Chapter 36: Leader Badge

If Chen Mo was there, he would have recognized them as the people he saw killing the Slime King in the forum video.

“It’s strange, the Slime King was actually killed by someone,” the gentle-looking young man at the front said strangely, looking at the empty grass.

His game name was Mu Sen, his class was Mage, and he was the leader of this six-person team.

“Could it be Leng Xiaoliu and his group who got here first?” Qian Yan stepped forward to take a closer look.

She was the Priest in the team, a quiet and beautiful female player around twenty-one or twenty-two years old. She, Mu Sen, and the other four around them all came from a small real-life studio that focused on high-end services. Before the Genesis game started testing, they mainly played games popular with wealthy players, working for those players. When the news came that Genesis was starting its test, Mu Sen and the others did not hesitate to sell all their other game accounts and resources, and the whole studio focused entirely on Genesis.

For gamers like them, holographic virtual games were once a distant dream. Now that one was here, how could they miss it? But more importantly, Qian Yan, Mu Sen, and the others all knew that entering this game would definitely bring them big money.

“No, I know Leng Xiaoliu and his team are in another Starter Village today,” Mu Sen shook his head.

“Leng Xiaoliu… Hmph, it’s a pity our last quest failed in the end, and he succeeded after all. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be involved in killing bosses now!” the player named Tie Tou in the team snorted angrily.

Tie Tou had a strong build and a straightforward personality. In every game, he always chose the Warrior class, which allowed bold and unrestrained play.

“It’s all my fault. If I had successfully ambushed Leng Xiaoliu back then, they wouldn’t have completed that quest,” the Assassin player in the team said with shame, lowering his head.

“Xiao Liu, don’t worry about it. You did nothing wrong. If Leng Xiaoliu were so easy to ambush, we wouldn’t have been competing with him for three years without a clear winner,” Mu Sen patted the Assassin Xiao Liu’s shoulder.

Before the Holographic Virtual Network appeared, there were countless game studios, big and small, in the Huaxia Region. There were quite a few studios, like Mu Sen’s, that took the high-end route, and the game studio established by Leng Xiaoliu was one of them.

Originally, everyone got along peacefully, doing their own business and earning as much as they could based on their skills. But Leng Xiaoliu had a big appetite and was very sneaky. He used all kinds of underhanded methods to attack his competitors. Mu Sen and his team didn’t know Leng Xiaoliu’s true nature at first and were tricked twice. They ended up compensating customers a lot of money, and their studio’s reputation suffered, nearly causing it to disband.

Since then, they naturally became enemies with Leng Xiaoliu. For three years, both sides fought openly and secretly, but sadly, neither could overpower the other.

This time, Leng Xiaoliu, like Mu Sen and his team, chose to play Genesis. Sure enough, enemies often cross paths. A few days ago, members of both studios appeared in Shadow City, one of the Three Major Cities. While going out at night to kill monsters and level up, they met the same NPC and received the same rare quest.

During the quest, Mu Sen’s team gained a bigger advantage, and completing the quest was almost certain. Mu Sen naturally wanted to stop Leng Xiaoliu’s quest, but unfortunately, he did not succeed in the end.

Both teams led by the two leaders completed that rare quest, and each team leader received a “Leader Badge.”

As soon as they got the Leader Badge, Mu Sen and Leng Xiaoliu knew they had hit the jackpot! The function of the Leader Badge was that it could initiate a summon once a day. As long as teammates agreed, it could teleport the other five teammates from the quest directly to the user’s side!

Both of them immediately thought of the boss in the Starter Village as a way to make money. At this stage, Level 10 Blue Equipment and Green Equipment could be sold for good prices. If they could get Purple Equipment, just one piece would be worth more than several past deals from their studio!

They entered the game to make money, and now there was a great chance to earn a large sum. Mu Sen and Leng Xiaoliu did not hesitate to suicide and respawn.

The Leader Badge was a special piece of equipment bound to the character. Since it had no attribute bonuses and could be used at any level, as long as the teammates’ game names remained unchanged, it could summon teammates even in the Starter Village. Of course, the teammates also had to suicide and respawn, and their characters needed to be in the Starter Village map. Otherwise, due to the special nature of the Starter Village map, the Leader Badge would not work.

Mu Sen and Leng Xiaoliu each began hunting the Slime King in various Starter Villages. He never expected that besides them, there was a third team capable of killing the boss.

“If it wasn’t Leng Xiaoliu, then who killed the boss?” Qian Yan frowned.

“Spread out and investigate the surroundings,” Mu Sen also wanted to know, so he said to the team.

They nodded and each went off in a different direction.

After more than half an hour, the six gathered again.

“I didn’t get any valuable information on my side. No one saw any team that looked capable of killing the boss.”

“Same on my side.”

“Likewise.”

Mu Sen and the others all shook their heads; they had found nothing.

“I did get one piece of information. I asked a player who said he saw a Hunter player walking toward the Slime King from his direction. He thought that Hunter had good equipment and wanted to team up with him to kill monsters, but the Hunter was too fast, and he couldn’t catch up. Then he realized that in the dark, he had unknowingly chased into the boss’s alert range. He broke out in a cold sweat, but the boss didn’t come out to kill him. Curious, he went to check the boss’s location and found that the Slime King boss had disappeared,” Qian Yan said after a moment of thought, sharing the information she had gathered.

“Are you saying that Hunter player killed the Slime King boss alone? And in such a short time?” A hint of shock appeared in Mu Sen’s calm eyes.

“Maybe the boss was already killed before that Hunter came?” Tie Tou couldn’t help but say.

But Qian Yan shook her head. “No. Before it got dark, that person could still see the boss from a distance. The Hunter came after dark, just a few minutes later. After the Hunter came, the boss was gone.”

A single person soloed and killed the Slime King?

Was there really someone that overpowered in the game?

…

Chen Mo did not know that someone had finally noticed him soloing the boss.

After suiciding and respawning again, Chen Mo reached Level 10 and prepared to kill the Mutant Slime King again. When he hired players and was about to take them to dig pits, he unexpectedly saw a team killing the Slime King boss.

This team had very good equipment, at least full sets of Green Equipment, and the team members cooperated very well; they were all skilled players.

Their appearances were different from the ones he saw on the forum; they were the other team.

After coming out of Goblin Valley, Chen Mo had first gone to Slime Plains to confirm the boss’s existence. He did not expect that while he was leveling up, this team capable of killing the boss had suddenly appeared.

Before Chen Mo and the hired players could get close, the team killing the Slime King noticed the four of them.

The female Mage among them glanced at Chen Mo and the others from a distance and coldly shouted in a haughty voice, “If you want to die, go away! Don’t get in our way of killing the boss!”