translator: Oyen editor: Ciel
The newcomers of the club quickly reached level 20. Looking at the upgrade guide, Xiao Han instructed, “I’ll reassign the the teams for the level 20 Kunlun Mountain dungeon. Team 1 should consist of two ranged attackers, while the other two will join me in team 2. Finish the dungeon first to get some equipment.”
Hearing this, Pei Yu, who was in charge of team 2, immediately disbanded his team and created another party with his captain and another ranged attacker.
Xiao Han continued speaking. “I’ve already checked the strategy to clear this dungeon. We are not well-equipped, and do not have enough output to fight according to this strategy, so we can only rely on skill to complete it. We have no healers in the team, so when the sword spirit refreshes, use your qinggong skill to dodge. You should kite the sword spirits while hitting the BOSS; show me your skills operation.”
They understood at once.
After all, everyone was a professional player. After staying in the training camp for a period of time, their basic skills were very solid. Although there were many sword spirits to eliminate, causing them a lot of pressure, the output speed of four long-ranged attackers and assassins was very fast; before everyone hit residual blood, the BOSS was almost dead.
However, it was only an ‘almost’!
The BOSS still had 5% blood left when the long-ranged attackers in the team were chopped to death by the sword spirits.
Everyone looked at their grey screens and felt embarrassed. If the news that a group of professional players from the Dragon Song club had died in the new level 20 dungeon got out, they would be very disgraced!
Fortunately, Xiao Han was still alive.
Seeing that his teammates died, he pressed three keys on the keyboard in quick succession—— Darkness Valley, Rainbow Through The Sun, Meteor!
The black-clothed assassin on the screen suddenly disappeared.
The sword spirits lost their target and began to run around. At this moment, the assassin suddenly appeared behind the BOSS, the dagger in his hand falling sharply downward. The two attacks of ‘Rainbow Through The Sun’ and ‘Meteor’ directly triggered the negative state of bleeding on the BOSS. After that, Xiao Han quickly connected the three successive stages of ‘Rainbow Through The Sun’ with critical hits, and the resultant damage was terrible.
After this smooth string of combo skills, the BOSS fell to the ground.
Xiao han calmly walked up to the BOSS and picked up a pile of equipment, before exiting the dungeon.
The rest of the players stared at the scene, as if they had not recovered from seeing the cool scene where the captain had killed the BOSS…
Until Xiao Han’s voice echoed in their ears. “What are you doing, staring blankly into space? Collect and distribute the dungeon equipment.”
“Oh!” Only then did the group return to their senses, getting up in dismay and dividing the equipment by profession at the dungeon entrance.
With the addition of better equipment, they completed the next dungeon run very smoothly, killing the final BOSS in under ten minutes. Everyone quickly finished the allotted five runs of the day, collecting many secret book fragments and various materials. The fragments could not be traded between players, but the materials were kept in the captain’s inventory, for later distribution.
Pei Yu looked at Xiao Han’s calm expression from beginning to end. Suddenly, an indecipherable feeling arose in his heart.
Xiao Han took over as captain at a young age, which attracted many doubts from the outside world. But, Xiao Han had grown up at an amazing speed after; in the short duration of a year, the young introverted mixed-raced boy who spoke Chinese awkwardly became a steady and reliable captain who no longer smiled.
It was said that Xiao Han had been called ‘Little Prince’ when he was still a teenager, and formed the ‘Twin Stars’ when with Wind Colour’s own little prince, Qin Mo. Both of them were trained as the team’s successors, and their predecessors had high expectations for them. Unfortunately, they had no chance to see the other half of the Twin Stars—— because that person had left the professional league very early.
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But as long as he talked, it would definitely have been the right thing to say.
The player allocation before the dungeon earlier had seemed simple. In fact, Xiao Han had already sorted out the job configuration of ten people, selected the most suitable lineups for clearing the dungeon, and collected the equipment at the fastest speed, which increased the speed of the upgrading progress.
——To be able to see the large picture was beyond the reach of newcomers like them.
Thinking of this, Pei Yu could not help but look at their captain, and found that his face was still expressionless, but that the corners of his mouth had moved. Xian Han directly asked, “What’s the matter?”
Pei Yu smiled awkwardly. “Captain, in fact, I’ve secretly played the beta test before.”
Xiao Han: “I know.”
Staring in surprise, Pei Yu managed to get out, “Ah? How did you know?”
Xiao Han: “You knew a lot about the secret books when it was mentioned earlier. Clearly, you have played this game before.”
