Chapter 1 "Scared me to death!!" The Lord Grim who had escaped spoke in a woman's voice, complaining to the people around him.

Chen Guo hadn't expected that the moment she logged in as Lord Grim, the area around her would be filled with light, completely enveloped in the satellite beam. Thanks to this dazzling cover, no one noticed that Lord Grim had logged in. And thanks to the login protection, Lord Grim, appearing directly in the satellite beam, suffered no damage.

Previously, Ye Xiu had manually controlled the satellite beam splits to drive everyone nearby to one side. Now, logging in and running away, no one had time to stop him.

However, escaping like this was clearly impossible. Lord Grim had logged off while surrounded, and the satellite beam was striking the center of the encirclement. The encirclement had only been disrupted by Ye Xiu's harassment with Cleansing Mist and Wei Chen's strong support. To break through completely, they would have to put in some effort.

"Quick, quick!!" Chen Guo anxiously urged, already standing up and operating Lord Grim. Ye Xiu quickly moved to her position, and Chen Guo hurriedly moved to Ye Xiu's side. They switched roles, each controlling a character to retreat.

Cleansing Mist was already outside the circle, and the opponent had ordered a team to encircle her. But because of Wei Chen's strong attack and the order to hold their position, it wasn't difficult for Cleansing Mist to escape.

The most difficult one was undoubtedly Lord Grim. Although he was clean when he logged in, and no one noticed him, he was now completely exposed. Everyone immediately abandoned Wei Chen and his twenty-odd men, and rushed towards Lord Grim.

Wei Chen, seeing that his twenty-odd good men couldn't even serve as a decoy for a tiger-luring-from-the-mountain strategy, and were being completely ignored by the opponent, found it unacceptable. He angrily led his team to fight desperately, trying to prove their existence.

"Teams 5, 7, and 8, block them over there! Everyone else, surround Lord Grim!" The team leader saw clearly and immediately assigned three teams to snipe Wei Chen and his troublemakers, while the others continued to rush Lord Grim.

Ye Xiu hadn't touched Glory for two days. Now that he had Lord Grim back, he was full of energy. He flicked the mouse with his right hand, and Lord Grim, running, performed a dashing back shot. With a bang, a bullet hit a dead branch in mid-air. Hanging on that branch was the pitiful player who had been blasted up by the heat-seeking missile. Now, struck again, the branch couldn't bear the weight and snapped. The player fell straight down. The attack was absolutely sudden. A player below was running and aiming at Lord Grim when he heard a chaotic shouting from above. Before he could hear clearly or raise his head, his vision was turned upside down, and he was planted directly in the mud.

Lord Grim turned around, the sword flashed, and a Draw Sword cleaved apart the two rushing up on the left. He rushed to the right, where a player was swinging his blade, only to find Lord Grim suddenly embracing him, as if to give him a kiss. But in that instant, Lord Grim disappeared. Ye Xiu had used a z-shaped, shaking footwork to bypass the person in the most efficient, economical, and speed-unaffected way.

The three players' interception was instantly broken through, but the next circle had even more people. Ye Xiu slightly rotated his view, and without stopping, he instantly found the best breakthrough route. He suddenly crouched and did a forward roll, dodging a horizontal slash from the side. As he stood up, a Falling Flower Palm was thrust out, and the player in front of him was sent flying. But with a level suppression of over 10, the knockback effect of the Falling Flower Palm was very embarrassing. It couldn't be called a knockback; it was more like flipping him over.

Ye Xiu also felt regret in his heart. If Lord Grim was level 70, if the Falling Flower Palm had produced its normal knockback effect, this attack would have made the breakthrough even smoother.

However, the current situation was within Ye Xiu's expectations. Following the player who had been knocked over, he continued to charge forward. Attacks came from the left and right. Ye Xiu accurately judged the timing of the attacks. He transformed the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella into a spear and thrust it to the left, using a Circle Swing to catch the attacker. Then, with a flick of his hand, he threw the person to the right, smashing the player who thought he had found an opportunity to the ground.

Fast!

Too fast!

Those players who were too far away to reach Lord Grim could only watch. In their eyes, Lord Grim's attacks were incredibly fast.

Attack speed.

This attribute doesn't change with level. The factors that influence attack speed are operation, equipment, and certain skill effects.

