umbrella tip unleashed a tongue of flame. Peng Peng Peng, a string of gun sounds hit the downed Chasing Haze.
Gunner Class Sharpshooter Skill: Punisher.
[TL Note: /Mb6Yn81 – A one step instruction manual by NomYummi on how to get rid of the flying text in the video below] [TLC Note: I found a fanart model video about these forms.(unofficial, based on literary description and fantasy, not exactly same with the original work, for instance, 伞 should be Shield Form, and there should be no 权杖形态, the author had modified 权杖 into 骑士剑, which is the official name of umbrella form]
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Chapter 49 – You Really Don't Know How to Play
"D*mn, what is that thing?" Chen Guo was dumbstruck. The weapon in Lord Grim's hands was a trinity. Sword, lance, gun. A transforming weapon?
Compared to Chen Guo, Tang Rou, who didn't know much about Glory, wasn't too scared by it. Her fingers quickly jumped and Chasing Haze did a Roundhouse Kick.
After Lord Grim leaped to avoid it, Chasing Haze raised her hands and used an Anti-Tank Missile. Tang Rou acted quickly. The skill itself also launched quickly. The distance was close and Lord Grim took the explosion head on and turned into a cloud of smoke.
Tang Rou and Chen Guo were both startled. In the Fixed Field, players couldn't be killed like this in an instant. Even if they were, the dead player would leave a corpse. How could he just turn into a cloud of smoke?
Not good!
By the time Tang Rou realized it, it was already too late. With a peng, blood blossomed out from Chasing Haze's neck.
Assassin Skill: Cut Throat.
This skill had to be used from behind the target. Adding onto the armor-ignoring back attack, even though it was a low-leveled skill, it still did considerable damage.
As for that Lord Grim, who had been turned into smoke by the Anti-Tank Missile, the two both understood too late that it was the Ninja Skill Shadow Clone Technique. After dodging her Roundhouse Kick, he used the skill. He left the clone in front of her, while his real body split to behind her body, completing the Cut Throat.
Tang Rou, who had suffered from attacks multiple times, now had a look of extreme concentration on her. After a series of tapping sounds, Chasing Haze flew through the blood blossom like an arrow. She completed a 180 degree turn in midair not even half a meter above the ground, showing her exceptionally quick technique.
Her mouse quickly moved looking for a target to fire at. But when her character turned, she only saw a sword light chopping down towards her, bringing along a bloody mist.
Swordsman Class Berserker Skill: Collapsing Mountain.
Although the skills learned by unspecialized characters didn't have the damage bonuses given if they were done by the skill's original class, the original effects wouldn't change. Collapsing Mountain chopped down towards Chasing Haze. After hitting the ground, there was a short knock-up effect. Lord Grim quickly seized the opportunity and kneed her, smashing Chasing Haze higher into the air. With a shake of the Thousand Chance Umbrella, the midair Chasing Haze was gunned down repeatedly. Chen Guo and Tang Rou were beyond familiar with this skill. This was a Launcher Skill: BBQ.
After Chasing Haze, who had just been barbecued by gunfire, fell to the ground, she immediately turned over to fight again. But when her character turned around a circle, she couldn't find Lord Grim's figure. Instead, she saw a Green Goblin swaying around throwing rocks at her. Tang Rou and Chen Guo both collapsed. This was a Mage Class Summoner's summoned pet.
Raising her hands, she bombarded the Goblin, when Lord Grim suddenly dropped from the sky stepping on top of Chasing Haze's head.
Fighter Class Striker Skill: Eagle Stamp.
Tang Rou no longer had that previous "just for fun" attitude. After being stepped on, Chasing Haze pointed her gun up towards the sky, ready to gun him down. But to her surprise, Lord Grim's umbrella tip once again aimed at her. A flame tongue shot out and more blood blossomed out from Chasing Haze's head. Lord Grim used the recoil of this gun and easily flew backwards with "Aerial Fire".
Close combat was disadvantageous towards Launchers. Tang Rou had wanted to use "Aerial Fire" the entire time to pull apart the distance, but this time, the opponent unexpectedly took the initiative to distance himself. After being hit multiple times, Chasing Haze didn't have much life left. Yet Lord Grim didn't even seem like he had been touched. Tang Rou hadn't given up hope and prepared to continue attacking him, when Ye Xiu said: "How about we stop fighting?"
"Why?" Tang Rou asked.
"It turns out you really don't know how to play." Ye Xiu said.
"……." Tang Rou didn't know what to say. Aside from Chen Guo enthusiastically explaining to her a few things, she really didn't know much else. But even like this, just relying on her high hand speed, she helped Chen Guo defeat opponents Chen Guo couldn't win against. She had even completed the Heavenly Domain Skill Challenge that was difficult for the majority of the players.
Tang Rou could say that she didn't know Glory, but she was still extremely strong.
This was why Chen Guo wanted to bring her into the game by every means possible. But it was also why she wasn't interested in the game.
A lot of people did things because they found it easy. Tang Rou was different. She couldn't concentrate on things that she found easy.
The tormented Chen Guo also saw this. This was an extremely competitive girl. Once she found something difficult, without anyone's encouragement, she wouldn't stop until she overcame it.
For example, when she attacked at Chasing Haze's Heavenly Domain Skill Challenge, Tang Rou also failed many times before succeeding. In that short amount of time, the amount of drive she had looked a hundred times greater than Chen Guo's love for Glory.
Chen Guo thought that this time, Tang Rou was moved. But who knew that after the Skill Challenge, Tang Rou quickly lost interest in Glory. Clearing for equipment and so on, Tang Rou didn't take this type of item hoarding seriously.
In the end, Tang Rou saw Glory as being "so it was that easy". In order to arouse her interest, her impression of the game had to change. This was why Chen Guo kept on looking for opponents that Tang Rou couldn't beat to make her realize the difficulty of the game. But this actually made it worse. Every time Tang Rou met a so-called expert in the Arena, she would quickly beat him.
That sort of celebrity names, those professional gamers, Chen Guo didn't know how many times she explained them to Tang Rou. But Tang Rou only laughed, not believing her. No choice. Facts spoke louder than words. But where would Chen Guo find such an expert?
Up until Tang Rou returned, Chen Guo kept on thinking of letting Ye Xiu try her out.
Chen Guo didn't know exactly how strong Ye Xiu was. However, he had once been in the professional circle, so he had to be stronger than normal players. At worst, Tang Rou would just say "so it was that easy" again.
This was Chen Guo's original intention. But every time she came into contact with Ye Xiu, he would always make her mad. Angrily, Chen Guo forgot her original notion and stood behind Tang Rou, hoping for Tang Rou to tyrannically destroy Ye Xiu to vent her anger. But in the end, Tang Rou was beaten without a chance to retaliate. Only after Ye Xiu said "don't know how to play", did she finally remember.
"Don't know how to play?" Chen Guo felt this remark was a little too excessive. If that was considered as not knowing how to play, then what about all of those opponents Tang Rou had beaten? Furthermore, wasn't this guy too strong? He had completely suppressed Tang Rou from start to finish. A player from the professional circle really was on a different level. Ordinarily, when she watched recordings of competitions, it didn't feel like they were that OP! It seemed like it was still the problem of opponents. Pro-gamer versus pro-gamer were all evenly matched opponents so it didn't look any different from when normal players fought.
Ye Xiu, who sat nearby, had already stood up. He nodded his head and said: "Your technique is quite quick, but the coordination between your left and right hands is a complete mess. When your viewpoint suddenly changes, your adaptability and judgement pretty much turns to zero. Your understanding towards equipment and skills isn't nearly enough. Your real combat experience is too little and your tactics are too stiff, how could this be considered playing? If you want to beat me with this skill, then come back in a hundred years!"
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Chapter 50 – Again!
"Hey hey, you're going too far!" Chen Guo was a bit angry. Although she really had looked for someone to irritate Tang Rou, she didn't actually think Ye Xiu wouldn't say a single good point about her. Did he really need to go so far?
"Oh, I'm sorry." Ye Xiu said, "I was a little excessive. The one hundred years part is only an exaggeration. You don't actually need that long."
Hearing the first half, Chen Guo was astonished that this guy actually admitted his error. But after hearing the last half, she became so furious that her nose almost went crooked.
"You just can't say anything good." While Chen Guo said this, she glanced at Tang Rou. She had pushed it too far! She had always wanted to irritate this little sister once, but now that she had done it, she was afraid that she had gone too far.
"Hmm…….Her technique was quite quick. I said that!" Ye Xiu said.
"What else?" Chen Guo said.
"What else……." Ye Xiu thought hard. His sight shifted to a different place: "She's very pretty."
Chen Guo coughed blood. He's praising her, right? He's praising her, right? But the problem was that they were discussing the game. He said "she's very pretty", but didn't that still mean that there wasn't a single good point about her playing?
Tang Rou's going to be angry, she's going to be angry…… Chen Guo lowered her head and looked. Tang Rou was biting her lips. Her right hand was still tightly gripping the mouse. If she were Chen Guo, then she would have already grabbed the keyboard and started smashing him with it. But after all, Tang Rou wasn't her. She only coldly said: "Say it after we've finished fighting."
"There's no need. I was going leniently before. If not, then after the Eagle Stamp, I would have used Falling Light Blade, Sky Strike, swept the floor, Dragon Tooth, Falling Flower Palm, and then you'd be dead." Ye Xiu said.
"Then why didn't you continue?" Tang Rou asked.
"If I did that, then I'd have won and taken your 100 yuan. But you really don't know how to play, so that would be too unfair. I'd be too embarrassed to take your 100 yuan. Forget about it!" Ye Xiu said and then faced Chen Guo: "Boss, that 100 yuan is mine! You can deduct that from my salary. You already agreed."
"You you you……" Chen Guo was so angry, she almost died. Taking that 100 yuan, she crumpled it into a ball and threw it: "Take it."
"Thanks." Ye Xiu immediately caught it. He wasn't actually penniless. But cigarettes were like food and had to be consumed. From a long-term standpoint, he had to be prepared.
"If I lost, I lost. You don't need to pass on it. You take this 100 yuan." Tang Rou stood up. She took that 100 yuan she bet and handed it over.
"Forget about it. I'd really be too embarrassed to take it." Ye Xiu said.
"Take it!" Chen Guo glared at Ye Xiu. She knew of Tang Rou's temper. This girl was eager and serious. If Ye Xiu insisted on not accepting the money, then things wouldn't end well. She was now afraid that Ye Xiu was also a guy who would bash his head against a brick wall. If he didn't take the money no matter what, then what should she do?
But in the end, she heard Ye Xiu say: "Then give it to Boss. I owe her money."
B*stard! Kicking the ball to me! Chen Guo was furious, but Tang Rou had different intentions. Tang Rou didn't want to anger Chen Guo, so she took the money to her: "Then his debt is clear now!"
"Let's fight another round." Tang Rou threw this at him and sat down. Chen Guo could only feel as if her cheeks streamed with tears. This was Tang Rou. She wasn't like Chen Guo, and wouldn't start yelling and strangling the other person. She was a firm believer that facts spoke louder than words and would only use her strength to make you speechless.
Due to the practice nature of the Fixed Field, there was no victory or defeat counter. The player was also free to enter or exit whenever they wanted to. After Tang Rou sat down, she directly selected the again option. Without waiting for Ye Xiu to speak, she pulled out another 100 yuan and put it on the table: "It's still one round, one hundred. Although I don't really know how to play, I hope you'll treat this seriously."
Ye Xiu turned around towards Chen Guo. Chen Guo spread out her hands, meaning that she didn't care, you fix your own problems!
"Okay……" Ye Xiu also didn't say too much and silently sat down.
The new round started. Chen Guo still stood behind Tang Rou, but this time she only quietly watched without saying anything. She also wouldn't fuss too much about nothing.
The situation was the same as the previous round. Chasing Haze still lost without even touching Lord Grim's clothing. The only difference this time was Lord Grim didn't show any more mercy. He directly depleted Chasing Haze's life.
"Again!" Tang Rou without saying anything further. She pulled out another 100 yuan and slapped it down. She chose the again option.
Still lost.
"Again!"
Another loss.
"Again!"
Another loss.
Ye Xiu didn't say another word. Chen Guo looked again at Ye Xiu's expression. She only saw that Lord Grim truly didn't show the slightest amount of mercy. Concentrated and cautious, he didn't let a single opportunity go. Vicious and merciless.
Many Internet Cafe guests gradually noticed this competition. A few frequent customers had already left their stations and gathered to watch the scene.
Most of the frequent customers recognized Tang Rou. To many, this beauty was their dream girlfriend. As a result, many knew that Tang Rou didn't play Glory, but her PK skill wasn't low. Now that they saw her repeatedly slapping down one bill after another, all of them were dumbstruck.
As for her opponent? He had only arrived two days ago and did a night shift, so frequent customers didn't immediately recognize him. Only after seeing the battle, people behind Tang Rou exclaimed in awe: "Lord Grim, that's the tenth server's Lord Grim."
"Really? Where, where?" This short remark startled many people. Quite a few customers who heard this came over to join the crowd.
Tang Rou and Ye Xiu weren't disturbed by this. They continued to meticulously battle. When Chen Guo saw these people's reactions towards Lord Grim, she was astonished. She seized a person watching: "Who's Lord Grim?"
"The tenth server's most popular character. Three first clears in beginner village. Frost Forest's current clear record holder and has already joined Blue Brook Guild."
"No! I know people from Blue Brook Guild. After Lord Grim helped them set a new record, he left the guild."
"D*mn, he doesn't even see Blue Brook Guild in his eyes. What does he want to do?"
"Hey, quiet down. He's right there."
"What, which one?"
This crowd that didn't know the facts clearly hadn't realized that the person Tang Rou was betting money with was sitting directly across from her.
"Wow, lost again……"
"What round is this?"
"I don't know. When I came, it had already started."
"There's five hundred on the table, right?"
"Yeah yeah."
