Chapter 237 Gathering

The four guild leaders of Zhan Lou Lan were all present, but Lord Grim was still not online in the friend list. Since they had formed an alliance, they needed to coordinate their schedules. However, the four of them had arrived, and the great god was still not online, causing them great anxiety.

"Why hasn't the great god arrived yet?" They were all anxious. After hearing their subordinates' reports on the three battles last night, they all knew that the great god was indispensable. They couldn't survive without the great god!

Then, the four of them received friend requests, all from a guy named Wudao Jun, with the reason: Lord Grim.

"Hmm?" The four were puzzled and accepted the requests.

"It's me," the guy named Wudao Jun immediately sent a message after adding them as friends.

"Great God?" The four were puzzled.

"Yes!"

"Why did you change accounts?" The four were puzzled.

"It's all the same," Ye Xiu replied calmly. There was a reason for using an alt account. Ye Xiu estimated that when they really started fighting for the Bosses, if Lord Grim stood out, the major guilds would try to eliminate him first, regardless of the consequences. This would disrupt the balance! They were here to fight for the Bosses, and it wouldn't be good if everyone insisted on killing him first, so Ye Xiu had decided to disguise himself with an alt account.

They actually had quite a few alt accounts. Wei Chen and Chen Guo had bought some before. Later, Chen Guo realized with frustration: Why did they need to ask others to form a guild? She had enough alt accounts to fill the ranks!

So, Happy Guild was officially established after gathering these accounts. However, it was quite lonely because, besides Chen Guo's Chasing Haze and the Battle Mage Lin Shanshui who had left Excellent Era with him, there were no other active members. All the other accounts were alts, and the account cards were neatly lying in a drawer, showing no signs of life.

Lord Grim, Soft Mist, and Steamed Bun Invasion couldn't leave Yizhan Tianxia yet because it hadn't been five days. The same was true for the friends Chen Guo had persuaded to join.

Today was better because the guild finally had a third name lit up. Wudao Jun, a Cleric from the batch of accounts they had bought. His equipment was originally quite poor. The three of them had been diligently picking up trash these past few days, and they had accumulated quite a bit. However, Ye Xiu didn't bother to pick and choose. He asked Chen Guo for some gold coins and then swept through the market to buy a set of equipment. It wasn't great, but it would do.

Then, he sent friend requests to the four guild leaders. After adding each other and establishing contact, they were ready to wait for the Bosses to spawn and be killed.

After some efforts from the club, the fans of Samsara and Blue Brook Guild finally calmed down, but there were still occasional conflicts. Of course, these conflicts weren't enough to form a market for scavenging, so Ye Xiu and the others had nothing to do. Ye Xiu was wandering around with Wudao Jun, while Tang Rou and Steamed Bun were training.

Yes, training. Now, the two of them were no longer just playing casually in the game like ordinary players. Ye Xiu was researching and organizing a professional training plan.

Professional teams had their own training plans, but esports training naturally relied on various simulation programs. Ye Xiu didn't have these programs, but he understood the principles. So, he adopted the most primitive method, using the Glory online game environment to design various training methods. Although this wasn't as targeted and effective as simulation programs, there was no better way.

Tang Rou and Steamed Bun needed this systematic, professional, and persistent training method to consolidate and strengthen their skills and develop some awareness. This kind of training wouldn't work in just a day or two; it required persistence like exercising. This repetitive training would be boring after the initial novelty wore off, but becoming a true professional expert required a lot of hard work. Just playing around with an entertainment mindset would only make them high-level players in the game.

Professional expert, professional first, expert second. To become an expert, they first had to adopt a professional attitude. And persistent training was one of the attitudes a professional expert should have. This kind of training would accompany a player's entire career. New players relied on training to improve and consolidate, while veteran players needed to train to adjust and maintain their skills. Ye Xiu didn't seem to have trained specifically? That was because his level was already integrated, and as long as he was conscious, he could treat fighting monsters, PK, and even traveling as training, without the need for software or anything else. For him, training was everywhere and readily available.

Tang Rou and Steamed Bun hadn't lost their enthusiasm yet, and they were still highly motivated to train. However, they hadn't been training for long today when Wu Jinzhi, the guild leader of He Wu, brought them news. He had discovered a Boss spawning on his side.

Level 70 wild Boss, Gladiator Vitalius of the Dorak Arena.

This Boss was mainly a Thief from the Nightwalker class, but he could also wield a shield like a Knight. Mixed classes were a common characteristic of Bosses, and players had long been used to it and wouldn't dwell on it. As with every wild Boss, the Boss itself was never the focus. The focus was how to stand out from the numerous guilds and kill the Boss.

