Chapter 157 Post-Christmas

The Christmas event ended, and after a period of noise on the world channel, it quickly calmed down. The vast majority of players persisted until midnight, staying until the final end of the mission, and then went offline after receiving their rewards.

In addition to the rewards exchanged for the stolen gifts, the Christmas gifts exchanged based on all the points were the ultimate reward for this event. This reward was obviously much more generous than the gift packs exchanged for the stolen gifts. As soon as midnight passed, the system announcements on the message channel were almost too busy to handle as players received and opened their final Christmas gifts, with full-screen announcements of the rewards players received.

Tang Rou opened the Christmas gift casually after receiving it. With a flash of light, the Christmas gift she exchanged for a large number of points opened a large amount of experience points, and Soft Mist directly crossed into level 38. In addition, she also opened a red-glowing orange weapon: a Battle Mage level 40 orange spear, Yan Guang Shuang Ren Ji (Flame Light Double-Edged Halberd).

Yan Guang Shuang Ren Ji, level 40.

Weight: 3.3 kg, Attack Speed: 1.

Physical Attack: 470, Magic Attack: 355.

In addition, it adds 15 points of Strength, +2 to Fire Attribute Xuan Wen (magic crest) skill level, and a 3% chance to inflict the Burning status on the target during attack.

Looking at this weapon, Tang Rou glanced at the level 30 purple spear, Scarlet Moon, currently used by Soft Mist, which had 330 Physical Attack and 250 Magic Attack.

"Good stuff!" Even Tang Rou could tell.

"You actually got an orange weapon, you have good luck!" Chen Guo also praised casually. For her, who already had a max-level account, a level 40 orange weapon wasn't something to be envious of. However, the luck to get an orange weapon was worth praising no matter what.

Over on Lord Grim's side, the final big gift pack had of course also been exchanged. However, looking at the words "Christmas Gift", Chen Guo hesitated slightly, then closed the item bar and logged Lord Grim out of the game.

Returning to her Chasing Haze account, the points earned during the event were naturally not comparable to Ye Xiu and Tang Rou's. Not to mention hers, even in the entire Glory game, the benefits that Ye Xiu and Tang Rou received during this Christmas event were the best. However, she still had some expectations for this final reward. Chen Guo took a deep breath and opened her Christmas gift.

With a "clattering" sound effect, Chen Guo's Christmas gift ultimately opened a pile of gold coins. Max-level accounts couldn't get experience, so they were replaced with money. Other than that, there was nothing else. Chen Guo had obviously just gotten a very, very ordinary, better-than-nothing reward.

Looking at the string of numbers jumping up in her wallet, Chen Guo suddenly realized that this event was actually just Ye Xiu and Tang Rou making a killing, while her Chasing Haze had always been getting mediocre results. In the end, she also got so excited and agitated, and it turned out she was just happy for others. Thinking back to her own blind enthusiasm, she found it amusing even to herself.

After opening the gifts, there were no more activities. At this time, Chen Guo would normally have already gone to bed, and she wasn't planning to play the game anymore.

"It's been a long day, get some rest!" Chen Guo said to Tang Rou.

"Mmm..." Tang Rou was also stunned. Thirty-six hours wasn't long, but apart from a period of sleep in the middle, she had been frantically immersed in this mission. Now that the mission had suddenly ended, she felt a bit lost. She didn't know what to do for a moment.

At this time normally, the dungeon instances would have just refreshed, and they would naturally team up to go to dungeons. But now, not a single one of the people she usually teamed up with was online. This character leveled up too fast, jumping directly from level 31 to level 38 in the blink of an eye, as if a whole section had been skipped. What should she do at this level? Tang Rou wasn't mentally prepared at all.

After looking blankly at her character and the items and equipment on her body, Tang Rou finally nodded to Chen Guo: "Okay, get some rest!"

So the two girls went to rest not much later than Ye Xiu. That night, Chen Guo wasn't in the corner of the internet cafe, and Ye Xiu wasn't playing games at the front desk. Everything seemed to have returned to the way it was before.

Nine o'clock in the morning.

Ye Xiu woke up leisurely in his storage room bedroom.

Sunlight shone in from the pitiful little window in his room, not strong, but enough to cast a beam of light in his poorly lit little storage room.

Dust floated in the beam of light. Ye Xiu looked at it in a daze, and couldn't help but think of the drizzling rain in the City of Sin. It was also floating like this.

The crazy 36 hours were really over! Ye Xiu didn't come back to his senses until this moment. He found that his dream last night was also all about running in the drizzle in the City of Sin. It was him personally running, not Lord Grim, running until he was exhausted, with an aching back.

Rubbing his head, Ye Xiu got up, dressed, opened the door, and walked out.

The TV was on in the living room. Chen Guo was wrapped in a bathrobe, her hair was wet, and she was sitting on the sofa watching TV.

"Boss," Ye Xiu greeted. Chen Guo turned her head, her mouth full of foam, and made a "woo woo" sound as a greeting, then turned her head back to continue watching the TV.

Ye Xiu was speechless. Who would have thought that this person sitting leisurely on the sofa watching TV was also brushing her teeth at the same time?

