Chapter 123 The Most Cruel Place

In the end, Chen Guo couldn't bring herself to drag the two away from their computers. She and Su Mucheng would have to quietly take care of getting New Year's supplies.

The two girls returned to the internet cafe, having bought everything they needed. They went up to the second floor to the tech department, and the two were still exactly as they had left them. Their concentration was so great that Chen Guo simply couldn't bring herself to interrupt them. After exchanging a glance with Su Mucheng, she quietly retreated.

The strategy room had plenty of space, and the New Year's supplies were piled up there. Chen Guo sat on the sofa, gazing at the whiteboard in the strategy room that listed the standings. A strange feeling arose in her heart.

The league was officially halfway over. Team Happy was in fifth place, with 131 points. They had a 30-point cushion before falling out of the playoff zone. This excellent result had already caused a stir in the scene. Of course, Chen Guo was thrilled by this result as well. But she was no longer just a fan who only saw the glamorous side of the players on the stage. As the boss, Chen Guo now saw all the hard work the players put in behind the scenes.

Ye Xiu, Tang Rou, Fang Rui, An Wenyi, all the players, and then An Wenyi in the tech department, Wu Chen in the Happy guild, everyone was working desperately hard. They worked so hard that Chen Guo could never relax. Finally, the Spring Festival arrived, and she originally thought that everyone could get a short break, but Ye Xiu and Guan Rongfei threw themselves into Glory without any self-awareness.

For the first time, Chen Guo felt that the championship was not just beauty and glory, but also cruelty. Those who got it and those who didn't had to pay a lot.

Those who got it at least had a reward.

But what if they couldn't get it?

Having experienced such hardship, but not yet suffering such a setback, Chen Guo already felt like she could understand the feelings of those who couldn't win the championship.

At this time, she couldn't help but think of Zhang Jiale, Glory's most famous "championship loser." He had missed the championship four times, but he still hadn't given up. The passion that such a person had was probably the same as Ye Xiu and Guan Rongfei!

"They're all crazy," Chen Guo muttered.

Su Mucheng heard her and smiled, sitting down next to her and saying, "Isn't there a saying, 'bu fengmo, bu cheng huo' (one can't succeed without going crazy)?"

"But... what if you go crazy and still can't succeed?" Chen Guo asked.

Su Mucheng was immediately stunned, her gaze also fixed on the standings on the whiteboard.

Yes... This was the competitive scene. If success was defined as the championship, then it was destined that many people wouldn't become champions no matter how crazy they were.

"Then maybe... they can only regret it for the rest of their lives!" Su Mucheng said. She didn't say things like, "As long as you've fought, you won't regret it." As a member of the professional players, she believed that fighting without regrets was possible, but the regret of not winning the championship would never be erased by that lack of regret. Perhaps in the end, what remained most in their hearts was this regret?

"What about you?" Chen Guo suddenly asked.

"Me?" Su Mucheng was stunned again. She became a professional player in the fourth season, and Team Excellent Era hadn't won a championship since then. Ye Xiu had three championships in hand, but Su Mucheng, until now, was also a player without a champion keyboard and mouse.

"Would you be very disappointed?" Chen Guo asked.

"Probably... I would be..." Su Mucheng answered hesitantly. She was always hesitant about this question. She would be disappointed, she was sure. But she wasn't sure if her disappointment was for herself or for Ye Xiu. She had never been so obsessed and crazy about Glory. Her practice seemed to always just be to keep up with Ye Xiu's pace. Chen Guo, who was now living with her day and night, had probably seen this, which was why she asked this question.

"If... your brother was still here, what do you think you would be doing now?" Chen Guo asked very carefully, asking another question.

"If he was still here... I'd probably be serving tea and water by his side, right? Also..." Su Mucheng said with a smile, "I would also play Glory. That way, the feeling of being together would probably be clearer!"

"Yeah... together." Chen Guo nodded and didn't ask any more questions. The two girls leaned back on the sofa together, spaced out and thinking about their own things, until a roar suddenly came from over there, "It's done, that's it!"

The two looked at each other, got up together, and quickly walked towards the tech department. Pushing open the door, Guan Rongfei was still staring at the screen, his face reflecting the light of the monitors, but it actually showed a super happy smile.

"What's done?" the two girls asked in unison.

"This set of equipment is done!" Guan Rongfei said.

"What equipment?" The two girls leaned over to look. They had thought that Guan Rongfei was working so hard to research the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella, but listening to his words, it didn't seem to be. The Myriad Manifestations Umbrella shouldn't be described as a "set," right?

"Just a set of Priest equipment," Ye Xiu said from the side.

"Just????" Guan Rongfei would show that he was indeed a character with superior intelligence when he cared about something. He keenly grasped Ye Xiu's wording.

"High intelligence, high crit, isn't that too new?" Ye Xiu said.

