Chapter 201 – Mass Task Farming (Part 2)
by Salted FishInitially, they had assumed that the soldiers burning the girl would at least be elite mobs, and there might even be a mutated one that turned into a boss. Who knew that after a few AoE attacks, most of the soldiers were already dead? By the end, even Passing Master had time to toss out a Zephyr Jinx—what a blast!
Finally, the last soldier fell. And the moment the soldier collapsed, the sky suddenly darkened with thunder and lightning. Without even a blink, torrential rain poured down. Within seconds, the bonfire was extinguished, leaving only charred firewood and the girl atop it.
Fang Zheng: “Your Sister~”
Your Sister: “Got it.”
As the team’s most adept jumper, Your Sister lightly tapped the ground with her toes and effortlessly leaped onto the pile of firewood. He double-clicked the wooden cross binding the girl, and the ropes snapped off with a sound.
[System] Girl: Thank you, mighty warriors, thank you, hehe… hehehehe…
A chill ran down their spines. The ten teammates involuntarily gulped in unison.
Mad Lad: “Since when do proper girls laugh like that =_=”
Milk Mom: “Usually, that kind of laughter only appears when a pervert has cornered a girl in a dead end.”
Your Uncle: “So now we’re the girls, and she’s the pervert?”
Your Sister: “One teasing ten—the odds aren’t great…”
[Whisper] March to Liangzhou: Want to chime in, hard to fit in.
[Whisper] No. 4 Coffin Shop: Happy?
[Whisper] March to Liangzhou: .
(I’ve always wanted to join the conversation and get along with everyone, but it seems I can never keep up with their thought process and blend into the group.)
(Are you sure fully integrating into this group is something to be happy about?)
(Let me think about it some more =.=)
[System] Crackle! Boom!
A massive bolt of lightning struck the extinguished bonfire, interrupting March’s contemplation of his life’s future direction and plunging all the teammates’ screens into a golden light. The gold resembled lightning, yet also a great fire, its blinding brightness obscuring the entire world. Only after a long while, when the golden light faded, did everyone realize the bonfire had been flattened, the girl had vanished without a trace, and—worse—they had been bound and gagged by fully armored warriors.
After a brief progress bar, the scene shifted to the royal palace hall of the Yellow Kingdom. On the throne sat an enraged old king—
[System] McFeng: You foolish, arrogant fools! By freeing the witch, you have unleashed the claws of the devil! You shall burn in the fires of hell and face the harshest punishment!
Though they knew it was just game lore, just background for the quest, and there was no need to take it too seriously… but damn, who would’ve thought the girl sentenced to burn as a witch actually was a witch?! King, did you also roll around in Laozi’s alchemy furnace to develop eyes that see through everything?!
Complaining couldn’t stop the sword-wielding guards from slowly advancing. Closer! Closer! The king had already issued the immediate execution order, and all the teammates kneeling in the hall were about to become bloody pincushions!
[System] Stone: Father!!!
[System] McFeng: Who? Who spoke? No, impossible… How could I hear the cries of my poor, dead child…
[System] Stone: Father, it’s really me! I’m not dead!
Writing team, come here—let’s chat about writing techniques, dramatic conflict, and Chinese football…
For the next five minutes, the teammates were forced to endure a Western family drama infused with fantasy and emotion. The story’s origins traced back to… well, not that long ago.
The king lost his wife and, overwhelmed with grief, went hunting in the forest to distract himself. There, he encountered a peasant girl and, unable to restrain himself, fell in love at first sight. He immediately brought her back to the palace, intending to marry her.
However, the prince couldn’t accept his father taking a new wife so soon after his mother’s death, especially one young enough to be his sister. He argued fiercely with the king and, in a fit of rage, ran away from home.
Just as he reached the lake outside the palace, he encountered the “future stepmother” chasing after him. The naive prince thought she had come to persuade him to reconcile with his father, but instead, she cursed him with magic, turning him into stone and sinking him to the bottom of the lake.
Soon after, a torrential downpour struck the Yellow Kingdom, lasting three days and nights. The underwater currents lifted the Stone Prince and swept him away, eventually carrying him to the sea.
