MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

“Brother, where are you? I have something I want to talk to you about.”

One day, as Li Yi was running around the Invincible Continent finding World Bosses to kill, Brother Windcloud Nine suddenly messaged him.

As Li Yi gave out his coordinates, Brother Windcloud Nine swiftly went over to meet him. He was the Emperor of the Continent, similarly to Li Yi who owned the Emperor’s Sword, he also had the power to fly anywhere within the Pantheon Continent.

Brother Windcloud Nine’s fate in this lifetime had been changed completely thanks to Li Yi. In the past life, Brother Windcloud Nine could barely make it into the Top 100 list in the God Wars Ranking, but now, after mastering his Territory Power, his current strength propelled him into the ranks of the top-tier players of this game.

“I feel like abdicating.” Brother Windcloud Nine said straightforwardly.

“Hmm?”

“Today, a God that claimed to be the God-queen Carulla summoned me to the temple. F*ck that b*tch, she wanted me to kneel and said some sh*t about spreading the glory of the Gods to the world.”

Brother Windcloud Nine’s face sunk, it was obvious that he was enraged.

In King of Pantheon, the Gods were all high and mighty stuck-up pricks. In their eyes, the players were as weak as ants, or rather, a pitiful existence. Hence the Gods did not have the slightest respect towards the players. They loved to randomly appear and force the players to kneel and swear eternal loyalty towards them, or to spread word of the glory of the Gods.

As players, how many would actually be able to take this kind of degradation? Would it not be a humiliation to be pushed around by a mere NPC?

Hence, last time, Li Yi rejected the position. Now, with the new God-queen Carulla respawning, Brother Windcloud Nine had also decided to give up. Only someone like Drifting Snow would be able to take it.

“I had originally thought that the Emperor of the Continent was high and mighty, being unparalleled in the real world. Who knew that there were still the Gods up there preparing to stomp us down. I feel like if I continue to do this job, I’ll eventually turn into the Gods’ sock puppet. It’s just so frustrating! I’m better off just not being anything at this rate.”

“Did the God-queen Carulla that you saw know how to use Divine Power? The type that completely suppresses your strength.”

Brother Windcloud Nine nodded. “Yes, when Carulla raised her hand in my direction, I was rendered immobile.”

Li Yi’s eyes narrowed.

The debuff of not being able to use her Divine Power was lifted. It seemed like that old Carulla had truly died off.

“The gap was too big… With a wave of her hand, I was completely frozen. I tried summoning my guards, but with another wave of her hand, they were all annihilated by a strike of lightning. There was no way to beat her. I told her to give me three days to think, that’s why I came here to discuss it with you.”

When facing a God, whether players fought them solo or in the group did not matter. With the absolute suppression of power, a mere mortal did not have even a slither of a chance of winning.

Brother Windcloud Nine shouted angrily, “DAMMIT! I definitely don’t want to be this dogsh*t emperor if I have to be a sock puppet,.”

From Brother Nine’s voice, it seemed like he was still quite fond of the title of the Emperor of the Continent. Who would dislike being the great leader of tens of thousands of men?

Li Yi chuckled. “If you want to be the Emperor without having to deal with this, there is only one way.”

“What way?”

“Kill off Carulla!”

“Sigh, do you think I don’t want to? The problem is that the bastard is invincible, there’s no way to beat her.”

“No way to beat her? Then how did she die the last time?”

Brother Windcloud Nine’s eyes flashed. Word of Scumbag Wang killing the God-queen Carulla had already spread throughout the Pantheon Continent. Of course, Brother Nine knew about it too.

“The Gods have a high IQ. They’re even the same as we are, they have the ability to think for themselves. If they were just a few simplistic lines of code, I’m willing to bet that there’s no way we would win. However, if they truly did have the ability to think for themselves, we still stand a chance.”

Brother Windcloud Nine was utterly confused. “Brother, just tell me if you have an idea, I’ll just follow whatever you tell me to do.”

“In the next few days, if nothing goes wrong, Carulla would be coming to find you quite often. All you have to do is to avoid her.”

“Avoid her? She has some sort of force summoning spell, she summons me directly to the temple.”

“Before the force summoning spell’s channeling bar completes, all you have to do is to go offline!”

“Oh yeah! Hahahahahahahahaha, as expected of my wise brother!”

Brother Windcloud Nine laughed heartily as he walked off. On the other hand, Li Yi, wielding a shiny blue rod of “Lightning”, continued his hunt for bosses.

In these ten plus days, the Thunder God’s Staff had absorbed more than a hundred bosses. At this point, its Divine Power value was at 86 points. In this period, its form had gone through another transformation.

It was now no longer in the form of a staff, but rather the shape of a silent stroke of “Lightning”.

Li Yi had the Hunter Goddess appraise this rod of “Lightning”. The Goddess’ answer to him was, “I can feel this item is filled with the Thunder God’s aura.”

The Thunder God’s aura!

With one simple phrase by the Hunter Goddess, all of Li Yi’s questions were answered.

Combining the Divine Tome and the God’s Heart was definitely the correct move. Now, all he needed to do was continue to absorb Divine Power. Eventually, the Lightning would go through another transformation.

At that point, would the Lightning maybe turn into a part of his own body?

Maybe he would ascend to become the Thunder God!

Inside a jungle, Li Yi found a single boss. It was the Level-100 purple-name boss – the Swift Dragon Chief.

The Swift Dragon Chief was renowned as one of the trashiest bosses within King of Pantheon. It was the same as the Swift Dragon mobs, it could only drop materials like fur, skin, and bones. Since this boss respawns quite fast, there were quite a few players who were spawn-camping them back in the early game. However, when they realized that this piece of trash did not drop anything remotely useful, they left straight away and never came back.

