Recaps

Xiao Yu proposed that the monster leaders join forces to attack Nightwhisper Village, explaining that taking part in a major story event could earn them reputation and advance their templates. Derek and Black?Rod showed signs of being players, and Derek became interested, though he worried the game system would prevent an attack on a village full of adventurers.

• Xiao Yu told Hogger, Black?Rod, and Big Gold Tooth that he wanted them to help attack Nightwhisper Village, but Hogger objected and Black?Rod asked what they would gain.
• Xiao Yu discovered that Black?Rod was a player, then received a message from Derek, a rare elite gnoll vanguard officer, identifying himself as a player.
• Xiao Yu explained that participating in story events could earn reputation points and help monsters advance their templates.
• Derek grew eager to join the attack after learning how reputation worked, but asked whether the system would allow monsters to slaughter adventurers in a newbie village.
• Xiao Yu assured Derek that the game company would welcome an attack like this.

Xiao Yu persuaded several monster leaders to join an alliance, but when Hogger tried to leave, Derek proposed helping overthrow him and claim leadership of the gnolls. Xiao Yu lured Hogger back to the watchtower and launched an ambush, leaving the fight underway.

• Xiao Yu explained that monsters could organize their own sieges, but Hogger rejected the alliance and started to leave with Big Gold Tooth.
• Derek offered to bring the gnolls into the alliance if Xiao Yu helped him take down Hogger, and Black Rod agreed to join the attack.
• Xiao Yu tricked Hogger into returning to the tower by promising him treasure, then summoned a fire elemental and signaled everyone to attack.
• Xiao Yu, Derek, Black Rod, the orc brothers, and their allies badly wounded Hogger, while Black Rod's bandits blocked the gnoll guards and Derek stopped Big Gold Tooth from joining the fight.

Xiao Yu and Black?Rod fought Hogger in the watchtower, but Deathclaw, an elite shadow cheetah played by another player, delivered the killing blow. After Deathclaw explained how he had found their gathering, Derek asked to loot Hogger's corpse.

• Hogger overwhelmed the orc brothers and attacked Xiao Yu, while Black?Rod joined the fight with kicks, poison, and lime powder.
• Xiao Yu and Black?Rod coordinated their attacks until Hogger fled toward the watchtower exit.
• Derek blocked Hogger's escape, but Hogger entered a frenzy and slipped past him.
• Deathclaw ambushed Hogger and killed him with a flurry of attacks, earning Xiao Yu only 27 reputation points.
• Deathclaw told Xiao Yu that he had found the gathering plans on a goblin messenger and had secretly watched the fight.
• Derek asked to loot Hogger's corpse, and Deathclaw stepped aside.

After Hogger’s death, Xiao Yu recruited Deathclaw and organized five factions to attack Nightwhisper Village. The alliance set the assault for midnight the night after tomorrow, while Derek arranged for his classmates to join him.

• Derek claimed the Gnoll Leader’s Insignia and gained 100 reputation points, while Xiao Yu distributed Hogger’s other drops among the group.
• Deathclaw offered to join the attack with other beast-template players in exchange for reputation and evolution points, and Xiao Yu accepted him on the condition that he follow orders.
• Xiao Yu named the planned assault the Battle of the Five Armies, set it for midnight the night after tomorrow, and ordered the factions to recruit and scout ahead of time.
• Derek revealed that he was thirteen and could not play after eleven, so Black Rod suggested he go to an internet café; Derek then planned to bring his gnoll-playing classmates.
• The alliance concluded, and the factions returned to prepare for battle while Derek and his classmates began organizing the gnoll camp and securing his leadership.

After reaching an agreement in the watchtower, Xiao Yu walked back to camp with Deathclaw, the black panther, and learned more about beasts and their evolution system. The next morning, Xiao Yu created a night elf character to scout the enemy while posing as an NPC.

• Xiao Yu left the watchtower with Invincible Hero and Killer Codename 38 after reaching an agreement.
• Deathclaw revealed he had evolved the ability to speak and offered to escort Xiao Yu's group through the forest.
• Xiao Yu and Deathclaw discussed beast templates, their limitations, and Deathclaw's experience playing as a beast.
• Xiao Yu reached the goblin camp, where Deathclaw vanished using stealth, and went to sleep.
• The next morning, Xiao Yu created a commoner night elf named Alucard Nightwhisper in Nightwhisper Village to investigate the enemy.

