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 129 – Vanishing Step

Zhou Yebai and Liu Fei fixed their attention onto Qiao Yifan's screen. In fact, it wasn't just them. Xiao Yun also wanted to see, but he was too far away. Between him and Qiao Yifan were Zhou Yebai, Liu Fei, and Gao Yingjie. If he didn't get up and walk over, there was no way for him to see.

Xiao Yun didn't say a word. Even if he couldn't see, he could still ask. A part of why he urged Qiao Yifan to rush forward was to test the waters. But if Qiao Yifan could speculate that Lord Grim's party wouldn't be an easy opponent, how couldn't he have considered it.

"How?" Xiao Yun asked, not in the least concerned.

In the end, she heard Zhou Yebai and Liu Fei laugh.

"Too stupid, Yifan." Liu Fei laughed out loud. She clearly didn't put the attacks thrown at Qiao Yifan's Ashen Moon in her eyes. If it was her, she would have easily escaped. But for Qiao Yifan right now, his hands were a complete mess. A feeling of superiority swelled up in her heart.

"Let's hurry. If Qiao Yifan actually died here, then we'd look like a huge joke." Zhou Yebai said.

Even though those words weren't very pleasant to hear, to be fair, it wasn't too excessive. In the game, no matter how you said it, these were just normal players. For pro-players, they really shouldn't be losing to these normal players. If they died to them, that'd be even more ridiculous. Even if they couldn't defeat them, then they should at least be able to escape.

Even for Gao Yingjie, who was close friends with Qiao Yifan, couldn't deny this. He could only furiously tap his keyboard and hurry over to help his friend.

But the first person to arrive was Xiao Yun's Battle Mage Cloudy Heavens.

Xiao Yun didn't impatiently advance. He wasn't like the other three, who had seen what the situation was from Qiao Yifan's screen, so he could only observe for a bit before acting. In addition, his character could see a more all-around and concrete view of the situation compared to Qiao Yifan's first-person perspective.

In front of his eyes, he could easily tell the difference in skill levels between the four players attacking Qiao Yifan's Ashen Moon.

That Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion's were noteworthy, while Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon weren't worth mentioning.

Seven Fields!!!!

This name made Xiao Yun at a loss for awhile.

Could he be from Herb Garden? This thought flashed by Xiao Yun's mind. Even if he was from Herb Garden, it didn't matter. Even if they all ganged up and killed him, they definitely wouldn't be punished.

Xiao Yun's line of sight fell outside of the battle onto that Lord Grim.

He was their goal and their main target. Since those other four players were chasing down Qiao Yifan's Ashen Moon, wasn't this the perfect opportunity to attack?

Xiao Yun's Cloudy Heavens had already formed Chasers from fighting the nearby monsters. Besides relying on Dragon Tooth to form Neutral Chasers, Level 26 Battle Mages had a new Level 25 Chaser: an Ice Chaser that was created when Double Stab was used.

After an Ice Chaser attacked, the character have their Physical Defense buffed. The Level 1 Ice Chaser increased Physical Defense by 2%. Battle Mages could only wear Leather armor and thus their defenses weren't particularly outstanding. As a result, this additional Defense wasn't very useful. In comparison, the effects from an Ice Chaser attack were much more valuable.

When an Ice Chaser hits a target, it applies a brief Stun, similar to Dragon Tooth. Besides this, Ice Chasers did Ice Magic Damage and had a 50% chance to Slow the target for up to 3 seconds. The higher the Ice Chaser level, the higher the chance and the more obvious the effect.

Even though Level 26 Battle Mages only had one level into Ice Chaser, the effect was still obvious if it hit the target. At least, enough to make Steamed Bun Invasion believe that it was some sort of "Laxative".

At this moment, not only did Cloudy Heavens have the buffs from the Chasers, he also had seven Ice Chasers revolving around him, all done through killing monsters along the way. Seven was the max and each one lasted for 30 seconds.

Seeing the situation, Xiao Yun finalized his plan. He ignored Qiao Yifan's Ashen Moon and directly headed straight for Lord Grim.

Dragon Tooth!

Dragon Tooth was quick, had a long range, and could stun. It was a skill that Battle Mages loved to use as an initiator. Xiao Yun was using it as one as well. He rushed forward, his lance directed at Lord Grim.

At this moment, Lord Grim was also holding a battle lance. Cloudy Heaven's Dragon Tooth stabbed forward. Lord Grim sidestepped it and counter-attacked with his own Dragon Tooth.

Cloudy Heavens dodged and then slashed up with his lance: Sky Strike.

Lord Grim avoided it and then slashed up, a Sky Strike too.

Cloudy Heavens escaped again and then leaned forward, stabbing with his lance, attempting to use Circle Swing to grab him.

However, Lord Grim did the same thing as before. He dodged and then returned with his own Circle Swing.

"F*ck!" Xiao Yun was somewhat angry. He felt as if he were being played with. He hated how his account was only Level 26. He didn't have many skills and felt as if his hands and feet were tied together. His hand speed immediately quickened. In game, Cloudy Heavens leaped back, dodging the Circle Swing while stabbing out with his lance twice, a Double Stab.

In this way, if his attack was avoided and Lord Grim once again copied his movements, then he wouldn't be any danger. This was because he had jumped backwards, distancing himself. If Lord Grim dodged his Double Stab, then Lord Grim's Double Stab wouldn't be of any threat to him.

In the end, Lord Grim still copied him and leapt backwards while using Double Stab. Just as Xiao Yun was laughing at him for his stupidity, a cold light leapt at him. It wasn't Double Stab, but rather an arc of light.

Sword Draw!

Sword Draw's attack range wasn't just the sword's reach. It also included the range of the sword's aura, so the attack range was much greater than Double Stab's.

Double Stab wouldn't be able to hit him, but Sword Draw could.

"F*CK!" Xiao Yun really did curse out loud this time. This Sword Draw was too sudden. He was still in mid-air! HIs Cloudy Heavens wasn't an Assassin, so he didn't have a Double Jump. How could he dodge this?

Needless to say, this "F*CK" immediately grabbed everyone's attention. Liu Fei, that talkative girl, glanced over and immediately yelled: "Woah! Xiao Yun, you've arrived too!"

Even though they had all seen Qiao Yifan's screen, even Qiao Yifan himself didn't know that Xiao Yun had arrived. He was being attacked on all sides by four players. His camera was twirling around and around in chaos. How could he have the energy to see what else was going on.

Everyone turned around their heads to look and all saw Cloudy Heavens flying backwards from Sword Draw. Xiao Yun's face was extremely gloomy.

After a Quick Recover, Cloudy Heavens immediately got up.

Dragon Tooth, Sky Strike, Double Stab, Falling Flower, Circle Swing……

Level 26 Battle Mages only had these skills too, plus a few normal attacks.

Chasers? Cloudy Heavens carried seven of them, but Chasers weren't something that could be fired as he pleased. The instant an attack hit its target, the Chaser would automatically fire at that target. Cloudy Heavens exchanged blow after blow with Lord Grim, but was never able to hit him. And in the blink of an eye, 30 seconds passed and the seven Chasers cleanly faded away. Xiao Yun's face turned extremely ugly as if it had produced an Ice Chaser.

This account's level is too low. If not…… Xiao Yun complained, while madly tapping his keyboard and clicking his mouse.

The irritated Xiao Yun finally exposed an opening and was hit by Lord Grim's Dragon Tooth.

Xiao Yun cursed to himself. His Cloudy Heavens had entered a Stunned state. Lord Grim launched a Sky Strike and Cloudy Heavens flew high into the air.

Xiao Yun immediately adjusted his camera angle.

Players weren't NPCs. A lot of NPCs would be tyrannically oppressed in midair and had no way of escaping. But players could still act in air. Appropriate actions, for example, even a normal attack at the correct moment, could let the player escape from a mid-air predicament. But no matter how it was said, after being hit into the air, the player would be at a disadvantage. Escaping from such a predicament wasn't easy.

But for pro-players, these were all required courses that they had to learn through intense training. No one could ensure that they wouldn't be knocked up during a PK battle, which was why players had to practice how to get out of a mid-air predicament.

Xiao Yun's fundamentals weren't bad. His camera had already turned and stabilized. However, he was unable to find Lord Grim.

Xiao Yun stared blankly.

Since there were ways to escape from mid-air, of course there were ways to keep the target in the air. Players could still move in the air. However, their movements were extremely limited. For example, the amount the camera angle could be shifted was limited. You want to move your camera angle 720 degrees while in midair? Then your body might as well be a spiraling gyroscope. If someone helped you, then maybe you could pull it off.

At this moment, Xiao Yun turned his camera angle again, but Lord Grim was still nowhere to be seen. He now knew that Lord Grim had already entered his dead angle. Lord Grim was next to him, but was at a place invisible to him!

Only someone with lots of experience and accurate decision-making could do this.

In order to respond to this, the other side had to have lots of experience and accurate decision-making as well.

In an instant, Xiao Yun lost all confidence. Where was his dead angle located? He suddenly lost track. He wasn't able to make a decision, so he could only blindly make an attack towards a random direction and then pray.

The attack hit nothing but air and Xiao Yun's prayer was useless.

He received an attack soon afterwards. He basically didn't know what type of skill he was hit with because his opponent was still invisible, still in his dead angle. Xiao Yun spun and spun until he was almost about to vomit. In the end, besides the blue sky, there was only mother earth. And at most, he would catch a glimpse of Lord Grim's blood-red Vampire Cloak. But every time Xiao Yun attacked in a direction, all he ever hit was air.

Gao Yingjie finally arrived. Right when he was about to rush forward and rescue his good friend, the scene in front of him made him completely dumbstruck.

Cloudy Heavens was rolling around and around in the sky as if he really was like a flying cloud.

Gao Yingjie could clearly see that Xiao Yun was struggling and what he saw more clearly was Lord Grim's beautiful pathing. He obviously understood what the purpose of this pathing was. In Glory, this type of pathing had a special term for it: Vanishing Step.

You always knew that your opponent was at your side, but you would never be able to see him. This was Vanishing Step's purpose.

But for experts, even if they couldn't see your position, they could still rely on experience and decision-making to deduce your position. As long as you escaped from a mid-air situation, Vanishing Step would naturally stop.

This was a competition between their experience and decision-making. And as for Cloudy Heavens, who was being completely suppressed up in the air, there was clearly a large gap in both experience and decision-making between him and Lord Grim.

Gao Yingjie couldn't help but stealthily glance towards Xiao Yun.

In his eyes, he saw a fuming Xiao Yun, who was slamming his keyboard and mashing his mouse like crazy.

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Chapter 130 – The Opponent Is Extremely Strong

"Ah, Little Jie, you've arrived too!!" At this moment, his neighboring player, Liu Fei, exclaimed.

"Ah!" Gao Yingjie replied. He hastily turned his camera. He felt that Xiao Yun didn't want others to know of his embarrassing situation.

But when Xiao Yun heard this, he quickly turned his head to look at everyone. Unfortunately, he happened to meet eye to eye with Gao Yingjie. The two players awkwardly turned their heads back, avoiding each other.

Gao Yingjie moved out in a hurry. His Witch Weeping Cry swiftly flew over, rushing towards Lord Grim. In comparison, although Qiao Yifan's Ashen Moon was being attacked on all four sides, he was at least hanging on. But Xiao Yun's Cloudy Heaven, on the other hand, was already completely helpless.

Gao Yingjie's Weeping Crow quickly hurried over and threw out a Magic Missile.

Lord Grim moved sideways and dodged it. And unexpectedly, he was still using Vanishing Step.

Gao Yingjie was dripping with sweat. Even though he was considered a talented new player, for moves like Vanishing Step, which required a great amount of experience, he wasn't much better than Xiao Yun in that aspect. Since he had no way of figuring out how Lord Grim was going to move and attack, he could only fly forward to close in on Lord Grim.

Close in and then steal his positioning. That should be able to break his Vanishing Step right? Gao Yingjie thought like this.

Weeping Crow hastily advanced, when suddenly, Lord Grim's weapon streaked in a 360 degree circle. The ground beneath him flashed with light.

Rising Emblem!!!

Gao Yingjie was greatly alarmed. But as a recognized talent, Gao Yingjie's reaction speed and mechanics truly were first-class. He immediately rode his broom and flew away. Rising Emblem's ring of light ascended, nearly brushing his broom.

Cloudy Heavens was still up in the sky, rolling around.

After dodging the Rising Emblem, Weeping Crow quickly circled back for another try.

A gun sound rang out!

Weeping Crow rolled away and was once again delayed.

How terrible!! Gao Yingjie looked on helplessly as Cloudy Heavens was hit twice in midair.

Climb back up, rush forward again.

This time, Lord Grim didn't use any methods to prevent him from getting close, but Gao Yingjie immediately felt an ominous premonition.

Lord Grim suddenly leapt backwards towards him. The battle lance in his hands stabbed forward still aimed at the mid-air Cloudy Heavens.

He then turned 180 degrees in mid-air, creating a wide arc.

Circle Swing. Cloudy Heavens was carried around on the head of the tip like a sledgehammer, smashing towards Weeping Crow.

Weeping Crow easily dodged it, but Cloudy Heavens, on the other hand, had smashed into the ground and didn't stand back up.

Crash!!

Xiao Yun smashed his keyboard and stood up.

Everyone else jumped in their seats and subconsciously glanced at him.

Only Gao Yingjie didn't. It wasn't just because he knew what had happened, but more importantly, he already had no time to pay attention to him. At this moment, Lord Grim was his opponent.

Xiao Yun was somewhat angry. It wasn't just towards Lord Grim but also towards Gao Yingjie.

Gao Yingjie had clearly arrived. Why didn't he go and help him? Xiao Yun furiously glared at Gao Yingjie. But he saw that Gao Yingjie hadn't seen him and was staring at the screen tapping his keyboard instead.

F*ck!!! Xiao Yun cursed in his heart.

His neighbor, Zhou Yebai, had already seen his corpse from Xiao Yun's screen. Zhou Yebai was overwhelmed with shock, but didn't say anything. Even an idiot could tell Xiao Yun was in a bad mood, an extremely bad mood.

However, even if everyone could tell that Xiao Yun wasn't happy, saying it out loud was a whole different matter.

Liu Fei saw Xiao Yun's screen and immediately gaped: "Wow! Xiao Yun, how'd you die?"

This time, even Qiao Yifan, who was running for his life, was astonished. He had been running for so long, but he still hung on. Xiao Yun died? How did he die? Qiao Yifan was extremely baffled.

Extremely busy, he still stole a glance at the four others. He saw that Xiao Yun's face was flushed with anger, but more importantly, he saw his friend extremely focused.

"Bang!!" In this split second of his distraction, Qiao Yifan's Ashen Moon was immediately hit by Steamed Bun Invasion's Brick.

"Ha ha ha ha, you can't run from me!!!" Steamed Bun Invasion laughed as if his one Brick had killed him.

Qiao Yifan's attention immediately returned back to his Ashen Moon. His health was already low. He wouldn't be able to hold on for much longer.

Right at this moment, a hole suddenly appeared in the four player's encirclement. Big enough that Qiao Yifan was able to immediately recognize it among all the confusion. Without hesitating, Qiao Yifan ran straight out.

In this space, Qiao Yifan was finally able to see the entire situation. He immediately saw Gao Yingjie's Weeping Crow riding on his broom, quickly fluttering by. Just now, he had helped Qiao Yifan escape from the encirclement. Once he did that, he faced towards Lord Grim, who was currently carrying his weapon, running over to kill him.

"Run!!" Qiao Yifan heard Gao Yingjie yell.

"Run?" Zhou Yebai and Liu Fei looked over, astonished.

"My opponent is extremely strong!" Gao Yingjie said.

Zhou Yebai and Liu Fei looked over at Xiao Yun.

Xiao Yun's face was still as ugly as before. If this wasn't a low-leveled account; if this was a Battle Mage with all of the skills…… Xiao Yun kept on thinking of this hypothetical situation, but….. Vanishing Step. There was no way Xiao Yun didn't know of this move name. He also knew he had died by it. Using Vanishing Step to play around with him, currently, only team captain was able to do it when they practiced. As for in the Alliance, even though there were definitely a few Gods at that level, with Xiao Yun's status, he had yet to fight against such a God one on one.

As for in the team competition, team members coordinated together, so it was very rare that Vanishing Step could be used.

"Then should we still come over?" Zhou Yebai asked. He and Liu Fei were still a bit too far away to coordinate together. They were still heading over there!

"Let's regroup first before talking!" Gao Yingjie said.

"Okay." The two replied. In their hearts, they were both extremely frightened. Killing Xiao Yun, making Gao Yingjie not dare to directly face him, just who exactly was their opponent?

The four reported their coordinates and then chose a spot to group up. Gao Yingjie anxiously waiting, ready for battle at any moment. After everyone grouped together, he turned his head and said, stunned: "Huh? They didn't come and chase us!"

Zhou Yebai and Liu Fei helplessly looked towards him.

Gao Yingjie's face flushed with embarrassment: "I thought they would chase us!"

"What about now?" Liu Fei said. She was unexpectedly asking Gao Yingjie. Their group of five had been originally led by Xiao Yun, but now that he was dead, she set up a new leader. This girl was clearly a master of speaking whatever was on her mind. She didn't have any plan.

"Uh……." Gao Yingjie had just anxiously led them a few moments ago. Now that there was nothing happening. He once again turned shy, unsure of what to do.

"We go back to kill him?" Qiao Yifan was rather brave on the other hand. Unfortunately, he was destined to be ignored.

"What about Xiao Yun?" Zhou Yebai turned his head to ask. He couldn't help but ask. Cloudy Heavens was still lying on the ground as a corpse.

"I revived." Xiao Yun said hatefully.

After reviving, the character would appear at a revival point in a city, so it would take some time for him to reach the leveling area.

"How exactly did you die?" Liu Fei asked.

Xiao Yun';s face darkened. Losing wasn't anything humiliating. They were all pro-players. Even God Jiexi couldn't guarantee that they could go undefeated for an entire season. But the problem was that in the game, as pro-players, they were already considered gods by the normal players.

If a god was killed by a mortal, then what honor did the god have?

"Little Jie, you saw it right?" Liu Fei truly was helpless. Seeing that Xiao Yun didn't want to say it, she went to ask Gao Yingjie.

Gao Yinjie had been mentioned by name, so he had no choice but to reply: "It looked like Vanishing Step."

"Vanishing Step?" Zhou Yebai and Liu Fei were extremely astonished. They turned their heads to look at that bitter Xiao Yun.

"To be able to kill Xiao Yun with Vanishing Step, could this guy be at captain's level?" Liu Fei blurted out.

"What do you know! That player was an unspecialized character with a large variety of skills. He has a huge early game advantage." Xiao Yun had no choice but to try and justify himself. However, he felt his explanation was lacking. What pro-player didn't know that Vanishing Step had nothing to do with what skills he had. Vanishing Step was purely based on a player's experience and decision-making as well as a few accurate movements.

"Could this Lord Grim be captain?" Liu Fei said.

"Bullsh*t." Zhou Yebai said.

Qiao Yifan silently sat there. In the team, he was always the listener. Besides privately chatting with Gao Yingjie, there was almost never any other chance for him to speak. Right now, he was tapping his keyboard as if none of this was related to him.

"Captain told us to kill this player once!" Zhou Yebai reminded everyone to not forget everyone's assignment.

"Could it be that captain knew of this guy's strength and wanted to test us?" Liu Fei said.

Everyone was speechless. No matter how it was said, the reason wasn't important. What was important was that the captain had given them a task. Right now, Lord Grim wasn't dead and had actually killed their leader Xiao Yun instead in an extremely infuriating manner too.

"Now we don't even know where they are." Zhou Yebai said.

"Go ask Herb Garden's players!" Liu Fei asked Xiao Yun.

At this moment, Xiao Yun didn't want to talk to anyone. All he wanted to do was find a sandbag and punch it. Liu Fei, this f*cking girl, had so many questions. Maybe putting her into a sandbag and then beating it up would be more satisfying. Xiao Yun thought.

"Uh oh! It looks like they've caught up!!" Qiao Yifan suddenly yelled. Only he wasn't participating in the discussion, but looking around in-game.

The other three immediately turned their cameras. Sure enough, they saw Lord Grim's group of five.

"Hm? Those guys look like the ones from before." On Ye Xiu's side, a few of them recognized Ashen Moon and Weeping Crow. They still hadn't had the chance to meet White Day Black Night and Fallen Angel yet.

"There are another two. They're together, right?" Seven Fields said.

"What are these guys trying to do?" Tang Rou asked. Yesterday, they had been attacked for no reason. And in the end, another similar situation happened again.

Yesterday, the player had run off and today, they still weren't able to catch one. Seeing that their four's encirclement wasn't able to kill off even one, while Ye Xiu had killed one, made Tang Rou feel even worse.

"Everyone, be careful. These guys aren't so easy." Ye Xiu said.

"How are they not easy?" Steamed Bun Invasion.

"If you go fight with them, it'll definitely be more satisfying than fighting in the Arena." Ye Xiu said.

"Then what are we waiting for!!" Steamed Bun Invasion held sand in his left hand and a Brick in his right, already ready to go up.

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Chapter 131 – Cover Strategy

Boneyard could be considered fairly spacious and empty. Looking at the map: gravestones, coffins, and withered trees were the three most prominent scenery.

As pro-players, Tiny Herb's four players weren't scared. Seeing that their opponents had chased them, they immediately began seizing the strategic high grounds. Right now, the four were together. But if they still ran away, then it'd be quite difficult to explain.

The four characters each held their own positions. From an overall perspective, their coordination wasn't bad.

Ye Xiu saw this and immediately blocked Steamed Bun Invasion from advancing: "Don't rush."

"My Brick has already been waiting impatiently for too long." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"This is a real team battle." Ye Xiu said, "Have you watched any of the Pro Alliance's matches?"

Steamed Bun Invasion obviously said that he hadn't. Seven Fields said he did. Sleeping Moon said obviously. Tang Rou didn't say anything. She had watched a total of one, so she didn't know if that counted as having watched them or not.

"Remember their positions well. We'll attack them one by one." Ye Xiu said.

"Brother expert, you should set it up!" Seven Fields made a fist.

"Cross Formation. Steamed Bun Invasion at the front. Seven Fields on the left. Little Moon Moon in the middle. Tang Rou at the back. Myself at the right. Everyone follow me while staying in formation. Don't break order." Ye Xiu said.

Sleeping Moon heard "Little Moon Moon"! He didn't want to cooperate, but he was at the middle. The others all depended on him as the center. The four instantly moved to their front, back, left, right position and he had no choice but to cooperate.

Lord Grim moved and the four immediately followed.

Liu Fei's Fallen Angel was currently hiding behind a coffin. With regards to Gunners, those types of long-ranged classes, using a cover when fighting with an opponent was a common strategy. But using a shield had its advantages and disadvantages. When they hid, the cover blocked not only the enemy's field of view, but also their own. So they had no way of knowing the entire situation.

However, in a team, this flaw was covered. Team members could communicate with each other to understand the parts they couldn't see.

White Night Black Day and Ashen Moon weren't considered long-ranged classes, but they still found a place to hide. With their overlapping views, they could understand the field clearly. In the end, pro-players were still pro-players. This type of defense for attack strategy was quite simple for them.

"The other side is in a Cross Formation. The Brawler at the front, Striker on the left, Blade Master in the middle, Battle Mage in the back, Lord Grim on the right." White Night Black Day informed everyone of their opponent's positioning.

"They're advancing towards Yifan." Gao Yingjie said.

"Ah……" Qiao Yifan tensed up.

'Fei Fei get their attention!" Zhou Yebai said. At this moment, Xiao Yun wasn't there yet, so he acted as the temporarily leader for now.

"Okay!" Liu Fei answered. She suddenly moved. Fallen Angel rolled out from a coffin, crouched, c*cked her gun, and fired.

"Peng!" A gun sound rang out and blood blossomed out from Fallen Angel's forehead.

Liu Fei was extremely astonished. She didn't think that she would be the first one to be hit by a shot. On the opponent's side, smoke slowly drifted out from the tip of Lord Grim's umbrella-like thing.

Bullets affected the character's positioning. Hand cannons had the largest push back and had the highest attack. Next was the rifle and last was the handgun.

The Thousand Chance Umbrella's bullets belonged to the Rifle type. Its firing rate wasn't as fast as the revolver or handgun, but it had a higher impact.

Fallen Angel staggered back after being hit by the bullet. Liu Fei's intended surprise attack flew off.

But as a pro-player, she obviously possessed the ability to adapt. Liu Fei controlled Fallen Angel to run back to position, while continuing to fire back.

"Peng!" A second shot rang out and more blood blossomed from Fallen Angel's body. Her body was hit askew and her counterfire missed again.

Liu Fei was even more astonished.

Her opponent's timing was too perfect, just happening to hit the instant she fired.

If she had been hit slightly earlier, then Liu Fei would have had time to adjust her shot, so it wouldn't go crooked. If she had been hit slightly later, then obviously, Falling Angel's bullet would have already flew out and both of them would be hit.

In the end, her opponent's bullet had hit her twice in the instant her Fallen Angel had fired, making Liu Fei unable to adjust in time.

As a Gunner, Liu Fei knew how difficult it was to pull off such precise timing. She had always thought that that type of legend that could only be done in theory, yet she had just been hit twice like that just now.

The opponent's Cross Formation had already adjusted towards a new target. They were now rushing towards her. No matter what had happened, on a whole, she had grabbed the enemy's attention.

Liu Fei didn't dare remain out in the open. She hastily ran towards another hiding place.

"Peng Peng!"

Two shots in a row hit the tombstone she was hiding behind, stone broke off swirling in the air. Afterwards, she heard a muffled sound as if something had smashed into the tombstone. It didn't seem like a bullet. Liu Fei was very curious, but she didn't dare expose her head.

"No, no. The angle wasn't good. It was a bit under." Ye Xiu was still leisurely instructing Steamed Bun Invasion, telling him that the angle the Brick he had just thrown was off.

"It looks like the distance between us is a bit too far?" Steamed Bun Invasion asked.

"You can jump up to make the Brick fly farther!" Ye Xiu said.

"Oh right!" Steamed Bun Invasion exclaimed.

"Crash!" Another thing directly hit the tombstone. That sound resounded in her ears and she heard it too vividly. Liu Fei jumped up in fright.

"What was that?" Liu Fei asked her teammates.

"Brick……" The people who had saw couldn't help but answer.

"Brick?"

"He's practicing what angle he needed to throw the Brick and one just happened to smash into the tombstone you were hiding behind." Zhou Yebai said.

"Prac……practice?" Liu Fei was speechless. What exactly were they doing?

"Crash!" Another Brick came over, making the tombstone tremble as if it were going to break.

One Brick after the other. They weren't too frequent. After all, Brick wasn't a normal attack, but a skill with a cooldown. She obviously knew what the cooldown was for Brick. She had originally calculated the time and braced for the impact. But the fourth one didn't arrive. Liu Fei made Fallen Angel sneak a peek. In the end, just as half her head extended out, "Crash!" A Brick smashed into her forehead and she began seeing stars. She had actually been Dizzied by it.

Soon after, two "Peng Peng" sounds rang out. She had been hit twice by Lord Grim again. Liu Fei wanted to dodge, but had no way of doing so. Fallen Angel was still Dizzy. Half of her head was still exposed to the outside.

"Did it hit? Was I hit?"

Clearly, the five players had closed in, close enough that Liu Fei could hear her opponents' voices.

"No. She exposed her head, which was why you were able to hit her. If not, then it would have went over." Ye Xiu said.

"Why did that idiot expose her head?" Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"You acted too slowly, so she probably did it because she was anxious!" Ye Xiu said.

"Ha ha ha, she's fallen in love with my Brick." Steamed Bun Invasion said delightedly.

"You just watch!!!" Liu Fei was extremely furious. She was even too angry to type it out and directly roared it out.

"Ha ha, we're coming." Steamed Bun Invasion unexpectedly answered back. Liu Fei almost collapsed from anger. Her roar obviously wasn't directed at these five players. It was only because she was too angry to type it out. Even though, she may have been too far away in game for her teammates to hear. Don't forget that her teammates were all sitting together. Liu Fei's roar had directly penetrated her teammates' headphones. The three suddenly shivered. Yet in the end, Steamed Bun Invasion answered back.

"Don't panic……" Zhou Yebai said in a low voice. Liu Fei's role was to attract the enemy's' attention. Even though she had suffered a bit, her original aim had been reached. The five players were currently headed towards their trap.

"Little Jie, get ready." Zhou Yebai reminded Gao Yingjie.

"Okay……" Gao Yingjie said.

Qiao Yifan was extremely lonely. He was also a part of the team, but……he wasn't a part of the strategy. He didn't know if it was on purpose or not. But in brief, he had been forgotten. Ashen Moon was hiding behind a tombstone, staring at this ice-cold tombstone that represented the dead. Qiao Yifan didn't know what to do. But he was already used to this sort of feeling.

"Move out!" Zhou Yebai suddenly ordered. His White Night Black Day and Gao Yingjie's Weeping Crow flashed out from the left and right. Weeping Crow shook his sleeves, preparing to use a Shadow Cloak to Bind the five players. On the side, Zhou Yebai was waiting for Weeping Crow's Cloak. Afterwards, he would summon a Phantom Ghost and then follow up with a Ghost Slash.

According to Glory's explanation, Ghostblades set up fields with special effects and summoned Ghosts to assist them. This ability was named Phantom Ghost. Whether it was for an individual or a team, it was extremely useful as a support. White Night Black Day was a Level 26 Ghostblade and could summon the first Ghost Sword Soul. After a Sword Soul appeared, all teammates inside its boundary would have their Strength and Intelligence attributes raised. Of course, this was only limited to inside the boundary. There wouldn't be any effects outside of the boundary. If the Ghost's power could be applied whenever, Ghostblades would be unrivalled.

Once the Witch's Shadow Cloak bound the enemies, he would use this interval to summon a Phantom Ghost and then kill or heavily injure the enemies within the boundary. This was Zhou Yebai's plan. At this moment, he was waiting for Weeping Crow's Shadow Cloak to bind the enemies.

Who knew that just as Weeping Crow threw out his skill, a sword light flashed over. No one knew who had acted first. With Gao Yingjie's reaction speed and skill, he didn't think that he would lost to anyone when fighting for time. But this time, his opponent's skill had unexpectedly arrived first. Sword Draw's sword light arrived, making Gao Yingjie feel extremely astonished. He could only helplessly choose to dodge it. Even if he directly took on the attack, there was no way his Shadow Cloak would hit. Just like this, he and Zhou Yebai's plans had been easily crushed.

The player who had sent out the attack wasn't Lord Grim and was impressively Sleeping Moon. Though it was true that this attack had been made on Ye Xiu's orders.

When Ye Xiu yelled out for him to attack, he hadn't even seen the target yet. His attack wasn't any different than sending it out with his eyes closed. In the end, just after his attack was sent out, he saw Weeping Crow jump out.

Let alone Gao Yingjie, even Sleeping Moon, who had sent out the attack, was extremely astonished. In Sleeping Moon's eyes, his attack hadn't hit because of himself, but rather because someone had stupidly jumped out towards the attack.

Cover Strategy's Flaw: Even if they could mutually communicate their field of view, they could only use it to report to each other and reduce the dangers. In regards to their understanding of the situation at a moment's notice, it was still somewhat lacking.

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Chapter 132 – Team Wiped Out

Since Shadow Cloak failed, it wouldn't be easy for Zhou Yebai to use Phantom Ghost. Phantom Ghost wasn't an instant cast. It was a summoning skill that had a cast time. As a result, if he just openly began summoning, it would definitely be interrupted.

Even though there was no way for Phantom Ghost to be openly cast, his White Night Black Day was already standing out in the open. Seeing that his plan had failed, he immediately sent out a Ghost Slash.

Phantom Ghosts obviously weren't the only skills that Ghostblades could use. They also had a few attack skills. Even though Ghost Slash was a low-leveled skill, its direct damage was quite high. However, it had a very long delay, so there were a lot of openings after using it. However, Zhou Yebai had calculated the distance and determined that there was enough time for the delay to finish, which was why he so bravely decided to use this skill.

A lot of Ghostblade skills were innately dark-attributed. Ghost Slash was one of them and fit Boneyard's atmosphere well. A dark purple sword light came down like lightning with dense killing intent and extraordinary momentum.

Unfortunately, White Night Black Day had come out directly facing the Cross Formation's right side, Lord Grim.

Ghost Slash arrived and the Thousand Chance Umbrella in Lord Grim's hands suddenly opened. There was no other transformation. This time, it really was what it was. The umbrella really was an umbrella.

Zhou Yebai stared blankly.

In his eyes, this form, this usage, obviously didn't make him feel as if it was an umbrella. In his eyes, it was clearly a shield.

Apart from strengthening defense and absorbing damage, more importantly, Shields provided strong resistances to knock-backs, knock-ups, Stuns, Bleed, Dizzy, etc. all those status effects. Of course, the pre-condition was that you had to use the Shield to block the opponent's attack first.

As a result, from this perspective, besides the stats a Shield provided, the surface area of a Shield was also important to look at. A large surface area usually meant that it had a large volume. A large volume usually meant that it was heavy. Heavy usually meant that it would be a huge burden. A huge burden affected movement speed, attack speed, jump height, etc. This was why weight was an important factor to consider. Shields were extremely heavy equipment. A slightly larger Shield wouldn't mean that it would only be a tiny bit heavier. If you only sought after the largest Shield possible, then you would be moving extremely slowly like a turtle.

But Lord Grim's Thousand Chance Umbrella was so large that Zhou Yebai even saw it as a bit shameless.

His White Night Black Day's Ghost Slash finally hit onto the Thousand Chance Umbrella. Soon afterwards, he unexpectedly found that his Slash had caused Lord Grim to move back a bit.

Ghost Slash had a small Blow Away effect, but it wasn't very strong. An ordinary Level 25 Shield could completely block this Blow Away effect. But with Lord Grim's Shield, after being hit by the Slash, even though the Slash didn't make Lord Grim completely fly away, there was still a slight knock-back. Zhou Yebai saw immediately that even though its surface area was large, it was very light, so its resistance to status effects were extremely lacking.

For this type of light Shield, first, it had poor defense. Second, its durability was too low for a shield. Shields had their Durability used up relatively quick compared to other equipments. Seeing how the Shield in Lord Grim's hands wasn't able to completely resist his Glost Slash's Blow Away effect, Zhou Yebai reckoned that if this Shield was given to an MT like a Knight, it might not even last for a single dungeon run.

Zhou Yebai's judgement wasn't wrong at all. The Thousand Chance Umbrella's Shield Form, like the other forms, had a Weight of 2.3 kg. Its Durability was only 23. For Shields, this was a simply terrible number. However, the Shield's base stats weren't bad. The Level 25 Thousand Chance Umbrella Shield Form had a 24% Defense Increase and a 16% Damage Absorption, equivalent to a Level 35 Purple Shield.

The Thousand Chance Umbrella Shield Form had already been upgraded twice by "Strong Spider Silk" and "White Wolf Bristles" and was one of the first to reach Level 25.

Even though the Thousand Chance Umbrella blocked the Ghost Slash, Lord Grim still took some damage. But after eating the attack, the Thousand Chance Umbrella immediately closed. In that instant, it felt like the Umbrella had sucked in the Ghost Slash. The Thousand Chance Umbrella then transformed into the Battle Lance form, which directly stabbed towards White Night Black Day.

No matter how pro Zhou Yebai was, this was the first time he had seen such a change. In the end, he found that there wasn't enough time for the delay to finish. His character was still in the middle of its animation, when Lord Grim had sent a lance flying forward.

Tang Rou's Soft Mist had also moved out at this moment. Her character looked just like the initial Cloudy Heavens with seven Ice Chasers revolving around her. However, Xiao Yun's Cloudy Heavens had been tragically juggled around by Lord Grim for thirty seconds and his Ice Chasers had disappeared one after the other. Right now, Soft Mist followed Lord Grim's Dragon Tooth right after the Stun wore off with her own Dragon Tooth. An Ice Chaser flew out and the Stunned White Night Black Day had no way of dodging it. The Ice Chaser smashed into him, ice blossoming across his face. His body immediately began emitting a chilly aura, entering a Slowed state.

Zhou Yebai wasn't even an opponent for Ye Xiu, let alone both Ye Xiu and Tang Rou. Ye Xiu controlled him, while Tang Rou put out damage, making Zhou Yebai's White Night Black Day's life drop down like flowing water. Ghostblades weren't a class with high defense. They wore Cloth Armor and were as defenseless as Mages.

Seven Ice Chasers fluttered towards White Night Black Days like shining pearls. Chasers auto-chased the target. The only way for it to miss was to use an attack to destroy it. Zhou Yebai's hands went out of control. Of the Seven Chasers, he was only able to hit down two of them. The other five all hit. Luckily, Chasers were classified as Magic Attacks. Cloth Armor may have low Physical Defense, but they had high Magic Defense.

Seven Fields, Sleeping Moon, and Steamed Bun Invasion now rushed forward under Ye Xiu's commands. Ye Xiu's Lord Grim stepped aside. He used a Circle Swing picking up White Night Black Day and flipping him over. Sleeping Moon immediately jumped to Lord Grim's original position. Their coordination seemed a little rough, but when White Night Black Day got up, he discovered he was now in the middle of the Cross Formation and was then attacked on all four sides by the four players.

This was all done in the blink of an eye. Gao Yingjie hastily controlled his Weeping Crow to fly over, but Ye Xiu's Lord Grim stepped out to block him.

Disperse Powder was thrown down. Lord Grim leisurely opened up his umbrella and strolled over. After blocking Disperse Powder, he once again closed the umbrella and stabbed up at the flying Weeping Crow. No matter how fast Gao Yingjie's reaction speed was, there was no way for him to dodge it. Following after, he used a Circle Swing and flung Weeping Crow into the center of the Cross. Weeping Crow and White Night Black Day were now back to back fighting against the encirclement.

Liu Fei's Fallen Angel had been hoping for her teammates to come help her. However, she didn't yet have time to react after the tombstone incident, when Zhou Yebai and Gao Yingjie one after another were thrown into a trap like fish. Liu Fei was aware that the situation wasn't looking good. She then suddenly saw Lord Grim's figure flash by. Right when she began to panic, she was hit by a Falling Flower Palm from behind and Fallen Angel was blasted away. Soft Mist lifted her spear, caught her, and then threw her into their encirclement too.

It wasn't possible to only rely on Tang Rou and the other three to trap three pro-players. But with Ye Xiu's commands along with Ye Xiu's own task of personally sending them over, the three pro-players really did want to cry, but no tears came out.

Pro-players? In this moment, the three didn't feel that they were anymore.

No matter who it was, Zhou Yebai and Liu Fei who had been in official matches, or the extremely talented and future star Gao Yingjie, they had all fallen into the net like little fishes. Punches, Bricks, Slashes, Stabs, Bullets, whatever there was, they got.

The three players were all looking for a chance to rush out. No one paid attention to who was who and they all shouted and yelled at each other. But no matter what they did, their opponents always seemed to be able to figure out what they wanted to do and took the initiative to stops their plans. The three players were completely desperate.