Meanwhile, the girl returned to the palace and told the king that the prince had tragically fallen into the lake. Though the king ordered a search that yielded no results, he believed his fiancĂ©e’s story and held a funeral for the prince. Then, he began preparing for his wedding—only to accidentally discover that his fiancĂ©e was an evil witch who chanted curses into a crystal ball.
Hence, the earlier scene of her execution.
[System] Quest “Visit the Wise Elder Alaba” updated!
Mad Lad: “Damn, finally updated!”
Crossplayer: “Visit the wise elder? What does that mean?”
Your Sister: “Don’t ask me. From the moment that bastard fell in love at first sight right after his wife died, I stopped following the plot.”
Passing Master: “I lasted longer than you—I made it to the prince turning into stone!”
Your Sister: “And the point of pride is…? =_=”
Fang Zheng: “Huh? It’s over? Then what? Where did the witch go? Will the king find another wife? Also, did anyone screenshot the execution? I didn’t even get a good look at the female lead’s face!”
Your Uncle: “Leader, this is just a main quest. Don’t treat it like a TV drama…”
438: “First a wizard minister, then a wizard groom, now a witch—one per kingdom. At this rate, after visiting all seven kingdoms, we’ll have collected seven witches!”
Coffin Shop: “And then what are you planning to summon…?”
March: “Comrades, can we stay on topic?”
Birdy: “The king said only the Yellow Kingdom’s oldest wise elder, Alaba, knows how to break the prince’s stone curse. So the quest updated.”
March: “Oh…”
Birdy: “Flattery will get you nowhere.”
Mad Lad: “How did you hear that as praise? =_=”
Coffin Shop: “A drawn-out ending tone can convey a lot of information.”
Mad Lad: “Like what?”
Coffin Shop: “No wonder a bunch of misfits like you can keep overcoming obstacles—turns out you’ve got a steady anchor like him.”
March: “No need to embellish the translation—the original phrase I used was ’emergency heart pill.'”
Coffin Shop: “Showing off in front of the master. Actually, the original phrase was simple yet profound, ordinary yet deeply meaningful.”
March: “Thank you.”
There are two things I hate most in this world: one is being broke, the other is zombies. If I had to choose the absolute worst, being broke is definitely more painful because it means no quality of life, no social status, no admiration from beauties… I choose zombies.
—Case Files of a Huaxia Madman
At the same time, while some were searching for the wise elder in the Yellow Kingdom, others were battling a witch in the Emerald Kingdom—the former couldn’t find him, while the latter nearly wiped.
Dutch Souvenir: “I told you ten people couldn’t do it. When accepting the quest, it clearly said up to twenty people. Why did we still push our luck?”
Thousand Mountains: “It’s just dying. If you always stick to the exact number written, you’ll never amount to anything~~”
Little Willow: “So wiping is amounting to something now?”
Thousand Mountains: “We didn’t wipe.”
Scholar Lu: “Right, you’re still alive.”
Thousand Mountains: “Can’t help it. As the healer, I wanted to die too, but thinking of all of you waiting for me to revive you…”
War of the Gods: “I’m touched you’ve actually developed healer instincts.”
Thousand Mountains: “So, occasionally experiencing the thrill of a bloody battle is pretty fun~~”
Mocha: “Come here and let me kill you—that’d be even more fun.”
Thousand Mountains: “Yao Yao~~ Are you really just going to stand there and watch them gang up on me?”
Don’t Stop the Meds: “Wait, you want me to join them and help?”
Rain Through the Woods: “Thousand Mountains, I think twenty people would be safer.”
Thousand Mountains: “Ask Yao Yao. If he hadn’t tacitly agreed, do you think Dutch Souvenir would’ve engaged the boss?”
Rain Ceases: “Just call him ‘Souvenir.’ Using his full name sounds so distant.”
Dutch Souvenir: “I’m not close with him.”
Thousand Mountains: “He’s not close with me.
War of the Gods: “Your level of tacit understanding slapped you in the face â•®(â•Ż_â•°)â•”
Banter aside, regardless of their clashing personalities, one thing united the core members of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce—Don’t Stop the Meds was absolute authority. So now, the first-tier YY channel of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce fell silent as everyone waited for his decision.
