Chapter 142 (Murong Shan Shan Got Wiped Out?)
When we got back home, it was already one in the afternoon. It was then when I remembered that today I still wanted to rush to level 45.
I went to the bathroom to resolve a little emergency, then I immediately went back to my room to get online.
The numerous Prairie Elves in the Silvermoon Plain had already respawned. Just when I came online, they had quickly surrounded me. In my panic, I hurriedly sprinkled the Phosphor Powder to get into the stealth mode. At that moment, a text from Murong Shan Shan had also arrived, “Lin Fan, I’m taking the guild’s player to the Wyvern Valley to slaughter some dragons. Text me when you get online! – Shan Shan.”
I looked at the timestamp. The text was sent this morning at ten, so I quickly sent back a message to her, “How did it go with the dragon slaying? Do you want me to go there?”
A few minutes later, Murong Shan Shan replied, “No need. We were departing at 11:30. We have been walking for one and a half hour and still haven’t arrived at Wyvern Valley. By the time you arrived, we might have been finished.”
“Then, can you tell me what dragon are you fighting? What’s the BOSS level?”
“Hehe, it’s a level 70 gold BOSS. It’s not a powerful dragon. Only that the lowest-level dragon outside the valley, the wind dragon, are poisonous. I think we won’t get into any problems.”
“You still better be careful. A dragon-type BOSS won’t be the same with the others. The level 70 might have the power of a level 100 BOSS. Anyway, when you think you can’t beat it, remember to run away. Otherwise, it won’t be worth it to lose 1/4 of your Experience.”
“I know. You should go leveling too. I’ll contact you again after dinner…”
…
Turning off the communicator, I randomly killed a monster to rise to level 44. The level 46 monsters here didn’t give much Experience anymore, so I made up my mind right away to take a look at Silvermoon Mountain’s top. Because the monsters there were too fierce, many players considered that place off-limits at the moment. If I could find a place fitting for my leveling, that would be nice.
Silvermoon Mountain was located right next to Silvermoon Plain. On the left corner of Silvermoon Plain, there was a huge open field connecting together Silvermoon Mountain, Silvermoon Valley, and Silvermoon Plain, all the three major map for leveling. If I were to apply for a station area, this place would be my first choice!
On the way to Silvermoon Mountain, at first, I could still see many players from the Swords and Roses guild, which then became less and less. When I arrived at the foot of the mountain, the place was almost desolated already. I could only see many varieties of bizarre monsters walking back and forth the forest and mountain path.
The monsters here were mainly still that of level 46, so I didn’t stay here and walked directly up to the mountaintop.
As much as possible, I tried to avoid the Silvermoon Mountain’s main road. Although basically, most players wouldn’t have the ability to level here, but I still needed to take some caution. Currently, only expert players would enter this place. It would be troublesome if my red-name character was getting targeted. My current situation was very awkward. If a red-named player killed a white-named player, it would increase his sin value. However, if it was a white-named player who killed a red-named player, then it would be regarded as doing justice. Therefore, I didn’t want to kill any players anymore.
I walked through a dense coniferous forest and in front of me, there was a relatively wide open space again with quite many small monsters wandering on the red flowers and green grass.
I looked around in all directions. Huh? From the bushes on the right side actually came a faint cry for help!
When I cut through the bushes, an old man with ragged clothes was leaning against a stout tree. He was holding a shovel in his hand, the like the one I used to do the mining missions, only much shorter. It shouldn’t be for mining purpose.
At the old man’s feet, there was a fallen new looking herb pouch, which poured out a lot of dry herbs.
Shit, there was actually someone looking for herbs in this game. Traditional Chinese Medicine really rooted deeply in history!
The old man’s breathing was very weak. Upon feeling that someone came, he looked up to see, and a glimmer of hope appeared in his confused eyes.
My God! From when the game started until now, this guy must have been crying for help for more than a month already. What a great patience! In this case, it seemed that wouldn’t hold off for too much longer anymore.
“Young man…” His breathing started to become rapid.
I still had the virtue of respecting the elders, so I quickly rushed forward and said, “Elder, what happened to you?”
After coughing heavily twice, the old man touched his left leg with his right hand. I then noticed that there was a lot of congested black blood at the ankle of his left leg. The blood had been flowing down to the ground. Even the grass and soil beneath him had been dyed black, and a faint smell of blood came out.
I quickly asked in surprise, “Elder, what happen to your… leg?”
“Cough… Cough…” The old man exhaled a long sigh and said, “I’m an administrator from the Silvermoon Kingdom court pharmacist. Three days ago, I came up to pick some relatively rare herbs. I never expected that I would be stung by a toxic man-eating flower, so I was trapped here without any strength to go back to the city. Can you help me with a favor?”
A Mission! It had been a while since I last see the mission prompt!
