My Players Are So Fierce

Chapter 432: Are Others Playing Games While These Brothers Are Here Being Righteous Heroes?

For gamers, encountering a powerful “elite monster” suddenly appearing in the final stage of a normal tracking quest is not uncommon. Therefore, when they saw the family godfather “two-stage transform” into the bizarre form of an “otherworld Spider-Man” in the Snegov family fortress, the player monks present weren’t scared but rather felt a surge of courage.

Look, an elite monster has appeared, which proves this quest is quite challenging!

Since it’s challenging, the final reward for this quest chain must be very profitable, right?

Driven by this simple value perspective that made sense from any angle, when Turner said “step back,” several player monks beside him couldn’t contain their enthusiasm for “solo fighting the BOSS to farm equipment” and rushed forward.

Of course, only the young ones did this.

The mature and steady Teacher Li and Master Yang decisively stepped back two steps when danger arose, as just looking at the twisted form of this thing made it clear it wouldn’t be easy to deal with.

Not to mention that the filthy aura emanating from this creature had formed a tangible “fear aura,” making people feel disgusted.

Brother Mao and Fun-loving Alin attacked from left and right, one wielding a sword to slash furiously, the other gripping his fist to strike hard, but their attacks were doomed to fail from the start because as they initiated, the dozen eyes on the chest of this “spider demon” split to both sides and fixed upon these two people.

In an instant, at least three confusion spells were cast on each person.

Brother Mao performed better, enduring two but failing the check on the last one, causing his head to spin and his limbs to feel weak. The weaker Alin had it worse, getting hit by two out of three confusion spells that made him collapse on the spot.

According to the script, the spider demon could now swing its still-dripping bone greatsword to harvest two fresh lives, but with Master Turner here, how could this monster act so presumptuous?

The Winter Wolf monk roared like a hungry wolf hunting prey, stepping forward with Wind Step technique and raising his angry fist.

Bang bang bang, three furious strikes plus one intimidating punch knocked away the filthy greatsword in the monster’s hand, but giant creatures aren’t so easily beaten back. Losing its weapon didn’t decrease the vicious spider demon’s destructive power.

This twisted monster howled unintelligible words while viciously biting down with the mouthparts formed from distorted appendages growing from its back.

Erupting simultaneously was a soul-piercing mental shriek that made Alin, still troubled by the confusion spells, cover his head and scream in agony on the ground before being quickly dragged out of the battlefield by Old Li.

“This BOSS is really powerful, I, Giant Shark, am impressed.”

Lying in the back and spitting blood, the vampire monk Giant Shark Uncle rubbed his eyes, watching Master Turner and the spider demon trading blows back and forth, he couldn’t help but comment:

“No wonder the development team had to arrange for a Silver-rank monk to accompany us, so this turned out to be a story progression quest? We are still too weak.

Decided!

From today on, 100 extra push-ups every day!

How could I, Giant Shark, such a genius, fall behind these powerful NPCs.”

“Uh, Brother Giant Shark, what’s the use of doing push-ups in the game?”

Rubbing his head and sitting up while wiping blood from his nostrils, Fun-loving Alin still had the mood to criticize Giant Shark beside him:

“If you want to quickly improve your strength, shouldn’t you be pumping iron and practicing martial arts in reality?”

“Hmm, that’s true, being strong in the game is still fake after all, I need to become powerful in reality too, but I don’t know where to find a reliable martial arts school. Now the streets are full of frauds like Five Consecutive Whips who are just seeking fame and profit, deceiving the world.”

Giant Shark shook his head while watching Teacher Li and Master Yang who had already joined the battle and were coordinating with Master Turner. With a flash of envy in his crimson eyes, he sighed and said while patting his knee:

“Sigh, to be honest with you, I’ve had a hero dream since childhood, but unfortunately never met an old beggar who would give me a Buddha’s Palm manual. It’s probably too late to start training now, I wonder if Teacher Li takes disciples.

We’re from the same hometown too, my family is also from Foshan.”

“Come to my place, my family specifically runs a martial arts school.”

Alin joked:

“Come over and I’ll help you train for free, we’re all brothers, no charge.”

“You?”

