Chapter 42 (1/2)

The following morning, World’s Best demolished the Guild Residence and left Lotter City in disgrace with the World Guild’s elite players.

With the World Guild’s players departing, the ambiance around Lotter City suddenly improved greatly.

Although the other guilds’ players weren’t as arrogant and domineering as those of World Guild, there were still incidents where the major guilds’ players bullied the ordinary players.

For example, they would vie to occupy the better leveling points and snatch other ordinary players’ Boss-level monsters. Although they did not commit such acts as often as the World Guild’s players did, they had done such acts several times before.

However, not only were the various major guilds’ players no longer bullying the ordinary players, they even took the initiative to team up with them. This caused many ordinary players to be confused.

One of Qingfeng Pavilion’s blabbermouths accidentally blurted out the reason, which allowed many ordinary players to understand the situation.

It turned out that the major guilds’ players had suddenly begun behaving themselves, purely because they were afraid of provoking solo players like Liu Ming.

All of a sudden, the ordinary players of Lotter City deemed Liu Ming as their spiritual idol.

On the other hand, Liu Ming had actually left Lotter City on the night the battle was over. In fact, Liu Ming had already planned on temporarily leaving Lotter City after he finished the Second Promotion Quest and adapted to his new Skills.

The reason was related to the quest chain that Liu Ming had received in the novice village.

After arriving in Lotter City, Liu Ming completed nine rounds of the quest chain in the past month. However, the quest chain did not seem to end even after completing nine rounds. Instead, two branch quests appeared when the tenth round began.

One branch quest was simpler and could be completed on the spot. However, the reward was merely a Purple weapon. The other branch quest was more difficult and could only be completed after the second promotion. The reward was also unknown.

With the mentality ‘the harder the task, the better the reward must be,’ Liu Ming decided to wait until he had successfully completed his second promotion before beginning the quest chain’s tenth round.

The venue of the quest chain’s tenth round was not within Lotter City. In fact, even the location of Liu Ming’s quest this time was not associated with any of the main cities.

Liu Ming could only rely on the system map and follow the route given by the system, which eventually led him to a vast desert.

After walking for a while, Liu Ming finally saw a small oasis. A shabby and dilapidated campground was located in the middle of the oasis—it was the first destination of Liu Ming’s mission.

However, after discovering that the entire camp was so run-down that not a single soul was in sight and did not seem like a place anyone had been in recently, Liu Ming did not enter the site rashly.

After looking around and observing for a while to confirm that there were no hidden monsters, he slowly stepped into the camp.

However, the scene before Liu Ming changed drastically the moment he stepped into the camp.

The shabby and dilapidated camp immediately disappeared and was replaced by a flourishing and bustling city in the oasis. The time of the space Liu Ming was in also turned from night to day.

The sudden changes in the surroundings suddenly made Liu Ming even warier of the things around him. After all, the occurrence of such a situation basically meant that he had fallen into some sort of illusion, or he had been taken to some other place by some sort of teleportation portal.