Rose sent me a congratulatory message: "Well … first of all, congratulations to everyone for winning the championship, heehee. Everyone else, read this as normal:!
Also, the club is planning to hold a celebratory feast, so make sure you all arrive on time. Also, the WEL internationals are going to start in a week, and I've already applied for your visas. The venue will be held in Los Angeles, the central city of the US virtual arena. Let's go there together in a week! "
My heart leaped with excitement. "Holy shit, we country bumpkins can finally go abroad …"
Rose: "... Thanks!"
… …
The champion's prize was extremely generous. At the very least, I wouldn't have to grind my ass like a grinder for a very long time. At the very least, I wouldn't have to work so hard before the Nation Wars. As for the Nation Wars, who knew? I couldn't guarantee that I wouldn't use the Resurrection Art again. Losing levels and whatnot was a common occurrence for professional players like us. Everyone else, read this as normal:.
It was already past 10 pm by the time we logged out of the game with the excited girls. However, we couldn't sleep because Li Chengfeng, Gui Guzi, Du Thirteen and the rest of us insisted on a midnight snack to celebrate our victory. Otherwise, we would be letting down our WEL championship and my wallet.
It had been a long time since we got together anyway, so I gladly agreed. Then, I led the starving girls straight to the appointed place, a supper place at a certain hotel in the city.
When we arrived, the twenty or so core members of Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls were already waiting for us. There were two tables in a private room, and it was just enough to fit everyone. The core members of the Frost Cloud workshop, Li Chengfeng, Gui Guzi, and the rest of us were seated at one table. The rest of us like Pure Love and Wolf Fang were seated at the other table.
A beautiful waitress walked up to us with a menu and asked, "Everyone, who wants to order?"
Gui Guzi raised his hand and said, "Boss Broken Halberd is treating us today, so I'll order!"
My heart clenched. Fuck, I'm going to have to spend money again today. Gui Guzi never knew how to save money for this old man. Back when I was broke, he would always order 5 bottles of beer and several stacks of boiled peanuts every time we went to a food stall in the afternoon. What a waste...
Gui Guzi grinned like an idiot as he ordered wild rabbit meat, steamed ground turtle, shark fin abalone, and so on. He probably looked like he was enjoying himself. Next to him, Li Chengfeng said, "Lu Chen has a family to feed." It's fine. What's there to be afraid of? "Gui Guzi said," His prize for today's championship is 2 million. "Li Chengfeng rubbed his hands and said," The most expensive dish is mine! "
Speechless, I raised my hand and said to the waitress, "Beauty!"
"Sir, what is it?"
"Give each of them a bowl of Egg-Fried Rice first. Be quick, they must be served in ten minutes. They are starving. If you wait any longer, they might eat the table. Fans also like to read:!"
The waitress couldn't help but giggle, "Okay, okay, I'll go tell the kitchen right away!"
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Everyone had either fought or watched the tournament for an entire day, and they hadn't had anything to eat yet. It would be bad for their bodies if they didn't eat something to fill their stomachs.
It didn't take long for the Egg-Fried Rice to arrive, and it was professionally cooked with overnight rice. It was refreshing and not greasy, but it wasn't enough. Thankfully, the dishes had arrived as well.
We ordered some red wine and white wine. He Yi, Murong Mingyue, and the others were used to drinking wine, so it wasn't strong enough. I accompanied Li Chengfeng, Gui Guzi, Du Thirteen, Mamate, and the others to drink white wine. 52% white wine was very powerful, although one might not recognize their own mother if they drank too much.
After a couple of drinks, Gui Guzi smiled and said, "Today's WEL match was pretty enjoyable, especially the one where Boss Broken Halberd led Beiming Xue to fight Candle Dragon. It was so satisfying! It's rare to see a match like this, and the best part is that Candle Dragon lost, hahaha!"
Li Chengfeng said, "It's just a shame that we ran into Snowy Cathaya too early. Otherwise, we would've had a chance to enter the semifinals. Actually, Little Gui and I were 2 at the time. To think that we would've fought against Beauty Lin in a manly fashion. We lost a little unjustly. If we had fought in secret, we would've had a chance."
Chaos Moon said, "Snowy Cathaya is going to have a new member next time, and Nangong Lexi is going to replace Clear Perfume. Nangong Lexi is a Holy Archer, and while her skill isn't as good as Beiming Beiming's, she's at least as good as Transient Smoke and Clouds. She's determined to train Nangong Lexi until she becomes a top-tier archer, so I'm afraid that our chances of winning against Snowy Cathaya won't be as high the next time we meet …"
Gui Guzi grinned. "Will Chaos Moon die if she doesn't tell the truth?"
Chaos Moon stuck out her tongue at him before replying, "It's good for your health!"
… …
"To defeat Candlelight Shadow, let's toast five times …" Li Chengfeng said as he raised his glass at me. The rest of us looked at him normally.
I smiled. "Are you sure it's five glasses?"
Li Chengfeng also smiled. "How about ten?"
"Sure!"
The moment the two of us started competing, the rest of us immediately joined in the chorus of manly shouts and shouts.