I was ecstatic and immediately clicked the OK button.
“Cough cough… This man-eating flower’s poison can be expelled. At the forest edge, there are many small monsters that like to collect rare herbs. If you kill them, you might find some herbs from their body. Possibly, you might also get the Violet Star Grass that I need to dispel the poison. Since it has been a while since I got injured, the dose for the antidote might need a lot of herbs. Young man, please go and collect them. If I can survive this time, I will richly reward you!”
System Notification: You accepted the request of the Court Pharmacist Grandmaster. Collect 100 pieces of Violet Star Grass. You can get this grass from a kind of monster nearby.
I didn’t expect that this old man was a court pharmacist. But looking at his ragged clothes, there were still some fine patterns. His words should be true. A commoner shouldn’t be able to wear such an exquisite clothes. As for the rich reward he mentioned, it would certainly not be bad.
Very nice. This time, I hit big again!
I checked my inventory for a moment. I had given Xin Yu all the equipment and now the remaining stuff were some Return City Scroll and several types of potions. It should be enough to hold the herbs if they could be stacked.
I walked around in circles and found a possible monster that might be dropping my mission objective’s items…
Vicious Bewitched Grass, a level 48 monster. Its size wasn’t big and it had a few soft tentacles crawling on the ground. And on top of its head was a thing that looked like a garlic.
“This thing shouldn’t be too powerful!”
I thought to myself and then brandished my sword to cut it down.
“Whoosh~!”
The Sword of Darkness cut into it as if it was cutting into cotton. The Vicious Bewitched Grass stepped back slowly and a red number popped out from its head: “924!”
Very nice! Apparently, the Defense of this soft herbal creature was quite low. I simply cut it with a normal attack and caused it to lose nearly 1,000 of Health. Followed by a Combo, this level 48 monster didn’t even had the chance to counter-attack. It immediately died, dropping several things.
Battle Information: You killed a Vicious Bewitched Grass and get 24,000 Experience!
Ah, was that for real?!
I was immediately astonished. For a monster that could give more than twenty thousand Experience, this had never happened before!
I looked at the items dropped by the monster. A total of three kinds of herbs: Apple Mint, Oxtail Flower, and Violet Star Grass!
I’d already gotten one Violet Star Grass, and there were two other kinds that might be useful. I put them all in the inventory first. Apparently, they could be stacked.
In addition to the herbs, the Vicious Bewitched Grass also gave me 54 pieces of silver coins. Considering it was a level 48 monster, this was quite stingy.
After cleaning up, I began to search for the next target. The open field was located halfway up the mountain. In front of me, most of the monsters were this Vicious Bewitched Grasses. There were also some Forest Beetles flying outside the woods, but I didn’t intend to kill them. After all, it was these Bewitched Grasses that would drop the mission item.
The Vicious Bewitched Grasses were quite many. I could see one after walking a few steps, although they weren’t very crowded.
I rapidly rushed up and unleashed a Combo together with Heavy Strike to empty its Health. This time, it wasn’t an instant kill, though!
“Boom~!”
A mass of a bright red fireball exploded on my chest!
Finally, I could see the attack of this Vicious Bewitched Grass. It was fire magic!
Fortunately, the attack wasn’t very fierce, at least to me, I could still stand it. Eighty points of damage were nothing compared to my current maximum Health of 3,720. Especially since each of these Vicious Bewitched Grasses could attack me one or two times only.
After waving the sword to kill this almost empty-Health Vicious Bewitched Grass, this time, it only dropped two kinds of herbs, with no Violet Star Grass.
Continue… Continue!
An hour passed quickly, and there was a total of more than 300 herbs in my inventory. Roughly counted, I killed about more than 200 Vicious Bewitched Grasses and gained more than six million Experience. The level 44 Experience Bar had gone up to 8% already. Continuing at this rate, I would be able to rise to level 45 within 12 hours.
Among the more than 300 herbs, there were only 14 Violet Star Grasses. The rest of them were dozens kind of herbs that I hadn’t known their usage yet. I just stored them for now since the inventory could hold 99 pieces of each herb, and currently, my inventory still had 180 free space. There was no need to worry. However, the thing that made me speechless was that after killing for an hour, I only got one piece of level 38 green Mage Boots. It seemed that it would be impossible to grind for equipment in this place.
I simply continued. The whole open ground was full of this Vicious Bewitched Grasses and simply too many for me to finish them off all by myself. This way was also good. The Experience and dropped herbs were quite a lot. I could only imagine that in a few weeks, this place must be full of players competing for training grounds. At that time, another grandiose scene would certainly happen. Just thinking about it caused my scalp to tingle already.
“Beep~!”
As I was feeling smug, Murong Shan Shan had sent me a text message: “Lin Fan, we were wiped out!”