Zhou Yebai's White Night Black Day had the lowest defense of the three and was also the first to be thrown in. In the end, he was the first to die. Zhou Yebai furiously smashed his keyboard. His gaze suddenly shifted after thinking of something and then roared in rage: "YIFAN, WHERE THE F*CK ARE YOU!!!"

The forgotten Qiao Yifan's Ashen Moon had actually been foolishly standing to the side the entire time. His teammates had never called for him to come up, so the opponents also ignored him. Seeing that even Gao Yingjie had been easily thrown into the encirclement, Qiao Yifan truly didn't know what to do. At this moment, he heard Zhou Yebai's roar, he no longer cared if he had the ability and stupidly rushed forward. Naturally, it turned out to be a tragedy. His skill level was the worst among the four. In front of Ye Xiu, how could he be a match? After a few rounds of combat face to face, Lord Grim threw him into the encirclement too, which could be considered as having answered Zhou Yebai's question.

Zhou Yebai helplessly fell from his seat. His roar at Qiao Yifan had drained him. There was no way he actually placed his hopes on him. Even more so, when he had yelled, he himself had already died.

At this moment, even Cloudy Heavens, who was heading over to their location, had stopped. Xiao Yun stupidly stared at the screens of his teammates next to him. He silently watched as the opponents killed them off one after another.

Team wiped out……

Even though, they had been killed at different times. It was a fact that each of the five players had died once. The five players sat in front of their screen. Besides Xiao Yun, they were all staring at their corpses, somewhat at a loss.

Lord Grim and the others were still in the surroundings circling about. What were they saying? It was unfortunate that corpses would automatically have their sound cut off. At this moment, they weren't able to hear any voices or sounds as if they really were dead, just like how they were all feeling right now.

"This……" When Xiao Yun made a mistake, he felt that he could force out an explanation. But now, the four other players had been wiped out by the opponents. There was nothing they could say about this. Even though they were only subs for the Club, which two of them hadn't even had official match experience yet, in the end, they were still pro-players. The five of them were players that could come out as team representatives at any time in a team competition. But now, in the game, in a team battle, with just one person as their objective, their team had been wiped out and none of their opponents had died. Even in an actual pro-match, they probably wouldn't have suffered such a disastrous defeat.

"How annoying! As a Level 27 Sharpshooter, I don't have a lot of skills I can use. I'm so not used to it!!" Liu Fei was the first to speak. What a wise girl. She was the first to find an excuse.

"Yeah, it is a bit annoying……" Zhou Yebai borrowed the excuse with great difficulty.

"That's what I said before." A "You finally understand" was written all over Xiao Yun's face.

Gao Yingjie and Qiao Yifan didn't say anything. Gao Yingjie was an honest, introverted child and felt too embarrassed to make an excuse. As for Qiao Yifan, would an excuse give them back face? He laughed bitterly. What was face? It's not like he'd ever had it before!

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Chapter 133 – Measuring Skill

That night, Club Tiny Herb's reserve team slept extremely uneasy.

They didn't go group together and look for trouble with Lord Grim again. Even though almost everyone used the excuse "low-leveled characters didn't have every class skill available, so they weren't used to it", they all knew in their hearts that that wasn't an excuse. They were pro-players. Just because they weren't used to it didn't mean that their team should get wiped out by in-game players, right? If that were true, then pro-players weren't worth anything.

The next day, Tiny Herb's main team and the reserve team met up with each other in the practice rooms and greeted each other.

As pro-players, they had to participate in the daily drills. Even though there was no lack of players who didn't want to practice, there were no such members in Tiny Herb. With captain Wang Jiexi's stare, half of the members were even too afraid to speak out.

"Woah, did you not sleep?" When Qiao Yifan saw his good friend Gao Yingjie, he jumped in fright. Gao Yingjie's dark bags under his eyes like a panda.

"Ah……." Gao Yingjie muttered and didn't really answer him.

Qiao Yifan looked again. Xiao Yun, Zhou Yebai, and Liu Fei – which one of their complexions looked good? However, their minds were still somewhat better than Gao Yingjie and the bags under their eyes weren't as heavy.

And Qiao Yifan? He hadn't felt any pressure. It wasn't like anyone had any hopes for him.

At 9 o'clock sharp, Wang Jiexi arrived at the practice room on time. Tiny Herb's official training was split into the morning and the afternoon. Coaches, those types of people, still weren't established in Glory. After all, Glory had only been a game for ten years and the pro-scene had only been around for seven years. Everything was still in the testing stages. In the entire scene, first-class Gods like Wang Jiexi were already at the peak, whether it was in theorycrafting or skill. As a result, there weren't any people with the skill to coach them.

As a result, for Clubs like Tiny Herb, they didn't have coaching staff and instead had advising staff. Their work was extremely complex: find information on their opponents, analyze the opponent's tactics, provide a few tactical options, research possible strategies for a map, etc. These were all tasks that the advising staff had to do. But the person with the highest authority was the team captain.

To be frank, the highest value of the advising staff was saving energy for pro-players. They saved a lot of energy for pro-players. In the initial stages of the pro-scene, those tasks all used to be work for the pro-players themselves to do. Now that Clubs had developed, with their financial resources, the money could now be used for these, giving pro-players more time to concentrate on practicing and competing.

Currently, in the Alliance, the only real coaches were Zhang Yiwei and Li Bo. The two were early-generation pro-players and were each in a small Club working as coaches.

Club Mysterious Fantasy were newcomers that had joined the Alliance just last year. The team was full of new players. Their skill levels varied and they lacked experience. The owner of the team also didn't have a lot of financial resources and didn't have any ambition. And in the end, he just randomly invited Zhang Yiwei to help the team. Who would have thought that the results would be so good. They ended up 17th place last season, which for a new team that had just entered the Alliance, was already quite good, considering that they didn't drop to the bottom two places. Some of the teams that entered for the first time spent money scouting people and tried to quickly build a team around pro-players. Those teams all ended as terrible failures. This wasn't only a one-time thing either. From this perspective, coaches were quite cost-effective. At the very least, they were a small investment that had few risks.

As a result, the new Club Bright Green followed Club Mysterious Fantasy and invited Li Bo. But currently, these two Clubs were both in extremely bad situations. The previous year's 17th place Mysterious Fantasy directly fell to 20th place. And even though Bright Green was ranked 18th, the team they were above was Excellent Era. The Excellent Era, which in theory, shouldn't have fallen to 19th place. In addition, they were only ahead of Excellent Era by 3 points and no one believed that they would be able to beat Excellent Era and relegate them.

Coaches were far from being deciding factors in the Glory competitive scene. This was something that everyone agreed upon. Zhang Yiwei and Li Bo were currently suffering in their bad situation and burned-out from trying to prove their worth.

Once Wang Jiexi arrived, the murmurs and whispering immediately stopped and all of the team members began focusing on their practice materials. Wang Jiexi walked around and, in the end, came to where the subs were located. Everyone there immediately sucked in a cold breath. Usually, everyone hoped that God Jiexi would notice them, but now they all hoped that they were invisible. Qiao Yifan was the only exception. He had always been invisible.

"How was last night?" Wang Jiexi, all in all, began speaking. The five players were all looking at each other. None of them dared to answer. In the end, Xiao Yun lifted his head and saw that Wang Jiexi was staring at him. He helplessly replied: "Uh……. we encountered a few difficulties."

"How?' Wang Jiexi asked.

"We….." Xiao Yun began thinking of how to word it. "Team wiped out" was too negative, he couldn't say that. He was the first to die and the other four had died later. Everyone had died at different times, so it wasn't technically a team wipe out. As a result, Xiao Yun avoided this phrase, carefully wording his reply, while paying attention to Wang Jiexi's expression.

"D*mn, how sly!!" Zhou Yebai and Liu Fei heard him talking and then regretted not speaking out first. Right now, Xiao Yun held the power of speech. That guy lightly skimmed over his initial loss and then vividly described the other four's wipe out. Moreover, he even had a bit of a "If I was there, that wouldn't have happened" tone. Zhou Yebai and Liu Fei both wanted to speak and argue, but seeing Wang Jiexi's dark expression, they didn't dare utter a word.

Xiao Yun finally finished and concluded: "Oh! We've decided to practice on these low-leveled accounts and then go look for him again tonight."

After all of his explaining, besides the excuse "we aren't used to low-leveled accounts", there was nothing else he could come up with, so Xiao Yun could only say this.

Wang Jiexi didn't comment. After a short while of silence, he suddenly said to Gao Yingjie: "What do you think Little Jie?"

Xiao Yun and the others were envious.

Gao Yingjie stood up, somewhat terrified, and then stammered: "I think…… really strong"

"What's really strong?" Wang Jiexi asked.

"That Lord Grim." Gao Yingjie said.

"How strong?" Wang Jiexi asked.

Gao Yingjie looked at Xiao Yun. Because Xiao Yun had only briefly skimmed over what had happened to him, he hadn't mentioned that Lord Grim had played with him to his death using Vanishing Step. Even though Gao Yingjie wasn't a very considerate person, he at least understood what Xiao Yun wanted. But Vanishing Step really was a good indicator of Lord Grim's skill level……

In the end, Gao Yingjie thought like this. If he really did take Xiao Yun's intent into consideration and didn't tell the truth, then it would mean that he wouldn't be a simple and honest person. He quickly began saying the truth: "I saw Lord Grim use Vanishing Step to defeat Brother Xiao. When the four of us fought against him later, all of our movements were within their calculations. I think this was all done by Lord Grim, too."

"Oh? What did you think of him?' Wang Jiexi asked.

"He is extremely experienced. All of his attacks and skills were used to gain an advantage. And all of his decisions were very accurate." Gao Yingjie said.

"Have you ever met someone as skilled as him before?" Wang Jiexi said.

Gao Yingjie stared blankly and then said after quite a long while: "Only captain."

"What about you all?" Wang Jiexi's gaze looked over the others: "Besides me, have you ever met this type of expert before?"

Xiao Yun and the others looked at each other. Lord Grim was an expert. They all recognized that. But Gao Yingjie had said that besides Wang Jiexi, he had never met someone as skilled as him. Wasn't that a bit too exaggerated?

"Do you guys not feel that it isn't possible for such an expert to appear in the new server?" Wang Jiexi said.

The three players were silent, although Liu Fei nodded her head.

"It was because you had that type of preconceived line of thinking that you felt he was so strong. But……. you only recognized that he was strong, that's all. None of you could measure his skill, right?" Wang Jiexi said.

The three players continued to look at one another.

"Lord Grim isn't an ordinary player." Wang Jiexi said.

"Who is he?" Liu Fei asked in doubt.

"There's an 80% chance that he's Ye Qiu."

"What?" Everyone cried out in surprise.

"Is he online right now?" Wang Jiexi asked.

At this moment, everyone was on their main accounts practicing. Hearing the captain ask the question, Xiao Yun immediately logged out. He then swiped his 10th server account card and logged into the game. He searched for Lord Grim's name and nodded his head: "He's online."

"He was online last night and he's still online now. He's an all-nighter…… No matter how he plays, he probably won't be playing during the afternoon. That should be his resting time. He'll most likely appear again tonight." After Wang Jiexi calculated, he suddenly waved his hands and hit the table. Every player that heard it looked. Those that were wearing their headphones and didn't hear it were quickly reminded by the people beside them.

"After dinner, there'll be one more practice." Wang Jiexi announced to the entire team.

"What practice?" One of the main roster players asked his team captain.

"Kill a BOSS." Wang Jiexi said.

"BOSS? What BOSS?" Some people didn't understand.

'The greatest BOSS in the history of Glory." Wang Jiexi said.

Everyone stared foolishly. They still didn't understand what he meant.

"Fusheng, go grab a few account cards. They need to be tenth server accounts Level 25 and up with their classes matching our team members. The reserve team members won't need them." Wang Jiexi instructed. Deng Fusheng was Club Tiny Herb's vice-captain. His account was called Angelica, a Knight.

"Okay." Deng Fusheng answered, got up, and then left.

In the practice room, everyone couldn't help but begin discussing amongst themselves. In the end, Wang Jiexi hit the table again: "RIght now, continue practicing."

The practice room immediately quieted down. Shortly after, keyboard and mouse sounds rang out, there was no other noise. Wang Jiexi was still at the reserve team's area. He asked: "Do you have any recordings of yesterday?"

Everyone stared blankly. Liu Fei blurted out: "Captain, you never told us to record it……"

Zhou Yebai immediately glared at her. This girl really didn't know how to talk. She actually pushed the blame onto the team captain.

In the far corners of the room, Qiao Yifan weakly raised his hands: "I have recordings."

"Oh? Let me see them." Wang Jiexi quickly walked over to Qiao Yifan's computer. Qiao Yifan hastily gave him his seat.

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Chapter 134 – Tour Group

The recording was naturally in the recording character's perspective. Everything was automatic. The camera could be zoomed in and out, but it wasn't possible to rotate it. Qiao Yifan's recording started from when his Ashen Moon rushed forward to Lord Grim blocking him to being surrounded and then attacked. These sections were naturally a mess. Apart from seeing his hardships and difficulties, nothing else could really be seen. On the side, Xiao Yun let out a sigh of relief. His death from Vanishing Step hadn't been recorded.

Who knew that Wang Jiexi's eyes and hands were so precise. He repeatedly clicked on the screen to pause the recording. He wasn't looking at Ashen Moon being attacked on all sides, but rather at Lord Grim, where Cloudy Heavens was being hit in the air.

Once, twice, thrice……

Whole body, half body, a third of the body.

In the end, Xiao Yun still lowered his head in embarrassment. He hadn't been recorded, but he could still be seen in this way.

Wang Jiexi didn't say anything. This section of the recording had ended when Ashen Moon escaped from the encirclement along with Gao Yingjie's Weeping Crow. In the second section, the scene began somewhat choppy. Qiao Yifan was clearly having Ashen Moon hide and then occasionally have him take a peek outside. Once the fighting started, the forgotten Qiao Yifan had a good view of the entire scene up until Zhou Yebai's White Night Black Day was killed. Only after his roar did Ashen Moon move up and begin fighting randomly.

Everyone nervously stood behind Wang Jiexi, watching the recording. They all had their heads down waiting for the scolding! But Wang Jiexi didn't say anything. He instead got up, patted Qiao Yifan, and then left.

Xiao Yun and the others all hesitated. They didn't know what to do and in the end, returned to their computers to continue practicing. This morning went by as if their bodies and souls were separated.

That afternoon, the vice-captain Deng Fusheng came back with account cards. Most of them were received from Herb Garden with the classes matching the main roster's classes.

Club Tiny Herb, including Wang Jiexi, had a total of six players in the main roster with five players in the reserve team, for a total of eleven players. In the current league, this 65 set-up was the most common arrangement.

Unless there was a match that day, the night time was free for the players, though there was no lack of hard working players that would continue to practice on their own. However, today, since the team captain had announced an activity for them, Tiny Herb's player gathered at the practice room. After swiping their account cards, they all entered the tenth server together. Everyone's expressions were somewhat odd. For their team to gather in the game, they had done it before in the Heavenly Domain, but never in a normal server.

"Our target, the player Lord Grim. Everyone, don't be careless. It's very likely that this player is the retired Ye Qiu." Wang Jiexi announced the purpose of their added practice.

Once everyone heard this, they all became interested. They began discussing amongst each other. There were some in-game that had searched for his ID and then immediately reported to Wang Jiexi: "Captain, he's not online!"

"He'll definitely come. Everyone, first get familiar with your character. They're all low-leveled characters that haven't yet reached Level 30, so you guys aren't used to them, right?" Wang Jiexi said.

Xiao Yun and the others were flushed in embarrassment. Was captain mocking them? Was he? Or was he not? It was impossible to figure out what God Jiexi was thinking.

At around 8 o'clock, Lord Grim finally came online. The team members immediately informed Wang JIexi. They then asked Herb Garden for Lord Grim's whereabouts.

Plantago Seed was also hesitant. After yesterday, Tiny Herb's vice-captain had personally come for accounts cards today. After counting all the cards he had given, he found that they added up to Tiny Herb's entire team. Was Team Tiny Herb going to tour around in the tenth server? Plantago Seed held his breath, alarmed. But there was no one to speak to. Because these account cards were only used for special cases, they were quite secretive, and definitely couldn't be taken out and talked about casually.

Tonight, he saw all of the characters come online one by one. Plantago Seed didn't dare greet them and could only pace about, hoping that he would accidentally bump into Tiny Herb's tour group. Unfortunately, Tiny Herb's players were currently wandering around on their own and weren't grouped together.

Only until 8 o'clock, when Lord Grim went online, did some immediately ask him for Lord Grim's location.

"Lord Grim again?" Plantago Seed stared blankly. Who exactly was this Lord Grim? The entire Tiny Herb team was going to run over just to see him? Is he an alien? Plantago Seed thought while asking the guild to pay attention to Lord Grim.

After replying to them, he ran over to where Lord Grim was located too.

Desolate Land. This was where Herb Garden's players had seen Lord Grim.

If it was just for leveling, then Ye Xiu would have definitely went to a higher leveled area to level. However, he still had a few Level 28 quests, which had to be completed in Desolate Land.

Mission description? Background story? These had all stayed the same for ten years. Let alone Ye Xiu, even Plantago Seed wouldn't read these. For experienced players, quests were only done for the rewards. And since some quests were long and stupid. They would only do these quests if they rewarded attribute points or skill books, those types of necessary items. Players would then impatiently do the prerequisite quests for those types of quests. Ye Xiu was currently at Desolate Land to do these prerequisite quests.

Ye Xiu had used an online guide as a reference. He used the simplest route, where several quests could be done at once. Killing monsters, looking for people, looking for items, delivering items to people, etc. would all be turned in at once. In this way, the quests would be completed quickly.

"Lord Grim is at Desolate Land. He's alone." After asking for the circumstances, Tiny Herb's team members reported the info to Wang Jiexi.

"To Desolate Land." Wang Jiexi said.

The entire team of eleven flooded in towards Desolate Land. Vice-captain Deng Fusheng, who was sitting beside Wang Jiexi, was rushing over, while saying: "Even if he really is Ye Xiu, if we all go at once, won't that be a little excessive?

Wang Jiexi turned his head and looked him in the eye, calmly saying: "Have the main force go duel him."

"Take turns?" Deng Fusheng said.

"Group competition. We're eleven, he's one." Wang Jiexi said.

Deng Fusheng started sweating. Was there a difference?

They quickly reached Desolate Land. Lord Grim was doing quests, so he obviously wasn't hiding and was easily found. Plantago Seed had also arrived, but he didn't dare go over and say hello to them. He stealthily found a place to hide and watched from there. Seeing these eleven characters together, he knew that this was the real Team Tiny Herb. An urge swelled up in his heart. He wasn't sure whether he should record it or not.

"Main roster go challenge him. Who's going up first?" Wang Jiexi asked in the practice room.

After a moment of silence, someone said: "I'll go!"

"Okay." Wang Jiexi answered.

This player was called Liang Fang, a Berserker. His playing was simple and rough, a very wild player. At this moment, he was using the Level 27 Berserker Blood Frenzy with a Level 25 Purple weapon Breaking Water Greatsword: Physical Attack 310, Magic Attack 210, Strength 10, Collapsing Mountain Skill Level 1. Besides this, he wore a few normal Blue or Green equipment from random dungeons and quests. It was already quite impressive that Plantago Seed was able to provide a Purple weapon for everyone. Providing good equipment for everyone was too much for him to handle.

Liang Fang's Blood Frenzy raised his sword and began heading over. The other ten dispersed to let him go through. Ye Xiu was still killing monsters, not paying attention. Xiao Yun and the others were lonely. With such a large group, how could he not have seen them. They had fought with him the other day, yet today, they weren't able to draw in any attention from him. This only meant that the other side hadn't put them in his eyes.

"Hey!" After Blood Frenzy walked over, Liao Fang roared.

Lord Grim ignored him and continued to kill monsters.

Everyone felt annoyed. Liao Fang had such a loud voice. They had all heard it. How could the closer Lord Grim not have heard it? If he didn't respond, then that meant he was ignoring him.

"Hey!!" Liao Fang yelled again. He wanted to fight him fairly and didn't want to attack him while he was fighting monsters.

Still ignored.

Liao Fang's Blood Frenzy coiled around over to Lord Grim's front so that he could be seen. "I'll wait until you're done killing monsters." Liao Fang said and then quietly waited for him.

Lord Grim killed the monsters he had gathered carelessly like he always did. Liao Fang waited until he saw that he was done. Just as he was about to attack, he saw that…… Lord Grim stopped moving.

Correct. Stopped moving. Not a single movement. The scene was completely still.

"Captain?" Liao Fang looked for help somewhat gloomy.

"Hit him once and see what happens." Wang Jiexi said.

"Okay!" Liao Fang answered and then directly slashed at him. Lord Grim still didn't move. He didn't move the entire time. Liao Fang then suddenly heard what seemed like a girl crying out in fear, distracting Liao Fang. Lord Grim finally moved.

Just as his slash was about to hit him, Lord Grim suddenly crouched and the sword missed his head by a bit. He then rolled on the ground just barely dodging the slash..

"What's going on? Who is this?" In Happy Internet Cafe, Chen Guo cried out in alarm.

Ye Xiu hadn't reacted to the eleven people moving closer because he really hadn't seen them; he hadn't responded to Liao Fang's "Hello" because he really hadn't heard it. He wasn't wearing headphones. How could he have heard it? He was just casually killing off monsters, but more importantly, he was talking with Chen Guo. After killing off a few monsters, he had stopped to concentrate on talking with boss Chen Guo. His boss was explaining to him Internet Cafe work, serious work.

Chen Guo had been looking at his screen. When she saw Liao Fang suddenly attack, she cried out in alarm. Ye Xiu turned his head and looked. He then immediately turned around and moved his character, unexpectedly dodging the blade in that short instant.

"I don't know……." Ye Xiu said, while looking around. He saw Cloudy Heavens and the other's ID and then immediately said "Oh."

"Who?" Chen Guo asked.

Ye Xiu shook his head. He wasn't too sure. But after seeing everyone's ID and seeing the classes of all eleven players, he was suddenly startled.

Team Tiny Herb?!

Even though Ye Xiu wasn't a Tiny Herb fan like Plantago Seed, he was old rivals with Tiny Herb, so he was actually even more familiar with Team Tiny herb's classes than Plantago Seed. With just a glance, he had already determined this, making Ye Xiu extremely surprised.

At yesterday's fight with that group of players, Ye Xiu had already figured that they weren't ordinary. They were pro-level, but he hadn't thought that they were from Tiny Herb. He had actually been suspecting that it was Liu Hao's doing. He thought that because that guy had failed to beat him in dungeon records, he decided to just directly go and kill him. But these eleven players' classes all clearly matched with Team Tiny Herb's classes.

Ye Xiu immediately thought of that day's intense fight with Plantago Seed. So it really was Wang Jiexi controlling him?

Ye Xiu thought. He then looked at the other Witch besides Weeping Crow among the eleven characters: Fiery Blaze.

Behind Fiery Blaze's screen, Wang Jiexi calmly said: "Liao Fang, go up!"

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Chapter 135 – What Unspecialized Means

"Okay!" Liang Fang replied. This time he didn't test him and seriously attacked. He tapped his keyboard and his character Blood Frenzy stamped his feet and shook his arm. A blood-red aura surrounded his body, the Level 25 Berserker Skill "Berserk".

The Berserk status lasted 20 seconds. In those 20 seconds, the character's strength, attack speed, movement speed, and abnormal status resistance increased, while the character's intelligence, physical defense, and magic defense fell greatly. Every level required 20 skill points and its max level was 10. It was an essential buff for Berserkers.

Liang Fang just began and he was already in a Berserk state. It really did fit with his personality. He liked to finish things as quick as possible. Endurance battles were battles that Liang Fang hated the most.

After recognizing that the opponents were Team Tiny Herb, he instantly guessed what the other side's purpose was and helplessly shook his head.

"Boss, can we talk later?" Ye Xiu said to Chen Guo.

"Okay, okay. Hurry up!" Chen Guo was even more worried than Ye Xiu.

Ye Xiu's left hand tapped the keyboard, while his right hand adjusted his earphones. This sort of high-level battle required the assistance of sound. Glory was in a first-person perspective. Movements from behind were mainly determined through sound. Experienced pro-players could determine how far away the opponent was behind them through how loud or soft the opponent's footsteps were. The frequency of the footsteps could also tell them how quick the opponent was moving.

Ye Xiu put on his headphones and immediately heard Blood Frenzy heavy steps. His character turned and he saw Bloody Frenzy with his two bloodshot eyes slashing towards him.

Level 5 Berserker Skill: Heavy Hit, which fully utilized the weapon's weight. The damage and weight of the weapon were directly correlated. Blood Frenzy's Breaking Water Greatsword was around 5 kg, more than twice as heavy as Lord Grim's Thousand Chance Umbrella. This Heavy Hit's aura was extremely frightening. Ye Xiu didn't take it head on and leaped back to avoid it.

Heavy Hit smashed into the ground with a loud bang. A small crater astonishingly appeared right where Lord Grim had just been. Ye Xiu's mouse swept and Lord Grim stabbed forth with a Dragon Tooth. However, Liao Fang didn't have Blood Frenzy dodge. Instead, Blood Frenzy lifted his sword and used Back Slash, intending to fight with Lord Grim head on.

The battle lance arrived first, hitting Blood Frenzy square in his chest. However, there was no Stun. Under the Berserk status, the user would have increased resistances to status effects. Dragon Tooth's Stun effect wasn't very high originally. With the increased resistances, he naturally wasn't stunned.

Along with the sword itself, the greatsword brought along chunks of earth, which flew towards Lord Grim. However, Lord Grim had recovered and leapt backwards, dodging this attack.

Liao Fang stared blankly. He immediately knew that the attack speed of the battle lance in Lord Grim's hands didn't have the slowest attack speed of 1 like he had presumed. Because of this disadvantage in attack speeds, fighting Lord Grim head on wouldn't work.

Pro-level battles were like this. Any random detail could give them lots of information.

Even though Liang Fang's Blood Frenzy was in a Berserk state. It was only a Level 2 Berserk. Even when Berserk was maxed, it would only increase attack speed by 1, which would still be far from the Thousand Chance Umbrella's attack speed of 5.

Even though being slower didn't guarantee a loss, Liang Fang was currently fighting against a top-tier God. Along with his battle lance, which had an attack speed of 5, that was simply too difficult. Ye Xiu fully utilized his advantage though and easily suppressed Liang Fang's Blood Frenzy. After 20 seconds, Blood Frenzy's Berserk status ended and he clearly hadn't succeeded in his original intent of a quick battle.

While fighting against Blood Frenzy, Ye Xiu watched the others and discovered that the other ten players didn't have any intent on acting, even when he had Lord Grim deliberately enter their attack range.

Ye Xiu smiled. His hand speed suddenly exploded out. Lord Grim's Thousand Chance Umbrella immediately changed three times, completing three different class's skills. Blood Frenzy was blasted out. However, as a pro-player, he naturally didn't have any trouble Quick Recovering. Blood Frenzy rolled and just as he was about to stand up. Ye Xiu's Lord Grim had already used a Shadow Clone Technique to shift to his position. The distance he would fly had clearly been calculated by Lord Grim.

Unable to get up in time, Blood Frenzy was torn up into a bloody mess and died shortly after. Liang Fang was staring blankly at his screen. From beginning to end, he hadn't found any chance of winning. Suppressed, completely suppressed. Every plan, every movement had been calculated by his opponent. The opponent's movements in the beginning weren't too quick, but even so, he had been completely suppressed so easily. Once the opponent's hand speed burst forth, his end had quickly come.

In game, everything was silent.

Tiny Herb's practice room was also completely silent.

"Xiaobie, your turn." Wang Jiexi spoke and chose a player.

"Okay." He answered.

Liu Xiaobie, a very strange-sounding name, was widely known for his hand speed.

Even for pro-players, there were differences in hand speed. Liu Xiaobie could be ranked as having the fastest absolute hand speed in Tiny Herb. However, in terms of effective hand speed, he lost to captain Wang Jiexi by a level. Pro-players clearly knew that absolute hand speed was just for show, while effective hand speed was the truly valuable in real combat. Liu Xiaobie still had a ways to go there. His hand speed wasn't being completely utilized yet.

Liu Xiaobie was a Blade Master. Once he heard captain's orders, he immediately had his character move out.

Slash Slash Draw, Level 27 Blade Master, Lightsaber Mastery, Level 25 Purple Weapon Flickering Light Sword. Physical Attack: 233, Magic Attack: 253. Strength 11. Attacks had a 2% chance to Dizzy.

"Wait a minute." Ye Xiu suddenly said. Everyone was startled.

"Are you guys planning on doing a Group Competition?" Ye Xiu said.

"Yeah." Wang Jiexi unexpectedly answered back. Lord Grim was now standing face to face with his Fiery Blaze. Liang Fang's Blood Frenzy had been killed by Lord Grim under his watch.

"Too annoying." Ye Xiu said.

"Then what do you suggest?" Wang Jiexi asked.

"Let's just do a team competition!" Ye Xiu said.

Everyone immediately went into an uproar. This guy actually wanted to do a team competition with the ten of them. The problem was, he was only a single person. And the ten players over here weren't any ordinary ten players. They were Team Tiny Herb, last year's Champions. This year, they were also the favorites for being Champions and they hoped to be the second team to be consecutive Champions like Excellent Era. To be looked down upon like this, everyone was immediately infuriated on the spot. Liu Xiaobie already began shouting: "Captain, let me destroy him!!!"

"What happened?' Liang Fang, who had just revived, was still on the way there, so he didn't know what was happening.

"That guy actually said he wanted to fight against our entire team by himself. F*ck!" A teammate next to him said.

Liang Fang was startled. He wanted to say something, but he held back.

He had lost, extremely miserably and tragically and was thoroughly convinced by his loss that his opponent's experience, knowledge, and mechanical skill were all above his own by a level. Plus with an unspecialized character's advantage…….. In all honesty, Liang Fang had never seen an unspecialized character before. Unspecialized characters had already become legends when he had first started playing Glory. He had only heard a few old teammates talk about how strong and what unspecialized characters were. Today, he had finally experienced their might personally, which was clearly even more abnormal than what the old teammates had said. Unspecialized character's attacks were impossible to predict. Although they were only low-leveled skills, it included skills from all 24 classes. How could anyone figure out which one of those skills he was going to use?

This type of advantage would still exist at high levels. Unspecialized characters only lacked the explosive power of high-level skills.

Right now, Liang Fang really wanted to say that no one was his opponent if they dueled. Even if captain had personally come up, Liang Fang still wasn't confident. He was a pro-player with his own clear judgement. He wasn't like those loyal fans who exaggerated their idol's strength.

But to say that no one was his opponent would arouse Lord Grim's fighting spirits. Even if this player was extremely skilled, to actually want to solo their entire team, even Liang Fang, who knew how terrifying he was, couldn't help but feel that he was being a bit too ridiculous.

"Captain!! I'm going up!" Liu Xiaobie yelled, sucked in a deep breath, and then moved!

His Blade Master Slash Slash Draw used a Triple Slash to instantly close in on Lord Grim and used an Upward Slash.

"Dong". Lord Grim had unexpectedly drawn his sword and then used Guard to block it.

Sword Draw!!

This thought immediately flashed across Liu Xiaobie's mind. At this moment, Blade Masters would definitely use Sword Draw, this fairly long-ranged attack, to chase him down.

He had to be quick!

Liu Xiaobie was a player with high hand speed. He of course loved to go all-in. Fight with hand speed. This thought flashed through his mind. His fingers also quickly moved. Slash Slash Draw sheathed his sword and then pulled it out! Sword Draw's sword light instantly flashed……

"Ta ta ta ta ta……"

A string of crisp machine gun sounds rang out. Slash Slash Draw's Sword Draw was instantly dissipated and his entire body poured out blood. If this wasn't a game, he'd have become a corpse bleeding from bullet holes long ago.

Launcher Skill: Gatling Gun.

At this moment, Liu Xiaobie finally understood what an unspecialized character was and what others meant by it having attacks impossible to predict.

He originally wanted to compete in hand speed and see whose Sword Draw was faster! However, his opponent didn't use Sword Slash and instead moved backwards to use Gatling Gun.

No matter how far Sword Draw reached, how could it reach farther than a gun?

The chain of bullets hit Liu Xiaobie. Just as Gatling Gun finished, the opponent's Sword Draw suddenly came out. Liu Xiaobie deserved to be called a player with high hand speed. In this short instant, he completed a Guard. Slash Slash Draw lifted his sword upright. "Dong" The Sword Draw was blocked. Just as he was being hit back by the blow, he heard three consecutive sounds. The opponent's sword had turned into a gun. Launcher Skill: Anti-Tank Missile.

Liu Xiaobie wanted to hide, but in the end he was still hit. The three Anti-Tank Missiles weren't in a straight line. The opponent used Tri-Shot and the three Anti-Tank Missiles were pulled into a triangle formation, enshrouding an area. No matter how Slash Slash Draw moved, he would be hit by one.

Following after were a string of low-leveled skills, no signs, impossible to predict. Liu Xiaobie and Liang Fang were the same. They had only heard of the era when unspecialized characters reigned free. And this time, they had personally experienced it for themselves.

Defeated. Liu Xiaobie was also defeated handily. And he was the same as Liang Fang. He had been beaten extremely miserably without any chance of fighting back. This wasn't supposed to be possible for pro-players. Even if they were against God-level opponents, such as their team captain, it shouldn't go so far as to not even having a chance of winning!

Chances always existed, it just depended on whether or not the individual could grasp it.

But when fighting against Lord Grim, Liu Xiaobie and Liang Fang both discovered that there was only one way to not lose: don't go up and duel him.

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Chapter 136 – True Unspecialized

In the so-called Arena Contest, two players had already fallen. Their defeats had been thorough and beautiful, making the others lose their confidence.

Vice-captain Deng Fusheng stole a glance at the captain. Wang Jiexi's expression was as usual, as if he wasn't affected. But what about the team? Deng Fusheng looked around. The team members all had nervous expressions. Some were also glancing at the captain. Deng Fusheng knew that they were all scared that their captain would choose them to go up next. None of the team members had confidence in defeating Lord Grim.

And Lord Grim? He was just sitting there, eating food and drinking potions, recovering his health and mana. Wang Jiexi didn't stop him. And none of the team members did either. They weren't there to murder him, so they didn't mind if Lord Grim rested. If they won by dragging the fights out until his mana ran out, there wouldn't be any meaning to winning for Tiny Herb.

But what should they do next? Wang Jiexi was also a bit hesitant.

It wasn't possible to beat him in a duel, that was already clear. Let alone the other team members, he himself didn't have confidence in beating Lord Grim in a duel. This unspecialized character……

"Ha ha……." A laugh was suddenly heard. It didn't come from the practice room, but rather from the game.

At this moment, who in Team Tiny Herb could laugh?

The person who laughed was, of course, Ye Xiu.

"Like I was saying.. if you're looking to use me as a training partner, this way isn't very useful, right?" Ye Xiu said.

"It's a rare opportunity." Wang Jiexi replied.

"You're not afraid these children are going to be mentally traumatized?" Ye Xiu said.

Children!!! Besides Gao Yingjie and Qiao Yifan, everyone was petrified. Who were children?

"You're a bit too confident, aren't you?" Wang Jiexi said.

"Ha ha." Ye Xiu laughed again, "Let me ask you. Among everyone here, including you, has anyone here ever fought with a true unspecialized character?"

Silence reigned, both within game and outside of the game.

In the practice room, Team Tiny Herb's members all looked at each other, unsure.

It was true. To them, unspecialized characters were only a myth. Unspecialized characters had already disappeared by the time the pro-scene had started. Those who knew about unspecialized characters and could tell stories about them could already be considered seniors. And Wang Jiexi? He had already been in the Alliance for five years. As of today, this season was his sixth year. His experience couldn't be considered shallow, but when Ye Xiu had led Excellent Era to victory as three-time consecutive Champions, he had only just started playing Glory. And at that time, unspecialized characters had already long disappeared.

Those with ten years of experience in Glory weren't few among the player population. But there were only a few left in the pro-scene. As long as a player wanted to play the game, he could play. But for pro-players, they couldn't avoid growing washed-out due to the pro-scene's competitiveness. Whether they could continue playing as a pro wasn't something that they could just do if they wanted to.

Unspecialized characters were also a myth to Wang Jiexi. But if you said that he had zero experience with them, then that wasn't true.

When Wang Jiexi entered Tiny Herb, there was a senior team member that had once played unspecialized. When the third server opened, he didn't abandon his account or change classes like other unspecialized characters did. Instead, he kept his unspecialized character as a memento. That was how Wang Jiexi knew of the existence of unspecialized characters. He had even tried comparing notes with his senior's unspecialized character and personally experienced and understood an unspecialized character's advantages and disadvantages at that time. And in the end, when that senior retired, he gave his unspecialized account card as a gift to Wang Jiexi, which he had kept well to this day.

Wang Jiexi still remembered his senior's lament towards unspecialized characters: Unspecialized characters are still a bit of a fantasy. Even if the level restriction is freed. The issue of weapons and the issue of the user are still large problems that are enough to restrict players from playing unspecialized.

"Perhaps, if there was a single weapon that could use all of the skills and an extremely experienced user proficient in every class, then it may be possible to truly use an unspecialized character's strength."

This had originally been a joke. But now, this joke had become a reality that was now in front of his eyes.

Ye Qiu, an existence known as a textbook in Glory, proficient in all classes, extremely experienced, was now using one.

As for the weapon, the weird weapon in Lord Grim's hand had been noticed by everyone already and there wasn't any shortage of discussion on it.

This Lord Grim had clearly never changed his weapon before. It was only his weapon that changed forms, which allowed him to use all sorts of skills. Sword to gun. Gun to sword. Switching forms in that way didn't have any cooldowns like how changing weapons did. The knowledgeable pro-players could already see that this was a self-made weapon.. a terrifying self-made weapon.

True unspecialized character! This was a true unspecialized character!

After recalling that joke his senior teammate once said, Wang Jiexi finally understood what Ye Xiu was saying. A true unspecialized character, this was a true unspecialized character. Even in that era of unspecialized characters, there was never once a true unspecialized character. There was no one out there who had any experience fighting against a true unspecialized like him.

Keep on dueling Ye Qiu? Wang Jiexi looked around left and right. All he saw were worried faces. Even in last year's deciding match, these faces hadn't appeared. At that time, even though they were nervous, it wasn't like now where they had absolutely no confidence in obtaining victory. Under those worried faces hid confusion, not nervousness.

And they hadn't even fought with Lord Grim yet. They had only seen Lord Grim fight with Liang Fang and Liu Xiaobie.. and that was all.

And those two?

Wang Jiexi thought. He looked at Liang Fang and Liu Xiaobie. From their two faces, Wang Jiexi saw dismay and disappointment.

Wang Jiexi finally understood that Ye Qiu wasn't being overconfident. Wang Jiexi thought that he had found a God to practice with, but now from the looks of it, this God had struck a blow to his team's morale, destroying his teammates' self-confidence. The creative idea Wang Jiexi had come up with had turned disastrous.

What now?

Wang Jiexi found that the current situation was quite problematic. He had gotten into a situation which he couldn't get out of.

