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Chapter 8: A Life and Death Struggle

Editor: GravityTales

The Midnight Demon Cat suddenly tackled flinging aside Sleeping Moon. It clawed at the nearby party member Fallen Sun.

"AH! So sorry!" Fallen Sun was by himself. How could he have avoided the swift attack? Only then did Sleeping Moon hastily apologize. This was all because Sleeping Moon had taught these three newbies all along the way. He had definitely taught them the chance of an OT[1]!!" mistake could not be blamed on the MT[2]!!".

"Stop. Don't attack it." Sleeping Moon told Fallen Sun to immediately stop attacking. He rushed up to aggro it again. Who could know that after clawing at Fallen Sun a few times, the Midnight Demon Cat would pounce towards a different party member.

"F*CK, a chain OT!" Are you kidding me?" Sleeping Moon angrily roared. The party member that was being attacked just stood there confused. He was also a mage wearing cloth armor. Being clawed by the berserk Midnight Demon Cat was disastrous. His life crashed down, but Ye Xiu reacted beyond fast. He immediately ordered Stolord to begin casting a heal. But some things couldn't be solved relying on skills. A cloth-armored mage resisting a berserk hidden BOSS's attack, how long could he keep him alive?

The answer came quickly: seven seconds. Stolord's Heal was still on cooldown. And the berserk Midnight Demon Cat tore him apart smoothly. Sleeping Moon pounced over to rescue him, but couldn't aggro it back fast enough and the mage died.

In Glory, when a player died in a dungeon, he would be forced to leave the dungeon and wouldn't be able to come back. In other words, the original five member party became a four member party.

"F*CK, Lining up to OT. You guys are KILLING me!!" Sleeping Moon crumbled. After the mage died, the Demon Cat did not get aggroed back to him and instead sharply clawed at the third member.

The third member was also a cloth-armored mage but this time, Ye Xiu didn't order Stolord to heal him and instead healed Fallen Sun.

Using Heal could only save him from death for seven seconds, but these seven seconds were crucial to Fallen Sun. This was because other than the attack speed and damage increase from the berserk status, the Midnight Demon Cat also had an additional ability: Bleed.

The Midnight Demon Cat had unfortunately made Fallen Sun bleed. Ye Xiu had payed attention to his declining life bar. Even if he healed the mage, it would only be for seven seconds. In these seven seconds, not only would the mage die but Fallen Sun would die too. He might as well try to save one of them.

Ye Xiu had lost faith in Sleeping Moon and directly abandoned the mage to heal Fallen Sun. This sudden act made Sleeping Moon extremely angry and he roared: "WHY ARE YOU HEALING HIM?"

Ye Xiu didn't reply. Without assistance, that mage collapsed in an instant. While Sleeping Moon angrily cursed at him, the Midnight Demon Cat pounced onto Fallen Sun without hesitation.

Fallen Sun, scared witless, meekly asked: "Attack?"

"HIT HIM YOU F***ING IDIOT!" Sleeping Moon complained without knowing why. He swore while chasing the Demon Cat to pull aggro.

Thirteen seconds.

Ye Xiu calculated a time. He couldn't tell if Fallen Sun had bad luck attached to him. Right when the Bleed status wore off, the Midnight Demon Cat swiped at him again causing him to Bleed yet again. These types of status inducing attacks only had a small probability to appear. But it seemed as if someone added a 100% percent probability halo around Fallen Sun. Cursed, Bleed, every status effect that the Midnight Demon Cat could give, he possessed. Thirteen seconds. This was the amount of time Ye Xiu could keep Fallen Sun alive for. In this time, Sleeping Moon could pull aggro and save him. But what was Sleeping Moon doing?

That sharp Sleeping Moon that began the battle was now always hitting as if his hands kept slipping. Slice after slice, his sword hit nothing. In the middle of his cursing and yelling, Fallen Sun finally collapsed.

The Midnight Demon Cat finally attacked Sleeping Moon. Stolord was considered the least threatening because Ye Xiu's skill was too good. He didn't make any unnecessary operations so the aggro range only covered a small circle.

