The King's Avatar

by Stayrr

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

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Chapter 97 – Stupid Noob

The quests for changing classes were difficult for normal newbies. They would often need to try it again several times before succeeding. But for Tang Rou, who had quick hand speed, it wasn't difficult at all. She easily completed the quests for changing classes and Soft Mist officially became a Battle Mage.

"Where are you?" Tang Rou asked Ye Xiu.

Ye Xiu sent some coordinates over to her. He, Seven Fields, and Sleeping Moon had already rushed over towards the dungeon. In addition, he sent Steamed Bun Invasion a message to come over too.

But Steamed Bun Invasion had already become addicted to PK in the Arena as if he were Dugu Qiubai. He was actually unwilling to go dungeon. There was nothing Ye Xiu could do about this noob. No matter what a noob played, he'd quickly become addicted. No matter what a noob played, he'd find it fun.

While hurrying on, Ye Xiu sent a message to Tyrannical Ambition's guild leader Cold Night, asking him if he had gotten a hold of the information on Excellent Dynasty's party.

"Not yet. It's not easy finding what equipment they had." Cold Night replied. Glory didn't have any set up to directly check a player's information. In order to figure out a stranger's equipment, you had to be very familiar with equipment and then examine the clothing on a character. Cold Night was quite meticulous for this task. He sent an equipment specialist from his guild to study those five player's equipment.

"Their classes then? You should at least know their classes by now, right?" Ye Xiu asked. That wasn't hard to find.

"Yeah. We've already found it. Gray Black is a Spellblade. Sea Breeze is a Sharpshooter. Inherit is a Striker. Nowhere to Run is a Witch. Purse is an Elementalist." Cold Night said.

"Okay, got it." Ye Xiu replied. The corners of his mouth were grinning carelessly the whole time.

Spellblade, Striker, and Sharpshooter, just happened to be the classes that Liu Hao, Wang Ze, and Fang Fengran used. When he saw that these three and Excellent Dynasty's guild leader Chen Yehui were together, Ye Xiu had already suspected this. Now that he got the info, sure enough, the tenth server's Frost Forest clear record was indeed done by pro players.

But these three really did have a lot of free time. To actually come out and clear Frost Forest, that sort of low-leveled dungeon, what exactly were they planning? Just for fun? Ye Xiu couldn't think of the reason why at this moment. If they wanted to play for fun, then they could have just gone to the Heavenly Domain to play.

Was it possible that they just did it because they wanted the pleasure of setting a new record? If it was like that, then Ye Xiu had to blush with shame on behalf of them. To challenge the the record for the new server's Frost Forest, that was like if an NBA basketball star came to a high school match to determine the winner; how shameful was that?

But no matter how shameful that was, pro players coming out really was different. They had set the all-time record for Frost Forest in all ten servers. In fact, in each of the servers, there were many dungeons where the final record was set by pro players. Moreover, they were also the highest records in all of the servers.

However, these records weren't admired by anyone. On the contrary, players were actually angry at them. These records set by pro players were clearly better than normal player's by a large margin. No matter how hard a normal player tried, they wouldn't be able to beat it. They lost the chance to get the rewards for setting a new record for no reason. Of course they wouldn't be happy.

What happened to pro players? Pro players didn't compete in the Alliance and ran to the game to bully others?

The forums were once filled with these posts, making the pro players that set new records look extremely bad and making them not dare to say that those records were set by them. The characters that set the records became disused and basically became characters hated by everyone. In reality, these pro players didn't mean to be bullies. They had just casually played because they were bored. They didn't think that they would have caused such a ruckus.

There were even conspiracy theorists. They thought that the game company invited these pro players to deliberately set impossible-to-beat records, so that players wouldn't be able to set a new record and grab the rewards.

The game company had taken a bullet even though they weren't involved as if they received an injust treament like Liu Yu Xue . They had received unjust treatment. When the anger was at its peak, they even had to go out and explain it. In the end, they had to negotiate with the Professional Alliance and the Professional Alliance made a statement saying that pro-players were not allowed to do this sort of thing. But a statement was just a statement and no one monitored it. As a result, it all depended on the pro player. However, to be honest, pro players didn't really have any interest in setting this sort of record. After this mess, such an act became even rarer.

After all, if the record was clearly made by a pro, then millions of players would hate them. Only those mentally twisted guys would like that sort of feeling.

So for those three to set the Frost Forest record, Ye Xiu really didn't think too much of it. Seeing that they were together with Chen Yehui, it was probably Chen Yehui who mentioned it, so the three just conveniently played around. Low-end dungeons had their good points. Although it made them seem even more shameless, not many people paid attention to low-end dungeons.

"Are you there yet?" Ye Xiu turned his head to look at Tang Rou's screen. His group of three had already arrived. The were currently waiting for Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion.

"On the way." Tang Rou said.

"Do you know the way?" Tang Rou was still a noob, so Ye Xiu was afraid that she didn't know the way there.

"I know!" It looks like Tang Rou wasn't that noobish.

Outside of the dungeon, the five players met. Seeing that the new player was a female character, ordinarily, they would have went over to check her out. But because brother expert had brought her, Seven Fields restrained himself. Sleeping Moon, on the other hand, expressed that such an act was beneath him. Only Steamed Bun Invasion, that stupid noob, ran up in front of Soft Mist and bounced up and down: "Hey beautiful."

Before Level 20, Tang Rou had leveled on her own. Previously, when she played with Chen Guo, she was only controlling the character and had never communicated with others. This was her first experience with Glory's voice system. After staring blankly for a bit, she suddenly started laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Ye Xiu turned his head strangely.

"So that's how you speak? It feel so stupid!" Tang Rou said.

After seeing Steamed Bun Invasion bouncing up and down and say a single greeting, Tang Rou had laughed uncontrollably. For the first time, Ye Xiu began to have a few doubts: were these two reliable? Beating a record set by pro-players isn't something so easy to do……

"How do I speak?" Tang Rou asked.

"Oh? Is your voice option not turned on?" Ye Xiu recovered and instructed Tang Rou to turn on the voice option.

Tang Rou coughed twice and then greeted everyone with a "Hi everyone". Immediately after, she began laughing again.

"What's so funny……" Ye Xiu couldn't understand.

"I don't know either!" Tang Rou laughed while saying this.

In the game, Steamed Bun Invasion was quite excited: "Wow, it really is a beauty! Even her voice sounds nice. Brother Seven, Little Moon Moon, did you guys hear it?"

"Little Moon Moon YOU F*CKER!!" Sleeping Moon was alarmed. How terrible! How could someone he just met already know of this top-secret nickname? It must have been that son of a b*tch who privately taught him, right? Sleeping Moon began conspiring theories. He obviously didn't know, that right now, whenever he was talked about, they would always use the name "Little Moon Moon". Of course, Seven Fields and the others still used Sleeping Moon when they were in front of him, but Steamed Bun Invasion couldn't care less. A noob! What was a noob? This was one.

"Okay, okay, stop being so noisy. Let's party up and get ready to dungeon! This is Soft Mist's first time doing this dungeon. Everyone take care of her." Ye Xiu said.

"Your name is really pretty, beautiful." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"Thank you." Tang Rou politely replied.

"Beautiful, what's your astrological sign?" Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"Aries." Tang Rou answered.

"Cough!" Ye Xiu coughed.

"Beautiful, can you guess what sign I am?" Steamed Bun Invasion asked.

"I don't know!" Tang Rou said.

"Guess! I'll give you three guesses." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"Cough cough cough!! We're going into the dungeon, you two!!!" Ye Xiu couldn't bear it anymore.

But after going into the dungeon, would Steamed Bun Invasion calm down? Of course not! He continued to circle around Soft Mist and say: "Beautiful, be careful. This dungeon is very dangerous. You should stand behind me! Did you know? When I first came here……"

"Steamed Bun Steamed Bun Steamed Bun!!!" Ye Xiu felt that his IQ was rapidly declining, "You can chat when there's time! I'm going to pull the monsters, Soft Mist come with me."

"Okay." Tang Rou controlled Soft Mist to follow Ye Xiu's Lord Grim.

When Lord Grim took out his Thousand Chance Umbrella, it was already in the Battle Lance form. It was the same type as Tang Rou's weapon.

"Look, the monsters in this dungeon……" Ye Xiu said to Tang Rou while pulling the monsters. He gathered together different types of monsters in combat, explaining them to her while instructing her on how to pull the monsters.

Steamed Bun Invasion was very lonely. He was bouncing about in front of Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon: "Can you guys guess what sign I am?"

"F*ck off!" The two said.

Steamed Bun Invasion was gloomy. He went to the side and began drawing circles. He still felt that the beautiful girl was more gentle and kind.

Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon, on the other hand, were watching Lord Grim pull monsters. The more they looked, the more they were amazed. It wasn't because of brother expert. They were already used to brother expert's skill. The one that amazed them was the girl that brother expert brought. After explaining and demonstrating it a few times, this girl had already begun personally going into battle. From her positioning to pulling monsters to attacking to dodging, how was this a new player who had never been to Frost Forest?

"Who is that person?" Seven Fields muttered. With so many experts like this, as a middle-ranked players, they really did feel jealous! In fact, not just these two, but even that Brawler noob over at the side drawing circles.. after Lord Grim had taught him for a bit, his skill had advanced by leaps and bounds. His hand speed was clearly faster than theirs by a large margin.

Right when Seven Fields was feeling heart-broken, brother expert and the newly joined girl had brought back a few monsters. Bringing this bunch, Ye Xiu didn't dare use One Wave Rush. But there were still a lot more monsters that were pulled than normal.

Seven Fields and the two others immediately went up to support them. While fighting these monsters, Ye Xiu said this and that to Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion. Sleeping Moon heard this and was baffled. He asked Seven Fields: "Why is he speaking so much to them?"

Seven Fields heard this and became heart-broken again: "They're planning on setting a new record for Frost Forest at Level 25!"

"Us five?" Sleeping Moon asked.

"Those three." Seven Fields said.

"Three players? No way, right?" Sleeping Moon was stunned.

Seven Fields was helpless. This guy really did know how to invite trouble! He could only comprehensively explain: "To set a new record, brother expert is needed. Brother expert looks like he's preparing Steamed Bun and that girl to help him challenge the record. I don't know who the other two members are."

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Chapter 98 – Teaching Like Crazy

Sleeping Moon naturally felt depressed. This clearly meant that Seven Field's and his skill weren't good enough. Sleeping Moon didn't want to accept it, but after seeing Lord Grim, Soft Mist, and Steamed Bun Invasion, they were clearly better than them by a grade.

Their constant moving and quick skill release all reflected high hand speed. The gap in their microing was difficult to see, but the fact that they could see it meant that the gap was quite large.

Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon fought monsters while heartbroken. Ye Xiu was still continuously instructing the two on what to do. Sleeping Moon wanted to learn too, but he wasn't of the same class. The other side was teaching them about the Battle Mage and Brawler. Actively ask for Lord Grim to teach him? It'd be better to just die. In the end, Sleeping Moon thought of a way: he should stick with Sunset Clouds more. That guy was a Blade Master like him. If he shamelessly went to that guy to ask for guidance, then couldn't he eavesdrop and learn too?

Right when he was thinking of this, he suddenly heard that guy say: "Little Moon Moon, what are you doing?"

Sleeping Moon recovered and looked. He started sweating. While he was thinking, he had already killed off his target. He was hacking at nothing right now!

Pretending as if nothing had happened, he immediately went back to fighting. Then, he heard that new girl say: "So it's this easy?"

"When the time comes, we're going to have to pull more of them. I'm just letting you get familiar with the dungeon right now. Each monster's position, attack patterns, attack speed, movement speed, you need to pay attention to them all. Steamed Bun too." Ye Xiu said.

"Why do you need to pay attention to them so much?" Steamed Bun Invasion was killing the Goblins in the dungeon quite relaxed, so he didn't really take things very seriously.

"Sometimes the final record will only be better by a few seconds. This small difference comes from these small details." Ye Xiu explained.

"So I'm not doing well enough right now?" Steamed Bun Invasion asked.

"Not good enough. But it'll be enough for today! In this run, I'll just give you a rough explanation. A bit later, you go back and continue fighting in the Arena. Save up your experience for now. Wait until I gather a few more people and when the time comes, we'll practice properly." Ye Xiu suddenly had this cautious thought. It really was all because this Steamed Bun Invasion behaved too much like a noob. This type of guy wasn't stable. It's be best to spend more time practicing.

Luckily, Steamed Bun Invasion was also addicted to PK. Hearing that he didn't need to dungeon, he was actually quite happy. He unreservedly agreed.

Ye Xiu followed and then suddenly thought of something else: "Right, how many points are you at in the Arena?"

"98 Points." Steamed Bun Invasion said proudly. He had been playing one on one duels in the Arena. Each win would only earn him 1 point, so 98 points meant that he had already won against 98 opponents.

"Don't randomly use your points. Save up until you have 250 points and then trade for a Level 25 Purple weapon." Ye Xiu said.

The Arena was similar to the pro scene. There were different types of matches that could be played. One on one was 1 win, 1 point. The group single-elimination competition (winner stays on until defeated) was 2 points for every member on the victorious group. The team competition was different from the pro scene though. It wasn't a 5 players and 1 sub set-up. In this competition, players could set it up however they liked. 2v2, 3v3, were all fine. The highest it could go to was a 5v5 with 1 sub, just like in the pro-scene.

The points earned could be used to trade for equipment. In the Level 50, Level 60, and Level 70 stage, there was even Orange equipment that could be traded.

Level 50 Orange equipment required 8000 points. Level 60 Orange equipment required 10,000 points. Level 70 Orange equipment required 12,000 points.

This Orange equipment couldn't be obtained with just perseverance. That was because starting from Level 50 in the Arena, besides earning points from winning, players would also lose points. Like this, players unable to achieve a 50% win rate couldn't profit.

However, it wasn't like there weren't any shortcuts. There was one method that could earn a player enough points in a single round: gambling.

Players could gamble with points, in-game currency, and even equipment.

There was no betting limit. In the default setting, if a player opened with 1000 points, then a challenger could join as long as he had 1000 points. In addition to this, players could also negotiate. For example, if a player opened with 1000 points, then if the challenger lost, the challenger would only have to pay 500 points. As long as both sides agreed to it, this sort of set-up was possible. The system always acted as the mediator, so it wasn't possible to shamelessly cheat others.

Those who dared to open a gamble undoubtedly had a trick or two up their sleeves. But most of the time, players made a profit of 100 points or less, because no one was confident in winning 100% of the time. Of course, there definitely were brave gamblers that made huge bets on one match. These types were usually between two sides with enmity towards each other and used the bet decide who was better. Apart from this, there were quite a few who had no idea what they were doing. In such a large game with so many players, there were definitely strange players with gambling mindsets that could not be understood by ordinary players.

The tenth server was only a new server. With Steamed Bun Invasion's level, there was no difference in fighting in the free-for-all matches or the same-level matches. Apart from the Fixed Field, which didn't give any points or rewards, the other places were all the same. Ye Xiu had suddenly recalled that the Arena's Level 25 Purple Weapon was a good weapon. Steamed Bun Invasion was currently addicted to PK and he just happened to have the ability to obtain this weapon and increase his strength.

"Oh? Is that weapon powerful?" Noobs always had questions. Ye Xiu naturally explained it to him.

They continued dungeoning and Ye Xiu explained to them the entire way. When they reached the BOSS, he said even more. This was because once the party reached a certain level, as long as they didn't make any mistakes, then the small monsters were nothing and nothing would surprise them. On the other hand, more changes could occur during the long fight with the BOSS. The few seconds of time that could be improved on came from here.

It was Tang Rou's first time in Frost Forest, so Ye Xiu taught her the BOSS's characteristics in detail. Steamed Bun Invasion had already cleared the dungeon several times already, but who else gave such a detailed explanation like this? So he learned quite a bit too. Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon had cleared it before too, so they roughly knew the dungeon. However, after hearing him, they also learned about quite a few details. Especially Ye Xiu's lessons on how to deal with certain situations. A lot of those parts made the two widen their scope.

In the end, this dungeon took 35 minutes to clear. All because Ye Xiu was talking too much.

After leaving the dungeon, Ye Xiu, whose throat was about to catch fire from being too dry, grabbed the green tea and madly drank a few mouthfuls. He turned his head and asked Tang Rou: "How about it? Do you understand everything now?" This lesson was mainly for Tang Rou.

In the end, Tang Rou was happily laughing: "No more guessing. No more guessing. I really don't know."

Ye Xiu turned his head and looked. Steamed Bun Invasion was once again asking her to guess his astrological sign. A mouthful of tea almost spurted out from his nose. Fortunately, Tang Rou immediately replied: "It's all so easy!"

"Then go solo it!" Ye Xiu said.

"Solo?" Tang Rou stared blankly.

"It shouldn't be a problem for you right? It's all so easy!" Ye Xiu said.

"I'll clear it for you to see!" Tang Rou didn't say anything further and entered the dungeon. The Frost Forest dungeon really was a lot harder than the beginner village's educational dungeons. But Tang Rou was still confident she could do it.

Soft Mist left the party and then entered the dungeon alone, which made Seven Fields and the others all at a loss.

"Brother expert?" Seven Fields was puzzled.

"Oh, she's going to practice." Ye Xiu said.

"Solo Frost Forest?" Seven Fields felt as if he was going to faint. These guys weren't humans!

"Ha ha, she won't be able to do it." Ye Xiu said.

Although Tang Rou was no longer in the same voice channel as them when she entered the dungeon, she herself was sitting next to Ye Xiu. She directly heard it and turned her head: "Who said I won't be able to finish it!"

"I said so!" Ye Xiu laughed.

Tang Rou didn't reply and wildly killed monsters.

"You guys go look for other players to dungeon with. I'm not going to clear it for now." Ye Xiu said to Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon.

"Oh!" As a result, the two looked for other players to party with. Steamed Bun Invasion now had a goal to trade for the Purple weapon and seemed even more excited. He yelled loudly "250! 250! My goal is 250!" Among the surrounding surprised players, he ran off to the Arena, making Ye Xiu feel another shadow over his heart: Will this guy really be okay?

Noobs couldn't be managed, but this sister next to him could still be taught. Ye Xiu pulled up his stool to behind Tang Rou. He drank tea and smoked his cigarette, leisurely watching Tang Rou solo Frost Forest and waiting for a bad situation to occur.

With Tang Rou's skill, soloing Frost Forest wasn't an issue of skill. She was already quite proficient with using Level 20 and under Battle Mage skills. The newly learned Level 20 skills, Circle Swing and Neutral Chaser, had already been explained before by Ye Xiu. At this moment, she was also gradually getting absorbed into her playing. She had slaughtered her way through very smoothly and easily. It truly wasn't something anyone could do.

But right before the first BOSS, in the last wave of monsters, something bad finally occurred.

Pulling a few monsters, her flowing playing continued. Her left hand beautifully swiped the keyboard and used Falling Flower Palm to attack. But Soft Mist didn't respond. After staring blankly for a bit, Tang Rou looked at a system prompt: not enough mana.

Tang Rou immediately gave Soft Mist a mana potion to drink. But potions were either instant recovery or slow recovery. Instant recovery potions were high quality goods. How could beginner village NPCs sell that type of instant recovery potions. Naturally, her potions were the slow recovery ones that required some time before the potion completely took effect. This duration was usually ten seconds. But different quality potions recovered different amounts every second.

While Tang Rou waited for the potion's effects, she used skills to kill off the monsters. In the end, after ten seconds, the effects disappeared and her mana was also used up again. Potions had a cooldown of 1 minute, so in the following 50 seconds, she had no way of using skills.

Tang Rou could only let Soft Mist dodge left and right and used a normal attack whenever there was an opening to. It put her in a somewhat difficult situation. After fighting with difficulty for 50 seconds, she drank another potion and used another 10 seconds worth of skills before her mana was all gone again.

"Ha ha ha….." Ye Xiu laughed, which felt extremely ear-piercing to Tang Rou. She grinded her teeth and endured. Under such a vicious cycle, she was simply wasting her time on these small monsters. Her own injuries weren't light either. And she had to hurriedly begin using food items to recover her health.

"When we're going for a new clear record, how is there going to be time to rest and recover?" Ye Xiu said from behind.

"Oh, I'll remember to drink potions." Tang Rou said.

"It's not just drinking potions. It's the rhythm for when to use your skills and potions that's needed to obtain the greatest endurance. You go to the side and watch me play for a bit! I'll show you how it's done." Ye Xiu said.

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Chapter 99 – Endurance Limit

"After I finish this round." Tang Rou wouldn't let him.

Ye Xiu laughed. He knew that this sister cared about his previous judgement that she wouldn't be able to finish the dungeon, so she insisted on soloing it herself. As a result, he didn't bother her anymore. He left a "call me when you're done" and then dragged his chair back to its original place.

Hearing Ye Xiu's tone, it seemed like Ye Xiu didn't care at all whether she could complete the dungeon or not. Tang Rou suddenly felt quite embarrassed. But in her heart, she refused to give up and continued to solo Frost Forest.

Forgetting to drink potions was a common mistake among new players. Now that Tang Rou paid attention to this problem, she wouldn't be so careless. She took note of the amount of mana that the mana potion recovered, and wouldn't wait until her mana was completely used before she used a potion. Tang Rou already felt that she was already at the limit using potions like this. But her mana still ran out, so she had no choice but to stop fighting and rest a bit.

While she was resting, she turned her head to look at Ye Xiu. Ye Xiu was simply minding his own business and training. Puffing out clouds of smoke, he didn't even glance at her.

"Hmph!" Tang Rou's fighting spirit wouldn't die out because of this. She continued to fight fight stop stop, drink drink recover recover. Just from potion consumption, it was already clear how much more difficult Frost Forest was. She had soloed all three dungeons in the beginner village, but when had she ever had such a hard time?

Especially when she reached the final BOSS Frost Thain. It didn't need to be said that this final BOSS had the most health among all of the monsters in the dungeon. Tang Rou filled up her mana bar. Adding on her potion consumption while battling, she was unable to beat the Frost Thain before her mana depleted. In the end, she had to resort to drinking a potion every minute, using her skills for 10 seconds, and then awkwardly attacking without skills for 50 seconds.

She was also lucky that she had already been taught by Ye Xiu on the Frost Thain's specialties and attack patterns. If not, then if she had rashly gone to solo, she would have fallen for sure.

In this battle, Tang Rou used up a lot of her red and blue potions fighting the Frost Thain. In the end, she was finally able to take down the Frost Thain. And she let out a sigh of relief as if she had a weight off of her mind.

The dungeon statistics came out, time: 1 hour 33 minutes 24 seconds 49 milliseconds.

Although she eventually soloed the dungeon, this didn't make Tang Rou feel any sort of sense of success. She also felt too embarrassed to call Ye Xiu over. She just sent a message to tell Ye Xiu that she had finished.

"Oh? You're done?" Ye Xiu received the message and sent a reply.

"Yeah."

"You really brought a lot of potions!" Ye Xiu laughed.

"You should get up. Let me show you how it's done." Ye Xiu said.

Tang Rou silently dragged the wooden chair to the side. She did want to see how Ye Xiu played. She secretly noted how many potions she had used and how many potions she had left.

Ye Xiu dragged his chair over to sit. He lifted his hands and then let Soft Mist enter the dungeon. While pulling the monsters, he started explaining: "If you want to reach the endurance limit, then you have to do a lot of meticulous planning and careful accounting. Although the theories are all the same, in different dungeons, the methods you use won't be completely the same."

"First, the most basic point is to be clear on the amount of mana you have at any time." Ye Xiu said.

"Yeah, I pay attention to it." Tang Rou said.

"After that, you also have to know very well the amount of mana your skills use." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh……" Tang Rou couldn't answer. Sky Strike, Dragon Tooth, Double Stab…… she was already quite familiar with these skills, but she had truly never thought of remembering how much mana these skills used.

"And after that, we want to use the least amount of mana to do the most amount of damage. First, you have to know what the hidden effects of each skill is. You should have already seen them in those guides, right?" Ye Xiu said.

"I've seen them!" Tang Rou agreed.

"Then have you tried your best every time to do the most damage with each skill? For example…." Ye Xiu talked about a skill. Then, Soft Mist jumped into the air. The battle lance stabbed a monster and immediately swung, a "Circle Swing".

"Yeah. Circle Swing's hidden effect is that if the arc made is greater than 180 degrees, then it will do more damage. I know this. I also do my best to do this as much as possible." Tang Rou said.

"Then have you fully used this skill's AoE effect?" Ye Xiu said. The Goblin, which had been Circle Swung, smashed into a group of its comrades.

"To maximize the damage, you have to consider the AoE effects of each skill." Ye Xiu explained while demonstrating: "Although Dragon Tooth and Double Stab are single-target skills, if we knock the target into the air and then use an aerial attack, we can make the target collide with other enemies and create an AoE effect."

"Falling Flower Palm is an AoE attack, but its range isn't large. The palm attack can at most hit three monsters at the same time. But its Blow Away effect is strong. An Aerial Attack will increase the Blow Away effect. So when using this skills, it's best to knock the targets up into the air first. Using a normal attack won't be able to knock up three monsters at the same time. You have to use Sky Strike's diagonal knock up effect. You've seen this in the guide right?"

While Ye Xiu said this, Soft mist stepped forward. From a side view, a Sky Strike leapt out hitting three Goblins into the air, but their heights were clearly uneven and they rose up and fell down at different times. At this moment, Soft Mist had already quickly turned around. Not waiting until these three Goblins fell, he launched a Falling Flower Palm. The three Goblins were still in the Palm's range. After being Blown Away, they once again smashed into a group of Goblins.

"After these series of attacks, do you know how much health these Goblins have left?" Ye Xiu asked.

"You have to know how much health these monsters have too. When these monsters only have a sliver of health left, a single normal hit will kill them. Why waste your mana on using skills?"

"Skills do more damage, but they can't be rashly used. For example, this Goblin over here. If this was a one on one scenario, with your skill's damage, you have to use at least three attacks to finish it. So then, we'll first consider the first combo……"

"Sky Strike, Dragon Tooth, and then a normal attack?" Tang Rou said.

"Yup, it looks like you've already understood this part. But your choice isn't the best one." Ye Xiu said.

"Why not?"

"Because you forgot that Dragon Tooth will automatically create a Chaser and creating a Chaser costs mana. So the best method is…….." Ye Xiu's hands flicked: "A normal attack, a Double Stab to create the Bleed hidden effect, and then let it Bleed to death."

"But Double Stab's Bleed has a chance to fail….." The Goblin was hit by Soft Mist's Double Stab and then really did fall down from the Bleed. But Double Stab only had a 50% chance to Bleed. Tang Rou remembered that the guide said this.

"Right now we're pursuing the limit not the most dependable way." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh, I understand." Tang Rou nodded her head.

Soon after, Ye Xiu continued to explain. The skill's damages, their mana consumption, the monster's life, how to gather monsters, how to use the skill's features, back attack, aerial attacks, knock ups, etc. effects. The so-called endurance limit playing was simply extremely meticulous planning and careful accounting. Because Ye Xiu had to divide his attention to explain, it wasn't 100% perfect. But even so, Tang Rou still saw that the mana consumption was reduced and that the damage output didn't lose out to her madly using her skills the entire time.

In the end, Ye Xiu soloed Frost Forest in 1 hour 12 minutes 21 seconds 32 milliseconds. The harsh 20 minute difference made Tang Rou unable to open her eyes. It wasn't just the time either. Ye Xiu's potion consumption was much less than Tang Rou's. Beside eating food one time before fighting the Frost Thain, he had never stopped fighting the entire time. She knew that this wasn't this guy's limit either. Because Ye Xiu was explaining to her along the way. He had stopped sometimes and gave a demonstration. If this guy had focused on soloing the dungeon, then Tang Rou doubted that he'd even need 1 hour.

"Do you understand now?" After exiting the dungeon, Ye Xiu turned around to ask her.

"Yup!" Tang Rou nodded her head.

"Practice then! Remember to pay attention to the things I said before. This type of fighting really is tiring, but if we're going to set a new record, then you definitely need to give your 100%." Ye Xiu said.

"Understood." Tang Rou waited until Ye Xiu let her sit down before returning.

"After you've finished clearing it twice, use my account to clear it three times." Ye Xiu said.

"You didn't dungeon because you wanted to give me more chances to practice?" Tang Rou asked.

"Yup. My account and your account's damage from skills and mana consumption aren't too different. Using them interchangeably will let you break into this type of fighting style even faster. Once you've formed this sort of habit, concentrate on getting familiar with your own account and you'll be good." Ye Xiu said.

"Then every time I dungeon, I'll switch accounts." Tang Rou said.

"That's fine."

"Then I'll start with your account! Yours three times, mine two times. Five times is perfect." Tang Rou said.

"Okay." Ye Xiu got up and let Tang Rou play on his Lord Grim.

Tang Rou sat down and looked at his equipment's damage, skills, and attributes. This made Ye Xiu very happy, this girl had good prospects!

The two alternately used accounts. Ye Xiu trained. Tang Rou dungeoned. From time to time, Ye Xiu would turn around and give a few pointers. Tang Rou grasped it quickly. Her high mechanical skill was equivalent to having good hardware. In this sort of scenario, installing software was quite easy. With just software and no hardware, then the software couldn't be used. And upgrading hardware was much more troublesome.

Seeing Tang Rou's rapid progress, Ye Xiu felt that she was quite reliable. She wasn't like that guy Steamed Bun Invasion, who made him worry. Even worse, Steamed Bun Invasion's level was high. He wasn't like Tang Rou who was still Level 20 and had more space to practice.

"If it's just these two, I might still be lacking!" Ye Xiu sighed. Right now, he had already understood who his opponents were. They were pros, which made it even more clear what type of strength he needed. Equipment actually didn't need to be understood. Level 25 and the new server, equipment couldn't make much of a difference. The damage was at most at the level of Purple equipment.

Tang Rou's dungeoning needed an hour. After clearing it five times, daybreak had arrived long ago. The Interent Cafe employees with the morning shift came and saw that there weren't any customers in the Internet Cafe. There were only these two sitting at the reception desk madly gaming.

"Wait a bit!" Seeing that people were coming to take her spot, Tang Rou wouldn't let them. Her precious dungeon entries! How could she let them at this time.

" Come come. Come here!" Ye Xiu let up his computer.

"You keep practicing. I'm going to make a phone call." Ye Xiu said to Tang Rou.

"Okay." Tang Rou didn't even turn her head.

"Hello?" Ye Xiu called a number. The other side seemed a little fuzzy.

"Have you gotten up?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Huh??" The voice immediately became clear, "Where are you?" Su Mucheng asked.

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Chapter 100 – I Only Want to Play a Small Role

"If you climb to the window, you might be able to see me." Ye Xiu laughed.

"Ah?" Su Mucheng was still wrapped in her blankets. She kept the blankets wrapped around and climbed to the window. She looked out and swept across the streets. Although the she was pretty high up and the people on the streets were pretty small, it was still easy for her to recognize familiar people. But when Su Mucheng scanned outside, she didn't see anything: "I don't see you….."

"Diagonally opposite to you on the streets is a Happy Internet Cafe." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh, I know that Internet Cafe." Su Mucheng said. After all, she lived around here. Even though she had never been to the Internet Cafe, she still knew of it. Her gaze shifted to the Internet Cafe direction, but she still didn't see him.

"Yeah, I'm in the Internet Cafe!"

"You're pulling all-nighters again?" Su Mucheng understood Ye Xiu well.

"For work." Ye Xiu said seriously.

"Work?"

"Right, I'm working in the Internet Cafe right now." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh, that fits you well!" Although Su Mucheng said that smiling, she couldn't help but grieve in her heart. It didn't matter who switched, this type of gap in level couldn't be adapted so quickly right? Ye Xiu's tone seemed to say that like he couldn't care less. There even seemed to be a trace of pride. But this guy…… had always been a "mouth says yes, heart says no" type of guy. Even for her, who was very familiar with him, sometimes didn't know what he was thinking.

"Yeah, I'm on night-duty everyday. My life is awfully disciplined now." Ye Xiu said.

"Where are you living?" Su Mucheng asked.

"The Internet Cafe takes care of food and shelter. Let me tell you this. This Internet Cafe's lady boss is a super big fan of yours. Give me a signature some time later. If I give it to her, she'll definitely raise my salary." Ye Xiu said.

"Really? Then I'll go visit you?" Su Mucheng said.

"This….. Do you want to visit me or do you want to be surrounded by fans?" Ye Xiu said.

Su Mucheng was helpless. It's not like she didn't know of this. Regarding pro-players like her, Internet Cafes were the number one forbidden place. If she went, then she'd definitely cause chaos. Su Mucheng's skill level wasn't considered top-tier in the pro scene, but her popularity didn't lose to anyone. This was the beautiful girl effect. Just by relying on her appearance, advertising companies favored her highly. Most of the reason why Chen Guo felt that Su Mucheng was the best female player was because of this sort of PR effect.

For example, in the recent years, with his influence rising, Zhou Zekai could be considered the number one player. He might not be as skilled as the top-tier players like Huang Shaotian or Han Wenqing. But he looked handsome and was also stylish. He was suitable for the young and old. Both males and females liked him. The media praised his accomplishments. The advertising companies thought highly of him. From a business standpoint, Zhou Zekai was the undisputed number one. In addition, his skill really was good. Nowadays, the only thing he was missing was the title of League Champion. If not, then he would have taken the throne of number one long ago.

"Then maybe later when there's a chance!" Su Mucheng wasn't in a hurry. Knowing that Ye Xiu wasn't too far away and was even in the neighborhood, she immediately felt at peace.

"I saw yesterday's match. You played pretty well!" Ye Xiu said.

"I don't like Sun Xiang as a person, but…… he really is quite strong." Su Mucheng said.

"But he's still a bit inexperienced." Ye Xiu sighed.

"Yeah……"

"Are you busy these days?"

"You still need to ask this?" The two had been so close for all these years. They understood each other's lifestyle and habits extremely well.

"Come to the new server and help me set a new record."

"You're playing in the new server?" Su Mucheng stared blankly.

"Yeah!"

"You……"

"I transferred Lord Grim over." Ye Xiu said.

At this moment, Su Mucheng was silent for quite a long time. She clearly knew a lot about this account.

"You're planning on leveling this account?" Su Mucheng asked.

"Right."

"Compared to leveling, the Thousand Chance Umbrella is even more troublesome right?"

"Right! But one year is more than enough time." Ye Xiu said.

"And one year later?"

"I'll return. I said that a while ago. "Ye Xiu said.

"Okay……" Su Mucheng suddenly felt like crying.

"What dungeon record do you want to set?" Su Mucheng suddenly felt that this was a problem. If Ye Xiu wanted to set a new record in the new server, why would he need her to help?

Soon after, Ye Xiu explained it to her. After hearing it, Su Mucheng understood: "So it turns out you were going to use this type of method to gather materials. No wonder you chose the new server. If things go smoothly, then you might not even need a year."

"The crucial point is at Level 50. I still need to figure out how I'm going to upgrade it to Level 70." Ye Xiu said.

"I'll definitely come help you."

"Okay. So you need to hurry up and level an account to 25. Afterwards, you also need to keep leveling with it, so that you'll be available at any time." Ye Xiu ordered.

"Sure….." Su Mucheng smiled while agreeing.

After hanging up the phone, Su Mucheng's mood became incomparably good. In reality, she wasn't actually too interested in Glory. She only started playing the game to purely play a small role. Who knew that after all these years she'd risen to such a situation? So many people admired her, yet Su Mucheng only wanted to play that small role in her heart.

When Ye Xiu was forced to retire, she felt that her career as a small role should have also ended. But Ye Xiu said that he was still going to come back, so she decided to continue holding on.

One year! She had originally thought she'd need that much time, but after just a few days, Ye Xiu had already come back.

That's right, Ye Xiu still hadn't returned to the Professional Alliance. But Su Mucheng had never thought of this. She had only wanted to play a small role, whether it be in the Professional Alliance or the game, it didn't matter.

The happy Su Mucheng hummed a song while getting out of bed. Right when she was washing her face, her cell phone rang again. She immediately ran to look and then picked up the phone.

"Hello."

"Mucheng……. You said that you wanted to transfer clubs, but that isn't so easy to do! I know Ye Qiu's retirement hit you hard. But you have to know that Excellent Era won't easily let you go……"

"It's all right sister Yang, I was just randomly asking that's all." Su Mucheng smiled.

"Ah? Randomly asking?" The person on the other line was somewhat puzzled. When she had asked for this before, it didn't seem like she was just randomly asking. It seemed like she wanted to leave no matter what.

"Right, I'm doing quite well like this. Do you have anything else?" Su Mucheng asked.

"No….. that's it."

"Then I'll be hanging up! Bye bye."

Su Mucheng really did want to transfer at one point. It was at the same time Ye Xiu left. But now that she knew Ye Xiu was still here, then it didn't really matter anymore.

After tidying everything up, Su Mucheng wrapped herself up tightly and went out the door. When a famous person went out, then she needed to be armed. The club definitely had a new server account card, but Su Mucheng still felt that it was better to buy one herself.

Su Mucheng bought a tenth server account card at a newspaper stand diagonally opposite to Happy Internet Cafe. Carrying the new card, Su Mucheng looked at the Internet Cafe across the street in a daze and wanted to go in to take a look.

I've covered my self so tightly. I don't think anyone will be able to recognize me right? Su Mucheng thought to herself. Then she saw a person swaying side to side with a cigarette in his mouth. Both of his hands were rigidly in his pockets. His head peeped out of the door and he looked around left and right. He turned his head as if he were saying something and then came out.

This person, why was he always like this? Su Mucheng looked at him from far away. She didn't know why but she wanted to laugh. In the end, after seeing the person take a few steps, he unexpectedly waved his hands at her.

What! He could still recognize me like this? Su Mucheng was amazed. She immediately looked around left and right to see if anyone else had noticed her. Club Excellent Era wasn't some top secret military base. The fans in the area all knew where the club was located. There was no lack of zealous fans that would stand guard outside the club waiting to get a signature or take a picture with them. Especially since this place also had the super secret God Ye Qiu. They would sometimes even lie low like a paparazzi.

Su Mucheng looked left and right and didn't see anything abnormal. But she still felt that it'd be best to not go forward. She immediately put the account card into her pocket and hurriedly ran back. She snuck back to her room like a thief, locked the door, and then logged into the game.

She looked up Lord Grim. Online. "Oh? You went back pretty quickly." Su Mucheng said to herself. The direction Ye Xiu was previously going towards should have been to eat breakfast.

She sent a friend request over which was quickly accepted.

"I'm coming!" Su Mucheng sent the message over.

The reply came a while later: "Huh? Are you his friend? Can you wait a moment? He's out right now so he's not here."

Su Mucheng was startled. This account had the Thousand Chance Umbrella! How could this account just be casually thrown to the side?

"You are?" Su Mucheng asked.

"I'm his co-worker. He went to buy breakfast. He'll be back soon." The person using Lord Grim was obviously Tang Rou.

"Oh, thank you."

"You're welcome."

Tang Rou was doing the last dungeon run of the day and finished it in a short moment. Ye Xiu had also come back with breakfast.

"There's someone looking for you." Tang Rou took the breakfast and gave the computer to Ye Xiu.

"Oh?" Ye Xiu looked. A level 1 new player. He figured out who it was. But when he saw the name, he fainted! Why does it also have the word "Mist"? Did girls nowadays like this word?

"What name is this?" Ye Xiu sent a message.

"Cleansing Mist! Poem, it's from a poem in the Song Dynasty!" Su Mucheng replied.

"You always liked to take names from poems. Lord Grim, etc. they're all your masterpieces." Ye Xiu returned.

"It makes me seem cultured!" Su Mucheng replied.

"Then what about my One Autumn Leaf? You messed up a word big sister! Shouldn't it be One Falling Leaf?" Ye Xiu said.

"A mistake. That's a mistake." Su Mucheng replied.

"Whatever. Hurry up and go level! The faster the better." Ye Xiu said.

"Who was the person using your account just a moment ago?" Su Mucheng asked.

"Oh. That's a sister in the Internet Cafe. Her mechanical skill is really good, but she's a newbie at the game. She has a lot of potential!" Ye Xiu said.

"How could a newbie have high mechanical skill?" Su Mucheng didn't understand.

"Fast hand speed." Ye Xiu said.

"Why would her hand speed be high?"

"How would I know? Can you stop chatting? Hurry up and level for me!" Ye Xiu said.

"Yes sir!" Su Mucheng took her new account and began to level. Champion? Individual glory? They were okay, but they weren't what she most wanted. The thing she wanted the most was to play a small role like this.

