Chapter 40 Crossroads

At level 40, the seven major classes each reached a fork in the road, with each class dividing into two routes. These two routes not only signified different skills, but also revised the attribute growth during the initial stages. Therefore, after completing the class change quest, the system would grant a one-time stat reset, allowing players to reallocate their stat points.

When this rule was first announced, a significant number of players beat their chests and stamped their feet. If they had known about this stat reset opportunity sooner, they wouldn't have been so careful with their stat allocations. Many players had reserved half of their points, hoping to allocate them to the most needed areas after clarifying their character build. These people all prided themselves on being farsighted experts. Now that this rule was announced, it was equivalent to suffering a silent loss. Knowing that they had allocated half as many points, their leveling journey had been much more difficult.

Since things had already come to this, complaining was useless. Everyone had already begun to research the two routes for their respective classes.

The Warrior class was divided into Juggernaut Warriors and Berserker Warriors. The former prioritized defense, making the warrior's vitality even more prominent, while the latter focused on attack output, becoming a very powerful combat force.

Thieves would have the Assassin and Thief routes. The former would have greater damage ability, while the latter would be more advantageous in the sneaky, traditional style of thieves.

Priests and Knights both had Light and Dark divisions. It was said that the Light continued to have the ability to powerfully assist teammates, while the Dark would have curse-like skills and spells.

Fighters would be divided into Fist Masters and Qigong Masters. The former would continue to fight with their bare hands, while the latter would be supplemented by powerful inner force, said to possess area-of-effect damage abilities not inferior to those of mages.

Archers would become Marksmen and Stalkers. Both maintained the archer's characteristic of ambushing people, but the former continued to leverage long-range attack advantages, while the latter gained the ability to set traps.

Finally, there was the Mage class. The distinction between Water and Lightning seemed to be the most rigid class division from the skills announced by the official. The main difference was the freezing effect often associated with water skills and the shock effect often associated with lightning spells. Other than that, there didn't seem to be as distinct of two paths as the other classes. The most obvious proof was that the Mage class was the only one that could completely follow the previous intellect-focused stat allocation method, regardless of which class route they switched to.

The six members of Young Master's Elite group included the six major classes besides Fighter. Currently, everyone except Gu Fei could undergo class change, but as experts, they were still observing and weighing the pros and cons. As for whether they would suffer a silent loss from reserving points like last time, only heaven knew.

After giving the Wind Chasing Emblem to Yu Tian Shen Ming, this guy was radiant and ready to go. Movement speed was extremely important for archers. The most common "kiting" style of play required sufficient movement speed to guarantee success. For any archer choosing equipment, the importance of shoes even exceeded that of weapons. With such an excellent pair of Wind Chasing Boots, and the fact that they would definitely be given as long as he met the quest requirements, Yu Tian Shen Ming was gritting his teeth to get a pair.

"But it's strange," Brother You said, "your emblem and shoes are both from the same quest system, and their names are so similar, why aren't they a set?"

Set equipment would be displayed in green font and would activate hidden attributes. Gu Fei's two items were clearly not. Moreover, they weren't even purple-grade equipment, just gold-grade.

Gu Fei was naturally unaware of this, but Yu Tian Shen Ming was satisfied enough with just the shoes and didn't care about anything else. After equipping the Wind Chasing Emblem, he said to Gu Fei, "Alright, I'm going to farm bounty quests now, I'll leave the leveling to you."

"Wait? What leveling?" Gu Fei grabbed him.

"I've been taking a group of beauties from Rebirth Crimson Crystal leveling every day! Now I have to go farm bounties, so you can take my place, since you want to level up anyway! I've already told them, meet at the East Gate Tavern at 7:15, you should recognize them. Okay, I'm off. Don't forget!" Yu Tian Shen Ming said before disappearing in a puff of smoke.

"Oh, it's already 7 o'clock? I have to go too!" Zhan Wu Shang glanced at the time and quickly stood up, "I'm slow, so I have to leave early," he muttered as he got up.

"I'm going to start a raid too, I'll leave with you!" Brother You left together with Zhan Wu Shang.

In the blink of an eye, three of the six had left. Gu Fei looked around the private room, leaving only Jian Gui and Young Master Han, his closest comrades.