"Wow, another bill!"
"Sis Tang, go go……."
Just like this, Tang Rou lost ten rounds in a row. In those ten rounds, it couldn't be said that Lord Grim's clothing hadn't been touched once, but in the spectator's eyes, they didn't see a single chance of her winning. The previous cheering sounds had already turned to comforting. There were also a few people who started despising Lord Grim for not having tender, more protective feelings towards girls.
"Again!" Tang Rou remained unmoved. She yelled it again. But after she pulled out her purse, she could only stare blankly.
She couldn't fight another round… because she had no money.
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Chapter 51 – The Weapon That Couldn't Be Hidden
When Ye Xiu heard Tang Rou yell "Again", he didn't waver in the slightest. He only steadily gripped his mouse and was ready to kill and behead the girl again. However, after he heard the yell this time, he didn't enter the stage. Ye Xiu stood up and saw Tang Rou's shriveled-up empty purse.
"Finally no money?" Ye Xiu laughed.
This guy…….was waiting until I emptied my purse before stopping!? Tang Rou slowly stood up: "Wait for me to get more."
"Sis Tang, forget about it……" The surrounding people that knew her all tried to persuade her.
"Little Tang……" Chen Guo also went over to block her. With this girl's competitiveness, Chen Guo didn't doubt that she would try until she went bankrupt. The most loathsome part was that Ye Xiu. After winning, he didn't even try to give her a way out of this embarrassing situation.
In the end, she heard Ye Xiu say: "Forget about it! This type of recklessness isn't fun….."
Still mocking her! Chen Guo was furious. She turned around and right when she was about to say something, she heard Ye Xiu follow: "You should learn it properly first. You should at least figure out how large the gap between me and you is. You can't win in Glory with just hand speed. If you want to fight with me, there will be plenty of chances later."
Chen Guo was startled. This was actually sensible and reasonable. This guy finally said some real people talk. But at this moment, how could the ignited Tang Rou pay attention to this?
Tang Rou's footsteps had already stopped and she stood there lost in thought. The surrounding crowd went silent. All of them seemed like they were waiting for some great conclusion. Chen Guo suddenly saw something move from the corner of her eye. She turned her head to look. It was Ye Xiu giving her a meaningful look and gesturing at her. This shameful guy actually wanted her to hand him the money!
Chen Guo was angry! But she knew that with Tang Rou's temperament she definitely wouldn't let him return the money. Now at this moment, she ignored Ye Xiu and waved her hands at the spectating crowd: "What are you looking at? It's already over. Go, go."
The spectating crowd saw that Tang Rou didn't move, so they didn't either. Instead, they surrounded Ye Xiu and asked: "Brother, what weapon is that?"
Only players that didn't play Glory wouldn't care. When this question was asked, even Chen Guo pricked her ears up. On one hand, she wanted to hear the answer, but on the other hand, she wanted to comfort Tang Rou. She was just too d*mned busy.
"Ha ha, it's nothing. It's just a thing I made myself." Ye Xiu said.
"Self-made weapon??" Someone reacted quickly. He immediately understood what the four words "I made it myself" meant and blurted it out in surprise.
The crowd immediately went into an uproar. Self-made equipment, that was high-end content that normal players couldn't even dream of touching. Glory had operated for ten years. The methods to self-making equipment that were published online were at best Orange-level equipment. The truly legendary Silver equipment that surpassed Orange equipment could only be seen in the professional leagues. Why would these professional clubs give away methods to making these sort of Silver equipment to the public?
"Brother, can we take a look at it?" Someone asked Ye Xiu.
"Sure!" Ye Xiu laughed and let everyone look at the Thousand Chance Umbrella.
While Chen Guo put her hands on Tang Rou's shoulder, she said "Go go go, let's go up and rest a bit." At the same time, she couldn't help but stretch out her neck to see what exactly Ye Xiu's Lord Grim held in his hands. Seeing this appearance, Tang Rou also couldn't help but laugh: "If you want to go look, then go look!"
Chen Guo heard this and turned her head to look. Tang Rou wasn't depressed like she expected, so she immediately felt relieved. But she still brought Tang Rou upstairs and said with authority: "Humph. I'll go look later. If he dares to not let me look, then I'll fire him."
The surrounding crowd that looked at the Thousand Chance Umbrella's attributes were all in awe. In addition, most of these players were playing in the new server, so they were very familiar with low-leveled weapons. With just a look, they could tell that this was a genuine Silver weapon! The legendary Orange-weapon-surpassing Silver Weapon.
"Amazing! How did you make it?" Someone blurted it out.
Ye Xiu smiled but didn't speak, so no one continued to question him. Even the previous person who blurted it out felt a little bad. Which self-made equipment wasn't made with blood, sweat, and tears? Who would ask for him to just casually give out his blood?
"What a pity! It's only Level 5……"
(TLNote: Only the Lance Form is Level 15. The other forms are still Level 5)
"The server just started, that's all! If you start collecting materials now, can't you get it to Level 70?"
"Really? I heard that self-made equipment only looked at materials and not the materials' levels!"
"F*ck, you understand huh? If you understand, go make one."
"I heard, that's just what I heard……"
The players commented one after another. Ye Xiu only smiled at what he heard, but didn't join the discussion. Normal players only had a smattering of knowledge on this sort of high-end content and couldn't really get anywhere with it. But a legendary self-made Silver weapon really did appear. This was already something everyone could talk about. However, all of the players didn't forget to add: it's a pity it's only Level 5.
Level 5 Equipment. No matter how OP it was, it still wouldn't have any value. Everyone understood the reasoning. Although most players knew that self-made equipment could be upgraded in the editor, upgrading was just as difficult as making. A small mistake could ruin the weapon. Level 5……. the starting point was so low. The amount of upgrades it needed was too big. Everyone all subconsciously thought that instead of upgrading it, it'd be better to just directly make a high-leveled one.
"Brother, are you going to make any other professional-level Silver weapons?" Someone knew how to ask the important questions. Compared to this Silver weapon, the talent that could make such a Silver weapon was of much more value.
"No more. This was something I just randomly threw together." Ye Xiu said.
"Brother, if you're ever going to make anything. I'll give you the materials, just name a price." There was still someone who wouldn't give up on self-made equipment! Ordinarily, they all felt that it was something too out of reach. But today, someone who had one appeared.
"I really can't. If I could, would I be sitting here?" Ye Xiu said.
The person, who had been unwilling to give it up, went silent. That was true. Someone who could make self-made equipment was definitely a more valuable talent than normal experts. They could close their door and get rich. They could also join a professional club's tech team.
"Brother, do you want to dungeon? Let's go together!" At this moment, there were even people who invited Ye Xiu to play. They were clearly also from the tenth server.
"I've already reached the entry limit." Ye Xiu laughed.
"Let's play together when there's a chance!"
"Okay."
After paying their respects and saying kind words to try and make friends with him, the crowd gradually dispersed. Ye Xiu let out a sigh. Truthfully, self-made weapons were too precious. They were supposed to be hidden from the outside. In Glory, players couldn't use the system to check on other people's equipment, so it was relatively good for hiding them.
But the problem was that the Thousand Chance Umbrella was too unusual. What game had this sort of transforming weapon? Players with a bit of common sense could figure out that it was self-made. And in an actual battle, the weapon's greatest value and features had to be displayed, so it wasn't possible to hide such a weapon.
Ye Xiu sighed. Right when he closed the equipment interface, he saw Chen Guo rush at him like lightning from the second floor. After running behind Ye Xiu, she asked: "What weapon? What weapon?"
"Self-made weapon, see for yourself……" Ye Xiu helplessly opened it again.
"Wow……" Chen Guo admired it. She was like every other player, with a hundred thousand questions to ask, but she also knew that it wasn't appropriate to ask these sorts of things.
"You're playing as an unspecialized character because of this weapon?" Chen Guo asked.
"Smart." Ye Xiu commended.
"You're too secretive." Chen Guo discovered that she needed to re-evaluate Ye Xiu. This sort of person that had been kicked out of the professional circle was more profound than she had originally thought! Although she herself didn't know exactly how skilled the pros were……
"When have I ever hid secrets from you?" Ye Xiu asked in reply.
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Chapter 52 – Picking a Class
By the time Chen Guo finished looking at the Thousand Chance Umbrella, Tang Rou had already returned downstairs. Ye Xiu and Chen Guo both looked at her without saying anything.
"How can you just leave your money there like that?" Tang Rou walked to her original spot. She neatly folded the money on the table and handed it over to Ye Xiu.
Chen Guo sighed. This girl really did take things seriously. She wouldn't back out on her word. Chen Guo now hoped Ye Xiu would hurry up and take the money and not let side issues keep popping up.
Ye Xiu didn't let her down. He stood up to take the money. Although this was clearly what Chen Guo wanted, after seeing Ye Xiu get ready to take the money, Chen Guo immediately became angry.
"You have the nerve to take it?" Chen Guo said.
"What's wrong?" Ye Xiu and Tang Rou both said.
Chen Guo lost. After all, in the end, she wasn't a part of the bet.
"I'll win that money back sooner or later." Tang Rou said when she handed over the money to Ye Xiu.
"I'll be take responsibility and tell you. That's much harder than you think." Ye Xiu laughed. After putting the money in his pocket, he logged out of the game. He said goodbye and then left.
"Doesn't this guy just make you angry?" Chen Guo grinded her teeth towards Tang Rou.
"Relax, relax." Tang Rou, who was looked down upon, said pleasantly.
"Hurry up and practice. Afterwards, ruthlessly sort out this guy and put him in his place." Chen Guo said.
"How big of a difference do you think there is between me and him?" Tang Rou asked Chen Guo.
"This……." Chen Guo reddened a bit. Even if Tang Rou didn't know how to play, only Ye Xiu dared to say this. In Chen Guo's eyes, Tang Rou was already considered an expert. Tang Rou was better than her. Ye Xiu even more so. Both of these players were better than her, so how could she see how skilled they were? To say nothing of the difference in their skill levels. If she could tell the difference in their skills, then she wouldn't have needed to randomly test for Ye Xiu and Tang Rou to PK.
"I really can't tell." Chen Guo could only admit this.
Tang Rou lowered her head to look at Chasing Haze, who hadn't yet logged out. After a while, she said: "It looks like he's right. I can't even tell how far apart we are. I have to take a comprehensive course."
Chen Guo was secretly delighted in her heart. This Tang Rou was finally interested in playing Glory. But she didn't show it in her face and said with a deadpan look: "Luckily, the new server opened yesterday. I'll go and get you an account card."
"Okay." Tang Rou obediently let Chen Guo be bursting with joy. When she opened the Internet Cafe, she obviously had Glory account cards ready. She promptly took a card and helped her create a character.
After choosing a name, she entered the game. The beginner village quests couldn't be any easier. If this was an ordinary day, Tang Rou would have already thrown aside this sort of easy task after half a minute at best . But today, she was unexpectedly serious. She even read parts of the beginner guidebook that even Chen Guo felt unnecessary. This girl finally used her seriousness for Glory. Chen Guo felt a type of good feeling after obtaining a such a positive outcome after so much effort. She was itching to start discussing a very important issue with Tang Rou .
"What class do you want to play?"
"I still haven't thought about it!" Tang Rou said.
"There's no need to be in a hurry. Before Level 20, you can learn any skill from any class. You can try them all and see which class you find the most suitable." Chen Guo said.
"If you keep leveling and simply don't change classes, then you'll be an unspecialized character like Ye Xiu, right?" Tang Rou asked.
"He's recklessly playing. Don't learn from him." Chen Guo jumped in fright.
"Reckless playing?" Tang Rou didn't understand.
"After a character reaches Level 50, they need to complete a class awakening quest in order to continue gaining experience and leveling up. But unspecialized characters don't have a class awakening quest, so when they get to Level 50, they have no way of leveling. This was the reason why the unspecialized playing style disappeared." Chen Guo explained.
"Didn't Ye Xiu say a moment ago that he could continue leveling when he got into the Heavenly Domain at Level 50?" Tang Rou said.
"Please! It's the Heavenly Domain! That dueling quest that you did for me was so difficult. How could a Level 50 do it?" Chen Guo said.
"Then Ye Xiu, he's….."
"He's crazy." Chen Guo interrupted Tang Rou.
"If he can do it and I can't, won't that mean he's better than me?" Tang Rou said.
Chen Guo was startled for a second and then immediately said: "If he can do it, you can also try it! Anyone can start the Heavenly Domain skill challenges at Level 50. There's no restriction for this."
"And more!" Chen Guo followed, "Do you remember Ye Xiu's weapon? That's the reason he chose to play as an unspecialized. That guy actually has a self-made weapon. The server just opened for two days! I don't know he got it." The more Chen Guo said, the more she doubted herself. This was one of the many questions she had, but she was too embarrassed to directly ask him.
"Self-made weapon? The extremely strong equipment that you said only professional players had?" Tang Rou asked. These questions thoroughly exposed that she was a true newbie in Glory.
"Right. Moreover, it's extremely powerful. Although it's only Level 5, it's a Silver Equipment that suprasses Orange Equipment. It looks to me that this guy has the means to continue upgrading this Silver weapon. Otherwise, there's no way he'd play unspecialized just for this Level 5 Silver weapon." Chen Guo said.
"How do you make a Silver weapon?" Tang Rou asked.
"Sister, your questions are too high-end. That's what I want to know!" Chen Guo said.
"It would be better if you just became a Launcher like me! You've also played my account card many times. You're most familiar with this class, so you'll definitely learn it quickly." Chen Guo didn't want to talk about self-made equipment with Tang Rou for too long. She was afraid that after describing the difficulty of self-making, she would excite Tang Rou into this direction instead of the game. That would be bad. Self-made equipment were truly too complicated. So many people had challenged it, but in the end, they all died doing so. Chen Guo didn't want Tang Rou to waste her energy doing this sort of task.