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Chapter 101 – Three Days

Su Mucheng's talent was average. Her skills really weren't considered outstanding. If it was based purely on hand speed, then she might not even be better than Tang Rou. But as a pro-player, everything that surrounded her was at a high level. Plus, she always accompanied the textbook-level God Ye Xiu. As a result, in the knowledge department, Su Mucheng was at a very professional level. Unfortunately, leveling in the game's new server simply didn't need such a high-level knowledge. She could only line up in the beginner village to receive the simplest of quests and steal monsters.

Fortunately, the new server had already been open for several days. It was also early in the morning, so there weren't that many people. Su Mucheng set out rapidly and quickly reached Level 5. Compared to Ye Xiu's two hours to get to Level 7, this was a more ordinary leveling speed in beginner village.

While leveling,she once again chatted idly with Ye Xiu when Ye Xiu suddenly replied: "Can you wait a sec? I'm going to switch accounts. I'll add you in a bit." After saying this, Lord Grim logged out of the game.

It turned out that after eating breakfast, Tang Rou was planning on going to sleep. She had started her shift at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, so she wanted to rest for now. In the end, Ye Xiu took her card and said that he was going to help her level. The level on Tang Rou's Soft Mist was on the low side. Moreover, if she was going to level in the Frost Forest, then soloing it one time would take an hour. And because she was also using Ye Xiu's Lord Grim to practice, Soft Mist practically didn't have any time to level.

"It's not that I want to help you level. It's that if you level too slowly, wouldn't you be delaying our plan?" Ye Xiu explicitly said. If he had just said "I'm going to help you level", then how would such a competitive person like Tang Rou agree.

"Fine then!" In the end, Tang Rou reluctantly agreed. Ye Xiu really didn't know whether to laugh or cry. What was his status in the Glory community! For her to reluctantly let him help her train, if this went out, the Glory community would definitely laugh their heads off.

After Ye Xiu got onto Soft Mist's account, he added Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist as a friend.

"Oh? Is this the account of that talented sister you were talking about?" Su Mucheng asked.

"Yeah!" Ye Xiu replied.

"Oh a Battle Mage! Is she your fan?" Su Mucheng asked.

"Nope, she's a complete noob and knows nothing at all about Glory. She doesn't know anyone." Ye Xiu told her about the previous day and how Liu Hao tried to attract the sister by acting cool and flaunting his status, but the sister didn't get the message at all. Su Mucheng laughed and stamped her feet. She hated how she wasn't able to see Liu Hao's face when he failed to show off his status.

The two chatted like this while leveling up until Ye Xiu felt a strong killing intent from behind him.

"Hey! Good morning boss……." Ye Xiu turned his head to say hi.

"Are you really planning on crazily playing like this every day?" Chen Guo was helpless. She kept mentioning this everyday and she herself was starting to feel annoyed. But isn't this guy a little too obsessed over this game? Chen Guo managed the Internet Cafe, so people who liked to play games were a common occurrence. But Ye Xiu was almost 25 years old without a proper job and yet still only played games. That was a first. This guy couldn't be planning on staying in the Internet Cafe all his life and playing games forever right?

Chen Guo felt extremely miserable. If there really was someone who would work in the Internet Cafe for all his life, then how much could she save? But now that she was looking helplessly at such a person, she could only feel that there was no future. He was too good at making her angry. Especially when she saw Tang Rou return all red-eyed. Without even washing her face, she climbed into bed, making Chen Guo feel even more regret. If this guy wanted to ruin himself then whatever, but it looked like he was going to ruin such a beautiful and good girl along with him. She herself had wanted Tang Rou to play Glory, but she didn't want her to play it in such a way!

"Is there anything you need boss?" Ye Xiu asked.

"I said, is there any way for you to control how much you play?" Chen Guo really didn't know how else to say it. The person in front of her wasn't a little kid. With such a face, he even looked older than her! What type of tone was she supposed to put on towards him? Chen Guo was confused!

"Ha ha, don't worry about me boss! I'm well aware of my situation." Ye Xiu looked at Chen Guo and felt a bit moved in his heart. Chen Guo trying to stop him obviously wasn't because she felt sorry for the computers or because she was afraid it'd interfere with work. It purely stemmed from her concern for him. For someone to use ten or more hours every day on a game, no matter who looked at it, they would all feel that it definitely wasn't a healthy living style. Although Chen Guo often glared and scowled, it was actually because her character was very good.

"Really?" Chen Guo said surprised. She actually saw such a serious expression on this guy's face.

"Really." Ye Xiu nodded his head repeatedly.

"Okay, then take care of yourself!" Chen Guo didn't say anything more. They were both adults. Ye Xiu's words already made it clear that he was taking responsibility for himself, so she could only stop when she should stop. Chen Guo wasn't the type of person to hold up a "for your own good" banner and wantonly criticize people.

Ye Xiu once again leveled until noon and brought Soft Mist up to Level 21. Su Mucheng made even faster progress. She had only just started on her new account in the morning, but had already reached Level 13.

"It's about time for you to sleep, right?" Ye Xiu hadn't yet told Su Mucheng yet, when she asked him the question first.

"Yup. I'm going to sleep for a bit. I have to get up again at night for my night-shift. You should continue leveling. You don't need to match with my work and rest." Ye Xiu said.

"You don't have to worry about me. You should go to sleep. I'm going to go eat lunch." Su Mucheng sent a smiley face and then went offline.

When he woke up from his sleep, it was night again. And Tang Rou was on the afternoon shift. The afternoon shift wasn't the time when there were the most customers, but there were still quite a few. As a result, she didn't have much free time. Soft Mist just stood there. In one hour, she stood around foolishly for 45 minutes while Tang Rou called for customers to log in log out and did this and that. She didn't have any spare time to level.

"You must be tired!" Ye Xiu went over to express his sympathies.

"I didn't level at all." Tang Rou sighed.

"With such a short amount of time, it'd be better to just study some guides and watch videos to better understand the basic information." Ye Xiu said.

"I guess that's the only way." Tang Rou said.

"You guys aren't going to sleep again tonight?" Chen Guo walked over and asked.

"Boss……." Ye Xiu was helpless. He himself was on the night shift. Even if he wanted to, he couldn't .

"Oh, if I feel sleepy, I'll sleep!" Tang Rou said.

"You should take it easy!" Chen Guo said.

"Don't worry! I'm well aware of my situation. "Tang Rou said.

Chen Guo coughed blood: "You guys are reading from a script, right?"

"What script?" Tang Rou stared blankly. Seeing that Chen Guo was glaring at Ye Xiu, she turned her head over and saw Ye Xiu with a cigarette in his mouth pointed towards the ceiling.

They had caught up to the weekends, so the Internet Cafe was extremely crowded. In the peak hour of the night, Ye Xiu went around in a circle but wasn't able to find an open computer in the smoking area. In the end, he fiercely finished smoking a cigarette and then ran to the non-smoking area.

When he went online, Cold Night was the first to find him: "Brother, I've found information on all of their equipment."

"Oh? Let me see." Ye Xiu said.

Cold Night sent him info on all five members. Sure enough, there wasn't any outstanding equipment among them. Each one of them only had a Level 25 Purple weapon. It was the new server and they were all low-leveled, who would put in the effort to gather a whole set of Purple equipment? No one was willing to go that far even if it was for a new dungeon record.

"Okay, I got it." Ye Xiu replied.

Cold Night saw Lord Grim's level and felt very depressed: "Brother, you level really slowly!"

"It doesn't matter how fast I level! The helpers I found are lower-leveled than me!" Ye Xiu said.

"Oh? What level?" Cold Night asked.

"The lowest level is……" Su Mucheng wasn't online. Ye Xiu opened up her Cleansing Mist's profile and looked at it: "Level 16."

Cold Night almost coughed a mouthful of blood onto his screen and repled back: "Then how long is it going to take you? Is there still any meaning to setting this new record?

Cold Night didn't say any empty words. In reality, setting new dungeon records had to keep pace with the general player population's levels. For example, if you were put into an old server, where the general player population was at Level 70, then if you formed a party to break the Frost Forest record, then it wouldn't attract a lot of eyes.

The big guilds were all so competitive for these small dungeons was precisely because the new server's players were all around that level. Everyone was repeatedly running these dungeons, so if you set a new dungeon record at this moment, then it would look very outstanding. Right now, Ye Xiu's lowest level talent was at Level 16. If the talent leveled to Level 25 slowly and the general player population were Level 30, then even if they broke record, it wouldn't be as amazing!

"Don't worry about it! It'll be done in a few days." Ye Xiu obviously understood this reasoning.

"Three days! Is three days enough? If you can't set the record in three days, then it won't be worth it anymore." Cold Night said.

"Okay." Ye Xiu unreservedly promised, "Within three days, your guild will need to send out a Level 25 player, preferably a skilled one, is that possible?"

"Okay, let me see."

"You have to do it. If not, then when you see that your guild's name is up on the records, but none of the players are from your guild, how embarrassing would that be?" Ye Xiu replied.

Cold Night heard this and his heart was once again overcast. That was true! The current members in the party were all put forth by Lord Grim. To the people that knew, if they saw that none of them were from Tyrannical Ambition, then that would be quite embarrassing. But it was still better than a different guild's name on the standings at least. Cold Night thought of this and came out of his confusion. In order to break the Frost Forest record this time, he had already been confused for a very long time. The faster the record came out the better. It was quickly becoming a source of anxiety.

"No more, no more!!" Cold Night shook his head. He truly didn't want to go analyze the pros and cons of this. I'll just hand over everything to Lord Grim to hurry up and grab the record!

Ye Xiu naturally did his utmost to level up. And of course, after getting off her shift, Tang Rou didn't go to sleep again. However, there were customers tonight, so she couldn't use the server computer. She randomly found a place to sit and went to clear Frost Forest. Ye Xiu went to check up on her and felt that Tang Rou had familiarized with it well. He immediately let her use Lord Grim to clear it once and then caught ahold of Steamed Bun Invasion and the others to get ready to party up and practice the dungeon once together.

At this moment, Steamed Bun Invasion had already traded for a Level 25 Fighter Claw.

Ye Xiu chose this weapon in particular because this Purple Weapon added 1 to Strangle. In this battle for the dungeon record, any small detail could affect the results. Strangle was an important skill for the BOSS. An extra level in the skill could help a lot.

In the depths of the night, Su Mucheng was once again quietly online. Ye Xiu had already used up all his entries for Frost Forest. Without asking, he ran to beginner village to help Su Mucheng level. Besides Steamed Bun Invasion, Lord Grim was still considered high-leveled, so his own leveling wasn't important. The most crucial point was to hurry up and drag the lowest-leveled player up.

Three days quickly passed…….

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Chapter 102 – All-Around Upgrade

In these three days, Ye Xiu was busy all over the place. Steamed Bun Invasion, Tang Rou, Su Mucheng were all arrogant idlers. They were all waiting upon him. The first two were mainly for teaching while the last was for leveling.

Cold Night was setting a record for his guild, so he obviously was even more careful with his work. On the first day, he sent a player over to Ye Xiu. He was a Level 23 Elementalist called Crowd Lover. This name made Ye Xiu a bit speechless. He was seriously suspecting that Cold Night was trying to ridicule him. As a result, Ye Xiu naturally had another person to instruct. After all, this record couldn't be looked down on. If every aspect of the dungeon wasn't examined properly, then a random mistake could delay their clear by a few seconds, destroying everyone's efforts.

But now the entire party had been gathered. On the second day, Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist leveled up to Level 20, Ye Xiu took the party and began to practice the dungeon. Cold Night and Endless Night, the two leading comrades in the guild, had the honor of watching over them and giving them guidance. When they saw that Ye Xiu's party had two girls, the two were extremely flabbergasted. Female players in the game were few and experts even fewer. Lord Grim reportedly said that the players he brought weren't ordinary experts. Yet he had actually brought along two girls. How rare of a resource were they?

Cold Night and Endless Night muttered to themselves but couldn't come to any conclusion. With regards to the experts that Lord Grim brought, they already had thoughts of winning them over to their guild long ago. But now that they looked, there were unexpectedly girls. If they impatiently went up to get close to them, wouldn't they be mistaken as lecherous spirits?

Fortunately, there was still that guy called Steamed Bun Invasion. But this name didn't seem like expert's name at all. Endless Night was sent out by Cold Night and he had no choice but to begin preparing to rope in Steamed Bun Invasion. Tyrannical Ambition's recruitment work in the tenth server was mainly Endless Night's responsibility.

"Thanks for your hard work everyone!" Endless Night greeted, while Cold Night pretended to explain things to Crowd Lover, while listening in on the situation.

"This person is?" Tang Rou and Su Mucheng obviously didn't recognize him.

"The boss." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh!" Su Mucheng immediately understood.

"What boss?" Tang Rou, on the other hand, didn't understand.

"He's the boss that invited us to set a new dungeon record." Ye Xiu said.

Tang Rou was still somewhat puzzled. How could she know about these sort of things in the game! Although Steamed Bun Invasion was a noob, he wasn't unfamiliar with games, so he roughly understood what he meant.

"I'll explain it to you later." Ye Xiu said to Tang Rou. In the end, Endless Night had already chatted with Steamed Bun Invasion: "Hey brother, you have an extraordinary aura. Your name is amazing either. From just one look, I can tell that you're a one in ten-thousand exceptional expert!" Endless Night was still as shameless as ever.

"Ha ha, you have good eyes. What astrological sign are you?"

"Astrological…… astrological sign?" Endless Night didn't know of Steamed Bun Invasion's power. In their first bout, Endless Night had already been blown off into space.

"Alright Steamed Bun….." Ye Xiu immediately went up and shouted at him to stop. He then said to Endless Night: "Little Cleric, I'll leave you to your work. We're going to enter the dungeon to practice."

After this, he called for everyone to enter the dungeon. The remaining Endless Night was still as puzzled as before: "Astrological sign? What astrological sign?"

In the dungeon, Ye Xiu had already explained to Tang Rou, Steamed Bun Invasion, and even the newly added member Crowd Lover how they were going to fight. Moreover, they had already drilled in real combat and all understood it well. As for Su Mucheng, she had been with Ye Xiu for so many years. Her tactics and knowledge were all pro-level. With just a few words of explanation, she had already grasped it. They began to officially clear the dungeon as five.

In two days, their official party was able to practice for a total of eight times. But after these eight times, every person knew exactly what they were supposed to do. Ye Xiu wasn't able to teach them anything more. In the end, what mattered was how they performed on the scene.

From these eight practice sessions, Ye Xiu determined that after switching for Level 25 Purple weapons, breaking the record shouldn't be a problem.

On the last day, the five players all frantically leveled. They estimated that they would all be able to reach Level 25 at midnight. Their official battle for the record would also start at this moment.

The Level 25 Purple weapons that each player needed had already been provided by Cold Night. When he asked Ye Xiu if he had any other requirements, Ye Xiu expressed that he hoped that he'd be able to receive two Mithril Pendants in advance.

These toys had no value to them. They were just things that female players liked to wear because they looked pretty. Right now, Lord Grim's party had two girls in it, so Cold Night understood him very well. He took two Mithril Pendants and sent them over.

Ye Xiu finally had a total of four Mithril Pendants and immediately opened the equipment editor.

This time, he disassembled the Thousand Chance Umbrella. He took the umbrella's pointed end as well as all of the umbrella ribs and tore them all off.

The four Mithril Pendants were smashed into pieces, combined, and then duplicated into a new shiny new umbrella tip.

The 24 Umbrella Ribs were duplicated using the Spider Teeth that he earned from killing the Goblin Merchant.

After all of the materials were copied, they were once again assembled and installed back into place. He saved the editor and then immediately returned to the game to check the stats. The new tip made from the Mithril Pendants weren't as unremarkable as before. Now, the tip was red and white, inadvertently flashing rays of light. This time, the Thousand Chance Umbrella was upgraded all around. The usual Thousand Chance Umbrella form had been upgraded to Level 15. The physical attack and the magic attack had been upgraded too. They were now both at 280. The attack speed and weight didn't change.

The whole entity had reached Level 15, which meant that no matter what form the Thousand Chance Umbrella was in, none of them would have attributes below Level 15.

But Ye Xiu wasn't done yet. After seeing that it had been upgraded all-around. He once again opened up the equipment editor.

Opening the blueprint for the umbrella's canopy, Ye Xiu took off the eight Midnight Cat Fingernails he had put on last time. Afterwards, he switched them with the profits from his first deal, 8 White Wolf Fangs.

He returned to the game again and then took the Thousand Chance Umbrella and changed it into the Battle Lance form. The eight White Wolf Fangs converged onto the tip, forming an extremely dazzling snow-white lance tip. And now at this moment, the Lance's attributes of course changed again.

Thousand Chance Umbrella (Lance Form) – Level 25

Weight: 2.3 kg; Durability: 23; Attack Speed: 5

Physical Attack: 380; Magic Attack: 280

Durability! This was a new attribute. However, this wasn't any special change for the Thousand Chance Umbrella. In Glory: Level 20 and up equipment had a Durability attribute. And those below Level 20 didn't have Durability. It could be considered a benefit of the beginner village. Even self-made equipment followed this set-up.

Durability would be depleted in battle and the player had to be careful to not let the Durability drop to 0. In Glory, if an equipment's Durability fell to 0, then it would immediately break and disappear. Level 50 and up equipment needed special materials to fix. If not, then directly fixing it would reduce the Durability limit. If the limit became 1, then the equipment basically became for decoration only.

After seeing that the upgrade was successful, Ye Xiu switched back the form. Lord Grim was still missing some experience before he hit Level 25. The battle lance in his hands didn't have any strength right now.

When the equipment was finished upgrading and ready to use, the Thousand Chance Umbrella's Lance form was equivalent to a Level 35 Purple Lance. This was a considerable advantage in damage. Excellent Dynasty's half-pro party obviously didn't have such a strong weapon.

Level! The next thing he had to do was level.

Before 12 o'clock, the five players finally leveled to 25. Then, they did the first task: join Tyrannical Ambition. Lord Grim had already left Blue Brook Guild five days ago. Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist and Tang Rou's Soft Mist obviously weren't in a guild. And Steamed Bun Invasion had been specially informed by Ye Xiu, so he wasn't in one either.

"I welcome you four experts to the guild." Endless Night sent a message in the party channel. It looked as if the four players really did join the guild.

"Welcome, welcome." A bunch of guild members sent the message one after the other, showing their guild's friendliness.

Outside of Frost Forest, Ye Xiu gave an order: "Turn off all message channels in order to get rid of any distractions from these."

Everyone complied. As Tyrannical Ambition's official member, Crowd Lover couldn't bear seeing his brothers' wasted efforts. Before turning all the channels off, he reminded everyone: "Don't welcome, no one's looking." This message was mixed together with the welcomes. Who knew how many actually saw it. In any case, Crowd Lover also turned off his message channels after sending it.

"There's still a few minutes. If you have to use the restroom, do it now!" Ye Xiu said.

"It'll just be ten or so minutes!" Su Mucheng felt Ye Xiu was overstating it too much.

But with astonishment, Tang Rou saw Ye Xiu stand up from the reception desk and shout to everyone: "Everyone's fine? If you have something to say, say it now! I'm going to be busy for a bit."

Tang Rou laughed and sent Ye Xiu a message: "If the customers really did need something, they wouldn't ask you. Just say your prayers!"

"Really? Then hopefully I'll be lucky." Ye Xiu replied.

After a few minutes, midnight arrived and the dungeon entries refreshed. The five players weren't careless and entered the dungeon at the same time. Without saying anything, they rushed forward.

"Pull monsters!" Ye Xiu instructed while rushing up.The players following him were Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion. One on the left, one on the right. Behind them, Cleansing Mist also followed along. She had raised her hand and already started firing. Su Mucheng's class was still a Launcher. She wasn't Ye Xiu the Encyclopedia and was only proficient in this class.

Launchers were the class with the most range in Glory. In addition, their normal attacks did a small AoE damage. Su Mucheng's playing was obviously extremely accurate. Two Goblins were blasted and then chased after her. Mid-route, Ye Xiu brought Lord Grim forward and slashed pulling these two Goblins. Su Mucheng had already controlled Cleansing Mist to fire at another two Goblins on a different side. The Goblins were alarmed and then rushed forward. But this time, Tang Rou pulled these two. And she fired again to pull monsters, which were then taken up by Steamed Bun Invasion.

These three players brought along two monsters. They killed them while gathering other monsters together, which were blown apart by the storm of spells casted by Crowd Lover. But these three weren't just standing there killing monsters, they continued to move forward. Su Mucheng had already let Cleansing Mist continue pulling monsters. Two monsters in one group. One person received one group. In the blink of an eye, they had already pulled 12 Goblins. While the party advanced while killing monsters, Su Mucheng never stopped pulling monsters.

This method was even more ferocious than One Wave Rush.

Su Mucheng was the pulling specialist. The other three acted as both MTs and DPSers. Moreover, by gathering the monsters into a crowd, Crowd Lover who was behind them was able to sufficiently use large AoE spells to kill them.

This was a genuine pro-level tactic. Each player in the team had to rely on their own skill to do one aspect.

This method could no longer be called One Wave Rush. It should be called One Wave Push.

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Chapter 103 – There Really is a Gap

In the blink of an eye, Ye Xiu, Tang Rou, and Steamed Bun Invasion had already dragged together 20 or so Goblins. Ye Xiu's camera angle quickly turned at a speed fast enough to make ordinary people dizzy. He not only had to take care of the Goblins he dragged together, but he had to pay attention to the entire situation on the field.

He didn't have to worry about Su Mucheng at all. And Tang Rou had a good character, so Ye Xiu wasn't afraid that she wouldn't be able to do it, he only afraid that she'd go too far. However, the most worrisome member was Steamed Bun Invasion. This noob's thinking was as vast as the ocean. Ordinary people had no way of figuring out what he was doing. Compared to Su Mucheng, Ye Xiu could completely figure out what her mistakes might be. Tang Rou too. But this Steamed Bun Invasion, he had no way of predicting what type of unexpected mistake this guy would make, making Ye Xiu feel very cold in his heart.

As for Crowd Lover, after a few days of drilling, Ye Xiu could tell that this player definitely wasn't new. This player's hand speed might be lower than Steamed Bun Invasion's by a level, but he was much more familiar with the game. He definitely had several years of experience playing Glory. Moreover, this player's role on the team was just to brainlessly output damage. If he didn't do it well, then he would reduce the speed, but he wouldn't bring about any confusion.

Currently, the situation could still be considered stable, but this "One Wave Push" method wouldn't have them stop to concentrate on killing when a certain amount of monsters were gathered. Instead, they would continue this sort of killing while continuing to drag new monsters in. Their current 20 monsters wasn't the limit. As they continued to rush forward, the pressure would continue to mount.

Su Mucheng once again pulled monsters three times. The alarmed Goblins had reached a total of 26. This was already a few more Goblins gathered than when Ye Xiu had done it with Blue Brook Guild.

Right now, the 26 Goblins were under the responsibility of three players. With regard to the number of monsters, the pressure obviously wasn't as great as Ye Xiu pulling 26 monsters by himself. But amassing the monsters required coordination of all three members to complete. This was a different type of difficulty. Team coordination was always going to be more difficult than an individual display. But once it was formed, the power would be much greater.

In the past few days, they were practicing this type of coordination. Although Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion didn't really know how to play Glory, Ye Xiu had practically drilled how to dungeon Frost Forest into them until it became second nature. At this moment, perhaps they sometimes didn't know why they should do something, but knew that it should be done.

They took turns switching positions.

Using Blow Away, Knock Back, Knock Down, etc. all sorts of attack styles were used to gather up the monsters.

Apart from this, it was more important that they had clear thoughts on which ones should be killed first, which ones could let go, which ones should be on the outside, which ones should be knocked back into the Launcher and Elementalist's attacks……

This type of diverse playing simply wasn't possible for normal players. As a result, he needed experts with high mechanical skill like Tang Rou. Steamed Bun Invasion was just slightly lower than Tang Rou's, but it was enough for this sort of situation as long as his noob disease didn't suddenly appear.

Su Mucheng once again shot out and pulled two monsters. The total monster count reached 28. After repeatedly drilling ,Tang Rou and the others had already familiarized with this tactic. Now that they had reached this step, their hearts tightened. This was because when they had practiced, the limit they had reached was 28. At this point, they would stop to kill for a bit before continuing on.

But who knew that after there were 28 Goblins, Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist continued to run forward. After a few steps, another two monsters entered her firing range and without the slightest hesitation, shot at them.

"Ah!" Tang Rou cried out in surprise. Hadn't they pulled 30 Goblins? She had played together in this dungeon with this sister for two days. But this sister had never made a mistake. Who would have thought that she would have unexpectedly made a mistake when they were on their official record-setting run.

"Why are there two more? That's a mistake, right?" Even Steamed Bun Invasion felt something wasn't right. He was already at his limit. If another Goblin came, then he had no way of taking care of it. His task wasn't to only pull monsters. He had to make sure he didn't die and also had to make sure the aggro of all the monsters stayed on them. Right now, Steamed Bun Invasion had 8 Goblins under his control. He wasn't able to take care of another one.

"It's not a mistake, continue!!" Ye Xiu followed.

"Two more, who's going to take them?" Tang Rou asked.

"You're still okay right?" Ye Xiu said. Tang Rou was currently managing 8 Goblins too. But her hand speed was a bit higher than Steamed Bun Invasion's, so it should be possible for her to manage two more.

"Okay, give them to me!" Tang Rou didn't say anything more. Soft Mist advanced forward and stole the aggro from the two Goblins. She moved into position and let out a Falling Flower Palm directly blowing them into the wave. She quickly ran back and ten Goblins were now under her control.

Soon after, another gun shot rang out and Cleansing Mist once again pulled two more monsters.

Tang Rou was surprised. Ten Goblins were already extremely difficult for her. She didn't have the ability to take care of another one. Being unable to take care of it didn't mean that a single stray monster would cause them to wipe out. It meant that this unmanageable monster would get away from their attack range and would require a bit more time for them to kill it.

Time! This was the most important component in this dungeon run.

Killing these monsters weren't their main goal. The most important part was how to use the least amount of time to do so.

I probably can't take care of them? Although Tang Rou had these doubts in her heart, with her character, if she had never tried, then she definitely wouldn't say it out loud.

When there were 28 Goblins. Steamed Bun Invasion pulled 8. Tang Rou also 8. Ye Xiu pulled 12. He had originally pulled 4 more than them.

Steamed Bun Invasion was already at his limit. He couldn't go any further. Tang Rou had just taken 2 more and reached 10. Although she still had 2 fewer than Ye Xiu, she understood the difference between her and Ye Xiu. However, Tang Rou didn't think that the gap was due to their differences in hand speed, but rather due to their difference in game knowledge.

As a result, seeing that Ye Xiu could manage 12 Goblins, Tang Rou felt that she might be able to do it too. Perhaps it was because she wasn't familiar with the game, her judgement was inaccurate?

These thoughts flashed by in an instant. Tang Rou had already brought Soft Mist forward, but to her surprise, Ye Xiu had already rushed up first with Lord Grim. The two Goblins were taken by him first using what Tang Rou had done before and the two Goblins joined the crowd.

14! This was the total number of Goblins currently under Ye Xiu's control.

He had 6 more than Steamed Bun Invasion and 4 more than Tang Rou.

Tang Rou was astonished. This person wasn't at his limit before?

She still hadn't recovered yet! Another gun shot rang out and Cleansing Mist actually pulled two more.

"Don't tell me……" Tang Rou had thought arise in her heart when she saw Lord Grim rush up again and pull another two monsters. His total reached 16.

The gap was only because of their difference in game knowledge?

Tang Rou's previous thought began to waver. But unfortunately, she wasn't next to Ye Xiu right now. She really wanted to see this person's two hands and whether they were faster than hers or not.

"Bang!" Another gun shot rang out.

Tang Rou foolishly looked towards Cleansing Mist. She didn't want to believe that this shot was to pull monsters. This was to do damage, to do damage right?

In the end, she saw…… Cleansing Mist's gun turn back before she output damage.

Another two lively Goblins rushed up.

18!! This guy could still manage this many?

10, Tang Rou had difficulty dealing with them.

12, she had thoughts of trying it.

14, was when she felt astonished.

16, she began to realize that the gap between her and Ye Xiu wasn't only because of their difference in game knowledge.

18…….Tang Rou already had no more words to describe how she was feeling. She only saw Lord Grim rush up once again taking in two more new Goblins into the crowd.

In an instant, Tang Rou felt like she was on an endless road. Things she didn't understand, she could learn. Experience could be accumulated. Awareness could also be raised. But hand speed…… Tang Rou already felt that her hand speed was at the limit and she finally understood that there would always be people better than her.

In the end, she heard another shot ring out.

Tang Rou had already become numb. Perhaps later there might even be 22, 24, 26….. what was the point of fussing over it now?

Sure enough, Cleansing Mist didn't make a mistake. Her monster pulling tempo didn't slow down in the slightest.

"Don't tell me this person has no limit….." Tang Rou silently said to herself.

Bun unexpectedly, the person to rush forward this time wasn't Lord Grim, but was actually Steamed Bun Invasion.

Tang Rou was alarmed. Was this guy also bottomless? Noobs really were scary.

Steamed Bun Invasion quickly brought back two Goblins and swiftly worked.

Tang Rou felt as though she were only a silent spectator. Watching and watching, she suddenly blurted out blankly: "Steamed Bun, why are you missing two?"

"What do you mean missing two?" Steamed Bun Invasion didn't understand.

"Didn't you just pull two Goblins?" Tang Rou asked.

"Yup!"

"Adding onto your previous eight, shouldn't you have ten? Why are there still eight?" Tang Rou asked.

"Two of them died just now!" Steamed Bun Invasion said.

The two player's conversation had been heard by Ye Xiu. He just felt extremely puzzled. Exactly which one of them was the noob? Just then, Steamed Bun Invasion had killed off two of his Goblins. Ye Xiu was about to remind him to pull more monsters when Steamed Bun Invasion had already rushed forward. Ye Xiu was deeply moved by Steamed Bun's quickness, then Tang Rou asked such basic question.

"Dead?" Tang Rou hadn't recovered yet.

"Today, we've all switched weapons. Our damage output is greater, so the current situation is different from when we usually practiced. Right now, we don't need to stop killing monsters, we just need to keep moving forward, so fighting while killing won't be a problem." Su Mucheng appeared to have seen through Tang Rou's doubts and explained it to her.

"Oh!!" Tang Rou suddenly realized.

"Our usual practice was just to give an idea. Now that we all have Level 25 weapons. We can finally bring out our full potential. Let's go!" Su Mucheng said.

"Understood." Tang Rou followed. She let out a sigh. The gap between her and the noob was only because she had been muddle-headed and thinking too much.

"How many monsters are you pulling?" Tang Rou asked Ye Xiu.

"16." Ye Xiu said.

"#%……" Tang Rou's cheeks streamed with tears. She wasn't dreaming before. The gap really was there!

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Chapter 104 – Godly Skill Delivery Gun

Tang Rou's Soft Mist controlled 10 Goblins. Steamed Bun Invasion controlled 8. Ye Xiu's Lord Grim controlled 16. A total of 34. The number stopped at this point and wouldn't increase any further. The cycle made from their team coordination could now be considered as officially formed. Su Mucheng never stopped pulling monsters. But from here on out, the total count of 34 Goblins never increased again. This was because every time 2 Goblins were pulled, 2 Goblins in the crowd would die.

In this monster-amassing coordination, there was also a certain way to output damage. Everyone had their own roles. When they put out damage, there was a certain tempo they had to look for.

Peak playing, peak coordination.

With regards to the Frost Forest dungeon, with their class combination, this could be considered the limit. As long as there was no mistake…….

Steamed Bun Invasion, who had originally been the one he had been most worried about, had stayed steady making Ye Xiu feel gratified.

After Tang Rou's mysterious nooby display, that sort of situation never occurred again.

Su Mucheng didn't need to be worried about.

Yet what made Ye Xiu feel pleasantly surprised was that Elementalist Crowd Lover.

The Elementalist's task was to blast and kill those gathered up Goblins. Under the guarantee that it wouldn't OT, it would be best to balance the damage output.

It could be said that as long as he wasn't going at it too brainlessly, then it would unlikely cause an extremely terrible disaster. But a perfectly balanced damage output only existed in theory. His role could completely deviate a bit. Making up for these deviations was a part of the cycle tactic.

But Ye Xiu saw that when this player made a deviation, he would correct himself and make up for the deviation. Although in the end, there was no way he could reach a perfect balance, he really did minimize the deviations. From a details perspective, this player could already be considered as at the limit.

Before, in their practice sessions, this player had never done this because there was no need to. Now that he displayed it, Ye Xiu discovered that this player's skill was better than he had originally thought.

It looked like he was also one of the guild's peak experts.

After seeing this, Ye Xiu silently came to a conclusion while the scene on his screen had already turned to a different direction.

The scene in front of Ye Xiu changed so quickly that it was already enough to make others dizzy. This was all because he really was taking care of too many things. Besides controlling 16 Goblins, he still had to observe the other four players and order out instructions.

When Tang Rou compared herself to Ye Xiu, she had completely overlooked this point. The gap between Ye Xiu and her was actually a lot greater than what she had thought……

"We've arrived at the first BOSS." Cleansing Mist finally stopped pulling monsters. The monsters along the sides had all been pulled. The only other monster left in front of them was the first BOSS. Su Mucheng clearly understood how busy Ye Xiu was. She would always send back some important information to Ye Xiu to make sure he noticed it.

"Pull." Ye Xiu's voice fell. Lord Grim suddenly leaped up. In his right hand, he held a sharp sword. Falling Light Blade sliced through the air and a shockwave rippled out. All of the monsters that were gathered fell down.

Tang Rou, Steamed Bun Invasion, and Crowd Lover no longer payed attention to what monsters they were supposed to control and unleashed every skill they had at their disposal.

These 34 Goblins had been brought all the way here and were attacked as they moved. As a result, their health had already been grinded down a large chunk. Under this storm of wild attacks, they fell down chunk after chunk as if they were being cut apart like wheat. Many Goblins never stood back up. Needless to say, after a few rounds, the majority of them had been killed. The remaining Goblins were attacked even more relentlessly. Facing Ye Xiu and the others' skill, they could only die even quicker.

The 34 Goblins were instantly turned into corpses. On the other side, gun sounds rang out in waves. Cleansing Mist had already pulled the first BOSS over. The four player's viewpoints turned and saw that Cleansing Mist was currently lifting a giant heavy machine gun and ferociously firing towards the sky. The bullets and smoke that flew out lined up into a diagonal line, hitting the first BOSS Goblin Patrol Guard in the air. This Goblin Patrol Guard really did look like it was being barbecued, rolling around in the air. It then fell rumbling down towards the four players.

"D*mn!!" Seeing this scene, Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion didn't think anything of it. This guy, who was unworthy of his name because he didn't like to join the crowd looking for fun, suddenly yelled it out in astonishment.

"Is it Delivery Gun?" Crowd Lover didn't yell this out. It only rolled about in his heart for a second before the the Goblin Patrol Guard fell in front of them. The three immediately rushed forward to attack. Crowd Lover also immediately began throwing out spells, but his astonishment still lingered in his mind. His character glanced at Cleansing Mist quite a few times.

Delivery Gun. This was a term for a type of Gunner move. The term meant that the target would be delivered to a desired location via continuous firing. The effects between Deliver Gun and Aerial Fire could be considered opposite of one another. However, this move had no prominent effects for the Launcher.

When comparing these two moves, Delivery Gun could be considered far more difficult to execute than Aerial Fire.

Everyone could talk about the theory of Delivery Gun, but only a few could actually execute it. This was a skill that not even all pro-players could grasp perfectly. Put into the normal player community, this was even more of a godly skill. To be able to execute it occasionally could already be considered enough to brag about.

It has to be known that in order to have the target move to a desired location, the gunshot must hit a certain spot. And where is that certain spot? Just this point required an incredible amount of practice to accumulate enough experience to make an accurate judgement. Secondly, the target had to be accurately hit on this exact spot while it was moving through the air. This was another extremely difficult point. Next, these two steps weren't just a one-time thing. They had to be done repeatedly…….

In this way, normal players could only move the target through the air like a blind cat running into a dead mouse. Moving the target to a desired location and so on, how many pro players could do that!?

The current number one Glory player Zhou Zekai reached great heights with the move Delivery Gun. In one performance; he directly delivered the target all the way up to heaven. The host cried out a "shot my eyes blind" in surprise and hilarity ensued.

Crowd Lover only saw the end of Cleansing Mist's BBQ. But the Goblin Patrol Guard had actually been delivered in front of them. Could it be a coincidence? Although using BBQ to execute Delivery Gun was a somewhat cheap trick, it was still enough to make others astonished.

Crowd Lover couldn't calm down for a very long time and would turn his viewpoint to look towards Cleansing Mist whenever there was a chance to. He had already put Lord Grim, Soft Mist, and Steamed Bun Invasion into his eyes. Their mechanical skill really was extremely exceptional. But Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion were still novices at Glory. Crowd Lover could still see this. As for Cleansing Mist, he had never found anything special about her. The hardest task she had to do was only grasping a good tempo for pulling monsters. It was about the same as him paying attention to balancing his damage output. It wasn't that complicated.

This ostensible Delivery Gun made Crowd Lover extremely taken aback.

Ye Xiu's judgement of Crowd Lover wasn't wrong. The current Crowd Lover wasn't any ordinary player. He wasn't the actual Crowd Lover. At this moment, he was only using this account; he was Tyrannical Ambition's true head, guild leader Jiang You.

Jiang You had heard of Lord Grim from Cold Night's report. Cold Night had described this player as if he were a god. After seeing him and mixing in with him for a few days, he discovered that this player certainly wasn't simple. However, at this moment, Jiang You's attention had been sucked into that ostensible Delivery Gun. This was all because this godly skill was a water divide. The only ones that could use this move were almost all pro-players.

While he was currently thinking of this, he suddenly heard Lord Grim: "Cleansing Mist, what did you do to pull the boss just a moment ago?"

"He he, Delivery Gun, did you see it?"

"I saw a ghost! We're trying to set a dungeon record. Don't make trouble!" Lord Grim said.

"I've snatched a quite a few seconds this time!" Cleansing Mist said.

"If you had hit the BOSS into the woods, how many seconds would we have lost?" Lord Grim said.

Cleansing Mist was silent.

"Don't mess around. Steadily set the new record."

"Oh……" Cleansing Mist answered.

So this girl acted out on her own and did it accidentally? Jiang You thought this. It was true that a Launcher could sometimes execute Delivery Gun by luck using BBQ.

Of course, what he didn't know was that when he saw the Delivery Gun for the first time and yelled out "D*mn", Ye Xiu busily typed out a message to Su Mucheng.

"Don't use Delivery Gun!"

"What?"

"You'll expose yourself! You idiot!"

Delivery Gun, this move, truly wasn't convenient to use. This was all because this skill was too much of an indication. The number of players that could use this skill was very few. If someone tried looking for a female Launcher among the pro-players that could do this, the answer would simply pop out. And then what?

A pro-player came to set a dungeon record.

A pro-player from Excellent Era came to help Tyrannical Ambition set a new dungeon record.

The record broken was Excellent Dynasty's.

If any of these message came out, it would attract lots of criticism and trouble. Ye Xiu regretted forgetting to remind Su Mucheng this.

"Oh, then I won't use it." It wasn't as if Su Mucheng didn't understood all this. It's just that she didn't care. She only wanted to help Ye Xiu smoothly set a new record, that was all. For her, this record was most important.

But Ye Xiu had taken note that Crowd Lover had began keeping an eye on Cleansing Mist frequently.

"You have to justify yourself!" Ye Xiu hurriedly sent Su Mucheng a message. Only then did they have the small discussion just before. They didn't need to prepare any sort of script. With their understanding of each other, just winging it was fine.

Once the dialogue ended, everyone continued to intensify their attacks onto the Goblin Patrol Guard. Ye Xiu continued to pay attention to Crowd Lover's actions. At long last, he no longer saw him keeping an eye on Cleansing Mist anymore.

That should be enough…… Ye Xiu let out a sigh.

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Chapter 105 – A Staggering Blow

The dungeoning continued.

Fighting the first BOSS Goblin Patrol Guard was very brainless. Besides dodging its violent physical strikes, there was nothing else to think about. Although these sorts of high damage attacks would make normal players terrified, against players with high mechanical skill, it was just a toy. At this moment, the Goblin Patrol Guard's aggro was entirely on Lord Grim and was running around in circles. The five players opened fire with all of their might and in a short moment, the first BOSS was mowed down.

