[Nightfall, Eastern part of Inferno City, Wilderness Area]
[Lv76 Haunted Cemetery]
Liu Kai personally led a group of Genesis Guild players, hunting down a group of innocent solo players who were killing monsters and leveling up here in the cemetery.
"Big brother! Please spare us! It's not easy for us to level up normally!"
"Yeah, big brother! We've never had any grudges before, so don't mess with us!"
"Big brothers! It's Thursday today. I'll Venmo you 50, can you let me go?"
Faced with the bitter pleas of those solo players, Liu Kai, who was not actually a bad person at heart, said helplessly with a look of resignation, "I'm sorry, brothers and sisters! I don't want to kill you either, but there are orders from above. I have no choice!"
"Eh! Take care, everyone! I'll return the equipment after it drops later. Keep an eye on your mail and check for it!"
Accompanied by wave after wave of screams, white light after white light appeared in the dark cemetery.
Just as the Genesis players were slaughtering these solo players, outside the cemetery, a huge group of players had gathered.
At the head...
[Kindheart · Ember] (Lv0 Fourth-Tier Dark Warlock)!
Traveling with him was also a Level 75 young Thief: Yusheng.
And behind the two of them were a full five thousand [Mortal World] Guild players, their presence imposing.
At this moment, several young solo players came rolling and crawling out of the cemetery ahead, fleeing in panic.
They shouted as they ran, "Help! Help!"
"Stop chasing us! Please let us go!"
———
Behind them, a group of Genesis Guild Warrior players chased them out.
"If we let you go, we won't meet our KPI, and we'll be the ones in trouble!"
"Stop running, brothers! Just let us kill you! We need the performance!"
Seeing that the Genesis Guild Warriors were about to catch up with these few pitiful solo players,
at this moment, the Dark Warlock Ember, at the head of the Mortal World Guild crowd stationed outside the cemetery, had a trace of killing intent flash in his eyes.
Boom boom boom boom!
As he waved the staff in his hand,
streaks of dark beams of light descended from the sky, covering the several Genesis players who were chasing out of the cemetery.
-23946!
-24697!
-25557!
...
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
The three Genesis Berserkers at the front were instantly killed!
The remaining few behind them hurriedly stopped in their tracks, their faces filled with shock.
"Fuck! Damn! How is that Dark Warlock kid's damage so high?"
"Wait! His level is 0?"
"No! He's that guy who possesses the S-rank talent Origin of All Things!"
"His S-rank talent effect is that his level will always remain at 0, but the experience he gains can be used to strengthen equipment, skills, and attributes!"
"No wonder this guy's damage is so high even at Level 0! But what does he mean by this?"
While the Genesis players were shocked,
to those few solo players being chased, they saw hope!
"Great, it's the Mortal World Guild! We're saved!"
"I heard that the Mortal World Guild's Guild Leader Ember is a great philanthropist! And he's incredibly strong. He just sold his company in the real world and invested all the money into Oracle!"
"No wonder. I remember that this Mortal World Guild only had one or two thousand members before, and in Inferno City it could only be considered a second-tier guild."
"I looked them up online and found that in the blink of an eye, they've already grown to five thousand members! They've even risen to become a top first-tier guild in Inferno City, on the same level as Chaos and Divine Kingdom!"
"Holy shit! That's awesome! Feels like another rising star of Inferno City!"
Listening to the praise from the surrounding players,
at the head of the enormous crowd of Mortal World Guild players,
Yusheng, the Vice Guild Leader of Mortal World, said to Ember: "How about it, Chen Jin? I told you back then to sell the company and invest all the money into Oracle to build the guild. Wasn't that a pretty good choice?"
Ember's attention was entirely focused on the Genesis Guild players in the cemetery ahead, who were slaughtering the solo players.
A burst of fury immediately ignited in his eyes.
"It's because of people like you that the world has become so unbearable!"
"Even if the strong prey on the weak, the weak should still have the right to survive, rather than being prey for you to slaughter at will!"
As soon as Ember finished speaking,
beside him, Yusheng, Ember's good brother and brother-in-law, gave an order to the surrounding Mortal World Guild players: "Brothers, the clearing operation begins!"
"Kill them all!"
With Vice Guild Leader Yusheng's order,
the thousands of Mortal World players all grabbed their weapons and charged into the gloomy cemetery like a tidal wave.
However, what no one expected was that the Mortal World Guild's target was not the Genesis Guild players.
Instead, they actually joined forces with Genesis and slaughtered all the solo players inside the cemetery.
This scene even left the Genesis Guild players staring in stunned silence!
"Holy shit! So after all that, they're our own people?"
"You scared me! Hehe! They're actually allies!"
On the field, the only person who was shocked was Ember.
"What are you doing?"
"Who told you to kill those solo players?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yusheng looked back at Ember and smiled indifferently: "Of course I did!"
"A-Sheng!" Ember looked at Yusheng in disbelief. "What do you mean?"
Yusheng stared at Ember.
He snorted and revealed his true colors:
"I'm not pretending anymore."
"I'm coming clean."
"I encouraged you to sell off the company's assets and invest in Oracle for the sake of today!"
"Chen Jin, thank you for your generous investment. You helped me build this enormous Mortal World Guild!"
"Didn't see that coming, did you? You trusted me all this time. You left almost all the guild's affairs to me and only took care of putting in the money, so every member of the Mortal World Guild signed an employment contract with me. You were hollowed out a long time ago! On the surface, you're the Guild Leader of Mortal World, but in reality, the authority has always been in my hands!"
Hearing these words, Ember said incredulously: "We've been brothers for so many years!"
"Not to mention, your sister married me and became my wife!"
"Xu Sheng!"
"Why are you doing this?"
Yusheng snorted coldly and pointed at Ember: "My sister broke with her family for you!"
"You promised that you would treat my sister sincerely for the rest of your life, but how did you treat my sister after you got married?"
"Ten months of pregnancy, confinement after childbirth, and the three years since Lingling was born, have you spent even a single day by my sister's side?"
"I know you want to say that you were starting a business and making money to give my sister and Lingling a good life! But look at what you turned the company into! Yes! You worked hard, but in the face of talent, your hard work is worthless! You've worked hard for so many years and still accomplished nothing!"
"With someone like you, do you even deserve my sister Xu Manman?"
Taking advantage of this moment,
Yusheng poured out all his true feelings, as well as all his resentment and dissatisfaction toward Ember: "We don't need you anymore."
"I'll have my sister divorce you tomorrow!"
"And as for the Mortal World Guild, consider it compensation for what you've owed my sister all these years!"
"You can't give my sister and Lingling a good life, so I'll make money from now on! I'll give it to them!"
After Yusheng laid everything bare,
Ember not only showed no anger or resentment whatsoever. Instead, his heart was filled with endless guilt and self-reproach.
Because if Yusheng had not said these things,
to this day, he would never have known...
"So it turns out that I, as a husband, as a father, have actually been this neglectful..."
"I'm sorry, Manman. I'm sorry, Lingling. I'm useless. I'm no good..."
Seeing Ember like this, Yusheng could not bear it after all.
He said to Ember: "Leave."
"The guild has nothing to do with you from now on, but I'll give you 10 points of the shares."
Ember did not care about any of this at all.
He turned around and prepared to leave the gloomy cemetery, his spirit shattered.
The moment he turned around.
Pfft!
Suddenly, a flaming magic spear pierced through Ember's body.