When a person stops moving forward, no one will stop and wait for him.

When Takahe returned to Light Source City, sat silently on the sofa in his house, and picked up the hot tea sent by his maid Sakiya, he also heard the world announcement that shocked him.

"World Announcement: Player "SAO" and his team went deep into "Heart of Molten Fire". During the fierce battle with the elemental army of fire elemental lord Ragna Rose, they killed one of the elemental lords "Rufusilon", for the first time, one of the elemental lords' minions! This great achievement will be recorded in the history of the continent of Azeroth forever!"

Lord of Fire Elements...Ragna Rose?

When the same announcement echoed several times over the entire Azerothic continent, Gao He frowned and chewed carefully at the meaning of it.

In fact, he had long known the so-called "Heart of Molten Fire" - not only him, but almost the entire Azerothic continent, adventurers and players also knew that this 40-person team leader-level dungeon is more dangerous and more difficult than the black dragon princess Onixia's nest.

Speaking of which, the existence of the Heart of Molten Fire is also related to a guy who had disappeared from the Azerothian continent world before.

That was when the once prosperous Manchu and Han guild was destroyed. The president, the three-headed chasing Mao Jingyan, finally failed. After deleting the account, the president posted his last post on the official forum.

"Do you want to get epic suit parts, epic weapons... or even legendary weapons?"

"Deep in the Black Stone Mountain, under the Black Stone Tower, there is a huge treasure hidden... that no one has discovered yet!"

『…』

According to Santou Bao's instructions, once, an elite team under his guild accidentally fell into magma while exploring the Black Stone Tower. However, I don't know if it was a lucky relationship. After a lot of struggles, the team member who had been dying and almost died after a lot of hardships, unexpectedly discovered the huge copy portal hidden in the deepest part of the Black Stone Abyss, leading to an unknown place.

He had sent several squads into the exploration, but all the members of the squad died in just a few minutes - including his best stalkers.

However, although it consumed a lot of manpower, Santou Zhengfu also obtained first-hand information.

There, there is a large copy called "Heart of Molten Fire" - wider, larger, and more dangerous than Onixia's nest.

Endless flames burned in it, fire elements and stone elements ran rampant in it, and the dungeon was filled with endless monsters. The weakest one was also a super-level boss-level elite with a level of 100 or above.

At least, the team sent by Santou Zhengcao Bao into it was easily killed by a large-scale trampling attack without even cutting off the health of the first monster 1, without any ability to fight back.

At that time, Santou Jingcao Bao originally planned to conceal this secret silently, and when the strength of the guild team increased to a certain level, he secretly conquered this fire heart that was said to be one of the four major element lords of the ancient Azeroth Continent, and the fire element lord. Unfortunately... he obviously failed to wait for that day to arrive.

And his purpose of publishing this news was simply.

He hoped that someone could become stronger than Paladin Abu and "Emperor" Mao Jingyan, thus defeating them.

Similarly, once these two guys with great confidence rashly led the team into the Heart of Molten Fire, he didn't mind at all waiting for the "good news" that their team finally fell under the iron hoof of the powerful Fire Elemental Lord's army with a gloating mentality!

No matter what mentality you are in, the "Heart of Molten Fire" dungeon and the release of some video materials have triggered a group of players entering the hot "big dungeon era" in a short period of time.

Countless players tried to explore this copy. Most of these adventurers who were just alone or idle players went through a lot of hardships and almost died and survived from the lava fire lake. They just wanted to enter the heart of molten fire and personally look at the huge lava giant who was stronger than any boss they had ever seen, but could only serve as the "gatekeeper" in this copy.

Compared with these players, the major guilds are relatively calm. Before exploring the situation, they mainly focus on each level 60 small dungeon and Onixia's nest that has been successfully killed, so as to improve the team equipment as much as possible.

Even Gao He's idea was no different from these presidents. In his opinion, it was too rash to challenge that dangerous copy with his current equipment. It was very likely that he would not even know how to die in the end.

But now...

"Mao Jingyan...that guy...has it actually started to open up the land quietly..."

With his back against the comfortable sofa, Gao He felt uncomfortable at this moment.

He had never expected that it was less than a month since he defeated Onixia. Logically speaking, it had not reached the level of popularizing the equipment given by the Black Dragon Princess treasure chest to the entire group. However, how could Mao Jingyan... lead the team so firmly and step into that dead land that is extremely likely to be doomed?!

Gao He didn't know what kind of strength the so-called "Ragna Rose's minion" had, but since it could be recorded in the history of the Azeroth continent, it means that this is at least a powerful boss-level boss.

Judging from the content of the announcement, in the Heart of the Molt, there seems to be more than one such boss?

"Damn..."

Gao He grabbed his hair in annoyance, feeling very upset.

Half a month ago, he had moved side by side with Mao Jingyan, and even almost surpassed his opponent's pace. However, now he... has been left behind by this emperor again!

More importantly... When he thought of the "legendary weapon" mentioned by Santou Jingcao Bao, his heart became even more uneasy.

