Chapter 1 The Cloud Citadel

Cloud Citadel, Little Lei Tavern, inside a certain private room.

Young Master Han was playing with a money bag, shaking it with a jingling sound. "I've finally got money again!" he exclaimed with emotion.

Yu Tian Shen Ming, who was beside him, looked enviously at his dark red money bag, drooling as he asked, "How much money?" In the game, a dark red money bag could hold up to 1000 gold coins.

"420 gold coins." Young Master Han said smugly, "Order whatever you want to drink, it's on me."

Just as You Ge was about to speak, Young Master Han gave him a cold glance. "You know what you should want to drink, right?"

"Of course." You Ge smiled, called Little Lei, and ordered five glasses of the cheapest wine.

"Where's Jian Gui?" Zhan Wu Shang asked, taking the wine.

"Still leveling up! He'll be here soon," Young Master Han said.

"Tsk, tsk." You Ge praised, "He's been stimulated by Qian Li, hasn't he! Everyone's enthusiasm for leveling up has been very high lately!"

The others were silent. Gu Fei's level had suddenly jumped to 31, which was a big blow to several experts.

"Have you guys been on the forum lately?" You Ge asked suddenly.

"What's new?" Young Master Han asked after taking a sip of wine that had been served.

"The largest guild in Moon Night City is currently chasing after Qian Li. It seems they also know he's 27149," You Ge said.

"Is this guy made of dung? Why are there so many flies buzzing around wherever he goes?" Young Master Han asked in surprise.

Just then, the curtain of the private room was lifted, and Jian Gui walked in with a tired look on his face. He collapsed into a seat and looked at the four of them. "I just received a letter from Qian Li."

"A letter? The kind you get from the mailbox at the city gate?" Yu Tian Shen Ming asked.

Jian Gui nodded. At each of the four city gates in the town, there was a mailbox where players could send letters or items. Friends who weren't born in the same city often used this to provide financial or equipment assistance. Letters were rarely exchanged. Although letters allowed you to express yourself without word limits, in an online game, few people had so much to say that they needed to write a letter, unless it was a love letter.

At this thought, everyone looked at Jian Gui with strange expressions.

Jian Gui took the letter out of his pocket and threw it on the table.

"Can we see it?" the others asked, looking at the letter. "You two don't have any little secrets, do you?"

Jian Gui rolled his eyes, too lazy to answer.

The others pounced on the letter to snatch it, but in the end, Yu Tian Shen Ming, who specialized in agility, was one step faster. Since the last robbery incident, the others had worked hard to improve their reactions in this area. Currently, the speed of their nerve reflexes was basically the same, but the actual speed of their actions was naturally better for those who had added agility points in the game.

"I'll read it!" Yu Tian Shen Ming quickly unfolded the letter.

"Brother Jian Gui, everyone, hello. First paragraph."

"As I pick up my pen, I miss everyone very much. It feels like I've been away from Cloud Citadel for… uh, many hours. I'm currently in Moon Night City, the main city near Cloud Citadel. It takes two hours to cross the Wulong Mountains to get here. The pk (player kill) atmosphere here is strong, and large guilds bully others, making life very difficult for players. I completed a quest chain in Night Glow Village near Moon Night City, and accidentally leveled up to 31 and got two pieces of equipment, hehe! I swear, this guy is too flashy."

Yu Tian Shen Ming made a brief comment and continued reading, "I currently miss Brother Jian Gui and everyone very much, as well as Cloud Citadel. I can only wait to wash away my pk points before I can see you again. Goodbye."

"That's it?" the others asked.

Yu Tian Shen Ming nodded.

The others snatched it over and passed it around, scrutinizing every word.

"This guy is bored out of his mind, isn't he? Writing this for no reason," Yu Tian Shen Ming said.

Young Master Han was the last to take the letter. After scanning it a few times, he said, "The letter is signed Qian Li Yi Zui, but it wasn't actually sent from his mailbox."

Jian Gui nodded. "It was sent by someone called Nuo Fu Jiu Xing (Coward Savior)."

"Looks like this guy is trapped, he can't even send his own letters," Young Master Han sneered.

"Where can you trap someone and they're still not dead?" Zhan Wu Shang wondered. "The safe zone?"

"People with wanted missions can be killed even in the safe zone. He's clearly not in jail right now, and his level hasn't dropped. Strange," You Ge said.

Young Master Han slowly stood up. "Let's go."

"Where to?" the others asked.

"Moon Night City," Young Master Han said.

Outside Moon Night City, in Quiet Night Valley, Gu Fei sat on the ground facing a pile of bonfires, holding a piece of grilled meat in his hand, eating it with relish.

"Coward, not bad craftsmanship, what level is your chef skill?" Gu Fei asked Nuo Fu Jiu Xing (Coward Savior), who was sitting opposite him, while eating.

"Life skills don't look at levels, only proficiency. I haven't learned for long, about 200 proficiency, I guess!" Nuo Fu Jiu Xing (Coward Savior) said.

"Oh!" Gu Fei didn't know how much proficiency was considered high, so he didn't comment.

"Also, don't call me Coward, I'm Nuo Fu Jiu Xing (Coward Savior)! If you don't say the last two words, the meaning changes completely," Nuo Fu Jiu Xing (Coward Savior) said.

"If you don't call me master, I won't call you Coward," Gu Fei said.

"I haven't called you that in a long time!" Nuo Fu Jiu Xing (Coward Savior) said.

