The Night Sun

Chapter 21

"Grumble grumble"

While walking, No One's stomach started growling.

Ah.

Since last night, he hadn't eaten anything.

Well, you have to eat to survive.

So, No One took a detour to the food district.

There was someone from the Moonlight Clan there selling food, so No One often went there when he was hungry.

The food was delicious, and the owner even gave him a discount.

The food district was quite empty at this time, mainly because it was still working hours. Most of the people present were delivery workers taking a break to eat.

No One walked in and casually waved in greeting.

"Yo, Noodle."

A tan-skinned guy, busy stir-frying noodles, turned around and greeted No One with a smile.

Short, neatly-trimmed hair with glasses. A long scar on one side of his face. Despite that to others, it might not look unattractive, but for No One, it made him appear more cool.

With a firm hand, he handled the large frying pan full of noodles.

This was Hau Hau Noodle, the lord of F2P, a player who refused to top up, preferring death over spending.

His account would likely still be F2P if the publisher hadn't introduced a feature allowing friends to gift top-ups.

The conversation went like this.

【Sword of Love: Hey, the game now allows gifting top-ups to friends.】

【Lady Lam: Huh? So what? Planning to gift me a new outfit?】

【Sword of Love: Are you guys still letting Hau Hau remain a free player?】

【Mì Hảu Hảu: Hey.】

【Mì Hảu Hảu: Don't.】

【Mì Hảu Hảu: Don't do that.】

At that moment, the smiles of many guild members became mischievous.

It wasn't a big deal if just one person gifted him, but more than 40 people sent top-ups, shattering the pure status of his account.

It was the most notorious gift No One had ever known.

That day, Hau Hau's account jumped directly into the Top 5 for most top-ups of the week.

Since then, he still hadn't used up all the money that the guild members had gifted him.

"As usual, to go."

Mì Hảu Hảu gave an okay sign and continued stir-frying the noodles.

"You played well last night, let's do our best again tonight."

"Thanks, we definitely will."

"I saw your list of classes you're looking for, do you need support for the 'Ranger' class?"

"Yeah, we might change the team composition a lot to experiment. I noticed you're still open for night sales then, so I was thinking of finding someone else. But if you can come, feel free to join."

"Ok, taking a break from night sales for a few days is fine, I'll help you tonight."

"That's great, thank you."

No One was about to send money, but Hau Hau declined.

"Eat up to keep your strength, it's on me. Among guild members, there's no need to fuss over a few coins."

No One thanked him and headed off.

Noodle seemed to be in a good mood.Usually, there are discounts, but I've never seen anything free like this.

No One checked the list again and crossed off the Ranger class he needed.

Currently, he's planning to try out different team formations for battles.

One of those formations includes three Blade Dancers and Cherished Dream.

The plan is for Cherished Dream to buff the attack and create a defensive shield while the three Blade Dancers deal the damage.

However, to make it work, they've got to hit the Boss first.

There's no certainty that the Phantom of The Immortal Blade won’t be able to parry all three. But it's worth trying.

The class combination of those Blade Dancers is also important. Ideally, one would have healing skills. A class such as Bard + Vanguard or Bard + Warrior could also be considered.

Another formation is the super buff team.

Three Buffs and one Blade Dancer.

Boost No One's stats to the extreme limit. Then he'd take on the Phantom of The Immortal Blade one-on-one.

For this setup, they need to find a way to surpass the Boss's counterattack techniques.

Additionally, the current priority formation is classes with true damage.

Among the new classes, Earth Dreamer, Shadow Assassin, Phantom Blade, Blade Dancer, and Commander have true damage.

Earlier, Heavenly Demon In Black mentioned having a new disciple, a Shadow Assassin. If possible, No One would invite him to join.The formation that No One is prioritizing revolves around Earth Dreamer.

Earth Dreamer is a melee class that deals magical damage.

However, it is also a tank class.

The unique trait of Earth Dreamer is using earth and stone magic to attack enemies and enhance itself.

Earth Dreamer has a special mechanism based on the skill 【Domain: Great Earth】

When the activation conditions are met, 【Domain: Great Earth】 will create an immensely wide-environment zone, essentially encompassing the entire battle area.

In that zone, all the team's damage will become true damage.

Since facing the Phantom of The Immortal Blade, No One has considered this class.

The issue is that the class combination needed to change jobs to Earth Dreamer is quite rare.

Mage + Vanguard.

Vanguard is a class specializing in tanking, mainly using spears, polearms, and shields but can also equip other melee weapons. It has skills for close-range combat, drawing boss aggro, and buffing team stats.

Players usually use the combination of Vanguard + Priest for self-recovery or Vanguard + Warrior to deal extra damage in close combat.

Having an Earth Dreamer in the team would significantly enhance damage dealing.