If they continued dueling, then all that would do is destroy everyone's self-confidence, possibly including himself too. Wang Jiexi already found that his state of mind had already been affected. He had been overcautious all because their opponent's strength had also deeply shocked him. Like this, the only way he'd be able to win back his team's confidence was to personally duel and beat him. However, at this moment, he already had no confidence. He was afraid. He was afraid that if he lost, his teammates' confidence would be thoroughly destroyed with no way of recovering.

Wang Jiexi clearly knew his position in his teammates' hearts. Since the beginning, he had been used to carrying his teammates and rushing forward for the win. But this time, he wasn't able to carry them. He didn't dare carry them. Ye Qiu was truly too terrifying. Even though he had only defeated two of Tiny Herb's members, even Wang Jiexi was feeling the pressure.

Should we leave? But Lord Grim's psychological pressure had already been planted into everyone's hearts. With this mental trauma, their future improvements, performance, and stability might all be negatively affected. These were not exaggerated words. Their mental state during a competition was a very important element. With how they were right now, would they be able to overcome their current psychological fears through their mental fortitude?

No!

This was the enormous psychological pressure from Lord Grim's astonishing strength. Unless they defeated Lord Grim, there would be no way of getting rid of it. But for this to happen, it wasn't really possible for them to duel and beat him. This time, they could only rely on the entire team's strength. Wang Jiexi decided on a plan and immediately shouted calmly: "Everyone!"

The teammates at this moment were all somewhat out of it. Hearing their captain's shout, they immediately focused.

"Up together!" Everyone heard their captain's two words.

Nine players. At this moment, they had a total of nine players. Liang Fang and Liu Xiaobie hadn't yet come back. However, nine pro-players against one…….

"Don't be polite! Let's go!" Wang Jiexi shouted. Right now, he had to break their doubts of nine against one. Using his position in the team, this was still something he could do.

Sure enough, after hearing their captain's resolute command, everyone's attention returned to the battlefield.

"Oh?" Lord Grim also got up. Ye Xiu laughed: "Is this okay?"

How could Wang Jiexi not know that nine versus one was somewhat overkill. But there was already no way he could change that. Although this way of obtaining victory would be somewhat embarrassing, at least this feeling would be better than the mental scar of having no way of winning.

"A team competition, just like you wanted." Wang Jiexi hoped that he could at least dissolve his teammates' embarrassment, even if he himself looked shameless.

"That wasn't what I meant." Ye Xiu still calmly laughed, "What I mean is, if your entire team goes up and your team gets wiped out, wouldn't that be an even bigger blow? Is this….okay?"

"F*ck!!" Hearing this, Tiny Herb's team members all suddenly had their fighting spirits ignited. The previous them harbored thoughts of fear. A nine versus one battle didn't stimulate any of their fighting spirit. However, now that they heard how arrogant Ye Qiu was, their fighting spirits once again roared.

"Thank you. Your words came at the perfect time." Wang Jiexi smiled. Their embarrassment for a nine versus one battle had been wiped out because of Ye Qiu's words.

"Let's go!" Ye Xiu said and then suddenly moved. Lord Grim turned around and unexpectedly ran off.

"There's nowhere to run!" Wang Jiexi found that everything was developing better than he had imagined. With Lord Grim running away, his image of being invincible had collapsed a little bit, although running away wasn't really shameful in a 9v1 situation.

Wang Jiexi's Fiery Blaze rode his broom and with a whoosh, chased Lord Grim hoping to block him using his advantage in speed. However, Lord Grim flashed, leaving behind a shadow clone for him, while his real self disappeared without a trace.

"Captain!!" The other teammates weren't in the battle yet, but they could see the field clearly. Lord Grim's real body had flashed up into the air, heading straight for Fiery Blaze, who was riding on his broom underneath him.

"I know." Wang Jiexi had rich experience. He wouldn't be hit so easily. His character rolled on his broom and jumped down, just barely dodging this attack. With a sweep of his broom, his Witch sent an accurate attack towards Lord Grim.

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Chapter 137 – Encirclement

A gun sound rang out!

Lord Grim suddenly fired and a bullet came out. Using the recoil, he flew back, just barely dodging Fiery Blaze's Sweep.

However, his bullet had missed. A Witch could complete six combos in midair because Sweep gave the user a small knock-up effect. If not, then no matter how fast your hand speed was, it wasn't possible to complete more than two normal attacks before you landed.

Wang Jiexi wasn't an ordinary player. He fully utilized this and used Sweep while controlling his character in order to dodge his opponent's attack. Even though the bullet was fired closely and quickly, it still wasn't able to hit him.

"Li Ji!!" Wang Jiexi called out a name. Someone immediately answered back and then fired his gun at Lord Grim.

Li Ji. Part of Team Tiny Herb's Main Roster. He was currently using the Level 27 Sharpshooter, Untraceable Bullet. As a long-ranged character, he immediately fired towards Lord Grim.

Pro players' marksmanship didn't need to be mentioned. Though they didn't have 100% accuracy, their accuracy was much higher than normal players'. Untraceable Bullet was using the Level 25 Purple Weapon Western Revolver and instantly shot out six bullets.

Guns were different from other weapons. Attack Speed didn't indicated the bullet's movement speed, but rather the firing rate. The quickest is the Handgun with an Attack Speed of 10, capable of firing eight bullets in a row. Next is the Revolver, with an Attack Speed of 7 or 8, which could shoot out six bullets in a row. Next is the Crossbow, which could shoot out four bullets in a row. Fourth is the Rifle, with an Attack Speed of 2 or 3, and it could usually shoot out two bullets in a row. The slowest was the Hand Cannon, which could only be shot once before needing to reload.

Thus, like this the five types of guns had differences in Attack Speed. Players used whichever gun type they preferred. Besides Attack speed, different gun types did different amounts of damage and had different ways of calculating damage.

For example, for the revolver, the weapon fired a total of six times before needing to reload. Thus, each bullet's damage would be of the gun's damage. The other gun times were calculated similarly. Besides this, there were also other special effects. For example, the Hand Cannon had AoE damage and the Rifle had Penetrating damage. All of the these effects could be triggered by normal attacks.

Untraceable Bullet shot out six bullets. It was too difficult for Lord Grim to dodge in midair, thus he immediately opened up his Umbrella. The Umbrella opened and all six bullets hit. However, these bullets just became a pushing force, letting Lord Grim move backwards even faster.

Everyone coughed a bit of blood. This ever-changing weapon was a bit too ridiculous! It could even be used as a Shield.

After Lord Grim landed on the ground, without even turning his head, he ran.

One versus nine. It definitely wasn't possible for him to fight them head on. These were all pro-players. Even if unspecialized characters had the advantage of a vast pool of skills, it wasn't so ridiculous that he could do that.

The reason Ye Xiu could easily beat Liang Fang and Liu Xiaobie was because one, he was more skilled; two, unspecialized characters had the advantage in the amount of skills; three, those two players didn't have any experience against an unspecialized character. It was because of these reasons that he was able to completely destroy these two opponents. The latter two reasons were the most important points. If not, then even if he is a God-level player, he still wouldn't be able to always win even against normal pro-players. The issue of on-stage performance had to be considered. Otherwise, what was the point of competition? If that was the case, then the winner would be decided just by looking at the player roster. This reasoning is the same as in football or basketball.

"Little Jie!" Wang Jiexi shouted. Gao Yingjie answered. His Weeping Crow quickly rode his Broom to chase after Lord Grim. Just as Wang Jiexi's Fiery Blaze landed, he quickly jumped onto his broom. These two Witches flew extremely low, almost touching the ground. The lower one flew, the faster one would be. This was because the distance that could be flown was limited. At the distance limit, the faster one jumped down, the faster one would be. This faster movement had to be done quickly.

Weeping Crow and Fiery Blaze flew at the lowest possible altitude. This action relied on mechanical skill to complete. Only extremely quick hands could instantly complete this move.

Lord Grim suddenly stopped. He turned around and sent out a Gatling Gun. With a shake, the bullets split into two towards the two players. Weeping Crow and Fiery Blaze split off going left and right respectively, avoiding the bullets. Because the two pulled away to dodge the bullets, they had no way of recovering their lost distance and time.

This halt gave enough time for the gunner to get into firing range. Li Ji and Liu Fei, the two Sharpshooters, both fired. The bullets flew out and the PK temporarily turned into a gunfight.

As overlapping classes in the team, the coordination between Li Ji and Liu Fei was originally a type of tactical choice. The two coordinated exceptionally well. Liu Fei's Fallen Angel fired straight at Lord Grim, while Li Ji fired where he predicted where Lord Grim would move.

The bullets repeatedly fell at Lord Grim's feet, hitting dirt into the air, but were unable to hit Lord Grim. Although Li Ji and Liu Fei's coordination was exceptional, how could Ye Xiu not understand what they were trying to do? Li Ji had predicted where he would move, while he counter-predicted where Li Ji would shoot.

Li Ji and Liu Fei were helpless. Their below Level 30 characters really did restrict their performance. If they had a few more skills, then they'd at least be able to control a larger area. But right now? Normal attacks were their main methods of attacking. In a PK, how could normal attacks work? In a PK, players mostly relied on their character's skills. But the low-leveled skills below Level 30 weren't really helpful right now for Li Ji and Liu Fei's coordination.

Yet even though they missed, their attacks still delayed Lord Grim. On the side, Wang Jiexi and Gao Yingjie continued to close in on him.

Desolate Land wasn't a flat land. While Ye Xiu made Lord Grim dodge, he had already figured out which direction to go to long ago. After a few steps, he jumped up and leaped over a short wall. With this leap, the two gunners could only vent their anger at the earth wall.

"Li Yihui, Zhou Yebai, to the left. Xiao Yun, Qiao Yifan, to the right. Gunners continue attacking head on to restrict his movements." Wang Jiexi ordered.

"Yes!!" The team members all answered and then set out to complete their orders.

Li Ji and Liu Fei continued to fire, so that Lord Grim wouldn't be able to expose his head and scout around. Li Yihui's character was a Grappler and he rushed forward from the left along with Zhou Yebai's Ghostblade. Xiao Yun's Battle Mage Cloudy Heavens and Qiao Yifan's Assassin Ashen Moon rushed forward from the right. The two Witches came in from the middle.

Of course, the Witches were the first to arrive. The left and right routes were to prevent Lord Grim from escaping to the side. Wang Jiexi's plan was careful and thorough. Except when he and Gao Yingjie's Witch flew over the earth wall, they looked around left and right, but Lord Grim had disappeared.

Wang Jiexi's gaze turned and turned until it landed on a shabby, clay room close to the earth wall.

The troops from the left and right also went around the earth wall, but after seeing that Lord Grim wasn't there, they all stared blankly. Wang Jiexi didn't shout anything this time and individually messaged everyone where to look.

The troops from the left and right each circled around the clay room and then reported: "There's no other entrance."

Wang Jiexi nodded his head. At that moment, vice-captain Deng Fusheng's Knight and the two Sharpshooters had arrived. Wang Jiexi set up the arrangement. The nine players each went into their respective position and then made a surprise attack.

The two Sharpshooters open fired at the room.

Deng Fusheng's Knight raised his shield. The other close-combat characters followed closely behind. The two Witches rode on their Brooms above the building. They would completely fill the building as fast as possible without giving Lord Grim any chance to escape.

In the blink of an eye, they arrived at the building. Deng Fusheng's Knight crouched and rolled, giving the two Witches enough space to fly through. Without looking, they began throwing out Disperse Powder left and right. The troops behind them quickly followed. In the end…..

In the end, there was no Lord Grim there. Everyone was at a loss. Only the two Sharpshooters outside didn't know what was going on. Their task was to cover for them. Their guns were still aimed at the door. Once Lord Grim rushed out, their task would be to stop him.

"Where is he?" Someone finally asked the question in uncertainty.

Wang Jiexi stared blankly for quite a while too. His character came out of the room and he once again looked around left and right carefully.

In Desolate Land, there really were a lot of these broken-down clay rooms. But in that short amount of time, Lord Grim only had enough time to move to this room. If he moved anywhere else, he would have definitely been noticed by the others.

"What happened?" Outside, the Sharpshooters felt that something wasn't right.

"He's gone." Someone replied to the two of them.

"Strange. Did you see him?" In Tiny Herb's practice room, everyone began discussing amongst each other. They all thought that their character's camera wasn't enough, so they were all looking at each other's computers to look for him.

"To the right, Sharpshooters fire!" Wang Jiexi suddenly ordered.

Everyone stared blankly. The two Sharpshooters turned their camera. On the right, there really was another building. The two didn't hesitate and immediately fired at it.

"Yifan, go check the back. Everyone else come with me and charge!" Wang Jiexi ordered. Qiao Yifan's Ashen Moon ran to go see if there was an exit at the back. The others hurried to inside this room.

They almost forgot. That guy had Shadow Clone Technique. If he used it to move, it would be possible for him to reach here.

Wang Jiexi had been thinking of this just a moment ago. After recalculating how far Lord Grim could move, he discovered that it was possible for Lord Grim to have escaped to this room.

The Sharpshooters kept guard on the outside. The Knight raised his shield and rolled in. The Witches both flew in together and threw down Disperse Powder. Qiao Yifan reported that there was no other exit and everyone rushed in.

Everything went smoothly. They had perfectly executed a surprise attack again. However, the results were the same as last time: there was no Lord Grim.

Wang Jiexi jumped out of the room and once again reassessed the situation.

That was it. Besides this room, Lord Grim had no other options. Even if he used Shadow Clone Technique, it wasn't possible.

"Could there be some other low-leveled skill that I overlooked?" Wang Jiexi began going over all 120 skills that could be learned before Level 20.

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Chapter 138 – Logout Escape

Wang Jiexi's Fiery Blaze walked out from the room and continued to observe the surrounding terrain. He knew that he had definitely overlooked something because there was no way Lord Grim had just disappeared. There were no sneak skills below level 20 that could make a character disappear.

They had already eliminated the possibility of Lord Grim being in these two rooms. The third closest room…..

After looking around, Wang Jiexi shook his head.

Impossible……. There wasn't enough time to reach this room. The moving while crouching was very slow. Even if Lord Grim had rolled the way through, there still wouldn't be enough time. If he wanted to escape into the room before everyone got there, unless he could fly at a low altitude like a Witch, it wasn't possible for unspecialized characters.

Low altitude flight……

Low altitude flight?!

Wang Jiexi suddenly thought of something. It was possible for Lord Grim to fly at a low altitude like a Witch. But the ability to fly wasn't something only Witches could do. The Gunner's Aerial Fire could fly too.

However, flying low with Aerial Fire meant that he wouldn't have flown far. But he'd at least maintain a certain movement speed. Aerial Fire was a technique, so there wasn't any cooldown and it could be used several times. As long as they were strung together, then it'd work. This couldn't be considered difficult for pro-players.

"11 o'clock, that building!" Wang Jiexi couldn't deal with being very careful. After making this sort of judgement, once they tried it, they would know.

"Yifan, to the back. Everyone else, with me."

It was the same order. Even though the others didn't understand why yet, they still followed their captain's orders. The same tactic was employed. The process was done once again. And the results……. were the same.

"

"He's not either!!!"

Wang Jiexi's judgement had failed three times. This was a situation that Tiny Herb's members had never encountered before. At this moment, everyone was extremely astonished. Where exactly was this Lord Grim hiding?

Wang Jiexi's Witch went outside of the building. After looking around left and right, no matter how hard he wracked his brains, he wasn't able to figure out where Lord Grim could possibly be…….

"You you you……. what are you doing!!"

In Happy Internet Cafe, Chen Guo had originally been talking serious business with Ye Xiu. After Ye Xiu began fighting, she had stood behind Ye Xiu watching the entire time, dumbstruck.

With her view of the situation, she naturally knew where Lord Grim was going.

After Lord Grim jumped over the wall and crouched down, Ye Xiu immediately used Aerial Fire. Again and again, the distance he flew with each one was very small. But the speed was very fast. Ye Xiu's tempo was quite outstanding. He would use Aerial Fire again the moment he landed. Like this, if Chen Guo hadn't been able to see the tongues of flames from the gun barrel every time he fired, she wouldn't have been able to tell that he was moving because of him chaining Aerial Fire together.

After moving in this way for several seconds, Lord Grim suddenly turned around. The scene changed as he entered a building. While escaping into the room, he used the Shadow Clone Technique. Using it once was to use it and instantly move. Using it twice was to get rid of the clone. The Shadow Clone Technique wasn't like a bullet fired from a Gunner. The clone could be removed.

And after that, Ye Xiu quickly used the move: force logout.

Only when the game went to the login screen did Chen Guo yell that out.

"What did you say?" Ye Xiu had just taken off his headphones.

"You….. logged out of the game? Are you looking to die?" Chen Guo pointed at the screen and said. Nowadays, technology had improved, so the delay for going online and offline had been reduced by a lot. However, during battle, it wasn't possible to offline normally. Of course, there wasn't any way of preventing players from force quitting the game. But if it was done like this, the characters would stay in their original position for a long time. When the user went back online, his character would be dead nine times out of ten. If players could instantly log out at any time during battle, then no player would ever die.

"There's enough time." Ye Xiu laughed.

"Impossible." Chen Guo said.

"By the time they find me, I'll have already logged out." Ye Xiu said.

"How could they take that long to find you?" Chen Guo said.

"They didn't see that I entered this building." Ye Xiu said.

"Why not?" Chen Guo didn't understand.

"Were you not paying attention? I flew low with Aerial Fire the entire time. Plus, with the earth wall blocking their view, they couldn't have seen me. And the Shadow Clone I used after that had been removed by the time they got there. By the time they arrived, they couldn't have found me." Ye Xiu said.

"But the place where you were at…… it looked like there were only a few buildings there? If they just casually looked around, wouldn't they have found you?" Chen Guo was a bit hesitant. Honestly speaking, Lord Grim's camera had only quickly swept around the terrain, so she didn't pay too much attention to it and didn't remember it too clearly.

"I only had enough time to sneak into one of three rooms. There was one facing me that I could have directly entered. On the right, after crouching down, using Shadow Clone Technique was enough to let me enter it. But for me to enter the one I went into, you saw, I had to use Aerial Fire to quickly move there to make it in time. If I went into the closest one, I'm guessing they would have decided to check that one first. After seeing that it was empty, they would go to the second one…… and then the third."

"Why couldn't they split up and search?" Chen Guo said.

"If there was a clear decision to make, why would they go separate to look?" Ye Xiu said, while getting up: "You should keep talking about what you were talking about before!"

"You're….. just going to leave it like that?" Chen Guo pointed at the screen.

"I've already logged out. What's there to do?"

"You're not going back online?"

"I'll listen to you talk first!" Ye Xiu said.

"You….. didn't you say you were going to wipe out their team?" Chen Guo had been behind Ye Xiu the entire time, so Chen Guo had heard him talking.

"That was just something I said. 1v9.. how could I do that?" Ye Xiu said.

"What type of person are you??" Chen Guo coughed blood, "Then why were you bragging?"

"To give them pressure." Ye Xiu said.

"How could they believe that?" Chen Guo asked.

Ye Xiu said to her: "How come it looked like you believed it?"

"I……." Chen Guo had no words. In the past few days, she hadn't bothered with him. Her mind was nice and peaceful. But today, with just a few words, she was once again speechless.

In game, Wang Jiexi was still wracking his brains trying to figure out where Lord Grim was. Unable to bear it any longer, he decided to go add Lord Grim as a friend. But after looking him up, the system said that Lord Grim was no longer online. Wang Jiexi stood there staring foolishly.

Offline…..

As a pro-player who was used to competing in the competitive scene, there was absolutely no way he could have come up with that solution. This was an issue of habit.

However, at this moment, Wang Jiexi had already understood everything.

That guy had planned to go offline from the very start. Their first fights were all done in order to pull the distance between them.

Those three simple buildings past the wall were the crucial points. Those three rooms were a trap. There was a chance that the plan would fail, but it was unlikely. The room closest to them would be the first that they would think about. The two other rooms were more difficult to figure out. In the end, Wang Jiexi led his team to go over every building one at a time, giving him enough time to go offline.

Seeing everyone's puzzled faces, Wang Jiexi didn't know whether to laugh or cry. One versus nine. Sure enough, it was all just done to create pressure!

"Captain……." Vice captain Deng Fusheng lightly said to him. Team Tiny Herb's morale had reached its lowest point. They still hadn't figured out that Lord Grim had went offline. They were all turning and turning, searching like mad, yet how could they find him?

Wang Jiexi stood up. Everyone turned to look at him and hastily took off their headphones. They knew their captain was about to speak.

"There's no need to keep looking. That guy logged off." Wang Jiexi said.

"What?" Everyone was astonished. Even though they believed their captain, they still couldn't resist confirming it in the game. Just as expected, the system prompted that Lord Grim wasn't online.

Who knew how many times today the practice room was deathly silent.

"Logout escape…"

"Didn't he say he was going to wipe out our team? Why'd he run?" Someone looked down on him.

"If this was a match, then it would be equivalent to him forfeiting." Someone knew what this logout escape meant in a competitive setting.

"Then that's it for today! You guys can rest now. Those who are interested can stay here and wait for him to come online." Wang Jiexi finished. He himself went back to his seat, keeping guard with his Fiery Blaze account.

The captain was going to wait! Everyone obviously saw this.

As a result, no one left. The captain was their model. Even though he said that they could rest, if the captain was going to stay, then who was going to leave?

Liang Fang's and Liu Xiaobie's characters had already ran back. Tiny Herb had a total of eleven players on the team and now began to disperse.

"Captain, should we ambush him?" The vice-captain ran to Wang Jiexi's Fiery Blaze to talk to him.

"is there a need to? Killing him isn't our goal. Our goal is to use him to raise our team's skill level." Wang Jiexi said.

"Oh……"

"Li Ji, Liu Fei, you two." Wang Jiexi shouted.

"Yes?" The two immediately responded.

"The coordination between the two of you is extremely good. However, today, you two had no way of stopping Lord Grim. Your patterns follow conventional reasoning too well, so it's easy for others to see through it, especially for experienced veterans like Ye Qiu. You two need to be a bit more imaginative by acting more freely!" Wang Jiexi said.

"Yes……" The two replied.

"Liang Fang, Liu Xiaobie." Wang Jiexi called for the two who had lost their duels. The two hastily ran over.

"What are your thoughts?" Wang Jiexi asked.

The two were silent.

"In the low-levels, unspecialized characters have a large advantage due to their vast amount of skills. None of you have ever encountered a single character with all of these assortments of skills and lack the experience necessary to beat him. That's why losing to him is very normal. Even I'm not an opponent for him in a duel." Wang Jiexi said.

"Everyone listen well." Wang Jiexi raised his voice. Everyone paid attention.

"Everyone knows who Ye Qiu is. Even if he's retired, his skill level is still top-tier in the Alliance. Right now, he's also using an unspecialized character, which has such an early-game advantage in skills. Everyone is also very unfamiliar with this class, so don't be concerned about winning or losing. Everyone should treasure this opportunity to fight hand in hand with this type of top-tier player. Discover your own flaws and think of a way to improve. This is our purpose for clearing this BOSS." Wang Jiexi said.

"Hey, hey. What BOSS? Should you be talking like that?" A voice suddenly interrupted.

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Chapter 139: Who's the Training Partner?

Translator:Nomyummi

Editor:GravityTales

Wang Jiexi's Fiery Blaze was standing outside the clay building's entrance. After hearing the voice, he immediately turned around and entered the building.

No one. Still no one. Then who had been speaking just before?

Outside of the building, Team Tiny Herb's players were also thinking the same, but quickly found the answer.

Soft Mist!!

Last night, one of the players that had wiped out their team was a female Battle Mage, who was currently standing to the side.

This was a very ordinary location in Desolate Land. Monsters respawned here and random players would pass by. Team Tiny Herb had been keeping guard, waiting for the BOSS to respawn, so they weren't looking around too carefully, especially when the captain had spoken. Even though it was in the game, everyone still had their characters look towards Fiery Blaze.

This was how Soft Mist was able to get beside them without them noticing.

Of the ten players, only the five subs from last night recognized Soft Mist. The five players from the main roster were still looking around left and right trying to figure out who it was.

"You guys really have a lot of patience." Soft Mist was speaking. However, it was a male's voice.. Ye Xiu's voice.

Correct. Ye Xiu had taken Tang Rou's account and ran over to take a look at the situation. Tang Rou was sitting behind him with a rice bowl in her hands. She had just gotten up and was currently eating dinner!

"Who are these guys? Why doe they keep coming back?" Tang Rou asked. She also recognized those five players from last night. However, today, their troops had grown larger and it looked like they had called more troops over for revenge.

"Yeah, they're endless." Ye Xiu said.

However, his words could be heard in-game by Team Tiny Herb's members. Everyone was extremely gloomy. But they didn't act blindly without thinking and waited for their captain to give them orders.

"Battle Mage." Wang Jiexi's Fiery Blaze walked up and said.

"Yup!" Ye Xiu said. He brandished the battle lance in Soft Mist's hands. Battle Mage! This was the class that he had truly used for ten years. Even though his ten years of experience had let him be proficient in every class, the Battle Mage was still his most liked and most familiar class.

"Xiao Yun, you go up." Wang Jiexi called for him.

"Ah?" Xiao Yun stared blankly.

They were the same class. He was Level 26 and his opponent was Level 28. There wouldn't be much of a difference between their equipment. However, he was still lacking in terms of skill levels and stats, so there was still a small difference.

"Don't be nervous. Don't forget, you're one of the members of a champion team!" Wang Jiexi said.

At this moment, Wang Jiexi didn't say "It doesn't matter whether you win or lose." It doesn't matter whether you win or lose could only be said when team morale was at its lowest. It was a type of comfort.

During a real battle, even if it was only for learning, this type of mentality couldn't be had, especially for a member of a team that wanted to be Champions. Winning was always number one. Don't worry about winning or losing, that type of talk, could only be said by Wang Jiexi at a suitable time to get rid of any unnecessary baggage in everyone's minds.

"Xiao Yun, you can do it!" A few teammates cheered him on.

Xiao Yun's fighting spirit suddenly ignited. Even though he was against a trump card God among Battle Mages, this was already of the past. Ye Qiu had already left the pro-scene. And himself? He was currently ascending up the ladder slowly. Why should he be afraid of a washed-up player?

Thinking like this, Xiao Yun's Battle Mage Cloudy Heavens raised his battle lance and went out to do battle.

"Ha ha, so it's you!" Ye Xiu laughed.

Xiao Yun suddenly weakened. It was only five simple words. However, his tone made Xiao Yun suddenly think of his tragic experience last night of getting killed by Vanishing Step.

"Do you need a few Chasers first?" Ye Xiu asked.

Xiao Yun felt even more embarrassed. Yesterday, he had carried seven Chasers to kill him, but he never had the chance to use them. For a Battle Mage, to not be able to use the class's most characteristic feature, Chasers, was too much of a joke.

Xiao Yun was about to say something, when he heard his team captain shout out from behind: "Xiao Yun, don't waste time trash talking."

Trash talking? Xiao Yun stared blankly.

In Glory's competitive scene, any taunting or provoking done between two sides in chat was called trash talking. But in game, the other side didn't have to type out messages and could directly talk. As pro-players, they had to learn how to deal with these types of situations. Trash talking was always done deliberately by experts to find a weak point and to irritate you. There were very few people who truly enjoyed saying such words. This was also one tactic for psychological warfare.

Xiao Yun took a deep breath. There were two ways of dealing with trash talk. One way was to counter with your own trash talk and see who was better at it. The second way was to ignore it and maintain a calm mental state. The current expert at using both ways was Huang Shaotian. For that guy, first of all, he talked to himself, so he didn't care about what the other side was saying. Second was his typing attacks, which were classified as group attacks. Directly attacking the entire team was something that he had done before.

For new players, trash talk was an extremely serious challenge for them. For example, for Gao Yingjie, who was viewed as the player who would succeed Wang Jiexi, although his skill level was already very good, he still hadn't had any experience in an official match. This was all because his shy and introverted nature still had to be tempered. If he was sent into a match against Huang Shaotian's typing attacks, it wasn't wrong to say that there was a chance he would be attacked until he was crying.

After hearing the captain speak, Xiao Yun collected himself and stopped thinking about what Ye Xiu had said. Afraid that Ye Xiu would say something that would make hurt him even more, he immediately raised his battle lance and attacked. Soft Mist also raised her battle lance and welcomed him. The two battle mages began fighting in an instant.

Everyone subconsciously walked closer a few steps in order to see the battle unfold more clearly.

"Everyone, record it." Wang Jiexi ordered and then opened the record function too.

In a battle of the same class, there was less fancy maneuvers and more caution. Because they both knew their class from top to bottom, their usual ways of fighting were usually useless.

Xiao Yun went up and used Dragon Tooth, Sky Strike, Falling Flower Palm, Circle Swing, chaining together the Battle Mage's most basic set of four skills. However, none of them hit. Following up, Soft Mist did the same and chained together these four skills, which also all missed Cloudy Heavens. Against a class he himself was extremely familiar with, Xiao Yun clearly performed a lot better than last time.

Dodging and attacking, the two Battle Mages took turns attacking. But their Magic Chasers were never able to form. Until now, the two hadn't yet successfully hit each other yet.

The more Xiao Yun fought, the more energetic he became. He discovered that once Ye Qiu took off that weird unspecialized class, he was only just so-so. Sure enough, he really was a retired pro-player. His fighting was extremely ordinary! Unfortunately, this was only a battle between low-leveled accounts in the new server. If this was in a pro-match, the finals, at a key moment, his teammates were all dead and only him and One Autumn Leaf were fighting in the decisive battle, where victory would signify their spot as Champions, and he……..

Found an opening!!

At this moment, a clear opening had been exposed on Soft Mist. Xiao Yun didn't let the opportunity pass. The battle lance in Cloudy Heaven's hands stabbed forward like a viper. His attack hit and this battle's first Magic Chaser was formed. Immediately following, a Sky Strike headed towards Soft Mist along with the Neutral Chaser he had just formed.

The Chaser exploded. Magic damage! Cloudy Heavens also gained a movement speed buff and his movements quickened. He swiftly closed in. Seeing Soft Mist, he wanted to also play around with her using Vanishing Step. But, all in all, he didn't have enough skill to do so. By the time he'd have figured out where he should move towards, Soft Mist would have already almost fallen to the ground by then.

His opponent wasn't like a doll and responded with a mid-air stab to try and stop Cloudy Heavens from coming closer. However, this attack was clearly a bit frantic while in midair. Cloudy Heavens leaped backwards and easily dodged it. He quickly stepped forward and then used a Falling Flower Palm, hitting her directly. Not waiting for his opponent to fly, he immediately followed up with a Circle Swing and Soft Mist crashed to the ground.

Xiao Yun was extraordinarily proud. He felt that he was an MVP-level God. He rushed forward to attack. While doing so, he thought he heard a "My turn"……

Xiao Yun didn't have time to think carefully. He attacked twice at that Soft Mist, who was laying the ground laying there like a dead person. Xiao Yun also hesitated, when he suddenly heard the captain yell, "Look out!"

Just as it was said, Soft Mist suddenly rolled. Xiao Yun had Cloudy Heavens chase him with a stab, full of confidence. The opponent got up and then jumped, just barely dodging Cloudy Heaven's lance. High up in the sky, the battle lance pricked up and a Sky Strike flew over. Xiao Yun hastily did a roll and Cloudy Heavens avoided it.

After Soft Mist landed, she immediately used a Dragon Tooth. Cloudy Heavens sidestepped, dodging it. The opponent's skills along with normal attacks arrived one after another, while saying: "See, it's best to use a few normal attacks between skills in order to change up your tempo. When trying to maintain the situation, the more available skills you have the better. For example, when you chained four skills at once, even though it has a lot of power, once the combos finished and those three skills go on cooldown, there are a lot fewer choices you can make during that time, so it'll be much easier for your opponent to see through you. This isn't only for in the early game. You'll have to pay attention to do this when you reach the late-game too. Even though you have more skills in the late-game, the cooldowns for high-levels skills are longer. Throwing down all your skills at once isn't a very smart way of fighting."

"Oh……" Tang Rou, who was standing behind Ye Xiu, replied. She had been fighting against the player who had been beaten up in the air by Ye Xiu yesterday. Only after fighting against him did she realize that his person had been played around with wasn't as easy to deal with as she had previously thought.

"When all of a your skills are ready to be used, that's when you're at your strongest. In reverse, you also have to pay attention to how many skills your opponent has used too. What is the cooldown for that skill? See, he just used a Falling Flower Palm, so in the next four seconds, Falling Flower Palm can't be used by him. Use this time to close in. Besides Falling Flower Palm, the current Battle Mage skills that can be used are all line or point attacks, so if we choose to close in quickly at a slight angle. Look, he doesn't have any skills he can use to stop us right now."

"Oops, Falling Flower Palm……. I said too much and four seconds have passed, so Falling Flower Palm is off cooldown…." Just as Ye Xiu was about to close in, Cloudy Heavens used a Falling Flower Palm. He hastily leaped back, letting Soft Mist dodge it.

"What are you doing? Who are you talking with?!" Xiao Yun shouted.

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Chapter 140 – Find Me Next Door

"Watch this!" Soft Mist said this and then once again took advantage of the fact that Cloudy Heaven's skills were on cooldown and closed in to attack. This time, Ye Xiu didn't say anything further. He would first demonstrate it before saying anything more.

After only two moves, Cloudy Heaven was knocked into the air. Xiao Yun was extremely gloomy. At this moment, he had already figured out what had happened. The two Soft Mists before and after were completely different. As a pro-player, of course he had this level of judgement. Plus, with Ye Xiu's sudden non-stop chatter, Xiao Yun finally understood that in the beginning, he had been the one brought as a training partner. And now? He was once again being used a teaching prop.

Xiao Yun impatiently tried to hurry up and get out of the mid-air situation. But whenever his camera angle changed, he couldn't find his opponent.

Vanishing Step. Vanishing Step again!

Xiao Yun really hated this! Since he couldn't break out of the situation, it would clearly mean that his skill level was lower by a level. Thinking of how the entire team was watching him right now, he even had thoughts of dying. Fortunately, the opponent wasn't as vicious as last time. Even though he still used Vanishing Step, after a few hits, he used a Circle Swing to throw him into the ground.

Xiao Yun immediately did a roll and then got up, afraid that his opponent would chase him down. However, Soft Mist didn't move. She stood there, chatting incessantly. Clearly, the player using her was explaining what he had just been doing.

Teaching dummy! He really did become a teaching dummy. Xiao Yun was fuming in anger. He rushed forward to engage in combat again. Soft Mist casually dissolved his efforts while commenting. What went wrong there, what should be done, etc. Xiao Yun went from a teaching dummy to teaching material.

Even more unfortunate was that his anger didn't bring out any hidden power for Xiao Yun. His movements were still that same as before. And, on the contrary, his impatience made him expose even more openings.

"Xiao Yun, withdraw!" Wang Jiexi finally said. As spectators with clear views of the scene, they figured out long ago that the Soft Mists before and after were played by two different people. At this moment, Xiao Yun's desire to win was quite fierce. However, his mental state had already gone out of control and he was now only pushing attacks with his anger.

But Xiao Yun was still extremely focused with his playing. He unexpectedly hadn't heard Wang Jiexi's words. Zhou Yebai, who was sitting next to him, hastily patted him: "Xiao Yun, captain wanted you to withdraw!"

This time, Xiao Yun got the message. After staring blankly for a bit, he gloomily withdrew to his captain's side. This was one of their customs. At moments like these, their captain would say a few words to them.

"Were you listening to what Ye Qiu had been saying just before?" Wang Jiexi asked.

Xiao Yun stared blankly. He had heard. He really had heard, so much so that he saw through him and discovered that he was being used by Ye Qiu as a teaching dummy. But he knew that his captain definitely wasn't talking about this.

"I already knew everything he said……" Xiao Yun justified himself. None of those theories were any big secret. Not just pro-players, but even normal players knew about them. However, even if one knew about them, actually putting them to use was an entirely different matter.

"Since you didn't need to listen, why did you take his words as trash talk?" Wang Jiexi said.

Xiao Yun stared blankly again. Wang Jiexi didn't say anything more and let him reflect on his own.

"Captain, let me try." At this moment, a player actively requested to go up and fight. The player was the player who had been previously defeated, Liu Xiaobie. But seeing that the opponent wasn't using an unspecialized character, that truly difficult to deal with class, everyone was already eager to give it a try. Liu Xiaobie had lost once, so he had a bit of revenge on his mind.

"Let me try!" The player who had also died once just before, Liang Fang, asked to go up too.

"Hey, hey!" Before their captain was able to reply, Soft Mist walked over. Soft Mist was a female character, although the voice clearly belonged to a male. Everyone felt that it was a bit weird.

"Aren't we here to compare notes? Let's go to the Arena." Ye Xiu said.

"It looks like you have someone next to you who also needs guidance?" Wang Jiexi said.

"Yup! But I don't have as many people as you do." Ye Xiu said.

"What type of person?"

"A little sister from the Internet Cafe." Ye Xiu said.

"……."

"I'm going to go on my account." Ye Xiu said and then left. Soft Mist was returned to Tang Rou. Ye Xiu logged into Lord Grim and then walked out of the clay building. Team Tiny Herb's eleven players were all waiting outside. And for some time, they weren't sure what had just happened.

"Don't you think that this phrase would be amazing?" Lord Grim walked up, while Ye Xiu asked.

"What phrase?" Wang Jiexi asked.

"Champion team becomes training partners with internet cafe girl. That would probably make the headlines, right?" Ye Xiu said.

"The girl you're talking about is this Soft Mist, right?" Wang Jiexi said.

"Right."

"She's clearly a new player. Don't you think that directly using pro-players as training partners is a bit too excessive?" Wang Jiexi said.

"Ha ha. For her, doing it this way fits her quite nicely!" Ye Xiu said.

"But I don't see how training with her will provide any benefits to us." Wang Jiexi said.

"If you can't beat her, then you don't have the qualifications to fight with me." Ye Xiu said.

Wang Jiexi was speechless for a while: "That'll be quite easy for us to do."

"That's why you guys won't lose out. Unless you guys want to keeping doing things like this and play hide and seek with me everyday. You guys should be pretty busy, right? Do you guys really have that much time?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Arena." Wang Jiexi's character Fiery Blaze turned around and then announced the news to everyone.

"Are these players all experts?" Tang Rou's Soft Mist walked over to Lord Grim to ask.

"Yeah." Ye Xiu replied.

"How good?" Tang Rou asked.

"They're a bit worse than me." Ye Xiu said.

Coughs immediately sprang up.

Ye Xiu ignored them. He asked Tang Rou: "If you keep on losing, will you cry?"

"What do you think?" Tang Rou asked back.

"I just want you to be prepared." Ye Xiu said.

"I don't believe it. Aren't you exaggerating too much?" Tang Rou said.

"Yeah. That's the spirit." Ye Xiu lit his cigarette.

The group returned to town and entered the Arena.

"Can I use my unspecialized?" Ye Xiu asked.

Everyone in Tiny Herb was speechless. This wasn't an easy question to answer! If you said no, then it'd mean that they were scared. If you said yes, then they really would be scared! Going against an unspecialized was extremely hard.

