Chapter 1 What's the Situation Over There?

"What's the situation over there?" Ye Xiu's Wudao Jun bumped into the four of them without stopping, continuing to hurry towards the Dorak Arena while asking. Zhan Lou Lan and the other three, figures who were usually greatly admired in the online game, consciously stood on either side of Wudao Jun, surrounding him in the middle. Then, Wu Jinzhi, the guild leader of He Wu Guild, who had first discovered the Boss, began to introduce the situation.

"The situation is very serious. Before us, three other guilds had already found this Boss, and judging from observing the teleportation array, there are three more guilds on their way," Wu Jinzhi introduced.

"Six guilds? That's not too bad, not a lot," Ye Xiu said.

For wild Bosses, the more competitive club guilds would usually have around ten or so participating, so only six was considered a small number.

"Six is just the current number," Wu Jinzhi said.

"Okay, I understand. Keep an eye out along the way. Have the three guilds in front started fighting yet?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Not yet, the teams haven't fully assembled," Wu Jinzhi said.

"Which three guilds arrived first?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Tyrannical Ambition, Misty Rain, and Howling Heights," Wu Jinzhi said.

"How do the strengths of these three guilds compare specifically?" Ye Xiu asked. He didn't have a deep understanding of the situation in the online game. Blue Rain, Microherb, and Tyranny were the three most powerful guilds right now, known as the Big Three, but that was all he knew from the rumors. Ye Xiu believed that the people in front of him who were involved in guild struggles would know more about the specific strengths of the guilds.

As expected, Wu Jinzhi was able to answer his question clearly: "Tyrannical Ambition is definitely stronger, and in terms of team PK combat, Tyrannical Ambition's advantage is even more obvious. Compared to Misty Rain and Howling Heights, Howling should be slightly stronger."

"What are the class compositions of the three elite teams?" Ye Xiu asked.

"This..." Wu Jinzhi hesitated, and Yue Ziqing and Bai Xijingliu also stared at each other blankly. It wasn't difficult to get information about the class composition of elite teams. However, these small and medium-sized guilds didn't have any direct confrontations with those guilds. When they killed wild Bosses, it was called "poaching," and a direct confrontation would be called robbing.

It wasn't that they couldn't get the elite information of these guilds, but they hadn't paid much attention to this aspect of their work. None of the three could answer, and Zhan Lou Lan stole the spotlight again. His initial intention in building a team was to aim for the championship without knowing the immensity of the task, and he treated these big guilds as imaginary enemies with arrogance, so he had done a lot of preparation.

"God, I'll send it to you!" Zhan Lou Lan said, popping up Ye Xiu on QQ. Before long, he sent a document directly. Ye Xiu took a look and saw that it contained information on the elite teams of all the club guilds, not just limited to classes, but also character names and everything else.

"That's roughly it for now," Zhan Lou Lan said, not speaking fully, also taking into account that the members of a team might not remain constant.

"Okay, let me take a look!" Ye Xiu continued to have Wudao Jun hurry along the road while looking at the document provided by Zhan Lou Lan. Zhan Lou Lan had put a lot of effort into collecting this information. The equipment of many elite team members had been compiled by him. However, in Ye Xiu's opinion, it was a bit redundant to delve into such detailed information in a team battle of this scale. Knowing the class composition of the other side was enough.

"Which of the three has the most people on the field right now?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Tyrannical Ambition," Wu Jinzhi said.

"Tyrannical Ambition is probably going to try to kill it quickly, we need to hurry," Ye Xiu judged.

No one questioned him. The four guild leaders immediately urged everyone to move forward at maximum speed. Sprinting consumed stamina, and no one's character could sustain sprinting for so long. This required switching between movement methods and using stamina recovery potions to control the rhythm. As a result, the characters gradually spread out. Ye Xiu and his team were undoubtedly in the lead. Ye Xiu turned his view and discovered that Little Cold Hands was actually keeping up.

"Not bad!" Ye Xiu praised.

"The things you gave me included it. I figured this would be used soon, so I've been practicing it," Little Cold Hands said calmly.

Little Cold Hands' strength lay in his observation and judgment of the situation, but his mechanics were completely unremarkable. He was only better than someone like Steamed Bun Invasion who had just started playing the game because he had been playing for a longer time. Therefore, Ye Xiu had also given Little Cold Hands a training plan, the same one he had given Steamed Bun Invasion before. These two still had a long way to go because even their basic mechanics were not up to par, and their starting point for training was different from Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion.

The training plan that Little Cold Hands received from Ye Xiu was relatively basic but also comprehensive. Things like controlling the rhythm of movement to improve the effective use of stamina were naturally basic content and were part of the training package Ye Xiu gave him. However, Little Cold Hands had treated this as a priority and started practicing it first without any hints from Ye Xiu, which showed his attention to detail and insight. He had obviously considered that he needed to ensure his movement speed first in order to stay with the rest of the team at all times so that he could coordinate and do other things. He was a priest, and if he was alone without the team, he would have almost no meaning.