Xiao Yu explored Nightwhisper Village while assessing its defenses and the forces that might oppose him. He found the village lightly defended, but his scouting ended with the unexpected arrival of Moonmark Shadowstalker, the powerful rogue who had destroyed the goblin family.

• Xiao Yu explored Nightwhisper Village and admired its treehouses, shops, and peaceful streets before focusing on scouting.
• Xiao Yu assessed the village’s thorn barriers, treant defenders, guards, and level 17 chief, deciding his allied troops could overwhelm them.
• Xiao Yu inspected the tavern and found only three ordinary mercenaries, whom he considered little threat.
• A level 48 female night elf rogue named Moonmark Shadowstalker entered the tavern, and Xiao Yu recognized her as the mercenary who had wiped out the goblin family.

Xiao Yu discovered that mercenaries could earn money by helping players with class quests, but Moonmark Shadow Chaser’s high level and enormous fee made her a formidable presence. The chapter ended with her asking two hundred RMB per hour to assist a warlock.

• Xiao Yu recognized level 48 Moonmark Shadow Chaser as a likely player and stayed in the tavern to observe her.
• Xiao Yu overheard a knight explain that mercenaries could help players with class quests without counting as party members.
• Xiao Yu realized mercenaries could make money assisting with quests, leveling, and dungeons.
• A warlock chose Moonmark Shadow Chaser to help with his class quest, and she claimed she could complete it for him.
• Moonmark Shadow Chaser quoted a fee of two hundred RMB per hour, surprising the warlock and his knight companion.

Xiao Yu hired Moonmark?Shadow Chaser to help him seize a valuable item from the village’s nature temple during the monster siege. After they signed an in-game contract, Xiao Yu logged out and waited for the appointed time.

• Moonmark?Shadow Chaser explained her 200-yuan hourly rate and the advantages of hiring a mercenary to help with leveling and class quests.
• The warlock hired a level 11 druid mercenary for a few dozen silver coins.
• Xiao Yu approached Moonmark?Shadow Chaser as Accardo?Nightwhisper and revealed that he was a player who needed her help stealing something from the nature temple.
• Moonmark?Shadow Chaser refused to steal the item herself, so Xiao Yu offered to take it while she protected him from adventurers and temple guards.
• Moonmark?Shadow Chaser agreed to help for 1,000 yuan, and Xiao Yu drafted a contract with tenfold compensation for breaking it before logging out.

Xiao Yu assembled a monster army outside Nightwhisper Village and assigned its leaders roles in a planned attack. The leaders questioned his choice to guard the respawn point while they faced the village’s defenses.

• Killer Codename 38 reported that almost all adventurers had left Nightwhisper Village, and Xiao Yu prepared the gathered monsters to attack.
• Beowulf, Teddy, and Ace Pilot arrived to join Deathclaw and Xiao Yu’s forces.
• Xiao Yu planned to breach the gates, target the village’s ancient trees with fire, and assign forces to attack the temple, garrison, civilians, and tavern.
• Xiao Yu said he would occupy the respawn point to ambush adventurers who logged in, prompting Derek to complain that Xiao Yu had received the easiest assignment.

Xiao Yu led the monster army in an attack on Nightwhisper Village, using the other bosses’ troops to help breach its defenses. As the monsters rampaged through the village, Xiao Yu held back from the slaughter, focused on his own purpose for the attack.

• Xiao Yu maneuvered Derek and Black Rod into assigning him the temple assault, then secured two Defias healers and four kobold geomancers from them.
• The monster army reached Nightwhisper Village, where Xiao Yu ordered its archers to kill the guards in the tree tower and its fire units to burn through the thorn gate.
• Xiao Yu’s forces set the ancient of war ablaze, while the ancient protectors crushed several monsters with rocks before the army overwhelmed and destroyed them.
• The monsters poured into Nightwhisper Village, killing civilian players and fighting night elf guards and adventurers as Derek and Black Rod chose their targets.
• Xiao Yu did not join the slaughter and kept his attention on the reason he had attacked the village.

Xiao Yu led his goblin army to the druid temple in Nightwhisper Village, where Archdruid Manster Moonwalker’s powerful nature magic devastated the attackers. Yuehen Shadowchaser explained the strength of the village chief’s lord-template skills, then promised to keep other adventurers away while Xiao Yu continued the assault.