In the end, they heard the captain say: "What are you guys worrying about? If you can't get over it, then go to bed."

Winning or losing doesn't matter couldn't always be said. Wang Jiexi hoped that his teammates would show that they didn't fear losing and learn from their failure. Beating an unspecialized at this level, especially Ye Qiu's Lord Grim, truly was nearly impossible for everyone. Under this situation, this would tell him who had the courage to face against a loss and improve because of it.

The team was silent. It didn't matter whether or not their mental states could bear it. No one was going to choose to leave.

"Who wants to go first?" Wang Jiexi asked.

"Me!" Liu Xiaobie walked directly to Lord Grim.

"We've already agreed that you have to pass her first." Ye Xiu hinted at Tang Rou.

"It'll be quick." Liu Xiaobie said full of confidence. He created a 1v1 room. The others joined as spectators. After Ye Xiu entered, he left a message and then left: If you win, come find me next door, password 15951.

"How long can she last?" Ye Xiu silently thought in his newly created room. He wasn't sitting together with Tang Rou, so he couldn't see how the battle was going and could only guess.

As a first opponent, Liu Xiaobie was quite unfavorable for Tang Rou.

Tang Rou's main advantage was her hand speed. However, Liu Xiaobie was famous in the pro-scene for his hand speed. What had originally been Tang Rou's advantage was a disadvantage to her in front of Liu Xiaobie. As for experience, understanding, knowledge, and decision-making, they weren't comparable.

"Probably around 40 seconds……." Ye Xiu guessed a time. For him, this was a type of habit. Using his experience, he could directly simulate a match and, from that, he could make a final guess.

43 seconds!

The time wasn't far from Ye Xiu's guess. Liu Xiaobie started out extremely fiercely and didn't show any mercy towards her. He was even more impatient about wasting his time on a noob like her. This was the first time that she felt powerless because someone's hand speed was higher than hers. Against that Battle Mage Cloudy Heavens, she could still put up a fight. But up against this Blade Master, she was completely suppressed from the very start and never had a chance to counterattack. It was a complete victory……

Everyone in the room suddenly disappeared. Tang Rou stared blankly and then left, too. She joined the room next door as a spectator, but didn't find Lord Grim.

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

"Find me next door." Ye Xiu replied.

"I am next door. I don't see you." Tang Rou replied.

"Find me next door is the room's name….."

Tang Rou was speechless. She left the room and then searched. Sure enough, there was a room called "Find me next door". She typed in the password and entered. Lord Grim was the only one inside. The others had probably been thrown off by the play on words, too.

"How was it?" Ye Xiu asked Tang Rou.

"They really were strong." Tang Rou said.

"That opponent just happened to counter you." Ye Xiu said.

"It doesn't matter who the person is, I'll beat him." Tang Rou said.

"It'd be great if you could do that." Ye Xiu said.

"Definitely." Tang Rou said.

The two continued to chat. Someone from Tiny Herb finally entered. Soon afterwards, the others rushed in.

'Was there a point….." Wang Jiexi clearly didn't appreciate Ye Xiu's little play on words.

Everyone was in spectator mode, ready to watch Liu Xiaobie enter the field. However, they didn't see him. After a while, they saw him enter as a spectator and say: "What's going on? I can't join the battle."

"Pay attention to the conditions for joining the battle!" Ye Xiu said.

"I already beat her." Liu Xiaobie said.

"I was talking about the system setup." Ye Xiu said.

"System setup?" Everyone was puzzled. In the end, Wang Jiexi found it the fastest: "Gambling match?"

"Of course, it's a gambling match." Ye Xiu said.

"40 Strong Spider Silk?" Wang Jiexi saw Ye Xiu's bet.

"I don't think you guys have high-level materials either." In reality, Ye Xiu didn't have anything on him. He had used up all of the materials he recently got. These Strong Spider Silk were from the extra he earned from the first time he substituted in. Gambling matches couldn't be made in the Arena without a starting bet. The stakes were all mortgaged by the system.

"We don't have these either." Wang Jiexi said impolitely.

"Come on, find a way. If you don't have these, then an equivalent exchange is fine. Would you like me to give you a list of items?" Ye Xiu asked.

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Chapter 141 – Wreck and Then Get Wrecked

"Oh? You want materials for your Silver weapon and you also want to train a new player. Quite ambitious, huh." Wang Jiexi said.

"That's why if you want take another Championship, then you're going to need to seize the chance now." Ye Xiu said.

Tiny Herb's team members were listening to the conversation between these two gods. In their hearts, they were extremely hesitant. Was Ye Qiu planning on coming back to the pro-scene? The problem was.. didn't he just retire a few days ago? Wasn't it a little strange that he wanted to come back already?

"Say it. What materials do you want?" Wang Jiexi asked.

A wall of text quickly flashed over. It was clearly impossible for it to have been typed out in that short amount of time.

"So you really had prepared long ago?" Wang Jiexi looked at these materials. They were practically all materials from the Level 25-30 stage of the game. Some were from hidden BOSSes, some were from wild BOSSes, and some were even worthless items. But for Wang Jiexi, that level of a player, he had a bit of knowledge on the equipment editor, especially since their club's technology department was considered the top in the Alliance. After Excellent Era's reign, for Team Tiny Herb to be able to become two-time Champions, this was one of their reasons.

These self-made weapon materials were unexpectedly all laid out right in front of him. Was he not scared of exposing how his weapon was made? It has to be known that self-made weapons were all very secretive items.

Does he think that we won't be able to see through it or did he put in some sort of trick? Wang Jiexi thought to himself, but didn't say anything. He immediately contacted Herb Garden's guild leader Plantago Seed on this server and told him his needs.

Plantago Seed was actually outside the Arena!

This guy had been following them the entire time from start to finish. But because he was too afraid to go near them, he just watched them from afar, which was why no one noticed him. However, when he reached the Arena, he didn't know which room everyone went into and had no choice but to get ready to leave. Who would have thought that he would suddenly receive a message from Fiery Blaze?

God Jiexi!! Plantago Seed obviously knew that this character was a Witch. Either this one or Weeping Crow, one of them had to be Wang Jiexi.

Plantago Seed looked at the list that was sent over and then immediately ran to the guild's storehouse, carrying everything they had so far with him. He then contacted Fiery Blaze to find out which Arena room they were in and then hastily sent the items over.

All sorts of materials were brought over. Wang Jiexi clearly knew that the stakes weren't any different from gifts to him because their chances of winning were so low. If Plantago Seed had to make the decision, he definitely wouldn't have agreed to the requests. He would have at least tried to lessen the damages. But in Wang Jiexi's eyes, these low-leveled materials were nothing to him. If they were the tuition for training his team, then so be it.

With the materials, Liu Xiaobie accepted the stakes and his character then entered the 1v1 match.

"Wow, so quick! You really deserve to be called the Champion team!" Ye Xiu said.

"Cut the crap!" Liu Xiaobie was in high spirits. He knew his opponent was the God Ye Qiu, so he of course wouldn't hold back Using his famed hand speed in the pro-scene to go all-out, the match instantly began with a horizontal sweep of his sword.

The record function in the Arena was very different from the record function in the wild. It didn't require the recording to be in a player's perspective. The perspective could be looked at from a God's perspective. When the recording was rewinding or playing, the perspective could be changed to a player's perspective, zoomed-out, a close-up, a birds-eye view, any perspective, which was clearly advantageous for studying it. For Wang Jiexi and the other team members, they were using this sort of God's perspective even now, allowing them to freely choose which perspective they wanted to watch the battle in.

Liu Xiaobie made the first attack. His movements looked like he was in a panic, but it was actually all under his control. This was because against an unspecialized player's unpredictable actions, where even pro-players had no way of guarding against, Liu Xiaobie's only choice was to go frantic with his hand speed, hoping to use chain attacks to stop his opponent from doing any weird tricks or stop him from having any time to think about what to do next.

Wang Jiexi saw this and secretly nodded his head. All in all, Liu Xiaobie was a player from the main roster, so his mind was quite mature and his decision-making was very on-point. In comparison, even though Xiao Yun had participated in almost half of their matches, he still appeared hot-tempered.

However, if he wanted to win, it would be somewhat difficult.

Just as this thought went through Wang Jiexi's head, Lord Grim had begun counter-attacking.

Just like that, the violent sword swings that flew out like a tempest from Liu Xiaobie's Blade Master were dissolved in an instant. Lance, Gun, Sword, and Fist attacks were thrown out following after. Liu Xiaobie's Blade Master Slash Slash Draw was forced to retreat. However, he was still focused, looking for an opportunity.

"Good!" Wang Jiexi typed out this word, boosting Liu Xiaobie's morale. This was what he wanted to see: not being discouraged by a defeat.

After a short moment, Liu Xiaobie still fell. The bets they had made were automatically sent as a package to Lord Grim.

"Thanks." Ye Xiu typed.

"My turn!!" Liang Fang jumped out to try.

"Pass the test first." Ye Xiu kicked him out of the room.

Tang Rou also received the news. She left and created a room. This time, the others didn't go and watch. There really wasn't much to see from a new Battle Mage like her.

Shortly after, Liang Fang and Tang Rou both returned. Tang Rou was naturally defeated without any suspense. Liang Fang brought the materials up to the field and the two sides began fighting. Liang Fang quickly felt some type of familiarity with the situation. This familiarity was the similar to how when he and Soft Mist had fought. Except this time, their roles had swapped and he became the one struggling…..

Liang Fang was a wild and hot-blooded person. His blood became even more excited in this type of situation and often used ways that caused both sides to suffer damage. However, this didn't mean that he had lost his cool. Liang Fang's Berserker class preferred this way of fighting. This was because after changing classes, Berserkers could learn the skill "Blood Awakening". For Berserkers that learned this passive skill, when their health hit below 50%, they would gain additional strength. More so, the lower the health, the higher the increase. In other words, the lower a Berserker's health, the stronger the attacks would be. Later, if the two sides continued to fight with both sides suffering, then the one who would lose out in the end would be the opponent.

Liang Fang fiercely attacked in this way. Ye Xiu didn't seem to be having an easy time either. He often went into desperate situations where he had no other choice but to trade hits. The two side's health continued to deplete. Although health of Liang Fang's Berserker was dropping faster, thinking of how his damage was increasing because of it, Liang Fang became more and more confident.

Liang Fang paid attention to Lord Grim's health. From one half, to one third, to one fourth, to one fifth. And although his health was dropping faster, his attacks were becoming much stronger.

"Almost! Almost there!!" Liang Fang watched both of their health bars. Finally, when his health reached a certain point, Liang Fang's expression greatly changed.

He furiously discovered that he could no longer trade hits!

He saw that if he hit Lord Grim another two times, he would be able to beat him. But the problem was, if he was hit one more time, then he would be the first one to fall.

"What bad luck!!" Liang Fang angrily threw his mouse.

"You must be tired. You're still missing one more hit." Immediately following, Liang Fang heard his opponent speak.

This guy!!!

So it wasn't that his luck was bad, but rather because his opponent had calculated the end result, which was why he just stood there trading hits with Liang Fang. This type of judgement wasn't something that Liang Fang didn't want to make, but rather because he couldn't make it. He didn't know the stats of his opponent's Silver Weapon. If it was just a normal weapon, he might have been able to make an approximate guess from the damage he took, but the problem was, this guy's weapon kept on changing forms. Different forms did different amounts of damage. Moreover, unspecialized characters had a vast variety of skills. Of those 120 skills, who knew what level each of those skills were? There was simply no way of evaluating it. In the end, Liang Fang, who had gambled on his luck, lost to the opponent's accurate calculations.

"Okay, next one." Liang Fang lost this match and then exited the field. Ye Xiu typed it out to call for the next person.

This time, the next contestant knew what to do and directly went to fight against Tang Rou first. After a short moment, he handily beat Tang Rou and then went to look for Ye Xiu to do battle.

As a result, Tiny Herb's team members all began to go through the same cycle. They first crushed the novice Soft Mist and then got crushed like novices by Ye Xiu.

The materials were depleted one after another. Plantago Seed could only watch heart-broken. Right now, his heart wasn't aching because of those materials. Those materials were taken away by the team in any case, so he wasn't accountable for them. What was making him so frightened was that of the team's 11 players, 6 of them had already lost to Lord Grim. How could this guy be so terrifying?

What made Wang Jiexi gratified was that even though they kept on losing, the atmosphere of the team was extremely good. Apart from the team member, who was fighting with Lord Grim, the others had all taken off their headphones, watching the match while discussing it with their fellow teammates. Everyone was trying hard looking for a way to beat Lord Grim. They were listening to each other's suggestions and looking for their own flaws. Every contestant that went up was given lots of encouragement by their teammates.

Unfortunately, even though it was like this, from Tiny Herb's main roster to the reserve team, they were all beaten cleanly. No matter how many suggestions had been made, they still hadn't seen any way of winning.

Eleven players. At this moment, ten players had already lost. Only Wang Jiexi hadn't come out. Of course no one was happy that everyone had been defeated. But they weren't mentally traumatized like what Wang Jiexi had been worrying about. Everyone was confronting their losses in a very rational manner.

"Big-eyed Wang, you're not going to try?!" At this moment, Lord Grim suddenly sent out a message.

The entire Team Tiny Herb began sweating like mad.

Big-eyed Wang…… This really was a nickname their team captain once had. Wang Jiexi's two eyes were of different sizes. But what was different from others was that instead of having one small eye and one normal eye, one eye was extremely normal while the other eye was extremely large.

As a result, when he first entered the Alliance, he was given the bad-sounding nickname "Big-eyed Wang" because of the abnormality he was born with. At that time, he was still a new novice, so the veterans and seniors all called him that. But now, Wang Jiexi was already Tiny Herb's team captain. All of the team's seniors had already retired. He was counted as the oldest on the team, so it had been a long time since that nickname came up.

This Ye Qiu, this Ye Qiu……

Tiny herb's teammates were all very angry. But the more they thought about it, the more they calmed down. They couldn't call the team captain by that nickname. But for seniors, they really did all call their captain by that nickname. And in the Alliance, what other player could be more of a senior than Ye Qiu?!

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Chapter 142 – Magician

When Ye Xiu yelled "Big-eyed Wang", even though Tiny Herb's team members weren't happy about it, there was nothing they could say. Everyone quietly looked at their captain's face and saw that their captain wasn't angry about it.

"Trash talk, trash talk!" Tiny Herb's team members said to each other.

"Come!" Wang Jiexi typed out, but then hinted towards Tang Rou's Soft Mist and they both left the room.

Tang Rou's Soft Mist followed him out. Ye Xiu waited until there was nothing going on before sending Tang Rou a message: "Did you cry?"

"My face is covered with tears!" Tang Rou said.

"Wipe them away and continue fighting!" Ye Xiu said.

"Yes!" Tang Rou replied.

Ye Xiu knew that Tang Rou was fine. Just as expected, he had picked correctly. To this sister, this type of method couldn't have fit her any better. Being defeated wouldn't affect her at all. For this girl, the more she failed, the braver she would get. She was also smart. Ye Xiu was confident that having this Champion team train with her would definitely help her improve a lot.

As for the other player with great potential, Steamed Bun Invasion, Ye Xiu didn't call out to him for now. Steamed Bun Invasion had a video game background. He wasn't weak either, so once he started playing Glory, he had his own way of making decisions. To put it simply, he had his own unique style.

Nowadays, in the pro-scene, in order to achieve steadiness, a lot of the new players all received coaching, so their skill in strategy and tactics became more and more set in stone. There were few new players with their own unique styles. This was especially so for those players that had been trained by the Club from the start, such as Gao Yingjie, who was simply being molded into another Wang Jiexi.

This was why on this point, Steamed Bun Invasion was even better. Although his unique style might be a bit noobish and stupid right now, Ye Xiu was looking forward to how this unique style would develop.

Coming back on topic, Steamed Bun Invasion was still only an online friend and wasn't like Tang Rou, who he could talk to in real life. As for his character, Ye Xiu couldn't really figure him out. If there was a chance, it would be okay for him to try fighting with an expert. But to directly have him get mercilessly crushed one round after another like Tang Rou.. that was something he couldn't place his luck on. Even Wang Jiexi was afraid that his team of pro-players would be negatively impacted by being mercilessly crushed. How could Ye Xiu dare to let Steamed Bun Invasion, who he didn't really understand well enough, undergo a cleansing.

"They should be finished by now." He once again made a prediction for Wang Jiexi and Tang Rou's fight and felt that it was about time now. Sure enough, after a few seconds, the two players came back. Wang Jiexi didn't say anything more and brought his Fiery Blaze directly up onto the field.

"Tsk tsk, you've become more merciful. If it was the you from before, then shouldn't 30 seconds have probably been enough? Of course, now that you're the captain, things have changed." Ye Xiu said. Once Wang Jiexi's character entered the field, the two could talk.

"Let's start!" Wang Jiexi said.

"Do you want me to let you win this one? You guys have lost ten matches. If you happen to win this one, then it'd be a big boost to your team's morale." Ye Xiu said.

"But I don't think I'll lose for certain." Wang Jiexi said.

"But you know it." Ye Xiu dully said.

"Is there any point in trash talking….." Wang Jiexi said.

"Yeah, there is. Just look at Huang Shaotian." Ye Xiu said.

"……" Wang Jiexi didn't have any words for a moment. With regards to trash talk, especially Huang Shaotian's trash talk, it really was a pain for their Tiny Herb.

Tiny Herb was last season's, Glory Professional Alliance's, Season 7 Champions. Apart from that, they were also the Season 5 Champions. In between, they had their title as Champions taken away by Huang Shaotian in Season 6. If it wasn't for this, Tiny Herb would have already become three-time Champions, creating a new era.

Unfortunately, on their road to becoming Champions, the team's mentality wasn't good enough. Under the pressure from their fans' expectations, when they were faced with Huang Shaotian's full-screen trash talk, everyone became somewhat unsteady. In that final deciding match, they lost, making them feel extremely depressed and unwilling to accept the result.

This was an experience that Tiny Herb hated to bring up. But now, Ye Xiu had brought it up…..

This was trash talk!

Wang Jiexi decided. He collected his thoughts and didn't say anything more, completely entering a competitive state of mind.

Everyone in Team Tiny Herb was extremely nervous. Even though they had maintained a steady competitive state of mind the entire way through, losing from the beginning to the end really was very shameful, which was why everyone was hopeful that their captain would pull out a win. Also, wasn't one of their little brothers from Herb Garden watching them? This person knew of their identities. If he saw them lose from the beginning to the end, then wouldn't that turn their fan into a hater?

This "little brother" was Plantago Seed, Herb Garden's tenth server guild leader. In front of the team's pro-players, of course he would be treated as a little brother. Ten losses in a row! Plantago Seed really was speechless. Lord Grim: this player's strength had been looked down on! This was a player that shouldn't even have existed in the game!

Right now, it was God Jiexi's turn. He was Team Tiny Herb's last hope. Plantago Seed was even more nervous than anyone else. For the team he supported to lose so badly.. He was worried too!

Magic Missile!!

Wang Jiexi's Witch was the first to move, suddenly sending out a Magic Missile.

Lord Grim sidestepped and dodged it. He raised the weapon in his hands. Ta ta ta, three consecutive sounds, three Anti-Tank Missiles.

He was once again using Tri-Shot and the three Anti-Tank Missiles formed a triangle. But this wouldn't stop Wang Jiexi. With a move, his Fiery Blaze leaped onto his Broom and flew away, avoiding it.

However, that sort of unavoidable situation was something every Tiny Herb member had experienced.

If you said you were melee, then we would use our long-range advantage to deal with you. If you were long-ranged, then we would find a way to close in on you.

But unspecialized characters! If you had a long-range advantage, then he would just fire back at you. If you were melee, then he would fight you in close combat. It didn't matter if you were melee or ranged, he simply didn't care. It really was too shameless.

Fiery Blaze avoided the bullets. He waved his hands and blue dust was sprinkled onto his broom.

Frost Powder!!

It added some Ice Element Magic Damage to a Witch's normal attacks for a duration of up to 20 seconds.

Ice Damage could directly cause a person to Freeze and could also cause a Slow effect like a Battle Mage's Ice Chasers.

The additional damage from the Frost Powder wasn't considered scary. And even if it could Slow, the chances were low. This skill was mostly used for extra damage.

After being sprinkled with Frost Powder, the Broom immediately turned gleaming blue. When Fiery Blaze rode on his broom, icy mist sprinkled out from the broom, making the scene look extremely beautiful.

In the blink of an eye, Fiery Blaze closed in. Unspecialized characters really were too shameless. They weren't afraid of close combat or long-ranged fights. Lord Grim and Fiery Blaze began battling.

The flying broom still had ice crystals sprinkle out. If these hit you, then there wouldn't be any damage. They were simply there for visual effects. Except under Wang Jiexi's movements, his broom danced quicker and more rhythmically, so the ice crystals came out with a more steady rhythm, making him look relaxed and refreshed.

Looking at Lord Grim, his weapon continued to change and change. It would be like that for one second and then something else the next. In any case, his weapon would change forms and use an unexpected skill at an unexpected time. In the eyes of Team Tiny Herb, they didn't have any good feelings towards it. There was only one word to describe what they were feeling: shameless.

Disperse Powder, Umbrella opened.

Magic Missile, Return Fire.

Shadow Cloak, Shadow Clone Technique.

The two fought against each other using their different skills. But no matter how it was looked at, the current Witch's total of 7 skills couldn't be compared to an unspecialized character's 120 skills. Wang Jiexi paid close attention to what Ye Xiu had taught Tang Rou: keep as many skills in reserve as possible. He had to be even more careful, especially since his opponent had more skills than him. As a result, in this battle, Wang Jiexi mostly used his Broom's movements and Broom Dance's normal attacks to fight.

Broom Dance was a nickname for a move. It was a way of using normal attacks, connecting them together, making it look like a dance. It wasn't an actual skill name. Wang Jiexi faced his opponent like this. But against his opponent's hundreds of tricks, it didn't need to be said that he lost out.

"Shameless, too shameless!"

Tiny Herb's team members saw that their captain was playing outstandingly well, but he still wasn't winning. They all felt that it wasn't his fault he was losing, but completely because of the opponent's OP class.

But the more Wang Jiexi fought, the faster he moved. Fiery Blaze's flying became more and more crafty and his Broom Dance became more and more artful.

"Oh!" Ye Xiu felt this change and exclaimed.

And on Tiny Herb's side, the expressions of the senior members, such as vice-captain Deng Fusheng, also changed.

Magician!!

This was Wang Jiexi's Magician style.

Unimaginable flying along with completely unpredictable angles of attack. From this perspective, the Magician style was the same as an unspecialized character's. It was to make it so that the opponent had no way of predicting the next move. But unspecialized characters did this through the way their class was set-up, while Wang Jiexi's title of Magician was completely done through his knowledge, decision-making, and mechanics.

Even though there weren't any skills, with just normal attacks and flying, Wang Jiexi's Witch truly deserved to be called Magician. As the future inheritor, Gao Yingjie's eyes grew wider and wider. Even he couldn't predict what his captain's Witch was going to do next and he could already be considered a senior among Witches.

Everyone in the team saw their captain's transformation. Everyone was extremely excited, but stayed silent so that they wouldn't disturb their captain's playing. Everyone held their breath and clenched their fists, silently cheering their captain on.

As for Plantago Seed, all he felt was a blur. Dizziness was his only feeling.

And as for Tang Rou, who had fought with Wang Jiexi before, she hadn't seen her opponent use this style of fighting. All she knew was that if he had fought in this way, she would have lost even faster.

The two fought at high speed, their health quickly dropping. Fiery Blaze moved up, down, left, right, and then spun around Lord Grim. Attack after attack after attack…..

Everyone watched, their hearts hanging in suspense, when suddenly, a bang exploded. The two looked as if they collided and then suddenly crashed down.

"You….."

"Sigh, seeing how hard you're fighting, I should give you some face!" Ye Xiu dully said.

Fiery Blaze. Lord Grim. The two characters crashed to the ground. But neither of them stood back up.

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Chapter 143 – Unexpected Discovery

The two character's health bars dropped to zero at the same time.

Of course this type of situation could occur. In an official match, the two characters that died at the same time would recover a fifth of their hp and fight again. As for in the Arena, that depended on what the players decided. The normal setting was that it would be considered a draw, where there would be no winner or loser.

When Ye Xiu created the room, besides setting up the Gambling, he didn't touch anything else, so it was in the normal setting.

The practice room in Team Tiny Herb was in awesome silence. After a while, someone suddenly sighed: "That's our captain!!"

The other team members immediately added as if they had woken up from a dream: "Yeah, yeah!"

But on Wang Jiexi's face, there wasn't any sort of happiness or anger on his face. He only let out a sigh and then took off his headphones.

The practice room immediately went silent.

A draw. Even though it was already an achievement that none of the other teammates were able to get, being happy about a draw shouldn't be a Champion team's attitude. As a result, everyone was gasping at their captain's amazingness, but they weren't showing any happiness, especially after they saw their captain's somber expression.

"That'll be all for today!" Wang Jiexi announced.

"Yes." Everyone answered.

"In the future, every day, two players form a team. You're all free to choose who you want to team up with. Then go contact Lord Grim and spar with him. This extra practice isn't required by the Club, but I hope that everyone will do it and learn from it. I think everyone knows what type of person Ye Qiu is. His experience, his knowledge, and even his trash talk are all things that we can learn from him." Wang Jiexi said.

"Yes."

"Okay, everyone go to sleep! Don't be late for tomorrow morning's practice." Wang Jiexi said.

The team members all logged out of the game and got up. They found their friends and left together. Some discovered that their captain was still in his seat and hadn't moved. However, they weren't meddlesome and didn't question. After a short moment, the only person left in the practice room was Wang Jiexi.

Back in the game, since all of his challengers had gone offline, Ye Xiu saw that it looked like they weren't going to keep fighting, so he closed the room. His screen jumped to the Arena selection screen. After Wang Jiexi exited out, he returned to outside the Arena's entrance and saw that Lord Grim was currently talking with their Herb Garden's Plantago Seed!

"It must have been hard. How many materials do you have left in your storeroom?" Ye Xiu asked this just as Wang Jiexi's Fiery Blaze walked up.

Plantago Seed was obviously very gloomy and didn't know how to respond. He suddenly saw God Jiexi's character walk over and immediately stepped to the side subconsciously.

"Oh? You still haven't left?" Ye Xiu saw him.

"Yeah." Wang Jiexi answered.

"How was it? Did it boost your team's morale?" Ye Xiu laughed.

"If you just directly let me win, wouldn't that be even better?" Wang Jiexi said.

"I don't want to lose either!" Ye Xiu said.

"Yeah, no one wants to lose." Wang Jiexi said.

"Yeah, if I lose, then I lose materials." Ye Xiu pointed out.

"……." Wang Jiexi had never connected winning or losing and those materials together. He didn't care whether they won or lost materials. But the person in front of him, who was supposed to be a God level player like himself and whose history was even grander than his, was haggling because of these tiny materials?

If it was earlier, when Wang Jiexi hadn't yet seen Ye Xiu's intentions, he would have thought that Ye Xiu had fallen and was at the end of his road. However, after seeing Ye Xiu training new players and pursuing materials, Wang Jiexi knew that such a feeling was too superficial.

"My teammates will come look for you every night." Wang Jiexi said.

"Welcome, welcome. The rules will be the same as before." Ye Xiu said.

"Plantago Seed. You should try to provide the materials as best as you can. I'll contact you." Wang Jiexi said.

"Oh……" Plantago Seed replied. The materials they had gotten were mainly for the Club and in the end, they were to help their Team. Right now, seeing that God Jiexi had spoken, Plantago Seed didn't feel any heart aches. It's not like the materials were his anyways. Except who exactly was this Lord Grim? Plantago Seed was even more curious now. Seeing how this person talked with God Jiexi, it seemed like they recognized each other, neither familiar nor new with each other, who was this person? Could he be……

"Okay. I'll be leaving first then." Wang Jiexi said.

"Really? Just like that? The dungeons will be refreshed in a bit. You're not going to dungeon?" Ye Xiu said.

"I'll be cheering you on." Wang Jiexi said. How he could have the time for such a low-leveled dungeon?

"Go back and tell your teammates to level up well! I train for ten hours every day. If the gap between us grows too big, I won't be responsible." Ye Xiu said.

That really was a problem. Wang Jiexi didn't reply. He thought about it and then went offline. They were a pro team. Leveling low-leveled accounts really was too much of a waste of time. It looked like they were going to need to find people to train the accounts for them.

Materials, leveling……. Busy with this and that. And in the end, all they wanted to do was lose to Lord Grim?

After Wang Jiexi collected his thoughts, he himself didn't know whether to laugh or cry. And that wasn't all. They were also being used as training partners! This Ye Qiu, business with him was simply a scam!

However, this time, besides finding a rare training partner, the unexpected discovery was that…… Wang Jiexi sat at the practice room. After a short moment of silence, he left.

The next day, the time to kill the BOSS came again. Wang Jiexi said the day before that only two players needed to come. But that night, Tiny Herb's entire team gathered. Everyone was extremely positive. Wang Jiexi obviously wouldn't scold them for having too many team members come, though it was quite unfortunate for Plantago Seed.

Plantago Seed had calculated the amount of materials they had given out yesterday from fighting with Lord Grim one round. If they continued to fight like that and Team Tiny Herb continued to lose and never win, their Herb Garden's storeroom would only last four days. Even if he put in the revenue they'd get each day, it would only be five days at max.

This was only the new server and everything Lord Grim wanted were uncommon materials. This was Herb Garden too, yet they could only last for four or five days. If this was a guild set up by a normal player, they wouldn't be able to last one round. Those types of guilds didn't have any defined management department. The items from dungeons would be rolled for and then directly put into the player's pocket. How could the guild earn any profit like that? Only those guilds with Clubs behind them, with their own set of management methods, had a fair-trade system where the players and guilds got what they needed from each other. In any case, players were there to play the game. They weren't there to be laborers. How could they just give everything they found to the guild?

Plantago Seed once again saw that Team Tiny Herb's entire roster had come. He really had no one to complain to. He could only gather the materials for them and pray that today they'd do a little better and not all lose.

On Ye Xiu's side, Ye Xiu had come with Tang Rou. The rules were still the same as before. Tang Rou first and then Ye Xiu.

Yesterday, everyone had been focused on fighting, so they hadn't yet added each other as friends. Today, they were more polite and added each other as friends. The members of Tiny Herb showed their proper respects to their senior as well. The atmosphere was very friendly.

While watching the fighting, Tang Rou, who had just lost, suddenly received a message. After opening it, she saw that it was from that Gunner called Fallen Angel: "Sister, watching these matches all the time can get boring. What do you say we go play for a few rounds?"

"Okay!" Tang Rou happily accepted. She followed Liu Fei out of the room. The two created a room and they fought. Tang Rou looked and she unexpectedly saw another person had followed them in to watch. She looked and recognized him, Fiery Blaze. Tang Rou understood that this person was probably their leader.

After the countdown, the two began fighting.

Tang Rou was even sadder than Tiny Herb yesterday. She had lost all eleven rounds. There wasn't a shred of mercy from them either. Even though there were differences in skill between the members of Tiny Herb, it was still extremely easy for them to deal with Tang Rou. Of those eleven players, besides Qiao Yifan's Ashen Moon, who she had fought with for a relatively long time, the other ten had all beaten her in around a minute. These guys had all been impatiently waiting to go fight with Lord Grim, so they weren't polite at all with her.

Tang Rou knew that her current opponent was also a female. The day before yesterday, Ye Xiu had brought her and they had taught them a miserable lesson. But now that she was dueling, she was being completely controlled. This type of feeling was like when she had first fought with Ye Xiu.

1 minute 47 seconds!

This was how long it took for her to fall. Compared to yesterday, she had lasted for 20 more seconds. She remembered this very clearly because she had recordings for every match yesterday. In the second half of the night, after clearing all the dungeons, Ye Xiu had analyzed every match for her. Tang Rou had been waiting to try again today.

Just a moment ago, from a time perspective, she had improved. However, after fighting her, everyone immediately took off to fight with Ye Xiu. And Ye Xiu didn't beat them as fast as they were beating her, so she always had to wait a long time, which was why Tang Rou was extremely grateful that this gunner actively sought to fight her.

Unfortunately, she still lost. However, with Ye Xiu's analysis from yesterday, Tang Rou had noticed a lot of her problems now. Regretfully, hindsight was 20/20. After another round, she suddenly reacted in time: Oh, I shouldn't have done that that time. It was clear that putting theory into practice wasn't easy to do.

"Again?" Liu Fei smiled while asking.

"Of course." Tang Rou didn't hesitate and faced the challenge.

Another round. 1 minutes 50 seconds passed. There wasn't much of a difference between last time.

"Again!" This time, Tang Rou asked to fight.

1 minute 44 seconds.

"You play pretty well." Liu Fei said.

Pity? Tang Rou was helpless. She didn't like to be pitied. That was the type of praise she wanted to hear when she won.

"It's my turn now. I'll be going first." Liu Fei said.

"Oh……." Tang Rou replied. But Liu Fei had already hastily left the room, making it so that her words simply faded away in an empty field. Tang Rou suddenly felt extremely lost. This type of feeling of being completely ignored felt absolutely terrible.

"You really do play pretty well." A voice suddenly echoed out. Tang Rou turned her camera and saw that that Fiery Blaze had unexpectedly entered the field.

"Could I ask you what your name is? I'm talking about your real name." Wang Jiexi said.

"Tang Rou."

"Oh, how about we go for a round?" Wang Jiexi said.

"Sure!" This opponent was the strongest among them. For him to actually want to fight her, that was something Tang Rou found somewhat unexpected.

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Chapter 144 – Back and Forth

The two began fighting. What made Tang Rou even more astonished was that her opponent was actually going all out. He was actually using the style he had used yesterday in the fight with Ye Xiu. Unpredictable and extremely fast, his swift movements alone already made it hard for Tang Rou.

And these swift movements naturally meant that the camera had to be adjusted quickly. For new players like Tang Rou, who didn't yet have enough experience, this was a dead end. Wang Jiexi's ever-changing combat style made it so that Tang Rou had no way of resisting. This was the difference between a top-tier God and a new player. No suspense. No openings. Defeat in 27 seconds!

This was the time that Ye Xiu had estimated.

Tang Rou finally realized how amazing the fight between Fiery Blaze and Lord Grim was.

Extremely strong. So strong that it made others speechless.

At this moment, Tang Rou recalled the scene where Ye Xiu and her had first fought. Repeatedly fighting against such a strong opponent was completely meaningless. The gap between the two sides was way too wide, so much so that she had no way of knowing what went wrong.

Tang Rou silently sat in the field, quietly looking at her Soft Mist.

The world really is large. She once thought that Glory was so simple. But from Ye Xiu and now these players, who could easily deal with her, she now understood that these were the true experts. She pitied her past self, who, after helping Chen Guo beat those unbeatable opponents, believed herself to be extremely amazing. Now that she looked at it, it really felt like was looking at the sky from the bottom of a well.

"Do you want to go again?" Her opponent's voice suddenly interrupted her train of thought.

"Again?" Tang Rou stared blankly.

"Yeah."

"There's no point, right? The gap's too wide." Tang Rou said.

"The gap is only temporary. You have a lot of potential!" Wang Jiexi said.

"Thank you." Tang Rou chuckled. It didn't matter if her opponent was only doing it to comfort her, it was still a polite compliment, so she wouldn't be impolite back.

"Do you have any interest in playing in the Pro Alliance?" Wang Jiexi suddenly said.

"Pro Alliance?"Tang Rou stared blankly.

"Right, the Pro Alliance."

"Oh, so you guys were pro players!" Tang Rou said.

"Correct. We're Team Tiny Herb. If you really are interested, then right now I want to give you a serious invite. An invite for you to come to our Club for a trial." Even though Wang Jiexi was the team captain, he still didn't have the authority to manage the Club's players. No matter how good of a talent he saw, he could only do his best and give a recommendation to the Club. The Club might listen attentively to his recommendation, but the power to recruit and kick players wasn't his. No Club's team captain had that authority.

Team Tiny Herb? What was that? Tang Rou was puzzled for a bit. Her knowledge of the Pro Alliance was extremely shallow. The last match she saw was the first match she had completely watched from start to finish. She felt that she might have heard of Tiny Herb's name, but she truly couldn't think of where she had heard it from. She obviously knew that asking such a question was extremely impolite, so she calmly replied: "Thank you, but I don't think there's a need to."

"What?" Wang Jiexi stared blankly. He hadn't thought that this girl would actually reply so calmly like that. She had even refused too. Pro Alliance! These two words were already enough to make any Glory fan go mad. Entering the Pro Alliance was something many Glory players could only dream of. And to be personally invited by the Champion Team Tiny Herb's captain, that was something that had never happened before. But in the first time that it had happened, it had been rejected neither softly nor strongly.

For a while, Wang Jiexi had no idea how to respond to Tang Rou's reply.

"I'm very happy with the way things are right now, so I don't want that to change." Tang Rou at least explained her reasoning.

"What ….. type of life are you living?"

"A little sister at the Internet Cafe." Tang Rou laughed. Although she didn't mean to listen in on other people's conversations, she had the title that Ye Xiu gave her yesterday.

"Internet Cafe waitress….." Wang Jiexi was even more speechless. How could this type of life compare to a pro-player?

'Okay. You've already beaten me, so you can go and duel him. I'll be in this room, so have your other teammates come!" Tang Rou said.

"You…….. fighting like this with us. For what purpose?" Wang Jiexi avoided saying the reality that she was being repeatedly crushed by them.

"In order to improve, so I can be a better player!" Tang Rou said.

"And after you become a better player?" Wang Jiexi asked.

"After? Even better then. What else is after?" Tang Rou said.

This girl's thinking wasn't in the same line as his……. Wang Jiexi felt hard-pressed. The girl in front of him had excellent mental toughness. Her hand speed and mechanical skill weren't bad either. He could even say that her hardware was all there, but her software was still lacking. Ye Qiu's perception really was incredible. She was a truly hard to come by talent. For their team's young talent Gao Yingjie, his mechanical skill was there and his skill level was constantly rising, but his mental toughness was entirely lacking.

Mental toughness. This was a large problem not only for Glory, but other eSports too.

This was all because the average age of eSports pro-players was relatively low. For example, youths such as Gao Yingjie could already enter the pro-scene, but they hadn't completely matured yet and their mentality was still far from mature adults. Even for those top eSports players, most of them were around 20 years old. Impatience among eSports players was extremely prominent.

Wang Jiexi had already noticed this girl called Tang Rou the other day. She had lost ten times in a row. In addition, she had been beaten every time without a shred of mercy. But in her eleventh match against him, she was still the same as before, calm and unhurried. He didn't see any sign of irritation or discouragement. All he saw from her was effort, effort, and more effort.

Wang Jiexi was amazed. Today, when he privately asked his teammates, no one had a big impression of her and no one had thought of recording their fights against her. Only under Wang Jiexi's urge did some teammates just barely recall their fights with her, confirming his judgement towards Tang Rou.

She was definitely a promising talent!

Ye Qiu was clearly aware of this and had even begun training her. But right now, Ye Qiu was an already retired pro-player and could only act as a temporary tutor. If he was able to officially invite her over, wouldn't he be able to snatch her?

