"Bold of you! A mere Chen Yi dared not reply to my messages. When I lead my guild to become Blue Star's number one, you'll know what it means for the Three Year Period to arrive!"
"I might understand why you went anonymous. Player guilds are completely different from what I imagined. There's no one here discussing how to grow stronger, no methods for completing missions, and no chance for ordinary people to rise up."
"The upper ranks of guilds control most of the resources and information, but those things are only available to their direct subordinates, ensuring their leadership. Newly joined players have to pay membership fees every month just to barely meet the requirements for completing missions..."
Chen Yi suddenly recalled how people in Plants vs. Zombies had voluntarily formed teams. People from major guilds knew more information, so they became team leaders.
It seemed that not every member of a major guild could access that information.
Even after coming to the Game World, people still couldn't escape worldly affairs.
But judging from Wang Zhanbo's mood to joke around, he probably didn't need comforting.
"So I've had enough! Those guys keep telling me, openly and secretly, not to waste Copper Coins on Strong Projection. Enhancing and upgrading equipment are the right path."
"But who am I, Wang Zhanbo?! I'm destined to become the future protagonist of the Game World. So I've decided they must be getting anxious. They're anxious, which means I'm on the right path!"
"Well... if you dare lie to me, Chen Yi, then when my Three Year Period arrives, I'll lead an army of three thousand to block your damn doorstep! Oh, right. I completed a mission on my own and gained permission to establish a guild. It's called the Crooked Mouth Dragon King. If you can't make it on your own and want Wang 'Sun-Destroyer' Zhanbo to take you in, that wouldn't be impossible..."
Sword Art Online world.
Wang Zhanbo passed through the gap between the roots at an odd angle, then borrowed the force of a sweeping root to turn into an afterimage. In the next instant, he appeared behind the Treant.
The sword in his hand slashed into the Treant, leaving behind a wound streaming with data.
He adjusted his stance, and sword light swept through the air. The roots stabbing up from the ground were severed one after another.
The boss of Poisonous Fog Forest looked surprisingly clumsy before Wang Zhanbo.
After Wang Zhanbo drew its aggro, the Gunner and Archer in the rear hurriedly attacked. Every punch Female Brawler Ailan landed on the Treant produced a tremendous boom, and the several-meter-tall Treant actually showed signs of lifting off the ground.
Not long after, the Treant collapsed unwillingly and turned into data, disappearing.
Wang Zhanbo excitedly glanced at the Blue Quality Equipment it dropped, picked it up, and tossed it into the guild warehouse. Guild foundation +1.
But... it felt like this battle was missing something. What was it?
Wang Zhanbo froze in place.
Female Brawler Ailan watched the Guild Leader suddenly space out, and the corner of her mouth twitched. Was this guy having another episode? "Guild Leader, you..."
Wang Zhanbo brushed back his bangs. "Ailan, don't you think Sword Art Online without our Crooked Mouth Dragon King Guild is like cilantro without chili peppers?"
Ailan clearly couldn't keep up with Wang Zhanbo's train of thought. "Cilantro doesn't have chili peppers in it to begin with. No, wait! You want to establish the Crooked Mouth Dragon King Guild in Sword Art Online?!"
Before Wang Zhanbo could nod, Ailan roared, "Someone! The Guild Leader is having another episode!"
A large group of people leaped out together and viciously pinned Wang Zhanbo beneath them. Someone even restrained each of his fingers.
"Guild Leader! You can't embarrass us any further!"
"Do you know I'm too ashamed to let other players know what our guild is called? And you still want to establish it again in Sword Art Online!"
"If you dare spread it around, I'll quit the guild!"
"Ailan, well done. If the Guild Leader has another episode, make sure to call us."
Pinned down by several burly men, Wang Zhanbo still refused to stop struggling. "You rebellious lot! When my Three Year Period..."
Ailan dismissed him perfunctorily. "Yes, yes, the Three Year Period, the Three Year Period. All right, this mission is complete. Fall back."
"Mm! Mm!"
"Who was that? How can this guy still make noise?"
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Necromancer Ma Fei admired his Guild Leader's tenacious spirit of resistance, so he tore off the little cloth remaining on the Skeleton and stuffed it into Wang Zhanbo's mouth.
Now there was no sound. []~( ̄▽ ̄)~*
Actually, the people of the Crooked Mouth Dragon King Guild got along quite well. After Wang Zhanbo created the guild, he personally sweet-talked, tricked, and cornered these players into joining.
Without exception, they were all people who couldn't stand the current guild system.
They were all young and wanted to make their mark in this world, rather than play political games within a guild.
They had been dumbfounded upon learning the guild's name, but by then it was already too late. Wang Zhanbo would never let go of meat that had reached his mouth.
Afterward, the guild veterans' greatest joy was watching the expressions of newcomers at that moment.
If they had been drenched by the rain themselves, they had to tear up everyone else's umbrellas!
Wang Zhanbo had created the guild because he disliked the practices of major guilds, so the guild's atmosphere and Reward System were very fair.
The only problem was this Guild Leader who had episodes every now and then.
As for the Three Year Period, the guild members had heard it so often their ears were practically callused.
Thus, Wang Zhanbo guided the guild through major matters, but for everything else, they still had to rely on Ailan and Ma Fei.
Carried along by others, Wang Zhanbo narrowed his eyes and looked at the False Sky above him.
For a moment, his heart felt rather peaceful.
It had been nearly half a year since Chen Yi last replied to his messages. Following Chen Yi's advice, he had invested all his gains into Strong Projection and practiced swordsmanship diligently. At last, he had achieved something.
Swordsman LV17 Damage dealt by sword-type weapons increased by 21%
This was not Wang Zhanbo's level, but the level of his Passive Skill, representing his attainment in swordsmanship.
"Yi! Today, the Game World said I'm a Swordsmanship Novice. I gained new permission, and also got a Passive Skill: Swordsman LV1. Damage dealt by sword-type weapons increased by 5%."
"This is only level 1. If I stack it to level 100, won't I take off on the spot?"
"..."
Chen Yi pondered it. As expected, his previous guess had been correct.
The swordsmanship of a Sword Master and that of a novice apprentice were the same kind of swordsmanship, but how could their attainments possibly be the same?
Then how could mages unlock this permission?
Through Fireball?
The problem was, Chen Yi would bet that there were very few people in the entire Game World who had put more effort into Fireball than he had.
Even so, his Fireball still showed no level.
Was he heading in the wrong direction?
"Game World, is my Permission Level still insufficient to understand this information?"
Ding! Player Yi's permission is being evaluated... Evaluation passed.
The benefits brought by increased Permission Level were beginning to show.
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