However, there were many people in this world greedy for cheap advantages.
Very quickly, people started shouting with the horn, begging the Aces to reveal just how to activate the hidden story quest. The first clear of this server was gone anyways.
Those interested in buying the guide were too lazy to bother with them and went straight to the gates of the guild Indulge, hoping to discuss with the two Aces in person.
The old man gatekeeper dutifully went to the garden.
The sight of him now always made Avian Ruler feel terrible. Getting up, he gave the old man another hug.
As if there wasn’t a person hanging onto him, the old man gatekeeper said to Love Escapist: “There are visitors waiting outside.”
Love Escapist glanced at the messages in the chat channel and said to the Wardcaster: “They must be looking for you. Do you want to see them?”
Fang JingXing helped him answer: “No.”
He looked at the person next to him: “Listen to me. Wait two days.”
Jiang Chen knew what he meant and nodded lightly.
As such, Love Escapist ordered the guard to tell those people they were not seeing anyone.
The old man gatekeeper acknowledged him and turned around to leave.
Avian Ruler was dragged away two steps. Hastily letting go, he returned to distribute the rest of the money and asked curiously: “Oh right, how come that Nine Rocks didn’t appear?”
Gou Cheng: “We had a perfect clear, so in this story quest, he should be just a background character.”
5cum said: “According to Wandering Dream’s pissy nature, I feel like he might become a world boss in the future.”
This Majesty is Most Beautiful: “Then I will definitely fight him. How dare he bully my little lady!”
Avian Ruler said: “Me too. How dare he bully our old man gatekeeper!”
Love Escapist stretched lazily and got up: “Alright, done distributing everything. You guys can go do whatever you need to do.”
Fang JingXing looked at the Wardcaster: “Where do you want to go?”
Jiang Chen looked towards his nephew on the other side: “Where do you want to go?”
Xie ChengYan felt a little pampered and answered off topic: “Want to hear you call me Ge.”
Jiang Chen said: “Next.”
Xie ChengYan attempted to bribe him: “Is there anything you like in the shop? I’ll buy it for you.”
Jiang Chen said: “Nope.”
Xie ChengYan said: “Then what do you like?”
Jiang Chen said: “I’d like you to give up already.”
Xie ChengYan reflected earnestly for a moment.
From his perspective, this kid should know his mom and was younger than him. As such, he wanted to claim this younger brother. But looking at it from the other’s perspective, this was a powerful and majestic Ace, why should he recognize a noob as his big brother?
He said: “I understand.”
Their relationship still wasn’t deep enough.
After they develop to meeting in real life, perhaps it will work out.
Being ignored and left on the side, Fang JingXing felt a bit off balance and asked again: “Where to?”
Xie ChengYan said: “Up to you guys.”
Jiang Chen said: “Wherever for me.”
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Fang JingXing looked at the time and discovered it was almost nine. He said: “Can still clear a dungeon. Let’s go.”
Avian Ruler and the others didn’t leave yet. Hearing this, they wanted to play together with them.
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However, today’s activity caused such a commotion. The fans all knew they were from the guild Indulge, so they clamored for them to go back and watch the opening of the treasure chest. However, after experiencing the incident of pewpewpewing their bro last time, none of them dared to get on a certain Ace’s bad side. Resisting adamantly until now, they finally found an excuse to stop streaming early and return to take a look.
Jiang Chen took a glance at them.
The five streamers silently backed up half a step and laughed dryly.
“I heard you guys clamoring about clearing dungeons just now?”
“We’ve already stopped streaming and want to play. Let’s do it together?”
“We’re very skilled. Ace, you can slack off all you want.”
“Abyss, what do you say?”
Fang JingXing said with a smile: “I can’t make the decision.”
The five streamers: “……”
Are we still fucking bros or not?
Why do you have no bottomline when it’s concerning the Wardcaster!
Tell the truth, are you interested in him or something?
“You guys step to the side.” The guild’s Deep Love and Longevity said: “Don’t you know first come, first serve?”
5cum agreed very much: “Yes, that’s right, so you go line up in the back as well.”
Deep Love and Longevity took hold of his hands: “Scum, you can sleep with me tonight, no need to take responsibility.”
