Chapter 1 Envy, Jealousy, and Hate

The guild leaders of the major clubs gathered again, but this time, they could only complain without a single solution. Team Happy was in the dungeon. Who, besides the system, could stop them from conquering it? A little over an hour, the first Boss was killed. What about two hours later? Three? Four? If they continued smoothly like this, tonight would truly become Happy's celebration. On a night with the highest player online rate, how many people would suddenly remember the name Happy?

Envy, jealousy, and hate!

The guild leaders were gritting their teeth. According to the latest feedback, as soon as the first kill record was released, coupled with the recruitment advertisement, Happy's headquarters, including the formerly subordinate Wuji Guild, was quickly overwhelmed by countless players applying to join.

The appeal of a first kill record in a dungeon could be even more enticing to some players than a team achieving a beautiful victory.

A team achieving good results gave players, at most, some spiritual pleasure. But a guild taking a first kill proved the guild's advanced strength, in addition to the sense of pride. Being in such a guild might mean having advanced opportunities. Even if one couldn't join such a team, the advanced team’s equipment from the dungeon would usually be placed in the guild warehouse if they didn't need it.

Ordinary players who wanted to start raiding ten-man dungeons would definitely need a transition period, leveling, farming level 75 equipment in five-man dungeons, etc. But now, with these conditions, it was possible to directly obtain equipment from the guild warehouse for ten-man dungeons. This temptation was extremely attractive to many players.

On Happy's side, the main brains were still in the dungeon. The advertisement had been sent out, but the recruitment work wouldn't start immediately. They were quite surprised by the system announcement after killing a Boss. Then, they remembered to check the corpse for equipment.

Compared to five-man dungeons, team dungeons had different equipment qualities. Even if they were both purple or blue equipment, the attributes of team dungeon equipment would be better. And compared to the mostly blue equipment drop rate in five-man dungeons, the chance of dropping purple equipment in team dungeons was much higher. Moreover, because more players participated in team dungeons, many people could end up with nothing if too little equipment dropped. So, the equipment drop rate in team dungeons was far more advantageous than in five-man dungeons.

Ten-man dungeons often dropped two pieces of equipment per Boss. Twenty-man team dungeons dropped at least three pieces per Boss, and sometimes four. In fifty-man dungeons, each Boss could drop 6 to 8 pieces. Hundred-man dungeons were even more generous. If each Boss didn't drop 12 to 16 pieces, it wouldn't be worth the effort of a hundred people.

The Seal Mountain Thief Village was a ten-man team dungeon, and the chance of each Boss dropping two pieces of equipment was quite high.

After savoring the first kill announcement, everyone realized they could loot the equipment, which was undoubtedly fun. Chen Guo kept asking, "Who's going? Who's going?" Her tone clearly indicated she was waiting for someone to say, "You go," so she could immediately take the opportunity to loot.

But at this moment, Ye Xiu slowly sent a list in the channel.

Everyone looked, and it was the output statistics up to this stage. In the past, this kind of thing could only be viewed after clearing the dungeon. But it seemed that the level 75 dungeon had changed a lot. Not only was there a first kill record for a single Boss, but output statistics could also be viewed at any time?

"Output statistics can now be viewed in stages!" Ye Xiu immediately brought up this issue. It turned out it wasn't available at any time, but could be viewed in stages after defeating a Boss.

"Everyone, take a look," Ye Xiu said. "Usually, we would encourage everyone to learn from the top DPS, but I won't say much today."

The top DPS was naturally Ye Xiu's Lord Grim. He used output to establish aggro. How could he do that without strong output? Lord Grim's current level 55 Myriad Manifestations Umbrella was equivalent to a level 60 orange weapon, a difference of ten levels from everyone else's weapons. Moreover, the unspecialized class didn't have powerful burst skills. Under these conditions, Lord Grim still maintained the top DPS. Without a doubt, it was a matter of technique.

After Ye Xiu, the second-ranked was Wu Chen's Dawn Rifle, followed by Wei Chen's Windward Formation.

In terms of equipment, Wei Chen's Windward Formation was actually the strongest in Happy. The level 70 silver weapon, and the three pieces of silver equipment from Wuji, made him a small powerhouse in the Challenger League. However, the warlock class wasn't known for its attack ability, so the final output statistics weren't as good as Dawn Rifle, a pure attack-type gunner.

After these two, were Soft Mist and Steamed Bun Invasion.