Normally, this wouldn’t even require thought. If the system explicitly said twenty people were needed, why would you go in with ten? That’s just stupid. But since this was happening in the Lover’s Constellation event, with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce’s squad dominating the top ten spots on the Quest Progress Leaderboard, an interesting phenomenon emerged—no one could keep up with their progress. In other words, if they wanted twenty people, they’d have to wait for the “lagging teammates” to catch up to this quest. But where were these “lagging teammates”?
[Quest Progress Leaderboard]
No.1—[White Chapel] Dutch Souvenir 59%
No.1—[White Chapel] Scholar Lu 59%
No.1—[White Chapel] Mocha 59%
No.1—[White Chapel] No Birds Over a Thousand Mountains 59%
No.1—[Windmill Faction] X 59%
…
No.11—[ice] Ice on Fire 52%
No.11—[ice] Bells in the Rain 52%
No.11—[Iceborn] Beckham 52%
No.11—[Iceborn] ice Iceborn 52%
…
No.21—[Silence] Silent Hill 49%
No.21—[Silence] Insidious 49%
…
No.31—[Five Peaks Pavilion] Solitary Desert Blade 47%
No.31—[Five Peaks Pavilion] Suave Not Sleazy 47%
No.31—[Five Peaks Pavilion]…
No.31—[Five Peaks Pavilion] Drink Till You Drop 47%
…
No.41—[War Banner] War-Black Gold 43%
No.41—[War Banner] War-Six Souls 43%
No.41—[War Banner] War-Sister Liuli 43%
No.41—[War Banner] War-Bodhi Patriarch 43%
No.41—[War Banner] War-God’s Follower 43%
No.41—[War Banner] War-Snow Wolf 43%
No.41—[War Banner] War-Sorrel 43%
No.41—[Huaxia Dominion] Carved in Bone 43%
No.41—[Huaxia Dominion] Seven Injuries Fist 43%
No.41—[Huaxia Dominion] Everything Breaks 43%
…
No.61—[White Chapel] Waning Moon and Strong Wine 41%
No.61—[White Chapel] Navigator 41%
No.61—[White Chapel] Painter Van Gogh 41%
No.61—[White Chapel] Meteor Butterfly Bastard 41%
No.61—[White Chapel] Burn Newspaper to Feed Ghosts 41%
No.61—[Windmill Faction]…
No.61—[Windmill Faction]…
No.61—[Sunflower]…
…
No.71—[Ghost Server Legion] Polly 40%
No.71—[Ghost Server Legion] Refined Into a Demon 715 40%
No.71—[Ghost Server Legion] Mad Lad 40%
No.71—[Ghost Server Legion]…
…
No.71—[Outer Flame] Fahai of the Gods 40%
No.71—[Outer Flame] Flame of the Gods 40%
No.71—[Outer Flame] Milk Bottle of the Gods 40%
No.71—[Outer Flame] Weapon of the Gods 40%
No.71—[Outer Flame] Guardian of the Gods 40%
No.71—[Outer Flame] Sun of the Gods 40%
No.71—[Outer Flame] Tears of the Gods 40%
No.71—[Outer Flame] Zongzi of the Gods 40%
No.71—[Outer Flame] King of the Gods 40%
No.71—[Outer Flame One] Angel of the Gods 40%
…
Dugu Qiubai roamed the martial world for over thirty years, even changing his name to “Seeking Defeat,” yet never found a match, ultimately retiring to seclusion in a deep valley. Why? The loneliness of being unmatched is unbearable.
Boss Yao now deeply understood this solitude.
The closest, Iceborn, still had seven quests left. Their own second-tier team was even further behind.
But waiting wasn’t Boss Yao’s style. Dominating the progress leaderboard was just a freebie—the real prize was the first kill of the No. 100 ultimate quest. To maintain his rapid completion rate, he didn’t need fixed teammates—just the right allies at the right time. For this quest, he had three options: attempt it with ten people, wait for Iceborn or another team to catch up, or help his second-tier team finish their quests faster.
