Chapter 13 Hectic Leveling

Su Mucheng's talent was average, and her skills really couldn't be considered top-notch. If it came down to a pure speed contest, she probably couldn't even beat Tang Rou. But as a professional player who had experienced a high level of competition, and with the textbook-like Ye Qiu always by her side, Su Mucheng's awareness was still at a professional level. However, this was just leveling up in a new online game server, and such high-level considerations weren't necessary. She could only line up with newbies who couldn't be any more noobish, queuing for quests and fighting for monsters.

However, the new server had been open for several days, and it was early in the morning, so there weren't many people around. Su Mucheng started quickly and reached level 5 in no time. Compared to Ye Xiu's group reaching level 7 in two hours, this was a normal beginner's speed.

While leveling, she chatted casually with Ye Xiu. Suddenly, Ye Xiu replied with a message: "Wait a minute, I'll switch accounts. I'll add you in a bit." After saying that, Lord Grim logged out of the game first.

It turned out that Tang Rou had finished breakfast and was preparing to sleep. She had a mid-shift starting at 3 PM today and needed to rest. In the end, Ye Xiu took her account card and said he would help her level it up a bit. Tang Rou's Soft Mist was at a low level and needed to practice in the Frost Forest dungeon, which took more than an hour for a solo run. Plus, with Ye Xiu using Lord Grim, there was almost no time to level up Soft Mist.

"It's not that I want to help you level up, but if it's too slow, it'll delay our overall plan, won't it?" Ye Xiu reasoned with her. Otherwise, if he just said, "I'll help you level up," Tang Rou, being so competitive, would never agree.

"Okay then!" Tang Rou reluctantly accepted, and Ye Xiu was truly dumbfounded. What was his status in the Glory scene? Now, helping someone level up was something they barely accepted. If this got out, the guys in the pro scene would laugh their heads off.

After Ye Xiu used Soft Mist's account, he added Su Mucheng's Cleansing Mist as a friend.

"Oh, is this the account of that talented girl you mentioned?" Su Mucheng asked.

"Yeah!" Ye Xiu replied.

"A Battle Mage! Could she be your fan?" Su Mucheng asked.

"No, she's a complete newbie, knows nothing about Glory, and doesn't recognize anyone." Ye Xiu then told Su Mucheng the story of how Liu Hao came over yesterday trying to look cool and attract the girl's attention, but the girl didn't pick up on any of it. Su Mucheng laughed and stomped her feet, regretting that she didn't see Liu Hao's failed attempt to look cool.

The two of them chatted and leveled up until Ye Xiu felt like there was a murderous aura behind him.

"Hi, boss, good morning..." Ye Xiu turned around to greet her.

"Are you really planning to just fool around like this every day?" Chen Guo said helplessly, repeating the same words every day, even she was getting annoyed. Was this person too obsessed with the game? Chen Guo owned an internet cafe and had seen many people who liked playing games. But someone like Ye Xiu, who was already 25 years old and only played games all day without doing anything serious, was the first she'd ever seen. Was this guy planning to be a net cafe employee and play games for the rest of his life?

Chen Guo felt that she was really suffering. If someone really wanted to be a net cafe employee for life, how much trouble would she save? But now, seeing such a guy in front of her, she just felt he was too unambitious and infuriating. Especially seeing Tang Rou come back in the morning with red eyes, not even washing her face before going to sleep, she felt a little sorry for her. It was bad enough that this guy was harming himself, but such a good and pretty girl was about to be led astray. She wanted Tang Rou to play Glory, but not like this!

"Boss, is something the matter?" Ye Xiu asked.

"I'm saying, can you be a little more restrained when playing games?" Chen Guo really didn't know what to say. The person in front of her wasn't a child, and if she didn't know his age, she would think he was older than her! What tone should she use to talk to this person? Chen Guo was conflicted!

"Hehe, don't worry, boss! I know what I'm doing." Ye Xiu looked at Chen Guo, feeling a little touched. Chen Guo was stopping him not because she was worried about the computers or that he was neglecting work, but purely out of concern. Spending more than ten hours a day on games was unhealthy in anyone's eyes. Chen Guo often glared at him, but she was actually very kind-hearted.

"Really?" Chen Guo was surprised to see such a serious expression on his face.

"Really." Ye Xiu nodded emphatically.

"Alright, then you do as you see fit!" Chen Guo didn't say anything more. They were both adults, and Ye Xiu's words had shown that he was responsible for his actions, so she could only give a gentle reminder. Chen Guo wasn't the type of person who would arbitrarily boss others around under the guise of "doing what's best for you." She always knew her limits.

Ye Xiu practiced until noon again, leveling Soft Mist to just over level 21. Su Mucheng's progress was even faster. The new account she started this morning was already level 13.

"You should be sleeping, right?" Ye Xiu hadn't even greeted Su Mucheng yet, but she was the one who asked him first.

"Yeah. I'll sleep for a bit. I have the night shift tonight. You can keep practicing and don't need to coordinate with my schedule," Ye Xiu said.

"Then don't worry about me. Go to sleep. I'm going to eat," Su Mucheng sent a smiling face emoji and logged off first.