Their output was somewhat behind the top three. Due to the team's composition, these melee classes needed to dodge attacks to reduce the burden on the single healer, so they couldn't focus on output like the ranged classes. Ye Xiu could manage to maintain output while dodging, but Tang Rou and Bao Rongxing didn't have such skilled control yet.

After them, sixth in output was Qiao Yifan's One Inch Ash. He wasn't far behind Soft Mist and Steamed Bun, which was a pretty good performance for a phantom demon.

These three were in the second tier of output. The third tier seemed to be slacking off. But Mo Guang and Su Muqiu's slacking off was all to coordinate with the team. Under Ye Xiu's instructions, Luo Ji only used four summons to output, which limited his output regardless of his skill; as for Su Muqiu, Chen Guo was afraid of disrupting the team's rhythm with her attacks, so she also actively slacked off, resulting in poor performance.

What surprised everyone was Mo Fan's Deception. This guy had solid technique, and Deception's equipment wasn't bad. But now, he was in the third tier with Mo Guang and Su Muqiu, two who were actively slacking. Everyone was craning their necks to see if this guy, who usually had a cold face, had any expression on his face now.

Especially since Ye Xiu was saying, "Cough, those with lower output, without any special reasons, need to work harder!"

This was obviously directed at Mo Fan. Because Luo Ji and Chen Guo had "special reasons," and Mo Fan's Deception, with his strength and initiative, made it hard to believe his output was so poor.

Everyone looked at Mo Fan, whose face was indeed particularly gloomy, but he still didn't say a word. However, his eyes showed confusion, and he was obviously puzzled as to why his output was so bad.

Mo Fan was sitting alone on the side, and no one could see how he was using the computer. After Ye Xiu said this, he didn't say much else and asked, "Who's looting the equipment?"

"Me! Me!" Chen Guo actively volunteered. Su Muqiu trotted forward, secretly praying, although she didn't actually know what equipment this dungeon had.

"Two pieces!" Su Muqiu crouched down and searched. Chen Guo had already seen what equipment dropped and reported the number first.

"One purple and one blue!" Then she reported the quality.

Although it was a ten-man team dungeon, it wasn't easy to get orange equipment.

"What is it?" Everyone was getting impatient and asked.

"Uh, it's black..." Chen Guo had seen what the two pieces of equipment were and said with some frustration, before sending the equipment to everyone to see.

The equipment was, of course, level 75. Dropping one purple piece couldn't be considered lucky. Chen Guo said it was "black" because neither piece of equipment was suitable for the classes in their team.

"It's nothing, just put it in the warehouse!" Ye Xiu didn't care at all. Their team's characters already had full sets of orange equipment. Level 75 equipment was higher level, but it depended on the color. Level 75 purple equipment was only at the same level as level 70 orange equipment. So, they needed level 75 orange equipment to improve. Purple equipment depended on specific attributes, and blue equipment was out of the question! It was just acceptable equipment for players, but a bit unreliable for a team competing in a competition.

"Okay, dungeon continue! Everyone, step up the DPS!" Ye Xiu started shouting. Everyone heard that this was probably still directed at Mo Fan, right? After all, everyone else had performed quite well. Even Chen Guo and Luo Ji, under limited conditions, had performed better than Mo Fan's Deception.

Thinking this, everyone couldn't help but peek at Mo Fan. The silent guy's expression was somewhat determined, as if he was holding back a lot of energy.

The group of ten continued to advance deeper into the Seal Mountain Thief Village. On the road before the second checkpoint, a new type of Seal Mountain thief appeared. But with Ye Xiu and the others' skill, they quickly figured out the key. They killed the monsters more and more skillfully, with basically no suspense. Only An Wenyi was still nervous. Healing for Lord Grim as a main tank was unprecedented! This guy dodged a lot of attacks from the monsters, but even so, An Wenyi had to keep a close eye on him, in case he suddenly made a mistake.

The road to the second checkpoint was cleared even faster than before. In about thirty minutes, the group arrived in front of the second Boss.

The Seal Mountain Chief, Shabao.

Still unfamiliar, they used the same tactics as before. Ye Xiu's Lord Grim tested the waters first, observed the Boss's moves with everyone, and then everyone rushed forward.

Mo Fan's Deception charged ahead incredibly far. He was even more active than before, obviously wanting to use the second checkpoint to re-validate himself. He was particularly diligent on the small roads along the way, but all players knew that the difficulty in dungeons was the Bosses, and the output relied on the performance against the Bosses. Being good at outputting against monsters wasn't a big deal, and it wouldn't make someone a main force of the team.

Although Mo Fan was a loner, he had played dungeons before and understood these principles.