Chapter 26 Combination Attack

The instant the Shadow Swordsman combined, the group lunged forward with a flurry of attacks. They understood the difficult conditions under which Ye Xiu was operating, and finally understood why they had to hurry.

Under Ye Xiu’s command, the rhythm of the battle quickened considerably, often resorting to tough, blood-for-blood exchanges in some areas. The Shadow Swordsman separated and combined, continuing his tricks of playing around in his red-blooded state.

At the internet cafe, the customer who ordered cola asked again, and the customer who wanted cigarettes, after thinking it over, finally decided on a pack of 10 yuan Baisha cigarettes, continuing his external interference on Ye Xiu.

Ye Xiu overcame the difficulties and struggled arduously, answering all the customers' requests with "Just a moment." He finally led the team to quickly take down the Shadow Swordsman. The service bell started ringing again and again, with the cola customer probably dying of thirst.

"Coming, coming!" Ye Xiu answered the customer while getting the cola and cigarettes, and hurriedly glanced at the items dropped by the Shadow Swordsman's corpse.

No blade...

Ye Xiu was slightly disappointed.

He had a demand for the Shadow Swordsman. The Crimson Shadow Blade was an Orange weapon needed for the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella’s sword form to advance to the next stage.

However, Orange weapons were, after all, Orange weapons, and not so easy to drop. Ye Xiu sighed, picked up the cola and cigarettes, and found the customer to deliver them.

"Check what dropped!" In the game, Steamed Bun Invasion eagerly went to check the drops. Among these people, he was the only one who was so interested. Tang Rou and Qiao Yifan both focused on improving their own skills, Su Mucheng was just playing a supporting role, and only Steamed Bun Invasion could find pleasure in equipment.

"Not for me, not for me, not for me, the materials are for the boss..." Steamed Bun Invasion flipped through the equipment, muttering as he clicked to abandon it. The others, while he was picking up the equipment, also saw the items in the loot panel. The Shadow Swordsman dropped three Blue equipment and some materials, a very ordinary drop.

"Oh, what is this thing?" Steamed Bun Invasion asked curiously, seeing a new item. The other three saw it at the same time: First Line Canyon Map Fragment Three.

"Oh, a tool to open a hidden dungeon." Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan recognized it.

"Hidden dungeon? Sounds awesome," Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"Yes, it's more difficult than ordinary dungeons," Su Mucheng said.

"How many times can you go in a day?" Steamed Bun Invasion asked.

"It's not calculated that way. You need a tool. Theoretically, as long as you have enough tools, you can go in as many times as you want," Su Mucheng said.

"First Line Canyon Map Fragment Three... do you need to collect others?" Steamed Bun Invasion asked.

"Well, I think it's four or five," Su Mucheng was obviously unfamiliar with these early dungeons.

"Four," Qiao Yifan said. He was willing to put in the time to do his homework.

At this time, Ye Xiu had also returned, and he glanced at the thing waiting to be rolled for on the screen.

"Yo, hidden dungeon tool!" Ye Xiu said after sitting down and putting on his headset.

"It seems no one has cleared the hidden dungeon yet," Su Mucheng had just checked the dungeon rankings.

"Yeah, the tools are hard to collect! One, two, and three are okay, but four only drops from Wild Bosses. There are only three chances a week, so it seems no one has gotten it yet," Ye Xiu said.

"Hidden dungeons have hidden Bosses and Wild Bosses. The drop rate is also higher, so it's worth it to go once," Su Mucheng said.

"Yeah..." Ye Xiu also knew this. The items he needed this time were very difficult to obtain. For example, the Shadow Swordsman's Crimson Shadow Blade, and the Amber Crystal that only dropped from Wild Bosses. He might not be able to get these items even when Lord Grim reached level 35. Especially the Amber Crystal, the materials dropped by Wild Bosses were absolutely scarce. Even if the big guilds had them, they might not be willing to use them as bargaining chips.

These were materials that major clubs desperately needed when researching self-made equipment. They were already fighting to snatch them, so how could they give them away to others? For the big guilds, snatching and killing Wild Bosses to obtain these materials was the top priority.

Ye Xiu tried to get the Amber Crystal from Tyrannical Ambition, but they hadn't replied yet. According to the Wild Boss rankings, Tyrannical Ambition had killed the First Line Canyon's Boss, the Rock Surfer Opan, but Ye Xiu didn't know if the Amber Crystal had dropped.

It was really difficult for them to snatch Wild Bosses with their limited strength, but the Bosses in the hidden dungeons were guaranteed not to be snatched by anyone, and they would only be left there for them to kill. But to enter the hidden dungeon, they had to snatch the First Line Canyon Map Fragment Four, which dropped from Wild Bosses. In the end, it was still a dead end.

Ye Xiu sighed, and the others had already finished distributing the loot. The equipment was randomly rolled for, and Ye Xiu took the materials and the First Line Canyon Map Fragment Three. He still hadn't decided whether to sell them or keep them for himself.

The next dungeon run was the same as usual, and they casually finished it.

They ran it a second and a third time, but didn't see anything hidden. On the third run, they almost broke the First Line Canyon's dungeon record.