Who knew that when he tried to invite her, she would actually reply calmly in such a way. Wasn't such stubbornness a bit too excessive?

"Can….. you reconsider it? If you change your mind, come find me at any time." At this moment, Wang Jiexi didn't want to force her. He found that he was a bit too hot-headed this time. He should have at least understood the other side's background first.

But honestly speaking, Wang Jiexi couldn't be blamed. Who would think that a Glory player wouldn't respond to being invited by a pro team? Even if this player was new to the game.

"I will. Thank you." Tang Rou was still as polite as ever.

Wang Jiexi was just about to leave, when someone suddenly entered the room. After Liu Fei lost, Tiny Herb's next team member arrived.

Wang Jiexi looked and went back into the spectator's seats to see this match.

"Go ahead, Yifan." Wang Jiexi sent a message.

The player who had just arrived was Qiao Yifan. Seeing his captain in the room, he felt baffled. After hearing his command, he immediately entered the field. He greeted Tang Rou and then the two began fighting.

For this match, Wang Jiexi looked a bit absent-minded. Although Qiao Yifan was an official team member of Tiny Herb, Wang Jiexi was more focused on Tang Rou.

For a new player to be able to compete with a pro-player and even make it difficult for the pro-player, that made Wang Jiexi sigh with praise. At the same time, he couldn't help but feel unsatisfied with Qiao Yifan.

This team member was without a doubt the weakest player of the team. It could even be said that his skill level wasn't enough to be a member of a Champion team. Even if he went to the Alliance's weakest team, it would still be difficult to say if he could be a part of the main roster.

He had been in the team for so long. The others had all grown, but he hadn't shown the slightest signs of improvement. He always looked like one of those people who always had their hands and feet bound together, constantly looking backwards. If he never looked ahead, what prospects did he have?

Even though he didn't have the power over the players' positions as a team captain, his suggestions still held quite a lot of weight in the Club. Wang Jiexi already couldn't see any value in keeping Qiao Yifan in the team. He also knew that the kid was having a hard time meshing with the team. Perhaps if he wasn't in a Champion team and in some other no-pressure mid-tier team, he might be able to make some progress?

The match had been fought for nearly three minutes and still hadn't ended yet. Tiny Herb's next team member impatiently ran over to see what was going on. In the end, Qiao Yifan still won. Although he was a small character that was ignored, for a new player like Tang Rou, he was still a strong existence.

Seeing how his captain had watched the entire match, Qiao Yifan felt terrified. He knew that the way he had played definitely wasn't good. Just from the amount of time it took him, who in the team needed even close to three minutes to finish the opponent?

"Yifan, hurry up!" The team member, who had just arrived, urged him. Qiao Yifan was slow here, but it would be a quick fight against Lord Grim. After urging Qiao Yifan out, the team member immediately began fighting with Tang Rou, in order to hurry up and fight Lord Grim.

In Ye Xiu's room, Qiao Yifan silently entered. Besides Gao Yingjie, who cheered him on, no one else gave any sort of encouragement to him. It looked like everyone had already determined that he didn't belong in the team and had already stopped considering him as a member.

Qiao Yifan had gotten used to this long ago. He simply sucked in a deep breath and then entered the field.

"Oh, it's you!" On the field, Ye Xiu greeted Qiao Yifan.

"Ah…… me……." Qiao Yifan didn't know what to say.

It's you…… This implied that his opponent acknowledged him. When had he ever felt like he existed? And it was in God Ye Qiu's eyes too. He was the same as captain, an almost godly person!

"You're the one in your team that uses an Assassin, right?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Yeah."

"Has anyone ever suggested that you switch classes?" Ye Xiu said.

"Never."

"What class did you originally play?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Originally….." That was so long ago. What class did he play before being on Tiny Herb? Qiao Yifan wasn't able to recall. He only knew that after he joined, the Club tossed a retired player's Assassin account card to him. And from then on, he used an Assassin. He had never went out on stage in any match before. Besides Gao Yingjie, no other team member ever asked to train with him. The tech department never made any self-made equipment for an Assassin to use. He truly became an Assassin, lonely and invisible.

"The Assassin isn't a class that lets you use your full potential." Ye Xiu said.

"Ah? Potential?" Qiao Yifan felt that this was a new word to him.

"Try out a Ghostblade! A Phantom Demon that mainly uses Phantom Ghosts to support the team." Ye Xiu said.

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Chapter 145 – A Bit of Courage is Needed

Ghostblades, one of the four Swordsman sub-classes. They were Swordsmen that controlled Ghosts to fight. Depending on how a player chose his skills, Ghostblades could be divided into two types.

The first type used skills that buffed their attacks. They gave up some of their Phantom Ghosts, in order to achieve the highest attack. They were commonly referred to as Sword Demons.

The other type released their Phantom Ghosts in order to set up a powerful boundary that buffed allies who were in it. They were referred to as Phantom Demons.

The reason there were two types of Ghostblades was because their skill points were limited. No matter how it was said, it wasn't possible to level every skill to the max level, so players had to choose which skills to prioritize. Ghostblades were considered relatively extreme. After choosing which skills to prioritize, the Ghostblade would take shape as one of two completely different types. Of course, there would certainly be players who chose to take the middle ground and leveled skills from both types. Choosing the middle ground was something which was commonly seen among normal players. However, in the pro-scene, players sought after the most effective route. For pro Ghostblades, if they weren't Sword Demons, then they were Phantom Demons. There were very few who took the middle ground.

Of these two types, Sword Demons were simpler. They could both attack and defend and act independently. They could be considered a relatively balanced type. As for Phantom Demons, their strengths and weaknesses were very distinct. It was true that a large amount of high-leveled Phantom Ghost boundaries could greatly buff the Ghostblade's combat strength. However, the boundary set up covered a limited area, which meant that once the Phantom Demon left the boundary, he would be useless.

This weakness wasn't too obvious against NPCs, but was much more glaring in the Arena. The opponent didn't need to fight in your boundaries. The opponent could simply wait until your boundaries disappeared. Long-ranged classes could even attack from outside the boundaries. In a 1v1 PK, Phantom Ghosts required more skill and knowledge to use. There were many normal players who even believed that Phantom Demons had no way of dueling against other classes.

From its development to its current state, Sword Demons were the most mainstream Ghostblades. The majority of players would choose to be a Sword Demon. Because the actions that could be done by Phantom Demons were numerous and complex and because the boundaries only covered a limited area, the amount of players who chose to be Phantom Demons grew fewer and fewer. But in these elite teams, Phantom Demons had their niche. But since the Phantom Ghost boundaries of two Phantom Demons didn't overlap, there were only one or two per team.

For example, the Champion Tiny Herb team had a Phantom Demon. Zhou Yebai's Ghostblade Rangoon Creeper was a Phantom Demon. He had appeared in an official match before providing the team with more choices and possible tactics.

"Phantom Demon….." Qiao Yifan muttered to himself. Perhaps it was because no one had specially instructed him for a long time, but once he heard this suggestion, Qiao Yifan immediately accepted it. Even more so, he had been instructed by Ye Qiu, the Glory textbook, who even Wang Jiexi wasn't as knowledgeable as.

"Correct, your view over the overall situation is very good and your ability to coordinate is very high, so a Phantom Demon suits you very well!" Ye Xiu said.

"But…… but……" Qiao Yifan said two "buts", but wasn't able to say anything past that. He had too much he wanted to say and didn't know where to start.

Switch classes? How could he have the qualifications to do that? Even if he switched to a Phantom Demon, their team already had Zhou Yebai. How could they give Zhou Yebai's Phantom Demon to him?

Start from scratch? That was even an more unlikely option. The pro-level Assassin he was currently using was already neglected by the Club. A completely new Phantom Demon would be neglected even more.

More importantly, his position in the club was falling lower and lower. After this season was over, his contract would expire. With how he was currently doing in the club, he doubted that the Club would renew his contract. And ever since he began in the pro-scene, he had always been invisible. The only thing he had going for him was the title "Champion team member". With just this, he might be able to interest a few small Clubs. But if he started learning a new class now, with less than half a year left, would he be able to pass the entry tests?

If he lost his job as a pro-player, what was the point of changing to a more suitable class?

"Sigh……" In the end, Qiao Yifan could only sigh. At this moment, neither side moved. The spectators couldn't hear what the two were saying. They didn't know what they were doing. And how could they be polite with Qiao Yifan? They immediately began spamming messages telling him to hurry up.

Qiao Yifan didn't dare delay any longer. But seeing that Lord Grim didn't seem to have any intent on starting. He could only helplessly say: "Senior, I'm going to start now." After finishing this, he began attacking.

Naturally, Ye Xiu handled Qiao Yifan easily. Qiao Yifan was quickly defeated. And sure enough, looking at the time, Qiao Yifan lost the fastest, just like how he took the longest to beat Tang Rou.

"Muster up some courage!"

Qiao Yifan heard Ye Xiu call this out when he left the field.

Courage?

Qiao Yifan silently sat in front of his computer, watching, as the next team member rushed up to face Lord Grim. The two sides began fighting without any polite greetings. The team members around him watched the battle while discussing it amongst each other. Qiao Yifan looked to his side, but Gao Yingjie wasn't there. Looking to the other side, he saw that Gao Yingjie had been called over by the captain, who seemed to be talking to him.

"How lucky…… to be instructed by a god-level player like captain so often……" Qiao Yifan silently thought. He suddenly wanted to cry. He and Gao Yingjie had entered the team at the same time. They were the same age. One of them received the seniors' love and affection. One of them became the seniors' servant.

"Phantom Demon……." Qiao Yifan couldn't help but think of the suggestion that that God had made and that small bit of encouragement from him.

Maybe he really did need a bit more courage!

But……. courage wasn't something that would come just from him saying it. After thinking about it for awhile, Qiao Yifan still felt scared.

Might as well just try it! He finally made this decision. He wouldn't completely give up the Assassin he was using, but from now on, he would try a Phantom Demon out. Maybe there'll be a difference?

Just this thought made Qiao Yifan feel extremely happy.

"Yifan, what are you smiling at?" At this moment, Gao Yingjie had returned to his seat. When he came, he saw his good friend with a foolish smile on his face. He looked distracted as if he wasn't watching the match.

"Oh, it's nothing." Qiao Yifan immediately got rid of his smile.

That night, Team Tiny Herb's record hadn't changed. They all lost. Except this time, their captain Wang Jiexi hadn't come out. However, after the day before's match between the two, no one thought that their captain was afraid of losing. In short, their captain often did something unexpected just like when he suddenly pulled everyone into the game for training. Team Tiny Herb's members were already used to this, so they simply listened to his commands without guessing what he was up to.

"How was today?" In Happy Internet Cafe, after finishing up with the great battle, Ye Xiu went to ask Tang Rou. The circumstances between the two were completely different. One of them had won every round. One of them had lost every round. Complete opposites.

"It was a bit better than yesterday." Tang Rou said.

"Amazing!" Ye Xiu praised.

"But……. today, their Fiery Blaze invited me over to do some training or something!" Tang Rou said.

"Really?" Ye Xiu didn't seem very surprised: "He's got good eyes. You really do have a lot of potential. Did you accept?"

"I didn't. I've never thought of being a pro-player." Tang Rou said.

"No matter what, don't let our boss hear you say that or she'll choke you to death." Ye Xiu said.

After thinking about it for awhile, Tang Rou nodded her head: "You're right."

"Ha ha, are you going to dungeon tonight?"

"Of course."

"I'll see you at 12."

"Okay."

After the two finished talking, they went back to their own business. Ye Xiu got ready to switch shifts, while Tang Rou went back to her seat and continued to play.

After 11, the Internet Cafe immediately changed scenes. The noisiness during the peak hours had passed and the place had quieted down a lot.

"Is the Pro Alliance really that fun?"

After Ye Xiu sat down at the receptionist desk, he logged into the game as Lord Grim and then received a message from Soft Mist.

"Is Glory fun?" Ye Xiu replied.

"I guess I could count it as fun." Tang Rou said.

"Then the Pro Alliance is the same." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh……"

"But with your personality, being a pro-player really suits you well. Don't you like challenges?" Ye Xiu said.

"Then what about you? Why aren't you playing in the Pro Alliance?" Tang Rou asked.

"I've already played in it. I'm tired right now, so I'm taking a break." Ye Xiu said.

"Liar." Tang Rou wasn't stupid. How could "taking a break" mean running to an Internet Cafe and becoming a manager?

"I'll be going back later." Ye Xiu said.

"When?" Tang Rou asked.

"That's a bit difficult to say……" Ye Xiu replied.

Tang Rou didn't say anything more. The two quietly played. At 12, the dungeons refreshed. They partied up and did the same as they usually did.

The next day was the same. Except this time, Team Tiny Herb lost even more miserably than last time. There was no way they could improve so much after two or three days. But Ye Xiu on the other hand had gathered quite a lot of materials from the past two days. His Thousand Chance Umbrella had been upgraded all around once again. Every form was now Level 25. This was clearly more efficient than clearing dungeon records. Even better was that this could be done again and again, while dungeon records could only be set once.

Plantago Seed was still busily gathering the materials on the list, when he suddenly received another list of materials. Plantago Seed saw it and directly coughed up blood. This time, the materials were mainly from Level 30-35 areas. Currently, the Three Great Guild's elite teams had only just hit Level 30 and were only just starting to challenge those areas. How would they be able to gather these materials?

Seeing how fast their resources were being depleted, let alone Herb Garden, even if all of the tenth server guilds gathered everything together, it still wouldn't be enough. The vast majority of the players were Level 25. The Level 28 players such as Lord Grim were only a bit lower than the big guild's elite teams. Compared to new players, besides eating and sleeping, Ye Xiu and Tang Rou played non-stop, so there was no way they would fall behind other players. They were already among the craziest of players, who only had one person playing on one account.

No materials. But Wang Jiexi didn't panic. They were pro-players. Losing and winning were their jobs. They couldn't just keep on fighting non-stop. They had to analyze too.

As a result, during the days where they had no more materials, Team Tiny Herb spent the night analyzing all of the recordings they had gathered together.

Ye Xiu naturally wasn't concerned. If no one came to look for him, then he'd continue leveling. After a few days, they hit Level 30. During this period of time, Glory's 22nd match of the season took place. Team Excellent Era finally realized their fan's hopes and made a beautiful turnaround match with 9 points to 1.

In comparison, Team Tiny Herb came out with the opposite. Against a mid-tier team, they only took three points.

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Chapter 146 – Too Smart

The entire Team Tiny Herb was low on morale. In the news conference after the match, Captain Wang Jiexi revealed to the media that Team Tiny Herb was currently undergoing a special secret training, which affected their team's condition. But with Tiny Herb's current dominant position, Wang Jiexi believed that this loss was completely worth it. Tiny Herb only had one goal: Champions. Their record in the regular matches didn't mean much to them.

This statement wasn't enough for the public, especially the part about the special secret training. No one knew whether that was the truth or a lie. And their record in the regular matches wasn't as insignificant as Wang Jiexi had said. Their spot in the playoffs was already set, so they didn't need worry about it. But their position on the standings affected their prices for the Alliance's broadcasts and bonuses from their sponsors. The higher a team was on the standings, the higher the bonuses they earned.

As for the playoffs, a playoff team naturally received extra revenue from broadcast rights in the playoffs. Every time the team advanced, they would gain another bonus. The connection between a team's standings and their benefits was obvious. In addition, a more outstanding record carried with it the obvious benefits to a team's reputation, publicity, and fans, these types of intangible benefits.

However, all in all, Wang Jiexi's statement was well-spoken. The match was just a single page in the book and nothing more. Earlier, after Excellent Era made an unfathomable mistake that cost them the match, the newly-appointed team captain Sun Xiang would only say things like he didn't know or he wasn't sure to the news conference, brushing away questions as if they were like annoying flies. The difference between his handling of the situation was far from the experienced Wang Jiexi.

Two days after the matches ended, Team Tiny Herb once again gathered together in Glory's tenth server and called for Lord Grim to come to the Arena.

Following the principle that customers were above all else, Ye Xiu called for Tang Rou to come over. In the past few days, Tang Rou had gone to the Arena to try a few battles. But how could these normal players be her opponents? They were defeated dully and tastelessly. She would occasionally train with Ye Xiu for a few rounds, making Tang Rou feel as if her efforts in the past few days had been pointless. Her fights with Ye Xiu made her feel like she hadn't made any progress. It was the same as when she first fought him. She lost in every way she could imagine.

In addition, she fought with Steamed Bun Invasion several times. Tang Rou's chances of winning were a bit better. Steamed Bun Invasion really was a player that fluctuated. He would sometimes completely crush Tang Rou, but would also sometimes get completely crushed. Using Ye Xiu's words, Steamed Bun Invasion was a player that didn't care about theory or strategy and completely relied on his intuition. He would sometimes be like a blind cat trying to catch a dead mouse and somehow win. But he would also sometimes be unable to catch the dead mouse. And in that scenario, he became a low-leveled failure and lost extremely miserably.

Ye Xiu had originally wanted Tiny Herb to also train with Steamed Bun Invasion, but who would have thought that Steamed Bun Invasion wouldn't come today. He had no choice but to have just him and Tang Rou come.

After several busy days, Plantago Seed finally gathered a few of the materials Tiny Herb wanted.

The rules were still the same as before. They had to fight with Tang Rou first, which ended quickly. They then looked for Ye Xiu, who clearly felt that the difficulty had increased. In these past few days, these guys clearly hadn't been idling around. They had already figured out a few new strategies created specially against him. In addition, their accounts had been leveled and were now Level 30. With more skills and more tactical options, the advantages of an unspecialized character slowly declined as their levels increased.

In other words, unspecialized characters were already completed at Level 20. Besides higher stats and stronger skills, the way they fought wouldn't change too much with more levels. On the other hand, other classes would have new skills they could learn, so the way they fought became more and more rich. Even though the amount of skills they could learn in the end still couldn't be compared to unspecialized characters, the gap became less obvious. This situation had already been confirmed by unspecialized character during their era. At that time, they confirmed that as the level cap continued to increased, unspecialized characters would eventually become trash.

They didn't have to wait long for the end of that era. Once the Level 50 Awakening came out, unspecialized characters directly became trash. The subject of unspecialized characters completely faded away after that. Some of the research that was being conducted on them were also thrown out. Ye Xiu, who picked up this forgotten class, had to do some proper tests too. He had confidence in the class at the Level 50 stage of the game. But afterwards, at Level 60 and 70, he could only rely on his own experiences later to test the class. All in all, he needed to test it. Many of the theories Ye Xiu had come up with needed to be tried when the time came.

The characters of the pro-players in front of him had reached a new stage. Everyone had also studied and learned from their past defeats, so Ye Xiu needed to be more focused while facing them.

This time, there would be a few small twists and turns in every match. Team Tiny Herb finally stopped getting completely crushed. Everyone's fighting spirit was extremely high and all showed their desire to take down their opponent. However, even with all of their research, Team Tiny Herb still lost every match. The later rounds seemed to be more hopeful for them, but it wasn't something they could feel happy about. Don't forget that they were taking turns fighting. Ten players fought ten consecutive rounds and Ye Xiu could no longer be as relaxed as before. Consecutive rounds would obviously take a toll on his spirit and strength.

Actually, when Wang Jiexi had told everyone to form two player groups to train, he was taking this point into account. He was worried that Ye Xiu's condition would decline and affect their training. In the first two days, they weren't familiar with unspecialized characters, so they lost tragically and couldn't see that Ye Xiu's condition declined with each round. But now that they had a specific plan going in, this sort of situation really did appear, making the training for the later team members not as optimal.

Wang Jiexi only watched Ye Xiu's matches and never went up. But he did run over to fight with Tang Rou for a few rounds. If someone entered the room without knowing the situation, they would definitely think that he was trying to seduce her.

"Miss Tang, you've improved quite a lot over the week!" Wang Jiexi wasn't flattering her. Tang Rou had talent and with someone guiding her, it'd be strange if she didn't improve. But….. to have God Ye Qiu coaching her one on one, that really was way, way, way too lucky.

"Thank you." Tang Rou had improved and was developing similarly to how Team Tiny Herb was doing against Ye Xiu. She was losing, but making things more difficult for the opponent. But against Wang Jiexi, Tang Rou still felt powerless. She understood that this person was more skilled than even those experts by a thread, just like Ye Xiu. He was an existence that she couldn't touch for now.

"Miss Tang have you considered the topic I raised last time?" Wang Jiexi asked after a few rounds.

"Oh…… I don't think I'll be changing my mind right now!" Tang Rou said.

"Really? Well then I'll still be hoping that you will!" Wang Jiexi said.

"If you're looking for pro-players, why don't you guys ask Lord Grim?" Tang Rou suddenly asked curiously. Ye Xiu's skill level was too obvious. If the other side wanted to invite someone, why wouldn't they want a talent that was already there?

"Him? He's a retired pro-player. According to the rules, he'll need at least a year in order to join again." Wang Jiexi said.

"Oh, so it's like that…… I really don't know anything about the pro-scene!" Tang Rou said.

"And……. he's already fairly old. If he came back, then he'd only be able to play for a year or two more at most. But for you, Little Tang, you're still young right? Your future is limitless!" Wang Jiexi said.

"Oh? How do you know my age?" Tang Rou said.

"I could roughly tell from the way you play. Your energy, drive, and attitude. With just one look, I can tell that you're at the golden age for a pro-player. You should probably be around 20 years old. I hope I didn't guess wrong." Wang Jiexi said.

"Woah, you guessed very accurately." Tang Rou said.

"If you were a normal person, then this age would be a bit late for you to enter the pro-scene. But Miss Tang, you have a strong foundation. If you had formal training with experience from official matches, I'm convinced that you'd quickly grow into a genuine pro-player."

"Then what about me right now?" Tang Rou asked.

"Right now? Forgive me for my bluntness, but Miss Tang, you're still only relying on your reaction time and mechanics to fight. Even though you've gained a bit of knowledge, you still need a lot of real battles to turn that knowledge into habit. This needs formal pro-level training!" Wang Jiexi said.

"So it's like this." Tang Rou replied.

"That's why I suggest that if Miss Tang is interested, then the earlier you enter the pro-scene the better. Playing the game is too much of a waste of your talent." Wang Jiexi said.

"Okay, I'll consider it. Thank you." Tang Rou replied as calmly as ever.

Wang Jiexi didn't say anything more. The other side had once again ended the talks calmly. He went back and then watched all of the matches against Lord Grim. he found that Ye Xiu's condition had clearly deteriorated over time. Wang Jiexi stopped the members that wanted to keep trying, ending that day's special practice.

"You must be tired." Wang Jiexi expressed his sympathies to Ye Xiu outside of the Arena entrance.

"It wasn't tiring at all. Another ten rounds?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Ha ha, I'll pass!" Wang Jiexi laughed, "I'll properly arrange everything next time, so it won't be as tiring."

"You're too polite." Ye Xiu said.

"I should be. Well then, see you next time." Wang Jiexi said.

"See you later."

"What a difficult guy!" After seeing them log out, Ye Xiu expressed his regrets to Tang Rou.

"What do you mean?"

"I wanted to win a few more materials, but once this guy saw that I was growing tired, he immediately stopped the training. He doesn't care about the materials, but he doesn't want to waste time on me when I'm growing tired!" Ye Xiu said.

"Really, this guy. He's a bit too smart!" Tang Rou said.

"I really have grown old. I'm not like you. I get tired after ten consecutive rounds." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh? Really? It looked to me like you didn't have any fighting spirit. You tidied those three-legged cats quite handily. If I were you, I'd also feel bored. It's not that you're tired, but rather that you're bored, right?" Tang Rou said.

"You have a good point. But you should be the one feeling bored going against people that aren't your opponents." Ye Xiu said.

"I just don't believe that someone who can stay focused playing for twelve hours straight will tire after only ten rounds. That doesn't make sense." Tang Rou said.

"Yeah…… Fine, you have a point. But there's still one thing that I need to stress. Those guys aren't three-legged cats, they're last year's Champions." Ye Xiu said.

"Three-legged cat champions?" Tang Rou said.

"That sounds a lot better." Ye Xiu laughed.

The two casually chatted, when a system message suddenly popped up. Ye Xiu opened it and looked: The player One Inch Ash wants to add you as a friend. Accept or decline?

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Chapter 147 – Difficult Decision

Ever since he made a name for himself with the dungeon records, especially once the final Boneyard record hadn't been broken again, more and more players began adding Lord Grim as their friend. He had friends from big guilds, small guilds, and privately too.

The big guilds were naturally like Blue Brook Guild and Tyrannical Ambition, who wanted Ye Xiu to be a long-term member of their guild. Small guilds talked about personal development and how he would have more chances at obtaining a promotion than in those big guilds. Noobs might believe them, but Ye Xiu wouldn't. The private players wanted to build a personal relationship with him, in hopes that he would help them. He moved around among all of these different players. Some were declined, some were pushed away, some were ignored.

Ye Xiu conveniently looked at One Inch Ash's info. He was a Level 23 Ghostblade. Ye Xiu's heart swayed and recalled that Assassin Ashen Moon from Team Tiny Herb.

He accepted the friend request and then immediately received a message from the other side: "Senior, I'm Qiao Yifan, that Assassin Ashen Moon from Team Tiny Herb."

So it really was him. Ye Xiu thought, while replying: "Oh, so it's you!"

"Yeah, I want to try out a Phantom Demon."

"Why are you leveling a new account?" Ye Xiu didn't understand. Each of the guilds had numerous other max-leveled accounts besides the main ones used for the matches. They usually had all of the classes and their different types. If the player wanted one, then he could easily get one. These accounts weren't armed with luxury equipment, so they didn't cost much.

Qiao Yifan was in an embarrassingly low position in Team Tiny Herb. As a stranger, how could Ye Xiu have known that?

However, among those in the Alliance, each team knew which teams had which accounts. Ye Xiu had even played in half of the season. Assassin…… Ye Xiu didn't recall of such a class ever coming out in the season for Tiny Herb. Due to this, he made a rough guess that this Assassin wasn't in a high position among the players in the Club.

Of course, he could also be a new player in training and wasn't yet mature enough to come out on stage. But having fought with him before, Ye Xiu could see that Qiao Yifan's Assassin really was quite ordinary. He couldn't really see much potential from him. It was only because he saw that this player's features was clearly suitable to a Phantom Demon that he suggested it. Apart from that, he didn't have any other motives.

"Um……. I was hoping that I could get some guidance from senior." Qiao Yifan said.

Ye Xiu stared blankly. He had been a part of the pro-scene for so many years. What type of situation hadn't he experienced before? At this moment, even though he hadn't asked and even though Qiao Yifan hadn't said anything, from how Qiao Yifan said things, he could already guess the other side's situation.

"How long have you played Glory?" Ye Xiu asked.

"One year." Qiao Yifan replied.

"Oh." It wasn't easy being a novice, Ye Xiu sighed. Ye Xiu had heard that there was a player called Gao Yingjie, who was reputed to be Vaccaria's successor. He knew that every time such a talent appeared, the talent would inadvertently kill off many of his comrades' light. For example, Qiao Yifan wasn't someone who didn't have any talent. It was just that compared to the talent standing beside him, he appeared rather gray and dark. It was quite sad.

Thinking of all this, Ye Xiu understood that for a player on the edge like Qiao Yifan, choosing a major decision such as changing classes was extremely difficult. To put it seriously, it could practically be considered a final gamble for the player's career. However, the person who had to make such a decision was just a young teenager.

The choice that the kid chose was in between. He would continued practicing his Assassin with the Club, while secretly training his Phantom Demon to see if he really did have potential. If he continued to stay on the edge for a long time, then the kid would take a serious hit to his confidence. This could already be seen from his extremely careful and cautious style. It was only until yesterday did Ye Xiu remind him to have more courage. To have already gotten to this step in a day could already be considered quite good.

Seeing how his senior God simply answered with a "Oh", Qiao Yifan felt very nervous. Just as he was trying to figure out what God meant, he received a message.

"You should have some understanding of Phantom Demons, right? This class takes a while to complete. You have to get to at least Level 40 before the Phantom Demon's strengths begin to appear. A Phantom Demon's true practice starts then." Ye Xiu replied with a message.

"Yeah, I know." Qiao Yifan answered. He was a pro-player after all. There was no way he wouldn't know at least a little about every class. Any class's strengths, skills, their uses, etc. These were all basic knowledge for any pro-player.

"Because of this, there isn't any way of practicing how to use a Phantom Demon in battle right now. I recommend that you find someone to level this account for you, while you do some research on the theories. For example, you could go look at the recordings for Team Void's matches and study them." Ye Xiu sent a message.

Team Void. Qiao Yifan obviously knew of this team. Although they weren't top-tier, they often made it into the playoffs. Team Void's captain Li Xuan used the account Sobbing Ghost, which was reputed as the number one Phantom Demon in Glory. Team Void was the only team to use the Phantom Demon as their core. It could be considered as one of their unique features.

"Even though Li Xuan's Sobbing Ghost is the core of Team Void, it's never his other teammates coordinating with his Sobbing Ghost's Phantom Ghosts. Watch how Li Xuan deciphers the battles and then uses Phantom Ghosts to create the win for his team." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh, understood."

"Give the account card to someone else to level for you. Once you reach my level, you can come with me and my party to get a feel for it." Ye Xiu said.

"Thank you!! Thank you senior!!" Qiao Yifan was extremely happy. When Ye Xiu told him to study recordings, he had felt somewhat at a loss. But now that he knew that there was still a chance for God to coach him, he immediately turned indescribably happy.

Qiao Yifan began doing what Ye Xiu had suggested at once and gathered all sorts of recordings to study and learn from. He also went out to go look for someone to level his account. He signed up for the option that would level his character the fastest and then waited for it to catch up to Lord Grim's level.

On Ye Xiu's side, while Qiao Yifan went offline, he on the other hand was still chatting with some other players.

These players were Seven Fields and his group. At this moment, they had just made a difficult decision.

Ever since they had witnessed brother expert's strength, they had always known that there was no way their poor guild and their puny resources had a place for a God like brother expert. But unfortunately, the rest of the members of the guild didn't think like that. After seeing Seven Fields and his group go up on TV and break a record with Lord Grim, they were convinced that the relationship between Lord Grim and them wasn't shallow. They were always nagging for Seven Fields and his group to pull him in.

Seven Fields and the others used an excuse to evade the subject again and again, yet their guild's members kept on nagging, especially their guild leader, who was very unsatisfied with how they kept evading them.

Those guild members could be ignored, but a portion of the guild's members such as their guild leader were their old friends who came together from the old server. Seven Fields and the others won glory from being together with brother expert, but the other old friends were still the same as before, struggling under the big guilds' feet. That was why Seven Fields and the others all felt a bit embarrassed.

But to invite brother expert to join their guild? No matter how one thought about it, that could only be a joke. Seven Fields and the other truly weren't able to say that, however they truly couldn't stand their friends in their guild constantly nagging at them. Finally, they made the difficult decision to recommend their guild leader friend to brother expert and let him talk with brother expert directly.

At this moment, Seven Fields and Ye Xiu were discussing about this, asking to bring a guild friend over to play together.

How could Ye Xiu have any opinion about this? In the leveling area, Ye Xiu met with Seven Field's guild leader friend.

"Hi, I'm Maple Tree, Full Moon Guild's guild leader!" Seven Field's friend, the tenth server guild leader Maple Tree, proudly introduced himself. Seven Fields and the others escaped far away with their cheeks streaming with tears. Full Moon Guild's guild leader? What status was that?

Seven Fields and the others might have once thought differently, but after witnessing brother expert fight, their view of the world grew boundless. The Three Great Guilds became like floating clouds in their eyes and those medium and small guilds became clouds that couldn't even float. And now, their own guild leader had just presented his status proudly, putting his status, which others thought of as very shameful, as extremely honorable, making him look even more shameful.

"Oh, hello hello. So you're all friends huh." Ye Xiu casually greeted him.

It wasn't midnight yet, so Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon were there, as well as Drifting Water and Sunset Clouds. These two were normal players. They would only play everyday after dinner and as a result, the gaps between their levels gradually widened. They hadn't had the chance to create a dungeon record with brother expert either, so they were quite lonely.

"Yeah, we've known each other since way back. When I think about our time in the Heavenly Domain……" Maple Tree chattered about their guild's magnificent history.

After setting up his Full Moon Guild's great image with Ye Xiu, Maple Tree changed the topic of the discussion: "Now that I think about it, with your strength, why haven't you joined a guild yet?"

"Oh, guilds…… I don't want to join one!" Ye Xiu said.

"Is it because you haven't found a suitable one yet? Actually, you might as well just join our Full Moon Guild. Our Full Moon Guild has quite a long history in Glory and one of the oldest guilds out there. Although we can't compare with a few guilds, but I'm sure you understand that those big guilds all have pro Clubs supporting him, so our guild made up of normal players have no way of comparing with them. But apart from these guilds with pros behind them, our Full Moon Guild is very famous." Maple Tree said.

"He's trying to pull him in! He really is trying to pull in brother expert!" Seven Fields said to the others with his face covered in tears, "I was wrong. I should pulled him along at midnight so we could dungeon together and have him witness brother expert's strength. If that had been done, I'm sure he'd be able to recognize the difference between heaven and earth."

"That….. are you sure?" Sunset Clouds said.

"In my opinion, Maple Tree's biggest feature is that he doesn't know the difference between heaven and earth." Drifting Water said.

"That's why having him see brother expert's strength would only make him want to pull him in even more."

"Correct. He grew up reading fairy tales. A poor boy chasing a beautiful princess and what not aren't things that'll stop him.

"I know. That's why I kept evading him. But those other guild members are just too annoying. I had no choice but to hope that brother expert wouldn't mind……" Seven Fields said.

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Chapter 148 – Four Scarlet Moon Parts

Seven Fields and the others didn't have it easy either. This situation was like if you knew a beautiful girl, but had a vulgar, wolf-like friend that wouldn't stop bothering you to introduce him. No matter what you did, you couldn't block him or dissuade him and in the end, your only option was to ask the beautiful girl if you could bring your friend along.

It obviously wouldn't be good to just let him go and do whatever he wanted, but Seven Fields and the others weren't worried about this. The "beautiful girl" in front of them definitely wouldn't be bullied around by the wolf. They were only worried that after the beautiful girl beat the wolf to death, they would also get beaten down……. After all, the person they were talking about wasn't a beautiful little girl, but rather brother expert, a person who had already shocked the world by the time he reached Level 30.

They silently listened as Maple Tree tried to persuade him with all his might. Seven Fields and others were half angry and half laughing. In their view, Maple Tree's strategy was at the level of a kidnapper waving a goldfish at a small child in order to abduct the child. Except this child was brother expert. It was like trying to kill a strong bull with a cheap knife. How could you not laugh at that?

Even worse, this guy was grinning from ear to ear, not aware of how stupid he looked!

Seven Fields and the others really wished they could see what brother expert's expression was. Hopefully he hadn't already smashed his computer to bits yet!

Maple Tree talked and talked about in-game life, economy, and even how wealthy the big guilds were. The way Maple Tree explained all of the little details was as if he was a matchless professional. At this moment, after listening to him for a long time, Ye Xiu finally replied very calmly: "If you're looking for me to set a dungeon record, then there's a fee!"

Long live brother expert!

Seven Fields and the others nearly threw their headphones when they heard this. They discovered that there was no need to worry for brother expert. That goldfish scheme wasn't anything in front of brother expert.

"Oh? A fee! That's easy, how much money?" Maple Tree said.

"I don't want money. I want materials, uncommon materials or other things I need." Ye Xiu laughed.

"Oh, so it's like that. What do you want?" Maple Tree asked.

"That depends on what dungeon record you want set." Ye Xiu said.

"Desolate Land." Maple Tree said. He himself was Level 30 and could be considered at the top among the player population. He obviously couldn't compare to those big guilds whose elite teams were being leveled 24/7. Normal players didn't have that sort of advantage.

"Desolate Land……." Ye Xiu was still a bit hesitant. This was because he had already gotten all of the materials he needed from this dungeon from Team Tiny Herb. His Thousand Chance Umbrella had already reached Level 25. For the next stage, he needed all sorts of materials and equipment from Level 30-40. No matter how fast Full Moon Guild's players leveled, they would only be a bit ahead of Ye Xiu. They had just reached Level 30 today, so they definitely wouldn't be able to pay up many Level 30-40 items.

"Hm, how about four parts of the Scarlet Moon set?" Ye Xiu thought about it before giving out the reply.

"This……. shouldn't be a problem……" Maple Tree was a bit hesitant too. Clearly, for guilds like theirs that were created only for fun, the guild leader didn't have as much power over the guild like those Three Great Guilds. Most guild leaders didn't have any sort of leadership aura. On the contrary, they were more like public servants who made great efforts with little benefits.

However, since they were in the new server with lots of new players, veterans like him still had some power in front of those little noobs. Unfortunately, it seemed like this small amount of power wasn't enough to let him casually take away someone's equipment and give it out for public use.

The Scarlet Moon set was a Level 30 Battle Mage set.

In Glory, armor was split into head, shoulder, chest, waist, legs, shoes, these six parts. The Scarlet Moon set was one of the most common sets, which consisted of six parts of armour . Every two parts would give additional attributes.

Along with equipment such as Lord Grim's Vampire Cloak, there were also rings, necklaces, and badges, which were classified as accessories. In Glory, armor usually gave Physical Defense, while accessories gave Magic Defense. Unlike armor, accessories weren't categorized into types such as cloth, leather, heavy, plate. They could be worn by any class. Accessories were chosen depending on the player's needs.

For Level 30 players, they didn't need to be picky with accessories yet, but a full class set of equipment could improve their strengths significantly. With the current state of Glory, players often said that at Level 30, they would begin seeking class sets. Privileged players should switch every 5 Levels, while those weren't should switch every 10 levels. Those who didn't pursue these goals were players who didn't know how to play or had been carried the entire way through.

Ye Xiu was unspecialized, so the value of sets was limited. This was because the additional stats from a set often increased levels of class skills. Since those skills were often Level 20 and up skills, they weren't useful to Lord Grim, so wearing sets wasn't worth it. The Scarlet Moon Battle Mage set he requested was obviously for Tang Rou. This girl was one of the main forces in the dungeon-setting team, but her current set of equipment was quite sad to look at.

Ye Xiu and them were a friendly team when they dungeoned. No one fought over equipment. However, there was no way they could match the resources of an organized guild. It was actually quite difficult for them to gather a set of ideal equipment since they could only run a dungeon a limited amount of times each day.

Now that they were Level 30. If they didn't pursue class sets, then they would fall relatively far behind compared to the big guild's elite teams, which was quite unfavorable for dungeon-setting. This type of difference couldn't be completely made up for with skill. These types of low-leveled dungeons also had a limited skill cap. And worse, if Liu Hao wouldn't let things go, who knew when he might suddenly annoy him again?

"Four Scarlet Moon parts. Is there a problem?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Ah, don't rush……." It was clear that Maple Tree didn't have the sort of authority like the Three Great Guild's guild leaders. The amount of resources he could allocate was limited, especially for equipment. They had probably all been rolled for in the dungeons and taken away. Give the equipment to the guild? In their sort of guild, such an option didn't exist..

Seven Fields and the others were quite astonished on the other hand. They didn't care about how their guild leader was busy trying to get the equipment. They asked in complete disbelief: "Brother expert, you're going to help our guild set a record?"