"What about you two, shouldn't you go find a party to level up? Or you could take that whatever-whatever team for me?" Gu Fei always leveled alone, and the task Yu Tian Shen Ming had given him felt too stressful.

"I always level alone," Jian Gui said.

"I never level at this time," Young Master Han said, drinking his wine, "too many people." After dinner and before bedtime was always the peak online time for online games.

Gu Fei sighed. It seemed that he couldn't count on anyone this time and had to bite the bullet and go himself.

He got up and changed into his most stylish Dark Night Spirit Robe, carried the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword on his back, put his hands in his pockets, and Gu Fei also left.

"He's actually a mage!" Young Master Han said with emotion, watching Gu Fei's departing figure.

At this time, the game had gone through more than a month of development, and black mage robes were no longer anything new. Clothes weren't like weapons, where the best ones would have a glow. Ordinary people couldn't tell the difference between good and bad with the naked eye. As for the glowing Dark Night Flowing Light Sword, that was something Gu Fei deliberately exposed in the hopes of attracting the attention of some bad guys. But heaven didn't comply with his wishes. Those bandits and robbers who coveted the best equipment were nowhere to be found, and no one had come to bother Gu Fei yet.

As he walked towards the East Gate, he saw a crowd of women gathered outside the East Gate Tavern from afar. Gu Fei looked at the time, 7:10, he had arrived 5 minutes earlier than the appointed time. It was said that women were always late, but it didn't seem to be the case in the game!

As he got closer, he counted nine people in total. He recognized two, Bing Liu Li and Luo Luo, and he was a little familiar with three others. He had never seen the other four before.

After its official launch, Rebirth Crimson Crystal had grown quite rapidly, and had always adhered to the principle of only accepting female players. To date, it had grown to 57 people, with Gu Fei still being the only male player.

Seventh Month seemed to understand that Gu Fei and them didn't really click. Usually, when the guild teamed up for leveling, quests, or anything else, they would notify Gu Fei, but they always emphasized that it was optional. So Gu Fei casually said, "I'm used to leveling alone," and Seventh Month stopped bothering him from then on.

He would occasionally meet these girls on the road, but for the most part, Gu Fei only found them familiar and couldn't even remember their names. He didn't dare to greet them casually on the road, for fear of mistaking them for someone else. As a result, a month passed, and Gu Fei and Rebirth Crimson Crystal were like parallel lines that never intersected. Gu Fei was curious how long Seventh Month could tolerate his nominal existence.

Today, thanks to Yu Tian Shen Ming, Gu Fei was finally going to have an intersection with Rebirth Crimson Crystal.

As he approached the nine girls, unfortunately Luo Luo and Bing Liu Li were facing away from him, the other four girls didn't recognize Gu Fei at all, and the other three looked at Gu Fei the same way Gu Fei looked at them, slightly familiar, but afraid of mistaking him for someone else, they didn't dare greet him easily.

"Cough!" Gu Fei coughed behind Luo Luo.

Luo Luo turned her head, saw Gu Fei, and smiled: "Oh, I didn't expect to really be able to invite you."

Gu Fei grinned: "Long time no see." He hadn't seen Luo Luo in more than a month. In online games, this was enough for a pair of close friends to become strangers.

Luo Luo pulled him to greet the girls: "Let me introduce you to everyone, this is Thousand Miles Drunk!"

"Ah!" The four girls looked surprised. Everyone thought that the only male player in Rebirth Crimson Crystal, this all-female guild, must have something extraordinary about him. According to common sense, this person either had an unusual relationship with a core member of the guild, or although he seemed like a male player, he actually had the heart of a woman.

However, after a little inquiry, these two pieces of gossip were quickly overturned. Other than that, even people who knew Gu Fei, such as Seventh Month and Luo Luo, knew very little about him. On the other hand, the two outside aids of Rebirth Crimson Crystal, Zhan Wu Shang and Yu Tian Shen Ming, seemed to be his close friends.

Many girls wanted to dig up Gu Fei's information from these two. It was just that these two guys were very wary in this regard. Hearing that the girls were all curious about Gu Fei, they became nervous, so the description of Gu Fei was imaginable.

The girls weren't stupid either. After hearing more, they naturally heard that these two guys were talking nonsense, so Gu Fei became even more mysterious.

At this time, the mysterious figure suddenly appeared, and the four new girls were a little excited, almost asking for autographs.