No one stopped for a rest. Everyone went straight forward towards the following path. No one looked at what the BOSS dropped. This was something Ye Xiu had explained earlier: every second counted in setting a new record; there was no time to waste. Picking up dropped items meant that they had to crouch down and then get back up. And would still need one or two seconds.

The path after the first BOSS and the opening path weren't too different. The five players used the same method as they had in the opening path. Steamed Bun Invasion was still Ye Xiu's main focus. Over the course of his leading, eight out of ten instructions were to Steamed Bun Invasion.

"God, you talk so much! What astrological sign are you?" Steamed Bun Invasion's words almost made Ye Xiu die from laughter. It took him awhile to recover before saying: "Steamed Bun! You're our team's secret weapon. Everyone is counting on you!"

"Oh? Secret weapon? That's pretty good!" Steamed Bun Invasion said ecstatically.

"Play well. Pay attention when you use Strangle." Ye Xiu said.

"Got it!" Steamed Bun Invasion radiated with delight.

Saying that Steamed Bun Invasion was their secret weapon wasn't something Ye Xiu said just to trick him. The Brawler Level 15 skill Strangle didn't do a lot of damage, but Strangle's effect of reducing the target's armor by 50% was extremely useful. Although the effect only lasted 2 seconds, in these 2 seconds, the party could do an incredible amount of damage. Moreover, because skills could level up every 5 levels, now that Steamed Bun Invasion was Level 25, Strangle was Level 3. With the Fighter Claw's additional attribute of 1 to Strangle, Strangle was now Level 4 and its effect would last 3.5 seconds.

Frost Forest's highest level BOSS was only Level 25, so there was no level suppression. The effect could be fully displayed in these 3.5 seconds. It was equivalent of giving the entire party 3.5 seconds of an additional 50% damage to their attacks.

The first BOSS Goblin Patrol Guard had been Strangled by Steamed Bun Invasion three times. This was equivalent to giving the entire party 10 seconds of burst saving them a considerable amount of time.

While they were dealing with the small monsters on the side of the path, Steamed Bun Invasion would use his Strangle whenever it was off cooldown. The entire party would then immediately switch focus onto the Strangled target.

While doing this, Steamed Bun Invasion also had a hard time. This was because the user wasn't Invincible when Strangle was used. The target wasn't Stunned and unable to move. The Strangled target could use both hands to struggle and attack. But just like how its defense dropped, the Strangled target would also have its attack reduced by 50%. If it wasn't like this, the previous Goblin Patrol Guard would have thrashed Steamed Bun Invasion with its Barbed Wolf Fang Club long ago.

"The second BOSS!" Su Mucheng reminded everyone and then went to pull it. This time she did it normally without using Delivery Gun. The BOSS rushed out and the four players flipped over the crowd of Goblins they had been fighting. The four dashed up to gang up and beat on the second BOSS. Steamed Bun Invasion continued to use Strangle and the second BOSS defeated in the blink of an eye.

They also didn't make any mistakes in the path after that. Finally, they reached the Frost Forest's final BOSS Frost Thain.

They had already talked plenty about how they were going to fight in the past few days. Without saying anything further, the first one to rush up was Tang Rou's Soft Mist. Frost Thain sensed it. It raised its blade and quickly moved up to face her. Soft Mist ran diagonally around to Frost Thain's side. Not waiting for Frost Thain to turn its body, she slashed up diagonally with a Sky Strike and Frost Thain was knocked into the air. Soft Mist went up and continued to attack. Adding on the Chasers, the combo she made was even greater than what Lord Grim had done before.

The juggled Frost Thain obviously couldn't bear it and promptly teleported away. Ye Xiu had already been waiting for this. He had been paying attention to its teleport direction the entire time. He used a Shadow Clone Technique to instantly move there. Right when Frost Thain teleported over, Lord Grim welcomed it with Sky Strike. It was once again knocked into the air.

"Steamed Bun!!" Ye Xiu yelled. Steamed Bun Invasion shot forward. He raised his hands and grasped. The Level 4 Strangle accurately clamped onto Frost Thain's throat.

"Nice!" Ye Xiu praised. He turned his body and followed up with three skill attacks. Soft Mist's Battle Lance, Cleansing Mist's Artillery Shells, and Crowd Lover's magic also arrived. Even Steamed Bun Invasion was smashing Frost Thain's head with a Brick, causing Frost Thain to shriek again and again.

Frost Thain's body was small and light. It didn't have any strength to resist the Strangle. It had been attacked for a full 3.5 seconds, not even 0.1 seconds short. Lord Grim's Level 25 Thousand Chance Umbrella Lance Form was much stronger than everyone else's Level 25 Purple weapon. With its white lance tip, little snowflakes seemed to twinkle with every swing.

3.5 seconds quickly passed and in the process, Steamed Bun Invasion had been hit by Frost Thain's blade two times.

NPCs weren't so stupid that it would resolutely search for an aggro target after being seized by such a skill. Usually, it would be whoever had grasped it. From this perspective, Strangle could be considered a strong aggro-shifting taunt skill. However, normally, using this skill to save the show depended on the user's careful judgement. The Brawler class didn't have as high of a defense as a Knight. Even if the target's attack was reduced by 50%, fearlessly being attacked by the BOSS for a few seconds wasn't good.

This pitiful Frost Thain wasn't so strong. After being Strangled, it looked like it was struggling. Once the 3.5 seconds quickly passed, Steamed Bun Invasion immediately drank a potion to recover health after letting go. This wasn't the beginner village's most basic potion. This was provided by Tyrannical Ambition. Their alchemists had crafted middle-grade potions suitable for Level 20 players to use.

After Frost Thain had been released, it immediately looked for its aggro target: Soft Mist.

But Lord Grim's weapon was tyrannical; in a few hits, its aggro was stolen onto him. These aggro problems weren't anything to worry about. Everyone on the field was a highly skilled player. They all had the skill level to serve as the MT. Frost Thain moved quickly, but under these players' besiegement, it had already been beaten black and blue and was nearly unable to dodge any of the attacks.

Even when Steamed Bun Invasion's Strangle was on cooldown, he still used normal attacks. He went up to punch and kick, displaying a Brawler's way of fighting. The Level 25 skill Apply Poison had already been put onto his claw and onto the Frost Thain's body.

Frost Thain shrieked again and again. Under this situation, it wanted to teleport again. But in the end, even though it teleported, Lord Grim was waiting for him there and his battle lance cut upwards, knocking it into the air.

Ye Xiu yelled another "Steamed Bun!", and Steamed Bun Invasion dashed forward. Frost Thain once again had its throat clutched like a struggling chicken.

In a short while, Frost Thain's life had already hit Red Blood. But this party already knew how to deal with it once it reached Red Blood. When they received their Purple weapons, they had to adjust to the changes when clearing the small monsters. But against the BOSS, they just had to fight like they always did. In addition, they were all mechanically skilled experts, so they weren't afraid of making a mistake against the quick Frost Thain like ordinary experts were. As a result, Frost Thain's summoned Ice Whirlwind never unfurled. It had been oppressed by the five players from start to finish. Finally, after another Strangle by Steamed Bun Invasion, it unwillingly died in Steamed Bun Invasion's hands.

Dungeon clear!

The system announcement popped up at the same time: Congratulations to Tyrannical Ambition players: Crowd Lover, Lord Grim, Cleansing Mist, Steamed Bun Invasion, Soft Mist for breaking the Frost Forest clear record, time: 13:05:47.

Success!!

The five players all had their own reactions.

Steamed Bun Invasion saw the system announcement and laughed out loud: "Ha ha ha ha, I'm on TV! Secret weapon!"

Tang Rou opened up the dungeon record leaderboards and saw her name on the record. She felt extremely satisfied.

And Su Mucheng? She just silently smiled, sitting in front of the screen.

As for Ye Xiu…… the noob Steamed Bun actually never made a mistake. This made him feel extremely excited.

In comparison, Crowd Lover's reaction was relatively ordinary. After all, the person using this account was the the grand Tyrannical Ambition's guild leader. It was just a Frost Forest dungeon and nothing more. Although it was very astonishing, dancing around in excitement was a bit too exaggerated.

Tyrannical Ambition's guild channel was naturally bustling with excitement. Everyone energetically praised these five players' might. It looked like no one saw the message Crowd Lover had sent before that no one in the party would see their messages……

Right when Ye Xiu was about to say a few words to everyone, a window suddenly popped up on his screen. Area C Number 84 wanted two Colas. He helplessly got up and delivered two Colas to them.

While returning, he saw Tang Rou hanging around the reception desk. After seeing him, she asked him: "This record should be the limit right?"

"Limit….. I can't say that."

"It's still not the limit? Why not?" Tang Rou asked.

"Because our party didn't have the most optimal class combination." Ye Xiu said.

Although any combination could clear a dungeon, when seeking efficiency, in the end, there was still a most optimal class combination for each dungeon. Ye Xiu's party couldn't be considered it. But their opponents, Excellent Dynasty's party, also weren't in the most optimal class combination. It was just to clear a mere Frost Forest. As a pro player, how could Liu Hao and the others care so much. What's more, each pro player had their own class that they were most proficient in. If they temporarily switched classes, it would be just like how in soccer a rear guard ran to play as the forward. Although their basic qualities were still there, their performance was an entirely different matter.

Speaking of Liu Hao and the others and their class combination, although their combination wasn't the best, it was actually better than Ye Xiu's party by a bit. However, regretfully, Liu Hao and the others weren't going all out. This was because they simply didn't think that any pro-level expert would compete with them in this dungeon. With regards to them, this was just a record against normal players. It was just a simple and easy task. A casual performance was good enough.

He didn't go at it 100%. But Ye Xiu's side? Seeing their record and then trying their hardest to beat it, broke their record.

Liu Hao had been pitifully struck a staggering blow on this dungeon record. This was all because he was in the light, while Ye Xiu was in the dark.

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Chapter 106 – What Exactly Is He Trying to Do?

In Club Excellent Era, Liu Hao was in his room comfortably watching TV.

Although yesterday night's encounter with Ye Xiu at the Internet Cafe made him extremely angry, thinking of how that guy had fallen to being an Internet Cafe manager, Liu Hao's mood quickly turned back into delight.

After driving out Ye Qiu, he was still Excellent Era's vice captain, but he was now extremely pleased with his situation.

Right now, he was looked highly upon by everyone in the club from top to bottom. That Sun Xiang was just a newcomer. At the present time, his vice captain position was in charge of all of the team's affairs. Moreover, that guy was only a youngster. With just a few words of flattery, he no longer knew what was going on. He just so happened to be an empty shell of a captain. Whenever something happened in the team, the team captain was the first person to be blamed. Bad things go to you, good things go to me. What a beautiful and harmonious duo.

Speaking of him, that Ye Qiu really was hard to deal with. Unmoved by force or persuasion, it took him a lot of effort to get rid of him.

Right when Liu Hao was dreaming of his beautiful situation, his cell phone suddenly started ringing. For such a phone call to come late at night, if it wasn't anything urgent, then no one would call him. Liu Hao grabbed his cell phone and looked. It was Excellent Dynasty's guild leader Chen Yehui.

Liu Hao was also a veteran pro player and a team vice captain. He clearly understood the importance of the in-game guild that they supported, so he had made contact with Excellent Dynasty's guild leader Chen Yehui long ago.

In Glory's competitive league, characters didn't just suddenly pop up out of nowhere. No matter how strong the god-like characters were in the Professional Alliance, they all started with a normal account card, a normal character, and then slowly leveled up one step at a time. Clubs had their own account cards, that wasn't wrong. But the data from these account cards were all stored in the game's database just like everyone else's.

The Club's research and development in self-made equipment still used the game's universal equipment editor. The materials used in the research all came from in-game.

With regards to the club, the guild acted a way to publicize them and also as a logistics department. Occasionally, they might even find a seedling with high potential to be a pro-player. Sometimes their guild might be the weapon to attack other Clubs . Every Club fostered their own guild's power. For those without guilds, just talking about self-made equipment, all of the materials needed for research would have to be bought with money. Once or twice was still okay, but continuously spending money wasn't good. The owners of every Club were all operating their Club for profit. They were trying to make money, not continuously throw away money.

Chen Yehui was Excellent Dynasty's guild leader. Although the majority of the guild members were normal players, there would definitely be players with relations to the Club. No matter what perspective he was looked at, Chen Yehui could be considered a manager level person in the Club.

Liu Hao grabbed his cell phone. His face showed an erratic expression. Chen Yehui treated him with an extremely respectful attitude. In his eyes, it was even a bit excessive. Although pro-players could have some influence on a guild's operations, there wasn't a clear top and bottom relationship between them. More accurately, it was more like a type of alliance between these two people. But Chen Yehui's attitude towards him seemed like he was below him. This was enough to make him mull over it. This sort of attitude was very much like how he was dealing with Sun Xiang.

With these sort of thoughts in his heart, Liu Hao answered the phone.

"Liu, have you rested?"

"I haven't yet. Did something happen?"

"Frost Forest's clear record was broken." Chen Yehui said.

"What? Broken?" A trace of surprise flashed across Liu Hao's face. It was just a mere dungeon record. He wasn't going to jump up all of a sudden as if it was an extreme emergency. He was surprised because even though he hadn't went all out for that record, it was still at least a record done by pro-level players. Breaking it required a certain amount of strength. Which Club's pro-player ran over to help?

"Which guild broke it?" Liu hao asked. The guild also signified the Club behind them.

"Tyrannical Ambition." Chen Yehui replied.

Players from Tyranny? Liu Hao was puzzled. Club Tyranny was the Club behind Tyrannical Ambition. The players under Team Tyranny were the ones who had originally stopped Excellent Era from becoming League Champions four times in a row. Team Tyranny's trump card was Han Wenqing. His account Desert Dust, a Striker class, was known as the "King of Fighting" in Glory. It was a god-level character like "Battle God". Although Excellent Era and Tyranny were old enemies. They were unlikely to go as far as to bother about such a small dungeon like Frost Forest. They would specially send out pro-players to break this relatively difficult record? Not likely! If it was in the Heavenly Domain, then they might reluctantly do it…….

"The guild is Tyrannical Ambition, but the players that did it aren't." Chen Yehui said.

"What do you mean?" Liu Hao didn't understand.

"One of the characters in the party is called Lord Grim. This player is quite famous in the tenth server. In beginner village, he took three first kills and the previous Frost Forest record that been held for some time was set by him and Blue Brook Guild. And later, he brought a party and stole away the Blood Gunner first kill right from under the Three Great Guilds' noses. He then helped Tyrannical Ambition first kill the Goblin Merchant. And right now, he helped Tyrannical Ambition set a new record in Frost Forest. In that party, four of the players had only temporarily joined Tyrannical Ambition. It looks like they were all Lord Grim's helpers." Chen Yehui attached a lot of importance to pioneering in the new server. He personally directed the work there. He had snuck in spies into all of the big guilds, so he understood the general situation of all of them.

Liu Hao carefully pondered over what Chen Yehui said. His expression changed greatly: "So you're saying….."

"This Lord Grim, is he Ye Qiu?" Chen Yehui said.

Liu Hao was also thinking about this. He suddenly recalled his encounter with that guy in the Internet Cafe. Wasn't that Glory on his screen?

"Ye Qiu was playing Glory that day. Did you notice his character's name?" Liu Hao asked.

"I noticed it….. but I couldn't see it too clearly." Chen Yehui expressed his regret.

"It's not convenient for me to go there. Don't show your face there either. Randomly find a stranger and ask him to go and look. It shouldn't be too hard to find what his character's name is, right?" Liu Hao said.

"I've already arranged for it. Someone is going over right now." Chen Yehui said.

"Okay….. then let's first understand the situation clearly before talking again." Liu Hao said.

"Wait for my call." Chen Yehui said.

After hanging up the phone, how could Liu Hao be in the mood to watch TV. Ye Qiu had already been driven out, but every time he heard his name, he always felt worried. Especially now that Ye Qiu appeared in Glory again, he felt even more terrified.

"F*CK!!" Liu Hao got up, ran to the bathroom, and ferociously washed his face.

These were just suspicions. What was there to worry about? Even if it was Ye Qiu, so what? He had already retired. He'd just be playing Glory to pass his time, right? If not, then besides playing Glory, what would he do?

Liu Hao kept thinking this in his heart. But he didn't know why. His mind always spiralled around what Ye Qiu had said just before he left the conference room.

"I haven't given up all hope yet. I'll be back."

Liu Hao paced about in his room, frantic and worried. After a short moment, he felt that the air in the room wasn't fresh, so he opened the window. After a short moment, he felt that he thirsty, so he went to drink some water. After a short moment, he felt that it was too hot, so he turned on the air conditioning. After tossing from side to side for a long while, his phone finally rang again. He impatiently picked it up.

"He's Ye Qiu……." That short phrase was like a splash of cold water.

At once, Liu Hao forgot his pile of comforting thoughts. He quickly lost self-control: "F*CK! This guy, how could he still be haunting me! It's already like this and he's still trying to fight me? I understand! He saw us that day, so he immediately thought that Excellent Dynasty's record was done by us. That's why he immediately joined Excellent Era's sworn enemy Tyranny's guild and then he broke our record. So he really knows his stuff! But isn't there something wrong with this guy's head? It's just a Frost Forest record. Does he really think I care?"

"But if he keeps on fighting against us like this……" Chen Yehui said.

"Don't panic. What was the time for his record?" Liu Hao asked.

"13:05:47." Chen Yehui said.

"Ha ha ha ha." Liu Hao heard this and then laughed: "That's nothing much! And I thought he was good! Don't worry. I'll set a new record for you immediately. We weren't focused at all last time. And that wasn't the most optimal class combination for Frost Forest last time either."

"Then what's the most optimal class combination? I'll pick out the accounts for you guys like last time." Chen Yehui said.

"No need, just last time's accounts will be fine." Liu Hao said.

"But last time's accounts have all already leveled past 25……." Chen Yehui said, "I'll look again!"

"Right, for that party you were talking about. The four that just temporarily joined Tyrannical Ambition? Besides Ye Qiu, who were the others?" Liu Hao asked.

"I'm not sure who they were. One of them was called Soft Mist, a Battle Mage. One was called Steamed Bun Invasion, a Brawler. And the other was called Cleansing Mist, a Launcher." Chen Yehui said.

"Launcher!!" Liu Hao confirmed this. He had already thought of someone. Except he had no proof, so he didn't dare to be certain.

As for the other two, he had no clue. From his view, to be able to break that record meant that the helpers had to be pro-level. If not, then just relying on Ye Qiu wasn't possible.

"Right, what is Ye Qiu's class this time?" Liu Hao suddenly asked.

"No class."

"No class?"

"Level 25, no class."

"This guy…….. what exactly is he doing?" Liu Hao was puzzled again. Was this guy planning on playing unspecialized? That wasn't possible! Although it was in theory possible to get past Level 50 as an unspecialized, in the pro-scene, it was already accepted that unspecialized characters had no value. Even excluding the burden of carrying many weapons, switching equipment had a cooldown and the confusing amount of skills……. Unspecialized characters had originally been something made up by the players. It wasn't a class that Glory had set up, so there were a lot of impossible-to-overcome obstacles. The game company wouldn't set up any adjustments for this type of made-up class. There were no prospects at all!

But, if there was someone that could play unspecialized in the Glory community, then the first name that popped up in Liu Hao's mind was the name Ye Qiu. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be uneasy.

"Hello? Liu, are you still there?" The person on the other side of the call, Chen Yehui, asked.

"Yeah……. I'm here, help me find an account. It'd be best if it hadn't yet joined a guild and was around Level 20. The class doesn't matter." Liu Hao said.

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Chapter 107 – Testing Staff

The Frost Forest record was once again broken. Another discussion was brought about in the game.

New players didn't think nothing much of it. They didn't really understand what was so abnormal about it. But the veterans of each of the big guilds all sucked in a cold breath.

This time's competition for the Frost Forest record was unprecedented. The records that came out one after another were even more ridiculous than the last. Last time's record was already the highest in all ten servers, already making people feel that it was too high to reach. Who knew that in just a few days someone would break it again. Moreover, this record improved the time by a large amount. It seemed like there was even more space to improve too.

"This tenth server really is full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers…….. Besides Lord Grim, who are those other players?" Currently in a dungeon, Blue River was muttering to a player next to him. These experienced players all knew that the current record couldn't have been made with just a single great expert. It could only have been done with several great experts working together. The list of names in this time's record, besides Lord Grim, they were all unfamiliar names. They had absolutely no idea where these players came from.

"Only one of them was from Tyrannical Ambition. The others were only temporary additions." Bound Boat answered. They were the same as Excellent Dynasty. They had little spies in Tyrannical Ambition. This type of information was extremely easy to find.

"Steamed Bun Invasion? It seems like I've seen this name before." Blue River mumbled to himself. Steamed Bun Invasion's name was quite unique.

"Blood Gunner's first kill." Bound Boat recalled.

Blue River stared blankly: "That…… didn't Lord Grim just randomly run into those players?"

"I thought so too……"

"Then just like this…… he just brought them and set that record?" Blue River was puzzled! He really was puzzled, so he simply sent a message to Lord Grim: "Brother, congratulations! You broke the record again."

There was no reply for a long time. Ye Xiu was currently delivering Cola to the guests……

After a while, a reply popped up. Opening it, it was Herb Garden's Plantago Seed: "What exactly is happening? I don't really understand. It's just a Frost Forest record, that's all. How'd it become like this?"

"Why ask me? You should be asking Tyrannical Ambition." Blue River said.

"I don't have him added as a friend." Plantago Seed's simple reason made Blue River at a loss for words. He closed the message and ignored it. He was only waiting for Lord Grim's reply.

After a moment, he finally received a message: "Ha ha, lucky lucky."

"Brother, where did those experts come from? I've never heard of them." Blue River didn't beat around the bush.

"Oh, they were all players I found on a short notice." Ye Xiu said.

"They're all amazing!" Blue River praised.

"Ha ha." Blue River wasn't praising him, so Ye Xiu didn't make any modest remarks on behalf of them.

"Brother, hurry up and level. I'm waiting until you're Level 27!" Blue River said.

Ye Xiu stared blankly, but immediately recovered. This Blue River really knew how to learn from experience. Level 27, that was the highest level for Boneyard. Although players could enter this dungeon at Level 23, it looked like no guild would urgently appoint for him to set a new record then. As it turned out, they were all waiting for him to get to Level 27 and then get it done all at once. It appeared that everyone was afraid after seeing this record being broken again and again. Just relying on their own strength to set one didn't really matter. But by paying for Ye Xiu's external help, wouldn't it be best to wait for the last moment to make the final killing blow?

"Ha ha, when the time comes, let's talk again!" Ye Xiu once again ended the talks. He was a bit puzzled right now. Of the Three Great Guilds, Blue Brook Guild and Tyrannical Ambition had all looked for him several times. But that Herb Garden never contacted him. Moreover, the other big guilds could also come look for him if they needed anything too. Were they all too embarassed to do so?

Ye Xiu was pondering over it when Tyrannical Ambition sent him the rewards. After several days of madly clearing Frost Forest, they had finally found the Ice Crystal Staff and ten White Wolf Bristles. Cold Night didn't go back on his word and gave them all to Lord Grim.

After the record was set, the next step was to continue leveling. That Crowd Lover also didn't leave the party and continued to dungeon with the four of them. In theory, they could continue to challenge the record, especially since Tang Rou was extremely eager and completely earnest. But Steamed Bun Invasion would make a mistake every so often, so breaking the record again was already like fleeting clouds.

Ye Xiu let out a sigh. He found that having Steamed Bun Invasion wasn't necessarily a bad thing. Honestly speaking, he was tired. In this dungeon, he had to invest far more energy than the four of them combined together. From teaching them in the beginning to madly leveling for himself to helping Tang Rou level to bringing Su Mucheng to level, he basically had no free time. Just then, in those ten minutes in the dungeon, he had to lead, pay attention to everyone's playing, and control the most amount of monsters. It was all extremely taxing on his mind and body. Right now, he just wanted to casually play and relax.

After Steamed Bun Invasion made a mistake, everyone relaxed. They didn't need to pursue the greatest efficiency and casually chatted while playing. Crowd Lover was still not crowd loving and didn't have much to say. Of course, no one knew that this guy was currently talking with Cold Night.

"Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion. These two are new players." Tyrannical Ambition's guild leader Jiang You, who was currently using Crowd Lover, was one of Glory's old generals. After observing them for two days, he was quite confident in his judgement.

"New players?"

"Yeah. But they have a good foundation. After learning for a bit, they'll quickly become experts." Jiang You said.

"And the other two?"

"Lord Grim. This player has skill, tactics, knowledge, and experience, but to say how strong he is exactly……. Frost Forest is only such, so I can't really tell. It's very likely that he's at a pro-level. But hearing you, it seems like this person is online for a long time every day! Pro-players shouldn't have so much time to play on a low-leveled account, right?" Jian You said.

"Could it be…… a just recently retired pro-player……." Cold Night heard the guild leader's analysis and could only think of one such person.

"Are you talking about God Ye Qiu…… If it really is him, then I'd really be honored. But there is one thing that I'm not sure whether you've noticed or not." Jiang You said.

"What?"

"His weapon."

"Weapon?"

"Yeah, I've payed attention to it for these several days. When he fights, he doesn't ever switch weapons, rather that weapon of his can change forms at any time. Right now, the ones I've noticed are Battle Lance, Sword, Gun, these three forms." Jiang You said.

"How can there be such a weapon?"

"That's why I'm saying that it must be self-made. That's why I'm thinking that this person could likely be someone from a Club testing a Silver weapon." Jiang You said.

"Oh……." Cold Night almost couldn't respond. Talents flourished in a pro Club. Even if they were researchers, their skill levels in Glory were all extremely high. Among them, some were former pro-players that stayed after retiring. Some of them weren't at a pro-player level, but their theorycrafting was considerably solid. These people might not be as good as pro-players, but in the game, they were more than enough to easily beat the content, especially at the current low-leveled stage.

"This sort of transforming Silver weapon is something I've never seen before. That's why I think he's testing to see whether it can be used practically. He's using it right now which means that this weapon is at most Level 25. If this weapon's practical value is limited, then they obviously won't spend the time to continue waste their energy, financial resources, physical resources, and continue to research how to upgrade it." Jiang You said.

"Then it's no surprise that this guy hasn't changed classes." Cold Night said.

"This weapon……. looking at if from its design, truly is specially made for unspecialized players to use." Jiang You said.

"Because he's testing the weapon, he needs to try it out with different types of parties. Challenging records and so on are all just for testing this weapon's might." Cold Night was very satisfied with his judgement.

"But…… in the new server, there aren't too many materials. How did he make it in the beginning? I can't understand this point" Cold Night said.

"He transferred from the old server!" Jiang You said.

"How can you carry a weapon and transfer?" Cold Night didn't understand, "Only level 1 blank accounts can transfer to a new server!"

"Self-made equipment can be stored in the equipment editor. It doesn't count as an item on you." Jiang You said. As a guild leader of a big guild, he could also be considered a Club member, so he was a bit more experienced and knowledgeable. How could normal players have access to self-made equipment? Of course they wouldn't know about how they worked.

"So it's like this……." Cold Night said, "Then like this, the reason he's crazily demanding for materials is probably for this Silver weapon."

"These things I'm not too sure about……" Jiang You was helpless. If he could make self-made equipment, then he would be a technical talent. Right now as a guild leader, he was more of a manager talent.

"In short, keep paying attention to him! If he really has this sort of background, then don't waste your time trying to rope him in." Jiang You said.

"Okay." Cold Night didn't say anything more.

The two stopped messaging each other for awhile. Jiang You was currently dungeoning with the party, when Cold Night suddenly whispered to him: "You still haven't talked about the last one? That one called what is it……." Su Mucheng's name, which came from a verse, "Cleansing Mist" (TLN: = Feng Shu Yan Mu) really was weird. It was far harder than Steamed Bun Invasion (TLN: = Bao Zi Ru Qin), which was quite catchy.

"Oh, this person, this person's just okay. Just before, she accidentally did a Delivery Gun. That scared me. But besides that, her playing was just average. She was just a steady player that didn't make any mistakes."

"Should we rope her in?"

"This person is probably someone who was temporarily found to substitute in. It looks like she's very close to Lord Grim, so it's quite probable that you won't be able to rope her in. In short, first pay attention to Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion, these two important players. These two have overwhelming potential. They're also new players, so Lord Grim probably found them in the game. Try your best to fight for them." Jiang You instructed.

"Okay. I understand."

The two closed the messages. Jiang You used Crowd Lover and followed the four players to finish clearing Frost Forest and Boneyard. After carefully observing them, he saw that those four looked the same as before. So he was confident that he didn't make an error of judgement.

After they finished clearing the dungeons, Jiang You said goodbye. Su Mucheng also went to rest. Steamed Bun Invasion hadn't went to the Arena to bully other players and show off his strength for an entire day, so he ran off to bully others. The remaining two, Ye Xiu and Tang Rou, went to a leveling area and silently leveled.

Meanwhile on Club Excellent Era's side, Chen Yehui finally found suitable account cards for Liu Hao and his party and sent them to him that very night. In the tenth sever, Excellent Dynasty was personally managed by him, so finding an account was much easier compared to the Three Great Guilds.

"Ye Qiu, I'll let you see my strength!!" Liu Hao called for manpower. He malevolently sat in front of a computer. Bringing his party, he rushed into Frost Forest. This time, he went all out without a trace of negligence.

After a short moment, another system announcement popped up in the tenth sever. Excellent Dynasty had broken the Frost Forest record, time: 12:55:42.

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Chapter 108 – Hateful Sword

In the eyes of players, the limit had already been reached for the record long ago. Yet it had unexpectedly been broken once again. What exactly was going on in the tenth server's Frost Forest dungeon? Was the dungeon so rich in beauty that it attracted countless heroes to bow in homage?

The day had just begun. The drowsy night players, who had stayed up at night, saw this system announcement and all re-energized all of a sudden. They discussed and gossiped. All of the guild channels were now even more lively than they were at prime time 8 PM.

"An all-out fight! It's an all-out fight." Blue Brook Guild's MT Flower Lantern sighed heavily with sorrow, "Aren't these two Tyranny and Excellent Era? These two Clubs have always been mortal enemies. They've even come to the new server to fight!!"

"But this record is too frightening. Lord Grim, we'll let him pass. We've all seen his strength before. But who does Excellent Dynasty have? Where did all of these experts come from?" Blue River was puzzled.

"The five characters that set the record this time are completely different from the ones who set the record last time." Bound Boat looked at the leaderboards. The first and third place on the leaderboards for Frost Forest were set by parties from Excellent Dynasty, pressing down on Tyrannical Ambition from both sides.

"It looks like they have people substituting in. They're just using Excellent Dynasty's accounts." Blue River said.

"Clearly." Bound Boat said.

"He he, I wonder how things are going for Tyrannical Ambition. Are they going to invite Lord Grim again?" Blue River's smile was a little dark. Of course he knew of Lord Grim's costly demands. For Tyrannical Ambition to keep on hiring him again and again made Blue River feel good in his heart.

He clearly wasn't the only one that felt good. Plantago Seed sent a message: "How great!!"

"Yup!" Blue River said happily. It was rare for both of them to feel happy together.

"These two guilds are going to go at each other now right?" Plantago Seed said.

"I'm not sure about that…… But Excellent Dynasty hasn't made any big movements for a long time now!" Blue River said.

"Excellent Era has just recently had a roster swap and reestablished themselves. Their guild also wants to raise their prestige. And it just so happened that they began by attacking their rival's guild in the new server. There isn't anything to doubt, right?" Plantago Seed said.

"Does Excellent Dynasty have this strength?"

"F*ck, can't you see it? They have help from the experts behind them! Can you set a record like this?" Plantago Seed said.

Blue River didn't utter another word. He had no choice but to concede. The current Frost Forest record had already far exceeded what was possible for normal experts like them.

Who was subbing in at Excellent Dynasty? Blue River guessed! Was it possible that Excellent Era sent their pro-players to set a record for this lowest-leveled dungeon? They shouldn't go that far right?

While each of the guilds were randomly guessing and thinking, Tyrannical Ambition's guild channel was filled with with resentment.

"F*ckers, did they really need to go so far? So competitive?" Cold Night was dumbstruck. This dungeon really made him thin and pallid.

No one in the guild uttered a word. No one knew what to say. The dungeon record had originally been something that was broken again and again. But this time, they all felt that something weird was going on. The sun hadn't even come out yet! And yet a new record had already been set again. Excellent Dynasty's players really were impatient. It was just a Frost Forest record, did they need to fight for their lives like this?

"Look for Lord Grim again?" Someone asked. Those with insight knew that they definitely wouldn't be able to do it themselves.

Cold Night had no words. This type of record-setting back and forth wasn't the way! He didn't know how Excellent Dynasty had set theirs, but he had payed a lot of items to get Lord Grim to do it. This sort of competition clearly wasn't worth it. But if they didn't fight, the players in all of the servers would see that they had been pushed down. They would lose a lot of face.

If this sort of loss was because of a different guild, then they could still endure it. But unfortunately, the loss was because of Excellent Dynasty. In the Glory community, who didn't know that Excellent Era and Tyranny were sworn enemies? The rivalry had even invaded into the game, where Excellent Dynasty and Tyrannical Ambition were also enemies. For experienced veterans in the guild like Cold Night, they'd be angry towards Excellent Dynasty even if there was nothing to be angry about. And now that Excellent Dynasty had stepped on their record, he felt extremely terrible!

Cold Night impatiently paced about for a moment. In the end, he went offline. He was planning on looking for Jiang You to ask him what exactly he should do. He was already at a loss.

On Excellent Dynasty's side, the players were obviously feeling the exact opposite of Tyrannical Ambition. Though their situation at midnight was extremely similar to the current Tyrannical Ambition.

At that time, Excellent Dynasty's record had been broken. Not only that, it had also been broken by their sworn enemy Tyrannical Ambition, making the guild's veterans extremely furious like how Cold Night was currently. Each and every one of Excellent Dynasty's players believed that Tyrannical Ambition hadn't relied on their own skills to do it. Instead, they looked for outsiders to substitute in for them, so they all unreservedly despised them. Although they despised them, they were also helpless. They were already at wit's end towards the record. The glorious heroes that had set it last time had already leveled past 25.

Excellent Dynasty's dungeon record had been done by Liu Hao and the others substituting in. Of course, this matter couldn't be known by the guild. Even the owners of those accounts only knew that the guild leader had taken their account cards to look for experts to play on them. They could only guess who those experts were, but they didn't dare be certain.

Excellent Dynasty's players cursed at Tyrannical Ambition as well as Lord Grim practically all night. Who knew that at this moment, the dungeon record was once again set back by their players. That sort of feeling was as if pie had fallen from the sky. However, the five characters that had set the record this time were small characters and the achievements this time were even more ridiculous. So everyone now knew that they had originally found players to substitute in for them too.

The players that had previously looked down on Tyrannical Ambition for looking for players to substitute in for them all seemed to have forgotten about it. How could it be the time to talk about that sort of disappointing topic right now? Everyone praised those five heroes. Although everyone knew that they weren't the original owners, they all tacitly understood that they wouldn't talk about it. They only praised unreservedly hoping that the experts hidden behind their screens would see it.

"Hmph!" Liu Hao saw these overflowing beautiful words that filled the screen and coldly laughed. It was just a Frost Forest record and nothing more. He wouldn't go so far as to be proud of himself just because of this. However, he was feeling extremely good though that was because he knew who his opponent was. He knew whose record he had broken. The current him felt as if he had stepped on Ye Qiu.

"How great……." Liu Hao enjoyed this sort of feeling. The feeling he had right now was even more intense than when he had kicked Ye Qiu out of the Club. His face was filled with disdain and pride. It seemed as if he were seeing Ye Qiu, with a face full of terror, prostrating on the ground under his feet.

"Thanks for your trouble, Liu." At this moment, Chen Yehui sent a message to him.

"It was nothing. It was a piece of cake." Liu Hao was about to reply like this. He hadn't yet sent the message when he saw that he was so happy that he was dancing around in joy. Right! Stepping on Ye Qiu was a piece of cake.

"I reckon that Ye Qiu is helpless against this current record." Chen Yehui messaged.

"I actually hope that he'll try it again." Liu Hao felt as lofty as a king looking down on all of the lands under the heaven, all because of this Frost Forest record..

"Ha ha, he's actually still online. But he might not have any dungeon entries left right now." Chen Yehui said.

"Oh, really?" Liu Hao's eyes turned. He immediately logged out of the character he was currently using and then found the account card, with a random level 20 character, that Chen Yehui had given him.

He swiped the card and entered the game. This character was Level 24, his name was Hateful Sword, a Berserker.

Liu Hao was most proficient with Spellblades. Although they were both Swordsman classes, their styles were completely different. However, as a pro-player, Liu Hao obviously wasn't completely clueless towards other classes. Just relying on his knowledge and mechanical skill, he would still be better than normal players by a lot.

Hateful Sword had no guild because it was obvious what Liu Hao was planning on doing with this account. That was why Chen Yehui specially found an account for him that was originally going to be a spy for their guild.

Liu Hao quickly scanned Hateful Sword and was quite satisfied. He immediately searched for a player name.

Lord Grim. Sure enough, he was online.

Liu Hao promptly sent a friend invite, but didn't get a response.

"LOSER LOSER LOSER!!!" Liu Hao cursed while sending more invites.

The system prompt finally arrived. Lord Grim accepted the friend invite.

"I would have blown you up if you didn't accept!" Liu Hao muttered arrogantly. Even such a small matter like being added as a friend made him feel extremely victorious. This was because the other side was Ye Qiu. Any sort of interaction between Ye Qiu and himself was a fight in his eyes. You wanted to ignore me. Yet you even added me as a friend. You lose Ye Qiu!

"Hi God." Liu Hao sent a common greeting and then began racking his brains on what he should say next to obtain Ye Qiu's trust.

"Hi, you are?" Ye Xiu replied.

I'm your father! Liu Hao said to himself and replied: "Do you have an open spot in your party?"

"Party? I'm not in any party!" Ye Xiu said.

"F*cker, putting on an act." The other side wouldn't hear him anyways. Liu Hao might as well curse while typing: "I saw that you're always setting dungeon records. You don't have a set party?"

"Oh, that. No I don't. Those were all just temporary members." Ye Xiu said.

"Really? Then can you bring me along. I'm pretty skilled." Liu Hao said.

"Okay, then when there's a chance, I'll whisper to you." Ye Xiu said.

"F*ck, you're trying to trick me!" Liu Hao felt that Ye Xiu was definitely saying it half-heartedly, so he didn't give up: "Are you free? Let's compare notes."

"Compare notes huh. Then I'll introduce someone to you. He's quite good. He's called Steamed Bun Invasion. You should go look for him to play with!" Ye Xiu said.

"B*stard. Sending me to your underling. How dare you act like that!" Liu Hao was furious. He sent a message over: "Okay, then I'll go look for him to play with."

Soon after, he cursed while adding Steamed Bun Invasion as a friend, showing his intent.

"Ha ha, you want to challenge me. You're pretty brave!" Steamed Bun Invasion replied.

"F*ck, so the underlings imitate their boss! How pretentious! Even the underlings are so flashy." Steamed Bun Invasion made Liu Hao feel extremely angry, but he had to act as if it was nothing and replied: "Ha ha, then let me try you!"

"Okay, come here. Let me see if you have any qualifications to challenge me." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

F*cker! I'll beat you into a crushed steamed bun! In his anger, Liu Hao immediately made Hateful Sword rush to the Arena.

"Level or free?" Liu Hao messaged Steamed Bun Invasion.

"Oh." Steamed Bun Invasion replied.

"I'm asking you level or free." Liu Hao's ten fingers almost broke the keyboard.

After a long time, Steamed Bun Invasion asked: "What does that mean?"

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Chapter 109 – A Directed Act

Liu Hao's keyboard really did break. This smash was too ferocious and had broken the keyboard into a slope. Liu Hao was unable to deal with so much. After laying flat the keyboard, he grinded his teeth while typing: "I'm asking you, same-level matches or free-for-all matches!"

"Oh! That! You should say things more clearly. Free-for-all matches." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"What room number?" Liu Hao entered the Free Field and was about to howl.

"You create one. I'll come look for you in a bit." Steamed Bun Invasion was currently fighting someone.

As a result, Liu Hao created a room. After setting up a password, he sent the room number and password to Steamed Bun Invasion. A short moment later, Steamed Bun Invasion finally appeared in Liu Hao's created room.

