Gathering of Heroes

More than an hour later, before the Wild Bee King could extend its wings for the 60th time, Lu Yang finished it off with a Fireball.

Watching the Wild Bee King's half-formed wings disappear, Lu Yang breathed a long sigh of relief. Killing a boss without enough mana was still too troublesome. He needed to find a way to get all the equipment first.

He picked up the equipment that dropped on the ground and checked its stats:

Wild Bee Longbow (Silver-grade)

Attack 6-18

Strength +3

Constitution +2

Physical damage increased by 4 points

The best equipment for hunters in the novice village, it can be used until the level 8 dungeon. The remaining two pieces of equipment were a Pig Iron Ring (Black Iron) and Black Crystal Bracers (Black Iron-grade).

He didn't expect to get a Mage wrist guard. Now, Lu Yang had a wrist guard, ring, cloak, and staff. All that was left were the regular equipment like armor, shoulder pads, and leg guards that only dropped in dungeons.

He checked the time and saw that it was already six in the morning. Lu Yang used his Hearthstone to return to St. Gall City and headed to the east side of the square.

Because of the large amount of open space, the east side of the square had naturally formed a market where players set up stalls. After an afternoon and evening of gaming, many players had obtained items in the game and were preparing to trade them with other players in the market.

Lu Yang found a random spot and started setting up his stall.

Not long after, as two human players passed by Lu Yang's stall, a female player's frantic shout made the entire St. Gall City boil over.

"Ah~~, Black Iron equipment... Silver equipment... How can there be so much?"

"Where, where is there Black Iron and Silver equipment?" More than one player was attracted by the sound.

At this stage, having a single Bronze equipment was something to be proud of. Most people were selling basic cooking ingredients and various life skill items.

"Tch~, probably just hype. Even our Xiong Ba, the leader of the Supreme Dynasty guild, doesn't have a single piece of Black Iron equipment, let alone Silver. What are you shouting about?"

"Damn, it really is Black Iron and Silver equipment. Holy crap, look at these stats. Quickly send a message to the guild leader and tell him to come over quickly, or it'll be gone."

"Already took a screenshot and sent it. The guild leader and the others are on their way."

Not everyone disbelieved it. Some bored people walked over out of curiosity, and after clicking on the equipment on Lu Yang's stall, they were speechless.

Then, more and more people gathered.

Lu Yang knew this would happen. In his previous life, it wasn't until the morning of the third day that Xiong Ba Fengyun of the Xiong Ba Fengyun guild managed to grind down the Wild Wolf King with over a hundred level 8 players to obtain the first Silver equipment.

"Brother, will you sell your Ox-Horn Dagger for 5 silver coins? If so, I'll pay you right now."

"How much is this Focus Staff? I want to buy it for my girlfriend."

The surprise eventually passed, and some players who had come to their senses began to ask about prices. Lu Yang smiled and placed the prices of the equipment on the stall.

Seeing the prices, the crowd erupted again.

"The Ox-Horn Dagger actually sells for 2 Gold Coins, that's robbery! I don't even have 2 Silver Coins on my whole body."

1 Gold Coin is equal to 100 Silver Coins, so 2 Gold Coins is 200 Silver Coins.

"You're kidding, the Black Iron Helmet actually costs 3 Gold Coins, who can afford that?"

Lu Yang's prices made everyone collapse. Just as a group of players were exclaiming, a shout came from the noisy crowd: "Get out of the way, don't block the road."

Hearing this voice, everyone was shocked and quickly turned around to look. They saw a rogue-looking player, surrounded by more than twenty players, pushing through the crowd and walking up to Lu Yang.

The rogue looked down at Lu Yang, who was sitting on the ground, and said with a ferocious expression: "Kid, I want all of your stuff."

Lu Yang recognized this rogue. His name was Black Blood, a notorious game hooligan in his previous life. He was also a hooligan in real life. When the country cracked down on crime, he formed a guild with more than a hundred of his subordinates and recruited more than 5,000 people online to enter the game. Relying on his shameless hooligan tactics, he bullied others in the game. Later, he attracted a large number of bastards like him and formed a small guild of tens of thousands of people.

In his previous life, Lu Yang suffered a lot at the hands of Black Blood when he first established his guild. Although he later got revenge with the Demon God's Heart, that didn't mean Lu Yang could be friends with him. Lu Yang personally destroyed Black Blood's guild in his previous life, and the two had a deadly feud.

