Chapter 878 Public Opinion

Blue Brook Guild’s attempt at whitewashing and Samsara’s momentum building ultimately pointed to Samsara’s greater influence.

Blue Brook Guild was simply maintaining its current popularity in a way that was neither painful nor itchy, only intensifying the anger of its guild members towards Lord Grim and the others who had unjustly wronged them.

On the other hand, Samsara had gathered a lot of popularity with this wave of momentum building. In particular, the club also talked about the fighting spirit upheld by Samsara's team in an interview. Although they didn't specifically mention the events in the game, everyone could hear the mutual echo.

What clubs often mentioned were the team’s performance in the league. Thus, Samsara's recent excellent record was touted as a manifestation of this spirit. With both sides advancing together, Samsara suddenly received a high degree of attention, and many people began to write about the possibility of Samsara winning the championship this season.

But at this moment, no one expected that after these two follow-ups, a third post regarding the "staking on it" matter would appear.

The post's topic: "Who Gave You the Right to Use Bosses as Stakes?"

The post severely criticized the eight guilds for staking on it using Bosses. The reasoning was simple: Bosses do not belong exclusively to you great guilds; theoretically, they belong to any player in the Glory game. On what basis do the major guilds take such a possessive stance and use Bosses as stakes in their battles?

This post caused an uproar.

Regardless of supporters or fans, who playing Glory didn't hope to have the opportunity to kill such a Boss and to obtain equipment from it?

However, Wild Bosses clearly couldn't be conquered by oneself, and even a slightly weaker team could be wiped out. Therefore, those who could successfully kill Wild Bosses were basically very tight-knit guild groups.

Club guilds were undoubtedly the leaders of guild groups, and Wild Bosses were the top priority of their competition. After years of fighting, most Wild Bosses ended up in the hands of these guilds. To be honest, they had really gotten used to treating Wild Bosses as their private property.

This post sparked controversy. After all, the reasoning was plausible yet dubious. When dealing with Wild Bosses, club guilds had never arrogantly shouted, "This Boss belongs to us; whoever kills it dies." After all, they needed to maintain their image. If someone really came to compete, they would either PK or compete for output. Anyway, they would deal with it as it came and fight as they should, treating everyone equally.

Bosses belong to every player, so of course club guilds had the right to kill them. The fact that clubs killed more was because they snatched them according to Glory's consistent rules. There was no such thing as immediately retaliating against someone who stole their Boss.

So, if there was a mistake, it was that this "staking on it" matter was done a little poorly, ignoring the feelings of the majority of players. The guilds had completely gotten used to it, and the players originally were too; otherwise, why didn't anyone notice anything wrong at first? But now, someone suddenly pointed it out from this angle, and it immediately triggered controversy.

The club guilds' players were naturally trying their best to defend their own guilds, while more players were criticizing the major guilds for ignoring everyone's behavior.

This change was even more surprising than the subsequent actions of Blue Brook Guild and Samsara. This time, it wasn't just a knock on the eight major guilds, but a unified knock on all these club guilds. After discussing the matter at hand, the post sharply criticized the major club guilds for only seeking benefits for their teams, depriving guild players of their right to game and entertainment, and treating everyone as slaves.

This was a very heavy statement, making the major guilds very upset, and they came out one after another to explain their guild's systems and benefits...

While explaining, they were also investigating the origin of the poster. Everyone wanted to know if this attack was someone stirring up trouble with ulterior motives. Speaking of which, everyone had the foresight to start suspecting someone.

However, after checking, the poster wasn't a burner account, nor was it a very famous person. He could be seen everywhere in the various sections of the Glory forums, looking like an ordinary player who liked to wander around and post after gaming.

The major guilds still didn't dare to relax. It wouldn't be terrible if this was just a player who came out to complain, but if it was someone with ulterior motives, there might be some follow-up big moves.

Not to mention the major guilds, even Chen Guo, after seeing this excitement while browsing the forum that day, immediately deeply suspected someone.

"Is this your alt?" Chen Guo asked Ye Xiu, pointing at the screen. Generally speaking, she and Ye Xiu were basically always together, so she hadn't seen him write anything.

Ye Xiu tilted his head, admired it for a while, and shook his head: "No."