30 minutes 21.56 seconds, exceeding the original record by about 20 seconds. The original record wasn't a limit record, because of the existence of their elite team, the major guilds were somewhat unenthusiastic about breaking dungeon records. They were just treating breaking records as a way to gain experience and Purple equipment. Letting the record stand? This was something that their big guilds should have been more concerned about, but at this time, they felt powerless.

The new players in the new server were gradually becoming interested in dungeon records during the game. They already knew that this was a symbol of strength and a worthy existence to worship.

Lord Grim's team had just broken the Desolate Land record last night, stomped on the experts of the Heavenly Domain in the afternoon, and then broke the First Line Canyon record again in the evening. The players in the world channel were numb and didn't know what to say. The major guilds were also in a state of silence. Only the Moon Guild, under the leadership of its president Maple Tree, congratulated Lord Grim and his team, as if showing off their extraordinary relationship. For a time, they were ridiculed by some players, and the Moon Guild caused another dispute. However, this was just a small-scale quarrel. That night, the players of the big guilds seemed to have disappeared and didn't make a sound.

Even before the dungeon run, people from Tyrannical Ambition had asked about the record, but when the record was actually broken, they didn't send any more messages. Ye Xiu suddenly felt that something was wrong, but he calmly didn't take the initiative to contact them. In this tug-of-war between him and the guild, whoever was more patient would have the advantage. In fact, Ye Xiu's need for materials was also very urgent, but he had never shown it as urgently as the guilds' pursuit of records.

After clearing First Line Canyon, they trained and leveled up at Desolate Land again. Su Mucheng and Qiao Yifan logged off first. The remaining three continued to level up until they were tired and relaxed. Tang Rou preferred to solo dungeons to train her skills, Steamed Bun Invasion liked to bully others in the arena, and Ye Xiu sorted out the collected materials, walked around the market, and paid attention to the current price trends in the tenth server. Before connecting with the Heavenly Domain, the prices in the tenth server would always be independent. Until entering the Heavenly Domain stage, the prices in the new server would quickly parallel those in the old server due to the impact from above.

In the market, Ye Xiu paid special attention to the tools for hidden dungeons. As expected, Map Fragment One, Two, and Three were all for sale, but Map Fragment Four had never been seen. Hidden Bosses at least depended on luck, three times a day, and a large number of players could try. But Wild Bosses only spawned three times a week, and all the players in the server had only these three chances. The ratio couldn't be compared. The imbalance of the hidden dungeon tools was like a joke. Map Fragment One, Two, and Three were completely worthless, but Map Fragment Four was priceless.

Wild Boss...

Ye Xiu sighed. Apart from the Flame Witch, which could be killed ahead of time, he couldn't think about Bosses of the same level. Snatching, he could try, but the key was that Wild Bosses spawned randomly, and only the big guilds had the ability to discover them immediately and organize enough manpower in the first place. Like them, by the time they found out, it was probably the system message of the Boss being killed and appearing on TV. Last time, they were able to snatch the Blood Gunner and kill the Goblin Merchant because of their connection with the big guilds. After that, in Desolate Land and First Line Canyon, Ye Xiu hadn't even seen the shadow of a Wild Boss.

Materials, materials... Ye Xiu turned around and looked at his inventory. Most of them were won from Team Tiny Herb. The inventory was very rich. Like the Scarlet Poison Needle and other materials dropped by hidden Bosses that he and Tyrannical Ambition had mentioned, it was possible to trade them through exchanges. Now, he was troubled by the materials of Wild Bosses. And as the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella continued to level up, it would become more and more inclined towards these scarce materials. Relying on his own strength was really a bit difficult!

If he couldn't find a way to solve these materials himself, then he would still have to rely on the club in the end.

And the clubs were obviously aware of this, which was why they were supporting guilds in the game one by one. The ultimate goal of the guilds, to put it bluntly, was to plunder materials for the clubs. The materials were then studied by the technical team and made into Silver equipment. Silver equipment armed the characters, and strong characters could be exchanged for strong results. The results attracted advertisements, attracted sponsorships, and attracted better players to join...

The big clubs were getting stronger and stronger in this virtuous cycle, while the small clubs wanted to develop, but they were restricted everywhere.

Excellent Era Club tried to rise again, and also made demands on the Excellent Dynasty guild in the game. However, the development of the old servers had already tended to balance, and there was no major breakthrough. It happened to be the opening of the new server, so the guild leader Chen Yehui injected a lot of manpower, and even came to the new server to pioneer himself, asking Liu Hao, a professional player, to help break small records. It was because he knew that the responsibility was great, and he also knew that it was not easy to do this job well.

If everything went smoothly, in the tenth server, the other club guilds that were just following the rules would definitely not be able to compete with the Excellent Dynasty, which was betting everything. But unfortunately, Ye Qiu appeared.

Liu Hao lost to Ye Qiu.

He, Chen Yehui, lost to Ye Qiu even when trying to bully with numbers.

However, Ye Qiu's forceful presence in the tenth server finally gave him a chance. He must overthrow this mountain, because this was where he had bet everything, and he couldn't afford to lose.