Launcher…….Tang Rou refused to comment. Although she didn't have much interest in Glory before, she did play it ever so often. In her heart, she really wasn't too interested in the Launcher class. She was more interested in those close combat classes. She felt that these classes required more skill. But Chen Guo was very fond of the Launcher class. Tang Rou didn't want to just splash cold water on her. Right when she was thinking, she suddenly remembered the other class Chen Guo often talked about: "Right, that one you often talked about. The one you said was the strongest. That something god? What class was that?"
"Battle God One Autumn Leaf!" Chen Guo blurted out. After saying this, her expression dimmed.
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Chapter 53: Battle Mage
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"Right, right. That one. What class is that Battle God?" Although Tang Rou couldn't even remember the famed name "Battle God One Autumn Leaf", Chen Guo's constant reminders left an imprint in her heart. Besides this, the only other one that left an even bigger imprint was the Launcher "Dancing Rain", directly because Chen Guo also played Launcher. She was Chen Guo's number one idol and the character Chen Guo talked the most about.
While Tang Rou said this, she looked towards Chen Guo and immediately saw Chen Guo's face dim.
"What's wrong?" Tang Rou jumped in fright. She knew Chen Guo for two years. Angry Chen Guo was a common occurrence, but sad Chen Guo was a first.
"Ye Qiu…… retired." Chen Guo said.
"Ye Qiu? You mean One Autumn Leaf's owner?" Tang Rou said.
"Yeah."
"Then One Autumn Leaf?"
"One Autumn Leaf is still there, but……"
Chen Guo couldn't clearly describe her concerns. In the ice-cold Professional Alliance, characters and athletes were divided into two categories. For players that liked Glory, some people admired those powerful characters, while others admired the athlete's excellent technique. As a result, for titles like Battle God, there were some that believed the title should be given to the character One Autumn Leaf, while some believed that it should be given to Ye Qiu, the athlete operating One Autumn Leaf. And in the middle, there were those in dispute. But gradually, similar disputes all gradually gave the title to the character.
This was because the character was the iron army camp, while the athlete was just one of the numerous soldiers.
Athletes would transfer clubs. Athletes would deteriorate and go past their prime. Athletes would eventually retire. But the character never would. As long as the club wanted to, the character could firmly stay in their hands and continue to be upgraded. The older it was, the more skill points it could have and the better the equipment. Currently, most of the world-shaking characters in Glory were all created in the first server and had already existed for nearly ten years.
Their operators had already changed who knew how many times, but their fame never fell.
A flower may blossom again, but a person can never turn young again.
As long as a strong character had a strong athlete controlling it, then its strength would be revealed. But the athlete? By natural law, no one could defeat the merciless killer that was time.
Ye Qiu and One Autumn Leaf were a rare exception. Both the character and the operator had been together for ten years, which was rarely seen in the Alliance. Other characters experienced changes in their operators. Each and every one of those athletes disappeared behind the scenes, leaving behind their famed characters. But the title Battle God had been shared with Ye Qiu and One Autumn Leaf the entire time. From when this title was given, Battle God had always belonged to the both of them.
Unfortunately, One Autumn Leaf was also a character, while Ye Qiu was merely an athlete. Athletes were destined to be the first to leave, while the character's fame would continue to be carried on.
While other characters had already been handed over multiple times, it was only the first time for the Battle God. As a result, a large handful of players bitterly wept and like Chen Guo, would sadden at the mention of the Battle God One Autumn Leaf. As for her, once Ye Qiu left, the Battle God title was no longer intact. A lot of hopeful feelings that she had were suddenly ripped apart just like this.
Tang Rou didn't understand Chen Guo's grief. She could only quietly sit there accompanying her and hold her hand without saying a word.
But all in all, Chen Guo was Chen Guo. She had already grieved yesterday. Being distressed over and over wasn't her style. After a while, her spirit had already lifted and she spoke towards Tang Rou: "The Battle God's class was Battle Mage. What, do you want to play that?"
"Okay! I might one day become that One Autumn Leaf's owner. When that time comes, wouldn't I be the new Battle God?" Tang Rou said.
"Ah! This goal is a thousand times better than beating that whatever Ye Xiu! Little Tang, you have to try hard and reach this goal!" Chen Guo smiled.
"Okay!" Tang Rou also smiled and then nodded her head.
"Then do you want me to teach you about the Battle Mage right now?" Chen Guo said.
"Yeah." Tang Rou nodded her head.
"The Battle Mage belongs to the Mage Class. They use magic to strengthen themselves and battle in close combat. They are proficient in two weapons, Poles and Battle Lances. Poles usually have an Attack Speed of 8, extremely quick. Battle Lances usually have an Attack Speed of 2, fairly slow, but their damage and range are high. I personally like Battle Lance because they're more tyrannical. If it wasn't tyrannical, how could it be called Battle God? See, One Autumn Leaf also uses a Battle Lance. One time….."
"Guo Guo……" Tang Rou reminded Chen Guo that she was going off topic.
"Oh……" Chen Guo coughed and continued explaining, "The Battle Mage's main features is that they can buff their own attributes using magic; after awakening, they also have Battle Spirit. Battle Spirit is a passive skill that completely relies on the operator's skill. If you see that the Battle Mage gets stronger as he fights, don't be surprised. One Autumn Leaf was considered a Battle God because Ye Qiu's skill could……"
"Guo Guo!" Tang Rou was already helpless.
"Okay, okay. Let's look at a video. While you look, I'll explain, okay?" Chen Guo said.
"Okay, okay." Tang Rou nodded her head. Chen Guo didn't even need to look up videos on the Internet. How could she be short of Battle God videos? She didn't know how many she had collected. After choosing one, she delightedly gave it to Tang Rou and explained it. After explaining it for a bit, the only words she said were gasps of surprise.
"Wow, look look. This time…."
"Woah woah woah. An 88 Combo! Do you know how much Battle Spirit will buff his attributes?"
"Ha ha ha, this stupid guy. He walked into the knock-up."
"Guo Guo……" Tang Rou helplessly said for the third time.
"Don't you feel that I should look at more beginner-leveled videos? You want me to just start by learning from the greatest expert among Battle Mages?" Tang Rou powerlessly said.
"Oh, so it's like this! Then let me look for a bit!"
The two girls immersed themselves in learning about the Battle Mage in this way, until an employee ran over to tell them that it was time to eat. The employee was impatiently driven away by Chen Guo.
Only until a voice, which had irritated Chen Guo every time she heard it, came: "Oh? You're learning about the Battle Mage?"
Ye Xiu!
Chen Guo immediately turned her head: "What do you want? Do you mind?"
"Little Tang wants to play as a Battle Mage?" Ye Xiu asked.
"Yeah." Tang Rou nodded her head.
"I can teach you then!" Ye Xiu said.
"Humph! No need." Chen Guo expressed her disdain.
"Boss, do you know what you just refused?" Ye Xiu said seriously.
"Tch." Chen Guo completely ignored him and turned her head to Tang Rou: "These are all Battle Mage guides written by Ye Qiu. Look, I've already ordered them for you. From shallow to deep, from attributes to skills to equipment, real combat skills, experience, technique, practice methods, and even a few collection of the best videos.
"Okay okay." Tang Rou nodded her head.
"Really! You don't want the actual person to teach. Do you really want to teach yourself?" Ye Xiu mumbled.
"You go somewhere else. Can your teaching even compare to 0.1% of these guides?" Chen Guo said.
"Sigh….. you'd better not regret it!" Ye Xiu sighed.
"So noisy!" Chen Guo's head didn't even turn. But Tang Rou turned and smiled towards Ye Xiu: "If I have any questions, I'll come ask you."
"Ha ha, you'll come across one soon. That guide you're looking at is from nine years ago. There have been many changes in the game within those nine years. Although you can still look at this guide, there are four places you have to pay attention to. The things mentioned there aren't suitable at all for the current Battle Mage." Ye Xiu said.
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Chapter 54 – Show Me
Tang Rou was still a newbie in this area, so she obviously didn't understand the situation. And Chen Guo? She played Launcher! Although she had watched many wonderfuls videos on Battle Mages, she never truly researched the class. She had browsed the Internet and clicked on guides just this afternoon. Chen Guo was recklessly relying on a hopelessly optimistic gamble. Her search words were Battle Mage and the author, Ye Qiu or One Autumn Leaf. Seeing a match, she picked the guide without thinking too much about it and arranged them for Tang Rou in volumes. But they had only started on the first page and Ye Xiu already criticized it saying that this guide was out of date in some places.
Now that he mentioned it, it really had been nine years! Who knew how many times Glory had been tweaked, which class hadn't experienced changes? If there hadn't been a single change in nine years, wouldn't that mean the players hadn't improved in that time? If it really was like this, then the game Glory wouldn't be so popular. The game also had time to grow!
"Are you saying the truth?" Chen Guo asked Ye Xiu.
"Yup."
"Then which four places?" Tang Rou asked.
"Why don't you two go eat dinner? I'll revise the guide for you." Ye Xiu said.
Of these two people, one of them was engrossed in the game, while the other made a firm resolution to get engrossed in the game. They had researched the Battle Mage together and didn't think to eat. Once they heard Ye Xiu say this, they both felt a little hungry.
"Then we'll head to dinner first?" Chen Guo asked for Tang Rou's opinion.
"Okay, sorry to trouble you." The latter half of Tang Rou's response was directed towards Ye Xiu.
"Go, go!" Ye Xiu drove away the two of them. Not long after sitting down, he heard Chen Guo's cry of surprise: "Why is today's dinner so luxurious? Who ordered it?"
Once she heard everyone say that it was Brother Ye, Chen Guo disdained him even more and said to Tang Rou: "He really knows how to take advantage of other people."
"Ha ha." Tang Rou laughed.
"You too. After losing so many times, you don't feel bad?" Chen Guo saw that Tang Rou didn't take the 1100 Yuan she lost seriously at all. Although she had worked two years as a long-time employee at the Internet Cafe, Chen Guo had deliberately raised her salary. But Tang Rou really didn't do anything too different from other employees. In the Internet Cafe, how many things could a sister do? She could really only keep watch at the reception desk. As a result, her salary couldn't actually be raised by that much. 1100 Yuan couldn't be a small amount for Tang Rou, but Tang Rou didn't seem to mind. Her temper was the complete opposite of this Boss Chen Guo's.
With the popularity of Chen Guo's Internet Cafe, at worst, she could guarantee a net income of one to two hundred thousand a month. A thousand Yuan wasn't much for her. But it also hadn't been easy for Chen Guo to have the Internet Cafe develop to its current level. In addition, with a steady flow of customers, she didn't really have any habit of wastefully spending money. Even for Chen Guo, losing a thousand Yuan in a few casual bouts of PK made her heart ache for Tang Rou.
"Of course!" Tang Rou said.
"You've lost all your money. What are you going to eat this month." Chen Guo said.
"Aren't you in charge of food?" Tang Rou smiled.
Chen Guo was helpless. Her guarantee that the Internet Cafe took care of food and shelter raised a bunch of people who spent their income before they earned their next salary.
"Hurry up and eat. After eating, let's see what new trick that guy's come up with." Chen Guo said.
Meanwhile, Ye Xiu quickly revised the outdated parts. Afterwards, he looked at the materials Chen Guo arranged for Tang Rou. He saw that Miss High and Mighty Chen Guo's trademark awareness was extremely strong. She had picked everything that had Ye Qiu or One Autumn Leaf on it. Seeing this, Ye Xiu really didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He cleaned up anything unnecessary, repeated, and outdated. He added in anything missing, deleted anything that could be deleted, fixed anything that could be fixed, and elaborated on anything that could be elaborated on. While busily working in this abyss of suffering, Chen Guo and Tang Rou finished eating and returned. Chen Guo glanced and saw that Ye Xiu only glimpsed at the guide she had looked hard for, and then threw it in the trash. She immediately rushed up to ask: "What are you doing?"
"There's a bunch of useless repeated things in that messy pile of yours. I'm helping you tidy it up." Ye Xiu said.
"Really?" Chen Guo was skeptical. Although Ye Xiu always made her pissed, Chen Guo recognized his skill in Glory. This Ye Xiu really was better than her by a lot.
"Are you sure? These are all posts written by the God Ye Qiu." Chen Guo.
"I'm sure. How could I not be? If he knew, he would also be very thankful for having the opportunity to let me tidy it up." Ye Xiu said.
"No good. Let me check that guide you threw into the trash." Chen Guo said.
"If you can understand it, then go ahead!" Ye Xiu laughed.
Chen Guo turned gloomy! Truthfully, she had never played Battle Mage. She only had a bit of knowledge on the mid-game and late-game content in those guides. When she reached this content, Tang Rou had to figure it out on her own. But seeing Ye Xiu's very professional look, Chen Guo couldn't help but say: "Can you really teach?"
"I can."
"You know everything about Battle Mages?"
"I do."
"You're not afraid that little Tang's going to beat you after teaching her?"
"Ha ha ha ha." Ye Xiu laughed, "How could it be that easy. The master leads the way, but it depends on you yourself to learn. Have you heard of this before? The theories are all the same, but whether or not you can learn it depends on you yourself. Even if I don't teach, the guides are public. If you spend the time, you can definitely learn it. My teaching will only save you some time."
"What you say is clear and logical. Then let me ask you, if you want to increase hand speed, what should you do?" Chen Guo asked.
"Absolute hand speed or effective hand speed?" Ye Xiu asked.
"Obviously effective hand speed." Chen Guo said. Absolute hand speed was just how fast you could hit the keyboard and click the mouse with your eyes closed. If you couldn't use it in an actual battle, then it doesn't matter how fast you were. As a result, effective hand speed was more important. It was the APM after getting rid of all of the useless actions.
Ye Xiu groped around his pockets. He took out something and gave it to Chen Guo: "Take it and play."
"What is it?" Chen Guo took it and looked. It was a palm-sized plastic board. On top were three rows with a total of ten mouse heads. It was a mini-whack-a-mole.