"Ready ready ready!!" Liu Hao madly urged.

Right when Steamed Bun Invasion clicked ready, he entered the field the next second.

Liu Hao chose the smallest map. There was no place to hide. After both characters joined the map, they each took one side of the arena.

The announcer counted down: 3… 2… 1…. Liu Hao didn't say anything further and wildly hammered his keyboard and mouse. Hateful Sword lifted his Greatsword and rushed forward.

The map was small, so the distance between both sides wasn't far. In only a few steps, he closed in. Across, Steamed Bun Invasion was Applying Poison to his weapon. How could Liu Hao wait for him to finish? He quickly moved his hands and Hateful Sword dashed up. A max range max damage max shockwave Collapsing Mountain chopped forward.

This sort of usage of Collapsing Mountain actually had a lot of holes. When normal experts used it, they wouldn't stretch Collapsing Mountain to its limit. But right now, Liu Hao had been restrained for such a long time. If he didn't show off his terrifying strength, he would cough up blood.

Liu Hao originally thought that Steamed Bun Invasion would get out of the way, so he had already calculated his following move. Who knew that the other side would just foolishly stand there without moving. Seeing that the Greatsword was about to hit him, Steamed Bun Invasion suddenly leaped backwards.

This leap was executed excellently. The Greatsword tip nearly swiped his nose. Right when Steamed Bun Invasion landed, he immediately jumped forward as if he were sending himself back into the sword's path.

But with a look, Liu Hao knew that the situation wasn't good. After Steamed Bun Invasion leaped backwards to dodge the chop, he jumped forward to dodge Collapsing Mountain's following shock wave. In addition, this jump had closed enough distance for him to attack Hateful Sword. And because Liu Hao stretched Collapsing Mountain too far, he recovered too slowly and had no way of dodging Steamed Bun Invasion's attack.

Just as expected, it was too late to withdraw and the Greatsword crashed onto the ground. Steamed Bun Invasion stretched out his hand and accurately grabbed onto Hateful Sword's throat. He used the skill "Strangle" that had been used brilliantly in the dungeon this night. Immediately afterwards, his other hand flipped over and a Brick smashed onto Hateful Sword's forehead.

Liu Hao was enraged to the limit. The keyboard and mouse were struck as if he was trying to break them. After he withdrew his Collapsing Mountain, he used a "Back Slash".

"Back Slash" was a Berserker's most basic skill. It was the same as a Battle Mage's Sky Strike and a Blade Master's Upward Slash knock-up skills. Although the effects were similar, a Berserker's "Back Slash" did the most damage and had the strongest knock-up effect among all of the knock-up skills.

Liu Hao's execution was accurate and fierce. Steamed Bun Invasion wasn't able to dodge it in time and was slashed up into the air by the Greatsword. If this "Back Slash" had completely hit, then Steamed Bun Invasion would have basically become like a kite. But Liu Hao had made Hateful Sword stop mid-slash. He then leaped backwards and both hands lifted the Greatsword to his chest. A "Colliding Stab" charged forward and thrust at the midair Steamed Bun Invasion's stomach. Hateful Sword swiftly rushed up was pushed into a V path in midair and his butt directly smashed into the arena's ropes.

Liu Hao was just about to let Hateful Sword continue attacking when he saw that Steamed Bun Invasion, whose body had been smashed into shattered shrimp shells, suddenly lift his hands and throw. A handful of fine sand flew towards Hateful Sword's face. Liu Hao was startled. He didn't think that this rotten Steamed Bun would actually counter with a Sand Toss in this situation. He immediately made Hateful Sword roll to the side. Although he had been hit by quite a bit of sand, he at least avoided the Blind status.

Flipping over, Steamed Bun Invasion rushed forward to Hateful Sword's back. His two hands grabbed onto Hateful Sword's shoulder and used a Knee Attack. Right when the Knee Attack hit Hateful Sword's waist, he let go of his hands and Hateful Sword couldn't help but stagger forward a few steps. This was a hidden effect that was triggered when Knee Attack hit the back.

Steamed Bun Invasion didn't stop. He ran forward holding onto a Brick and was about to smash it onto the back of Hateful Sword's head, when Hateful Sword suddenly leapt forward. But his body turned in midair and a sword light slashed down right in front of Steamed Bun's face. It was unexpectedly a Collapsing Mountain.

Steamed Bun Invasion hadn't anticipated this. In the past few days, he had often soaked in the Arena and had fought against every class several times, so he had experienced all of these low-leveled skills. That was why he had been able to perform the back leap into the forward leap to dodge Collapsing Mountain. But Liu Hao had unexpectedly used it while jumping backwards. This was a move that Steamed Bun Invasion had never seen before. This was because a backwards Collapsing Mountain was extremely complicated. Normal players didn't have the ability to use it, so of course Steamed Bun Invasion had never seen it before. At this moment, meeting a pro-player Liu Hao, although the Berserker wasn't his most proficient class, using this sort of move wasn't difficult.

However, because it was executed during a backwards leap, the backwards Collapsing Mountain couldn't be completed. This move wasn't to send an attack. It was to defend against the opponent's pursuit. Only because Steamed Bun Invasion didn't know of such a move was the sword able to hit him.

The two players fought back and forth and after a few bouts, Liu Hao had gradually calmed down.

He had always been a reserved and scheming guy. Previously, he had been in such a state of excitement because he had successfully stepped on Ye Xiu's record. He had also been provoked by the noob Steamed Bun Invasion's words and had wanted to beat Steamed Bun Invasion into a pulp. Now that he had calmed down, he definitely knew that he couldn't continue fighting in the same way.

Steamed Bun Invasion's skill truly wasn't bad. Among normal players, he could be considered a rare expert. Even so, he hadn't yet beaten Liu Hao. And if they continued to fight like this, then his Hateful Sword would for certain obtain victory.

But after calming down and thinking for a bit, he felt that he shouldn't win. This Steamed Bun Invasion was already extremely strong. Those that could beat him were players that were almost at a pro-level. Liu Hao was afraid that if he revealed too much of his strength, then he would arouse Ye Qiu's suspicions.

If he just barely lost to this Steamed Bun Invasion, then he would prove that his strength wasn't ordinary without arousing Ye Qiu's suspicions.

Liu Hao immediately decided on following this plan. He began to fight without fully exerting himself and showed openings. Steamed Bun Invasion really was an expert and immediately took advantage of these holes. Liu Hao didn't want to be beaten too easily, so he tangled with him once again. In this way, the two looked as if they were locked in a difficult battle. Liu Hao knew that his Hateful Sword was slowly walking towards the losing path. The situation had been grasped.

In the end, Hateful Sword lost to Steamed Bun Invasion. Liu Hao sinisterly smiled. He pretended to not accept the outcome and once again challenged Steamed Bun Invasion. Steamed Bun Invasion happily took up the challenge and the two players fought again. Liu Hao continued his performance and slowly walked towards the losing path.

In this way, they fought a total of five rounds. Hateful Sword lost to Steamed Bun Invasion every time. Steamed Bun Invasion appeared extremely mighty. However, the situation had been completely under Liu Hao's control the entire time.

After the five rounds were over, Liu Hao left the room and sent Steamed Bun Invasion a "I'm going to rest a bit." Immediately afterwards, he sent Ye Xiu a message: "God, that Steamed Bun is really strong. I couldn't beat him."

"Ha ha, I heard him talk about it. He said that you weren't his opponent at all!" Ye Xiu replied.

Liu Hao was furious. This rotten Steamed Bun, he wasn't honest at all! Although he had lost all five rounds, how could he use "not his opponent at all" to describe it? He had only just barely won five times. In addition, the situation had been completely under his control. He had originally wanted Steamed Bun to tell Ye Qiu of his strength so that Ye Qiu would more easily believe it. Who knew that this stinky Steamed Bun had no sense of shame and had actually ignored the important details. If he had known of this, then he would directed a "I barely beat Steamed Bun" outcome and then directly went to look for Ye Qiu.

"That, I feel our skill levels are quite close. His luck today was a bit better." Liu Hao could only explain it while feeling furious.

"Ha ha, he's still waiting in the Arena for you. You guys should continue playing!" Ye Xiu replied.

Liu Hao wanted to cry but had no tears. He had only wanted to put on an act with that Steamed Bun. Who actually wanted to continue playing with that rotten Steamed Bun. So he immediately replied: "I'm not that good at PKing, but I really am very good at clearing dungeons. God, when are you going to bring me to set a record!"

"Right now there isn't anything to set!" Ye Xiu replied.

"Really? But I saw that in the early morning, the record that you had set in Frost Forest just before had been broken. You're not going to get it back?" Liu Hao asked.

"Oh that. Maybe later!" Ye Xiu replied.

He he he, because you can't get it back! Liu Hao felt good again and continued to act: "Then God, what are you doing now? Bring me with you!"

"I'm leveling in Boneyard. If you want to come level, then you should come over too!"

"Okay." Liu Hao replied and then let out a sigh of relief. He finally succeeded in getting close to this guy's side. This time, he'd figure out what exactly that guy was planning on doing in the new server.

Liu Hao asked for the coordinates and then immediately ran towards Boneyard. When he reached the location, he looked around. He saw a male and a female, two characters. They were both carrying battle lances and clearing monsters. Among them, the female character had magical ripples flashing under her feet. It was clearly a Chaser, the Battle Mage's signature skill. And even though that male character used Battle Mage skills, he had no Chasers. He was precisely Lord Grim, an unspecialized character acting as a Battle Mage.

"Hello hello!" Taking advantage of the fact that they were still far away, Liu Hao tested his voice and found a pitch that was different from his own voice. After experimenting a few times, plus considering that there would also be some distortion when he talked, Liu Hao felt that Ye Xiu definitely wouldn't be able to tell it was his voice. He then calmly and composedly moved Hateful Sword forward.

"God." Liu Hao went up and greeted. He was a bit nervous in his heart.

"You've come!" After replying, a party invite was sent to him.

Liu Hao accepted and then joined the party. Remaining calm and collected, he laughed evilly.

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Chapter 110: Waiting and Seeing

Translator:Nomyummi

Editor:GravityTales

Of the two players in the party, one was Lord Grim and the other was Soft Mist. Although the two were in a party, they each fought their own monsters. There was no teamwork or coordination. After Hateful Sword joined the party, the two greeted him and then continued on with their own business. Once Liu Hao began killing monsters, three players were now minding their own business. No one went up to fight together with him. In the end, Liu Hao could only hack at monsters alone.

What made him even more depressed was when the other two players fought monsters, none of them talked. Although Liu Hao had disguised his voice, he still didn't dare to talk too much. He had originally been pretty happy when he saw that Ye Qiu was leveling with someone else. He felt that by listening in on their conversations, he could perhaps obtain information he wanted. Who knew that besides a "Hi" after meeting each other, he wouldn't hear another word.

After fighting for a bit, Liu Hao was unable to bear his depression. If he knew that these two wouldn't talk, then he would have been a bit more active when he came. If he suddenly asked around after being so quiet for so long, would he appear suspicious?

Thinking like this, Liu Hao could only stay quiet. From time to time, he would pay attention to these two player's circumstances. Gradually, he found that something was somewhat abnormal.

Lord Grim's attack was really high!

All in all, Liu Hao was a pro-level player. He had this sort of basic ability to judge. Lord Grim wasn't a true Battle Mage, but when he used Battle Mage skills, his damage output was even greater than Soft Mist's. Liu Hao had also put that Soft Mist in his eyes. Her hand speed was quite fast, so the difference in damage between Lord Grim and her shouldn't be from hand speed or technique. As a result, he only had one explanation: Lord Grim's equipment was stronger.

A better weapon would obviously raise the attack. Although Liu Hao was a pro-player, he couldn't recognize this Level 25 weapon. If it was a Spellblade type weapon, then he might have been able to. But he completely didn't recognize the white tipped Battle Lance that Lord Grim had in his hand.

After noticing the issue of damage output, Liu Hao also began paying attention to his hand speed. He wanted to keep up the same tempo as Lord Grim and then use the amount of damage done to monsters done by both sides in order to calculate Lord Grim's damage. Although the two were of different classes, to a pro-player, this sort of judgement was doable.

In the end, it made Liu Hao shocked. He had originally thought that Lord Grim's weapon might have been an Orange weapon. But by seeing its damage output, it seemed to be even better than an Orange weapon. It seemed like a level 25 Silver weapon?

Liu Hao didn't want to believe it. He once again made Hateful Sword keep the same tempo as Lord Grim for a while, but this was the only decision he could make. Moreover, it became more and more certain. Such a distinct difference in damage couldn't be made by the other small equipment on his body. It could only be because of the difference in weapons.

Silver weapon. This guy actually had a Silver weapon. The new server had just started a few days ago and this guy already had a Silver weapon?

What Silver weapon is this? Could it be the Battle Lance Evil Annihilation? It doesn't look like it…….

Liu Had obviously seen the Battle God One Autumn Leaf's Silver weapon Evil Annihilation many times. It was completely different from Lord Grim's weapon. Moreover, even if Evil Annihilation was Ye Qiu's, it didn't mean that he could make it. Self-made equipment were the top-secret information in the Club.

"This guy, could it be that he really hasn't given up? If he's really planning on returning to the pro-scene, then he's going to use this account and this Silver weapon?" After knowing that the weapon in Lord Grim's hand was a Silver weapon, Liu Hao thought like this. As a result, he began to be more cautious. He decided that it's be best to lay low until he fully understood what exactly Ye Qiu was planning on doing.

The three players continued to silently fight monsters. The day gradually began to brighten. After Liu Hao got over his previous excitement, he began to feel tired. He didn't have a habit of pulling all-nighters. Today, he had thoroughly endured the night. He now began to repeatedly yawn. But those two players didn't seem to show that they were going to stop. He could only clench his teeth and persevere. He was afraid that if he left early, he might miss any news.

At seven in the morning, Ye Qiu suddenly went offline without any warning. Liu Hao stared blankly and was happy in his heart: he could finally rest.

But in the end, before he had even finished killing off the remaining monsters, Lord Grim suddenly went back online and continued to fight silently.

"F*ck……. how long are these two going to play?" With red eyes, Liu Hao struggled to hang on.

8 o'clock……

9 o'clock……

10 o'clock……

The two didn't appear to have any intention of stopping. But even worse, these two still didn't say anything. They just fought monsters like robots as if they never got bored of it.

11 o'clock, they still continued to fight monsters, when Hateful Sword suddenly stopped moving. Ye Xiu and Tang Rou hadn't noticed in the beginning. After finding out, they immediately went to fend off the monsters surrounding him. While they protected him, they still didn't see any movement from him.

"Where'd he go?" Tang Rou said.

"I don't know……. he probably had something to do?" Ye Xiu said.

"Oh."

It was just a small matter. The two didn't really care and continued to level.

After quite a while, Hateful Sword began moving a bit and struggled to fight against a few monsters.

"He's back." Tang Rou said.

"Yeah." Ye Xiu replied.

It was still just a small matter. The two didn't really care and still continued to level.

Liu Hao was in extreme suffering. He had actually fallen asleep at his chair. If he hadn't almost slipped off the chair onto the ground, who knew when he'd have woken up. He struggled to fight for a bit more until he could no longer persevere any longer.

"God, you guys keep playing. I'm going to go rest first." Liu Hao said.

"Oh, okay."

"When are you usually online?" Liu Hao asked.

"All night." Ye Xiu said.

F*CK!!! Liu Hao almost cursed out loud. Is he trying to kill me? Being a pro-player was also a job. Everyday, there were a lot of daily drills that he had to do, more so as the team captain. How could he have the ability to pull all-nighters everyday. Liu Hao cursed inwardly. He could only say: "I don't have the chance to pull all-nighters often. But if there's a dungeon, then you have to call me!!"

"Okay." Ye XIu replied.

From start to finish, this guy seemed as if he never spoke more than five words. Liu Hao didn't understand what type of plight he was in right now. He was too f*cking sleepy; his ability to think had already declined. After hastily logging out of the game, he climbed straight to bed. Right when he took off his clothing, he heard a knock.

"Brother Hao, are you there? The boss wants to talk to you……."

"I'm coming…….." Liu Hao's cheeks streamed with tears. He put his clothing back on and struggled out of bed.

At the Happy Internet Cafe, Ye Xiu planned on leveling until 12 o'clock before he went to sleep. Tang Rou had the morning shift today. She continued to keep watch at the reception desk, working while playing. Chen Guo stood on the side with a sinister face. These two people, after saying "I'm aware of my situation", immediately went to play even more crazily all day and night.

"Did you guys break any record?" Chen Guo asked.

"Yeah." Ye Xiu said.

"But someone took it back this morning." Tang Rou added.

"Are you all still going to set records again and again?" Chen Guo asked.

"Waiting and seeing." After saying this, Ye Xiu went to sleep.

When night came, Ye Xiu got up and went back to playing the game. Excellent Dynasty still held the Frost Forest record. No other guild went to go look for Lord Grim. Clearly, everyone had had enough of this dungeon. If they could rely on their own strength to beat the record, then it'd be fine. But if they had to always pay and look for people to substitute in for them, then their gains didn't make up for their losses.

In comparison, Boneyard's record had continued to be broken in these past few days. It was just that in the eye-catching whirlpool of the Frost Forest records, it was mostly overlooked by everyone. Now, the players of each of the big guilds were now Level 27, the highest level for Boneyard. Although Level 27 wasn't like Level 25, where there were new skills and equipment that could make a qualitative leap, in the sort of fight over a few seconds of time for a record, a single level was enough to create a difference. Currently, in Boneyard, a Level 27 party had set a fairly impressive record, which had been retained for quite awhile. But Tyrannical Ambition, which had set that record, weren't happy. This was because they knew that they wouldn't be able to hold onto this record for long. Lord Grim? Or maybe the substituted in players from Excellent Dynasty? They could break the record at any time.

Tyrannical Ambition obviously couldn't defend against Excellent Dynasty. Lord Grim, on the other hand, Cold Night was watching attentively to his level. Except…….. The current record was held by their Tyrannical Ambition. If they bought Lord Grim to break the record, wasn't it a bit wrong?

Cold Night was a little hesitant. He thought whether or not to let it go and let other guilds set it first and then hire him. But the other guilds would also go and invite Lord Grim. For Lord Grim to set a new record and then invite Lord Grim to break it? This was kind of forcing him to do something. Unless this guy was despicable and sinister and intentionally leaving some space for the record. But anyone with a brain knew that he definitely wouldn't deliberately do such a thing. This behavior was destroy his reputation. In addition, to help someone clear a record and then helping another set a new record, this sort of method would make others despise him. This guy probably wouldn't do such a thing, right?

This didn't need to be guessed. When the time came, he just had to ask. It was still too early. Cold Night looked at Lord Grim in his friends list. He was still Level 25.

Ye Xiu also knew that until he reached Level 27, no guild would hire him to set a new record. As a result, he could only level. When it was almost midnight and the dungeon entries were about to refresh, as usual, Seven Fields asked him if he wanted to dungeon with them. Ye Xiu naturally wouldn't decline. He was just leveling, that's all. he didn't need to pick players.

Seven Fields was once again with just him and Sleeping Moon. Once Drifting Water and Sunset Clouds had been active for the two days after the new server started, they stopped appearing in the early mornings.

"Steamed Bun said that he's in the Arena and won't come for now." Seven Fields said.

"Oh." Ye Xiu answered. He had also received the message.

"Dungeon!" This was sent to Su Mucheng.

"Are you going to dungeon?" This was asking Tang Rou.

After the two agreed, the two arrived shortly. And the five player party was created. Seven Fields asked: "Brother expert, can we set a record?"

"We can try." Ye Xiu saw that the current record for Boneyard was 25:14:32, Tyrannical Ambition's.

Right now, this party had two pro-level players, him and Su Mucheng, and a player with a pro-level hand speed, Tang Rou. Adding in Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon, two experienced players, this party wasn't the best, but it was still possible to beat a record set by normal players. After all, Level 25 and Level 27 didn't have any big difference in equipment or skills.

Just as they were waiting for midnight to arrive, Ye Xiu suddenly received a message. He looked. It was that new friend Hateful Sword from the other day: "God, are you dungeoning?"

"So sorry, I'm in a party already."

"Add me!"

"It's full!"

F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK!!! Liu Hao wanted to eat his computer.

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Chapter 111: Two Types of Coordination

Translator:Nomyummi

Editor:GravityTales

Liu Hao hadn't slept yesterday night. He hadn't slept in the morning and was then called over by the boss at noon. He was busy the entire afternoon and hadn't slept. Only after dinner was he able to sleep for a bit, but he kept Ye Qiu in his mind the entire time. As a result, when it was almost midnight, he struggled up out of bed and went online. In the end, once he got on, he was told that there was no space for him in the party. Liu Hao wanted to eat Ye Qiu raw, but was helpless and could only foolishly stare at his monitor.

As for Ye Xiu and the others, they tried to set a new dungeon record. Although there was no one to pay him, breaking the record meant that there would still be quite a few rewards. Players could begin running Boneyard from Level 23. Level 25 players had already ran it several times already. If they wanted to set a new record, then naturally they had to pay attention to their coordination. Outside of the dungeon, Ye Xiu explained to them the strategy. After they heard it, they immediately entered the dungeon.

"F*ck!" Just as they entered, Seven Fields yelled. His yell was filled with both hate and love. This was because a system announcement had popped up: Vampire Knight Logue has resurrected. Adventures, please be careful.

Hidden BOSS.

Meeting a hidden BOSS was something everyone looked forward to. But a hidden BOSS appearing meant that setting a new dungeon record was impossible. This went against their original intentions, which was why Seven Fields yelled a "F*ck" with both love and hate.

"Today's luck isn't bad!" Ye Xiu was happy. Once he hit Level 23, of course he wouldn't miss the opportunity to run Boneyard. But so far up until now, he hadn't yet met a hidden BOSS. Every dungeon usually had several different hidden BOSSes. Their chances of appearing were all different. Vampire Knight Logue was one of Boneyard's rarest BOSS. Yet they had actually met it today.

"Just think of this round as a way to break in!" Ye Xiu said this and then directed Lord Grim to rush forward and kill monsters. Tang Rou immediately let Soft Mist follow up too. This girl still liked to compete with Ye Xiu. Whatever Ye Xiu did, she always wanted to try if she could do it or not. Yesterday night at Frost Forest, Ye Xiu pulled 16 Goblins, which was another hit to her. But the more Tang Rou was hit, the more terrible she became.

But right when Soft Mist moved, Cleansing Mist had already fired a gun shot. The two monsters, which Lord Grim was rushing towards, were alarmed and were swaying over to them.

She had been together with Cleansing Mist for a few days already. To Tang Rou, her performance was always ahead of Tang Rou by a bit. For example, when Ye Xiu's Lord Grim rushed forward to pull monsters, Tang Rou immediately went to follow up. However, Cleansing Mist's movements were just slightly faster.

"Is this person's hand faster than mine too?" Tang Rou thought like this, but never went to ask her. What she didn't know was that Su Mucheng didn't have a faster hand speed, but rather more knowledge. Just through hand speed, she was faster than Su Mucheng. And under Ye Xiu's coaching, the coordination between her left and right hands improved rapidly. But besides that, in other aspects, she was still far from Su Mucheng. This sister also didn't have it easy. She was always comparing herself to people like Ye Xiu, those types of god-level characters, or people like Su Mucheng, those types of good pro-level characters. This always made her feel somewhat incapable, which made her work even harder.

In the game, that meant that Soft Mist had to be even more forward and even more ferocious than Lord Grim. This sort of tyrannical display made Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon feel somewhat bewildered. The way this girl fought gave them the feeling that they couldn't intervene. They could only fight alongside Lord Grim and help brother expert.

But the damage by Lord Grim's Silver weapon was much greater than Soft Mist's weapon. In addition, Cleansing Mist was also helping Lord Grim clear monsters. The monsters on this side fell quickly. When Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon went over to support him, they felt as if they couldn't really help, making them feel as if they were useless. The two player's cheeks streamed with tears. Did they really even need them?

Ye Xiu saw the situation and understood them well. On his side, he and Su Mucheng were already enough. Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon should have been Tang Rou's helpers. But Tang Rou was too strong-headed and always pursued the limits. In addition, the gap between her and Seven Fields, Sleeping Moon was quite large, so the two sides were unable to coordinate together.

"Let's switch. You go help her!" Ye Xiu said to Su Mucheng.

"This sister's really fierce." Su Mucheng said while letting her Cleansing Mist help Soft Mist. Ye Xiu naturally lowered his tempo, which made Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon suddenly feel much more comfortable fighting the monsters. These two's skill levels weren't enough to understand all these high-level things. They just thought that because Cleansing Mist had went over to the other side, she left them some space to fight.

Tang Rou controlled Soft Mist to attack monsters, while occasionally paying attention to Ye Xiu's situation. Seven Fields and the Sleeping Moon hastily ran over to the other side, while Cleansing Mist went over to help her. She didn't know the reason why and fought as she was before. But at this moment, she saw that Ye Xiu's Lord Grim was clearly moving slower and had slowed down his tempo. She didn't know why either.

Tang Rou fought together with her, but gradually discovered that her situation had also changed. In the beginning, she was the one who took initiative, while Cleansing Mist was there for assistance. But unknowingly, she discovered that the situation had reversed. Cleansing Mist was the one who took initiative, while she was there for assistance.

This sort of initiator and helper relationship wasn't only seen on the monster's aggro, but was also on the tempo and direction. Unknowingly, Tang Rou found that her tempo had already been stolen by Cleansing Mist. She was now following Cleansing Mist's lead.

This type of tempo issue, how could a noob like Tang Rou understand it. She simply didn't like that sort of feeling, that's all. Annoyed, she deliberately tried to sabotage the situation. And caused the two players to be in danger several times. Even Ye Xiu's Lord Grim had to rush up and help them occasionally.

Tang Rou was astonished. She had no idea why everything had happened like so. While she was at a loss, she heard Cleansing Mist say on the side: "Look how he's fighting on that side."

Tang Rou obviously knew who this "he" was pointing to. But seeing Ye Xiu fight, she couldn't understand what was so amazing. He was so slow. She herself could just casually do that!

"If you switched with him, could you coordinate well with Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon?" Su Mucheng said.

"Coordinate?" Tang Rou stared blankly.

"There are two types of coordination. One type is to adjust to the other members and coordinate like that. Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon do this type. This type is relatively simple; As for the other type, that's to drive the other members to coordinate with you. That's the type he's doing." Su Mucheng said.

After Tang Rou stared blankly, she suddenly said: "Then just a moment ago, you were driving me to coordinate with you?"

"Me? I was adjusting to you! But I don't know how it slowly became you following me……." Su Mucheng said.

Tang Rou scratched her head. This idea seemed very abstruse. But honestly speaking, she didn't really like the word coordination. She preferred to take charge herself, beating all the enemies in battle by herself.

"BOSS!!" At this moment, Seven Fields cried out in fear. Everyone's camera angle switched to the front and saw an average-sized knight wearing pitch-black armor, which who knew when, had stood at the mouth of the road..

His face was even paler and his blood-red eyes were extremely bewitching. In his right hand, he held a long, narrow, scarlet lightsaber. In his left hand, he held a shield with a bat symbol on it. He silently stood there without saying a word.

The five players quickly cleared the small monsters and then gazed at the Boneyard's rarest hidden BOSS, Vampire Knight Logue.

Because they hadn't yet entered its aggro range, the Vampire Knight Logue didn't move. He stood alone in the middle of the road. From the fork in the road, it was possible to go around without alarming him. A lot of hidden BOSSes were like this. Players could choose to not fight it. It was just that when meeting a rare hidden BOSS, the majority of players would still try it. In fact, to inexperienced normal players, they would be unable to take down a hidden BOSS ninety percent of the time.

But to Ye Xiu and them, of course they weren't concerned about whether they could take it down or not. Ye Xiu looked at the Vampire Knight Logue's long and narrow light saber. He suddenly said: "Little Moon Moon, did you learn the Lightsaber Mastery?"

"No, I learned the Tachi Mastery." After Sleeping Moon finished saying this, he suddenly thought of something and immediately stomped: "Who the f*ck is Little Moon Moon."

"Then the Vampiric Lightsaber is mine then!" Ye Xiu said.

"Ah?" Sleeping Moon stared blankly. He also knew of the Vampiric Lightsaber. It was a Level 25 Orange weapon. Although Lightsabers could only be used by Blade Masters, since Sleeping Moon took the optional route of having Tachi Mastery, then he would be a Blade Master that prioritized Tachis.

Sword Mastery was a passive skill that Blade Masters could learn after Level 20. Mastery could be split into five types, which was naturally the five types of Swords: Greatsword, Shortsword, Broadsword, Tachi, and Lightsaber. Although a player could choose more than one Mastery to learn, normal Blade Masters would only choose one and stick with it because skill points were precious. With every level into a Sword Mastery, the attack of the sword type chosen would be increased by 2%. At Level 10, there would be a 20% increase, extremely significant. Apart from this, it also had additional effects with some skills. Different sword types would have additional effects with different skills. It all depended on which mastery a player chose.

Since Sleeping Moon had learned the Tachi Mastery, he would naturally choose to use the Tachi as a weapon. However, this didn't mean that he could not use a Lightsaber. Now that he heard the great phrase Orange weapon, he was still itching for it in his heart.

"Begin killing it!" Ye Xiu yelled. Cleansing Mist immediately raised her weapon and sent an Anti-Tank Missile over. Soft Mist also lifted her battle lance and rushed forward.

"Wait a moment!!" Ye Xiu hastily shouted. But Tang Rou continued to forge ahead. She arrived practically at the same time as Cleansing Mist's Anti-Tank Missile. In the end, he saw the Vampire Knight use his right hand to whip his cloak over in front of his body. With a screech, when his cloak opened, the Knight had disappeared. Countless small bats flew out and swiftly headed towards them. The three Anti-Tank Missiles hit nothing and the small bats pounced onto Soft Mist, biting her.

These small bats, with their tiny eyes radiating red, covered Tang Rou's screen. Their tiny fangs outside of their mouth seemed to drip saliva, extremely nauseating. The small bats engulfed her without toppling Soft Mist. However, her life directly plummeted a large portion. Tang Rou hastily drank a potion. Those small bats that had engulfed her had already gathered together once again behind her and the Vampire Knight swirled his cloak and appeared again. The scarlet Vampiric Lightsaber immediately stabbed towards her body like a viper.

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Chapter 112 – Perfect Coordination

"Careful!!!" Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon, two melee type classes, felt that they couldn't save her. They could only remind her, hoping that there would be some reaction to it. But next to the two players, a cannon shot and a gunshot rang out. Cleansing Mist and Lord Grim both fired.

The gunshot was quicker, while the cannon shot was slower. However, in the end, both shots accurately hit the Vampire Knight's wrist, which was about to stab down.

One after another, the two shots hit, making him stab askew. Tang Rou's reaction speed and control were extremely quick. This crooked blow won enough time for her. She jumped forward and in an instant, whirled 180 degrees in midair at the same time. Sweeping in front of her body with her lance, she then used a Dragon Tooth to stab forward.

"Dong". The Vampire Knight's agility was also quick. He raised his shield and blocked the Dragon Tooth. He then chased after Soft Mist.

Tang Rou wasn't careless. Before Soft Mist touched the ground, she slashed downwards. The Vampire Knight raised his shield again to block it. Soft Mist landed just in time to meet with the Vampire Knight, which had rushed forward. Tang Rou's hands moved swiftly. Soft Mist sent out a Falling Flower Palm. The Vampire Knight still had his shield high up pointing towards the sky. With this Palm, he was sent flying backwards.

Ye Xiu had already come over to help her. Lord Grim rushed forward. A Sky Strike leaped up, directly knocking the Vampire Knight, which Soft Mist had blown over, into the air. Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist raised her cannon and sent an Anti-Tank Missile over.

Three Anti-Tank Missiles hit the Vampire Knight. In the middle of the artillery barrage, the Vampire Knight looked as if it were about to fly away. However, Lord Grim had already leaped up. His battle lance stabbed forward and executed a Circle Swing, bringing the Vampire Knight back.

The battle lance threw downwards and the Vampire Knight almost smashed a hole into the ground. Cleansing Mist's cannon had already gathered together an energy ball. Right when the Vampire Knight crashed to the ground, the energy ball flew out and exploded onto the Vampire Knight's face.

This was a Launcher's Level 25 Skill Cannonball, which shot out an energy ball at a target. After storing power, the energy ball would have increased damage and range. When it exploded, the shockwave would be even greater too.

These few fluid moves and coordination were completed in an instant. Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon were both watching dumbstruck. After the Cannonball exploded, Lord Grim and Cleansing Mist immediately leaped backwards. The Vampire Knight's cloak whirled around him like a sword, but only hit air.

While taking back his cloak, the Vampire Knight got up. He turned around and still rushed towards Soft Mist's direction.

Tang Rou stared blankly.

Although she was a new player, she already had a basic understanding of how aggro worked. Her previous Dragon Tooth hit the shield. Afterwards, she sent out a Falling Flower Palm. In theory, it shouldn't have pulled more aggro than Lord Grim and Cleansing Mist. Could it be because she had been bitten by those small bats?

Tang Rou's guess wasn't wrong. The reason the Vampire Knight was charging at her was because she had been bitten by those small bats.

"Dodge first. If he hits you, then his health will recover" Ye Xiu promptly warned Tang Rou. This was the Vampire Knight's special skill. Targets that had been bitten by his incarnated bats would become healing fodder. When the fodder was hit again by him, he would heal. The amount of health gained didn't depend on the amount of damage. If it was like that, then to the BOSS, the health recovered would be completely insignificant. The amount of health the BOSS had was on another level compared to the amount of health players had. So the health gained depended on the percentage of damage done. In other words, if his attack did 5% of Soft Mist's health, then he would recover 5% of his health. In this way, players were in a huge disadvantage.

Tang Rou had quite a lot of confidence in her skill, but she wasn't familiar with this BOSS. She didn't know whether or not there might be a bizarre, impossible-to-defend-against move that would come out. In order to avoid being surprise attacked and wasting everyone's efforts, Tang Rou could only reluctantly have Soft Mist run to the side to hide from the Vampire Knight and wait for Lord Grim and Cleansing Mist to rescue her.

Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon were extremely embarrassed. They had absolutely no idea on how they should get involved in the battle. Brother expert was busy attacking the BOSS and hadn't given them any instructions. When they saw the Vampire Knight locked onto Soft Mist, the two finally found an opportunity to appear and hastily rushed forward to intercept.

The Vampire Knight wasn't so stupid that he would only chase after his target and ignore other attacks from other players. Sleeping Moon slashed and the Vampire Knight raised its shield to block it. Seven Fields rushed up and punched. The Vampire Knight no longer had a shield to use and simply used its sword to chop down towards Seven Fields.

"Woah!!" How could Seven Fields dare to fight recklessly against the BOSS. He could only dodge the attack.

Apart from the sword and shield, the Vampire Knight also had a third weapon, his cloak. Now that he was being attacked by two people, he whirled his cloak in a circle, cutting towards them like a sharp knife. Seven Fields flipped back to dodge it. But it hit Sleeping Moon, cutting a string of blood. Sleeping Moon's life plummeted by one quarter.

Ashen-faced, Sleeping Moon promptly ran back. Seven Fields was still rolling back. The attack made by the Vampire Knight's cloak was a 360 degrees attack. After whirling around a full circle, the cloak fell on a spot and was just about to nick Seven Fields, who was on the ground. But suddenly, a battle lance appeared and stabbed at the Vampire Knight. Tang Rou's Soft Mist had mounted a sneak attack with a Circle Swing, knocking down the Vampire Knight onto the ground.

Sleeping Moon and Seven Fields wanted to be the heroes saving the princess, but in the end, they became the princesses saved by the hero. Seven Fields frantically flipped up. He didn't have the time to express his thanks and continued to be like a hero. He blocked Soft Mist behind him and said: "You escape first!"

"All of you escape!!!" Ye Xiu yelled. The three were startled. In the end, none of them reacted in time. The Vampire Knight once again whirled his cloak around his body and then filled the sky with small bats. Except this time, three players were in their range. The bats scattered and attacked the three players. Although the damage dealt to each of them wasn't as high as when it was only Soft Mist, no one knew exactly who would become the next fodder for the Vampire Knight.

Cleansing Mist's cannon swung and machine gun sounds repeatedly rang out. This was the Launcher skill "Gatling Gun". While using it, she also rattled the gun, making what was originally a line of bullets into a hail of scattered bullets. The small bats had tiny bodies and were extremely quick. However, they were densely crowded together, so these bullets hit quite a few of them. The damage dealt would ultimately be counted as damage done to the Vampire Knight.

As for those three players, they had no way of defending against these bat attacks. However, after these bat attacks, a new target would be selected as healing fodder, so it was less likely that attacks done to Soft Mist would have lifesteal.

These bat attacks were done quickly and in an instant, they gathered back into a cloak.

Ye Xiu fixed his attention on the moment the Vampire Knight took form again. The moment the Vampire Knight made the slightest of movements, he immediately determined where the Vampire Knight would head to next.

"Little Moon Moon!!" Ye Xiu hastily yelled.

Just as expected, this time, Sleeping Moon became the Vampire Knight's fodder and the Vampire Knight charged at him.

Sleeping Moon was so scared, he ran away in a hurry. But his movements weren't enough in front of the Vampire Knight. After a few steps, he was about to be closed in on and chopped up.

In his imminent peril, a lance diagonally stabbed at the Vampire Knight, knocking him up into the air. A Falling Flower Palm followed and the Vampire Knight was blown away.

It was Soft Mist. She was closer to Sleeping Moon than Lord Grim, so she arrived quicker. Because she had been the fodder previously, she didn't dare face the Vampire Knight. She had been suppressed! Now that Sleeping Moon was the fodder, if the Vampire Knight wasn't going to chase her, then she was going to chase him.

"Hurry up and run a bit farther away." Tang Rou said to Sleeping Moon. This made Sleeping Moon feel very shameful. But what could he do? Generally speaking, male players were a bit better than female players. As a result, male players tended to show their strength in front of female players. But in this party, the two female players were both monsters. He didn't know how much more skilled they were than he was. And in the end, he was the one to be looked after by them. Sleeping Moon was sad, very sad.

At this moment, Ye Xiu's Lord Grim finally arrived. Cleansing Mist followed after. After the moment of confusion, the three experts could finally fight together. Ye Xiu quickly arranged a formation. Their ability to carry it out didn't need to be said. It didn't matter if the trapped Vampire Knight raised his shield, brandished his sword, or whirled his cloak, nothing worked. Sleeping Moon and Seven Fields were reduced to spectators. But they knew that it wasn't because brother expert wasn't giving them any opportunities, it was because they had no way of matching their coordination. Fast, it was way too fast.

In the middle of their besiegement, Lord Grim suddenly inappropriately used a Falling Flower Palm, blowing away the Vampire Knight out of their encirclement.

"Oh no!!" Seven Fields yelled out sorrowfully. This was the first time he had seen brother expert make a mistake. But when the Falling Flower Palm flew out, Cleansing Mist followed up with an Anti-Tank Missile at the same time. The three Anti-Tank Missiles exploded onto the Vampire Knight one after another. The shock wave from the explosions added onto the Falling Flower Palm's power sent the Vampire Knight flying away like an arrow. The Vampire Knight hadn't yet fallen to the ground, when the Vampire Knight suddenly screeched and turned into a swarm of bats.

Except this time, the bats had no one to attack. They randomly flew around and then transformed back into a single body.

Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon were once again dumbstruck. It looked like the previous Falling Flower Palm wasn't a mistake at all. With Cleansing Mist's Anti-Tank Missiles added on, the Palm was a move that was quickly done after seeing that the Vampire Knight was about to whirl his cloak. In the instant that the Vampire Knight began whirling his cloak, the two players were actually able to knock the bats far away enough to be outside of their attack range.

Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon weren't Tang Rou. They had known about the Vampire Knight's great name as well as the troublesome bat attack. To defend against this attack, only a Qi Master's Nen Guard would work. Besides this, the only other method was to jump out of the bat swarm's attack range when the bats appeared.

But because this had to be done quickly and the attack range wasn't small, whether or not one could run away was a big problem. But today, Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon witnessed the legendary solution, knock the Vampire Knight far away enough so that they wouldn't be in the bat swarm's attack range.

To do this, besides accurate judgement and quick movements, the most important part was perfect coordination.

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Chapter 113 – Casually Dungeoning

This time, the Vampire Knight didn't have a set fodder. However, the previous fodder didn't expire. Fortunately, after this cycle, the effects had somewhat decreased.

