163: Back to the starting village

Ruan Mingde had a plan in mind, so naturally, he started just going through the motions.

Although he shouted slogans loudly, his actions were indeed half a beat slower!

He understood in his heart that as long as he didn't arrive, he believed the other party could still escape even if they were surrounded at the Dungeon entrance.

Unfortunately, even after he arrived at the entrance of the Level 20 Dungeon, he heard no news of the other party coming out of the Dungeon...

Ruan Mingde kept a calm face, but in his mind, he had already rehearsed several plans to see how to reasonably go easy on them!

After waiting for ten minutes or so, Ruan Mingde had an idea.

It seems they used some item to run away directly...

That's fine too...

Combining the recent situation in the Royal City and the information he had gathered, the impact of this time-space convergence was about to settle.

If it's confirmed that the [Empire's Collapse] script has been activated, then he would research how to hunt down this [Shi Chuan].

...

"Looks like he ran away..."

"Didn't they say you can't return to the city?"

"This game has so many weird and strange items; who can say for sure?"

"Exactly, one dropped just this morning... King Arthur of The Empire Where the Sun Never Sets used a one-time scroll, [Archangels Divine Descent], and one-shotted a Bronze BOSS!"

"I saw it... the whole internet is calling him crazy!"

"Yeah, using such a powerful item to one-shot a level 10 Bronze BOSS... they could have saved it to one-shot a World BOSS in the main city!"

"What did he lose? The two thousand plus people he recruited in the Novice Village all achieved [Bronze Rank] together..."

"Two thousand plus? Did they eat feed to grow in the Novice Village?"

"I heard he also has an item that summoned everyone in The Empire Where the Sun Never Sets who was willing to defect to him and join their guild!"

"That's not right! Isn't he creating rivals for himself?"

"Maybe he has some special talent..."

"But fortunately, although this person is powerful, he is too far away from us! Our top priority is still to consider the [Shi Chuan] next door..."

"Sigh..."

After guarding the Dungeon entrance for three hours, the Golden Grade NPC expert Ruan Mingde could finally withdraw gracefully and legitimately.

As an expert of the City Defense Force in the Royal City, he had many things to do! How could he have the time to keep wasting it here?

Once Ruan Mingde left, the players immediately scattered like birds and beasts!

Stay behind for what? To wait for death?

...

After finishing the Dungeon, Xu Shian directly opened the [Anywhere Door] inside the Dungeon to escape, but he did not return to Qixia Town.

Instead, he used one [Anywhere Door] to arrive directly at Novice Village No. 12315, in the Human-tier room where he once lived.

An Xixi had already helped him arrange this room two days ago!

When Xu Shian arrived, An Xixi was waiting for him there.

Seeing this pink door on the wall, An Xixi was dumbfounded!

What does it mean to see something new after a long time? This was it.

"This... what is this thing?"

Xu Shian, who had already soul-bound this door using his talent, didn't hide anything.

"【Anywhere Door】... it can reach any place I have ever been to."

Xu Shian showed off very proudly in front of An Xixi.

Looking at the envious eyes of the other party as she touched the [Anywhere Door], Xu Shian's desire to share was finally satisfied.

Such a good thing, not showing it to others is like wearing fine clothes in the dark.

If he lets people see it... Xu Shian can't really trust others!

Although Xu Shian had already soul-bound the [Anywhere Door], he didn't want everyone to know about it.

"This [Anywhere Door]... can it take us back to Blue Star?"

Xu Shian: ...

"Uh... this..."

At this moment, Xu Shian really wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into!

Yes! Such a simple question, why hadn't he thought of it?

It had been 25 days since Blue Star lost her dearest humans, and having not seen her for so many days, Xu Shian missed her very much...

But even though he missed her very much, he had never gone back to see her when he got the [Anywhere Door]!

An Xixi's eyes were full of excitement!

"Shall we go back and take a look..."

"Okay... but not now, I just used this, it needs a five-hour cooldown!"

"Then let's go fight the BOSS now, by the time we finish fighting the BOSS, it will basically be about time..."

"Let's wait until we go to Qixia Town and find an opportunity to try again!"

Xu Shian rejected the idea of trying it later; if the Novice Village didn't allow him to leave via the teleportation array later, Xu Shian would still have to count on this door to return to [Qinghan Garden]!

"That works too!"

"By the way, about letting you expand the number of people in the Elite Group, how is the situation now?"

"Those who meet the requirements have basically changed their previous attitude and are willing to join the [Main Force Team 2]!"

Xu Shian chuckled softly.

"Heh, they all figured it out?"

An Xixi rolled her eyes at Xu Shian.

"You've been so omnipotent these days... today you even killed a level 60 City Defense Force member, who wouldn't want to come and hug your thigh!"

An Xixi didn't think very highly of these fence-sitters!

There was a hint of disapproval in her tone.

"I've been a bit busy these two days, have the requirements for the Elite Group been clearly explained to them?"

"Not only did we tell them, but Sister Lili even made a post on the guild forum..."

"Where is Sister Lili?"

"They are recruiting people at the entrance of the [Black Wind Forest] Dungeon!"

Inside the [Black Wind Forest] Dungeon, following that winding and rugged mountain road up, at the end is the BOSS in the Dungeon.

And if you don't enter the Dungeon, there is an identical mountain road, only, after going up, it is the wild Bronze-rank BOSS [Corrupted Ancient Tree - Wosguer].

Originally, for Xu Shian, it was useless to have so many Bronze Rank players in the guild!

But plans couldn't keep up with changes...

This morning, two major things happened.

One was naturally Xu Shian domineeringly soloing an NPC...

Directly beating the favorability of the entire Lin Yue Country into a hostile state!

The other one happened a little later.

The player [King Arthur] from The Empire Where the Sun Never Sets recruited 2,107 players who had reached the level cap in all Novice Villages of The Empire Where the Sun Never Sets...

Then he gathered them all into his own Novice Village and even used a skill to transform into an Archangel to one-shot a Bronze BOSS!

The moment this happened, it directly stole all of Xu Shian's spotlight.

It also fundamentally changed Xu Shian's original idea.

Logically speaking, the country where [King Arthur] is located is very far from the East Dragon Empire.

In this world where [Time-Space Convergence] happens at the drop of a hat, and inexplicable wars of national extermination are fought, the probability of both sides meeting in this lifetime is not high!

The ones who should be worried are their neighbors!

However, the other party could even get a scroll like [Archangels Divine Descent], who knows if there will be even more outrageous ones in the future?

What if they get some kind of Great Displacement Scroll, or Mass Teleportation Scroll in the future...

Therefore, Xu Shian made a temporary decision in the morning that his side could not have fewer [Bronze Rank] players than them...

This wasn't him being pretentious or trying to act tough.

It was based on a very realistic consideration.

Anyway, even if they were [Bronze Rank], they couldn't stir up any waves in Xu Shian's hands!

They were still ants, just a bit bigger!

But they could guard his base in the days when Xu Shian was not around...

So, he decided to directly expand the Elite Group!

"How much time do they need to recruit people?"

"It'll be a while! At least four or five hours... A group of people was arranged to recruit, and the others are farming the Dungeon to save up equipment!"

"Do you want to catch a BOSS as a pet?"

An Xixi's eyes instantly lit up!