Many spells and long-range skills cannot be counterattacked and cause substantial damage.

An example is 【Mortal Hell】 by Cherished Dream.

The team No One is considering is Earth Dreamer + Sword of Love + Cherished Dream + Noodle.

Or Earth Dreamer + No One + Cherished Dream + Noodle.

The second formation is to limit the Phantom of The Immortal Blade from using Principles Cleave. It's too dangerous.

No One is unsure if it can mimic skills that don’t use a sword, but at least other skills would be less troublesome than that.

It seems that many of the new classes in this update are designed to help players tackle Bosses.With the older class sets, facing the Phantom of The Immortal Blade would most likely result in certain death.

Having a Shadow Assassin would also be beneficial. The skill 【Domain: Eternal Night】 similarly covers the battlefield like Earth Dreamer’s, boosting everyone’s dodge rate by 100% while active.

Shadow Assassin also has the skill 【Moonlight Blade】 that allows dealing true damage in a short time.

While its damage isn't as high as Earth Dreamer, it still forms a valuable team composition.

Having both these classes together, the Earth Dreamer + Shadow Assassin combo should not be underestimated.

This time in meeting Heavenly Demon In Black, he absolutely has to bring along his junior disciple!

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"Achoo."

"Are you cold? Does the disciple want the master to give them a warm hug~?"

"Maybe someone is just talking about me."

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Meanwhile, Lady Lam was opening the top-up interface.

She was at work, but with her job, no one really cared what she did.

Her position could be described as "quite" high.

"Phantom of The Immortal Blade, you're dead meat."

Ting

【Thank you for purchasing 1 Class Outfit Ticket】

【Thank you for topping up...】

The guild chat was startled after seeing the announcement that Lady Lam received the title 【Wealthy Patron of the Month】—a title for the top spender each month.

【KingOfMid: omg... Lady Lam: The Leviathan Sea Monster has returned.】

【Hau Hau Noodle: Just sold a bowl of noodles to No One, planning to tell you guys that I can join tonight, then suddenly I saw a whale.】

【Lady Lam has opened the Supreme Guild Gift Pack.】

【Lady Lam: just some small change.】

The entire chat channel immediately buzzed. Everyone, even if they were at work, grabbed their phones to receive the gift packets.

Supreme Gift Pack!!!

Only one can be received when a player achieves Top Patron of the Month!

It contains incredibly rich rewards, but most notably, the chance to get ultra-rare costumes, golden weapons, and pets!

The whole guild seemed to rush to claim it.

No One, hearing the notification from his phone, quickly tapped away.

Some people were out of luck.

【Cherished Dream opened the gift packet and received Special Fertilizer.】

【TwinBird opened the gift packet and received Pet Food.】

【...】

Some had decent hauls.

【...】

【Sword of Love opened the gift packet and received 888 Gold Ingots.】

【Vương Tư Giữa opened the gift packet and received 888 Gold Ingots.】

【No One opened the gift packet and received 3600 Gold Ingots.】However, this time there were two unexpected names that surprised everyone.

【Hana opened the gift packet and received a Golden Pet Egg.】

【Hau Hau Noodle opened the gift packet and received an Epic Weapon.】

What the hell?

Is this what they call Beginner & F2P Luck?

【Lady Lam: What did you get?】

【Player Hau Hau Noodle in the guild has requested the guild's help in appraising equipment】

【Player KingOfMid in the guild has assisted Hau Hau Noodle. Truly a deep brotherly bond.】

【Guiding Spear of Light】

【Spear】

【Class Effect: When equipped by Earth Dreamer, extends the duration of the team's Domain activation.】

【Class Effect: When equipped by Earth Dreamer, successful close-range skills will create a shield protecting the player from one attack.】

Wow...! It's even a class-specific weapon!

【Lady Lam: Perfect timing.】

【Lady Lam: Noodle, sell it to me.】

【Sword of Love: Hey granny, are you really...?】

【Hau Hau Noodle: Uh... but I don't know the price.】

【Lady Lam has sent you 10,000,000 Gold Ingots】

【Lady Lam: Keep the change.】

Suddenly, a notification sounded.

【Player Lady Lam in the guild has used a class change ticket to switch their class to Earth Dreamer! Hope to continue fighting alongside everyone in the future!】

The World Channel also saw the message through the Super Speaker.

【Lady Lam: Buying Earth Dreamer equipment. Price is not a concern. DM me to sell.】

...

The whole guild could only chat together.

【The Mighty Lady Lam.】

A Golden Class item generally sells for around 5 million Gold Ingots. She went ahead and sent double that amount.

The class change ticket, incredibly expensive and newly available in the shop, was practically unused because of its high cost, yet she went ahead and bought it.

The Almighty Lady Lam !