Chapter 45: Brotherhood

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

“Who is it?”

Qiu Yuan looked at that monster with a puzzled look. She took a look at her skill column and waved her staff gently. Then, her body slowly became invisible.

Fade Spell: Continuous magic, allows you to enter lesser stealth state when not engaged in battle, reduces the detection radius, reduces your weight for 6 minutes. During battle mode, with 5 seconds as a round aggro is reduced, lasting 15 seconds.

The effects of Fade were not strong because it had a much greater effect on Holy Priests than Shadow Priests, who did not have a high output but a constant output. However, that was an exclusive skill of Shadow Priests, thus making it seem even more useless.

There were no trash skills, only trash players! In Castle Wood, a place where the overall tone was on the darker side, Fade was the best skill for tracking.

‘Just now that monster seemed to be going to the top of the castle?’

‘From where could it enter?’

Qiu Yuan’s agile eyes swept through the surroundings until she found a passageway beside the horse stable that she had not seen before. ‘Could it be?’ Qiu Yuan’s heart skipped a beat.

She moved the weeds that were messy but were like chiffon aside, and a deep hole appeared in front of her eyes.

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Lin Jie held his arms and stood coldly in front of the wooden door, listening to the violent collision sounds with an emotionless expression. The sounds of body colliding with screaming and yelling sounds intertwined were like a bittersweet yet beautiful percussion music.

The ultimate Boss Galru’s strength was really powerful. Even if there were 10 Fu Sheng, it would still be hard to kill it.

Even in his previous life, the era where the boss walkthrough had been made public, battling Galru alone was extremely hard. One not only needed to battle fiercely to break Timmy from Galru’s control but also needed one’s nerves to be constantly tensed, lest Galru reversed control with an attack, controlling Timmy back.

Now, those hard problems were easily solved – Enhanced Elite Timmy’s powerful attributes and resistance, completely ignoring Galru’s attack. Its sharp claws could not only easily tear Galru’s skin but could even convert it to one’s own Health Points, ignoring any contract or control type skills.

Lin Jie took a look at the time. In this life, Castle Wood’s opening time was much later than before, which also represented that It was much closer to a certain incident…

In less than 10 days, The New Age would have been launched for one month. After that incident, the entire game situation would suffer a huge impact! The torrent of fate came surging in, who could remain standing?

Lin Jie asked himself, just relying on rebirth alone, perhaps he could have a prosperous life and live comfortably as a local tyrant, but he could never get to the power peak! With one order, he could summon wind and call for rain! In this life, Lin Jie not only wanted money but also power!

Living a second life, was it just to become a legendary figure in everyone’s mouth, to be people’s leisure-time talk, an expert that was looked up by everyone?

No, that was not what Lin Jie wanted! He wanted to stand at the peak of power, only in this position, he had the qualifications to protect himself and his family!

Relying only on one person was far from enough!

Lin Jie remembered an organization – Brotherhood!

Brotherhood was not a fixed team, nor was it a guild. It was more like a sanctuary for solo players. No matter how powerful the player was, without a guild as a backing, solo players would eventually be timid and overly-cautious in the game.

Brotherhood was a lone wolves’ organization!

As more and more players joined Brotherhood, Brotherhood also grew to become a large, terrifying organization that could speak with all guilds on an equal footing.

Before long, the Brotherhood gained a widespread reputation – the first clear of dungeons, the scramble for the world Boss, occupying territory, exploring the map – such achievements were all branded with the name of Brotherhood.

Codename Dark Night, Codename Heavenly Wrath, Codename Devil… Those names could make people tremble with fear on hearing them!

Afterward, that organization disappeared in an instant. No one had known why, and the solo players had also dispersed in the face of trouble and joined other guilds.

However, in the following year, a second-class guild called “Day Dawn” had publicly declared that the Brotherhood was a group of scum. Then, the guild had been collectively chased by countless Brotherhood members, as though they were “rats crossing the street 1 “.

In only one week, that guild had to announce its disbandment. It had been delisted from the game industry!

“For the glory of the Brotherhood!” That was the only sentence left on the scene.

Now, Brotherhood had yet to be created!

In Lin Jie’s previous life, Brotherhood’s creation time had been in the final stage of the Dungeon “War of Light” as it had been in full swing. In a whole half a month, the final dungeon that had not been cleared touched everyone’s heart.