If operation alone determined attack speed, it would theoretically be limitless. From that perspective, equipment limits attack speed.

But that's a misunderstanding.

In Glory, weapon attack speed ranges from 1 to 10. A player with slow reactions might only achieve an attack speed of 7 or 8 with a weapon with an attack speed of 10, while a faster player could reach 10, but no faster.

The truth is, improving attack speed through operation doesn't work that way. Speed has a limit, so how do you shorten attack time? Simple: shorten the attack path.

So, improving hand speed through operation isn't about being fast, but about being accurate!

Accurate judgment, accurate operation, attacking point to attacked point in a straight line—that's the shortest route. So, with the same attack speed, an attack that takes that route takes less time and appears faster.

Lord Grim's attacks are considered fast because of this precise operation. In fact, all forms of the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella have an attack speed of 5, not the limit. Of course, the limit isn't 10 either. That's just the default weapon attack speed limit. Through equipment attributes or skill buffs, attack speed can be increased further. But because Glory emphasizes operation, stacking attack speed too high isn't always good. If your hand speed can't keep up, you might have an attack speed of 10 but only achieve 7 or 8.

The guild players were shocked by Lord Grim's attack speed. But Lord Grim wasn't just fast in attacking; his movement was also top-notch.

His stamina distribution was extremely reasonable, allocated to various rolls, dashes, and jumps, making Lord Grim's movement rhythm constantly changing, impossible to predict. Just when you thought Lord Grim was about to arrive, you made a preemptive attack, but he stepped over it. When you thought he wouldn't arrive yet, you waited to attack, but all you saw was his back.

The guilds' encirclement went from scattered to organized, but before they could set up layers of obstacles, Lord Grim had broken through to the outer circle. The ground was littered with overturned figures, none seriously injured, but all having lost the opportunity to intercept him. When they got back on their feet, they only saw the next figure being knocked down.

"Block him! Block him! Block him!!" The team leader, who was usually rational and quick to react, was now giving pale commands. It wasn't that he didn't want to give specific instructions, but he realized that Lord Grim's actions were faster than his reactions. By the time he figured out how to block him, Lord Grim had already passed that point.

He tried to make some preemptive arrangements, but Lord Grim's strange movements made it impossible to know how he planned to break through.

Normally, charging straight ahead would be the fastest and easiest. But Lord Grim had already broken through more than halfway, and anyone with eyes could see that he wasn't moving in a straight line; he was going wherever there was an opportunity.

Where was the opportunity?

Thinking about that question and making arrangements was like competing with Ye Xiu's reaction speed. The team leader thought for two rounds and was defeated. Besides chanting "Block him, block him, block him" like a prayer, he didn't know what else to do.

In the blink of an eye, Lord Grim had broken through the last layer of interception and rushed out of the encirclement. Everyone was stunned.

What exactly had happened?

Everyone thought it must have been very quick; otherwise, why hadn't they had time to react before he broke through the encirclement?

But looking at the people scattered everywhere, barely injured, everyone felt like it must have been a long time ago, right?

Everything was unclear, except for one thing: Lord Grim had escaped.

Using a harassment and a charge, he disrupted their encirclement and created a path to escape.

"Chase..." the team leader shouted, but even he thought the sound was mechanical and numb. It was as if he was just supposed to shout it, but he didn't know what would happen after he shouted it.

"Old thing, I'm leaving first!" Then they heard Lord Grim shout.

"Get lost, get lost, I'm going to slaughter!" Then someone from the rough-talking group on the other side responded.

Lord Grim ran, but the twenty-odd people here hadn't. They were still fighting, whether facing three teams, four teams, five teams, or ten teams...

In the end, all twenty-odd people became corpses. They dropped equipment, but the faces of the guild members were not happy at all. Compared to the equipment they dropped, these guys picked up even more equipment while killing. And they couldn't get the equipment back by corpse-looting.

Lord Grim broke through, and they were helpless. But these two teams were eventually killed, but they paid the price of 39 people being killed, almost twice the opponent's losses, and that was with the opponent's incomplete equipment and insufficient level.

But in the reports after the failed ambush, the captains of each guild reported to the president: The suicide squad desperately rescued Lord Grim and was successfully killed, but Lord Grim still took the opportunity to escape in the chaos.