Chapter 160: The First Blooming of the Ultimate Skill

The chaotic situation in the Heavenly Gate Pass map persisted until late into the night, only gradually calming down after the majority of players logged off to rest.

A full day of melee combat had caused quite a few people to drop in the level rankings. Some were simply unlucky, failing to wait for healer support in time.

Others were ruthlessly corpse-camped, suffering miserably for an entire hour until they finally revived back in the city.

Members of the Wind and Cloud Guild also gradually logged off to sleep, though Wind and Cloud Tianxia arranged for a batch of hardcore players to continue holding down the passage choke point, preventing anyone else from seizing the location while they were asleep.

Logging back on the second day, the entire team resumed grinding monsters right there.

Not long after Zhang Shan logged in, he suddenly received a call from Heart Follows My Will.

Huh? What business could this formidable whale of a high-roller possibly have with him? Could there be another deal coming his way?

Zhang Shan's first impression of Heart Follows My Will was that he was wealthy, and his second impression was that the guy was a true grinding maniac.

The kind of maniac who could grind even harder than Zhang Shan himself.

"Brother Six-Tube, is your guild still recruiting?"

Heart Follows My Will asked him straight away.

"Of course we're recruiting if you want to come. How come you suddenly thought about joining our guild? Weren't you planning to play solo?"

"Don't even ask. I heard the monsters in the Heavenly Gate Pass map give massive amounts of experience, so I went over there to grind yesterday. I got killed once, and it was a good thing I managed to find a healer to resurrect me, otherwise I would have dropped another level."

"Where are you? I'll have someone come over and pull you into the guild."

"Right here at the Heavenly Gate Pass Teleportation Hall."

"Alright, wait a moment, I'm heading over right now."

After ending the call, Zhang Shan said to Wind and Cloud Blade:

"Brother Blade, Heart Follows My Will wants to join our guild. Let's head back and pull him in."

"Heart Follows My Will? You mean that cash-splurging whale we did the bounty hunt for last time?"

"Yes."

"He finally thought of joining us? That guy spends money even more ruthlessly than I do. Where is he? I'll go pull him in."

"Right at the Heavenly Gate Pass Teleportation Hall. Let's go together, I'm afraid you guys might not make it across and get killed halfway, heh heh."

"Damn it, who are you underestimating? Let's move."

"Let's head back together first and come back later anyway, it's not very far," Zhang Shan said to Boss Wu beside him.

He was actually a bit worried. The Heavenly Gate Pass map had been chaotic all day yesterday, and although it was somewhat quieter today, small-scale skirmishes still broke out occasionally. Having Boss Wu come along with them meant having a reviving healer around for extra safety.

The three of them channeled their return to the city together and found Heart Follows My Will at the Heavenly Gate Pass Teleportation Hall.

Zhang Shan added him to the party.

Wind and Cloud Blade kicked out an inactive zombie member and pulled Heart Follows My Will into the guild.

Zhang Shan hated trouble, so he held no official guild position and lacked the authority to recruit members.

To invite someone into the guild, he still had to find Wind and Cloud Blade.

"Haha, welcome to the Wind and Cloud Guild, Rank Two大佬!"

"My rank two spot is far from secure. I got killed by someone yesterday, and if I hadn't found a healer to pull me back up, I would have dropped right off the board."

Heart Follows My Will said with a depressed tone.

This high-roller was a dedicated grinder who never had any desire to hack down other players. But just because he didn't attack others didn't mean others wouldn't attack him.

No matter how brilliantly someone played solo, they still couldn't withstand a chaotic onslaught of swords from ordinary players. Playing games ultimately required having plenty of brothers at your back.

He must have figured that out, which was why he finally sought out Zhang Shan to join the Wind and Cloud Guild.

"Let's go, let's go grind monsters together. We found a safe grinding spot where nobody disturbs us, and the experience gain is insanely satisfying, heh heh," Wind and Cloud Blade said smugly.

"I've heard about it. Everyone knows you guys found a good spot yesterday to cowardly grind and level up while a massive war was raging outside without affecting you at all."

"There should still be quite a few places like that in Heavenly Gate Pass. As long as you search carefully, you can always find them."

"There are indeed a few similar spots left, but by now they've all been occupied by the major guilds, and outsiders can't get in."

The four of them left Heavenly Gate Pass and ran toward their grinding spot, not expecting to actually run into blind fools along the way.

Although Zhang Shan was extremely famous and everyone knew his attack power was wildly ferocious, there were always those who refused to believe it just because they saw that Zhang Shan's group consisted of only four people running around the Heavenly Gate Pass map.

A team of around a hundred people swarmed toward them to surround them, but before Zhang Shan could even make a move, Heart Follows My Will suddenly unleashed a skill no one had ever seen before. Vast sheets of sword light poured down in a overwhelming deluge.

And right after casting the skill, Heart Follows My Will's entire body turned translucent, as if he were about to vanish.

The sword light lasted for a full five seconds, instantly reducing that hundred-man squad into dust.

"Holy crap, Boss, what skill is that? How can there be such an overpowered skill?"

Wind and Cloud Blade, Zhang Shan, and Boss Wu were completely dumbfounded. It was just too damn cool.

"The Berserker's ultimate skill, Invincible Slash."

Heart Follows My Will said with a hint of pride, though he didn't like fighting or killing people.

Even more so, he hated being killed by others. Nobody enjoyed being relentlessly tortured and slaughtered in a game.

When someone messed with him, however, he wouldn't hold back in the slightest, wiping out the entire scene in one go with a single Invincible Slash.

"Where on earth did you get that skill book?"

Wind and Cloud Blade asked with envy. He wanted such a cool skill badly as well.

"Bought it at the auction house. Wasn't there a skill book for Invincible Slash up for auction last time? So I bought it."

Actually, the moment he saw Heart Follows My Will unleash the skill, Zhang Shan had already guessed that it must have been the very skill book they had auctioned off previously.

He hadn't expected it to actually end up in the hands of Heart Follows My Will. This whale of a high-roller was truly immensely wealthy.

That Invincible Slash skill book had ultimately fetched a price of 150 million gold coins.

Even though Zhang Shan was the one who sold it, spending that much money to buy a skill book in a game still made him want to exclaim in awe.

"You're a maniac, daring to spend money on such an expensive skill book. But the effect is really great. I wonder what the Berserker's ultimate skill is? Haven't even seen the skill book for it yet."

"How was your mana enough to cast Invincible Slash? Doesn't it require a mana consumption of twenty thousand?"

Zhang Shan asked with curiosity. Surely Heart Follows My Will hadn't also managed to acquire a Source of Mana, had he?

"After I got killed yesterday, I didn't resume grinding right away. I spotted a special item in the auction house and spent the money to win the bid."

With that, Heart Follows My Will displayed a special item.

Miraculous Mana Bottle (Red): Stores twenty thousand mana points, fully recharges two hours after being depleted, takes effect while kept in the backpack.

"Now that's overpowered."

Compared to the Source of Mana, the Mana Bottle was much inferior, but it was also exceptionally practical.

Storing twenty thousand mana essentially meant increasing the maximum mana pool by twenty thousand, which was precisely enough to cover the mana consumption of Invincible Slash.

Furthermore, the Mana Bottle would fully recharge after two hours, making it quite useful for regular monster grinding as well.

It could save a substantial amount of small mana potions.

Moreover, the Mana Bottle didn't occupy an equipment slot; it took effect simply by being placed in the backpack, eliminating the need to swap equipment with other special items.

As far as this type of item went, it was the first time Zhang Shan had ever seen one.