Chapter One Hundred: The World of Saints

The reason Ye Yu and the others had taken this quest was precisely because, on the Profound Heaven server, if they wanted more people to know them and raise their reputation, they had to choose this kind of high-difficulty mission. These quests were difficult enough that their enemies would not easily discover them and lie in wait for an ambush.

“The mobs are pretty hard to handle. In the Mount Tai Forbidden Land, when the little monsters are reduced to just one point of health, they immediately sacrifice themselves. Once you have killed enough of them to reach the limit, a special summoning ritual is triggered, and a monster with an enormous health pool is summoned. Killing it gives no quest reward and no experience.”

After reviewing the relevant information about the Mount Tai Forbidden Land, Ye Yu spoke up. “Let’s clear our negative status effects first, then head for the Mount Tai Forbidden Land.”

“Third Brother, with you as our walking encyclopedia, we really don’t have much to worry about,” Huang Hong said with a grin.

The reason their team possessed such capability was largely due to Ye Yu. Ye Yu’s talents needed no explanation: his calculating mind and encyclopedia-like knowledge made his value unmistakable. Choosing Ye Yu as their leader had indeed been the right decision.

“This encyclopedia of ours is truly something else. With him around, things are much more convenient for us,” Luo Feng said, sounding half-mocking and half-serious as he addressed Ye Yu.

At that moment, Luo Wei said with some puzzlement, “I think this is a little strange. You all saw it just now too. People are gradually reaching level 40 and starting to enter the Mount Tai map. Though they’re not as advanced as we are, they’ve still reached level 40. But many of them are clearly unfriendly. It seems the various guilds on the Profound Heaven server are on the verge of open conflict.”

“Mount Tai is one of the places people gradually enter after level 40. If a territorial war breaks out there later, it goes without saying that this will be one of the most valuable map regions. I don’t need to explain why. And on many older servers, Mount Tai has never been fully controlled by a single guild force. It’s always been divided among several factions, because no guild is willing to watch such a massive city’s resources fall entirely into one faction’s hands. The income a guild can gain while holding it is extremely impressive.”

Luo Feng said absentmindedly, “I’ve looked into that information too. Basically, whenever a giant city map region like this is controlled by a single guild, it’s because that guild is already an overlord-class power dominating that server.”

“In that case, the factions that haven’t seized sole control of these giant city maps must be plotting annexation and the like, right? These people are really...” Qu Zheng shook his head with a wry smile. Even he felt it was utterly unreasonable.

“Human nature is magnified completely in God’s Sorrow as well,” Ye Yu said. Then he gathered up all the quests that could be accepted and took every available task around the Mount Tai Forbidden Land. If they could clear these quests and get lucky enough to run into a suitable dungeon, reaching level 50 would not be difficult at all.

“With this plan of yours, we’re looking at at least seven or eight hours of game time. If things get more difficult, it could even take nine or ten. We need to prepare some items that can remove or reduce negative status effects. If we end up suffering from those in combat, it’ll kill us.”

At this point, Ye Yu and the other five were in an inn in Tai City. In God’s Sorrow, the AI of NPCs belonged to the intermediate to advanced range, so they were quite human-like. Holding conversations with them was by no means difficult.

Just then, a group of people entered the inn. The leader, a player dressed in a sharp white combat outfit and looking every bit the swaggering tough guy, swept his gaze across the room before saying coldly, “Innkeeper, I’m taking over the whole place today. Everyone else, get out of this inn at once!”

Because Ye Yu and the others had hidden their IDs and guild affiliation, no one could inspect their information.

In God’s Sorrow, once a player enters a region above their level or beyond the server’s level cap, the option to hide personal information appears.

Of course, many wildly arrogant players would not choose to do so, and the people Ye Yu and the others were seeing now belonged to exactly that sort.

Quite a few players were already eating in the inn, but after hearing that man’s words, they all looked toward him. In particular, once they saw the guild emblem above his head, their expressions turned solemn.

The Dominion of the Saints!

The Dominion of the Saints currently ranked among the top ten guild powers on the Profound Heaven server. It could be said that, aside from Purple Void Illusion Realm and the First Faction, the guilds ranked third through tenth were all on the same level. Among them, three guilds had formed alliances with the First Faction, and were even faintly attached to its banner.

The Dominion of the Saints before them was one of those three.

Although many players had hidden their information, once they saw that the white-clad player was from the Dominion of the Saints, their expressions all became grave. In the current Profound Heaven server, the only factions that could openly contend with them were the top ten guilds. Any guild ranked below the top ten, no matter how capable it might be, could not compare with them. That was a chasm-like divide.

So very quickly, many players stood up and prepared to leave. Yet Ye Yu and the others remained unmoving. Looking at the people from the Dominion of the Saints, Ye Yu even clasped his hands with a smile and said, “Our negative status effects will be gone in a few minutes. We ask for your forbearance. Once the hour is up, we’ll leave at once.”

At that, Luo Feng said irritably, “Are you trying to play social butterfly? You’re not even a woman.”

On the other side, the player in white changed expression, his brow tightening as a fierce light filled his eyes. He shouted angrily, “Why are you still waiting? You lot, get the hell out of here right now!”

Hearing the impatient voice, Ye Yu was about to say more when another group of people entered the inn. When the leader exchanged a few words with him, the whole group’s faces darkened.

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