MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

“For you!”

Little Elf from the Magical Realm tossed the Curse Blade over to Xu Man. Cyclone Thieves specialized in double weaponry. This shortsword was perfect for her.

“Spawn camp him!”

The four females were still fuming with rage. Xu Man initially wanted to just log off but had a change of heart after Hostile Mutilation had pissed her off. Judging by her stance, she would rather miss out on her conference than not have her revenge on him.

Li Yi took a look at the time before shaking his head. “I’m not going to camp. King of Souls’ about to arrive.”

King of Souls would descend from the sky every now and then to massacre all players around the Ancient Civilization Ruins. Newbies would be unaware of the massacre period, unlike Li Yi.

Five hours on the ground with resurrection being restricted. That sort of punishment was not something Li Yi wanted to go through.

Xu Man was not ready to let it go, “Are we just going to leave him be?”

“He’ll be lying there for at least 24 hours. Just wait for him to resurrect if you don’t wanna leave.”

Li Yi waved the orange bow in his hand and summoned the Blue-horned Griffin to fly off.

When he killed Hostile Mutilation earlier, he activated the Soul Bind effect of his bow. This move was more monstrous than King of Soul’s Soul Imprisonment, the effect extending up to 24 hours.

With the disbandment of the party, Li Yi flew to the teleportation door to return to Shattered Frost City.

He was duly rewarded from achieving first kills in the dungeons. More importantly, the Reputation Value awarded by the System had earned him Worship from all major cities in the Eastern Continent.

Obtaining Worship from all major cities meant he had a shot at Throne-claiming.

When the population of players in King of Pantheon reached the billions at the later stages, only three became King of the Continent. There was one King in the Eastern, Southern and Western Continent. Privileges aside, the title itself was enough for players to venerate.

Li Yi returned to the Castellan’s residence and spent 3,000,000 Gold Coins to issue Throne-claiming orders. Thus, came the rainbow-colored announcement.

[Eastern Continent, Shattered Frost City Castellan, Dark Wing announces the Throne-claiming War. Eastern Continent’s Celestial Capital is now open to accept Little Drunk Cat’s challenge for 30 days. During this period, any player who fulfills the Throne-claiming requirements are welcome to register and participate in the Throne-claiming War.]

It stirred a sensation in the world of Pantheon.

Recently, a Castellan had been promoted in both the Western and Southern Continent while the majority were still struggling to get to that position. Yet, Dark Wing announced Throne-claiming at a time like this. He was overtaking everyone by a large margin, stirring emotions in the hearts of many.

“Are you freakin’ serious? Is this game engineered for Dark Wing? First a Castellan, now a King? How can we keep up?”

“Is this a bug? Throne-claiming? F*ck, I just became a village chief. It took me two months to get that!”

“Not fair! I call foul play! Get out here, GM. You better explain yourself!”

The world channel was bustling with commotion.

Li Yi replied to the congratulatory messages from his friends, Flower Underpants and Confused Fox whilst ignoring the cussing voices in world channel.

What was there to cuss about? Based on the timeline, Western Continent’s Queen, Night Moon would announce the Throne-claiming soon. He happened to be ahead of her by just two days. There was also King Arthur of the Southern Continent. Not long now…

The present had changed a lot because of Li Yi’s rebirth. In the past life, the Eastern Continent was the frontier in overall capabilities but their tactics and strategies on solos were far behind the Western and Southern Continent.

The Western and Southern Continent players’ win rate in individual competition went as far as 75% while the Eastern Continent players dominated 90% of the win rate in parties. When it came to individual competition, they were on the losing end.

The top sporting event in King of Pantheon was the God Wars. In the eight years the game was in session, the Eastern Continent players who qualified for the God Wars numbered less than a hundred whereas the other two continents had thousands of qualified competitors.

It was not to say that the Eastern Continent players did not possess technique.

No siree!

If placed on an equal scale, the Eastern Continent players fared well, if not better than the other two continents.

The massive number of Eastern Continent players was to blame. The endless internal conflict of fights, schemes, outmaneuvers and betrayals were present from day one. This phenomenon went on for eight years, so much so that no King took the throne on the Eastern Continent.

Defiantly Tyrannical had announced the Throne-claiming war multiple times in the past life but no matter what the strategy, all attempts ended in shambles.

There was a rule in Throne-claiming. The announcement called for the participation of all the players in the continent. Of course, allies would be assisting in laying siege while the remaining players would be defending their cities. Defiantly Tyrannical had offended too many people in the past that he was faced with huge resistance. Thus, the reason for his failure in multiple sieges.

Every claimant to the throne was met with harsh resistance no matter who attempted. The number of allies gathered may be the key to increasing the chances of becoming king.

The fact that there was no King in the Eastern Continent was a regret Li Yi had in the past life. Hence, no matter the obstacle, he was ready to take it on.

“The name Eastern Continent sounds lame. I couldn’t change this in the past life but I must change it in this life.” Li Yi made up his mind.

