Four Split Personalities

Chapter 2201: Chapter 1034: Bath of Fire Guild and the Three Firearm Masters (Part 2)

Once, a member of the Bath of Fire Guild’s Elite Team was poached by a studio for a substantial sum. After changing to a new environment, although the brother, equipped with luxurious gear, saw his strength increase instead of decrease, he didn’t generate much profit for his benefactor due to his gaming style, almost causing the latter to have a brain hemorrhage. Ultimately, the player was even sued by the benefactor.

After extensive evidence collection and investigation, the final conclusion was that the player truly adhered to the spirit of the contract and had made the utmost effort. The lack of ideal results was the plaintiff’s subjective view, and the player was found to have no responsibility.

After the incident, under court mediation, both parties swiftly terminated the contract. The benefactor took back less than half of the money, and the player, who had pocketed a substantial windfall, returned to the Bath of Fire Guild to continue his steady performance.

Following this, various specialists and research teams concluded that most members of the Bath of Fire Guild are like double-edged swords, hurting the enemy a thousand while losing eight hundred themselves. Just due to some peculiar reason, similar to fighting poison with poison, they negate each other’s ’side effects’ while in the Bath of Fire Guild, enabling stable performance akin to top-tier teams.

Thus, most people abandoned the idea of poaching members from the Bath of Fire Guild, while various insightful media began to analyze carefully, suggesting that if the Bath of Fire Guild professionalized, whether as a studio or a club, there would be significant potential! They could even rival those first-rate or super first-rate peers, just like how they challenge the famous teams in games.

However, as time went by, this peculiar online guild remained true to itself, showing no intention to go commercial, continuing as game enthusiasts.

In the current year of 2050, The Realm of Innocence is a project no gaming enthusiast would miss!

Bath of Fire Guild members naturally joined in the fun. As the game’s reputation and influence grew, amidst countless disputes and discussions, its chairman, Typing Warrior, and one of the vice-chairmen, Seventy-Six Sticks, were sent to ’explore the way,’ while another vice-chairman, Yuan Fang Weiwu, led the Elite Team to continue tackling new versions of the game they were previously stationed at, bullying second-tier teams from other clubs and studios.

Why bully second-tier teams? Naturally, because the elites of others had mostly settled in The Realm of Innocence.

Why the chairman, Typing Warrior, or Alramis in The Realm of Innocence and frequent ID Seventy-Six Sticks, also known as Boathos in The Realm of Innocence, were sent for reconnaissance was because their internal DKP was too high. Once a new version launched, others struggled to snatch gear after BOSS drops from them.

So they were coerced by everyone to play The Realm of Innocence, and within half a month, upgraded their strength to Middle Rank, planning to establish a Mercenary Corps.

After all, [Travel Group] is system-defined. Under the current worldview, larger player groups are more suited to donning the Mercenary Corps skin.

Then the two found themselves in an awkward situation because the minimum registration requirement for a Mercenary Corps is twenty people, while they only had two, not even enough for an adventurer team.

Just as the two were fretting, unexpectedly, a Lin Sister fell from the sky... uh, accurately speaking, a Brother Mo.

Thus, after slightly affirming the other’s character as decent through loot distribution, Alramis decisively took the opportunity to recruit him using his quite poor sense of direction as a point of entry.

"We’re planning on forming an adventurer team first, and if it goes well, we’ll start a Mercenary Corps to have some fun~"

On the way down the mountain, Alramis chatted animatedly with Mo walking beside him: "After all, what we can access right now is too limited. If we could have a Mercenary Corps, even if our strength is slightly inferior, we could latch onto some interesting missions. Not only would our income increase significantly, but life would also be more vibrant~"

Boathos, walking on Mo’s other side, clicked his tongue and nodded: "Plus, more missions would help us to become Niu Chao."

"Uh, I didn’t quite get it, but it seems pretty good."

Mo chuckled, savoring the pleasure of not needing to discern the right direction himself, and said, "It’d be nice if I could help."

"Hey, you’re family, no need to be so formal~"

While Alramis secretly increased Mo’s favorability, he smiled brightly and said: "Speaking of which, Brother Mo, what were your original plans? We were focused on recruiting you just now, didn’t ask properly."

Mo shook his head, a bit embarrassed: "Actually, I have no plans. Originally, I intended to find a small place to pick up some Adventurer Association tasks, save some money to buy a little house or something, and try to improve my skills. Uh... honestly, I have no plan."

"Saving for a house, huh, is this topic a bit heavy?"

Alramis suddenly sighed deeply, his face full of melancholy.

"It gets worse if you have obsessed parents urging you to marry and have kids."

Boathos’ face also suddenly turned gloomy, muttering: "Having kids only to let parents or in-laws take care of them is unsettling, not letting them take care of them makes them unhappy; if it’s a boy, you have to buy him a house, a car, and pay who knows how much for a bride price—MMP, life is so tough."

Mo defensively chuckled amid the bleak atmosphere: "I’m probably doing okay, as I don’t have parents, buying a house or anything was just casually mentioned, don’t mind, don’t mind."

"Ah, no parents..."

Boathos was first stunned, then awkwardly laughed: "Er, sorry, I didn’t know your family passed away early."

Alramis abruptly kicked Boathos, scolding: "What the hell are you saying, what if Mo’s parents are still alive and just abandoned or lost him."

"Wouldn’t that be even worse?!"

"Uh, probably true..."

"I’m sorry!"

"I was wrong! Kill me now!"

The peculiar duo expressed their deep apologies to Mo in the middle.

"Uh, it’s fine, it’s fine, I’m not bothered at all."

Mo immediately waved his hand, shrugged: "Honestly, I’m not very sure about my circumstances. Not to hide from you, although many basic things I remember, I’ve almost completely lost my memory from a year ago, and as I mentioned, even my name is made up by myself."

"Oho~"

Alramis clicked his tongue, exclaiming: "You’re impressive, buddy, what a tale!"

"Why not just change your name, since it’s randomly chosen~"

Boathos then casually draped an arm over Mo’s shoulder, grinning as he suggested: "How about changing to Athos?"

"Athos?"

Mo blinked, frowned and repeated, not because he had any objection to this name, mainly because he was reluctant to change the name that had followed him for over a year.

Although one year isn’t particularly long, he had only known the two brothers beside him for over an hour. While he had a favorable impression of them, it wasn’t enough to casually alter his name.

"Ignore him, this guy has always wanted to complete ’The Three Musketeers’."

Alramis sighed, dryly explaining: "Now he’s called Boathos, I’m called Alramis, missing an Athos."

"The Three Musketeers? Are they famous heroes? I’m hearing about it for the first time."

Mo eagerly asked, then suddenly exclaimed with surprise: "You said he’s now called Boathos? You guys changed names before too?"

"Yeah, he was previously called Bangchui."

Alramis casually remarked, then suddenly turned solemn-faced, formally said to Mo: "Now, we’re almost at the town. As the captain of our future adventurer team and leader of the Mercenary Corps, I have a glorious and tough task I want to assign to you!"

"Uh? What is it?"

"Recruiting members!"

"Recruiting members?"

"Yes, don’t forget even an adventurer team needs five people, we only have three now, oh right, preferably a girl!"

"Why’s that?"

"Men and women together, work is less tiring."

"..."

Chapter 1034: End