Giant Shark Uncle looked Alin up and down suspiciously.

The meaning was very obvious – I, Giant Shark, was one-shot by the BOSS, you Alin were also one-shot by the BOSS, you claim to be from a martial arts family but you don’t seem much stronger than me?

This questioning made Alin’s face turn red with anger, but considering his current poor combat record, he indeed had no grounds to refute.

He muttered:

“This is just because I’m not familiar with this mode of combat yet, damn! I’ll ask dad for more guidance after logging off, now it’s not just about my dignity, but the family’s dignity is on my shoulders too. I knew it, Xiaochuan pulling me into the game definitely had ulterior motives.”

“Oh, I know, Niuniu mentioned that your family’s martial arts school is run by your dad.”

Giant Shark Uncle blinked and pointed at the battlefield asking:

“Not saying your dad could be as powerful as Turner, but compared to Teacher Li who’s stronger and who’s weaker?”

“How would I know? They’ve never fought.”

Alin said with a pout:

“But my dad was the only one in the previous generation of the Old Niu family who truly inherited grandpa’s teachings. I heard Teacher Li was defeated by grandpa three times when he was young, so even if my dad is weak he should at least be able to go toe-to-toe with Teacher Li, right?”

“Oh! Now this is interesting, I have to go check it out.”

Giant Shark Uncle immediately became interested, he asked:

“Where’s your place? I’m booking a flight right now.”

“Holy crap, don’t you need to work? Just decided like that? Didn’t you say you often skip work? Could it be you’re also a hidden rich second generation?”

Alin exclaimed:

“Didn’t you say you often skip work?”

“No way, my family are farmers! Proper rural folks.”

Giant Shark Uncle patted his chest and firmly denied:

“Just have a few buildings collecting rent outside, I’m just nominally employed at a company run by our tenants to give my family some explanation, if I don’t want to go I don’t go, what can they do, dock my monthly salary? Do I care about that monthly salary?”

“Damn, several buildings?”

Alin was dumbfounded.

Looking at this burly bald vampire in front of him, he couldn’t help but sigh:

“Sure enough, the foolish son of a landlord family, come on then, my place is at XXX Road XXX Number, XX City, just knock on the door when you arrive.”

“Alright, I’ll be there this afternoon, but I heard they’re going to lock down the city soon, I’ll probably have to stay at your place for a while, perfect timing to train together and build strength, it’s settled then, you take me out for some good food tonight.”

While these two reached a “business deal”, the situation on the battlefield had also changed.

This filthy spider demon was no match for Turner, a divine-chosen monk, to begin with. After Turner firmly “held aggro”, the others who could now fight freely began a series of fierce attacks.

Master Yang jumped onto the spider demon’s twisted lower body, swinging his dual swords in vicious chops to sever those appendages, while Brother Mao used the greatsword “Ranger” to smash the spider demon’s legs under Teacher Li’s support, limiting its high-speed movement. Sister Pomegranate, who joined the battle last, flicked out the wolf fang blade gauntlets seized from Kenport, using this weapon imbued with the strange voodoo of the gnoll hunting priest to weaken the monster’s stamina.

Everyone formed perfect coordination, taking less than a few minutes to beat this spider demon to weakness.

From this point alone, it’s clear that although this “track down Dusk cultist” quest is difficult, it definitely wouldn’t exceed the difficulty of a 5-man instance BOSS.

This fully demonstrates that the “development team” didn’t arrange an unbeatable enemy. If Niuniu, that super tank, had come along, perhaps they wouldn’t even need Master Turner’s help, and the players could have conquered this twisted being.

Seeing itself fall into a predicament of defeat, this twisted spider demon became increasingly agitated.

Malicious light flickered in both the torn eyes on its grotesque face and the eyeballs on its chest, along with strange crimson light surging through its corpse-pale skin, clearly it had entered “execution phase”.

The little players’ attacks grew increasingly fierce, but were stopped by Turner who shouted:

“It’s going to use a death curse, everyone back off! I’ll capture it, this kind of evil being must be brought back to Crimson Citadel for Lady Tris to possibly uncover more clues, killing it here is meaningless.”

“Retreat!”

With Old Li’s call, everyone immediately withdrew from the battlefield.

