Taking off the gaming helmet, Wang Xu was greeted to the usual sight of his room's ceiling after logging out of Immortal Era. Reaching around for his phone, Wang Xu brought it up above his face and turned on the screen. Squinting his eyes slightly, Wang Xu noticed that it was now a quarter past two in the morning. Wang Xu found this weird as he remembered spending quite a bit of time gaming and the hours he spent online don't match up. Stretching his limbs a bit, Wang Xu got out of bed and went to the living room, where he turned on his laptop. That time difference was bugging him and he had to get to the bottom of it before he decided to log back in. After spending a few minutes searching the official website and the forums, Wang Xu finally got to know what the reason for the time difference that he felt was. It seems that with the end of the server-wide Exp buff event that ended two days ago, the company behind Immortal Era decided to implement a time dilation

It was roughly three in the afternoon when Wang Xu returned to his apartment. He had spent over an hour enjoying his lunch, packing away quite a bit, before he took a light walk around the neighborhood as he waited for the food to digest. To his credit, with the amount of weight training and jogging that he did that day, along with the somewhat dangerous practice of absorbing solar energy rays in the morning, he needed to eat at least that much to regain some nutrients in his body. Now in his apartment, Wang Xu was sitting on the floor in his living room in a meditative position, similar to what he does in-game. While doing this, Wang Xu was carefully controlling the energy flow in his body to direct the newly obtained nutrients to various locations. Although he couldn't direct all the nutrients where he wanted them to go, just being able to direct a portion of it was enough for him at the moment. After doing this for roughly fifteen minutes

Staring at the horrified expression of the clone standing before him, a weak smile formed on Kirou's face as he released a sigh. His final ace had secured him the win in this BS boxing match. Allowing his body to relax, albeit slightly, Kirou spoke up underneath his breath, "With this, I've secured my class advancement and can move on to my other projects now." Along with Kirou's words and him relaxing his body, another change took place in the clearing. His usually invisible wires started becoming visible bit by bit. This went on for roughly thirty seconds before what Bladesmith's clone could assume to be all of them finally being visible. The sight.... wasn't easy for anyone with a weak stomach to look at. Each thread was extremely thin, so seeing enough to completely restrict all of the clone's movements, contain the surrounding area, and further secure the first two sets in that order, how could the clone not be horrified. In fact, it ha

When everyone heard Kirou's words, they were shocked. So shocked, in fact, that all sounds in the immediate area instantly vanished. Along with this, they all had incredulous looks on their faces while staring at Kirou. On one hand, there was the leader of this crazy hunting squad of the Phantom Thieves Guild challenging a random player. While on the other, the player challenged was asking about whether it would be a one on one or a group battle. It was completely understandable why these random players would be shocked. While members of the Dutchman squad had various types of angry faces at the moment, Davy Jones himself wore a deep frown while contemplating. Although he wasn't confident in taking on Kirou in a one on one fight, especially if that vague feeling he got earlier was anything to go by, he definitely couldn't allow a group battle. Winning a group battle of twenty versus four, although it would preserve his squad's prestige, wouldn't be much of a glo

When Navi returned to the underground cave with Reya, the table was set up for three people, with two cups of tea prepared for them to partake in while Kirou continued to stare at the lake. The two silently approached the table and took a seat before their respective cups. Without even turning around, Kirou opened up his menu and forwarded the video he received from his informant to both girls, slowly enjoying his tea in the process. A few seconds later, both girls received the video and tacitly agreed to watch it in silence. Like that, the girls sat there in silence as they watched the recording. At some point, Kirou had ceased his viewing of the underground lake and was now staring at both women, gauging their reactions, both conscious and subconscious on their part, as they watched the video. By the time both girls had finished watching the video, a gloomy expression was all that Kirou could see on their faces. He nodded slightly at this