Chapter 33 Public Relations

Blue Brook Guild's public relations efforts in the game world were going smoothly. After all, the system announcement of their record-breaking achievement was still there, and the rankings could be checked at any time. Faced with such strong evidence, the newcomers couldn't find any faults to pick. Moreover, the newcomers had no grudges against Blue Brook Guild. The reason why such a trend suddenly erupted yesterday was simply because the nouveau riche attitude of the Moonlight Guild was too disgusting.

Time ticked by towards midnight, and Blue River's mood grew increasingly tense. Especially during the ten minutes from 12:20 to 12:30, Blue River did almost nothing but stare at the information column.

Suddenly, the system announced something.

Seeing the prefix "System," Blue River was startled.

System Announcement: Please play the game healthily and arrange your time reasonably.

"Damn it! You almost scared me to death." Blue River couldn't help but curse. It turned out to be a message the system often automatically released in the middle of the night to remind players to rest. Of course, from the perspective of game companies' interests, they certainly wished players would throw themselves into the game until they died in front of their computers. This hypocritical reminder might have warmed players' hearts many years ago, but now it was just to fool the newbie noobs!

At 12:30, the record had not been broken, and Blue River breathed a slight sigh of relief. However, he immediately thought: What if the other party started their run at 12:10?

So Blue River nervously stared at the system announcement again.

"Old Blue, aren't you running a dungeon today?" Xi Zhou and others, who were in Blue River's fixed team, came over and asked.

"Run, let's run!" If someone was really going to break the record, there was nothing he could do about it, so he shouldn't waste his time. Thinking this, Blue River followed the team to run a dungeon, but he couldn't concentrate on it at all. He made many mistakes, and once almost caused the team to be wiped out.

"Old Blue, let me command..." Everyone was afraid, but they could understand, knowing why Blue River was so restless at this time.

"Okay, you take over!" With a change of commander, Blue River's mistakes were at least not so outrageous. Just now, he was practically commanding the whole team to their deaths.

After finishing the First Line Gorge dungeon and the Luring Land dungeon, half the night had passed. There were no new system records, and Blue River finally breathed a small sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, on Ye Xiu's side, they didn't try to break any records that night. After Tang Rou took over the shift at eleven o'clock and logged into the game, she called Steamed Bun Invasion and waited for Su Mucheng to come online. The four of them formed a team and went to the Luminous Forest.

Frost Forest, Luminous Forest, Dark Forest, and Light Forest were the four great forests on the Glory continent, and also four leveling areas and four dungeons.

Among them, Frost Forest had the lowest level, while Luminous Forest was where Ye Xiu and the others were going at this time, a level 34-36 leveling area.

For their level 30 characters, the level 35 monsters here offered the highest experience. However, the experience from wild monsters, no matter how much, couldn't compare to the elite monsters in dungeons. Adding the extra experience reward after clearing a dungeon, directly running to a leveling area without running dungeons was definitely not a wise leveling choice.

Such an unwise choice would certainly not happen to a veteran like Ye Xiu. Of course, they weren't here to level up. Ye Xiu's target was the wild Boss in Luminous Forest, the Flame Witch Kashew.

In the Frost Forest dungeon, the most powerful hidden Boss, the White Witch, was proficient in ice magic. And in Luminous Forest, the Flame Witch, proficient in fire magic, was an even more powerful existence than the hidden Boss: a wild Boss.

A wild Boss was naturally the highest level in the current leveling area. The Flame Witch Kashew's level was 36.

Level 36, exceeding Ye Xiu and the others' characters by six levels. This exceeded the five-level limit, and the experience gained would be at the lowest rate. However, killing a Boss was never about the experience.

However, a six-level level suppression! This was an extremely exaggerated advantage. Currently, the elite teams of the major guilds were at level 32, but they hadn't dared to provoke the Flame Witch Kashew yet, fearing the four-level level suppression. After all, this wasn't an ordinary monster, but the strongest wild Boss of all Bosses.

The four-level suppression had already made players retreat, but now, Ye Xiu was leading four people to challenge the six-level suppression. And the other three members of the team didn't show any surprise at all.

Su Mucheng didn't count, but for Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion, Ye Xiu felt it was necessary to make them take it seriously. A six-level level suppression was no joke.

"Everyone, pay attention. The Flame Witch has a six-level level suppression compared to us." Ye Xiu said while searching for the Flame Witch. The Flame Witch must have spawned by now. As long as a wild Boss spawned, it would wander around until someone killed it. At this time, the tenth server had been open for several weeks, and not only the Flame Witch, but also the wild Bosses in the higher-level leveling areas had already spawned and were waiting for the players! Unlike the first week of the server launch, the wild Bosses still had a spawning process from nothing to something.

"Oh." Tang Rou and Steamed Bun Invasion gave a perfunctory response to Ye Xiu's reminder.

