Chapter 87: Silver Moon Devil (1/2)

I finally woke up from my deep slumber well past 7 pm.

I got up from my bed and pulled open the curtain, looking outside the window. It was raining.

Rainwater splattered against the glass and turned into a watery web. The refraction of the city’s neon lights looked bewitchingly beautiful.

I sucked in a deep breath and got off my bed.

Du Thirteen and Gui Guzi were awake when I entered the living room. There were eight cold or steaming dishes on the table, and Du Thirteen was carrying two cases of beer at once into the room. I had to admit that he was freakishly strong and useful.

Du Thirteen laughed loudly when he saw me. “Haha, our devil has finally awakened!”

“Devil?” I felt a bit confused.

Gui Guzi nodded before turning on the counterfeit PC in the room that was worth about 2500 RMB. He explained, “Your last night’s fight rocked the entire Floating Ice City, you know. You’ll see once you check out the official forum!”

“Oh?”

I walked over and took a look. A bloody sword and a bold, cursive line of text had dominated the leading news on the home page. “The devil fights to the death at Silver Moon Valley. Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand challenges the Domination Clan!”

Beneath the title was a short passage. “This early morning, the second-ranked player on the Heavenly Ranking of Floating Ice City, Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand, issued a challenge to the second-ranked guild of Guild Ranking, Gods of Destruction. He fought 21 first-rate pros from the Domination Clan alone, but he slaughtered them all and claimed the unquestionable victory. From now on, Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand’s infamous name shall reverberate throughout the China server!”

Beneath the thread title was an image of me wielding Ghost Ice Soul, standing atop a pile of corpses. I looked incredibly grave and chilling in the image, especially since my killing intent was fully internalized. There was a line of text attached to the image. “No matter what reason he had to challenge the Gods of Destruction guild alone, it took more than courage to perform such a feat!”

I exhaled. “What an exaggeration. Who made this, I’m going to go kick their asses! The Domination Clan also killed me five times, you know…”

Gui Guzi smiled and clicked another headline. It contained a high definition video. “You don’t know yet, do you? While you were duking it out with the Domination Clan, a Level 34 assassin was hiding nearby and livestreaming the whole battle. The whole thing is three hours long, and it currently has over three hundred million views. Haha, you really should’ve added the words ‘Bloody Mercenaries’ to your name. Our workshop would’ve become famous overnight!”

Du Thirteen nodded. “That’s right, it’s rumored that Dominating Archer God, Dominating Knight God, and Dominating Mage God got a severe tongue-lashing from Dominating Heaven Blade, and that they were inches away from being kicked from the guild directly. Dominating Heaven Blade is a prideful man who single-handedly built a super guild that is inferior only to Candle Dragon, and he always believed that he could do anything he wanted in Floating Ice City. I’m sure he never expected you to slap them in the face this hard.”

My eyes turned cold as I took a seat. “They shouldn’t have provoked Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls if they wanted to avoid this. Hmph, I don’t care if they’re the number one or number two guild in China, anyone who dares to bully Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls will not escape my wrath!”

“Oh?”

Du Thirteen pondered for a moment before asking, “After you logged out, I saw Murong Mingyue, Xu Yang, and a beautiful knight called ‘From Water’ reviving. She’s He Yi, isn’t she?”

“Mn.”

I looked into the night outside the window and asked, “Thirteen, do you think I should meet He Yi now and confess everything?”

Du Thirteen gave me a pat on the shoulder before asking, “Do you love He Yi?”

Startled and unsure how to answer, I fell silent for a long while before saying, “I don’t know…”

“Sigh…”

“You know that the virus inside your body is incredibly unstable. How about this: delay your decision until a month later. My father should’ve made some progress by then, and you can meet He Yi once the virus has stabilized. If it acts up after you meet her, if something were to happen to you again, she’ll have to go through all that pain a second time. A man who hurts a woman may have done it out of love the first time, but a repeat offender can only be a bastard.”

I nodded. “Alright, let’s do that. One month! Let’s work hard and turn Bloody Mercenaries into a famous workshop during this time. Besides that, we’ll do our best to support Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls and turn it into a Top 3 guild in Floating Ice City!”

“Okay!”

“Oh right, what are you planning to do after logging in, Lu Chen?”

“Grinding.”

“Haha, I guess I should’ve expected that. The five levels you dropped should keep you plenty busy in the next two days.”

“It’s fine, those from the Domination Clan lost even more levels. Dominating Archer God, Dominating Knight God and Dominating Mage God all fell off the Heavenly Ranking because of me, so overall it’s actually a win for me, haha!”

“Haha, that’s true!”

……

A simple dinner later, I logged into the game.

Swhoosh!

I checked my equipment after appearing in Floating Ice City’s inn. Everything was pretty much wrecked, so I immediately went to the repair merchant and spent almost 3 gold to fix everything. Ghost Ice Soul’s durability was especially low, less than 10% after all that killing, so it was incredibly expensive to repair.

Although I was only Level 45 right now, I could keep using the Level 50 Gold-grade sword as long as I didn’t remove it from my equipment slot. The same rule applied when repairing the blade. All I needed to do was speak with the repair merchant to get it fixed.