Lu Huayu watched his boss charge back into the fighting with helpless frustration. After warning him several more times, he finally gave up. One knight on their team had already been forced out after taking damage for him. If even an Earth Guardian Knight, a massive tank who could absorb damage for allies while standing on the ground, couldn't hold out, there was no hope.
Those other teams weren't from major guilds, after all. Their gear was a little worse, and they had already lost several people. The three allied guilds on the other side, by contrast, had only lost two.
Now that their advantage had turned into a deadlock, their hopes looked even slimmer.
Lu Huayu glanced sideways. His best bet was to make sure his boss died to Baldhead's group. As for Sanda King, who was eyeing his boss with a one-handed hammer raised—forget it. His boss could not be bludgeoned to death by a priest.
What if the humiliation made him insist on switching characters?
Everyone would know it was still him, but a new name would feel like a fresh start to the boss. Lu Huayu couldn't bear the thought of finding people to level him from zero until he could reach Toril again. This game had no accelerated leveling for newcomers.
Plenty of new players still joined, but they came to enjoy an otherworldly game, so they didn't mind spending months leveling up.
His boss had no such patience. Just arranging for people to level him quickly was enough to turn half of Lu Huayu's hair white. The boss wanted speed, yet couldn't stand following someone around to grind levels all day.
The boss had only started over with two characters, and several power-leveling studios had already blacklisted Lu Huayu. Those were connections he had