31.2 - Excessively Strong Team

Chapter 31: Excessively Strong Team

Xiao Ran sighed. He walked through the streets and alleyways of Mo City, passed through the teleportation point to Yan City, which was the main city in the center of the third realm, and then rushed to the flight station in the center of Yan City without stopping once.

It was difficult to teleport between the six open continents in Shenzhou. It took Xiao Ran over 20 minutes to successfully teleport to Qiyang City in the fourth realm.

As soon as he stepped into Qiyang City, Xiao Ran’s friends list flashed rapidly.

When Xiao Ran glanced at it, it turned out to be a good friend from ancient times.

“Hi handsome boy~~ Do you still remember me?” The other party’s falsetto voice came from the communicator.

Xiao Ran imagined how the other party, was mercilessly and boldly sitting at a roadside stall, fiercely glaring to drive away customers, and couldn’t help but shudder at the sound. 1

“Jiejie, can we talk nicely?”

After a few seconds of silence through the communicator, a female voice that sounded strong and much more comfortable than before came through.

“……You want to be beaten, don’t you.” Liuli Meng raised her eyebrows and spoke unhappily.

Liuli Meng was a good friend that Xiao Ran met when she had first become a player and didn’t yet have any friends. She had just asked xiao Ran to help her find a red stone, and promised to reward him with two rare skill books. One of them, Transformation, was used as a deposit and had already been learned.

The drop coordinates of the red stone were from a well-known max-level instance in Buzhou Mountain. Xiao Ran originally wanted to wait until he reached max-level before helping her find the stone, not expecting to find it that day.

“Jiejie, if you have anything you need, tell me.” Xiao Ran said.

When he said that, Liuli Meng felt a bit embarrassed on the other side of the call. She hesitated for a while before starting in a roundabout manner: “You’re so capable, ah. Today, all over the world there is news about you and the god of slaughter. How did you two get together?”

Get together, what……

Xiao Ran didn’t know whether he should laugh or cry. “I won’t tell you why we’re together. Jiejie, you came to me today for gossip, didn’t you?”

“Do I really seem like such a gossip?! Of course, I am. But today wasn’t actually for gossip. I have something important to discuss with you. Is your instance team full for Panlong Underground Palace? Do you mind bringing me with you?

“I don’t mind……” Xiao Ran considered for a moment. After all, he wasn’t the only one in the team now, and it was difficult for him to make the decisions by himself.

Liuli Meng misunderstood his hesitation, and continued: “I know the position is available under public auction for 500 gold, right? But 500 gold is too expensive. We’ve known each other for so long, so how about a discount? Maybe 300? And you won’t have to look for the red stone anymore, and I’ll give you that other transformation book, and some news about this year’s battle for world domination. Are you interested?”

Xiao Ran: “World Domination?”

Xiao Ran didn’t say another word, letting Liuli Meng do the talking. However, that last sentence really did arouse his interest. World Domination was the largest global event held annually in Oracle of the Gods.

A new section of the world’s national servers would be opened, allowing open access between servers of various countries, high rewards for world quests, and the ‘Global Top Player Ranking’ that excited everyone…… The event where the entire world would fight for dominance was undoubtedly the most lively time of the year. For a short time, masters from all of the major international servers throughout the world would appear at the celebration.

The reason why the six top guilds placed so much importance on the golden equipment dropped in Panlong Underground Palace was so they could show off their skills in the World Domination event and sweep away Shenzhou’s failure last year.

“Well, the members of my team have some connections with the game company. It’s difficult to say anything more, but if you let me follow you on the first stage of the world quest, I can guarantee that you’ll survive. How about it? You can complete the first stage without any effort. Isn’t that more reliable than the illusory golden equipment?” Liuli Meng spoke with confidence.

Liuli Meng’s words were indeed very attractive.

Each annual world quest was divided into three stages.

The first two stages were team-based, and only the last stage was an individual battle where players would fight fiercely for the honor of being on the world leaderboard.

In the team missions, each team would have shared task progress, so as long as there was a player on the team who was doing the task, it would be fine. Not every player has to stick with the team.

Liuli Meng’s intention was to invite Xiao Ran to join her team for the first stage, so she could help him while he lazed about.

“Alright, I’ll ask the other people in my team” Xiao Ran said.

“Alright.”

Xiao Ran opened his friends list and realized that the friend requests from the three guildmasters had been sitting in his inbox for a long time, but he only noticed them now.

Xiao Ran sweat a bit, then promptly accepted the requests from all three.

As soon as he accepted, Yiting Kanyue transferred 500 gold coins to his account and sent a smiling emoji.

“Xiao Ran-laodi 2 you’re not that enthusiastic about receiving money, ah?” Yiting Kanyue, Jun Heqiu’s arch-nemesis, treated Xiao Ran as an ally since Xiao Ran also opposed Jun Heqiu. Now, he called him his younger brother without any hesitation.

“I just didn’t notice it earlier.” Xiao Ran said. “I have something to discuss with you all.”

He explained the situation with Liuli Meng wanting to join their team.

Yiting Kanyue considered for a while. Although Liuli Meng’s strength was a bit lower than theirs, she was already a well-known player throughout Shenzhou. She never dropped down from the first page of the player rankings for the immortal cultivator occupation, and her combat ability was top notch among female players. Moreover, her occupation was different than any of theirs, so there wouldn’t be any competition for the golden equipment.

“Alright, I have no big problems with this. Liuli Meng has a good reputation among female players. Your connections are impressive, ah.” Yiting Kanyue said.

After persuading Yiting Kanyue, the gold coins from Lingjia Jiutian and Yihai Yuntian also arrived. Xiao Ran informed them about Liuli Meng, and fortunately, her good reputation outside made them agree to her joining the team without much hesitation.

As for the most important person, he simply said: “Ranran, you can make the decision yourself,” so the Liulu Meng situation was settled.

When Liuli Meng sent him 300 gold coins, she also sent him a scroll.

Xiao Ran took out the scroll from the mailbox and unrolled it.

The ancient cowhide scroll, with a hand-drawn group portrait on the back, depicted a palace filled with divine beings. On a long table in the palace, there were many luxurious and precious foods. The guests sitting at the table included Zhulong, Pangu, Odin, Zeus…… all of the main gods of various national servers. The gods were chatting and laughing at the long table, but underneath the table was filled with thorns sprouting from weapons, making the seemingly lively and extraordinary divine banquet have an undercurrent of turmoil…

This painting was the symbol of this year’s battle for world domination.

The front of the scroll listed the names of six players.

Liuli Meng, Yishi Piaoling, Luola de Weiduo, Anna…… These well-known player IDs who were all on the global rankings leapt into Xiao Ran’s eyes one by one. His pupils slowly widened, and his gaze froze when it stopped at the last ID. He couldn’t help but let out a short gasp.

Zhan Kuangsha! The number one dragon knight in Shenzhou!

How come such a top ranked great god is in this lineup? This team is too powerful!

Footnotes

For clarity, her voice is sickly sweet and high pitched. Like those mean girl voices when they pretend to be nice? respectful term for a younger male friend that you admire ‘old little bro’