"There's a fee. It's always been like that." Ye Xiu said.

"Four Scarlet Moon parts……." Seven Fields and the others were all veterans, so they knew of their value. When Ye Xiu had helped the Three Great Guilds set a record, his demands were impossible for them. He had even asked for Orange weapons. In comparison to those demands, four parts of the Scarlet Moon set were nothing. The Scarlet Moon set was actually only a set of Blue Equipment.

"Ha ha, I wanted an Orange weapon, but there's no way your guild could have that, no?" Ye Xiu said.

"We don't……." Seven Fields said.

"That's why a bit less is fine." Ye Xiu said.

"Why do you need four parts? Why not the entire set?" Seven Fields asked.

"It looks to me like that's the guild you guys are in!" Ye Xiu said.

"Brother expert, you don't need to give us face! Really!" Seven Fields was very sincere.

"No way!" Ye Xiu laughed, "The record set in exchange for only four parts won't be too high."

"Shameless!!" Sleeping Moon blurted out.

"It's only fair." Ye Xiu said, "Even if you guys gave me all six parts, the record still won't be much higher."

"Why?" Seven Fields asked.

"See, Soft Mist's weapon is still only Level 25. Not just her, but Steamed Bun too…… without level 30 Purple weapons and a class set, there's no way we can set the record at its limit!" Ye Xiu said.

"Then what you're saying is that……. the record you're going to set will be broken eventually?" Seven Fields asked.

"For normal players, the current record is already their limit. When we break this record, there shouldn't be anyone who can beat it." Ye Xiu said.

"Shouldn't?"

"Unless some bored players come." Ye Xiu said.

"What type of players?" Seven Fields and the others were becoming more and more confused.

"Experts!" Ye Xiu continued to make them confused: Experts? How could an expert setting a record be "bored"?

Maple Tree was speaking well and speaking badly to players in the guild. He was asking this and then urging that and explaining the importance of their guild's development, future, and goals, until finally, he gathered together four parts of the Scarlet Moon set. Of course, these four parts were from four different players. And those four players actually didn't have the entire set, so losing one wasn't too heartbreaking.

"I'm going to get the equipment. Let's meet again at 12!" Maple Tree said as he ran off.

"From the looks of it, he's planning on going with them?" Seven Fields said.

"Clearly." Sunset Clouds nodded his head.

"Well, he is the guild leader. Let him go!" Drifting Water said.

"How many spots will there be?" Sleeping Moon asked.

"Usually one?" Seven Fields said while asking Ye Xiu: "Brother expert, how many open spots do you have on your team?"

"Probably one…… who's going to be coming from your guild?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Our guild leader most likely." Seven Fields said.

"Oh, that should be fine." Ye Xiu nodded his head.

"What wouldn't be fine?" Drifting Water asked.

Ye Xiu looked at his class: "Non-DPS classes wouldn't be too convenient."

Tears began pouring out from Drifting Water. He was a Knight, an MT (Main Tank), so he obviously wasn't considered a DPS class, which probably meant that he would never be able to go up on TV with brother expert's record-setting team.

"Our condolences." The others all gave their sympathies.

Maple Tree went and finally came back with the Scarlet Moon parts. Sunset Clouds and Drifting Water took their leave first. They were clearly quite busy people. They didn't play the game for very long every day and probably weren't able to completely use up all of their dungeon entries each day.

"Steamed Bun! Steamed Bun!" Ye Xiu began calling for his troops.

"Steamed Bun is here."

"Tonight we'll be setting a dungeon record." Ye Xiu said.

"TV! I like it. I'll be coming!" Steamed Bun Invasion typed happily.

Near midnight, without needing Ye Xiu to call over, Su Mucheng came online on time. At the same time, the guilds leaders from all the big guilds came. The first ones to contact him were Blue River and Cold Night, his two former customers. Their messages came at practically the same time: "Brother! Can you set the record for Desolate Land tonight?"

"Long-term substitution will begin tonight?"

"Brother, you're Level 30 huh. Have you thought over long-term substitution?"

The messages didn't only come from those two. These days, Ye Xiu was entangled with many of the big guilds. What level Lord Grim was and how many dungeon entries he had left; they were sometimes even more clear on those than Ye Xiu himself.

Right now, Lord Grim was Level 30 and his dungeon entries had been refreshed. Everyone guessed that it was the day that the Desolate Lands record would be broken. Which guild would the record fall under? That was what everyone was fighting for. But winning one time wasn't what they wanted. Every big guild wanted a stable substitution team. If today, the record fell under their guild's name and then the next day, the record would be set by the same exact players under a different guild's name, then that wouldn't look good at all for them.

Ye Xiu wasn't in a rush with all of these messages. He slowly typed out a reply for every one of them: "Tonight, I'll be helping Full Moon Guild set the dungeon record."

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Chapter 149 – Bidding War

Full Moon Guild?

At least half of the guild leaders had no knowledge of this guild's name. To them, the only guilds that they were familiar with were the guilds with Clubs behind them. Those were the only guilds that they recognized as adversaries. Of course, there were some that had heard of this name before. But they definitely knew that this wasn't a guild with a Club behind it. It was only a guild created by normal players and could be considered an ordinary guild. How could this type of guild be able to snatch Lord Grim away from the encirclement of all of their big-named guilds.

All of the guild leaders were in disbelief. They each asked around to find what type of trick Full Moon Guild had pulled off.

But this turned out to be quite difficult. Guilds like Full Moon Guild clearly didn't have any spies planted in them from big guilds. They had simply never been an opponent for them. As a result, they didn't have any inside information and could only see if there was someone who knew a member of that guild.

There actually were a few results that came out of asking around like this. After all, Full Moon Guild wasn't like them. When Maple Tree went to gather the parts for the Scarlet Moon set, he had shouted for it in the guild channel and used the strength of the masses to pressure four Battle Mages into giving away one of their Scarlet Moon parts. Everyone in the guild knew of this. There wasn't any need to hide it, so when a friend came to ask, they immediately gave a reply.

Quickly, all of the guild leaders from the big guilds found about the price tag of four Scarlet Moon parts and they all violently coughed up blood.

Four Scarlet Moon parts!

What type of fee was that! For these guilds, such a price was basically giving it to them for free. Most of the equipment dropped from Level 30 dungeons were Blue equipment sets. For something so trivial like four parts of the Scarlet Moon set, all they had to was open their mouth and they'd be able to obtain them. For the elite players from their big guilds, they could easily gather a full set of class-specific equipment for several teams.

And with their guild's complete set-up, if they needed a Scarlet Moon set, then the guild would by all means compensate for the provider's losses. As a result, they could easily get the four parts with just a few words. Not like Maple Tree, who was like a child asking for his grandpa, desperately trying to get the four parts.

In short, this sort of condition was too easy for these guilds. How could they let Full Moon Guild get away with such a steal? The guild leaders were no longer calm. Many of them began sending Lord Grim more enticing offers.

"Brother, how about a full Scarlet Moon set?"

"A Scarlet Moon set AND a Level 30 Purple Bright Lance!"

"Two Scarlet Moon sets! One for you and another one for free!"

The offers were endless. In any case, they were all better than four parts of a Scarlet Moon set. Ye Xiu didn't rush and patiently replied back to each of them. Among all of these, Blue River and Cold Night surprisingly hadn't come barking.

These two had faced against Ye Xiu more than once, so they had a certain level of understanding. Four parts of a Scarlet Moon set weren't his bargaining chips for setting a dungeon record.

Lord Grim's starting prices had one feature. Even though they made you feel somewhat heartbroken, they wouldn't make you feel that it wasn't worth it. He clearly had an exceptional understanding of the game and could accurately measure his value. According to his style, four sets should be right! Four parts? What did that mean? What was his goal?

Blue River and Cold Night were both puzzling over this.

And even though the big guilds operated quite similarly, who among them knew about one another well? Although they all had spies among them, the new server had just opened, so the core of the guild was still made up of the veterans from the old servers. The newly recruited low-leveled accounts couldn't be trusted too much. All of the guild leaders knew this.

However, even with all of their precautions, there were still a few spies among their upper-ranks. These sort of spies weren't new recruits from the new server. They were already spies in the old server and had signed up to pioneer in the new server. These types of people were already among the guild's elites in the new servers and were quite powerful.

At this moment, only these deep spies would be able to tell their guild information on other guild's movements. But there weren't many of these types of spies. On Blue River's side, he only had one spy with such authority. That spy was in Guild Samsara.

Guild Samsara was the guild backed by Club Samsara. Team Samsara was a mighty team in the recent years. Their team's ace Zhou Zekai was currently Glory's most popular player. Quite a few experts and fans expected a great future for Team Samsara. Thus, they were a strong opponent for them. They would not only be enemies in the Alliance, but in the game too.

"Samsara has offered four class-specific sets!!" The spy messaged Blue River.

"With the way he does things, this should be the limit." Blue River said.

"It should be. But this time, he rejected it……." The spy said.

"His reason?" Blue River asked.

"He already agreed that he'd help Full Moon Guild." The spy said.

"Tch! He obviously knew that we would ask for him to set a dungeon record at level 30. How could he agree to Full Moon Guild's four Scarlet Moon parts?" Blue River said.

"Do you think he has an ulterior motive?"

"Definitely." Blue River said.

"I heard that Misty Castle and Blossom Valley have also offered the same price."

'How do you know?" This information wasn't something that could be easily found. The only reason Blue River could find it was because of the spy he had in Samsara Guild.

"Our guild leader went to ask……"

Blue River felt relieved. Even though all of the big guilds competed against each other, they all knew each other. In this type of situation, where they were all unsure, they would sometimes turn their enemies into friends and exchange information. For example, that guy Plantago Seed frequently did this. But Team Tiny Herb and Team Blue Rain were absolutely mortal enemies, which naturally translated in-game too.

"Our guild leader is getting ready to offer a step higher." The spy suddenly said.

"Oh? How much?"

"Five class-specific sets!"

Blue River stared blankly, when he suddenly had an idea.

Was this what he was trying to do? By deliberately reducing the price and having others offer higher, he would eventually win out. By provoking the guilds to fight over him, he immediately raised his status. For this type of situation, once the price got up, it'd be difficult to bring it down, unless he wasn't able to complete the employer's task.

Samsara had taken the first step. Their information partners Blossom Valley and Misty Castle had probably followed closely too. However, these guild leaders weren't hostile spies. Their exchanges of information were probably only half-truths. Blue River guessed that there was no way of accurately knowing. He only knew that five class-specific sets had already exceeded Lord Grim's previously set price.

This move was brilliant! Blue River sighed and understood Lord Grim's intentions. Blue River felt he could go over and negotiate with Lord Grim. Just as he was about to send a message, his spy suddenly typed: "D*mn, rejected again!"

"Rejected, still? What is he trying to do? For what purpose? What else does he want?" Blue River was also startled. Five class-specific sets, this was already enough to make them grind their teeth and cough up blood, but he still wasn't satisfied? Is really trying to make all of the big guilds go mad?

"He didn't ask for anything. He said the same thing….. he already agreed to help Full Moon Guild."

"How could it be like that……. What are you guys going to do next?" Blue River asked.

"I don't know…… The guild leader is furiously cursing right now!

Of course, Samsara's tenth server guild leader Lonely Drink would be angry. Four class-specific sets was very fair and the offer should have been accepted. But the way Lord Grim had rejected it? Now that was fast. The reply came just a second after he sent his offer. Lonely Drink was convinced that guy had set-up an automatic reply! How else could he reply so quickly?

He randomly tested his theory. It looked like it wasn't an automatic reply. This guy really wasn't considering their offer.

Lonely Drink wasn't stupid. After having his offer rejected, he was even faster than Blue River in thinking that this time, Lord Grim really was trying to eat them up like a giant lion. This guy saw that all of the guilds were fighting over him right now.

Lonely Drink didn't say a word for now and ran over to contact the other guild leaders.

Those guys were also angry and cursing at Lord Grim. They all looked like they wanted to kill someone. Lonely Drink obviously wasn't puzzled by this. These guys all acted as if they hated Lord Grim. If it was someone else, then he might have actually believed that they wouldn't try to raise the bid again. But Lonely Drink knew that these guild leaders were the same as him, and had already decided to raise the bid once again. Because of this, he had hoped that the competitors would give up this theatrical act.

"Hmph, I'm not playing anymore!!" Lonely Drink finally threw it out, also in order to trick them, and then made a bid with five class-specific sets.

This price increase was quite large. Seeing that the other guild leaders didn't have any intention of backing down, Lonely Drink also decided to raise it. He felt that his offer wasn't enough to be accepted by Lord Grim, but he'd at least be able to make the other side feel his sincerity and then they could maybe seriously discuss it?

Who would have thought that he'd be rejected instantly? This time Lonely Drink wasn't acting anymore and really was furious. If he wasn't even considering his offer, then did this guy want him to just directly gift him his guild?

Lonely Drink wasn't happy. He was extremely unhappy. His first few rejections had made him feel somewhat puzzled, but the current him was no longer trying to obtain Lord Grim's services, he was now trying to fight with Lord Grim to see how deep he really was.

As a result, Lonely Drink sent another message: "Eight class-specific sets. What do you think? You should be happy now, right?!"

Lonely Drink hadn't negotiated with anyone and was sent out as a gamble. You little punk, are you still trying to cheat me? Fine, I'll make an unimaginable offer that'll turn you stupid and make you speechless.

This was the type of goal that the current Lonely Drink was going for!

In the end, not even a second had passed, and his chat box had already flickered. It was the same result as before, as if his offer hadn't been considered at all. Lonely Drink almost didn't want to open it. He already felt a bad premonition. But, in the end, he looked at it.

"I've already agreed to help Full Moon Guild!"

"F*CK!!!!" These words again! It was these exact words every single time. Lonely Drink now knew that this person hadn't set up an automatic reply. He was f*cking copying and pasting!

"You you you!! What the heck do you want!!!" Lonely Drink almost felt his heart roar.

"I'm going to dungeon. Let's talk later." Not even a second. A reply.

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Chapter 150: So Nervous He Became a Noob

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Lonely Drink wasn't the only victim. Although the other guilds may not have been as impulsive as him and directly offer eight class-specific sets like he had, but for such a ridiculous offer to be rejected in less than a second? How could the other guild leaders even try to compete? The rejected guild leaders were no longer faking it now and were furiously cursing non-stop. Unlike Lonely Drink, they were cursing and complaining particularly about how black Lord Grim's heart was. Even Lonely Drink's ridiculous offer had been rejected. After calming down, Lonely Drink began thinking like how Blue River had thought initially: What ulterior motives did this Lord Grim have?

"Hey, do you think this guy has some ulterior motive this time?" At this moment, a different two guild leaders began discussing, Cold Night and Blue River.

These two players hadn't joined the great bidding war and had been quietly observing from the sides for any changes. Blue River had another perspective he could look at through the lens of the spy at Guild Samsara. Cold Night suddenly asked him this question. Blue River immediately guessed that Tyrannical Ambition wasn't as simple as he had thought. He was afraid that their guild also had some sort of trump card planted in another guild.

Compared to the other guild leaders, these two were undoubtedly the most calm and rational among those in the bidding war. Their line of thoughts were the closest together, which was why Cold Night had ran over to discuss the situation with Blue River.

"I originally thought that he was going to use this as a way to raise his status, but with the way things have turned out, I don't think that's the case..." Blue River said.

"I found information on Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon, who are often with him. They are both from this Full Moon Guild and they seem to be old acquaintances of his." Cold Night said.

"That might not be it. When everyone was still in beginner village, it was reported that this player called Sleeping Moon had been KSed by Lord Grim. He then started spamming curses at Lord Grim outside of the dungeon. Only after that did they get together." Blue River recalled.

"So there was something like this!" Cold Night had begun paying attention to Lord Grim slightly later than Blue River had, so he didn't know that such an event had happened.

"Yeah."

"But it doesn't matter what happened because they're now friends. Or perhaps it's just a one time trick." Cold Night said.

"If it's like that..." If it was because of their friendship, then Blue River would be extremely sad. He had once thought of using such a trick, but never went through with it. If such a trick had been successfully carried out by Full Moon Guild, a guild that they hadn't even put in their eyes, then he would feel extremely defeated.

"Either way, it looks like Desolate Land's record has fallen into Full Moon Guild's hands." Cold Night said.

"Yeah….." Blue River didn't doubt Lord Grim's strength one bit.

Desolate Land.

The Level 28-30 dungeon was located in a deserted castle in the Desolate Land leveling area. A group of tyrannical bandits had made the castle their temporary home and as a result, became a dungeon.

Starting from Level 28, Ye Xiu and the other had ran the dungeon several times. However, now that they had a new member Maple Tree joining their team, in order to assimilate this Sharpshooter into their team, their strategy naturally had to be adjusted.

With a normal player in their party, they might suddenly have a few more problems come up. But with a pro God like Ye Xiu, given a random class combination, he could easily come up with the most suitable strategy for it. How could such a simple issue like having a normal player be difficult for him?

"This run will only be for experimental purposes. We'll be adjusting our strategy based on Maple Tree." Ye Xiu said to everyone after entering Desolate Land.

"Ha ha ha! Relax! I've done this dungeon who knows how many times. I'm extremely familiar with it." Maple Tree boldly said.

"Oh really! Then we'll be starting now. I'll be leading!" Ye Xiu said.

"No problem! Lead away!" Maple Tree said.

"Steamed Bun, 8 o'clock. Soft Mist, 10 o'clock. Cleansing Mist, pull the enemies ahead at the bend. Maple Tree go to the stone window on the right. Attack whatever I attack."

"Wait, wait, wait. What type of strategy is this?" Maple Tree was dumbstruck. Steamed Bun Invasion had two bandits at 8 o'clock. Soft Mist had two thieves at 10 o'clock. And Cleansing Mist had four "enemies ahead at the bend", who were gathered around playing cards. They were going to be pulled already? And for him, the stone window on the right... there were two bandits drinking over there! How could he get past them without alarming those two NPCs?

"If we don't use this strategy, then I don't think we'll be able to break the dungeon record." Ye Xiu said.

Just from equipment, their team couldn't compare to the current record holders Blue Brook Guild. That five man team had class-specific sets plus Level 30 Purple weapons for each member. Their damage output would be much higher than their team's, which was how they were able to achieve the current 30:45:66 record. The team with the second fastest record also had equipment on another level than theirs. The difference between the second fastest and the fastest record was miniscule. This indeed was the record's limit in Desolate Land for normal players.

If Ye Xiu's team used the normal strategy, then they definitely wouldn't be able to break the record. If they were going to break it, then they had to fully utilize their team's advantage in skill. Just like for the record at Frost Forest, where Ye Xiu had relied on his own superiority in skill, in order to carry out a One Wave Rush strategy that wasn't possible for normal players and set a new record. If they followed how normal players cleared the dungeon, then there wouldn't be any difference between a God and a normal player and the record obviously wouldn't be broken.

"You're going to break it like this? Are you looking to die?" Maple Tree was very noisy.

"Ha ha, just do as I say. I'll explain things as we go. Everyone, forward." Ye Xiu said. The other three had already rushed up to do their task, while Maple Tree was still staring at those two bandits drinking: "How do I get to that stone window?"

"Aerial Fire." Ye Xiu said.

"Those two bandits….."

"They'll be gone soon." Ye Xiu said, while his Lord Grim rushed up. His battle lance sweeped across, hitting two thieves at 1 o'clock. He then turned around and "bang bang" two shots rang out, alarming those two drinking bandits. The bandits threw the alcohol bottles in their hands at Lord Grim and rushed at him.

"You're pulling four monsters at once?" Maple Tree was astonished. When he brought his team in, there would be a total of eight NPCs around them and they would only pull them out two by two. But this team was different. Two players each pulled two monsters. Lord Grim pulled four monsters and not only that, but he wanted that Launcher to pull four monsters too. Like this, they pulled twelve NPCs total. Maple Tree almost had the urge to leave the dungeon.

"Are you still not going up? If we were setting the record, then you've already wasted time." Ye Xiu said, while his hands moved nonstop. Lord Grim handled the four elite monsters with ease.

Maple Tree stupidly ran towards the window, but his camera was on Lord Grim the entire time, and nearly crashed into the window before stopping in time.

"Use Aerial Fire to go up. You've already wasted quite some time doing it that way. We started pulling ten seconds ago, but you still haven't done anything yet!" Ye Xiu said.

"When you use Aerial Fire, try to hit the monsters too to save time." Ye Xiu added.

"Okay okay….." Maple Tree had entered the dungeon with matchless confidence, but in these few seconds, his confidence had already burned to ashes and flown away. Lord Grim, one player against four monsters. Steamed Bun Invasion and Soft Mist were also each fighting two monsters. Maple Tree looked and discovered that they weren't pulling monsters any more, they were already beginning to kill them. It was just that while they were killing them, they were also bringing the monsters to their desired spots.

Maple Tree didn't want to delay any longer. But just as he was about to jump onto that stone window, he suddenly felt a tinge of fear and his hands trembled. He hadn't calculated the distance well and he hadn't used enough strength, so when he jumped onto the wall, he directly latched onto the wall like a gecko and then slid down.

Ye Xiu saw this and he immediately coughed up blood. This Maple Tree was a guild leader. Even though his task didn't need high mechanics like Steamed Bun Invasion or Tang Rou, he should at least be an experienced player like Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon! Yet he couldn't even jump onto a window! He wasn't a noob right?

Ye Xiu was even more shocked than Maple Tree. If he really was a noob, then that'd be really disastrous. It has to be known that their strategy mainly relied on skill. Even if Maple Tree was an experienced player, all he could be arranged to do was assist them. They couldn't afford to have him be a noob right now!

"Are you not able to jump up there?" Ye Xiu asked.

"No, I'm just a bit nervous..." Maple Tree said.

"Why are you nervous?"

"Your strategy's too crazy." Maple Tree said.

"Calm down. It gets crazier later." Ye Xiu said.

"Okay."

"Hurry up and jump up there." Ye Xiu said, while fixing his attention on this side. He had to properly see what Maple Tree's skill level was at. If he really was a noob, then he had to switch him out. Noobs weren't scary. But noobs that acted like they understood were the scariest.

This time, Maple Tree judged the correct distance. He jumped and steadily landed. Ye Xiu saw that the distance and power had been grasped well. So he really wasn't a noob.

"I said use Aerial Fire! Why are you still directly jumping up?" But Ye Xiu still had to correct his problem.

"Oh, I forgot. Do it again?" Maple Tree said.

"Do it again and practice at the same time. Going up there with Aerial Fire isn't that easy. If you can't get up there, then keep trying!" Ye Xiu said.

"I can do it, I can do it." Maple Tree hastily said.

Aerial Fire made the user fly backwards. The user had to control the gun in order to grasp the distance and height he flew. When to stop was completely reliant on experience. There wasn't enough time to turn around and look when flying.

Maple Tree jumped down from the stone window and walked a certain distance away. Ye Xiu saw his position and immediately asked: "How many shots are you planning on firing?"

"Six shots..." Maple Tree said.

"Six shots and you'll hit your head."

"Hit my head?"

"Too high... you won't be able to get into the window." Ye Xiu said.

"Really? Then a bit farther away?"

"Go a bit closer and five shots will be enough." Ye Xiu said.

"Here?" Maple Tree moved a bit.

"That's good."

"Okay!" Maple Tree answered. He stood at the position, jumped up, and then turned around and fired at the ground. He shot five times in a row and sure enough, he was sent up to the window.

At this moment, Su Mucheng had already brought those four monsters over. And soon, all twelve monsters were gathered together and the four quickly began attacking them. Maple Tree was still sitting at the window all lonely. He wasn't there to be some background decoration.

"Maple Tree, have you noticed that those two in the dead center are in your attack range?" The orders for him to act had finally arrived.

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Chapter 151 – Burning with Anxiety

Maple Tree carefully looked towards the mob of monsters. After looking for a while, he finally cried: "Where's the dead center!?"

These twelve monsters weren't standing in a line waiting for him to inspect them. Amidst the intense battle, they were all mixed into a mess. Even Lord Grim and the others would sometimes enter the mob of monsters. Maple Tree watched the battle attentively for a minute, but still hadn't found any signs of a "dead center" amidst the chaos.

"Watch me attack." A girl suddenly spoke out. Maple Tree couldn't tell if the voice came from Soft Mist or Cleansing Mist. But he quickly saw Cleansing Mist run off, jump, turn around, and then fire. With the recoil from the flying artillery shell, she also leaped up onto a window.

"Did you see it?" That voice came again.

"Huh?" Maple Tree stared blankly.

"The place where I fired at just moments ago!' The other side said.

"That artillery shell?" Maple Tree asked.

"Yes!"

"Oops, I was only watching you and wasn't looking at the shell……" Maple Tree said gloomily. This explanation made him feel very childish!

A bullet from a Sharpshooter would cause blood to spurt out from the target that had been hit. It was obvious at a glance. But an artillery shell from a Launcher was different. It would explode with a bang once it hit a mob of monsters and instantly turn into smoke, which was why he wasn't able to tell who exactly the shell had hit.

"Watch closely this time." Su Mucheng said. Her Cleansing Mist rapidly fired using the skill "Gatling Gun". This time, she didn't shake the gun, so the bullets flew in a straight line from the gun nozzle directly to a monster in the middle of the mob.

"I saw it! I saw it!" Maple Tree hastily cried. If he still hadn't seen it, then he'd have to die from shame.

"That's good then."

Maple Tree immediately pulled out his gun and then began firing at the monster. Just as he was pondering over why this monster was considered the dead center, he suddenly saw the monster turn around and move towards Cleansing Mist, shouting: "Little girl, you're looking to die!!"

The monsters of Desolate Land such as the bandits and thieves were all human, so of course they could speak. They weren't like those shrieking Goblins or wailing undead monsters.

"OT!!!" Maple Tree, who had claimed he was extremely familiar with Desolate Land, immediately knew that this monster's aggro had shifted onto Cleansing Mist. This girl had accidentally caused it to OT (Off Tank) when she had instructed him. Maple Tree truly felt extremely ashamed.

In the end, it looked as if Cleansing Mist didn't know what had happened, as she continued to fire ferociously. He then saw a ball of light condense and a laser shoot out directly at that hooting OTed monster.

This was the Launcher Level 30 skill: Laser Rifle. It was the skill with the longest range in all of Glory. Its power could be stored up and did tremendous damage. After storing up power, its damage would increase by 40%, but would also cause it to have a strong recoil. The player had to manually step back in order to take the recoil. If it wasn't done right, then the player might flip over and the accuracy of the shot might also be affected.

This sort of fundamental maneuver naturally wasn't a problem for Su Mucheng. At the same time the laser fired, Cleansing Mist stepped back, completely nullifying the recoil.

But she had clearly OTed already, so why did she use such a powerful skill? Was she looking to die even faster? This was something that Maple Tree couldn't understand at all. Even though the two of them were both on the high grounds, the high grounds were only convenient for their long-ranged attacks. It wasn't like the monster would just stand there staring above him, waiting to die. These were human NPCs. If they could talk, why wouldn't they be able to jump? Of course they could.

"OT, OT!!!" Maple Tree repeatedly warned everyone. OT often lead to a party wipe-out. Maple Tree attached a lot of importance to this.

"Ha ha ha ha, calm down, noob. It's just an OT." Steamed Bun Invasion laughed out loud.

Noob???

It's just an OT!

Maple Tree couldn't accept these two statements. He felt that anyone who called OT as "just" was the true noob. Just as he was about to retort, he heard that Launcher: "It's not a big deal, look!"

Another look! What was there to look at? Maple Tree was gloomy. His gaze hadn't strayed away from the mob of monsters!

"Look at what?" So he asked.

"Look at the monster that had been OTed." Su Mucheng said.

"Where……" Maple Tree mumbled and then looked again carefully. He discovered that that monster was nowhere to be seen. The monster's aggro had clearly went onto Cleansing Mist. The monster should have separated from the mob and chased after Cleansing Mist. That should have been what happened. But in a short moment of distraction, he unexpectedly couldn't find any signs of such a monster.

Maple Tree was still in shock, when he saw three artillery shells explode in the middle of the mob. That Launcher had shot another Anti-Tank Missile.

"Slow down!!" Maple Tree cried out in fear. This Launcher was clearly a girl, yet her fighting style was so violently reckless without any control over her damage output. These attacks and skills were thrown out non-stop. Was she going to OT again?

In the end, Su Mucheng gave him a response that made him almost panic in desperation. Cleansing Mist closely followed with another Cannonball and this time she had even stored up power.

For classes like Launchers, which attacked relatively slowly, they usually had relatively high burst damage. Thus, Launcher skills did quite a lot of damage. At this moment, Cleansing Mist had chained the three strongest skills a Level 30 Launcher could use. Let alone a party without a specialized MT, even with one, the party still wouldn't be able to handle such a rude burst of damage!

OT again, Maple Tree sighed. Sure enough, another monster in the mob shouted "Little girl, you're looking to die!"

A tragedy. What a tragedy!

Maple Tree looked up at the sky and let out a lengthy sigh. But when he finished sighing and looked again, the OTed monster was once again nowhere to be seen.

Its aggro was pulled back?

Maple Tree truly didn't understand what had happened. He wasn't doubting these players' skill, but with a Launcher's burst damage, if the OT by the previous Laser Rifle was pulled back, then that was understandable, but an Anti-Tank Missile and a Cannonball chained together along with it? Without a specialized Taunt skill, just relying on damage output, it was impossible to pull the aggro back in an instant. It was impossible. It was absolutely impossible.

Maple Tree had been standing at the window in a daze the entire time. At this moment, Su Mucheng suddenly yelled: "Why aren't you attacking?"

"Attack? Attack what?" Maple Tree was still pondering over this OT mystery.

"The targets I attack. Just hit whatever I hit and you'll be fine." Su Mucheng said.

"The targets you attack?" Maple Tree was still in a daze, when Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist use Gatling Gun again. This time she used Gun Shake and her gun shook left and right. The bullets that came out split into two lines, hitting two different monsters in the mob.

"Ah!! Dual lines!" Maple Tree was astonished again. He also played a Gunner. Even though he wasn't a Launcher, he still understood the theory behind this move.

It wasn't easy to use Gun Shake to scatter the bullets from Gatling Gun, but having the bullets accurately hit two different targets with it was even harder. This required exceptionally precise mouse movements, otherwise the path of the bullets wouldn't be able to split into two lines and perhaps split into three or four lines.

When he saw those two lines of bullets hit their targets, Maple Tree suddenly discovered something even more astonishing.

The two monsters had been hit by the bullets, but they hadn't given up struggling. The two monsters were still headed towards Cleansing Mist with no signs of stopping. Their aggro was clearly on Cleansing Mist.

"Quickly, quickly!! Those two!!" Maple Tree hastily yelled. Gatling Gun's attack had already finished. When the two monsters closed in on Cleansing Mist, a battle lance with a monster stuck on it smashed down from the sky and the two monsters immediately crashed to the ground. And after this Circle Swing, Soft Mist promptly went to fight other monsters.

"Oh……" Maple Tree was just about to warn Soft Mist of those two monster's aggro, when he saw Steamed Bun Invasion dash towards these two monsters. But he didn't make a move against them and went right by.

When the two monsters climbed back up and stubbornly rushed at Cleansing Mist, their comrades happened to be passing by, blocking them. Those comrades had their aggro on Steamed Bun Invasion and were currently chasing him.

The two NPCs had no choice but to go around this blockade, but they hadn't yet taken two steps, when a bang rang out! Lord Grim had used Falling Flower Palm to send a monster flying over, hitting those two monsters.

"This is……" Maple Tree wasn't stupid. These two monsters, which had clearly been OTed, weren't able to get close to their target. They were on the ground half the time and trying to get up the other half. After a long time, they still hadn't moved far from their original positions. And this type of situation was because of the way these three players moved and attacked.

"Could it be….."

Maple Tree was currently thinking, when a Laser beam shot out from up above. That Cleansing Mist's Laser Rifle had just come off cooldown and had been impolitely shot out. Those two monsters, which had just gotten back up, were immediately knocked to the ground again. Just as they got up again, Soft Mist's Falling Flower Palm sent two more monsters crashing into them.

"So it's because of their coordination?" Maple Tree finally understood.

OTed monsters didn't need to be worried about because of the way those four players used their skills or moved. Those OTed monsters were firmly under their control. Cleansing Mist's tempo matched the other players' tempos perfectly. Under this type of coordination, OT clearly wasn't an issue.

OT, really had happened. Maple Tree's judgement wasn't wrong.

But it still made him burn with anxiety…..

It turns out it was only because I was an idiot? Maple Tree's cheeks streamed with tears.

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Chapter 152 – The Bystander Becomes the Deciding Role

"Ha ha ha, don't be so nervous noob!! We've only been playing for a short while and you keep on calling out OT OT!! Are you OTMAN?" Steamed Bun Invasion laughed out loud.

"F*CK!" Maple Tree raised his gun and wildly shot at the two monsters that Cleansing Mist was attacking. In his heart, he felt extremely depressed.

What was wrong with worrying over OT? How could I have known that such a freak team existed? So it was actually possible to prevent OT like this. This type of control is ridiculous. Maple Tree comforted himself as he gloomily fired at the monsters.

In this guild, he was the senior, the boss. When they dungeoned, he was the leader; he gave the orders; whatever he said was the law.

But now? He was the noob. He was the OTMAN. He was burning with anxiety. His face was covered in tears.

Maple Tree felt wronged!

Before he came, he had already mentally prepared himself. After all, it was the team that could step all over the big guild's records, how could their skill be questioned? Maple Tree didn't doubt that they were experts. But after seeing them personally, he discovered that he hadn't prepared himself well enough.

These players' skill levels were way beyond his wildest imaginations. At this moment, Maple Tree had a hard time staying level-headed. He felt that his existence in the team was replaceable. Those four players coordinated exceptionally well, while he was an outsider, playing a small role, a bystander. This was a feeling he had never experienced before!

"Steamed Bun, don't get distracted. You made a mistake just a moment ago." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh? Really?"

"Really. That Back Attack you did with your Knee wasn't placed well. If you went right 30 degrees, then the monster would have been knocked back and would have smashed into the monster Soft Mist sent flying."

"Oh……."

"This is just a test run. In a bit, you're going to have to focus more. This mistake won't affect the overall situation, but it'll affect our efficiency. A few mistakes here and there will add up to a significant amount of wasted time." Ye Xiu said.

"OKay! But if I focus more, who's going to take care of that noob?" Steamed Bun Invasion asked.

"He'll take care of himself." Ye Xiu said.

"You can do it, noob!!" Steamed Bun Invasion encouraged him.

Maple Tree: "……."

As they advanced through the dungeon, Maple Tree experienced the four player's coordination and skill another step. Maple Tree's luck wasn't too good. If he had went with Ye Xiu and the others to Desolate Land at Level 28, then he might not have fallen to such a depressed state.

At that time, Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion were still completely new to the dungeon and were genuine noobs. Unfortunately, everyone was now Level 30 already. They had never failed to run Desolate Land the limit of three times per day. With their mechanics and Ye Xiu's tactical guidance, their many days of practice had drilled into them this level of tacit understanding, making Maple Tree feel extremely inferior.

Regarding the tactical plan for Maple Tree, it was basically under the lead of Cleansing Mist. The two were both long-ranged characters and provided assistance to the other three in the middle of the mob.

But Cleansing Mist was actually helping. Every effect, every crowd control, from every attack she made were all being put to use. As for Maple Tree, his only task was to shoot the bullets from his gun and use his skills whenever they went off cooldown. Then…….make sure that he hit his target. And that was all.

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He originally thought he was just there to cheer them on, but as they advanced through the dungeon, Maple Tree discovered that Lord Grim began paying more and more attention to him and slowly found that he was starting to become a part of their team. He figured this out through one incident, where he thoughtlessly fired at a monster. The target he hit unexpectedly caused the entire team to go into a mess. From this, he quickly realized that the task Lord Grim had assigned to him wasn't to be a bystander. His sloppy playing nearly caused a major disaster.

"No good!" Steamed Bun Invasion opened his mouth, "It looks like I should still take care of the noob!"

"No need!" Maple Tree clenched his teeth, "I'm fine. I got distracted because my cell phone suddenly rang." Maple Tree lied to fight for his position. He didn't want to be regarded as a noob. He didn't want to be a bystander. He wanted to become an integral part of the team.

"Just take care of yourself Steamed Bun. Don't worry about it." Ye Xiu said to Steamed Bun Invasion.

"Fine then!" Steamed Bun Invasion had no choice but to reluctantly accept it, "Then I leave this noob to you." With the tone he used, it seemed like Maple Tree was a noob he had brought in and was entrusting him to someone else.

"Maple Tree, focus……" Ye Xiu finally said. In the first half of the run, he had been examining Maple Tree' strength. He at least needed to know his skill level before he could clearly use him in the team. For a team that had their sights on the record, the team definitely couldn't afford to bring along a useless bystander. Everyone had to be perform at their very best. This was how record-setting teams operated, regardless of whether only four players were needed to set the record. This wasn't an issue of ability. This was an issue of attitude.

After observing for half the dungeon, Ye Xiu could already see what Maple Tree's skill level was. He wasn't any expert of any kind. He was around the same as Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon, an experienced player. Letting him handle situations that required high mechanics obviously wasn't going to happen. However, there was still a lot he could do. At this moment, Ye Xiu was explaining things to Maple Tree bit by bit.

He explained, while experimenting.

The moment Maple Tree went up, he caused a small disaster. But with two pro-level players and two mechanically-skilled players, they wouldn't have any problem dealing with the situation no matter how chaotic it was. Maple Tree felt even more ashamed. His previous "I'm extremely familiar" arrogant attitude had disappeared long ago. He really was like a student. He listened to Ye Xiu's instructions and did as he was told bit by bit.

Because of this, the latter half of the dungeon slowed down a little. However, no one complained. Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion had also been taught like this. Su Mucheng didn't need to be said. She constantly helped Ye Xiu teach Maple Tree and often demonstrated what he needed to do personally.

After pushing through the dungeon, Maple Tree wiped the sweat off his forehead. This small dungeon, which he had ran who knew how many times, made him feel extremely stressed this time. The detailed strategy Ye Xiu had planned needed to be done with meticulous precision. Everyone's play affected one another, so they all had to perform well and work together. They couldn't afford to make mistakes and wasted time.

This type of strategy brought out everyone's full potential. It was the type of strategy that was the most suitable for trying to set new records.

This dungeon run took a total of one hour to run. They obviously didn't care about the time. They had gotten rid of many problems over the course of the run, which was why it had taken so long.

"Okay, the second time. Let's try to challenge the record this time. Maple Tree, is there anything you don't understand?" Ye Xiu said.

"Yeah. Those noobs who act like they understand everything are the team killers. You'd better not be one of those." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"I'm not a noob! I'm the guild leader of Full Moon Guild." Maple Tree identified himself.

"Full Moon Guild? Why aren't you called Full Star Guild?" Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"Why Full Star?" Maple Tree stared blankly.

"Because Full Moon doesn't sound good." Steamed Bun Invasion's line of thinking was so simple! So simple that Maple Tree couldn't follow it. Meanwhile, the other players had already entered the dungeon.