Chen Guo turned so furious, her nose almost went crooked. What type of trick was this? In the end, she heard Ye Xiu turn his head and say: "Try it!"
"Try what?"
"The power switch is on the bottom. You can change the level. Turn it to the lowest level and try! I've modified it. I promise you'll love it." Ye Xiu said.
Chen Guo was skeptical. She turned on the toy and the ten mouse heads flashed. An electronic beep sounded out, which let Chen Guo set the levels using the mouse heads. Chen Guo pressed on the first head. After a small electronic tune played, the mouse heads began to flash.
Chen Guo had played this type of mini whack-a-mole games before. She had to press whichever mouse head lit up. But the toy Ye Xiu gave her was much faster than what Chen Guo had expected. She hurriedly chased after the flashing lights and wildly pressed. Not even ten seconds had passed, when the mouse heads all flashed. They made a few sounds as if laughing at her, and then announced the end of the game.
"120 APM!" Ye Xiu laughed.
Chen Guo was baffled..
"People with an APM of 120 can barely go over 5 seconds. Go play with it. It'll help your reaction speed." Ye Xiu said, "If your playing speed won't increase, then it's mainly because you can't react in time."
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Chapter 55: Surpassing the Guide
Translator: Nomyummi
Editor: GravityTales
"Little Tang, do you want to try?" Chen Guo handed the mini Whack-a-Mole to Tang Rou.
"She doesn't need it. This won't help her much. Her effective hand speed is probably around two hundred, but she's not familiar with the game. Without experience, her ability to judge is lacking, restricting her reaction speed. She still has space to improve, but she can only slowly grind it out in the game." Ye Xiu said.
"Then, what about you? How fast is your playing hand speed?" Chen Guo said.
"Me? I've already passed the increasing my hand speed stage. My 60 APM is more than enough to beat you." Ye Xiu said.
Chen Guo suddenly thought of her first time seeing Ye Xiu's disabled level hand speed. Yet he was able to solo the Midnight Phantom Cat only relying on this hand speed. At the time, Chen Guo felt quite mystified. Now hearing that Ye Xiu could destroy her with 60 APM, Chen Guo wasn't mad at all. She had already felt that Ye Xiu wasn't as simple as he seemed. Freely switching hand speeds. This was the biggest difference between professional and normal players.
"How much longer do you need for this?" Chen Guo asked Ye Xiu about tidying up the guides.
"Still a bit longer. The guides Ye Xiu made didn't cover everything. There are guides by others that are quite good too. In a bit, I'll help add them in. Actually, looking at the guides first without touching the game yet isn't good. It's best to experience the game first and have a certain amount of basics before looking at a guide." Ye Xiu said.
"Why? Wouldn't following a guide help you do less wrong things?" Chen Guo said.
"The guide is only a summary of the author's experiences. The content inside only represents the person's experiences at that time. After a year or two has passed or even a few months, someone will discover a better way than what the guide says. This isn't only because of game changes, but also because the players' skill levels are constantly increasing. Clear records only exist to be broken. The peak will always lie in the future. Guides are only references and shouldn't be blindly consulted. Otherwise, you'll never break through to the next step."
Hearing this, Chen Guo could only stare blankly. She didn't want to believe that this reasoning had just come from that damned sloppy mouth. This reasoning ignored the God Ye Qiu that Chen Guo worshipped. If they were on an even level, then Chen Guo would definitely strangle the guy. But at this moment, she felt as if she didn't have any energy.
"Then, I'll play first!" In the end, Tang Rou replied. She sat at the computer station next to Ye Xiu and inserted her account card.
Ye Xiu nodded his head and turned his head towards Chen Guo.
"I…….I'm going to play Whack-a-Mole?" In this instant, Chen Guo couldn't help but feel a little skeptical on whether she was being toyed with.
"Playing Whack-a-Mole will only help improve your reaction speed. To actually increase your effective hand speed, you have to practice in-game." Ye Xiu said.
"Okay." Chen Guo nodded her head.
"Okay, see you later!" Ye Xiu said.
"Yeah." Chen Guo agreed. She turned around and left. After walking a few steps, she finally reacted. What's with this guy's attitude! Who was the boss?
Thinking of this, she turned her head to look. However, she saw that Ye Xiu looked so serious working on the guides. He didn't have any of that half-dead look. Chen Guo froze, stumped for words. She unexpectedly felt too embarrassed to disturb him. Looking again at Tang Rou, she saw that Tang Rou was concentrated on the game. After looking at the Whack-a-Mole in her hands for a while, she silently walked away.
Little Tang had talent. Ye Xiu was already extremely strong. But her? Chen Guo sat at the reception desk in a daze. She herself really liked this game and also hoped to get good at the game, but….. Chen Guo knew that it wasn't possible for her to break through to the next step. 27 years old. In terms of e-sports, this was already a time to recall memories of the past, instead of looking towards the future.
Tang Rou smugly entered the game, but after a short while, she had already suffered from setbacks. Her 200 APM couldn't solve this problem. Ye Xiu had also encountered the problem. And Chen Guo did too the other night playing on her low-leveled account. The problem of too many people in the beginner area.
She received quests with great difficulty and took forever to kill a monster. With so many people in the beginner village, no matter how fast your reaction or hand speed was, you would always fail to kill a monster. Tang Rou was tossed from side to side and beaten black and blue, but persevered on. After half an hour, she finally leveled up from Level 1 to Level 2.
Tang Rout let out a sigh and looked towards Ye Xiu. He was still tidying up the guides and was still focused as before. His concentration made even Tang Rou feel amazed.
Right when she was looking, she saw the focused Ye Xiu put his left hand into his pocket and take out a cigarette box. He shook twice and the cigarette jumped into his mouth. Throughout the entire process, his eyes hadn't shifted away from the screen at all. His right hand moved the mouse back and forth without ever stopping either.
Just when he was about to light up the cigarette, he was suddenly poked. He turned around and saw Tang Rou.
"You can't smoke here. Guo Guo will get angry." Tang Rou warned Ye Xiu.
"Oh……" Ye Xiu's smoking was a subconscious movement; he didn't need to think about it. After Tang Rou's warning, he discovered that he somehow had a cigarette in his mouth. Their seating was in the corner, however, and was fairly far from the reception desk. Besides Tang Rou and him, there was no one else there.
"She can't see it! So I'll smoke one cigarette. Don't tell her." Ye Xiu still sneakily lit up his cigarette. In the end, he even turned around and politely asked: "Do you want one?"
"No thanks."
"Have you smoked before?"
"I've tried, but I didn't like it." Tang Rou said.
"Oh." Ye Xiu nodded his head. He extended his head out and looked at Tang Rou's screen: "What level?"
"Level 2." Tang Rou said.
"Go go Tang Rou!"
"This Lord Grim is you, right?" Tang Rou suddenly asked.
Ye Xiu looked towards the tenth server's dungeon records on Tang Rou's screen. Lord Grim's great name hung on four of the lists.
"You're already planning on breaking my record?" Ye Xiu grinned.
"I can't for first clears, right?" Tang Rou said.
"Yeah." Ye Xiu nodded his head.
As a result, Tang Rou's gaze fell on Frost Forest's clear record.
"This record can't be broken on your own." Ye Xiu said.
"I saw. I still need four others to cooperate, right?" Tang Rou said.
"Later on, there will even be ten player ones, twenty player ones, and even more." Ye Xiu said.
Tang Rou was silent. He didn't know what she was thinking.
"I've finished this guide. Where should I put it?" With the help of the cigarette, Ye Xiu finished tidying the guide.
"The desktop is fine, but you can do it this way…." Tang Rou went over to show him. Internet Cafe computers all automatically rebooted, but employees could use an admin account to avoid this.
Even in these few simple movements, Tang Rou's nimbleness could be seen.
"How did you practice your hand speed?" Ye Xiu suddenly asked.
Hearing this, Tang Rou's movements stopped for a bit. Ye Xiu's keen eye saw this minute change.
"I never practiced it. I was just born like this." Tang Rou said.
"Really?" Ye Xiu smiled and didn't say anything more. He stood up from his seat and gave it to Tang Rou: "You continue here! If you have any questions on the game or the guide, just come ask me." Ye Xiu said.
"Thanks. And you?" Tang Rou saw that Ye Xiu was about to leave.
"I'm going to the smoking area. That place is a bit safer." Ye Xiu said.
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Chapter 56 – Leveling Isn't Easy
When Ye Xiu passed by the reception desk, he saw Chen Guo sitting there with the mini Whack-a-Mole in her hands. She had a bitter look on her, so he didn't say hello to her and ran to the smoking area to find a computer.
Nowaday, Ye Xiu's Lord Grim wasn't well-known only in the game. Ye Xiu himself was well-known in the Internet Cafe. Almost all the Glory players there knew that Lord Grim was this Internet Cafe's network manager. He also had a self-made Silver weapon. Nearly all of the players in the smoking area knew Lord Grim. Many of them came in the afternoon after work and played until now without leaving. Seeing Ye Xiu come, they all called out to say hello to him.
Ye Xiu also casually waved at the people who greeted him. After putting the cigarette in his mouth and lighting it, he entered the game. He immediately suffered from a bombardment of messages. After going online for five seconds, the message prompt kept on flashing, flashing, flashing.
After looking at them, he saw that they were all the usual greetings. Seven Fields and the others said "Brother expert, you're here." Immersed Jade "I pay respects to God". Blue Brook Guild's representative Blue River invited him to level with them. Tyrannical Ambition's representative Endless Night reserved him for some midnight dungeon runs…….
Ye Xiu replied to each of them. Seven Fields, Immersed Jade, and the others each replied with a smiley face. Blue River's leveling invitation and Endless Night's dungeon reservation were both tactfully refused.
Each of these players worded their messages to Ye Xiu very carefully. After Ye Xiu replied to all of them, they temporarily went quiet. But more messages quickly popped up. Piles upon piles of friend requests filled the screen.
I'm that famous already? Ye Xiu scratched his head. He had only helped set a new clear record and nothing more. The big guilds might have recognized that he was an expert, but they shouldn't have went so far as to kneel down and worship him, right?
Ye Xiu ignored all of these notifications. In the end, someone to the side bumped into him: "Brother, why don't we be friends?"
"Huh?" Ye Xiu turned his head. He discovered that quite a few Internet Cafe guests had walked towards him and waved their hands to greet him: "Brother, let's be friends!"
These friend requests should all be from this Internet Cafe! Ye Xiu started sweating. Due to the opening of the new server, the amount of tenth server players in the Internet Cafe was relatively large. Most of them were just playing for fun and didn't take the game too seriously. But some of them liked to make friends with experts. If they could become friends now, then their relationship would be more solid. As a result, there were quite a few people who wanted to add Ye Xiu as their friend.
"Oh? What are your names?" In front of them, he felt too embarrassed to directly turn down everyone. Ye Xiu asked everyone their game IDs and added each and every one of them as friends. After a short while, Lord Grim's friends list had already reached 37 people. In addition, none of them were offline. Besides the players he had met in the past two days like Seven Fields, the rest were all Happy Internet Cafe guests. Although most of them were from the smoking area, there were also a few people who ran over especially to make friends with him.
With such a long list, Ye Xiu couldn't match the real person and their ingame character. Riding on wave of momentum, one player joked: "We're all from the same Internet Cafe. We should all form a guild together."
This call didn't receive many responses. So far, Glory only had ten servers in total. Adding in the communal Heavenly Domain, it wasn't rare to meet with someone from the same server. Besides Ye Xiu's expert status as a dungeon record holder, everyone lined up to make friends with him because they all knew something Blue Rivers and the others didn't: Lord Grim had a Silver weapon.
This thing was more eye-catching than a dungeon record. If Blue River and the others knew that Lord Grim was hiding this, they would have tried to rope him in even more crazily.
The proposal to establish a guild only received a few cold, hollow laughs. The brother that suggested it felt extremely embarrassed, so he shut his mouth, playing on his own. Everyone wore headphones and once again immersed themselves into the game world. On the other hand, Ye Xiu actively sent a friend request to someone else.
Soft Mist.
This was Tang Rou's in-game name. Ye Xiu didn't know what it was supposed to mean. He reckoned that she took the "Mist" from "Chasing Haze", took Soft from her name Tang Rou and just randomly put them together. (TLNote: Haze is made up of two words in Chinese. Mist is one of those words. Rou from Tang Rou means soft)
After sending the request, he didn't see a response. Ye Xiu supposed it was because this little sister was too unfamiliar with the game and couldn't even notice this type of system message. Sending more wouldn't work. Sending one would flash in the same way that sending eight would. As a result, he just left it for now. After organizing the items in his inventory. Ye Xiu prepared to kill monsters and level.
The biggest problem with the beginner village was that there were too many people. But after leaving the beginner village, in the Level 20 stage, the biggest problem at the moment was still too many people.
There were multiple beginner villages to share the server traffic, but after the beginner village, everyone came together onto a single piece of land. Although this land was larger than the beginner village by several times, every Level 20 flocked here after leaving the beginner village. In the end, the situation was basically the same as beginner village. The area surrounding Bulls also had vast crowds of people.
Last night, Ye Xiu took advantage of the very early hours in the morning, when there were less people online, to grab and complete a few quests. But now was just at the peak of Internet activity, so doing quests would only make leveling slower. Receiving quests and completing quests both required lining up. Killing monsters had to be scrambled over. Just thinking of all this made him shiver in terror. Rather than quests, it'd be better to look for a firm location to clear monsters and level.
At this stage, what leveling area had fewer people? Of course it was the higher leveled areas. Players would lose experience when they died in Glory, so most players wouldn't rashly take risks. They preferred to line up for quests, line up for monsters, and level up steadily. If they weren't experts, they wouldn't even think of going to high leveled areas to level.
In Glory, dungeons were the fastest way to level. The next fastest was completing quest lines. And the slowest was clearing monsters. But in the current circumstances, he no longer had any dungeon entries left and he'd have to wait in line to do quests, so clearing monsters were the most optimal choice.