Option one was already proven impossible. That left options two and three.
Boss Yao decided to pursue both.
“Rain Ceases, stay here. The rest, come with me to help Meteor’s team. If another guild arrives before we return with Meteor, Rain Ceases will notify us immediately and negotiate a joint team.”
“Boss Yao…”
Though his authority was absolute, complaining was always allowed, “Leaving Rain Ceases means Thousand Mountains is our only healer.” Are you sure that’s okay?”
Boss Yao was democratic: “Choose—keep Thousand Mountains as healer or leave him here as negotiator.”
In the end, Rain Ceases stayed behind because the Dutch Chamber of Commerce unanimously agreed—compared to Thousand Mountains’ aggro-pulling skills, his healing was bountiful and sweet.
…
Beijing Time 17:17
Boss Yao: “Meteor, are you lagging?”
Meteor Butterfly Bastard: “No, Boss Yao, my connection’s fine.”
Boss Yao: “Then why were you two seconds late taking aggro?”
Meteor Butterfly Bastard: “…”
Boss Yao: “Again!”
Meteor Butterfly Bastard: “Yes! TAT”
…
Beijing Time 17:25
Painter Van Gogh: “Boss Yao, sorry… TAT”
Boss Yao: “You’re not sorry to me—you’re sorry to your broadband bill.”
Painter Van Gogh: “Well, I hacked the neighbor’s Wi-Fi…”
Boss Yao: “Painter, come to the Heart-to-Heart Room. Let’s chat.”
The Heart-to-Heart Room, a fourth-tier black room under the Dutch Chamber of Commerce’s YY channel, was established by Boss Yao, password-protected by Boss Yao, and occasionally used by Boss Yao for “intimate talks.”
…
Beijing Time 17:50
Burn Newspaper to Feed Ghosts: “Leader, how did your team of ten clear this quest in one go? The timing is so tight—you need insane reflexes and APM.”
Boss Yao: “We had Keychain.”
Burn Newspaper to Feed Ghosts: “…”
Waning Moon and Strong Wine: “But we don’t have a lucky charm!! So it’s normal for us to die over and over!! Boss Yao, why are you always so mean!!! TAT”
Boss Yao: “Alright, alright, I’m just anxious. Here, head pats~~~”
A hundred slaps make one candy taste all the sweeter.
—Boss Yao’s Leadership Secrets
When ice Iceborn’s team arrived at the Emerald Kingdom’s palace, the stars had been twinkling for a long time. Since some second-tier members had early work shifts and couldn’t pull an all-nighter, Boss Yao had given up on forming a joint team from within the guild. Now, with an incomplete squad stuck on Quest No. 53, he was already being generous. Hearing Rain Ceases’ report, he immediately abandoned his hopeless underlings and returned to the Green Palace.
Back at the palace, Rain Ceases was the first he saw, followed by Iceborn’s team lined up beside him.
Iceborn was the strongest guild in Frostbite Canyon, but ice Iceborn was the least arrogant guild leader imaginable. Drink Till You Drop wasn’t arrogant either—he was steady and imposing. Silent Hill wasn’t arrogant—he was cunning. King of the Gods wasn’t arrogant—at most, he was delusional. In short, every top guild leader had unique traits, but Iceborn had none—unless you counted his showy gameplay. From Flagship until now, every time Boss Yao witnessed ice Iceborn’s gameplay, he was stunned by its terrifying precision. But when this man wasn’t in action, sheathing his killer instincts, his presence vanished entirely.
So ice Iceborn had to speak first before Boss Yao noticed him, fourth from the left.
[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: Hey~~~ Iceberg~~~
[Local] ice Iceborn: What a coincidence.
[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: Why do we always start like this? =_=
[Local] ice Iceborn: Hopefully, this time we won’t get dragged into a brawl.
[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: Won’t happen. Rain Ceases told you, right? This witch needs twenty people.
[Local] ice Iceborn: The quest notes say the party limit is twenty, not that you must have twenty.
[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: So you also wanted to try?
[Local] ice Iceborn: Yeah. Talk later.
The moment ice Iceborn sent this, Liaodong Iron Cavalry charged the throne, slashing at the evil witch shrouded in black magic!