But it didn't matter if the effects decreased. With the BOSS's percent lifesteal, there was no way they could let him have his way. Ye Xiu, Tang Rou, and Su Mucheng rushed forward after the bats transformed back into the Vampire Knight. They continued to surround and attack him, while Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon continued to watch as spectators.

After a few cycles, the Vampire Knight's life finally dropped to 10%. However, no one was worried about his Red Blood status. This was because when the Vampire Knight turned Enraged after dropping to Red Blood, it would set new fodder without replacing the old fodder. In theory, this meant that all five players could become fodder, which meant that no matter who fought it, they would have their life stolen.

But with Ye Xiu's and Su Mucheng's level of skill, the Vampire Knight's bat transformation was already an empty threat. They didn't need to care about such a change.

The Red Blood Vampire Knight screeched as he struggled until finally, he died under the three player's attacks. After falling to the ground, all of the items that could be dropped had already all dropped. Ye Xiu looked over them. He didn't see that scarlet Vampiric Lightsaber, but wasn't too disappointed.

This was an Orange equipment, a type of equipment that heavily depended on your luck. If you didn't have the right mindset towards it, then it would be easy for you to curse your luck and cause you to lose all hope in yourself.

"Wow! Two Purple eggs!!" Su Mucheng cried out in astonishment.

Ye Xiu stared blankly. Two Purple eggs was a saying in Glory. It meant that two Purple equipment dropped when the monster died. To raise one and infer three, two Blue eggs, three Purple eggs, four Orange eggs could all be said as long as you actually encountered such a situation.

The probability of two purple eggs obviously wasn't high. However, of the equipment that the Vampire Knight dropped, the only item Ye Xiu wanted was the Vampiric Lightsaber. As for rest, even if eight purple eggs came out, he still wouldn't care.

"It's the Shield and Cloak." Seven Fields looked over them and said.

After changing classes, the Shield could only be used by a Knight. Shields had two main attributes. The first was increased defense and the second was damage absorption. They were both important in increasing the Knight's survivability. The Shield dropped from the Vampire Knight was his Vampiric Shield. It increased defense by 20% and and had 12% damage absorption. Besides this, it also had an additional effect: all damage done would have 2% Life Return.

"Not bad." Ye Xiu praised, "Then give it to whoever can use it!" Ye Xiu was talking about Seven Field's friends. Drifting Water was a Knight, while Sunset Clouds was a Blade Master. Except Ye Xiu already forgot which one was the knight and could only say "whoever it was".

"There's also the Vampire Cloak. Vitality 15, Strength 15, 2% Lifesteal for Melee Attacks." Seven Fields said. "Lifesteal" and that shield's "Life Return" were antonyms. Lifesteal was damage done to the target would change into the user's health. Life Return meant that when the user was attacked, the damage done to the user would change into the user's health.

The Cloak was an accessory type equipment. Usually, they had this type of additional base stats and an additional effect. The current five players were all physical damage type classes, so everyone could use the Cloak. However, Seven Fields didn't really do anything in the battle against the Vampire Knight. How could he shamelessly ask for it? So he directly renounced it. As for Sleeping Moon, after becoming fodder, he let the three experts attack the BOSS with ease, so his impact in the battle wasn't small. However, this contribution was quite shameful to be considered as one, so he also renounced it.

Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist was long-ranged, so that 2% Lifesteal for Melee Attacks was completely wasted on her, so she also renounced it.

In the end, only Ye Xiu and Tang Rou remained. How could Ye Xiu care about these low-level equipment? He also renounced it. Up until finally, Tang Rou was extremely puzzled: "Why did everyone renounce it?"

"I'm long-ranged!" Su Mucheng was the most justified.

"Cough cough……" Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon didn't utter a word. If no one wanted it, it wasn't as if they weren't going to roll for it.

"You use it!" Ye Xiu said.

"Can't you guys all use it too?" Although Tang Rou was a noob, she knew that physical classes needed strength, while magic classes needed intelligence. How could she not have understood this sort of basic knowledge by now? This Cloak could clearly be used by everyone, but they all renounced it. The strong-headed Tang Rou didn't want to take it so conveniently.

"Roll for it!" Tang Rou said.

"Okay, okay. Roll, roll. Everyone come and roll. Whoever rolls for it gets it." It was just a small matter. Ye Xiu didn't want to get caught up with it.

Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon still wanted to decline, but Ye Xiu's hands were quicker. They had previously renounced it, so they no longer had the button for rolling. As a result, they had to give the command for rolling in the chat box. In the end, Ye Xiu rolled a beautiful 100 and completely decimated his opponents.

"Oh……."

"Then it's yours." Tang Rou had also renounced it before, so the Cloak was just lying on the ground.

Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon's cheeks streamed with tears. They had wanted to decline it. And if the everyone insisted, then they would reluctantly roll for it! But he deserved to be called brother expert! Everything he did was extraordinary. He never gave others a chance……

"Then it's mine." Ye Xiu said this and had Lord Grim pick up the Cloak. Although it was a low-leveled equipment, even if he didn't care, it's not like he wouldn't turn his back on it. After picking it up, he put it on at once. This Vampire's clothing and the Cloak were pretty much the same. From the back, Lord Grim looked exactly the same as the Vampire Knight.

Ye Xiu opened his character profile and casually looked at his model. He didn't care too much. In so many years, what dress up hadn't he been in?

"Continue, continue." Ye Xiu yelled. The party continued forward. Because of the hidden BOSS, setting a record this run had already become like floating clouds. Everyone had run this dungeon before, so no one was a stranger to it. They casually rolled through it.

Without resting, they continued on for their second run. This time, no hidden BOSS appeared, so everyone immediately moved forward with a record-setting mindset. Ye Xiu instructed them, seeking after zero mistakes and good coordination. However, Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon's skill and equipment were all a degree lower. There were always times when the situation was beyond their ability. The current record was set with great effort by Level 27s. Breaking it meant that they couldn't afford to be sloppy.

In the two following runs, Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon each nervously made their own large and small mistakes. In the end, the difference between their time and the record was only off by a hair. This was too much of a hit to them. The two all knew that if they had made a fewer mistakes, then they would have broken the record long ago.

"Sigh…… brother expert. It seems like us two aren't good enough. Do you want to switch players to set it?" Seven Fields said in embarrassment. Boneyard could be run four times everyday. Right now, the five players could still run it one more time.

On the side, Sleeping Moon was unwilling to accept it. But no choice, it was a fact that he and Seven Fields weren't able to keep up. But if the party lowered their tempo to let them relax a bit, then they wouldn't be able to set a new record.

"Switch players? Weren't you the one that wanted to set a record?" Ye Xiu asked Seven Fields.

Seven Field's cheeks streamed with tears. Only then did he recall, in the beginning, when he asked whether or not they could set a new record. In the end, he was the one who gave up and made himself look like he had no resolve. Even Sleeping Moon chose the opportunity to look down on him: "Yeah, Seven Fields, you really have no future."

"F*ck!" Seven Fields cursed, "We'll definitely have it this time."

The two players summoned up their spirits and entered the dungeon their final run. Focused and concentrating with all of their might, adding on to their previous experiences, their performance was finally smooth the entire way through. The two were extremely happy with themselves. In the blink of an eye, they reached the final BOSS. Here, the two player's tasks were easy. It was the part where making mistakes was harder than not making mistakes. Finally, the BOSS fell and a system announcement popped up: Congratulations to players: Lord Grim, Seven Fields, Sleeping Moon, Soft Mist, Cleansing Mist, for breaking the Boneyard clear record, time: 23:54:71.

This record wasn't much better than the previous Tyrannical Ambition's record. But in the eyes of the two carried Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon. Being able to improve the record by a minute was already extremely good for their current party setup. Currently, in the competition between the big guilds, they were only improving the records by a few seconds.

Breaking the Boneyard record wasn't anything rare, but having Lord Grim's famous name appear was a completely different matter. The first reactions of each of the big guild's leaders was: which guild invited him to set a new record? Blue Brook Guild's Blue River and Tyrannical Ambition's Cold Night even directly asked him.

And in the end, Ye Xiu gave them the reply: I was just leveling and casually dungeoning.

The two guild leader's cheeks streamed with tears! This casual dungeoning had broken their records. If this wasn't him showing his strength, then what was it?

Outside of this, there was still Liu Hao. His Hateful Sword never went offline. What was he doing? He was in the Arena playing with Steamed Bun Invasion.

Liu Hao had wanted to whisper to him with Hateful Sword, but knowing that Steamed Bun was playing in the Arena again, he was suddenly hit with a bright idea. He ran to the Arena and fought with Steamed Bun Invasion. He wasn't able to get anything out of directly contacting Ye Qiu, so wouldn't it be better to begin with the players close to him? Liu Hao felt that this wasn't a bad idea.

Fighting with Steamed Bun Invasion was quite exhausting for Liu Hao. He had to hide his strength! But he also couldn't hide too much. As a result, he had to make every battle extremely close. Steamed Bun Invasion wasn't weak either. The battle wasn't easy to control, so it was very demanding for Liu Hao. While carefully fighting, he also had to use every possible means to get information out of Steamed Bun Invasion.

If Steamed Bun Invasion knew anything, it wasn't as if he wouldn't say it. The problem was that he himself didn't know anything. He wasn't even familiar with the game Glory itself, so his descriptions of his dungeoning weren't clear. He couldn't even name what skills the other players used. And in the end, he began describing how great his own strength was.

Liu Hao was trying hard to decipher the information that was coming out from the noob's mouth. After quite a long time, he was still unable to understand anything. Suddenly, a system announcement popped up and that extremely sensitive name caught his eye.

How???

Liu Hao was astonished. Could it be that this Steamed Bun Invasion wasn't a member of Ye Qiu's main force? Why wasn't he called over to set this record? Liu Hao went to look for Steamed Bun Invasion to play. A part of this reason: to get familiar with Steamed Bun Invasion and take the opportunity to become a member of the main force.

"This…… Why didn't God call you over to set a record?" Liu hao asked Steamed Bun Invasion.

"Remember this well. In the Arena, if you want to obtain victory, the the first thing you have to do is concentrate. You. You're not focused enough." Steamed Bun Invasion lectured.

"F*CK!!!" Liu Hao turned furious. Who does this guy think he is! How dare he lecture ME!

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That was the last straw for Liu Hao. This time, he didn't hold back and flattened Steamed Bun Invasion back into dough.

"You fought really well." Steamed Bun Invasion said, "It looks like what I said aroused your spirit. Okay, then I won't say anything more."

"I'm out!" Liu Hao directly let Hateful Sword leave the Arena. If he continued playing, then he felt that he'd smash his newly replaced keyboard into pieces again.

"God, you set another record! Congratulations." Liu Hao sent Lord Grim his felicitations.

"I was just casually dungeoning." Ye Xiu''s reply was the same as his reply to the guild leaders.

"To be able to break a record while casually dungeoning, that's too amazing." Liu Hao falsely flattered, while his mouth was actually cursing non-stop.

"It was just a fluke. It took a few times before we set it." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh, then do you have a space now?" Liu Hao asked.

"So sorry……." Ye Xiu said.

"Then I'll be going off first." Liu Hao grinded his teeth and left.

"See you later."

For Ye Xiu and the others, after breaking the record, there was a 100% chance of receiving a Purple equipment as a reward. In the end, they were rewarded with a Level 25 Leather Armor. Of the five players, only Soft Mist's Battle Mage was proficient with Leather Armor. Seven Fields, Sleeping Moon, and Cleansing Mist naturally chose to renounce it. Lord Grim's unspecialized character class wasn't proficient in anything, but after expressing that the Leather Armor's defense was beneath him, this Leather Armor was given to Soft Mist to wear.

With regards to armor, it was quite miserable for unspecialized characters. They weren't proficient in any, so they didn't get any additional effects.

After splitting the equipment, the five players went to run Frost Forest for experience. On the way there, a message popped up in the world channel claiming that Full Moon Guild was responsible for Boneyard's record.

"Full Moon Guild? That sounds a little familiar!" Ye Xiu mumbled to the five players.

"Never heard of them." Su Mucheng said.

"I don't understand." Tang Rou said.

"Our guild……" Seven Field's and Sleeping Moon's faces were burning hot and were promptly roared at in their guild channel. The guild members hadn't given them any prior warning. After seeing their two names in the record-setting party, they inexplicably tried to get publicity. Full Moon Guild was just a normal guild. They weren't like Blue Brook Guild and the others with a Club behind them. Their strength was far off from the big guilds' strength by a large margin. To rely on their own strength to set a record was something that they had never even thought of.

"Woah, in any case, it's your two names up there. All this yelling is just a joke to you two." Full Moon Guild's players all smiled mischievously at the two of them.

"Exactly, exactly. Speaking of this, it seems like you guys are close to Lord Grim? When are you going to let him help our guild set a record? Let us be in the spotlight too." Everyone in the guild channel was jeering.

Jealousy! This was plain jealousy! Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon angrily thought. These guys saw that they had mixed in with brother expert quite a few times and appeared on TV. They had appeared on so many leaderboards and now that they had mingled onto one again, their jealousy exploded out, so they deliberately mocked them. This sort of behavior was quite petty. The two didn't know how to explain it to brother expert. The guild wouldn't listen to anything they said. These guys were still incessantly typing in the world channel that the record was set by them.

Ye Xiu also quickly received messages secretly from the guild leaders. Full Moon Guild was so insignificant that Blue River and Cold Night had never even heard of them. They just asked what the situation was.

Ye Xiu was helpless. He could only say it was just friends joking around.

The two guild leaders heaved a sigh of relief. Because the subject happened to be on this, Cold Night took advantage to conveniently ask Ye Xiu whether he would be hired by two guilds simultaneously and then break his own record.

"That isn't good!" Ye Xiu replied, "For the records I set, I can't guarantee that others won't be able to beat it. But I definitely won't break my own again."

"Then this current record doesn't count, right?" Cold Night said.

"Of course this doesn't count……." Ye Xiu replied.

"How much better can the record be?" Cold Night asked.

"This…… With a better party setup, three minutes!" Ye Xiu said.

Three minutes! Cold Night sucked in a cold breath. If the current record was improved by three minutes, then it would break the fastest record in all ten servers. This was clearly another height that normal players had no way of reaching. If it was this type of achievement, then as no one invited similar-level experts to substitute in, then it was practically unbeatable!

"Then, what if we waited until you were Level 27?" Cold Night asked.

"The difference between setting it at Level 27 and Level 25 isn't actually too big. Of course, there is still a small difference. I should be able to set it within the 20 minute mark!" Ye Xiu replied.

"Oh, then currently, how many guilds are you in contact with?" Cold Night asked a relatively sensitive subject.

"Not many……." Ye Xiu looked at his chat box. Besides Cold Night, there was only Blue Brook Guild's Blue River. The other big guilds hadn't contacted him, which was clearly because the current competition for the records was both chaotic and high-end. Each of the big guilds were all already in a wait-and-see state.

This type of situation wasn't one that Ye Xiu wanted to see. He clearly knew where the problem was: he had lost control over the fastest record.

In the competition for Frost Forest's record, from a short-term perspective, he took control two times, one after another. But the final record still fell into Excellent Dynasty's hands. On the surface, Ye Xiu looked as if he was indifferent. But in his heart, he clearly understood what a heavy blow this was to him.

It was all because of the existence of this that all of those guilds sunk into a wait-and-see state. Because of this, Lord Grim was no longer a guarantee for the fastest dungeon record. Even if his record was far higher than the normal record, there were outside players that could still break his record in the tenth server. If the situation stayed the same, then obviously no one would look for him to break the record.

Currently, Blue Brook Guild and Tyrannical Ambition's players still looked for him all because these two guilds had cooperated with him before and had personally seen his skill. This was why they still held confidence in him. But Ye Xiu was afraid that Frost Forest's record had already sown a seed of doubt into these two's hearts. The following competition for Boneyard became another test for him. If this time, he broke the record, but was still unable to hold the spot for fastest record. Then even though he could still obtain the rewards, in the next dungeon, he was afraid that even these two guilds wouldn't look for him.

If he could improve the Frost Forest's record again, then it would be a powerful counter attack. However, the current record made Ye Xiu feel a bit helpless. Just like what he once said, this was only a low-leveled dungeon. No matter if it was him or Liu Hao's party, their skill was way above the dungeon. Thus, against this dungeon, tactics, skill and so on couldn't make too much of a difference. As a result, once Liu Hao went all out, the record set by his more optimal party made Ye Xiu feel somewhat helpless.

Moreover, he didn't have too many players he could choose from to create the most optimal party. On the other hand, Excellent Dynasty could provide the necessary accounts for the required party set-up. As a pro-player, besides their most proficient class, they also had some understanding of all the other classes. If they switched classes, even if they couldn't display the greatest strength, it was still a low-leveled dungeon and nothing more. Pro-players simply didn't need their complete strength…..

Ye Xiu was thinking while running the Frost Forest dungeon with the other four players. In the process, he was not only fighting monsters, but he was also carefully observing the dungeon. He wanted to see if there was any sort of way to break through the record. In the end, after clearing the dungeon four times, he hadn't come up with anything. After finishing the dungeon runs, Su Mucheng was the first to log-out. Tang Rou and the others were prepared to continue power leveling. Ye Xiu didn't follow them and logged out of the game.

"Why'd you stop playing?" Tang Rou got up and moved around. She went for a walk and went to greet Ye Xiu.

"Oh. I'm going to do some research for the next dungeon." Ye Xiu said.

"The next dungeon?"

"Boneyard!" Ye Xiu was currently gathering a large amount of information.

"What about Frost Forest?" Tang Rou cared quite a bit about the fact that their Frost Forest record had been broken.

"That…… unless we had better equipment, it'll be very hard to break it." Ye Xiu said. Just before, when he ran the four dungeons, he was completely stumped. However, Ye Xiu still had some hope for Boneyard.

Tang Rou was silent. Although she wasn't willing to accept it, she knew that she didn't really have the right to speak. Her ability to judge was still far off from Ye Xiu's by a large margin.

"What's wrong with fighting Boneyard in the same way we do now?" Tang Rou tried hard to learn.

"There isn't a problem……. However, our goal is to set a record that no one else will be able to break!" Ye Xiu said.

"Yeah, yeah! That's good!" Tang Rou liked this type of goal.

Tang Rou went back to continue playing, while Ye Xiu continued to look for info.

"There's got to be a newer strategy……." Ye Xiu looked at the info and felt his heart shake. He hadn't discovered anything surprising from all the info. Rather, he discovered that all of the info was quite old-fashioned. Clearly, this was because this was a low-leveled dungeon. As a result, besides the players who researched it in the beginning stages of the game, all of the later players followed the guides that were previously written. There would occasionally be a few changes in the particulars, but the general strategy never changed. After all, for this type of low-end dungeon, in the stage of the game where players would flash by it, there simply wasn't much value in conducting further research.

Looking at the info, checking the data, racking his brains, and recalling these past few days of running the dungeon, a new strategy gradually formed in Ye Xiu's mind.

"Good, tomorrow we'll try it." Ye Xiu straightened out his line of thinking again. He even wrote down a few of the important points and then nodded his head. Soon after, he logged into the game. Tang Rou immediately sent a message: "How is it?"

"I've got a general idea. We'll try it tomorrow."

"Okay."

The two players each minded their own business and leveled, without a word the whole night.

In Club Excellent Era, the next day, Liu Hao got a call from Chen Yehui early in the morning.

"Liu, Ye Qiu set the record for Boneyard." Chen Yehui said.

"I know. I was there yesterday night!" Liu Hao replied.

"Oh……. I had something to do last night, so I wasn't there. I just found out. But it looks like the record this time isn't anything amazing." Chen Yehui said.

"Yeah, he definitely wasn't using everything he had, so there's no need to come out yet." Liu Hao said.

"RIght, I have info from Tyrannical Ambition and Blue Brook Guild. Ye Qiu received pay from them when he helped them set a record.

"Received pay? Ha ha ha, so he was originally selling himself! God Ye must be hard pressed for money. How much money for one dungeon? Perhaps I'll buy him to do our labor!" Liu Hao was extremely happy.

"Oh, he's not taking money. He wanted several specific uncommon material." Chen Yehui said.

"He wants uncommon material!!" Liu Hao suddenly thought of something.

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Uncommon materials, self-made equipment!!

Liu Hao quickly thought of these two things and then immediately understood Ye Xiu's purpose. He suddenly laughed wildly: "HA HA HA HA HA, so this is his plan."

On the other line, Chen Yehui almost threw out his phone in surprise. After steadying himself, he carefully asked: "What do you mean?"

"Hmm, it's too bad. He's already been completely seen through by me. With his current state, how does he plan on fighting me? Is he going to start over and try again? Dream on!!" Liu Hao was already talking to himself. Chen Yehui heard this while saying helplessly: "Liu, if there's nothing else to attend to, then I'm going to hang up!"

"Okay, go back and prepare accounts to use for Boneyard. I need a Spellblade, Sharpshooter, Striker, Blade Master, and a Witch." Liu Hao ordered.

"Okay." Chen Yehui replied. Hearing these five classes, he was secretly startled. For the previous record, Liu Hao had only picked three classes. This time, he had picked five classes. Could it be that he was going to bring out five pro-players to set the record for Boneyard? What exactly has he discovered? He was actually starting to put even more energy on this dungeon.

In Happy Internet Cafe, Ye Xiu and Tang Rou continued to level and weren't doing anything out of the ordinary. Chen Guo had already become numb to it. That morning, after waking up, Ye Xiu unexpectedly went over to look for her.

"Boss, lend me your account for me to play with!" Ye Xiu had come over to borrow her account card.

"What are you planning on doing?" Chen Guo asked.

"Clearing a low-leveled dungeon." Ye Xiu said.

"Clearing a low-leveled dungeon?" Chen Guo stared blankly. She handed over her Chasing Haze while following along to see what he was planning on doing.

Chasing Haze was an account that had already entered the Heavenly Domain. But that didn't mean she couldn't leave the Heavenly Domain. After Ye Xiu had Chasing Haze leave the Heavenly Domain, he immediately rushed over to the low-leveled dungeon Boneyard.

The Boneyard in the old server naturally wasn't as lively as the tenth server's Boneyard, but there were still a few players there. Seeing a Level 70 character appear, players immediately filled the screen with messages of "Sister, please carry me." Quite a few parties had already sent out party invites. This was the benefit of playing in an old server! When comparing leveling speed, leveling in the old server was absolutely faster than leveling in the new server. Even if you didn't know any friends, there were quite a few high-leveled accounts that specially came to sell their services to carry low-leveled accounts.

Ye Xiu obviously ignored these players. He immediately had Chasing Haze enter the dungeon. A Level 70 account wouldn't have any problems clearing this low-leveled dungeon, not to mention that Ye Xiu was the one controlling it. But after entering the dungeon, Ye Xiu wasn't in a hurry to fight. He had Chasing Haze run this way and that until eventually, a mob of monsters followed behind her butt. It looked as if he were flirting with these monsters.

"What are you doing?" Chen Guo didn't understand.

"Oh, I'm just looking at this dungeon. My account doesn't have any entries left." Ye Xiu explained, while playing. Chasing Haze unleashed a few skills and the mob of monsters were wiped clean. Following after, Ye Xiu fished out a notebook from his pocket.

Chen Guo was familiar with this notebook. If you took a left turn after leaving the Internet Cafe, there was a shop that sold these for 3 RMB each. Once the notebook was flipped open, Chen Guo looked at it and saw that there were already a few notes messily written in the first few pages. On them, there were even a few indistinguishable things drawn on. Ye Xiu flipped to the last page and then immediately began scribbling.

"You're taking notes?" Chen Guo felt refreshed.

"I'm researching it in preparation for setting a new dungeon record." Ye Xiu said.

Chen Guo stared blankly and didn't know what to say. Ye Xiu's concentration and seriousness made her feel moved. She also liked Glory. She was also a considerably loyal fan. But for Ye Xiu, she could tell that he had a completely different attitude towards the game. She was playing the game, but for Ye Xiu, Chen Guo suddenly felt that the word "playing" couldn't be used to describe him.

Chen Guo couldn't help but think of nine years ago when she took the Internet Cafe under her care. She was completely surrounded by gazes that doubted her, though it was true that she knew nothing. From that day onwards, she soaked in the Internet Cafe and little by little paid attention to her customer's needs. She continuously improved the Internet Cafe's environment and tried out all sorts of methods to draw in more customers. Every night, she calculated that day's customer flow and looked for patterns.

The her at that time was similar to the current Ye Xiu: concentrated, serious, and spared no efforts. It was extremely exhausting, but when she saw how her Internet Cafe was doing better and better every day, she felt that much more satisfied. The current Internet Cafe had a steady customer flow and the income that came in far exceeded the income at that time. But how long had it been since she had felt that sort of satisfaction?

Chen Guo was somewhat envious of Ye Xiu. But besides envy, there was also some sympathy. To put so much effort into the game, yet to be kicked out of the pro-scene, how sad! Chen Guo suddenly felt her heart ache. She couldn't help but think of the recently retired Ye Qiu. At the time of his retirement, the person suffering the most had to be the person himself, no? It truly was a cruel word.

The pen tip scribbled across the notebook. Ye Xiu didn't notice the change in Chen Guo behind him. Chen Guo didn't disturb him any further and silently walked away in grief.

Ye Xiu continued to use Chasing Haze to explore Boneyard. A high-leveled account brought along with it a lot of conveniences that low-leveled accounts didn't have. The notes written on the notebook increased more and more. Unwittingly, the run had been completed. Ye Xiu didn't stop. He had Chasing Haze enter the dungeon again. Except this time, he spent more time playing and less time taking notes.

After three runs, Chasing Haze's entries had all been used up. Ye Xiu harvested quite a bit from this. He logged out of the game in satisfaction and returned the account card to Chen Guo.

"How was it?" Chen Guo asked.

"Pretty good." Ye Xiu smiled.

"Okay, you can do it!" Chen Guo said.

"What?" Ye Xiu didn't hear her clearly.

"You can do it." Chen Guo repeated.

"I didn't hear wrong did I?" Ye Xiu widened his eyes. He had put so much effort in the low-leveled dungeon. Wasn't she supposed to look down on him? She was cheering him on right now. Moreover, her tone seemed a little…….gentle? Thinking of this word, Ye Xiu couldn't help but shiver. This word seemed a little wrong to describe Chen Guo.

"Get lost, go to sleep!!" Chen Guo was furious. This guy truly didn't know good from bad.

Ye Xiu immediately relaxed. This was the Chen Guo he was used to. He wasn't talking to the wrong person.

Nothing exciting happened during the day. At night, when Chen Guo was getting ready to go to bed, Ye Xiu and Tang Rou turned on their computers in glowing spirits and began their day.

In game, after Ye Xiu went online, he whispered to Steamed Bun Invasion and told him to come to dungeon with him at midnight. In the end, Steamed Bun Invasion recommended him that Hateful Sword. He said that after fighting him in the Arena for the past two days, that Hateful Sword's skill improved by a lot.

"Really? Then when the time comes, bring him with you." Ye Xiu laughed and then ignored the rest of Steamed Bun Invasion's boasting. In any case, besides the four main players in their party, there was still an empty position. It didn't matter who came.

"Okay, come along with us tonight to dungeon." Steamed Bun Invasion told Hateful Sword, who was in the Arena with him.

"Really? That's great." Liu Hao really was happy. Except even though he was happy on the outside, he was dark on the inside.

"Let me tell you this. When you meet God, you have to be polite. If he can instruct you on anything, it'll be the gift of a lifetime!" Steamed Bun Invasion said heartfeltly.

F*ck his instructions!! Liu Hao cursed inwardly. Fortunately, after being with Steamed Bun Invasion for two days, his tolerance towards the noob's babbling nonsense had clearly improved. In the end, he still embodied his pro-level inner qualities and adaptability. Although he was furiously cursing in his heart, he was smiling on the outside: "Of course."

At midnight 0 o'clock, the party gathered. Steamed Bun Invasion and Hateful Sword arrived from the Arena at the same time. Ye Xiu and Tang Rou were already together and they casually greeted him. Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist was the last to arrive and also greeted the newcomer.

"Is she Su Mucheng?" Liu Hao guessed. She had only said a short greeting, so he wasn't able to tell.

However, but whether or not she was Su Mucheng wasn't Liu Hao's main focus. He stayed low and cautious and followed the party into the dungeon.

"This time, we're going to be practicing the strategy for setting Boneyard's record. It's currently still in the testing stage, so there might be a few overlooked places. Everyone, be careful." Ye Xiu said after entering the dungeon.

"Did you hear what he was saying? I'm talking to you!" Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"Who?" Liu Hao answered. They were all characters in the game, so there wasn't any contact between them. There was no way to tell who Steamed Bun Invasion was talking to. Noobs were noobs.

"You! Besides you, we've all been teammates before." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

Liu Hao slapped himself. He only had himself to blame! Why'd he have to be partners with this rotten Steamed Bun!

"Huh? What was that sound? I thought I heard a "slap" sound. Did you hear that?" Steamed Bun Invasion yelled.

Liu Hao started sweating. He really couldn't be careless! They had even heard that.

"I heard it. Let's begin." Ye Xiu didn't use any skill to change topics. Steamed Bun Invasion didn't move or speak. No one knew whether or not this guy was trying to listen for a second "slap".

"The most important point in setting the Boneyard record is your pathing. By using good pathing, you use the most ideal movements to alarm the least amount of monsters underneath the ground. Our strategy will be using this line of thinking. Everyone pay attention. Do your best to make sure that you don't make a single wrong step. Hateful Sword….. come back first." Ye Xiu said.

"Ah?" Liu Hao stared blankly.

"What ah! We just started and you've already began randomly running around. We won't be bringing you!!" Steamed Bun Invasion solemnly criticized Hateful Sword.

"What's wrong?" Liu Hao still didn't understand.

"It looks like you know the strategy?" Ye Xiu said. If they weren't rushing for the record, there was no need to save time. If they had more monsters to fight, then there would even be a bit more experience for them. That's why Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion had no clue on the strategy for record-setting.

"I know it…… In the beginning, I thought that there wasn't much to pay attention to?" Liu Hao said.

"Ha ha, we're going to be using a new strategy." Ye Xiu said.

"Did you not hear it? New strategy. It's not that outdated strategy you know of." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"New strategy?" Liu Hao was in a daze.

"Right, everyone pay attention to how I move. I'll talk while I move." Ye Xiu said. He had already let his Lord Grim rush forward. In the blink of an eye, the earth that met his body opened up and four undead monsters began climbing up.

"What's different about this strategy?" Liu Hao was at a loss. The four monsters in the beginning couldn't be avoided, which was why they would swarm around them and kill them off. Right now, what was so special about Lord Grim's pathing? Didn't it also alarm four monsters?

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An All-New Strategy

After the four monsters rushed out, they immediately headed towards Lord Grim. In the next second, the four monster grouped together.

To be more accurate, they weren't together. But they were all heading towards the same target and just happened to meet up at the same place.

Although Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion had skill, they were still beginners in terms of knowledge and experience and were completely indifferent to the current situation. However, Su Mucheng and Liu Hao quickly saw through it.

This was gathering the monsters in one move. Just by relying on his pathing, he was able to perfectly gather up the monsters in one move.

This gathering calculated for the monsters' positions, the monsters' movement speed, pursuit path as well as how they chose to change directions. Afterwards, by controlling the character's movements and pathing, in the blink of an eye, the monsters would move into the necessary position.

This was a strategy that needed them to pay extreme attention to the details!

However, although this method of gathering monsters was beautiful and flawless, killing off these four monsters in this way wouldn't improve the time by much, right? If everyone just swarmed them and forcefully attacked the four monsters separately, they could also instantly gather the monsters and they might even be a bit faster.

Su Mucheng and Liu Hao both had the same doubts in their heart.

Lord Grim, however, had already started moving.

Shadow Clone Technique!

Lord Grim's fake body was left in his original position while his real body had already instantly flashed over to the other side. However, the monsters were still headed towards his original position. Players could rely on experience to determine the real body in Shadow Clone Technique, but monsters couldn't. This skill had a 100% chance to trick monsters. The four monsters continued to charge towards the fake body.

Falling Flower Palm!

The real Lord Grim immediately unleashed a blast. The four monsters smashed into each other and flew out. One of them wasn't hit strong enough. It looked as if it were about to fall, when Lord Grim stabbed out with his lance and the monster flew high up into sky. A Dragon Tooth thrust forth and this monster flew forward farther than rest.

The four monsters were hit onto a stone wall. Dungeons! Most of them had a closed off space, whether it be a mountain, a forest, a precipice, or a wall. There was always some sort of barrier that led players towards a certain direction. They couldn't let you just casually go around the monsters.

The four monsters smashed into the wall. Lord Grim's quickly rushed up. Steamed Bun Invasion roared and was about to go up too to battle when Ye Xiu yelled: "Watch first."

Steamed Bun Invasion immediately halted. He spun around in his original position and said to Hateful Sword: "Don't move! Watch carefully."

Liu Hao had already learned well. He definitely wouldn't reply back to Steamed Bun Invasion.

Lord Grim rushed up. One player versus four monsters, which were easily suppressed. Originally, there was a small, narrow crack in the stone wall. Lord Grim's previous Falling Flower had blown a monster into it and his following Dragon Tooth knocked another one into it. After rushing up and using two or three moves, the monsters were stuffed into the crack. Although it was a 1v4, it was more like a 1v1.

"This…… it could be considered a pretty good method for clearing the dungeon. But for setting a record, how will this save time?" Liu Hao was puzzled, extremely puzzled. But he didn't say anything and only silently watched.

One of the monsters fell. The second one stepped out of the crack. In a short moment, it was killed and then also fell. The third monster stepped out, was killed, and then fell. And then afterwards……. afterwards there was no more!

Besides Ye Xiu, the other four players all looked at their screen with wide eyes. They had all seen in awe that the fourth monster, a zombie, was stuck in the stone wall. Although it bore its fangs and brandished its claws, no matter how it struggled, it couldn't get out.

What was jamming it were the broken bones of the previous three skeletons. After the skeletons in the Boneyard were killed, they would immediately turn into a pile of bones and merge with the ground into a solid chunk like a scar. At this moment, the three skeletons were killed by Lord Grim on the same spot in the stone crack. The three piles of bones built on each other and the pile couldn't be considered very tall. However, the clumsy zombie couldn't get out no matter how hard it tried. It could only spin around in circles.

D*mn! So it could be done like this!!! Liu Hao was dumbstruck. Like this, when they pulled four monsters, they could kill one less, which would definitely save a lot of time.

However, to do this, he would have to do a lot more movements. Although he would save time from killing one monster less, would that time be wasted on those extra movements? Liu Hao was currently pondering over this issue, when he heard Ye Xiu say: "It'll be done like this. However, as a record-setting party, we have to coordinate together and use the shortest amount of time to complete these moves. I've roughly calculated it. If the coordination is smooth, then we'll be faster than normal parties by at least 10 seconds."

10 seconds. This didn't seem very amazing. But throughout the dungeon, if there were six of these ten seconds, then there would be a 1 minute advantage.

1 minute. If another party didn't know of such a method, then it'd be extremely difficult for them to make up for it in other areas. Besides better equipment to increase their damage, there was no other method.

A chill arose in Liu Hao's heart. He believed that situations similar to this definitely wouldn't arise just this one time in the beginning.

Just as expected, whether it be similar or different situations, there were always a few excess movements that utilized the dungeon details. And in the end, they all went around monsters that couldn't be avoided with the original methods.

With the original methods, if there were no mistakes, then a party could avoid fighting a total of 12 monsters.

With the new method, if there were no mistakes, then a party could avoid fighting a total of 21 monsters.

Using the previously calculated 10 seconds for each monster, then the new method had an advantage of a minute and a half.

Liu Hao was both astonished and extremely pleased. Although it was true that the new method was superior, he had already seen it all. For a pro-player like him, he didn't need to learn all of the details perfectly. He just needed to understand the general line of thinking and then rely on his skill level to work it out. But right now, he didn't even need to spend the effort doing that. This was because after their first run, the following three runs were for practicing their coordination. And Liu Hao was one of the five……

'Soft Mist, you execute this Falling Flower. Go here, good……"

"Steamed Bun, your pathing. Use Brick to hit that one."

"Anti-Tank Missile!!"

"Use Gore Cross and then Colliding Stab."

"Hateful Sword's skill isn't bad!" Ye Xiu praised the new player quite a few times.

"How could that be. God, when the time comes for you to set a record, bring me along!!" Liu Hao actively requested it.

"Oh? Are you in a guild?" Ye Xiu asked.

"No."

"When the time comes, you're going to need to temporarily join a guild. Is that okay?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Oh, so you're doing work for a guild? How much money can you make?" Liu Hao's seemingly normal question actually held sinister intents. He knew what Ye Xiu's demands to the guilds were, but right now, he was bringing a party. After receiving the rewards, would he split them with the party? If he was splitting them, then upgrading his Silver weapon would be even more difficult. If he wasn't splitting them, then Liu Hao would bring up this issue among them at once.

Ye Xiu hadn't yet replied, when Steamed Bun Invasion said in extreme disdain: "Money? What money? That's for going up on TV. It's for glory. Hateful Sword, you really have no future! I look down on you as a representative of Aquarius!"

"Ah……" Liu Hao's tone was somewhat terrified. In his heart, he was cursing: Steamed Bun, you dumb*ss. Don't you know that you're doing free labor? No wonder he brought along such an idiot!!!

And the other two players didn't react in the slightest. Liu Hao couldn't count on Cleansing Mist. It was 80% likely that this player was Su Mucheng. She breathed the same air as Ye Qiu. How could a little bit of money cause a fight. But what about this other girl? Why didn't she have any reaction, who was she?

That girl hadn't yet reacted when Liu Hao heard Ye Xiu say: "Oh, there are rewards. All of these are a few uncommon materials, but they're all things I need. What would you like?"

"I don't need anything….. I was just asking." Liu Hao said. Of course he didn't want anything. He only wanted to ask this question and use unfair distribution as a way to cause strife among the party. But now that he looked at it, it seemed he had failed. There was no point talking about the player that was likely Su Mucheng. It looked like the other girl didn't get the signal at all. And as for Steamed Bun, that f*cker was an idiot. However, even if he was an idiot, if he really wanted to sow seeds of doubt into that guy, then it wouldn't be too hard.

"The materials I ask for are all things I urgently need. As for the items dropped in the dungeon, those are given to everyone else to split. I don't need those. That shouldn't be too big of a problem, right?" Ye Xiu said.

Liu Hao recalled. In the previous two runs, it seemed like Lord Grim really didn't take anything, whether it be Green equipment dropped from monsters or Blue equipment dropped from BOSSes, he directly renounced those. If he really did it like this every time they ran a dungeon, then there truly wasn't anything to complain about.

"Oh oh. It's nothing. I was just curious, so I just randomly asked that's all." Liu Hao hurriedly said, "I can join a guild or whatever. Why don't you bring me along? I also want to go up on TV."

"Okay, I'll tell the guild when the time comes…… All in all, we're helping them set the dungeon record, so if no one from their guild comes along, then it won't look very good for them. Let's see what they say! If they don't care, then I'll bring you along." Ye Xiu said.

"Okay, thank you, thank you." Liu Hao said. Following the party, he could completely grasp their final strategy for setting the record. Moreover, as a member of their party, he could make a few mistakes to waste time without exposing himself. Right now, he was already hiding his true strength. As a result, he could act like he had difficulty doing a few actions in a few places as if he wasn't skilled enough. And when it was time for him to truly set the record, he could completely go all out. Like this, using the same method, he would be able to set a better record.

Even if he wasn't able to become a member when the time came, he felt that he could still suppress this party by a chunk relying on his pro-level coordination and skill.

Liu Hao was already extremely clear on these few player's strength. Ye Qiu's Lord Grim naturally didn't need to be talked about. That Cleansing Mist's performance wasn't particularly noteworthy. However, as a teammate, Liu Hao saw through a few of her habits, especially her tacit understanding with Lord Grim. Although he couldn't directly confirm it, Liu Hao was already certain that this player was Su Mucheng.

As for the other two, with Liu Hao's skill, he could completely tell that these two were new players. He didn't know how their mechanical skill was so remarkable, but these types of players still couldn't be compared with pro-players.

Gazing at Lord Grim on his screen, Liu Hao seemed to have trouble doing a few actions while wearing an extremely pleased smile on his face.

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Chapter 117: Specially Substituting In

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"It looks like you're afraid of me!" Liu Hao said gleefully and constantly thought this in his heart.

