MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

Li Yi met with Flower Underpants and Brother Windcloud Nine in the Soul Gate.

The Iron Alliance and the Windcloud Clan has been working hand in hand to tackle the Soul Gate. Whenever the dungeon reset, the party was immediately assembled. This time was no exception.

When Li Yi entered the dungeon, the party was already on the seventh boss, the Steel Giant. Flower Underpants was at the forefront of the pack, drawing his bow for rapid firing.

Flower Underpants also played the Archer class but was lacked in quality when compared to Li Yi.

Bp! Bp!

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Two consecutive Critical Hits.

Bp!

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Another Critical Hit!

Flower Underpants fired dozens of arrows and apart from one hit, all were Critical Hits.

Li Yi saw through it — He had learned Territory Power and the Territory Skill he has gained was Arrow Mastery, raising his Critical Hit percentage to 90% when in effect.

Turning his attention to Brother Windcloud Nine who was holding a shield before Steel Giant, his body was shimmering gold, as though the Immovable King had descended to the earth. There was no need for healers to support him as his HP was recovering itself.

Territory Skill, God’s Blessing!

Upon activation of the skill, all base attributes would double with the help of Territory. In other words, Territory Power would increase his attributes and then God’s Blessing would double those numbers again.

DEF increased. ATK increased. All values increased. Most importantly, the activation of God’s Blessing came with the recovery of a certain amount of HP and mana.

+20000 HP

+10000 mana

Recovery statuses in green kept popping up above Brother Windcloud Nine’s head, stirring gasps of admiration from players in the party.

Li Yi was overjoyed to find that the two Pantheon Ruins Teleportation Scrolls had not gone to waste. Both Flower Underpants and Brother Windcloud Nine had learned great Territory Skills.

Confused Fox threw a spiteful remark, “Brother Nine, now that you’ve learned God’s Blessing, you can go solo now.”

“Haha, I don’t really care whether I can go solo or not but with Territory, no one will say anything if I bring Sister Nine along next time.”

“Next time? We never said anything before.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

Brother Windcloud Nine laughed out loud before ordering, “Those with DPS, give it your all!”

Territory Skill, God’s Blessing was so powerful, it boosted Brother Windcloud Nine’s aggro meter off the charts. If Unending Unmatched and Brother Windcloud Nine stood together to fight, Brother Windcloud Nine would have aggro fixated on him from slicing even with Unending Unmatched pulling out all the stops on aggro-pulling skills.

A Territory Skill without frills suited him well…

Li Yi chuckled.

“Brother Wing, Brother Wing.”

A soft voice was heard from behind him, prompting Li Yi to turn around. It was Sister Windcloud Nine.

“The doctor said that my husband should avoid too much stimulus. I tried to talk to him about it, but he won’t listen. Can… Can you help me talk to him?”

“What sort of stimulus?”

“Well… farming monsters and clearing dungeons is too much for him, said the doctor.”

“Does it look like your husband is mentally exhausted now?”

“No.”

“What are you worried about then?”

“I…”

“You don’t trust my magic words?” Li Yi pretended to be dissatisfied.

Sister Windcloud Nine immediately waved her arms, “No, no, I have been reciting them, around a hundred times a day. I never go less than that, sometimes more than that too.”

Li Yi burst out laughing, “A hundred times? Who asked you to recite them this much?”

“You told me to repeat it twenty times, but I think the number of times would determine its efficiency. I was going to recite them a thousand times but was afraid it might be too powerful for my husband to handle. I thought about it and think a hundred times is just right.”

“Sister Nine, you’re so smart. Keep it up. As long as you keep going at it a hundred times a day, your husband will get better.”

“Uh huh uh huh uh huh…”

With Territory Masters joining the party, clearing dungeons, and defeating bosses became a breeze. Li Yi was shooting the breeze with Sister Windcloud Nine and so were other members of the party. This was the direction King of Pantheon was developing toward. Whether it was an expert or a rookie, anyone could form a party and clear stages together.

Of course, the current party mode was just the tip of the iceberg. The real deal had yet to make its appearance.

The previous difficulty level in King of Pantheon’s dungeons had caused a phenomenon where experts and rookies could not team-up. An elite party with tacit cooperation had to be specially assembled to clear the boss.

This was an easy feat for major guilds but posed a challenge for individual players and minor guilds. For the two years King of Pantheon was in session, almost all wild bosses and dungeon first kills were nabbed by major guilds. It was rare for a single player to attain success.

Li Yi did not initially understand why King of Pantheon permitted the existence of Territory Masters before the increase of the level cap but now he saw the light. The participation of Territory Masters eased dungeon battles, allowing many rookies to join in the fun and enjoy never before-experienced dungeon-clearing privileges.

Players in online games were mostly in it together with their friends but the ridiculous bosses in dungeons prevented the development of private friends and family parties. Not everyone was an expert, after all. If there was a dumbo in the private party who kept leading to TPK and could not be taught, how could the private party go on?