"Yeah! I'm just returning the favor for what you called me before!" Gu Fei said, finally finding a way to stop Nuo Fu Jiu Xing (Coward Savior) from calling him master.

Nuo Fu Jiu Xing (Coward Savior) wanted to cry but had no tears, and could only continue to bury his head in managing the grilled meat on the fire rack.

Gu Fei was gnawing on the meat when he glanced at the time and hurriedly stood up, holding a sword in one hand and raising the grilled meat in the other, shouting in one direction, "Lian Zhu Huo Qiu (Chain Fireball)."

After taking a few bites of meat, a fire dragon slowly rose from the tip of the sword.

"Release!" Gu Fei said while swallowing the meat.

The fire dragon shot out from the tip of the sword, instantly turning into four small fireballs, flying in one direction.

But there was clearly nothing there. Nuo Fu Jiu Xing (Coward Savior), who saw this scene, looked used to it, not taking it seriously at all. Just as the four fireballs flew two meters away, a haze appeared on the open space, and a NPC monster was refreshed, just in time to be hit by the flying fireballs.

The monster roared and charged towards Gu Fei.

"Huo Qiu (Fireball), shoot," Gu Fei chanted again while eating meat.

A small fireball flew over, blasting the monster into nothingness.

"Awesome, awesome!" Nuo Fu Jiu Xing (Coward Savior) praised symbolically, looking numb.

But if any player in this game saw this scene, their eyes would pop out.

Quiet Night Valley, this was a level 50 training area, and the monsters were all around level 50.

And what about the players at this time? Their levels had all stagnated at level 30, and only a few sturdy people had broken through to level 31. Fighting monsters 20 levels higher than yourself was a scene that even the game designers would cry over.

Ye Xiao Wu was crying. When he saw Gu Fei so comfortably eating meat and fighting monsters in Quiet Night Valley, he was in tears.

This time, the monitoring team was alarmed first. They discovered that there was someone fighting monsters and leveling up in the level 50 training area, which should have been empty, and immediately tracked it down, only to find that everything was normal. But the character's excessively high magic attack power still attracted attention. After checking Gu Fei's equipment, the monitoring team suspected that someone had opened a back door for Gu Fei, allowing him to have such high-level equipment so early.

Ye Xiao Wu, who had repeatedly paid attention to this character, naturally became the subject of suspicion.

After being called to the monitoring team, Ye Xiao Wu smiled bitterly and took out a pre-prepared video. "This is the whole process of him doing this quest chain. Take a look and see if there's anything against the rules."

A group of people hunched over, studying the video.

"Damn it, I knew there would be a problem!" Ye Xiao Wu sighed. When Gu Fei completed the quest chain and obtained the Moon Night Spirit Robe and the Dark Night Meteor Fire Sword, Ye Xiao Wu knew that this would cause a stir. It was just that he discovered that Gu Fei didn't seem to like using magic and was always hacking and slashing with a knife, so he was lucky.

Who knew that this guy would suddenly get the hang of it and start using magic to fight.

After understanding Gu Fei's situation, Ye Xiao Wu could only smile bitterly.

High-level equipment gave Gu Fei the magic attack power to fight monsters beyond his level.

Full agility points and his own skills allowed him to dodge monster attacks with ease.

Just imagine a level 50 thief, if agility and strength were added equally, with a five-five split, at this time he would only be a little faster than Gu Fei, but his attack would not be as good. In this way, he could face level 50 leveling monsters. At this time, how could Gu Fei not be able to?

Mages have the least health and the lowest defense. The strongest area-of-effect damage output is compensation for this profession. Gu Fei hasn't yet exploited this biggest advantage of mages!

Ye Xiao Wu looked at his data and knew that this guy hadn't even learned the level 24 Tian Jiang Huo Lun (Skyfall Firewheel), otherwise, if he started burning in this level 50 training area at this time, the leveling speed of all players in the entire Parallel World would not be able to compare with him.

But now it seems that this guy is just using the only two attack spells he knows to clear the few monsters around him. He is just using the ultra-high monster level of Quiet Night Valley to avoid the players chasing him and wash away his pk points. What else could Ye Xiao Wu do besides smile bitterly?

Speaking of which, this guy's magic release technique is also unparalleled, especially the timing, which is grasped without any difference. Compared with the master priest who is best at grasping the timing, it is not bad at all.

Gu Fei in the game was currently bragging to Nuo Fu Jiu Xing (Coward Savior)!

"Timing! Do you know what timing is? The most important thing about concealed weapon skills is to grasp the timing."

"What's so difficult about putting a dead stake there and hitting it? In a real battle, which opponent will stand still like a stake and let you hit them? To deal with moving targets, you must grasp the timing, calculate the target's moving speed, find his next foothold, and the concealed weapon you fire can't be off by a single point."

"Of course, if it's an experienced opponent, he will constantly change his moving speed, so it's difficult to really hit wherever you want. This requires increasing your wrist strength, finger strength, and speeding up your release of concealed weapons! When the speed reaches a certain level, the opponent's rate of change can be ignored. Do you understand?"

"I understand, I understand!" Nuo Fu Jiu Xing (Coward Savior) answered in fear and trepidation.

Gu Fei was overjoyed. He never thought that there would be someone so interested in kung fu in the game! After talking for so long, his mouth was a little dry, so he rested for a while! Since he had nothing to do, who else should he write a letter to? Gu Fei wondered.