"Did I use the bathroom?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Woo woo woo." Chen Guo got up, rushed into the bathroom, gargled, rinsed her mouth, and wiped off the white foam, feeling refreshed. "Go ahead!"

"Okay." Ye Xiu walked inside.

"I didn't open your Christmas gift. Don't forget to open it yourself," Chen Guo reminded him.

"Okay." Ye Xiu nodded.

By the time he finished washing up, Chen Guo had already turned off the TV and left. Tang Rou's room door was open, and she wasn't there either. Ye Xiu then left his room and went to the internet cafe.

"Good morning!"

Greeting the staff in the internet cafe, Ye Xiu saw that Tang Rou and Chen Guo were already sitting at their gaming stations. Ye Xiu went over and greeted them, but didn't sit down. "I'm going to the smoking area!"

"Okay." Chen Guo naturally wouldn't stop him. Yesterday was a special case, so she tolerated it. The smell of smoke was always something she disliked.

Early in the morning, the internet cafe was very empty. Ye Xiu casually found a spot, swiped his card, and logged into the game.

As soon as he logged in, he immediately received a message from Steamed Bun Invasion, who was crying there!

"Boss, what's going on? Why are you guys suddenly level 37 or 38 overnight?" Steamed Bun Invasion's message was followed by eight wailing emoticons.

"Christmas event, where have you been these past two days?" Ye Xiu replied.

"I was also doing the Christmas event!" Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"Huh? I didn't see you online!"

"What would I be doing online? I drank with a few brothers all day the day before yesterday, and got completely drunk. I slept all day yesterday. Today I came to the game and saw that things were different. How many days have I slept? What day is it today?" Steamed Bun Invasion messaged.

Ye Xiu was speechless. It turned out that Steamed Bun Invasion's Christmas event was offline. Helpless, he replied, "There's also a Christmas event in the game. You level up quickly. We all leveled up in the event."

"There's such a thing!" Steamed Bun Invasion was shocked.

"For these kinds of holidays, there are usually events in the game!" Ye Xiu felt that Steamed Bun Invasion was also an old player, and shouldn't not know this.

"Right! How could I forget!" Steamed Bun Invasion suddenly realized, looking like he had lost his parents, and then cried.

"Keep leveling up!" The gap had already widened, what else could Ye Xiu say?

"Boss, I'll leave you a phone number. Call me next time there's an emergency like this!" Steamed Bun Invasion said with heartache.

"Sure!" Ye Xiu agreed, then noted down the phone number that Steamed Bun Invasion sent over, and let Steamed Bun Invasion cry as he went to level up.

Ye Xiu opened Lord Grim's inventory and saw the Christmas gift left inside. He also casually opened it.

A beam of light shone. The difference in points between Lord Grim's Christmas gift and Soft Mist's wasn't that big, so the experience reward was about the same. After opening it, Lord Grim also leveled up to 38.

In addition, he also received a reward that was shown on TV, a level 40 orange weapon, Remnant Shadow Claw.

Claws belonged to the Fighting class and were usually weapons favored by the Rogue profession. This Remnant Shadow Claw, as an orange weapon, naturally had great stats. However, it wasn't directly useful for Ye Xiu to upgrade the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella. Ye Xiu immediately sent a message to Steamed Bun Invasion, showing the stats of the Remnant Shadow Claw.

"Ahhhhhh! Boss!!" Steamed Bun Invasion howled.

"Keep leveling up! It'll be yours when you reach level 40," Ye Xiu replied.

"Right away, right away!" Steamed Bun Invasion shouted.

Ye Xiu smiled and closed the chat window. At this time, Lord Grim's character was still in the City of Sin. Currently at level 38, this place was no longer a higher-level zone, but he had too many things on him, and his load was too high, so he had to sort it out.

After returning to the main city, Empty Accumulation City, he went straight to the warehouse. On the way, Ye Xiu was still careful to see if he was still under special attention from the major guilds.

Don't think that everyone was cooperating harmoniously during the Christmas event yesterday, but this page had already been turned over at midnight, and things would go back to the way they were. Weren't those guilds also opponents to each other? There weren't any problems with the cooperation of the 12 guilds last night, but it was absolutely impossible for enemies like Blue Brook Guild and Herb Garden to become friends because of one cooperation.

And Ye Xiu, in the eyes of the major guilds, had returned to being the guy who would steal their dungeon records. Especially now that Lord Grim's level was even on par with theirs, this would probably cause even more fear.

However, after Ye Xiu's observation all the way, he didn't find anything unusual. After returning to the warehouse, he sorted out the materials. Now that he was level 38, the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella could be upgraded again. Ye Xiu directly imported the materials needed into the equipment editor. Although he had a lot of materials here, he wasn't completely prepared to upgrade the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella from level 25 to level 35. Perhaps he would have to make a trip to the market for the missing parts, or perhaps, research the strategy again and sell it?

Ye Xiu thought, and opened the dungeon record list. He was surprised by what he saw. The dungeon records for First Line Gorge and Forest of Fire were really scary at this time.