Chapter 129 Metatron's Concerns

Xin Lu, being the honest person she was, recounted everything that happened between Cuitou and Invincible Most Handsome, from the moment they formed the team to the final successful dungeon run, without adding any embellishments. Xin Lu failed to grasp Cuitou’s feelings, but Metatron, after hearing the whole story, immediately understood.

Helpless, all he could do was feel helpless.

This matter was clearly about a question of face, and there was no reasoning with that. Even if Invincible Most Handsome had no problems, and even if he was wrong, was he supposed to drag him over and make him apologize to Cuitou?

This was an online game, where face was more important than life! Everyone could just part ways. Not many people were really willing to swallow their pride and bow their heads to others. Even if they were in the wrong, they would stand tall and stubbornly hold on. Apologize to you? Why should I? Just because you're the MT? When it came to face, what was an MT worth?

Metatron thought it over and over. The key to resolving this matter was to find a way to save Cuitou's face. He couldn't expect anything from Invincible Most Handsome, so it seemed he, the guild leader, would have to play the role of a grandson.

Depressed… Metatron also became troubled. Unless they were from a club or a money-spending warrior, most online game guild leaders were like him, without any real status. When a conflict arose, the guild leader had to run around and busy themselves! If they managed to achieve a good result, it would be worth it, but the worst thing was if they couldn't resolve the conflict and ended up making themselves disliked by everyone, which would be truly depressing.

Metatron sighed and sent a message to Cuitou: “Cuitou, we've been playing games together for so long. If you want to leave the guild, you should at least tell me why! How am I supposed to explain it to the others in the guild when they ask why Cuitou left? You're our guild's chief MT.”

Metatron completely pretended not to know the reason, and his words contained three hints. The first was to play the emotional card and make Cuitou reluctant to leave. The reason for Cuitou's departure was as simple as it could be. If he made it complicated and lectured him with grand principles, it would be siding with Invincible Most Handsome, which would only provoke hatred. Maybe it was just a simple dislike for Invincible Most Handsome now, but it might develop into dissatisfaction with the guild, which would be irreversible. In the current situation, it was just displeasure with Invincible Most Handsome. As long as it wasn't deepened, Cuitou would definitely be reluctant to leave the guild and his friends in the guild.

The second hint was to express his own difficulties. This was laying the groundwork for a compromise. When Cuitou hesitated, a sentence like "just help me out" would give him a chance to sacrifice himself for the greater good, and everyone would be happy.

As for the third hint, it was to clearly point out Cuitou's position. Metatron had completely understood the reason why Cuitou disliked Invincible Most Handsome, so emphasizing his status would naturally please him.

Metatron was quite skilled. He wasn't an ordinary person. On the surface, he was just a guild leader, but in fact, he was a core member of Tyrannical Ambition's guild. He worked for the club, expanding its influence externally. In other words, he was like Ye Du Han Tan in the tenth server, with branch manager experience, but he didn't expose his position internally or externally. He operated in the shadows, managing Tyrannical Ambition's interests.

Metatron naturally valued an MT like Cuitou. An MT, the core of the team, couldn't just be technically good. They had to be reliable. MTs were usually cultivated by the guild with all their resources, and they received excellent treatment. If you got someone unreliable, who took all the benefits and then left without a word, who could you complain to?

From this point of view, Cuitou's ability to become an MT was already a kind of recognition. Metatron was now doing his best to mediate. If he really couldn't handle it, Cuitou would still be his first choice.

After Metatron finished speaking, his words containing three hints, Cuitou didn't reply for a long time. Metatron had already reminded Xin Lu not to interfere in this matter.

Metatron also understood Xin Lu's personality. If Xin Lu were to talk to him, she would definitely scold Cuitou for being unreasonable and making trouble. This was obviously a way to push the guild to the opposite side of Cuitou. So after listening to Xin Lu's truth, Metatron immediately told Xin Lu to go play and that he would handle it.

Metatron patiently waited for Cuitou's reply, while he saw Xin Lu constantly asking in the guild channel if anyone wanted to go to the Bone Dragon Abyss. She had been asking for a long time, but no one responded. Metatron suddenly had an idea and sent a message to Xin Lu: "I'll go with you guys!"

"Huh? You're going?" Xin Lu was surprised.

"Didn't you say that knight is amazing? I want to see for myself," Metatron said.

"You have to hold back on your DPS!" Xin Lu said.

"Of course," Metatron replied, and then his character hurried towards the Bone Dragon Abyss.

After waiting and waiting, they actually waited for the guild leader. The team members were naturally even more surprised. Although most online game guild leaders were thankless, their status was still higher than that of an MT. The players in the team thought that their future in the guild must be very bright, since they had the chief MT accompany them and now the guild leader was personally joining them.

"Now that everyone's here, let's start?" Metatron said cheerfully, responding to everyone's greetings.

"Enter the dungeon," Xin Lu instructed. Although the guild leader had come, she was still the one in charge of the team.