Now that King of Pantheon had been online for more than five years, other than clueless newbies, there was no one who did not know about how much of a piece of junk the Swift Dragon Chief was. With that, it had also become one of Li Yi’s prime targets for farming.

Since no one bothered to kill it, he had no pressure trying to kill it.

Just within the last few days, Li Yi had already killed off this Swift Dragon Chief five times.

However, today, contrary to his expectations, when Li Yi encountered the Swift Dragon Chief, there was a single Thief player who was running all around fighting with the boss.

There was another player fighting it.

Li Yi walked up a few steps and took a look at that Thief’s appearance.

This Thief looked quite young, having a neat side-parted hairdo. He was that friend that Li Yi had made just recently, the first Emperor of the Continent in the past life – Ghostly Walker.

Recently, Li Yi was in a race against Fluttering Snow Purple Water Chestnut. If he met a player that he did not know, he would definitely try to get the killsteal, After all, in the game, the strong reigned supreme. There was no use in trying to talk it out, if one did not KS others, others would still KS them back.

However, he and Ghostly Wajer had even added each other as friends last time. No matter how much Li Yi wanted to kill the boss, he would not try to KS a friend. If he would killsteal even a friend, that would be a bit douchey.

Before Li Yi even approached, Ghostly Walker had already killed off the Swift Dragon Chief.

Not only was this trashy boss’ drops bad, it was also very mediocre in its strength. It could barely be considered an Elite monster, it was a mystery how it got itself that purple name.

“Roar——”

As the Swift Dragon Chief fell down like a small mountain, the ground trembled slightly.

Ghostly Walker did not walk forward. He pulled out a shiny rock and pointed it right at the Swift Dragon Chief’s corpse.

“Ptschh——”

As a white beam shot out of the rock, it engulfed the Swift Dragon Chief’s corpse. Instantly, its strength was completely sucked dry…

Seeing this, Li Yi was in shock.

“Camouflage!”

Before Ghostly Walker managed to notice him, Li Yi quickly used Camouflage to hide himself.

The reason Li Yi hid was because the way Ghostly Walker was absorbing the boss’ power was exactly the same as how he was using the Thunder God’s Staff.

This kid, did he also receive the Ascension Quest?

“Only 81 points after such a long time? Sigh, this is too slow.”

Ghostly Walker held up the rock that was shining white and had a look before shaking his head. As it could be seen, he was slightly dissatisfied.

’81 points?

‘Was that Divine Power Value?’

As Li Yi thought back to when he was at Demon God Hall, Ghostly Walker was probably already doing the Ascension Quest. However, at that time, Li Yi still had not reached the point where he had to start absorbing Divine Power.

Ghostly Walker had already absorbed 81 points of Divine Power, so he was quite close to Li Yi. However, he did start to absorb Divine Power a lot earlier than Li Yi did.

As Ghostly Walker pulled out a Random Teleportation Scroll , his body disappeared into thin air.

“Fluttering Snow Purple Water Chestnut’s Ascension Quest was given by Drifting Snow, which was then originated from the God-queen Carulla. Every God can give out an Ascension Quest once. So which God gave Ghostly Walker the Ascension Quest?”

Li Yi rubbed his chin as he thought for a long while, not being able to find a proper answer.

That white rock that Ghastly Walker used seemed to have something to do with Light. However, there was not just a single Light God, but nearly a dozen of Gods related to Light, coming from different pantheon sizes.

Furthermore, did it really have something to do with Light just because it was shining?

Li Yi did not dare to decide upon a conclusion.

“I originally thought that only Fluttering Snow Purple Water Chestnut was racing me in terms of progression. Now, it looks like, it’s not just her.”

Then, except for Ghostly Walker, was there anyone else doing the Ascension Quests?

Li Yi pulled out his Divine Looking Glass as he entered Milky Way Star into the search bar.

In this period of time, Milky Way Star and The Mountain had completely disappeared from the limelight. No one knew what they were up to. Since The Mountain was merely a pseudonym, there was no way to use the Divine Looking Glass to search for information on him. Hence, Li Yi could only search Milky Way Star to make a judgment.

“Whooosh…”

The Divine Looking Glass displayed a series of information, causing Li Yi to frown.

[Name: Milky Way Star]

[Level: 190]

[Class: Vagabond]

[Current Location: Tower of Remorse Floor 79.]

‘What the hell?

‘Why’s he also this fast?’

Based on the normal tower rushing strategies, there was no feasible way the Milky Way Star could be so fast. The reason for that conclusion was simple in the leaderboards for the Tower of Remorse, Li Yi’s party was still ranked the first.

Milky Way Star got ahead of him, but he was not on the leaderboard. That could only mean one thing. He used a quest to breeze through the floors, so the system did not rank him in the leaderboards.

Was he alone or in a duo? Was The Mountain also with him? What quest allowed him to breeze through the tower so easily?

Li Yi’s heart was filled with questions.

“F*ck, are they all doing Ascension Quests? F*ck me!”

Li Yi entered Fluttering Rain Purple Water Chestnut name in the search bar this time. He noticed that she was at Floor 65 of the Tower of Remorse. It was the same as a few days ago, nothing had changed.

Li Yi slightly calmed down. “Looks like this little chick’s progression stopped.”

Never could he have known that the reason Fluttering Rain Purple Water Chestnut’s quest was halted was thanks to him.

After he and Sister Cat snatched away the treasure in the scorpion cave last time, it had indirectly increased the difficulty of Fluttering Rain Purple Water Chestnut’s continuation quests exponentially…

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