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.
Standing at the end of the Ice Spine, I look up and see thousands of miles of snowy mountains and my goal, the Dragon’s Tomb, is on the other side of this mountain. This is going to be tough, dammit!
Step by step, I start climbing the mountain. My level 40 strength isn’t too shabby so as my Jade City Sword plunges into the side of the mountain, I get to the top of the mountain in 15 minutes.
Standing at the top of the mountain, I look down and find the Dragon’s Tomb shrouded in a dull glow. In addition, above the Dragon’s Tomb seems to be an invisible dome which prevents snowflakes from falling through and also makes the Dragon’s Tomb seem like its in the fall. Where does this dome comes from? Maybe it’s the legendary dragon’s spirit….
I jump down the mountain and slide down into the Dragon’s Tomb. Far away, the stone door entering into the tomb is shut tightly and my teacher – Dragon Tomb’s guardian Karl is resting within the tomb. Even when I knock, no one answers…
…..
At this time, a Ti! sound appears and a message comes from Cang Tong who is Lin Wan Er: “Li Xiao Yao, how did your Boss fight go?”
“We defeated it…but there wasn’t a Guild Creation Tablet, you guys?”
Looks like Lin Wan Er doesn’t know what happened after we killed the Boss.
“We also defeated the boss, the level 55 Gold Tier Boss isn’t too scary. We finished the job after 40+ players died…”
“Then I’ll congratulate [Hero’s Mound]…”
“Congratulations? We didn’t get the Guild Creation Tablet….” In Wan Er’s icon, she purses her lips and smiles: “It’s already 3 pm and me and Dong Cheng are both tired after fighting that boss. Let’s go to the school’s cafe and relax. We’ll be having a lot of Boss fights from now on and the atmosphere in the game is so heavy now…”
“Sure, wait for me downstairs.”
“Sure, come quickly…”
“Yup!”
……
I raise my head and looked at the stone door, dammit … If that old geezer doesn’t want to see me, then I’ll go to Wan Er. Near Wan Er I can always look at her, which is a pretty good luxury and after Wan Er and I have been together for some time, she’s slowly beginning to become nicer to me instead of being savage like the first time we met. Is her scar of me seeing her in the company slowly disappearing?
After lunch, at about 3 pm, the warm autumn sun shines into the schoolyard and filters through the scattered trees. Stepping through the trees’ shadows, I arrive at the girl’s dorm and find Lin Wan Er and Dong Cheng Yue already waiting for me. The girls are wearing such refreshing clothes. Lin Wan Er is wearing a short skirt and high heeled sandals. Her snow white legs causes the surrounding male student’s imagination to run wild. Even the female students can not help but glance at them.
“Xiao Yao!”
Dong Cheng Yue walks over while laughing and says: “You really are the most famous person in Ba Huang City right now….”
My heart skips a beat. Damn it. I did not know that the news of what happened at the Valley of Everlasting Wind and Jian Feng Han becoming my enemy would spread so quickly. These two girls must already know.