He woke up to find that it was evening again. Tang Rou had the middle shift today, and the internet cafe was never empty during the middle shift. Soft Mist was standing there, dazed and idle for 45 minutes out of every hour. Tang Rou was busy attending to customers, helping them log in, log out, and asking for this and that, so she couldn't pay attention to the game.

"Hard work!" Ye Xiu said, expressing his condolences.

"I haven't leveled up much," Tang Rou sighed.

"Instead of this, you should study the guides, watch videos, and learn more about the basic information," Ye Xiu said.

"That's all I can do," Tang Rou said.

"Aren't you two sleeping tonight?" Chen Guo asked as she walked over.

"Boss..." Ye Xiu said innocently, he was on the night shift, he couldn't sleep even if he wanted to.

"Uh, just sleep if you're sleepy!" Tang Rou said.

"Take it easy!" Chen Guo said.

"Don't worry! I know what I'm doing," Tang Rou said.

Chen Guo coughed blood: "Did you two rehearse your lines?"

"What lines?" Tang Rou was confused. She saw Chen Guo glaring at Ye Xiu, who was looking at the ceiling with a cigarette in his mouth.

Today was the weekend, and the internet cafe was extremely busy. During the evening peak, Ye Xiu couldn't even find a machine in the smoking area after walking around. After taking a final drag of his cigarette, he went to the non-smoking area.

As soon as he logged into the game, Night Tide was the first to contact him: "Brother, I've found out all the equipment information."

"Oh? Let me see," Ye Xiu said.

Night Tide sent the information for all five people one by one. Ye Xiu looked at it and, as expected, there were no surprises. Each character had guaranteed one level 25 purple weapon. This was a new server, and it was still low-level. Who would bother to put in the effort to gather a full set of purple equipment? It wasn't even necessary for breaking dungeon records.

"Alright, I understand," Ye Xiu replied.

Night Tide looked at Lord Grim's level and felt very depressed: "Brother, you're leveling up so slowly!"

"It's no use if I level up fast! The helpers I found are even lower level than me!" Ye Xiu said.

"Ah? What level are they?" Night Tide asked.

"The lowest one..." Su Mucheng wasn't online right now. Ye Xiu clicked on her Cleansing Mist and said, "Level 16."

Night Tide almost spat blood on his screen and replied: "When will that be? Is it even meaningful to break the record at this point?"

Night Tide wasn't lying. Dungeon records had to keep pace with the overall level of the server. If you were in an old server, where everyone was level 70, and a group of people broke the Frost Forest dungeon record, it wouldn't attract much attention.

The big guilds were so focused on small dungeons now because everyone was at the same level in the new server. Everyone was grinding in this dungeon, so creating a record for this dungeon would show a lot of skill and prestige. Right now, the lowest level person on Ye Xiu's side was only level 16. If it took too long to reach level 25, and everyone was at level 30, no one would be impressed when they saw you clear the Frost Forest dungeon!

"Don't worry! It'll be in the next few days," Ye Xiu understood this principle.

"Three days! Can it be done in three days? I don't think it'll be meaningful if the record doesn't come out in three days," Night Tide said.

"Alright," Ye Xiu agreed immediately. "Within three days, your guild needs to provide a level 25 person, preferably someone with good skills. Can you do that?"

"Okay, I'll take a look."

"You definitely have to find one, or else, in the end, the guild name will be there, but none of the people are from your guild. That would be embarrassing, right?" Ye Xiu replied.

Night Tide felt another layer of gloom in his heart when he heard this. That was right! Right now, all the people were from Lord Grim's side. When people saw the team, they would know that none of them were from their Tyrannical Ambition guild. That would be quite embarrassing. However, it was still better than having another guild's name attached. Night Tide thought about it and decided not to worry about it. He had been worrying about this Frost Forest dungeon for too long. He needed to get a record out quickly. It was becoming a heart disease.

"I don't want to think about it, I don't want to think about it!!" Night Tide shook his head, not wanting to analyze the advantages and disadvantages anymore. He would just leave it to Lord Grim to take the record as soon as possible!

Ye Xiu naturally focused on leveling up. After the night shift, Tang Rou didn't go to sleep again. However, there were customers tonight, so she didn't log into the server. She just found a random spot to sit and continued to solo the Frost Forest dungeon. Ye Xiu went to check on her and felt that Tang Rou was already quite familiar with it. Then, he had her use Lord Grim to run it once, and then gathered Steamed Bun Invasion and the others to practice running the dungeon as a team.

Steamed Bun Invasion had also switched to the level 25 purple weapon, the Martial Artist's Claw.

Ye Xiu specifically mentioned this weapon because it had the skill "Throat-Slit" level +1 attribute. In this record-breaking battle where every second counted, any detail could affect the result. Throat-Slit would be an important skill when the boss appeared, and raising it by one level would be very helpful.

In the middle of the night, Su Mucheng quietly logged on again. Ye Xiu had already finished farming the Frost Forest, so without asking any questions, he ran back to the newbie village to help Su Mucheng level up. Besides Steamed Bun Invasion, Lord Grim was still considered a high level, so it didn't matter if he leveled up or not. The key was to quickly bring up the lowest level person.

Three days passed in a flash...