MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

There were hundreds of lifestyle classes in the King of Pantheon. The majority of them were available when the game was released but only a few of them such as Engineer were activated through unique quests.

The majority of the lifestyle classes had levels. They were Beginner-level, Intermediate-level, Master-level, Grandmaster-level, Epic-level, and Legendary-Level respectively.

The benefits it could bring towards the players increased as the lifestyle class level increased. In order to increase the level of the lifestyle class, one would have to spend a lot of time and money on it. Take Li Yi’s Apothecarist class for example. He had been training for half a year since the server was opened and he was only able to reach Intermediate-level even with the required ingredients.

One could see that it was not easy to reach to the very top.

The quest given by Vladimir was to let players hand the Encyclopedia of Engineering back to him. When players did so, not only were they unable to activate the lifestyle class Engineer, they would obtain very little EXP. Completing the quest that way was not worth it at all.

When a player’s Reputation Value had reached Worship, some NPCs would reveal a hint to the player whenever they would talk about the Dwarfs. They would reveal the secret of the Encyclopedia of Engineering, where anyone would be able to learn the contents within the Encyclopedia of Engineering if it was opened.

Now Li Yi did not have to worry about mastering it at all as the legendary Engineer’s mastery level was maxed out. He would be able to create every Engineering item as long as he had the necessary design plans and materials.

Although the reward of 10,000,000 Gold Coins and 10 Skill Points were extremely tempting, it was nothing compared to a maxed out legendary Engineering class. This was Li Yi’s true objective for conquering the Fire Devil Instance Dungeon. He was after the Encyclopedia of Engineering from the very beginning.

The party was eligible to obtain the Encyclopedia of Engineering if they had obtained the first kill of Ivrit and taken Vladimir’s quest. If no one in the party who had obtained the first kill picked it up, the opportunity to obtain it would be automatically delayed. Furthermore, while the Encyclopedia of Engineering was not unique, one must defeat Ivrit and survive to be eligible to loot it. Players who were resurrected by Karone were not eligible at all.

Since Li Yi was the only one who had survived in the hundred-man party, he was the only one qualified to loot it.

Li Yi had once again shifted the game’s progression after this incident.

In the past life, there were three survivors from Dream Guild when the party defeated Ivrit. All three of them had, without exception, became a Legendary-level Engineer immediately.

As three people ascended to Legendary-level Engineer, this incident soon became public knowledge. It had caused an uproar among the community and many players had protested and wanted the moderators to revise the rewards. They would refuse to log into the game as long as the rewards did not change.

This incident lasted for more than two months before the moderators decided to tone down the reward to Master-level.

The Legendary-level Engineer incident would cause a huge impact because it was the only incident where the moderators had backed down and revised the game. With this being the only exception, the alteration of the gaming experience was left to the computer’s algorithm.

As Li Yi had taken the opportunity to seize it in this life, in light of what happened, he would never reveal to the public that he had become a Legendary-level Engineer.

This news where the Little Drunk Cat had obtained the first kill of Ivrit had shook the entire gaming community.

It was not just the eastern continent. This incident had even reached the ears of the western and southern continent’s gaming community as well.

It was easy to see why this news shook the world. Although the two continents did not have the Fire Devil Dungeon, there were similarly difficult Instance Dungeons for the players to conquer. The rewards were completely almost similar as well, which was an Encyclopedia of Engineering. The only difference was that the eastern continent, the western continent, and the southern continent’s reward was the Dwarf’s Encyclopedia of Engineering, Goblin’s Encyclopedia of Engineering, and Gnome’s Encyclopedia of Engineering respectively.

Since the class Engineer was open to everyone in every server, The players from the western and southern continents were barred from obtaining any better reward than what the Little Drunk Cat got. From now on, even if they had cleared the Instance Dungeon, they were not the world’s first.

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“This is unfair. On what basis does the eastern continent have the privilege of getting the Instance Dungeon earlier than the rest of us every time? On what basis that our Instance Dungeon is released in our server a month later than theirs?” The southern continent’s players were protesting on the Pantheon’s official forum via English.

“We want a fair game. This is the voice of millions of players from the southern continent. We only have one request and that is to release the Instance Dungeons to everyone at the same time!”

The foreign players from the southern continent had signed a petition as a form of protest at the official forum. Some 10,000,000 southern players’ signatures were collected in just a day.

“We would like to apologize to the southern continent’s players. We do not wish to perpetuate such an issue as well but due to multiple factors at play, it’s impossible to release the Instance Dungeons to everyone at the same time. We hope that this issue would be resolved in the near future. Stay tuned for more information.”

The Pantheon’s official forum ultimately posted a response after a six-month-long protest from the southern continent’s players.

The protest was essentially ineffective. It was the player’s decision to play the game. Ultimately, it was impossible to release all Instance Dungeons simultaneously at this time…

As the game officials were very firm on this point, many of the southern continent’s top players had traveled across the sea to China after the Little Drunk Cat guild had cleared the Fire Devil Dungeon. They had converted into eastern continent players for one purpose, which was to be able to enter the latest Instance Dungeon at the same time as them…

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Shen Lang was indeed a genius. In a very short timeframe, he discovered that Qing Pingle had betrayed the guild. What astonished Li Yi was that the first person who had managed to purchase the recording of the battle against the Instance Dungeon’s boss was not the Star Fire Guild or the War God Clan. It was Little Drunk Cat’s ally, the God Creator Guild!