The team entered the dungeon and immediately started fighting. The MT was naturally Invincible Most Handsome. Metatron didn't pay much attention to the others. He was watching Invincible Most Handsome's technique.

You could only see the proficiency of an MT when pulling small monsters. If you really wanted to see the depth of their skill, the situation had to be chaotic. The more chaotic it was, the more it would show an MT's ability to control the field.

So Metatron prepared to occasionally make some mistakes on purpose. For example, accidentally attracting a few more monsters! Or accidentally generating threat! Anyway, he often had status effects, and he would occasionally make a scene.

Metatron had already come up with an explanation for the mistakes.

If he attracted monsters, he would say that he hadn't been to this dungeon in a long time and had forgotten. If he generated threat, he would say that his equipment was too good and he accidentally didn't control it well. These were all reasonable excuses.

After making his plans, Metatron immediately took action. Seeing that the MT, Invincible Most Handsome, was already quite busy, he deliberately moved out of position and brought back three monsters.

"Oh, I'm sorry! I haven't been here in a long time. Did this dungeon change? There weren't any monsters here before!" Metatron shouted as he brought the monsters back.

The others were depressed, but this was the guild leader, so what could they say? They quickly went up to save him!

Invincible Most Handsome was the calmest. He completely ignored the three monsters that the guild leader had brought back and let them beat up the guild leader, only saying, "DPS those three. Guild leader, hang in there."

The implication was: You be the MT for now!

It would be difficult to hang in there under normal circumstances, especially since there was only one healer in the team. But Metatron's equipment was good, even better than Cuitou's. Although his defense wasn't as good as Cuitou's, who would care about defense when they were steamrolling the dungeon? What they wanted was attack power, the strongest attack power.

Metatron was losing health quickly, but he was leading the other DPS players to beat up the monsters, and the monsters' health was dropping even faster than his. In the end, he really did manage to kill all three monsters, while Invincible Most Handsome only glanced over briefly to show his concern.

Metatron was depressed. He was too strong, so he killed the monsters he attracted as an MT himself. If he attracted more, he wouldn't be able to handle it, and Invincible Most Handsome wouldn't be able to help either.

It seemed that this method couldn't be used. If he attracted too few, people would ignore him and let him tank. If he attracted too many… everyone would die, so what was the point of saving anyone?

Since he couldn't attract monsters, he moved on to the second plan: generating threat.

Metatron's class was Striker, which was a pure DPS class. Metatron started hammering away like crazy. As a result, after hammering away for so long, he finally ran into a problem. He was trying his best to deal damage, but he just couldn't generate threat!

Why was it so difficult to create some trouble? Metatron persevered and continued to try to generate threat, but he failed to do so even until the final boss fell. Metatron was absolutely dominant on the damage chart, but generate threat? He couldn't do it at all.

But Metatron didn't need to test it anymore. Not generating threat was also a result. The fact that Invincible Most Handsome could still maintain a stable threat level even with his brainless DPS meant that his technique was probably even better than Cuitou's.

"How was it? He's pretty good, right?" Xin Lu said to Metatron after the dungeon run. She naturally didn't know what Metatron was thinking. The whole run had been controlled very well, and Invincible Most Handsome hadn't made a single mistake. He had done everything that an excellent MT could do.

"He's very good!" Metatron nodded. Invincible Most Handsome's strength exceeded his expectations. No wonder it put so much pressure on Cuitou. If this person could develop smoothly, he would be able to replace Cuitou's position.

Normally, he would be happy to have such a talented person join the guild. But this time, the person who joined had a conflict with the guild's chief MT, which made it difficult to handle. Cuitou had replied during the dungeon run, and Metatron's three hidden hints had ultimately failed. Cuitou, having lost face, harbored a deep resentment towards Invincible Most Handsome and made it clear that he wouldn't stay if Invincible Most Handsome did.

Metatron had already decided how to choose between the two. But after seeing Invincible Most Handsome's power, Metatron still felt sorry for such a talent. From the perspective of his Metatron's Guild, it would be difficult to keep this person, but from the perspective of Tyrannical Ambition's branch guild leader, it wouldn't be difficult to arrange things for this person.

Metatron quickly contacted Jiang You, the guild leader of Tyrannical Ambition, and told him that he had discovered a knight player with excellent skills. However, he had a conflict with a guild member as soon as he joined the guild, which was difficult to handle. He asked Jiang You to find a way to recruit this person to another guild.

"Is that so? I'll arrange it! What's his name?" Jiang You asked. Jiang You immediately took notice of someone that Metatron was reluctant to give up.

"Invincible Most Handsome," Metatron replied.

"That name... is quite arrogant!" Jiang You said.

"It is arrogant, but he has a reason to be arrogant. I just ran a dungeon with him, and his threat control is unbelievably stable. I deliberately tried to generate threat to see his strength, but I couldn't do it. And my equipment is still a higher tier than his!"

"So amazing? I'll make arrangements as soon as possible," Jiang You said, moved.