On their second run, Maple Tree had begun assimilating with the team. But breaking the record this run? Ye Xiu had no hopes whatsoever. If Maple Tree had been one of Blue Brook Guild's or any of those type of big guild's elite experts, then it might have been possible. But for someone who was just an experienced player, it would be very difficult to completely grasp the strategy on the second try. Even if no mistakes were made, there would still be some flaws in his playing. They wouldn't be able to reach the most optimal state and thus their efficiency would take a hit.

If everyone's equipment was at the level of the big guilds' elite teams, then there'd be more leeway for Maple Tree. But in their situation, they needed Maple Tree's 100% in order to take down the record.

In the end, it was just as Ye Xiu had predicted. Maple Tree was still in the difficult stage of fitting in with the team. Even though there weren't many major errors, there were still a lot of places that required him to think and a lot of places where he acted too slowly, which would all delay them.

In the end, their time for their second run was 35:14:41. There weren't any other major issues, it all depended on Maple Tree's performance now. This was already the main reason that their final time couldn't beat the record.

However, it didn't look like the task could be finished today. They could only run the dungeon once more. Ye Xiu reckoned that Maple Tree wouldn't be able to adapt so quickly.

Sure enough, in the third run, Maple Tree improved again. But it wasn't enough. Their final time was 34:47:68 and their three runs for the day were now all used up.

How could Maple Tree not know that the problem lay with him? The other players didn't make any mistakes and were all lowering their tempo to adapt to him. Being someone on the team that held everyone back didn't feel good at all! Maple Tree couldn't help but think of his guild's dungeon team. If there was such a terrible noob on it, everyone would hate him. And the current him? Although he wasn't destroying the team, they still weren't able to set the record all because of him, leaving a bad taste in Maple Tree's mouth.

"You have a main account, right?" Lord Grim suddenly asked.

"Ah…. I do!"

"You should use the accounts you have to practice! The team's current problems are almost all on you. As long as you practice a bit more, we'll be able to take down this record…… But if we keep on practicing like this and we accidentally reach Level 31, then that'd be really bad." Ye Xiu said.

"Yeah…. I'll think of a way." Maple Tree said.

"Desolate Land's elite monsters in the dungeon, in terms of their attack patterns and habits, they're about the same as the monsters in the leveling area. There are a few things you can practice in the leveling area. For example….." Ye Xiu suggested a few things Maple Tree could do.

Maple Tree listened attentively. He was repeatedly nodding his head in front of the computer. Nodding and nodding, he suddenly realized that there was no way the other side could see him doing so and as a result, felt embarrassed again.

"Okay, that'll be it for today. You can do it! We'll see you tomorrow night."

"See you tomorrow night!" Maple Tree took off and then began thinking of ways to practice more.

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Chapter 153: Exchange Market

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"It's 2 o'clock. I'll be going off too then?" Su Mucheng said.

"How are you leveling your account?" Ye Xiu asked her. Su Mucheng shouldn't have the time to level her low-leveled account. But right now, her Cleansing Mist was very close to Lord Grim's level, not a step slower.

"You don't need to worry about that!" Su Mucheng hummed a tune and then logged out.

"Dungeon again?" Tang Rou asked. Now that they were Level 30, running Frost Forest was no longer a viable option, but Boneyard could still give some experience. Apart from this, they could enter a new dungeon, the Level 30-33 dungeon Line Canyon.

This dungeon was still a five-member dungeon and could only be run three times every day, the same as Desolate Land. Yesterday, after leveling to 30, Ye Xiu and the others had already began running it. The unfamiliarity of the dungeon for the first three runs naturally made Tang Rou feel challenged by it, so she was now quite interested in going to Line Canyon.

"No rush. We're going shopping." Ye Xiu said.

"Shopping?" Tang Rou stared blankly.

"We're Level 30 now. You two should start paying attention to your equipment now." Ye Xiu said, "For equipment, higher-leveled doesn't necessarily mean that it's better. True experts have to know how to choose equipment that fit their play style. Movement speed, attack speed, these types of speed-related stats, higher doesn't necessarily mean better either. When the speed is too high, it's pretty common for players to go out of control and expose an opening. Experts don't chase after equipment with the highest stats. They chase after equipment that suits them the best. Why are self-made equipment so strong? It's not just because their stats are higher than an Orange equipment by a level. More importantly, it's because they're custom-made specially to suit the player's style. Take my Myriad Manifestation Umbrella as an example. If you don't have enough experience in the game, it wouldn't be possible to fully utilize this weapon's might."

"For weapons, normal players usually choose the weapon with the highest attack. But for experts, attack isn't the only thing to be considered because it doesn't how they use the weapon. What truly affects their weapon choice is the weapon's attack speed, length, weight, etc. These sort of properties are all necessary to consider in real battle. Let's say I give you a Lance with an attack twice as high as your current one, but with a length that's a third of yours. If you used the one I give you, do you think your strength will increase or decrease?" Ye Xiu explained and then suddenly quizzed Tang Rou.

Tang Rou heard the question and was stumped. Whether she'd be stronger or weaker, she had no way of judging that. But she at least understood what Ye Xiu was trying to get at.

"The greater the expert, the higher the expert's awareness towards how different weapons feel. Because I'm not you, as a bystander, I can only give you some suggestions, but what exactly you choose depends on you. This means that you're going to have to try out lots of different weapons. What you're looking for is the most suitable equipment. Either that or you're going to need to adjust your playing style to the equipment you choose. In the end, it all depends on you to decide."

They walked while they talked, until the three characters finally arrived at Congee City.

Congee City was much larger than Bulls Town. This was one of the major cities in Glory. It was also the first major city that players would come across and a gathering place for low to mid level players.

From Level 30 onwards, players paid closer attention to equipment and so the Exchange Market would become much more popular. Lots of messages for buying and selling would begin to appear on the world channel too. Once a player entered Congee City, the player would see players buying and selling items everywhere around them.

However, the prices for many of the items were extremely high. The new servers had lots of new players. But even though new players didn't understand, they weren't stupid. There were very few fools who sold items as if they were trash. Most players who didn't know of an item's price would look around first. They would go to the market and ask around. Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion were both left speechless after looking at the marked prices.

Along their journey to Level 30, they hadn't gotten any super-lucky gains. Besides the rewards from quests, their only source of income was from monster drops. However, these were all just chump change. The money they had accumulated up until now didn't exceed 10 Gold coins. Buying potions and so on usually used Silver coins as the unit of measure. In the beginner village, the lowest leveled health and mana potions were 1 Silver coin a bottle. 1 Gold coin was equal to 100 Silver coins. 10 Gold coins were enough to buy a lot of these potions. However, these were all the lowest-leveled potions. For Level 30 players, it wasn't worth buying them.

For Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion to have been able to accumulate that much money was already considered quite good. Their skill levels were high, so they were able to dodge most attacks in real battle. If not, then if they were normal new players, they would have used up all of their money from quests and drops on potions. If they didn't do any reselling for profit trading, then they wouldn't be able to afford anything. 10 Gold coins was already considered quite rich among these normal players.

Ye Xiu looked through several booths. He discovered that even though the market had already taken form, Level 30 and up items were still rare. The reason was because Level 30 players were currently a very small part of the player population. The majority of players were still trying to reach Level 30. At this moment, there were quite a lot of booths, but most of them were players under Level 30 setting up booths after seeing others do it. As a result, the majority of equipment sold weren't Level 30. Besides a few unique equipment, the rest weren't anything remarkable.

Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion at least knew to look for equipment based on their levels. They ignored everything under Level 30 and only looked at equipment Level 30 and above.

"So expensive!!" Seeing the prices on the equipment, the two expressed their regrets.

A normal Level 30 Blue piece of equipment cost 10 gold coins, their entire fortune. Class-set equipment were even more expensive. They varied from 20 Gold coins to 40 Gold coins for one. Why was there a difference? This was because even though Glory's 24 classes were balanced well, there were still classes more popular than others. For example, Blade Masters and Sharpshooters were the two most popular classes in Glory. It was the same in the new server. With a greater demand, the equipment for those classes were naturally a bit more expensive.

Armor was like this. Weapons were even more so. A Level 30 Blue weapon cost between 30 gold coins to 50 gold coins. The variance was also because of the difference in classes. As for Purple weapons, normal ones cost 100 gold coins. For ones with more outstanding stats, those could cost nearly 200 gold coins.

These prices were a bit more fair. After all, the vast majority of players that had hit Level 30 were veterans from the big guilds. Under the standards they set, those crazier players that had hit Level 30 too set their prices in the same way. There weren't too many with ridiculous prices.

"If I wanted to buy a weapon, how long would I need to save up money?" Tang Rou said.

"It looks like it'd be better to just save up points in the Arena!" Steamed Bun Invasion was still using that Level 25 Purple Claw he got from the Arena.

"Ha ha, as long as the equipment isn't binded, then you can always resell your equipment later!" Ye Xiu said.

In Glory, equipment from the normal servers could be binded. After being binded, the equipment wouldn't drop if you died. But it also meant that it couldn't be traded. Once the equipment was bound, it wasn't possible to unbind it, which was why at this stage of the game, practically no one bound their equipment. Everyone wanted to sell their equipment later after it grew outdated. But because of this reason, the price for low-leveled equipment would eventually take a dive as the equipment grew outdated. For example, in the oldest first server, the equipment that Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion were gasping at were ten times cheaper. Moreover, most players didn't want to waste their time peddling them and directly sold them in the NPC stores.

"Then what do we need to buy?" Tang Rou asked.

"Weapons." Ye Xiu said. After witnessing Maple Tree's performance three times, Ye Xiu didn't want to put his entire trust onto whether that guy would improve. In the end, he decided that they should upgrade their equipment and be more ready.

"Where are we going to get that money?" Tang Rou said. She had seen a Purple Lance being sold for 120 gold coins. Blue Lances were a lot cheaper; they were all under 40 gold coins. But a Level 30 Blue weapon was about the same as her Level 25 Purple weapon, so there was no point in buying one. If she were going to switch weapons, she'd had to buy a Purple Lance.

"Money isn't a problem. Just look for a weapon that you like! If you think the one you're using right now is good, then you should choose the Level 30 Scarlet Moon Lance. It's the around the same length and weight as your current one." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh? Them I'm going to go look around. I'll pay you back later." Tang Rou said.

"Buy me a cigarette pack and that'll be enough." Ye Xiu said.

"I'm waiting for my pay to come….." Tang Rou said gloomily. She currently had no money. She had lost it all to Ye Xiu.

"Steamed Bun! Look for a weapon you like, it'll be my gift!" Ye Xiu said to Steamed Bun Invasion.

"Ha ha, I get one too!!" Steamed Bun Invasion cheered.

"Of course."

"Then I'm going to go look." Steamed Bun Invasion wasn't as polite. He had gaming experience. Even though it wasn't in Glory, he could still infer one thing from three in many places. In his eyes, Ye Xiu and him were at a completely different level. Ye Xiu was an expert. A god. Experts gifting new players equipment was a very common occurrence, so there was no need to be polite.

Steamed Bun Invasion returned after a short while and said he found a weapon that he liked. Ye Xiu followed him to go look and immediately regretted what he had said: "Steamed Bun, you really aren't polite at all!"

"Ha ha!" Steamed Bun Invasion laughed. He had found an Orange weapon. Ye Xiu had looked around all day and this was the first Orange equipment he had seen. How did Steamed Bun Invasion smell that out? In just a minute after he heard that he'd be gifted an equipment, he fished this out.

Level 30 Orange weapon Vampiric Claw, 800 gold coins. How could the price of Orange weapons be similar to Blue or Purple weapons?

"Can I?" Steamed Bun Invasion asked.

"Of course not! I only have 15 gold coins on me. I have to go sell things to buy you guys weapons. 800 gold coins. Do you want me to sell myself!!" Ye Xiu said. The only reason he had 5 more gold coins than Steamed Bun Invasion and Tang Rou was all because he had consumed even fewer potions and food than them.

"Really? Then I'll go look around again." Steamed Bun Invasion ran off.

"Orange weapons are no good!!" Ye Xiu stressed.

"Got it!" Steamed Bun Invasion's voice came from far away.

Ye Xiu shook his head and then immediately let Lord Grim head to one corner of the market. He had noticed a booth with a sign: Buying Uncommon Materials.

"How are you buying Strong Spider Silk?" Lord Grim walked forward and then asked.

The other side turned his character to look at him. After a short moment of silence, he said: "Lord Grim….. Didn't you earn these Strong Spider Silk from us? And now you want to sell it back to us?"

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Chapter 154: Where'd These Materials Come From?

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"Oh, you are?" Ye Xiu had seen the booth's sign board and came over. He hadn't noticed the vendor's name. He glanced: Blue Brook Guild, Bound Boat.

"I'm called Bound Boat. I'm from Blue Brook Guild." Bound Boat introduced himself. Actually, he had met Lord Grim a while ago. It was just that because he was a Cleric, he had been kicked out of the dungeon team. The two hadn't talked to each other before, so he wouldn't be surprised if Lord Grim had forgotten him.

"Oh, so it's you." Ye Xiu grinned while saying, "It'd be great if I could sell them back to you guys. What's the point of money? Uncommon materials are forever. They'll always be useful!" (TLCN: Adapted from "A diamond is forever"–钻石恒久远,一颗永留传")

Bound Boat heard this and laughed. This phrase had been around for a long time, but there were very few that still said it. Most new players had never heard of it. Players that say this phrase with ease meant that they had at least five years of experience in Glory.

Having many years of experience in the game didn't necessarily mean that they were pro-players. There were numerous players in the normal player community that had played for a long time. Especially among the experts, most of them were ones that had played Glory for many years. They weren't like pro-players, however. No matter how good or bad a pro-player was, they still had some level of talent. Most normal players had mediocre talent. If they wanted to reach a certain level of skill, they could only use time and effort to slowly train themselves. It wasn't easy for them.

Bound Boat was this type of player. He had played Glory for seven years. Even in the eyes of the pro-community, he'd be considered as having played the game for a long time. As for this Lord Grim, Bound Boat believed that he was a veteran that didn't lose to him in experience.

Two players, who were extremely knowledgable on Glory, would be able to save a lot on buying and selling. In any case, they wouldn't be ripped off.

"40 Silver coins for each Strong Spider Silk." Bound Boat didn't say anything more.

"Don't joke with me. It should be 1 Gold coin for each." Ye Xiu said.

"In front of us two seniors, the new server is just like floating clouds, which is why we have to do things according to our knowledge as seniors. If I consider that you're the one buying, then 80 Silver coin for each."

"If I can buy them at 40 Silver coins each, why should I buy them at 80?" Bound Boat said.

"That's only right now. Sooner or later, you're going to have to start buying them at 80 Silver coins each. Just think of it like that." Ye Xiu said.

"You should go back to reality. This is the new server." Bound Boat laughed. It was clear that this was a very calm and careful person. Lord Grim's powerful strength hadn't affected his judgement on business transactions. He wouldn't let up an inch.

Ye Xiu was also helpless and had no choice but to ask again: "If it's 40 Silver pieces for each Strong Spider Silk, then what about Frosted Stones?" Those were much more valuable than Strong Spider Silk. They were items that only dropped from hidden BOSSes at Line Canyon. Players could only run the dungeon three times every day in addition to their low chances of meeting a hidden BOSS. Yesterday, Ye Xiu and the others had run the dungeon three times and they hadn't met a single one.

"20 Gold coins." Bound Boat said.

"35 is more like it."

"New server, new server." Bound Boat emphasized.

"30! 20 is looking down on the fact that I'm a senior too much." Ye Xiu said.

"Ha ha, how many do you have?" Bound Boat asked.

"If it's for 30, then I can give you ten of them!" Ye Xiu said.

"Ten….. ten?" Bound Boat stammered. Because of his cool-headedness and carefulness, he had immediately felt that picking up ten Frost Stones was unimaginable for someone who had just hit Level 30. These were materials that only dropped from a specific hidden BOSS. Even though their chances of dropping were high, that wasn't the reason why they were uncommon, rather it was because of the probability of meeting that specific hidden BOSS. Only once this was considered, could uncommon materials have the word "uncommon" in them.

Lord Grim had just reached Level 30 yesterday. This was something that Blue Brook Guild had been watching closely. Adding in two day's worth of runs, Line Canyon could have only been run six times at most. Even if he had met a hidden BOSS every run and each hidden BOSS all happened to be the exact same one, then it still might not mean that he'd be able to get ten of them. The chances of this happening weren't zero, but it was close.

"What do you think?" Ye Xiu asked.

"How do you have so many Frosted Stones?" Bound Boat couldn't figure it out. It wasn't possible for him to get that amount by himself. If he had purchased them, it didn't make sense for him to go sell them to someone who purchased materials like himself. For a senior with so much experience, that would be too stupid. Apart from that, Bound Boat could only think of him getting those through some shady business like killing others for their items.

"10 is a lot?" Ye Xiu, on the other hand, was grinning.

"You have more?" Bound Boat was astonished.

"I have plenty. To be honest, I probably have as many as the amount in your Blue Brook Guild's storehouse." Ye Xiu said.

"Impossible..." Bound Boat still doubtful, "How did you get them?"

"You don't have to worry about that! Just tell me whether you want them or not!" Ye Xiu said.

Bound Boat was unexpectedly unable to answer at this moment. Even though he had put a price on Frosted Stones, he hadn't had any plans on how much he would purchase. At this moment, only high-leveled players would have these items and the majority of these were from big guilds like his. Big guilds would only buy materials and use them. They would practically never sell them. It still wasn't the time for Frosted Stones yet.

When Lord Grim had suddenly asked him, Bound Boat had thought that even if Lord Grim had gotten lucky, he would only have one or two at most, which was why he didn't care too much about it. But who would have thought that Lord Grim would be so mysterious and start out with ten. Besides the big guilds with Clubs behind them, this amount shouldn't be possible for anyone to have. And in addition, Lord Grim's tone implied that ten wasn't all he had.

"How many do you have total?" Bound Boat asked. He hadn't made any plans for them because he hadn't thought that he'd be able to get any. But some would come sooner or later. Seeing that the goods had already arrived, he didn't want to miss the opportunity.

"Thirty to forty!" Ye Xiu said.

Bound Boat almost fell off his chair. If this guy really had as many as that, then it really would be about how many Blue Brook Guild had. Before Bound Boat went out to buy materials, he had checked up on their guild's storehouse and recalled that they only had around forty, less than fifty Frost Stones.

"25 Gold coins! I want them all." Bound Boat said. This type of large purchase wasn't something that he would ever see again. There was no way a private player could gather this many uncommon materials.

"When did I say I was selling them all? I'm only selling 10. 300 Gold coins and they're yours!" Ye Xiu said.

"25!" Bound Boat didn't care if it was all of them or ten of them. He'd buy whatever he could.

"And then me 29, you 26, me 28, you 27, in the end we'd agree on 27.5, so 275 Gold coins? Your guild's so big, what's 25 Gold coins to you guys? How shameful! 300!" Ye Xiu said.

"How'd you come up with that." Bound Boat said.

"You really are calm." Ye Xiu said.

"Ha ha, 25 Gold coins is a very fair price!" Bound Boat said.

"It's you who doesn't want them!" Ye Xiu said. Lord Grim suddenly stood next to Bound Boat.

"What are you doing?" Bound Boat couldn't help but panic. He had been puzzling over how Lord Grim had obtained so many materials. He definitely couldn't have gotten them from only clearing dungeons. Bound Boat could only come up with Lord Grim killing others and stealing their items. But to get this many would mean that there would be a huge fuss over it. Bound Boat had also ran Line Canyon everyday, but he had never heard of anything like that…..

Don't tell me he somehow hacked the game? Old players had experienced a lot, so they had a lot of ideas. Glory hadn't been hacked in many years, but Bound Boat still recalled how players robbed from each other in the early days.

But after Lord Grim had walked over to his side, Lord Grim immediately moved. He had created his own booth and then said: "At 30 Gold coins as the retail price, they'll be sold off in an instant. It's your own fault you didn't want them."

After saying this, Lord Grim's booth was finished setting-up. Ten Frosted Stones were placed on the table. Each of them 30 Gold coins.

Bound Boat stared blankly. In the game, items had a purchase price and a retail price. The purchase price was relatively low, but was a stable path for the seller. It was very easy to find someone who would buy it. As for the retail price, the price was a bit higher. Only players who really needed it would buy it. It was difficult to say how long it would take to sell the item off. It required patience. For players that were in urgent need of money, they clearly wouldn't set their items at a retail price.

Right now, Lord Grim set his items at a retail price. In the Heavenly Domain, the retail price for Frosted Stones were usually around 35-40 Gold coins, while the purchase price was around 30 Gold coins. Ye Xiu was set on 30 Gold coins and wouldn't budge. In the end, Bound Boat didn't reply, which was he just straight-up set up a booth.

30 Gold coins. For the new servers, this was considered a retail price. A retail price that required patience. But what had to be noted was that this was in the tenth server. Practically no one was selling Frosted Stones. Currently, the big guilds wouldn't use these to make money off of them. As a result, this was extremely convenient for Ye Xiu. Right now, it looked as if he was at the very front of players in terms of levels. He had gotten a few high-leveled materials on his own and as a result was selling them however he wanted to. And moreover, he wasn't setting up any monopoly price. It was only 30 Gold coins, the normal market price.

"Let me think, at Level 30, what equipment blueprints can Frosted Stones be used for?" Ye Xiu muttered as if talking to himself.

"Right, isn't Soul Staff one of them? This weapon does extra damage to undead monsters, very useful. The dungeon only drops the blueprint, so you'd need Frosted Stones if you wanted it."

"Oh, and the Polished Cross, a light-element weapon. If a Cleric uses it, then their Light Elemental skills will have increased effects. And dungeons only drop the blueprints, so you'd have to make it yourself. You should know this right? Ah? Cleric." Ye Xiu said.

"Hm? Seeing that Berserker, I suddenly remembered that their Rock Cutter needs Frosted Stones too! Oh! He's coming over! He's coming over to buy! Ah, too bad. He's not. He's a Tachi Berserker. How unfortunate. Rock Cutter ah Rock Cutter. If you buy my Frosted Stones, you can make a Rock Cutter." Ye Xiu reminisced.

The calm Bound Boat was finally shaken up. It was true that only the blueprints for these Purple weapons dropped. They required the secondary professions and the materials to create them. Frosted Stones were all one of the necessary materials for them. It was just 30 Gold coins. A player that wanted to make one of those Purple weapons wouldn't hesitate to buy them, right?

Just as he was thinking, he saw a player walk forward forward: "Oh? This place is selling Frosted Stones!"

"They're all gone. I've already bought them all." Bound Boat hastily said.

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Chapter 155 – Overlapping Tracking

"30 Gold coins each." Lord Grim turned around and said to Bound Boat.

"Fine, 30 is 30!" Bound Boat said. The people who had come up to ask for the price were a couple. This type of combination was too terrifying, especially since the person who was asking was the lady. Let alone 30, even if it was 300, then that brother would still clench his teeth and pay up!

Bound Boat had immediately made a decision and rushed to buy it. Lord Grim was the seller who set up the booth. The goods were sitting there with their price tags. If anyone walked by and felt like they were a good price, then they could just buy it and walk away. Bound Boat was afraid that that brother would be too gallant and buy eight or ten without a moment of hesitation. If that were the case, how terrible would that be for him?

At this moment, Bound Boat showcased his exceptional mechanics as a veteran. He instantly closed his booth and his character stepped in front of Lord Grim's booth. His mouse repeatedly clicked and without even looking, he instantly cleaned up Lord Grim's entire booth. That male and female duo just stood there watching without a word. In the end, they threw out a "that guy must be mad" and then swiftly parted.

"Wow, how fast!" Ye Xiu also gasped.

"Thank you." Bound Boat said politely.

"But did you confirm everything? Each one of them was 30 Gold coins?" Ye Xiu asked.

Bound Boat turned pale. He hastily opened up his money back and checked. In the end, he found that he wasn't missing anything. He had lost a total of 300 Gold coins. There wasn't any problem with the trade.

"Don't joke……" Bound Boat felt a lingering fear in his heart! In that instant just moments ago, he really hadn't looked at the prices. Since he was buying materials for his guild, he had a large chunk of the guild's money. If the price had been set in the thousands of Gold coins, then it'd be impossible for him not to cry.

"If you had been able to check the prices in that short instant, then you'd really be amazing." Ye Xiu said, while letting Lord Grim stand up: "I'm leaving."

"Bye." Bound Boat said in a daze as he watched Lord Grim's figure calmly fade away into the crowds of people in the streets. After a long while, he returned back to reality and immediately reported back to Blue River.

"Lord Grim? How could that be? You bumped into him in the city? Shouldn't he be setting the dungeon record? Did he finish?" Blue River hastily asked a bunch of questions. How could he care so much about those Frosted Stones that Bound Boat was so hesitant about? If he set the dungeon record, then why didn't he show up on TV? Blue River carried this doubt, while he checked the records. Their Blue Brook Guild's record still stood at the lead. The second and third place records hadn't moved either. There was no sign of Lord Grim.

"That's weird. Maybe they haven't started setting it yet?" Blue River asked Bound Boat.

"How would I know…… But right now, if he's going to set it, it should be done soon. Maybe he wasn't able to break the record? Lord Grim was selling Frosted Stones. For someone like him, how could he come out and sell uncommon materials like this? My guess is that they might have bumped into some sort of small wall in the dungeon, which is why he needs the money so badly. He's probably going to use it to buy some equipment?" Bound Boat really did have exceptional analytical ability. Even if he couldn't figure out where those Frosted Stones came from, he was still able to guess the reason why Ye Xiu was selling them.

"So it's like this….. You said ten Frosted Stones?" Only now did Blue River come to this question. Dungeons and so on weren't under his control. If Lord Grim wanted to set it today, then he'd set it today. If he wanted to set it tomorrow, then he'd set it tomorrow. All he could do was sit and watch.

"Yeah, and from the looks of it, that's not all he has." Bound Boat said.

"That's impossible. Right now the only people with more than ten Frosted Stones are all certainly from the guilds with Clubs behind them. There's no way normal guilds can get that number and there's no way that amount could be gathered by a single person." Blue River said.

"That's why I said it was strange….." Bound Boat said.

"Maybe he's already been bought off by some guild?" Blue River suddenly thought.

"Ha ha, we'll see!" Bound Boat said.

"How do we see?"

"I told Thousand Creations to follow him. Let's see who he's going to meet up with." Bound Boat replied.

At this moment, Blue River wasn't the only player watching the record rankings closely. When these guild leaders thought of how such a small existence like Full Moon Guild would destroy this record, they all felt sick in their hearts. Although they didn't feel good about it, they were helpless to do anything. Even so, they still paid close attention to the system announcements.

From 0 o'clock to 1 o'clock to 2 o'clock, the guild leaders were all feeling restless, but how could they know that Ye Xiu was just taking a stroll around the streets?

"How have things been? Have you found an equipment you want?" Ye Xiu sent Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion messages. 300 Gold coins. Since their team didn't have any Blade Masters or any of those extremely popular classes, they had enough for three Purple weapons.

"That Scarlet Moon Lance you were talking about. I saw one." Tang Rou replied.

"Okay. Where?" Ye Xiu asked.

After asking where each of them were, he sent them the Gold coins. They spent 190 Gold coins for two Purple weapons. They then went to a booth he saw earlier and spent 100 Gold coins on a Purple Handcannon.

"Senior, you really have a lot of money!" Steamed Bun Invasion praised and switched his weapon with the new Level 30 Purple Sandstorm Claw. His original title of God for Ye Xiu was changed to Senior, making them seem closer. Steamed Bun Invasion was very simple and made the change because of this.

"Ha ha, let's go!" Ye Xiu said. The three then left Congee City's busy streets.

Thousand Creations was currently following these three players. As a veteran at KSing, he was quite skilled at this. After leaving the city, the outskirts were spacious and empty, so instead of closely following behind the three, he switched routes and maintained a route parallel to them.

Seeing where those three were heading towards, it seemed like they were heading towards Line Canyon. Thousand Creations reckoned that they were just going to dungeon and nothing more. But Bound Boat had told him to pay attention to who Lord Grim was going to meet. If they were going to party up for the dungeon, then that'd be perfect, so Thousand Creations could only continue to follow them silently.

Walking and walking, Thousand Creations suddenly discovered that he wasn't the only one following Lord Grim and the others.

With those three as the center, countless players were scattered on the map going in the same direction.

For players like this, if it was just one player, then it wouldn't be considered weird. But at this moment, there were suddenly numerous of these types of players. If they really were headed to Line Canyon, then they'd be walking along the main road like Lord Grim and the others were. But right now, all of these trackers seemed to be experienced players like Thousand Creations. They weren't tailing them from behind, they were taking a route parallel to theirs. With so many players doing the same thing, how could that be normal?

Thousand Creations discovered that everyone had also realized this. Some began hesitating. Some immediately changed their routes and directly followed Lord Grim from behind. Their originally secretive way suddenly seemed very normal in this weird situation.

Thousand Creations was different from the others. He ran over to the closest player and after seeing the player's name clearly, he immediately sent Bound Boat a message: "He shouldn't have made any agreements with Howling Heights."

The name of the player he had looked at was from Guild Wind Howl Manor. Even though the other side had hidden his guild's name, unlucky for him, Thousand Creations recognized his ID.

"Oh? How do you know?" Bound Boat was puzzled. He had no way of knowing how Thousand Creations had come to that conclusion.

"Because one of Wind Howl's players is doing the same thing as me." Thousand Creations said.

Bound Boat was speechless. It looks like this Lord Grim had captured the entire tenth server's attention now. Before, everyone was trying to rope him in without the knowledge of the other competing guilds. But now, it looks like under this weird situation, everyone's been exposed.

"Fussy Dawn, do you know which guild this player's in?" Thousand Creations looked at another player's name, except this time he didn't recognize it. The other side had also hidden his guild's name, so he could only let Bound Boat look it up.

"Let me check….." After asking how his name was spelled, he contacted someone to investigate. (TL: In Chinese, many words are pronounced the same and are all written differently. Ex: https/en./wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den)

Like this, Thousand Creation continued his overlapping tracking and reported 9 players to be checked. Actually, there were originally 11 players, but 2 of them had retreated after seeing the situation.

Among these 9 players, there were already five guilds that had been found: Tyrannical Ambition, Royal Heritage, Wind Howl Manor, Samsara, and Blossom Valley. These five guilds had all participated in the great tracking and saw that Lord Grim hadn't made any agreements with anyone.

"Are you guys still continuing?" Bound Boat asked.

"Yeah, we're almost at Line Canyon. I'll wait until after Lord Grim enters the dungeon, then us ten can go form a team to run the dungeon. I haven't used my entries for today yet!" Thousand Creations said.

"Alright, have fun." Bound Boat didn't say anything more.

They arrived at Line Canyon in the blink of an eye. Even though the game said it was a canyon, there weren't any tall mountains. Line Canyon was a giant crack in Glory's land. In the yellow-soiled plains, there was a large crack as if it had been cut open by a hatchet. It was long, wide, and deep. There wasn't any kind of vegetation there, only a few animal skeletons. What lived here were poisonous insects. Of course, for players, these were all providers of experience.

As a Level 30-33 Leveling Area, Line Canyon was currently considered a high-leveled area. Unless the game was being played as a job, then only players who played the game 12 hours and up would be able to reach Level 30. There obviously weren't many of these types of players, so at this moment, Line Canyon was quite empty.

Lord Grim and the others went down to Line Canyon. They ignored the small monsters along the way and headed directly to the dungeon. A group of players followed behind them, but after seeing who Lord Grim was calling to form parties with, they lost all hope.

Seven Fields. Sleeping Moon.

For the ones who did their homework, they all recognized that these two players were from Full Moon Guild. And not only this, each of the big guilds had already sent out spies to go join Full Moon Guild. That night, Full Moon Guild grew a lot larger. These players who had joined weren't low-leveled.

The spies had all gathered there to figure out what exactly Lord Grim's intent was.

And outside of this Line Canyon, there were trackers sent by their guilds to take a peek.

The big guilds were all having an extremely difficult time for this one expert. After seeing that Lord Grim and the other two party up with Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon and enter the dungeon, they all reported back, exhausted.

Once this was done, the group of players all looked at each other.

"Are we actually going to party up and run the dungeon?" Thousand Creations muttered inwardly, when the others scattered like birds.

"Tch….." Thousand Creations disdained. He was about to leave when he saw a player killing monsters to level not far from the dungeon. His hands suddenly began to itch. His flaw flared up and he rushed over to KS that player's monster.

Thousand Creations flaunted his talent as he fought to steal that monster, when he suddenly discovered that the players around them that were killing monsters had shaken off their monsters and were now rushing at him all at once. Thousand Creations saw that the situation wasn't looking good and thought in astonishment: Where did all of these brave heroes come from? And they're all gathered together in the same place too!

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Chapter 156 – Power of an Encirclement

Thousand Creations was a player that sought to kill steal monsters. How many battles had he gone through because of KSing? So when it came to PK, Thousand Creation had plenty of experience.

An army of heroes? Thousand Creations didn't believe it. The player who he had stolen from wasn't some girl. How could there so many heroes just hanging around? Now that the crowd of players arrived, the answer was too clear: they were originally together.

"How interesting!" Thousand Creations swept over the surroundings. Some of the players rushing over were far away, while some were close. In this instant, he didn't have enough time to count how them, though there were at least 20 players. Thousand Creation's Neutral Chaser buffed his movement speed, so he moved quickly. He saw an opening in the crowd of players and slipped into it.

"Bang!" The other side's long-ranged Gunners hadn't arrived yet, but their bullets had. Thousand Creations hastily dodged. The artillery shell exploded. The shock wave from the explosion was larger than Thousand Creations had anticipated and had unexpectedly hit his side.

Thousand Creations reacted quickly. He pulled his body back in mid-air and steadied himself. In Glory, "Knockback" was a type of CC effect. But with these types of shockwave attacks, their knockbacks effects were more chaotic and caused the target to lose balance. However, the target could steady himself. If it wasn't done right, then the target might get Knocked Down to the ground. And for the CC "Knock Down", players had no way of countering it with normal movements. Only skills like Quick Recover could counter it.

With this shot, Thousand Creations had already failed to take advantage of the key moment. The crowd of players closed in and the original opening had been repaired. All sorts of classes stood in position. The several close-combat classes had already advanced and surrounded Thousand Creations.

"Not good……" Thousand Creations had already fallen into despair. He knew that the situation was already hopeless, but he didn't want to give up. He shouted, brandished his battle lance, and rushed forward trying to take one down with him. But his hopes were all a dream and in the end, Thousand Creations was killed off with practically zero casualties on the other side.

"Who are these guys!" Thousand Creations, who had revived in Congee City, thought, while sending a few names to Bound Boat, hoping that he would help him look them up. These were names which he had worked hard to get while fighting that crowd. But he had died way too quickly and wasn't able to remember too many names in that short amount of time.

"Huh? Why are there so many?" Bound Boat asked.

"Don't worry about that. Just look them up for me!" Thousand Creations said.

"Did you stir up trouble again?" Bound Boat asked.

Thousand Creations was silent. His existence in the guild was quite special. Usually, players like him with such a nasty habit wouldn't be kept by the big guilds. But Blue Brook Guild appreciated his skill, so they still let him into the guild. Because Thousand Creations was in a big guild, getting good equipment was much easier. For example, right now, he already had a completed Scarlet Moon Set and his Level 30 Coiling Snake Lance was a rare Purple weapon. If he wasn't a part of Blue Brook Guild, how could he have gotten these equipment so easily?

Even though the guild took care of Thousand Creations, there was no way they could support his misdeeds. Thousand Creations had no objections towards this. This was also why whether he lived or died in these large or small battles depended on himself. He could not involve the guild.

As a result, this time, Thousand Creations was still planning on going in solo to resolve the problem. There was nothing wrong with using the guild's resources though!

After reviving in Congee City, Thousand Creations had to recover from his Weakened state, so he slowly walked towards Line Canyon, while waiting for Bound Boat's reply. In his heart, he felt that there was something weird about those players' actions. If they were there just for leveling in the wild, twenty players in a group was a bit ridiculous. Moreover, these players were all fighting separately. What was the point in being in a group?

Even Thousand Creations, with his experienced eyes of a KSer, couldn't see that these players were in a group. And since they were, why were they so scattered? What exactly was their plan?

As Thousand Creations slowly walked over, his Weakened state gradually disappeared. He had lost 10% of his EXP with this death. Apart from this, his equipment had also lost some durability and he lost some of his Gold coins. These were all fixed. None of his equipment dropped though. In the normal servers, the chances of equipment dropping at death wasn't high.

"Thousand Creations, I wasn't able to figure out where these guys are from. At least, they're not from the big guilds." Bound Boat's message finally arrived.

"Oh." Thousand Creations wasn't too surprised. The world was wide. With so many players, how could Blue Brook Guild have information on everyone. The ones they paid closer attention to were those guilds with Clubs that they were competing against. If they weren't from those guilds, then those that they knew were extremely limited.

"Hold back a bit. Don't stir up too much trouble in the new server." Bound Boat didn't completely block him. If Thousand Creations was the type of person that could be stopped, then he wouldn't be in that position. Bound Boat also reminded him to not bring the guild into his affairs at the very least. Although it was somewhat heartless, Thousand Creations liked this sort of special position.

He slowly walked until his Weakened state was completely eliminated. Only then did Thousand Creations start jogging. Jogging was faster than walking, but slower than Swift Running. However, Swift Running consumed the player's stamina, so most players Jogged to hurry forward.

He quickly returned to Line Canyon, but he didn't charge in. The other side had twenty or so people. If he directly challenged them, then wasn't that certain death? Thousand Creations planned on waiting for the right opportunity and then striking. He didn't care despicable or low he was. As someone who liked to KS, such a principle practically didn't exist.

If his name could be hidden like his guild's name, how great would that be! Thousand Creations lamented. He chose an entrance to Line Canyon and then sneakily headed towards that direction.

Line Canyon was extremely quiet. The only sounds were the rustling of the poisonous insects there. Thousand Creations ignored these monsters and hurried over to the place where those players were. When he got close, he slowed down and after carefully analyzing the terrain, he crouched over to behind a dirt mound and snuck his head out.

One, two, three……

From here, he could see three players. They were all minding their own business and fighting by themselves. Thousand Creations hadn't been too vigilant before, but now that he was more aware, he saw that although these three were fighting their own monsters, their positions were all in a range where they could help each other if needed. He looked again from a different angle and found two others. They were also fighting separately, but they maintained a distance not too far from each other.

This is going to be difficult….. Thousand Creations furrowed his brow.

These people were ready to work together at a moment's notice, which made it difficult for him to find an opening. But why were these guys doing things like this? What were they trying to do?

Thousand Creations was hiding far away from them. He switched positions many times, seeing each of the twenty or so people at least once. He pulled out a piece of paper and drew the positions for each of them.

Their current positions seemed a bit different from before. These people had gathered together closer to one side. Thousand Creations looked at the paper while thinking of this. He looked at the entire drawing from afar and from an overall perspective, Thousand Creations immediately saw something. Their positions were all directed towards the dungeon entrance! Were these guys waiting to ambush someone? Were they waiting for someone to go in or someone to come out?