He was already clear what Ye Xiu's plans were. Getting hired, setting records, being rewarded with uncommon materials, upgrading his Silver weapon, the steps were just that simple. But if he wanted to continue doing it like this, then he had to take the highest record for each dungeon. Ye Xiu understood this point, Liu Hao as well.

For Frost Forest's dungeon record, Liu Hao had specially come out because he knew Lord Grim was Ye Qiu, so he wanted to step down on him. But now that he understood how important this record was. He would spare no efforts and planned on gathering five pro-players to set the Boneyard record.

As for Ye Xiu, he had thought hard with all his might in order to come up a new strategy for this record. This was clearly because he knew that his opponent was Liu Hao, whose strength was powerful. If he contested with the usual strategy, then he would certainly lose just like how he did in Frost Forest.

"I've said so long ago. Your era is over. It's my era now!" Liu Hao continued to dungeon with everyone else, but was already no longer as attentive as before. After all, the class combination he was planning on using was completely different from this party, so there was no way he could completely copy the strategy word-for-word. He already knew what he needed to know. What he needed now was to practice it. Fortunately, his party members were all pro-players. With their pro-level inner qualities, getting to this level of coordination definitely wouldn't be as difficult to do as Ye Qiu's inferior party.

"Tsk tsk tsk, how pitiful!" In game, Ye Xiu constantly reminded Tang Rou, Steamed Bun Invasion, and Hateful Sword to pay attention to this and that. Hearing all this, Liu Hao was extremely satisfied. Before, it wasn't as if he had never been instructed like this. However, this was his first time feeling happy about it. Thinking of this, Liu Hao's hand slipped and he made another pathing mistake. Just as expected, Ye Xiu immediately instructed anxiously: "Hateful Sword, move back two steps. You went too far."

"Okay!" Liu Hao answered. In his heart, he was secretly laughing as he moved back two steps. He had the impulse to make a movement that would destroy the entire strategy, but in order to stay in the group for the long-term, he tried hard to endure. As long as he maintained Steamed Bun's level of playing, he would be fine.

These four runs were finally completed. Because the new strategy had too many details, to players lacking experience and knowledge like Tang Rou and Steamed Bun, it could only be learned by learning it mechanically, making it seem extremely difficult. Liu Hao had grasped it long ago. But in order to keep up the act, after running the dungeon four times, he also said with lament: "So difficult!"

"That's why you have to try harder. Got it?" In the end, he was once again lectured by Steamed Bun Invasion.

"We'll practice again tomorrow!" Ye Xiu sighed. He wasn't very satisfied with today. As expected, complicated strategies completely exposed the weaknesses of Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion, these types of new players.

"Are we going to go to Frost Forest?" Liu Hao asked. He was incomparably happy right now.

"Not right now!" Ye Xiu said.

"Okay, then I'll be going off now. See you tomorrow!" Liu Hao said goodbye to everyone and then went offline. He swiped his account card and ran to Boneyard. Taking advantage of the fact that the strategy was still fresh in his mind, he went in to review it. Based on their class combination, he also did his own homework.

"It's a little troublesome, right?" In Happy Internet Cafe, carrying her tea cup, Tang Rou went to the reception desk to look for Ye Xiu.

"Yeah……." Ye Xiu admitted.

"Practice for a few more days?" Tang Rou asked.

"If time drags on for too long, then the record won't be worth anything anymore." Ye Xiu said helplessly.

"Is there any other way to practice?" Tang Rou was more eager to face difficulties than anyone else. Having a limit of four runs every day didn't make her feel good.

"There is!!" This question reminded Ye Xiu of something and he immediately thought of a place.

"Steamed Bun, Steamed Bun." Ye Xiu called in the game.

"Here!" Steamed Bun Invasion replied.

"Come here. We're going to keep practicing." Ye Xiu said.

"I don't have any entries left!"

"We're going to practice somewhere else." Ye Xiu said.

"Where?"

"Skeleton Graveyard." Ye Xiu said.

Skeleton Graveyard, a beginner village dungeon, was obviously different than Boneyard. However, there were definitely a few similarities between them. More importantly, there was no entry limit, so they could practice however many times they wanted to.

"Buy a random low-leveled weapon in beginner village. We're going to practice slowly." Ye Xiu sent Steamed Bun Invasion a message while saying it to Tang Rou.

"Cleansing Mist and Hateful Sword aren't on anymore!" After meeting up with everyone, Tang Rou noted.

"It doesn't matter. We'll practice first." Ye Xiu led the two into the dungeon. He himself obviously didn't have any problems using the strategy. The most important part was getting the other player's coordination up to par. Right now, Tang Rou, Steamed Bun Invasion, and Hateful Sword made too many mistakes. Although they weren't fatal, they were definitely enough to stop them from setting a record.

Skeleton Graveyard's and Boneyard's terrain were different, but the monster models and spawn points were very similar. In Skeleton Graveyard, the monsters were randomly distributed, so occasionally, they would be distributed similarly to their arrangement in Boneyard. Plus, with Ye Xiu's ability to control monsters, it really made the scenario extremely similar.

The three spent the night soaking in Skeleton Graveyard. It didn't need to be said that Tang Rou silently and stubbornly worked hard. Steamed Bun Invasion, on the other hand, talked a lot. He would talk for awhile and then another while. His mouth just kept on moving like a train. However, he also worked hard and practiced with the other two. This was all because of love. An idiot's deep love for the game.

They had to practice, but their levels couldn't fall too far behind. After a few days, Lord Grim was the first to reach Level 27. He didn't know how often this Blue River checked his level. But less than a minute after he hit Level 27, Blue River sent a message: "Boneyard, Boneyard. I'm not too late, right???"

"No……." Ye XIu said.

"Oh, what do you want this time?" Blue River asked. This was a question that he was quite concerned about.

"Vampiric Lightsaber." Ye Xiu said.

"What a coincidence!" Blue River's cheeks streamed with tears.

"Hm?"

"I'm using a Vampiric Lightsaber right now." Blue River cried.

"Aren't you almost Level 30?" Ye Xiu said.

"It's an Orange weapon, brother. There's no need to switch weapons at Level 30." Blue River said.

"It doesn't matter if it's Orange, it's still a low-leveled weapon. It's just like floating clouds." Ye Xiu comforted.

"What else do you need?" Blue River was aware that his demands couldn't be as simple as just a single Vampiric Lightsaber.

"Eight Bone Spines!" Ye Xiu said. This was an uncommon material from Boneyard's hidden BOSS Rotten Skeleton Sheep.

"Okay….. but no more!" Blue River replied.

"Okay. But setting the record for Boneyard is going to be a bit difficult. This time, I want to directly bring a party of five members. We'll then play for your guild, after joining it. Is that okay?" Ye Xiu said.

"This….. that won't look too good for us, no?" Blue River hesitated.

"The fight for dungeon records is very intense right now!" I have to do everything I can." Ye Xiu said.

"Okay then……" After thinking for a bit, Blue River agreed.

"We'll start tomorrow!"

"Okay."

Their conversation had already ended, when Cold Night sent his message: "Boneyard!!!"

"Blue Brook Guild……." Ye Xiu's message was very simple.

"F*ck! When did you get to Level 27?" Cold Night asked.

"Five minutes ago!" Ye Xiu said.

"Sigh, sigh, sigh. Then I pray for your success." Cold Night showed his grace.

"Brother……." Blue River sent another message at this time.

"What?" Ye Xiu replied.

"Are you planning on doing things like this, substituting in and setting records, for the long-term?" Blue River asked.

"That's what I'm planning on doing for now……" Ye Xiu said.

"Then if it's like this, if you keep on pulling along your party, then I'm afraid you won't be able to continue doing this for more than a few times, no?" Blue River said.

Ye Xiu sighed. How could he not know what Blue River was talking about? Although he could join a guild and then hang the guild's name up on the record, if he kept on bringing along a fixed party with the same set of players, then if it was today Tyrannical Ambition and tomorrow Blue Brook Guild, everyone would see eventually see through it. Although the dungeon record was technically the guild's, everyone would know what their party was doing: it meant that this record was bought with money. For guilds, records were supposed to be a way to advertise themselves and represent a guild's strength. However, in this way, that would no longer hold any meaning.

In the beginning, Ye Xiu hadn't thought of pulling along a set party. He had originally wanted to rely on his own strength and mix in with others to set a record, similar to how he had cooperated with Blue River and his guild members the first time. He had led them through One Wave Rush, which was already more than enough to surpass normal players. Their identity was relatively forgettable, so when he left the party in the end, it wasn't too noticeable. However, because Liu Hao came out and substituted in for Excellent Dynasty, a pro-level record was set. As a result, Ye Xiu had no choice but to pull along a somewhat elite party to resolve the situation.

In fact, actual substitution should have been like how Liu Hao was doing it. He would use the other side's provided account, which wouldn't expose his identity. Ye Xiu directly using Lord Grim and making a reputation for himself already couldn't be considered as substitution.

"Let's discuss this later!" There was nothing he could do right now. " "Brother, why not just join our guild for the long term? We'll reward you according to your needs. How about specially substituting in for our guild?" Blue River said his true intentions.

"Sell out!" Ye Xiu laughed.

"You wouldn't lose out in any way, no? If you're not happy, you can just leave. We won't stop you." Blue River said.

"This…. Let me think about it!" Ye Xiu said.

"Okay, let's talk about this after you've finished setting a record for Boneyard." Blue River said.

Ye Xiu laughed. As expected, Boneyard really was a test for him. Blue River also needed to see whether his record would be beaten by someone else.

The next day. Everyone depended on the next day. Ye Xiu silently thought. He rushed over to Boneyard and did a final practice for the final day.

They had already successfully worn in, so they emphasized the details today. They couldn't have any mistakes. They couldn't be careless when they went for the record-setting run. Between Level 27 and 28, Even though they could keep practicing for a few more days if they only went to Boneyard, then they might find it difficult to concentrate when carrying this casual, stress-free attitude into the record-setting run. In this area, what they all needed was Tang Rou's spirit! If they were going to do it, then they had to do it until they were the best.

At midnight the next day, the five players gathered together in front of Boneyard. Ye Xiu once again stressed this sort of spirit. Afterwards, he ran to the side and prayed silently to himself. He prayed that no customer would come to him with a problem while he was dungeoning.

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Chapter 118: Mid-Air Coordination

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Start!

Lord Grim led the way forward. He was the main force for pulling monsters. At the start, the four monsters were pulled in the same way. Except this time, once Lord Grim alarmed the four monsters, Soft Mist immediately went up. She quickly rushed towards the position Ye Xiu indicated for her to go to. A Falling Flower Palm into a knock-up into a Dragon Tooth and the four monsters flew backwards all together.

Lord Grim used a Shadow Clone Technique. This time, he didn't head towards Soft Mist's position. Instead, he directly flashed over to where the four monsters flew to. Cleansing Mist, Steamed Bun Invasion, and Hateful Sword had already rushed towards that direction when Lord Grim was pulling the monsters. They swiftly hit the monsters into the stone crack. The zombie was in the very back and the three skeletons were in the front. Sword, lance, cannon, brick, all wildly greeted them.

In a short moment, the first monster at the head was killed and the second skeleton went up. When killing the first skeleton, all of their AoE skills were sent out. So when the second skeleton came out, its life wasn't full. After a few rounds of attacks, it also fell. The third skeleton went up and came out even weaker than the second. In just one round of the five players' combined attacks, the skeleton was blasted into a pile of shattered bones.

The three piles of shattered bones piled on top of each other and the fourth zombie monster bore its teeth and brandished its claws, trying to tear them apart. But the five players had already ran off and vanished.

Ye Xiu's so-called new strategy built upon the basis of going around monsters by increasing the number of stuck monsters.

Under normal circumstances, the stuck monster were there in order to pursue dependability. But strategies that pursued safety couldn't be considered when pursuing efficiency. Ye Xiu's method of getting a monster stuck in Boneyard directly trapped it so that they wouldn't need to kill it. This naturally saved a lot of time.

But for a record-setting party, they couldn't slowly and unhurriedly keep trying to trap it. They had to use the shortest amount of time to trap it on their first try.

For the first wave of four monsters, Ye Xiu's Lord Grim could successfully trap one by himself. However, it would be far slower than the five of them coordinating together. In terms of damage output, they were even more incomparable.

Perfect and careful coordination, perhaps wasn't necessary for success, but it was necessary for efficiency.

However, there was one place where they needed coordination to succeed. This was also one of the difficult parts of the strategy. Over the course of the five player's practice, they had always made mistakes over the course of their practice. To this day, not a single perfect run had been achieved.

When Liu Hao compared the old and new strategy, he calculated that the new strategy would be able to avoid a total of 21 monsters, while the old strategy avoided only 12 monsters, a difference of 9 monsters.

However, the monsters weren't the only ones that could be avoided. In reality, with Ye Xiu's researched strategy, they could even avoid a BOSS.

The second BOSS, Zombie Bailey.

Zombie Bailey moved slowly, but had matchless strength. Players hit by it had an extremely high chance of being hit back and being infected by the Zombie Virus. Moreover, this Zombie Virus could be transmitted between players.

It sounded scary, but in reality, this BOSS wasn't difficult to beat. The infection speed of the Zombie Virus wasn't fast and it didn't do a lot of damage. If a party had a Cleric with decent equipment, as long as the party knew who had the Virus, the Cleric could stop the infection. For top-tier experts like Ye Xiu, who didn't need Clerics, they were confident that they wouldn't be hit by the slow-moving BOSS.

Although Zombie Bailey was easy to deal with, it had high health, so they would need a lot of time to beat it. For monsters like these, record-setting parties could only go all out in their damage output to save time. However, Ye Xiu had researched a method to directly trap Zombie Bailey.

But this method was extremely difficult. They had been stumped by it up until now. Although the party had been successful before, they had never succeeded on their first try.

However, if they succeeded. They'd be able to save a lot of time. Under normal circumstances, where the party would just go all out with their damage, it would take at least two minutes to kill it. But if they completed the method Ye Xiu had thought of on their first try, they wouldn't even need 20 seconds to kill it.

This exceedingly difficult method sounded very simple. It was to send Zombie Bailey into a crack in the wall not too far high up. Once it was trapped in the crack, it would no longer have any way of climbing out.

The hard part was actually doing it.

There was a quite a bit of distance between the ground and the crack in the stone wall. The strategy required all five players to chain knock-up skills and continuously lift Zombie Bailey into the air, until it was finally sent into it.

When they first tried to do it, the five players had knocked Zombie Bailey up into the air until it was dead, yet never succeeded once. This was all because the requirements for their coordination and hand speed was too high. Every time a player knocked it up, there was a very short interval to link the next player's skill. If anyone made even the slightest of errors, it would cause them to fail. Moreover, this all required on the individual to grasp the timing. By the time Ye Xiu reminded them, it was already too late.

Only by succeeding on the first try would they be able to set the fastest record.

However, no one had much confidence in doing this on the first try. But even if they succeeded on their second try or third try, they'd still be able to win a lot of time. It was an advantage that no normal party could surpass.

Liu Hao liked this. With his Hateful Sword here, there was no way he would let Ye Qiu's party succeed on their first try. In this party, anyone had the possibility of making a mistake. But switched with a party of pro-players, wanting to succeed in this difficult part wasn't a challenge at all.

Seeing that they were about to reach Zombie Bailey, Liu Hao secretly plotted.

"We're almost at Zombie Bailey! We can do it!" Ye Xiu said at this moment.

"We can do it!" Steamed Bun Invasion yelled.

"Let's try to succeed by the second try!" Ye XIu said.

"Succeed on the first try!" Tang Rou was even harsher.

Ye Xiu laughed bitterly. He hoped to succeed on the first try, but such a thing really was too difficult for them.

"Everyone focus!!" After clearing away all of the monsters in front of Zombie Bailey, Ye Xiu shouted out.

Everyone immediately went into their position.

Because Zombie Bailey moved slowly, it would take quite a bit of time for it to reach the stone wall, which was why it required the players to help push it faster.

"Begin!!" Ye Xiu's Lord Grim rushed up to pull it. He knocked it up and unleashed a Falling Flower Palm. Zombie Bailey went flying.

Soft Mist stabbed forward. Taking advantage of the flying Zombie Bailey, she used a Sky Strike and then another Falling Flower Palm.

Steamed Bun Invasion and Hateful Sword carried out their relay roles. From beginning to end, Zombie Bailey never fell and was sent over. This process was simple. No mistake had been made yet. The pitiful Zombie Bailey was only the second BOSS. It wasn't like Frost Forest's Frost Thain. It didn't have any method of getting out of chain knock-ups.

The final player to receive it was Su Mucheng. She kicked Zombie Bailey up and fired consecutively with a machine gun, the skill BBQ. Zombie Bailey tumbled in the air under fire.

If Delivery Gun could be used, then there would be a higher chance of succeeding on their first try. Unfortunately, after testing it multiple times with Chasing Haze, he found that there was no way of directly Delivering Zombie Bailey from the air into the crack due to the terrain. The firing angle wasn't enough.

Regretfully, they could only use this sort of five player chain knock-up method.

After BBQ finished, Zombie Bailey dropped from midair when Steamed Bun Invasion rushed forward and followed up with an Uppercut.

Zombie Bailey was once again hit, but Ye Xiu sighed in regret.

Failed... In the first move, Steamed Bun Invasion had already failed. Because the party had used trash equipment to practice this so many times, after Steamed Bun Invasion punched and then observed, he also went "Uh oh" and was aware of his failure.

"Don't stop, continue." Ye Xiu yelled.

If they couldn't succeed on the first try, then hopefully they'd succeed on the second try.

Hateful Sword moved up and used a Back Slash. The slashed Zombie Bailey smashed into the wall like a bullet and then rebounded.

Perfectly executed!

With Steamed Bun Invasion's mistake, Liu Hao didn't need to deliberately mess up. This was because he already knew that this already wasn't a perfect record.

Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist leaped up. She swung with her hand cannon, using the Launcher knock-up skill "Swing". Zombie Bailey was hit up a bit higher.

Tang Rou's Soft Mist had already rushed to her position. She leaped up into the air and then used a Sky Strike. Her lance tip hit Zombie Bailey right when it began to fall. This move didn't cause Zombie Bailey to continue rising, but made it stay at the same height.

Steamed Bun Invasion, who had just made the mistake, had already leaped high into the air. He followed up with a Hook. Zombie Bailey rose higher up again and reached a height where normal jumps could no longer reach.

A figure flashed above where Steamed Bun Invasion had jumped.

Lord Grim.

Leaping up, he stepped on the stone wall, turned around, and jumped again. This move allowed his character to leap up higher.

The previous four players hadn't made any mistakes. Success or failure now all depended on Ye Xiu.

Lord Grim's lance steadily stabbed out. After piercing Zombie Bailey, the lance flew in a circular arc and delivered Zombie Bailey into the crack in the stone wall.

"Success!!" Steamed Bun Invasion yelled.

"Continue! Don't be careless." Ye Xiu's voice was still calm. After landing onto the ground, the party continued onto the remaining of the dungeon.

At this moment, Liu Hao suddenly felt a bit regretful.

Even though this level wasn't perfect, it wasn't far from it. The only time lost was from Steamed Bun Invasion's single mistake. How long was that? Three seconds? Four seconds?

But could his party succeed on the first try? Previously, Liu Hao had never doubted it, after all, they were all genuine pro-players. But after finding out that the gap was only by three or four seconds, he suddenly felt a little worried.

"No! How could the distance from perfection only be three or four seconds? In the entire dungeon, I've always been holding back my strength. If I went all-out, then I'd definitely be able to steal back 15 seconds. Adding on to my more perfect and coordinated pro-team, we should at least be able to beat the time by 30 seconds. Oh, I forgot, we even have Orange weapons!! This time, our party has two players with Orange weapons... the damage output is definitely greater than Lord Grim's party, who only has a Silver weapon." Liu Hao carefully calculated. After determining his party's overall advantage, he finally relaxed and gave up on intentionally making a mistake in this run.

Boneyard's final BOSS finally fell. The last of the dungeon could be considered perfectly done. The system announcement also came out: Congratulations to Blue Brook Guild's players: Lord Grim, Cleansing Mist, Steamed Bun Invasion, Soft Mist, Hateful Sword for breaking the Boneyard clear record, time: 17:22:17.

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Chapter 119 – I Forgot

The world was at a loss. Each of the big guilds were shocked.

17:22:17. All of the Glory veterans began murmuring about this record. If they hadn't gone mad yet, they were close.

It was another fastest record in all ten servers. After the tenth server opened, these towering records that stood tall for many years became like crumpled paper. Fortunately, the new server had a lot of new players, so they didn't understand. If this was in an old server, then the players would certainly begin discussing which God had descended down into the mortal plane. But even if it was the tenth server, sooner or later, there would be controversy too. Right now, because the server had just opened, the other servers' players didn't pay much attention to the circumstances in the tenth server. Even more so, this was still just a low-leveled dungeon, so the amount of attention onto it was even more limited.

But the content of the controversy wasn't wrong. This really was a which God had descended down into the mortal plane issue.

"Amazing, too amazing!! I don't think anyone can beat this record." Blue River sent a message at the first open moment.

"Ha ha, that might not be true." Ye Xiu replied.

"F*ck, if someone can break this record, then I'll eat my keyboard." Blue River said.

"You're too confident." Ye Xiu said.

"It's not like we don't understand. This record is too amazing. How did you do it? Did you record it?" Blue River asked.

"I didn't." Ye Xiu said.

"Tsk tsk, amazing, too amazing." Blue River could only praise him. In reality, he didn't care how he had set it. As long as he had the record, he was fine. It was just Boneyard, even Blue River wouldn't put so much effort into researching it.

"Don't leave the guild yet! Please consider our proposal yesterday." Blue River hurriedly sent a message. Before, Lord Grim would promptly leave the guild after setting the record. He left so fast that he didn't have time to say anything to him.

"Okay." Ye Xiu answered.

"Where are you? I need to give you the items." Blue River said.

After receiving his coordinates, Blue River rushed over. The Vampiric Lightsaber was originally in his hands, so he unequipped it. Along with the eight Bone Spines, the Lightsaber was sent to Lord Grim.

"Thanks for your trouble everyone." Blue River expressed his amiability to everyone.

"Are we still going to continue?" Tang Rou asked Ye Xiu. Because of Steamed Bun Invasion's mistake, the record was still a little off in Tang Rou's eyes, making her care very much.

"Let's level!" Ye Xiu said.

"The record still isn't at the limit!!" Tang Rou said.

"It's pretty much there." Ye Xiu rejected the notion.

Aside, Liu Hao snuck a laugh. This girl still wanted to hit the limit? With me here, give it a rest. The limit? You'll all see it soon.

Afterwards, they ran the dungeon another three times. Everyone played through it like they were leveling. They obviously didn't fight the second BOSS Zombie Bailey with that method. BOSSes were experience and equipment. How could a leveling party want to trap it and not kill it?

After running the dungeon three times, Hateful Sword took his leave first. Liu Hao had wanted to leave long ago. He didn't want to waste anymore time. He actually had quite a few times where he had the impulse to reveal his identity, but was always able to stop himself in the end. He even kept up his act and finished running the the dungeon three more times with everyone. Patiently enduring. Liu Hao always felt that he was patiently enduring.

After going offline, he immediately went to rest. Early the next morning, after finding the account cards that Chen Yehui had given him, he promptly gathered his troops.

Wang Ze and Fang Fengran were subs in the current roster and were very young; Zhang Jiaxing and Shen Jian were players in the current roster and were extremely close to Liu Hao. Liu Hao had called for the four of them awhile ago. Moreover, along with Ye Qiu's practice session in the past few days, he had also brought the four of them to do a few test runs. He felt that there weren't any big problems, so he felt very confident. In those runs, he hadn't used the account cards Chen Yehui had provided him until now because he was afraid that he would accidentally break the record in their practice runs.……

After all, they were all pro-players. Their comprehension ability was much greater than Tang Rou's and Steamed Bun Invasion's. After Liu Hao had explained it once, everyone already understood what they were supposed to do. They weren't like Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion, who needed Ye Xiu to constantly remind them. Breaking in naturally went by extremely quickly. Now that he had the suitable account cards, Liu Hao felt certain that they'd be able to set the record within four runs.

"We're setting the record now?" The four players had all come to the practice room and all knew why they were here.

"Yeah."

"We have a match tonight!" Shen Jian said.

"What match?" Liu Hao asked.

The four were greatly alarmed. Liu Hao, their vice-captain, had actually forgotten the day of their matches?

"We have a match versus Blue Rain tonight!" Shen Jian reminded him.

"Really?" Liu Hao looked at the calendar. Sure enough, the match was today. In these past few days, he had been extremely busy in the new server. So busy that he had even forgotten such an important event. Recently, he hadn't practiced as much either. After calculating it, he found that he had actually practiced with Steamed Bun Invasion in the Arena the longest.

F*ck! Thinking of that guy, Liu Hao felt a burst of sinister anger explode.

"Oh…… then let's wait until after the match to do it!" Liu Hao hesitated for a bit. It was still better to put the more important things first. It wasn't appropriate to spend time on the Boneyard record. Although Liu Hao was extremely confident, he also knew that taking down the current record wasn't going to be easy. High levels of concentration were a must.

"Okay, tonight then!" After they heard Liu Hao's decision, they let out a sigh of relief. Needless to say, Zhang Jiaxing and Shen Jian were going to be playing in the match today. As for Wang Ze and Fang Fengran, even though they probably weren't going to go on stage, it still wouldn't be good if they went to play the game on match day. If the Club knew of it, they would definitely punish them.

"What maps are we playing on tonight?" Just as they were about to leave, Liu Hao suddenly asked this question.

Zhang Jiaxing almost crashed to the floor. He hastily supported himself with a chair. The vice-captain didn't even know what maps they were going to be playing on. Just how distracted was he!

That night, Glory League's 21st Match began. The home Team Excellent Era faced against the visiting Team Blue Rain. As before, it became competition night in Happy Internet Cafe and business boomed.

Team Blue Rain couldn't be compared to 301. Blue Rain was currently in second place. Their spot in the playoffs didn't need to be worried about; they were one of the most popular contestants for the Champion title. Compared to the second to last place Excellent Era, the difference between them was simply like heaven and earth. Excellent Era had changed their rosters. And in their second match with a new roster, they would face against such a strong opponent. It would be a big challenge for them.

Chen Guo was once again sitting in her usual spot, while Ye Xiu was once again leaning on the door and smoking. And Tang Rou, who now took Glory seriously, specially ran over to watch the highest level of play in Glory, a pro match.

As before, the match was split into three parts: individual, group and team competition.

Excellent Era was the home team. Utilizing their advantage of knowing the maps, Excellent Era won two of the three individual matches. Happy Internet Cafe jumped about in joy.

Next up was the Group Arena. This time, unlike 301, Blue Rain wouldn't be so hesitant against Sun Xiang and One Autumn Leaf. Blue River's trump card was Huang Shaotian. He didn't lose to Sun Xiang in skill and was more experienced than Sun Xiang. In addition, his character Troubling Rain was on the same level as the Battle God One Autumn Leaf.

In the end, in this Group Arena, both teams put their trump cards in the third position as the anchor. Relying on their home team advantage, Excellent Era started off well and stayed ahead all the way until Blue Rain's Huang Shaotian came out. Then, the situation reversed. After slashing down two of Excellent Era's pro players, still with of his health, he met Sun Xiang's One Autumn Leaf head-on. In the end, he still obtained victory. In the Group Arena, Team Blue Rain won 2 points. Happy Internet Cafe fell into silence.

"In this Group Arena, both teams played well, but in the end, Huang Shaotian was still better and took advantage of every opening there was." In the broadcast, the host and the honored guest brilliantly commentated on the highlight reel in the Group Arena.

Finally, the team competition began. Excellent Era took the initiative and had a good opening. The situation looked good, and the spectators at the Internet Cafe jumped in joy.

"Uh oh, a mistake…… this is a very serious mistake!!" The host suddenly yelled.

"Yeah…… Liu Hao, his performance today has been very poor!" The honored guest said.

"He also lost in the first match of the individual competition." The host said.

"But this mistake shouldn't have happened. Liu Hao is completely out of it today." The honored guest shook his head.

"We haven't even finished talking about the first one and he makes yet another one……. that move……. ugh……." The host was clearly a little speechless. He couldn't find the right words to describe the situation.

"As a pro-player, that move was a little amateurish……." The honored guest politely criticized.

"The situation had been reversed……."

"How could Huang Shaotian let go of such a hole. Nice! Formless Phantom Sword, beautiful! The timing of Formless Phantom Sword was too good." The honored guest shouted.

"Sun Xiang's current momentum isn't bad. But he's still not as efficient and ruthless as Huang Shaotian!"

"However, we can still look forward to his growth."

"This competition……. how unfortunate for Excellent Era……."

"Yeah, from the looks of it, unless Blue Rain makes several major mistakes in a row like how Liu Hao did, I don't see a way." The honored guest said.

"Yeah……." The host once again had no words to say. Clearly, he wasn't convinced of such a possibility.

"Okay……. in the end, Blue Rain won." Finally, the host announced the victor.

"What a pity, what a pity…….." The honored guest sighed on behalf of Excellent Era.

Happy Internet Cafe was a sheet of silence. After a short moment, curses began to be thrown around. Right now, in the Happy Internet Cafe, Liu Hao was Glory's unrivalled number one. He got the "special treatment". Everyone, old and young, "paid their respects" to him. His huge mistakes caused them to lose the team competition, which was enough to make the overwhelming majority of his fans to lose all reason. Some even went outside to pick up bricks, ready to revolt against Club Excellent Era across street from them.

"F*ck that piece of sh*t!!" Even Chen Guo looked down on him. At this moment, no one respected Liu Hao. Even his most faithful fans couldn't justify him. His mistakes were just too ridiculous.

As before, Ye Xiu was still leaning on the door and puffing out clouds of smoke. Without a word, he watched as customers left in rage. Quite a few people really did run over to Club Excellent Era's door and protest.

Club Excellent Era.

After the competition ended, all of the pro-players silently sat in the resting room. No one said anything. Sun Xiang's face was ashen. After savagely glaring at Liu Hao, he slammed the door and left.

The other pro-players gazed at each other in speechless dismay. They stealthily examined Liu Hao's expression.

Liu Hao's face was deathly pale. He obviously knew how serious his mistakes were. He even knew why those extremely serious mistakes were made. In the past few days, he truly was too unfocused. He spent way too much time on that Level 20 Berserker and wasn't in the right mindset coming into the match. In the end, he had carried along a mindset of playing against Steamed Bun Invasion in the Arena as well as the Boneyard record coming into the match. How could he have done well?

"Liu, are we still setting the record for that whatever dungeon?" Shen Jian was also ready to leave. Only, he took the opportunity to quietly ask him when he passed by Liu Hao.

"Set!" Liu Hao's tone was fierce and determined. If he didn't set it now, then there was nowhere else for his pent-up anger to explode.

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Chapter 120: Who Taught You How to Play?

Translator:Nomyummi

Editor:GravityTales

The majority of Happy Internet Cafe's customers left. This match wasn't as good as the last's. Last time, even though they only obtained three points, the 1v3 in the Group Arena made everyone extremely excited and hopeful. But this time, everyone could only silently watch as their chances at victory were destroyed by mistakes that shouldn't have happened. The majority of the customers were no longer in the mood to play games and all left.

The Internet Cafe turned quieted down a lot. Chen Guo instructed the employees to clean up and was also gloomy. Tang Rou wasn't affected by the loss. She didn't care who won or lost. She only saw that Chen Guo wasn't happy, so she accompanied her. The two beauties whispered in each other's ears. Once the Internet Cafe was cleaned up, Chen Guo's mood turned better. After showing her concern for the two all-nighters, she went back to her room to sleep.

"When are we going to break another record?" Tang Rou asked Ye Xiu. To Tang Rou, setting these types of records made her extremely happy. She liked this type of challenge.

"Tonight!" Ye Xiu said.

"Tonight? What dungeon?" Tang Rou was puzzled.

"Boneyard!" Ye Xiu said.

"Boneyard, that dungeon…….. Didn't you say we were close enough?" Tang Rou didn't understand.

"Yesterday was close enough. But who knows about today?" Ye Xiu laughed.

At this moment, it was already 11 o'clock. After the other employees finished cleaning up, they all went back home. More than half of the customers, the ones who weren't going to stay up all-night, also left. In the Internet Cafe, besides the tapping of keyboards and clicking of mice, were the voices of players playing Glory. There were laughs and there were curses. Suddenly, someone yelled out in surprise: "D*mn, the dungeon record was broken again! Who the h*ll are playing in the tenth server!!!"

After hearing this, Tang Rou was stunned. She looked at Ye Xiu. This cry also alarmed quite a few players in the Internet Cafe. Several tenth server players began discussing it with their in-game friends or with other players in the Internet Cafe. Tang Rou around to investigate and then went back to report to Ye Xiu: "It's the Boneyard record. It's that Excellent Dynasty again."

"Oh? How much faster?"

"16:56:78." Tang Rou was quite sensitive towards records. After seeing it, she remembered it.

"Oh, not bad!" Ye Xiu said.

"What now?" Tang Rou asked.

"We're going to set it again tonight." Ye Xiu said.

"But, 20 seconds…… what are we going to do?" Tang Rou only knew that their record only had Steamed Bun Invasion's mistake. But even if that mistake wasn't there, the record would have only been faster by three or four seconds. Right now, the records was 20 seconds faster. Tang Rou didn't know where they could improve on.

"Don't worry about it!" Ye Xiu seemed as if he knew what to do.

Tang Rou was about to ask again when suddenly, a figure appeared outside the Internet Cafe. The figure's hands were in his or her pockets and the person wore a hoody. The figure looked as if he or she were scrunched up in a ball. The mysterious figure looked stealthily left and right towards the Internet Cafe and looked like one of those people who was about to commit a crime. Tang Rou immediately stopped herself from speaking, gesturing at Ye Xiu to look at the suspicious figure. In the end, when her gaze shifted over, that person saw her, turned around and then immediately ran off.

"Who was that?" Tang Rou was quite brave. She went out the door and looked. She saw the figure running in the distance still with his or her head facing towards her. When the figure saw Tang Rou rush out, the figure immediately turned around and ran off.

"Cough, what was that?" Ye Xiu asked.

"That guy was weird." Tang Rou said.

"Did the guy run?"

"Yeah."

"Then, let's just ignore him. You go log-in to the game and call for Steamed Bun."

"Okay." Tang Rou replied. She then went to her usual all-nighter spot.

Ye Xiu continued to keep watch at the reception desk. He didn't enter the game and appeared to be waiting for something. After quite a long while, that suspicious figure paced back and forth outside of the Internet Cafe entrance again until the figure saw Ye Xiu at the reception desk. After Ye Xiu nodded his head, the figure let out a sigh and then entered. The figure was still extremely alert and kept his or her head hidden deep in his or her coat. Stealthily looking around, the figure carefully walked towards the reception desk.

"Are you by yourself?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Do you think I'd pull along the entire team?" The person said.

"Sneaking around here and there, you look like a thief." Ye Xiu said.

"How can I not be careful. This is an Internet Cafe. It's so dangerous. I'm not like you. I have a lot of fans. I was almost recognized just now. Luckily, I ran away pretty quickly." The person said.

"Come on. That girl is from the Internet Cafe. She thought you were a thief. Even if you came here normally, she still wouldn't recognize you." Ye Xiu said.

"Really?" The person doubted him.

"Would you like me to call her over?"

"It's fine, it's fine! Lay low! Lay low!" The person said.

"Area A Number 1. There's no one in that area. You should go sit over there!" Ye Xiu said.

"And you?" The person asked.

"I have to keep watch here! I'm on the night shift!" Ye Xiu said.

"Why do you have to be so hard on yourself? It's not like your skill dropped after retiring, no? Oh and speaking of that, why'd you suddenly retire?" The asked.

"First help me set this record and then we'll chat." Ye Xiu said.

"F*ck, I get a couple hundred thousand for every match. And now I'm helping people set a record for Boneyard. Don't tell anyone! If you tell, I'll kill you." The person grumbled.

"Area A Number 1. It's over there." Ye Xiu gave him the directions.

"Can I have something to eat? I haven't eaten all night." The person said.

"Come, here's some Zha cai https/en./wiki/Zha_cai for you to eat!" Ye Xiu threw a bag of food at him.

"F*ck that!" The person refused to eat it.

"Ham sausage?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Forget about it." The picky-eater went off to Area A.

The smoking area was usually more lively late at night. The other non-smokers were mostly placed in Area C and Area A wasn't usually open late at night. The lights weren't even on there. After running over, this person discovered that it was so dark that he wasn't able to find the power button for the computer. Grumbling, he ran back to Ye Xiu to complain.

Ye Xiu took a flashlight and went over to look for his computer.

After the person sat down, the person looked around left and right. This area really was unoccupied. The person stretched. The person didn't need to be so careful and hidden. The computer turned on and the light shone off of the person's face. If any Glory fan saw the person's face, they would immediately recognize the person: Glory's top-tier Blade Master, Huang Shaotian.

Swiping his card, he immediately entered the tenth server. He was using a Level 27 account. After sending Lord Grim an invite, he began to complain again: "Helping you set a record, fine. But you didn't even have an account to give me. You even needed me to go find one myself."

"It should be easy for you to find an account." Ye Xiu replied.

"Level 27 Blade Master……. After using it, I won't be using it again. I can't leave any proof. It's shameful, too shameful." Huang Shaotian messaged.

"You first go play for a bit. We don't have any entries left here. I'll call you over at 12." Ye Xiu said.

"Play, what the f*ck is there to play here?" Huang Shaotian replied.

In the end, Ye Xiu didn't reply. Huang Shaotian took his Level 27 Blade Master and strolled around, not knowing what to do. He checked the new server's dungeon record and was startled. Frost Forest was already astonishing, but this Boneyard was too ridiculous! This record. He didn't even know if his Blue Rain's main team could set it.

He immediately sent a message to Lord Grim: "F*ck me, how did you set this record??? Why is it so high?"

"New strategy." Ye Xiu replied.

"New strategy? What new strategy?" Huang Shaotian asked.

"Boneyard's new strategy."

"There's a new strategy for this? Who'd be so bored to research a new strategy?"

"Ha ha ha ha, it wasn't you right?"

"You've fallen! You've completely fallen! You ran to the new server to do records and you even need to research new strategies? How bored are you!?"

"You really talk a lot."

"Ai ai ai, I am safe here right? Will there still be other customers coming here at night? Right now I'm afraid that someone's going to recognize me. If someone found out that I was setting a record for Boneyard, what would happen if that got out?" Huang Shaotian replied extremely quickly. Pro-player, his hand speed was even faster than his mouth. Using messages to chat was even faster than talking with his mouth.

In the end, Ye Xiu didn't reply once again. Ye Xiu was busy too! Right when he was online, Blue River sent a message expressing that his inability to understand how the new record was possible. He truly couldn't imagine that such an amazing record could be beaten by over 20 seconds.

"I'm going to set it back." Lord Grim replied, which made Blue River crumble even further. How, how could the record be even faster?

On the other side, Liu Hao, who had been impatiently waiting for Lord Grim to come online, once again put on an act with his Hateful Sword. He contained his happiness and sent a message to Lord Grim: "God, our record got broken, did you see it?"

"I saw it."

"Wasn't our record already really high? How could it be broken again!"

"You don't know?"

"I don't know!"

"Because you weren't going all out!"

Liu Hao stared blankly. In this moment, he felt as if a surge of electricity shocked him, from his toes to his head.

"I tried my hardest……" Liu Hao typed out this message with difficulty.

"Ha ha, using a Berserker. You think that you can hide from me by hiding your strength? Liu Hao, did you forget who taught you how to play?"

"F*CK!!!!!!"

Broken! The keyboard that he had just replaced had been broken again. It was once again smashed into a slope. At the same time, Liu Hao almost broke his teeth. He utterly couldn't believe that this was happening.

Spending so much effort, putting on an act, leveling his Level 24 account to Level 27, distracting him so much that he even forgot about the official match. He had originally been waiting for the day when he would reveal his identity. He was waiting to see Ye Qiu's shock and anger. He was waiting to see this guy stamped so hard under his foot that he would never be able to get back up.

But in the end…… he had already known about it? When did he find out? How did he know? Liu Hao really wanted to know. But he couldn't get the words out. Lord Grim's message rigidly stopped right there. There was nothing else after it.

But, even so, how was he going to improve the record? What other methods did he have to improve the time? Liu Hao felt that there wasn't any other method. He was also a pro-player. For this dungeon, he had also done quite a bit of the research himself, except he hadn't been able to come up with anything new. From his view, this new strategy was already the limit. He couldn't think of any other way to improve the strategy. In order to improve the record, besides skill, there was only equipment.

