Earth’s Best Gamer-Chapter 483 - Hero: Gao Shun
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Boom, boom, boom!
The sacrificial ritual didn’t stop after Cao Cao’s arrival.
The yellow dragons of providence breathed the golden light onto the offerings on the other altar.
All the offerings there were Dense Fog crystals. After they were fused, the user would have the ability to enter dreams.
Because of that, the requirement of these sacrificial rituals was changed to “good at fighting in battles”.
And the offerings were no ordinary objects.
Because the Dense Fog crystals they obtained in the dream would automatically fuse with one another when put together, these offerings were Extraordinary Rank-5 at least.
There were even two Special offerings among them.
Together with the Extraordinary Rank-9 and Commander-level Soul of Civilization, they summoned another famous warrior of the Three Kingdoms era!
[“All-conquering and invincible, we fearlessly break enemy ranks!”]
The red dragon of the test battle had its head cut off by a black saber. After that, a tall, thin warrior wearing black armor showed his cold and steely face.
[Gao Shun]
[Level: Special]
[Rarity: Quasi Boss]
[Description: A military officer of the Eastern Han era and working under Lü Bu. He was an honest and well-respected man with no love for alcohol. He led an elite army known as the Rank-breaking Camp that would be the first troop to charge into the battle every single time.]
“Gao Shun!”
The reluctant warrior was a famous general working under Lü Bu.
Before Ji Ye said anything, Cao Cao’s face had already darkened a little.
Before the heroes came to Dragon City, they were given some information about the settlement.
Because of that, Cao Cao already knew that some of the heroes in Dragon City didn’t like him much.
For instance, there were the heroes of the kingdoms of Shu and Wei, such as Zhou Yu, Zhao Yun, Ling Cao, and Xiao Qiao, as well as someone like Li Guang, who was loyal to the Han Dynasty and didn’t like a person that had “stolen the throne”.
But overall, it wouldn’t be a very big problem.
After all, they didn’t hold too many grudges against one another.
The story about Cao Cao building the Bronze Sparrow Terrace to keep Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao there was only something made up by the fiction. In reality, the terrace was built for gatherings of literati and scholars.
Because of that, the rivalry over Zhou Yu’s wife didn’t exist between Cao Cao and Zhou Yu.
But Gao Shun was a different story.
From what Cao Cao remembered, he had killed Lü Bu, Chen Gong, and Gao Shun in Xiapi before hanging their heads over the city gate of Xudu.
Since he remembered it, Gao Shun would remember it as well, and those grudges were real.
“Oh, no…”
Cao Cao suddenly panicked a little.
Although Gao Shun was only Superior, and he was Legendary, in terms of their abilities in one-to-one combats, he might not be Gao Shun’s match.
As mentioned before, the evaluation of the heroes above the Commander level wasn’t determined by their combat capability, and a Legendary hero wasn’t particularly known for his great martial prowess.
Of course, it didn’t mean that Cao Cao was weak in that aspect.
He was one of the eight officers of Xiyuan and used to perform heroic deeds when he was young.
He had once infiltrated Zhang Rang’s residence all by himself. When discovered, he fought the guards head-on and escaped by jumping over the wall. He had also killed dozens of soldiers when he put down a revolt in Yangzhou.
Compared with other emperors and kings in the ancient history of Chidragon, Cao Cao was one of the top warriors.
However, if he were to fight Gao Shun, who was an expert in combats and breaking ranks, he wouldn’t be the man’s match.
Moreover, Cao Cao was considered an old man by the standards of his time, whereas Gao Shun was in the prime of his life.
The only hero in Dragon City that belonged to the Wei Kingdom was Dian Wei, but he was in Guobei County at the moment to keep an eye on the Old Demon Black Mountain.
“General Gao, I’ve heard so much about you! You look even more impressive in person!”
However, despite the reluctance, Cao Cao didn’t let it show on his face. Instead, he smiled, stroked his beard, and sighed with emotion.