Sister Pomegranate, who was fighting intensely with dual blade gauntlets behind the spider demon, got greedy for one more hit and was caught by the strange broken limbs extending from the spider demon’s back when retreating, getting pulled back into the battlefield. At this critical moment, Brother Mao turned back with a roar like Kudel’s often-used greatsword assault technique.

The Ranger greatsword in his hand was hurled with a mighty throw, the crimson blade howling as it fell to cut off that broken limb.

Sister Pomegranate rolled low to escape outside the battle circle, got up and patted the dust off her body while glancing at Brother Mao, then turned her head away saying softly:

“Thanks.”

“No problem, we’re all Shadow Trail Sect apprentices, we help each other.”

Brother Mao laughed heartily without minding these things, turning back to watch Master Turner “execute” that spider demon monster, while the two old men hid behind, Old Li and Old Yang exchanging glances with standard elderly aunt-like smiles and raised eyebrows.

Obviously they noticed that strange mode of interaction between Brother Mao and Sister Pomegranate.

On Turner’s side, before the spider demon’s death curse could take effect, he called upon hunting aura and Winter Wolf Church’s secret arts, after briefly gathering power he struck with an unstoppable wind steel fist that broke through the spider demon’s final defense and knocked it into a stunned daze, then quickly froze the spider demon’s entire body in irregular binding ice under wild bombardment like heaven-sent divine might’s ice storm.

This scene made the observing monks widen their eyes, Giant Shark Uncle exclaimed:

“So this is the power of Four Symbols monks? So powerful, mastering both martial arts and magic!”

“Master Turner is a divine-chosen monk, his techniques don’t have particularly obvious sect divisions, according to him, he knows a bit of techniques from multiple sects.

That’s too modest.

This rapid freezing power is comparable to Spirit Master’s spells.”

Sister Pomegranate put away the wolf fang blade gauntlets, standing with hands on hips and sighing:

“We haven’t even entered the gate of the monk’s path, this power system is truly profound and extensive, unfortunately the Four Symbols monk’s heritage is currently all with the Winter Wolf Church, we non-believers have no way to learn it.”

“Think positively, maybe they’ll open specialized sect initiations in the future?”

Alin and Giant Shark Uncle supported each other to stand up, he said to his cousin Sister Pomegranate:

“Besides, didn’t you already decide to walk the path of Shadow Sect?”

“I have three profession slots.”

Sister Pomegranate rolled her eyes, saying casually:

“Why can’t I learn three sects simultaneously? The profession system doesn’t require monks to choose one sect specialization right? Just think of it as me doing dual specs, okay?”

“Awesome!”

Alin gave a thumbs up to his cousin sister.

It’s not just Niuniu who fears Sister Pomegranate, Alin is actually quite afraid too, after all they’re the same age and relatives, just because Niuniu got beaten up by Sister Pomegranate as a child doesn’t mean Alin could escape the same fate.

“Come quick! Brothers! Come to the tower!”

Just as everyone was discussing how to handle the frozen spider demon godfather, Star Soul Eagle, who hadn’t participated in the battle, shouted from the height behind the torn wall of the tower before them:

“There’s stuff in this tower! Lots of stuff, I’ve already dealt with the small fry, come quick and see, this is a huge harvest!”

“You all go ahead, I’ll watch it here.”

Turner sat cross-legged on the ground catching his breath while waving his hand at the other monks, he instructed:

“After going in remember to collect some information about the Snegov family’s communications with Dusk, don’t miss any details, I heard from Lady Adele that you’re very good at cleaning up battlefields, I’ll leave these mission-critical matters to you.”

“Mm.”

Everyone nodded in unison, then quickly entered the tower.

As the Snegov family’s final stronghold, this place was naturally heavily guarded, though most of the bandits had already been weakened by the polluted impact when the godfather transformed, then were eliminated one by one by Star Soul Eagle who flanked around to their rear.

They rushed up the spiral stairs to the gang godfather’s office, but as soon as they entered they saw several overturned boxes and gold coins and treasures scattered everywhere.

Star Soul Eagle was now sitting on a box full of treasures, left hand holding a Northern-style war blade, right hand holding a gleaming wave trident, and on his head was a female spellcaster’s magic crown.

