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 193 – Idiot's Guide

To outsiders, Ye Xiu was still just as carefree as ever. Even after staying up all night, he never looked tired and nothing ever seemed to irritate him.

To outsiders, they couldn't tell that he was someone who had encountered difficulties. Even more so, they definitely wouldn't know whether he had already figured out a solution to this problem.

He made it look like nothing had happened.

Tang Rou didn't know that Ye Xiu was pondering deeply over this. All she knew was that it was her turn to buy breakfast.

When she returned with breakfast, Ye Xiu had already given his seat to the early-shift employees and was leisurely holding a cigarette in his mouth, waiting for his food to arrive.

After eating breakfast, the two went to their respective rooms to sleep.

At three in the afternoon, they woke up. One went to the front desk to work while the other went looking for an empty computer station to sit at.

Since it was a Saturday, the Internet Cafe's business was doing exceptionally well. There were, unexpectedly, no open seats in the smoking area. Ye Xiu circled around the Internet Cafe, and in the end, just stood there staring blankly into space for a long time.

"Business is doing well today……" Ye Xiu helplessly returned to the front desk and told his sorrows to Tang Rou.

"As an Internet Cafe employee, you should be happy about that." Boss Chen walked over.

"Business is doing well today. I'm very happy." Ye Xiu said with a blank face.

Chen Guo had trained herself. Her ability to restrain herself had gone up. If this had happened a few weeks before, she'd already be shouting and grinding her teeth.

"What are you doing?" Ye Xiu asked Tang Rou.

"I'm looking at guides." Tang Rou said.

"Aren't you always looking at guides?" Ye Xiu asked, while taking a glance at her screen.

"Oh? A dungeon guide?" Ye Xiu was surprised. Tang Rou practically never looked at these. The way they ran the dungeons were usually directed by Ye Xiu.

"Yeah…… I'm just skimming over it." Tang Rou said. Ye Xiu looked more carefully. This girl was currently looking at the introductions to Line Canyon's three hidden BOSSes as well as the wild BOSS. Clearly, after getting badly beaten by the Illusion Swordmaster yesterday, Tang Rou realized that facing a never-before-seen BOSS was troublesome for her.

"Okay. Looking at the BOSSes is fine, but don't look at anything else." Ye Xiu said.

"Hm?"

"Our play style is very different from what is written in the guides." Ye Xiu said.

"Why is it different?" Chen Guo entered the discussion.

"All DPS, no MT, no healer." Ye Xiu said.

An all DPS team was a very common matter for Ye Xiu and his squad, but to normal players, especially in the new server, this was something that was rarely seen. Even for the big guilds, when they formed an all DPS team, they often needed experts to substitute for them.

An all DPS team relied on the players' mechanical skill. Without strong mechanics, a guide wouldn't help.

"Boss, what level are you on for the whack-a-mole game?" Ye Xiu suddenly asked.

"I only play it for fun. At my age, what's the point in practicing?" Chen Guo said.

"You could at least improve a bit! If not, then when we get to the Heavenly Domain and look to party up with you, you'll only be dead weight!" Ye Xiu said.

"……" Chen Guo was speechless. Besides killing him, she had no other thoughts.

"Oh? Who wrote this guide?" Ye Xiu's attention suddenly snapped back to Tang Rou's screen. Tang Rou's newly opened guide was a guide for the Line Canyon hidden BOSS Sandworm.

"Who wrote it?" Tang Rou wasn't sure. She went to the top of the page and saw the name of the poster: Concealed Light.

"Do you recognize him?" Tang Rou turned her head to ask Ye Xiu.

Ye Xiu shook his head. He didn't recognize the ID.

"What's so special about this guide?" Chen Guo had also been drawn in and pressed near to look.

"The guide's very detailed." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh?"

"He's included the probability of every possible scenario. The process is very detailed. He's written down every single detail on how to kill the BOSS." Ye Xiu said.

"No wonder it's so long….." Tang Rou said. This guide was several pages long. When she opened it, she jumped up with fright. She hadn't even looked at the content yet!

"Woah, you're right……." Chen Guo looked at it and then immediately discovered that this guide chose five classes, instructed what equipment to use, how to initiate, what moves to use in specific places…….

"It's practically a video." Chen Guo thought aloud as she looked.

The three read the entire seven pages, which was probably around twenty thousand words long.

4 minutes 56 seconds.

After thoroughly scouring through the guide, the author had even informed the reader how much time it would take to kill the BOSS, down to the second.

"Is this for real?" Chen Guo didn't want to believe it. In actuality, she had already begun feeling dizzy after the first page. After that, she stopped reading carefully.

"Not a single mistake……." Ye Xiu said on the side.

"This……. if it doesn't allow for any deviation, then doesn't that mean it doesn't allow for any mistakes? If there's a mistake, won't it all be over?" Chen Guo said.

"That's right." Ye Xiu nodded his head, "But if this were for setting the record, there can't be any mistakes anyways."

"Are you saying that his strategy is very good for setting a record?"

"That's not true…… His strategy is very safe, but it isn't very efficient. However, this might only be because he's researching a hidden BOSS. For a hidden BOSS, safety is number one. Who cares about efficiency?" Ye Xiu said.

"That's true." Chen Guo nodded her head.

"This person has other guides too." Tang Rou saw the other guides from the author.

Here, Ye Xiu saw the name that the author gave to his guides: Idiot Series.

"It really is an idiot's guide……" Ye Xiu said. This step by step guide, which provided instructions for everything, down to the small details, didn't need the people using the guide to use their brain in any way. If they followed the steps, then they'd succeed.

"But it looks like the rating isn't too good!" Tang Rou looked at the rating and comments.

"It's probably because of the problem the boss talked about." Ye Xiu guessed.

"Yeah." Tang Rou nodded her head.

The comments were mostly mocking him. Just as expected, they were talking about Chen Guo's problem: No one could ensure that they would be able to follow this type of extremely detailed step by step guide from beginning to end. As a result, everyone saw it as a fraud, as a theory. Since this wasn't the author's first guide, below there were comments such as "Another fake." "Another fantasy fiction." Practically no one supported the author.

"The guide isn't wrong…… but the limitations are a bit too much." Ye Xiu sighed.

"Should we look at his other guides?" Tang Rou moved her mouse around, stopping on different links. Every move stopped on a desired spot. This sister was actually practicing her mechanics even here.

"Let's look at one!" Ye Xiu said.

Tang Rou opened up another one. This guide was on the other hidden BOSS in Line Canyon, the Scarlet Scorpion Assassin, Sting. The style was the same. From the very begining, the guide chose what classes to use, how to initiate, from beginning to end for several pages.

"Oh? He changed classes?" Ye Xiu was curious. Compared to the previous guide, four of the five classes were different. It was a completely different party set-up. To be able to do such a detailed guide, Ye Xiu had thought that the author had a set five-player team.

When Tang Rou heard Ye Xiu's surprise, she opened up another guide. At the very start, he chose another completely different team set-up. This guide was for a different hidden BOSS in Desolate Land.

"When were these guides made?" Ye Xiu suddenly asked.

Tang Rou looked at the post time and found that they were all made recently.

"Could he be a player from the new server?' Ye Xiu felt unsure.

Tang Rou clicked on the author's name. While taking a looking at his list of works, the Idiot Series, the guides stopped at Line Canyon. This really was the current tenth server pace.

"Log into the game and search for him." Ye Xiu proposed.

Tang Rou logged into the game. After Soft Mist went online, she looked up the name.

Concealed Light, Male, Level 32, Summoner.

"He really is from the new server." Tang Rou said.

"But new server doesn't mean new player, no?" Chen Guo said.

"If he's not a new player, why would he put so much effort into researching these low-leveled BOSSes?" Ye Xiu said.

"Uh….." Chen Guo thought, but couldn't come up with anything.

"Look at this!" Tang Rou suddenly said.

Ye Xiu looked.

The title: The Mystery of the Boneyard 16 Minutes and 24 Second Record!

This record was the one Ye Xiu and his team had set in the tenth server. Hung high up on the leaderboards, the team set-up could be seen.

Battle Mage, Blade Master, Brawler, Launcher, Unspecialized.

Concealed Light had analyzed from these five classes how this record had been made.

From the beginning, he had already analyzed that it couldn't be done with the usual strategy and that it had to be done by a new strategy.

Then what was this new strategy?

Concealed Light's analysis wasn't completely correct, but he was very close.

There was one point that he was wrong about though. Concealed Light clearly didn't know of Lord Grim's Thousand Chance Umbrella, so his analysis of the unspecialized character's role was completely off.

In the end, with the strategy he had designed, he wasn't able to create the 16 minutes and 24 second record. As a result, he gave Lord Grim and the five characters a set of Orange equipment and confidently said that this was how they did it……

It wasn't that Concealed Light didn't know how difficult it was to obtain Orange equipment in the new server at Level 25, but rather, it was that this brother was extremely confident in his analysis and strategy, so by working backwards…… he believed that, although having these five sets of equipment was ridiculous, it wasn't impossible. But without these equipment, it definitely wasn't possible to create such a record. As a result, he made such a claim.

The comments below weren't hard to imagine. They were all practically saying how there was something wrong with the author's brain.

Towards these comments, Ye Xiu and Tang Rou expressed their approval.

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Chapter 194 – A Not So Simple New Player

"This piece of writing makes it sound as if he's always right." Ye Xiu concluded.

"Well, he is correct in a few places." Tang Rou said.

"Actually, if you put in time to do research, it's not that difficult to come up with such a strategy. It's just a matter of how much time you are willing to put in." Ye Xiu said.

"Then do we still need to look at his guides?" Tang Rou asked.

"Let's look at another BOSS one!" Ye Xiu said.

Tang Rou clicked on the previous Scarlet Scorpion Assassin guide, and just like that, Ye Xiu lied down on his stomach, over the receptionist desk like an idiot, and looked at the idiot's guide. Tang Rou also looked on, but with her experience, she wasn't able to read as fast as Ye Xiu. For this type of extremely detailed, step-by-step guide, Tang Rou had a hard time following it. Not long after, she felt like a next page clicking robot.

Chen Guo was actually a bit better in this area. However, she too couldn't read it any further after a short while. For this type of low-leveled BOSS, even though it was a hidden one, it still wasn't that difficult. Creating such a complicated guide was a bit excessive.

"What's there to look at……." Chen Guo mumbled.

"There isn't much to look at for the guide." Ye Xiu affirmed that there wasn't any value in the guide, "But I wanted to see if he made any mistakes."

"You're playing find the fault?" Chen Guo was speechless.

"He he." Ye Xiu chuckled and then continued to read.

Page after page, the guide totaled around 20,000 words long. Tang Rou and Chen Guo decided to stop reading along and just stared at Ye Xiu, waiting for him to find a mistake.

"There aren't any mistakes." Ye Xiu said after reading it.

"You're still playing?" Chen Guo asked.

"Read another one?" Ye Xiu asked, to which Tang Rou responded by clicking on another link.

"You guys can keep playing!" Chen Guo stretched. She had lost all interest in playing this game.

"Wow!" Just as she turned her head, she heard Ye Xiu cry out in amazement. Chen Guo immediately turned back: "What? What?"

"Different classes." Ye Xiu said.

"How many times do you need to act amazed?" Chen Guo rolled her eyes. The guide had switched classes before. They had already been amazed once.

"But this time, he doesn't even include a Summoner. Isn't he a Summoner?" Ye Xiu said.

"Yeah." Tang Rou nodded her head. They had verified it earlier: Concealed Light, Level 32 Summoner.

"Does he have multiple accounts?" Chen Guo guessed.

Ye Xiu couldn't deny such a possibility, so he silently read the guide.

After annihilating the excessive 20,000 word wall of text, Ye Xiu still couldn't find any mistakes. Even though there were a few places where efficiency wasn't maximized, they were completely possible, and didn't contain any mistakes.

During this time, a customer in the smoking area left. Usually, when business is doing so well, the customers had the priority to use the computers, but seeing Ye Xiu's pitiful appearance, Chen Guo's heart softened as she waved her hand. Ye Xiu immediately understood her intent and quickly snatched the computer station.

Chen Guo and Tang Rou continued to stare at the walls of text on the computer screen.

Five minutes later……

"Is it interesting?" Chen Guo asked.

"No……." Tang Rou calmly said. She was tired of reading it.

"Go find two videos to watch!" Chen Guo liked to watch brilliant match videos the most.

"Sure!" Tang Rou agreed. She didn't feel as if this guide helped her at all. All she wanted to know was each of the BOSS's features, so she could avoid predicaments, like when she fought against the Illusion Swordmaster. As long as she knew the BOSS's patterns, Tang Rou believed that she could deal with them relying on her mechanics.

As a result, she closed the Idiot's Guides and began to find a video to watch, but she suddenly discovered that her screen in Glory had turned entirely grey.

After searching for Concealed Light, she had forgotten to logout. Right now, Soft Mist was lying on the ground. A system notification had popped up asking her if she wanted to revive her character.

"How'd I die?" Tang Rou stared blankly at Chen Guo.

"Were you in the wild?" Chen Guo asked.

"Yeah……"

"You're too careless." Chen Guo said. Dying in the wild, whether it be by a random monster or a vicious PKer, was very common.

"Go revive and see what you've dropped." Chen Guo said.

Tang Rou clicked confirm to revive. Her character returned to Congee City in a Critically Ill State. When she opened up her equipment and items, she shook her head: "I didn't drop anything. Only some money and experience."

"Those always drop. Check the system log." Chen Guo said.

"Uh?" Tang Rou unexpectedly didn't know what that was.

"Here!" Chen Guo took the mouse and clicked it for Tang Rou. The system log recorded her death. She wasn't killed by a monster, but rather by a player called Breaking Zero.

"Breaking Zero……." Chen Guo muttered. She opened up the search function and put in the name.

The character was online. A Level 33, male Spellblade.

"Level 33! He's definitely leveling in Line Canyon. Go and take revenge!" Chen Guo gave the mouse and keyboard back to Tang Rou and commanded her like a general.

"Now?" Tang Rou was unsure.

"Obviously!" Chen Guo nodded her head.

Tang Rou pointed to the side. Chen Guo turned her head and saw a bunch of customers leaning against the front desk, watching the two beauties play the game.

"I'll go! You take revenge." Chen Guo went to deal with the customers.

"It's fine! Who knows if I'll be able to find him. It'll be the same if I do it later." Tang Rou didn't really care and logged out of the game to take care of the customers.

In the smoking area, Ye Xiu continued to read Concealed Light's Idiot's Guides. With the current pace of the new server, there were a total of four dungeons; each one had three hidden BOSSes for a total of twelve. Every one of Concealed Light's hidden BOSS guides were extremely detailed step-by-step guides that were over 20,000 words long. Even though Ye Xiu read very fast, he still had to read each word one by one. When Chen Guo called for him to eat, he had only finished six of them.

"You're still reading! I'll eat first." Chen Guo was already used to Ye Xiu's obsession over the game.

"Okay….."

"Have you found any mistakes?' Chen Guo asked.

"No." Ye Xiu shook his head.

"Are you planning on reading them all?" Chen Guo knew that playing find the fault wasn't a very fun game. It was actually quite tiring.

"We'll see!" Ye Xiu said.

"Little Tang was killed by someone in the afternoon!" At the dining table, Chen Guo suddenly remembered.

"What happened?" Ye Xiu asked.

"She forgot to logout of the game. Her character was standing in the wild and someone killed her." The person involved was calmer than Chen Guo.

"The killer was someone called Breaking Zero, a Level 33 Spellblade. If you see him, take note." However, Chen Guo remembered better than Tang Rou and told him who the murderer was.

"Got it." Ye Xiu laughed, "If I see him, I'll definitely kill him."

"Good." Tang Rou nodded her head and then asked, "Did you figure out anything from these guides?"

"This person might not have multiple accounts. With how long the new server has been online, I don't think there's enough time to understand the details of every single hidden BOSS to such a degree. Right now, I'm doubting whether this author has even killed these hidden BOSSes. He used previous guides and videos as sources to create such an idiot's guide." Ye Xiu said.

"No way." Chen Guo was astonished.

"If what you're saying is true, then this person is an extremely amazing new player!" Ye Xiu said.

"He used his imagination to write these guides, yet there aren't any mistakes?" Chen Guo said.

"That's why I said he's amazing." Ye Xiu said.

"I don't believe it."

"After I finish eating, there's still another six I need to look at!" Ye Xiu quickly ate his meal, got up and ran to continue reading the guides.

Guide after guide, Ye Xiu read them without missing a word. The more he read the more he was sure of his judgement. From these guides, he was able to see several not-so-optimal places, which told Ye Xiu that the author had limited in-game experience. These twelve guides were actually just his imaginations after grasping the theory. However, the logic, rationality, and possibilities of these imaginations weren't simple.

After reading the last guide, Ye Xiu didn't have any doubts. These twelve guides didn't have any mistakes in them, however the weaknesses of the author were completely exposed by some of the details. Ye Xiu had already figured out what type of player this Concealed Light was to some extent. He was very interested in this person.

Looking at the time, it was already almost 11 o'clock. It was almost time to change shifts, so Ye Xiu turned off his computer and went to the front desk. During the weekends, there were quite a lot of all-night customers, so the front desk was extremely busy. After Ye Xiu finished, it was 11:30.

Tang Rou went to her usual spot and the two logged into the game. Ye Xiu went online and searched up Concealed Light's name, but the character wasn't online. Ye Xiu sent a friend request, but didn't receive an answer. When he looked at his friends list, Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan still weren't online, but Steamed Bun Invasion was. As a result, he sent Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion a message, telling them to gather in front of the dungeon entrance.

"Okay."

"Got it."

The two replied. Ye Xiu's Lord Grim immediately left Congee City and headed to Line Canyon.

"Lord Grim has come online! He's left the city and is now heading towards Line Canyon!"

"Soft Mist has come online! She's heading towards Line Canyon. Her character is still Critically Ill!"

"Steamed Bun Invasion has left the Arena. He's now heading out of the city."

The three didn't know that their whereabouts were being tracked by others.

11:41

"Desolate Land, coordinates: 1256, 1475. Cleansing Mist has come online."

11:44

"Desolate Land, coordinates: 1256, 1466. One Inch Ash has come online."

New information continued to be transmitted.

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Chapter 195 – Pursuit From Every Direction

11:50.

Ye Xiu's Lord Grim was on his way towards Line Canyon. The world was bustling with excitement as the time approached midnight. Quite a few players, like Ye Xiu, were impatiently waiting for the dungeon entries to refresh, and many of them were hurrying along the same road as well.

Ye Xiu had already contacted Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan. The two had both gone offline at Desolate Land. As soon as they got on, they headed towards Line Canyon and would arrive before those coming from Congee City.

Outside of Congee City was a vast expanse of barren land. Although there were a few Level 30 monsters scattered here and there, it couldn't be counted as a leveling area. The spawn rate and the concentration of monsters just wasn't enough to satisfy a player's leveling needs. Aside from killing them for quests, no player trained here.

After this, the road split into two. The left path led to Desolate Land, while the right led to Line Canyon. When the players reached this point, their levels were obvious at a glance. Those who went left were all Level 30 and under and those who went right were all Level 30 and above. These were the players who were considered high-leveled on the new server.

When Lord Grim reached the fork in the road, he went to the right. Coincidentally, the several players beside him unexpectedly all went to the right as well.

In the front, many players were heading towards Congee City from Line Canyon. During this time, these players, who were heading in opposite directions, bumped into each other.

A total of eight players, four on the left, four on the right, formed a "V" formation.

The players behind him, those who were going along the same route, had unknowingly gathered close to Lord Grim.

Ye Xiu suddenly realized that something wasn't right and forced Lord Grim to halt.

The several characters next to him instantly halted as well as if they had received orders.

As I thought!

Ye Xiu didn't think too much and took the initiative to strike first. His left hand gently moved across the keyboard and executed the first move.

These surrounding players didn't react slowly either. As soon as everyone halted all at once, they knew that they had been exposed.

The mid-ranged characters immediately began their offensive. Bullets and magic bombarded Lord Grim from several directions. Lord Grim was instantly vaporized. Not even a corpse remained.

Shadow Clone Technique!

Lord Grim's real body had flashed in front of someone towards his right, just before they were able to begin their offensive.

Without any warning, he lifted his lance and attacked.

Right when the Shadow Clone was extinguished, the players blocking the road were blasted away by Lord Grim with a Falling Flower Palm.

Since he was in a melee form, the players had thought that he was planning to take them all at the same time; but their characters suddenly launched into the sky.

Even after being blown away by the Falling Flower Palm, they still hadn't figured out what had happened.

These flying bodies opened up the way for Ye Xiu.

He had realized that something was wrong earlier than expected, the players wouldn't have completed their formation. The instantaneous movement from his Shadow Clone Technique was directed towards the weakest part of the not-yet completed encirclement.

The character that had been blown away smashed into one of their allies. Another character, a Sharpshooter, tried to dodge the human meat bullets, as he fired towards Lord Grim in an attempt to stall him.

Ye Xiu saw what he was doing clearly. Lord Grim, who had been rushing forward in a straight line, suddenly moved horizontally, avoiding the string of bullets. He then leapt forward and spun around 180 degrees. His Thousand Chance Umbrella transformed into its Gun Form and let out a storm of bullets, flying away with an Aerial Fire.

With this sudden increase in speed, the bullets and magic missiles that were flying towards Lord Grim missed. After using Aerial Fire, Lord Grim landed right next to the Sharpshooter. The Sharpshooter didn't react slowly. He lifted his leg and sent a Knee Strike towards him, but midway, he was stomped onto the ground by Lord Grim. However, Ye Xiu had used Punisher one step faster.

"Bang bang" Lord Grim shot twice and then continued to rush forward. Two players, one to his left and one to his right, had caught up and sandwiched him.

On the left was a Berserker. He raised his hands and leapt up high using Collapsing Mountain. Instead of hacking at Lord Grim, he attacked the empty space where Lord Grim was heading towards. Clearly, this attack wasn't done to do damage, but rather to block Lord Grim from moving forward.

Lord Grim didn't seem to have noticed him and continued to rush forward, as if looking for his own death. The Berserker was obviously very happy, but the instant his Collapsing Mountain was about to hit, he suddenly saw a cold light flash. Lord Grim drew his sword and accurately Guarded against the Collapsing Mountain.

The Collapsing Mountain looked mighty and powerful, while Guard looked tiny and weak, but the effect of a skill wasn't always related to its appearance.

"Dong!" A loud sound rang out. The Berserker's Greatsword clashed with Lord Grim's sword. The Guard effect activated. A portion of the damage was mitigated and Lord Grim was pushed back by the attack.

This wasn't something the player on the right had expected. He had originally anticipated for Lord Grim to be blocked by the Collapsing Mountain, but after Lord Grim unexpectedly Guarded, the knock-back effect had caused him to move to a different spot, one right next to him.

The player panicked. How could he be as quick as Ye Xiu, who already had everything planned out? As he was pushed back, his Thousand Chance Umbrella transformed into a Tonfa. As soon as he arrived next to the player, he immediately Flung him. On that side, that Berserker was still in the middle of the recovery animation from using Collapsing Mountain. His shouting ally flew towards him, and the two were sent rolling into a ball.

Ye Xiu didn't chase them, but rather Lord Grim immediately turned around and ran. A mob of players were roaring at him while chasing him. A Witch was even more active. He rode his Broom and flew quickly. Lord Grim ran a few steps before suddenly turning around and firing, hitting the Witch's head. Blood blossomed out like the autumn leaves. In this moment of confusion, the Witch crashed into a tree, causing roars of laughter from behind him.

"What are you laughing at!" The Witch, who had crashed into the tree, climbed back up. His tone wasn't friendly.

Not many paid attention to him. The others continued to chase after Lord Grim.

"Flank! Flank!!" Someone shouted.

"What f*cking flank! How are we supposed to flank with this speed?"

"Is there anyone in that direction? Find someone to block him for a bit."

"From where? That place isn't a leveling area."

"This guy is doing it on purpose. He deliberately went towards a direction where there isn't anyone positioned."

"Just chase him. Cut the bullsh*t. We'll see how far he can run."

It seemed like a discussion, but also an argument. The mob of players noisily chased like so.

Ye Xiu turned his head to look at the distance. It wouldn't be hard for him to get away, but looking at how orderly everyone was, he was afraid to just let the matter go.

These characters didn't have any guild names next to them, but during the fights with a few of them, Ye Xiu had taken note of a few of their IDs. He searched them up as he ran and they were all Level 33 characters.

Currently, in the tenth server, Level 33 characters were practically all elites from big guilds. Even if they didn't have a guild name next to them, that didn't mean that they didn't belong to a guild.

Ye Xiu suddenly thought of Tang Rou's Soft Mist dying in the afternoon. Was that an unlucky tragedy or an intentional ploy?

Thinking of this, Ye Xiu immediately sent messages to the other members of the team, asking them for their situation.

"Dead….." Tang Rou replied.

Her Soft Mist had been in a Critically Ill state the entire time. She had planned to recover as she walked over, but how could she know she was being watched?

In a Critically Ill state, all stats would be reduced by 80%. Besides looking for a NPC doctor to treat it, the state could only be removed by waiting for ten minutes.

Tang Rou had believed that the walk from Congee City to Line Canyon would be long enough for her to recover from the Critically Ill State, so she didn't go and look for a doctor. But with an 80% reduction in stats, how could experienced players not immediately recognize such a chance.

Against such a weakened character, no matter how great of an expert they were facing, there was nothing to fear. Tang Rou was met with attacks from all sides. There wasn't much resistance she could put up, and she was sent back to the city again. She was still trying to figure out what had happened!

"Ahh! Ahhhh! Why are there people trying to kill me! Boss!!" Steamed Bun Invasion replied in panic.

"Did you die?' Ye Xiu hastily asked.

"Not yet. I'm running, but they're still chasing." Steamed Bun Invasion said. Ye Xiu had predicted that even if Steamed Bun had encountered this type of situation. He would find all sorts of wretched ways to escape.

As for Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan, he didn't need to worry about them. The two were both pro-players. They obviously couldn't stop this group, but running away with their lives should be something they could do. Plus, those two were together.

"Senior, there are people chasing us!" This was Qiao Yifan's reply.

"Is it Liu Hao again?" Su Mucheng guessed.

"It's not clear yet. Are you fine? Are you with One Inch Ash?"

"Yeah, we've both ran off. The other side has quite a lot of people!" Su Mucheng said.

"How many?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Dozens….."

"So many! What level are they?"

"From the ones I've seen, they're all Level 33." Su Mucheng said.

"A single guild shouldn't have that many Level 33 characters." Ye Xiu had a feeling that the situation was a lot worse than he had originally guessed.

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Chapter 196 – Temporary Alliance

These players were all from the big guilds. This could simply be seen from their levels. However, it was impossible for a single guild to be able to produce so many high-leveled players. How many guilds had acted out? One, two, three, or more? Maybe even all of them?

No matter what the number was, Ye Xiu wouldn't be surprised. He clearly understood the current plight the big guilds were in; the dungeons records were being held hostage by him, restricting their development in the tenth server. These big guilds weren't able to rope him in and they definitely weren't happy, but how could they surrender so easily?

It didn't matter whether they were making their decisions based on emotion or reason. In such a hopeless situation, it was very common for people to choose the option of simply eradicating the direct cause.

"Don't leave the city for now. We're being watched by others." Ye Xiu told Tang Rou. Only this complete noob might not have experienced this type of fighting and killing in a game.

"Where are you guys?" He then asked Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan for their whereabouts.

"We're still in Desolate Land." Su Mucheng said.

"The enemies might not be limited to just them. There might be backup that will come later. Some of the lower-leveled players may not directly participate in the battle, but they could be messengers. Head towards a place without any players and we'll look for an opportunity to group." Ye Xiu messaged.

"Okay, we'll send you our coordinates from time to time." Su Mucheng replied.

"Steamed Bun, where are you?" Ye Xiu decided to instruct Steamed Bun Invasion on what to do next.

"I'm at the outskirts of Congee City, near Hades Village." Steamed Bun Invasion replied.

"Oh? Not bad! You've already run there." Ye Xiu praised. Steamed Bun Invasion, this guy, even though he was a noob at Glory, it seemed like he had played quite a few games before. He had already taken the lead and found an area without many players.

Hades Village was one of the small villages on the outskirts of Congee City. Players would only come here from time to time for a few quests. Besides a few NPCs for quests, one, there weren't any monsters, and two, there wasn't good scenery so no one would come here, even if they were bored.

This was the best type of place to escape to. If not, then whether it was a leveling area or a safe area, there would be players from big guilds everywhere. There would be nowhere to hide.

"Yeah, it's the closest place." Steamed Bun Invasion's reply made Ye Xiu realize that he had thought too highly of Steamed Bun Invasion.

"Did you throw them off yet?" Ye Xiu asked.

"I'm looking." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"Be careful." Ye Xiu said and had Lord Grim look behind him.

The crowd of Level 33 players still hadn't given up. They were all chasing behind him. On this strip of flat land, there was nowhere to hide. Ye Xiu also needed to find a place similar to Hades Village, so there was where he was heading towards.

"What's going on?" A voice asked, not from the game. Ye Xiu turned his head and saw Tang Rou was at the front desk looking at him.

"It's probably players from the big guilds. We took their dungeon records, which is something they care a lot about." Ye Xiu summarized the situation.

"Because they weren't able to take the dungeon records, they resorted to this?" Tang Rou looked down on them.

"Who allowed us to be so amazing?" Ye Xiu laughed.

"What do we do now then?" Tang Rou asked.

"Go to the official site and look up the Heavenly Domain guild rankings. Any of the first twenty ranks could be our enemy right now. Take note of their guild names and keep a look out for those names in-game. Walk around in Congee City and try to go to places with fewer players. Also, check if there are any characters following you. Once your Critically Ill State has worn off, look for an opportunity to leave the city unnoticed and I'll meet up with you." Ye Xiu said.

