549 Chapter 549 - Offline Trade (1/2)
A long off-topic thread appearing on the Trade forums might not be any big news, but Brother Assist, who treated the forums as his home, still managed to discover this situation. Originally, he was simply curious and went in for a look, but upon seeing that it was a request to buy a piece of equipment that increased the Command stat, which the current players had no use for, Brother Assist could not help but be stunned.
Brother Assist's understanding came to the same conclusion that Silver Moon had explained to No Smile. At the current stage of the game, the 9 Command points players had was more than enough, yet there was someone out there that required a higher Command value…
Brother Assist quickly logged into the game and took out that little booklet of information of his and began flipping through it. He soon located the equipment information he recorded about the King's Blade – something Gu Fei had told him about after asking Vast Lushness on his behalf. Sure enough, one of the stat requirements for King's Blade was 25 Command.
Sword Demon, Young Master Han, and the others were already online at this time, so Brother Assist quickly informed them of this huge discovery, ”This is the only time I came across a requirement for Command. Could the person looking to purchase the equipment be Silver Moon?”
”Couldn't you tell from his forum ID?” the people asked.
”That's already no longer accurate,” Brother Assist said. Players did not need to apply for an account to use the forums as it was directly linked to their player account, and this seemed to be a way the game company used to prevent people from having alts. However, in reality, while logging into Parallel World required the players themselves to do so, logging into their forum accounts did not need such strict verifications. As long as someone knew the account's password, anyone could use someone's ID to go into the forums and assume a different identity.
Naturally, not everyone playing the game would delve into the game and stick with it. Quite a number of players gave up after a while, and while they were unable to transfer the account to anyone else, a good number of players had homed in on collecting these accounts to use as alts on the forums. Meanwhile, there were all sorts of reasons why some players needed these alts. Take Brother Assist as an example; the man already had two alts in his hands. For a player that often spent his time trawling through the forums, he would simply be throwing his face if he did not even have a single alt account on deck.
”Silver Moon is still alive?” Royal God Call asked. People like War Without Wounds and him only inquired what was happening with Silver Moon after he got sent to Baishi City out of interest. By now, they had already forgotten all about Silver Moon after hearing about the man's first few deaths.
”It's very possible for this person to be Silver Moon! That guy already managed to flee from Baishi City's Knights' Barracks,” Sword Demon shared. ”Dusky Cloud informed me of this news last night.”
”That guy has been stuck in the spawn point all this time?” Royal God Call was astonished.
”Yup.”
”Then what's his level right now?”
”36,” Sword Demon replied.
”Silver Moon could use the inlaid skill of King's Blade before, which means that his Command stat was at 25 points then, and that's only possible with equipment that increases it. Unfortunately for him, in that period he's being spawn-camped, his equipment that increases his Command stat must have dropped during one of those deaths. Right now, he can no longer activate his King's Command. This explains why there's a post that's asking to purchase one such equipment,” Brother Assist analyzed.
”That makes sense,” the crowd agreed.
”How did Silver Moon escape?” Young Master Han suddenly asked.
”Someone came and whisked him away their encirclement using a Teleportation Scroll. Dusky Cloud said that it was a Priest; he had also teleported another player that we are all familiar with: No Smile,” Sword Demon shared.
”A Priest?” These professional gamers immediately thought of the same person.
”Could it be that guy?” They've already more or less treated this guess of theirs as a fact.
”If it is really that guy, saving Silver Moon and bringing No Smile along can only mean that he's coming after us,” Young Master Han said.
”To think that he'd actually collect those scumbags to help him.” Royal God Call scoffed.
”They've already crossed swords with us before, so they don't need much convincing,” Brother Assist reasoned.
”Still, to get that sort of guys, they'll surely be the first to run off at the first sign of trouble!” Young Master Han said.
”Definitely!” They were all very confident of Silver Moon's character. As for No Smile… The only impression they had of the man was his tenacity. Knowing that he was no match for Gu Fei, instead of quickly logging off, the man actually kept trying his luck, getting himself slain until he lost ten levels in the process. Everybody did not have a good grasp of the significance of strength in the early days of the game, especially against an extraterrestrial existence like Gu Fei. For No Smile to actually try measuring the man by mortal standards, the lesson learned was actually a bloody one.
”Silver Moon, No Smile, Cool Apple, and that Broken Water Arrow. On paper alone, this line-up looks to be rather formidable. ”Royal God Call raised a finger for each player mentioned.
”Both Silver Moon and Cool Apple aren't level 40,” Brother Assist reminded.
”No Smile's a little skilled, but he's just the average expert; he's not really up to par with someone like Cool Apple, much less Broken Water Arrow,” Sword Demon added.
”That's the No Smile we know from way back; who knows how much the man has changed by now?” Brother Assist countered.
”That makes sense!” Sword Demon immediately accepted Brother Assist's perspective on this, superseding what he thought of No Smile moments before.
”The problem here is that we have Miles on our side,” Royal God Call said.
”It's just so pointless…” War Without Wounds said. ”It's just not challenging if they don't throw everything but the kitchen sink at us.”