And now, Ye Xiu didn't know what kind of intensive practice he had done, or how long it had taken him to master it, but he could completely keep up with the movement speed of Ye Xiu and his team, and he could become a part of them.

"Not bad, not bad. As a priest, mobility is very important. Maintaining mobility allows you to control a larger area. When a priest is flexible, the overall operation of the team becomes flexible. A qualified priest doesn't need teammates to deliberately look for his position; he will always appear in the place where he should be." Ye Xiu took the opportunity to give some instruction.

"Tyranny has started!" Wu Jinzhi said at this time.

He was also in the first group, after all, he was the leader of a guild, and this was a relatively basic thing. In fact, players in the Heavenly Domain would pay attention to this aspect, it just depended on their level of mastery.

"As expected," Ye Xiu wasn't surprised by this. "What are the other two doing?"

"They're fighting immediately," Wu Jinzhi said.

"A three-way battle?" Ye Xiu asked.

"It looks like it," Wu Jinzhi wasn't at the scene himself, he was just receiving messages from the scene.

"Hurry up," Ye Xiu didn't say anything else. They hadn't even arrived yet, so saying anything would be useless.

At Dorak Arena, near the gladiator Vitelius, the three guilds had already started fighting fiercely.

Tyrannical Ambition made the first move. They had arrived the fastest, so they had the most people, and they were already stronger to begin with. They didn't take Misty Rain and Howling Heights too seriously. Guild Leader Jiang You issued an order, and the elite team swarmed forward, directly starting to搶殺 (qiangsha –搶 grab, 殺 kill; a strategy focused on quickly securing the kill of a Boss/Monster). Tyrannical Ambition ignored the other two guilds if they didn't attack, but as soon as they attacked, Tyrannical Ambition immediately retaliated without hesitation. They were quite confident in their ability to kill the Boss while fighting these two guilds.

Tyrannical Ambition did indeed have the strength. The Big Three weren't called that for nothing. From the number of players, the guild warehouse reserves, the accumulation of rare materials, to the combat power of the elite team, they were definitely the best. These things were all complementary and affected the whole body. Without the strong combat power of the elite team, how could they搶得來 (qiang de lai – manage to snatch, grab) so many rare materials? Without a huge number of players as a foundation, they couldn't accumulate a huge guild warehouse.

After Jiang You issued the order, his own Elementalist, You Fengdian, also rushed into the battle group, personally taking action to boost morale. Spells were fired one after another, specifically targeting the Elementalist on Misty Rain's side.

Misty Rain's trump card character was an Elementalist, and under this influence, their guild had a relatively large number of Elementalist players, and the Elementalist was a very important attacking force in their elite team.

Elementalist, as a turret class, could unleash terrifying damage when they formed groups and bombed together. Jiang You himself was an Elementalist, so he knew this very well, but he didn't retreat at all. Instead, he personally led his own ranged attackers and the Elementalist of the Misty Rain elite team to fight head-on.

Misty Rain's Elementalist were the best, but Tyrannical Ambition's priests were the strongest.

This phenomenon of players flocking to a particular class due to the influence of star players and star characters from professional teams had become a characteristic of the major guilds, and it was especially evident in their elite teams.

With the strong support of high-level priests, Jiang You wasn't afraid to fight head-on with Misty Rain's powerful Elementalist, and his tactical decision was obviously extremely correct. After both sides stalemated for a while, Misty Rain was the first to show signs of faltering. Tyrannical Ambition's boxers were as unstoppable as their idol Han Wenqing. At this moment, they all fantasized about being the Boxing Emperor and quickly broke through Misty Rain's formation. Once they got close, Misty Rain's Elementalist were almost being ravaged.

Misty Rain didn't get any advantage, and the commander quickly instructed them to retreat and avoid the limelight. Even Misty Rain's guild leader, Misty Rain Lock Tower, hadn't arrived yet!

After quickly repelling Misty Rain, Jiang You felt great satisfaction in his heart. He turned his view to give the people of Howling Heights a lesson. But when he turned his view, he saw an Elementalist standing high on top of a stone pillar in the arena, wearing a dark cyan mage robe. Jiang You recognized it as the level 70 orange equipment Azure Cloud Mage Robe. There weren't many ordinary people who could wear level 70 orange equipment.

But this person... guild, Howling Heights; character name, Fenyan Jing.

Although Howling Heights wasn't one of the Big Three guilds, it was at least a competitive guild that they often had dealings with. Jiang You recognized all the famous experts in the guild, but he had no impression of this name at all. Seeing this guy standing so high and looking so arrogant, Jiang You felt a nameless fire rising in his heart. As the guild leader of Tyrannical Ambition, Jiang You was already a man at the top of the online game. Did he think that wearing a level 70 orange equipment and standing a little higher could scare him?

No, absolutely not!

Jiang You was about to order the arrogant guy to be shot down when the mage made the first move. He raised his hand, pointed his staff, aimed it directly at Jiang You's character You Fengdian standing below, and a fireball flew over.