"Okay." Tang Rou nodded her head."

Desolate Land Leveling Area.

After finding out where Cleansing Mist and Once Inch Ash were, quite a few players had joined in on the chase. Some were Level 33 elites, while others were normal, second-rate characters. Even though they hadn't been required to do so, after knowing about the affair, they voluntarily joined in.

Seeing a destroyed, empty house, Cleansing Mist and One Inch Ash seized the opportunity to rush into it. The number players chasing behind them hadn't decreased though. There even appeared to be more of them.

Cleansing Mist looked out from the window on the left while One Inch Ash looked out from the window in the rear.

"There's no one here." Qiao Yifan called.

"Go." Su Mucheng had her character run out. The two characters jumped and crouched in mid-air, escaping from the rear window.

There really weren't any players behind the house, so the two of them took advantage of the fact that their chasers' view was blocked, and sprinted away. They jumped gently over a dirt wall and when they landed on the ground, they crouched and moved along the wall.

"Over here." Qiao Yifan carefully paid attention to the surroundings, while leading the way.

"Places with fewer monsters will naturally have fewer players." Having little confidence in himself, he explained his reasoning towards Su Mucheng.

"Yeah, let's hurry!" Su Mucheng said. This was her thought as well.

The dirt wall didn't stretch too far. Even though their sneaky movements would throw off their enemies temporarily, they would definitely be exposed soon. They only hoped that this would earn them enough time to widen the distance between them.

When they reached the end of the wall, the two characters rushed out; one in the front, and one in the back. The two turned their heads to take a look. Their chasers were currently scattered around the outside of the empty house. Clearly, after finding out that they weren't there, they were looking around for them.

As soon as they exposed themselves, the enemies immediately began chasing again. Cleansing Mist lifted her gun and sent Anti-Tank Missiles towards them. However, they were too far away and they easily dodged it. Su Mucheng obviously wouldn't stop to fight with them. She continued to run away like crazy.

"Sis Mu, see those four houses ahead? How about we split up?" Qiao Yifan said. He already suspected that Cleansing Mist was Su Mucheng, but he was too afraid to confirm and too afraid to ask. He believed that he was relatively young in their team, so he called them brothers and sisters: Steamed Bun Bro, Sis Mu, Sis Rou, as well as the most honorable senior.

"I'll take the one on the right." Su Mucheng said.

"Then I'll take that one on the left."

The two said as they entered their respective houses.

"They hid in houses again!!" The chasers behind them angrily shouted.

The size of these empty houses in Desolate Land were all around the same. They were all damaged beyond repair. Some had windows and some had large holes in the wall. In short, there was always more than one exit. When their targets went in and jumped out through the window, they lost sight of them for a quick moment. They had been thrown off several times already by this sort of tactic and the more those two moved, the more energetic they became.

"Spread out! Surround them!" One person yelled.

Except when they heard this command, only a few of them followed it.

"Spread out!" The person roared.

A few others moved, but the majority stood still.

"We don't all need to spread out, do we? We just need to have some go around and look." Someone laughed.

Clearly, this crowd didn't have a single leader.

The plan to get rid of Lord Grim through force had been prepared in advance, but they had only begun gathering after finding out that Lord Grim and his team had come online. The experts from the big guilds simply chose the targets that they happened to be closest to.

This type of temporarily put-together team didn't have a leader. Even though they all had the same goal, there were still obstacles.

In the alliance Excellent Dynasty had set up, they weren't asking the guilds to completely unify. They only hoped that the guilds would put out some man power. First, they went to find Tyrannical Ambition because Tyrannical Ambition was in the most desperate situation and naturally wanted a way to resolve the problem.

This was why, even though the two guilds weren't usually cooperative, Chen Yehui was confident that the force sent by Tyrannical Ambition would be massive.

However, forming an alliance couldn't just be said and done. It didn't matter if it was Tyrannical Ambition's Jiang You, or the tenth server's Cold Night, they would be suspicious of Excellent Dynasty.

Lord Grim was a mutual enemy of their guilds —- that was a fact, but at this moment, the other guilds should first be waiting to enjoy the show before acting. And the guild that should have been the happiest was Excellent Dynasty.

However, it was Excellent Dynasty that had asked them to form an alliance with them. It was impossible for them to resolve their desperate situation and no matter how much they thought about it, there seemed to be an ulterior motive.

As a result, they probed each other out for almost three hours. During this, Chen Yehui invited several other guilds to participate. Only then did Jiang You and Chen Yehui gradually comply.

In total, there were 7 guilds that joined in. Naturally, they all had an ambition towards dungeon records. Everyone was originally opponents, but currently, they were all set on eliminating their mutual enemy, Lord Grim.

Among this, what surprised Chen Yehui was that Blue Brook Guild had actually decided to reject their temporary alliance.

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Chapter 197 – Opposite Direction

Blue Brook Guild was the first guild to think highly of Lord Grim and ask him to help set a record. Naturally, they were also the first guild to try and rope in Lord Grim. For such a talent to appear, as long as the guilds recognized it, none of them would be indifferent.

But now, Blue Brook Guild was the guild that had been damaged the most by Lord Grim. It didn't matter how they had first met. From Chen Yehui's eyes, Blue Brook Guild had to be filled with resentment. Their current situation was even worse than Tyrannical Ambition's current situation. Who would have thought that they would immediately reject his proposal without hesitation?

Their firm attitude made Chen Yehui feel indescribably sour. He felt that Blue Brook Guild's calm and resolute rejection wasn't out of impulse or fear, but rather a strategic decision made after much consideration.

"Could they have realized that Lord Grim is Ye Qiu?" Chen Yehui felt uncertain.

Lord Grim was Ye Qiu. This was information that he definitely wouldn't tell others about. Ye Qiu's awe-inspiring skill wasn't the reason. After all this was still just in the game. If five can't beat you, then I'll send ten. If ten isn't enough, then I'll send twenty. If twenty isn't enough, then I'll send a hundred! It didn't matter how skilled you were, you would eventually be killed from being attacked from all sides.

The reason Chen Yehui was too afraid to tell others of Lord Grim's identity was because of Ye Qiu's fame. A God for ten years! How many Glory fans looked up to him as their idol? If this came out, Chen Yehui was afraid that a bunch of experts would run over to Ye Qiu's side and beg him to take them in as disciples. Especially his Excellent Dynasty, he didn't dare tell them. Ye Qiu's fans were even more loyal here.

In the end, he decided not to probe out Blue Brook Guild to see if they knew.

Fortunately, the number of guilds he had gathered was already enough.

This time, not only did he want to exterminate Lord Grim, but he also wanted to take down Ye Qiu's team. Taking out his anger on Ye Qiu was for his own selfish reasons. Chen Yehui was more concerned about guild matters. If he didn't take down the team, he had no way of effectively carrying out his plans.

He had already experienced the battle strength of Ye Qiu's team when they were together. The strength of Lord Grim, Soft Mist, and Steamed Bun Invasion left him in fear, but this time, their forces had an even greater advantage in numbers. They had also surrounded them separately. Everything seemed to be going smoothly. Chen Yehui listened to the reports from those beneath him and also led others to provide further assistance to their troops, but when he got to Desolate Land, he saw the players scattered about, running around with their target's whereabouts unknown.

"Where are they?" Chen Yehui saw players from his guild and went over to ask them. He ignored the others. Even though he was a guild leader, the others wouldn't follow his orders. It was even possible for die-hard Tyrannical Ambition players to secretly ambush him. Chen Yehui didn't doubt this. This alliance was simply to gather players to deal with Lord Grim. There was no intention of becoming friends.

"They went into the houses. The left and right ones." An Excellent Dynasty player immediately answered.

"Then what are you waiting for? Chase!" Chen Yehui said.

"We have them surrounded……." The player said helplessly, while looking at the chaotic scene. Right, they were surrounding them…….

"Our people, come here!!" Chen Yehui didn't attempt to command the entire scene, and only called over his brothers.

Seeing their guild leader, the Excellent Dynasty players gathered together.

"You two stay here. The others come with me." Chen Yehui had two players stay in position. Positions that the other guilds weren't covering.

Players had already begun storming into the houses on the left and right.

"They're not in here!" The players yelled and leapt out of the window. Those who made a mistake wound up getting stuck in the window, causing players from other guilds to laugh at them.

The others who had spread out and surrounded the houses didn't find any signs of Cleansing Mist and One Inch Ash.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!!" Everyone shouted and immediately rushed forward, thinking that their targets had taken the chance to widen their distance.

Under their eyes, in the empty house pressed between the house on the left and on the right, Cleansing Mist and One Inch Ash were quietly crouching in a corner.

Cleansing Mist slowly moved to an opening in a wall and took a quick glance outside.

"Ha ha, we've fooled them. Just as expected, they got used to us running in the same direction." Su Mucheng messaged Qiao Yifan.

"They're not organized well, which was why I believed they would make such a mistake." Qiao Yifan said. He had noticed their opponent's disorderly movements and had come up with this plan after consulting with Su Mucheng.

Before, they had used blind spots to escape. Once, twice, thrice, they made an impression on their enemies. As a result, they made a sudden change in this terrain and didn't continue running. Instead, after passing through the left and right houses, they snuck into the house in the middle.

Everyone hurried past these houses in order to see where the two had run off to.

"Let's go." Su Mucheng told Qiao Yifan. They obviously couldn't stay here forever. When their enemies realized that there was no sign of them, they would definitely look around and find them. The two wanted to use this opportunity to escape in the opposite direction.

Qiao Yifan's One Inch Ash immediately moved to entrance to the house, but just as he exposed half of his body, he immediately went back.

"There are players outside……" Qiao Yifan messaged Su Mucheng.

"What?" Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist also went to the entrance.

"Sorry, Sis Mu……." Most of this escape plan had been proposed by Qiao Yifan. It was a rare moment of confidence, but in the end, he found that there were enemies left behind. Seeing that he had made a mistake, Qiao Yifan immediately felt upset and scared again.

"No problem, rush out!" Su Mucheng said as she moved out from the room. The enemies that had stayed behind were the players Chen Yehui had ordered. In reality, there wasn't any error in Qiao Yifan's plan. He just hadn't thought that backup would arrive at this moment and there just happened to be a guild leader level character like Chen Yehui.

The new players were naturally unaccustomed to their previous pattern. Chen Yehui also had authority over his players. Qiao Yifan's plan had been formulated throughout their escape, so new players hadn't been taken into account.

As soon as the two saw Cleansing Mist rush out, they were surprised, but quickly sent messages to everyone. Cleansing Mist's artillery shells flew over. The two immediately tried to dodge it, but Su Mucheng's Anti-Tank Missiles were sent in three different directions, so it would have been better to stay still, but it was too late by the time they realized it.

The smoke from the artillery barrage hadn't yet dissipated when One Inch Ash rushed in front of one of the players and used a Ghost Slash. The player hastily jumped back and dodged it, but One Inch Ash quickly matched it with a Moonlight Slash. The player wasn't able to react in time and was launched up into the air by the Moonlight Slash. A Full Moonlight Slash followed after the Moonlight Slash, a very common Ghostblade combo. The Full Moonlight Slash caused the player to fly higher into the air. A series of gun fire followed closely after. Cleansing Mist shot up towards the sky with a Gatling Gun. The brother rolled about in the air and took a while before he fell to the ground.

The other player had wanted to help, but was easily knocked to the ground by a few normal attacks from Qiao Yifan. Qiao Yifan raised his sword and cast a Sword Boundary. Cleansing Mist entered it and fired a Laser Rifle and Cannonball. The buffed damage and explosiveness from the Sword Soul added to its might. These two unfortunate players didn't have any chance of fighting back. If they weren't rolling around in the sky, then they were rolling around in the dirt. After a short moment, they turned into two corpses.

Chen Yehui received the messages from the two who stayed behind and immediately led his Excellent Dynasty players to return and chase them. The other guild's players saw this and stared blankly. Without anyone guiding them, they just did what everyone else did and followed along. In the end, when they returned to the rooms, there was no sight of them.

"Where are you?" Chen Yehui asked the two players.

"Where are they?' The other guilds all asked Chen Yehui.

"Dead….." Those two's replies were quick, but Chen Yehui wasn't able to reply to the other players.

"Everyone split up and search….." Chen Yehui looked around and then helplessly said. There were quite a few destroyed houses, walls, and holes, and it wasn't easy to check every one of them.

"F*ck, what are we looking for?" The other guilds' players didn't know what had happened and were cursing.

"Those two players hid over here and took the opportunity when we rushed out to kill our two brothers. Right now, we don't know where they escaped to." Chen Yehui wasn't happy either, but had no choice but to explain it to these people.

With this, there was nothing they could complain about. Search!

Everyone split up and searched around, but they didn't know that Cleansing Mist and One Inch Ash had already returned to the destroyed house and jumped out of the window, playing another game of opposite direction.

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Chapter 198 – A Bro at the Bottom of a Well

Outskirts of Congee City: Hades Village. Inside a dried up well. Steamed Bun Invasion stood upright and exposed a small bit of himself in order to take a quick sweep of the surroundings.

Initially, Steamed Bun Invasion had randomly hopped down during his escape. His reason for doing so: because it was close. Unexpectedly, this seldom-visited well gave him a hiding place. Steamed Bun Invasion had bravely begun a game of hide-and-seek with his pursuers.

The originally tranquil village had become a noisy mess because of Steamed Bun Invasion's intrusion. The NPCs were still calmly following their predetermined routes, but the rampaging footsteps of a dozen players, who were chasing Steamed Bun Invasion, resounded throughout the village. The communication between them also came into Steamed Bun Invasion's ears from time to time.

Steamed Bun Invasion hastily ducked down and listened intently to the what his pursuers were saying.

"Where'd he go?"

"He can't have run too far. He has to be in the village."

"What a cunning guy to run to such a place."

Some footsteps were far. Some were close. They were clearly looking everywhere. Steamed Bun Invasion was listening and just happened to be pondering whether he should stand up straight to take a quick glance around, when a white light suddenly flashed in front of him and a character appeared. Not waiting for Steamed Bun Invasion to open his mouth, that character cried out in fright: "Who are you?"

"Quiet!" Steamed Bun Invasion hurriedly stopped the person from saying anything more.

"What a coincidence! To think I'd bump into someone in this type of place." This person had absolutely no idea what was going on and continued talking.

Steamed Bun Invasion heard footsteps coming closer and closer. He didn't know whether it was because of the noise coming from here. Even though this type of hiding place was difficult to find, if he was found, then it'd be difficult to escape from. Steamed Bun Invasion understood this, so as soon as he heard footsteps coming closer, he wouldn't take any risks and immediately jump outside to escape.

Just as he was about to jump out, he suddenly heard the guy in front of him shout out loudly: "Huh? Steamed Bun Invasion? Are you the Steamed Bun Invasion in Lord Grim's team on the dungeon record rankings?"

"Yup, that's me, but right now, I don't have time to accept your interview. I'm currently hiding from an intense chase. I'm about to rush out!" Steamed Bun Invasion said with a low voice when he suddenly leapt out from the well. He looked around him and sure enough, people were heading towards the well. Seeing him come out, they immediately shouted: "He's over here!"

Steamed Bun Invasion didn't stop. As soon as he landed on the ground, he took off.

"Hey, wait up!" The person in the well yelled and then immediately took off too. However, he didn't use enough strength and didn't jump high enough. His character's two feet hit the side of the well, and he was knocked back into it.

None of the pursuers knew who this guy was, so they also called: "There's even one waiting to ambush us here!"

"Uh oh! It might be a trap!" Someone said. Some of the players immediately stopped, fearing that there might be hidden troops hiding in the well.

The number of players chasing Steamed Bun Invasion wasn't as numerous as the number of players chasing Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan, though because of this, they were more unified. There were a dozens players here, from a total of two guilds and they weren't mortal enemies like Tyrannical Ambition and Excellent Dynasty either, so there was room for discussion.

In this short moment of hesitation, that brother in the well used enough strength this time and jumped out of it. This character was wearing cloth armor and his hands clutched a magic rod, indicating that he was a Mage. After jumping out of the well, he ignored the pursuers and chased after Steamed Bun Invasion.

Seeing him run, the players realized that it didn't seem to be an ambush. The chances of one were too small, so they immediately began chasing.

Each of the two guilds had separate leaders, so there wasn't much confusion. The pursuers chased after him closely. Steamed Bun Invasion hastily glanced around to see if there were any places to hide, like before. Just as he was looking, he heard someone yell from behind him: "Run towards the left."

The voice sounded a bit familiar. Steamed Bun Invasion didn't think too much about who had said it and headed towards the left. There wasn't anything special to the left, only an ordinary straw cottage. Steamed Bun Invasion ran behind the straw cottage and temporarily left his pursuer's line of sight.

"Jump in from that window." At this moment, that voice came again. Steamed Bun Invasion searched for the so-called "window" when he realized who the person giving him directions was. It was that bro he met at the bottom of the well.

"You're a really good guy!" Steamed Bun Invasion said and saw which window the bro was referring to and jumped in. The bro from the bottom of the well quickly caught up and crouched down to jump in like Steamed Bun Invasion. The first time, he crashed into the window sill and fell down. The second time, he crashed again and fell. The third time….. Steamed Bun Invasion was at a loss: "What are you doing!"

"I'm jumping in." The bro from the well said.

"I really can't tell." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

The bro from the well understood that he wasn't skilled enough. His movements weren't precise enough. After failing three times, he gave up and continued to run left.

"Hey, where are you going?" Steamed Bun Invasion stuck his head out and asked him.

"Put your head back! Add me as a friend and then let's talk." The bro from the well ran as he turned his head back to say.

Steamed Bun Invasion pulled back his head and received a system prompt: Concealed Light requests to be your friend.

After accepting the invite, he received a message from Concealed Light: "After 8 seconds, come out through the door."

Even though Steamed Bun Invasion didn't know what was going on, he did as he was told. He counted one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and then ran out of the straw cottage's door, bumping into Concealed Light, who had just come in from the entrance.

"Over here!" Concealed Light led the way, while Steamed Bun Invasion followed. The two weaved around Hades Village. At first, they could still hear the footsteps and voices of the pursuers, but gradually, the sounds died down and seemed to have returned to the sounds of the NPC's slow steps and calm village.

"Did we throw them off?" Steamed Bun Invasion glanced around.

"Quiet!" After confirming the situation, it was Concealed Light's turn to warn Steamed Bun Invasion.

One of Steamed Bun Invasion's strength was that he was able to listen to other's suggestions and immediately shut his mouth. At this moment, Concealed Light's line of sight fell to the Sandstorm Claw that Steamed Bun Invasion was holding, a Brawler weapon.

"Your weapon isn't an Orange weapon?" Concealed Light suddenly asked.

"Yeah."

"Why don't you use one?"

"I don't have one."

"What do you mean you don't have one?"

"It was too expensive. Senior wouldn't buy it for me."

The two talked like this with one asking and one replying, but they weren't on the same page. This Concealed Light was that author of the Idiot's Series, the Level 32 Summoner, Concealed Light, and was absolutely confident in his judgement. He was certain that Lord Grim's team all had Orange equipment, but seeing that Steamed Bun Invasion didn't have one, he refused to believe his judgement was wrong. His intent wasn't being picked up by Steamed Bun Invasion, who was answering the questions honestly.

"Senior? You mean Lord Grim?" Concealed Light said.

"Yeah! You know him?' Steamed Bun Invasion was pleasantly surprised.

"I don't….." Concealed Light said, but was still confused on how his judgement had been wrong: "How do you not have an Orange weapon?"

"Because we didn't have enough money." Steamed Bun Invasion replied as before.

"Their footsteps are coming closer." Steamed Bun Invasion suddenly heard footsteps.

"Let's go along this road! We'll definitely be able to run back to the city before they catch up." Concealed Light began running forward.

"I'm not going back to the city." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"Then where are you going?"

"I'm getting ready in a bit to meet up with senior." Steamed Bun Invasion said, "Are you going back to the city? That's perfect! You can lead them away and I'll be good then."

Concealed Light coughed up blood. Shouldn't he be the one without any problems? He still didn't know why Steamed Bun was being chased. The only reason he was helping Steamed Bun Invasion was because he was a member of the dungeon record team, one of his researched subjects, a character whose equipment he had deduced.

A luxurious Orange equipped team. This was an unrealistic argument and Concealed Light understood this.

Compared to the other Idiot's Guides, he spent more time for the Boneyard record. Unfortunately, that was the only conclusion he could come up with. He was absolutely confident, but he just couldn't convince others of it. He really hoped that he could verify his judgement, but he was never able to.

Even after knowing that Steamed Bun Invasion didn't have an Orange weapon, Concealed Light refused to give up.

Steamed Bun Invasion's very casual suggestion to let Concealed Light lead the pursuers away did make him want to cough blood, but he wouldn't argue over something like this. He turned his head to look at Steamed Bun Invasion and suddenly shouted: "Wow! You're Level 31 now? You've probably switched equipment! You previously used a Level 28 Orange weapon right?"

"Nope. I've never used one before." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"Impossible." Concealed Light was concerned about this.

"Why aren't you going back to the city! They're coming closer." Steamed Bun Invasion was concerned about this.

"They're not chasing me, so why should I care?" Concealed Light said.

"What? Then why are you running?" Steamed Bun Invasion asked in curiosity.

"……..' Concealed Light was speechless.

"If you won't run, then I'll be running." Once Steamed Bun Invasion saw that he wasn't going to lure them away and there was no way he could stay in the same place for too long, he immediately began running again.

"No! No! You can't go that way!" Seeing where Steamed Bun Invasion was running, Concealed Light blurted out.

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Chapter 199 – The Escape Member: Concealed Light

Concealed Light and Steamed Bun Invasion weren't friends. It was just that when he found that Steamed Bun Invasion had run onto a route where he would be quickly discovered, his auto-correct function activated and autonomously shouted out.

"Okay, then where should I run to?" Steamed Bun Invasion immediately returned.

"Over here." Concealed Light continued to lead the way.

"Where are you guys meeting up at?" Concealed Light asked. He might as well just send him there.

"I dunno." Steamed Bun Invasion said bluntly.

Concealed Light seemed to have stumbled on the flat ground. It looked as if he had accidentally pressed the crouch command. In that instant, his finger had clearly touched the wrong key.

"If you don't know, then where are we running to?" Concealed Light said.

"How should I know? You're the one leading." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

Concealed Light coughed up blood: "You say a place and I'll bring you there."

"Wait! Let me ask!" Steamed Bun Invasion sent a message to Lord Grim.

"Where are you right now?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Hades Village."

"What? You're still there? Have you escaped yet?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Not yet."

"How many pursuers are there?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Uh… let me ask." Steamed Bun Invasion replied.

Ask? Ye Xiu was confused.

'Hey, how many players are over there?" Steamed Bun Invasion asked the lead, Concealed Light.

"How should I know? It's not like they're chasing me. Maybe a dozen or so!" Concealed Light said.

"A dozen." Steamed Bun Invasion answered Ye Xiu's question.

"How'd you find out?" Ye Xiu had a hard time understanding.

"I met a bro at the bottom of a well and he told me." Steamed Bun Invasion replied.

A bro at the bottom of a well? Ye Xiu was getting more and more confused, but thinking of Steamed Bun Invasion's brain, he didn't ask to find out.

"Come to Congee Forest!" Ye Xiu replied.

Glory's map didn't only consist of uninterrupted leveling areas. There were also quite a few commonplace transition maps. Similar to the numerous villages scattered around the outskirts of Congee City, these places were mostly used for quests.

Congee Forest was this type of place. Outside of Congee City, it was a forest close to Line Canyon. When there weren't players there for quests, it was even more empty than those small villages.

"We're meeting up at Congee Forest." Steamed Bun Invasion quickly reported to Concealed Light.

"Here!" Concealed Light immediately figured out which direction to go in. Steamed Bun Invasion didn't say anything further and directly followed behind him.

Concealed Light felt a bit lonely as well as confused.

Isn't this Steamed Bun Invasion too simple? It's not like we know each other, how could he just follow along without even asking who I am?

Concealed Light was puzzled over this question, but more importantly: he wanted to obtain approval. Every one of the guides Concealed Light had published had been seen by readers as nonsense, making him feel very angry. His guides were all correct. Why did those people say his guides were unrealistic? Why weren't they saying their skill wasn't good enough?

At this moment, he was leading Steamed Bun Invasion away from the pursuers with ease. Yet this Steamed Bun Invasion wasn't even asking him how he could do it. Concealed Light felt very lonesome. He finally couldn't take it anymore: "Do you know why we have to run this way?"

"Why?" Steamed Bun Invasion blurted out.

"Because the pursuers are around five coordinates away from us. By going in this direction, the positions of those five coordinates behind us are held by four houses that are blocking their view. If we went that direction you were previously going along, they'd have been able to find you in less than 10 seconds." Concealed Light happily explained. He was looking forward to Steamed Bun Invasion's next question. For example: how did you know that they were five coordinates behind.

"Oh." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

Concealed Light's fingers went astray again. This time it was his right hand. He accidentally left-clicked and he waved his magic rod.

"So you're saying that the people behind us aren't able to see where we're going?" Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"Yes! Yes! The following routes I'm going to bring you along will all make the pursuers unable to figure out where we are. This is why we're able to shrug them off so easily." Concealed Light said.

"But it looks like there are people in front of us." Steamed Bun Invasion suddenly said.

"In front?" Concealed Light looked forward but didn't see anyone.

"I heard footsteps. My 1.5 hearing." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

1.5 hearing……. Concealed Light was confused, but at this moment, just as Steamed Bun Invasion said, a player suddenly jumped out from behind a rock.

"Maybe he's just passing by…… If he's with those guys behind us, then our position's been exposed. From the route those guys will choose to take, we should……."

"Kill him!" Steamed Bun Invasion had already gone up to kill him.

Sure enough, the person behind the rock wasn't some passerby. When he saw Steamed Bun invasion, he immediately took out his sword and rushed forward, a Blade Master.

Concealed Light had no choice but to enter the battle as well. As he moved, he began muttering: "Brawlers and Blade Masters have mid-ranged CC skills. Both sides will need some time to close in on each other. Since they will restrict each other, I should summon after going around the Blade Master, to his rear. Brawlers have Brick Buster and Sand Toss, two mid-ranged skilled. If the skills are used one after the other, then he can control the Blade Master for ten seconds. With my movement speed, I can only choose to head towards the 10 o'clock position. Even though I'll be somewhat close to the Blade Master, there's a stone wall over there, which can be used to block the Blade Master's Sword Draw, so I won't actually be in his attack range. Then, once I get behind the wall, I'll be behind the Blade Master. First, I'll summon Thunder Spirit, the Stun effect from the attack can be used to match with the Brawler's……"

"Hey! What are you muttering?" Steamed Bun Invasion heard Concealed Light whispering something, but couldn't hear clearly. While he asked, he rushed forward, sending a Brick flying forward.

"F*ck! How can you waste your Brick like that!" Concealed Light saw this scene and immediately shouted.

"So what?" Steamed Bun Invasion replied to him and used the opportunity to close in while the opponent was dodging. This Blade Master wasn't weak. After dodging the Brick, he drew his sword: "Sword Draw".

Steamed Bun Invasion rolled to dodge the sword light and reached in front of the Blade Master. He raised his hands and used an Uppercut.

The Blade Master moved back and dodged. He then followed up with a Lunge to counterattack. This guy had clearly spent a few skill points on this skill. This skill no longer made only two stabs, but four.

Four sword lights stabbed forth towards Steamed Bun Invasion. As each one flew forward, Steamed Bun Invasion leapt back. The sword tips flashed in front of him, but never hit. At this moment, Steamed Bun Invasion swung his hand and threw a Sand Toss at him.

Sand Toss was considered a Magic Attack, so the Blade Master's Guard had no effect, but the low damage skill could be endured as long as he wasn't blinded.

This Blade Master didn't dodge this Sand Toss and instead, turned his head towards a different direction. At the same time, he followed up with an attack and a Triple Slash headed towards Steamed Bun Invasion. Just with this skill, it could be seen that this Blade Master wasn't ordinary.

Concealed Light predicted that the two sides wouldn't meet each other in close combat for ten seconds, but Steamed Bun Invasion used a Brick and a forward roll to directly close in on the opponent. Concealed Light was still going forward with his original plan, but while he was going around, because of Steamed Bun Invasion's Sand Toss, the Blade Master's head suddenly turned to his direction, catching him.

Concealed Light panicked, but saw that the Blade Master's sword was still aimed at Steamed Bun Invasion.

Steamed Bun Invasion had used this instant to complete his movement. When the Blade Master's Triple Slash flew past, Steamed Bun Invasion lifted his hand and clawed, clasping onto the Blade Master's throat, pushing him into the wall.

Knee Strike, Slap, Inject Poison……

Steamed Bun Invasion ignored the Blade Master's struggling and used the time while the opponent's defense was reduced from the Strangle to quickly send a few attacks forward.

After the Strangle finished, Steamed Bun Invasion floated to the side of the Blade Master's body and accurately smashed a Brick into the Blade Master's head, inducing a Dizzy effect. Steamed Bun Invasion smoothly Applied Poison to his weapon and followed up with a Combo. The Blade Master was trapped against the wall and had no way of escaping. Any place he tried to dodge to was met by a block from Steamed Bun Invasion. The two sides traded health, but clearly, Steamed Bun Invasion had the advantage.

Not long after, Steamed Bun Invasion took down half of the Blade Master's life and beat the Blade Master into the wall. The Blade Master's life continued to drop until he fell. Steamed Bun Invasion looked around and saw that Concealed Light was jumping again and again behind a broken-down wall and crashing into it.

"Bro, what are you doing? Are you trying to rape that wall?" Steamed Bun Invasion asked.

Concealed Light was extremely gloomy. He just wanted to jump onto the wall, but the wall was a bit tall and with his jumping strength, he had to grasp the distance and timing in order to succeed. But as he was trying, unknowingly, that Blade Master had already been defeated by Steamed Bun Invasion, yet he still hadn't jumped onto the wall.