• Xiao Yu’s goblin archers failed to penetrate Manster Moonwalker’s wind defense, so he ordered them to attack the temple guards while Invincible Hero led the warriors up the ramp.
• Manster Moonwalker summoned treants to block the ramp, but Aduo swept them aside with Giant Wood Sweep and the goblins defeated them.
• Manster Moonwalker summoned more treants and unleashed a lightning storm that killed or scattered many goblin warriors.
• Yuehen Shadowchaser appeared and explained that Manster Moonwalker’s lord template empowered his skills, but refused to kill him because it would jeopardize Yuehen’s standing in the Alliance.
• Yuehen Shadowchaser promised to prevent adventurers from interfering for an hour, and Xiao Yu ordered his archers to keep shooting at Manster Moonwalker.

Xiao Yu led his forces against Manster? Moonwalker, discovering that spell attacks could penetrate the archdruid’s Whirlwind while his physical projectiles could not. After surviving Moonwalker’s Lightning Storm, Xiao Yu charged him with Aduo, but the druid transformed into a giant bear and drove the ogre down the temple slope as the goblins rushed to join the fight.

• Xiao Yu ordered his goblins and spellcasters to attack Manster? Moonwalker while he rode Aduo toward the temple.
• Xiao Yu’s Flame Missiles, kobold fireballs, and the fire elemental’s Fire Bolt pierced the Whirlwind and damaged Moonwalker, who struck Xiao Yu with green lightning.
• Xiao Yu had the Defias healers restore him as both sides exchanged spells, and Moonwalker cast Lightning Storm when his health fell.
• Xiao Yu charged Aduo up the slope to escape the lightning, while the storm struck the kobold diviners and Defias healers behind them.
• Moonwalker summoned nature spirits, transformed into a giant bear, and charged Xiao Yu; Aduo’s Greatclub Sweep broke his club but halted the bear briefly.
• Moonwalker’s bear form pushed Aduo down the slope, and the goblins swarmed toward them after the Lightning Storm ended.

Xiao Yu seized the Seed of Elements from the night elf shrine while his underlings kept the grand druid occupied. After learning that the relic could empower or mutate elemental creatures, he reconsidered his plan to use it for Kalax and destroy Nightwhisper Village.

• Xiao Yu sent his goblins to overwhelm the self-healing grand druid, then decided to use the attack as a distraction and head for the temple.
• Xiao Yu ordered the three Blackrock Orc brothers to fight Alisa? Moonwalker while he entered the shrine and took the Seed of Elements.
• The system marked Xiao Yu as wanted by the night elves for 24 hours and awarded him 200 reputation for completing the relic theft.
• Xiao Yu read that the Seed of Elements could advance an elemental creature or grant it a different elemental power and cause a mutation.
• Xiao Yu reconsidered his plan to activate Flame Mark, destroy Nightwhisper Village, and hand the Seed of Elements to Kalax.

Xiao Yu tried to secure the Seed of Elements while the archdruid and adventurers threatened his forces, and the beast elites arrived to help kill the archdruid. Elsewhere, Hellboy's Dad completed his warlock quest with a succubus and approached the burning Nightwhisper Village.

• Xiao Yu discovered that he could not transfer the Seed of Elements to his system warehouse during the story quest, then decided to seek help rather than summon Kalax.
• Teddy the Bear King, Deathclaw, and Beowulf the Wolf King agreed to attack the weakened archdruid in exchange for the kill, while Xiao Yu ordered his surviving goblins to regroup.
• Derek reported that two adventurer raids had broken into the village, and Xiao Yu learned that his forces had lost control of the respawn point.
• Hellboy's Dad completed his warlock class quest with help from a druid mercenary and chose a succubus as his demon pact.
• Hellboy's Dad noticed fires throughout Nightwhisper Village as he approached it with his unusually curious succubus.

Hellboy's Dad discovered that Nightwhisper Village was under siege and rallied friends and adventurers to fight back. He formed a small group and invited two night elf players to join, leaving them ready to enter the village.

• Hellboy's Dad spotted gnolls, goblins, and kobolds in Nightwhisper Village, then contacted his friends and urged them to log in.
• Hellboy's Dad reached an outside graveyard, where dozens of players resurrected after being killed in the village.
• A system announcement called nearby adventurers to defend Nightwhisper Village and promised rewards and night elf friendship.
• Professional Expert Gamer 007 tried to organize the adventurers into a raid by promising special rewards for story kills.
• Hellboy's Dad teamed up with Surviving Fighter and Supreme Greatsword, learned Toffee had quit adventurer play, and invited Water Falls Without a Trace and Fish That Doesn't Eat Cats to join.

