Chapter 85 – Mind Reading
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In the Valley of the Everlasting Wing, a chilling wind sweeps through everything.
Under a huge tree, the General of Everlasting Wind’s corpse still hasn’t refreshed yet but the [Vanguard] players have already left. On the equipment ranking, a new weapon took the top spot, it was the sole Purple-Tier weapon – Heavenly Plan Sword. It’s overall stats are about 4 times the stats of the next best weapon. Most infuriating, the owner of Heavenly Plan Sword has put his name next to the equipment, its Jian Feng Han.
Shua!
I revive and with my Jade City Sword, I appear next to the General of Everlasting Wind’s corpse. Li Mu, Wang Jian and the other four also revive. There shouldn’t be any danger here anymore; Jian Feng Han is someone who tries to keep up a good appearance so he wouldn’t camp or try to kill us. He’s a joker, even when I killed him, he had an innocent appearance and it was this innocent appearance that made those [Vanguard] players turn on us.
……
Sitting on a huge rock, I say: “Let’s discuss what we’re going to do from now on…”
Li Mu sits in front of me and says: “Xiao Yao, you should probably know this. Me, Wang Jian and Bai Chi were high school and college classmates. We just graduated for two years so we still keep in contact. Lian Po is a friend that I know and he’s been involved in virtual reality games for a long time so he decided to join the General Family…”
I smile: “I’m envious of you guys!”
Li Mu continues: “Since we’ve decided to play this game, we might as well do it with a bang. We want to realize a dream, a dream of being respected by everyone. It might seem a little silly but we want to create a guild, even if it isn’t the best guild in the game, it should at least be one of the top guilds. For our four helmets, we saved money for three entire months, our studio’s rents are backed up pretty far too….”
Wang Jian: “Boss, stop…”
Li Mu smiles: “It’s fine, Xiao Yao is one of us.”
“…”
Li Mu: “Therefore, what I want to say….since it’s like this, Xiao Yao, why don’t you join our General Family and fight with us, wouldn’t that be better for you?”
I pause before raising my head: “For now, I’m not considering in joining any guild.”
“Mm, we won’t force you.” Li Mu laughs: “Let’s talk about what going to happen next. I looked at our fight with the General of Everlasting Wind and I feel like with you, Xiao Yao, killing bosses shouldn’t be too hard. All we need are some high leveled healers and mages. I plan to fight a boss within the next three days. We’ll invite you to be the tank, we’ll use an employer-employee system. We only want the Guild Creation Tablet, the other equipment that the Boss drops will go to you.”
I couldn’t hold back a smile: “It’s fine…”
Lian Po sits up, startled: “Xiao Yao, you don’t plan to help us?”
I shake my head: “No no no, as long as you guys ask, I’ll definitely come. But, I don’t need any compensation when I help with the boss. I’ll just take the equipments that I need and the rest go to you guys.”
“Alright, it’s a deal?” Li Mu excitedly says.
I look at his level and smile: “Yup, we should hurry and level. When Wang Jian and Liao Po’s level get to 40, we can start fighting the bosses.”
“Sure, we’ll get there tonight!”
“Alright! Let’s friend each other to keep in contact!”
“Sure!”
……….
I watch Li Mu and his group leave and then look at my own equipment and level. I’m at level 40 with 47% experience. It’s not bad since even though I lost two levels, I am somewhat close to level 41. All I lost was a Glowing Ring but to trade that for four friends, it’s definitely worth it. Equipment, as I long as I’m still alive, I can find more equipment.”
What should I do next? Continue leveling or….
I pause and think about it for a second before I decide to go to Dragon City.
Out of the Fire Stone Canyon, I head straight to Dragon City. At the edge of Dragon City, I stop by to say hi to Beast Trainer Dalin. Afterwards, when I began to leave, he closes eyes and falls asleep immediately, I wish I could be like him.