"Tsk tsk, the major guilds are going crazy, look." Chen Guo switched back to the forum's main page for Ye Xiu to see, and saw a uniform series of statements from the major guilds, all trying their best to defend against the controversy caused by the post. In particular, the saying about treating guild players as slaves, they had to explain it clearly no matter what.

"Tsk tsk tsk." Ye Xiu seemed to sigh a couple of times randomly, didn't pay much attention, and continued to busy himself. He hadn't logged into the game at all these past two days, but was studying the research post on skill points that Wei Chen had compiled.

In this post, Wei Chen listed a large number of quests in Glory, explaining how to obtain skill books from these quests with a relatively high probability.

Ye Xiu's Glory foundation was there, and he didn't need to practice to verify many theories. He could tell how reliable they were. In the end, he had to admit that Wei Chen's research really couldn't be called superstition. The only thing he lacked was data support.

In Wei Chen's research, he named these "hidden conditions." He was so confident because, according to him, Glory's settings had never lacked "hidden settings." For example, skills, most of which had hidden effects that required certain conditions to be met in order to be cast. Because players used skills frequently, these hidden settings had almost all been figured out. So, how many hidden factors were still hidden in Glory?

This skeptical attitude was one of the reasons why Wei Chen was dedicated to researching the dropping of skill books. Of course, this was also regarded by Wei Chen as a way to get rich. This was what Wei Chen explicitly admitted when discussing the contents of this document with Ye Xiu.

"I've finished reading that thing of yours." Ye Xiu hadn't been on the game at all these past two days, and had studied all of this document.

"How is it? Good enough, right?" Wei Chen replied on QQ.

"Yeah, amazing!" Ye Xiu sincerely praised. Because he knew very well how difficult this research was. What Wei Chen was exploring were quests! He had collected a large number of quests that randomly awarded skill books from forums and various hearsay sources. He explored these quests to find out the way to obtain the hidden reward of skill books.

And quests, apart from some daily ones, were mostly not repeatable. This type of non-repeatable quest accounted for a considerable proportion of Wei Chen's research results. What did this research mean? It meant that Wei Chen had used a large number of accounts to try. Because one account had only one chance to practice.

Ye Xiu didn't ask how Wei Chen got a large number of accounts to try, but he knew how difficult it was. Ye Xiu couldn't help but be awed by this research.

"Just for our team to use, don't leak it." Wei Chen carefully instructed.

"Of course," Ye Xiu said.

"Come, let me show you the spoils of war these past two days." As Wei Chen said this, he showed screenshots on QQ, one after another, all Glory equipment. He had done what he said these past two days, leading his group of brothers and ambushing guild players who had ambushed them in the Heavenly Domain. Without asking anything, they would just kill them.

This kind of harassment couldn't hurt the major guilds' foundations, but it couldn't continue like this. Several major guilds had formed hunting squads to hunt down Wei Chen and his group of survivors everywhere. Wei Chen was also happily leading his team to deal with them, constantly sacrificing himself while constantly filling his backpack.

After two days, the character attributes of their twenty or so people were all a bright red, and the experience side was all negative. They were too lazy to count how many times they had died. They were only interested in counting what equipment they had dropped today.

As the number of deaths increased, their strength was constantly declining, and it was becoming more and more difficult to sustain. However, they were still persistently biting the players of the major guilds. The major guilds were already disgusted to death, but with the lessons learned from the past, they didn't dare to offer a bounty. These guys were with Lord Grim, what if these guys committed suicide together to claim the reward?

"Alright, save some energy and help me escape!" Ye Xiu said.

The major guilds had been having bad luck these past two days. Not only did they fail to kill the Boss, but they were now being caught by the pigtails for staking on it, and now there was a team of people causing trouble for them every day. They had organized a group of people to keep a 24-hour watch in shifts at the place where Lord Grim had logged off that day, but Lord Grim really hadn't logged on.

But this time, these guys decided to fight Ye Xiu. Anyway, they had a lot of people, and the shifts were frequent, so no one would be tired. Killing Lord Grim would also be rewarded heavily, and the guild players were still very active.

"Well, almost. While our accounts can still do some damage, hurry up and get him out! Since the new account is going to go undercover, it can't be exposed," Wei Chen replied.

"Well, I'll also get an account to come over and help," Ye Xiu said, and borrowed Chen Guo's Chasing Haze. After logging into the game, he headed towards the Poison Fang Swamp, the place where his Lord Grim had logged off that day.