"Brother, stand your ground! Do you still have mana?" Sleeping Moon encouraged and welcomed him.

"You should be the one to stand your ground." Ye Xiu typed out.

"Don't worry. Us two match well. Beating it down won't be a problem." Sleeping Moon heroically said. In the end, his hands slipped again and the sword hit air. The Midnight Demon Cat clawed at his face.

"ADD ADD, ADD, ADD, ADD!!!" Sleeping Moon wildly howled.

No response. Stolord had been healing promptly and well the entire time. But at this time, he didn't cast a Heal onto his body.

"I can't add. It'll OT." Sleeping Moon saw what Stolord typed.

"You… …" Sleeping Moon suddenly turned his head and saw Stolord leisurely sitting under a big tree and coldly looked at him. Sleeping Moon realized the situation wasn't looking too good. This Stolord wasn't a newbie. It was still early for it to go OT. How could he have made such an error?

"It won't go OT. Hurry up and add." Sleeping Moon could only yell this. But in the end, there still wasn't any reaction.

The Midnight Demon Cat had already reached him. Sleeping Moon's reaction suddenly quickened. He sliced horizontally and blocked the claw. He immediately leapt and began skillfully attacking as he had been when he first began the battle. Sleeping Moon suddenly stopped missing.

But this time, his combo hadn't been as smooth because it was a berserk Demon Cat this time. Sleeping Moon's movements almost couldn't keep up with its increase in attack speed and damage. After leaping up, his combo attack finally missed and the Demon Cat bit down.

"HURRY UP AND ADD!!!" Sleeping Moon was worried now. Although he could fight better than the cloth-armored mage and Fallen Sun, he wasn't unequaled.

"Add what?"

"Add life!"

"What does add life mean? I only see that you're bleeding."

"You… …" Sleeping Moon was beyond angry.

"What a pity, if you only you could fight the hidden BOSS. Then, you could've rotated the party order and leader. That way, team members wouldn't leave their posts and the hidden BOSS would've been yours."

"Only how regretful. Your skill isn't good enough, so you needed to rely on others to kill the BOSS. As a result, you deliberately aggroed it properly at first and then let the BOSS OT at the right time. The other team members would have been wiped out leaving you with a low-health BOSS to solo. The items also would have certainly been yours. Whether or not you could finish the dungeon wasn't important at all compared to the hidden BOSS."

After Stolord sent out these two messages, Sleeping Moon's forehead broke out in a cold sweat. He didn't think that this guy, who had only said a single sentence along the way, had seen through his entire plot. Correct, he had let the Demon Cat OT onto the other three members to kill them. His original plan was while the healer was still frantically healing the other three members, he would have the BOSS aggro onto him. But he didn't think that Stolord would suddenly give up healing. Could it be that this guy had seen through his own own plan at that time? That guy he knew that he couldn't save anyone else, so he deliberately controlled the aggro so that it wouldn't fall on him. Could it be that he wouldn't heal him and let him die under the Midnight Demon Cat's claws?

"Brother… …" Sleeping Moon saw that this person wasn't a virtuous crop and immediately began trying to persuade him: "For now, let's not argue about this matter. It's not like you know those three players. Let's team up to beat this Demon Cat. We'll each have a 50% chance of getting each of the items, isn't that pretty good?"

"50%? I like 100%!"

"Fine… …" Sleeping Moon grinded his teeth, "Materials won't usually be the only drops. When the time comes, you first take your pick and I'll give up on it. Everything else, let's roll die for. I can give all the equipment to you too." Without the assistance of heals, Sleeping Moon knew that he definitely wouldn't be able to beat the BOSS. He could only say this.

"This, who could believe this!"

"Then what's your proposal?" Sleeping Moon immediately answered. His life had already dropped to half. He couldn't deal with the Demon Cat after it turned berserk. Having to negotiate with Ye Xiu only made it more difficult. He had already secretly written down Stolord's name. He swore that he would definitely humiliate this guy one day.

