Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation
Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Members from Qionghua had no choice, there was nothing they could do. It was better to not say anything no more.
Earlier, there were several high-grade items and Li Yao distributed them to the others without much hesitation.
He was the leader, the right to distribute the items was in his hands. He could have taken all the items for himself, but he did not. Now that there was an even better item, it was better for them to not argue.
Of course, it was useless for them to argue since the right to distribute was his. They had no choice. If they were to offend him by any chance, he could take all of the items and leave them with nothing. That would be a bigger loss.
Snake Trap (Structure) Book
Li Yao’s eyes instantly brightened up when he saw the book. He held the book in his hands.
In World of Ancient Gods, there were various types of skills. There were two main branches of skills.
Take Snake Trap as an example, it was divided into a basic skill book and a marked structure skill book.
The effects of a basic skill book were specific. Once the Snake Trap skill was used, the trap would release a dozen tiny cobras that would cause a certain amount of poison damage.
After leveling up, players could get inscription techniques to change the effects of the skill. For example, once a player had acquired a special inscription, he could change the cobras to not cause any damage but to stun or slow down enemies.
Another example was once Li Yao had learned the basic Arcane Shot skill, depending on the inscriptions that he would get in later stages, he could upgrade the skill to make it cause fire damage, freezing damage, shadow damage and others. The variations were endless.
Each class was branched out differently and their skills varied accordingly. Even Beast Master Hunters would have different skills according to different inscription techniques. This system was praised by countless players for its ability to allow players to create characters with the class and role they wanted. Every character was unique in their own ways.
Structure skills were just an extension to the system.
Take the Snake Trap as an example, marked structure skill books would allow players to create portable traps. These portable traps could seal living creatures in. After creation, it would be similar to a Shaman’s totem that projects the trap’s image.
The interesting thing about this skill was that the changes were unpredictable. In the game, there were various poisonous creatures. Players would usually catch different creatures to put them in the Snake Trap, which resulted in different effects.
This would turn the Snake Traps into Poison Frog Traps, Poison Bug Traps and others. The effect of these traps was measured by the attributes of the creatures sealed in the traps, so it would take some time to remake it. It was also better to change it with higher level creatures so the player would not fall behind.
“This skill book is for Hunters, so I’ll take it.” Li Yao did not hesitate to learn the skill.
Hunter skills were not worth much. Since there were not many Hunter players, they were not valued as much either. The members from the squad did not have any objections.
Unbeknownst to them, Li Yao valued this skill book almost as much as the Fang. In the long run, this skill would be super useful.
There was a hidden feature in this skill. After a Hunter had learned this structure skill and engineering, he would have an extra Mecha-snake blueprint. The Mecha-snake created could be sealed within the trap with mechanical features and extra attributes. To Li Yao, this was something difficult to obtain.
After all, structure skill books were only dropped by Bosses, which meant that it could be found worldwide. The only thing was that the drop rate was only one in ten million. One would be too naïve to expect to get one of these.
The rest of the loot were task items and two Green Plate Armor, which Li Yao did not need. The items were divided between TwinkleBeauty and BlueDreamer.
“It’s getting late, I guess that will be all for today. See you all next time.” Li Yao left the squad.
“Hope we will get the chance to work together again, master player.” BlueDreamer smiled.
“We will.” Li Yao began to use his hearthstone.
Seeing that Li Yao had disappeared, LilRainDrop asked, “Your brother and StarFire are great buddies, that means that your brother is pretty good too, right?”
Li Jia held her head high proudly. “Of course my brother is good! He’s also a commentator, he will be famous in the future.”
“Then I’ll be sure to meet him when we have the chance.” LilRainDrob said excitedly, but then she muttered, “This way, we can team up with StarFire again. I really want to continue killing Bosses in a safer, more efficient way.”
Li Jia did not realize her mischievous intentions. “That will be great! My brother is actually quite handsome. Hold on, my brother just messaged me. He said that he has sent me three Green equipment, and there is a staff. Let’s go back now.”
“Let’s go, let’s go! Seems like your bro is not a simple man. With your new Green equipment, you will become stronger than me.” LilRainDrop was more excited for her friend in getting new equipment.
“Let me know next time when you’re playing with your brother, I would like to get to know him too,” said TwinkleBeauty.
“Alright, Sister Bing. I’ll be sure to let you know.”
Little did she know, they were not interested in her brother. Instead, they were trying to get close so they could meet with StarFire.
However, they were unaware that StarFire and Li Jia’s brother, Liao Yuan, were actually the same person.
Li Yao brought himself back to his novice village with his hearthstone. He mailed the seized Green equipment to his little sister.
Then, AdorkableTong messaged him. She complained to Li Yao for not inviting her to fight the Boss and wanted to unfriend him for that. Li Yao laughed it off.
BroadSky also messaged him, asking him about his relations with Qionghua and whether they were going to have collaborative plans in the future. Li Yao tried to dodge the bullet.
Next was HundredFaceWitch. She asked Li Yao about the Boss’s loot. Li Yao told her in summary what they obtained and sent a screenshot of the loot.
While Li Yao was busy, the news about the Boss’s loot was leaked out without his knowledge. Many players got jealous.
