MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

“Continue buying! You’re trying to throw me off, Dark Wing? Not that easy!”

Defiantly Tyrannical was a ruthless man. When he heard news of Li Yi dumping his stock, not only did he not halt the stockpiling, instead, he had become more determined. His actions even caused these price of the two herbs to rise by another 1 Silver.

Of course, it was merely 1 Silver. There was literally no way for the prices to go higher. News of Li Yi dumping his stock had begun to spread, causing the price of the two herbs to spiral down. In the end, the price stabilized at 50 Silver per set.

Defiantly Tyrannical thought that Li Yi would start buying the herbs again during the dip, but he was wrong once again. Li Yi no longer had any interest in these two herbs and instead began stockpiling Snowcrystal Flowers and Windbell Grass.

Snowcrystal Flowers and Windbell Grass were the main ingredients for crafting Intermediate-level HP Potions. Due to the huge amount of these herbs in circulation, their prices had always been quite stable. The only reason there was a fall in their price was that the average level of players had recently increased. Intermediate-level HP Potions were no longer of that much use to a majority of the players, as they were now replaced with the more efficient Advanced-level HP Potions.

“What the hell is this Dark Wing up to? Why the heck is he stockpiling these outdated herbs?” Defiantly Tyrannical was utterly confused.

“Maybe he’s trying to make some Intermediate-level HP Potions to help out the newbies of the server?” I Love Beast Beast was just as confused.

“No, it shouldn’t be something that simple. You guys should know best, Dark Wing isn’t some sort of idiot. After all our exchanges in the past, when did we ever get a one-up on him? How can that petty amount of profit from making low-level potions ever satisfy the guy?” The man who said this was Yang Xingchen.

“Then what should we do? Just let him buy everything out? Or do we take this opportunity to force up the market price?” I Love Beast Beast said helplessly.

Yang Xingchen shook his head and asked Defiantly Tyrannical, “Defiant, have you ever thought about this question?”

“Speak.”

“What can the Light Grass and Darkness Flowers be used for? Have you ever thought about it?”

“An Advanced-level Apothecarist can use them to craft two types of special potions, the Light Resistance Potion and the Dark Resistance Potion. They’re used to counter spells of their respective types. Other than that, a Weapon Master can use them to craft some equipment. If their skill were high, there’s a chance they could craft permanent Light and Dark Resistance equipment.”

Yang Xingchen nodded before adding, “The second expansion pack must have something to do with these two types of herbs.”

“Mm, I think so as well. That’s why we had the guts to order our men to continue stockpiling.” Defiantly Tyrannical was still extremely confident.

Although the official site only released a single picture, to some of the more observant players, it was not a difficult task to piece together what it meant.

“If you could’ve thought of it, and I could’ve thought of it, then naturally Dark Wing would’ve thought of it by now. If the prices for the two herbs would surge once the expansion pack gets released, why would he dump all his stock right now?”

After pondering for a long while, Defiantly Tyrannical finally admitted, albeit reluctantly, “You mean that the current price for these two herbs had already exceeded the predicted price increase?”

“Yep…”

“It can’t be…” Defiantly Tyrannical took a deep breath.

“Send out the order, stop the stockpiling and observe the changes.” Listening to Yang Xingchen’s words, Defiantly Tyrannical’s confidence shattered.

With the Three Major Guild Alliance stopping their purchases, the other players who had no idea what they were doing were just like a bunch of grass in the wind, leaning wherever the wind blew. Seeing Dark Wing dumping his stock and Defiantly Tyrannical ordering to stop all purchases, these blind followers had no clue what these herbs were used for. They did not feel safe holding on to them, so they all started dumping as well…

Within a short two days, the prices of the two herbs fell once more, reaching a new low of 20 Silver per set.

In the Auction House, if someone were to enter the name of the ingredients Light Grass and Darkness Flower, they would get a search result tens of thousands of selling posts. There was a blatant oversupply.