"Hurry up and run. They're here." By the time they finished killing the Blade Master, the pursuers finally appeared in their view and were quickly catching up.

Concealed Light didn't try and fight with the wall anymore and quickly went around it.

"Which way?' Steamed Bun Invasion asked.

"Uh, over here……" After seeing where those pursuers were coming from, Concealed Light continued to lead the way. Except this time, he was no longer as proud as before.

"You have really weird tastes. What astrological sign are you?" This time, Steamed Bun Invasion took the initiative to ask.

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Chapter 200 – PKPKPKPKPKPK

Congee Forest. Ye Xiu told everyone to meet here. At this moment, he was also rushing towards there with his Lord Grim. However, he hadn't fully thrown off the pursuers yet.

Even though he had fully utilized his abilities and stamina to widen the distance, he had no way of completely breaking away from the pursuers. The other side had many, many players and any random player nearby could be one of their eyes.

Escaping by using the pursuers' dead angles. Ye Xiu was also using this type of method.

However, as he ran, he suffered from a barrage of trash talk.

"PK! PK! PK! PK! PK!"

Right when it was almost midnight, Huang Shaotian's Flowing Tree unexpectedly came online and once again began bothering Ye Xiu to fight him in the Arena.

"I'm busy!" Ye Xiu replied firmly.

"You can run dungeons later!!" Huang Shaotian said.

"If you know that I'm going to run dungeons, why don't you come on earlier?"

"If I come on earlier, are you there? Are you there? Are you there?" Huang Shaotian replied.

"Uh, not today…… tomorrow!" Ye Xiu thought. Today, he had gone to read Concealed Light's Idiot's Guides. He really hadn't been online in the evening and had only come on at 11:30.

"You said it!"

"Yeah."

"Your word counts!

"Yeah."

"Okay then!" Huang Shaotian said and then went quiet.

These Gods were both players with frightening hand speed. Ye Xiu chatted while he made his Lord Grim continue running. His speed hadn't slowed down much.

However after only quietly running for a few minutes, he suddenly received another message. Since he had to pay attention to Su Mucheng and the other team members' situation, Ye Xiu had to keep his chat box open. But when he looked, he saw that it was Huang Shaotian's Flowing Tree again: "PKPKPKPKPKPK!!!!!!"

Not waiting for Ye Xiu to reply, another message came: "It's 'tomorrow'." A happy face emoticon even came after this.

Ye Xiu looked at when the message was sent: 00:01:08. He was speechless.

"Hurry up hurry up hurry up. You said 'tomorrow'. It's already tomorrow." Huang Shaotian continued to type.

"Come to Congee Forest." Ye Xiu replied.

"For what?" Huang Shaotian asked.

"It's a long story. If you come, you'll know."

Congee Forest was completely silent. Huang Shaotian's Flowing Tree came and looked around, but only saw two players who were leaving after finishing their quests. There wasn't any sign of Lord Grim.

"I'm here. Where are you?" Huang Shaotian messaged.

"Almost there."

"Why here?" Huang Shaotian asked.

"PK."

"F*ck! I'm going to use my main account." Huang Shaotian shouted.

"Not in the Arena. Real PK in the wild." Ye Xiu replied.

"You're four levels higher than me! Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" Huang Shaotian replied.

"I thought you'd feel ashamed." Ye Xiu said.

"What should I be ashamed of?"

"Don't you feel ashamed?"

"Why should I be ashamed?"

"That's good. As long as you don't feel ashamed."

"Hey hey! What are you saying!!" As soon as this message was sent, Huang Shaotian's Flowing Tree left the forest and saw Lord Grim in front of him, alternating between moving slowly and quickly. He was using the common, pro-player technique for optimizing stamina usage and was running towards him.

Huang Shaotian's Flowing Tree met up with him and just as he was about to say something, he immediately saw a wave of dust rolling forward not far behind Lord Grim.

"What'd you do?" When Lord Grim reached in front of him, Huang Shaotian asked.

"Didn't you want to PK? Go up, hero!" Ye Xiu said.

"Are you joking? Do you know who I am? How could I bully normal players!" Huang Shaotian shouted.

"Weren't you asking why you should be ashamed?' Ye Xiu asked.

"F*ck. I wasn't talking about this." Huang Shaotian felt depressed. He had used 'tomorrow' to trick him, which Ye Xiu responded with his own "ashamed" counter.

"Yo, there's quite a lot of people. What'd you do?" Huang Shaotian looked at the incoming pursuers. There were at least twenty or thirty people. To gather up like this just for a single person, this was rarely seen.

"I set dungeon records." Ye Xiu said.

Huang Shaotian stared blankly for a bit and then realized what was going on. He laughed out loud: "Serves you right! To let you be so arrogant. To let you be so shameless! What's your identity? Stealing records from new server players! How shameful!"

"What's so shameful about that? Right now, I'm just a normal player too. Taking records is normal." Ye Xiu plainly said, "But you! You probably haven't seen such a large mob in a while! Are you scared?"

"Tch. How could I go against normal players. I'll keep my distance from you." Huang Shaotian said. He really did let his Flowing Tree pull away from Lord Grim a bit. At the moment, a large mob of characters stormed into the forest.

"There's someone here!!" Quite a few noticed Huang Shaotian's Flowing Tree.

In this team of pursuers, there was a guild leader level character, Samsara's tenth server leader, Lonely Drink. He had failed last time to rope in Lord Grim. He had been especially infuriated when the other side used CtrlC and CtrlV to reply to him. In the current alliance, he was one of the more active members. When he heard where Lord Grim's and his team's whereabouts were, he didn't choose to go to the nearest member, but chose to directly pursue Lord Grim. It couldn't be denied that the reason was mostly due to his own selfish reasons.

"Flowing Tree….." Lonely Drink saw this ID. He recited it and felt that it was a bit familiar.

"He's the one who helped Lord Grim set the Boneyard record!" Someone suddenly shouted in the crowd.

Some shouted out in surprise at Flowing Tree's appearance. Others were checking the dungeon record rankings. It seemed like Samsara's players were the calmest. They had a guild leader, and with a leader here, they only had to wait for his orders.

"He's with Lord Grim. Don't be polite." Lonely Drink decided. As soon as Samsara's people heard their guild leader speak, they immediately rushed forward without hesitation. With people leading the way, the players from the other guilds followed as well. Thirty members suddenly headed towards Flowing Tree together.

"F*ck, what are you doing?" Huang Shaotian was startled. How did he pull in aggro? He immediately had Flowing Tree run further into Congee Forest.

"Don't let any of them go!" Lonely Drink shouted.

Those that were under him listened to him as well as a few of the players from the other guilds. A mob of players split into two groups; one group went to chase Flowing Tree, while the other group ran towards Lord Grim.

Ye Xi's response was the same as Huang Shaotian's. He also had Lord Grim run further into the forest. Flowing Tree wasn't too far from him and at this moment, he understood what was going on. He began chatting angrily, nonstop. Ye Xiu completely ignored him as if he wasn't listening.

The two ran someplace and then suddenly split; one left, one right. Right at this moment, the pursuers saw the two split. Lonely Drink didn't hesitate and chased after Lord Grim. A few players made a suggestion: If there are already people chasing on that side, then we should go to this side! As a result, the remaining players rushed towards Flowing Tree.

Just as they began running, someone shouted: "Wait."

No one waited. Everyone continued to chase. This person could only run while saying: "I just searched up Flowing Tree. He's Level 27! Level 27! Why are we be chasing him?"

Everyone heard this. Some players stopped because what he said was true.

Level 27. At this level, the character could only run Boneyard, but that was already past them.

The game progressed this way. The closer they got to the end-game, the early-game records would become less and less valuable. For example, the Frost Forest record. When the players were all Level 20, when the record was set, everyone felt that the team was extremely amazing and that the guild was powerful.

But this "amazing" impression wouldn't continue being kept. It needed other records to keep up the image and it needed records for dungeons at the peak of the current state of the game. Only these high-leveled dungeons would be noted by players.

At the present state of the game, it would be great to go up on TV for the Line Canyon dungeon records. Even if they weren't the final holders of the record, it would still be more valuable than setting a new one for Frost Forest. Plus, whoever held the final record could use it as proof of their strength.

All of the experienced players understood this. The reason Chen Yehui was able to create such a movement was because of this. As long as they could kill Lord Grim and his team a few times, they would be able to stall their leveling speed and restrict their development.

As long as they could widen the distance in their levels, future dungeon records would be fought for as usual by the big guilds, and by the time Lord Grim leveled to there, the records would no longer be as valuable. By then, the tenth server players would already be paying attention to higher-leveled dungeons.

By maintaining this type of level difference, it didn't matter how great Lord Grim's strength was because the impact he'd have on the big guilds' development would be greatly reduced.

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Chapter 201 – The Trash's End

Those who understood the situation knew that if Lord Grim was Level 27, they wouldn't waste their time on him, let alone his little underling.

Level 27, Blade Master.

After a few players confirmed the situation, the torrent of anger immediately dissipated. The majority of them were already getting ready to turn around. The slower players received messages from their friends saying: "Don't bother with that piece of trash. Hurry up and chase after Lord Grim! Don't let him escape!"

Trash!!

Huang Shaotian heard this phrase and became furious. Moreover, it seemed to be directed at him. As a pro-player, he had some resistance towards trash talk. However, each player had their own ways of dealing with it. Some ignored it. Some countered it. As one of the experts in the Alliance at trash talking who made the Alliance change the rules solely for him, Huang Shaotian was the latter.

"F*CK!" A roar resounded throughout the forest.

"Whoever said 'trash', stand where you are! Let me teach you how to spell 'trash'." Huang Shaotian's Flowing Tree unexpectedly turned around and chased after them.

"Who said it? Who? Who? Where are you running? A bunch of Level 33 players and you're afraid of a tiny Level 27 Blade Master? If I'm trash, then what are you? Maybe you're non-recyclable trash? Completely worthless trash? That's right! I'm talking about you guys! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14 pieces of trash running nice and orderly! Are you all lining up waiting to be put in the dumpster? But wait! Did you forget that you were non-recyclable? Have some awareness! You should just dig a hole to bury yourself in there! Stop polluting the environment. Every second you exist……."

"Shut up!!" Someone finally erupted, a Blade Master as well. But he wasn't the only one that wanted to jump out, he just happened to be a bit faster. His "Shut up!" temporarily interrupted Huang Shaotian. In this moment of silence, the others who had become riled up took the chance to clear up their anger as well.

"Hm? So it was you? Good. A Blade Master as well. But it does seem like you're different than normal Blade Masters. Seeing how impatient you are, could you be the legendary……." Using his voice for the following words wouldn't bring about the desired reactions, so Huang Shaotian quickly changed to typing. A giant word bubble floated above his head and used the largest 25 size font to write "Trash Master".

"Trash Master"

"Trash Master"

"Trash Master"

"Trash Master'

Huang Shaotian's hands moved like a blur. In that instant, huge word bubbles piled on top of each other towards the clouds. That Level 33 Blade Master had already gone mad with fury and rushed forward with his sword drawn.

For an expert trash talker like Huang Shaotian, he didn't need any thinking or feeling to do such a thing. He could even do it even if he was talking to a rock.

He didn't actually have any malicious intent. It was just something he was used to doing during matches. It was just that in official matches, he could only type in chat box. However, in the game, he could use word bubbles and his own voice to make his trash talk more impactful. How could ordinary players stand such attacks?

In gaming terms, Huang Shaotian's trash talk wasn't done through a major summon, but rather through a never ending combo. It made others want to kill him simply because they wanted him to shut up.

Because his verbal attacks had only been directed at one individual, the others felt much better about themselves. After seeing that Blade Master rush forward, they quickly came back to reality.

"We'll leave this guy to you! We're going to continue chasing Lord Grim." Someone yelled this and then ran. There really weren't many who took this Level 27 player seriously.

The Blade Master didn't even respond. His attention was clearly, completely focused on Flowing Tree. He raised his sword and initiated with a Berserker's Collapsing Mountain, showing his intent on chopping Flowing Tree into pieces.

Huang Shaotian continued cursing and appeared very irritated. However, in reality, he was very calm. He didn't even need to dodge this Collapsing Mountain because the other side was clearly too agitated. The attack had been made too early and wouldn't hit Flowing Tree.

All in all, this Blade Master was still an elite. Halfway through the animation, he realized that he had messed up. He had used the skill too early and would miss Flowing Tree. He knew that Flowing Tree seemed to understand this, but why was he just standing there doing nothing?

Collapsing Mountain crashed to the ground and the shock wave sent the surrounding grass flying. It had scraped Flowing Tree's foot, but there was still no movement from him. This attack didn't inflict any damage onto him.

"Sword Draw!" Huang Shaotian shouted and then used a Sword Draw.

The Blade Master who was still in recovery from the Collapsing Mountain was hit and went flying. If this wasn't in game, that Blade Master's head would have been chopped in half like a watermelon.

"Triple Slash!" Huang Shaotian was like a character from a comic, shouting the name of the skill before using it. Flowing Tree slid forward and the first slash hit the flying Blade Master. For the second slash, Flowing Tree suddenly shifted directions and slid diagonally. The second slash hit the Blade Master again. The third slash was the same and the opposing Blade Master, who was about to hit the ground, was lifted into the sky once again.

Huang Shaotian was able to make two directional changes in what was supposed to be a straight-lined Triple Slash. Perhaps many players could do this, but to do so in the minimum three steps while launching the target into the sky —- that was rarely seen.

"Watch my sword! Watch my sword! Lunge! Falling Light Blade! Upward Slash! Sword Draw! Triple Slash……." Huang Shaotian continued to shout out moves, "Watch my sword!" indicated a normal attack. From the sky to the ground and up to the sky again. Under Huang Shaotian's continuous attacks, this Blade Master had no way of resisting.

Every time the other side saw a way of getting out, it was already too late. He tapped his keyboard furiously, but every move he made was within the other side's calculations. He was interrupted again and again……..

Huang Shaotian's skill shouts caught the attention of the players who went to chase after Lord Grim. Some turned around to glance back and their gaze never moved away afterwards.

It was something they shouldn't be saying, but it was true. Their ally had been destroyed….. Only the word beautiful could describe the scene.

Flowing Tree only had an ordinary Blue Lightsaber in his hands, but the light that came from it could only be described as extraordinary. Every time the blue light flashed, it would circle back and flash again. The sword's light connected together as blood continuously splattered from that Level 33 Blade Master's body, making the scene appear more beautiful and cruel at the same time.

The number of players who stopped to watch, who turned around, and who were dumbstruck grew larger and larger.

They watched and watched and completely forgot about helping their ally. These types of beautiful attacks could only be seen in videos. Real battle? Forget about real battles, even if the opponent was just a wooden log, no one was confident they'd be able to perform such flowing attacks.

"This person's incredible……"

Finally, someone couldn't resist blurting this out.

As soon as this was said, everyone returned to reality. Their ally was about to die under their watch.

"Everyone, up!" Someone yelled and everyone moved.

Even though they weren't very unified, they couldn't just watch as one of their allies died beneath their eyes. If they didn't help when they could have, it'd be a bit embarrassing.

"Clerics, where are you? Heal him!" Someone shouted. However, there wasn't a single Cleric among the fourteen players there.

"Ta ta ta ta ta ……."

Gunfire rang out. A Launcher fired a Gatling Gun and bullets flew towards Flowing Tree in a straight line.

A sword light flashed.

Flowing Tree used Triple Slash again. The Launcher shook his gun and fired towards where he thought Flowing Tree would move to. How could he know that after the first slash, he would change directions and then change again for the third one to go back to his original position? But he had already fired and his bullets hit nothing but air.

"Triangle Triple Slash!" Witnessing this Triple Slash, a few players blurted out the name of this move in astonishment.

Triangle Triple Slash. The move wasn't too difficult to do. However, different players would have different effects using this skill. Huang Shaotian's usage of this skill had no faults. That gorgeous sword technique along with this Triple Slash plus his non-stop mouth, everyone understood: the Blade Master in front of them was a great expert. A Level 27 looking down on them. That demeanor seemed like that of a God.

And at this moment, that Blade Master was no longer able to continue under Flowing Tree's sword. They weren't able to support him in time.

The Blade Master's body was hit flying at them and when it reached them, all that was left was a corpse.

"The Trash's End!" Huang Shaotian shouted out the final move name.

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Chapter 202 – Experiencing It Personally

"Incredible, but he's only Level 27. There's no need for us to waste our time on him." Someone said.

This was true. The reason they were chasing after Lord Grim's team so they could kill them was to force them to waste time to recover their lost experience and put them into a red-lettered state.

In Glory, red-lettered equipment meant that the durability was about to reach zero and needed to be fixed. Being in a red-lettered state was similar to this. After a player's experience dropped below a certain level, the player would need to re-gain the experience in order to recover his stats.

Although red-lettered characters would not be at a lower level, they would not have the same stats as before. The amount of stats lost depended on how much experience had to be recovered. At the same time, they would also need experience to gain back their skill levels.

The guilds were carrying this type of intent. However, towards Flowing Tree, there was no need to waste their time on him. Flowing Tree was only Level 27. No matter how skilled he was, there was no way he could enter the Level 30 Line Canyon. He was never a threat to them.

Everyone there, whether it was because they still had reason or because they wanted to run away, all realized this. Silently, as if nothing had ever happened, each and every one of them slipped away.

Flowing Tree didn't go and chase them. He slowly moved back behind a tree and sat down.

No matter how great he was, he had no fighting strength without mana.

With only a Level 25 Blue Lightsaber, his damage output could only be average at best. In addition, he was six levels below his opponent. Even though the level suppression in PVP wasn't as significant as the level suppression in PVE, the damage reduction was still considerable. Huang Shaotian had used a good 90% of his mana to kill his opponent.

Flowing Tree's bag was also empty. If the other side had decided to surround and attack him, his only choice would have been to run.

Fortunately, the other side decided to leave. Huang Shaotian didn't have any objections to this.

From this, it could be seen that Huang Shaotian's trash talk was something he did consciously. In a situation where he had no fighting strength, he stopped talking.

Without any food or potions, just sitting there only had a slow recovery effect. Recovering in this way, he'd need around 10 minutes.

Where'd those guys go?

Huang Shaotian thought. Flowing Tree looked around and saw a leg sticking out from a tree nearby. Huang Shaotian immediately made Flowing Tree roll backwards. Right as he was about to use Sword Draw, a voice came out from behind the tree: "It looks like we should party up."

Ye Xiu's voice. Huang Shaotian let out a sigh.

"Did you throw them off?" Huang Shaotian asked.

"Nope, they'll be here very soon."

"I have no mana." Huang Shaotian said.

Lord Grim rummaged through his pockets and threw some food and potions onto the ground.

"How weak! Carrying so many items." Huang Shaotian picked them up while mocking Ye Xiu.

"This is called being prepared." Ye Xiu obviously understood what Huang Shaotian meant. The less weight a character carried, the better. The more skilled you were, the more weight would affect you.

After picking up all the items, Huang Shaotian immediately made Flowing Tree drink a potion to recover his mana.

"They're here! I'll be heading off then." Ye Xiu said

"Protect me for a sec." Huang Shaotian said.

"Protect you? Are people bothering you?" Ye Xiu said as Lord Grim ran off. Voices saying "Over there!", "Over there!" came out from the forest. Characters poured out from the trees. Some of the players glanced at Flowing Tree, but completely ignored him and continued to chase after Lord Grim.

"Get me a sword from one of them! This Blue Lightsaber is too disgusting!" Huang Shaotian sent Ye Xiu a message.

"Do you have any common sense? These people are all Level 30. Do you think you can use the equipment they drop?" Ye Xiu replied.

"Tch, so annoying!" Huang Shaotian concealed his low-leveled mistake.

The players madly chased. Swift Run, changing directions, their hands were about to cramp up from making so many movements. On the other hand, the two Gods were chatting.

Flowing Tree drank his potion as he watched his mana recover. Huang Shaotian ignored those players who ignored him. Suddenly, a Blade Master caught his eye. He was moving his camera around like crazy and was trying to find where Lord Grim was. He stood there dumbly for a short moment. He seemed to have sent a message to ask for Lord Grim's whereabouts and then rushed over in that direction.

This Blade Master was using a Broadsword. The Broadsword had high Physical Attack and even though it had slow Attack Speed, quite a few Blade Masters liked to use it. As one of the top Blade Master experts, Huang Shaotian could obviously use all the different types of swords. Seeing this player's Broadsword, he immediately ran over: "Hey, Blade Master! You, wait a sec."

The Blade Master ignored him and continued to run.

"Hey, I'm telling you to wait! You have no manners! Even if you don't have voice on, I won't forgive you! How can you not have voice chat on if you're playing Glory? Can you? Can you? Can you?" Huang Shaotian shouted while waving his sword. That Blade Master seemed to have decided to ignore him and continued to run without even turning his head.

"Isn't that Broadsword the Strike Sword? A Level 25 Orange weapon, not bad! But with that, you'll be carrying more weight than me. And let me tell you this, besides a few potions, I don't have anything else on me! Nothing else! Do you know what this means? This means that even if you stripped yourself, I'd still be able to catch up to you! There's no point in running. Look, I've only said a few words and the distance between us has already pulled closer by quite a bit. So what's the point in running? Stop and chat with me bro. Do you want to switch weapons? It's a Level 30 Lightsaber, Blue Grade. Attack Speed of 10. If you use it, you'll love it! I can guarantee that you'll like it more than your Broadsword……"

"F*ck you. You're only Level 27. What Level 30 Lightsaber!!" That Blade Master couldn't resist lashing back.

"Good. Your observational skills have moved me to tears. You even know that I'm Level 27? Then why are you running? Come here and fight me!"

"Bro, I've got no time!" The Blade Master didn't stop.

"You can only blame yourself. Triple Slash." Huang Shaotian shouted out the name of the skill and a Triple Slash came out. As a movement skill, he quickly caught up to him. The Blade Master hastily used a Triple Slash as well to hurry forward.

"Ha ha ha ha! Too slow!" Huang Shaotian laughed out loud. The third slash of his Triple Slash hit the back of the Blade Master.

"You're too careless, bro. With that weight you're carrying and that type of attack speed, do you think you'd be able to escape my Triple Slash? No use! Now you know how great I am!" Huang Shaotian continued to move his mouth as he chased. This Blade Master had an Orange weapon meaning that he must be an important member of a guild and would be more skilled than the Blade Master that Huang Shaotian had defeated easily…… But, he was still just a normal player. It was still as if an ant was fighting against an elephant.

Even though the Blade Master's skill wasn't bad, there was no way he could compete with Huang Shaotian. In addition, he suffered from a back attack at the very start. At this moment, he wasn't even able to turn his camera around in time, when he began getting comboed. Seeing how none of his allies were nearby, the Blade Master was afraid that he might die there. Even worse, he didn't even have time to curse before he died. His enemy was hacking at him while chatting non-stop, annoying as hell.

These people wouldn't necessarily think of Huang Shaotian when they saw this type of chattering Blade Master.

Normal players only recognized Huang Shaotian from match recordings and was their idol, especially for Blade Masters. From a spectator's view, they would think that Huang Shaotian's trash talk was beautiful, especially when his opponent would mess up in rage. Fans would all laugh.

And now, personally experiencing such an attack, the only feeling in their hearts besides annoyance was annoyance. This type of feeling was completely different from what they felt when they watched Huang Shaotian do it.

Under these two attacks, the Blade Master was quickly unable to hang on. Sword light twisted across his body and his health continued to drop. But at this moment, he was already no longer in the mood to care about all this. Why am I not dead yet? These were his thoughts.

His wish seemed to have come true.

When his health hit rock-bottom, the other side's attacks stopped. The Blade Master heaved a sigh of relief, the torture was finally over!

The screen turned gray and the camera zoomed out, no longer in a first-person point of view. And like a ghost that had floated out of its body, he watched as his corpse fell from the air.

"F*ck!!" The Blade Master suddenly cursed. Unfortunately, when his character died, voice would no longer be transmitted out.

He watched as the Broadsword in his hands also fell.

"Wow, what good luck! I just kill some random guy and he drops an Orange weapon? The game really is different after not playing for so long! It wasn't easy saving up so much luck." Huang Shaotian was still chattering.

"Let me borrow this. I'll give it back when I'm done." Huang Shaotian picked up the Level 25 Orange Strike Sword and a word bubble popped out from his head. He knew that even though the other side couldn't hear him, he could still see the word bubble. His corpse was still there, so he hadn't yet revived back to the city!

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Chapter 203 – Finally, Some Strategy

Even though there wasn't a precise probability for a dead player to drop items, in the normal servers, the probability wasn't high. For a weapon to drop when Huang Shaotian wanted one to indicated his incredibly good luck. It probably wasn't any lower than an Orange weapon dropping from a BOSS.

The Blade Master saw Huang Shaotian's word bubble, but who would believe that? To him, it seemed as if he was being mocked. When he revived, he told his guild buddies about this nightmare. As for getting the weapon back, by killing him? With such a low probability of a weapon dropping, no one had much hope.

The players, who were now chasing after Lord Grim, originally didn't pay too much attention to Flowing Tree, but this guy was too excessive. Not only did he take the initiative to offend them and kill two players, but an Orange weapon had even been dropped. Although a portion of those players were happy about this news, they couldn't ignore what this player had done.

"It dropped! It dropped! It dropped!" Huang Shaotian was shouting at Ye Xiu!

"What dropped?" Ye Xiu asked.

"The Level 25 Orange Strike Sword! Are you jealous of my luck!" Huang Shaotian was quite happy.

"Not bad. Keep it up." Ye Xiu said.

"Your position?" Huang Shaotian asked for his coordinates.

"1645, 1866." Ye Xiu reported his coordinates.

"How many have you killed?" Huang Shaotian asked.

"Two."

"Me too! Let's compete to see who wins!" Huang Shaotian messaged.

"You lose." Ye Xiu said.

"Why!" Huang Shaotian refused to believe him.

"You don't have enough potions." Ye Xiu firmly replied.

Huang Shaotian was speechless. It wasn't easy for him to become speechless…… It was true though. His Flowing Tree only had a bit of food and potions left that were given to him by Ye Xiu. If they were to compete in this type of PK game, he would definitely lose.

"We'll kill until I have no more potions." Huang Shaotian still wanted to continue. He sent the message as he rushed towards the coordinates that Ye Xiu had sent him.

Two top-tier Gods in the pro-scene.

Two players standing at the top in Glory.

At this very moment, they were hunting down a group of normal players.

Will numbers prevail? Or will the strong come out on top?

These questions described the current situation. The difference between pro-Gods and normal players was monumental, especially in PK. Compared to running dungeons, the difference was much greater.

From mechanics to experience to mental fortitude to usage of terrain……….

Congee Forest.

For Ye Xiu to have everyone meet up here, as well as bringing all the pursuers, Ye Xiu naturally had everything planned out. It could be said that Ye Xiu had confidence that they would be able to beat these unorganized players using the forest's terrain. Huang Shaotian's appearance only helped him save some time.

One, two, three…….

Players fell one after another. In the beginning, everyone thought that it was because they were being careless and that such a thing definitely wouldn't happen to them.

However, only until a total of ten players died did their views finally change.

It was too unlikely for so many to be careless.

They searched around Congee Forest for another ten minutes. Lord Grim would appear and disappear at times, leading them around the forest. In addition, there was also that Level 27 Blade Master, Flowing Tree. He would also run out from time to time. With a chatterbox in their vicinity, Congee Forest was abnormally loud.

The pursuers finally realized that the situation wasn't looking good.

The guild leader decided to take back his previous order of "Spread out and look around. Report anything you find." Under that order, two of Samsara's guild members had already died.

The other guilds also made similar decisions. Now, everyone gathered together and temporarily stopped chasing.

"I feel…… like they're not trying to escape from us, but rather trying to kill us…….." Someone in the crowd finally broke the silence.

No one answered him. A bit of fear lingered in everyone's hearts.

Of course they knew which of their allies had died. Every time one was ambushed, they all wanted to try and save them, but it was no use. By the time they rushed over, all that was left at those coordinates was a corpse. The other side also left tracks, but looking back, it was probably intentional.

Whether it was Lord Grim or Flowing Tree, they weren't running around with the intent of escaping from them; they rather to mess up their formations and hunt down stragglers.

Formation? Was that even a thing? They didn't even know themselves. All they were doing was chasing after whatever tracks the opposite side had left behind. Under this type of situation, was the other side able to understand their patterns?

"Everyone……." Lonely Drink acted as the leader, "The current situation is a bit dangerous."

Everyone was silent.

"We originally had 32 players, but now, we only have 22! We can't keep continuing on like this. We need to change our strategy. Our disorganized actions gave our enemies a chance. I believe that we urgently need to move as an orderly group from now on." Lonely Drink hadn't lost his reason yet. He calmly analyzed the situation and their opponents' strength. His tone was also humble and appropriate.

'You're right……." Someone stood out to support him.

"Next, each of our guilds will form small teams. We'll then move about in these small teams, how about it? I suggest that each team should have at least four players." Lonely Drink said.

Lonely Drink had come to this decision after contacting others. Right now, they had members from five different guilds, with four or five players from each guild remaining.

"Each team will keep in contact with each other and be ready to report their positions at any time, sound good?" Lonely Drink said.

If they continued to chase in an unorganized fashion, what would happen? Their original 32 players hadn't formed teams and because of that, they had suffered numerous casualties.

Under such pressure, each of the guilds put down their rivalries with each other and upheld a cooperative spirit. Following Lonely Drink's proposal, they created a group. Each team entered the group where they could communicate in. A part of Lonely Drink's clever strategy was that there wasn't any one leader everyone had to follow. He only acted as a player with an idea, letting the other guilds accept it more easily.

After forming the groups, Lonely Drink continued: "Let's all head in the same direction! If we can force them out of this forest, then that would be very good for us. The forest's cover is the main reason they're able to appear and vanish."