Difficulties and so on, those weren't in Ye Xiu's considerations. With his peak level of skill, as long as the NPC's level wasn't too high above his, then there wouldn't be any problem.
The experience gained by killing monsters depended on the level difference. This difference still used five as a standard. If the monsters were five levels above or below the player's level, then the player would only receive minimal experience. Within that range, the higher the level, the greater the experience. As a result, monsters that were five levels higher than the player gave the most experience.
Five levels didn't sound like a lot, but in Glory, each level higher had the problem of Level Suppression.
In Glory, levels weren't only used to define players. Physical attack, magic attack, Bleed, Stun, Root, and other status effects had levels too.
When the system didn't display the difference in levels, then these levels would all be the same as the player's level.
In other words, the current Lord Grim's level was 21. If he used Double Stab to cause a hidden BOSS to Bleed, then the Bleed's level would be 21.
Level 21 damage or a Level 21 Bleed would have a reduced effect on Level 22 and up monsters. The higher the level gap, the more obvious the reduction. This type of situation was called Level Suppression.
The difference between being high-leveled and low-leveled wasn't just the difference in attributes and equipment. The concealed calculations of Level Suppression added to the difficulties of challenging those at a higher level.
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Chapter 57 – Boneyard
Lord Grim was now Level 21. Killing Level 26 monsters would give him the most experience. But it wouldn't give much more. With each higher level, the experience would increase by 2%, so a five level difference would give an extra 10%. However, with these five levels, the difficulty increase wasn't as simple as just 10%. In addition, if players went to level alone, without even talking about the dangers, the 10% benefit couldn't be seen due to the increased time needed to gain the experience. It might even be less efficient than killing monsters at the same level.
But the current situation was special. Ye Xiu didn't care about this small amount of extra experience when killing higher leveled monsters. Rather, he did it to avoid the vast crowds of people and to look for a quiet place to level. After sorting his equipment, Ye Xiu moved Lord Grim to the Level 23-26 Area: Boneyard.
Boneyard wasn't only the name of a leveling area. It was also the name of the dungeon. It was the same as Frost Forest. The areas outside Frost Forest were Level 20-23 leveling areas and had a large amount of wild monsters. Deeper into the forest were entrances to the Frost Forest dungeon. Similarly, Boneyard had a Level 23-27 Boneyard dungeon.
Players like Blue Brook Guild's Blue River, these sorts of high-leveled players, had already conquered the Boneyard dungeon. The records showed that the Boneyard first clear party was done by Tyrannical Ambition. Ye Xiu saw that Endless Night's name was there. As for the other three members in yesterday's party, they weren't on there. It looked like they weren't Tyrannical Ambition's first-string characters. The Boneyard clear record had already been broken four times. The newest record was currently held by Herb Garden.
As for Boneyard's three hidden BOSSes, Blue Brook Guild first cleared two of them. It looked like these dungeon records spun in these Three Great Guild's palms.
Ye Xiu didn't pay too much attention to all that. Lord Grim quickly reached Boneyard and sure enough, there weren't many players here. Currently, most players were Level 21 and most of them stayed at Frost Forest to scramble for monsters. There were already Level 22, 23 monsters suppressing them there. And the monsters in Boneyard would be even more so.
After picking a good place to clear monsters, Lord Grim shook the Thousand Chance Umbrella. It transformed into the battle lance form and slaughtered its way over. Eight Midnight Cat Fingernails adorned the Thousand Chance Umbrella, which was equivalent to giving the battle lance a new tip. Adding on the replaced linking axle, these changes upgraded the battle lance form to Level 15. Besides this, the original form and other class's weapon forms were still Level 5 and naturally, couldn't be compared to the upgraded battle lance form.
The Boneyard's monsters were the same as the Skeleton Graveyard's. They were undead monsters. Zombies, skeletons, skeleton archers, skeleton mages, etc. They were Levels 23-26. Their main feature was that they had high damage and high defense, but moved relatively slowly.
With Ye Xiu's skill, these sort of NPCs weren't any threat. After controlling Lord Grim to rush forward, he chose an area and began killing monsters there.
Ye Xiu killed very casually. He didn't overly pursue crucial hits, combos, juggling, back attacks, and those effect-inducing attacks. In order to fully execute these technical move, he would need to concentrate more, move faster, micro faster, and all of these things drained his energy. He was only leveling, that's all. Ye Xiu wasn't planning on fighting like he had been in the Professional Alliance finals.
Fighting and resting, Lord Grim may not have killed monsters that quickly, but he was extremely stable. Compared to attacks, Ye Xiu payed more attention to carefully dodging, which made it so that he never needed to run away and rest because he was low on life. He only rested after he ran out of mana.
In Glory, food and potions were recovery items. Food had no cooldown, but couldn't be used in combat. It restored a lot and recovered it quickly too. Potions weren't as effective as food, but they could be used while in combat. At a crucial point, they could be used as a last resort. But the better the potion's effects, the longer the cooldown. Moreover, potions of the same type shared a cooldown, so it wasn't possible to drink multiple health potions of different levels.
NPCs sold food and potions, but they were of the lowest level and were costly. Besides obtaining them from killing monsters, of the secondary professions, the cooks could cook food and alchemists could make potions. Each player could learn two secondary professions, but only one of them could undergo job advancement. That's right, secondary professions had job advancements. Once a player reached Level 50, the secondary profession could only be leveled further after completing the job advancement.
At the moment, the new server had only been played on for two days. Aside from the big guilds, no one else had begun learning secondary skills. The alchemists and cooks of every big guilds still weren't able to supply enough for their own respective guilds, so they didn't sell their products at the market. Players could only swallow their anger and buy high from the NPCs. The small amount of money they earned from killing monsters and completing quests were all spent on potions.
Ye Xiu was no exception. This sort of investment in the early stages of the game was absolutely necessary. But by relying on his outstanding skill, he was able to save quite a bit by not having to spend much on health potions and food. His money was mostly used on the mana recovery items. He was already quite frugal compared to normal players.
After clearing monsters for around an hour, Lord Grim escaped from battle again and drank to recover mana. Ye Xiu also lit a cigarette to rest a little. Right when he did so, a message appeared. Opening it he saw it was system prompt: Soft Mist has accepted your friend request.
After an hour, Tang Rou finally found Ye Xiu's friend request. Another message was sent: "Sorry, I just saw it."
Tang Rou and Chen Guo really were different.
She wasn't like Chen Guo who actively looked to make friends with others. She wouldn't treat people too warmly, but she didn't make you feel cold. When you spoke, you would feel that she listened very attentively; when she spoke, you would feel that she was speaking to you. If the way Chen Guo talked with others was very wild and street-like, then Tang Rou was scholarly, reserved, proper, and polite.
Besides the time when she lost a bit of control saying "Again" ten times in a row, he couldn't find any faults on her.
Ye Xiu believed that this girl definitely had some sort of background. This sort of self-restraint and temperament reflected a good education. Moreover, she had that fast hand speed.
When Ye Xiu asked about how she practiced her hand speed, she hesitated. This made Ye Xiu convinced that her hand speed wasn't some sort of innate talent, but rather a result from practicing. This could also be seen from her hands. She was the same as Ye Xiu. She was extremely careful with her hands and took good care of them.
Ye Xiu was certain that these weren't hands trained through playing games. Pro players' left and right hands weren't completely the same because most pro-players used their left hands for the keyboard and the right hand for the mouse. The two moved completely differently. But Tang Rou's left and right hands moved exceptionally balanced and steady. This unexpectedly made her left and right hands uncoordinated when she played the game.
If his guess was correct, Ye Xiu believed that these quick hands were trained through playing an instrument.
"It doesn't matter. If you have any questions just message me." Ye Xiu saw that Tang Rou wasn't ordinary, but he wasn't too interested in looking into her background. Truthfully, he himself still had to figure out what exactly his future path was!
Closing Tang Rou's chat box, Ye Xiu was about to control Lord Grim to kill monsters again when suddenly, he heard a fit of fast footsteps from his headphones. Someone swiftly flew past Lord Grim. With a swing of a pole, the monster, which Lord Grim was about to attack, was knocked into the air.
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Chapter 58: Kill Stealing
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Senseless!
Ye Xiu could only give this evaluation towards this sort of kill stealer.
Boneyard didn't have many people. There were plenty of monsters for players to kill, but this guy just unexpectedly stole his target. This type of evil kill stealing was mostly done to show off their own skill.
This player held a pole in his hands. Magic fluctuated under his foot. He was a genuine Battle Mage. The magic fluctuations under his feet were a buff from the Battle Mage's signature skill, Chaser.
Chasers could be triggered through several different Battle Mage skills for a total of five. After triggering a Chaser, they would circle around the Battle Mage's body for 30 seconds. Within those 30 seconds, the Chaser could fly out and attack the target. After injuring or killing the target, the character would be buffed for 20 seconds.
At Level 20, Battle Mages could learn one Chaser: Neutral Chaser. It was triggered through Dragon Tooth and did the lowest damage among the five Chasers. The buff it gave increased the character's movement speed. A Level 1 Neutral Chaser increased movement speed by 1% and the max Level 20 increased movement speed by 20%.
Chasers were the Battle Mage's most distinguishable feature, which was why it is said that they used magic to increase their fighting strength. Although Lord Grim was already Level 20, he didn't have the option to learn this skill.
This Battle Mage used this skill very proficiently. After knocking the monster into the air, he quickly moved behind the monster and then stabbed with Dragon Tooth, completing an aerial and back attack. A Neutral Chaser condensed onto the pole tip and flashed to his side. Depending on how the attacks were executed, there were differences between the triggered Chasers: small, medium, large. Although the size didn't affect the buff given, it did affect the Chaser's damage. In Glory, Battle Masters were easy to learn, but difficult to master. The usage of Chasers as well as the technical requirements for Battle Spirit all made it difficult to play proficiently.
This guy turned around and just happened to face Lord Grim. Even after kill stealing, this guy still continued to show off in front of him.
Ye Xiu look and felt that this guy wasn't ordinary. Not talking about his flaunting, he could tell just by looking at the character's mocking face. What a disharmonious face! Neither the game's appearance editor nor a random creation could make such a conflicting result.
Ye xiu shook his head. He didn't think that he would be tangled with such a show-off king over a small monster. Who would have thought that after the show-off king turned around and flaunted in front of Lord Grim twice, he would suddenly make a mistake. The monster, which had originally been in the air, fell to the ground.
Ye Xiu couldn't help but laugh. Right when he was going to leave, he heard this person say his name: "Lord Grim?"
"Yeah?" Ye Xiu heard this and turned Lord Grim around. That person walked towards Lord Grim while the monster chased after.
"So it was you." The other side said.
"You are?" Ye Xiu looked at this guy's ID. Thousand Creations, no idea. Was it someone from the Internet Cafe who he just friended? Ye Xiu opened up his friends and list was about to look, when the person said: "I heard you're quite good? Come, let's compare notes."
"Who are you?" There were thirty or so people on his friends list. Ye Xiu quickly glanced at it, but didn't see the name Thousand Creations.
"That's not important. The important point is that I want to duel you." Thousand Creations said.
Ye Xiu didn't say anything else and made Lord Grim turn around to leave.
"Hey, don't leave!!" Thousand Creations immediately said, but the half-fought monster was still attacking him. Thousand Creations used a Sky Strike to knock up the monster and then used Falling Flower Palm. The monster he fought was blown away and just happened to smash into Lord Grim.
After leaving beginner village, the system no longer protected players, so players could now PK each other. Right when this monster looked as if it smashed into Lord Grim, Lord Grim suddenly turned his body. Taking out his battle lance, the monster was stabbed in midair. With a wave of his arm, the monster fell to the ground. He then used a "Circle Swing" to finish the combo, killing off the monster that Thousand Creations had blown towards him.
"You really do have some skills. But I still advise that you go to the Arena with me, so you don't lose any experience." Thousand Creations said this, but the other side didn't reply back. The other side did the same as him. He used a Sky Strike at a monster and then used Falling Flower Palm to knock the monster to him. But this time, the Falling Flower Palm was done quicker and the monster flew out towards him.
"Humph." Thousand Creations snorted in disdain. He stabbed it with his pole and was about to do what Lord Grim had done. He also used a Circle Swing to finish off the blown away monster.
The pole easily executed it. Thousand Creations was already praising himself, thinking that his previous action was quite cool. But who would have thought that the monster that was flying towards him suddenly fell to the ground. The pole unexpectedly stabbed at air.
Thousand Creations was stunned.
If this wasn't a coincidence, then this guy had actually used Falling Flower Palm with just the right strength and also calculated that he'd use Circle Swing to receive it. As a result, the monster was blown away to just outside of the Circle Swing's range, making his pole miss. What type of terrifying microing was this?
"You still have a ways to go!"
When Thousand Creations heard this, he immediately moved his camera over. Lord Grim was already walking away minding his own business, while he himself was being attacked by the monster he missed.
"You'd better not leave!" People who loved to show off, naturally, were most afraid of losing face. Now that he was being played with and looked down upon, Thousand Creations wouldn't forgive him. He once again blasted the monster over and chased after him, at the same time.
Lord Grim showed his skills once again. He lifted his hand and used Dragon Tooth. The monster that was flying over was staved off in mid-air. Following up with a Sky Strike, he hit the monster high up into the air and then used Double Stab. The monster opened up its arms and hugged towards Thousand Creations.
"F*ck!" Thousand Creations, who had rushed forward too fast, didn't have time to react. He didn't think that Lord Grim would play around with this monster for so long, before hitting it back. The flying monster hit his face. From a first person view, the entire screen was filled with arepulsive, rotting zombie corpse, utterly disgusting. Thousand Creations was hit down onto the ground by the zombie.