Li Yi still did not buy anything. He was just casually clearing his Treasure Maps and quests. If he had free time, he would take the Mermaid Princess out for a swim. As for the situation with the herbs, it seemed to be the furthest thing from Li Yi’s mind right now.

‘What the hell is Dark Wing thinking?’

Li Yi’s silence left the leaders of the Three Major Guild Alliance helplessly scratching their heads.

The price of the herbs continued to fall…

After nearly half a month’s time, the rebuilding of Shattered Frost City was almost complete and the Little Drunk Cats guild map was developing nicely as they had just reached Level 7. The Black Dragon Ferrian’s head was mounted right on top of the guild’s Performance Hall, giving off an intimidating aura to anyone who entered the map.

The effect of this strategic equipment was quite good. The Black Dragon Head reduced all opposing players’ attributes by 20%, it was equivalent to directly lowering the enemy players’ levels by more than 10 levels. If there was a war, the Little Drunk Cats would have a huge advantage.

A one-man-army capable of sweeping the floor with millions of enemies at once, Li Yi’s recent publicity had completely overshadowed all that. Saying that he was the single flashiest and the greatest player in the Eastern Continent was something more than 80% of the Eastern Continent players could agree on. Of course, there were a few stragglers who claim that Li Yi’s feats were overrated.

One of them was Scumbag Wang from Huashan Guild.

The Huashan Guild had lost all face in their last encounter. Not only did their ambush end in a catastrophic disaster, they got countered and even got hit by the Black Dragon’s Curse. They only managed to return back to normal after a torturous ten days. Coincidentally, Hua Feiwu had also come back online.

Although Hua Feiwu had been cruelly dealt with by Chen Mo, King of Pantheon still allowed disabled people to connect to the game console through their brain waves, allowing them to freely play the game.

Hua Feiwu’s two legs were gone, but in King of Pantheon, he was still as fit as a fiddle, he could still run freely in the game. In order for him to play the game more immersively, he even used Hua Feihua’s stashed money to buy himself a luxury Full-Nutrient Gaming Setup, allowing him to play.

Hua Feiwu was also considered quite an amazing chap. Even after suffering that big of a shock, he seemed to have paid no mind to it. This could be seen from his boisterous voice once he entered the game once more.

“King of Pantheon, I’m back b*tches! Hahaha, have y’all missed me?”

“Muack! Your Brother Wang is still here.” Scumbag Wang immediately replied.

“Brother Wang, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? I missed you so much, brother.”

“Muack! Same here.”

“F*ck, why the heck are you talking like that?”

“Muack! I’ve recently learned about online shopping, shipping is included. Muack!”

“Hahaha, teach me next time. I’ll try it out as well.”

“Muack! No problem. Oh by the way, why hasn’t your sister come online? I haven’t seen her in a long time. That phat white *ss of hers, I’ll never forget it. Every time I think of it, my little brother would always stand upright…”

“…F*ck your momma’s *ss!”

These pair of best friends who were constantly fighting rambled on in the World Channel for hours. All their past grievances with each other seemed to have been forgotten. However, because of Scumbag Wang’s scummy talk, the two started fighting again shortly after. Soon, it escalated into an all-out war…

“Huashan and Century Flower are fighting again…”

“When was there ever a time where they aren’t fighting? Get used to it, just leave that bunch of morons alone and try not to get caught in the crossfire.”

“Leave them be after they finish fighting they’ll probably instantly kiss and make up anyway.”

“Let’s go watch the chaos…”

…

Li Yi’s recent leveling methods had changed. He no longer went to grind monsters, but rather used quests as his main source of EXP.

After clearing out all the quests he could around the Shattered Frost City, he used his flying mount to traverse all around the world. Although the leveling rate was not high, it caused his Reputation Value with the major cities to increase exponentially. When he finished all the quests he could, he had reached the Worship state in a majority of the major cities in the Eastern Continent, with only a handful of major cities that were about 2,000 Reputation points away from reaching the Worship state.

Li Yi’s current aim was to reach the Worship state in all major cities of the Eastern Continent, then for the King’s throne.

