Chapter 609 - Doting Grandpa's Worries

This junior butler was the third person who played VRC and formed a party with them. 

At that time, he was delivering food to their Headmaster when he found out that the pair of master and butler were immersed in playing the game. He notified them, wanting to report that he had already delivered the food to the head butler, but he was dragged by the two people instead to form a party and clear the dungeons. 

Since the pair of master and butler was just novices without online friends, they would sometimes encounter some difficulties when clearing specific dungeons with only the two of them, so they dragged this junior butler to add to the numbers. From that moment on, the junior butler inevitably became a party member with the head butler and their Headmaster and joined whenever the two needed more people. 

Sometimes, he would also act as a lookout or a messenger for urgent matters.

If Old Xiong was not doing his business, he would be in ArtWorld leveling up. Ever since VRC became popular with the surge of reputation and fame of ArtWorld, the pseudonym 'Doting Granda' and 'Poor Middle Man' rocked the entire virtual gaming world.

They were the top players for half a year now!

Now, they were on the 98th dungeon.

The first version of VRC has 100 dungeons. Once a gamer cleared all the dungeons, a new world would open after a patch. It was VRC's version II. 

This was Old Xiong's new goal. 

To be the first team to open VRC II!

However, there was a new player who appeared a couple of months ago who rose in the ranks at a very fast speed while playing solo. 

[Nitnaux's Heart]

He almost caught up with the first ranked holder Doting Granpa and the second ranked holder Poor Middle Man. 

This made Old Xiong feel pressed on time. He had to level up and clear the 100 dungeons soon! He would not allow anyone clear the 100th floor before him!

Old Xiong's competitive heart that had been in slumber for a very long time suddenly awakened and roared.

He played with great focus and planned to finish clearing the 100th floor before the week ended.

Thus, the old man became a bona fide game addict.

However, in the middle of the intense game, he did not expect that he would be interrupted by the sudden news that his eternally busy granddaughter wanted to see him.

Doting Grandpa who was donned in shining golden full armor set from head to toe while swinging his legendary golden sword towards the boss, suddenly halted. 

As a result, the gigantic two-headed dragon flung Doting Grandpa's legendary sword far away, opened its mouth, and breathed out fire!

It was a good thing that Middle Man who was famous for being extremely quick on his feet appeared in front of his master. He raised the giant black shield which had the same color of his armor to face the dragon's breath. 

His equipment like Doting Grandpa also came as a full set with lots of buffs and managed to fend off the attack with minimal damage.

Doting Grandpa glared at Messenger. 

He nearly lost all his HP because of this guy! 

Doting Grandpa angrily yelled as he recalled his legendary golden sword. "Tell me the full details later. Let's finish this soon!"

(E/N: HP is health points, and MP is mana points. HP signifies their life and vitality while MP is the mana or power that allows them to use mana-skills)

With Doting Grandpa's order, Poor Middle Man and Messenger used their team's tactics which allowed them to become the leading team. 

The Xiong elder was an extremely intelligent tactician, and the Zhou head butler was naturally extremely capable. Even the junior who was trained with the highest standards was very skilled. 

The over the top team fully displayed all their grand sword techniques and glittering skills along with fantastic effects without caring for their MP. They were rich and had a lot of high quality MP potions. They would just drink two potions once their grand skills drained their MP. 

For the sake of clearing the 100th dungeon, spending money was nothing at all for them who never lacked money!

Soon, the passionate and fantastic battle that could be shown in a movie screen was over and the sound of 'Congratulations!' by the system echoed. 

Then a bunch of system rewards and the credits of being the first clearers of the dungeon were given to them. 

[Congratulations! Doting Grandpa's Party cleared the 98th dungeon! 

You are the first to clear this dungeon!

The title XXXX achieved....

Congratulations to Doting Grandpa for clearing the 98th dungeon.... You received XXXXXX experience points and equipment.....

Congratulations to Poor Middle Man for clearing the 98th dungeon.... You received XXXXXX experience points and equipment.....