"Let's hurry?" They lost three Bosses last night because the great god wasn't there. Now that the great god was here and the four guild leaders were personally overseeing, they were finally launching their full attack. Moreover, this was the first time they were officially competing with the Boss hunting teams of the major guilds since they had reaped the benefits last week.

Level 70 wild Boss, the major guilds would definitely go all out. The success or failure of this attempt would truly test whether their alliance was worthwhile.

"Let's go!" Ye Xiu called out to Tang Rou and Steamed Bun, controlling the Cleric Wudao Jun to set off. Tang Rou and Steamed Bun immediately switched to their alt accounts. Although their characters, Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion, didn't attract as much attention as Lord Grim, the major club guilds definitely knew that these two were the great god Ye Qiu's close friends. If they went to the battlefield, they wouldn't fare much better, so Ye Xiu thought it was better to be low-key. Didn't you see that they had even hidden the name of the Happy Guild after changing their accounts? Although this guild had just been established in the Heavenly Domain, news must have spread from the tenth server, and the major club guilds probably already knew whose power this was.

This time, there were more than just the three of them representing Happy's power. There was a fourth person.

Little Cold Hands.

He had now left Tyrannical Ambition and officially joined Happy. However, his character was similar to Lord Grim's, and he couldn't join a new guild until five days after leaving the previous one.

Since they were all team members, Ye Xiu didn't hide the current situation of the guild from him. Competing for wild Bosses would also be something they would strive for in the game. Hearing that Happy Guild was about to go to battle, Little Cold Hands hurried over even though he hadn't joined the guild yet.

The Dorak Arena was near Maro City, and the Maro City teleportation array was a necessary route. The two sides agreed to meet here. When Little Cold Hands arrived, he saw many players with the names of major guilds above their heads and impressive equipment constantly teleporting here and heading in the same direction.

Little Cold Hands knew that this was going to be a big event. Then, he looked around, searching for his teammates who had called him over. Soon, he heard someone calling out, "Little Hands, over here!"

Little Cold Hands turned his view again, heard the voice, but couldn't find the person. But soon, he received a team invitation, invited by: Wudao Jun.

"Hmm?" Little Cold Hands turned his view again and finally saw three characters under the wall next to the teleportation array. Wudao Jun was the Cleric among them, along with a Battle Mage and a Brawler. The three of them together were incredibly unimpressive. In the past, if someone had told Little Cold Hands that three people with this kind of equipment were going to fight for a wild Boss, Little Cold Hands would have laughed to death.

After agreeing to join the team, Little Cold Hands saw a message in the team channel that completely dispelled his doubts: "It's us."

Little Cold Hands walked over to join the three of them. Before he could ask, Ye Xiu took the initiative to explain, "The main account is too conspicuous. We need to be low-key."

"..."

"Alright, let's set off!" Ye Xiu said.

"Just the four of us?" Little Cold Hands asked.

"The allies will arrive soon," Ye Xiu said.

"So, aren't there still just four of us?" Little Cold Hands obviously didn't consider the allies as his own.

"Do you have any suggestions?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Wouldn't... it be a little few?" Little Cold Hands was sweating. A little few? This was way too few! The area around Maro City was a level 70 leveling area, and the wild Bosses that spawned were definitely level 70. Although Little Cold Hands hadn't participated much in these high-level battles, he had seen enough as a member of a major guild. Level 70 wild Bosses were definitely faced by the guild's strongest elite team, and they were just four people?

"This is considered many. We only had three people before you," Ye Xiu said.

"..." Little Cold Hands didn't know what to say. Was this the temperament of a professional team?

As they walked, Ye Xiu contacted the four guild leaders, asked for their coordinates, and agreed on a place to meet. Zhan Lou Lan, Yue Ziqing, Bai Xi Liujing, and Wu Jinzhi, the four guild leaders, were considered small and medium-sized guilds relative to top guilds like Blue Brook Guild, Herb Garden, and Tyrannical Ambition. In the eyes of the public, they were worthy of admiration.

The four guild leaders all brought their own people. Because they were taking it seriously, they brought the strongest and fiercest characters in the guild. You could tell just by looking at their equipment. In contrast, the Happy Guild brought four people with terrible equipment. Was this... called a five-guild alliance? Little Cold Hands was a little dazed. He clearly knew that they could form an alliance with the other side because of the great god's strength, not the guild's strength. But now that everyone was gathered together, the number of people on their side was indeed too weak. However, the three on their side didn't seem to be bothered by it at all.

Yes... they had more people this time!

Before this, there had only been three of them.