Holding her healing staff, Darling Duck stood up. Bowing to me, she asked with a smile, “Then this little girl will be officially joining Zhan Long Studio today. Do I call you brother Xiao Yao or Boss from now on?”
Without thinking, I answered, “Boss, the same as them.”
“Hm hmmm, Boss, you are so handsome!”
“You just realized that now…”
“That was a joke, don’t take it so seriously…”
To the side, Rippling Pond could no longer keep watching. Lifting her staff she said, “I’m going back to the Pear Blossom Forest. Darling Duck, are you really going to leave [Vanguard]?”
Darling Duck nodded seriously, “Yes. I will join Boss Xiao Yao’s group. [Vanguard] and I will no longer have any relationship!”
“Okay, I will return first…”
“Rippling Pond, if you are bullied by [Vanguard] then come to Zhan Long…” I added quickly. “Honestly, we really need a high level DPS Mage as well…”
Rippling Pond laughed: “Ah, I knew that handsome Xiao Yao was a good person. If I was really bullied, I would join you without any hesitation but at that time please don’t abandon me…….”
“How could I? Don’t you have somewhere you need to be? Go ahead!”
“Okay……”
……
With her magic boots, Rippling Pond pushed off the ground. Her wings started to flutter, and she flew away, leaving the two of us behind, sitting in the valley.
“Boss, what are we going to do now?” Darling Duck looked at me.
“How about we meet up with the 3 other members of the Zhan Long Studio, become good friends, level together and slowly expand our group? We can’t compete with [Vanguard] in terms of numbers and levels. Don’t hold it against Zhan Long for not being extraordinary……”
“Hm hmm, no way, I joined for Boss Xiao Yao. I believe that with Big Brother Xiao Yao as the boss, this group will not disappoint me!”
“Hm, let’s go!”
“Okay!”
……
I sent Little Wolf a message—
“Little Wolf, where are you guys leveling right now? Still at Frost Maple Heights?”
“Yes, Brother Xiao Yao, do you need something?”
“Yup. Something big: I will introduce the Healer that will join our Zhan Long!”
“Oh, cool! Who? What level? What is the healing output?”
“Darling Duck, a Lv 42 Healer. Her Lv 5 [Heal] recovers more than 900 health; I’m estimating that her equipment boosts her healing by at least 20%!”
“Good good! Oh yeah, that name sounds really familiar……isn’t she……a former [Vanguard] Healer? Not to mention, she is pretty well known. Adding her to the operation would make everything so much easier……”
“Yeah, that’s her. What about it?”
“That’s really great. Are you going to bring her here, or do you want us to head over to you?”
“We will head over to Frost Maple Heights now!”
“Okay, we will wait for you guys!”
……
I brought Darling Duck through the dense forest and 20 minutes later, we arrived at Frost Maple Heights. This zone was really big and wasn’t meant for people to run through. Good thing the game doesn’t have a stamina stat, otherwise it would have been tiring to run continuously for 20 minutes.
One by one, I invited Old K, Fox, and Little Wolf into the party. 3 small orange dots appeared on the Frost Maple Heights map. After walking a couple more steps, the 3 bodies appeared in front of us: Lv 38 Assassin, Lv 37 Berserker, and Lv 37 Musketeer. Their leveling speeds were really, really quick.
“Let’s introduce ourselves!”
I walked forward with my sword. Laughing I said, “This is Darling Duck, these 3 are the noobs of Zhan Long Studio…….”
Old K clapped: “I welcome the beautiful Darling Duck to our group!”
Fox squinted: “A high quality girl…….”
Darling Duck’s face reddened. “Everyone, please don’t tease me. Are you guys leveling here? This is for both gold farming and leveling right?”
“Yup!” Little Wolf lifted his dagger, in a deep voice. “But now that Brother Xiao Yao has come, we could go attempt the A-rank quest that Old K received……”
“Oh? An A-rank quest?” This sparked my interest. Perfect timing. Darling Duck just joined us, so doing a quest together would be good for the group’s teamwork.