5cum instantly looked towards the Wardcaster, an expression of deadpan earnestly: “Ace, his strength is very strong. I feel like we can bring him.”
Sprouting Old Wutong couldn’t stand their filthy transaction and protested vehemently: “The old rules!”
Love Escapist said with a smile: “Why draw lots? None of you guys cleared the 20-man dungeon this week, right? Let’s play that one.”
As soon as he spoke, the salted fish all shut up.
As such, Love Escapist looked towards Jiang Chen and Fang JingXing and asked if they had any issues. Learning there was none, he led them out of the guild.
Plenty of players were already waiting at the gates.
The backbones of the 7 large guilds all added the Wardcaster and Abysswalker as friends. Unfortunately, the two didn’t reply to messages, so they could only come in person.
Seeing so many Indulge members exiting the gates right now and recalling their unconventional style, their first response was: No way. Seeing them blocking the door, are they going to start a group PK?
However, they discovered Love Escapist immediately afterwards, so their apprehensive hearts settled again.
With Love Escapist present, the salted fish shouldn’t do such a thing. As such, they gathered noisily over and looked towards the Abysswalker, who seemed easy to talk to: “Ace, let’s chat?”
Fang JingXing said: “I’m busy today, some other time.”
The crowd said: “Please no, it won’t take too much time.”
Fang JingXing said amiably: “If it’s some other time, then chatting is still an option. If you insist on blocking our way today, then there’s nothing to chat about.”
The crowd fell silent and paved a path for them in unison.
Some people suspected that the two Aces were taking their members to activate the hidden story quest and they followed behind secretly. However, they lost track of the group’s whereabouts through a teleportation array and only learned 5 minutes later that the group had gone to clear a dungeon.
The players who refused to give up continued to guard the entrance of the dungeon.
They refused to believe that these people didn’t plan to play the hidden story quest. As long as they are patient, they will get what they want.
Unfortunately, even though this was a good idea, after the two Aces led the squad out of the dungeon, they logged off immediately on the spot.
For Jiang Chen, it was because it was that time. Fang JingXing, on the other hand, had received a message from the live stream platform. Recalling how he had disappeared on them for a week, he went to have a chat.
Glancing at the people standing around, Love Escapist sent a horn.
[Horn] Love Escapist: Only the two Aces know how to activate the story quest. They both went offline to sleep. You guys can disperse today.
The players: “……”
Bah, like hell we believe that. You guys are definitely trying to send us away!
Love Escapist naturally didn’t care about what they planned to do with their lives. After kindly sending this message, he led the guild members off to play other dungeons.
The players continued to follow them, privately creating plenty of small groups, broadcasting their locations in real time, and doing their best to not let any clues slip by.
While Mercury Reflects Fate behaved crazily over here, the forum on the other side was equally tumultuous.
Especially those Aces who played that hidden story quest in the beta— they’ve been howling in several posts.
Lately, they’ve tried everything but were unable to start the quest. As such, they originally considered buying information. Tonight, they heard that the quest was cleared and then learned about the rewards from first clear. Instantly, they lost their cool.
Wandering Dreams had no shortage of rich people.
If a rich person on their own servers were to wander over there to buy the guide and end up stealing away their own server’s first clear, then they’d be speechless. Those were two divine weapons after all!
As such, they started to contact their connections to obtain an account in Mercury Reflects Fate, while those without connections stayed up overnight to level up a side account, all planning to find the Aces to discuss business.
The social platforms were discussing this matter as well.
The trending search of “Lion King First Clear” still has yet to drop, now the trending search of “Ling Huai full clear” was climbing steadily.
Besides the initial topics about the beautiful sceneries and the Untamed’s ears, lately all of the trending searches for Wandering Dreams VR have been related to Mercury Reflects Fate. Even bystanders who didn’t play games much could tell that some kind of monster has appeared in Mercury Reflects Fate.
The next morning, Jiang Chen had just finished eating breakfast when the research team came over.
The team asked: “Is Total Annihilation you?”
Jiang Chen said: “What?”
Seeing this response, one of the workers immediately knew it was him and said: “It’s nothing, just asking.”
