"Oh my god! Cheater! Definitely a cheater!"
The moment he was taken down, the Summoner player's mind screamed wildly, before an inexplicable force swept him out of the arena dimension.
No sooner had the Summoner player been teleported out than he immediately logged off, shut down the game, opened a well-known forum in the Dragon Kingdom, and started writing a rant.
Meanwhile, Jiang Yuan, after defeating this Summoner player, gained 100 experience points, and his rank finally shifted, breaking through to the Ninth Dan.
Upon being teleported out, Jiang Yuan didn't pause for a moment, immediately continuing his assault on higher ranks.
Over an hour later, Jiang Yuan had completed over twenty more arena matches, charging to the First Dan with a perfect win rate!
At this point, when Jiang Yuan opened the "Arena" interface again, he noticed a new "Arena Ranking" statistic had appeared. He was currently ranked 10,000th on the Dragon Kingdom server.
Beyond the First Dan lay the One-Star King rank, but advancing to it required 10,000 arena experience points. Based on 100 points per win, even with a flawless record, it would take 100 matches to promote!
"It's already 11:30. Time to sleep, sleep—I've got class tomorrow!"
Jiang Yuan glanced at the time, remembering it was Monday, with the second period in the morning requiring his attendance. He quickly found a spot to log off, shut down the computer, washed up, and climbed into bed.
The next day, after finishing classes, Jiang Yuan sprinted back to his dorm at a hundred-meter dash pace. Suddenly, his phone buzzed with a piercing WeChat ringtone from his pocket.
Jiang Yuan halted his sprint, pulled out his phone, and saw it was a WeChat call from his best buddy, Ding Ye.
"Hey, what's up, Old Ding?"
Jiang Yuan pressed the answer button, his tone calm and flat.
"Yuanzi, you've blown up!"
Ding Ye's opening line left Jiang Yuan completely dumbfounded.
"What the hell do you mean I've blown up? Can you not be so dramatic?"
"Did you check the game forum today? There's a post about you, and it's already the top headline pinned for today!"
"A post? About me? What does it say?"
After Ding Ye finished, Jiang Yuan quickly asked over the phone.
"Oh, just go see for yourself! I've got to get to class! See you in-game tonight!"
With the sound of a class bell ringing through the phone, his buddy Ding Ye hung up in a hurry.
Listening to the dead tone on the other end, Jiang Yuan put away his phone, accelerated instantly, and dashed back to his dorm.
Turning on the computer, Jiang Yuan uncharacteristically didn't log into the game first but instead opened a well-known gaming forum.
On the forum's homepage, a massive pinned post title immediately caught Jiang Yuan's attention.
"Worlds: Dragon Kingdom Server's Number One Cheater, Solid Evidence Report!"
Clicking in, Jiang Yuan began browsing the post related to him.
"Worlds: Dragon Kingdom Server shamelessly reveals a cheater capable of infinitely duplicating skills."
It started with a line of text, below which were two game screenshots. Both screenshots had an arena background, and Jiang Yuan instantly recognized the figure standing opposite him in the screenshots as the Summoner player he'd encountered last night.
The first screenshot showed Jiang Yuan summoning five different types of summoned beasts to battle the five summons from the opposing Summoner. But in the second screenshot, the scene shifted dramatically—the entire screen was filled with Jiang Yuan's Dragon Beard Tigers, so numerous they obscured both Jiang Yuan and the opposing Summoner's figures. The Summoner had even used a red circle to mark where Jiang Yuan and he were located.
Below the screenshots, a text description was added: "Last night, in the arena dimension, I discovered a cheating player named Jiang Yuan. Seeing he was about to lose, he used hacks to duplicate summons across the entire screen. This shameless behavior is outrageous! Protecting the game's ecosystem and fighting cheaters is everyone's responsibility! I hope all Dragon Kingdom players will share widely—please spread the word!"
The comment section below the post was also explosive. Jiang Yuan glanced at it—1,876 comments in total!
User "Fleeting Years" commented: "Cheating so blatantly like this is just too much!"
User "Ten Thousand Eggs" commented: "A friend of mine wants to ask, where can you buy such an awesome hack?"
User "Fish Dragon Dance" commented: "Cheaters like this deserve to be hunted down by everyone!"
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Jiang Yuan skimmed a few comments, almost all of them siding with the Summoner to attack him. Not only that, as Jiang Yuan continued scrolling, he spotted a familiar ID.
User "Proud World Dragon Emperor" commented: "This guy named Jiang Yuan is a player from the Creation Dominance Guild of the Cold River City Alliance. We, the Proud World Guild, can confirm his cheating. Back when the server first launched, this scumbag used hacks to duplicate ten thousand wild boars and stole a boss from our guild."
Beneath Proud World Dragon Emperor's comment, there were hundreds of replies, all from Proud World Guild players confirming the incident. Some even posted screenshots from back then in the Zombie Cave!
In the screenshots, around a group of players with "Proud World Guild" tags, there were wild boars everywhere, densely packed!
With the Proud World Guild's testimony, Jiang Yuan's cheating was almost completely confirmed. The rest of the comment section was nothing but insults aimed at him!
"What the hell, look at this mess!"
Seeing the countless insults in the comments, Jiang Yuan smiled faintly, not taking it to heart at all. He firmly believed that "the pure are self-purifying, and the muddy are self-muddying"—the more he argued, the fiercer those people would attack!
Closing the post, which was still gaining heat, Jiang Yuan opened the Worlds game icon, ready to continue grinding his arena rank.
As soon as he logged in, Jiang Yuan noticed that in the entire Cold River City capital, Upper Capital City, there were suddenly many players from other alliances, appearing from who knows when.
These players, bearing the alliance icons of "Emperor State," "Ten Thousand Miles Alliance," and "Sky Wave Manor," were scouring the streets and alleys of the Upper Capital City map, searching for something.
"Found him! The cheater is here!"
Suddenly, a player from the Ten Thousand Miles Alliance across from Jiang Yuan shouted, and instantly, hundreds of people converged from all directions, surrounding Jiang Yuan tightly!
From the crowd, a Ten Thousand Miles Alliance player slowly emerged. Jiang Yuan recognized him—wasn't this the Summoner he'd met in the arena last night!
"It's you, cheater! Get out of the Dragon Kingdom server!"
Seeing Jiang Yuan, the Summoner player immediately pointed a finger at him and roared angrily.
"Was that post on the forum written by you?"
Jiang Yuan's expression remained calm as he looked at the furious Summoner player and asked flatly.
"So what if I wrote it? Fighting cheaters is everyone's responsibility!"
The Summoner player, a member of the Ten Thousand Miles Alliance, puffed out his chest and spoke with righteous indignation.
"Cheater, get out!"
"Cheater, get out!"
As the Summoner player finished, the hundreds of people behind him shouted in unison, their voices deafening!
Seeing this, the smile on Jiang Yuan's face gradually faded, and his entire expression darkened!