Chapter 1 Leveling Up

Leveling from one to two is always the fastest and simplest. While the enthusiastic newbies were completing most of their first wave of tasks, the Happy Guild had already reached level two.

The list of players applying to join the guild would remain there indefinitely unless rejected. The only exception was if the player joined another guild, in which case they would automatically disappear from the application list. With the guild easily leveling up to two, Ye Xiu naturally opened the application list again and accepted more new members. In the blink of an eye, Happy Guild had a team of nearly two hundred people.

The second wave of joining players was basically the same as the first: Glory newbies who didn't know much about guilds yet. The guild leader naturally gave another speech, and the enthusiasm was once again ignited, with the new players hurriedly running off to start guild tasks.

Guild tasks varied in content: delivering letters, killing monsters, obtaining items, and so on. The difficulty would correspond to the player's level who received the task. It wouldn't be too easy, but it also wouldn't be completely impossible. However, the complexity would increase with the guild's level. For example, if a monster-killing task required killing only one monster at level one, a level two guild might require killing two. For letter delivery tasks, the higher the guild level, the longer the journey and the more disturbances encountered along the way. However, the rewards would naturally increase with the guild level as well; otherwise, it would be difficult to maintain player enthusiasm.

Leveling up, adding people...

Happy Guild was developing rapidly in this cyclical pattern. Guild level upgrades were also announced by the system. The rapid early-stage progress gave everyone a strong impetus to level up. And the endless list of membership applications ensured that each level up would immediately reach the guild's member limit for that level.

More and more players with the Happy Guild name above their heads were scattered throughout the Glory continent, working hard on guild tasks. All the guilds and players in the entire server saw this. The system's repeated announcements made them extremely envious and jealous. At this rate, Happy Guild could reach level five before midnight! Level five, with the power of a guardian.

If ordinary guilds were simply envious and jealous, club guilds were different. In their eyes, Happy Guild was definitely a strong competitor, and seeing it develop and grow so rapidly, it was not enough to comfort themselves with the thought that "their members are all low level." They had to take some measures.

Club guilds also varied in size. During times like these, when most guilds were unhappy, they were accustomed to watching the actions of the Big Three guilds. But this time, the Big Three guilds had been quiet.

The major guilds were all talking about it. They knew that when Lord Grim first appeared, he had fought with these Big Three guilds. Excellent Dynasty was relatively lucky, but Blue Brook Guild and Tyrannical Ambition suffered huge losses and were still relying on their old guard to save face. Now that they were in the mid-level stage of level 40, the two major guilds that could dominate in other servers had not only failed to gain any fame in the early stages but were still struggling to maintain their reputation. The pioneering of the tenth server was undoubtedly a failure for both.

Other guilds weren't doing much better. Because Lord Grim had stolen the limelight in the early stages, they were only slightly better than Blue Brook Guild and Tyrannical Ambition, who were actually regressing instead of progressing.

"Could it be that they're already afraid?" Many guilds who liked to observe the actions of the Big Three guilds thought this way. What they didn't know was that the three guilds had concerns precisely because they fully understood how strong Lord Grim was. Because they knew the true identity of this person, they had to act cautiously.

The leaders of the three guilds were actually gathered together discussing their views. The main speaker was not even the leader in the tenth server, but the real heads of the three guilds: Chun Yi Lao of Blue Brook Guild, Jiang You of Tyrannical Ambition, and Tian Nan Xing of Herb Garden.

The pioneering work in the tenth server had repeatedly alarmed the top leaders of these major guilds, and even more tragic was that even these top leaders were not high enough in status to face this opponent.

"Ahem, how should we put it?" Chun Yi Lao randomly used an account from the tenth server at this time. The three gathered together, looking at the system messages announcing Happy Guild's level upgrades flashing again and again, feeling upset and irritable.

"Dealing with Lord Grim isn't the key right now; the key is to disrupt the momentum of his guild's development," Jiang You said, grinding his teeth. He really hated this person, both for the team he supported and for being repeatedly defeated in the game.

"Nonsense, the key now is how to disrupt it!" Tian Nan Xing said.

A moment of silence. If they had any ideas, the three wouldn't be gathering together to discuss them.

"Kill people, engage in terrorism?" Jiang You said.

"Not very useful. We can't directly make things difficult for them. How many wild accounts do you have in the new server? I think at most a dozen or twenty, right? They're already a level 4 guild with 400 people. With a little unity, what can such a small number of people do?" Chun Yi Lao said.

"And such an attack would easily lead people to guess that it's us, right?" Tian Nan Xing said.