In the end, the private party would disband. The experts who wanted to clear the dungeon would look for other experts while rookies, would keep a low profile going solo or join casual parties only to be kicked and cussed at, ultimately losing interest in the game…

This phenomenon was a common sight in King of Pantheon. The Iron Alliance’s No. 1 main tank, Unending Unmatched was an example of that. He was powerful but his few friends did not share his keen senses. In the end, Unending Unmatched made it through but his friends had given up on the game.

King of Pantheon had placed Territory in open beta from the start to prevent such a thing from happening. After all, a lot of people loved farming monsters with their friends and family, even if their friends and family had fat fingers. It. was the joy of fighting alongside their fellow friends and family they were after.

So how could this problem be solved?

Hence, the existence of Territory…

A golden Hunt Target appeared on top of Steel Giant, spurring Li Yi to draw his Orange Quality Bow back again and again.

Tch tch tch tch tst —

Powered-up Arrow in tenfold!

“Bp!”

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With the addition of party buffs, Li Yi’s Powered-up Arrow in tenfold was on a whole new level, taking out almost 20 million HP in value!

Hur bp tck, kaboom…

The Steel Giant came crashing down.

The whole party’s jaw dropped, and it was then, a crisp babyish voice was heard, “F*ck me…”

The party unanimously turned back to look and found Sister Windcloud Nine’s face flushed red. She was covering her mouth with both hands.

Windcloud Killer teased, “Sister Nine, what did you say?”

“Nothing, nothing, I said nothing at all. You must have heard wrong, nothing…” Sister Windcloud Nine shook her head violently.

Windcloud Killer shouted towards Brother Windcloud Nine, “Brother Nine, your wife seemed to say f*ck me earlier, did you hear that?”

“Scram!”

“Hahahaha…”

The party burst into laughter.

Brother Windcloud Nine bent down to loot the corpse. He had quite the luck, scoring three Purple Quality items.

“3 Purple Quality items will be auctioned off at 1 Gold Coin. Start your bids now.”

Shangguan Bailu yelled out loud…

With the Territory Masters joining in, the bosses in the Soul Gate dungeon were no longer a threat to Li Yi’s party. They bulldozed their way through, without making any pit stops and finally making their way to the final boss, the Soul King.

Li Yi had no demands, neither did Brother Windcloud Nine, Confused Fox nor did the natural dummy, Sister Windcloud Nine. They followed the party down the dungeon for the sake of equipment for other players in the guild.

For the guild’s long-term development, it was not enough to just arm up oneself. It was crucial to cultivate a group of reliable friends to make a joint effort for the guild’s stable growth.

In just two days, the Soul Gate dungeon was cleared. Brother Windcloud Nine then single-handedly set forth towards the Southern Continent.

During his coma, Not Gray Wolf wreaked havoc in the Ninth Continent. Brother Windcloud Nine had been putting up with him for long and now with him learning Territory, he no longer needed to hold back. Without informing anyone, he went there alone.

Cerberus grew wings and flew rapidly in the air, reaching Southern Continent’s Celestial Capital in seven hours.

“Ao ao awooooo —”

Upon landing, Cerberus’ three canine heads let out a howl, spewing hellfire to destroy the buildings ahead.

“Old Windcloud Dog’s here, he’s destroying the Celestial Capital’s buildings. Brothers, come swiftly to aid!”

The Southern Continent channel was bursting with activity. Countless players rushed to the Celestial Capital at the sight of the message.

“Ao ao ao…”

Compared to the previous Cerberus, the most vital change was its ability to fly and at lightning speed too. With Epic-level mounts incapable of keeping up, only Legendary-level mounts were worthy opponents.

Brother Windcloud Nine kept switching places after firing a shot. He tore the Flame Shower Scrolls he got from Li Yi as he went, coordinating with Cerberus’ flames to turn Southern Continent’s Celestial Capital into a hellhole in seconds.

Several thousand players came dashing in, blasting him with skills. With his body flickering in golden light, Brother Windcloud Nine’s HP and mana auto recovered repeatedly. His equipment was already great to begin with and now with the aid of Territory Power, facing the attacks of several thousand people was nothing.

No matter how they tried to beat him, he was fixated on burning buildings.

Brother Windcloud Nine had no desire to linger in battle as he switched to a different spot every time, he burned down an area of buildings, ignoring the massive number of players trailing behind him.

Not Gray Wolf was swaggering around on his Skeleton Warhorse as he shouted, “Stand the f*ck down. Let me teach this old dog a lesson!”

Upon learning of Brother Windcloud Nine’s arrival, Not Gray made haste to the Celestial Capital to seek him out. He was afraid of Li Yi but that did not mean he was afraid of Brother Windcloud Nine.

“Old Windcloud Dog, your grandpa wolf is here!”

Not Gray Wolf wielded his Skull Staff to summon the Headless Horseman, the Guardian of Ancient Kings, Bagradin, and a series of undead creatures such as skeletal swordsmen, skeletal axemen, skeletal archers, etc.

No less than a hundred densely packed wailing and moaning undead creatures encircled Brother Windcloud Nine.

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