Chapter 1024: Stirring the Pot
Translator: Halcyon Translations Editor: Halcyon Translations
Shortly afterwards, the fifteen people that were in the squad were halved. Even Mu Qiu was killed because he was focused on healing the Main Tank and could not get away. Lu Li had to yell for the healing to stop after he saw that it was having no effect.
“How’s Sorrowless going?” Lu Li asked.
“Let me have a look,” Azure Sea Breeze said, then started laughing, “They’re still looking for the remnant or whatever. These guys are so dumb. So many people looking for it and yet they still can’t find it. Even we found it in a few minutes.”
Lu Li was speechless and really wanted to tell him, “If it wasn’t for me, you would still be here looking for that thing too.”
As of now, they had only taken three hours to reach the sixth Boss. This was quicker than what Lu Li had expected. Had they not wiped a couple of times, they would have finished it in two hours.
However, Lu Li estimated that they had taken around one hour for Ras Frostwhisper, which went to show just how difficult he was.
They could not break through to phase two, but it was still better than their first attempt. The first two s...o...b..ll bombs did not kill many people, but the third was caught them off guard, so not many people could dodge it.
After wiping the third time, they finally entered phase two. Besides the skills used in phase one, phase two added a Fear skill.
This made it much more difficult as the Fear rendered the players incapable of dodging the s...o...b..a.l.l.s. Unless the Priest could dispel the Fear in time, they would also find it extremely difficult to dodge.
“To h.e.l.l with this. There’s no way that we can fight,” Azure Sea Breeze cursed as he sat while his equipment was repaired by Lu Li’s robot.
This was already the fifth wipe. Their equipment was running out of durability, and if it wasn’t getting repaired, it would be in danger of dropping Attributes.
“Sorrowless and co finally found the quest item, after the aid of millions of eyes scavenging for it,” Wandering laughed with mischief.
“They’ll realise just how strong it is.” After Azure Sea Breeze thought about Glory Capital, he calmed down.
No matter how difficult Ras Frostwhisper was to fight, they needed to endure this.
Lu Li let everyone rest for a while, then found a clean place to them to eat the Dumplings that they had saved up.
Having ice resistance and a boost in movement speed was important in this fight.
“Should we still sell the clear strategy to Glory Capital after clearing this?” Square Root asked in the guild channel. He knew that the group was having difficulties, but he had confidence in Lu Li’s abilities to guide them.
“They won’t buy it,” Lu Li replied.
“Why not?” Square Root thought that the buying and selling of strategies was normal, since the other group wouldn’t get the First Clears anyway.
Now, the keen-eyed could see that this was a compet.i.tion between Sorrowless and Lu Li. Everyone was curious about the differences in their skills. If the skill gap was not large, then it would be a battle between the best. However, if there was a large gap in their skills…
“It’s common sense to dodge the s...o...b..a.l.l.s. Why would they want to buy something so easy to figure out?” Lu Li asked.
If the strategy was just to dodge s...o...b..a.l.l.s, then it didn’t really have any value. If they wanted to sell it, they should have sold it earlier for a few hundred thousand.
“Will you guys be able to finish before today?” Square Root was a little worried.
“We should be finis.h.i.+ng up soon. If there’s nothing more to say, we’re going to start.”
After cutting the chat off, Lu Li directed his squad into battle.
Square Root Three had already stopped training, since he was too busy with guild-related administration. Since Lu Li was the main leader or Ruling Sword, so even if Square Root Three was killed a hundred times, they wouldn’t lose much.
After dealing with the doc.u.ments and guild affairs, he met his own a.s.sistant.
The a.s.sistant was not hired based on gaming experience, but his ability to manage different things in the guild, such as the promotion and advertis.e.m.e.nt material for professionals.
“Brother Square Root, there’s people spying on us again. Even Bureau Chief Huang has started to be restless. I hope we can deal with this quickly,” the a.s.sistant said quickly.
“Bureau Chief Huang? Ignore him. He’s not worth much,” Square Root instantly blew it off.
“It’s hard to say that this won’t s...o...b..ll into something bigger. Why don’t we just consider financing? It’ll be better in the long run and has a high reward. From the way we’re going about now, we won’t make any substantial improvements,” the a.s.sistant said in frustration.
“I already said not to raise this anymore. If you’re unhappy with this, I’m not going to stop you from leaving.”
Square Root was a little angry. As someone who had accepted this job of management, the a.s.sistant liked to use scientific methods to a.n.a.lyse things. He thought that if Ruling Sword was willing to accept investments from outside, they could become as big as Glory Capital was in as short as 3 years.
As for what Ruling Sword had done to Glory Capital, he did not think that it would shake them at all.
He sighed, then asked, “What do you propose then?”
He did not want to keep pursuing this. He knew that his position in the guild was easily replaced by others, since there were many that wanted his position.
“Keep trying to stir the romance between Lu Li and Water Fairy,” Square Root said as he rubbed his nose.
“Are you sure? What if there aren’t anything between them? We don’t want to make things go south.”
He did not think that the high-cla.s.s Water Fairy would take a liking to Lu Li.
In his eyes, Lu Li greatly depended on this game to survive, while Water Fairy poured her money into it.
He thought that Lu Li wanted to get close to Water Fairy because of her wealth. However, he feared that once the helmets were removed and their real ident.i.ties were shown, her family would hate Lu Li.
“Gaming has already satisfied Water Fairy enough. Lu Li is sufficient for her, while others aren’t.” Square Root a.n.a.lyzed as he played with a gold coin in his fingers. “Even Sorrowless can’t fulfil her expectations, because he was beaten by Lu Li. As long as Lu Li is undefeatable, he will remain special in her eyes.”
He was speechless at these gaming freaks.
Square Root did not want to bother with him and continued to play with the gold coin. After his a.s.sistant left, he then took a deep sigh.
Maybe he was right. Maybe it was difficult for Lu Li and Water Fairy to be together.