Traitor, Skycutter Guild

"Cheats." Su Yu's mouth twitched.

He never expected the Archer to think that way.

Su Yu's face didn't flush, his heart didn't race as he explained, "You've misunderstood. I wasn't using cheats. A High-Level NPC passed by just now and killed these wild boars."

"So that's how it is." Aside from the Archer, the other four in the five-man team nodded, buying Su Yu's story.

Since Evolution had just launched, cheats logically wouldn't appear this fast.

If it wasn't cheats, then "a High-Level NPC passing by" was the only explanation. No one could believe that the field of wild boar corpses was all Su Yu's doing alone.

Snowflake had sharp eyes. She noticed the "lv2" tag on the "Kexing" suffix and gasped, "Kexing, you leveled up? I saw you at level 1 just now!"

"That's because... that High-Level NPC gave me a buff on the way out, letting me solo the boars. I was already close to capping my experience, and after killing a few boars, I leveled up." Su Yu shrugged.

The five-man team also noticed Su Yu's level and burst into exclamations:

"Holy crap! Already level 2!"

"We've been killing boars here since the server opened, and we're only at level 1 with 85% experience!"

"You didn't pick up some Hidden Quest, did you?"

The team's leader, a Warrior, walked over to Su Yu and extended a hand:

"Hello! I'm Dongshan Jian, squad leader of the 'Skycutter Guild.' Brother, you're a solo player, right? Interested in joining our guild? We're the strongest guild in the Demon Realm—"

Dongshan Jian rambled on.

Seeing Su Yu's level higher than theirs, he immediately got the idea to recruit him.

As for the Demon Realm, that was another national-scale full-dive MMO that launched before Evolution.

"Skycutter Guild?"

Hearing that name, a sharp glint suddenly flashed in Su Yu's eyes, overwhelming hatred surfacing in his gaze.

The Skycutter Guild was a very famous major guild in his Previous life, ranked third nationwide.

The guild leader, "Skycutter Sword," was exceptionally skilled, upright in character, and had always had a good reputation.

But Su Yu knew that in his Previous life, Skycutter Sword had secretly Defected to the Skrulls.

The "honest and simple" Skycutter Sword led his core team and, at the moment Guo Jia needed it most, delivered the most vicious Backstab, directly causing the failure of the East Sea Defense Battle, with tens of millions of people dying under the Skrulls' blades.

So when Su Yu heard the name "Skycutter," his goodwill toward the people in front of him instantly dropped to freezing point.

But the current Skycutter Guild hadn't betrayed humanity yet, and the hatred in Su Yu's eyes vanished as quickly as it came.

"No need to invite me. I'm just casually playing the game; I might quit in a couple of days."

With that, Su Yu turned around and left without looking back.

"Hey—" Snowflake reached out, wanting to stop Su Yu. She hadn't forgotten that coming to the level 3 monster zone was meant to invite him to team up for leveling.

But Snowflake Cream quickly blocked his daughter: "Luoluo, don't bother this young brother. Let's go back to the level 2 monster zone to grind."

As a recently retired military officer, Snowflake Cream had caught the fleeting hatred in Su Yu's eyes.

He didn't know why, but he knew Su Yu must be in a bad mood, so he didn't let his daughter disturb him.

Dongshan Jian and his team were also baffled by Su Yu's sudden cold departure.

The pretty female Priest in the team thought Su Yu looked down on them and said angrily:

"Tch! What's he so cocky about? Just lucky enough to pick up a Hidden Quest and hit level 2, and he thinks he can look down on our Skycutter Guild?"

Plus, she was confident in her looks, and the fact that Su Yu's gaze swept over her face without a single pause was infuriating!

"Exactly, we were the number one guild in Demon Realm! People would kill to get in!"

"This guy's way too full of himself. Does he really think he's some expert?"

Dongshan Jian's other two teammates chimed in too.

Even Dongshan Jian himself felt that Su Yu looked down on them, his expression sour.

Seeing this, Snowflake Cream knew there was a deeper reason behind it.

So he laughed heartily to smooth things over for Su Yu:

"Haha, since you all are high-end players of the 'Skycutter Guild,' would you mind letting me and my daughter join your guild too?"

Hearing Snowflake Cream's words, Dongshan Jian and his team stopped discussing Su Yu.

Dongshan Jian glanced at Snowflake and quickly nodded: "Of course! Once we hit level 10 and enter the main city, I'll invite you both to the guild."

Snowflake was, after all, a great beauty, and beauties were always a scarce resource in online games, so Dongshan Jian naturally wouldn't refuse.

In the time that followed, under Snowflake Cream's deliberate guidance, Dongshan Jian's five-man team temporarily forgot about Su Yu, and the group chatted and laughed as they continued leveling in the boar zone.

Level 4 monster zone.

The vast leveling area held only Su Yu alone.

Su Yu strolled leisurely through the monster zone.

After reaching level 2, his [Lightning Arrow] could deal nearly 100 damage to a zero-defense target!

But the level 4 monster [Hillside Sheep] only had 60 HP. Even with defense and level suppression factored in, they simply couldn't withstand a single one of Su Yu's spells.

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One by one, the [Hillside Sheep] fell at Su Yu's feet, no different from the [Black Boar] earlier.

"Ding! You have slain [Hillside Sheep lv4]. Gained 4 Experience Points."

"Ding! You have slain [Hillside Sheep lv4]. Gained 4 Experience Points. Gained material [Hillside Sheep Meat]."

"Ding! You have slain [Hillside Sheep lv4]."

Grinding levels monotonously, Su Yu's mind had long since wandered far away.

What he thought about most was still the "Skycutter Guild."

In his previous life, the Skycutter Guild was a behemoth to Su Yu.

Take Skycutter Sword, for example—a hundred Su Yus combined might not even be a match for him alone.

But in this life, shouldn't he do something to suppress the Skycutter Guild?

For instance, slow down their guild's development progress, create enemies for them, or even force Skycutter Sword himself out of the game?

After careful consideration, Su Yu nodded and decided to go for it! He couldn't let the traitor's power expand unchecked!

But then came the problem:

The Skycutter Guild had a good reputation and had brought a loyal following from the "Demon Realm," earning the support of most ordinary players.

Rashly suppressing a righteous guild would not only tarnish Su Yu's own reputation but also stir up sympathy among ordinary players, making the guild fight back even harder.

How exactly was he supposed to suppress the Skycutter Guild?

Su Yu sank into thought.