Though the witch’s inner monologue was probably “Damn, I’ve been standing here bored for eight hundred years—finally!”, as a professional NPC, she had to maintain her presence—
[System] Gilrugar: Those who covet my crown shall burn in hell!!
In a flash, Gilrugar soared into the air, her black robes swirling with crimson wind! Iceborn’s entire team was engulfed in the bloody sandstorm—no one escaped!
AoE—the boss’s first move was an AoE!!!
Liaodong Iron Cavalry, being tanky, only lost a fifth of his HP. Spirit Master Grave Sweeping Scroll and Demon Refiner Lantern Granny, though on the outskirts, were squishy—their HP dropped below half instantly!
ice Iceborn and Beckham, caught off guard by the heavy damage to the backline, froze. Meanwhile, Festive Lantern and Ice on Fire, closest to Liaodong, reacted instantly! One dashed to heal the backline, while the other stayed put, focusing on Liaodong and the melee fighters!
Their level of tacit understanding didn’t even need verbal communication—this was Iceborn’s first-tier synergy!
ice Iceborn and Beckham finally snapped out of it, casting Trickling Stream for sustained healing on the squishies.
Just as the four healers stabilized the team’s HP, Gilrugar conjured a purple flame in her palm—then hurled it straight at Liaodong!
Liaodong’s HP plummeted to a quarter!
Ice on Fire, prepared, immediately cast Revival of the Withered, but was still shocked by the boss’s damage! Beckham and ice Iceborn tossed instant heals—Silent Nourishment—and together, they quickly restored Liaodong to four-fifths HP.
Gilrugar then settled into a pattern—one AoE followed by two ST attacks—and Iceborn’s team focused on burning her down.
Four minutes later, Gilrugar suddenly shrouded herself in her robes. When they unfurled, she had doubled in size—no longer a witch, but a true demon with horns and a scythe!!
[System] Gilrugar: I never wished to reveal my true form… For once you see it, you will long for the peace of hell…
The gleaming scythe slashed down at Liaodong!
At the same time, a golden light enveloped the Blood Warrior—Ice on Fire’s Revival of the Withered had just finished casting!
The attack and heal landed simultaneously—no, the heal arrived 0.001 seconds earlier. Yet when the effects faded… Liaodong had only 10% HP left?!
Ice on Fire: “How…?”
Before the attack, Liaodong had been at full HP thanks to Revival of the Withered. But after the hit, he was left with 10%—meaning the boss’s strike dealt 90% of a Blood Warrior’s HP in damage! And Liaodong was Frostbite Canyon’s top tank! Any other Blood Warrior would’ve been one-shot! A move that nearly one-shots a tank is just broken!!
[Combat] Festive Lantern used Ten Thousand Blossoms.
Ice on Fire: “Festive Lantern?”
Though Liaodong only had 30% HP left, with four healers, a few instant heals could easily push him past 80%. Why waste a full-party AoE heal?
[Combat] Liaodong Iron Cavalry has died.
…What the hell just happened?! Festive Lantern cast Ten Thousand Blossoms! How did he still die?!
ice Iceborn: “Ice on Fire, focus.”
The leader’s calm reminder steadied Ice on Fire. A glance at the combat log showed Ten Thousand Blossoms had landed—yet Liaodong still fell. There was only one explanation: the boss had used a two-hit combo, each strike capable of one-shotting a tank. So even after the heal, the second hit killed him.
Festive Lantern revived Liaodong, but with Resurrection Sickness, he couldn’t tank. Now, the one facing the boss was none other than their leader.
Iceborn’s first-tier was also a capricious team—four healers but only one tank. So after Liaodong fell, the assassin-class ice Iceborn had to step up.
But a boss that could one-shot Frostbite Canyon’s top tank wouldn’t even blink at a mere assassin. Despite ice Iceborn’s evasion boosts, he too fell.
Festive Lantern began casting Resurrection, but ice Iceborn stopped him: “Don’t revive me. Everyone retreat beyond aggro range.”
Aggro range was the distance the boss would chase. Beyond it, the boss would reset—HP fully restored, calmly waiting for the next unlucky players to trigger it.