The players split into five teams and fanned out. They headed towards the last known location of Lord Grim and Flowing Tree.

"They've switched their strategy." Huang Shaotian's Flowing Tree was hiding nearby and saw through their pursuers' new strategy.

"More like they actually have a strategy now." Ye Xiu corrected Huang Shaotian. His Lord Grim was obviously nearby as well.

"There's at least four players per team. Each team isn't too far from each other either. The region they control is very large……. If we keep on evading them like this, we'll be forced out of the forest, but four players……. it looks like we're going to need to team up to attack." Huang Shaotian said.

"Even if we team up, we might not be able to beat them before support arrives." Ye Xiu said.

"Or maybe you should come take a look at this team." Huang Shaotian said.

"What do you mean?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Three Cloth, one Leather. They're placed on the edge. Only one team can support them in time." Huang Shaotian said.

Cloth armor had the weakest Physical defense. Leather was the second weakest.

"We probably won't be able to completely wipe them out, but two or three shouldn't be a problem." Huang Shaotian said.

"Then what are we waiting for? Position?"

Huang Shaotian sent him the coordinates and Ye Xiu's Lord Grim immediately headed there. The two characters had previously been doing their own thing, but now they were about to work together.

"I'm feeling a bit light-headed." Huang Shaotian said after meeting up with Ye Xiu.

"To be able to make yourself go light-headed from speaking so much, you really are a genius." Ye Xiu said.

"More like the Alliance prohibits players from using voice chat……. If I had to keep talking during the match, that wouldn't be healthy!" Huang Shaotian cried.

"No one would be as talkative as you." Ye Xiu said.

"I've decided that I'm going to use word bubbles in a bit." Huang Shaotian said.

"Don't block my sight." Ye Xiu said.

"They're here!"

"Let's go from the right!"

"Go….."

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Chapter 204 – Bullying Cloth

Summoner, Elementalist, Ghostblade, Assassin.

Three Cloth-armored classes and one Leather-armored class. Right now, they were positioned on the left-most side of the formation and were maintaining contact with the other four small teams using the group channel, while carefully looking around.

These four players were from Tyrannical Ambition. They didn't have any high-positioned officers among them, but were all veterans from the Heavenly Domain. After coming to the new server together, their relationships had grown closer and they were already almost inseparable friends. This was why they had even participated in this type of activity together.

Speaking of them, they had a small relationship with Lord Grim. They had once fought together shoulder-to-shoulder for the Goblin Merchant First Kill, but right now, their guild was in a difficult situation because of Lord Grim. The guild leader had decided to take a hostile stance and they could only follow along with the decision.

However, they had personally witnessed Lord Grim's skill before, so they didn't dare act careless, especially after two of their guild buddies had been swiftly eliminated. One was killed by Lord Grim while the other by Flowing Tree, but in both cases, their reports were the same; they weren't able to fight back.

They had witnessed Lord Grim's skill level before, but for an unknown Level 27 Blade Master to have been so dominating… where did this holy saint come from? Why did Lord Grim always have experts cropping up here and there? Every one of the members in his party: Soft Mist, Steamed Bun Invasion, Cleansing Mist, Flowing Tree, and even the newest name, One Inch Ash…….. the records they set were already proof that they were strong.

But, to be able to completely dominate someone six levels higher, "strong" wasn't enough to describe him.

And that brother, who had been killed by Flowing Tree, emphasized angrily about that Blade Master's endlessly moving mouth and stressed the anguish Flowing Tree's trash talk gave him.

The person on the scene is baffled, the onlookers see clear.

Hearing this description, the experienced Glory players all thought of one person.

Huang Shaotian. Of course, they thought of Huang Shaotian. The Blade Master in Glory, who was most famous for his non-stop talking, would definitely be him.

Even though they thought of him, there was no way they believed that it was actually him. A God like him would enter the game and play cat and mouse in the forest with them? No one would believe that.

"This person is definitely a fan of the Sword Saint." The Ghostblade reckoned.

"Yeah!" The others agreed. The God obviously had a lot of fans. Fans would mimic their idols. It was a case in every game.

"I once knew a person like this. He would always shout randomly when PKing, making your head go dizzy." The Assassin said.

"Ha ha. How does that count as anything? I've even seen players that talk to monsters." The Elementalist laughed.

"But this guy really is strong. We should be cautious." The Summoner said.

"Of course." The other three replied. The players continued to carefully tread through the forest.

A word bubble suddenly popped out from the forest.

"Over there!" The Assassin yelled as he headed in that direction. The other three players looked as well, but didn't see anything, so they didn't dare act too careless. The Summoner waved his magic staff and prepared to summon a pet. The summoned pets only lasted for a certain amount of time and each summon required quite a bit of mana. Because of this, Summoners usually summoned at the beginning of battle or before the battle began.

"Bang!"

A gun sound and a flash of light.

A bullet flew out and the Summoner's cast was interrupted.

"Triple Slash!"

"Upward Slash!"

"Watch my sword!"

"Sword Draw!"

"Lunge!"

They hadn't even found their opponent yet, when a chain of word bubbles floated up.

While they were surprised, Flowing Tree rushed out using a Triple Slash with the word bubbles above his head. He slashed the Summoner and interrupted the Summoner's casting again.

"He's here!" They cried out in fear. The Summoner did his utmost to try and escape, while the other three players rushed forward together. Magic and swords exploded towards Flowing Tree.

At this moment, a blur went by the three player's eyes and a figure appeared before them. The figure swung his arm and with a whoosh, a giant umbrella opened up in front of them, blocking their attacks.

The Elementalist's burst wasn't large enough, but the Assassin's Shining Cut and the Ghostblade's Ghost Slash attacks weren't light so Lord Grim was pushed back.

"F*ck! You crashed into me." Lord Grim was pushed back into Flowing Tree. Huang Shaotian immediately responded. The collision had affected his fighting.

"My shield's weight is low." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh? How light?" Huang Shaotian asked.

"So noisy. Concentrate." Ye Xiu said.

Word bubbles continued to spout out.

In order to maintain relevant even without a pet, many Summoners spent a few skill points on Level 20 and under Mage skills, especially Battle Mage ones.

The Summoner was like this, but…….. at this moment, he felt that using his skill points like this was a bit of a waste.

The skills he learned were completely useless. No matter which one he used, the outcome was still the same.

His attacks and magic were all interrupted.

Seeing those word bubbles say the name of the skill, it was as if the system was telling him which attacks he was going to be hit by. All he could do was watch, unable to find a way out.

His three friends were in a deadlock with Lord Grim and had no way of helping him. From what he saw, if they didn't get any help, his three friends might not even be able to last themselves.

Their two opponents suddenly teamed up. Weren't they doing their own thing before?

He finally had time to think about this issue. Under the constant attacks, the Summoner quickly fell to Flowing Tree's blade.

The reason Ye Xiu and Huang Shaotian chose to go after the Cloth-armored ones first was because they would die quicker.

Their first target, the Summoner, wasn't chosen at random. A Summoner without a summon was just looking to be bullied, but once a few summons came out, he would be a difficult class to deal with and could survive for a very long time.

And in the end, the Summoner wasn't able to show off his strength before he turned into a corpse.

"You should have been the one to kill him. Your level is higher and you do more damage, so it would have been quicker." Huang Shaotian immediately went to help Ye Xiu after killing the Summoner. Having him stay quiet was obviously impossible.

"What'd you say?" Ye Xiu said while stabbing the Elementalist with a Dragon Tooth and that Elementalist never stood up again…….

"F*ck……" Huang Shaotian cursed. He was 4 levels higher with a Silver weapon too. His damage was much greater than his low-leveled Blade Master. In the time it took him to kill one, the other side was fighting three while killing one too.

"Stop that one!" It was now 2v2. Ye Xiu put the Assassin into his sights and gave the Ghostblade to Huang Shaotian.

"Watch my sword……"

Word bubbles began to roll out again. Not just his opponent, the Ghostblade, but even the Assassin were starting to feel irritated. After looking at the scene carefully, in reality, the Blade Master's attacks weren't as quick as the word bubbles. It was because he was using a Broadsword and his Attack Speed wasn't enough. Even so, his skill name shouting never stopped. Could he be typing blindly?

The Assassin was never Ye Xiu's opponent. He was even distracted by Huang Shaotian's trash talk. His loss was inevitable and he was quickly defeated. That Ghostblade was the same. Under Huang Shaotian's attacks, he was unable to hang on and backup hadn't yet arrived. Their ambush had gone even more smoothly than they had anticipated. They originally thought that they would kill off two or three and then be forced to retreat, but right now, they had killed them all.

"Watch my sword. Watch my sword. Watch my sword."

Huang Shaotian continued to shout using only normal attacks. Ye Xiu knew that this guy had no more mana and helped him kill off the Ghostblade. He also threw him some potions and food to use.

"Let's run." Huang Shaotian said, while Flowing Tree picked up the items.

"There's still no one here. That's strange." Ye Xiu said.

Huang Shaotian thought for a bit and agreed: "After killing off two of them, the closest team should have arrived."

"Did they go somewhere else?" Ye Xiu looked around.

"Maybe they ignored these four players and used the time to surround us?" Huang Shaotian said.

'This position……." Ye Xiu looked at the coordinates, "It's a trap……."

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Chapter 205 – You've Been Surrounded

"One died!!"

"Another one!"

"So quick……."

"What's going on? Why haven't the other teams arrived yet?"

In the group chat, the players saw system notifications that said two of their players had died. After the four Tyrannical Ambition players met with the enemies, they immediately reported it. The other players hastily headed over there to surround them, but midway, they received two notifications that two had already died. The players ran crazily, while grumbling in the chat.

"Stay in formation! This time, we definitely won't let them escape. Blossom Valley, attack from the 8 o'clock direction. Excellent Dynasty, go from the 4 o'clock direction. Void Walk, 12 o'clock. We'll surround them and then close in. Tyrannical Ambition, stand firm. We'll be there soon."

Lonely Drink's messages popped up in the group chat. Each of the teams knew they had to cooperate, so they didn't have too many objections towards Lonely Drink's commands. Sure enough, the three guilds rushed out towards the directions Lonely Drink had suggested.

Lonely Drink's Samsara was on Tyrannical Ambition's right side and should have been the first to arrive at the scene, but their team stopped in the forest and had no intention of moving.

"Let them be killed. If we don't give them more time to play around, then our encirclement won't be completed in time." Lonely Drink gave his guild's brothers an explanation, while exposing a sly grin.

"Ha ha ha." The players laughed as well.

If they went to rescue them at this moment, Ye Xiu and Huang Shaotian would immediately run away and continue to hide in the forest. The teams that were heading towards their position were at different distances from each other, so it wasn't possible for them to complete the encirclement in such a short amount of time.

As a result, Lonely Drink held back his troops. With no one disturbing them, Lord Grim and Flowing Tree wiped out those four Tyrannical Ambition players. In the end, this sacrifice gave them time to complete the encirclement and completely blocked off the entire area.

Lonely Drink had intentionally suggested such a formation with the intent of using those four low-defense Tyrannical Ambition players as bait. Four players in each team? That amount of players wouldn't be enough to defeat two great experts. Lonely Drink believed that the other side would definitely find this flaw.

Reality didn't let him down. In Congee Forest's southwest area, Tyrannical Ambition's group was ambushed by two players. The other players were preparing to perform a pincer attack. This was all according to plan. The goal was to defeat them with superior numbers.

"Another one died!!!" After Tyrannical Ambition's third player fell, players began panicking.

"What position are you guys at!!!" Lonely Drink seemed to be the most alarmed. Of course, he was worried. Except he wasn't worried about whether Tyrannical Ambition's players would live or die. He was only worried that the other teams wouldn't arrive at their positions in time. If that happened, then their sacrifice would have been for nothing.

The three teams reported their positions, but Lonely Drink wasn't sure how long the last Tyrannical Ambition member would last. Everything depended on luck.

"After getting into position, immediately head towards the targets!" Lonely Drink sent the message and finally had his Samsara's five players move out.

While dashing over, Lonely Drink watched the final member of Tyrannical Ambition closely. Finally, after a system notification, the final member fell.

"F*ck!!"

"What's going on, Samsara?"

"Samsara's too slow!!!"

The other three teams were naturally complaining. They made an alliance with the agreement that they would save each other if something were to happen, but Tyrannical Ambition's team was wiped out without any sign of Samsara's players. This conflicted with their expectations. How could they know that Lonely Drink had done so intentionally?

"Calm down! The other side is extremely strong. Going out one by one is just asking for death! Are you all in position yet? Everyone, forward." Lonely Drink wouldn't waste his time explaining every detail. He believed that the other guilds wouldn't be too distressed over Tyrannical Ambition's small team. In the end, everyone was only worried whether those two would escape again. But this time, with their arrangement, 18v2, Lonely Drink was confident they would win.

"Charge!!" Some typed out it out in the group chat; some directly shouted it out. The four teams closed in.

"Force them out of the forest!" Lonely Drink yelled. There wasn't enough time to completely surround their targets, but their current position was close to the edge of Congee Forest, which would force their two targets out of the forest. There would be no place to hide out of the forest and it'd be difficult for them to escape again.

Lonely Drink was extremely satisfied with their positions and felt that he had created a rare masterpiece.

"I see them!!"

"Where?"

"In their original position. They seem to be resting."

"Don't rush! Wait for us!" Lonely Drink sent the message and saw their targets. One was standing up with his lance, while the other was sitting on the ground, drinking potions, recovering mana.

"Are you all there? Are you all there?" Lonely Drink was anxious.

"Here."

"Here."

"Hurry, hurry, hurry." One team hadn't arrived yet. Lonely Drink urged them.

"Here."

"Up!!" Lonely Drink shouted. Bringing with him his anger towards Lord Grim, he bravely charged forward. At the same time, he also saw movements from several directions. Their players had already completely surrounded the area. This time, there was no escape!

"Lord Grim!!" Lonely Drink shouted and dashed in front of the two targets.

"Bang!" A huge noise erupted. The sound of an explosion came from the southwest direction. Lonely Drink looked towards there in surprise. All he saw was the smoke from the explosion.

"What's going on?" Why did someone attack from over there? Which idiot used a skill?

"You've been surrounded. There's no escape!" Ye Xiu said.

Lonely Drink was completely dumbfounded. Wasn't that what he was going to say? Why did it just come out from Lord Grim's mouth?

"What……" Lonely Drink was only able to say one word, when the Blade Master, Flowing Tree, suddenly jumped out. A string of word bubbles flew above his head and a sword leapt at him.

Lonely Drink had heard of this Blade Master's strength. He had no intention of fighting him one on one and surrounded him with his four brothers. What did Lord Grim mean by that? Lonely Drink fought, while wanting to ask in the group chat, but there was no time to. In front of a God, he didn't have the ability to fight while asking.

Players poured out from all around the forest. The more Lonely Drink watched, the more confident he became. Weren't these all his players! Weren't they the ones surrounding them?

With this confidence, Lonely Drink's fighting became braver.

"Not bad. You're the strongest one I've met so far today." Huang Shaotian gave him a compliment.

"But it's no use. I think it'd be best for you to give up. You seem to be the leader. If this continues on, then things will turn ugly. Are you willing to lose face in front of your bros?" Huang Shaotian's word bubbles poured out as always. His attacks never stopped either as well as his mouth.

"Move to the side a bit!" Ye Xiu yelled.

"What do you want!"

"Your word bubbles are blocking my view!" Ye Xiu cursed.

"What do you know!"

"We're here!" Another gun sound erupted from behind them. Cleansing Mist jumped out from the smoke with her heavy cannon. A female character with a heavy weapon burst out, brining a strong visual impact. Behind her was Qiao Yifan's One Inch Ash, who was carefully treading forward. A purple aura emanated from him and a Ghost Slash was sent flying towards the player closest to him.

"We're here? Who are these guys? Your friends? …… oops……" From a different direction, Steamed Bun Invasion came out with his hand clutching another player's throat. Behind him was a Summoner, who tripped. A bunch of pets walked around randomly behind the Summoner. They were clearly not being well controlled.

"Bang!"

It sounded like a gunshot, but experienced players knew that it was the sound of a Battle Mage using Falling Flower Palm. Judging from how loud the sound was, three or more targets had been hit. Sure enough, three players flew out from the forest although they did complete a Quick Recover to land well. Tang Rou's Soft Mist carried her Battle Lance with Chasers surrounding her. Without a word, she chased them out and headed towards the closest players. She had died quite a few times today…….

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Chapter 206 – Tyrannical Class

Lonely Drink's heart broke…….

Dealing with Lord Grim and Flowing Tree alone was hard enough for them, and the other guilds, who were supposed to come pincer them, were suddenly ambushed. Lord Grim's team had unexpectedly arrived. Even though they still had the advantage in numbers, there was a big difference in the quality!

Lonely Drink didn't know exactly how strong these players were , but they couldn't be any weaker than the Level 27 Blade Master, Flowing Tree, right?

Tang Rou's Soft Mist blowing away three players with just one Falling Flower Palm was a dominating entrance. Lonely Drink's heart immediately trembled at the sight of it.

Tang Rou's entrance, as well as her travel here, appeared heroic.

The other team members arrived through hiding and running, while she directly slaughtered her way out of Congee City.

While recovering from her Critically Ill state in the city, Tang Rou noticed that there were always spies nearby from the big guilds watching her.

But Tang Rou didn't care. After buying several potions and putting them in her bag, she directly walked out of Congee City.

There were quite a few players from the big guilds outside of the city. Tang Rou wasn't the only one they were waiting for; they were ready to kill anyone who had returned to the city.

Everyone knew that Soft Mist had died and returned to the city. Seeing that Soft Mist had dared to walk out of the safe city, they obviously thought that she was being stupid.

But Tang Rou, this sister, did just this.

Before going, she had sent Ye Xiu a message. Ye Xiu didn't stop her. Even if she died, losing 10% of her experience wasn't anything significant. He agreed to let Tang Rou go along with this because Soft Mist's class was a Battle Mage.

Even though Ye Xiu was given the title of Glory's Encyclopedia and was proficient in all classes, Battle Mage was still undoubtedly his most proficient class.

Various buffs from all sorts of Chasers.

The range advantage of a long weapon.

The strong knockbacks.

Ye Xiu couldn't be any clearer on the strengths of a Battle Mage.

As a Battle Mage, the most suitable style for Tang Rou was to be direct. Battle Mages were supposed to be tyrannical like this.

In order to play a character, not only did you need mechanics and knowledge, but you also needed a type of temperament.

Tang Rou's aggressiveness and willpower suited the Battle Mage class. If not, then before she chose a class, Ye Xiu would have had a more rational recommendation, similar to when he recommended Qiao Yifan to play as a Phantom Demon.

As a result, at this moment, Ye Xiu definitely wouldn't stop Tang Rou from doing this type of action that others saw as suicidal. Even if she really did die, Ye Xiu believed that it was still worth a try. This would allow her to grasp the essence of the class, as well as train her temperament.

Tang Rou appearing here was undoubtedly proof that she had successfully accomplished her task. Ye Xiu was very happy with this.

He could imagine how dumbstruck the guards outside of the city were when this sister rushed out of the city.

Slaughtering her way through their encirclement was obviously very difficult, but the harder a task was, the more enthusiastic she was about it.

To her, the battle outside of the city was a performance that was beyond her skill level. With an intention of breaking through the encirclement, she had noticed every single detail. Even though she hadn't completely killed off an opponent, she had already completely deduced the tyrannical style of a Battle Mage.

When she fiercely tore through the encirclement, the players, who had been surrounding her, only had one feeling in their heart: chaos.

Correct.

Even though none of them died, with some not even losing any health, they all had a feeling of "chaos" in their heart.

They hadn't prepared to block just Soft Mist. They had been waiting to block all of Lord Grim's team from moving out of Congee City, but in the end, a single Soft Mist, confidently rushed out. Their original meaning had been erased.

They weren't even sure if they should chase or not. If they chased, who would stay behind and stop other characters from leaving the city?

This was a big issue they were pondering over. In their minds, they hadn't even thought of the possibility of a character breaking through their encirclement. At best, the character would have to retreat back into the safety of the city. This was what they had thought before Soft Mist had opened up a path.

After hesitating and asking around for directions, they soon realized that there was no longer any point in doing so.

Not a single trace of Soft Mist could be seen.

Without a single leader guiding them, they could only think for themselves. The guards waiting outside of the city also had this problem.

In Congee Forest, Lonely Drink had led this operation. In the original plan, twenty two players working together should have been more than enough to easily suppress Lord Grim and Flowing Tree.

Unfortunately, Lord Grim's other team members suddenly appeared out of nowhere and ruined his plan.

"Ha ha, you're here! You're all here! Oh? That's a new face? A Summoner? F*ck me! Where'd you find such a pitiful Summoner? Everything he does is so bad! D*mn! Did he just bump into a tree? Did you guys see that? Does this guy even know how to play?" Huang Shaotian hacked at the enemies while chattering. He was fighting against five opponents with Lord Grim, yet he still had the ability to talk.

"Senior!" Steamed Bun Invasion smashed a Brick onto the back of someone's head, while greeting Ye Xiu. When Ye Xiu turned around to look at him, that Summoner's messy display made him feel nauseous. However, after seeing his ID, he felt extremely surprised.

Concealed Light? What a coincidence!

"Senior, this is a bro I met at the bottom of a well." Steamed Bun Invasion introduced Concealed Light to Ye Xiu.

"Hi." Ye Xiu greeted Concealed Light.

But Concealed Light seemed to not have heard him. Ye Xiu could tell that he was busy trying to stabilize himself. Seeing his summoned creatures moving and stopping at random times, Ye Xiu began to sweat. He made a brave judgement. This noob might not even know what the hotkeys were for different controls and frequently messed up as well, causing his character to spasm uncontrollably without any sign of a skill coming out.

"Woah! F*ck, a sneak attack!" Steamed Bun Invasion was talking to Ye Xiu when he was suddenly hit from behind by a bullet. He immediately leapt up and grabbed the person, while complaining to Concealed Light: "What are you doing? If you're like this, how can I trust you with protecting my back?"

Concealed Light didn't have the ability to bother with Steamed Bun Invasion. He was having a lot of difficulty controlling his summoned creatures so they wouldn't crash into trees. Ye Xiu had been in the tenth server for this long, but he had only seen two players with such terrible mechanics. One was that noob girl, Immersed Jade, and the other was this Summoner, Concealed Light. Thinking back to those Idiot's Guides, Ye Xiu was sure: this guy had definitely used videos as sources to write his guides. With a skill level like that and without an expert babysitting him, he was 100% a team killer. Every run would end up in a wipe, and to be able to write such a detailed guide, talking about so many things, could this guy even do what he wrote?

"Wow! It's only been a short while since we've last seen each other, but Soft Mist got better again. One versus three, so strong! Aren't we too shameful? It's been so long and we haven't even taken down these five! Work harder! What? I go and you run? F*ck me. How shameful! What a terrible friend!" Huang Shaotian, once again, began talking non-stop. Lord Grim had suddenly used an Aerial Fire to go to where Cleansing Mist was and Eagle Stamped the enemy behind her.

Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist turned halfway and sent Anti-Tank Missiles towards Lord Grim's target. The two instantly changed targets without any discontinuity.

"Kill them all!" Ye Xiu shouted.

"D*mn, so fierce! You don't want to let any of them to run away? That's fine by me!" Huang Shaotian yelled as he moved, Falling Light Blade. He had used it extremely quickly! Normal players weren't even able to see him jump up. To them, it just seemed like he had used it standing there.

The five players weren't able to dodge in time and were hit by the shockwave. Some successfully Quick Recovered, while some failed to do so. Huang Shaotian's Flowing Tree sent out a Sword Draw. The three players, who had successfully Quick Recovered, were actually in a bad spot. As soon as they finished rolling, they were hit by the sword slash and were sent flying into the center of battle.

"Three came. I've sent them over. There's still two more. They'll be there soon." This guy was still talking.

Tang Rou and Qiao Yifan had heard Ye Xiu's orders as well. They went to chase after their own targets. The eighteen players were originally in an encirclement, but after Su Mucheng and the other team members arrived, openings began to pop up everywhere. Some realized that the situation wasn't looking good and began to retreat. Ye Xiu saw this, which was why he had reminded everyone.

After helping out Su Mucheng for a bit, he went to help out Steamed Bun Invasion.

"Hey! It'd be better if you don't summon any more creatures!" Ye Xiu's Lord Grim arrived and gave Concealed Light some advice.

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Chapter 207 – Your Guides

"Why?" Concealed Light's character didn't turn and continued to stare at the group of creatures in front of him.

Level 30 Summoners already had Thunder and Fire spirits. Two of each could be summoned and could last up to 30 seconds. Aside from these, at Level 5, they could also summon Goblins, which lasted 90 seconds. The maximum of 5 creatures were summoned and were spinning around in confusion, like headless house flies.

Looking at Concealed Light and his creatures' movements, Ye Xiu knew that he was trying his hardest to control them. Except……. his mechanics were simply too slow and imprecise. He even made mistakes. Even with his ten years of Glory experience, he had no idea what he was trying to do.

Concealed Light wasn't any ordinary noob. Seeing how he was able to write those Idiot Guides, Ye Xiu knew that he had a strong grasp of game knowledge and theory. As a result, his moves should have some sort of purpose behind them and they shouldn't be like that of an actual noob who was just randomly pressing buttons, but watching those creatures running around randomly, Ye Xiu just couldn't watch any further.

"My senior's instructing you! Listen to him! It'll be a gift of a lifetime." Steamed Bun Invasion threw a Brick to grab Concealed Light's attention.

Concealed Light finally looked at Lord Grim: "Lord Grim……."

"I've read your Idiot's Guides." Ye Xiu said as he moved his Lord Grim forward. Concealed Light had an opponent. In the beginning, this opponent was a bit worried, but he quickly saw that the Summoner was absolutely terrible. He decided not to bother with him and was just about to leave. Ye Xiu didn't place his hopes on Concealed Light utilizing his summoned creatures to block for him.

"Oh? What'd you think of them?" Ye Xiu finally caught Concealed Light's attention, who quickly followed him.

But Lord Grim suddenly stood there without moving or speaking.

"Hello? Hello? What'd you think of them?" Concealed Light asked. He then heard a "Bang!" and looked. Lord Grim was using a Falling Flower Palm to blow the player over.

"Shadow Clone Technique!" Concealed Light called and felt depressed. He wasn't able to distinguish real from fake and had been talking with the fake one.

The player, who had been blown away by Lord Grim, used a Quick Recover to roll up. Terrified, he saw Concealed Light and then rushed towards him.

Concealed Light panicked. He wanted to roll away, but he also wanted to run. In his mind, he came up with four or five different ways of escaping, but his hands were unable to use any. Right before he was going to be hit, he heard three gunshots. Lord Grim had fired Anti-Tank Missiles and launched the player away. He then rushed forward to follow up.

"They're written pretty well. They're very detailed without any mistakes, but they're very impractical." Ye Xiu answered Concealed Light's question. While talking, he controlled the field and maneuvered around freely.

"Hmph…… impractical again." Concealed Light clearly wasn't happy. This was the most common comment on his guides. He originally thought that a great expert like Lord Grim would be different, but he turned out to be just like everyone else.

"Yeah! Normal people have no way of completely following such a complicated and detailed strategy all the way through." Ye Xiu said.

"That just means their skill level isn't good enough. If they're good enough, then they'd be able to do it." Concealed Light said.

"I could do it, but I still wouldn't use your guides." Ye Xiu said.

"Why?" Concealed Light didn't understand.

"Because people that have the ability to follow it can easily kill those BOSSes using all sorts of different methods. Why should they follow your guide and do things step by step?" Ye Xiu said.

Concealed Light stared blankly.

"These types of guides are meant for players who aren't able to kill these BOSSes, so the simpler the better, but for your guides, they're so complicated that only highly skilled players can follow them. Highly-skilled players don't need these types of guides. You're writing these guides for players who don't need guides……. how is that not impractical?" Ye Xiu said.

"This……" There was nothing Concealed Light could say. The reasoning was very simple, but somehow he hadn't been able to think of it. After creating his first Idiot Guide, he felt immeasurable satisfaction, but no one agreed with him. He didn't give up and continued writing guide after guide, hoping that others would see how correct he was.

He finally understood. His guides were correct, but at the same time, they were completely useless in reality. It was just like Ye Xiu said; he was writing guides for people who didn't need them.

Concealed Light stood there in a daze. He even forgot to continue controlling his creatures until he heard Lord Grim say: "Why'd you call your guides the Idiot Guides? That's unfortunate. These guides aren't idiotic at all, they just ask too much of the user."

"It's too bad they're trash……" Concealed Light mumbled.

"You want to write valuable, high-leveled guides?" Ye Xiu smiled.

"Of course."

"Then research dungeon records!" Ye Xiu said. "If you're able to make the fastest dungeon record, then this is the place where high-leveled guides are needed."

Concealed Light's heart moved: "I've written one before, talking about your Boneyard record. Have you read it?"

"I did." Ye Xiu said.

"How was it?" Concealed Light was a bit nervous. Even though he knew from Steamed Bun Invasion that his analysis of using Orange equipment might be wrong, he wanted to know how many things he got correct.

"It was pretty good, but you didn't discover enough." Ye Xiu said.

"What?"

"The 2nd BOSS Zombie Bailey can also be trapped." Ye Xiu said.

"How?" Concealed Light was astonished.

"There's a hole on the wall where the BOSS is. Did you know that?"

"No……."

"Over there, if you send the BOSS into it, it'll be trapped there."

"Then how many Orange weapons did you have in your team?" Concealed Light immediately asked.

"One." Ye Xiu said. At the time, Flowing Tree had the Level 25 Vampiric Lightsaber.

"Ah……" Concealed Light's face burned red! His prediction that they all had Orange equipment was wrong and he believed that there was no reason for Lord Grim to lie to him.