At that time, no one would have thought that the first clear all the guilds had worked so hard and had been fighting so hard for would be stolen by such a sudden black horse.

Not only so, but Brotherhood had also used the dungeon’s first clear to recruit members without any constraint and in just a few days, it had expanded into a huge organization. The impact had been so great that it had made the system’s mercenary associations exist in name only!

When lone wolves entered Brotherhood, they could accept a variety of high-paying missions internally. As long as one had the ability, Brotherhood was a gold mine to be dug! As for requesters, as long as one had money, Brotherhood could meet all their requirements!

Surprisingly, the genius-like leader had not shown up even until the end.

If that organization was in the hands of Lin Jie, he would have the capital for confrontation!

“Master…”

A deep howling came from inside the door. The Giant Werewolf Timmy greedily drooled. In front of him, Galru was on the verge of death with his health bar almost empty.

—’You have applied to create a special communication channel, please enter the name.’

Brotherhood!

—’Available for use, allocating a random channel code.’

In just two seconds, the channel code was allocated: 90090. Lin Jie was startled as that was the channel code of Brotherhood in his previous life! One should know that the allocation of a channel code was relatively random!

At that moment, fate was surprisingly coincidental!

Such a large organization naturally required strict rules and restrictions with no trace of loopholes.

Lin Jie directly used the rules of that founder in his previous life and wrote up to tens of thousands of words. It included organization rules, hierarchy, details on employment rules and so on.

The members of the organization were divided into ten levels according to equipment, levels, mission completion, and reputation. Among them, an average member could only reach the fifth level, unless they had completed the leveling up job mission or had a special identity such as the Holy Church Cardinal. Only then would one be allowed to continue advancing.

After setting up the various rules of Brotherhood…

Since Lin Jie had not gotten the item that could change the name of players, he could only set it to be anonymous. The NPC that sold that item was at the end of the Town of Meyer, wandering around the borders of guilds and tribes.

For Brotherhood, that was a necessity.

Lin Jie ordered, “Kill.”

“ARH-WOOO!” Timmy was like a wild runaway horse, the pillar-sized arm suddenly smashed down heavily, turning Galru into a pile of muddy flesh!

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“Pant— Pant—”

Dual Swordsman Cigarette Butt’s eyes were red. When Galru’s health bar was lower than 20%, it would go into Insane Mode. Anybody who went within 10 yards radius of Galru would transform into Overlord Werewolf, even its breath was highly toxic. Even if one drank the Poison-Antidote Potion immediately, it would also be useless. If one was attacked, it would be instant kill!

MT was unable to pull the boss’ aggro, which caused everyone to be overcautious and fearful, unable to attack to their hearts’ content.

Shallow Smile’s limpid eyes stared closely at the aggro list. Although the MT’s aggro value was ranked first, the other people’s aggro value only lagged behind by a small difference.

Once the aggro OT, it would mean the start of the team’s wipe out!

Kingdom of Glory’s team could only try its best to control the Boss’ aggro value, making every target have a steady output, until the last explosion of attacks!

Galru’s Health Points decreased slowly under everyone’s tenterhooks, finally welcoming the final moment: the last 2,000 Health Points!

However, everyone’s aggro value was already nearing the danger line. If anybody’s output was in excess, it would upset the present situation, having the Boss to attack crazily.

“Ranged, full output. Melee, block and attack!” Cigarette Butt clenched his teeth.

Shallow Smile’s palms had the arcane radiance flashing. Her fingers flicked lightly, and destructive arcane energy swept away like waves! It hit Galru’s head, and a huge 70 over damage points popped up from his head.

“Presence of Mind, Arcane Blast!” Shallow Smile shouted lightly, two arcane waves of energy were released continuously!

Presence of Mind was the arcane mage’s unique skill, and its cooldown time was as high as 6 hours. It could reduce one arcane skill’s cooldown time and release time to be zero. Level 1 Presence of Mind could support two times magic attack under 10 seconds.

Galru’s health bar that hung by a thread decreased again! At the same time, Cigarette Butt roared and picked up his dual swords. As Galru had thrown out a chaotic shadow, he stood in front of Shallow Smile to block the attack and was instantly corroded by the shadow until nothing was left!

Galru’s output had gone through the roof!

