Chapter 39 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

After reprimanding Invincible, World’s Best proceeded to lecture the other senior executives who had cooperated with Invincible and hid the matter from him. He then closed the guild channel.

World’s Best remained standing and took a deep breath before speaking to the person beside him. “Let’s go. We’ll complete the mission first and talk about the other matters later.”

At this moment, a total of four players were behind World’s Best. Including World’s Best, all of them were Level 25 players. There was no difference between them and the mainstream players.

Most importantly, the five players’ equipment was far better than that of an average mainstream player.

Among the five of them, World’s Best was wearing a light armor that glowed with purple light, just like his longsword. World’s Best was clearly wearing a Purple Outfit as well. However, he didn’t have an Orange weapon, unlike Liu Ming.

If not for the presence of Liu Ming—who was just like a monster—World’s Best was definitely worthy of having such a name in the game based on his equipment alone.

After all, the main guilds’ players only managed to kill a limited number of Boss-level monsters—even if they put in all their effort into doing so—before the new main cities had opened. This was because a limited number of Boss-level monsters appeared every day. Thus, the number of Purple Outfits that dropped a day was extremely limited as well.

Most of the Purple Outfits in circulation were Level 15 and Level 20.

As a result, the major guilds’ presidents were now only able to use loose pieces of Purple equipment. Those who were in charge of weaker guilds would still be wearing a few pieces of Blue equipment.

Other than Liu Ming, nobody else had a Level 25 Purple Outfit like World’s Best. Of course, Liu Ming was already wearing a Level 30 Purple Outfit.

Besides that, the four players behind World’s Best were basically wearing mixed Purple equipment.

When World’s Best and company were busy completing the hidden quest, their levels had obviously not decreased. They had even obtained plenty of good equipment.

This was the reason why World’s Best had the confidence and guts to continue provoking Liu Ming. After all, although there was a difference between a Level 25 Purple Outfit and a Level-30 Purple Outfit, the two were not worlds apart.

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A few hours later, World’s Best held onto a Skill Crystal that glowed with a purple light. With a proud smile, he said, “I managed to learn a Core Skill at Level 20. I didn’t stay in this hellhole for half a month for no reason. Floating Cloud, let me use your failure to prove that those who try to suppress others because of their good equipment are actually nothing compared to players who have real skill.”

The Purple Skill Crystal clearly made World’s Best feel like he was going to win for sure. However, World’s Best probably would not think that way if he knew that Liu Ming currently wasn’t using Imperial Military Swordsmanship—a Green Core Skill players learned after their second promotion—but an Orange Core Skill.

However, even Liu Ming himself did not expect his first Orange Skill to be the most important and rarest skill type—a Core Skill.

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At this moment, Liu Ming still did not know that World’s Best had already targeted him.

Shortly after leaving the Guild of Professions, Liu Ming received a private message from Flying Above Grass.

[Flying Above Grass: Boss Floating Cloud, are you free? We can’t clear a hidden dungeon, so we need your help. We can discuss the price.]

[Floating Cloud: If it’s not too difficult a dungeon, I’ll charge you a lower price this time. I just want 20% of the gains from the dungeon. After all, the three of you have given me plenty of help lately.]

[Flying Above Grass: Thank you, Boss. We’re now on a small hill south of the main city.]

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