After pushing away the zombie, he immediately got up. But he discovered that the zombie had latched onto his thigh and opened his rotting mouth about to bite down. Thousand Creations beat it with his pole. After killing off this zombie with great difficulty, he heard creaking bone sounds from his headphones. He didn't know when, but a skeleton had aggroed onto him. The skeleton raised its machete and charged at him.
"Don't you like kill stealing? Take your time." Lord Grim called out. Thousand Creations immediately looked towards him. This guy had already gathered four monsters in that short amount of time. At this moment, a Falling Flower Palm exploded out and the four monsters were smashed towards Thousand Creations.
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Chapter 59 – Are You Playing With A Child?
Four monsters. Four directions. Adding on the skeleton holding a machete, Thousand Creations couldn't run away this time. The Chasers and what not had already disappeared far away along with the zombie that he had thrown down onto the ground. The camera circled round and round. And all around him were these undead monster's bones and rotting flesh.
Undead monsters moved relatively sluggishly, so they got up quite slowly. Thousand Creations was the first one among them to stand up. His camera angle turned. This time, Lord Grim didn't leave. Carrying his battle lance, Lord Grim ran over in large strides.
Surprised, Thousand Creations couldn't help but jump backwards. After jumping, he felt extremely regretful again. Why did he hide? Wasn't he the one who wanted to teach him a lesson?
At this moment, the sluggish monsters all climbed back up. Although these four monsters had smashed into Thousand Creations, their aggro was still on Lord Grim. The machete-wielding skeleton's target was originally on Thousand Creations, but it had just been smashed by the four monsters, which could be considered as Lord Grim's attack. Its aggro was also on Lord Grim now. After the five monsters got up, they rushed towards Lord Grim.
Thousand Creations had planned to first clear the monsters and then properly fight a round with Lord Grim. But in the end, Lord Grim's battle lance had already stabbed towards the monsters, engaging in an intense battle. His viewpoint never turned towards him either.
Could it be that this guy only wants to fight the monsters and not me? Are these five undead monsters more valuable than me?
"HEY." Thousand Creations yelled.
"Oh, you want a monster? Here's one. Have fun!" Lord Grim uppercutted and thrusted. A monster was hit over to him and steadily fell in front of Thousand Creation's feet.
Thousand Creations was baffled.
He had never felt this sort of feeling before.
In the past, every time he KSed to show off, the guys who had their kills stolen were all utterly infuriated. Some even immediately attacked him. But in the end, they were beaten down. That sort of feeling felt so good.
But this time, the other side's response made him feel extremely childish. He had gathered five monsters and hit over one towards him whenever convenient. This move seemed as if it were saying: "Little child, don't be noisy. Uncle's got candy for you."
Thousand Creation stared blankly, not moving. The monster that fell in front of him was still aggroed onto Lord Grim. After crawling back up, it rushed back.
"What? You don't want it?" Lord Grim actually asked him.
Thousand Creations felt an extremely strong urge to gang up with the skeletons and zombies and beat this guy up.
"I'll wait until you finish killing the monsters before we properly fight a round." Thousand Creation's tone suddenly became serious. He wasn't as sloppy as before when he was trying to provoke him.
"No need." Lord Grim replied to him.
"Why!" Thousand Creations blurted it out and then immediately regretted it. The other side had already said "You still have a ways to go" once. Why did he need to give him another chance to say it again.
"No time." In the end, Lord Grim said this.
Thousand Creation's cheeks streamed with tears. Child! He really was a child. A child that annoyed the adult to play with him. In response, the adult would say to the child: "Uncle's busy. Be obedient. Play by yourself!"
He was being treated like this! Thousand Creations didn't know what to say. He might as well just wait until he finishes killing off the monsters!
Thousand Creations came up with this plan. As a result, he quietly waited on the side. But at the same time, those five monsters wouldn't be so quick to finish off. Should he try and help him? But he immediately felt that he wasn't in a position to do so. As a result, he felt that he might as well just kill a monster to pass the time. But when he finished killing the monster and turned his camera angle back to Lord Grim, there were still five monsters. Kill another one then! After killing one, why were there still five monsters there? That guy's skill wasn't bad. It didn't make sense for him to take so long! Thousand Creations was at a loss. But after looking more carefully, were these five monsters the same as the previous five?
Right when he was unsure, a skeleton was stabbed and then collapsed into a pile of bones. Soon after, he saw Lord Grim, bringing the other monsters, pull a new one and continue fighting with five monsters.
Thousand Creations threw up blood. He was waiting for this guy to finish off the monsters and duel with him, but this guy didn't take him seriously at all. That guy was concentrated on leveling!
Thousand Creations grew angry. He decided to help him. Wrong, he wasn't helping him, he was disturbing him. He was going to continue kill stealing until this guy's patience ran out.
Thus, Thousand Creations rushed forward and began stabbing at the five monsters that Lord Grim had gathered.
Lord Grim seemed to shoot a glance at him. Immediately following, Thousand Creations received a party invite.
F*ck, who wants to form a party with you? I'm here to kill steal! Thousand Creations angrily declined the invite and continued to kill kill kill.
The five monsters were killed faster now, but after looking at the experience distribution, the expert KSer Thousand Creations was thoroughly defeated this time.
Because the two didn't form a party, if they attacked the same monster, then the monster's experience would be shared. The first blow and last blow made up for of the experience gained. The other was determined by how much damage they did.
Thousand Creations obviously didn't make the first hit and he had originally planned to steal the last hit. But in the end, he was unable to take the last hit either. Adding on to total damage done, he was also below Lord Grim, so he was only able to get a pitiful amount of experience. And in this situation, all of the items dropped belonged to Lord Grim.
But the even more irritating part was that before the five monsters fell down, Lord Grim had already pulled new monsters and continued to fight non-stop. Thousand Creations tried to steal again, but met a tragic end just like the last time. In the end, all he did was help Lord Grim kill monsters faster. Moreover, most of the experience went to the other side, while he ate the small leftovers. Seeing it like this, Lord Grim hadn't suffered any losses, while he himself had been squeezed for labor.
Thousand Creations was so angry he almost lost consciousness. After this wave, he would actively pull monsters and bring them back.
But this time, Lord Grim brought the monsters away from him, leaving Thousand Creations with the monsters he pulled.
Thousand Creation's cheeks streamed with tears. What was he doing?
He quickly cleared away the monsters in front of him and rushed forward: "Hey, I'm going join these monsters and attack you!"
"Stop being so noisy. Go level up!" The other side said indifferently.
Thousand Creations clenched his teeth and brandished the battle pole. He was about to hit Lord Grim when he suddenly heard: "Huh? Why are you guys leveling together?"
Thousand Creations immediately turned his head. A party of Blue Brook Guild members was walking towards them. The person talking was the tenth server Blue Brook Guild's guild leader, Blue River.
Thousand Creations put away the pole and was about to run.
"Where are you going Thousand Creations?" Blue River yelled.
Thousand Creation's cheeks streamed with tears. Guild leader, you have no brains! I don't have the guild name on top of my head, so why are you trying to expose my identity? So he ran, but sent a message to the guild: "Pretend you mistook me for someone else!"
"What are you doing?" Blue River didn't understand the situation.
"I've offended Lord Grim." Thousand Creations said.
"What…..What have you done? Did you kill steal his monsters?" Blue River understood his subordinate's faults.
"I……..I was about to kill steal." Thousand Creations cried. Even though he came to offend Lord Grim, he was the one who felt bad. How wrong was that?
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Chapter 60 – Wild Boss
Thousand Creations was a member of Blue Brook Guild. Even though Ye Xiu made his head and face filthy with dirt, he was considered a rare expert among players. His individual strength might not be weaker than the so-called Five Great Experts.
In order to have a name like the Five Great Experts, a player first had to have incredible strength. Next, they also had to have incredible popularity. Once there were many supporters, the Five Great were made. But Thousand Creations? He had a bit of popularity, but he had an incredibly bad fault: he liked to kill steal.
Blue Brook Guild was one of the Three Great Guilds. But because of this, they had high expectations for their guild members. Although they didn't go as far as requiring that members lay low, but kill stealing, that sort of nasty behavior, was forbidden by the guild. No one could complain about this kind of rule.
The sort of powerful but arrogant and despotic guild that formed parties to kill steal were destined to fail. Their guild member's inner qualities were too poor.
But unfortunately, Thousand Creations had this kind of hobby. Moreover, he was also an expert, a relatively rare expert too. The guild didn't want him because of his inner quality, but they were also unwilling to part with such an expert. In the end, they could only turn a blind eye to his actions. Fortunately, Thousand Creations could be considered tactful. Whenever he did a misdeed, he never showed the guild's name, so a good deal of bullied players didn't put the debt on Blue Brook Guild.
This time, when the tenth server opened, no one knew why this guy just signed up to participate on a whim. Although this guy hadn't caused any problems for their guild yet, he made them feel as if he were a ticking time bomb. Seeing that he actively signed up to go the new server, the guild leader immediately approved and increased his rewards. In the end, he kicked the time bomb to Blue River, making Blue River pray that the time bomb wouldn't explode.
Blue River's cheeks streamed with tears! The opening of the new server was a time when players often killed monsters to level up. It was as if this time bomb was baking on a stove!
Fortunately, the new server was packed with people in the beginning, so everyone kill stole. Thousand Creations took pleasure in showing off his strength and didn't stand out all. As for later, Blue River planned on putting this guy in his party when leveling. Watching over him, he could lessen the probability of him going out and kill stealing.
But in the end, the second day since the new server's opening hadn't yet finished, and the time bomb had already exploded. Not only that, it didn't explode at any other time. It unfortunately exploded on their most important talent, Lord Grim.
Blue River was somewhat angry. The guild had clearly warned him many times that this talent had to be won over. If anyone saw him, they had to try and deepen their relationship and make friends with him. Thousand Creations should have seen this message. But this punk's method of making friends was f*cking kill stealing?
Blue River knew that this wasn't the time to be confused. Because Lord Grim was someone he was determined to pull into the guild, then he couldn't hide from him that Thousand Creations was also from Blue Brook Guild. If he pretended to not know him, then what about later? That idiot.
Blue River cursed and then ran up to Lord Grim. He laughed out loud and greeted: "What a coincidence! Why are you here too?"
"Leveling!" Ye Xiu said.
"Ha ha. Don't mind that punk! In these two days, everyone in the guild has been talking about and praising you. That punk probably didn't feel too good, so he deliberately looked for you to make trouble." Blue River said.
How could Blue River have handled the matter more brilliantly? First, he covered up Thousand Creation's intent to kill steal. He said Thousand Creations was jealous of Lord Grim's fame and power, which was why he deliberately searched for him, looking for trouble. This was easy to understand. In addition, he had unintentionally showed his guild's admiration for Lord Grim. He had flattered him without batting an eyelid.
Unfortunately, Ye Xiu knew that Thousand Creations kill stole first. After seeing who he had kill stolen from, he had jealously challenged him. But that was all after he kill stole. Fortunately, Ye Xiu didn't feel like getting involved with all this, so he casually laughed: "The child's pretty naughty!"
"Yeah, yeah! Look, he even ran, afraid that I'd scold him." Blue River said. If Thousand Creations had been switched with someone else, then he would have yelled for that person to come over and apologize. But as for Thousand Creations, he excused him. If this was someone who listened to others, then they would have fixed his terrible fault of kill stealing long ago.
"Um, do you want to level with us?" Blue River asked.
"No need. Leveling by myself is fine." Ye Xiu said.
"Actually, we didn't come over to level." Blue River said.
"Oh?" Ye Xiu thought. The day was going to end soon. It wasn't possible that Blue River and the others hadn't reached the entry limit for the Boneyard dungeon. If they weren't there for dungeon clearing or leveling, then could it be……
"Blood Gunner Yagg." Blue River said.
Sure enough! Ye Xiu confirmed his guess.
Blood Gunner Yagg was Boneyard's wild BOSS.
Although wild BOSSes respawned, they were even more valuable than hidden BOSSes because this BOSS would only respawn three times every week.
Wild BOSSes also had their own leaderboards. There were first clears and also the kill number. The first clear could only be given to one party. The kill number was the same as clear records. The leaderboards would show the first three ranks.
Currently, there hadn't been any wild BOSS kills in the tenth server. Currently, there were only two in their level range. One was Boneyard's Blood Gunner Yagg and the other was Frost Forest's Goblin Merchant Lorraine. The beginner village didn't have any wild BOSSes.
Ye Xiu also had requirements for wild BOSSes, but these things could only be discovered and not sought. Ye Xiu wouldn't vainly attempt it alone. He had originally planned on getting the items from wild BOSSes from the markets. But if he happened to come across one, then he might as well try.
But the most important part for killing wild BOSSes was never to kill it, it was to steal it. The players who came to kill wild BOSSes were the more dangerous enemies. Although wild BOSSes were difficult, in the end, they were only system monsters. Experienced players had the ability to kill it without dying. But every time a wild BOSS was killed, there would always be dead players. This was all from the chaos between everyone fighting to kill it.
Although Ye Xiu had the ability to fight it, there was no way he could single-handedly steal the BOSS from an entire guild. Item drops from BOSSes were calculated differently from small monsters. Wild BOSSes had the most terrifying amount of health among BOSSes of the same level, and needed a long duration of heavy damage output. If the first hit and last hit counted for of the experience and items, then no one would want to bitterly do all of the work in the middle.
Thus, wild BOSSes completely relied on total damage to determine the share. No matter how strong a player was, there was no way he could do more damage than an entire party.
"Brother, are you interested in taking a look?" Blue River continued.
"Okay!" Ye Xiu gladly accepted.
Blue River laughed brightly and sent a party invite over. After Lord Grim joined their party, he said regretfully: "If I knew earlier, then it would have been better if you hadn't left the guild."
In Glory, after leaving a guild, a player couldn't join a new guild until five days later.
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Chapter 61: Hunting Yagg (1)
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In Glory, the member limit in a group is ten. Each party member can create their own party with a limit of ten parties in a group.
