I just decided to watch it's anime and looked at the latest episode and I saw Steamed Bun Invasion next to Ye Xiu irl in the computer shop, and I was like wtf? I'm somewhere at 150s chapter at the novel when I stopped reading it and I remember clearly that Steamed Bun was just some guy on the internet that they met who just got into Glory and got great skills, and they have yet to know his real name and face so why is he there in the anime? Can somebody confirm this for me.
I knew I read some thread like this before... http://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/the-kings-avatar-ep-8.37530/
Anime's plot different from novel's, I guess. Heard that the author want him to come even more early into the game, and thus told the animation staff his opinion
More or less, they decided to speed things up in the anime. They also met up irl in the novel but much later on (almost in the latest chaps already). Some things that happened in the novel were skipped.