Chapter 131 Despair

After suddenly understanding this point, Sword of No Oath felt a momentary sense of despair. What was the purpose of him building the guild? Certainly not for money. His goal was to one day become someone whose mere stomp could shake the entire main city.

The development of Across the Four Seas had been very smooth. From the initial beta test, it had always been touted as the largest guild in Cloud City. Afterwards, many things happened. Their strongest competitor, Drinking Loudly, collapsed. The Black Alliance and Muyun Guild, both also at level six, declined. And there was also Rainbow Clouds, but Sword of No Oath knew very well that Rainbow Clouds' guild nature was different from theirs. Gu Xiaoshang, as the guild leader, didn't have his kind of ambition.

Sword Demon, Zhan Wushang, Yutian Shenming, You-ge...

These resounding names appeared one after another in Cloud City, once putting Sword of No Oath under quite a bit of pressure. He knew that these people were all very well-grounded characters. But in the end, Sword Demon's attempt to reorganize Against the Heavens failed, and he became a lone wolf. Yutian Shenming joined his Across the Four Seas and became his subordinate. Zhan Wushang ended up in a pure warrior guild, which was destined to have no great future. You-ge maintained his style of having a greater reputation on the forums than in the game.

In Cloud City, he, Sword of No Oath, was initially a genuine top figure. He was very optimistic about his prospects, until a guy named Drunken Miles appeared.

This guy gave Across the Four Seas a dismount right from the start. Although Sword of No Oath didn't know this person's name at that time, But Xiao was killed, and it was the killing that brought the other's name to fame. Although Sword of No Oath took the opportunity to kick But Xiao out, he felt a fire burning in his heart at the time. Their guild launched a chase after 27149, and in the course of the chase, they chased their own brother, Shadow of the Bygone Years, into a cave, unable to advance or retreat…

This was like the prelude to a tragedy. From then on, in every interaction related to Drunken Miles, Sword of No Oath never gained the upper hand. From gritting his teeth and wanting to retaliate at the beginning, to becoming vigilant and constantly on guard, then to selectively avoiding him, and finally to wanting to try to build a good relationship. Step by step, unconsciously, Sword of No Oath had already put himself in a subordinate position in front of Drunken Miles.

He was unwilling, he thought about resisting, but he couldn't think of any means. He always held onto a last glimmer of hope. He felt that he was, after all, the leader of a large guild, and as for Drunken Miles, he was just a high-level mercenary, and his reputation among the masses was very bad. This made Sword of No Oath feel that he was the embodiment of justice, thinking that he would have justice triumph over evil.

At this moment, Sword of No Oath had to face his own naivety.

Even if Drunken Miles was evil, so what? Justice will prevail? That was simply a lie for children. Victory *is* justice, that was the truth.

What's more, Drunken Miles couldn't even be considered evil. Sword of No Oath, who paid close attention to Drunken Miles, actually knew this better than most people. Although every player in Cloud City could vividly describe Drunken Miles' brutality, if you really asked them to tell you about Drunken Miles' unreasonable deeds, were there any?

No, not a single one.

Drunken Miles freely taught everyone efficient leveling methods, which immediately made everyone look at him differently. Was it really just driven by this little benefit? Of course not.

At its root, it was still because the so-called brutal image of Drunken Miles was actually just a rumor created by everyone. Once they related it to their own actual experience, everyone clearly knew that Drunken Miles had never caused anyone any trouble. Even those who had been killed by him had sufficient cause.

If you're upright, you don't fear a crooked shadow, that's all.

Sword of No Oath walked through the leveling area, listening to the players' discussions about Drunken Miles, and only felt disheartened. He understood that all his efforts in Cloud City could no longer help him achieve his grand ideal. He would always be inferior to others. Drunken Miles, damn it, how could there be such a person? Sword of No Oath was in tears.

Sword of No Oath walked on like this. Ahead was the exit of the level 40 leveling area. Suddenly, he saw a familiar figure outside the boundary, the very guy he had been cursing in his mind.

Sword of No Oath subconsciously walked over. This level 40 leveling area was very harmonious, and he didn't need to pretend to be a big guild leader maintaining the situation at all. He immediately lost interest. For him personally, this was also something tasteless. Sword of No Oath was also considered a high-end player!

Gradually approaching, Sword of No Oath saw Drunken Miles waving something and hitting a huge rock in front of him. This rock wasn't a monster, let alone a Boss. Sword of No Oath couldn't think of any strange task that would require such an action. Watching Drunken Miles frantically hitting it, he suddenly felt a little scared.

Gu Fei also noticed someone behind him at this time. He turned his head and glanced, seeing Sword of No Oath, and nodded, "Guild Leader Wushi."

"Brother Qianli, what are you doing?" Sword of No Oath was puzzled.

"It got bent, I'm straightening it." Gu Fei said, continuing to wave the thing in his hand and bang it against the stone.