“Everyone, attack! All melee, protect me!” Shallow Smile ordered. Because of that explosive output, her output and aggro values were steadily ranked first now. Even if the whole team died, as long as she was alive, there would be a slim chance of survival!

All melee such as Shield Specialists and Holy Paladins stood in front of Shallow Smile one after the other. They used their life as a shield, blocking each deadly attack!

At the same time, the rest of the mages and priests took out their treasured collection of potions and poured them into their mouths, shouting, ” Protect big sis! Everyone, drink potions! Fight with your lives on the line!”

Concurrently, the forum burst out in fiery discussions.

Regardless whether that was a show or not, Kingdom of Glory’s united and powerful strength had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. As long as Castle Wood was cleared, its reputation would rise to a peak.

“Kill it quickly!”

“Shallow Smile is too beautiful, she will be my goddess from now on.”

“Another Shield Specialist died, these are the elites of Kingdom of Glory! Are levels worthless to them?”

“Worth it my ass! This is glory, glory do you understand?”

Shallow Smile looked at her teammates being instantly killed one by one successively to protect her, her pretty face filled with pain. Even they could not help loving her upon seeing her expression. How they wished they could offer their shoulders to her and let her rest against them.

“Big sis, be careful!” A chaotic shadow suddenly shot towards her, all the melee had already died! A priest pushed Shadow Priests away and was burnt to ashes by the shadow.

Shallow Smile shouted coldly, “Die! Arcane Eruption!”

Boom—

It formed a spear, instantly piercing Galru’s heart! All of Galru’s actions stopped immediately, his huge body slowly fell down.

Victory!

Ding~

—System announcement: Congratulations to “Brotherhood” for getting the first clear on Castle Wood! Reward team leader “XX (Anonymous)” 20,000 experience points, 15 silver coins. As the team with the first clear on Castle Wood, you shall receive an additional reward “Galru’s Grimoire.”

The World announcement was made for a total of three times. Everyone was astonished. The first clear of Castle Wood was not the Kingdom of Glory but… Brotherhood? What team was that?

“WTF, only one name? A single person clear?” Some attentive players shouted out.

“Brotherhood, this name is amazing!”

The forum’s famous reporter, Junior Mo was so anxious that he was covered in sweat. The interview he prepared earlier with Cigarette Butt had to be changed urgently now. It was as if the interview of a drama continued throughout the entire shooting process, but later, it was found out that the interviewed man was not the protagonist. That hurt the reporter’s heart very much!

As a professional reporter, he had a keen sense for big events. When the world announcement appeared, he was shocked. ‘Another anonymous player?’ He then quickly checked the previously collected screenshots, and he immediately went to the forum to post while laughing.

“This Brotherhood’s player should be the person that hid his name when clearing Cat Demon Lair!” Junior Mo was determined in his judgment, as for evidence, just because both anonymous had used “two letters.”

Although this guess did not have enough evidence to support it, that did not hinder the crowd from gossiping.

In an instant, human flesh search mode was on, and all the professional gamers that had a bit of fame or had changed names were searched thoroughly by the excited crowd!

However, the data on Brotherhood was – None! There was no information! Who the hell were they?

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Shallow Smile’s Arcane Eruption pierced through Galru’s chest and gave a faint smile. ‘Succeeded! The first clear belongs to the Kingdom of Glory!’

They never expected that in the next second bad news would follow: First clear was taken by Brotherhood! All their efforts these days, making live video open to the public on the clearing progress, became a huge joke!

They had become another party’s stepping stone to gaining fame!

Shallow Smile nearly fainted from anger. When her teammates revived and came back, she let loose a torrent of abuse, “Trash, a bunch of trash! Just missed it by half a second! Were you all dilly-dallying as though having constipation while shitting?”

She scolded them right in their face, and even Cigarette Butt was ruthlessly scolded with a few phrases like “Useless assh*le.”

“Big-big sis.”

“Hurry shoot!”

“The video… Is still on.”

“…”

The Kingdom of Glory, lost face big time. Originally, according to the development of the matter, even if they failed to get the first clear, they could rely on their selfless contribution of the Boss’ information and their actions at the last moments, them sacrificing themselves to protect others and defending their glory. That would also leave a very high reputation for them.

But now, their grand plan was ruined!

“You… I…” Shallow Smile clutched her chest, and her body slowly fell.

She had fainted from anger!