In the new server, equipment wasn't something that could be improved upon in one or two days. As for skill……. Liu Hao's team of pro-players was at the limit! They had even succeeded in trapping Zombie Bailey on the first try. Even if Ye Xiu could duplicate their performance, it would still be extremely close. Where did he have the confidence that he'd definitely beat his record?

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Chapter 121 – Godly Skill

The clock hit midnight. Liu Hao sat there like a log of wood in front of his computer. He didn't move. He didn't speak. Lord Grim's message hung there staring at him.

"How is he going to break my record?" This question kept playing over and over again in Liu Hao's head. He tossed and turned, but even so, he was still unable to come up with an answer.

Meanwhile, at Happy Internet Cafe, right when the clock hit midnight, Ye Xiu called Huang Shaotian over: "First come with me for a run. I'll show you how the strategy works."

"Hurrying." Huang Shaotian was extremely bored.

Outside of Boneyard were Lord Grim, Cleansing Mist, Soft Mist, Steamed Bun Invasion, and Huang Shaotian's Level 27 Blade Master: Flowing Tree.

"Use this sword for now." Ye Xiu traded with Flowing Tree and gave him the Vampiric Lightsaber that Blue River had given him yesterday.

"Trash." Huang Shaotian muttered as he received the Level 25 Orange equipment. In the eyes of a top-tier God in the pro-scene like him, Orange weapons were worthless, let alone a Level 25 one. Of course, it would be trash.

"Stop chattering so much. Hurry up and join the party." Ye Xiu sent over an invite.

Flowing Tree joined the party.

"Head out." Ye Xiu declared. Lord Grim entered the dungeon, while Flowing Tree followed behind. The other three stared blankly. They hadn't yet reacted to this Flowing Tree joining the party. They were still waiting for Hateful Sword to appear!

"We have a new player. This run is mostly to let this new player understood the strategy." After the five players entered together, Ye Xiu said.

"What about Hateful Sword?" Steamed Bun Invasion had the spirit of loyalty. He cared a lot about his good friend, who sent him quite a few Arena points, "I sent him a message, why didn't he reply?"

"He has something on his mind, so he can't come." Ye Xiu said.

"Really, he has no prospects for the future." Steamed Bun Invasion disdained.

"Let's start, let's start. Let me see your new strategy." Huang Shaotian said, making everyone who heard know that he was very familiar with Ye Xiu.

"Who is he?" Su Mucheng asked.

"Shaotian." Ye Xiu said.

"F*ck, don't reveal my identity!!" Huang Shaotian panicked.

"Who are you yelling at! Who recognizes you?" Ye Xiu only told Su Mucheng. He was sure that Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion didn't know who he was.

Sure enough, Tang Rou only dully said: "Oh? Your friend!"

"Yeah." Ye Xiu replied.

"Don't reveal my identity? I like secrets, are you a Scorpio?" Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"Pretty close." Ye Xiu said.

"Shameful! I'm a Leo." Huang Shaotian said.

Steamed Bun Invasion immediately singing: "If you're born at the end of July, you're a Leo; if you're born at the beginning of August, you're a Leo!"

"F*CK!" Huang Shaotian yelled.

Steamed Bun Invasion still continued: "When we met, if it was an accident; when you left, why couldn't I let ~~ it ~~ go!" In the end, he asked: "Right?"

"What's right?" Huang Shaotian was sucked in.

"Nice singing." Cleansing Mist applauded.

Steamed Bun Invasion was overjoyed: "I'll sing another two verses for everyone."

"Enough, Steamed Bun. I need to explain the dungeon. You can sing for us again later when there's time." Ye Xiu said.

"Okay." Steamed Bun Invasion could only agree with difficulty.

"Watch me!" Ye Xiu began controlling Lord Grim. He gave a demonstration just like how he did in the very beginning.

Huang Shaotian deserved to be called a famed blabbermouth in the pro-scene. Following along with Ye Xiu's playing, he began chattering: "Woah, nice pathing! Shadow Clone Technique? Falling Flower Palm? D*mn, what class are you? Unspecialized? What are you doing? Woah! How'd your weapon transform? It did transform right? Did it transform? Woah! Did you guys see that? His weapon transformed back."

"You're so noisy!!" Su Mucheng yelled.

Of course, Huang Shaotian had already guessed that this Cleansing Mist was Su Mucheng. He laughed out loud and then whispered to Cleansing Mist: "You played really well tonight. Even though you guys lost, it wasn't your fault. It was all on that idiot Liu Hao. Woah, there's a crack here?" Huang Shaotian said while watching Lord Grim send the four monsters into the crack in the stone wall. He immediately shifted his viewpoint and began commentating like a TV anchor.

"What are you trying to do here?" Huang Shaotian asked.

"The three skeletons layer on top of each other when they die, so the zombie won't be able to come out." Ye Xiu said.

"Really?" Huang Shaotian said. His Blade Master Flowing Tree rushed forward. While running, his sword flashed out and a Sword Draw accurately cut the outermost skeleton. Following this, he didn't use any skills, just normal attacks: stab, slash, scrape, chop, cut.

But these few normal attacks beautifully flowed together to create a melodic harmony. Even if Tang Rou didn't have insight into anything else, she still had some towards mechanical skill. After a short while, she discovered that this player's playing was quite smooth and skilled. Every attack was extremely quick and accurate like a precise machine.

"This player is amazing!" Tang Rou's Soft Mist walked over to Cleansing Mist.

"He is!" Su Mucheng said.

"I'm coming too!!" It looked like Steamed Bun Invasion couldn't see it. WIth a loud shout, he rushed up too to help. After a short moment, the first skeleton died. Ye Xiu said that the skeletons had to overlap and naturally, Huang Shaotian understood what to do. Coordinating together, they killed the second and third monsters. The three piles of skeleton bones piled on top of each other. Huang Shaotian looked at the zombie and sure enough, it was trapped inside blindly scratching: "Wow, it really isn't able to come out? You're really amazing, so there's such a method. Like this, we should be able to save around ten seconds!"

"Yup." Ye Xiu said.

"How many of these can be done in this dungeon?"

"Nine." Ye Xiu said.

"Nine, a minute and a half! That can't be right! Right now, the current record is much faster than just this. What else is there?" Huang Shaotian asked. This was a pro God's ability to judge. From the time, he could already determine that just relying on this wasn't enough to set such a record even by a pro-team.

"The second BOSS can be trapped too." Ye Xiu said.

"That can be trapped too? How do you do it? Hurry up, hurry up. Let me see." Huang Shaotian said, while letting his Flowing Tree rush forward. After running for a few steps, he stopped. He turned around on the spot for two full circles and then asked: "How do we do this part?"

"Watch me!" Ye Xiu didn't laugh at him. As a top-tier God, he could calculate the approximate clear time for Boneyard, but the details were a bit blurry. When Ye Xiu was playing in the beginner village dungeons, he was also going through them using guides.

After demonstrating the strategy along the way, they gradually reached the second BOSS. Tang Rou took note of the time. Even though they were teaching while clearing, their speed was still so quick. When the time came to officially set the record, chasing down those 20 seconds wasn't a problem at all! However, the second BOSS was still going to be very troublesome!

"So here, we'll be fighting like this……" Ye Xiu was at that stone wall explaining while moving and jumping around. Huang Shaotian's Flowing Tree looked around left and right and also tried jumping around. In the end, he replied: "You're right. It can only be done this way."

"Soft Mist, you pull." Ye Xiu instructed.

"I pull? If I pull, then I won't be able to rush back in time. I don't have Shadow Clone Technique!" Tang Rou said.

"You don't need to rush back. You just have to send the BOSS over, that's all. There's a different strategy this time." Ye Xiu laughed.

"What strategy?" Tang Rou asked.

"I'll record it and then show you when the time comes." Ye Xiu said. If Soft Mist pulled the monster, she wouldn't have enough time to rush back to her position, so she wouldn't be able to see the whole picture.

"Okay." Tang Rou replied and then didn't say anything further. She ran over to pull Zombie Bailey. She knocked it into the sky and then blasted it over. Steamed Bun Invasion was next up. He played quite well and gave the mid-air Zombie Bailey a Knee Attack in the back. Next was Su Mucheng. An Anti-Tank Missile helped push Zombie Bailey farther. This pitiful BOSS directly flew over. Huang Shaotian's Flowing Tree was already in place. Right when Zombie Bailey was about to land on the ground, a sword light flashed out. The angle and timing were absolutely perfect. The flying Zombie Bailey was slashed and then redirected. It suddenly stopped for a short time in midair. Flowing Tree had already stepped forward to meet it and used an Upward Slash to lift Zombie Bailey into the air.

Over there, Ye Xiu's Lord Grim had already jumped onto the stone wall and hit the midair Zombie Bailey in front of him. The Thousand Chance Umbrella swooshed out and a chain of bullets flew out. It was unexpectedly the Launcher skill BBQ in midair.

Lord Grim had already begun to fall, but under Ye Xiu's quick movements, the BBQ bullets all hit the necessary position. Zombie Bailey rolled about in the air until it finally rolled into the crack in the stone wall.

"Beautiful!!" Huang Shaotian yelled, "You deserve to be called the father of Delivery Gun! You're still the best with that skill. I don't even think Zhou Zekai could do that mid air Delivery Gun. That guy only knows how to be handsome. Who would actually let him shoot you to high heavens in actual combat?"

"Oh? It's not bad!" After Lord Grim landed, Ye Xiu looked up and confirmed that Zombie Bailey was stuck up there and unable to climb out. This set-up made sure that they would succeed on the first try.

If this was a normal Delivery Gun, there truly wasn't enough of an angle to complete it. However, when Lord Grim jumped up in this way, the character would reach a certain height, making enough room to use Delivery Gun. However, this angle could only be made with a very short hop. The timing had to be accurately grasped in order to deliver Zombie Bailey into the crack.

Su Mucheng wasn't quite skilled enough to do this. Only Ye Xiu could do it.

As for Huang Shaotian's Flowing Tree, his role was also extremely important. A normal upward cut had no way of lifting Zombie Bailey to Ye Xiu's desired position. That was why Sword Draw had to stop Zombie Bailey from flying and then use an Upward Slash to send Zombie Bailey up.

In order to send it into the desired position, Sword Draw's timing and the following uppercut had be executed accurately. Fortunately, such timing wasn't difficult for Huang Shaotian. The harder task was still on Ye Xiu's instant midair Delivery Gun, that was a true godly skill.

Seeing Lord Grim and Flowing Tree return, Tang Rou said in amazement: "Done?"

"Done." Ye Xiu said.

"How did you do it?"

"I'll show you later. Let's keep going for now." Ye Xiu said.

The following parts were normal. Who knew how many times faster Huang Shaotian picked things up than Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion. He only needed a few random instructions and then he would know what to do.

The only annoying part was that this guy really did talk too much. The teacher lectured, but the student talked even more than the teacher. Was such a situation normal?

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Chapter 122: Liu Hao the Helper

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After this run of Boneyard finished, Huang Shaotian took a look at Excellent Dynasty's record and then immediately said with certainty: "Yeah, we should be able to improve the record by around 30 seconds if we use this strategy."

"However, for their record, they had to have used this strategy to set it. Wasn't this an original strategy by you? How did they get it?" Huang Shaotian said.

Huang Shaotian really was a keen-witted guy. In the Glory pro-scene, he was famous for his astonishing decision-making and ability to take advantage of openings. He was amazing at Interrupts and a paragon opportunist. Taking the final opportunity was something he loved to do.

This was extremely obvious in the team competition. He might appear weak like he was invisible on the field or might make you feel like his condition was extremely bad. But once an opening appeared, he would immediately seize the opportunity to kill you. Cold-blooded and ruthless, characteristics of a true killer.

If you only looked at his style, you would think he was a cold and cruel character. But Huang Shaotian's acting was extremely poor. This was because he loved to talk. When he battled, it might seem like he wasn't there. However, his extremely quick hand speed and his love for the mic always made him shine like a star in the chat box.

Commentating on Huang Shaotian was always the most relaxing for the TV hosts. If they ran out of things to say, then they just had to read what was being typed in the chat box…… Who knew how many analysts and experts pointed out that if he could fix his habit of spending so much time and energy on typing, then he'd be even more terrifying. But this person would never change. Just for him, the Alliance created a special competition rule: in the team competition, dead players were prohibited from sending out messages.

Dead players could no longer play, so players like him could concentrate on typing out messages……. When rule came out to avoid that, the entire Alliance cheered.

At this moment, Huang Shaotian felt that Excellent Dynasty's record was extremely irregular. Players like Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion, who didn't have any perception, couldn't tell this. Even the pro-level Su Mucheng hadn't noticed it. Now that she heard Huang Shaotian bring it up, she also felt that something wasn't right: "You're right, how could that be?"

"That Hateful Sword is Liu Hao." Ye Xiu said.

"Ah?" Su Mucheng stared blankly.

"What's Hateful Sword?" Huang Shaotian asked.

"Who's Liu Hao?" Steamed Bun Invasion asked.

Soft Mist had hid to the side. She didn't come over to join in on the conversation. Tang Rou saw that Cleansing Mist and Ye Xiu weren't ordinary friends. And this newcomer Flowing Tree seemed to be the same. She didn't really understand the things they talked about. Tang Rou also didn't know whether it was convenient for her to listen, so she politely stepped out.

"Hateful Sword learned our strategy from here. Later, he went to help Excellent Dynasty set the record." Ye Xiu first explained it to Steamed Bun Invasion.

"Woah, he's really studious!" Steamed Bun Invasion gasped in praise. After three seconds, he put two and two together: "D*mn, that guy was a spy."

"……." Everyone was speechless.

"I'm going to scold him!!" Steamed Bun Invasion declared.

"Stay low, only private message him." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh……. okay!" Steamed Bun Invasion had wanted to type it out on the world channel. But hearing God's commands, he changed his plans and sent the online Hateful Sword a pile of messages. He used every type of hateful word he could think of.

Only then did Ye Xiu give Huang Shaotian an explanation: "Liu Hao opened up a low-level account. He's been following along with us these past few days."

"You figured it out a long time ago?" Su Mucheng asked.

"Yup!" Ye Xiu said.

"Then, why'd you keep bringing him?" Su Mucheng asked.

"Pro-level player! How could I reject such a player!" Ye Xiu said.

"How terrible!!" Huang Shaotian said, "You dragged him along to dungeon, so his condition would be all messed up. Did you see today's match? That guy looked like an idiot. It looked to me like he saw the team competition as Boneyard. Sister Su, did you guys hold a meeting to criticize him?"

"I didn't drag him. He was the one actively followed along. I just let him do what he wanted." Ye Xiu said.

"And then this punk deliberately held back when you guys were setting the record and then went all out with his team. You really do have a lot of confidence! How were you so confident that you'd be able to break their record?" Huang Shaotian said.

"We have you, no?"

"How did you know…….." Huang Shaotian stopped mid sentence.

"Ha ha, the Alliance had already set it up half a year ago. How could I not know you were coming here today?" Ye Xiu said.

"D*mn, you actually calculated that I'd come here so long ago!!" Huang Shaotian said.

"Actually, whether or not you came wasn't the important point. It's not like you can't play if you're not here!" Ye Xiu said.

'But……." Su Mucheng hesitated, "In this dungeon, Shaotian and Liu Hao are around the same. Even if you two can coordinate to use Delivery Gun to send Zombie Bailey over……. there's only so much time that can save!"

"It was originally around the same, but after Liu Hao helped us set the record, things changed." Ye Xiu said.

"What changed?"

"We have an extra Vampiric Lightsaber!" Ye Xiu said.

"F*ck, so this was why I was so important!" Huang Shaotian's cheeks streamed with tears. They had originally looked for him to fully use that Orange weapon's power. An Orange weapon meant that their damage output would increase. Adding that in over the course of the dungeon, the effects were obvious. Plus now that they could do a mid-air Delivery Gun for that Zombie Bailey part, they'd have to be cursed to not break the record.

"I pity Liu Hao. I don't want to help you anymore." Right when Huang Shaotian said this, he suddenly received a guild invite. Huang Shaotian saw that it was Blue Brook Guild and jumped in surprise. Of course he knew that this was the guild that their Club backed. How did he suddenly get a message from them? Was his identity exposed? But after looking at it, he saw that it was unexpectedly from Lord Grim.

"See, look. I'm actually helping you guys by setting the record. If I didn't look for you, who else would I look for?" Ye Xiu said.

"Is my identity exposed?"

"Of course not." Ye Xiu asked Blue River for the ability to temporarily invite members to the guild in preparation for pulling Huang Shaotian's Flowing Tree in.

"Okay, we're going to officially start now. Everyone concentrate." Ye Xiu announced.

"I thought I said I wasn't going to help you guys?" Huang Shaotian asked Su Mucheng.

"Really? I didn't hear it. You must have imagined it!" Su Mucheng said.

"F*ck, you two!" Huang Shaotian was helpless.

"We're officially starting. Let's try to get it on our first try." Ye Xiu gathered everyone and then entered the dungeon.

They officially started. Even though Huang Shaotian was constantly complaining, his performance was flawless. After they completed a third of the dungeon, Ye Xiu couldn't bear it any longer: "Steamed Bun, didn't you want to sing? Please sing!"

"Really? Okay then. Everyone, I'm going to be singing a song about astrological signs!!" Steamed Bun Invasion said and then immediately began singing.

All of a sudden, the dungeon was filled with sounds of chattering, singing, and the cries of undead monsters. It became much more lively than in the beginning.

"Does it have to be like this?" The two girls were almost unable to bear it any longer.

"If I'm dying, you're all coming with me." Ye Xiu dully said.

Extremely noisy, yet flawless play.

Huang Shaotian and Steamed Bun Invasion could be considered extraordinary in this area. As a result, they wholeheartedly played without being distracted. They were so good that when they got to Zombie Bailey, with one of them singing and one of them talking, they were able to successfully send Zombie Bailey up into the crack on their first try.

In the last third of the dungeon, the situation stayed the same. And when the final BOSS fell, the two girls immediately got up. One yelled "I'm going to get water", the other yelled "I'm going to use the restroom" and then disappeared in a flash. They were even faster than the system announcement.

System Announcement: Congratulations to Blue Brook Guild's players: Lord Grim, Cleansing Mist, Soft Mist, Steamed Bun Invasion, and Flowing Tree for breaking the Boneyard dungeon record, time: 16:24:67.

They beat the record by 32 seconds. Huang Shaotian's prediction was correct. Excellent Dynasty's record was already extremely close to the limit. To be able to beat it by 30 seconds wasn't easy.

"32 seconds…….. 32 seconds…….." Liu Hao hadn't moved a muscle since Lord Grim's message. He hadn't even seen the pile of messages Steamed Bun Invasion had sent him. He had been staring at the system announcements the entire time. He had kept on telling himself that there was no way his record could be beaten, yet he had still waited there staring.

It finally arrived. A 32 second improvement. Liu Hao had absolutely no idea how that was possible.

Flowing Tree? Who was this?

Hateful Sword was still in Blue Brook Guild. He immediately opened up the guild roster and then searched for Flowing Tree. Level 27, Blade Master.

To be able to beat his record, this player's skill couldn't be low. However, because this Boneyard was a completely new strategy, if it was someone like Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion, then they'd need a lot of practice. But this player had joined tonight and then immediately went to break the record. Was this someone Ye Qiu had prepared long ago? Or was it another pro-level player that could quickly grasp the strategy?

Looking at the time, this was their second run after 12 o'clock. With their 32 second improvement, even if they had made a few mistakes with Zombie Bailey, it was still enough to take down Excellent Dynasty's record. But they hadn't the first time, which meant the first run was very slow. It was a test run. It was for learning.

To be able to completely grasp the strategy in one run. This sort of quality meant he had to be a pro-player.

A pro-player…….. Blade Master……. Then thinking of tonight's match……. Huang Shaotian.

Liu Hao almost coughed up blood.

Who would believe him? That his Boneyard Dungeon had actually been set by Ye Qiu and Huang Shaotian. Could this still be called setting a f*cking record? They're holding an all-star event!!

However, even if he was Huang Shaotian, it still shouldn't be by 32 seconds right? Although he was an amazing top-tier player, it was only Boneyard. No matter how amazing, there was still a limit. Any pro-player could reach that limit. Could it be that there was some hidden strategy? There shouldn't be one! He didn't see anywhere that could be improved on!

Liu Hao's soul left his body. He could only feel anguish swamp his heart. He left the room and wanted to walk around, when he accidentally bumped into Su Mucheng.

"Hi!" Su Mucheng greeted Liu Hao. This was unprecedented. Su Mucheng never gave face to the people who had driven out Ye Qiu. She was never polite to them.

"Thanks for your help!" Su Mucheng smiled and then swiftly walked away.

Help…… what does that mean? What help! How did I help!! Liu Hao's face fell deathly pale. He clenched his fists so hard that his bones almost popped out.

"You……. halt." Liu Hao growled fiercely.

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Chapter 123: Talking to Himself

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"Oh, is there something you need?" Su Mucheng turned her head and smiled sweetly, the complete opposite of Liu Hao's cold and fierce expression.

The two looked at each other. Each with fire in their eyes.

Even though she was smiling, Su Mucheng's eyes displayed an even colder gaze than Liu Hao's.

In their eyes, Su Mucheng was always a warm girl and was very kind to everyone. However, she stayed around Ye Qiu's left and right most of the time as if she never had her own opinion. This sort of girl seemed very easy to bully.

Liu Hao fiendishly roared for Su Mucheng to halt. But now that they looked into each other's eyes, he was the one who felt unconfident.

"If you have nothing to say, then I'll be leaving first." Su Mucheng laughed, turned her body around, and left.

Liu Hao watched as Su Mucheng gradually walked farther and farther away. Gradually, he calmed down. After sucking in a deep breath, he returned back to his room.

Taking his cellphone, Liu Hao gave Excellent Dynasty's guild leader Chen Yehui a call.

"Hello, Liu……." The voice on the other side was a bit hesitant as if he didn't know what he should say.

"You deal with the dungeons yourself for now! It's a bit troublesome for me to come out right now." Liu Hao said.

"Oh……."

"The tenth server…… if no pro-player meddles with it, then the records will definitely be ruled by Ye Qiu. The standoff between the different guilds have already shifted to this. Right now, it's basically who can win over Ye Qiu's help." Liu Hao said.

"That's…… not convenient for us, no?" Chen Yehui said.

"You can try contact him and see what his attitude towards us is. If it's no good, then still pay attention to him. See if there are any openings. There is one important thing I need you to find out."

"What is it?"

"Ye Qiu's price. After each collaboration with a guild, tell me what rewards he gets! That's something I hope you find out for me."

"Do you want me to find players to oppose him? He's lacking manpower right now." Chen Yehui said.

"This……. you can try it, but don't send out players from our guild. Don't let other guilds find out. Right now, Lord Grim is a very important player to them. Who knows whether he'll join a big guild to protect himself." Liu Hao said.

"Okay, then I'll figure it out from here!" Chen Yehui expressed.

"Yeah, I'll come visit the tenth server when I have time. Let's keep in contact." Liu Hao said.

"Okay."

After hanging up the phone, Liu Hao sucked in a deep breath. He couldn't move on impulse again. These past few days, he'd been too excited, which was why he made so many mistakes. Destroying Ye Qiu's record was a failure and he had even been reversed duped by Ye Qiu. Even though it made him extremely angry, in the end, he was the only one to blame and was suffering because of it.

The one mistake he truly shouldn't have been made was in tonight's match, where he made several mistakes in a row that caused them to lose.

Even though they only won three points last match, Sun Xiang had at least done a 1v3, which gave fans hope.

This time, they were the home team against the visiting second place team Blue Rain. If they had won a few more points, then it would have a beautiful turn around for them. In the team competition, Excellent Era really did hold more of an advantage. However, their vice-captain's several amateurish mistakes cost them the competition.

Now, even though everyone was unhappy, they still temporarily regarded it as a mistake that he made because of his poor condition. But, if Excellent Era's record continued to stumble and never rise, then when reviewing the season, what could have originally been Excellent Era's comeback was completely ruined all because of Liu Hao's mistake. His mistakes wasn't a mere mistake, it was an extremely heavy mistake.

This mistake was enough to affect his future. Right now, if he didn't deal with the situation and still privately distracted himself by tangling with the retired Ye Qiu, then everything really would be over for him.

Ye Qiu…… I know you're still unwilling to give up. But things have only just started. Let's see just how capable you are. I'll be watching!

Liu Hao gnashed his teeth. He did one final snarl at the mirror and then fiercely rubbed his face. After putting down his hands, a harmless smile appeared on his face. It was as if he had performed some sort of magical shape-shifting spell.

Liu Hao pulled open the door and then walked out once again. His gaze shifted to his neighbor's room. A small glimmer of light shone through the crack between the door and the wall.

"Cough." Liu Hao coughed and then lightly knocked on the door: "Sun, did you rest?"

"The door's not locked."The reply from the person in the room was extremely cool, but his tone revealed that he clearly wasn't in a good mood.

Liu Hao adjusted his expression one final time and smiled: "Then I'm coming in!" He pushed open the door and entered.

In the Happy Internet Cafe, after they ran the dungeon twice, the record was broken; the two girls too. Tang Rou really did go to get some water. But carrying her teacup, she refused to leave from the reception desk and talked with Ye Xiu about this and that. All the way until Ye Xiu saw Cleansing Mist take the initiative to go offline and rest, before exclaiming: "No more dungeoning, right?"

Ye Xiu laughed bitterly in helplessness: "Up to you!"

"I remember there's a quest that I hadn't finished yet." Tang Rou mumbled to herself and then left. Ye Xiu was speechless. This girl usually hated to do quests, especially those delivery, mushroom gathering, turnip digging, search ones, etc etc. The difficulty for these were extremely low. They didn't have combat in them, so Tang Rou regarded them as a waste of time and hated them to the extreme. She had to grind her teeth while doing them because Ye Xiu had reminded her that they were must-do quests, which rewarded attributes or skill points.

To make Tang Rou prefer doing her most hated quests rather than such a fun activity like dungeoning, that made Ye Xiu gasp in admiration: Huang Shaotian deserved to be called the one who changed the Alliance's rules.

"What happened? What happened? Where'd everyone go? Why is no one responding."

Actually, Ye Xiu wasn't so tough either. He also took off his headphones and rested for a bit. Right when he put his headphones back on, those crying sounds immediately popped up again. Huang Shaotian was still scared of having his identity exposed. He nested in the darkness of Area A and lowered his voice when speaking, but even so, he still talked non-stop, his spirit excellent.

"Okay, we've set the record. We don't need to keep dungeoning." Ye Xiu said, while bracing himself.

"Did you hear what I was saying before?' Huang Shaotian clearly didn't know that Ye Xiu had taken off his headphones. People like him who loved to talk incidentally also carried a "talk to himself" attribute. Otherwise, there would often be times where there would be nothing to talk about. Talking to himself meant that he didn't need to hear other's replies, so he was never aware that other people weren't listening.

"Oh, it wasn't too clear, what did you say?" Ye XIu asked.

"What's with your weapon?"

"Self-made, Myriad Manifestation Umbrella." Ye Xiu said.

"You made it? When did you make it? How come I never heard about it?" Huang Shaotian asked.

"It was from a long time ago, when you were still stealing BOSSes back then." Ye Xiu said.

"D*MN D*MN D*MN!! Don't remind me of those terrible times!!" Huang Shaotian panicked. At that time, he was still just a normal player. But his ability to take advantage of openings had already been completed. He was an expert at stealing BOSSes. In the early days of Glory, the rules were very different than now.

"It was at that time that me and my friend made it together." Ye Xiu said.

"This weapon……. it looks like it's specially made for unspecialized characters?" Huang Shaotian said.

"Correct." Ye Xiu said.

"But when the third server opened, the level cap increased. Class Awakening Quests were introduced and unspecialized characters disappeared."

Ye Xiu didn't reply. He didn't need to reply because of Huang Shaotian's ability to "talk to himself."

"So your weapon lost its value until the fifth server opened and the Heavenly Domain was introduced. Unspecialized characters that couldn't awaken could gain experience and continue leveling in the Heavenly Domain, however at that time the level cap had increased to Level 60. Even though the Heavenly Domain Duel Challenge has no level limit, it had a Level 60 difficulty. And the series of quests had to be done individually, so no one could help you which was why the trend of unspecialized characters never resurrected. And at that time you were already using One Autumn Leaf in the pro-scene. The title Battle God had already been given to you, so you never turned back to it." Sure enough, Huang Shaotian voluntarily said a whole bunch of stuff.

"Yup!" Ye Xiu replied this time.

"Right now, you're planning on starting from the bottom up again?" Huang Shaotian asked.

"Yup!"

"Then why'd you retire? You could have asked for a random account already leveled. You give the weapon to the Club to finish, wouldn't that be faster? I don't understand. I really don't understand. Why'd you retire?" Huang Shaotian asked.

"Can you not understand 'Team performance isn't good. Team captain takes the blame and resigns'?" Ye Xiu said.

"So? There's still no need to retire! If we talk about your matches, I've seen them all. It's clearly the team was at fault and you were isolated by them. Was it Liu Hao's schemes? That guy's like a hungry wolf. Just one look and you can tell he's up to no good. You're way too careless." Huang Shaotian said.

"When did you learn how to read people's' faces?" Ye Xiu said.

"I didn't say that. That's what Wang Jiexi said." Huang Shaotian said.

"How could he judge other people's faces with his uneven face?" Ye Xiu said.

"Stop talking!! That guy really does know some magic! Last time……." Huang Shaotian blabbered on. On the side, Steamed Bun Invasion hadn't left yet. He also didn't understand what the two were talking about and was pitifully waiting on the side.

"Steamed Bun, there's nothing else for today! If you want to go to the Arena or the dungeon, go ahead!" Ye Xiu said.

"Okay." Steamed Bun Invasion left.

"Oh right! Let's go for a round. I want to see just how great your weapon is!" Huang Shaotian said.

"And you're going to use this account?" Ye Xiu laughed.

"What's wrong with this account? It's a Level 27 one like yours. The weapon is a bit lacking, but it'll make do!" Huang Shaotian said.

"This account's an unspecialized account though." Ye Xiu said.

Players who didn't understand wouldn't understand what he meant. But when Huang Shaotian heard this, he was immediately startled. Right, if it was an unspecialized account, even though they were at the same level, he had a big advantage. Why? Because at Level 27, no matter what class the account was, it would only have access to 7 sub-class only skills. But unspecialized players? At Level 20, they had access to 120 skills. That difference was too great. That was why everyone had put unspecialized characters as kings in the past. They were kings because unspecialized characters were completed extremely early and their advantage in the early game was extremely large, so large that it was almost completely broken. To only use a Blade Master with 7 skills against an unspecialized character, he'd definitely go in and never come out. Huang Shaotian clearly recognized this point.

"Take out your Troubling Rain and let's try it out. We'll obviously be fighting in the Fixed Field." Ye Xiu said.

"How is that okay!?" Huang Shaotian panicked, "That would expose me. If someone saw, how am I supposed to explain it. It's fine, it's fine. We'll battle some other time then! Do you have anything else you need? If there's nothing else, then I'm going back. Oh right, why'd you retire? And why didn't you reply to my last question? Ah?"

"You…… hurry up and go back!" Even Ye Xiu was feeling a bit powerless. He really was too noisy……

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Chapter 124 – The Crudest Style

Over in the corner, Huang Shaotian closed his computer. He once again scrunched back into a ball, hiding himself. He evilly snuck out from the darkness. Ye Xiu, who was at the reception desk, had been watching him the entire time and had no choice but to watch as the guy carefully prodded over.

"Why did you retire? Why did you retire?" Huang Shaotian was still asking him.

"If I didn't retire, you think I'd want to stay in the team to be a training partner?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Training partner? Excellent Era really wanted to drive you out!" Huang Shaotian said, "But isn't directly retiring too impulsive? You should have tried looking for somewhere to transfer to! Even if Excellent Era absolutely refused to let you go, that doesn't mean that there was zero chance for you to transfer. There might have been a team that would pay a high enough price for Excellent Era to let you go. At the very least, you should have waited until you saw that there was absolutely nowhere to transfer before retiring!"

"If I transferred……. then what about Mucheng?" Ye Xiu said.

Huang Shaotian stared blankly.

They were both god-level players in the pro-scene, how could he not understand this? For popular players like Su Mucheng, some Club owners wouldn't let her go even if they had to trade off the rest of the team. She was simply a money tree, a money-sucking machine to the owner. Her financial value was far greater than her skill value. Even for Huang Shaotian, even he wasn't guaranteed that he wouldn't be transferred to another Club. But for Su Mucheng, most owners would even sacrifice their team standings to keep her.

"If I transferred, then Mucheng would definitely terminate her contract." Ye Xiu said.

"So it's like this…… then what about terminating your contract? Hmm…… if you terminated your contract like that, then they wouldn't let you join another team for at least half a year, but it'd at least be better than you retiring for a minimum one year. But if you did retire, then there'd be no way for you to return to Excellent Era. It'd be the same as you transferring. If you retired for a year, then at the very least you wouldn't need to pay contract termination fees or maybe you could even buy out the contract right? After a year……. how long does Mucheng's contract last until?" Huang Shaotian talked to himself a bunch.

"One and a half years." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh…… so then, you're planning on coming back after a year and a half? A year and a half! You're too crazy, aren't you?" Huang Shaotian expressed his astonishment. ESport pro-players had a short career. It was extremely rare for someone 25 years old to be able to play at this level of skill. To still dare to retire for a year and half, that was simply going against the heavens.

"Ha ha, just wait until I come back and destroy you!" Ye Xiu said.

"F*ck, you're too arrogant, aren't you?" Huang Shaotian yelled.

"What's the current record for our duels again?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Ha…… tonight's weather is pretty good!" Huang Shaotian gaze shifted to the pitch black night outside of the Internet Cafe.

After standing there staring outside for awhile, Huang Shaotian's gaze returned back. His expression turned serious: "You have to come back."

"Who need you say that." Ye Xiu said.

"If you have any difficulties, contact me." Huang Shaotian said earnestly.

"Give me back my Vampiric Lightsaber and the fee for two hours of Internet." Ye Xiu said.

"……." He finally stopped talking for once.

"I'll give you the Vampiric Lightsaber later!" Huang Shaotian slapped down ten bucks onto the reception desk. He turned around and faded into the night.

"Flowing Tree went off?" Ye Xiu returned to the game and received a message from Tang Rou.

"Yeah."

"Dungeon?" Tang Rou asked.

Ye Xiu laughed. He immediately gathered everyone and ran to the dungeon.

The record 16:24:67 on the record leaderboards, made Blue River speechless for a long time. Still staring at it, he suddenly received a message. He opened it and saw that it was Lord Grim: "How many keyboards did you eat?"

Blue River's cheeks streamed with tears. The record, which he swore he'd eat his keyboard if it was broken, was currently number three on the Boneyard record leaderboards. If he did as he had promised, then he'd have to at least eaten a few keyboards.

"Brother, please don't joke with me." Blue River said gloomily.

"Ha ha, there shouldn't be any problem with the record this time." Ye Xiu said.

"Okay, okay." Blue River replied, but didn't say too much. Ye Xiu also understood. The record had been broken again and again. The experts in the game, the ones who could be considered as having good judgement, were all at a loss. Blue River still had to pay attention to this. However, the current record really was at the peak. Unless a guild was willing to pay the effort to gather a party with full Orange equipment and also look for experts to substitute in. For the new server, the possibility of that was zero.

The player who even more shocked by this record was naturally Cold Night. Originally, he had celebrated when Lord Grim's record was broken again by Excellent Dynasty. He felt that the Excellent Dynasty experts that substituted in were even more amazing and felt that Lord Grim wouldn't be able to handle it this time. Who knew that not long after, Lord Grim set the record back again.

Soft Mist, Steamed Bun Invasion, Cleansing Mist, these were all players Cold Night knew.

But what about last time's Hateful Sword?

And who was that Flowing Tree from this time?

What the heck was happening in the tenth server? Why were there so many random experts? Was this still the new server?

Cold Night and Blue River were the same. They had lost all confidence in their judgement. They had no idea whether this record could still be broken. They and a bunch of other guilds watched this record all night.

None! There was no other system announcement. Was Boneyard finally stable again? But, it was only today, that's all. Every big guild watched for it attentively for another day. The record still hadn't moved. Let alone the number one record, the number three record hadn't even been touched.

Because Excellent Dynasty showed the strength of players who were at a level higher than them for the last two dungeon records, they received the attention of all the big guilds. Hidden accounts frequently appeared and then mysteriously vanished. But for the previous experts who had played, it was truly too difficult to gather any information of them from just the guild's channel. Even more so, these were Excellent Era's players substituting in. Besides the guild leader Chen Yehui, even their own guild members didn't know that.

Even though everyone suspected that they had relied on their behind-the-scenes Club experts to set it, if the Club experts ran over to play in the dungeon, it would just be an occasional run for fun. But why did it look like they were picking a fight with Lord Grim? As pro-players, did it really make sense for them to go that far?

From another perspective, if Excellent Dynasty had sent out their top pro-players to set it, then who exactly was this Lord Grim who had stepped all over their record?

Lord Grim, Soft Mist, Steamed Bun Invasion, Cleansing Mist…… everyone had already become familiar with these IDs, which had appeared on TV several times. Who knew how many guilds had sent players to investigate these characters.

These players were extremely skilled. No one doubted that. If they weren't, how could they have set such a record? What these guilds wanted to know was exactly how skilled were they?

After silently noticing these characters, who knew how many eyes were set on them. Under the circumstances where they weren't confident in their judgement, quite a few guilds had already reported to the Heavenly Domain headquarters and had their experts from over there come. Even if they didn't come to level, it was still okay for them to observe these few rising figures.

Herb Garden.

They were one of the Three Great Guilds, yet even so, they never made any sort of official contact with Lord Grim.

At this moment, in the tenth server's guild leader Plantago Seed's field of view were a few players fighting wild monsters. However, Plantago Seed seemed somewhat out of it. To be precise, he looked terrified.

Right now, he was sitting there, controlling his character. But behind him stood a genuine god-level figure.

Wang Jiexi, Club Tiny Herb's ace player, last season's Champion, Tiny Herb's team captain and last season's MVP. In the current season, his team was the current leader in points, suppressing Blue Rain as the leading team. Wang Jiexi's account character Vaccaria was a Witch. Using weird, variable movements and strategies, he was widely known in the pro-scene as the Magician.

Plantago Seed had reported to his guild on the tenth server's current situation, but who knew he'd alert such a great God and even cause him to personally run over to take a look at these Level 27 characters.

Plantago Seed felt an enormous pressure on him, making his playing extremely unnatural. Plantago Seed suddenly remembered the adorned notebook that was in his grasp. The notebook was a souvenir he bought after Tiny Herb's championship victory. When Plantago Seed found out that God was coming over personally, he hurriedly brought the notebook with him hoping to get a signature from him.

But after seeing God looking at him with his uneven eyes, Plantago Seed had immediately tensed up and forgotten about it. He was currently moving his character to look for Lord Grim and the others for God to look at and only now did he remember about the signature he wanted.

How do I start……. Plantago Seed was currently thinking about this, when he suddenly heard a voice from behind him: "You've got a message."

"Message?" Plantago Seed had already become so stupid from nervousness that he had even forgotten what that word meant. After a long while, he recovered and saw that his character had received a message. Opening it, he saw that it was a bunch of random chatter. He hastily closed it and settled his view onto Lord Grim and the others.

Lord Grim, Steamed Bun Invasion, Soft Mist.

Right now, these three were at Boneyard leveling. Besides them, there were also Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon. Even Plantago Seed didn't see these two in his eyes and tried to get them of his view out as much as he could.

At low-levels, there were only a few skills that could be learned and only a single strategy, so determining a player's skill wasn't easy. For example, for players like Plantago Seed, they had no way of figuring out exactly how skilled Lord Grim was. But that was different for the God behind him, if even he couldn't figure it out, then Plantago Seed didn't know who else could.

"It's One Autumn Leaf's combat style." Wang Jiexi suddenly said, after silently watching for awhile.

"Which one?

"Both of them." Wang Jiexi said.

In his view, Soft Mist was a Battle Mage and Lord Grim was also using his battle lance to use Battle Mage skills.

"Lord Grim's an unspecialized character." Plantago Seed said. After saying this, he regretted it. What nonsense, how could the God Jiexi not see that?

"Yeah." Wang Jiexi still replied.

"Is there anything special about One Autumn Leaf's combat style?" Plantago Seed promptly asked him.

