609 Chapter 609 - A Heavy Bombshell (1/2)

While Young Master Han was prepared to throw a whole bunch of things under Gu Fei's banner, Brother Assist was not about to casually make this rash decision, so he decided to wait for Gu Fei to get online and give the go-ahead before going forward. Thankfully, dawn was arriving, and a night of gaming had ended once more. Southern Lone Blade and the others were getting ready to log out, but because Brother Assist knew that Gu Fei now had the habit of logging on early in the morning, he decided to delay his log off and wait for him to get online and get the go ahead for everything from Gu Fei, personally, before making his move.

Upon further thought, Brother Assist felt that he was really acting like an odd-jobber, worrying over all these miscellaneous matters for the group, while Royal God Call, Sword Demon, and the others lived like they were young masters, grinding when they wanted, questing when they felt like it, and resting when they should be resting. What made this worse was the fact that he was rather happy doing all these odd jobs; Brother Assist was crushed. Was this the life he was destined to lead?

Having nothing to do while waiting for Gu Fei to get online, Brother Assist inadvertently found himself strolling over to the Wilderness Camp. The battle that had raged overnight had yet to settle despite it being the morning now. The struggle for the grinding map continued, except it was unknown just which wave of players was presently fighting it out after a whole night had passed. However, there were improvements from the initial chaos, as a few more powerful parties had already managed to get a footing and segmented an area for themselves. Unless they were newcomers that had no idea of the present situation, no one else would head to these areas and attempt to fight for the land any longer.

Brother Assist no longer dared to keep loitering around the map after taking those handful of steps in, for he soon discovered that plenty of hostile and alert gazes were thrown his way; As such, he did his best to show to everyone that he was only passing by before he circled around and left.

The other half of the map that the three major guilds occupied was a lot more organized in comparison. After a whole night of practice, the members from the three major guilds had already gotten a good grasp of the efficient monster grinding routine, and even though there was definitely not enough room for all 3000 players to utilize the routine, it was not too big a problem for the guilds since they could institute a systematic deployment. There was no way people would be able to grind for twenty-four hours, right? With everyone taking up an eight-hour shift, these players could all be divided into three batches that took turns level grinding. No one would be unhappy with the eight-hour allocation as that was already a lot of time. There was still plenty of other things that everyone could do in-game; leveling was not everything, after all.

Brother Assist was originally hoping that these two separate groups would have players logging off to rest up around this time, giving him a short time to earn a bit of extra by threading the needle and grab a few monsters in between, but seeing how things were set up on this end, he felt that it was better to just perish the thought! Evidently, these players who had successfully held their ground in this grinding map would be unwilling to cough it up, especially those from the other half of the map that had managed to seize their foothold after a whole night of slaughter. Brother Assist started to wonder if these players would end up grinding until they succumbed to exhaustion.

In the end, after making his round of the Wilderness Camp, Brother Assist made his way back to the city. He had barely slept much the day before, so he was already very tired at this point in time, especially since there was nothing left to do now, and the dull waiting only made him feel all the more lethargic. Brother Assist made a mental note to ask for Gu Fei's real-world contact when he got online, so he would not have to go through this ordeal next time.

Just as he was feeling helpless, the familiar chime of the friends list from the system rang, and Brother Assist saw that it just happened to be Gu Fei who had finally gotten online. Quickly, as if afraid that Gu Fei would run off on him, Brother Assist fired off a message. ”Morning!”

”You've yet to turn in!” Gu Fei replied.

”I was waiting for you,” Brother Assist said.

”What's the matter?” Gu Fei asked.

”Give me your phone number!” Thinking from a long-term perspective, Brother Assist decided that it would be prudent to ask this first.

”What for?” Gu Fei found this strange.

”Given how unpredictable your gaming time is and how tiring it is for me to wait here just to get a hold of you, having your number will make things much more convenient for me,” Brother Assist answered.

”Oh.” Gu Fei chuckled before giving Brother Assist his contact number.

Brother Assist felt as if he had just settled something important, before he broached the issue at hand. ”I'm about to start the promotion for our workshop, and everyone decided to call it 'Thousand Miles Drunk Workshop'; do you have any issues using your name?”