"What gossip does this guy have, we must dig it out!" the four girls thought. This was the spirit of female players. They didn't care much about other people's strength. They hoped to meet people with stories, interesting people.

"Everyone's here, let's go?" Luo Luo said, sending Gu Fei a team invitation.

Gu Fei joined the team, and Luo Luo smiled: "You're filling Yu Tian's spot, so you're the leader!" Saying that, Luo Luo transferred the captaincy to Gu Fei, and then there was a burst of system notifications, and the team disbanded.

"What's going on?" The girls were at a loss.

"My command value is only 1," Gu Fei calmly replied. Forming a team in Parallel World wasn't casual. There was a command value attribute that affected the number of people this person could lead as captain. For every 1 point of command value, five players could be added to the team. Usually, serving as captain for leveling and doing some quests could earn command experience. Obviously, Gu Fei hadn't participated in these activities. He didn't meet the requirements for this ten-person team.

The girls were in an uproar. A ten-person team only needed 2 points of command value, but Gu Fei didn't even have that. It was so shocking. This was really no ordinary person, the four new girls were excited.

"Then I'll lead the team!" Luo Luo said helplessly, reassembling the team.

Everyone set off towards the leveling area, with Gu Fei walking at the end of the team. The four new girls huddled together and whispered for a while, then finally chose a representative and came to Gu Fei's side.

"Brother Thousand Miles~~" the girl called.

"Just call me Thousand Miles," Gu Fei said, breaking out in a cold sweat, completely struck by the thunderous address. Although this girl was indeed just a little girl, the more she was like this, the more Gu Fei couldn't bear the title. Don't forget that Gu Fei was a teacher, and a student-like girl called the teacher "brother"... Just imagining it again, Gu Fei secretly spat out another mouthful of blood in his heart.

"Oh, Thousand Miles~~" the little girl called shyly again.

"What's the matter?" Gu Fei asked, stealing a glance at Luo Luo in front.

Luo Luo was also turning her head to look, giving Gu Fei an ambiguous smile when she saw him looking at her. At the same time, Gu Fei received a message, opened it, and it was indeed Luo Luo: "Little LoLi is cute, right?"

"What are you talking about..." Gu Fei broke out in a sweat.

"Would you mind if I asked you a few questions?" the little girl said.

"Go ahead!" Gu Fei replied.

"When did you join Rebirth Crimson Crystal?" the little girl asked.

"When it was just established," Gu Fei said.

"Why did you join this all-female guild?"

"There weren't enough people, I helped out in response," Gu Fei said.

"Why can't we see you usually?"

"Uh, I'm used to leveling alone," Gu Fei said.

"Are you very familiar with Guild Leader Seventh Month?"

"So-so!" Gu Fei said.

"Oh, thank you," the little girl said and went back to her group of four.

Gu Fei was at a loss. Did these few questions have any special meaning? Gu Fei obviously didn't understand this kind of gossip spirit of digging up the inside story from ordinary things.

Seeing the four little girls huddled together whispering, constantly glancing at him, Gu Fei felt a cold wind blowing on his body, a dangerous feeling. I don't know what their conspiracy is, I have to find someone to take the blame. Gu Fei thought, quickening his pace, walking to the front of the team, walking with Luo Luo, and starting a conversation intentionally or unintentionally: "Where are we leveling?"

"Cloudglow Valley," Luo Luo said.

"Oh, I know this place well," Gu Fei said, "I've been leveling there for a month."

Luo Luo was stunned. A month ago, it was the era when everyone was at level 30. Leveling in Cloudglow Valley at that time meant that he had the strength to fight monsters 10 levels higher. A mage could actually level alone 10 levels higher... Luo Luo knew that Gu Fei might not be simple, but she didn't think he had such strong strength. This should belong to the top players in the game.

"Then where are you leveling now?" Luo Luo asked curiously.

"I don't level much, I've been farming bounty quests," Gu Fei said. Usually, Gu Fei only spent about two hours a day farming monsters. Compared to Jian Gui and those guys, Gu Fei really didn't think this could be considered leveling. But if he said where he farmed monsters, it would be enough to shock Luo Luo to death.

Cloudfall Peak, a level 60 leveling area, was definitely a place that ordinary players had never even been to.

"Bounty quests, do they level up quickly?" Luo Luo asked strangely.

"No, I'm just playing around," Gu Fei said.