Chapter 142 (Murong Shan Shan Got Wiped Out?)
When we got back home, it was already one in the afternoon. It was then when I remembered that today I still wanted to rush to level 45.
I went to the bathroom to resolve a little emergency, then I immediately went back to my room to get online.
The numerous Prairie Elves in the Silvermoon Plain had already respawned. Just when I came online, they had quickly surrounded me. In my panic, I hurriedly sprinkled the Phosphor Powder to get into the stealth mode. At that moment, a text from Murong Shan Shan had also arrived, “Lin Fan, I’m taking the guild’s player to the Wyvern Valley to slaughter some dragons. Text me when you get online! – Shan Shan.”
I looked at the timestamp. The text was sent this morning at ten, so I quickly sent back a message to her, “How did it go with the dragon slaying? Do you want me to go there?”
A few minutes later, Murong Shan Shan replied, “No need. We were departing at 11:30. We have been walking for one and a half hour and still haven’t arrived at Wyvern Valley. By the time you arrived, we might have been finished.”
“Then, can you tell me what dragon are you fighting? What’s the BOSS level?”
“Hehe, it’s a level 70 gold BOSS. It’s not a powerful dragon. Only that the lowest-level dragon outside the valley, the wind dragon, are poisonous. I think we won’t get into any problems.”
“You still better be careful. A dragon-type BOSS won’t be the same with the others. The level 70 might have the power of a level 100 BOSS. Anyway, when you think you can’t beat it, remember to run away. Otherwise, it won’t be worth it to lose 1/4 of your Experience.”
“I know. You should go leveling too. I’ll contact you again after dinner…”
…
Turning off the communicator, I randomly killed a monster to rise to level 44. The level 46 monsters here didn’t give much Experience anymore, so I made up my mind right away to take a look at Silvermoon Mountain’s top. Because the monsters there were too fierce, many players considered that place off-limits at the moment. If I could find a place fitting for my leveling, that would be nice.
Silvermoon Mountain was located right next to Silvermoon Plain. On the left corner of Silvermoon Plain, there was a huge open field connecting together Silvermoon Mountain, Silvermoon Valley, and Silvermoon Plain, all the three major map for leveling. If I were to apply for a station area, this place would be my first choice!
On the way to Silvermoon Mountain, at first, I could still see many players from the Swords and Roses guild, which then became less and less. When I arrived at the foot of the mountain, the place was almost desolated already. I could only see many varieties of bizarre monsters walking back and forth the forest and mountain path.
The monsters here were mainly still that of level 46, so I didn’t stay here and walked directly up to the mountaintop.
As much as possible, I tried to avoid the Silvermoon Mountain’s main road. Although basically, most players wouldn’t have the ability to level here, but I still needed to take some caution. Currently, only expert players would enter this place. It would be troublesome if my red-name character was getting targeted. My current situation was very awkward. If a red-named player killed a white-named player, it would increase his sin value. However, if it was a white-named player who killed a red-named player, then it would be regarded as doing justice. Therefore, I didn’t want to kill any players anymore.
I walked through a dense coniferous forest and in front of me, there was a relatively wide open space again with quite many small monsters wandering on the red flowers and green grass.
I looked around in all directions. Huh? From the bushes on the right side actually came a faint cry for help!
When I cut through the bushes, an old man with ragged clothes was leaning against a stout tree. He was holding a shovel in his hand, the like the one I used to do the mining missions, only much shorter. It shouldn’t be for mining purpose.
At the old man’s feet, there was a fallen new looking herb pouch, which poured out a lot of dry herbs.
Shit, there was actually someone looking for herbs in this game. Traditional Chinese Medicine really rooted deeply in history!
The old man’s breathing was very weak. Upon feeling that someone came, he looked up to see, and a glimmer of hope appeared in his confused eyes.
My God! From when the game started until now, this guy must have been crying for help for more than a month already. What a great patience! In this case, it seemed that wouldn’t hold off for too much longer anymore.
“Young man…” His breathing started to become rapid.
I still had the virtue of respecting the elders, so I quickly rushed forward and said, “Elder, what happened to you?”
After coughing heavily twice, the old man touched his left leg with his right hand. I then noticed that there was a lot of congested black blood at the ankle of his left leg. The blood had been flowing down to the ground. Even the grass and soil beneath him had been dyed black, and a faint smell of blood came out.
I quickly asked in surprise, “Elder, what happen to your… leg?”
“Cough… Cough…” The old man exhaled a long sigh and said, “I’m an administrator from the Silvermoon Kingdom court pharmacist. Three days ago, I came up to pick some relatively rare herbs. I never expected that I would be stung by a toxic man-eating flower, so I was trapped here without any strength to go back to the city. Can you help me with a favor?”
A Mission! It had been a while since I last see the mission prompt!
