Chapter 51 (1/2)
Haters were still spewing hate in the live broadcast, but they were soon attracted by the bet set up by Fengyi. Some of the haters who said unpleasant things about Li Yao disappeared once more.
In their view, Liao Yuan and StarFire had joined up and created three new Boss fight strategies. This was the real deal, otherwise guilds would not be so desperate to let others get the title of getting the first Boss kill.
In everyone’s perspective, they could come up with a final Boss fight strategy by just watching other players’ failures in videos. This allowed players to get past the current phase where even the big guilds could not defeat wild Bosses. They could definitely participate in the bet since it was handled by Summer and there was no way Liao Yuan would break his promise.
If they were able to kill Bosses, they could get the fine equipment loot dropped by wild Bosses. This was simply something that most people dreamed of.
Equipment loot dropped by wild Bosses were all of fine quality, unlike the low-quality replicas obtained from normal stages. Now that players were unable to kill wild Bosses, they could only get Blue equipment through treasure boxes.
But in order to get a good treasure chest, it was similar to winning the lottery. After all, there were too many players around.
In this case, there had even been a craze where Bandits would master Stealth skill and risk their lives to search for treasure chests on high-level maps. Many lucky Bandits relied on this to become rich.
The players’ thirst for top quality equipment was evident.
In their perspective, Liao Yuan was indeed very powerful, he was the best of the best. Many guilds even followed him closely to learn his stage clearance methods, even though they suffered heavy losses, they did not give up.
But when compared to the Boss in front of him, his strength was far too insignificant. Top players were barely able to kill bosses, and now Liao Yuan was going to face a Boss that was seven levels higher than him.
With the Boss’s current Health, even if he were to use Skill Break, he had to perform more than two hundred successful Skill Breaks to kill it.
People were baffled by the concept. He had to perform more than two hundred Skill Breaks without making a single mistake, or else he would be faced with the fate of death. The difficulty to do so was indescribable.
When the bet was first launched, many people placed their bets. As time went by, many guilds had received the news and also placed their bets.
Ten ingots equalled to 10,000 CPs, and it was simply a drop in the bucket for them. In their opinion, if they could acquire Boss fight strategies, it would be a huge profit for them. After all, Bosses required a long time to refresh, but it would still be awesome if they could kill the Boss multiple times.
At Li Yao’s home, Father Li was angry. “This kid is not stable at all! Why is he trying to do so much, he should have started with the Level 5 stage, that would be so much better. What’s the point of this, look, he got himself into this sticky situation and he can’t get away now, I’ll see what he’ll do if he can’t kill the Boss.”
Li Jia stuck out her tongue and pretended to not hear what Father Li had said.
Mother Li was unhappy to hear those words. “Don’t say it like you can do any better. Calm and steady? If you’re calm and steady, you would have become the general manager of a company by now, now you have the nerve to talk. If you really think you’re better, you’re on your own now. You can’t even defeat a Level 4 Elite by yourself, yet you’re still talking about our son.”
“You, why’re you being so unreasonable?” Father Li turned his head while breathing hard.
“Hmph.” Mother Li snorted coldly, then smilingly handed the peeled orange to Li Jia.
Li Jia smiled as she took the orange, and had her attention and mind focused on the TV. She was now worried about Li Yao.
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“There’re so many rich people! There are now over two thousand ingots, at least two hundred wealthy individuals have placed their bets.” ShadowDancer’s pupils were dilated, there was over 200,000 CPs, if he had this money, he would not live in the slums anymore.
It should be mentioned that this was just a random bet made by Li Yao. Even if he lost, he only had to spend some brain power to figure out Boss strategies; but if he were to win, he would get enough money that could change his life.
Although the winnings were not his, he still felt his blood boiling with excitement, as if a door of opportunity had been opened.
“One day, I want to be like Boss Liao Yuan.”
Fire sparked in ShadowDancer’s eyes as the number of ingots increased.
“You’ve really earned a lot this time, and it is not because of me.” Fengyi smiled. She knew that Li Yao’s living condition in real life was not that good.
“Big Bro, you hit the jackpot this time! You have to treat us on the day of the carnival!” AdorkableTong said naively.
“It’s better for you to treat us. You know, it’s impossible for me to earn this much money alone. We earned this as a team, together, and we’ll share it equally among the four of us. Tong, you’ll be a little rich woman!” Now, Li Yao was not lacking in ways to make money. Two days ago he made a name for himself, and he could just make a fortune by selling wild Boss fight strategies to any guild. To him, this amount of money was not much, and if it were not for the annoying haters, he would not have made this useless bet.
“You do have a point there. After the contest, we will also split up the ingots we’ve gotten from your skillful performance equally.” Fengyi suggested.
“I feel bad for getting so much money,” Tong squirmed.
Li Yao let out a hearty laugh, “Alright, do it however you want.”
Li Yao was trying to buy over Tong and ShadowDancer, mainly ShadowDancer, and this was an opportunity to do so. It was just a small investment, but it was a chance for him to have a future Apotheosis Bandit in his team.
In the future, if he wanted to fight and go out of China to compete with teams from other regions of the world, he absolutely could not do it without having strong teammates. Before ShadowDancer was apotheosized, his value had exceeded 80 million CPs after the Olympic Games.
A team had even offered 100 million CPs, but still failed to persuade the Apotheosis Bandit. What Li Yao did was just a small favor, and it was a way to buy him off without hurting his pride. It was simply an extremely worthwhile investment.
The fans and audience were dumbstruck. They were already discussing about their division of money when Li Yao had not even killed the Boss yet.
“Ten minutes have passed, more than three hundred fans have coined in their bets.” Tong said excitedly.
Li Yao nodded. “Later, Summer will summon a Rock Demon, we’ll give it a try. Then, summon the Undead Arcane Guardian forward, I want to see the Boss’s skills. Tong, leave this platform, Summer will join you once she commands the Guardian.”
“Okay, understood.” Fengyi began her summoning, a moment later a tall Rock Demon and Undead Arcane Guardian appeared by her side.
Li Yao led Summer up the stairs. When they walked pass the statue of the Sun King in the middle of the platform, he could not help himself but peeked at the statue’s hands.
The item he was really looking for was right in front of him, but he did not act rashly. What he really wanted was to get his hands on it without anyone noticing, it was a secret for himself alone.
“This Rock Demon is equivalent to an MT who has a full body of Green equipment, I’ll command it to go over and try out the Boss.” Summer explained to her fans.
Under Summer’s commands, the Rock Demon dashed toward the Boss. Its heavy, loud footsteps were not fast.
When the Rock Demon was fifty yards away from the Boss, the Boss’s eyes suddenly flashed opened. He abruptly shot up from the chair.
“Damn intruder!”
With those words, his tall figure suddenly disappeared, then appeared above the Rock Demon. Before the Rock Demon could turn around, two huge blades shimmering with golden light slashed on the Demon’s body.
Shing…
The Rock Demon that had four hundred Health, which was equivalent to having the defense of a full-body Green equipment MT, was chopped into four pieces.