Water Falls Without a Trace led the adventurers in an assault on Nightwhisper Village, overwhelming the monster forces and killing Black?Rod and Big Gold Tooth. Xiao Yu persuaded Derek to pursue another target while he tried to protect the Seed of Elements, then Moontrace?Shadowstalker returned and asked about his supposed backup plan.

• Water Falls Without a Trace took command of the party, and the adventurers marched on Nightwhisper Village.
• The adventurers overwhelmed the guards, then defeated Black?Rod and Derek's combined forces despite being outnumbered.
• Black?Rod and Big Gold Tooth were killed, while Derek escaped deeper into the village.
• Xiao Yu convinced Derek that the deaths of the other bosses created a chance to claim their territories and sent him to help Deathclaw attack the grand druid.
• Xiao Yu admitted to himself that he had no escape plan and needed to get the Seed of Elements out before he died.
• Moontrace?Shadowstalker returned after fighting a group of adventurers and asked Xiao Yu what trick he had left.

Xiao Yu helped Moonmark?Shadow Chaser take the Seed of Elements to safety, then joined the assault that killed Archdruid Most?Moonwalker and destroyed Nightwhisper Village. The battle advanced Xiao Yu to a junior boss template, and he chose an upgrade path for his Flame Missiles.

• Xiao Yu gave Moonmark?Shadow Chaser the Seed of Elements and had her send it to her system warehouse after she accepted its quest.
• Xiao Yu reached Nightwhisper Temple as Eric, Derek, Deathclaw, Beowulf, and Teddy killed Archdruid Most?Moonwalker and Nightwhisper Village.
• Xiao Yu gained enough reputation to advance to a junior boss template, unlocking the Dungeon Creation System and boss skill system.
• Derek, Teddy, and Beowulf advanced to elite templates, while Deathclaw narrowly missed advancing to a boss template.
• Xiao Yu advanced Flame Missiles into a boss skill and weighed the options of launching many missiles or increasing their damage and adding splash damage.

Xiao Yu chose to advance Flame Bomb Storm and led the remaining bosses toward an escape route as adventurers overran Nightwhisper Village. He escaped through a gap in a wall of thorns, while Derek was killed and Teddy faced capture by a night elf hunter.

• Xiao Yu advanced Flame Bomb Storm and warned the others that adventurers were approaching Nightwhisper Village.
• After Ace Pilot reported the adventurers were near the temple, Deathclaw and Ace Pilot fled while Xiao Yu sent the underlings out to draw the adventurers' attention.
• Xiao Yu led Derek and the other bosses to a wall of thorns and used Flame Bomb Storm to burn through it as a five-person adventurer party caught up with them.
• The bosses killed three adventurers, and Xiao Yu blasted a gap in the thorns and escaped through it.
• Beowulf escaped, but Derek was killed and Teddy was cornered; Adventurer Fish That Doesn't Eat Cats began using Tame Beast on Teddy.

After helping Moonmark?Shadow Chaser secure the Seed of Elements, Xiao Yu witnessed the fall of Nightwhisper Village and advanced to an elementary boss template. He chose to upgrade Flame Missiles and faced a choice between two advancement paths.

• Xiao Yu gave Moonmark?Shadow Chaser the Seed of Elements and asked her to deliver it to her system warehouse, triggering a quest to return it to the Cenarion Circle in Darnassus.
• Moonmark?Shadow Chaser left with the Seed of Elements, and Xiao Yu headed for the Nightwhisper Temple.
• Xiao Yu arrived as Most?Moonwalker fell to the attackers, and the system recorded the destruction of Nightwhisper Village and made the night elves his mortal enemies.
• Xiao Yu advanced to an elementary boss template, while Derek, Teddy, and Beowulf advanced to elite templates and Deathclaw narrowly missed becoming a boss.
• Xiao Yu upgraded Flame Missiles into a boss skill and had to choose between launching many missiles or increasing their damage and adding splash damage.

Teddy pretended to resist while Fish That Doesn't Eat Cats tamed him, and the adventurers watched tensely. Once the taming succeeded, Teddy learned that he had to obey his new master, though honey cakes made being her pet seem less unpleasant.

• Water Falls Without a Trace explained that Fish That Doesn't Eat Cats had a better chance of taming Teddy because he was an injured elite beast.
• Teddy staged an attack, deliberately stepped on Fish That Doesn't Eat Cats's Freezing Trap, and endured her taming attempt while avoiding a lethal blow.
• Teddy used his non-damaging skills and danced until the 30-second taming channel finished.
• Teddy became Fish That Doesn't Eat Cats's pet and learned he had to obey her until she released him or his happiness fell below 50%.
• Fish That Doesn't Eat Cats fed Teddy honey cakes, and he began to think being her pet might not be so bad.

