The King’s Avatar - Chapter 216

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 Myriad Manifestation 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.
“Fck!” 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.
“Fck……. 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.

Chapter 217: Void and Hundred Blossoms

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.

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.
‘Fck, this btch is too evil.” Jiang You cursed, while immediately sending Cold Night a message: “Lord Grim, coordinates: 2875, 3400.”

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 Myriad Manifestation 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.

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.

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.

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.

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?”

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.