Unexpectedly, the captain’s observation skills were amazing; to think that even this small detail was discovered, Pei Yu could only scratch the back of his head in embarrassment. “Captain, I played only after I returned to the dormitory at night…”
The voice of the teenager was very soft, and carried the air of a plea, almost as if it were saying ‘I did not abandon training, the captain must not punish me’.
Xiao Han replied, “I will not pursue it. What you want to do outside of your training time is up to you.”
Pei Yu sighed in relief. “Actually, there is another way to get secret books in this game.” Since the captain was not planning to punish him for secretly playing the new game, Pei Yu boldly shared the information. “After level 30, Jianghu Warrior will randomly spawn on the field maps. If it is successfully challenged, the rewards include a lot of experience, secret books, and rare materials.”
“Is that a wild BOSS?”
“En. The wild BOSS is level 30 and will refresh in Jianshen Valley. We haven’t reached level 30 tonight, but we can definitely pay it a visit tomorrow after we level up.”
“Good.”
“Now……Would you like to upgrade in Qingcheng Mountain first?”
“En, you take team 2 to continue the tasks.”
***
After arriving at Qingcheng Mountain, Xiao Han first browsed the task distribution on the minimap in the upper right corner.
In the southeastern part of Qingcheng Mountain, there were several difficult tasks marked with four stars and five stars. Seeing this, Xiao Han took several players to the southeast corner and selected a five-star difficult task, ‘The Treasure Map of the Leisurely Villa’.
This was a chain of tasks, and provided rich experience as well as many rare materials as rewards.
The first part of the task required the player to use qinggong to ascend the mountain, and find the first fragment of a treasure map. This required skillful qinggong operation, otherwise, flight would be impossible. Of course, this task was a piece of cake for Xiao Han.
The second part of the task was to kill the thieves in the woods to find the second fragment of the treasure map. The thieves on the map were numerous, but Xiao Han’s team was comprised of professional players, and killing a group of small monsters took mere minutes.
The third part was where the difficulty of the task increased significantly. It required the players to hide in the ‘Leisurely Villa’ and steal the third fragment of the treasure map while its owner slept soundly.
This third task tested movement skills, because there were many guards patrolling the villa, and every one had a lantern. As long as the player was within ten feet of the guards, they would be found and the task was considered to be failed. All stealth skills were also disabled for this task—— this was to prevent assassin players from using stealth to cheat their way through.
A large number of guards patrolled the villa back and forth. Hiding under the trees at a corner of the wall, Xiao Han observed them carefully for a moment, soon discovering the regular movement pattern of the guards, as well as their scope of vision.
The two guards on the main road in front of the villa would travel from left to right. Because of the long distance, the road would be very safe as long as the guards were gone. However, the side roads were very short, and the guards moved back and forth quite quickly. Players would then bump into the guards if they weren’t careful. As such, taking the side road required the players to be quick-sighted and accurately judge their distance from the guards, rushing to the next safe spot as soon as the guards turned their back on them.
Looking carefully at the terrain of the villa, Xiao Han instructed, “Let’s start; follow me.”
He waited for the moment when the guard turned, and jumped straight to the next intersection. As the guard approached the intersection in front, Xiao Han immediately stepped back, keeping a safe distance until the guard turned away once more, before proceeding onwards.
——Flexible movement, moderate advance and retreat.
The terrain of this ‘Leisurely Villa’ was very complex, but the team members soon found that their captain easily crossed the maze formation of guards in less than a minute.
Arriving at the interior of the villa, they lurked in the villa owner’s chamber. In fact, the owner was fast asleep.
However, as soon as Xiao Han picked up the treasure map fragment from its box, the villa owner suddenly opened his eyes. “What a bold man! How dare you steal my precious baby?!” Enraged, he picked up a big knife and slammed it down right where Xiao Han stood; immediately, Xiao Han retreated a few steps to avoid the incoming attack.
This was the leader of the monsters, and the difficulty was not low. Hearing the villa owner’s roar, the guards immediately ran in to help; it was quite troublesome to have to fight a group of monsters.
“You hit the villa owner, I’ll drag the guards away.” Xiao Han quickly retreated outside the door, activating ‘Rainbow Through The Sun’ three times in a row!
Countless daggers shot out of his hands, accurately enveloping the guards in front of him. The guards who were hit immediately turned around to chase him, only for Xiao Han to kite them into the yard.