That middle-aged man Mao Jingyan... Maybe he knew some secret in this heart of the smelting fire, so he started to lead the team to open up the land so eagerly?

Is it so rash to get a legendary weapon that can compete with my cute weapon?

No, it's not so much rash words...

Gao He suddenly remembered the conversation between the two on that day, on the curse land.

"The emperor is... undefeated."

Perhaps for Gao He, the achievements of his previous achievements were enough to be complacent for a while, but for Mao Jingyan, who is the "emperor", such a battle result was definitely not something he could accept.

"Owner."

When Gao He's thoughts were like a mess, the competent maid had quietly come to him.

“There are guests from the host who come outside.”

"Oh, who is it?"

Gao He pretended to be calm and took a sip of black tea, but his wandering eyes clearly showed that he was not as concerned about what had happened before as he seemed on the surface.

“The visitor is a male.”

"Just say I'm not here."

“…”

This is not arguing about gender discrimination. At least now, Gao He is really not in the mood to argue with those bad friends.

However, after a moment, his communicator rang unyieldingly.

"Hey... Abu, you guy is obviously at home but you say you are not here... Even if you hide a cute maid and don't want us to see it, you won't be so straightforward, right?"

“…”

Faced with the helpless words of Nangong Coolang, the president and friend of the Fantasy Carnival Guild who had helped him vigorously, Gao He pondered for a while and finally asked the captain maid to bring several people into the living room.

"Wow... I've heard that Abu, you, have a big house bigger than our guild hall in Light Source City... I didn't expect it to be so luxurious."

First, he broke into the living room casually and sat beside Gao He, naturally the bad friend Knightski. Of course, while he sat down, Gao He was in a bad mood, and he did not forget to move his butt to the side.

"Gay, get away."

His unpleasant words made Knightsky's bald head turn red all of a sudden.

"Hey! There are cute maids here after all. Can you please stop calling me like a gay guy?"

Nangong Coyote and Shangguan Dangma, who were following closely behind, naturally smiled knowingly at such a scene. After they sat down, the competent maid Sakiya also ignored the look of the unscrupulous presidents looking up and down, and served each with steaming black tea.

"Please use it slowly."

After bowing gracefully, the head maid left the living room. The result made these guys sigh and sigh.

"I said..."

Gao He, who could no longer bear it, finally spoke up unhappily at this time.

"If you guys just want to come to my house to see the maids, won't the Maid Professional Guild let you see enough?!"

"Hahahaha...that's a risk of your life. You know, the defenses on the Maid Guild are no less than those on the Magician Guild..."

Shangguan Dangma smiled embarrassedly, as if he had personally experienced the so-called "strict defense".

"Okay, let's get back to the point... You two have something to say today to Abu, right?"

At this time, Knightsky took on the role of leading the topic.

"Well... Speaking of which, today I mainly want to apologize to Abu."

Nangong Coyote's serious words made Gao He raise his eyebrows slightly.

"What's there to apologize? After all...if you didn't help..."

Although I was unhappy with the girls' "betrayal" at this time, after all, from beginning to end, these girls only joined his team as "reinforcements" rather than "members".

Perhaps he was blinded by the smooth sailing of the past some time. It was not until he experienced this sudden situation today that Gao He realized that the achievements he had made before were not worth mentioning compared to the difficulties he had to face in the future.

Even in the past game world, there were many players who became famous overnight like a flash in the pan, and then hid their merits and fame, drowned in the tide of countless people, and were no longer remembered by others. The reason why he is so famous now... I have to admit that more of them are probably due to Mao Jingyan's glory.

"Although I don't care, I still care a lot."

Shangguan Dangma smiled honestly and grabbed the back of his head.

"Originally, Bilibili and others suddenly proposed to come back to the guild to lead a group to open the land. After all, the guild has the fighting style you provided by Abu, and the landing has been going well. But... well, you know, Bilibili's personality has never been the type who can listen to me."

"By the way... Speaking of which, what is the relationship between that Bilibili and you?"

At this time, Knightsky came to change the topic even though he was desperately dying.

"Hey? In addition to the relationship between superiors and subordinates, you can still talk about friends, but occasionally you can have a headache... and, besides Bilibili himself, that lily is the same..."

At this point when complaining, Shangguan Dangma's expression suddenly became much more serious.

"Speaking of this, Abu, you heard the big move of that 'emperor' just now."

"Ah...yes, I didn't expect that guy would start the strategy of the Heart of Molten Fire so soon."

Gao He nodded—although he was still a little worried, since he mentioned serious matters, of course it was not the time to throw a tantrum.

"In fact, as far as I know, like the Blood Alliance Knights, there are still many guilds that have begun to launch strategies on the Heart of Molten Fire. Even the three families of me, Coyote and Dangma have sent advance teams last week to initially investigate the situation in the Heart of Molten Fire."

"Why?"

This time, Gao He was extremely surprised.
To be continued...