"But there was a Silver Weapon." Ye Xiu said.

"Silver….. Silver weapon?"

Concealed Light couldn't help but notice the Thousand Chance Umbrella in Lord Grim's hands. The weapon, which had been in the form of a lance, suddenly retracted and Lord Grim suddenly took out a sword from it and used a "Sword Draw", attacking the blown away opponent.

"This one….." Concealed Light called.

"Correct."

"It can change forms, so there's no cooldown in changing weapons." Concealed Light said.

"Oh? A new player like you knows about unspecialized players?" Ye Xiu said.

"Uh…… When I researched your Boneyard strategy, I specially studied materials on unspecialized players." Concealed Light said.

"Oh……" Ye Xiu said, "Correct, this weapon almost perfectly lets me overcome the restriction of being unable to easily use skills from different classes."

Ye Xiu spoke as he had Lord Grim chase after another target. Concealed Light was no longer paying attention to his pets anymore and was now frantically trying to follow behind Lord Grim.

"Almost?" Concealed Light noticed this particular word.

"Yeah, you saw…… switching forms still requires a bit of time……" Ye Xiu said.

"Oh, you can't completely overcome this?" Concealed Light said.

"The only thing I can do is press the keys faster." Ye Xiu said.

"This weapon is too amazing!" Concealed Light gasped in admiration.

"You've researched self-made equipment before?" Ye Xiu asked.

"A bit, but it was too complicated. You'd have to completely understand how the game is set up and know about equipment data at the very least. There also has to be large amounts of testing and it would require a lot of money. Normal players wouldn't even be able to play with these requirements." Concealed Light said.

"You're correct." Ye Xiu nodded his head and sighed. In order for the pro Clubs to be able to research about self-made equipment, it required a large guild in game to provide them materials and real money to support them. Only then were they able to create self-made equipment for those pro accounts. And the Thousand Chance Umbrella? It didn't have that type of manpower to support its development. It completely depended on the individual doing business in the game. Developing this type of self-made equipment was indescribably difficult.

"Then your Silver weapon….." Concealed Light was puzzled.

"It's from a long time ago."

"Because unspecialized players couldn't level….. it became useless?"

"Yeah."

"And now?"

"You can level in the Heavenly Domain at Level 50." Ye Xiu said.

"Heavenly Domain at Level 50……." Concealed Light sucked in a breath. Entering the Heavenly Domain had always been one of Glory's most difficult challenges. It required players to finish it on their own. Other players couldn't help them. With each increase in the level cap, the difficulty of entering increased as well. The current max level was 70, yet this guy wanted to complete the Heavenly Domain challenges at Level 50.

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Chapter 208 – Summoner

"Don't summon too many creatures! Practice controlling two for now!" Ye Xiu said to Concealed Light.

In Concealed Light's eyes, his image of Ye Xiu had already changed drastically. He trusted what Ye Xiu said. He turned his head and saw that his summoned spirits had already faded away.

Controlling summoned creatures was quite difficult. It almost felt like the Summoner was playing a strategy game, but because of Glory's first-person point of view, controlling these creatures like troops wasn't as simple.

Luckily, Summoners possessed a few command skills for controlling their creatures. The Level 10 Follow made summoned creatures follow behind the Summoner. The Level 15 Mark cast a Mark, where the summoned creature would head towards. This Mark could also be thrown onto a player or a monster. The summoned creature would then attack the target with the Mark.

These two skills used very little mana. They greatly helped the Summoner control their creatures. The higher the skill level, the greater the range of the skill.

At Level 20, the Summoner could learn Lash, which would whip a summoned creature. The Lashed creature would then have its movement and attack speed increased. The higher the skill level, the greater the buff.

In addition, when a player changes classes to a Summoner at Level 20, the player would learn Strengthen Creature, which increased the attack and defense of their summoned creatures.

After changing classes, Summoners are able to learn Summon: Thunder Spirit and Summon: Fire Spirit at Level 25 and Level 30 respectively. The Spirits did similar amounts of damage, but the Thunder Spirit's attacks have a chance to Stun, while the Fire Spirit's attacks have a chance to Burn.

The other two Spirits, Ice and Dark, also had their own crowd control effects. Currently, Level 30 Summoners didn't have access to these two types of summons though,

Concealed Light listened to Ye Xiu's suggestion and concentrated on controlling only two creatures. He looked around left and right, but didn't know who to coordinate together with. Lord Grim didn't need his help and he didn't know the others. In the end, Concealed Light went to Steamed Bun Invasion and controlled both a Goblin and a Thunder Spirit to attack Steamed Bun Invasion's opponent.

He threw a Mark, wanting to hit Steamed Bun Invasion's opponent, but who would have thought that while fighting, the two would suddenly switch positions? The Mark had landed on Steamed Bun Invasion's back.

Steamed Bun Invasion had fought against numerous players in the Arena, so he knew the skills from every class and immediately recognized the Summoner's Mark. He looked back and saw Concealed Light's two summoned creatures rushing at him. He shouted furiously: "What's wrong with you? Is it that hard to land a skill?!"

Just before, Steamed Bun Invasion had thrown a Brick at Concealed Light to have him listen to Ye Xiu speak. Now that he'd been hit by a Mark, he thought that it was the guy trying to pay him back for the Brick.

"Move aside! You move aside!!" Concealed Light shouted. Mark had a very low cooldown. He was just about to throw another one, but Steamed Bun Invasion blocked him.

"You two form a party." Ye Xiu sent a party invite to both of them. Not only had these two players not formed a team, they were also attacking each other!

The two joined the party. Concealed Light's Mark could no longer attract the summoned creatures' attacks and instead made the creatures followed behind Steamed Bun Invasion. This was one way a Summoner could have his creatures move around.

"I'll give you one to play with!" Steamed Bun Invasion shouted. He flashed behind his opponent and used a Knee Attack on what seemed to be that player's butt. The player stumbled towards Concealed Light.

"F*ck!" Concealed Light yelled. Even Ye Xiu couldn't predict what Steamed Bun Invasion would do sometimes so how was he going to be able to? The opponent pounced over. Concealed Light, once again, thought of several ways to escape, but before he could make a decision on which to choose, his opponent had already closed in. This player was a Striker. He used a "High Kick" and sent Concealed Light flying into the air.

"Stupid!" Steamed Bun Invasion cursed as he rushed over to help him.

"I'll do it. Keep an eye on that one, Steamed Bun." Ye Xiu called out. Steamed Bun Invasion had a Spellblade, on that side, who was trying to escape. Ye Xiu had already anticipated that something would happen on Concealed Light's side. If not, then how could he have known to run towards them to help?

Steamed Bun Invasion turned around and looked. Sure enough, a Spellblade was trying to run. He immediately shouted and threw a Brick at that Spellblade.

Lord Grim flashed over with a Shadow Clone Technique and quickly beat the Striker onto the ground. Concealed Light fell. Quick Recover was clearly too difficult for him so his character crashed directly to the ground.

The other opponents had already been sent into the circle. Of the 18 guild players, 16 were in the circle. There were still two left on Steamed Bun Invasion's side.

Lord Grim flipped the Striker over and used a Blow Away attack to send them over. Steamed Bun Invasion's Brawler didn't have that type of skill so he had to fight with the Spellblade for a bit. In the end, Steamed Bun Invasion was the better player and the Spellblade was sent into the circle. At this moment, the side with the greater number was trapped by the side with fewer people.

Having been beaten down to such an extent, how could these players not understand the difference in strength between the two sides? They all understood that they needed to retreat. Lonely Drink jumped out and led the way.

"6 o'clock direction. Everyone rush in that direction!!"

Lonely Drink was quite perceptive. He saw that the Brawler and Summoner's side was the weakest link. However, he didn't have the time to type while fighting and could only shout it out.

"How could I let you run away so easily? Six o'clock? If you say it out loud, how are you going to run? You should train your hand speed bro! If you had sent your group a message unknown to us, then we wouldn't have had time to react! Uh oh! Maybe you've already done so? You say 6 o'clock on the surface, but maybe you've secretly messaged a different direction? Uh oh! Uh oh! Everyone, be careful!" Huang Shaotian chattered, mocking them, while warning everyone else.

The eighteen guild players heard Lonely Drink's shout and sure enough, rushed towards the six o'clock direction.

"Uh oh! They've really come over here!!" Steamed Bun Invasion suddenly felt a lot of pressure: "What was your name? Whatever your name, hurry up and have your summoned creatures form a wall!"

Concealed Light summoned five creatures, but he wasn't able to control so many so the five summoned creatures formed a crooked blob.

"What are you doing! Are you trying to let the sheep out?" Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"Throw the Mark onto me!" Ye Xiu's Lord Grim yelled. The panicked Concealed Light immediately stopped trying to arrange his summoned creatures and threw a Mark at Lord Grim.

Lord Grim's Thousand Chance Umbrella was raised up and a five-pointed star magic circle was formed on the ground. This was a summoning circle. And the only Level 20 and under Summon that could be learned was a Goblin.

The summoning light glowed and then receded. A green Goblin stood in front of Lord Grim. Concealed Light's Mark flew and hit the Goblin's head.

Concealed Light's five summoned creatures immediately headed towards Lord Grim's Goblin. He then saw Lord Grim use a "Follow" skill and his Goblin ran behind him. Concealed Light's summoned creatures followed the Goblin. After a few steps, the six summoned creatures stood in an orderly line.

Concealed Light watched with wide eyes, but with his eyes, he wasn't able to see how Lord Grim was able to do this.

Afterwards, Lord Grim also threw his own Mark. The Goblin led Concealed Light's five summoned creatures and blocked the path of those eighteen guild players.

Of course, it wasn't possible to block these eighteen players with just these few summoned creatures, but it did buy them some time. They began sending attacks at those eighteen players. They were no longer trying to restrict and control them, but rather they were beginning to kill them.

Tang Rou was the quickest and most ominous. She raised her Battle Lance and slashed horizontally. Like a viper, she Double Stabbed and Bled the opponent. Sky Strike into Falling Flower, the blown away players crashed into other players. A large wound suddenly appeared on all of the eighteen players.

"Wow! This sis, how strong! Amazing! Amazing! Ghostblade, cast a…….ah? Already cast? Wow, not bad! You have good perception! Very promising. Very promising." Huang Shaotian chattered, while his sword continued to flash. Even with three players fighting him, he was still pushing them back step by step.

Qiao Yifan had noticed Flowing Tree a long time ago. Sharp and talkative. Plus, this Blade Master was unexpectedly only Level 27…….

"This this this……. is he Huang Shao……?" Qiao Yifan felt like as if he heard his heart jump. He was actually fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with two Gods?

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Chapter 209 – Whoever Kills the Fewest is the Loser

"KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL!!"

During the battle, Huang Shaotian suddenly changed to the largest and boldest font to write "KILL" seven times.

Under the dense word bubbles, Flowing Tree's attacks seemed to have become sharper.

Qiao Yifan became more and more convinced of his assumption. That Flowing Tree's attacks never stopped and even while maintaining such a high tempo, he still had the ability to type words. With such a high hand speed, if this person wasn't Huang Shaotian, who else could he be?

However, even with these sharp attacks, the first of the eighteen guild players to fall wasn't killed under Flowing Tree's sword. His level was too low and his skills didn't do much damage. The damage reduction under the six Level Suppression couldn't be ignored either. Of the eighteen players on the field, the first to fall was under Soft Mist's Battle Lance.

This sister had died twice today and had been trapped in the city for a long time. Who knew how much pent up anger she had? The only thing people saw was her non-stop battling.

Ever since she arrived at the field, she hadn't said a single word. The only thing she did was fight. If Huang Shaotian's seven "KILLs were written by her, it couldn't have fit her any better.

The white movement speed buff surrounding her feet, the Fire-attribute Strength buff surrounding her arms, and the light blue defense buff surrounding her body all displayed this Battle Master's strong battle spirit.

She wasn't attacking those on the edge, but instead, had directly rushed into the enemy's ranks. But the opponents had no way of dealing with her, on of them had even gotten killed.

Not even Huang Shaotian had this type of courageous spirit. Huang Shaotian was pretty much fighting with players, who were in his eyes — noobs. He definitely held the initiative, but his opportunistic style couldn't be changed. His style was to hide and then kill in one hit. He wasn't the type to sweep away everything in his path and charge forward blindly. Every player had their own style; play style, habits, decision-making, these all reflected a player's temperament.

Tang Rou's actions made even Huang Shaotian a bit surprised or perhaps it was because he had only seen her fight in PvE before. Against systematic and monotonous NPCs, everyone had a certain set playing style. But in PvP, the situation was much more complicated and required much more from the player. A player's style would appear more prominently here. Right now, Huang Shaotian was able to see Tang Rou's style. Even though her skills weren't perfect, her style could clearly be seen.

Lonely Drink and his brothers, however, still dared to slash once or twice towards Flowing Tree, but towards Tang Rou's Soft Mist, their only feeling was to run away in fear.

"She's talented!" Huang Shaotian finally witnessed Tang Rou's strength. Before, in the dungeon, he hadn't cared too much.

"Bang!" Soft Mist once again used a Falling Flower Palm to blast several players away. A sudden flash suddenly used this opportunity to dash in. With an arc of a sword, ice drifted down from the tip of the sword and a blue Ghost Boundary formed. Qiao Yifan's One Inch Ash had rushed in to throw down an Ice Boundary.

Lonely Drink and the others wanted to interrupt him, but they weren't fast enough. One Inch Ash finished casting and rolled away, just barely dodging their attacks.

"Beautiful! In just an instant, you were able to clearly see where everyone was and determined their positions and possible attacks to choose a path that would let you complete your Ice Boundary without any interruptions. Amazing, really amazing! That wasn't blind luck was it?" Huang Shaotian praised and even explained everything that had happened. When he finished, the numerous players were all frozen like ice cubes.

"Ah…… it wasn't that good……" Qiao Yifan was flustered by the God's praise. After saying "Ah…", he wasn't sure what to say. But at this moment, Huang Shaotian was already back to trash talk and equipped with his word bubbles, he continued to attack.

A Laser Rifle suddenly fired. The eighteen, no, already seventeen players were once again brutally ripped apart. On the other side, Ye Xiu's Lord Grim also used a Falling Flower Palm to create an opening. Steamed Bun Invasion dashed over and used Sand Toss, immediately Blinding two players.

The two, whose screens turned black, didn't know what their situation was so they randomly attacked and fired off skills.

When their Blind wore off, one stared in a daze as he discovered that the world had already turned grey. His character had already fallen and next to him was his friend who had also been blinded. Lord Grim's sword tip sliced across his friend's neck. The liquid that spurted out seemed to be blood. It was just that in a dead person's point of view, even the blood was grey.

It was only a Blind and the effect should have lasted at maximum six seconds, yet both of them had been killed in this time. They didn't know what attacks their opponents had done. They could only look at the system log to check who had killed them: Lord Grim.

This person was originally their most terrifying opponent, but amidst the chaos, they had carelessly neglected him.

Lord Grim had been here all along!

Lord Grim is still the strongest!

But by the time they had realized this, the two had already fallen.

Lord Grim continued to battle. His tyrannical oppression wasn't any weaker than Tang Rou's when he used his Battle Lance. But when he changed weapons, his style immediately changed…….

The players were still trying to run away in fear, while that Flowing Tree continued to talk non-stop: "Ah! You're not trying hard enough! You're not fully utilizing an unspecialized player's style. You're always using the battle lance. Do you think you're a Battle Mage?"

"Does it matter?" Ye Xiu laughed. Lord Grim's lance stabbed forward and with a Circle Swing, another player died.

"You're going to lose." Ye Xiu said.

"What?"

"I've already killed 11." Ye Xiu said.

"D*mn it! You were keeping track?" Huang Shaotian shouted. He had completely forgotten about the game. Now that he thought about it, he had only killed 9 players. In the beginning, they had the same. This difference between two players had appeared amongst this big mess.

"What are you competing for?" Tang Rou finally said something.

"Whoever kills the least loses." Ye Xiu said.

"Ha ha ha ha." Steamed Bun Invasion laughed out loud, grabbing everyone's attention. Afterwards, he calmly turned to Concealed Light and said in an official voice: "You lost."

Concealed Light was still focused on controlling his creatures. His summoned creatures had been blocking the eighteen heroes. Those that were killed off were killed, those that ran out of time had run out of time. He had now, already, summoned a new wave.

This time, he succeeded.

Concealed Light was able to accurately throw a Mark onto one of the players that had been turned into ice cubes by One Inch Ash's Ice Boundary. One Goblin, two Thunder Spirits, and two Fire Spirits rushed forward and surrounded the ice cube.

The Fire Spirit's fire attack immediately broke the Freeze effect, but with five creatures surrounding him, running away wouldn't be easy. Even though Concealed Light's mechanics were poor, summoned creatures automatically attacked.

The pitiful player was bombarded on all sides and was actually killed off this way.

"Ah! Ah! I killed one!" A wave of excitement washed over Concealed Light. He saw the message that he had killed some player on his log. The happiness on his face made it seem as if he had gone on TV.

"D*mn!" Steamed Bun Invasion said angrily. Concealed Light had unexpectedly killed off someone. If things kept continuing like this, wouldn't that put the two of them at the same level?

"How many have you killed?" Steamed Bun Invasion immediately asked Qiao Yifan.

"Two." Qiao Yifan said.

4, 3, 2, 2……. At this moment, everyone began reporting their numbers. Ye Xiu's Lord Grim had killed 4. Tang Rou's Soft Mist had killed 3. Su Mucheng and Huang Shaotian had both killed 2.

"F*ck!" Steamed Bun Invasion didn't want to lose the game. But right now, only three remained of those original eighteen heroes. Lonely Drink was helpless. Even worse, no one planned on showing them any mercy. They all wanted them for points.

Who knew how many weapons and skills landed on their bodies. Blood and light flew everywhere and the three were instantly turned into corpses. Among these three players was Lonely Drink. With his guild leader status and strength, he was undoubtedly the strongest of the eighteen heroes, but even so, his fate hadn't changed.

The moment his health bar emptied out, his world turned grey. The last sounds he heard came from two different people: "Ha ha ha ha, I KSed one."

F*ck! Are we monsters?

Lonely Drink fell gloomy, but couldn't tell who had been laughing. The penalties for dying wasn't too bad. A bit of money and 10% of their EXP.

But, wiped out…… this word struck Lonely Drink hard. Under his lead, their group of 32 pursuers had been wiped out?

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Chapter 210 – A Beautiful Misunderstanding

Congee Forest. 32 corpses lay in this quiet forest.

Of course, most of the corpses were no long there. Almost everyone had already chosen to revive and return to the city. Only Lonely Drink, the last one to fall, was still there.

A huge crowd of guild players had pursued them here. But sadly, their 32 member army was completely wiped out. Currently, no one knew where Lord Grim and his group's position was. Lonely Drink didn't hurry and revive because the battle wasn't over yet. He wanted to see where they would head towards next.

Lonely Drink floated around like a ghost, looking over his corpse and over the nearby seven players in the forest.

"Ha ha ha, I killed one. You lose!" Steamed Bun Invasion laughed madly, talking to Concealed Light while admiring his system log.

"Huh?" Steamed Bun Invasion suddenly asked a question. His gaze fell onto a corpse —- Lonely Drink, the player he had just killed.

"Why hasn't this guy revived yet? Is he not completely dead?" Steamed Bun Invasion began being a noob again. His character stepped on Lonely Drink's corpse and even kicked him twice.

Lonely Drink couldn't hear what Steamed Bun Invasion was saying, but seeing him kick his corpse made him want to cough up blood.

"Too excessive!!" Lonely Drink angrily took note of Steamed Bun Invasion's name.

Just at this moment, Lonely Drink suddenly saw Lord Grim lift his head.

When a character moved his camera up, the movement would like as if he was lifting his head in other players' eyes.

Lonely Drink knew that the system gave him a camera, but there no ghost actually existed. But when Lord Grim lifted his head and stared directly at him, Lonely Drink felt as if he was looking at him face to face in person.

"He knows I'm here……" Lonely Drink thought. Soon after, Lord Grim and the others ran towards a direction and quickly left his view.

The ghost camera after death was centered on the corpse. The player had no way of adjusting it. In the beginning, he had planned on determining where they were heading to next, but after seeing Lord Grim lift his head, he wasn't sure what to do.

If Lord Grim knew he was there and knew his intent, is this direction he's heading towards a trick?

Lonely Drink kept his death camera for a while, but Lord Grim's group never showed up again.

Lord Grim's group had already left.

"Follow me." Ye Xiu's Lord Grim was at the front.

'Where are we going?" Su Mucheng asked.

"The other side definitely has more people coming to find us. The moment you guys showed up, pursuers from every direction began heading towards Congee Forest." Ye Xiu said.

"The route we're taking lets us avoid encountering these people." Concealed Light added.

"What are we hiding for? Let's attack them head on." Tang Rou said.

"Against those numbers, we had the advantage." Ye Xiu laughed, "However, there's no end to them, even if we kill them again and again, in the end, they'll have won."

"Why? What's their goal?" Tang Rou asked.

"To stop us from training and slow down our leveling speed. Right now, it seems like experts from the big guilds are chasing us, but I'm sure that each guild also has two or three elite teams that are still continuing to power level. And us? All of our time will be wasted on dealing with these guys. To these big guilds, they don't care if these players die. They have the manpower and plenty of accounts. But we don't have that luxury." Ye Xiu was quite detailed. He knew a new player like Tang Rou wouldn't understand these types of guild politics.

"Then what do we do now?" Tang Rou asked.

"Dungeons, still dungeons. They're scared of us taking down dungeon records……" Ye Xiu said.

"Hey hey hey. Dungeons again? Didn't you say we'd spar! Everyone in your team is quite good! This Ghostblade lil' bro that I've never seen before seems pretty strong too. Go go go. Let's spar." Huang Shaotian shouted.

Qiao Yifan felt extremely excited, hearing a God praise him. It looks like playing as a Phantom Demon was correct. His previous class didn't fit him, so it limited his ability.

Qiao Yifan's morale was boosted. But he was thinking a bit too much.

The only reason Huang Shaotian praised him was because they were in a game and he was regarding him as a normal player. Such a display by a normal player was more than enough for praise. If Huang Shaotian knew that he was a pro-player, then his criteria would be much higher. Ye Xiu's and Su Mucheng's display had been amazing, but Huang Shaotian didn't praise them.

"Thank you senior for you praise." Qiao Yifan's tone carried a sense of joy. It was a misunderstanding. But even so, this beautiful misunderstanding boosted his confidence by quite a lot.

"Senior? What Senior? Who are you calling a Senior? Who are you?" Huang Shaotian was surprised.

"My name is…… Qiao Yifan……" Qiao Yifan was frightened and replied hesitantly.

"Qiao Yifan? You are….." Huang Shaotian was a secretive person. The word "Senior" was enough for him to figure out Qiao Yifan's identity. Normally, no one would be so polite in-game. Even if he was, Huang Shaotian had only just met with him. And seeing his skill, he couldn't be a new player, so how could he have been certain that he was his "Senior" and not his "Junior"?

This guy's from the pro-scene. And he's even guessed who I am! But who is he? Which team? Calling me a senior? A newcomer? Huang Shaotian had already deduced several things.

"Ah….." Qiao Yifan heard from Huang Shaotian's tone that something wasn't right, but he didn't know what to say.

"Who are you calling a Senior? Me? How could I be your Senior? Do people still say that? Are we in some Wuxia film?" Huang Shaotian laughed insincerely, while sending messages to Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng: "F*ck me f*ck me f*ck me. What do I do? My identity's been exposed! Who is this guy? If it comes out that I've run into the game to kill normal players, how can I show my face again? Hurry up and protect me! Hurry up and protect me!"

"Cough!" Su Mucheng coughed, "Yifan, who do you think he is?"

"Huang…… Huang……" Qiao Yifan didn't know what to call him. If he directly said "Huang Shaotian", he couldn't show his respect towards him; "Huang Shao"? Only people close to him could call him that; "Senior Huang Shaotian"? That should've been the correct way to say it, but called him "Senior" seemed to have offended him?

"Huang Shaotian?" Su Mucheng helped him finish.

"Su Mucheng, you f*cker!!!" Huang Shaotian privately messaged her. He then immediately explained: "Lil' bro, you've got quite an imagination. How could I be Huang Shaotian?"

"You're not?" Qiao Yifan was dumbstruck.

"Yeah, he's not." Su Mucheng unexpectedly said, "How could he be Huang Shaotian? Huang Shaotian is a very noisy guy. He constantly buzzes around like a house fly. If he was next to you, then you'd go crazy in a less than a second. This fellow Flowing Tree has a bit of a Huang Shaotian style, but his noisiness isn't even one ten-thousandth of Huang Shaotian's! Right, Flowing Tree?"

"Ha ha….. ha ha….." Huang Shaotian laughed dryly, while madly sending Su Mucheng messages: "You f*cker You f*cker You f*cker You f*cker……." He then received an emoticon of a smiley face with sunglasses on from Su Mucheng. Flowing Tree's cheeks streamed with tears as he sent a message to Ye Xiu: "Can you take care of it, old man?"

Ye Xiu wasn't able to say anything yet, when Qiao Yifan said: "Oh, so it's like that. My mistake."

He wasn't an idiot. Seeing the look on Su Mucheng as well as Flowing Tree's weird reaction, he was completely sure that this person really was Huang Shaotian. However, the God clearly didn't want others to know who he was.

Huang Shaotian didn't treat him like an idiot either. He knew that with this, Qiao Yifan knew who he was. But even so, the other side acted as if he didn't know, which meant that his identity was safe.

Huang Shaotian heaved a sigh of relief. In the end, all he heard was Steamed Bun Invasion mutter: "Huang Shaotian? What's that? Sounds kinda familiar."

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Chapter 211 – The Waves Behind Drive the Waves Ahead

"You don't even know who Huang Shaotian is??" Concealed Light was flabbergasted. In his eyes, Steamed Bun Invasion was quite strong. He hadn't expected him to ask such an ignorant question.

"What's that?" Steamed Bun Invasion asked.

"Sword Saint! Do you understand?" Concealed Light said.

"Nope." Steamed Bun Invasion replied.

"The strongest of the Blade Masters." Concealed Light said.

"Oh? That sounds interesting. My spirit's fired up. You're the Sword Saint?" Steamed Bun Invasion asked Huang Shaotian.

"Not me. Huang Shaotian is." Huang Shaotian replied dully. This nooby Steamed Bun Invasion was much easier to lie to.

"That's too bad. I would have fought with you if you were." Steamed Bun Invasion said high and mightily.

"Yeah yeah……" Huang Shaotian said, resisting the urge to kick his ass.

"Who's the strongest Brawler?" Steamed Bun Invasion was already past Huang Shaotian and now asked Concealed Light.

"Uh, most people say that Team Hundred Blossom's Tang Hao is the best, but his Brawler character Delilo isn't the strongest. The strongest is probably Team Wind Howl Lin Jingyan's Three Hits." Concealed Light said.

"Oh…… really……" Steamed Bun Invasion listened while scratching his head. This time, there were two players and two characters. One was the strongest player while the other was the strongest character, making him a bit confused.

"You know quite a lot, Concealed Light!" Ye Xiu said. Concealed Light was a new player just like Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion, but he knew a lot about Glory. This was at least a show of his passion and interest in the game.

"That's what I read online. Is it right?" Concealed Light said.

"Pretty much. But Lin Jingyan is probably going to retire soon." Ye Xiu suddenly said with lament. This type of feeling was something he was currently going through.

"Yeah…… after this season ends, he'll probably be able to play for at most another year." Huang Shaotian added after hearing Ye Xiu's lament.

"Wind Howl will probably find a way to snatch Tang Hao!" Ye Xiu said.

"Right now, pretty much everyone knows that Lin Jingyan is going to retire soon. Wind Howl will probably get ripped off. From a business standpoint, Hundred Blossoms is doing a lot better, so it's very likely that Hundred Blossoms will buy Three Hits." Huang Shaotian said.

Apart from buying and transferring players, accounts could also be traded. How many equips the character has is negotiated by the two parties involved. Usually, the character brings all of its equipment. A character without any equipment might have a few more skill points and some fame, but that's all.

"That's true." Ye Xiu said.

"See how smart your Excellent Era is? Without any word, they brought in Sun Xiang and then made you retire…… if they made you retire first and then had Sun Xiang come over to fill in the spot, then he'd be at a completely different price." Huang Shaotian said.

'Yeah." Ye Xiu said.

"Ha ha, in any case, another strong opponent is about to be born. Lin Jingyan is already no longer a top-tier Brawler like he was before. Tang Hao and Three Hits…….. a new God!" Huang Shaotian swiftly returned to the topic.

eSports was cruel like this. As soon as your skill started declining, you could be replaced at any time. Formerly famous names eventually disappear one after another and a new generation with new faces appear. Sun Xiang, Tang Hao…… these risings stars of the new generation were slowly climbing up onto the stage as the main characters.

When I came back, how many familiar people will be left? Ye Xiu thought.

How sad! Huang Shaotian's Flowing Tree moved a bit closer to Ye Xiu's Lord Grim. He lowered his voice and said: "I see it."

"See what?" Ye Xiu asked.

"When you return to the Alliance, you'll pull together your own team!" Huang Shaotian said, "Su Mucheng of course will obviously come over when her contract ends. That sis there and even that Steamed Bun have huge potential. I know why you've come to the new server to play. The new server is full of opportunities and talents. Besides the new server, where else would you find so much fresh blood? In the old servers, all of the big guilds would have already found the talents."

"Ha ha, it's all a coincidence. That sis is a co-worker at the Internet Cafe I work at. As for Steamed Bun, I just randomly bumped into him. It really wasn't intentional." Ye Xiu said.

"Then that Qiao Yifan? You've even scooped someone out from the pro-scene! Which team is he from? I've never heard of him." Huang Shaotian said.

"Tiny Herb."