Without all the dungeon first clears and boss first kills, if an average player started grinding for Reputation Value using only quests, they would need at least 3-5 years in order to max out the Reputation Value for all major cities. Luckily, Li Yi had an abundant amount of first clears and first kills. With the constant increase of the Reputation Value amongst all major cities, it saved him a lot of time from grinding quests.

The restoration of Shattered Frost City meant that the Castellan Residence’s quest-giver would return to normal. Li Yi was quite lucky, the Bounty Quest he accepted previously was to kill off Ferrian. Since he had already defeated Ferrian, the Bounty Quest was also cleared.

With a reward of 5000 Reputation points in all major cities and another Pantheon Hall of Fame event, the system also awarded Li Yi with a purple-quality Dragon Warrior Badge. (SImilar to the Fire Devil’s Emblem, it could be attached to any piece of head equipment. Once attached, it would increase the attributes of said head equipment by 30%. However, the Dragon Badge did not have the anti-drop Lock effect and could only be attached to head equipment).

From the Class Skill Mentor, Li Yi had also received the continuing quest for the Black Dragon quest line, “The Black Dragon Killer”. This quest was separated into 2 parts. First, “Kill the Black Dragon Princess”. Second, “Kill the Fallen Dragon King Deathwing”, in other words, the Black Dragon sibling’s father, also known as one of the most OP bosses in King of Pantheon.

This quest was considered an absurdly difficult quest in the history of King of Pantheon. It was not one of the most difficult quests, it was the most difficult quest. Defeating the Black Dragon Princess was not really that difficult. As long as the player had a high enough level and a decent party, anyone could easily defeat her. However, the OP Deathwing was a whole different ball game. He could completely disregard human wave tactics. No matter how many members a party brought if they were meant to be wiped they would be wiped. In the eight years King of Pantheon had been running, the number of parties that had managed to conquer Deathwing could be counted on a single hand.

The Black Dragon Killer quest could not be completed at this point. He could only accept it for now and do it in the future.

On the other hand, the orange bow’s durability had constantly been decreasing. Li Yi had almost run through the entire Eastern Continent, not being able to find the continuation quest. Even the Hunter Goddess inside the cave outside of Blod Moon Village seemed to be playing possum, not willing to come out no matter how much he called out to her.

There was no word on how to lift the seals on the legendary weapons by the Pantheon developers. Although Li Yi had seen numerous orange bows in his past life, all the orange bows had durability without an exception.

Even if he had his past life’s memories, there was literally no information available on this front. He had to deal with this situation on his own.

One day, as Li Yi completed his daily Reputation Value quests and all the major cities in the Eastern Continent were less than 500 points away from granting him the Worship state, a bunch of mysterious NPCs donned in black and white robes suddenly appeared in the major cities.

These mysterious NPCs were clad in the Cursing Sect’s clothes. Li Yi knew that this signaled that King of Pantheon’s second expansion was about to begin.

“When the Pantheons declared the end of the world, it was the Lord Evil God who went against them. He started his fight against the Pantheons in the Land of Light. In the battle that led to the fall of our Lord Evil God, fortunately, the Pantheons had also suffered huge losses, causing them to temporarily put off the notion of ending the world.”

The Cursing Disciples overran the streets of the various major cities, spreading the feats of the Evil God. Almost at the same time, another group of people appeared.

A bunch of Light Priests clad in white robes and Paladins clad in golden armor also appeared in various major cities. They were equipped with the power of Holy Light, furiously attacking the Cursing Disciples. The two sides were locked in an intense bout. In the meantime, players were not allowed to butt in, they could only watch idly from the sidelines.

” For God so loved the World ¹ , the Cursing Disciples only wish to lead you astray. Holy Light Almighty, lend me your strength and punish these evil sinners!”

The Holy Light faction representing the side of Light and the Evil God Disciples the side of darkness were in the midst of a huge battle, whilst the players could not directly participate in the battle. However, they could now accept one of two quests given to them and unlock the second expansion pack!

The name of King of Pantheon’s second expansion pack was thus revealed – Light and Darkness!