Li Chengfeng and I drank ten small glasses of white wine in a row. As expected, the heat in our stomachs was rising, and I felt like I was about to transform into a fire god. At the same time, the side effects also came. I felt a bit dizzy, and I looked at He Yi as if there were two of us.
"Oh right, don't just drink …"
Chaos Moon raised her glass again and said, "Dark Moon City is the foundation of Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls, and it finally reached Rank 10. Lu Chen, why didn't you tell us what the two special skills of the city are?
Don't keep us in the dark, okay? Tell us already! "
Li Chengfeng also said, "That's right, only the city lord can use the special skills of a city. Lu Chen, what are the effects of those two skills of Dark Moon City?"
I smiled. "First of all, let me tell you something. Whether it's Warsky Alliance, Soul Battle Robes, or Candle Dragon, Sky City will always be a battleground for Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls. That's because we have a Rank 10 Dark Moon City in our hands!" I smiled.
"Fuck, tell us already, you bastard …" Chaos Moon was growing anxious.
I grinned and said, "The Rank 10 Undead Castle's exclusive skill, Mount Duplication. It allows you to duplicate mounts of Earth Rank and below infinitely, but it costs a lot of resources, so it's not infinite."
Li Chengfeng's eyes lit up. "Does that mean we can duplicate an unlimited number of Dragonlight Cavalrymen?"
"In principle, yes. However, we don't have Dragonlight Cavalry pet eggs …" I smiled. The rest of us looked at it normally.
Li Chengfeng slapped his thigh. "Holy shit, that's just a waste of money …"
I shot He Yi a look before replying with a smile, "What's there to worry about? Did you forget that our guild leader's reward for becoming the WEL champion is the Dragonscale Beast? It's an Earth Rank Boss mount, and it's a pet egg that allows us to duplicate it infinitely!"
Gui Guzi jumped to his feet and spilled the wine in his glass. He glared at me and said, "Fuck, doesn't that mean all of us can ride mounts with the same stats as the Dragonscale Beast?"
I nodded. "That's right. However, it requires a lot of resources, and each resource costs 100k. With Dark Moon City's current production capacity, we can only duplicate one mount per hour. Therefore, we need to shift our focus to increasing our production capacity and resources. It would be best if we could increase our production capacity to more than a million resources per hour!" I nodded.
Chaos Moon grinned. "OMG, can we really use up all those resources?"
I smiled. "There's one more skill. Did you forget about it?"
"Mounted Archery Training?"
Chaos Moon and the rest of us looked at me and asked, "What's up with Mounted Archery Training, Lu Chen?"
I tried to pick up a piece of fish with my chopsticks. "Hahaha, let's eat first!"
Everyone grew angry. "Eat your sister! Spit it out already!"
Beiming Xue pouted. "Why are you eating me, big bro …"
Li Chengfeng blocked my chopsticks with perfect precision, and the fish fell back into the soup with a plop. Speechless, I sat down and continued, "Mounted Archery Training allows Level 180 seventh-promotion archers to learn the Mounted skill. In other words, archers who used to be infantry will be able to learn the Mounted skill in Dark Moon City and become the legendary Mounted Archers. Everyone else, just read it normally!"
"Mounted Archers …"
Beiming Xue abruptly rose to her feet with excitement. "Big bro, is it true that archers can have mounts too?"
I smiled. "Why would I lie to you?
However, it costs 200k of each type of resource, so … brothers and sisters, we need to think of all kinds of ways to get resources from the territory. Resource Bags can be found on the bosses, and a small number of them can be found on the stalls in Sky City. Once we get them, we're going to build the first elite cavalry archers in the entire server and the first large-scale cavalry in the entire server! Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls, we're going to sweep the world! "
Almost everyone was excited. They rose to their feet and raised their wine glasses in unison. "Alright! This toast is for Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls to sweep across the world!"
… …
My news was absolutely exciting to all of you. As long as we had enough resources, we would be able to duplicate mounts infinitely and train our high-level archers into mounted archers. Mounted archers were too important to the Nation Wars of Heavenblessed Continent. They were incredibly mobile, long-range, and the kings of guerilla warfare. Thanks to Dark Moon City, Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls would have a one-of-a-kind mounted archer formation!
I was getting excited just thinking about it. A group of archers could fire a volley of Skypiercer at the enemy formation from afar, and the enemy wouldn't even be able to catch up to them. How satisfying would that be?
Beiming Xue was going to bring the H&R Tactics to new heights!
(Note: H&R Tactics, as mentioned before, is hit-and-run. It's a guerrilla tactic where you pull away from the enemy formation and attack again. It's similar to kiting, but it relies on absolute mobility.)
Mounted Archery Training was without a doubt the greatest gift the WEL tournament had given to us, and it was a precious gift at that!
Everyone was so drunk that Li Chengfeng and the others had even crawled under the table after midnight. Left with no other choice, I booked a bunch of rooms and sent them to sleep soundly. By the time everything was done, it was already midnight when I returned to the workshop. I had spent 190k RMB in one night, and it was painful to even think about it. That being said, 190k was nothing for these brothers and sisters of mine!