Teddy's favorability toward Fish That Doesn't Eat Cats reached its maximum after she fed him honey cake, and the group divided the loot from the gnoll boss. Meanwhile, Xiao Yu fled as the goblin diviner Eric, carrying the Storm Scepter, and stopped with only a few followers left as adventurers pursued the bosses.

• Teddy ate honey cake, raising his favorability toward Fish That Doesn't Eat Cats to the maximum.
• The group split the loot, with Surviving Fighter taking Manster's Pelt and the others claiming the remaining equipment.
• Water Moon Without a Trace let the others take all the equipment, and the group charged through the wall after the fleeing bosses.
• Xiao Yu checked Eric's powerful boss attributes and examined the Storm Scepter he had taken from the archdruid.
• Beowulf ran ahead while Invincible Hero, Killer Codename 38, and a few gnolls followed Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu stopped when he could no longer run and saw that no adventurers had caught up yet.

After the goblin camp’s defeat, Xiao Yu offered the Goblin Chieftain’s Scepter to his companions and set out with Invincible Hero instead of returning to camp. Meanwhile, adventurers pursued them, unaware that the monsters had grown stronger too.

• Xiao Yu encouraged the gnolls to return to their camp and fight over leadership, then left with Killer Codename 38 and Invincible Hero.
• Xiao Yu offered the scepter to his companions; Killer Codename 38 accepted it and left to become the chieftain, while Invincible Hero stayed with Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu explained that adventurers would search the goblin camp first, giving him and Invincible Hero time to escape farther away.
• A party of adventurers found tracks and continued the chase, but Water Falls Without a Trace and Fish That Doesn't Eat Cats logged off for the night.
• Supreme Greatsword, Hellboy's Dad, and Surviving Fighter chose to keep pursuing the goblin boss, while Nataya followed Hellboy's Dad.

Xiao Yu defeated a group of adventurers pursuing him, then was cornered by four Night Elf huntresses seeking revenge for Manster Moonwalker. The chapter left him preparing to fight Kaya Shadowhunter and her companions.

• Xiao Yu ambushed the three adventurers chasing him, killed Supreme Greatsword, and drove Surviving Fighter and Hellboy's Dad away.
• Xiao Yu found Manster's Pelt among the dropped equipment and put it on before continuing through the forest.
• Surviving Fighter and Hellboy's Dad met four Night Elf huntresses and told them where to find Xiao Yu.
• The huntresses caught up with Xiao Yu and surrounded him with their moonblade panthers.
• Kaya Shadowhunter accused Xiao Yu of killing Manster Moonwalker and threatened to destroy him, so Xiao Yu raised his staff to fight.

Xiao Yu fled Kaya Shadowslayer and three huntresses to the Western Wilds, but his Wind Barrier expired and they cornered him. Angmar and Dark Rod intervened, driving the huntresses away and leaving Xiao Yu wondering why they had saved him.

• Xiao Yu used Wind Barrier to deflect the huntresses' glaives, but Kaya Shadowslayer and her companions evaded his Flame Bomb Storm and pursued him.
• Xiao Yu ran out of Night Whisper Forest into the Western Wilds as Wind Barrier's protection expired.
• Kaya Shadowslayer confronted Xiao Yu, rejected his offer of money, and prepared to kill him.
• Angmar arrived on a twilight dragon and declared the huntresses would not get their way.
• Dark Rod emerged from stealth and claimed Xiao Yu had ties to the Defias Brotherhood, so Kaya Shadowslayer withdrew with the other huntresses.

Xiao Yu accepted Dark Rod’s invitation to join the Defias Brotherhood after Angmar failed to recruit him for Twilight's Hammer. Dark Rod led him through the Brotherhood’s territory and into the Deadmines, assuring him he was safe.

• Dark Rod revealed that Black?Rod was his cousin and invited Xiao Yu to join the Defias Brotherhood, while Angmar urged him to join Twilight's Hammer.
• Dark Rod exposed Angmar’s limited influence within Twilight's Hammer and challenged him to fight; Angmar flew away.
• Xiao Yu followed Dark Rod across the Western Wilds, where Defias Brotherhood members saluted their leader.
• Dark Rod and Xiao Yu discussed how role-playing helped players succeed with non-adventurer templates as they passed enslaved miners in the mine.
• Dark Rod opened the entrance to the Deadmines with a crystal and welcomed Eric inside.