"You don't need to worry about what I'm thinking. Be at ease and drop dead!"

"You… …You're crazy. If I'm dead, wouldn't you be dead too? Then, no one would be able to take the items." Only a quarter of his health remained.

"Friend, there's no need to get into a life and death struggle!!" Only a fifth of his health remained.

"You're an idiot!" A seventh.

"Stolord, you haven't gone mad have you? Do you know my Full Moon Guild's strength?" One ninth.

"You're finished!" One hit point.

"F*ck… …" The Midnight Demon Cat clawed down and the world turned quiet.

Stolord had not moved up until now. But he also hadn't escaped. After settling the matter with Sleeping Moon, he immediately pounced over.

Ye Xiu laughed faintly. His left hand flew across the keyboard hitting a few keys and his right hand moved the mouse. Stolord brandished the Kaleidescope Parasol and opened it. Furthermore, he opened it extremely exaggeratedly and the Parasol actually flipped the other way. He retracted the Parasol a bit and now the Kaleidescope Parasol looked like a lance.

The lance-like Parasol had already whooshed towards the Midnight Demon Cat.

Battle Mage Skill: Dragon Tooth.

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1 Off Tank

2 Main Tank


Chapter 9: Ye Xiu’s Two Hands

Editor: GravityTales

Chen Guo actually didn't have a habit of pulling all-nighters. Only, today was the opening of a new server, so she came to see the liveliness. After seeing it, she quickly grew sleepy and fell back on her chair only half-conscious.

This type of sleep quality was obviously quite poor. It was just that Chen Guo was too lazy to get up. In this half-asleep half-conscious state, her ears couldn't help but drift to the frantic keyboard tapping and mouse clicking sounds. To a boss at an Internet Cafe, these sounds were very familiar to her. But the sounds Chen Guo heard were somewhat different. These sounds were hurried and then slow, gentle and then heavy. Hearing this mechanical rhythm, Chen Guo had never thought that the tapping of a keyboard and mouse could sound like drums. Was she dreaming?

Chen Guo suddenly woke up and listened again carefully. It seemed like it truly wasn't a dream. These sounds came from beside her — from that newly hired network manager, Ye Xiu.

Chen Guo sat up wanting to see and the jacket slid off of her body. She promptly grabbed it at it and recognized it as Ye Xiu's jacket. It looks like this person's quite attentive." Chen Guo said secretly. Only, how long has this jacket not been washed? It's kind of smelly.

Chen Guo picked up the jacket and sat down. Right when she was about to talk to Ye Xiu, she all of sudden sat there dumbfounded.

A pair of hands that made people's cheeks stream with tears appeared in front of her eyes — Ye Xiu's two hands.

These two hands looked extremely thin. His fingers were long and slender and his joints weren't rough like ordinary male's were. His fingertips were thin and his fingernails were clean and tidy. This was completely inconsistent with his sloppy outer appearance.

Chen Guo had originally never been a very attentive person. But after a lady with extremely beautiful hands came to the Internet Cafe, she became influenced and gradually began paying attention. Now, she was astonished by Ye Xiu's two hands.

The hands were beautiful hands. The tapping sounds were also like music. But his actions… …Ye Xiu's left hands bounced around on the keyboard. Cheng Guo only had one feeling: his hands moved extremely slowly.

Hand speed, the amount of actions done in a certain amount of time, usually counted in minutes, were abbreviated as APM. Glory wasn't a strategy game. Players only controlled a single character, but skill usage was complicated. As a result, the number of fine actions that needed to be done were high, so high hand speed was a must.

A player with a high hand speed made quick and meticulous moves. The strength and duration of each keystroke all directly influenced the extent that the in-game character moved. These changes added further complexity to battles. Only, these types of good or bad changes had differences. For example, some people only raised their APM to look good and never stopped making actions. But making every action count and having high APM, only pro-level players could do.

200 APM. This was the publicly recognized skill level divide in Glory. When ordinary players tried to go above 200 APM, they were basically hitting their keys randomly. Even for pro-gamers, going above 200 APM needed a certain battle scenario. The level of the opponent couldn't be too weak, so that they needed to go over 200 APM to fight.