“Qing Pingle had auctioned the recording of the Instance Dungeon’s battle online and it was purchased by Confused Fox at an astronomical price. Both parties had agreed that they would not resell yet but Qing Pingle sold the recording for a second time to the War God Clan and a third time to Star Fire Guild…”

Shen Lang had more to report but Li Yi did not wish to listen to anymore.

“Guild Master Fox, there’s something I wish to discuss with you…” Having settled the recording incident, Li Yi then contacted Old Fox.

“Qing Pingle? Why would I want to recruit him? Brother Dark Wing, I would never do such a thing. Don’t you worry… Don’t you worry…”

Li Yi talked to a few guilds that had good relations with him to blacklist Qing Pingle from their guilds before executing his own plan.

One must never forget that Li Yi was a notorious cheater in his past life. Although he swore that he would never scam any innocents in this life, Li Yi would feel uneasy if he were to not teach such a disgusting person a lesson.

On the second day after the Little Drunk Cat guild had cleared the Fire Devil Dungeon, a hostile message was posted on the official forum. A White Elf Priest named An Ruoyi raged and accused Li Yi of hoarding the dropped Gold Coins and equipment to himself.

Her argument was that no one other than Li Yi had obtained a system reward of 10,000,000 Gold Coins. In addition to that, three purple equipment and some 50 gold equipment were all hoarded by Li Yi. He was a complete *sshole.

As An Ruoyi called out on all sorts of Li Yi’s atrocious deeds, she had also rage quit the guild.

At least 500 people quit the guild under her influence. The guild’s reputation was greatly affected and this incident became one of the hottest topics where the thread gained more than 50,000,000 hits.

Immediately after An Ruoyi posted the thread, Dark Wing stepped out into the public and sincerely requested she return back into the guild. However, the former stood by her decision firmly.

“There’s only one way for me to return back to the guild. The three purple equipment must be distributed equally and the 50 gold equipment must be given to all party members. As for the 10,000,000 Gold Coins, in my opinion, it needs to be placed in the guild inventory.”

After An Ruoyi stated her demand, Dark Wing stopped showing his face in public.

Then, a rumor started to spread. The reason Dark Wing begged An Ruoyi to return to the guild was that An Ruoyi had the most wanted recording of the battle against the Instance Dungeon’s boss, Ivrit.

Although the first kill reward had been obtained by Little Drunk Cat, many major guilds did not want to accept such a result. Who would not want to know how did the Little Drunk Cat obtained the first kill? Was it through their skill? Or was it through exploiting a bug?

Rumors spread like wildfire. Countless people reached out to An Ruoyi and were willing to purchase the recording at a high price.

“The only person I hate is Dark Wing. I won’t do anything that would betray my comrades!” An Ruoyi voiced out her opinion on the forum and had attracted praises from countless people. Furthermore, then there were people who had taken An Ruoyi as their idol.

Naturally, many major guilds still wished to see the video. If they could not do it openly, perhaps they could get it under the table?

As An Ruoyi joined a small guild, a certain person reached out to her.

It was none other than Qing Pingle.

Although he had been killed endlessly by the Little Drunk Cat guild, he had earned a huge amount of real money. The level and equipment that were lost did not matter to him much. Although it was rather frustrating, he could still get it back if he took the time to grind.

“Why are you trying to contact me? Do you think I’m the same as you? Traitor!”

Qing Pingle was indifferent to An Ruoyi’s scoldings. He started to bring up the times that he was treated unfairly in the Little Drunk Cat guild.

“I’m a Mount Vagabond. I need archer class equipment as well. Why must all the good stuff from the Instance Dungeons belong to Dark Wing? I’ve gotten nothing and I even have to buy my own Potions. He hoarded all the benefits to himself. Do you think I would have betrayed him if it wasn’t for this?”

Qing Pingle started fanning the flames and An Ruoyi was emotionally swayed as she started to curse Li Yi together with him.

Both of them naturally decided to trade. Qing Pingle had used all of his savings, which was about 2,500,000 dollars to purchase An Ruoyi’s video of Ivrit’s battle. In order to ensure that both parties were not scammed in this trade, they had used an advanced intermediary system to successfully execute the trade.

“Guild master, it’s done.” The moment the trade had completed, An Ruoyi immediately sent a message to Li Yi.

Li Yi then immediately sent a message to Pretty Good Mood. “Immediately upload the battle of the Instance Dungeon’s boss, Ivrit onto the website!”

Then, Li Yi spent 100 Gold Coins and announced across the entire server.

“In order to repay every player in this server, the Little Drunk Cat has decided to broadcast the recording of the battle against Ivrit. You can view it by logging onto the website.”

As Qing Pingle saw the message, his face turned pale as if someone had slammed a hammer onto his chest as he fainted…