Hm? Thousand Creations suddenly thought of someone, an extreme anomaly in the tenth server.

Lord Grim, were they waiting for him?

Thousand Creations couldn't help but think of this. But these twenty or so people didn't look like they had good intentions. Even though the wind was blowing in Lord Grim's direction, could he have angered someone? Even if he refused all of the big guild's invite this time and ran to help Full Moon Guild, they shouldn't have gone so far as to send people out to kill him right?

Thousand Creations thought of this and sent Bound Boat another message: "Are you sure these players aren't from a big guild?"

"I'm certain that they're not from a big guild. Why?"

"Looking at their positions, it looks like they're waiting to attack Lord Grim." Thousand Creations said.

"What type of players are they?" Bound Boat asked.

"They're outside Line Canyon dungeon. They're acting like they're leveling on their own, but it's clear that they're in an encirclement around players coming out of the dungeon." Thousand Creations said.

"Who did Lord Grim offend?" Bound Boat was puzzled.

"I don't know either….." Thousand Creations was also puzzled, when he suddenly heard a movement from nearby. Hiding behind the dirt mound, Thousand Creations immediately extended his head to look and saw that five players had come out of the dungeon. If that wasn't Lord Grim and his group, then he didn't know who was.

Thousand Creations wasn't yet sure whether he should give Lord Grim a heads up, when that ambush group had already begun moving.

So those guys really were looking for him?

This time, Thousand Creations counted carefully. If he hadn't messed up, then there were a total of 24 people.

The 24 moved out like the wind. In one second, Thousand Creations saw them running. And in the next, the gunners fired their bullets, the mages cast their magic, and the close combat classes rushed forward from all different directions. In particular, at the entrance, six characters immediately stood on guard.

Thousand Creations then saw Lord Grim suddenly lift up his battle lance and use a Sky Strike. This move unexpectedly launched his four companions into the air. Thousand Creations was taken by surprise. First, he had no idea why Lord Grim had attacked his own allies. Second, he didn't understand how his Sky Strike had launched all four targets into the air. According to Thousand Creation's knowledge and what he knew from guides, Sky Strike could only launch three targets at once! To hit up an extra one, how fast was his hand speed?

"Bang!" Lord Grim had sent out a palm, unexpectedly hitting his four allies. The four flew out at the same time. Only then did Thousand Creations suddenly realize what Lord Grim intended to do.

He had impressively executed this even faster and sent his four allies outside of the encirclement in an instant. The formation those 24 players were in could dissolve escapes from any direction, but this method was certainly outside of their expectations. Thousand Creations had studied the paper he had drawn with their positions for awhile and believed that he hadn't judged incorrectly. This move by Lord Grim had definitely messed up the other side's plan.

"Peng!"

Another gun sound. This time, Thousand Creations saw Lord Grim jump and use Aerial Fire, chasing after his four allies.

Sky Strike, Falling Flower Palm, Aerial Fire!

These three moves were completed in an instant, almost quicker than how fast Thousand Creations could think. By the time he understood what had happened, Lord Grim's party of five had already completely escaped from the encirclement, heading towards his dirt mound. As for those 24 players, their carefully planned encirclement had been foiled in less than a second and were now chasing after them in chaos.

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Chapter 157 – Running Test

"Go to that dirt mound!!" Thousand Creations heard Lord Grim yell this. Just as he was trying to see which dirt mound Lord Grim was talking about, he saw three of the four players quickly rush up to in front of him.

Why three? Because when Ye Xiu used Falling Flower Palm to blow them away, they had to use Quick Recover in order to prevent themselves from getting knocked down. Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion acted skillfully. On the other hand, Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon didn't do as well. Seven Fields failed in the end and crashed to the ground. Since he had to climb back up, of course he was bit slower than the others.

"Woah! There's someone here and it looks like he's pooping!" Steamed Bun Invasion yelled. The three ran over and saw Thousand Creations crouching down vulgarly behind the dirt mound.

"Sh*t!" Thousand Creations disagreed with this description. He was waiting there to ambush, how could he be pooping! But worse was what came after. He heard Lord Grim shout without any hesitation: "Kill him!"

"F*ck f*ck f*ck!" Thousand Creations cursed as he did a backwards roll. A scarlet blade flashed by his eyes. The fastest and fiercest on that side was that female battle mage. Thousand Creations recognized that the scarlet battle lance was the Level 30 Purple weapon Scarlet Moon, which just barely missed him.

Having missed, Soft Mist took a step forward to try again. All in all, Thousand Creations had some skill and after rolling, he returned back with a Sky Strike. Soft Mist sidestepped it and then with a practiced coordination, Steamed Bun Invasion slyly snuck behind Thousand Creations and smashed down with a Brick.

At this moment, the tardy Lord Grim finally arrived. With a glance, he recognized Thousand Creation's ID and then hastily said to Steamed Bun Invasion: "Wait, he's not with them."

"You know who they are?" Thousand Creations heard this and felt like Lord Grim knew where those enemies came from, so he promptly asked.

"I have a rough idea." Ye Xiu said.

"Who are they?" Thousand Creations asked.

"How about we start running first before we start chatting?" Lord Grim led the way out. Those four closely followed behind and Thousand Creations had no choice and also followed along. Of those twenty four pursuers, the long-ranged classes continuously fired at them. Thousand Creations madly dashed in an S path, so that the other side had no way of accurately firing at him. He then Swift Ran to catch up to those five and found that Lord Grim was unexpectedly teaching those four other players.

"There are three types of movements: Walk, Jog, and Swift Run. Swift Run is the fastest, but also uses your stamina. Walking is the slowest, but it'll slowly recover stamina. Jogging is neither fast nor slow, but won't use up your stamina. Directly using Swift Run will obviously let you move the fastest in a short amount of time, but once you run out of stamina and start Jogging, an experienced opponent will definitely catch you. See, look at that Thousand Creations. Right now he's using Swift Run to get past us, but this is only temporary. Everyone follow my tempo and pay attention to how I switch between these three types of movement. After half a minute, he'll be left behind."

"F*ck!" Having been used as a teaching material, Thousand Creations gloomily stopped. Just as he was about to speak, those five ran past him. That Steamed Bun Invasion even asked: "He suddenly stopped. What type of move is this?"

"The I-want-to-be-blown-to-bits move." Lord Grim said.

"Bang!"

An artillery shell exploded near Thousand Creations. His mind blurred and he flopped through the air. Fortunately, he was able to use Quick Recover in time and after rolling, he swiftly dashed and caught up to those five players.

"He caught up again." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"This method is even worse. He was even hit by an attack." Ye Xiu said.

Thousand Creations was so angry, he spat blood. When he carefully looked at those five players, under Lord Grim's constant reminders, those five players repeatedly switched between the three types of movements. There was no set tempo. They would sometimes move one way for a minute and sometimes even move another way for only two or three steps. Thousand Creations involuntarily copying what they were doing. In the end, that loud-mouthed Steamed Bun Invasion said: "It looks like he's copying us?"

"Too late. His initial stamina was different from ours, so he'll definitely use up his stamina first and will be blown to bits in the end." Ye Xiu said.

"It's no good if your stamina is too low." Steamed Bun Invasion sympathized.

Thousand Creations grinded his teeth. He didn't have a habit of asking others for help. At this moment, even though he copied how Lord Grim and the others were moving, it looked like he'd have to rely on himself in the end because that Lord Grim said that he'd be the first to run out of stamina……..

Thousand Creations glanced at his stamina. It really was running low. And even though the twenty four players behind him hadn't caught up, the distance between them had clearly shrunken.

"Hey, can we actually escape from them?" Thousand Creations asked.

"The distance between us has shrunken? It's only temporary." Ye Xiu replied.

Sure enough, after their opponents madly Swift Ran at them, only a few were able to catch up. And after their stamina ran out and they began Jogging, the distance between the two sides gradually widened.

"We really have pulled away!!" Steamed Bun Invasion cheered.

"We have? Then there's no need to run anymore." Ye Xiu laughed.

"Why?"

"Because through this test, I can already tell that our enemies' skill levels aren't too high. We could even try fighting with them." Ye Xiu said.

"We only have five." Seven Fields reminded.

"Six, no? Thousand Creations is a person too!" Ye Xiu said.

"This is the Internet. In the Internet, there's no way you can tell if the person is real or fake." Steamed Bun Invasion said solemnly.

"He's spoken before." Ye Xiu helplessly said.

Thousand Creations was extremely gloomy, but at this moment, Lord Grim stopped and turned around.

"Look, among those 24 players, there's only one of them that has some skill. It's that Battle Mage over there." Ye Xiu said. He then had his Lord Grim move up to face them and shout: "Chen Yehui, is that you?"

Those 24 players stopped moving. The valley fell deathly silent.

Having been called out, Chen Yehui felt extremely depressed. His plans had been ruined from the very start.

Liu Hao had to take care of the team's performance, so he could no longer afford to get distracted and tangle with Ye Qiu in the game. As a result, Liu Hao had handed the task of obstructing Ye Qiu's progress to him.

But to go against Ye Qiu, what methods did he have? Without any pro-players to help, there was no way he could compete in the dungeon records. After thinking for awhile, in the end, he realized his greatest advantage: manpower.

This time, he personally brought the guild to pioneer in the new server. His ambitions weren't small. Compared to other guilds, their manpower in the tenth server was the greatest.

Originally, Excellent Dynasty had intended to compete strongly against the other big guilds and restore their former glory. But who could have known that Lord Grim would appear and cause a storm? Right now, there was only one thing in the competition between the big guilds. It was to see who could win over Lord Grim's help.

Chen Yehui was extremely bitter! He already knew who Lord Grim was, so he didn't have any hopes that Lord Grim would help their Excellent Dynasty. He could be considered as one of the Club's official staff, so he had quite a lot of knowledge on the reasons for Ye Qiu's retirement. For the current Ye Qiu to not deliberately look for trouble with Excellent Dynasty was already very nice of him.

It was impossible for Chen Yehui to win over Lord Grim, so he could only carefully prepare to fight against Lord Grim. They originally didn't have many empty accounts left, so he specially leveled many new ones just for this occasion. After all of their trouble of catching up to Lord Grim and reaching Level 30, Chen Yehui immediately moved out without any hesitation. He wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to strike at Ye Qiu. If not, then if that guy ran to some guild for shelter, then their advantage would be gone.

Unfortunately, after carefully creating a formation that he thought would be impossible to break, none of the plans he had prepared were used. Lord Grim's immediate attack to send the four players out of the encirclement was completely out of his expectations. Chen Yehui's numerous plans had been destroyed in an instant.

Chen Yehui obviously wasn't satisfied. Even though the encirclement had been broken, he still had the advantage in numbers, so he had everyone chase them.

In the end, right when it looked like they were about to escape, they suddenly stopped and then faced towards them.

"Your movements are too poor, Chen Yehui." Ye Xiu continued to say, "I've already completely seen through your group's strength."

Chen Yehui stared blankly. He finally realized that their chase had been a test. That type of control over movements could be considered high-end pro-level content. There were very few normal players who could do it well. Ye Xiu had tested them to immediately know whether Liu Hao or other pro-level players were among the group. If it was just more people, then there was nothing to be afraid of.

"What are you trying to do?" Thousand Creations went over and asked him.

"Wipe them out." Ye Xiu calmly replied.

"Are you crazy?"

"Do you want to join in?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Are you….. for real?"

"If not, then why wouldn't we be running right now?" Ye Xiu said.

"There's only six of us!"

"The number of people doesn't matter. In a team battle, teamwork is the most important." Ye Xiu said.

"Fine! Then let's see just how capable you are." Thousand Creations brandished his lance and walked up.

"Get ready to move out!" Ye Xiu yelled.

"Yes!"

"Ready!"

"Forward!" Thousand Creations also shouted, but Steamed Bun Invasion and Soft Mist had already rushed forward. They, along with Lord Grim, had begun fighting. No one had come up to ask for his help.

"Huh?" Thousand Creations stared blankly. Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon had already walked up to him.

"Just relax and be our support!" Seven Fields said.

With just this, they moved ahead and joined in the slaughter. Lord Grim, Soft Mist, Steamed Bun Invasion stood back to back in a triangle formation. They directly stormed through the crowd of enemies. It looked as if a flood had swept over and drowned them, when blood suddenly began flying out. However, it wasn't from any of those three, but rather from their enemies.

"More people really is an advantage but there has to at least certain amount!" Ye Xiu said. Lord Grim suddenly left their triangle formation and rushed out. He flew forward with a Collapsing Mountain towards Chen Yehui's dispatched troops.

Chen Yehui's thinking was very simple too. He didn't care if others lived or died. As long as they could kill Lord Grim, then it would be their victory!

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Chapter 158 – He Really is an Expert at KSing

Chen Yehui's intentions were clear, but the nature of Ye Xiu's attacks were even more so. Ye Xiu had completely seen through Chen Yehui's plans. This Collapsing Mountain attacked the core of the enemy's group. The shockwave spread out. Those who reacted slower weren't able to dodge it in time. They hadn't even gotten into formation yet and many had already been hit askew.

Sky Strike, Falling Flower!

Lord Grim's weapon closed and his battle lance executed two Battle Mage skills, launching four players into the sky.

After lifting his legs and kicking another, his Thousand Chance Umbrella transformed into the gun form. The bullets shot out and this player was hit back in a burst of blood; Ye Xiu had fired BBQ in a straight line. This usage of the move had to be done extremely quickly. Right when the target was hit into the air, the skill had to be used. The theory behind it was the same as how Witches tried to fly as low as possible.

The enemy player that had been knocked back smashed into numerous others. The player hadn't flown far, but had hit three others.

The formation Chen Yehui had tried to set up was destroyed in three attacks. Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion were now sending out attacks separately, one on the left, one on the right. They attacked incomparably fast. In just a few moments, although only a few enemies had been killed, there weren't many that were still standing.

Of Chen Yehui's 24 thugs, 1 died, 13 were on the ground, and the other 10 were spinning around in confusion. Lord Grim, Soft Mist, and Steamed Bun Invasion were once again back-to-back in a triangle formation. They stood there in the middle of the circle with their weapons raised. The pressure they emitted crushed down on the enemies.

Thousand Creations was stunned, completely stunned.

So six players was unnecessary? With just these three players, the 24 enemy offensive was thoroughly suppressed.

Thousand Creations had fought with the enemies before. Even though he had been killed extremely quickly, this only meant that the other side's strength and coordination weren't weak. But against these three players, why did they look like scraps of paper? It hadn't even been a minute yet and their encirclement no longer existed. Some were lying on the ground. Some were spinning around trying to find the correct direction. Some were standing still not daring to act.

Strong…… too strong!

Thousand Creations admired them.

As a person who always went solo, he always wanted to stand majestically in the midst of disarrayed enemies. And now, this dream became a reality. Even though there were only three people, this really was the dream he always imagined.

At this moment, the other side's characters were clearly still moving, but Thousand Creations felt as if time had stopped. Because in his eyes, those guys were only background characters. They were completely ignored. In his eyes, only those three figures existed.

"Gunners, open fire!!!"

"Witches, mess up their sight!!"

"Blade Masters, what are you doing! Stay in position!!!"

"Summoners, you idiots! Get into position before summoning! F*CK!! Interrupted again! Go f*cking die!!"

Chen Yehui's commands continued to be shouted out, but it was useless, completely useless.

Bullets and artillery shells flew through the air. But in the end, they simply became background noise and added to the scene's atmosphere. They had virtually no impact. The other side's pathing and tempo were far better than their rate of fire.

Witches wanted to use their quick flying to mess up their opponent's line of sight? Whenever they flew by their opponent's line of sight, they'd be swatted down and form a crater on the ground.

Blade Masters stay in position? The Blade Masters were lost! What were their positions? How come it seemed like they were getting farther and farther away from the battle?

As for the Summoners…… how terrible! Summoners had to summon their pets to help fight. However, summoning had a casting time. The battle had gone on for so long and their previously summoned pets had been killed long ago without ever recovering. No matter what direction they ran towards, every time they tried casting, a bullet would interrupt them.

The unfortunate Summoners all felt the same: these bullets were their most faithful summons. Whenever they started summoning, a bullet would immediately be called to them.

Thousand Creations had already turned hot-blooded. He ran towards Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon and yelled: "Let's go up too!"

"Go up to do what?" Seven Fields asked.

"Fight!" Thousand Creations said.

"How about we just stay out of their way?" Seven Fields said.

"What!? Get in their way!!" Sleeping Moon suddenly erupted. Even though he'd mixed in with Lord Grim recently, he still hadn't forgotten their initial enmity! Lord Grim still hadn't added him as a friend yet.

"Forward!" Sleeping Moon unsheathed his sword and rushed forward. Thousand Creations also raised his lance and went forward too.

The other side were currently being crushed into tears, when newcomers suddenly joined the battle. The situation became even more alarming initially, but after trading a few blows, some immediately yelled out excitedly: "Ha ha, these two are easy to deal with!!"

"Really, really!!" Everyone grew excited. Quite a few immediately ran off to fight those two. The Lord Grim trio unexpectedly became ignored.

At this moment, Chen Yehui, Thousand Creations, Sleeping Moon all became one family. They almost died from anger.

The family felt the same pressure. Chen Yehui instantly became marked by Ye Xiu and the others, while Thousand Creations and Sleeping Moon became everyone's prey.

Both side's reactions were unanimous: if you can't beat them, then run. Chen Yehui went left. Thousand Creations and Sleeping Moon went right. They started running in retreat.

Seven Fields hastily went to the side. He just hoped that everyone would put him as a background character.

"Hey, hey! There's another one!!" Unfortunately, his hopes were crushed. The other side had also included him in the chase.

Seven Field's cheeks streamed with tears. He had no other choice and escaped with Sleeping Moon. The originally solemn battlefield instantly turned into a clown fiesta. Ye Xiu was also speechless and sighed towards the frantically running Thousand Creations: "He really is an expert at KSing……."

Fortunately, not everyone was unfaithful. There was still a portion of them that continued to fight with Ye Xiu and the others. Unfortunately, their forces had thinned and they had no way of contesting with Ye Xiu and the others. Chen Yehui ran off and saw that the three hadn't chased him, so he immediately began shouting orders again. But there weren't as many people as before. And half of them were out of position, so his leading was completely pointless.

Down. Down.

People continued to fall down.

In Line Canyon, the sound of fighting gradually lessened. As every person fell down, the noise quieted down.

"Not good!" Tang Rou said.

Not good? The other side heard this and immediately brightened. Was it no more health or no more mana?

"What?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Too weak." Tang Rou said.

Everyone's cheeks streamed with tears. So it was because they weren't good…..

"Even if they're weak, we still have to focus! That's the respect our opponents deserve!" Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"Well said, Steamed Bun." Ye Xiu said.

"Yup!" Steamed Bun Invasion was immensely satisfied and then continued to bully others.

On the other side, Thousand Creations and the others were currently being bullied around. They were covering their heads and running away with their tails behind them. In the end, they didn't die because the other side felt a bit embarrassed. Their boss, Chen Yehui, had been roaring at them the entire time. If they kept on acting like they didn't hear him, that wasn't good. But just as they were about to circle back, they found that there was no need to go through that trouble. Their more loyal allies had been cleaned up well by Lord Grim's group, who was now heading towards them.

Thousand Creations and his group saw this and went hid behind Lord Grim's trio.

The remnants of the enemies couldn't hold on any longer. Their allies had either died or ran away. At this point, even Thousand Creations could recognize that Chen Yehui was the leader. Thousand Creation had once died at their hands and still had some personal enmity. He chased after him, not letting up in the slightest. Chen Yehui also kept on running. The two were of the same class, so their movement speed were about the same. But Chen Yehui was clearly slightly more skilled and their distance gradually increased.

Thousand Creations immediately recalled what Lord Grim had said about switching between the different types of movements and asked: "How should I run?"

No answer. Thousand Creations looked around left and right. There was no one there! At this moment, he unexpectedly became the only one chasing.

Thousand Creations promptly halted.

"Well, I can't chase him down anyways….." Thousand Creations said. He then turned around and ran back. But when he got to Line Canyon, Lord Grim and the others were no longer there. It looked as if a battle had never taken place. Line Canyon was already completely silent.

"Where'd everyone go?" Thousand Creations muttered. He didn't have any of them as friends, so he had no way of asking them. He ran around Line Canyon for half an hour but couldn't find anyone. In the end, he went back to his initial position, when a light suddenly flashed outside of the dungeon and five players came out.

Thousand Creations glanced at the five IDs and coughed blood. It was Lord Grim and the others. After the battle, these five actually went back to dungeon. They didn't even give him a heads up. He had been looking around for the battle everywhere, but during that time, they were actually dungeoning.

"Hey!" Thousand Creations called out to them, when the five entered the dungeon again.

"F*ck f*ck f*ck!!" Thousand Creation's cheeks streamed with tears.

I'm out of here!

Thousand Creations turned his head and left Line Canyon.

Compared to Thousand Creations, Chen Yehui was even more gloomy. He had been secretly paying attention to Lord Grim for a long time and had prepared a meticulous plan, but when the time came, there wasn't a single chance of victory for them. Starting from the very first second, they had been completely suppressed by the other side and had to run away.

On the fields of Line Canyon, Chen Yehui didn't see any of his comrades. Of those 24 players, including him, only six survived. The others all died.

Experience, money, durability, even equipment……. Chen Yehui could ignore these losses, but he still felt his heart hurt.

It was like he was a student who had meticulously studied for an exam. He had grasped all of the rules for arithmetic extremely well. And after walking into the test full of confidence, he saw the test. Sh*t! The test was on calculus. The difference was just too big!

The current Chen Yehui stifled this type of deep feeling of powerlessness. Against pro-players, using this type of battle to cause trouble was worthless.

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Chapter 159 – Furry Guest

After running Line Canyon three times, it was around four in the morning. Ye Xiu stretched and got up to move around. Seeing this, Tang Rou also got up to get some water. She took her tea cup and slipped away to the front desk.

"Are those people gone?" Tang Rou drank her tea, while asking.

"Who knows!" Ye Xiu said.

"What type of hate is there between you and them?" Tang Rou asked. In the game, of course everyone had asked who those people were. Ye Xiu just said a few words and left it at that. Steamed Bun Invasion didn't care. Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon always had that respectful look towards Ye Xiu and knew in their hearts that the two parties involved weren't on the same level, so even though they were curious, they didn't question too closely.

Only Tang Rou, who was the closest to Ye Xiu, heard Ye Xiu say those words and then connected them with those guys who were making trouble for him in the Internet Cafe last time.

'Hmm……. how do I say it? It's probably because they don't want to see me in front of them ever again!" Ye Xiu said.

"How did you offend them?" Tang Rou asked.

"There was a time when I didn't want to see them in front of me ever again too." Ye Xiu said.

Tang Rou stared blankly. Even though she hadn't known Ye Xiu for very long, she knew that he was a very carefree person. She had difficulty imagining that such a person could seriously hate someone.

"Can I ask why?" Tang Rou asked.

"Because they weren't professional enough." Ye Xiu said.

"Not professional enough?"

"You know that guy we ran into tonight? To a certain extent, I ended that guy's pro career." Ye Xiu said.

"Why?"

"Didn't I already say it? It's because he wasn't professional enough." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh……" Tang Rou understood, "You're not wrong."

"Of course." Ye Xiu grinned.

"But you already left, so why are they still bothering you? It looks like they're afraid of you coming back. So then it looks like…… you were forced to leave?" Tang Rou said.

"Oh? How smart!" Ye Xiu was amazed.

"It looks like you didn't completely cut them off, so you left them a chance to bite you back. If not, then how could you be chased and pressured by them?" Tang Rou said.

"Yup! I was too lazy. I should have worked a bit harder." Ye Xiu said.

"Or maybe you hadn't thought of completely cutting them off?" Tang Rou said, but didn't wait for Ye Xiu to reply. She raised her right arm and waved it twice. "Boneyard, we can still do it four times!!" She said, while returning back to her seat.

The night went by like this. After morning came, they ate breakfast and discussed things. Chen Guo woke up and saw these two looking like they were treating the game as work. While eating the breakfast those two bought back, she shook her head and scolded them. This was already a daily task in Happy Internet Cafe.

After eating breakfast, the two went to rest. Tang Rou used to switch between the morning and afternoon shifts, but because she was now playing the game all-night every day, if she took the morning shift, then she'd have to endure through the morning shift before she could sleep. Chen Guo had seen her tired face sprawled on the reception desk and couldn't bear it anymore, so she simply made it so that she only had afternoon shifts. All night was all night! She would at least have a set schedule.

The day continued on like this. 11 o'clock, the Internet Cafe's busy day ended, while these two's day were just beginning. Speaking of this, Ye Xiu's time in-game was actually a bit longer than Tang Rou. After all, he was playing the game when he was on shift too, while Tang Rou didn't have as easy as a time when she was on shift. During that time, her leveling speed wasn't high, so most of her time was spent on looking at the guides Ye Xiu had sent to her. She would also frequently be interrupted even while doing that.

When midnight approached, the team gathered, ready to challenge Desolate Land's record again. Full Moon Guilds' guild leader Maple Tree confidently came and narrated the practice he did that day, which earned Senior Steamed Bun's praise.

But when midnight hit, Su Mucheng hadn't come online.

"Where's Mu Mu?" Tang Rou asked. After so many days of playing the game together, everyone had become quite familiar with each other. The names the girls called each other clearly showed that they were close. This one called that one Mumu. That one called this one Rou Rou. Neither of them cared if others felt sick hearing them.

"I have no idea!" Ye Xiu was also very puzzled. If Su Mucheng wasn't going to come, then she'd definitely leave him a message. But in-game or QQ, there was no sign of one. Cell phone……. Ye Xiu didn't have that yet. He didn't use cell phones.

'Could something have happened?" Ye Xiu muttered in his heart. He grabbed the phone next to the computer and was just about to go ask, when suddenly a customer knocked on the reception desk.

"Computer." The customer's voice sounded unclear. Ye Xiu lifted his head to look. What a guy! Was it really that cold today? This person was wearing a thick furry overcoat and a furry hat. The large furry scarf covered the person's entire face. Only two eyes could be seen. Every other part of this person's body was covered in fur.

Ye Xiu sighed and put down the phone: "You win. You've finally dressed in a way that even I can't recognize you."

"Really?" The person that came pulled down her scarf. It looked like she was quite satisfied with her disguise: "I also felt like no one would be able to recognize me."

"But don't you think that you'd stand out in the Internet Cafe like this?' Ye Xiu said.

"It's not like there are a lot of people here." Su Mucheng turned her head and scanned the Internet Cafe. The customers were thinly scattered. Business during the night was naturally very different from business during the day.

"You could have just stayed in your room. What was the point in running over here so late at night."

"I was bored, so I came looking to play with you." Su Mucheng said.

"Let me figure out where you should go sit……." Ye Xiu got up and looked around the Internet Cafe. Last time, Huang Shaotian had hid up in that empty corner, where there was no lights or air conditioning, where it was dark and cold. Ye Xiu looked around and then he patted the seat beside him, said: "How about over there?"

"Not bad!" Su Mucheng liked it and took a seat there.

Ye Xiu helped her turn on her computer and then warned her: "This is the server computer, so don't mess around with anything. If not, then all of the Internet Cafe computers will die."

"It's that fun?"

"It's not fun at all!" Ye Xiu stressed.

"Hurry up and log in. We're all waiting for you!" Ye Xiu said.

"Okay okay." Su Mucheng didn't take off her hat and logged into the game like this.

"She's here. She's finally here." Ye Xiu's Lord Grim was still with everyone. When Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist came on, she heard everyone's pleasant surprised voices.

"Yeah. She's here." Ye Xiu said, but didn't say if the person was coming directly over.

"Where are you?" Su Mucheng turned her head to see where Ye Xiu and the others were and then rushed over.

"Sorry, I'm late." Su Mucheng greeted everyone.

"It's not a problem. Being late is a girl's privilege." Steamed Bun Invasion said. Coming from this guy's mouth, no one could tell if he was joking or trying to win her favor……. or maybe he was actually serious.

"Cough. I won't say too much. Let's start?" Ye Xiu put on his headphones and said.

"Let's go, let's go." Steamed Bun Invasion seemed to regard Ye Xiu as the commander while he was the vanguard. He loved to be at the front and was always the first to go in.

Soft Mist and Maple Tree also rushed in. Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist was just about to go in too, when Ye Xiu told her to stop.

"Take this." Ye Xiu sent her a trade request.

"What is it?" Su Mucheng accepted the trade request and looked, it was a Level 30 Purple Handcannon.

"You bought it for me?"

"Of course."

"How much?"

"100."

"How cheap."

"That's not cheap in the new server!" Ye Xiu said.

"But you're rich!" Su Mucheng said. She obviously knew of Ye Xiu's bets with Tiny Herb. He had won over almost the entire guild's storehouse.

The two chatted as they entered the dungeon. The five players officially started.

Ye Xiu and the other three didn't have any problems with their coordination. As for Maple Tree, everything that needed to be made clear had already been made clear. It was fortunate that he wasn't a noob and was familiar with the dungeon. After Ye Xiu explained the theory behind the strategy, he grasped the concepts very quickly, but was a bit lacking in practice. However, now that Su Mucheng, Tang Rou, and Steamed Bun obtained new Purple weapons, their damage output was much higher and as long as Maple Tree wasn't too off, then they'd be able to make up for his weaknesses.

As soon as these four entered the dungeon, they had already found their targets. Maple Tree immediately did as he was ordered the day before and Aerial Fired up to the window.

The five bullets from his Aerial Fire wasn't wasted either and headed towards the monsters Lord Grim had pulled. However, when his character reached the window, the monsters that were fired at were already angrily chasing after him.

"O……" Maple Tree stopped his "OT" halfway because those aggroed monsters were instantly taken back by Lord Grim with a Circle Swing.

"Beautiful." Ye Xiu praised him.

Maple Tree shook his head. He reminded himself that he wasn't in a normal dungeon team and he had to get rid of those wrong notions. In this team, OT and so on didn't exist. All he had to do was put out damage. The fiercer he was the faster they would advance. That was his task.

As he thought, Maple Tree ferociously fired at the monsters Lord Grim was attacking.

"So good!" Maple Trees said. This was DPS! When he attacked before, he had to always pay attention to the MT. That truly didn't feel as good!

Maple Tree fired his pistol happily. The other monsters had already been pulled over. Cleansing Mist flew up to the high grounds and attacked like she did the day before. However, today, Maple Tree didn't need Su Mucheng to tell him where those two monsters in the center were at. After understanding the theory behind the strategy, he could already figure out where he should be attacking.

Although he could openly let out his damage, he still had to coordinate with everyone! The damage he put out couldn't just be fired out at random.

This first wave of 12 monsters was cleared much faster than the day before. When the last monster died, Ye Xiu glanced at the time. Sure enough, there was a big improvement.

"Keep it up everyone! Let's break the record on our first try." Ye Xiu said.

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Chapter 160 – Suppressed

The Desolate Land dungeon was located at an abandoned castle. The inside had a lot of side routes, so first-time runners would often take the wrong path. And for those who were there for experience, they often took the wrong paths on purpose in order to clear the entire dungeon. As for those who were there to set a record, they naturally wanted to take the most direct path to the final BOSS.

Even though Maple Tree's performance still wasn't perfect, there weren't any major mistakes that affected the overall situation, so their journey to the bosses could be considered as having gone smoothly.

After slaughtering their way past all of the normal monsters, as well as the first and second BOSS, the team finally broke into the castle's rear garden.

The garden's condition was similar to the broken-down castle. And waiting here was the final BOSS called Desolate Land Ruler Toya.

Even if their way here had gone by without any mistakes, the final BOSS Toya was still a deciding variable.

This was all because Toya was a BOSS with many skills. He was an abnormal entity with skills from many classes.

Because there were so many skills, it meant that he had a lot of options to choose from. Toya was one of rarely seen NPCs with no fixed attack pattern. When fighting against Toya, each time would be a different experience, so the time needed to kill Toya also depended quite a bit on luck. They had to see what this guy would do this time.

Fortunately, they didn't need to spend time discussing the strategy on how to deal with him. This BOSS tested the players' ability to adapt on the spot.

After rushing into the garden, the five players didn't hesitate and rushed in as soon as they saw Toya.

Their individual set-up was similar to when they entered the dungeon.

Cleansing Mist and Maple Tree, the two long-ranged classes, leapt to the high grounds after entering the garden. Cleansing Mist lifted her cannon and fired an Anti-Tank Missile over. Her pulling was incomparably quick.

Amidst the smoke from the explosion, Toya cursed loudly and then rushed out. He wore a dark red leather jacket and an iron chain around his waist. Hair of all different colors streamed down his head. Toya didn't have an appearance befitting a Desolate Land Ruler and looked more like a rebellious teen.

Toya shot out of the smoke. His figure shook —— Shadow Clone Technique. The fake body stayed in the original position to lure in players, while the real one flashed behind Cleansing Mist.

From a player's analysis, the usage of this instant movement technique to appear next to his target was very fierce.

Standing there, Cleansing Mist looked like she didn't know what had happened, making Maple Tree want to remind her in alarm. But before he could say anything, he heard the repeated firing of a machine gun. Beneath them, Lord Grim had already switched his Thousand Chance Umbrella into the Gun form and a Gatling Gun shot at Toya.

Toya, who was just about to attack Cleansing Mist, was immediately hit by the line of bullets and unable to move. At this moment, Cleansing Mist turned around and used the Gunner skill "Swing" to swat Toya down from the high grounds. She then followed up with her own Gatling Gun, firing at the falling Toya.

Lord Grim's Gatling Gun also followed the falling Toya. The firing from the two players' guns shot out in two lines. It looked as if they were sending Toya down to the ground.

The two's skilled coordination wasn't anything new to Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion. But Maple Tree hadn't seen it in the three runs done the day before and was now staring, dumbstruck. If he wasn't so stunned, as a long-ranged class, he would have also begun firing.

Of course, with the target moving so fast, whether he could hit the target accurately was a big question.

Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion didn't need any reminders. The two were already waiting in position. Lord Grim's and Cleansing Mist's attack from both sides sent Toya to them. Tang Rou didn't wait for Toya to hit the ground and used a Circle Swing. The Scarlet Moon Lance in Soft Mist's hands turned into an arc of red light, accurately stabbing the falling Toya. A large swing followed afterwards, smashing Toya into the ground.

"Attack, don't daydream!" Ye Xiu called out Maple Tree.

Maple Tree woke up and immediately began sending out skills at Toya.

Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion, who had been beating up the knocked-down Toya, jumped away in order to avoid the shockwave attack the BOSS would make when getting up.

Toya directly leapt up and kicked towards Soft Mist. But before the kick could reach her, a large energy ball smashed into his body and after an explosion, he crashed back to the ground.

Cannonball!

Of course, only Su Mucheng's Launcher could have fired this. Cleansing Mist's gun was now gathering energy for a Laser. This time, Toya moved swiftly and Quick Recovered to avoid getting knocked down. After rolling, he used a Roundhouse Kick, a Sharpshooter skill. This time, the chasing Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion weren't able to defend in time and the two were kicked stumbling.

However, this skill didn't cause the targets it hit to be knocked to the ground. And with their mechanics, they were able to steady their balance in an instant. Ye Xiu's Lord Grim rushed forward and chopped with a Collapsing Mountain. Toya, who had just finished executing the Roundhouse Kick, was once again flung down. Cleansing Mist's Laser shot out at this moment and Toya was hit to the ground.

Shockwave!

Lord Grim didn't retreat though. He pulled out his sword and Guarded against the shockwave. As he slid backwards, his sword flashed, Sword Draw.

Whether or not Sword Draw could knock down the target depended on the situation. It looked like this time, the move would only cause Toya to stumble a bit. Immediately following, he lifted his leg and used the Striker skill Whirlwind Kick.

Unfortunately, his leg was shorter than Lord Grim's lance and once the Thousand Chance Umbrella changed into the lance form, Circle Swing was used and Toya was sent smashing into the ground again.

Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion still didn't have much experience. Toya had many skills, which was quite similar to unspecialized characters. Even Team Tiny Herb, those extremely experienced pro-players, were a bit delayed in their decision-making because there were so many skills. Although Toya wasn't as ridiculous as unspecialized characters, it was still enough to make Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion unable to react in time.

For example, the two were hit by the previous Roundhouse Kick.

But Ye Xiu was different. No matter how many skills Toya had, he couldn't leave the boundaries of Glory. And how could Ye Xiu not be familiar with every skill? His experience and decision-making could clearly be seen now.

In addition, Lord Grim was an unspecialized character. Even though Toya had many skills, Ye Xiu could always find a way to counter it. This was an advantage that no normal class possessed. Normal classes all had their own style. They had their own strengths and weaknesses. For example, Launchers had high attack and long range, but their close-combat ability was almost non-existent. They barely had any skills for it and if they didn't think of a way to widen the distance between the enemies, then they would certainly die.

Unspecialized characters could use skills from all 24 classes. Although they were all low-leveled, there were both close-combat and long-ranged ones of different styles. There would always be a suitable skill to use in any situation. They didn't lose to Toya's many skills in any way.

Toya was suppressed!

This was something no record-setting team could ever imagine. Toya's unpredictable skills always made everyone go mad. How good the dungeon record always depended on that guy's mood.

But this time, Toya looked like a trapped beast. His usual sharp claws and teeth were useless at this moment.

However, their coordination wasn't as good in this battle. It was quite clear that Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion were unable to keep up with Ye Xiu's tempo.

Although Toya had a lot of variations, Ye Xiu could keep up with all of them and always found a way to restrict them. But for others, this battle was quite complex. They didn't have that type of experience and decision-making, so they naturally had no way of coordinating with him. Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion were left almost as embarrassed as Maple Tree. They could only stupidly put out damage.

The only who could echo Lord Grim's attacks was Su Mucheng. Even though her experience and decision-making weren't as good as Ye Xiu, she knew Ye Xiu very well.

"This person…… so he really isn't going all out sometimes……." Tang Rou lamented. At this moment, she had a feeling of being unable to keep up. For her, this made her feel defeated. In the past three times they ran the dungeon, Ye Xiu hadn't shown such a dominating pressure here. Everyone had relied on their own skill. But today, Ye Xiu was going all out, making them feel like they were watching a play.

At this moment, Tang Rou only had one question. When they had PKed at that time, did Ye Xiu go all out?

The battle wasn't advancing in complete silence. Lord Grim's and Toya's skills were executed extremely quickly, so there wasn't much time to talk for the majority of it. But there were still places that Ye Xiu had time to remind everyone. It was just that there weren't many of these types of places.

"Careful, almost Red Blood!!" For example, Ye Xiu had time to remind them this.

No one had any response. Red blood was red blood. Is that something you can't deal with?

And sure enough, after going into Red Blood, Toya's attacks quickened, but the overall situation didn't change. Ye Xiu was still suppressing him. Just from this point, they could see that the Ye Xiu suppressing Toya before Red Blood wasn't his limit. If not, then once Toya went Enraged, how could he have kept up? If that wasn't his limit, then what the heck was it?

Tang Rou was at a loss, but there was no way Steamed Bun Invasion could figure out all of these details. From the very start, he had been shouting and shouting just like always. When it was time to coordinate, he would coordinate. When it wasn't, he would just act rashly on his own. To him, the game was always fun no matter what.

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