“Dark Wing, take me to switch class.”

Li Yi had just exited the Castellan’s residence when he received a message from Jiaojiao.

Li Yi smiled as he replied, “Done being angry?”

Jiaojiao snorted, “Say if you gonna take me or I’ll look for someone else.”

“Who are you gonna look for?”

“Someone better than you.”

“You wouldn’t dare!”

“I’m not anyone to you. Who gave you the right to care?” Jiaojiao was pissed.

“You’ll be someone to me sooner or later.”

Jiaojiao snorted in contempt, “Don’t bet on it. Maybe in the next life!”

Li Yi in turn, asked, “Do you think something like rebirth would happen?”

“Have you been reading too many novels? Better spend your time on something more worthwhile, like watching some old TV dramas such as My Fair Princess, Scarlet Heart the sort. Watching XiaoYanZi and the fourth prince (TN: The male characters of a popular drama, My Fair Princess https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Princess) get freaky is better than this.”

“F*ck your father’s balls, XiaoYanZi likes the fifth prince. Also, they’re not even from the same generation.”

“Whatever. I think there’s a possibility in time travel but not rebirths.”

“What if there really are instances of rebirth?”

“Not. A. Chance!”

…

Li Yi and Jiaojiao met in Shattered Frost City and rode the Blue-horned Griffin leisurely to Blade Peak.

Why was Augustus always looking into the distance on Blade Peak? Many players were curious about this in the past, this secret was finally revealed when someone successfully switched class to Black Paladin.

Amongst the three Camp Heroes, Augustus was the strongest. However, during the eruption of Ancient War, he was not unrivaled. Apart from Pantheon up Mount Pantheon, there were at least ten he could not defeat in the continent. One of them was his nemesis, an evil Paladin named Cassius who had blasphemed the gods and abandoned the Holy Light.

Cassius was once the most brilliant Camp Hero in all of the Eastern Continent. He believed in the Holy Light and possessed incredible strength that even Dreadlord would quiver at his name. However, due to his extreme crimes, his name was wiped out from the King of Pantheon Hall of Fame. Only players who achieved Worship from all major cities would learn bits and pieces about him through certain NPCs.

There was one thing the majority of players were kept in the dark about and it was the fact that he was Augustus’ teacher. Augustus only became the Camp Hero of the Eastern Continent through his guidance.

Cassius was incredibly powerful. Augustus had fought him multiple times when his talents first reached its prime. He was no match for him, as he lost every single battle. In Augustus’ heart, his teacher Cassius was equal to the Pantheon of Mount Pantheon. He forbade any disrespect towards his teacher.

Cassius disappeared for half a year after his defeat to a legendary Paladin. When he returned, he had already fallen to the darkness, abandoning all his belief in the Holy Light. He harnessed new powers, powers opposing the Holy Light. It was the Necromancy Force forbidden to mortals and spurned by Pantheon.

The Pantheon was enraged, and so was the mortal world. He soon became the subject of condemnation. In the end, even his most admired disciple, Augustus joined the team sent to vanquish him.

Cassius was besieged by Augustus and the rest at the bottom of Blade Peak. He single-handedly slaughtered several hundreds of famous Camp Heroes until only Augustus was left. He then told him a story before falling into his own death.

From then on, Augustus defended Blade Peak to this very day. Nobody knew what Cassius said, apart from him.

In order to switch to the Black Paladin class, the first thing to do was to uncover the Black Paladin, Cassius’ skeleton.

The search for Cassius’ skeleton was no difficult task. Li Yi relied on his memory from the past life to direct Jiaojiao to Cassius’ skeleton.

Cassius died standing up. Although it had been a thousand years, he remained the position he died in.

He had one hand pointed to the sky and the other, holding a sword decorated with pitch black runes that was pierced through his chest. Although he was only bones now, that domineering stance it stood in allowed them to catch a glimpse of his powers during his life.

Li Yi pointed at Cassius’ skeleton, “This is your ancestor.”

“Your ancestor’s ass!” Jiaojiao was infuriated.

“He’s the King of Black Paladins. All Black Paladins in his words are his progeny.”

“Your ancestor’s ass!”

“So you don’t wanna switch class?”

“Your ancestor’s ass!”

Right, just because he let his tongue slip the first time, he had now offended Jiaojiao.

“Go ahead and touch the Runic Sword piercing through his chest. You’ll then activate the quest to switch class.”

“Your ancestor’s…”

“Are you done?”

Li Yi began to tug and pull on Jiaojiao’s ass. Jiaojiao struggled with all her might until she begged for mercy.

Jiaojiao fondled and rubbed her ass as her face blushed red. She walked up to Cassius’ skeleton to touch the Runic Sword with her hand.

“Wu—”

A dark aura surged from the Runic Sword, entangling Jiaojiao’s hand and spread until her whole body was engulfed.

“Who…”

A deep voice was heard coming from Cassius’ skeleton…