Gu Fei's level was declining sharply on the overall experience list in Parallel World, but it wasn't very obvious in the Rebirth Crimson Crystal guild. He was still considered an upper-class figure in the guild. The girls chatted and gossiped every day, and didn't pay much attention to efficiency when leveling, so their leveling speed wasn't outstanding at all. To be honest, Gu Fei helped them a lot by introducing Zhan Wu Shang and Yu Tian Shen Ming, two experts. If it weren't for these two experts sitting in command and assisting, the levels of the Rebirth Crimson Crystal girls would only be even more terrible.

Gu Fei looked to the side and saw Bing Liu Li silently walking next to him with her head down.

"Does Little Bing not recognize me?" Bing Liu Li saw that Gu Fei hadn't greeted her.

"Ah! No, I do!" Bing Liu Li raised her head in a panic.

"Don't just tease our shy girls, go play with the little girls in the back," Luo Luo said unhappily, pulling Bing Liu Li to her side.

"What are you talking about!" Gu Fei was about to faint. Luo Luo's meaning seemed like he had bad intentions, "Do you think I'm Yu Tian!"

"Ah!" Luo Luo was stunned, "It seems so!"

"That beast," Gu Fei said with contempt.

Bing Liu Li suddenly smiled: "He said the same thing about you."

"Why did he say that about me?" Gu Fei said.

"It's nothing, just that when he mentioned you, he replaced you with 'that beast' or 'that animal'," Luo Luo smiled.

"Wait till I kill him!" Gu Fei said hatefully.

The girls burst into laughter. "Bragging!" Everyone pointed at Gu Fei and said.

Gu Fei was at a loss, not understanding why he got such a big reaction for saying a casual sentence. Of course, he didn't know that although Yu Tian Shen Ming wasn't anything in his eyes, he was actually a very outstanding expert. Although the girls were of average level, they had been in contact for so long that they could naturally see that, not to mention that Yu Tian Shen Ming's name was a brand.

Now that Gu Fei's level was lower than Yu Tian Shen Ming's, and his class was a mage who was countered by Yu Tian Shen Ming, saying that he wanted to kill Yu Tian Shen Ming would naturally be regarded as bragging.

They chatted idly, and everyone finally arrived at Cloudglow Valley.

At this time, Cloudglow Valley wasn't as desolate as when Gu Fei was leveling there. As the leveling area with the most players at present, the mountains and plains were full of people. Gu Fei followed in the team, looking around, unable to find any place where ten people could level.

As they walked, the girls stopped, and Luo Luo frowned as she looked ahead.

The girls were also talking: "It's them again."

"What's wrong?" Gu Fei asked.

"This area should be ours in Rebirth Crimson Crystal, but these people haven't been able to find a place these days, and they like to come to this area. We've had duels several times," Luo Luo said.

"Duels?" Gu Fei didn't understand.

Luo Luo looked at him with an even more incomprehensible look.

"Duel what?" Gu Fei asked again.

"For the leveling area! The current leveling areas are overcrowded. There's always fighting and no one can level well, so everyone..."

"Oh, I understand." Gu Fei did understand. The brave and fierce Moonlit Night City had this rule. Because the leveling area couldn't bear so many players leveling together, it was impossible not to have disputes. But large-scale team pvp was definitely not worth the loss, so the rule of sending representatives to duel appeared. He didn't expect Cloudend City to be like this now. This fully showed that the wisdom of the people was the same.

"Then let's pick!" Gu Fei said.

"But Yu Tian isn't here," Luo Luo said worriedly, "he's always been the one to go. Besides him, I'm not capable, Little Bing is a mage, and the others are low level."

"I'll go!" Gu Fei patted his chest.

"You're also a mage!" Luo Luo was surprised. From a conventional point of view, duels were a mage's weakness. Although Luo Luo felt that Gu Fei was also capable, she didn't think that Gu Fei would be stronger than old experts like Yu Tian Shen Ming. Gu Fei had almost died at the hands of Little Rain, and this situation would never happen to Yu Tian Shen Ming.

Before they could finish discussing, the guys in the leveling area had obviously seen Gu Fei and them. Obviously, they were also familiar faces to them. An ordinary guy whistled and shouted, "Beauties, you're here again."

"Aren't you guys shameless! You've lost several times, and you still come here," a girl shouted.