Returning to Boss Yao, ice Iceborn showed no change—no frustration from failure, no anger from embarrassment. Boss Yao, however, having watched the entire spectacle, was radiant with glee.
[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: Changed your mind?
[Local] ice Iceborn: Where did you wipe?
[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: Who said we wiped? Just looking at this boss, you can tell ten people can’t do it—why even try?
[Local] ice Iceborn: “[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: So you **also** wanted to try?”
[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: We wiped at the same spot. Guess we’re fated.
Beijing Time 23:07
After the shameless Boss Yao and the oblivious ice Iceborn fell in succession, the two guilds’ first joint attempt ended in failure. Twenty players effortlessly withstood the boss’s two-hit combo—though Liaodong fell, Dutch Souvenir instantly grabbed aggro. When Souvenir fell, Mocha took over. By the time Mocha fell, Liaodong had recovered from Resurrection Sickness. In theory, the three tanks’ rotation and coordination was flawless.
…In theory.
Liaodong Iron Cavalry: “Mocha, why did you use Shield Ally?”
Mocha: “It wasn’t my turn yet. I couldn’t just watch our leader get one-shot.”
Liaodong Iron Cavalry: “But the boss AoE’d the next second.”
Mocha: “How was I supposed to know it’d AoE again?”
Liaodong Iron Cavalry: “The result? You redirected the damage to yourself, tanked with half HP, got one-shot, left us with no backup tank, and wiped us.”
Dutch Souvenir: “Liaodong, enough. Your leader didn’t say anything—why keep harping on it?”
Ice Girl: “Our leader doesn’t stoop to your level.”
Don’t Stop the Meds: “Wait, you have a girl?”
Ice Iceborn: “Problem?”
Don’t Stop the Meds: “Not really. Just if I’d known, I might’ve reassessed your combat effectiveness.”
Rain Through the Woods: “Alright, Boss Yao. No one wanted to wipe. Let’s try again—everyone will focus harder.”
Grave Sweeping Scroll: “Like hell we’re trying again! Leader, if you team up with them again, I’m out. I’ve been holding back—Thousand Mountains once planted a flag on our city wall!The shame of Jingkang is yet to be avenged, the hatred of subjects—when will it be extinguished!”
ice Iceborn: “The rest of you?”
Liaodong, Ice on Fire, Bells in the Rain, Lantern Granny, Festive Lantern, Ray-Ban: “…
Beckham: “Grave Sweeping Scroll’s Man Jiang Hong recitation was quite moving.”..”
[System] ice Iceborn has left the team.
Beijing Time 23:15
In the Emerald Kingdom’s palace, Boss Yao’s team stood in a line by height on the left, ice Iceborn’s team lined up alphabetically by ID on the right, and between them, atop the throne, sat the restless, crown-wearing evil witch. The two teams’ partnership had shattered beyond repair, leaving them waiting in silence for their destined allies.
When Silent Hill led his team into the palace, this was the sight that greeted him.
[Local] Silent Hill: Are you guys cosplaying a royal court?
[Local] ice Iceborn: Hey, what a coincidence.
[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: Silent Fortress’s elite—I knew it’d be you! [Throwing flowers][Throwing flowers]
[Party] Blue Skeleton: Their enthusiasm is giving me chills >_<
[Party] One Night Resurrection: Unwarranted flattery means hidden motives.
[Party] Today’s Demon King: Let’s hear them out first.
For the next five minutes, Silence’s team heard two versions of the same story. Regardless of the details, two key points emerged: 1) This boss was impossible with ten people; 2) Both teams were looking for allies.
Unlike ice Iceborn, Silent Hill didn’t doubt the ten-player claim—he’d been tracking the leaderboard. The Dutch Chamber of Commerce had been stuck here all afternoon and evening. If it were doable, why would they sacrifice their massive lead to waste time here?
[Local] Silent Hill: So the choice is mine?
[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: Naturally.
[Local] ice Iceborn: Yep.
[Local] Silent Hill: And what’s in it for me?
[Local] ice Iceborn: Heh.