"Tiny Herb? D*mn, a member of the Champion team, yet I haven't even heard of him. This kid's been buried into oblivion! No wonder you were able to dig him up."

"Dig him up? You're exaggerating too much. I'm currently retired and working at an Internet Cafe. What digging? The kid needed some help, that's all." Ye Xiu plainly said.

"For now, maybe. But when you return, how could anyone know about these circumstances? With so many outstanding new players beside you, don't tell me you don't have any plans for them." Huang Shaotian said.

Ye Xiu fell silent. As he had said, meeting Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion were fairly coincidental.

But in the new server, just like what Huang Shaotian said, meeting these types of players with potential, some were incidental, some were inevitable.

Meeting Tang Rou was purely coincidental. Meeting with Steamed Bun Invasion was somewhat inevitable and somewhat coincidental. As for discovering Concealed Light, there was a bit more initiative on his end.

As a new player, Concealed Light's mechanics were far from Tang Rou's and Steamed Bun Invasion's. However, he had a strong grasp of the theory and possessed a certain amount of tactical intuition. If his mechanics improved, he would also become a good player.

Even though Concealed Light and Steamed Bun Invasion had coincidentally met, even without these two meeting, Ye Xiu would have actively looked for him. Because of these Idiot's Guides, he had already seen this person's potential.

Towards new players, Ye Xiu never felt begrudged teaching but the people he taught had to want to be taught and had to want to learn.

Of the people beside Ye Xiu, Tang Rou had great enthusiasm. Not only did she want to learn, she also wanted to exceed him.

Steamed Bun Invasion was already following his own path. Ye Xiu was really only giving him basic reminders. Afterwards, he would form his own playing style.

Qiao Yifan didn't need to be talked about since he was the one who asked Ye Xiu to teach him.

Concealed Light was able to create such detailed guides without any practical experience. However, he had written them for people who didn't need it and his talent was being wasted in the wrong place. In reality, the reason Ye Xiu was looking for him was to tell him this.

Gathering these people together and forming a team…….

Huang Shaotian wasn't wrong. Ye Xiu had thought of this before, but all he had done was thought about it. Ye Xiu understood clearly that making it into reality wouldn't be easy.

Forming a team and going pro wasn't simple. It was a type of life. Ye Xiu could determine his own life, but he had no way of determining other people's lives.

Become a pro-player? Perhaps this was something many Glory players wanted to become. But what about them?

The main reason Tang Rou entered the game was to compete with Ye Xiu. Her interest in Glory was still developing. She had even rejected an invitation from a Champion team like Team Tiny Herb. What could Ye Xiu do to persuade her?

Steamed Bun Invasion, on the other hand, was simpler. Ye Xiu didn't doubt that he'd nod his head and accept immediately. But because of this, he would have to set the road for Steamed Bun Invasion and take full responsibility over Steamed Bun's life.

Qiao Yifan was a member of a Champion team. For Team Tiny Herb to add Qiao Yifan to the team meant that they felt he had potential. Qiao Yifan might only be overlooked because of Gao Yingjie's talent. As long as he practiced, his skill level would definitely rise. There was no way he'd be abandoned.

As for Concealed Light, his research spirit would definitely be beneficial if he joined a team. Researching a map, researching the opponent's tactics, creating tactics for his own team….. at the pro-level, strategy and tactics were definitely a big factor in whether a team won or lost. Winning or losing wasn't as simple as which team had the better equipment and mechanics. But Ye Xiu had only just met him and wasn't familiar with him yet. So wanting Concealed Light to do as he wished was unrealistic.

Huang Shaotian's chatter made Ye Xiu seriously ponder over this issue.

Bringing a new team to the Alliance, that really would be as if the waves behind drove the waves ahead!

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Chapter 212 – Doing Their Own Thing

"Why'd you stop talking? Why'd you stop talking?" In places with Huang Shaotian, there was no such thing as silence.

"Later!" Ye Xiu could only respond. He still needed some more time to think about it. He had only mulled over it for a bit before Huang Shaotian interrupted him.

"Forming a team and what not sounds a bit like a fantasy in your current situation, but you can still prepare for it. Dig out a couple more new players and you'll definitely be able to put one together. If you just take that Steamed Bun, from the looks of it, he seems very easy to persuade. If you tell him there'll be steamed buns to eat, he'll definitely come and follow you. Up the mountain and into the frying pan……" Huang Shaotian said.

"There's someone up ahead." Ye Xiu suddenly said to everyone loudly, interrupting Huang Shaotian's chatter. The two were at the very head of team with their voices lowered, so the people behind them couldn't hear what they were talking about.

"It's just a person. There's no need to make such a fuss about them." Huang Shaotian said.

"There shouldn't be anyone here." Ye Xiu's Lord Grim looked around. There was nowhere to hide. Even though they were far away enough that they couldn't see each other's IDs clearly, if the player ahead was from the big guilds, they'd be seen as very suspicious.

"Not true! People come here from time to time." Concealed Light said.

"Oh?" Ye Xiu was surprised.

"In Congee City's chain quest "The Coming of Weiss", the seventh part requires you to look for an abandoned windmill at the edge of Line Canyon. It then requires you to go to Congee Forest to compare the wood grains. If someone came here to finish this part of the quest, then it's possible that he's heading towards Congee Forest from the abandoned windmill." Concealed Light said.

Ye Xiu was astonished. His nickname as the Glory Encyclopedia didn't cover quests.

The Coming of Weiss. Ye Xiu might have done this quest ten years ago, but right now, he really had no memory of it. This quest definitely didn't reward any skill points or good equipment, which would be why he had forgotten about it after all these years.

"What's that?" Steamed Bun Invasion asked everyone. Presently there were four pro-players, two of which were God-level players, but none of them had even the slightest clue about this quest.

This Concealed Light truly did have incredible knowledge of the game. He even remembered a random quest like this and explained it to everyone.

But who cared! Only Steamed Bun Invasion replied with "Yeah yeah yeah" to make it so that Concealed Light wouldn't lose interest in explaining the quest to everyone.

With Concealed Light's reminder, they didn't avoid the passerby. There was nowhere to run anyways.

"This person might reveal our whereabouts. If the pursuers meet him, they'll definitely ask him if he's seen us." Huang Shaotian showed his careful side.

"By the time they ask for our whereabouts, we'd have already left." Ye Xiu said.

"But by knowing where we are now, they can figure out where we're heading towards!" Huang Shaotian said.

"Our destinations will be revealed sooner or later." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh?"

"We'll be going on TV." Ye Xiu said.

"You remind me of something……. You guys are going to Line Canyon, so why am I following you guys?" Huang Shaotian jumped up.

"No idea."

"F*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck! I'll be going online tomorrow night! When the time comes, I'll be seeing you at the Arena. I'll be using my Troubling Rain to teach your unspecialized a lesson." Huang Shaotian said.

"Maybe if there's time." Ye Xiu said.

"F*ck! You have time to run dungeons, but you don't have time to fight me?"

"I'm sure you can see that I'm very busy right now……" Ye Xiu said.

"Then when you have time contact me, PK! We have to PK!" Huang Shaotian said.

"Okay."

"You guys can play! I'll be getting off." Huang Shaotian waved goodbye to everyone and then logged off.

The team continued forward just a few steps, then there was a sudden flash and Flowing Tree ran back to them.

"What are you doing?" Ye Xiu asked.

"I almost forgot. This Broadsword I have is someone else's. I said I'd return it, so send me back to the city." Huang Shaotian said.

Ye Xiu didn't say anything more and sent out a bunch of attacks, killing Flowing Tree. Before he died, Huang Shaotian said a "Bye" and then flew back to the city to revive.

"Concealed Light! We're going to go set a record at Line Canyon in a bit. What are you going to do?" Concealed Light's skill level clearly wasn't good enough for setting records. Ye Xiu trusted that Concealed Light understood that his skills were too poor. Fixing it wasn't something Ye Xiu could do with just a few words.

"Oh oh……. setting records! Then I'll go research how to get the fastest record for this dungeon!" Concealed Light said.

"Good luck. This time, your guide will definitely have many players reading it." Ye Xiu said.

"Thanks, I'll be going then." Concealed Light logged off.

"Line Canyon, let's go." The five remaining players continued towards Line Canyon. Line Canyon still wasn't the main leveling area yet, so there weren't many players here.

Ye Xiu led the four other players to the dungeon entrance, avoiding the sparsely scattered players. The dungeon entrance was a bit more crowded. There were players, all looking for parties to join. These random teams clearly weren't from the big guilds. The players were all in a crowd with word bubbles flying around, making it even harder for them to be discovered.

And like this, the five players entered the dungeon. As for the big guilds, their pursuers were heading towards Congee Forest from different directions. Some were from Desolate Land and Hades Village, some were defeated by Tang Rou at Congee City some were elites from random areas, and some were unable to be categorized. There were also the 32 avengers, who had revived. Right now, they were all gathered together and surrounding the entire forest.

32 players wiped out?

The big guilds already knew about this. If a random passerby heard this, he'd be scared to death. Even by knowing why it had happened, the big guilds weren't any happier.

The battle strength of Lord Grim's team was clearly much greater than they had anticipated.

The Battle Mage Soft Mist charged her way through the encirclement around Congee City.

The Blade Master Flowing Tree wasn't at a disadvantage when fighting Level 33 players as a Level 27. He could even 1v3 or 1v4.

These two were the focal points. The 32 player troop described in great detail how strong and difficult Flowing Tree was. The guards outside of the city also continuously stressed how terrifying Soft Mist was. The two sides seemed to have turned into Flowing Tree and Soft Mist fans, even disputing which one was stronger.

"Flowing Tree is only Level 27! Level 27!"

"How many players were standing guard outside of Congee City? I could give you a Level 40 character and you still wouldn't dare go!"

These two troops came out of Congee City together and as a result, they argued the entire journey.

Outside of Congee Forest, players amassed from seven different guilds. There were three guild leaders present: Cold Night, Lonely Drink, and Chen Yehui.

The other four guild leaders were currently dungeoning and power leveling. Ye Xiu's guess wasn't wrong in the slightest. The big guilds left their most elite teams to continue power-leveling. The guild leaders were more than happy to play their part as a member of their guild's most elite team.

As for these three?

Cold Night was a Knight. As a Tank class, he wasn't a part of the five-player dungeon record team for now, so he didn't need to worry about power leveling.

Lonely Drink had been shamed the most as he was one of the 32 players who was wiped out. His corpse had even been kicked by Steamed Bun Invasion. At this moment, he brought with him newfound hatred and intent on being involved in this operation.

As for Chen Yehui, he was the original organizer. His purpose was much more complicated than what he had told everyone else.

Impeding on Lord Grim's team's leveling and furthering the level advantage to maintain their power as holders of dungeon records was what Chen Yehui had said to the other guilds. The other guilds had gathered together for very reason.

But Chen Yehui held yet another hidden intention. He hadn't said it to anyone and also couldn't say it to anyone.

While the big guilds were slowing down Lord Grim, weren't they also slowing down their own development? As for his Excellent Dynasty, they had invested much more and had much more manpower than any other guild in the tenth server. And even so, they had sent in the least amount of troops.

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Chapter 213 – A Match In Which the Outcome Is Already Known

Of course, Chen Yehui had his own personal reasons for going against Ye Xiu, which was much stronger than those for Lonely Drink. Lonely Drink only felt that he had been played by Ye Xiu, while Chen Yehui felt that Ye Qiu had completely changed his life.

But at this moment, he displayed reason and not impulse.

This was something Liu Hao had made him understand.

He was the one who persuade Liu Hao to work together and kick out Ye Qiu as a major task. He had considered Liu Hao a chess piece.

They had completed the task beautifully, making Chen Yehui very happy.

During this time, he had established a relationship with Liu Hao and had even received help from the pros on their pioneering in the new server. Liu Hao seemed to continue to acting as a good chess piece for him.

Up until they met Ye Qiu again.

This time, suppressing Ye Qiu could only be considered a side task. However, the two both felt that this task was more enamoring than the previous main task and the two had set out to complete it without any hesitation.

His chess piece excitedly stepped up to do the task, so Chen Yehui followed.

However, the chess piece was defeated miserably. Chen Yehui didn't take the matter too seriously. It was just a chess piece after all!

Afterwards, he also tried to step up to the task, but failed as well. But he had discovered a new path and as a result, immediately looked for his chess piece only to find that his chess piece had already walked away and left him, while he himself, didn't have the space to leave.

Chen Yehui finally realized that the task of kicking out Ye Qiu was more beneficial to his chess piece than him.

The real chess piece seemed to have actually been Chen Yehui.

Liu Hao turned around and went to do his own tasks, while he left the side task of suppressing Ye Qiu to Chen Yehui. If the task was completed by Chen Yehui, Liu Hao would be happy as well.

And Chen Yehui had no way of avoiding this task either because this had already become a part of his main task which was to pioneer in the new server but Ye Qiu was a huge obstacle.

Chen Yehui had no choice in this matter. The only thing he could be thankful for was that he had finally woken up and did not continue misplacing his priorities.

If this was a part of his main task now, then he might as well use him!

This top-tier God of Glory didn't make him disappointed.

The few beating the numerous, 32 player wipe-out, made Lonely Drink angry. As a result, the big guilds would definitely unleash an even greater force right?

The tenth server had truly become much more complicated because of Ye Qiu's existence. Chen Yehui pondered over this as he discussed with Cold Night and Lonely Drink on what to do with Lord Grim.

However, the three guild leaders only commanded their own troops. There were still the players from the four other guilds who didn't care about them and were randomly searching for any signs of Lord Grim.

"F*ck, are they idiots? Do they really think they would just wait there for us to kill them?" Lonely Drink did not look highly upon these players.

"Seeing how no one saw them on their way here, we can deduce a few directions they might have headed towards." Cold Night said.

"They won't hide around pointlessly to waste time. They definitely have a final destination." Chen Yehui said.

"Congee City, Desolate Land, or Boneyard. If they were heading there, they would have been exposed long ago. The only other options are Line Canyon or the higher-leveled Fire Forest." Cold Night said.

"They could also be doing quests in the small villages scattered around Congee City." Chen Yehui said.

"We can send people to take a look." Lonely Drink said. The three discussed, while maneuvering their troops.

"If it's Line Canyon……. oh……" Cold Night suddenly stopped midway.

"What?" The other two asked.

"I just received a message. We have their location." Cold Night said anxiously.

"A message from where?"

"A player heading towards Congee Forest to do a quest met them on his way. From the direction they were heading towards, they're definitely going to Line Canyon." Cold Night said.

"Line Canyon, they're not planning on running the dungeon are they?" Lonely Drink felt depressed. If Lord Grim's group continued to dungeon, it would make it seem like their big guild's actions were pointless. Nothing else could make them feel worse.

"These guys aren't planning on setting a dungeon record right……?" Cold Night wanted to cough up blood. He really was scared that Lord Grim and them would set a record that they had no way of beating.

"Too arrogant!" Lonely Drink cursed. He was sad that they weren't able to find Lord Grim and the others but became angry when they found their whereabouts. In any case, everything made him unhappy.

"There are a lot of dungeon entrances in Line Canyon. It won't be easy stopping them…." Chen Yehui said.

"As they go in and out, we'll definitely be able to find them. First, we can figure out their positions and then gather up people to stand guard." Cold Night said.

"What are waiting for? Let's head to Line Canyon." Lonely Drink led the way and the Samsara players followed; heading towards Line Canyon.

Inside Line Canyon, Ye Xiu pushed forward like an autumn gale. However, they made a mistake in the beginning, rendering their run useless. As a result, the team just casually performed.

When they entered the dungeon, Tang Rou fought fiercely. She was clearly still in the PK mindset from before. However, after the first BOSS, Tang Rou gradually began to lose spirit and no longer had her energy from before. The same happened to Steamed Bun Invasion. The two players' conditions went from hot to cold and eventually turned into a casual attitude.

"Hey hey, you two." Ye Xiu called, "Have some spirit! Steamed Bun, sing a song for us."

"NO!" Su Mucheng and Tang Rou cried out simultaneously. Quite a few customers in the Internet Cafe looked their way.

Tang Rou had been provoked and her spirit rose a bit. But after a short while, her spirit dwindled again.

"What's wrong? You feeling bored?" Ye Xiu said.

"Yeah….." Tang Rou said.

"It's normal." Ye Xiu laughed. Tang Rou's entire gaming life had been seen by him. Dungeon records were pretty boring to new player's eyes. Tang Rou only liked the feeling of competition. But to her, how could this type of competition compare to directly fighting against other players?

Tang Rou had experienced a bit of PK in the Arena, but today was very different.

In the Arena, players were easily defeated by her and there wasn't much sense of satisfaction.

Fighting against Team Tiny Herb was too hard for her though. She tried her best, but she had no chance of victory. No one would feel happy about that.

Today though, breaking through the encirclement was difficult and challenging and also was only able to be done by going 120%. This was a very satisfying victory. This was her first time truly feeling the joy of playing games. That type of satisfaction and happiness was something she had never experienced ever since she had played Glory.

Her moment of excitement had carried on for so long, but was now beginning to fade away. Compared to that, these dungeons felt dull and boring.

The main feature of PvP was the sense of battle at every moment. You had to concentrate, observe, and quickly make a decision; formulating or carrying out a tactic.

As for PvE, you had to concentrate in order to not make a mistake. For example, Concealed Light's Idiot's Guides were true reflections of the dullness of PvE. And worse, the best dungeon records could only be set by performing perfectly.

Once you grasped the strategy, everything else afterwards became boring. Monsters? BOSS? Dungeons? It's a match where you already know the outcome: hit the monsters, clear the dungeon.

Once you know the outcome of a match, the process of getting to there will never be suspenseful.

Ye Xiu wasn't going to try and make Tang Rou find interest in PvE, but only used it as a way to practice. And even though Tang Rou was improving through this type of practice, she wasn't able to tell.

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Chapter 214 – Limited Practice

"Dungeons are relatively boring." Ye Xiu said to Tang Rou, "But if you want to improve, you can't avoid doing these monotonous practices."

He didn't tell any emotional stories or give examples of any outstanding people to persuade her. Ye Xiu only said this.

"I understand." Tang Rou replied. This reply was within Ye Xiu's expectations. He knew that he didn't need to explain any more.

Tang Rou's hand speed couldn't have been reached naturally. It was definitely a result of long-term practice. This was why Ye Xiu believed that she had done this type of practice before. Results wouldn't come from just practicing once or twice. The important part was persistence.

"Although killing monsters and running dungeons are robotic, if you treat it seriously, it'll be a lot of help towards your consistency and concentration. Right now, you have absolute hand speed, but you're not completely using it when you're microing. For practice, you can try targeting a specific place when attacking. For example, every time you have to hit the head. By limiting your conditions, you can train your microing and your control. We call this type of training Limited Practice."

After explaining the theory, Ye Xiu moved one step further and told the specific practice method.

Limited Practice was something pro-players were very familiar with. This was a basic practice method. The theory is that the individual sets his or her own conditions and slowly increases the difficulty.

Pro Clubs would even create their own specialized sets for their players to practice. And this type of simple and direct practice was the most detested and boring practice pro-players had to do.

It was the same as football and basketball. Practice with the ball was always more fun than practice without the ball. Glory players didn't like to dully use their mouse and keyboard to perform the same action again and again either.

But no one could argue that this type of dull practice was very effective.

As for Tang Rou, Ye Xiu didn't doubt her perseverance and willpower, but he still wanted to see just how great her determination was. After all, he still had no idea how much this girl really liked Glory. Her perseverance wasn't fake, but how much effort did she want to put into the game?

"Every hit should be on the head?" Tang Rou was ready to accept Ye Xiu's suggestion.

"Hitting the head is just my example. You can do whatever you'd like." Ye Xiu said.

"These are all insects. I really can't tell where their heads are, so I'll hit their first segments!" Tang Rou said. Most of the monsters in Line Canyon were crawlers such as sandworms and scorpions. They all had a segmented body, so Tang Rou set those as her targets.

"Sure." Ye Xiu replied. He also called for Steamed Bun Invasion at the same time: "Steamed Bun, would you like to try a challenge?"

"Oh? Challenge? You think a man like me would refuse a challenge?" Steamed Bun Invasion rushed forward.

"Good. We start now. When you attack, you can only attack these insect's first segments, got it?" Ye Xiu said.

"Oh? First segment?" Steamed Bun Invasion looked at the insects and began to study what their "first segments" were.

"Under these conditions, let's see which one of you kills the most efficiently. We three won't be helping you." Ye Xiu said. Lord Grim retreated to where Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan were. Even though Qiao Yifan was there to ask Ye Xiu for help, he did these types of fundamental practices every day at the Club. What he needed help with was more advanced topics.

Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan knew that Ye Xiu was intentionally training these two new players. As a result, after clearing the monsters they had already pulled, they didn't go and pull any more new monsters. At this moment, there were only sandworms and scorpions on the field.

"Two for each of us." Tang Rou said to Steamed Bun Invasion.

Steamed Bun Invasion laughed: "Ladies first."

Tang Rou's Soft Mist moved forward and pulled a sandworm and a scorpion. Sure enough, her attacks only hit the two insect's first segments.

At this moment, Steamed Bun Invasion showed up on stage like a star and smashed a Brick onto a sandworm's first segment. He then used Sand Toss and threw it at a scorpion. After throwing it, he froze and then called: "Senior, does Sand Toss count?"

"As long as it hits." Ye Xiu laughed. Sand Toss would spread out when it was thrown. It wasn't really possible to only hit the first segment.

"Then I didn't break the rules!" Steamed Bun Invasion shouted.

"Yup! Keep going!" Ye Xiu said.

The two players pulled their insects to the side, so they wouldn't disturb each other. While the three sat there watching, Ye Xiu suddenly said: "Who do you think will win?"

"Uh…… Steamed Bun!" Su Mucheng said.

Qiao Yifan seemed to be thinking deeply and carefully said: "I also think Steamed Bun will."

"It seems pretty obvious!" Ye Xiu said.

If it was just based on hand speed, Tang Rou was better than Steamed Bun Invasion. But determining how fast her effective hand speed was something that even Ye Xiu couldn't do. It was simply because Tang Rou's hand speed was too unstable.

Most of the time, Tang Rou's hand speed could reach 200 or even 250. But once she runs into a complicated situation, her hand speed will drop to 150 or even lower. It all depended on the situation.

Steamed Bun Invasion was different. He was more familiar with games so his fundamentals were better. His hand speed was much more stable and was usually at 180-200. Even for complicated situations, it wouldn't leave that range by much.

By limiting the target, the player had to be more detailed with his or her playing.

Because of this, Tang Rou's hand speed would drop significantly. In reality, this limited practice was specially for Tang Rou. Ye Xiu wanted her to know her weaknesses. As for Steamed Bun Invasion, just the "first segment" probably wasn't hard enough for him. If he was going to give Steamed Bun Invasion limited practice, then Ye Xiu would give him more complicated conditions.

As for Tang Rou, it was better for her to experiment herself.

Soon after, the results confirmed their guesses.

The conditions reduced their killing efficiency, but Steamed Bun Invasion's flowed much better, so he was the first to kill off the two insects. As for Tang Rou, she seemed to be having more trouble. After a while, her two insects finally died.

"How do you feel?" Ye Xiu asked them.

"Easy!" Steamed Bun Invasion unexpectedly stole the initiative. Tang Rou was silent. Compared to Steamed Bun Invasion, she was too embarrassed to say anything.

"You made a lot of mistakes." Ye Xiu said to Tang Rou.

"I know, six times….." Tang Rou counted.

"You hit other places six times, but you also missed three times. So that makes nine total." Ye Xiu helped Tang Rou count.

"Let me try again." Tang Rou said.

"Come at me!" Steamed Bun Invasion challenged.

"There's no hurry. You can do this type of practice any time. First let's finish the dungeon. After that, you guys can continue setting the conditions." Ye Xiu reminded.

After all, dungeons occupied everyone's time. Even though Tang Rou felt that it was urgent, she couldn't hold up everyone's time. As a result, they continued to dungeon. Tang Rou adopted Ye Xiu's suggestion and only hit the "first segment" even when they fought BOSSes.

"You can try and slow down at first and make sure you don't make any mistakes. Afterwards, you can slowly increase the speed. Don't rush." After finishing the dungeon, Ye Xiu helped Tang Rou conclude.

The five players exited the dungeon. Right as they were about to enter again, Ye Xiu suddenly saw a familiar ID out on the corner of his eye.

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Chapter 215 – Tooth for Tooth

Endless Night.

As soon as Ye Xiu exited the dungeon, he saw this Tyrannical Ambition Cleric. He was also at the dungeon entrance with four others. When Ye Xiu saw them, Endless Night and his group turned around as well and looked at him.

Ye Xiu acted without taking time to think and used a Shadow Clone Technique to dash in front of them.

"Hi Little Cleric!" Ye Xiu smiled and sent a Sky Strike at them.

Endless Night hadn't anticipated that he would act so quickly and was just barely able to dodge the Sky Strike., but, Lord Grim moved one step faster and launched him into the sky with a Kick. The Thousand Chance Umbrella transformed into its Gun form and a Gatling Gun, aimed at Endless Night, bombarded him with a barrage of bullets.

There were a lot of players outside of the dungeon, so many of the skills would inevitably hit others. Ye Xiu simply used a BBQ Delivery Gun to directly send Endless Night out of the crowd.

"F*ck!" By the time Endless Night cursed, he was already in midair.

"What's wrong?" Su Mucheng had only just noticed, but seeing that Ye Xiu had acted, she immediately lifted up her handcannon. Right when it seemed as if Endless Night was going to land and use a Quick Recover, he was suddenly hit by Anti-Tank Missiles. Endless Night was launched flying, like a firecracker into the mountain wall of Line Canyon.

Hitting walls in Glory didn't allow users to Quick Recover, but there was a common skill called "Wall Jump", which allowed the character to step on a wall or tree when jumping to perform a double jump.

Endless Night was just about to use a Quick Recover to roll, when suddenly, he had to use a "Wall Jump". He wasn't able to perform it fast enough and his head tore through the dirt.

Tang Rou, Qiao Yifan, and Steamed Bun Invasion didn't react any slower. By the time Endless Night was able to dig him out of the wall, the three had already arrived and were ready to surround and attack him.

The surrounding players were a bit stupefied. Everything had happened so suddenly. They just saw a guy fly out from the crowd and crash into a wall.

Endless Night's four companions were obviously all from Tyrannical Ambition. While the others were chasing after Lord Grim and the others, they were still continuing to power level in the dungeon in order to maintain their high levels and competitiveness in the dungeon records. They were the elite of the elites of the big guilds, but by coincidence, they ended up bumping into Lord Grim's group and then watched helplessly as Lord Grim sent Endless Night flying.

And these four players made an incorrect decision. Without thinking, they decided to rush forward to rescue Endless Night……

5v5…… the result was obvious. There's no need to describe it.

"Who are these guys?" Tang Rou asked as she stabbed at her opponent's head. This sis was unexpectedly still practicing by only hitting the head.

"They're from Tyrannical Ambition. They were one of the guilds that was chasing us." Ye Xiu said. Even though the pursuers didn't have their guild names, Ye Xiu had fought with Tyrannical Ambition quite a few times. He had joined the guild for a bit, so he had some memory of quite a few of the player names.

Since things were like this already, there was no need to be polite to Tyrannical Ambition.

Ye Xiu understood the significance of this dungeon team. By killing this team, it was similar to fighting tooth for tooth. The guilds wanted to hinder his team from leveling and now, Tyrannical Ambition's elite team was the first to lose experience.

When those four players rushed up to rescue Endless Night, they immediately recognized their mistake. Unfortunately, it was already too late.

In this confrontation, Endless Night and the others struggled. They could be considered first-string experts, but compared to Lord Grim and his group's clutch, none of them were able to escape.

Endless Night laid on the ground. A thread of chilliness arose in his shameless heart.

This Lord Grim's attack was so decisive and he even smiled and greeted me? Was he not feeling any pressure at all?

While he revived back in town, Endless Night reported to Cold Night what had happened.

When Cold Night received the message, he felt extremely gloomy.

Unlucky! How unlucky! Why was his Tyrannical Ambition so unlucky?

Good things never came. Bad things always came one after the other. All the other guilds' elite teams were continuing to level. Why did they have to bump into Lord Grim? What type of luck was that?

Cold Night immediately contacted the other members that were leveling. Among these was his boss, Jiang You, and the elite team that he had personally brought over from the Heavenly Domain.

With this information, Cold Night at least knew where Lord Grim and the others were now. However, he didn't believe that Lord Grim would be so stupid as to wait to be surrounded. Lord Grim would definitely switch to a different dungeon entrance.

And after that, he didn't report the information to the other guilds. The other guilds had to be unlucky too and get wiped out by Lord Grim's group a few times……

The seven big guilds that had gathered were now outside Line Canyon.

"Following the original plan, first we'll send people to wait outside dungeon entrances to verify where they are." Chen Yehui said.

"Right now, they should already be doing their second run. Hurry. When we find out where they are, we'll get into position and catch them before they start their third run." Lonely Drink said.

The three guild leaders had found the other guilds and discussed the plan with them. In the end, they split their numbers evenly and a hundred players headed to different dungeon entrances.

"We've guarded the entrances. If we keep waiting, they'll have to show up eventually, right?" Someone said.

"What if they stay in the leveling area and don't come out?" Another one said.

Inside Line Canyon.

The dungeon entrance where Endless Night's group was wiped out was completely silent. Not even a word bubble asking for a party invite could be seen.

PK was very common in game. But they had been shaken heavily by the five murderers. These random players outside of the dungeon felt weak and along. None of them dared to offend the five.

They didn't know what Lord Grim's intent was. When his team passed by them, they all felt a tremble in their hearts.

"More?" Someone in that team still seemed to want to continue.

"Crash!" In an instant, they dispersed.

"None for now! Let's go!" Ye Xiu said.

