"Of course, who wouldn't want to break a record?" Ethan Brooks said. In Glory, there is a leaderboard for dungeon runs based on the team's completion time, and it's something that PVE players are currently striving for with great enthusiasm. Not only are there generous rewards for breaking records, but being high on the leaderboard is also proof of one's high-level skills!

"With your gear, do people actually believe you?" James Carter asked curiously.

His One Autumn Leaf's equipment was already quite extraordinary. Dungeon gear depended on luck, and James Carter wasn't necessarily luckier than others, but with 3,685 consecutive wins in the Arena, the points and rewards he earned were enough for him to exchange for two enviable orange-grade pieces of equipment.

As for Ethan Brooks's Qiu Mu Su, it was better left unmentioned. Not to mention orange gear, he didn't even have a single piece of purple gear; only half of his equipment was blue, and the rest was obviously just green eco-gear thrown together to make up the numbers. Standing at the dungeon entrance, he looked just like a rookie waiting to be carried.

Of course, Ethan Brooks was no rookie, and his skills were definitely top-notch. He had almost the same amount of playtime as James Carter, but his level had just reached 31, and his gear was in tatters; a 67.8% win rate in the Arena, which was decent for an average player, was absolutely outrageous for him—all because his focus in the game was different.

Unlike other players who enjoyed the game at their leisure, Ethan Brooks, a professional player who needed to support himself and his sister through gaming, always looked for profit opportunities as soon as he entered the game.

Selling himself, power-leveling, reselling equipment, even writing hacks... In all kinds of online games, as long as there was money to be made, there was nothing Ethan Brooks hadn't tried.

And with Glory, the newly launched game that was sweeping the nation, Ethan Brooks found a brand new profit point: the Equipment Editor.

According to the official introduction, this was a system that allowed players to explore and create their own equipment. Its value was summed up by the official statement: Custom-made equipment may not be the strongest, but the strongest equipment is definitely custom-made. The equipment produced by the Equipment Editor had a unique silvery text color, which indeed looked superior to the already extremely rare orange-grade gear.

So from day one, Ethan Brooks started researching the Equipment Editor.

The Equipment Editor system was quite complex. So far, Ethan Brooks had already filled two handwritten notebooks, and there were as many as 477 documents stored on his portable hard drive, but even so, he had only managed to figure out a rough outline.

It was extremely difficult. But the harder it was, the more excited Ethan Brooks became. The greater the difficulty, the rarer it was, and the rarer it was, the higher its value.

"A huge profit!" Ethan Brooks was extremely excited.

So he invested all his in-game earnings into researching the Equipment Editor, and James Carter would occasionally log in to find that One Autumn Leaf was missing another piece or two of equipment—no need to ask, Ethan Brooks had taken them to the Equipment Editor and dismantled them.

The Equipment Editor made Ethan Brooks quite strapped for resources in the game, and he realized that researching this system really required a significant amount of material support.

"This can't go on!" Ethan Brooks's tone gradually shifted from "a huge profit" to something less optimistic. He began to look for more economical ways to produce resources, such as breaking a dungeon record.

"Join the team." James Carter's One Autumn Leaf was pulled into the party by Ethan Brooks, and then he heard Ethan Brooks say to the three other players, "See? I wasn't lying to you, was I? It's One Autumn Leaf, right?"

So that's how he put the team together, James Carter thought speechlessly, while the three players were marveling in awe. One Autumn Leaf was already synonymous with expert, and 3,685 consecutive wins spoke for itself—oh wait, it had just become 3,686.

The three players crowded around, expressing their admiration for the expert, and at this moment Ethan Brooks announced, "Alright, let's get going."

"What?" The three of them immediately forgot about spectating the expert.

"You're coming too?" the first one exclaimed.

"What about a healer? What about an MT?" the second one exclaimed.

"What's the strategy?" the third one exclaimed.

Ethan Brooks only replied with four words: "Skill crush."

"Even with an expert..." The three all looked at One Autumn Leaf. Could just one expert really crush a dungeon record?

"There's more than one expert," Ethan Brooks said, not at all modest.

"Who else?" one of them asked in confusion.

"Desert Smoke!!" another said excitedly. At the moment, the only player who could rival One Autumn Leaf was Desert Smoke, the other undefeated record holder on the Arena leaderboard, right?

"When is he coming?" the third one wondered, thinking that must be it.

"The other expert is right in front of you!" Ethan Brooks shouted.

"Where, where?" The three of them spun their cameras around, looking everywhere, but couldn't find the name Desert Smoke.

"It's me!" Ethan Brooks said.

"Who's talking?" The three of them completely ignored Qiu Mu Su, thinking the words hadn't come from Ethan Brooks, and kept looking around for the expert's name.

"Me!" Ethan Brooks made Qiu Mu Su keep jumping into their field of view, trying to get noticed.