He decided to clarify that he didn’t kill Gao Shun before he came to Dragon City, in case the man suddenly decided to kill him.
“The past is in the past!”
But Cao Cao had thought too much.
After studying him for a while, Gao Shun spoke those words.
He meant it when he said that he held no grudges against Cao Cao.
They were at war, and it was inevitable that people would die. Cao Cao shouldn’t be blamed.
What Cao Cao didn’t know was that, just like Li Guang, Gao Shun had gone through his entire life before coming here, which meant that they had a more thorough understanding of life than most other heroes.
Because of that, rather than dealing with Cao Cao, Gao Shun was more concerned with Lü Bu.
As the commander of the famous Rank-breaking Camp, Gao Shun was loyal to Lü Bu to a fault.
However, Lü Bu didn’t give him the same level of trust. Although Gao Shun had trained the camp himself, Lü Bu would keep the tally and let his brother-in-law Wei Xu lead the camp on a daily basis. It was only handed to Gao Shun when there was a battle.
Even when he was besieged by Cao Cao’s soldiers in Xiapi and was at the end of his rope, Lü Bu was worried that Gao Shun might rebel, so he refused Chen Gong’s proposal to let him guard the main city.
In the end, Wei Xu was the one who revolted.
Facing Cao Cao’s persuasion to surrender, Gao Shun chose to die with Lü Bu.
He then turned to Ji Ye and said, “I’ve died for General Lü Bu once, and I have already paid him back for his appreciation of my ability. From now on, there’s only Gao Shun of Dragon City!”
He was born during the chaotic times of the Three Kingdoms era, and he had to fight for power and his own survival.
But here in the Land of Inheritance, the humans were fighting against alien races, so he needed to put aside the internal strife.
Apparently, Gao Shun had a perfect understanding of that.
“I’m sure with Chief Cao and Commander Gao’s arrival, we’ll be able to show our prowess to all the alien races.”
Of course, Ji Ye smiled and agreed with Gao Shun.
The only regret was that the sacrificial ritual with the other Special offering had failed.
Because time was of the essence here, Ji Ye didn’t have time to fuse the offering to enhance its quality. It was only Excellent, and the hero taking the test was defeated by a giant mammoth at the last moment.
But the rest dozen or so Extraordinary offerings all successfully turned into heroes.
“Master Ji, I’m He Chong of the Tiger Leopard Cavalry!”
“Master Ji, I’m Lin Ping of the Tiger Leopard Cavalry!”
“Master Ji, I’m Zhang Lei of the Rank-breaking Camp!”
“Master Ji, I’m Sun Qi of the Rank-breaking Camp!”
Moreover, probably because of Cao Cao and Gao Shun, they managed to summon two officers of the Tiger Leopard Cavalry and five soldiers of the Rank-breaking Camp.
Although they weren’t many in numbers, they were all Extraordinary Rank-7 and above and Excellent Commander-level ones.
The Tiger Leopard Cavalry only had around 5,000 members, and each one was supposed to be able to lead a hundred soldiers. By the standard of the Land of Inheritance, even the most common Tiger Leopard Cavalry soldier was of the Quasi-Commander level.
It was an even more elite troop than the Yue Army.
Of course, it was mainly because the Yue Army in Dragon City came from a fictional world. For instance, members of the Beiwei Division, which was the most elite division of that army, never came to Dragon City.
It was probably because none of the commanders of the Yue Army had arrived at Dragon City yet.
Since Cao Cao had been summoned, Ji Ye believed that it wouldn’t be too long before Yue Fei would arrive in the Land of Inheritance.
There was a rumbling sound.
As if stimulated by the summoning of Cao Cao, the Dense Fog around Dragon City rolled even more violently and seemed to go berserk.
The creatures controlled by the fog also began to charge at Dragon City’s defense line with their all. Even the Feng Shui formation became unstable.
“Chief Cao, Commander Gao, let’s destroy this Dense Fog face.”
After spending some time to briefly fuse Inception, Ji Ye went into the “dream battlefield” with Cao Cao and the rest.