These three items flickered with faint light in the darkness, clearly spirit weapons without doubt, and several newbie players got excited immediately upon seeing good equipment drop from monsters for the first time.

The sturdy Star Soul Eagle grinned broadly and said:

“We’ve struck it rich this time! All of the Snegov family’s accumulations over the years are here, these bastards were definitely preparing to flee with their valuables when we arrived, but it all ended up benefiting us. Not just gold coins and equipment, I also found lots of property deeds!

All assets under their control in Dnipro City.”

“Holy shit, awesome!”

Giant Shark Uncle laughed as he stepped forward to open a small box, took out a stack of property deeds from inside, then whistled while putting on an elegant claw blade, clearly taking the stance of veteran players preparing to divide the spoils.

However, Old Li and Old Yang exchanged glances, after eye contact between the two old men, Teacher Li reached out to press down on the box that Sister Pomegranate was opening, and he spoke:

“These are all ill-gotten gains accumulated by the Snegov family over the years! Since we Shadow Trail Sect are doing righteous deeds, we can’t take these things! I’ve also learned about the extension of the monk’s path from Sir Turner, to become a good monk, having few desires is the most basic requirement.

In my opinion, these wealth and goods should have a portion handed over to Dnipro City’s city hall.

We’ll just keep enough funds to satisfy Shadow Trail Sect’s subsequent development.”

“Ah?”

Giant Shark Uncle and Star Soul Eagle had pained expressions.

They looked expectantly at Brother Mao and Sister Pomegranate, hoping these two would refute Teacher Li’s view.

But Brother Mao and Sister Pomegranate exchanged glances, then agreed with Teacher Li’s handling.

Just as Giant Shark had a reluctant expression, Brother Mao quietly explained to him:

“Don’t want reputation points? With Turner’s personality, if you swallow up all this dirty money, I estimate you can forget about learning higher level martial arts from him.

This is clearly a test given to us by the development team!

Since they pursue 100% realism, then requirements for personal character in the progression of the monk’s path must also be an implicit condition.

Currently Shadow Trail Sect only has Turner as a high-level NPC, if you don’t farm reputation you can forget about getting major breakthroughs in martial arts.”

“Holy crap! How could I forget about this? The favorability system…”

Giant Shark Uncle yelped, immediately throwing the pearl necklace he had grabbed back into the box. The money that had seemed so attractive just moments ago instantly lost all appeal.

Compared to NPC favorability, this mere worldly possession, might as well not take it.

After all, he was born into a good life, and wouldn’t miss this little bit in this lifetime.

“We can’t take the money, but we can still divide up the equipment.”

Sister Pomegranate casually picked up a soldier’s cloak that had fallen on the ground, appraised the item and threw it to Alin beside her, she said with hands on hips:

“Even the monk’s path wouldn’t demand that we must fight with bare hands when we’re weak, we need to learn to use available resources reasonably, so quickly appraise the items here, keep the equipment we can use, and those we can’t use we’ll take back to submit to Lord Murphy, earning another batch of favorability points.”

“There’s something here!”

As they were discussing these things, Old Yang was carefully stroking the wall and large bookshelf in the godfather’s office with a serious expression, then he reached out to knock on a certain brick, and after hearing a hollow sound he turned to tell everyone.

Sister Pomegranate, who had the highest agility among those present, stepped forward to carefully move aside the brick.

She avoided two set traps and carefully pinched out the small box hidden inside with her fingers, opened it to look, inside were all letters, and on top of them was a strange spider brooch.

“Huh, I feel like I’ve seen this somewhere?”

Upon seeing this brooch, Brother Mao immediately narrowed his eyes and said:

“I can’t be remembering wrong, this pattern definitely appeared somewhere!”

“What kind of memory do you have! So forgetful at such a young age? Are you suffering from kidney deficiency?”

Sister Pomegranate criticized:

“Isn’t this the pattern on that very sexy elven house robe that Lady Adele occasionally wears?

Lady Adele has one-quarter shadow elf blood, I see all the clues connect now. This shadow elf force controlling the Snegov family behind the scenes probably has some connection to Lady Adele’s background.”