"We have no legitimate reason to act!" Jiang You was very distressed. This was a major burden for their club guilds. They had to be justifiable in everything they did; they couldn't resort to unscrupulous means.

"Uh, or we could send wild accounts to infiltrate some guilds and then create conflicts between those guilds and Lord Grim?" Tian Nan Xing suddenly said.

"Then why not directly infiltrate Lord Grim and then cause trouble?" Jiang You said.

"It's not that easy," Chun Yi Lao said with a wry smile. "Don't forget who our opponent is. What kind of tricks hasn't he seen? Infiltrating Happy to provoke them is too childish."

"Infiltrating other guilds to cause trouble, that's something I think is feasible. When Lord Grim establishes a guild, many people may leave their guilds to join him, and many guilds will be dissatisfied. We should pay attention and use those guilds to cause trouble. As long as we can put Happy on the opposite side of all the guilds, we'll have a legitimate reason to act," Chun Yi Lao said, before offering another analysis.

"We can still send some people to infiltrate Happy, lie low for now, and wait for the conflicts to erupt, then let them light the fuse!" Jiang You said.

"Yes, and Happy Guild is developing so rapidly that the mentality of their guild members will inevitably swell. If the atmosphere isn't right, perhaps we won't even need to provoke them; their own people will go around causing trouble, and that would be even better," Tian Nan Xing said.

"Yes, yes, let's have the people we send focus on inciting them in those areas! There's no need to actually become cannon fodder," Chun Yi Lao said.

The three of them spoke one after another, gradually opening up their minds, and all sorts of tricks emerged. After all, they had been managing guilds for many years, and they had developed into the top three in the entire Glory scene. On the one hand, the team's performance in the professional alliance was strong, but on the other hand, the abilities of these three could not be ignored.

When it came to guild warfare, they were definitely top-notch experts in Glory. When confronting Happy Guild, they would never think of competing for dungeon records. That relied on technical strength, and they were willing to admit defeat to Ye Qiu. So they had to think of ways to avoid confronting individual strength. After some discussion, a plan was formed, and the next step was to implement it. The three of them maintained contact while also finding their own guild members to issue instructions.

On the Blue Brook Guild side, Lan He's expression immediately turned ugly after receiving instructions from Chun Yi Lao.

"Aren't we not going to compete with Lord Grim anymore?" Lan He said, depressed.

"This is one situation, that is another situation. Now that he has established a guild, he is our direct opponent, and we cannot avoid it even if we want to. Do you think he established a guild just for fun?" Chun Yi Lao said.

Lan He was speechless. He actually knew this very well in his heart. But he had interacted with Ye Xiu for a while and had always had a good impression of him. Lan He felt that it was boring to scheme against someone who could have been a friend.

"The Big Three guilds will all take action. We will also contact some other guilds later, so don't worry about anything and go ahead and do it!" Chun Yi Lao said.

Lan He silently closed the message, stayed still for a long time, sighed, and then began to do as Chun Yi Lao instructed.

The first step was to sort out the wild accounts that were not in Blue Brook Guild, and the second was to start collecting information to see how many guilds had experienced personnel losses due to the establishment of Happy Guild. Those guilds would definitely be dissatisfied with Lord Grim and Happy Guild, and this was the point that Chun Yi Lao and the others had discussed wanting to exploit.

Herb Garden and Tyrannical Ambition were also busy after receiving instructions. At this time, the system issued another announcement: Congratulations to Happy Guild for successfully upgrading to a level five guild.

From establishing a guild to reaching level five in less than four hours, this was rapid development that made many guild operators burst into tears.

There was also jubilation within Happy Guild. These Glory newbies didn't know much about guilds, but according to the guild leader, level five seemed to be a very beneficial stage. At this level, the guild could have something called the Power of Guardianship.

Many people had already searched for information to understand what exactly this Power of Guardianship was, and the results were naturally covetous. Now that they saw that the guild had finally been upgraded to level five, everyone began to look forward to the arrival of the Power of Guardianship.

"We can fight for the guardian now." Seeing the guild develop rapidly, Chen Guo, who hadn't participated in it at all, was excited and hadn't gone to sleep yet. She reminded Ye Xiu as soon as she saw level five.

"Yes!" Ye Xiu nodded.

The Power of Guardianship was not something that could be obtained simply by reaching the required level. It also required completing a task.

The task was simple: defeat the demon god required for the Power of Guardianship, subdue the demon god, and then the guild would receive the protection of this Power of Guardianship. (To be continued, if you want to know what happens next, please log in, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)