"There's nothing special about it. It's the crudest style." Wang Jiexi said.

Plantago Seed immediately paid his respects! To dare say that the Battle God One Autumn Leaf's combat style was the crudest, exactly how godly was Wang Jiexi?

"What about this Brawler?" Plantago Seed continued asking.

"This Brawler……" Even Wang Jiexi was having trouble finding the right words, "To say it nicely, he's following his heart's desire. To say it bluntly, he's a complete mess."

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Chapter 125 – God Jiexi

"Their mechanics are pretty good, right?" Plantago Seed said.

"Yeah." Wang Jiexi agreed. To normal players, these three's mechanical skill really were enough to be considered "good", even that completely irrational Brawler.

"But we're only watching them fight against monsters, so there's not much to be seen." Wang Jiexi said.

"Then what?" Plantago Seed asked.

"Lend me your account to use for a bit. I'm going to go and say hello to them." Wang Jiexi said.

"Ah!" Plantago Seed hurriedly got up and let up his seat. This "Ah!" carried a tone of pleasant surprise. He was surprised because God Jiexi would actually personally come out because of these three. And he was pleased because he had the chance to see God Jiexi's skill in action up-close. It has to be known that even in a pro match, it still wouldn't be possible to see him in action up-close like this.

Wang Jiexi walked up and sat down. He casually tapped the keyboard and moved the mouse. Plantago Seed knew that pro-players all had their own keyboard and mouse they liked to use. If it was just to casually play, it wouldn't matter too much to them, but they'd still feel somewhat awkward with it.

Soon after, Wang Jiexi opened up the keyboard settings. He sweeped over it and then went "Oh? It's the same as mine? Are you learning from me?"

"Yeah. You're my biggest idol! Could I trouble you with a signature!!" Plantago Seed finally found the opportunity and smoothly asked him. His class was the same as the class Wang Jiexi was most proficient in, the Witch. His keyboard settings were also the exact same as Wang Jiexi's.

"Is it hard for you?" Wang Jiexi asked.

"It's……. it's okay." Plantago Seed said.

Wang Jiexi didn't say anything more. He moved the mouse and tapped the keyboard. The in-game Plantago Seed swiftly rushed towards where those five players were leveling at.

Ye Xiu had noticed Plantago Seed peeping at them long ago, but didn't care. Now that he saw him running towards them, he guessed that it was to discuss about dungeon-related things. Who knew that right when he arrived, he'd use a Witch's long-ranged attack and suddenly fire a magic missile over.

"What are you doing?" This magic missile's target was Soft Mist. At this moment, Soft Mist's back was facing towards Plantago Seed. Only after being hit by it was she able to react. She quickly turned her camera angle, but couldn't understand what was going on. Tang Rou had never experienced something like PKing in the wilderness.

Ye Xiu was also extremely astonished. Why did Plantago Seed mysteriously start fighting? How astonishing! Then he saw Plantago Seed say: "Let's compare notes."

"What's going on?" Tang Rou was also puzzled. But Plantago Seed had already sent out another magic missile towards her. Now that they were face to face, how could it be so easy to hit Tang Rou. With a quick tap, Tang Rou dodged the missile. She wasn't so polite either and immediately began counter attacking. Soft Mist carried her battle lance and swiftly dashed towards Plantago Seed.

Plantago Seed didn't move forward and instead retreated. He continued to leisurely throw out magic missiles. But every time a magic missile was sent out, the character still had to stop for a bit. So after a few casts, Soft Mist was still able to close in on him. Her battle lance leaped and a Sky Strike slashed at him. Plantago Seed flew into the air. Right when Soft Mist was about to continue attacking, she heard a gentle "whoosh" and Plantago Seed continued to fly over her head. A cloud of medicinal powder sprinkled onto Soft Mist's body.

Tang Rou was startled. For a short while, she didn't know what to do. However, Plantago Seed had already landed next to her and then "whoosh whoosh" sent two more magic missiles at her. Tang Rou immediately thought of having Soft Mist dodge, but Soft Mist's movements had already turned sluggish. She dodged the first missile, but the second missile exploded like a flower onto her.

"What? Have you never fought with a Witch before?" Ye Xiu hurriedly asked Tang Rou. She knew that Tang Rou, with her pitiful amount of experience in Glory, still had some experience in the Arena when she fought for Chen Guo. However, Glory had a total of 24 classes. Because Tang Rou had only occasionally fought, it wasn't anything surprising that she had never fought against some classes.

"Yeah!" Tang Rou answered.

"I've seen this class!!" Steamed Bun Invasion had been soaking in the Arena in these past few days. In these short few days, he had already met with all of the classes, "They can ride on a broom to fly. Just now, he threw a Laxative at you. Did you feel that your body turned soft and your movements turned slow?"

Laxative?????

The two revered gods instantly petrified. Who the f*ck came up with such a name? The powder that Plantago Seed had thrown onto Soft Mist was called "Disperse Powder", a Level 20 Witch skill. If it was successfully sprinkled onto the target's body, then it would remove a buff and reduce the target's attack, casting, and movement speed. Even if the opponent didn't have any buffs on them, the slow effect would still arise for up to ten seconds. It was a CC skill that Witches often used.

This skill didn't have any nickname or abbreviation, but right now, Steamed Bun Invasion gave it the name "Laxative" and even said that it made your body turn soft and your movements turn slow…… it was true that it caused your movements to turn slow, but where did he get "your body turned soft" from?

The two revered gods were shocked frozen by Steamed Bun Invasion and even more so were Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon. At this moment, they were all astonished on the name "Laxative". It really did kind of fit.

Who knew when, but Steamed Bun Invasion had quietly snuck up behind Plantago Seed and smashed a Brick over.

But how could Wang Jiexi be compared to Tang Rou. Even though he wasn't looking behind him, he had noticed Steamed Bun Invasion's movements long ago. He suddenly crouched and Steamed Bun Invasion's Brick hit nothing but air. Plantago Seed took advantage and counter-attacked with a "Sweep". This was A Witch's lowest-leveled knock-up skill. Its knock-up effect was the worst among all 24 classes. With a Sweep, the character quickly fell to the ground. The knock-up was very slight and was very difficult to see.

But Wang Jiexi's actions naturally weren't ordinary. In this slight knock-up, Plantago Seed rode his broom and completed a short flight. Following this sweep, he sweeped Steamed Bun Invasion into the air. After six consecutive sweeps, the two characters flew higher and higher with every sweep. Plantago Seed then finished with a heavy attack, smacking Steamed Bun Invasion to the ground, while he leisurely flew back to the ground on his broom.

To be able to attack like this was naturally because of the passive skill Witches learned after changing classes: Broom Mastery.

Brooms are Witch-only weapons. Only Witches could use it after changing classes. Unspecialized characters could use the majority of weapons, but there were still a few class-specific weapons that unspecialized couldn't use. A Blade Master's Lightsaber was one and a Witch's Broom was another.

The passive skill Broom Master gave Witches the ability to consecutively attack the opponent while flying. Not all classes had this type of skill. With this type of aerial combat ability, Witches were headaches to many classes.

Steamed Bun Invasion's actions weren't slow. In the Arena, he had accumulated a bit of PK experience, yet he had still been casually beaten down. After the consecutive broom hits and the final smackdown, Steamed Bun Invasion planned on using a Quick Recover to prevent falling to the ground, but wasn't able to do it in time. His hands smashed to the ground, creating a hole.

This wasn't a coincidence. This was all done intentionally by Wang Jiexi in the air. He had controlled how Steamed Bun Invasion was going to fall, making it much harder for Steamed Bun Invasion to use Quick Recover. If his judgement or hand speed wasn't enough, then he wouldn't have time to use it. A pro-player's ability to calculate and meticulous movements were far greater than normal players.

Right when Plantago Seed landed, Soft Mist had rushed forward. With a battle lance, she powerfully swept across like a torrent. But the passive skill Broom Mastery didn't have any cooldown and could be used anytime soon. Plantago Seed immediately leapt onto his broom and then once again flew away. Tang Rou controlled Soft Mist to run left and right, but was unable to catch him no matter what she did. After Steamed Bun Invasion climbed up from the ground, he rushed up to join Soft Mist without hesitation. But in the end, the two players still danced around in his palms.

If Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon went to Pk, they definitely wouldn't be able to beat Tang Rou or Steamed Bun Invasion. But as spectators, they would certainly be better than those two. At this moment…….

"Meet my Brick!!" Steamed Bun Invasion hadn't been able to touch his opponent for a long time. He angrily threw his Brick. In the end, Plantago Seed rode his broom to meet it and then swept at it in midair. The timing of this attack was perfect and he directly interrupted the flying Brick, sending it back towards its owner, Steamed Bun Invasion.

"F*CK!!" Steamed Bun Invasion yelled. Right when he was about to duck and dodge it, a sword light flashed by and the Brick was smashed into pieces in midair. Ye Xiu finally acted. He launched a Sword Draw and accurately hit the Brick into pieces.

Plantago Seed landed and then immediately threw out a magic missile at Lord Grim and then once again went back on his broom, ready to escape. But unexpectedly, Lord Grim ignored this magic missile and directly used a Collapsing Mountain to leap over. This Collapsing Mountain had much higher priority over this magic missile. Even though he was hit by the magic missile, he would only take damage and wouldn't be interrupted.

Right when it looked like Collapsing Mountain was about to hit, the broom-riding Plantago Seed suddenly leaned forward unexpectedly and the Collapsing Mountain brushed past him.

Plantago Seed followed up with a leap and swept out in 180 degrees angle. But Lord Grim, who had just completed Collapsing Mountain, seemed to flash.

Shadow Clone Technique!!

Even though Wang Jiexi had instantly made the judgement, he knew the situation wasn't looking good. It wasn't as if Broom Mastery could be used non-stop flying down. Wang Jiexi, who had just been flying, had already turned and leaped. He was currently in midair and before hitting the ground, he wouldn't be able to ride on his broom and fly away.

Without anywhere to run, Wang Jiexi swiped his keyboard. Plantago Seed once again turned around 180 degrees. Just as expected, with the Shadow Clone Technqiue, Lord Grim had flashed over to behind him. He stamped down, using the Striker skill "Eagle Stamp".

Plantago Seed immediately swept and also damaged Lord Grim at the same time. Under the situation where there was no where to dodge, he could only use the strategy where both sides took damage.

But after Lord Grim's Eagle Stamp, Lord Grim didn't continue stamping. After the stamp he drew his sword and completed a Guard in midair, blocking Plantago Seed's horizontal sweep.

Plantago Seed's owner, the real Plantago Seed, was standing behind Wang Jiexi dumbstruck.

To be able to instantly do such an exchange of blows in midair, the one who lost was actually God Jiexi. Who exactly was this Lord Grim?

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Chapter 126 – What Exactly is He Trying to Do?

Plantago Seed was still hopeful.

But right when he saw that Wang Jiexi was about to have Plantago Seed fall to the ground and use Quick Recover, a blade edge once again flashed by. After guarding and flying backwards, Lord Grim had used another Falling Light Blade. The light blade descended down onto Plantago Seed at Quick Recover's crucial moment. The Quick Recover failed and Plantago Seed ate the attack and rolled sadly onto the ground.

This time, he really had suffered. The situation wasn't looking good.

Even Wang Jiexi himself felt somewhat helpless, shaking his head and sighing: "Fighting against an unspecialized at Level 27 really is difficult!"

Saying this, he ignored the incoming characters. After getting up, he turned around and flew away. To the Plantago Seed behind him, it practically looked like he just picked up the broom and started flying along the ground. For Witches to ride on their brooms, they had to leap up into the air in order to use the skill. But seeing Wang Jiexi's extremely quick and skilled movements. Plantago Seed almost couldn't tell when he had completed the leap.

Flying was somewhat faster than running, so Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion arrived one step too late. But Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon were impressively waiting to welcome Plantago Seed on his flight path.

Wang Jiexi hadn't put these two characters in his eyes. At this moment, he practically ignored them, too lazy to even move his hands. With one lazy flick, Plantago Seed's broom flew diagonally over the two's heads. Seven Fields punched out and Sleeping Moon slashed with his sword. But the two attacks hit air. After turning around, they saw that Plantago Seed had already slipped even farther away.

The two were helpless. They didn't continue chasing and walked back. Seven Fields yelled regretfully: "Brother expert……"

"No problem." Ye Xiu didn't say much. He was the one who had instructed the two to intercept him. But with their skills, intercepting the target was too difficult. Even Steamed Bun Invasion and Tang Rou had been fooled into running around in circles.

A player's skill in a dungeon was restricted to how difficult the dungeon was. In comparison, PK was a much better representation of a player's skill. Even if the skills that could be learned at Level 27 were limited, a player's pathing, decision-making, attack timing, etc. could be seen. Depending on your own skill, you could see just how deep or shallow the opponent's level was.

"Could it be that guy?" That Witch's skill could already be considered top among pros. There was no way the person playing on it was the tenth server's guild leader. Ye Xiu thought to himself as he watched Plantago Seed's far-away figure.

After Wang Jiexi's Plantago Seed had run far away, he got up and gave Plantago Seed back to the real Plantago Seed. Plantago Seed looked at God, wanting to hear his verdict. In the end, Wang Jiexi didn't say a word.

Plantago Seed was fidgeting in his heart. He had seen that Wang Jiexi wasn't quite Lord Grim's opponent and had ran away, so he didn't know whether God was in a bad mood or not.

"Signature. Where do I sign?" Wang Jiexi suddenly said.

"Ah?" Plantago Seed stared blankly. He suddenly recovered and then hastily brought out the warm notebook that he had been embracing. The cover of the notebook was a Witch riding on a broom. There was a single small word written on the side: Vaccaria.

Wang Jiexi took it and smiled. He waited for Plantago Seed fluster around for pen and then asked after taking it: "Is it okay for me to sign the title page?"

"Okay, okay……" Plantago Seed hastily replied.

Wang Jiexi scribbled his practiced signature and then handed it back to Plantago Seed: "I'm going. Bye."

"Ah……. God……." Plantago Seed couldn't help but stop Wang Jiexi, "This……." He pointed at the screen. He wanted to know Wang Jiexi's verdict.

"That Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion's mechanical skill aren't bad, but they're still new players. They don't have enough knowledge or experience. That Lord Grim…… he's unspecialized so I still can't tell how deep or shallow his skill is. You also saw. He was suppressing me and not the other way around. I wanted to test him, but I'm afraid he was the one who tested me." Wang Jiexi said.

"Does he know who you are?" Plantago Seed felt that it was incredibly hard to believe.

"Oh! Maybe. It depends on his perception. Well, he at least knows that you weren't the one playing." Wang Jiexi said. He waved his hands at Plantago Seed and left.

What type of monster is he! Plantago Seed went back to this seat, but was still in a daze. After a short while, he recovered and immediately made his Plantago Seed run far far away. Even God Wang Jiexi admitted that he'd been suppressed. If Lord Grim wants to kill me, then even ten of me won't be enough!

But how do I confront him later?

Plantago Seed suddenly thought of this question. He turned his head, but found that Wang Jiexi had already left. Plantago Seed was gloomy. He had actually forgotten to ask such an important question.

"What's up with him?" Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion had wanted to continued chasing, but were blocked by Ye Xiu in the end. Tang Rou could only ask this gloomily.

"That guy was Herb Garden's guild leader?" Seven Fields said.

"The character is……. but not necessarily the person." Ye Xiu said.

"Then who was that?" Sleeping Moon asked.

"What I'm about to say might scare you to death. If I'm not wrong, I'm pretty sure that was Wang Jiexi." Ye Xiu said.

"Ha! And I'm f*cking Huang Shaotian!" Sleeping Moon didn't believe him one bit.

"Who's Wang Jiexi?" Tang Rou asked.

"You don't even know this?" Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon gasped, almost at the same time.

"Why do I need to know that? What astrological sign is he?" Steamed Bun Invasion asked.

"Astrological sign?" Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon were actually pondering over this question. For such a celebrity, there really was information on his astrological sign.

"Wang Jiexi is one of Glory's top players. His class is the same as the one you guys just saw, a Witch. His nickname is Magician. In Glory, there are a lot of these types of titles, Battle God, Sword Saint, Great Gunner, King of Fighting, etc. but most of these are given to the character. Only Wang Jiexi's title 'Magician' is given to the person himself instead of the character." Ye Xiu said.

"Why?" Tang Rou asked.

"Because the title describes his combat style. This player's style is strange and always changing, often exceeding expectations. If he wasn't the one playing, then the character would be called something else entirely. It wouldn't be called Magician." Ye Xiu said.

"If it's like this, then shouldn't it be really easy to recognize him?" Tang Rou said.

"Yeah, that's why I said it's very likely that that was him." Ye Xiu said.

"The more you talk, the more believable you sound." Sleeping Moon said in disdain.

"Wang Jiexi is from Club Tiny Herb. Herb Garden is supported by Tiny Herb. If Wang Jiexi wants to use their characters, then it should be easy for him to do." Ye Xiu deepened his analysis.

"Then why would he run here to stir up trouble? If he wants to fight, then he should go to the Arena!" Steamed Bun Invasion expressed his resentment.

"Maybe he saw how amazing your skill was, so he impatiently went to test you?" Ye Xiu said.

"Really? Then this guy's eyes aren't bad." Steamed Bun Invasion said sadly.

"F*ck!" Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon both cursed. If it was a normal person saying it, then they would have regarded it as a joke or even as a shameless boast. But this was Steamed Bun Invasion, who actually believed it.

"Herb Garden…….. Many of the the guild players seem to have names of Chinese medicine." Tang Rou said. This unique characteristic of Herb Garden was quite eye-catching.

"Yup, the names of all of their Club's characters are all names of Chinese medicine. That's why most of the important characters in their guild also have that type of name." Ye Xiu finished and then said to Seven Fields: "Seven Fields, are you from Herb Garden?" (TLN: Seven Fields = Panax Notoginseng)

"I'm not……" Seven Fields said gloomily. He had encountered such misunderstandings before, "I wanted to be called Nine Fields at first. But the demons and gods must have been at work and my hands somehow slipped, changing my name to Seven Fields." (Author Note: This is a real story. A certain author wanted to use Nine Fields at first, but somehow made it into Seven Fields. To the fan who applied for Long Tao, I messed up with Seven Fields. Seven Fields is Nine Fields.) (TLCN: 龙套 Long Tao, small character, usually, web novelists would allow the fans to apply for a "龙套". For example, if a reader provided the name Nine Fields and "male", then the guy Nine Fields might appear in the story. Sadly, author mistook the name. lol)

They continued to chat while leveling. And unexpectedly, they didn't take what had just happened seriously.

Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion were new players, so they didn't understand. After recovering from their initial surprise, Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon were both still secretly shocked. That was Plantago Seed! He was the tenth server's guild leader of Herb Garden, one of the Three Great Guilds. If this was on a normal day, they would have been frightened to death if Herb Garden's guild leader personally came to attack them. But now? With brother expert, the Three Great Guilds were nothing! There wasn't any pressure at all!

"It should be Wang Jiexi……" Ye Xiu was still thinking about it. He hadn't finished his analysis, but he was pretty sure that that person was Wang Jiexi. It was just like what Tang Rou said, his style was too unique, a clear indication that it was him.

"What exactly is he trying to do?" Ye Xiu was also worrying over this question.

Meanwhile, in Herb Garden, after God Jiexi left, Plantago Seed was still pacing about back and forth. From time to time, he would take out his notebook and study it. From time to time, he would smile, loving it too much to part with it.

"Guild leader, guild leader." At this moment, a message was sent over.

"What?" Plantago Seed replied.

"Boss is looking for you. Get on QQ." The guild member said. The senior he was talking about was Herb Garden's leader, the one in the Heavenly Domain, Arisaema.

"Boss, what do you want?" Plantago Seed looked for him.

"How many extra empty accounts do you have over there?" Arisaema said.

"Around ten I think. Why?" Plantago Seed answered. When he said empty accounts, he wasn't talking about those accounts with no equipment and no money. He was talking about accounts with no definite owner. They were accounts that had been leveled using other people to substitute in or were leveled through the guild's efforts. These accounts wouldn't be part of the guild and they wouldn't use Chinese medicine names, obvious indicators that they were Herb Garden's. In the end, they were often used as spies or for shady business that wouldn't be convenient for official guild members. Not just Herb Garden, but other big guilds would raise these types of characters. Some people called then free accounts, others called them empty accounts, it depended on the person.

"Take five of them out! A Ghostblade, Sharpshooter, Battle Mage, Assassin, and Witch. Can you gather these five classes?" Arisaema said.

"Let me see! What are they going to be used for?" Plantago Seed couldn't remember every class he had listed.

"For the gods above." Arisaema said.

Plantago Seed heard this and froze. This…… Could it be that because God Jiexi had lost to Lord Grim, he wanted to create a party to retaliate?

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Chapter 127 – Five Characters

Plantago Seed didn't continue to rack his brains over it. God Jiexi was widely known for his unpredictable style. There was no way for him to know what God Jiexi was thinking. Regardless, Plantago Seed refused to believe that God was forming a team just for revenge. He couldn't imagine that God Jiexi would be that petty.

After asking Arisaema when he wanted those accounts cards, Plantago Seed didn't think anymore of it and then went to look for the requested account cards.

White Night Black Day, Ghostblade, Level 26.

Fallen Angel, Sharpshooter, Level 27.

Cloudy Heavens, Battle Mage, Level 26.

Ashen Moon, Assassin, Level 25.

Weeping Crow, Witch, Level 26.

The next day, Plantago Seed selected five account cards according to the request. They were all Level 25 and above characters. Among the empty accounts, they could already be considered high leveled.

That same day, a small, shy, and thin youth came to retrieve the cards. Plantago Seed didn't suspect this person's identity. When he handed over the cards, he also handed his notebook over.

This youth hadn't yet participated in an official match in the Glory Alliance. However, his reputation wasn't lower than even some first-string players. To a loyal fan like Plantago Seed, how could he not be recognized.

This youth was called Gao Yingjie and was a part of Tiny Herb's inner circle. According to reports, he would be the player to inherit Wang Jiexi's Vaccaria. As a result, the class he practiced with was also a Witch. Plantago Seed had originally thought that the Witch account card was going to be used by God Jiexi, but now from the looks of it, it looked like it was going to be given to Gao Yingjie.

In front of Gao Yingjie, Plantago Seed wasn't as terrified as when he was in front of Wang Jiexi. On the contrary, Gao Yingjie was the one standing there shyly looking around left and right.

Plantago Seed took the five account cards and handed them over to Gao Yingjie. He then took out his notebook: "Little Jie, can you sign your name here?"

"Oh!" Once Gao Yingjie took the account cards, he looked as if he was about to run away. Hearing Plantago Seed's request, for a short while, he didn't know what to do. His face had also reddened. He had clearly never experienced anything like this before.

After taking the pen Plantago Seed had handed over, Gao Yingjie carefully wrote his name Gao Yingjie onto the notebook. When signing it, his hand was a bit shaky, so the end result looked a little deformed.

"Thank you……." Gao Yingjie hurriedly handed back the notebook and pen to Plantago Seed and then took off. Plantago Seed didn't know whether this "thank you" was for the account cards or for his support.

Plantago Seed then logged into the game soon afterwards. He had already added these five characters as friends. He even knew where those five characters were located. Right now, he wanted to know what exactly these five characters were going to be used for. After waiting a long while, he found that none of them had appeared. Plantago Seed wasn't a marathon runner. He had stayed up all-night yesterday and tonight, he had been waiting for Gao Yingjie to retrieve the cards, so he hadn't slept tonight either. In the end, he gave up waiting and went to sleep.

Currently, in the tenth server, the highest-leveled characters finally stepped into the Level 30 critical point. New skills, new equipment, their strength naturally increased another-fold. In addition, from Level 30 onwards, there was another large change: class sets would begin appearing. Class sets usually raised the levels or power of a few of their respective classes' skills. Apart from that, when the set was completed, the additional attributes would naturally increase the user's strength by another level. From Level 30 onwards, weapons would no longer be the sole factor in determining damage. Characters with their respective completed class sets were on another level compared to characters without a complete set.

Although low-leveled equipment would eventually grow outdated too, to big guilds who scrambled for these types of records, at the very least , their elite teams' DPS had to maintain a certain standard. As a result, these equipment would also be sought after.

Speaking of records, it could be considered the final moments of observing the Boneyard record for each of the big guilds. For Lord Grim's friends such as Blue River and Cold Night, they all knew that Lord Grim had already leveled to Level 28. There was already no longer a way for Boneyard's record to broken again. If Excellent Dynasty were hesitant towards Lord Grim and wouldn't fight against him, then the record would finally be at ease. If they did try and fight, but still weren't able to break the Boneyard record, then that would at least mean one thing: The substitute experts of Excellent Dynasty were finally beaten by Lord Grim. This meant that the tenth server's dungeon record really would be ruled by Lord Grim.

Blue River and Cold Night were direct friends of Lord Grim, while the other big guild leaders had their own ways of contacting him. After watching Boneyard for a full day, they saw that the record hadn't changed. At the early morning hours, when the dungeon entries refreshed, everyone watched one last time for one or two hours. In the end, they confirmed their decision. Lord Grim immediately became the genuine ruler of the records, and they would now begin fighting for him.

Blue River held the advantage here. Not only was he the first one to work together with Lord Grim. Lord Grim's party was still under the name Blue Brook Guild. Moreover, he had already made the preface long ago. At this moment, he asked clearly and rationally: "Brother, what do you think about the offer I made last time?"

"Let me think about it again!" Ye Xiu replied.

"Ha ha, brother, I'm sure you understand! Right now, all of the big guilds know of your strength. But if you keep selling your services like this, then the leaderboards will all be under your name in the end. This wouldn't be good for the guild's honor. In the end, everyone would recognize your Lord Grim and not the guild. This is something no guild wants to see. And for you, brother, I don't think you came here to make a name either, right?" Blue River had analyzed it quite well.

"Yeah. You're right. But who says I have to use my own account to substitute in." Ye Xiu said.

"Ah…….." Blue River stared blankly after hearing this. Not using his own account. That was right. That was true substitution. In fact, when guilds looked for players to substitute in, this was their preferred method. It was obviously very common that players used their own accounts when hired for their services. However, it really hadn't ever been done like this for setting records. To be honest, each of the big guilds had hired an expert for setting records at one point. But they had never encountered a character like Lord Grim, who could easily beat the record made by their elite teams by a few minutes.

"Brother, you're planning on……." Blue River asked, trying to probe him.

"That's why I said that I'm still thinking about it!" Ye Xiu said.

"Then I need to hear your answer as soon as you're done……" Blue River was helpless. He didn't know what to say at this moment.

At the same time, Cold Night had also analyzed something similar to what Blue River had said, except he hadn't made any preface like Blue River had done. This was why he made an extremely generous offer now, which Ye Xiu also replied with "I'll think about it".

Apart from this, there was a whole mess of friend requests, which were all from the big guilds. More than half of the guilds that were backed by the 20 pro-teams had come to negotiate with Ye Xiu. Without exception, Ye Xiu replied with a "I'll think about it". However, among this, he never saw anyone from Herb Garden.

What now?

Ye Xiu hesitated. He wasn't refusing them when he said "I'll think about it." He really was thinking about it. Things weren't going as smoothly as he had originally planned. Even though he had eventually suppressed Liu Hao's annoyance, the damage had already been done. For example, Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion were also being bombarded right now…….. If Liu Hao hadn't come out and stirred up so much trouble, how would Ye Xiu need to bring so many players to complete his task.

Because they were being bombarded by messages, their dungeoning was somewhat slow. Now that they were Level 28. They were now running the Level 28-30 dungeon: Desolate Land.

Of course, the new dungeon was also in a new map. The map was naturally called Desolate Land. According to Glory's description, this place was gathering land of homeless drifters, powerful and unyielding, the strong ruled the lands. In the leveling area, the monsters were made up of all sorts of vagabonds. The dungeon Desolate Land was another gathering place for vagabonds and was said to be a gathering of the strongest gangs and hoodlums.

Desolate Land's record had just been set anew that morning. The current record holder was Blue Brook Guild. Blue Brook Guild's elite team was undoubtedly a team with Level 30 Purple weapons and their respective class sets. Seeing this record, Ye Xiu felt that it'd quite difficult for his Level 28 team to beat it. In his current team, Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon were familiar with the dungeon, but their skill was a bit lacking; Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion had skill, but they were completely new to the dungeon and extremely unfamiliar with it.

After two hours, they painfully completed three runs. The dungeon Desolate Land had an entry limit of three per day. The party gathered outside of the dungeon, ready to run Boneyard. Although their levels were higher, the dungeon monsters were still elite monsters. Plus, with the extra rewards for clearing the dungeon, their experience gains from it were faster than directly leveling at the Desolate Land map.

At Boneyard, a five player party had also just finished their record-setting runs at Boneyard. In the party was White Night Black Day, Fallen Angel, Cloudy Heavens, Ashen Moon, Weeping Crow. After running it three times, the five players' expressions were all quite embarrassed. Let alone the fastest record on the leaderboards, their final time wasn't even close to the third place record.

Although their characters weren't at Boneyard's limit, Level 27, there wasn't too big of a difference between Level 25 and Level 27. With their pro-level skill, making a time with such a large gap compared to the record really did make them somewhat speechless.

The five players were even a bit terrified. They had already tried their hardest, but they had made such a poor time. Even though their characters weren't optimally equipped, they all had Level 25 Purple weapons. Because God had wanted these accounts, even though they were normal empty accounts, Plantago Seed still helped them and gave each of them a Purple weapon.

"Captain……." One of the players turned his head and looked at the person behind him, Tiny Herb's team captain Wang Jiexi.

"You guys played well." Wang Jiexi said.

The five players looked at one another. They weren't sure if their team captain was mocking them.

"We're so far off from the record……." Gao Yingjie said, ashamed.

"That's because your strategy wasn't correct." Wang Jiexi said.

The five players looked at one another again. They didn't make any mistakes anywhere, so where did they mess up?

"There was definitely some sort of new strategy that was used to set that record." Wang Jiexi said.

"Oh? So then we should go study it?" One player said.

"Are you joking? You're going to waste your precious time on this?" Wang Jiexi said.

"That……"

"Go find Lord Grim." Wang Jiexi said.

"And then?"

"Kill him once and then go to bed early. This will be one of your main exercises in the future." Wang Jiexi said.

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Chapter 128 – Rookie

After throwing down these orders, Wang Jiexi left first. With him gone, there was nothing to discuss. Among the five players, Gao Yingjie was the youngest, but the other four players weren't much older. They were all subs in Club Tiny Herb. Of them, three of the players had come out in an official match as subs.

However, the Alliance had its rules. Players and the characters that would be used had to be reported to the Alliance before the season started. Afterwards, the list could not be changed unless there were transfer deals or waivings. Moreover, the Alliance had to approve the sub in. The rules stated that during the match, players and characters were not allowed to be casually switched around.

For example, if Wang Jiexi wasn't prepared to go on stage next match and have Gao Yingjie sub in for him, then even though no one was using Vaccaria, Gao Yingjie would not be allowed to use it. Gao Yingjie would only be allowed to use the character that was reported to the Alliance before the season started, a different Witch, Kind Tree.

Gao Yingjie never had any experience in an official match. The other player who had never went out on stage either was called Qiao Yifan, who was currently using the Assassin Ashen Moon. These two were very young. However, Gao Yingjie was already the decided sub for Wang Jiexi and the future successor for Vaccaria. As a result, Qiao Yifan could only be considered a fairly talented new player. Even though he had been signed up to be a part of this match, he was just barely hanging on and might not be in the next match. For new players like him, they had no way of controlling their fate. After all, he was still only a youth and nothing more.

There was a large gap between their statuses, but neither of them thought anything of it. They were actually on extremely good terms and loved to hang around each other. Right when Wang Jiexi left, Qiao Yifan was just about to talk to Gao Yingjie about something when he heard someone yell: "Yifan, go fetch some drinks for us."

"Oh!" Qiao Yifan helplessly replied. The person who had yelled was called Xiao Yun, coincidentally getting the Battle Mage Cloudy Heavens (Yun Xiao) this time. He was the sub who had come out on stage the most. He could even be considered half-main roster half-sub, so he was naturally the senior among the subs.

However, he didn't dare order around Gao Yingjie, who would be a part of the main roster in the future. Though he did order around Qiao Yifan very impolitely. This type of situation didn't only occur in Tiny Herb. All of the Club's rookies were in a similar situation. Fetching them drinks for the main roster and so on were common occurrences, unless they were important targets of care like Gao Yingjie or a super rookie like the previous year's Sun Xiang.

"What would you like to drink?" Qiao Yifan said that he would go grab drinks, but didn't forget to ask his good friend.

In the end, the person he was asking hadn't yet answered, when the three other players all came up very impolitely.

"Get me a bottle of green tea." This was Xiao Yun.

"I want Cola."

"I want Cola too."

These two were Zhou Yebai and Liu Fei. They were respectively given the Ghostblade White Night Black Day and the Sharpshooter Fallen Angel. These two had been in the Club for two years and were prepared to sub in at any time. Although they couldn't compare to Xiao Yun as of now, they were still in a much better spot than Qiao Yifan.

"It doesn't matter for me!" Gao Yingjie said softly at the end.

Qiao Yifan ran to fetch the drinks for everyone. The three veteran subs didn't say a word of thanks and were already discussing amongst themselves.

"Who is this Lord Grim? How did he offend our captain?" Liu Fei asked. Girls were always slightly more gossipy than guys.

"Who knows." Xiao Yun wasn't too interested in discussing that issue. He didn't dare talk about things behind their team captain's back.

"Yebai, do you know?" Liu Fei asked Zhou Yebai.

"How would I know!" Zhou Yebai said while drinking his Coca Cola and asked for seemingly no reason: "Didn't Little Jie get these cards?"

Sure enough, Liu Fei immediately turned her head to ask Gao Yingjie: "Little Jie, do you know?"

"I don't know either, Sister Liu." Gao Yingjie hastily said.

"I guess there's no way Yifan would know?" When she asked Qiao Yifan, her tone was very disdainful.

"Ha ha……" Qiao Yifan could only foolishly laugh. How could he be the first person to know about things regarding the Club!

"It doesn't matter. Let's hurry up and kill this guy, so we can go to bed early!" Xiao Yun said.

"Exactly." Zhou Yebai looked at the time.

"Who's the guild leader over here?" Xiao Yun asked.

"Plantago Seed." The person who replied was Gao Yingjie. Even though he and Plantago Seed hadn't introduced each other, Gao Yingjie had still asked who he was going to meet beforehand.

"Oh, he should be in the friends list! I'll go ask him." Xiao Yun said.

To these normal players in the new server, Xiao Yun was even more impolite. He directly asked: "Hello? Do you know where Lord Grim is?"

When Plantago Seed saw these five characters go online, he silently paid attention to them. He quickly read the message, but seeing that it was asking for where Lord Grim was, his heart froze and he immediately replied: "I don't know!"

"Go find out." Xiao Yun said.

"Oh……" Plantago Seed had been ordered and immediately had a bad impression of Xiao Yun. Plantago Seed was very familiar with everyone in Team Tiny Herb. He obviously knew which member used a Battle Mage if he was from Tiny Herb. An image of Xiao Yun appeared in his mind, which made him in a somewhat bad mood. However, he could only do as he was ordered to do and tell everyone in the guild to pay attention to Lord Grim's movements.

"I saw Lord Grim and the others heading towards Boneyard." Someone in the guild immediately replied. The current guild was growing larger and larger. The members were all at different levels, so they were all spread out in different leveling areas. As long as Lord Grim was online, with such a large scouting range, it was quite easy to find him.

'How many? Where are they headed towards?" Plantago Seed asked.

"Five players. They should be going to Boneyard I think?" The guild member said.

Plantago Seed immediately reported back to Xiao Yun's Cloudy Heavens.

Xiao Yun looked and then promptly told everyone else: "Lord Grim is bringing a party to Boneyard. Let's all separate and intercept him. If they enter the dungeon, then we'll have to wait a long time."

"Oh." The other players replied. The Boneyard dungeon could be considered a cave. But with so many players running the dungeon, the lines would be extremely long if there was only one entrance. Similar to how players could enter the Frost Forest dungeon anywhere around the Forest, Boneyard had several entrances around the circumference. When fighting monsters in the area, accidentally dropping in a hole and into the dungeon was a common occurrence.

Xiao Yun asked clearly where Lord Grim was and then the five players separated and headed towards Desolate Land to intercept. Not long after, Qiao Yifan was the first to find the target: "I've found them. Lord Grim, five players!!!"

"Coordinates." Xiao Yun hastily said.

Qiao Yifan sent the coordinates and the four others immediately headed towards it.

"Go intercept him!" Xiao Yun ordered in fear that their efforts would be wasted if Lord Grim went and entered the dungeon. If it did happen, then they'd have to wait awhile for him to come out.

"I……." Qiao Yifan stared blankly.

"Hurry up!" Xiao Yun urged.

Qiao Yifan didn't have much confidence. But under Xiao Yun's urge, he had his Level 25 Ashen Moon rush forward.

The other side had five players. To be able to enter the pro-scene meant that Qiao Yifan was extremely skilled. In normal circumstances, if he was against five random players, then he wouldn't be scared at all. But the problem was that these five were the ones that set a record that they couldn't even come close to. Even though God Jiexi had said that it was due to the difference in strategies, no matter how different the strategy was, it would still need a high level of skill to carry out. These players' skill levels couldn't be too different from theirs, right?

After Ashen Moon advanced a bit, Qiao Yifan saw who the other four players were. Two of them were characters on the record leaderboards, though he didn't recognize the other two. At this moment, Qiao Yifan wasn't able to plan anything. Ashen Moon rushed up and then a sudden Shining Cut headed straight for Lord Grim.

In these leveling areas, players come and go, so no one was very cautious. Shining Cut was an extremely quick skill. It launched quickly and no one except the user would know where it was aimed at. However, this Lord Grim had unexpectedly reacted in an instant, drawing out his sword, and using a Guard to block this Shining Cut.

This one move already made Qiao Yifan lose confidence. He was a new player through and through and hadn't had any experience in an official match. He was also unlike Gao Yingjie in the fact that the team captain would occasionally come to spar with him personally. In this sort of environment, everything he did was extremely careful. He hoped not to make any mistakes, but didn't hope for anything more. At this moment, seeing Lord Grim's reaction, he immediately felt that this was a difficult opponent. After the Shining Cut, he didn't execute any other attacks and immediately jumped back in an attempt to widen the distance between them.

A sword light flashed. Lord Grim chased with a Sword Draw.

He had already taken back the Vampiric Lightsaber from Huang Shaotian awhile ago and obviously wasn't an equipment for Ye Xiu to use. It was used as a material to upgrade the Thousand Chance Umbrella. For the current Thousand Chance Umbrella, in addition to the Lance form, the Sword form was also Level 25. It had an Attack Speed of 5, a Weight of 2.3 kg, a Durability of 23, Physical Attack: 320, Magic Attack: 340, equivalent to a level 35 Purple Tachi. This was why recently, when Ye Xiu battled, besides the Lance form, he would also use the Sword Form frequently. The two forms' damage was quite scary.

This Sword Draw was extremely quick and accurate just as Ashen Moon was coming down from his leap backwards. Right when it seemed like Ashen Moon would be hit, Ashen Moon suddenly leaped again and dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding the sword.

Air Jump!

This was a level 15 Assassin skill, which allowed the user to jump again in midair. To put it simply, Assassins could double jump.

Relying on this, Ashen Moon dodged the originally unavoidable blade. But because of this, he became even more terrified of Lord Grim. Just as he was figuring out how to stall for more time, Steamed Bun Invasion had already grabbed a Brick and rushed forward, yelling: "Who are you! You're looking to die!"

Qiao Yifan hastily had Ashen Moon dodge to the side, avoiding this Brick. But on his other side, Soft Mist's battle lance had already arrived like a viper. Qiao Yifan once again had Ashen Moon dodge and was already somewhat panicked.

Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon felt a bit embarrassed always being spectators. With an opening, they also went to attack. The two rushed forward and each used their respective skills.

Qiao Yifan's hands were rushed and muddled. He already lost his rhythm was now subconsciously trying to dodge attack after attack now. To him, he was no longer paying attention to whether there was a chance to counterattack and had no idea how to escape.

Gao Yingjie, who was sitting next to him, saw that the situation wasn't looking good for him and was even panicking on his behalf. He hurriedly yelled: "Hang in there. I'm almost there."

"What? Yifan's not a match?" Zhou Yebai and Liu Fei both turned their heads to look at Qiao Yifan's screen.

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