Last time, Li Yao soloed a boss. It was a wild creature and the loot was just materials. Even though the materials could be made into good equipment, the equipment did not look good.
This time, he had gotten a Purple equipment. Countless players went mad over the news.
Summer’s influence was getting out of hand. She had leaked information on equipment drop rates and the use of the pocket knife. She was made top one for her gameplay strategy.
Her viewers drooled at the sight of the screenshot of the Purple equipment.
Not only were the ordinary players envious, jealous of and hateful toward him, major guilds, clubs and gaming studios were also going insane. Such exotic equipment had triggered the emotions of millions of people.
Qionghua Club thought that Li Yao had leaked the information himself and thought that the strategy to fight the Boss could no longer be contained. Clubs that were close to Qionghua pursued them for information about the Boss. In the end, the strategy was leaked out.
The entire game was stirred into a big mess because of Li Yao. Players began to look for Bosses to kill.
Countless players began to gather up at the Troll Priest’s spawn area in every mirrored novice village. They were left disappointed as this Boss had disappeared in every map and mirrored area once it was killed.
In his previous life, refreshed Bosses from novice villages would be surrounded by squads in every mirrored world. In the end, the first squad to kill the Boss would get the loot.
Later, the number of mirrored novice villages were reduced and guilds in every district began to rage wars to fight for the spots.
This was unlike last time. Most players knew that they were not able to kill Bosses, but no matter how serious the casualties would be, every major guild was brainstorming ways and strategies to kill Bosses. After one squad had fallen, the next squad would advance until the Bosses were killed. No one could resist the temptation to acquire a Purple equipment.
It was only when the sky had turned dark that the players stopped. Game strategists began to step up their game to plan new strategies while others entered challenge stages. When compared to fighting ‘non-existing’ Bosses, it was better to go for challenge stages to get medals.
Li Yao did not use Liao Yuan’s identity. Instead, he changed to StarFire and entered China’s channel. “Golden sign! I’ll carry three players at once, all you have to do is listen to my commands and you will be guaranteed a Gold Medal. 5,000 CPs for each player. If you’re interested, private message me. No bargaining, no inquiries, I only want bosses. Only fifteen spots for today.” Li Yao shouted.
Li Yao’s words quickly disappeared and were flooded by other messages in the chat. Moments later, messages in the regional channel stopped abruptly and messages began to flood in.
“Holy, am I seeing things? StarFire is going to train players. Something must be wrong with my eyes.”
“It’s StarFire God, my idol!”
“Worship the great God.”
“That’s ridiculous, 5,000 CPs for one player, are you trying to rob people? This is too despicable! As a great god yourself, shouldn’t you provide free services for other players?”
“Since you’re so kind-hearted, why don’t you sell your house for charity?” replied BigBrightMoon, the big boss of BigMoon studios.
“I know right, there’s something wrong with this man.”
“All kinds of douchebags exist. Need I say, Gold Medals are priced way more than 5,000 CPs. With this price, you can learn skills from the great god StarFire himself while seeing how he gets the medals. To me, this price is a great bargain.”
“Yeah, as long as we can learn StarFire’s skills, it’s worth more than the gold medal itself.”
Then, Li Yao’s private chat was bombarded with messages.
Li Yao did not read the names. He replied back to the first fifteen players that had messaged him privately. Li Yao did not know that most of these players were top players from major guilds and gaming studios. Although they wanted the Gold Medal, their real intention was to steal some of his skills.
Li Yao would not care even if he knew. He began to group the players efficiently and entered the stage.
Every ten minutes, the team leaderboard on the giant airship would change, with more teams filling up the top spots.
After five grinds, the entire team leaderboard was glimmering in gold.
The leader of all the teams was StarFire. The squad members also became famous and they were overjoyed. They had gotten a Gold Medal while stealing Li Yao’s wisdom. Most importantly, their names were now on the leaderboard. No one really cared how they got on the leaderboard, but at least they stood out amongst the crowd. One could only come across such opportunity by luck.
Later, Li Yao’s private chat was swarmed with messages again. There were famous domestic professional players and guilds that wanted to book for the next spot. Some raised the price, some tried to hook him to their side, and some even cursed at Li Yao.
In comparison, other districts could only hold back and watch. When Li Yao took the first place, other guilds still had the chance to show up on the leaderboard. In two days’ time, the entire leaderboard would be dominated by China.
These major guilds could not sit well with the fact that they had no chance to get Li Yao to carry them. After all, they could not enter China’s sub-channel.
In just a day, Li Yao had stirred up drama amongst millions of players for a total of three times. He had become the focus and hot topic amongst discussions. It did not matter whether players agreed or did not agree; it did not matter if players from other regions hated or were envious of him, they all remembered one person, StarFire.
He was the first to solo a Boss, to get a Platinum Medal, lead a team to get first kill on a humanoid Boss and carry top players to get Gold Medals. He did everything with ease like it was his every day routine. He became a worldwide phenomenon in a day.
Li Yao did not indulge in these glories. Instead, he changed back to his Liao Yuan identity and began picking up scraps in the city. Then, he began to continuously create Explosive Sheep as a preparation to get his copper mine…