After Ye Xiu joined the party, he saw that there was exactly ten members in the party. He recognized the majority of them: Blue River, Bound Boat, Flower Lantern, Thundering Light, Lunar Grace, Returning Cloud. They all knew each other from before, so they weren't unfamiliar with him and all went up one by one to say hello. He hadn't seen the other three before: Blowing Clouds, Spitfire Class; Endless Flow, Launcher Class; And one that you could tell was vulgar just from the name, Groping Haven, a Cleric. (TLC: Sacred Light Gropes You)
Blue River introduced them one by one. There were two other parties with twenty people, but Blue River didn't trouble him with them. Actually, if they only wanted to kill the Blood Gunsman Yagg, then a single ten person party was more than enough. This time, they brought thirty people, which told the difficulties of the main problem: kill stealing the wild BOSS. It could even be said that Blue Brook Guild brought out all of their elites to this battle. All thirty of them could be found at the very front of the tenth server's current level leaderboard.
Ye Xiu glanced over everyone and then suddenly said: "Did I take Thousand Creation's position?" " Blue River was startled. He didn't think that Ye Xiu was attentive to this degree. It was true. Thousand Creations was originally called over to get ready to hunt Blood Gunner Yagg, but then he just happened to meet Lord Grim……. Blue River felt that this was another chance to make things clear and simply said: "Don't worry about him. We go on our own business."
"When did the Blood Gunner respawn?" Ye Xiu asked Blue River.
"We received the info five minutes ago, so we immediately gathered all of these brothers. And after a short while, we hurried over." Blue River said.
"We need all of these people?" Ye Xiu laughed. Even for kill stealing, they didn't need this many people. With so many people surrounding the target, many people didn't even have a place to put out damage.
"It's to prevent any incidents!" Blue River messaged.
Ye Xiu knew that this wasn't to prevent anything the BOSS would do, it was to protect them from other people. The most terrifying aspect in the game would never be NPCs. It would always be the players.
"If we were able to receive the info, then I'm sure Herb Garden and Tyrannical Ambition have also received it." Blue River said. Besides fighting over dungeon records, the Three Great Guilds also payed attention to wild BOSS records. The guild had already reminded them of the importance of the wild BOSS records long ago.
"They're already here." Ye Xiu turned his viewpoint and looked left and right. He discovered that not far from them, there was another crowd of players wildly rushing. They were clearly running in the same direction as Blue Brook Guild's troops.
"D*mn!" Blue River turned his viewpoint and saw it too. He vaguely identified a few names: "They're from Herb Garden."
Ye Xiu couldn't help but worship him. He looked at some of these IDs and they all looked the same to him. For Blue River to actually be able to recognize these names, he deserved to be called an experienced rival. They were quite familiar with each other.
When Blue River recognized the other side, the other side also recognized Blue Brook Guild. Blue River quickly received a message from Herb Garden's tenth server guild leader Plantago Seed: "Old Blue, if you have any inner quality to you, then you can clearly see that we've arrived here first." Both sides knew Blood Gunner's location. Currently, Herb Garden was clearly closer to it. Their levels and equipment were about the same. Blue Brook Guild's hopes to take the lead weren't great.
"Get lost." Blue River replied. Wild BOSSes were never first come first serve, but Plantago Seed loved to say such nonsense.
"How many people did you bring?" Plantago Seed asked.
"Around the same as you." Blue River said.
"Want to team up?" Plantago Seed said.
"What do you mean by team up?"
"You and I have both arrived, so Tyrannical Ambition shouldn't be far behind. We both send a few players out to block them. And then we both rely on our own power to split the BOSS, how about it?"
"Okay!" Blue River replied without thinking the matter through.
"How many people?"
"Half!"
"Okay."
After half a minute…..
"Where are your people?" Plantago Seed asked.
"Yours?" Blue River replied.
"I've chosen them, I'm waiting for you!"
"I'm the one waiting for you!"
Another half a minute of silence.
"It looks like you don't trust me. I'll go look to team up with Tyrannical Ambition then." Plantago Seed said.
"Go ahead. Actually, I've already come to an agreement with Tyrannical Ambition. They're in front waiting to ambush you. Be careful." Blue River replied.
Plantago Seed didn't send another message.
Both felt helpless. This wasn't the first time they had met. The Three Great Guilds had fought with each over for many years, so they all understood each other. If they truly wanted to cooperate, then they always tore at each other. It wasn't possible for them to reach a conclusion in these few words. None of them trusted each other. It could be seen that in these few years, they weren't lacking any fighting, dueling, or causing havoc amongst each other.
Blue Brook Guild was currently a bit slower than Herb Garden, but that small amount didn't count for anything. Even if Herb Garden arrived there first, they might not immediately pull it and fight. If they were attacked from behind, what would they do? Don't look at how their messages to each other were so friendly. If the they truly wanted to fight, they wouldn't show any mercy. Games were like this. Happy and painful.
The two crowds maintained their distance and they reached the Blood Gunner's location one after another. However, when they got there, another crowd of players were already standing there. Tyrannical Ambition's players were unexpectedly even faster than them. Except Tyrannical Ambition still hadn't acted. At this moment, there were a crowd of unknown players battling the Blood Gunner. But with just a look, it could clearly be seen that these were just random parties who just happened to discover this BOSS, trying it out. Blue River looked for a bit and then decided: "They're courting death!"
Blood Gunner Yagg was covered in a white leather armor. Its ash-colored face didn't show any expression. Clearly, it was also an Undead monster. It held a revolver in its hands and it moved incomparably quickly, running around everywhere and firing. At that instant, the crowd of randomly put together players were all hit and cried out in terror. They had no way to resist and the hunters became the prey.
Tyrannical Ambition had arrived long ago, but they just stood on the side, quietly watching the scene. They stood firmly just outside of the Blood Gunner's attack range. After Herb Garden and Blue Brook Guild arrived, they acted the same as Tyrannical Ambition. They didn't care about whether these players lived or died. They didn't even look at the Blood Gunner; their attention was all focused on each other.
Seeing that the other two guilds had arrived, someone from Tyrannical Ambition quickly walked out and headed towards Blue Brook Guild.
Does he want to negotiate with us? Blue River silently thought. He couldn't help but look at Herb Garden. They weren't moving either and looking at their stance, they were probably paying attention to that Tyrannical Ambition player who was walking towards Blue Brook Guild, too.
That player eventually walked over. Right when he was about to go greet him, he heard that player shout: "Lord Grim, why are you here?"
"To see the excitement." Ye Xiu replied.
"That place isn't too good. Come come come. Why don't you come over to our place?"
As it turned out, this shameless person was Endless Night.
Blue River's lungs were about to burst with rage. He was simply treating them as if they were air. Our place is no good? F*ck your place then. This entire area was a desolate graveyard. There were a few weeds, dead trees, crooked gravestones, and damaged coffins; every place was the same. What good or bad?
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Chapter 62 – Hunting Yagg (2)
"Isn't everywhere the same?" Ye Xiu replied, appearing somewhat well-behaved.
"But in a bit, some things might happen there, so it'd be best to stay out of the way." Endless Night said.
Blue River's heart couldn't help but thump. These words were obviously spoken for Blue Brook Guild to hear. Analyzing it on the surface, these words suggested that Tyrannical Ambition and Herb Garden had already joined hands. Blue Brook Guild would have difficulty negotiating with them.
"Oh? How come I heard that that place wasn't safe?" Blue Brook Guild's Bound Boat spoke out.
Psychological warfare.
Reverse psychological warfare.
Reverse reverse psychological warfare.
When the Three Great Guilds competed, they often ended up in this situation. These annoyed Blue River, so he liked to remain still with his face blank and let others deal with the problem.
"Oh, so it's like this? Don't tell me Herb Garden is plotting against us? Wouldn't it be best for us to join hands?" Endless Night said.
To join hands or not to join hands, that was the question.
Blue River felt his balls ache. He directly sent messages to both guild leaders: "What are you guys doing? Both of you come over."
Herb Garden's guild leader Plantago Seed replied: "I haven't done anything."
Tyrannical Ambition's guild leader Cold Night replied: "Didn't I already send someone over?"
Both of them weren't cooperating. Blue River's head hurt. Truthfully, he hoped that all three could send representatives and let everyone just play rock-paper-scissors, but he knew that wasn't going to happen. Even if everyone agreed, in the end, they'd definitely turn hostile. The winner would be like a cicada stalked by a mantis, unaware of the oriole behind. The winner would just be waiting for someone to stab him in the back! He didn't know how many times this sort of situation had happened. In the end, all of the winners were extremely cautious and then suddenly tossed from side to side repeatedly by everyone. What had originally been agreed on was the same as no agreement. What was the point in wasting that time?
The Three Great Guilds all payed a lot of attention towards their outer image. Their words held enormous weight and their reputation was outstanding.
But when the the three competed, whatever despicable, shameless methods existed, all came out. Trust and promises were all the same as floating clouds.
All because their true interests laid in winning against the other competitors.
Even if everyone agreed that whichever side did the most damage was the winner, Blue River wouldn't dare trust their word. He did trust that once one side fell behind, that side would definitely cheat them. He knew that every time they hunted a wild BOSS, a lot of players would die.
In this instant, Blue River cherished his memories of dungeons. Comparing them with wild BOSSes, no matter how difficult the dungeon was, they all felt so comforting.
They never had any sincere cooperation with each other. They would only scout each other out or guard against each other. This was the relationship between the Three Great Guilds.
Seeing that Endless Night was still chattering on, Blue River was ready to pull out his sword. In fact, when he called out for the two guild leaders to come, he didn't have any good intentions either. In any case, everyone was shameless, so the two didn't dare come over and stayed where they were. The two didn't come over, only an annoying Endless Night. Blue River felt he might as well just kill him and be done with it. Everyone already understood their relationship towards each other anyways.
But he suddenly heard Ye Xiu say: "Isn't that Thousand Creations?"
Blue River heard this and was startled. He turned around to look. One player, with magical fluctuations under his feet, carried a battle pole and rushed forward without saying anything to smash at the BOSS.
Blue River didn't feel like taking care of him. He was just an undisciplined, unorganized individual.
"I'm going to help him."
Blue River didn't think Lord Grim would suddenly throw out these words and then rush forward. This was something that he couldn't control even if he wanted to.
"Hey hey! Why are you running? I'm not done talking!" Endless Night still talked.
Blue River suddenly pulled out his sword with a Sword Draw and slashed towards that guy. He didn't know how, but Endless Night had already prepared for this and rolled backwards, avoiding the sword.
"Oh, so the magnificent guild leader sneak attacks!" Endless Night mocked.
Blue River moved. Immediately, several players beside him were about to rush forward and act, but Endless Night had already escaped. Tyrannical Ambition also immediately had people approach, so Blue Brook Guild immediately withdrew.
They didn't want to clash with Tyrannical Ambition. Herb Garden was still beside them!
The Three Great Guilds restricted each other. Intertwined, none of them dared to act blindly without thinking. While they were stuck in a stalemate, more players died fighting in the fields. One party, which was originally a ten member party, had already fallen to five. Half had died.
"Why are you all standing there watching. Hurry up and kill!!"
After Lord Grim rushed close, Ye Xiu heard these five members yell.
They clearly didn't understand the situation and didn't understand these Three Great Guilds' entanglement.
But no matter how entangled these Three Great Guilds were, these five were destined to die.
If they were unable to kill the Blood Gunner, they'd die. If they killed the Blood Gunner, they'd die an even worse death. The Three Great Guilds didn't act out against them because they belonged to the former. They didn't have the strength to kill the Blood Gunner.
"Join the party!!" At this moment, the five yelled to Thousand Creations. Thousand Creations was the sixth player on the field that joined the fight. They immediately sent him an invite, but that guy actually ignored it.
"I'm coming in!!" After Lord Grim rushed to the front, Ye Xiu yelled while swiftly leaving Blue River's party.
"What is he thinking?" Blue River was a little lost. Lord Grim rushing forward made him lost. Then, he suddenly left the party. Seeing that he wanted to join that random party made him even more lost.
"If Lord Grim is killing the BOSS, are we going to steal or not?" Bound Boat suddenly said.
Blue River stared blankly.
Could it be that this guy wanted to use the fact that each of the Great Guilds regarded him highly and wouldn't steal the BOSS from him?
This thought was rather naive. Although the Three Great Guilds all regarded him highly and were willing to back down on many issues, this was only when the Three Great Guilds took the initiative to. But at this moment, he was the one to take initiative and use the Three Great Guild's intentions to force them to retreat. This was a completely different situation.
No one would be willing to accept this sort of coercement, to say nothing of the Three Great Guilds. Although they were cautious, modest, and respectful on the outside, if you schemed against them like this, who would be able to take this?
Thousand Creations maneuvered around everywhere, waiting for an opportunity.
The five players were basically being chased and attacked by the Blood Gunner.
But once Lord Grim entered the fray, everything immediately changed.
The fast-moving Blood Gunner had unexpectedly been accurately captured by him. With a Sky Strike, the Blood Gunner had already been knocked into the air. This was an attack that Thousand Chances hadn't found the opportunity to perform, even after he had joined the battle for so long.
Falling Flower Palm!
The Blood Gunner was blown away. This was a wild BOSS and was even stronger than hidden BOSSes. Sky Strike hadn't knocked it very high into the air. If it was someone else who had executed Falling Flower Palm, then it might have even been a problem for them to complete the aerial attack.
The Blow Away effects would be increased in an aerial attack.
The higher up they were, the greater the increase. Because the Blood Gunner hadn't been knocked up very high, the additional effects from the aerial attack were already the limit.
His figure shook and suddenly, two Lord Grims appeared. One was in the original place, while the other had flashed behind the Blood Gunner.
Shadow Clone Technique!
The body behind the Blood Gunner was obviously the real one. He immediately grabbed the Blood Gunner and threw.
Grappler Skill: Fling.
The Blood Gunner was once again thrown away.
