Chapter 17 A Public Figure

Ye Xiu passed the front desk and saw Chen Guo sitting inside, playing with the mini whack-a-mole game, looking thoughtful. So he didn't bother to say hello, and went to the smoking area to find a machine.

Nowadays, Ye Xiu wasn't just famous in the game as Lord Grim, but he was also a hit in the internet cafe. Almost everyone who played Glory knew that Lord Grim was the internet cafe's manager and that he had a self-made Silver weapon. There were especially many Glory players in the smoking area, many of whom had watched the battle in the afternoon and stayed to play until now. When they saw Ye Xiu come over, they greeted him in a friendly manner.

Ye Xiu casually responded to the people who greeted him, lit a cigarette, and logged into the game. He was immediately bombarded with messages, and the message notifications started flashing like crazy five seconds after logging in.

Opening it, he saw ordinary greetings. Tian Qi and the others' "Expert, you're here!", Sleeping Moon's "Greetings, Great God!", Blue River's leveling invitation on behalf of Blue Brook Guild, Midnight Wanderer's appointment for a dungeon run at midnight on behalf of Tyrannical Ambition…

Ye Xiu replied to them one by one. He sent a smiley face to Tian Qi, Sleeping Moon and the others. He politely declined Blue River's leveling invitation and Midnight Wanderer's dungeon appointment.

Everyone was very careful with their wording when talking to Ye Xiu. After Ye Xiu replied to everyone, he was quiet for a while. Soon, there were more system messages, and a pile of friend requests came flooding in.

"Am I that famous?" Ye Xiu scratched his head. He only broke a dungeon record. The big guilds might notice that he was an expert, but it shouldn't be to the point where people worshiped him and wanted to get close, right?

Ye Xiu blankly ignored these system messages. Then someone next to him nudged him. "Hey buddy, want to add me as a friend?"

"Huh?" Ye Xiu turned his head and saw that many customers in the internet cafe were looking at him and waving. "Bro, can I add you as a friend?"

It turned out they were all from the same internet cafe! Ye Xiu sweated. Because it was a new server, the proportion of Tenth Server players in the same internet cafe was quite high. Most of them were focused on playing their own games and didn't pay much attention, but some liked to make friends and meet experts, especially if they could be together in reality, which would make their relationship even stronger. So even people in the internet cafe were adding Ye Xiu.

"Oh? What's your name?" It wasn't easy to refuse someone directly when they were in the same internet cafe. Ye Xiu asked everyone's game IDs and added them one by one. After a while, Lord Grim's friend list had as many as 37 people. And every single one of them was online. Besides Tian Qi and the others he met a couple of days ago, they were all customers of Happy Internet Cafe, mainly from the smoking area. There were also people who ran over from the other end of the internet cafe specifically to invite him to be friends.

There was a long list of names, and Ye Xiu couldn't match them to the real people. Amidst the excitement, someone joked, "Since we're all in the same internet cafe, why don't we form a guild together?"

This suggestion didn't get much of a response. Glory had only ten servers so far, plus the common server, God Domain. It wasn't unusual to encounter players from the same server in the same internet cafe in the game Glory. The reason why everyone lined up to add Ye Xiu as a friend, apart from his expert status shown by the dungeon record, was that these people in the same internet cafe knew something that Blue River and the others didn't: Lord Grim had a Silver weapon.

This was even more eye-catching than dungeon records. If Blue River and the others knew that Lord Grim had such a hidden ace, they would try even harder to recruit him.

The suggestion to build a guild was met with only a few dry laughs. The guy who made the suggestion was embarrassed and shut up to play his own game. Everyone put on their headphones and immersed themselves back in the game world. Ye Xiu, on the other hand, took the initiative to add someone else as a friend.

Soft Mist.

That was Tang Rou's character name. Ye Xiu didn't know what it meant. He guessed it was just the "Smoke" from Chasing Haze combined with the "Rou" from Tang Rou's name, with some random characters added.

He sent a friend request, but there was no response. Ye Xiu guessed that this girl was too unfamiliar with the game and hadn't noticed the system message. Sending more wouldn't help. One message flashed the same way as eighteen messages. So he ignored it for now, packed up his things, and prepared to go grind monsters to level up.

The biggest problem in the newbie village right now was the number of people. But after leaving the newbie village, at level 20, the biggest problem was still the number of people.

The newbie village had temporary system additions to share the pressure, but after leaving the newbie village, everyone gathered on the same land. Although this land was many times larger than the newbie village, the level 20 players from the various newbie villages flocked to it, and the situation ended up being basically the same as in the newbie village. Bulls Town and the surrounding area were also a sea of people.

Ye Xiu had taken advantage of the fewer online players late last night to rush through some quests. Now it was peak internet time, and doing quests would only add to his troubles. He would have to line up to accept quests and turn them in, and he would have to fight for monsters. Just thinking about it was enough. Instead of doing quests, it was better to find a place to grind monsters to level up steadily.

What kind of leveling area would have fewer people at this stage? Of course, a leveling area with a slightly higher level. The experience loss upon death in Glory made players afraid to take risks easily, preferring to line up for quests and line up to steal monsters to be safe. Going to a high-level area to level up was not something that non-experts would dare to think about.

In Glory, the fastest way to level up was by doing dungeons, followed by a reasonable quest route, and the worst was grinding monsters. But in the current situation, dungeon attempts were used up, and quests required lining up, so grinding monsters became the best choice.

Difficulty was not within Ye Xiu's consideration. With his top-notch skills, as long as the NPCs' levels weren't too overwhelmingly high, there was basically no difficulty.

The experience gained from killing monsters in Glory had a level range. This range was still based on a standard of five. Monsters that were more than five levels above or below the player's level gave the minimum amount of experience. Within the standard range, the higher the level, the more experience you would get. So monsters that were more than five levels above the player gave the most experience.

Five levels didn't sound like much, but in Glory, there was a level suppression issue for every level above.

The levels in Glory weren't just used to define players. Physical damage, magic damage, bleeding, stiffness, binding, and other statuses all had a level issue.

In the absence of a clear system level prompt, the levels of these things were defaulted to the player's level.

In other words, Lord Grim's damage level at this time was 21, and the bleeding caused by the Hidden Bleeding effect from the Continuous Thrust was also at level 21.

Dealing 21 damage or 21 bleeding to monsters that were 22 or higher would reduce the effect. The higher the level difference, the more obvious the reduction. This situation was called level suppression in Glory.

The advantage of a high level over a low level wasn't just the difference in stats and equipment brought about by the higher level. The hidden calculations of level suppression further increased the difficulty of challenging levels above your own.

Hu Die Lan