"Huh? Where?" Steamed Bun Invasion saw that Lord Grim wasn't heading towards the dungeon.

"If we stay here, won't we be stopped later?" Ye Xiu said.

Steamed Bun Invasion scratched his head to think. Ye Xiu had no idea if he understood. In any case, he said "Oh" and then followed him. Under Lord Grim's lead, they went through an empty area and found another dungeon entrance.

"Is there anyone to kill?' Tang Rou asked. This sis's eyes were probably sparkling with greed. She definitely hoped that the players outside of the dungeon entrance were all enemies. Killing them all would be a great challenge.

"There will be soon." Ye Xiu laughed. Lord Grim unexpectedly went past the dungeon entrance.

"We're not going in?" The four were puzzled.

"It's now time that they exited the dungeon." Ye Xiu said.

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Chapter 216 – Even If We're Killed, We Won't Tell Anyone

"Time they exited the dungeon?"

"Yeah, if they entered the dungeon at 12, it's about time they finished their three runs and are prepared to leave."

"We'll be sending them off." Ye Xiu laughed.

Now, Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan understood what Ye Xiu was trying to say.

As for Steamed Bun Invasion, even though he had gaming experience, he was relatively innocent and didn't get it, so he continued to ask: "Send who?"

"The people who weren't polite to us." Ye Xiu said.

"Then why should we send them?" Steamed Bun Invasion still didn't get it. Even Tang Rou understood by now. Ye Xiu had once analyzed this type of situation: the opponent's left their elite teams to continue leveling. At this moment, they were finished with their three dungeons so wasn't it obvious what they were going to do?

"But….. how do you know which ones to attack?" Su Mucheng asked.

"I asked." Ye Xiu said.

"Asked?"

"I have a lot of guild leaders on my friends list." Ye Xiu said.

Their pursuers hadn't lit up their guild tags, which meant they wanted to cover it up. However, this kind of thinking was too naive. Many guilds wanted to pull in Ye Xiu, so his friends list was full of guild leaders from all sorts of guilds. As a result, all he had to do was send all of them messages telling them which names he had encountered during battle and asked which guilds they were in.

Ye Xiu understood the competition between each of the guilds. Even if they were in an alliance temporarily, they might be using it to pressure each other. For example, in Congee Forest, when those four players had baited Ye Xiu and Huang Shaotian, Ye Xiu suspected that someone had set them up without them being aware.

With this sort of relationship, the guilds that were asked might not intend to sell out other guilds, but they didn't know if they would be betrayed or not. As a result, if they sold out others, they, at least, wouldn't lose out alone.

And just like Ye Xiu had predicted, many guilds actively replied. However, the replies differed. It could be seen that some of the guilds were covering up for their own players.

After filtering out the bad answers, he found that there were six or seven guilds. Ye Xiu wasn't sure if it was everyone, but he had acquired a few targets already.

"Line Canyon (TL: Entire map which includes leveling area dungeon) only has two entrances, but my guess is that their main force is already guarding those. Our only choice is to look for another opportunity." Lord Grim's footsteps stopped.

"This place is?" Su Mucheng asked everyone.

"If you leave from this Line Canyon dungeon entrance (TL: Dungeon has several entrances into it), there's a high probability that they'll pass through here." Ye Xiu said.

"You know so much!" The others gasped in amazement.

"Yeah, I just looked it up." Ye Xiu said.

"Look, a team." Tang Rou suddenly said. Hearing that they were going to PK, this sister's spirit immediately flared.

"Misty Castle…… no." Ye Xiu said.

The five players were currently crouching behind a sand dune and were stealthily observing the players heading towards this intersection.

"Another team! Samsara?" After Misty Castle's team left, another team followed, which Tang Rou immediately noticed.

"Go!" Ye Xiu ordered and the five players leapt out from the sand dune. Samsara's players were hurrying forward and not paying attention.

"It's only five players, do we really need to ambush them?" Tang Rou realized that these five were walking along the road cluelessly.

"You can shout at them to get their attention if you'd like." Ye Xiu said.

Tang Rou decided not to do it since shouting wasn't her style.

Ye Xiu was the first to move out. Lord Grim used a Shadow Clone Technique to flash behind them. His Thousand Chance Umbrella transformed into a Scythe, a Priest weapon type, and a blue light glowed on the ground. The five players realized that something wasn't right, but by the time they looked back, the blue light had already risen and the five players were launched into the sky.

Cleansing Mist immediately lifted her handcannon and sent artillery shells and a Gatling Gun, sending the five players tumbling through the sky. One Inch Ash moved up, waved his Demon Slaying Blade, and then cast an Ice Boundary. When the five players landed, two of them were Frozen into ice cubes, making it so that they were unable to Quick Recover.

Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion shot forward, one on the left and the other on the right. Tang Rou took her battle lance and stabbed at their heads. In comparison, Steamed Bun Invasion shamelessly bullied the ice cubes.

Soft Mist's Scarlet Moon Lance twirled like a dragon. It wasn't difficult to see that her hand speed wasn't ordinary. In addition, Lord Grim assisted her from the side. The players were unable to resist and by the time the two ice cubes melted, one of them had already fallen.

The two who had melted out of their ice cubes weren't any better off. One of them was directly Strangled by Steamed Bun Invasion and then beat up. The other ice cube tried to escape, but after taking two or three steps, a Scarlet Moon Lance stabbed at his head, and like a mop, he was thrown towards his two allies.

The battle occurred extremely quickly.

When the Misty Castle players heard the commotion behind them, they turned their heads and saw that the scene wasn't a PK, but a massacre. The Samsara players were bullied so miserably that even normal monsters looked better than them. Seeing this, their hearts tightened.

"Lord Grim….." One of the players quietly said.

"Where'd they come out from……" Another player was puzzled.

"Let's hurry up and leave." The third bro reminded them to not watch. The place was currently dangerous and it was best to hurry and leave.

The players continued to madly run, while looking back from time to time. Samsara's players quickly turned into corpses. Seeing that Lord Grim didn't seem to be chasing them, they let out a sigh of relief.

"He's not our enemy!" One of the players said. Seeing Lord Grim attacking other guilds and not mind them, the five wanted to watch the commotion.

"What???"

When Lonely Drink received the message, the five players had already died and returned to the city. During the battle, they weren't able to send out a message for help. They were only able to report it after they died.

"F*ck!" Lonely Drink couldn't resist cursing out loud. The characters he was leading, even himself, could be sacrificed. Their purpose was to wear down one another, delaying their leveling. But the five players who had just died were different. These were players who were supposed to be power leveling and taking a hold of the records. However, they had been wiped out by Lord Grim, making Lonely Drink's heart ache.

"What's wrong?" His cursing brought the attention of others.

"F*ck……. I burnt myself with my cigarette." Lonely Drink lied.

Lonely Drink's heart was just like Cold Night's. He had hoped that Lord Grim would make it even by attacking the other guilds. Their guild couldn't be the only one to suffer! Which was why even if they had been killed, they wouldn't tell it to anyone.

In Line Canyon, Ye Xiu and the others had already encountered another team.

"Blossom Valley, go!" Ye Xiu said. This time, they didn't ambush them and instead directly clashed with them.

"That team there is from Void Walk! They're also targets." Another team followed after Blossom Valley's. Ye Xiu looked and saw that they were also one of the pursuing guilds.

"Two teams! This is going to be fun." Tang Rou excitedly said. She immediately rushed forward as if her toys were going to run away.

"Pay attention to controlling the field. Don't let any of them escape!" Ye Xiu warned.

"Relax, senior. Leave that to me." Steamed Bun Invasion suddenly went forward and began with a Sand Toss.

"Steamed Bun Invasion!!" Steamed Bun Invasion yelled out his name and invaded the enemy forces.

"Steamed Bun, you're so lively." Ye Xiu praised.

"Ha ha ha ha….." Steamed Bun Invasion's laugh echoed throughout the canyon.

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Chapter 217: Void and Hundred Blossoms

Translator:Nomyummi

Editor:GravityTales

Void Walk was the guild backed by Club Void. The name of the guild was a bit different than the others. It sounded like a name given to a bad guy. In reality, this name represented Club Void's mission: to surpass oneself. However, no one really bought this explanation.

No one in Void really cared. Their guild continued to use this mocked guild name and as for their team, they continued to uphold their unique style.

Many teams had one Ghostblade character and player, but Team Void was the only one that used a Ghostblade as the core of their team.

The Team Void leader, Li Xuan, and his character, Sobbing Ghost, were considered the Alliance's first Phantom Demon. He was Qiao Yifan's current learning model.

Team Void and their unique playstyle was a strong contender in the Alliance in recent years. In the past seven years, they had entered the playoffs five times. Their current ranking this season was fifth place, a very hopeful position.

As for Blossom Valley, they were the guild that was backed by Team Hundred Blossoms. Team Hundred Blossoms was also a strong contender in the Alliance, though currently they were in a transition phase.

When last season ended, the team captain, Zhang Jiale, suddenly announced his retirement. This sudden decision messed up Team Hundred Blossom's original plans and forced them to adjust.

Zhang Jiale was also a God-level character. His Spitfire, Dazzling Hundred Blossom, was a splendid player. In his six years as a pro, he had entered the playoffs six times, played in the finals three times, and claimed the title MVP. However, he hasn't won a single Championship yet. Zhang Jiale's name was known far and wide, but he was definitely one of Glory's most tragic players.

Last season, Team Hundred Blossoms lost in the finals. Zhang Jiale fell into a discouraged state, causing him to suddenly announce his retirement. Team Hundred Blossoms was unable to persuade him and had no choice but to respect their player's decision.

As a result, during that summer rest period, Team Hundred Blossom was forced to find someone to replace him. However, in the end, they were unable to find anyone suitable to succeed "Dazzling Hundred Blossoms". In the current season, the team's strongest account unexpectedly fell into a new player's hands. The new player's performance was quite good, but he clearly wasn't good enough yet to become the team's core. This was something Team Hundred Blossom couldn't do anything about.

However, there was something this season that made them pleasantly surprised. A young player on their team, Tang Hao, rose abruptly during his second year as a pro and his performance was already being considered God-level. The only thing restricting him was his average Brawler account, as well as Team Hundred Blossom's messy playing.

The similarity between the name Team Hundred Blossoms and their core character Dazzling Hundred Blossom wasn't just a coincidence. Dazzling Hundred Blossoms was a very old God-level account and could be considered the root of Team Hundred Blossom's founding. The Spitfire had always been their core class. This was something they hadn't changed over the years. This year, the core changed because of Zhang Jiale's suddenly retirement and Tang Hao's abrupt rise, however, the team still wasn't used to it.

Impacted from this, Team Hundred Blossoms was currently ranked tenth and the situation wasn't looking good for them. This season might be the first time they were unable to enter the playoffs.

However, Tang Hao's progress gave them hope. Their current team was beginning to get their things together and it was still possible to come back in the second half of the season. Even if they didn't make it into playoffs, they would have already successfully re-established their foundation.

In short, even though Team Hundred Blossom wasn't doing too well right now, they were preparing for a complete renewal. They didn't plan on falling and as a result, their guild Blossom Valley was still pushing forward.

Presently, the elite teams of Blossom Valley and Void Walk came across Ye Xiu's team. Even though it wasn't an ambush, it was still unexpected to have Ye Xiu and the others take the initiative and rush forward.

Steamed Bun Invasion gleefully invaded Blossom Valley's troops, but as soon as he entered, he was hit. One of the players looked up to dodge the Sand Toss's Blind and then quickly snapped back. He then kicked and used a "Punisher" on Steamed Bun Invasion. Steamed Bun Invasion wasn't careful and was stomped into the ground.

This Blossom Valley dungeon team was being led personally by the tenth server guild leader. The Spitfire, who had stepped on Steamed Bun Invasion, was their guild leader, Backlight Bomb, and was a Heavenly Domain expert, similar to Blue River's status. He had the ability to fight Steamed Bun Invasion. Steamed Bun Invasion had originally planned on going up and fighting 1v5, but he had underestimated them too much.

After using "Punisher", Backlight Bomb tossed a Grenade, while shouting "Scatter!" Blossom Valley's players immediately scattered. He then raised his automatic pistol with his right hand and used his left hand to reload.

This wasn't a normal reload, like when Gunners ran out of ammo, but rather, it was a Spitfire skill.

The speciality of Spitfires was that they used different types of bullets. A Spitfire reloading meant that they were switching to a special kind of bullet.

The grenade that was thrown exploded. Steamed Bun Invasion, who had been forced onto the ground by the Punisher, had no way of dodging. He had been hit as soon as he rushed forward, but he didn't run. Steamed Bun Invasion got up and continued to close in on Backlight Bomb.

"Eat my fist!" Steamed Bun Invasion shouted. He was like a comic character, who shouted the skill before attacking, but compared to Huang Shaotian, who had been doing it for a purpose, Steamed Bun Invasion just did it because he found it fun. He hadn't thought about distracting or scaring his opponents.

This shout didn't scare Backlight Bomb though. Backlight Bomb rolled to the side and fired. Strangely enough, even though bullets came out, there was no smoke from the gun. The bullets that flew out glowed a pale blue and their speed wasn't as fast as a normal bullet. Experienced players could see that he had used an "Freezing Bullet".

Ice Bullet was a Spitfire Level 30 skill. When an Ice Bullet hit the opponent, there was chance that the opponent would enter a Frozen state.

These types of special bullets could be fired up to 15 times and when the player changed classes at Level 20, they would learn the skill "Ammunition Expansion" which allowed them to hold up to 20 of these.

While rolling, Backlight Bomb was able to maintain his steady aim. His skill level clearly wasn't ordinary.

However, Steamed Bun Invasion wasn't so easy to deal with either. Ice Bullets moved slower than normal bullets. Steamed Bun Invasion's body moved and shook left and right in order to dodge the Ice Bullets. Backlight Bomb continued to adjust his aim, but every time he fired, Steamed Bun Invasion would move left or right and dodge it. Gradually, Steamed Bun Invasion closed in on Backlight Bomb.

However, Steamed Bun Invasion had, not just one, but five opponents.

Steamed Bun Invasion closed in on Backlight Bomb, but behind him, a Berserker leapt forward and used a Collapsing Mountain on Steamed Bun Invasion.

Ice Bullets in front and a Collapsing Mountain behind, Steamed Bun Invasion didn't look as if he would be able to escape. A white light flashed and Lord Grim's Myriad Manifestation Umbrella stabbed forward. The White-Wolf Fanged lance tip stabbed through the Berserker's Body. Lord Grim's arm swung and stopped the Berserker mid-leap with a Circle Swing. Collapsing Mountain was cancelled and Circle Swing smashed him towards the ground.

Ye Xiu moved his mouse and Lord Grim turned around and sent a sudden strike at the Cleric behind him. The Cleric had wanted to heal the Berserker, when suddenly, a Sky Strike launched him into the air. Lord Grim's left palm shot forward and a Falling Flower Palm blasted him away.

The Cleric flew back and a curse from their side was heard.

The team from Void Walk was fighting against Tang Rou and was currently surrounding the struggling Battle Mage. A Blade Master had snuck up behind Soft Mist, but how could he have known someone would come flying over and block him.

Tang Rou heard this and immediately understood what had happened.

"Careful." Ye Xiu warned and then continued to attack his targets.

Su Mucheng's Launcher attacked from afar. Both teams were in her firing range, so she would fire whenever there was a chance. Qiao Yifan observed the situation for a bit and then headed to assist Soft Mist.

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Chapter 218 – Crowd Lover

Sword Boundary!

The Sword Ghost flowed outward from One Inch Ash's sword, creating a circular boundary. Tang Rou was inside the range, so her strength and intelligence were increased.

Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist stepped in as well.

Qiao Yifan had calculated the range of the Sword Boundary to envelop both players. Then he stepped forward two times and raised his sword to prepare to cast an Ice Boundary. This Ice Boundary was meant for the enemies, so it wasn't placed in the same spot as the Sword Boundary. One Inch Ash moved accordingly and began to chant.

"Interrupt him!" Void Walk's team leader hastily shouted and a Striker pounced over. "Bang! Bang! Bang!" Three shots rang out and the Striker was forced back. Cleansing Mist had fired to protect One Inch Ash.

The time gained from this was enough to cast the Ice Boundary.

"Back!" Void Walk's team leader shouted again.

Against a Ghostblade's formation, the best way to deal with them was to retreat outside the boundary range. This way, it didn't matter what boundary you cast or how terrifying it was, it would only be a backdrop.

But retreating wouldn't be so simple. As soon as his voice fell, Soft Mist's Scarlet Moon Lance stabbed forward. Once Qiao Yifan finished casting the Ice Boundary, he immediately sent a Ghost Slash towards two players, who had rolled to the side.

Ghost Slash was a skill with a considerably long attack range. An arc of purple shot out and passed through both players like a skewer through meat.

The other two players were able to successfully retreat. But when they looked back, they saw that the other three were trapped inside the Ice Boundary. Being the only ones that had escaped, they didn't know what to do. Should they rescue their allies or not?

One of them felt like it wasn't right to run away, so he moved just outside of the Ice Boundary's range and began sending out long-ranged attacks to save his teammates. But, Void Walk's players weren't sure what to do and were all doing their own thing. Everywhere they looked, there seemed to be Chasers and sword lights flying towards them. There was also that Launcher, who was always sending them gifts when they didn't need them.

The person at the edge of the Ice Boundary was closed in on by One Inch Ash, who used a Moonlight Slash to launch him into the sky. Then One Inch Ash leapt into the air and turned around to use a Falling Light Blade. While sending the person into the Ice Boundary, he also knocked down another player with the shockwave.

Tang Rou, Qiao Yifan, and Su Mucheng controlled the four players, while focusing one of them and quickly killed him off.

"Retreat!" Void Walk's team leader finally shouted again.

He had been trying hard to direct everyone during this battle and had made a total of three commands: "Interrupt", "Back", and "Retreat". From these three words, anyone could clearly see their preparation from going to battle to their downfall to fleeing for their lives.

Unfortunately, only the player that stood far outside the boundary had the opportunity to follow it. As soon as the team leader shouted the command, he was hit tumbling by Soft Mist and then hit again by a Chaser, exploding him to death. Even though the other two hadn't died yet, they were currently airborne.

The player that was far away had awkwardly stood there in hesitation. Only until he heard "Retreat!" did he begin to run. Soft Mist immediately chased after him with a movement speed buff. Su Mucheng also fired a few shots to block him but sadly, he was caught by Soft Mist.

'He almost got away." Tang Rou said as she used a Falling Flower Palm to blast him backwards. As for the rest, 2v3ing wouldn't be a problem for them, so Su Mucheng stopped helping them and went to focus on the Blossom Valley battle.

Ye Xiu and Steamed Bun had been making fair progress. They had killed off two players and only Backlight Bomb was a bit of a problem.

Ye Xiu reckoned that he was a fan of the recently retired, Hundred Blossom's team captain Zhang Jiale. Unfortunately, he was drawing a tiger like a dog. Even with the same class, he didn't have the dazzle that Zhang Jiale had and was fighting wretchedly. In fact, he was quite similar to Steamed Bun Invasion.

He had clearly been engrossed in his fight with Steamed Bun Invasion and when he recovered and looked back, he saw that two of his team members had already been killed. The Cleric was now running madly from Cleansing Mist's attacks.

This short distraction was taken advantage of by Steamed Bun Invasion. He punched, kicked, and bricked Backlight Bomb, who was unable to resist. After all, Backlight Bomb was a long-range class and wasn't good at close combat.

It would only be a matter of time before the remaining players were killed. Ye Xiu wasn't wrong when he said this was the most frequented road in Line Canyon. Another five players from a guild appeared and these guild experts cleared at similar speeds, but because they entered at different entrances and at different times, their exit from Line Canyon was different.

Tyrannical Ambition!

Ye Xiu immediately noticed their guild tag. He even recognized one of the players in the team.

Crowd Lover. The appearance of this ID was quite appropriate.

This Elementalist had helped them in setting the dungeon record for Frost Forest. Even though his hand speed might be a bit slower than Tang Rou's and Steamed Bun Invasion's, he was much more experienced and had an impressive understanding of strategy. He wasn't someone Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion could compare themselves to.

Hand speed wasn't a conclusive factor. This person was without a doubt the most skilled player amongst all the normal players he had met in the tenth server.

Ye Xiu believed that this type of, hard to come by, expert wasn't a nobody in Tyrannical Ambition. He was definitely an experienced veteran from Heavenly Domain who had come to substitute for the dungeon records.

However, was this Crowd Lover the same as that time's Crowd Lover?

Jiang You was also startled when he saw Lord Grim and the others. Their guild alliance had already arrived at Line Canyon and these few still dared to run amok?

He knew that Endless Night and the others had been killed. Cold Night had also warned him to be careful because of that.

When Jiang You exited the dungeon, he was already on guard, but after finding out that Lord Grim wasn't there waiting for them, he put aside the matter. How could he have known that they would encounter Lord Grim's group here? It even looked like they were currently in the middle of wiping out Blossom Valley's and Void Walk's teams.

"Forward!" Jiang You said without hesitation. Of the teams that had come, they were the first to initiate an attack on Lord Grim and the others.

Jiang You saw the situation clearly.

He had only seen Lord Grim and his team run a simple dungeon once, so his insight on them was limited and he wasn't able to see exactly how deep each player's strength was.

But at this moment, it could be seen that Lord Grim's team clearly had the advantage against the two other teams. PK was the best indicator of how strong someone was. A judgement based solely on sight could only go so far.

Jiang You was no longer bringing with him experts from the tenth server, but instead brought the strongest elites from Tyrannical Ambition's headquarters. In a 5v5, he still didn't have too much confidence. As a result, he didn't want to waste any time and would immediately rescue the remaining Blossom Valley and Void Walk players. Together they would be able to suppress Lord Grim's team.

Flame Explosion!

Jiang You used this low-leveled skill. Raging Flames and Blizzard had high damage and high range, but they would also entangle the players from the two guilds. They weren't partied together, so they would take damage too. Jiang You was scared that his attack would kill them off.

His Flame Explosion flew directly towards Lord Grim. Ye Xiu dodged to the side and stabbed with his lance. He forced his opponent to step to the side and unfortunately, this opponent was hit by Crowd Lover's Flame Explosion.

'F*ck, this b*tch is too evil." Jiang You cursed, while immediately sending Cold Night a message: "Lord Grim, coordinates: 2875, 3400."

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Chapter 219 – PvP Is Even Scarier

Cold Night received Jiang You's message.

They were just so unlucky. Their Tyrannical Ambition already had a team wiped out and another team encountered them. He had originally planned on waiting for the other guilds to suffer, but he was the one to suffer again. Cold Night really wanted to shout "Why always me!!!" to voice his current feelings.

But he had received the coordinates and there was no time to waste. The important part was to hurry and save them and possibly kill off Lord Grim too. Of course, this wasn't something he was going to do alone. He needed the strength of everyone. Cold Night was just about to speak, when someone else shouted: "Coordinates 2873, 3398!"

The person yelled, while typing out the coordinates for everyone to see. Cold Night looked and saw that it was a player from Blossom Valley. The coordinate was similar to the one Jiang You had sent.

Cold Night was slightly startled. Clearly, Blossom Valley's players had also encountered Lord Grim.

"Yes! Lord Grim's here. Let's hurry up and go!" Another one shouted. Seeing that he no longer needed to personally act, Cold Night didn't say anything and informed his Tyrannical Ambition players to immediately go.

Currently, three teams were fighting Lord Grim's group and there was still time for them to be rescued. It was different from Endless Night's and Samsara's teams where the battle was sudden. The fight was over in an instant, so Cold Night and Lonely Drink didn't receive any messages until it was all over.

Seeing how all the guilds were beginning to move, Lonely Drink guessed what had happened. Even so, he still acted slowly and asked: "What happened?"

This guy wanted to sit down with everyone and talk for half an hour. Before, he had also wanted to kill Lord Grim, but after having his elite team wiped out, Lord Grim was placed last in his mind. He wanted the other elite teams to be killed off and then kill Lord Grim.

"Lord Grim's appeared." Cold Night simply said. He had already guessed what Lonely Drink was thinking and doing, which was why he didn't say anything more. After saying it, he began to organize the movement.

Lord Grim's appeared.

This was enough reason to act. The others began to move and there was no point in Lonely Drink stalling, so all he could do was order his Samsara to move out as well. The guild alliance had been split up to guard the city and check the dungeon entrances, so there were only a hundred elites gathered together. Even so, this was more than enough to defeat Lord Grim and the other four players.

However, these so-called "elites" were only relative. In the new server with new players all over, they were elites. However, if they were in the old servers, they would only be considered as veterans. The true elites were those who were currently running dungeons. Unfortunately, two teams had already been wiped out and the remaining were also in danger.

Jiang You could be considered as a top-tier player among the normal player population. After having his magic borrowed by Lord Grim, he didn't lose his cool. He rolled and sent out a Frost Ball and then fired another Flame Explosion, this time, towards One Inch Ash.

At this moment, Jiang You's Crowd Lover was attacking different players and his heavy magic was fired gently like a true mage.

"Careful, Steamed Bun." Ye Xiu hastily yelled. The Frost Ball was headed towards Steamed Bun Invasion. Jiang You planned on making a sneak attack.

With him acting out, things couldn't have been more clear.

This Crowd Lover was definitely the same expert as the one who had dungeoned with them in the past. Ye Xiu understood why this type of expert would silently run to the tenth server. Tyrannical Ambition urgently needed to take back their pride in this dungeon.

Su Mucheng immediately placed Crowd Lover as her target. Cleansing Mist fired a Gatling Gun, spraying bullets towards Tyrannical Ambition's players, However, this was a game, so players wouldn't die from one bullet. With Su Mucheng shaking her gun, the scattered bullets had their damage split.

Using Gatling Gun this way wasn't for damage, but rather for temporarily stopping the opponent's offense. Against a new player, they would probably be running away in fear right now, but Jiang You and the experienced veterans knew what was happening. The few bullets that would hit them wouldn't do much damage. The annoying part was the brief stun and interrupt after these bullets hit.

These five players moved about impressively; they were running, jumping and rolling to break through the rain of bullets.

The Sharpshooter amongst the five players dodged and also raised his gun to fire back. Cleansing Mist was still in mid-animation and had no way of dodging. This Sharpshooter wasn't bad and used this opportunity to fire at Cleansing Mist.

Su Mucheng was helpless. She could only cancel her skill to avoid the bullets. She then sent Anti-Tank Missiles to counter and in the blink of an eye, the two began firing at each other.

This team was different!

Seeing how strong this team was, the longer this went on the worse the situation would become. Ye Xiu immediately made a decision. He used a Sky Strike to launch an opponent into the air and used a Falling Flower Palm to send him towards Crowd Lover's team. He then used "Fling" to throw another opponent over, this time, disrupting the enemy team's formation.

After throwing the two Blossom Valley players like bullets, Lord Grim immediately used a Shadow Clone Technique and appeared between all five experts.

The five players were originally in formation, but were disrupted by the two meat bullets. Ye Xiu used this opportunity to instantly move to the opening.

"You've got guts!!" A Striker shouted and rushed forward to Front Kick him.

Front Kick was a Striker skill and had a slight knock-back effect. Ye Xiu wasn't worried. He moved his mouse and returned with a Dragon Tooth.

The Striker felt that his Front Kick would connect, but a white light suddenly flashed and Lord Grim's battle lance appeared in front of him.

The lance was long and the leg was short. At this moment, there was no way his Kick would hit first, so he immediately cancelled the skill. He didn't expect the Dragon Tooth to be so quick though and was stabbed mid-jump. His heart suddenly dropped. The battle lance arced towards him and a Sky Strike launched him into the air.

He had incredible mechanics and his lance speed was also quick!

The Striker had suffered an attack, but instantly understood what went wrong. Ye Xiu's hand speed, as well as the Thousand Chance Umbrella's Attack Speed of 5, were both uncommonly quick, causing him to lose.

Circle Swing captured the Striker mid-air. Lord Grim flung hard and he became another meat bullet. The surrounding players dispersed to dodge. Lord Grim retracted his battle lance and fired three Anti-Tank Missiles, attacking the three front players.

This Gun Shake maneuver was unimaginably difficult. At such a short range, he was able to scatter the artillery shells at such large angles apart from one another. Of the three artillery shells, two were unable to dodge, hitting and exploding at contact.

Lord Grim then turned around and tossed a grenade into the air.

"F*ck!" The Blade Master behind him had jumped and planned on using a Falling Light Blade to make a sneak attack. But this Lord Grim unexpectedly seemed to have eyes at the back of his head and threw a grenade at him mid-air. After the explosion, the Blade Master fell like a broken-winged angel and fell face first into the ground.

How unfortunate. He had planned on using a Front Roll to Quick Recover, but he made a mistake. He messed up his Front Roll and crashed into the earth.

Tyrannical Ambition's five, top-tier, experts were being 1v5ed by Lord Grim, who had instantly hit four of them. Jiang You was dumbstruck. Lord Grim's PvP was even scarier than his PvE! During this moment, he was thankful that he had sent a message to Cold Night before-hand.

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Chapter 220 – Screen Cannon

Jiang You was the only one on his team who hadn't been hit by Lord Grim yet. Right when it looked like he was going to be hit, he immediately cast magic and Raging Flames roared up in an attempt to attack and defend at the same time.

But the attack missed. Did Lord Grim not rush forward? He then heard a whistling sound growing louder and louder. By the time Jiang You reacted, Crowd Lover was already in a huge cloud of smoke. The Launcher on the side had suddenly fired at him.

Quick Recover!

Jiang You obviously didn't want to be hit onto the ground by the explosion, so he rolled forward. When he got up, he heard someone say in his ears "Long time no see." A battle lance arced up and his Crowd Lover was thrown into the sky.

"Clang!" A cold light flashed.

Jiang You had only just been launched, when Lord Grim suddenly slashed an incredibly quick Sword Draw. It was so quick that it seemed as if the combo had been done by two players instead of one.

