Chapter 1

The characters in Happy Internet Cafe's team now had at least half of their equipment in orange gear. The excess orange gear they didn't need was tossed into the guild warehouse, enough to make the guild members bravely earn guild contributions. Happy Internet Cafe's guild was on the fast track of healthy development.

The other guilds couldn't control this situation, but they couldn't just sit idly by as Happy Internet Cafe swept away all the dungeon records.

But this was no longer a problem that could be solved with just the power of the guilds. This was a high-end battlefield, and they didn't have any great gods or professional players stationed in their guilds. How could they compete with Happy Internet Cafe's records?

These things were unrelated to the team and the professional players, but they were related to the club.

At the meeting of the major clubs, this had become an important issue submitted by the guild department.

Ye Qiu stirred up trouble in the tenth server, and the guild department had been resisting with its own efforts. However, this time in the Heavenly Domain, Ye Qiu stirred up even more trouble, directly sweeping everything away. Now he had only swept through the five-player dungeons, but it was only a matter of time before he occupied the ten-player, twenty-player, and even more dungeons. Perhaps because they had experience fighting in the tenth server, this time, the guild departments didn't resist head-on. When the problem was brought up at the meeting, it meant that the entire club needed to work together to solve it.

But the clubs were also in a dilemma. Could they really send professional players to rush in and compete for records?

If they could get it in one go, that would be fine, but they were afraid that they would try and fail, and also affect the players' condition in the matches. That would be losing a watermelon to pick up a sesame seed.

Because if this record was contested, everyone knew that the opponent wasn't just Ye Qiu, but all the other club guilds wanted this record! If your team sent professional players, other teams could also send them. If professional players were all stuck on dungeon records, would they still play in the Professional League?

Or, they could take a compromise approach and send substitute-level players to try?

But on second thought, a substitute player competing with the great god Ye Qiu? What a fanciful idea!

The clubs were at a loss. The fifteenth round of the 21st League was imminent. The league was always the top priority, so this issue was temporarily put aside. After this round of matches was over, and they summarized the gains and losses, and started considering the guild's dungeon record issue, they suddenly realized that Christmas was only a few days away.

According to Glory's tradition, from Christmas to the New Year to the Spring Festival, this period was a time of particularly frequent events, and even the professional circle had grand events like the All-Star Weekend during this time.

This year's Christmas event was not yet known, but based on experience, these events were considered the game's way of giving back to players, and the rewards were generally very large. During the event, the clubs and guilds also focused on doing a good job with the event. Dungeons and wild Bosses could even be put aside.

Yes, they could be put aside...

The major clubs obviously had a bit of a delaying mentality because they didn't have a solution. When they saw that it was almost Christmas, they breathed a sigh of relief.

While they were relaxing, Happy Internet Cafe was still advancing at high speed. After the ten five-player dungeons were swept, then came the three ten-player dungeons. This time, Happy Internet Cafe was no longer spending nearly three hours clearing dungeons above their level. All the characters were fully equipped with level 75 equipment, and they had also received all the stat and skill point rewards added after the level cap was raised. Going into a ten-player dungeon again, they were going for the record.

And now the only opponent for the ten-player dungeon record was the system's initial baseline record.

This standard was not simple. Ordinary players had to be familiar with the dungeon for a long time before they could break it. Theoretically, a character in a ten-person team only had one chance a day, and the practice opportunities were limited. But the rules were dead, and people were alive! A character could only do it once a day, but if you used multiple characters, wouldn't you have more practice opportunities?

Happy Internet Cafe guild was limited by conditions and didn't have a professional training program. So these ten-player dungeons became their good partners for training team coordination. They were extremely familiar with them.

All three dungeons had their records broken in one day, and the record scores were just barely past the baseline given by the system.

Just barely broken. Many people were still thinking this, but on the same day, the records of the three dungeons were broken again. The ones who broke the records were still Happy Internet Cafe, and the record scores were still just a little bit higher than the previous records.

It was the same Happy Internet Cafe team, but with different characters. Ordinary players might be confused, but the major club guilds knew it very well.

It seemed normal for records to be broken little by little, but that was usually in the middle and later stages. In the early stages, because the research on the dungeons was not thorough enough, often a play style would emerge that could lead to a big leap, and the records would have a jump-like advance in which they would compete for each other.

But now, Happy Internet Cafe had done it twice in a row, and each time it was just barely broken. Anyone with discerning eyes could see that these guys had more than enough strength, so they were deliberately controlling it! These people were sure that no other team could break the record for a ten-player dungeon at this stage. This record was only for them to play with, so they were repeatedly breaking it little by little, of course, for the dungeon record rewards.