Without the interference of the guards, the other four soon knocked down the villa owner, and soon retrieved the fragment of the treasure map.
Xiao Han breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the task was finally over, but a system prompt popped up in front of him——
“These chivalrous men have collected the three fragments of the treasure map, which can be returned directly to be in exchange for rewards. Alternatively, the fragments can be pieces together into a complete treasure map to open the treasure dungeon of the Leisurely Villa. Note: This dungeon is a two-way dungeon. The rewards are doubled, but the difficulty is very high. Please do your best.”
***
At the same time, the same announcement also appeared on Qin Mo’s screen.
Their group had already reached level 25, and had just finished the task of collecting the treasure map fragments.
Qin Mo asked doubtfully, “What is a two-way dungeon?”
Mirage volunteered to explain. “The treasure map series tasks of this game have two-way dungeons. This means that there will be two teams in the dungeon, everyone will engage in PK inside it, and only the winners may take the treasure. This makes a two-way dungeon very difficult, because we don’t know what the strength of the other team will be.”
Little Medicine Fairy was very excited. “Two teams robbing the treasure, it sounds very interesting!”
“We have been doing difficult tasks,” Elegant Leaves pointed out. “Now that we have reached level 25, I think we can try this dungeon. After all, we also have Ink Mark.”
Since the completion of the Qingcheng Mountain delivery task, they had completed several more difficult tasks, including esorting NPCs and killing thieves. Their completion evaluation was always five stars, which doubled all their rewards, causing the five people to upgrade very fast and successfully squeeze into the top three spots of the regional ranking list. As a result, Elegant Leaves was confident about a team PK in the treasure map dungeon.
Since the rewards were double, Qin Mo was naturally willing to accept. “Let’s try it, then.”
He chose the second option, and the three fragments of the treasure map were instantly synthesised into a complete treasure map. Following that, the team was transported into a whole new dungeon.
——Leisurely Villa Treasure Mine.
The secret dungeon map had the same layout as the Leisurely Villa from just now, but the time of the day had changed. When they had gone to steal the map fragment, the scene was set at night, but now it had become day, allowing for much clearer vision.
As the villa owner had been killed, there were no guards in the villa, and the journey to the backyard was smooth. In the middle of the pond, there was an obvious mechanism. Qin Mo walked forward to activate it, and an underground passageway appeared in front of them—— This should be the location of the treasure.
Just as Qin Mo was about to enter the secret passage, a line of characters suddenly flashed on the chat at the lower left corner of his screen: “Friends, let us have the treasure, I don’t want to kill you.”
Sender: Thousand Miles Ice.
Qin Mo was stunned, but assumed the other party to be the captain of the other team in the two-way dungeon. Immediately, he replied: “Why do I have to give it to you? If you have the ability, come and get it yourself.”
The players in the Dragon Song training room were all shocked!
Never had they seen anyone dare speak to the captain so impudently!
This Ink Mark was really , asking our captain to take the treasure himself? Don’t cry and beg for mercy later…
The other side refused to give in, and Xiao Han could only reply with: “Do you want a one-on-one, or a group PK?”
Giving the other party the right to choose was also part of Xiao Han’s demeanour as a professional player. After all, taking a group of professional players to fight with regular online game players wasn’t a glorious thing; solving the problem alone would save the most time.
This also happened to match Qin Mo’s intentions exactly.
Mirage, Hiding a Dagger Behind a Smile, and Elegant Leaves were not high-level players. Little Medicine Fairy was also still a newbie; if they were to fight with a party, it would be very frustrating. On the contrary, Qin Mo had an advantage, and since the other side was willing to let him choose, Qin Mo would naturally not be polite. “Come here, we’ll fight one-on-one, the loser leads their team out.”
Xiao Han simply said: “Okay.”
As soon as he said that, he activated the stealth skill ‘Darkness Valley’, and rushed directly to the backyard at the speed of lightning!
can i just say IM SO HYPED !!!!!
Yes you can 👀👀
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The kitten that was completely charmed by Old Cat has become a domineering and charming cat!
Oh yeahhh let’s see this fight… or read I guess
Thank you for the chapter!
(● ˃̶͈̀ロ˂̶͈́)੭ꠥ⁾⁾ eeh!! the two finally meet again but unfortunately doesn’t know it’s him and him lol
yaaaa can i say finally???
They meet on the field again just like LingLi..
AHHH I AM CRYING AND SCREAMING
Will they be able to recognize each other? 👀