Herb Garden's players were suddenly in a commotion. Why was this Blood Gunner getting closer and closer to them?
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Chapter 63 – Hunting Yagg (3)
The Blood Gunner's aggro obviously couldn't run onto Herb Garden. In fact, up until now, it hadn't taken a lot of damage. After taking three hits from Lord Grim: Sky Strike, Falling Flower Palm, Fling, its aggro had already ignited onto Lord Grim. Once it was thrown to the ground, it didn't fall down. It rolled away and had already gotten up.
This skill was called Quick Recover. It was a common passive skill similar to Swift Run and Roll. After learning it, it could be used. The moment the user fell onto the ground, the user would immediately use a roll. In this way, the user wouldn't fall down and would instead directly flip over.
This skill required a certain amount of technique to use. When the user touched the ground, the user had to immediately use a roll to Quick Recover. There were also a few skills where Quick Recover didn't work. For example, the Battle Mage's Circle Swing, the Grappler's Back Throw, and the Sharpshooter's Punisher all negated the Quick Recover skill.
The Blood Gunner could also Quick Recover, but it only now had a chance to. At this moment, after eating three of Lord Grim's attacks, it directly rolled over with a Quick Recover and raised its gun, ready to shoot.
A gun sound rang out and the Blood Gunner's right hand, which held the gun, moved backwards. Following the spark that sprayed out from the gun muzzle, a second gun sound rang out.
"D*mn!!" An Herb Garden player cried out in fear and immediately crouched down. The bullet scraped by his head. Then, he heard a second sound "D*mn!!" from behind him. The second player didn't have time to dodge and the bullet hit him in the center of his forehead. Blood violently blossomed out and his life directly fell to half. Herb Garden's Clerics immediately went up to rescue him. But at this moment, no one responded in time when the Blood Gunner suddenly c*cked its gun towards them.
But from Blue Brook Guild's point of view, they could all see it clearly. Just now, after Lord Grim flung the Blood Gunner, a gun somehow appeared in his hands. That first gun sound wasn't from the Blood Gunner. It was from Lord Grim's gun. This gun hit the Blood Gunner's right hand causing the Blood Gunner's gun to swing backwards. Was this a coincidence? Or was it on purpose? Blue Brook Guild's players didn't know. But they did know that this shot was both an attack and a defense. It not only hit the Blood Gunner's hand, it also neutralized the possibility of the Blood Gunner returning fire. As for the headshot at the Herb Garden player, that was probably pure coincidence.
But this coincidence still made Blue Brook Guild's players extremely happy.
"What is he trying to do?" While everybody was jeering at Herb Garden's player who had "accidentally been shot", Bound Boat frowned, unable to see through Lord Grim's intentions.
"Is he really thinking of taking down the Blood Gunner in front of all of us?" Flower Lantern also muttered.
Both of them moved towards Blue River.
"D*mn! An aerial Circle Swing, amazing!!" The two had just arrived in front of Blue River when they heard him say this.
The two were completely helpless. Was this really the time to be admiring his skill?
After waking up Blue River, Blue River touched on this issue but also helplessly said: "If the other guilds don't move, how can we?"
Bound Boat was startled.
"Could it be that this guy wants to use this time when our three guilds are restricting each other instead of impolitely kill stealing?" Bound Boat said.
Blue River looked left towards Herb Garden. And the looked right towards Tyrannical Ambition. He saw that the other two guild leaders were also eccentrically looking left and right. Clearly, they were also like him and observing the other two guild's movements.
Sure enough! At this moment, none of the three guilds dared to advance forward.
This was because whoever advanced forward would become the mantis preying upon the cicada. But there was also a large oriole behind them. No. Two of them to be accurate.
"This……." Blue River discovered this deadlock really was awkward.
He immediately messaged Herb Garden and Tyrannical Ambition: "You two. Are we really going to just watch this BOSS get split?"
"Old Blue, you've finally learned treachery?" Plantago Seed replied.
"I don't want to. It'd be better if your Blue Brook Guild hurried over and captured the BOSS, while my Tyrannical Ambition waits outside the range and keeps the situation under control, what do you think?" Tyrannical Ambition's Cold Night replied.
Blue River was speechless. Herb Garden and Tyrannical Ambition didn't trust him at all. And the most important factor that influenced these two groups' judgements was that they didn't understand Lord Grim's strength; they didn't believe that Lord Grim could take down the Blood Gunner.
But now that he calmed down and thought about it, he also felt that this was an issue too.
Although he and Lord Grim had set a dungeon record before and directly saw Lord Grim's strength, although Lord Grim relied on his outstanding skill to deal with the Blood Gunner, no one could solo the Blood Gunner at this level. Even a peak peak professional player wouldn't be able to, either.
This was because their mana definitely wouldn't be able to keep up.
With the Blood Gunner's life as well as the player's DPS at this level, there was no way anyone could defeat the Blood Gunner with no mana. Even if they carried a full inventory of potions, they still wouldn't be able to. Just seeing how Lord Grim put out damage at such a high tempo, they knew that beginner village's level one potions certainly weren't enough.
Skills couldn't be used without mana. If a player couldn't use skills, only relying on normal attacks definitely couldn't take down the BOSS. When skills and normal attacks were compared, apart from more damage, the most important difference were their crowd control effects.
For example, Sky Strike's Knock Up, Dragon Tooth's Short Stun, Falling Flower Palm's Blow Away, Circle Swing's No-Quick-Recover Throw. These sort of special effects couldn't be made by normal attacks and had an effect on controlling the opponent's movement.
Thinking of this, Blue River suddenly calmed down. Sure enough, Herb Garden and Tyrannical Ambition were the greater threats. He couldn't help but glance left and right at each of them.
The five normal players in the field were still regarded as dead people, so much so that Blue River didn't even think that Lord Grim would associate with them. When Lord Grim left, he had no way to prevent it, so he could only call Thousand Creations to come and join the party.
Perhaps Ye Xiu was the only player to notice these five.
These chain attacks, which these five players were incapable of doing, frightened these players dumbstruck. Lord Grim suddenly used a Circle Swing, throwing the Blood Gunner in front of these five players.
"Still watching? Attack!" Ye Xiu yelled.
The five players woke up and immediately went up and greeted the Gunner with their weapons.
"Don't attack randomly. Listen to my commands." While Ye Xiu yelled, Lord Grim's attacks hadn't stopped from beginning to end.
These foolish five players finally discovered something.
"Lord Grim, this person is Lord Grim!!!"
The Three Great Guilds weren't the only ones that noticed Lord Grim. Even players from Happy Internet Cafe were astonished when they saw Lord Grim's famed name. These five players, who had invited Lord Grim to join the party and watched Lord Grim's fight with the Blood Gunner, just now noticed Lord Grim's ID on top of his head.
The Lord Grim that completed three first clears in beginner village!
The Lord Grim that led Blue Brook Guild to a new clear record in Frost Forest!
"Berserker, Gore Cross." Lord Grim said while using Dragon Tooth to stab the Blood Gunner.
The Berserker didn't react slowly and immediately brandished his Greatsword. While the Blood Gunner was still stunned and unable to dodge, he slashed and the tip of his sword drew a cross. A cross of blood swung out.
"Brawler, Sand Toss." Ye Xiu yelled and at the same time, a Sky Strike knocked the Blood Gunner into the air.
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Brawlers belonged to the Fighter Class and were street fighters that use underhanded methods to win.
For example, Sand Toss threw sand, dirtying the target's clothing in a despicable manner.
At this moment, hearing Ye Xiu's call, this Brawler immediately threw sand at the Blood Gunner.
Ye Xiu started sweating. He didn't think that this player was a complete noob. He immediately instructed: "Sand Toss whenever it's off cooldown and throw sand at its face."
This was Sand Toss's true usage.
Sand Toss had a hidden effect that occurred when sand was thrown into the target's eyes. It had a chance to Blind the target. Because it was a hidden effect, the chance to Blind and the Blind's duration wasn't directly shown by the system. However, through player testing, the lowest level Sand Toss had a 50% chance to Blind and lasted 4 seconds. But when the skill was maxed, it had a 100% chance to Blind and lasted 8 seconds.
This effect was truly terrifying. In Glory's early days, Brawlers ruled the world with Sand Toss. Whenever they encountered anything displeasing, they would throw some sand at their face. Under the effects of Blind, the player's screen became pitch-black, unable to see anything. Brawlers could use this opportunity to attack despicably and lowly while their target was in such a state.
But nowadays, players found quite a few ways to deal with Sand Toss.
The simplest way was that when the Sand Toss was thrown, the character turned his or her viewpoint. Look up, look down, look left, look right, any of them worked.
Although Sand Toss damaged them, it was much better than that terrifying hidden effect.
But the unequalled counter to Sand Toss was a type of accessory: eyeglasses.
This toy was the same type of item as the Mithril Pendant that Ye Xiu possessed. It had no attributes and was purely decoration. However, these eyeglasses could nullify Sand Toss's hidden effect, turning it into nothing but fleeting clouds.
The most hated item among Brawlers were these eyeglass type items.
Fortunately, NPCs wouldn't shamelessly wear eyeglasses as if they were refined people.
Blinded NPCs would lose their sense of direction, unable to find their original aggro target. It might not even be able to figure out the direction to hit back players that bullied it. Ye Xiu's purpose was obviously to let this Brawler attempt to Blind it. But who knew that that guy was too much of a noob. His Sand Toss was unexpectedly thrown at the Blood Gunner's body. Ye Xiu had no idea how this guy got to level 23, two levels higher than him.
"Brick Buster!" Ye Xiu continued to patiently instruct this Brawler.
Brick Buster was the system's official name for the skill. Ye Xiu was afraid that his noob wouldn't know the popular term for it, so he used the official skill name. Among players, this skill was known as Brick.
Correct. Found high and low, far and wide, the Brick that people in street fights would often use as a weapon.
In Glory, Brawler's Bricks could be used to smash and throw, extremely formidable. Apart from this, the skill also had a special effect. It had a 50% chance to cause the target to be Dizzy for 3 seconds. However, in order to create this effect, the Brick had to be smashed onto the head. This Brick also had a hidden effect. When the Brick is a back attack and also hits the head, the Dizzy chance becomes 100% and lasted 4 seconds.
Ye Xiu didn't have time to explain in detail to this Brawler. Fortunately, the Brick's Dizzy special effect wasn't a hidden effect, so the skill tooltip described this. Evidently, the Brawler noticed this point and his Brick headed towards the Blood Gunner's head.
Regretfully, instead of using his hands to directly smash its head with the Brick, he threw it.
The flying brick's damage was reduced by half. The chance to Dizzy was reduced by half; the Dizzy duration was reduced by half……
Moreover, this Brick flew askew.
"Idiot, pick up the Brick and smash the back of its head." Another person acted on behalf of Ye Xiu and directed. Brick's hidden effect wasn't a secret.
The newbie Brawler immediately responded sincerely "Okay okay".
"Raging Flames, attack." Ye Xiu commanded the Elementalist.
Raging Flames soared up. Ye Xiu nodded his head, satisfied. He wasn't as noobish as that Brawler at least.
Facing the BOSS Blood Gunner, the low-leveled Raging Flame's knock up was small. But Ye Xiu had already controlled Lord Grim to follow up.
"Collapsing Mountain!"
"Ghostblade use a Sword Soul!"
"Sand Toss!!"
"Raging Flames!!"
"Ghost Slash!!"
Ye Xiu succinctly and quickly directed them. The five players, who had originally been regarded as dead players, suddenly discovered: was dealing with the Blood Gunner really this easy?
Originally, they tried every possible way but they couldn't hit the Blood Gunner. Now, it was pretty much just a sandbag. Sword slashes, brick smashes, magic flashes, they all hit.
The experienced players among the five saw that this was all because of Lord Grim. This guy would use his attacks exactly where they controlled the enemy. Moreover, his commands on when to use the skills controlled the enemy well. As a result, surrounding it, in this beautiful rhythm, they happily dealt damage to the Blood Gunner.
The Blood Gunner wasn't powerless to retaliate, but its attack target was always Lord Grim.Ye Xiu had already figured out its attack pattern, so he always dodged his attacks perfectly. In addition, the damage never spread to the other party members.
In an instant, a chaotic party that had originally been regarded as dead bodies transformed into a well-coordinated party under Ye Xiu's lead. The five players used their skills contentedly, but Ye Xiu didn't relax a bit. He understood clearly that a single mistake in his play or a small misjudgement in his leading would completely reverse the situation.
The Three Great Guilds that had just been standing there watching were already completely dumbfounded. Each of them had majestically prepared dozens of players as reinforcement just in case. But at that instant, the six player party was hunting down the BOSS yet they didn't dare advance. Each and every one felt ill-at-ease and glanced left and right. The more they looked, the more foolish they seemed.
"See! This is the leading I wanted to see!" Tyrannical Ambition's Endless Night yelled.
"What are you being so happy for?" His guild leader Cold Night said.
"So Lord Grim was actually this terrifying….." Herb Garden always had Lord Grim in their thoughts, but they still hadn't seen his strength. Now that they had seen it, the guild leader Plantago Seed was completely stunned.
"If this continues, then the Blood Gunner really will be killed off by this guy." Blue Brook Guild's Flower Lantern said to Blue River.
As a result, the three guild leaders began twisting strangely again. They turned in one direction, then in the other, observing the other two's reactions.
They all understood what everyone had to do at this moment.
"Kill off those additional players. Don't touch Lord Grim. If they attack Lord Grim, then lend a hand!" Blue River commanded.
"Help who?" Someone still asked.
"Idiot, don't tell me you think we should help those two bunches of bastards?" Blue River said.
Everyone understood.
"Take the empty spot in our party and immediately give it to Lord Grim." Blue River said.
Everyone felt a bit solemn. There obviously wasn't any empty spot right now, but there would be one soon because someone had to die. The person that died would respawn in town and automatically leave the party.
The Three Great Guilds all began moving at practically the same time.
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