"Don't underestimate this six-level suppression. Combined with her status as a wild Boss, many attack effects will be weakened by 60%-100% when used on her. Do you know what 100% weakening means? It means complete resistance, ineffective. For example, if the knockback effect of Falling Flower Palm is weakened by 100%, then the knockback effect will not exist. Therefore, you need to adapt to this change during combat. The stun of Dragon Tooth, the launch of Sky Strike, the blind of Sand Toss, the dizziness of Brick Throw, all these skills will show weaker effects than usual." Ye Xiu gave the two a serious lesson.

"Oh, is that so!" The two nodded.

"We've already encountered this situation when running the First Line Gorge dungeon, haven't we? The Bosses there are also higher level than our level 30, right?" Tang Rou said.

"Higher is higher, but from level 30 onwards, the dungeon level span will never exceed three levels. That's because too much level suppression is difficult to deal with. Three levels is still a tolerable level of suppression. Otherwise, the level 36 Flame Witch would have been killed long ago, would we even have a chance?" Ye Xiu explained.

"Oh, oh, I'll pay attention." Tang Rou didn't dare to use "we" to express her stance with Steamed Bun Invasion.

"Steamed Bun, do you understand?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Understand." Steamed Bun Invasion replied. Whether he really understood or not, Ye Xiu didn't know.

The four of them wandered around in Luminous Forest, sometimes dealing with the monsters they startled. The monsters in the four great forests, both ice and fire, were mainly goblins. Of course, the levels were different, and the quality was naturally not at the same stage. The goblins in Luminous Forest all had reddish skin, a bloodthirsty expression, and looked much fiercer than the goblins in Frost Forest.

"Over here, it's over here." Finally, Ye Xiu spotted the figure of the Flame Witch Kashew on the screen.

In an open space in a forest, a bonfire was burning brightly. The Flame Witch Kashew stood beside it with a fanatical expression, holding an extremely long staff in her hand. The top of the staff was a flame-shaped rune, which seemed to be dancing and burning. Around her, a pile of goblins of all sizes from Luminous Forest surrounded the bonfire, as if holding some grand event, screaming and circling around without leaving.

"What should we do? No one has touched her for too long, and she's gathered so many monsters..." Su Mucheng said.

"Don't panic, we have plenty of time. Do you all have enough potions?" Ye Xiu said.

"Enough." The others replied. Before coming out this time, Ye Xiu had specifically instructed everyone to spend money to buy mid-level potions from the market in Congee City.

"Okay, you two fall back first," Ye Xiu said.

"Ah?" Tang Rou was puzzled.

"You and Steamed Bun run first. We'll blow up their bonfire, and they'll chase us like crazy. If you can run away this time, then come back and counterattack," Ye Xiu said.

"Oh." Tang Rou's Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion retreated completely first. Su Mucheng's Dancing Rain immediately began to charge up her Laser Cannon. The moment the laser beam gathered, Ye Xiu's Myriad Manifestations Umbrella also raised up like a gun, and he fired an Anti-Tank Missile.

Three consecutive cannonballs and laser beams bombarded the bonfire in one breath. In an instant, they exploded like fireworks, scattering in all directions. The goblins screamed loudly, and their ferocious gazes were already glaring in their direction. The Flame Witch also glanced over here, raised her staff, and muttered something unknown. Suddenly, all the goblins' arms flashed with a fire-like red light, looking very violent.

"Tsk tsk, a group buff of Flame Enchant! The system is shameless." Ye Xiu said, while controlling Lord Grim to fly backwards with his gun. Dancing Rain also performed the same operation.

Parallel backflying had a faster movement speed, but the time was relatively short, requiring constant repeated operations. However, for professional players, seamless connection was not a problem. Under this smooth operation, at first glance, it wasn't much slower than a Magician's ultra-low-altitude flight. The only flaw was that because it was backflying, some problems had to be paid attention to. For example, Ye Xiu was reminding Su Mucheng: "Be careful not to hit a tree!"

"I'm following you, so I won't crash, will I!" Su Mucheng said.

"That's not necessarily true."

"Then you're the idiot, you'll definitely hit a tree first," Su Mucheng said.

"No... I'm afraid you'll hit me," Ye Xiu said.

The two chatted and flew backwards, firing guns and cannons, obviously not taking it too seriously. One in front and one behind, they were both very lighthearted. Those goblins who were baring their teeth and claws and pouncing on them were instantly thrown farther and farther away, but the Flame Witch's speed was no less than theirs. Without even moving her legs to run, she floated towards them quickly.

"Give her something to play with!" Seeing the Flame Witch getting closer, Ye Xiu shouted.

"Okay." Su Mucheng said, and the firepower she fired while flying backwards began to hit the Flame Witch.

If it were ordinary monsters, being hit like this would at least slow them down a bit from the impact of the bullets and shells, but on the level six Flame Witch, even after the Launcher's shells exploded, she continued to maintain her speed without feeling anything.

"Give her something big!!" Ye Xiu shouted, and with three consecutive bangs, it was an Anti-Tank Missile. Su Mucheng was slightly slower than him, but the three consecutive cannons happened to be six shells in a line.

The six consecutive cannons exploded in a colorful display. Finally, because it was a skill, the Flame Witch gave them some face and was briefly slowed down. But the pause was so short, not even a second, before she charged forward again.