Sword of No Oath couldn't help but want to laugh. It seemed that the rumor that this person was actually a game noob might not be false. He could actually make such an unappreciative and childish mistake? Sword of No Oath walked forward while lecturing this noob: "Equipment will only deform when its durability is low to a certain extent. Even if you fix it like that, it's useless. You should… you should…"

Sword of No Oath stopped when he said these two words, because he saw the thing in Gu Fei's hand. It was neither long nor short, and Sword of No Oath couldn't be sure what it was, but he had already determined that it wasn't a piece of equipment…

"Should what?" Gu Fei asked.

"Should give it to someone with strength to straighten it…" Sword of No Oath wiped sweat and reached out his hand.

Gu Fei then handed it over. Sword of No Oath finally knew what it was: Jack's Firewood Stick.

Sword of No Oath's strength was completely on a different level than Gu Fei's. With a little effort with both hands, the Firewood Stick was straightened. Gu Fei watched from the side with tears streaming down his face, but he didn't know that Sword of No Oath was also feeling tearful at this moment: Drunken Miles, the expert that the entire game fears, what was he doing here with a Firewood Stick?

Sword of No Oath handed the Firewood Stick back while asking: "What task is this?" Firewood sticks were usually just a section of a fire stick or wooden stick. How could they have such toughness, bending without breaking? So Sword of No Oath felt that this Firewood Stick might have some background.

"Task?" Gu Fei took back the Firewood Stick and asked in confusion.

"Then what is this?" Sword of No Oath gestured to Gu Fei's previous hitting action.

"It's bent, I wanted to straighten it!" Gu Fei felt like he had already said this just now.

"That's it?" Sword of No Oath couldn't believe that there was no hidden meaning in this, that it was simply a matter of something being bent and then straightened.

"Then what else would it be?"

"What's special about this thing?" Sword of No Oath pointed to the Firewood Stick.

"It seems like it's for some task! I forgot, I just saw that this thing doesn't seem easy to break, and it's quite handy, so I kept it." Gu Fei said.

"Isn't it displayed in the task list either?"

"Deleted it long ago," Gu Fei said.

Sword of No Oath almost fainted. He increasingly felt that this must be a very meaningful task. A Firewood Stick that only bends but doesn't break, how unusual. This dead noob, could he have unknowingly deleted a very powerful task?

"Then what are you keeping it for?" Sword of No Oath had to ask.

"Nothing, I'll just take it out and use it when I need it," Gu Fei said.

"Uh? Firewood?" Sword of No Oath asked tentatively.

"What firewood?" Gu Fei was speechless, and immediately showed Sword of No Oath three moves with the stick.

"Uh… good!" Sword of No Oath squeezed out a word after a long while.

"The length of this stick is similar to a staff, so I took it out to use when I was developing the efficient leveling method. It got bent from using it too much," Gu Fei explained. If it was equipment, it would have attributes, which would increase the attack, so the monsters would fall too quickly. For the convenience of research, Gu Fei specially found this kind of thing that only had a shape but no attributes.

Sword of No Oath nodded as if he understood, and then the two fell into a speechless situation. They weren't familiar with each other to begin with!

"Brother Qianli, would you like to come and play in our Across the Four Seas when you have time?" Sword of No Oath blurted out this sentence as if possessed by a ghost.

"Across the Four Seas? What's fun about it?" Gu Fei asked in confusion.

Sword of No Oath was instantly speechless. Were there any benefits to joining a guild in the game? Of course there were. The guild tasks and guild contributions in the guild were a relatively stable way to obtain high-end equipment. Unlike wild equipment drops that relied on luck, and market sweeps that relied on gold coins, participating in guild activities to obtain equipment mainly required being willing to spend time. As long as you put in effort, you could get equipment.

But, equipment… did Drunken Miles need that stuff? It didn't seem like it. This person could fight monsters with a broken Firewood Stick with no attributes.

Aside from this, guild players also had a certain experience bonus when leveling up, but Drunken Miles didn't seem to need this either. He was just messing around like this, and he was already the number one in level in Parallel World. Moreover, he only played for a few hours a day. He simply didn't need the guild's benefits.

Furthermore, a powerful guild was a powerful backer. When Sword of No Oath thought of this, he wanted to cry. Did Drunken Miles need a backer? Wasn't that a joke? He hoped that Drunken Miles would come and play, but it seemed like he was finding a backer for the guild, right?

As expected, there was no reason to poach him… Sword of No Oath simply stopped talking and laughed it off: "Ha, just saying."

Gu Fei didn't care. He looked like he had just sent a message, then suddenly turned to Sword of No Oath: "By the way, you don't need the efficient leveling method for this level 40 leveling area, right?"

"Ah…" Sword of No Oath suddenly became nervous. What did this question mean? If he said he didn't need it, would he be seen as disdaining it and be killed until he was level 30 so he would need it?

Gu Fei, however, knew the answer that Sword of No Oath should give. Without waiting for him to answer, he pointed in a certain direction and said: "Let's go, follow me to the level 50 leveling area to learn."

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