To be honest, club guilds dreamed of this kind of record breaking. As soon as they entered a new level wilderness, they would frantically level up and increase their speed, just to be half a step ahead of other guilds, so that they would have a little freedom to control things and do as they pleased.

But in the current environment, such opportunities were rare. As a result, the Happy Internet Cafe team was able to live such a happy life by doing what ordinary players couldn't. This made the major guilds envious, jealous, and hateful. If they had enough accounts, how many times would the record be broken in one day?

In the end, it was only twice because Happy Internet Cafe didn't have that many accounts. In addition to their own characters, the extra team they used was quickly leveled up by a studio. At this time, the leveling was undoubtedly at the highest price, but they couldn't care about that now. Compared to setting up a club and a team, such expenses were just small money.

Were the ten-player dungeons going to be played by Happy Internet Cafe like this?

Just when the major guilds were thinking this painfully, someone finally took action.

Excellent Dynasty!

Because the records that Ye Xiu and the others had broken had room for improvement, and they hadn't tried their best, the records were immediately broken by Excellent Dynasty's team, and they were raised by a large margin. Clicking into the character list that broke the record, One Autumn Leaf, Extinguisher... various famous characters, because Excellent Era was relegated this season, these characters couldn't appear in the alliance, making many players and fans miss them so much that they could only run to watch the Challenger League to see their style. Now they were also appearing in the online game.

When the guilds saw this, they immediately knew that these were two direct competitors fighting each other. These clubs were afraid of affecting the players' league matches and were hesitant to act rashly, but Excellent Era had more than enough to spare in the Challenger League. Seeing Happy Internet Cafe acting so powerfully in the online game, they finally couldn't stand it anymore, right?

Indeed!

Excellent Era really couldn't stand it anymore.

Although Cui Li had made it clear to remove Ye Qiu's burden after communicating with Xiao Shiqin, he still wavered after hearing Chen Yehui report on Happy Internet Cafe's series of popular actions in the Heavenly Domain.

Excellent Era's advantages over Happy Internet Cafe were nothing more than two points.

One was more mature professional-level players, and the other was more powerful professional-level characters.

The former, the other party had Ye Qiu, and they also didn't know where they had found a group of guys who seemed unreliable but were actually not simple, constantly improving and progressing. The gap was constantly narrowing.

The latter, they originally thought that Happy Internet Cafe would not be able to shorten the gap much at this stage no matter what, but unexpectedly, after three years, Glory released an update this year.

Raising the level cap, it only took eleven days to reach the maximum level, but upgrading silver equipment from level 70 to level 75 was not a matter of eleven days.

Excellent Era's characters were stronger, weren't they strong because of silver equipment? Now that the level cap was raised, the upgrade of silver equipment required a cycle, while Happy Internet Cafe had greatly narrowed the gap between the characters' strength and Excellent Era's through a large number of level 75 orange equipment. This advantage, which was originally thought to be particularly stable, was now rapidly disappearing!

Especially Happy Internet Cafe's efficiency in obtaining level 75 orange equipment was so high.

Clearing dungeons, creating first kills, selling strategies, sweeping records. Now they had even opened two teams, taking the ten-player dungeon clear records as toys...

Cui Li really felt that if Excellent Era still sat idly by at this time, it would be a bit of a tactical disregard. So Cui Li found the captain Sun Xiang and the vice-captain Xiao Shiqin and told them about this view.

Start sniping Happy Internet Cafe from the online game.

As soon as he heard that he had to do this, Sun Xiang suddenly became excited for some reason. This fighting spirit made Cui Li very excited. Xiao Shiqin, on the other hand, sighed secretly in his heart. Ye Qiu's influence on this team was indeed deeply rooted, and it couldn't be removed with just a few words. Perhaps to remove the mental shackles of Ye Qiu, he could only truly defeat Ye Qiu; but to defeat Ye Qiu, how could he do it with such pressure on his back?

Xiao Shiqin found that he had to face such an unsolvable proposition, and he was also worried. But no matter what, defeating Ye Qiu was the most urgent task he had to face. Cui Li, on behalf of the club, seemed to want to simply let go and fight Ye Qiu's Happy Internet Cafe from the online game. However, Xiao Shiqin knew clearly that the situation in the online game was complex, far less simple than a one-on-one or five-on-five match on the field. On the field, Excellent Era had an absolute advantage, but this advantage would be weakened a lot when brought to the online game.