I was ecstatic and immediately clicked the OK button.
“Cough cough… This man-eating flower’s poison can be expelled. At the forest edge, there are many small monsters that like to collect rare herbs. If you kill them, you might find some herbs from their body. Possibly, you might also get the Violet Star Grass that I need to dispel the poison. Since it has been a while since I got injured, the dose for the antidote might need a lot of herbs. Young man, please go and collect them. If I can survive this time, I will richly reward you!”
System Notification: You accepted the request of the Court Pharmacist Grandmaster. Collect 100 pieces of Violet Star Grass. You can get this grass from a kind of monster nearby.
I didn’t expect that this old man was a court pharmacist. But looking at his ragged clothes, there were still some fine patterns. His words should be true. A commoner shouldn’t be able to wear such an exquisite clothes. As for the rich reward he mentioned, it would certainly not be bad.
Very nice. This time, I hit big again!
I checked my inventory for a moment. I had given Xin Yu all the equipment and now the remaining stuff were some Return City Scroll and several types of potions. It should be enough to hold the herbs if they could be stacked.
I walked around in circles and found a possible monster that might be dropping my mission objective’s items…
Vicious Bewitched Grass, a level 48 monster. Its size wasn’t big and it had a few soft tentacles crawling on the ground. And on top of its head was a thing that looked like a garlic.
“This thing shouldn’t be too powerful!”
I thought to myself and then brandished my sword to cut it down.
“Whoosh~!”
The Sword of Darkness cut into it as if it was cutting into cotton. The Vicious Bewitched Grass stepped back slowly and a red number popped out from its head: “924!”
Very nice! Apparently, the Defense of this soft herbal creature was quite low. I simply cut it with a normal attack and caused it to lose nearly 1,000 of Health. Followed by a Combo, this level 48 monster didn’t even had the chance to counter-attack. It immediately died, dropping several things.
Battle Information: You killed a Vicious Bewitched Grass and get 24,000 Experience!
Ah, was that for real?!
I was immediately astonished. For a monster that could give more than twenty thousand Experience, this had never happened before!
I looked at the items dropped by the monster. A total of three kinds of herbs: Apple Mint, Oxtail Flower, and Violet Star Grass!
I’d already gotten one Violet Star Grass, and there were two other kinds that might be useful. I put them all in the inventory first. Apparently, they could be stacked.
In addition to the herbs, the Vicious Bewitched Grass also gave me 54 pieces of silver coins. Considering it was a level 48 monster, this was quite stingy.
After cleaning up, I began to search for the next target. The open field was located halfway up the mountain. In front of me, most of the monsters were this Vicious Bewitched Grasses. There were also some Forest Beetles flying outside the woods, but I didn’t intend to kill them. After all, it was these Bewitched Grasses that would drop the mission item.
The Vicious Bewitched Grasses were quite many. I could see one after walking a few steps, although they weren’t very crowded.
I rapidly rushed up and unleashed a Combo together with Heavy Strike to empty its Health. This time, it wasn’t an instant kill, though!
“Boom~!”
A mass of a bright red fireball exploded on my chest!
Finally, I could see the attack of this Vicious Bewitched Grass. It was fire magic!
Fortunately, the attack wasn’t very fierce, at least to me, I could still stand it. Eighty points of damage were nothing compared to my current maximum Health of 3,720. Especially since each of these Vicious Bewitched Grasses could attack me one or two times only.
After waving the sword to kill this almost empty-Health Vicious Bewitched Grass, this time, it only dropped two kinds of herbs, with no Violet Star Grass.
Continue… Continue!
An hour passed quickly, and there was a total of more than 300 herbs in my inventory. Roughly counted, I killed about more than 200 Vicious Bewitched Grasses and gained more than six million Experience. The level 44 Experience Bar had gone up to 8% already. Continuing at this rate, I would be able to rise to level 45 within 12 hours.
Among the more than 300 herbs, there were only 14 Violet Star Grasses. The rest of them were dozens kind of herbs that I hadn’t known their usage yet. I just stored them for now since the inventory could hold 99 pieces of each herb, and currently, my inventory still had 180 free space. There was no need to worry. However, the thing that made me speechless was that after killing for an hour, I only got one piece of level 38 green Mage Boots. It seemed that it would be impossible to grind for equipment in this place.
I simply continued. The whole open ground was full of this Vicious Bewitched Grasses and simply too many for me to finish them off all by myself. This way was also good. The Experience and dropped herbs were quite a lot. I could only imagine that in a few weeks, this place must be full of players competing for training grounds. At that time, another grandiose scene would certainly happen. Just thinking about it caused my scalp to tingle already.
“Beep~!”
As I was feeling smug, Murong Shan Shan had sent me a text message: “Lin Fan, we were wiped out!”