"It's the highest intelligence, highest crit Priest equipment in all of Glory!" Guan Rongfei emphasized.

Ye Xiu shrugged and said nothing more, seemingly not wanting to argue with him.

"Highest intelligence? Highest crit?" Chen Guo repeated.

"Yes!" Guan Rongfei nodded hard. "With Little Cold Hands' skill tree, he will definitely be the strongest healer in all of Glory. Little Cold Hands? Hurry and get him to try it out." Guan Rongfei finished speaking and looked around, looking for someone.

"He went home for the New Year," Chen Guo said.

"What about his account?" Guan Rongfei asked.

"I'll get it!" Chen Guo quickly turned around and flew to the training room to get the account card. Strictly speaking, account cards were indeed team property and couldn't be carried around by players at will. Although Chen Guo wouldn't be so strict, An Wenyi's character was very principled, and he handed the Little Cold Hands account card to Chen Guo without hesitation when he left.

The account was quickly brought over. She swiped the card, entered the game, and after completing the transaction with Guan Rongfei's research account, a whole set of silver equipment was handed to Little Cold Hands, leaving Chen Guo stunned.

Head, shoulders, upper body, waist, lower body, shoes, six pieces of equipment.

Cape, necklace, left finger ring, right finger ring, badge, pendant, six pieces of decoration.

Plus a Priest's common weapon, the cross.

Thirteen pieces of equipment, all silver.

Glory had developed to its tenth season, and there were more and more characters with full sets of silver equipment. The core characters of the major teams almost couldn't pick out a single piece of orange equipment. But Chen Guo didn't expect that Happy would have a character with a full set of silver equipment so quickly, and she didn't expect that the first person to be equipped with a full set of silver equipment would be Little Cold Hands.

"This... is the strongest Priest?" Chen Guo operated Little Cold Hands, her hands trembling a little.

"Strongest? That depends on how you define it. If you're talking about healing output, then he's the strongest," Guan Rongfei said.

"I understand." Chen Guo nodded. Although she wasn't a professional player, she was clear about the basics of which attributes were important for the Priest class.

Intelligence was the first attribute that Priests pursued. The amount of intelligence determined the strength of a Priest's healing ability.

Then, constitution. The more health, the stronger the survivability. No class didn't value constitution, and a Priest's survival was related to the survival of his team. So some Priests would think that constitution should be prioritized over intelligence.

Aside from the four stats, casting speed was an attribute that Priests valued very much. The faster the casting speed, the more healing they could do. It was also a way to increase healing output, and it could also reduce the chance of being interrupted by opponents on the battlefield.

Critical hits were a probability-based phenomenon. Attack critical hits increased damage; healing critical hits, of course, increased healing output.

These were all attributes that emphasized a Priest's healing role. In terms of emphasizing survival, resistance to various attributes and immunity to abnormal states were also very important to Priests in many people's eyes.

It was really difficult to completely rank the many different attributes in order. Usually, they would refer to the characteristics of the players and combine all the attributes that Priests needed into the most convenient and efficient combination. This was the key to equipment selection, and this was the value of silver weapons: Only self-made silver weapons could combine attributes into a completely ideal combination.

At this time, the attribute combination of Little Cold Hands' equipment was a bit rough. Intelligence and critical hit were strengthened without restraint. Other than that, casting speed, an attribute that no Priest could ignore, was completely neglected in this set of equipment. As for resistance, this set of equipment had extremely strong ice resistance, followed by dark resistance. And the enhancement of these two resistances was based on completely abandoning fire resistance and fire resistance.

"Is this... suitable for An Wenyi?" Chen Guo was now a person who had seen the world, and she didn't question this equipment with extreme attributes. She estimated that Ye Xiu and Guan Rongfei wouldn't leave her with any material to mock.

"Yes." Ye Xiu nodded. "An Wenyi has always been relatively weak in terms of operation and reaction. It's really difficult for him to constantly cast spells to support the whole team, so we simply gave him a set of equipment with a slow rhythm but strong burst."

"Ice resistance and dark resistance reduce the risk of him being controlled," Chen Guo also knew that control attacks mostly came from the ice and dark elements.

"That's right," Ye Xiu nodded.

"So our shortcomings have been solved?" Chen Guo asked happily.

"Equipment is just an aid. Even so, his reaction is still too slow and needs to be improved!" Ye Xiu said.

"Then what should he do?" Chen Guo asked.

"That's up to him," Ye Xiu said.

At the same time, in the Glory continent, in the Realm of Gods, at the entrance to the level 60 hundred-player dungeon, the Lost Fleet.

"What? Single heal? Big brother, are you kidding me? This is the entrance to a hundred-player dungeon. The five-player dungeon is over there." A Knight player looked at the Priest in front of him, whose equipment was not bad, and said in surprise.

"Just a level 60 dungeon." The well-equipped Priest said, "Single heal is enough. More DPS, and we'll clear it faster."