"Sure, 100 Gold Coins," Lu Yang said.

"Kid, are you looking for death, asking us for money?" The people around Black Blood swarmed forward and surrounded Lu Yang.

"Believe it or not, we'll kill you."

"My brothers number five thousand, how dare you haggle with our boss."

"Don't even think about leaving the safe zone in the future, we'll kill you every time we see you."

"Beat him to death."

The fierce expressions on the faces of more than 20 people at the same time made the ordinary players around them feel a deep sense of fear, and they all dodged to the outside of the circle to avoid being affected.

"It's over, this player is in trouble now, he has to sell his equipment even if he doesn't want to," one player whispered.

"Yeah, we contacted Black Blood yesterday afternoon, and he's completely unreasonable."

"What can we do?"

In the center, Lu Yang had already lowered his head, clasping his hands together and resting them on his chin, as if he had been greatly affected.

Black Blood was very satisfied with his subordinates' performance. Feeling that the time was right, he walked up to Lu Yang and said arrogantly: "I'll give you two choices. Either you give me your stuff, and I'll consider it your membership fee to join my guild's elite group, or I'll kill you so you can't leave the safe zone. Kid, think it over carefully."

This was his usual trick for collecting debts, but he forgot that this was a game.

Lu Yang didn't even lift his head, simply uttering a single word: "Scram."

"What?" Black Blood glared at Lu Yang and cursed, "Say that again?"

Lu Yang raised his head to meet Black Blood's gaze, his eyes icy as he said, "I told you to scram. Didn't you hear me?"

Black Blood's subordinates were stunned. They never expected anyone to dare speak to Black Blood like that. If this were reality, Black Blood would have already had them crippled. As a result, none of the 20-odd people had reacted enough to start cursing Lu Yang.

The surrounding players were also astonished. Just how awful was Black Blood?

On his very first day in the game, he had already caused a stir among the players for indiscriminately killing people. The players he killed wanted revenge, but after learning that their opponent was the leader of a guild with over 5,000 members, they could only swallow their anger. The surrounding players couldn't help but worry about Lu Yang, daring to provoke someone like that.

Just then, a cold snort came from behind the crowd. Everyone turned to see a team of players filing in.

The leader of the group sneered, "Black Blood, you're as shameless as ever. Do you think this is the street outside your house, where you can just collect protection money at will?"

Lu Yang recognized this person: Xiong Ba Fengyun, the guild leader of Supreme Dynasty. In his past life, he was one of the top ten overlords of the national server. Although he was domineering, he was very trustworthy. Many people who had grudges against Xiong Ba admired his character.

Black Blood's face showed a hint of fear upon seeing Xiong Ba. Compared to Xiong Ba's large guild of 30,000 members, Black Blood's 5,000-plus were simply no match.

"Xiong Ba, what do you mean by this?" Black Blood asked, his voice fierce but inwardly timid.

"I'm here to buy something, of course. My friend, I'll buy your item. Give me a fair price." Xiong Ba didn't even look at Black Blood as he walked straight to Lu Yang's side.

Lu Yang was about to speak when suddenly an aged voice came from Lu Yang's left.

"Hold on."

Lu Yang turned his head and saw another team of players appearing from his left. The leader had a faint smile on his face, looking to be around sixty years old, with a kind and benevolent appearance.

"Brother Xiong Ba, what a coincidence. This old man happens to be in need of a Two-Handed Greatsword as well. Why don't you do a good deed and let this old man have the weapon?"

Lu Yang also recognized this old man: the chairman of a Fortune 500 company, an 80s gamer from the last century. Though he was old, he deeply loved games. Seeing that the Virtual Helmet was finally out, he handed over his business to his son and entered the game with 100 million Credit Points. Relying on his money and the support of a group of esports experts from the 80s and 90s, he quickly made a name for himself and later became one of the top ten overlords of the national server, known as the Smiling Fox.

The old man's name was Old Twilight, but don't be fooled by his name and appearance. In reality, although the old man was over sixty years old, he looked like a middle-aged man in his forties, and his muscles were even stronger than those of young people. His appearance in the game was deliberately made ugly to lower the enemy's guard. This showed just how cunning the old man was.

Xiong Ba was very wary of the old man. The two had fought once before when recruiting guild members online, and Xiong Ba had suffered a loss in the process of vying for a gaming expert.

Xiong Ba frowned and said, "Old Fox, I'm determined to have this weapon."