Just as the Blade Master on the side climbed up, Crowd Lover flew right in front of him. No one knew if he had gone stupid from falling, but the Blade Master wasn't able to dodge in time and the two crashed into each other.

Terrible!

Jiang You and the others were all fairly big names in the game. With their main accounts, they were on the same level as Changing Spring and Blue Bridge Spring Snow in the Heavenly Domain.

No one dared to say they were undefeatable in PvP, but for Jiang You and his team's skill level, it really was the first time they had been beaten up so badly.

When Jiang You and the Blade Master climbed back up, their other two teammates, the Sharpshooter and Striker, were now on the ground. As for their Cleric, he was standing there foolishly, unsure of what to do.

"Steady!" Jiang You saw that everyone had been beaten senseless. Usually, they weren't this bad. The others weren't ordinary players after all. With Jiang You's status, he was often in contact with pro-players. It wasn't that he had never played with Tyrannical Ambition's pro-players before; it was just that he had never been beaten this badly.

Ultimately, it was an issue with their attitudes. Lord Grim's strength was far greater than they had imagined and as soon as they began fighting, he disrupted their formation. They had lost their tempo and were having trouble finding it again.

"Just stall for time!" During this moment, Jiang You immediately lowered everyone's requirements.

Shortly after, he heard the Cleric shout "Careful!" Jiang You didn't ask anything and rolled to the side as he saw a bright laser brush past him. He was one of the faster ones while the other teammate, who had been in the laser's path, was directly hit flying.

Evil!!

From this, Jiang You saw Lord Grim's treachery.

He rushed up to fight them in order to force them out of their position. Their cameras were all on Lord Grim of course. As a result, the Launcher was able to fire behind them over and over again.

Jiang You had just been hit by a missile and if the Cleric hadn't warned him, he would have been hit again.

Jiang You moved his camera. Cleansing Mist's cannon was no longer directed at them, but instead was directed towards Steamed Bun Invasion's side. Jiang You discovered that it appeared as if Lord Grim's group had split up and found their own targets to battle with, but with this Launcher at their center assisting them, they formed a single body.

This type of strategy…… Jiang You suddenly felt that it seemed a bit familiar. At this moment, he heard a teammate yell another "Careful!" Jiang You hastily rolled to the side to dodge the attack behind him, but this time, he crashed into his teammates and coughed blood. Why did things turn out this way as soon as he looked away?

Could it be a dead angle strategy?

Jiang You finally thought of the strategy's name.

Dead angle strategy. It utilized the opponent's dead angles to move and attack.

This type of strategy was effective, but was not fun to watch, especially when it was from a bird's-eye view. You would only see the people being attacked while running and dodging stupidly against obvious attacks.

At this moment, Lord Grim and Cleansing Mist seemed to be using this type of strategy. Whenever his back was faced towards Cleansing Mist, she would attack and whenever he faced towards Cleansing Mist, Lord Grim would attack.

Against this dead angle strategy, you either had to move in a way such that both sides could be seen or use terrain to protect your dead angle.

"Everyone……." As soon as he shouted this out, he discovered that his teammates were charging towards Lord Grim. Their backs were towards him, which meant that their backs were also facing the Launcher.

"Careful!!" Jiang You shouted. And just as expected, the Launcher used this opportunity to shoot out three Anti-Tank Missiles and one of them was even headed towards him.

Jiang You had already dodged when he shouted out. He had dodged the bullet, but the four players in front were standing in a line, which made it difficult for them to dodge left or right so the artillery shell Jiang You dodged exploded on them.

"I'm right, it's a dead angle strategy!" Jiang You confirmed. It wasn't a coincidence but rather, it was a strategy that was being employed. Lord Grim had intentionally set up this scenario.

Apart from the dead angle strategy, Jiang You also remembered the Launcher's strategy of using firepower to protect her teammates. This type of coordination was called a Screen strategy. It was a support type strategy that long-range classes used. Because Launchers had the highest range in the game, their ability and range to support was the best, so this strategy gradually began being called "Screen Cannon".

After recognizing these two points, Jiang You at least knew that Lord Grim's team weren't just random players. Only those who truly understood Glory would be able to utilize these types of strategy at the correct time.

Being able to see through Ye Xiu's and Su Mucheng's coordination could be seen as an indication that Jiang You also understood Glory well. Many ordinary players knew a lot about theory, let alone Jiang You who has played Glory for so many years as well being Tyrannical Ambition's guild leader. At this point, the game has already become a career for him.

Dead angle strategy as well as Screen Cannon. In order to break through, they had to head towards the Launcher.

Jiang You instantly cleared his thoughts. He wouldn't entangle himself with Lord Grim and help his teammates. Instead, he turned his head and charged towards Cleansing Mist.

Flame Explosion!

Frost Ball!

Jiang You quickly moved and Crowd Lover chained two spells. Flame Explosion headed directly towards her, while Frost Ball predicted where she would move to. Sure enough, Cleansing Mist had to deal with it. After dodging the Flame Explosion, she lifted her cannon and accurately fired at the Frost Ball.

How precise……..

Jiang You was shocked, however, he had already planned what he would do next. His Raging Flames was almost finished casting and it would explode and certainly hit her.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Three explosions rang through Jiang You's ears. He saw Crowd Lover's casting get interrupted while black smoke permeated the air around him and he was forced stumbling.

"What happened?" Jiang You stared blankly.

He raised his camera and saw Cleansing Mist's cannon fire a Cannonball.

Bang!

The Cannonball hit Crowd Lover's body and he was sent flying away. As the viewpoints kept changing, the sky seemed to spin. It was almost as if he was watching a cartoon as he saw Lord Grim fling a player such that they would crash into his teammates.

Jiang You understood what had happened. The Anti-Tank Missiles didn't come from Cleansing Mist; They came from Lord Grim. That guy was an unspecialized, so he could use Launcher's skills as well.

This "Screen Cannon" strategy had two supports as the center.

Crowd Lover fell to the ground. Just as he was about to roll away, everything in front of him turned black. His character once again drilled into the ground.

"Woah! I just killed one and another came! Our synergy is so amazing!!" Jiang You wasn't able to see anything. All he could hear was someone yelling into his ears.

"F*ck! That Sand Toss was too shameless!" Jiang You figured out what happened.

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Chapter 221 – Forceful Control

Of course Steamed Bun Invasion would be the one to Sand Toss Jiang You's Crowd Lover.

Ever since Blossom Valley's two unfortunate players were sent flying into Tyrannical Ambition's group by Lord Grim, they had become human meat bullets. Their remaining member, their guild leader Backlight Bomb, didn't have any helpers and was unable to beat Steamed Bun Invasion in close combat.

Once Backlight Bomb fell, Crowd Lover was sent over, making Steamed Bun Invasion very happy.

In reality, in terms of skill level, Jiang You was better than Steamed Bun Invasion. But before he was able to adjust his camera after being sent flying, he was Blinded by a Sand Toss.

Elementalists were even worse than Spitfires in close combat. Jiang You was experienced though and immediately cast an Electric Ring. This skill came out extremely quickly and created a lightning ring around his body.

Jiang You wanted to use this skill to make Steamed Bun Invasion hesitate. But a Brawler was a Brawler. Steamed Bun didn't care about a bit of damage and continue to fight like usual. As soon as Jiang You made the control to make his character stand up, he was punched and then clawed by Steamed Bun Invasion. When Crowd Lover's blind wore off, he saw the Brawler locking onto his throat and his health rapidly dropping.

At this moment, concentrated fire came. Su Mucheng's Anti-Tank Missiles and Laser Rifle shot over. Lord Grim also sent over a few presents.

It's over…….

Jiang You understood very clearly. His Elementalist had low-defense Cloth Armor and low health. There was no way he could last long in this situation.

What about his teammates? Jiang You's camera swiveled over. He would rather get Blinded again than watch anymore!

Circle Swing, Back Throw, Wave Wheel Slasher, BBQ…… no class at Level 30 had so many Grab techniques, even Grapplers. All of Lord Grim's skills were these short-cooldown low-leveled skills. After using them all, the cooldowns would be back up and he could continuously confuse his opponent.

Jiang You watched as his teammates were grabbed by Lord Grim one after the other and were all thrown until they had no idea what they were doing anymore.

"F*ck……" Crowd Lover's health finally dropped to zero. When he fell, he saw Lord Grim throw another person over, his team's Cleric. Steamed Bun Invasion jumped over and punched the Cleric. At least, there was no more talking from him, Jiang You could no longer hear anymore.

"Where are you guys!!" Jiang You revived back to the city and swiftly sent Cold Night a message. In all of his years at gaming, he had been stepped on like this in the new server of all places. How could he accept this?

"Almost there! How are you guys holding up?" Cold Night replied.

"Dead!" Jiang You angrily replied.

"Ah….." Cold Night didn't know what to say. The guild leader was already very mad.

"How have you guys arranged it? That place is an intersection. Don't let them escape."

"Yeah, the dungeon entrance has our people from our side. If they catch up, then we should be able to surround them from every direction." Cold Night said.

"Should???" Jiang You dug out the word.

"We didn't have time to research the map……" Cold Night said.

"Then hurry up." Jiang You was extremely annoyed. He wanted to know his teammate's situations, but they definitely didn't have the time to reply.

Tyrannical Ambition's four experts were still hanging on. However, Void Walk's three players were already unable to hold out and turned into corpses one after the other. Tang Rou and Qiao Yifan had killed them off.

Ye Xiu was currently 2v5ing with Su Mucheng. The five players looked as if they were being extremely badly, but in reality, their life wasn't dropping very fast. In order to control the field, Ye Xiu had to give up on a lot of opportunities to inflict heavy damage on an opponent. Many skills weren't able to be used.

He had the ability to kill off one or two of the players, but if he did that, then the others might escape. Ye Xiu didn't want players to interrupt in the other two battles. As a result, he had forcefully controlled his opponents.

At this moment, Tang Rou and Qiao Yifan finally arrived and joined in on Ye Xiu's battle. With support, Ye Xiu immediately erupted and turned to combo an opponent next to him.

"Hurry!" Ye Xiu shouted.

Qiao Yifan's Sword Boundary was released and Tang Rou began fighting within it. Su Mucheng's entire offensive was concentrated here. Steamed Bun Invasion was only dealing with a Cleric, so he didn't need any help.

Blossom Valley's players fell first. Only Tyrannical Ambition's experts remained.

Among the normal player base, they were definitely top-tier experts. Unfortunately, they were trying to fight with a top-tier God among the pro-scene. Lord Grim was even able to bully Tiny Herb's pro-players. Such a one-sided battle already hurt their confidence.

"More players are coming!" Tang Rou suddenly called as she continued to dish out damage.

Ye Xiu's heart couldn't help but drop. There was no way they could continue fighting like this. Ignoring all else, they didn't have enough mana! If Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion hadn't learned about how to conserve mana during battle, then they probably would have run out already.

Besides being unable to continue battling, Ye Xiu was also worried about reinforcement arriving. The reason he didn't let a single person go before was because he thought that there was enough time to kill off everyone.

But if another dungeon team came…..

Ye Xiu looked, but discovered that the players coming might not be a hindrance.

"Hey, you just finished dungeoning?" Ye Xiu greeted this team. The team's players slowed down.

"Cough…… you're killing?" The other side slowly said. Blue River was speaking. This team was from Blue Brook Guild. Ye Xiu had met with the others, Bound Boat, Thundering Light, Returning Cloud, etc. long ago. The people behind the computers were all staring forward with grotesque faces.

"Yup!" Ye Xiu replied while sending an opponent flying.

Blue River and the others watched as the player flew up and then fell. They were completely silent. They had no intent on joining the battle and also didn't seem to want to leave either.

"Blue Bridge, you coward! A few dungeon records and you're scared?" Someone suddenly cursed.

Only Heavenly Domain players who knew him would call Blue River, Blue Bridge. Could he be an expert from Tyrannical Ambition's headquarters? Blue River was startled. He took another look at them……. Even though he wasn't able to tell who it was from his voice, he already figured out who they were by looking at their classes. Blue River suddenly felt quite good.

"Sigh, today's my birthday, so I'll be going off early. I'll be on my way then, have fun, everyone!" Blue River said. He didn't look on any further and led his team away.

"Do you know any shame, Blue Bridge……" Tyrannical Ambition was still talking to him.

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Chapter 222 – Searching for Tracks

Even though Tyrannical Ambition's top experts hadn't participated in the pursuit for Lord Grim, they understood their situation in the tenth server. Blue Brook Guild should be feeling more pressed to suppress Lord Grim than they were.

But after Blue Brook Guild was stepped on in Desolate Land, they seemed to have stayed outside of matters.

Were they scared? Or had they reached an agreement with Lord Grim? Or did they have some other scheme up their sleeves? No one knew.

Their current movement would have benefited every guild in the tenth server that was competing for dungeon records. Even though Blue Brook Guild was currently in the worst state, who would look down on Blue Brook Guild's strength? As soon as Lord Grim was suppressed, Blue Brook Guild would jump back as one of the strongest contenders for the dungeon records, especially since they wouldn't have sacrificed anyone to suppress Lord Grim…….

How could the other guilds just let Blue Brook Guild take advantage of their hard-earned win like that?

Originally, competing for dungeon records was up to the player and facing against other opponents was also up to the player.

But because of one another's interests, such simple rules no longer belonged. As a result, everyone created a hidden set of rules that everyone had to uphold.

Those who hadn't participated in the elimination of Lord Grim would not have the qualifications to fight for the dungeon records. This was what the seven guilds who had participated were thinking.

In their eyes, Blue Brook Guild wasn't upholding the rules.

Seeing how Blue River wasn't going to help them, they could clearly see his attitude towards this subject.

This was why Tyrannical Ambition's expert was extremely spiteful and was loudly looking down upon them. However, this wouldn't change Blue River's decision; it wouldn't change their current plight.

Three players quickly became two players.

Two players quickly became one player.

When the last player fell, Steamed Bun Invasion also finished up with his Cleric. Currently, they could hear footsteps closing in from a distance.

"They're here. Run." Ye Xiu said.

But only after running a bit, he suddenly stopped. After waiting for the others to catch up, he suddenly headed towards the left fork: "This way. Stick close to the side."

"This is?"

"To avoid the dead player's eyes?" Qiao Yifan noticed that that Blade Master's corpse was still there. However, he didn't know how large his ghost camera was.

"Yeah." Ye Xiu said. Lord Grim led the way, while the others followed closely behind in a line.

"Pay attention to any players you see." Ye Xiu said again.

"Hm?"

"In order to find where we were, besides blocking the entrances to Line Canyon, they also sent players over to keep watch at the various dungeon entrances. Right now, they know where we are, so players from the dungeon will be heading over there." Ye Xiu said.

"How come they still know where we are!" Su Mucheng exclaimed.

"It's just a possibility!" Ye Xiu said.

"What do you mean?"

"Turn this way!" Ye Xiu changed directions again.

"Don't tell me you want to find a route where we'll avoid everyone?" Su Mucheng said.

"It's not that complicated." Ye Xiu smiled, "We just have to take a long detour to stay as far away as possible from them. Here, this way." Ye Xiu continued to lead the way.

Less than a minute after Ye Xiu's group left, at the place where a great battle recently took place, the troops from the seven guilds finally arrived.

On the way, they bumped into Blue Brook Guild's group. Blue River was still as calm as ever and he, along with Bound Boat and the others, were looked down on as they passed by each other.

Four of the seven guilds began to burn with anger after seeing the tragedy. Some of the vestiges of battle hadn't yet disappeared yet.

Blood, smoke, sword scars……

In just a few short minutes, the elite teams of each of the four guilds had been wiped out. Tyrannical Ambition lost the most. Two of their teams had been wiped out, including their team that the guild leader's personally led.

"Just how strong is Lord Grim?" Cold Night thought as he looked at the rage messages sent by Jiang You.

With the situation being like this, the news about the elite teams from each of their four guilds had already been spread. The other three guilds expressed their sympathies, but they knew that they were laughing at them on the inside.

Only Chen Yehui wasn't surprised by the outcome. He was the only one understood just how strong their opponents were.

He had once used numbers to try and bully the few, and the result? How could these elite experts compare to their Excellent Dynasty's players?

Though unfortunately, Herb Garden and Royal Heritage hadn't been touched in all of this.

Chen Yehui thought as he looked at the players from these two guilds. He felt that their half-heartedness was a little suspicious, especially Herb Garden. They were one of the Three Great Guilds, but among all of them, Herb Garden had sent the fewest number of players and their movements were also the slowest. Chen Yehui suspected that Herb Garden had other plans just like them.

"Lord Grim went this way." After the Blade Master revived, he sent a message to Cold Night, telling him the direction they went towards.

"Directions from another corpse?" Lonely Drink had experience scouting out as a corpse.

"Yeah."

"Then it might not be accurate." Lonely Drink said. At that time in Congee Forest, Lonely Drink's directions had been wrong.

"So we should exclude this direction?"

"That….." Lonely Drink wasn't confident.

Right now, three forks were in front of them. The information the corpse had provided was ignored.

Split the troops three ways? They didn't dare…… Even though the terrain here was completely different from Congee Forest's, the 32 players wipe out was still fresh in their minds.

"Players that come here from the dungeons will have seen them." Someone said.

"There's no way they can stop them. It'd be too late by the time we get there."

"What if they used this opening to slip out of Line Canyon?"

Everyone immediately froze.

"Maybe it'd be best to get back to the Line Canyon entrances?"

"Looks like that's our only option." The guilds discussed and in the end, that was their final decision.

Their discussion didn't go on for very long this time. After admiring the vestiges of battle for a short moment, they quickly returned to guard duty.

The players from the dungeon entrances that had rushed over reported back.

No, no, no…….. no one had found them.

"F*ck! They really ran off?" Someone cursed.

"Maybe or maybe they've temporarily hidden themselves?" Another guessed.

Both possibilities made them want to go crazy, but they had no way of verifying. All one hundred players coughed blood and then went to guard the entrances. The players who had been guarding the dungeon entrances were given another order: to scout around the leveling area and search for traces of Lord Grim's group without exposing their identity.

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Chapter 223 – Wild BOSS Discovered

2 AM, Line Canyon.

The pitiful players of the seven guilds weren't sleeping, leveling, dungeoning, or questing, but were forced to blindly search the leveling areas instead.

The players at the dungeon entrances weren't having it any better either. They were extremely lonely. Even worse, were the hundred players outside of Congee City. They had already been waiting for so long…….

They searched the leveling areas and possible quest locations, but found nothing.

And just like this, half an hour passed in the blink of an eye.

News of Lord Grim's group suddenly popped up in front of everyone.

System Announcement: Congratulations to players Lord Grim, Cleansing Mist, Soft Mist, Steamed Bun Invasion, and One Inch Ash for breaking the Line Canyon record, time: 29:51:44.

"F*CK!!" This sound echoed from all around Line Canyon. The seven guilds had searched madly around the entire world, while their targets went to set a dungeon record.

The Line Canyon dungeon record had already been broken by Lord Grim twice. In the past, whenever Lord Grim's team broke the record, they always did by more than 1 minute. Afterwards, no one could even hope to compete, but these two records that were set by them had only improved the record by a bit. It wasn't as ridiculous.

However, now that they thought about it, right now, Lord Grim's team consisted of four Level 31s and one Level 30. When they hit Level 33, what record would they be able to achieve?

As for how they had somehow escaped from under their watchful gaze, there was already no point in figuring it out.

"Dungeon!! Guard the dungeon entrances." Everyone immediately received new orders. They could only curse as they rushed towards the dungeon entrances.

"BOSS! Wild BOSS!" More news arrived. Of course, the messenger didn't send it to everyone; it was only sent to his guild leader.

"There's no one else here. It's only me. This place is really empty!" The player who discovered the wild BOSS was somewhat incoherent.

They hadn't found Lord Grim, but they had found a wild BOSS. Cold Night was very moved.

It's been such a terrible night! Who could have suffered more than my Tyrannical Ambition? Maybe the system is feeling sorry and is taking care of us?

The cold night stayed silent. In the currently sparse Line Canyon, they might be able to take down the wild BOSS without anyone knowing.

But the other guilds were still guarding the Line Canyon entrances. If he suddenly maneuvered a large amount of troops, he might arouse their suspicion. As a result, Cold Night reported this news to Jiang You.

Jiang You hadn't logged out yet and was still in the tenth server. He was currently together with the four other experts that had come from the Heavenly Domain. Their wipe-out half an hour ago was still looping through their minds. It truly wasn't a happy memory.

They had specially come over to compete with Lord Grim for the dungeon records, but they had been defeated by their opponents in direct combat. They weren't even been able to last long enough for backup to arrive. In just a few minutes, they had bit the dust……..

If news of this got out, how could they have the face to consider themselves top-tier experts? They'd probably become a laughing stock. Poplar Beach was an example of this.

If Poplar Beach were to ever have the chance to turn back time, he definitely wouldn't try to challenge Lord Grim. Even if he decided that they would battle, he would go in with an alternative account.

Unfortunately, that wasn't what happened. Poplar Beach dueled Lord Grim and lost extremely miserably. Who knew how many players had already gone to laugh at him?

Ever since then, Poplar Beach never appeared online again.

Thinking of Poplar Beach, Jiang You and the others could only feel that they were considered lucky. They were, at least, wearing armor and weren't the center of everyone's attention.

Lord Grim was very strong, but Jiang You and the others wanted to redeem themselves. During the past half an hour, they had been discussing the strategy and tactics Lord Grim's team had employed, Lord Grim's difficult to deal with unspecialized, as well as how they would beat them next time.

"What about Lord Grim?" Jiang You was more concerned with Lord Grim.

Cold Night was startled. Lord Grim had just gone on TV, did Jiang You not see it? What had they been doing the past thirty minutes?

"They were dungeoning. They just broke the record." Cold Night could only say the truth.

"Record?" Jiang You immediately checked the record leaderboards. He looked at it and then let out a sigh of relief: "It doesn't look like it's anything impressive."

"Yeah, they probably weren't going all out." Cold Night said.

"By the time we wait for them to go all out, it'll be too late. Have you found their location yet?" Jiang You asked.

"No……"

"What do you mean no?" Jiang You was not in a good mood.

"We didn't know how they got into the dungeon. This time, we'll guard the dungeon entrances better." Cold Night could only try and explain.

"They can still dungeon one more time. If we guard the Line Canyon entrances, we'll definitely catch them." Jiang You said.

"Okay…. then what about the wild BOSS?"

"Let's go!"

"Do we need more players?"

"No need. More players will attract too much attention." Jiang You replied. He suppressed the urge to prove that they really were experts.

"Okay….." Cold Night said.

After setting the dungeon record, Ye Xiu immediately led the group away.

"We can't continue dungeoning." Ye Xiu said. Previously, they had gone around the guild players in order to enter the dungeon, but there was no way they could ensure that they wouldn't be found this time.

They wound around the map until they reached a very remote place. They looked around and there wasn't a single person there, which meant that they hadn't been discovered.

"If I knew of this earlier then we could have ran it one more time…… Well, whatever. Let's just kill some monsters and level here!" Ye Xiu said.

"Then I'll be going off." Su Mucheng said.

"Me too." Qiao Yifan said. The pro-players couldn't stay up all night.

"Go ahead!"

The two players said bye. Only Ye Xiu, Tang Rou, and Steamed Bun Invasion could stay up and play until daylight.

"Pay attention to any suspicious movements. The other side might be looking for us." Ye Xiu warned them.

Even though the monsters here weren't as strong as the monsters in the dungeons, they could still be used as practice. Ye Xiu gave them a limited practice set to see who would advance through it. The three players had previously cleared monsters like this in this desolate area in Line Canyon.

Ye Xiu was looking around at the surroundings. His camera turned and found something: "Oh? Isn't that the legendary wild BOSS?"

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Chapter 224 – False Report

Line Canyon's wild BOSS, Cliff Ronin Alpine, was the strongest monster in this map. Currently, he was clothed in a black gown and was pacing back and forth with a katana on his shoulder.

"BOSS!" To Steamed Bun Invasion, the word BOSS was very attracting.

"Retreat, retreat." Ye Xiu said.

The two didn't understand why he said so, but listened anyways.

"There's someone following him from behind." Ye Xiu's Lord Grim hid behind a rock.

"What type of person?" Tang Rou asked.

"Someone watching the BOSS. I'm guessing there's going to be some people coming to kill him soon." Ye Xiu replied to Tang Rou, while analyzing the map. Steamed Bun Invasion, on the other hand, was rolling around, a front roll and then a back roll and so on.

"Steamed Bun, what are you doing?"

"Investigating." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"Investigating what?" Ye Xiu asked.

"That sword's really long."

"……Good, in a bit, you guys will need to be careful. This BOSS's weapon has the range of a Broadsword and the attack speed of a Tachi." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh? We're going to kill it?' Tang Rou said.

"Of course."

"But there's already people there." Tang Rou said.

"Stealing a wild BOSS! I like it." Steamed Bun Invasion licked his lips.

"That's not polite, no?" Tang Rou felt embarrassed to do so.

"They're from Tyrannical Ambition." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh, then what are we waiting for?" Tang Rou immediately changed her mind.

"If we go right now, we won't be able to finish the BOSS before Tyrannical Ambition's players arrive." Ye Xiu said.

"So?"

"Like Steamed Bun said. We're going to steal it." Ye Xiu said.

"Ha ha ha ha ha….."

"Quiet down, Steamed Bun." Ye Xiu hastily reminded him.

Steamed Bun Invasion fell silent. Tang Rou had her Soft Mist stick her head out to look around: "But there's only three of us."

"For an event like a wild BOSS, Tyrannical Ambition definitely won't want to alert the other guilds, so their movements must be small. They probably won't have too many players come either." Ye Xiu said.

"What if there are a lot?"

"Then all we can do is announce it on the world channel to make many more people come." Ye Xiu said.

"Ha ha ha, Senior, you're too evil." Steamed Bun Invasion laughed.

"It's called strategy." Ye Xiu corrected him.

The three hid behind a rock like this, peeking out from time to time. The Tyrannical Ambition's player was carefully following the Cliff Ronin Alpine from a certain distance, afraid that he would enter the Ronin's aggro range.

The Cliff Ronin deserved his name. As soon as he spawned, he would slowly wander around Line Canyon.

"We don't know how long this guy's been watching the BOSS, but he still hasn't encountered anyone else. We've really struck gold this time." Ye Xiu said.

"He has." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"If he had, then it'd have been stolen long ago."

"Senior, we're also people….." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

Ye Xiu was speechless and just stopped talking.

"Are we just going to hide until they come?" Tang Rou asked.

"Hiding here is fine. But if the BOSS goes too far, it'll be troublesome! Please get here faster!" Ye Xiu said. It wasn't even time to kill the BOSS and they were already growing worried.

"It seems like the more he walks, the farther he gets." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"Is there a possibility that the BOSS could suddenly turn around?" Tang Rou asked.

"That…..I've never really researched that." Ye Xiu said. In reality, he was looking at a Cliff Ronin Alpine guide right now.

"Why can't we go to that side? What type of terrain do we need?" Tang Rou asked.

"One that's close enough. Since we'll be moving out later, we have to be able to pull the BOSS's aggro when we move out as well as wipe out their players. If not, then if even one player on their team survives and is still considered in battle, then even if we kill the BOSS, the BOSS will still be theirs. Understand?" Ye Xiu explained.

"Uh…… so you're saying that as soon as we expose ourselves we have to quickly close in. Compared to killing the BOSS, wiping out the other players is more important?" Tang Rou said.

"Correct. See where the BOSS is going? There's nowhere for us to hide over there. If the battle goes over there, then it doesn't matter how perfect our timing is because by the time we rush over there, they'll have discovered us. Under that type of situation, it'll be very difficult to steal the BOSS." Ye Xiu said.

"Then what do we do?" Tang Rou was also growing worried now, "It really is going farther and farther away."

"Worst case scenario, we can try our previous strategy." Ye Xiu said.

"What strategy?"

"First we wait for Tyrannical Ambition's players." Ye Xiu said, "So slow."

"They're here! They're here!" Steamed Bun Invasion suddenly said.

"Get your head back down here, Steamed Bun. How many?"

"Five." Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"Only five?" Ye Xiu hadn't expected this. It was a wild BOSS. He thought that there would be at least ten.

"There's five. I'm not wrong."

"Got it." Ye Xiu nodded his head.

"Your strategy?" Tang Rou asked. The BOSS was too far away for their "quickly rush in" strategy.

"Pay attention to the world chat." Ye Xiu said and then immediately typed out a message.

Lord Grim: Line Canyon: 2441, 3212, wild BOSS discovered. Hurry!!!

Even though most messages in the world chat would instantly vanish, Lord Grim's name was too eye-catching. This was a name that many players cursed.

"Wild BOSS!" Line Canyon exploded with noise. Many players were already itching to head over.

"How?" Cold Night immediately asked the person watching over the BOSS.

"The BOSS isn't over there…….." The person hastily replied.

"Wait!" Chen Yehui suddenly shouted, but besides the people surrounding him, no one else could hear his voice amidst the loud racket, but the people around him were enough because these were the people who commanded the troops.

"Was he really that lucky to find the BOSS, or is he trying to lure us away?" Chen Yehui said.

Cold Night loathed Chen Yehui and his Excellent Dynasty, but right now, Cold Night found Chen Yehui's comradeship incomparably cute. His words were too on point.

Right now, Cold Night didn't want everyone to begin looking for the BOSS from this false report. It would ruin their chance at secretly killing the BOSS.

Chen Yehui might be able to persuade the players here, but what about others? The ones who were scattered throughout the leveling area or those dungeoning. Even though it was late at night, Lord Grim would still attract the interest of quite a few players, no?

He had deliberately given false info to escape amidst the confusion! Cold Night hated Lord Grim to the core. That guy had this trick up his sleeve and he just had to use it when they found the BOSS. Go to f*cking hell.

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