For ordinary players, 70% of the players were between 80 to 120 APM. 25% couldn't even reach 80 APM and the other 5% exceeded 120. Though among experts(5%), it is said that there was no lack of players that could reach 200 APM, that professional level of skill.

Chen Guo's hand speed hovered around 120 but could exceed that under certain circumstances. Therefore, Chen Guo believed that she was among that 5%, an expert among ordinary players.

But for Ye Xiu, Chen Guo didn't doubt that his APM hadn't even reached 80. Right when she noticed this, Chen Guo suddenly found that that rich rhythmic tapping sound also disappeared. The sounds she had heard could only be heard so distinctly because of his slow movements.

"Am I dreaming again… …" Chen Guo shook her head. She wanted to hear that previous dreamy sound, but found that it wouldn't appear no matter how hard she listened. The hands she noticed now operated as if they were disabled, yet were also hands that made people jealous.

Chen Guo was now engrossed in these two hands so much that she even forgot to look at the screen. But soon, Ye Xiu's two hands stopped. Only then did Chen Guo react and look at the screen. She immediately widened her eyes: "Midnight Phantom Cat?"

After saying this, the Midnight Phantom Cat had already fallen down from up above dropping numerous items.

And at this moment, Chen Guo saw an eye-grabbing system announcement flash through the screen: Tenth Server, Midnight Phantom Cat First Hidden Boss Kill: Stolord.

"D*mn!!" Chen Guo slapped her hands onto Ye Xiu's back: "You have real skill!" It didn't matter whether his hands were disabled or not. To be able to be the first one to kill, this was something that Chen Guo had never achieved before. " Right when Ye Xiu was about to look at the dropped items, this slap truly came unexpectedly. It almost made him swallow the cigarette in his mouth. In the end, only a strand of silver-white smoke fell freely onto the keyboard. Chen Guo, who had originally been peeking at how Ye Xiu worked, saw this scene. Everything about being the first to kill the hidden BOSS had already been completely forgotten. She pulled at Ye Xiu's headphones and snarled next to his ear: "Who let you smoke here?"

"Huh?" The cigarette in Ye Xiu's mouth hadn't been extinguished yet. He didn't really understand what Chen Guo meant.

"NO SMOKING, did you not see that!?" Chen Guo pointed at the wall.

Ye Xiu turned his head and carefully examined the two words on the wall: "Are you kidding me? No smoking at an Internet Cafe?"

"This area is no-smoking. The smoking area is on the other side." Chen Guo pointed. . "Then let's go over." Ye Xiu said.

"No, smelling smoke makes my head hurt." Chen Guo said.

"Then what do we do?" Ye Xiu looked as if he had encountered an impossibly difficult problem.

"You can't smoke one less cigarette?" Chen Guo furiously said.

"I can't or my head will hurt." Ye Xiu said.

"You you you… …" Chen Guo discovered that she had begun to understand this Ye Xiu. Although he could casually accept living in that tiny storage room, he was definitely not an easy person to deal with.

"I'll go to the smoking area myself then. Boss, you should go rest." Ye Xiu said at this moment.

"Wait a second, you never said how you got the first kill!" Chen Guo said.

"Nothing much. The team all died. The BOSS's life was low. It was easy pickings." Ye Xiu said quite casually.

"Oh so it's like this." Chen Guo's tone still carried admiration. The reward for being the first one to kill this sort of low level hidden BOSS wasn't special. It was at most some extra experience and money. There wouldn't be any top quality equipment. But this would be forever recorded on the standings and he would be a legend on this server. A lot of players liked this sort of feeling. To the majority of ordinary players, getting on this sort of standing could only happen in the beginner levels. Once the dungeons became harder, no matter if it was a regular or a hidden BOSS, killing it required a certain amount of skill to beat. When they got to the heavenly domain, even those highly skilled teams had no chance. All of the records there were set by professional teams.


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