Congratulations to Messenger for clearing the 98th dungeon.... You received XXXXXX experience points and equipment.....

.....]

The figures of the whole party shone with glittering golden lights as they all levelled up several times.

At the same time, in every corner of VRC, server-wide system announcements sounded one after another.

[Congratulations! Doting Grandpa's Party is the first team to clear the 98th dungeon! All hail the bravest heroes for overcoming the existing dungeons' highest level of difficulty!] 

Those who who were exploring the dungeons, those in the market place, and those who were idly touring the VRC world halted and looked up at the words shining in the sky. 

The words were accompanied by the sweet voice of a woman reverberating in the virtual space.

[A new dungeon appeared in West Darkest Mountain of Kingdom Gniox! 

A mysterious portal is awakened, bringing an unprecedented twin dungeon to the realm...]

[Our continent is in peril! May Goddess Gnos bless you heroes in extinguishing all the malignant dungeons in the realm!]

Followed by that, a more mechanical pop up window showed up in front of everyone.

[The 99th dungeon and the 100th dungeon need to be cleared within a specific time.

If the condition is not met, the twin dungeon will disappear and all heroes have to clear the 98th dungeon again before the twin dungeon can appear once more.]

After the voice disappeared, the players of VRC all erupted into chaos.

The 98th dungeon was cleared! 

Now there are only two dungeons left. It also seemed that the last battle would be extremely challenging.

Would Doting Grandpa and his team be able to win the next round? 

They wanted to know!

The players chatted among themselves and discussed this new challenge.

Many top players in the highest rankings wanted to team up with Doting Grandpa's party, but the party did not have a guild or even an official forum. When they sent friend requests, no one responded nor reached out to them.

Like right now, after the prompt messages, Doting Grandpa and his party went offline immediately.

The players dejectedly turned their eyes to the third top player in the rankings, [Nitnaux's Heart], and sent him messages if they could team up with him. According to Nitnaux's current status, he was at the 91th dungeon now.

....

Aftering clearing the dungeon, Old Xiong and his butler logged out and ran hurriedly to the car. 

With a fiery King Yama floating on top of his head, Old Xiong even threatened his own driver that if his granddaughter arrived before he did, then he would fire him and none of his descendants could ever work under the Xiong family. 

The poor driver was so terrified that the car was almost flying. 

Even if the Headmaster had threatened him this a hundred times already, it was still terrifying!

Arriving at the mansion, Old Xiong hurriedly ran in and ordered his servants to set-up an afternoon tea table at the main courtyard's garden with delicious snacks.

And that was how it came to this. 

Old Xiong harrumphed at Zhou Min. "Zhi'er that ungrateful brat rarely asked me to meet her. Ever since that son of yours arrived in the country, I can no longer see that girl's face anymore. She seems to have forgotten that her only close relative is old and all alone! She just chooses to stick to your stinky son's side. It is the first time she seeks me out this year. Even you are trying to lessen my time with her? Are you siding with your son now?"

Zhou Min: ....Master, I am only advising you to change your clothes out of pure good will. How come the tip of the sword turned to me and my son?

Zhou Min knew that the old man was getting pettier and coquettish over time so he was not offended. To soothe the elders' heart, he apologized for his unfilial son and reassured the old man that the heiress absolutely still remembered her dearest grandfather well, or else she would not seek him like today.

Old Xiong finally let things go. Still, he did not change his clothes. He also did not have the time. A butler came forward and reported that Xiong Zhi was already in the mansion.

Old Xiong returned to his pose earlier, the same dignified posture of drinking tea like an immortal.

When Xiong Zhi arrived in the garden, she saw his grandfather peacefully drinking tea.

She slowed down to avoid disturbing the tranquility and bowed respectfully. 

"Greetings, grandfather."

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(A/n: The novel's theme changed again lol. Doting Grandpa and Poor Middle Man are rocking the entire gaming world haha. Who could defeat the man who leads the Xiong Empire?

Any idea who is this third player? ^^ )