"Perseverance! This spirit is worth learning," someone on the other side shouted, making it clear that they would be shameless to the end.

Gu Fei didn't wait for Luo Luo to reply and took the initiative to walk to the front: "Where's the one who wants to duel, come out!"

The other side was stunned to see Gu Fei: "Why did you change people? Where's that arrogant kid, call him out!"

"He's not here," Gu Fei said.

The other side immediately whispered. They had lost to Yu Tian Shen Ming several times in a row, and they dared to come again, so naturally they were prepared. In order to deal with Yu Tian Shen Ming, they specially found a thief expert, ready to use class advantage. They also saw that among this group of people, except for Yu Tian Shen Ming, the other girls didn't have much pvp ability, so they didn't expect to change people at the last minute.

But they really didn't expect that the other side would maintain the same lineup for several days, but today Yu Tian Shen Ming was gone, and a new character had come.

"Identify, identify!" The other side didn't want to lose again.

"Mage!" After the identification result came out, everyone was overjoyed. Although the equipment and other places were marked with question marks, no one cared. Dueling with a mage was easy.

"Who's going?" Everyone started to compete. To be honest, this team had been intentionally fighting with Rebirth Crimson Crystal for this leveling area. After taking the leveling area, they would very generously invite the girls to level together. Although the two teams would be a little crowded, it was better than not having a leveling area. Then, they would naturally get to know each other.

This was the original intention of this team. Who knew that although this group of girls wasn't strong, they had a thorny archer in their team, and several people had been defeated in a row for several days. Although they had invited a thief today, they were still a little uneasy. Now that they saw that the other side's expert was gone and a mage had come to challenge, everyone wanted to come out and show their face in front of the girls.

"By the way," Gu Fei turned his head and asked Luo Luo: "This pk has to be merciful and stop when the other side yields, right?"

Luo Luo nodded, but she was confused. This question didn't need to be asked at all. Players had come up with this method to avoid losing levels and losses. How could they pk to the death?

"Be careful," Luo Luo came over and whispered to Gu Fei: "This pk isn't light or heavy, so you can't say for sure. You can't say anything afterward."

"Don't worry, I'll be careful," Gu Fei said.

Luo Luo nodded: "If it doesn't work, come down quickly, we'll find another place."

Gu Fei was stunned: "When I said be careful, I meant that I would be careful not to kill them..."

The girls were stunned, and the guys on the other side also heard clearly, and suddenly they were boiling.

"This guy is even more arrogant than that stinky kid!" someone scolded.

Gu Fei didn't bother to explain and took two more steps forward, rubbing his hands and asking: "Who's coming!"

"I'll go!" A thief stood out from the crowd. He had been invited today to deal with Yu Tian Shen Ming. When the others saw him stand up, they were too embarrassed to compete with him.

Gu Fei nodded and asked: "How much hp do you have?"

"What?" the other side was stunned.

"I said how much hp do you have?" Gu Fei said seriously.

"What are you doing? How can I tell you that!" The other side was surprised. This was a pk, of course his data should be kept as secret as possible. How could he ask like that?

"If you don't tell me your hp, I can't be merciful!" Gu Fei was still very serious. He wasn't the type of online game expert like Jian Gui and them. Those guys knew the game data like the back of their hand and could roughly judge some of their opponent's data by using identification techniques. Gu Fei had no concept of this at all, only saw that the other party was a thief, which was a squishy class, within his spell-kill range. Asking about the other party's hp was really out of kindness.

But ordinary players couldn't understand this kind of different thinking. Under a burst of scolding, the thief also felt that he was being greatly discriminated against and said angrily: "Kid, I want to play a deathmatch with you!"

Deathmatch meant fighting until one side died, a special term invented by some show-offs. When facing some opponents who were obviously inferior to themselves, asking "do you want to have a deathmatch" before the fight seemed to make themselves very imposing.

Gu Fei had also heard of this term, and smiled at this time: "Is that necessary? It's getting harder and harder to level up now!"

The other party thought that Gu Fei was afraid and became even more smug: "Don't be polite, aren't you afraid that you can't be merciful? I'll give you this opportunity, if you have the ability, pk me to death!"

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6000 words are here~~ Oh no, it's 7000 words~~

The chapter number of the previous chapter was written wrong... But, this can't be changed~