[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: Want me to wipe you without the boss’s help?
[Local] Silent Hill: I choose Iceborn.
[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: …Why?!
[Local] Silent Hill: He’s more pleasant to talk to.
[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: “Heh” is pleasant???
[Local] Silent Hill: At least it’s subtle â•®(â•Ż_â•°)â•”
Though Iceborn and the Dutch Chamber of Commerce were evenly matched, the latter had a slight edge. But that didn’t sway Silence’s choice. Sometimes, teammates aren’t just about strength—it’s also about vibe. Clearly, horror fan Silent Hill preferred the chillier ice Iceborn.
As Silent Hill and Iceborn charged in, new guests arrived—
[Local] Nicknamed White Dragon Horse: Damn, they’re already fighting!
[Local] Suave Not Sleazy: Wait, the hall’s crowded. Iceborn, Silent Hill, Dutch Chamber of Commerce?
[Local] Summit of Mount Tai: Looks like Iceborn and Silent Hill are fighting. Dutch Chamber isn’t moving.
[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: Of course not—we’ve been waiting for you! Come here, teammates! Big bro’s hug!
[Local] Drink Till You Drop: *hug* Hello.
[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: Uh, hi.
[Local] Drink Till You Drop: You’re waiting for people?
[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: This boss needs twenty.
[Local] Drink Till You Drop: I know. Saw it when accepting the quest. But sorry, we’ve got teammates already.
[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: Oh, no problem. Guess we’re not fated.
[Local] Drink Till You Drop: A shame. Maybe next time. [handshake]
[Local] Don’t Stop the Meds: [handshake]
[Party] Little Willow: Boss Yao’s sudden normalcy is unsettling…
[Party] War of the Gods: Everyone acts normal around Drink Till You Drop. Dude’s like Meitu Xiu Xiu1A Chinese photo-editing app famous for its powerful beautification filters. Basically means he “auto-beautifies” anyone around him. =_=
[Party] Don’t Stop the Meds: “Got teammates already” is just an excuse! An excuse!! They just don’t wanna team with us!!
[Local] War-Snow Wolf: Drink.
[Local] Drink Till You Drop: You’re here.
[Local] Everything Breaks: Thanks for the tip. We’d have been stuck otherwise.
[Local] Drink Till You Drop: Same server, same team—no need for thanks. Let’s go?
Huaxia Dominion was in shambles, its top players long gone. By Quest 40%, most had slacked off, leaving only the relentless Everything Breaks, Seven Injuries Fist, and Carved in Bone. Later, they met War Banner’s seven, and the two teams merged seamlessly. As for Five Peaks Pavilion, Drink Till You Drop, noticing the Dutch Chamber of Commerce stalled at 59%, sent scouts to investigate. Learning the boss required twenty players, he naturally preferred same-server allies—especially since Boss Yao left much to be desired. Moreover, the Dutch Chamber of Commerce was already too dominant—Drink Till You Drop had no intention of fueling their fire.
Don’t Stop the Meds: “So they really did have teammates—same server too. No wonder they refused.”
Rain Ceases: “Boss Yao, you should talk to Drink Till You Drop more. Feels like your soul gets purified after.”
No Birds Over a Thousand Mountains: “Enough nonsense. Meteor’s team has work tomorrow—they’ve logged off. Four guilds are already fighting. What now?”
Don’t Stop the Meds: “Watch them die.”
Rain Ceases: “Take back what I said. Not even ten Drink Till You Drops can cleanse your soul.”
X: “Guess no one wants to team with us. Sigh.”
Don’t Stop the Meds: “XX, what’s with the sigh? =_=”
No Birds Over a Thousand Mountains: “Means you’ve got terrible social skills.”
Don’t Stop the Meds: “Says the flag-planting maniac?”
Dutch Souvenir: “…”
Mocha: “…”
Little Willow: “…”
War of the Gods: “…”
Rain Through the Woods: “Is there any guild with worse PR than us?”
Don’t Stop the Meds: “Though harsh, I can’t deny… yes!”
[Local] Milk is Mom: Yao Yao, why are you still here? Could it be no one wants to play with you? Hahahaha~~~~~~
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