Seeing them somewhat hesitant to speak, Jiang Chen said calmly: “I won’t reveal anything I shouldn’t be saying. No one can guess it’s me.”
The group thought, that’s true.
Who’d imagine the brilliant and famous Chen Hui Lan Le back then was still alive?
They gave some simple instructions and then left.
At this time, Jiang ShiLan just happened to be in the corridor. Seeing them come out of her little brother’s room, she asked: “What’s the matter?”
The team said: “It’s nothing. Just a trivial matter.”
Jiang ShiLan didn’t ask anymore and also entered Jiang Chen’s room, saying with a smile: “I had a discussion with the director just now. The anniversary of Mother’s death is in a few days. I can take you outside.”
Stunned briefly, Jiang Chen said: “Okay.”
As such, he entered the game in a slightly good mood and then very quickly became surrounded by people who wanted to buy the guide.
He delayed for one more day. By the second day, people from all nine servers were present.
The divine weapons, gears, and materials— whatever they were all worth in total was how much he could sell his guide for.
Due to the competitive market, the price doubled in the end. Receiving money from all nine servers, he had no need to fund his wallet any time soon. He could even convert his game currency into cash and withdraw a considerate amount of money.
He divided the profits with Fang JingXing and then sent red packets to the squad members. Patiently waiting for a day, he publicized the condition for activating the story quest.
This was the agreement that he made with the nine servers ahead of time.
With the existence of his guide, it’s certain that no one will surpass them. Just in case, he even allowed them to start playing one day ahead before making it public on his own server.
[Horn] Total Annihilation: Besides the main city, randomly find a section of Glimmering Lights River and throw a pair of shoes inside.
The entire server was shocked.
The 7 large guilds have been trying to buy the guide for the last few days. Hearing that the other servers all managed to purchase it, they thought it was finally their turn. Who would have imagined, he just released it for free.
[World] Gloomy and Depressed: Oh fuck, Ace, you’re amazing!
[World] I like Summer: As expected of the Ace!
[World] Little Bunneh: I declare, from now on, you are my male god [kiss][kiss][kiss]
[World] Beloved JingXing: Thank you Ace, I’m going to play it right now!
[World] The Person in the Mirror: I don’t understand, why did you make it public?
[World] Book Collection: Because the Ace is forthright and refreshing ofc~
[World] Life and Death Together: I also don’t understand. I heard you didn’t even sell it to the guilds, why?
Originally, they thought that according to his style, the Ace definitely wouldn’t bother with them.
Unexpectedly, he actually answered.
[Horn] Total Annihilation: I want to know how long it will take you guys to play it normally.
[World] Isatis Root: Play it normally?
[World] Promising You a Lifetime: There’s an abnormally?
[World] The Person in the Mirror: Oh fuck, I have an ominous feeling like there’s going to be such a pit for us. Guild leader, save us!
[World] Xing TianCheng: He won’t sell it.
[World] Late Night Snow: Hurry up and beg him!
[World] Xing TianCheng: ……
Fang JingXing wanted to laugh at this sight.
He knew this was only a small part of the reason. The biggest reason was because a certain person wanted to know what’s the quest line for the option “Help”. He asked: “I will be live streaming in the next few days. Do you want to watch?”
Jiang Chen said: “On this server?”
Fang JingXing said: “No, I asked someone to level up an account for me on another server.”
He paused briefly and added: “I am going to activate the ‘Help’ quest line.”
Jiang Chen said: “When will you be streaming?”
Fang JingXing said with a smile: “The day after tomorrow, in the afternoon.”
Jiang Chen said: “Alright.”
After saying this, he looked at the messages in chat and typed three more words.
[Horn] Total Annihilation: Do your best.
The entire server: “…….”
Dammit, that ominous feeling was getting worse!
Ahh, these poor unfortunate players will most likely be spending more time searching for ingredients for the divinator man 😭
Meanwhile Jiang Chen is watching with glee.. uh I mean interest, at what kind of trouble they will get into 🤣
Those players are in for a shockingly long haul…. Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
Dreams to be destroyed soon 😔
Jiang Chen spreading the chaos across the servers 🤭 i love him.