Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Your few brothers… Kersey, Mogata, Tyrese…”
“They are not my brothers!” Grimm shouted in a low and deep voice. His fury influenced the surrounding ice; they dropped onto the ground, and as though they were fire, they burned the weed into ashes. “They can’t experience my pain!”
“Young man, go.” His voice suddenly became kinder. “If I were to go on a rampage, you will most likely die here.”
Lin Jie blinked his eyes. “What if I say I insist you to go?”
“Hehe, now that is not hard,” Grimm revealed a smile and said, “You help me find an item, then I will help you.”
Ding~
—’Do you accept the mission [Find the Blade of Destruction]?’
Yes!
“Go, find that item and then come back to find me.”
“Young man, I wish you good luck.”
Lin Jie was pushed out instantly!
Elemental Sword Saint Grimm, his personality had already split into tens of different pieces, wanting to accept that mission was really a difficult task… When the player conversed with him, they could trigger four emotions every time. If one couldn’t accept the mission, the element clones would be respawned again, it was an infinite loop!
The only emotions which could give the mission were negative emotions such as “Treachery” and “Greed”. The chances of them appearing was only around 1/5. The luck of this unfortunate little prince this time was not bad.
Blade of Destruction was an exclusive Legendary equipment for Elemental Swordsman. As a mission item, it was hidden within a level 15 Expert-level dungeon.
Lin Jie tore the returning scroll and left the City of Barbarians.
Level 15 Expert-level dungeon, required the average level of the team to be above level 15, but currently, the number of players who reached level 15 in the level ranking was only one, and that was Lin Jie himself.
The dungeon was temporarily unable to be activated. That caused Lin Jie to be unable to accept another mission from Commander Tyrese, so he decided to farm wild Bosses, and get as many Augmenting Gems as possible.
Since there was Tsundere Phoenix, that Enhancing Manito, not augmenting all his equipment to +5 was too much of a pity!
Lin Jie took a look at the friends’ column, and he surprisingly found out that the three girls, Bu Yi, Qiu Yuan, and Netherblue, were still online. However, Water, that fellow, actually went offline!
He took a look at the time, it was already 3:30am.
Lin Jie thought for a while and called Bu Yi.
After three minutes, Bu Yi answered the call while gasping for breath. “Fu Sheng? What is the matter?”
“Aren’t you going to sleep? Staying up late is not good for your body’s development.”
“Nope, I can’t sleep tonight.” Bu Yi exclaimed, and then battling sounds came from her communication device. As an Ascetic Priest, Bu Yi rarely trained by herself, since the Priest’s main responsibility was to regen health.
Kaboom—
That was the sound of Holy Flame! Lin Jie frowned and said, “You are training alone?”
“Yes, yes, Water went offline to rest, so I was just farming small monsters…” said Bu Yu, then with a hmph, it was finally quiet.
“Phew… Even killing a small monster was so difficult, I nearly died,” she said embarrassingly.
“Alright, then you continue killing monsters, take care!” Lin Jie could only show his concern as most probably Bu Yi would not accept his help either.
“Yes, I will. I’ll just kill for a while more, then I’ll go offline.”
Lin Jie thought for a while, then made a call to Qiu Yuan, but it was hung up with a toot.
He continued to call, but it was continuously hung up!
After a total of seven attempts, Qiu Yuan’s flustered and exasperated voice could be heard. “What are you doing? I’m killing people!”
“Killing what people?” Lin Jie continued questioning.
“Don’t need you to care! Ah…”
Toot… Hung up…
Lin Jie made a call to Netherblue, but the message he received was “target has closed one’s communication features.”
‘What happened to these three girls?’
——
Morning, 4am.
Even if it was summer, people still couldn’t help but shiver due to the cool wind together with the morning dew.
Tiny spots of light lit up on the roadside. Many people had already woken up for work to make a living.
In a breakfast shop, the freshly steamed buns welcomed a huge pair of hands, one between two fingers and another between his thumbs. He picked up five buns and sat on the stool with a thud.
“You say big sis them?”
In front of Lin Jie sat a chubby short-haired big fellow. He had strong muscles but a humble and slow-witted face, which made him totally look as if he did not have killing intent at all. He sighed and then swallowed the bun in one clean gulp, before saying vaguely, “They have almost gone mad in anger and swore to increase their strength.”
Lin Jie had tried to ask for the reason, but the three girls were reluctant to answer their calls. Under extreme anxiousness, Lin Jie could only request to call Water.
“What happened?” Lin Jie frowned.
“They fell into others’ trap.” Water put down his buns and heaved a long sigh. “We found a Headless Knight in the wild and were wiped out a few times. At the last time, the Boss’ Health was nearly empty, but it was stolen by a bast*rd.”
“The Boss was snatched?”
“Yes, it was a Knight which used Long Spear. At that time, our condition was about 80%, but facing him, we could not resist him at all. The four of us were oppressed totally by one person.”
“Sister Netherblue could not retain her anger and brought all of us to revive. That person actually waited for our condition to recover fully before fighting again, but as a result, we were wiped out again…”
“You also know about big sister’s stubborn temper. She continuously revived for three times, so now she is only level 9. Our team was also dispersed, each of us now needs to accept assassination missions and raise our Mercenary level to level 3 first. Sigh…”
Lin Jie blinked his eyes. “Who was that Knight?”
“His whole body was enveloped by black fog, we aren’t sure either.” Water shook his head. “However, his weapon was very special, a spear, its slashing damage was actually the same as stabbing damage! Spear-type weapons’ stabbing attack has an extra 15% damage, but its slashing damage would be decreased by 35%, right? However, he was not affected at all!”
“Seven Style Spear!” Lin Jie said in a deep and low voice.
“I also guessed it.” Water smiled bitterly. “Qiu Yuan was a Shadow Priest, she might be able to PK and kill someone, but I am a Shield Specialist! How am I able to kill someone? I accepted a mission to kill a level 10 Ice Mage, but I was killed instead…”
Lin Jie tapped on the table with a frown on his face.
‘That means, Netherblue, Qiu Yuan and Bu Yi are now crazily accepting Brotherhood’s assassination missions? No wonder the other side of the communication device was filled with sounds of battling and wailing.’
With the relationship that these three sisters had, if Netherblue was really resolved on doing so, perhaps they would really complete missions until they reached level 3 Mercenaries!
One would need at least a few months’ time to reach level 3 Mercenary! The ones with the highest completion of missions were, of course, the Wine God Brothers, and they were only level 2 Mercenaries.
“Fu Sheng, I advice you not to disturb them in this period of time.” Water helplessly shook his head. “I know their personalities, Sister Netherblue is stubborn and so is Sister Qiu Yuan. Once they get stubborn, they will have a foul temper. Bu Yi this girl, don’t just judge her by her gentle and frail-looking figure, once she firmly puts her mind into something, no one can change her decision.”
Lin Jie was deep in thought. He got up and said, “I have to go back and log on into the game.”
“Wait, wait….” Water suddenly stood up and in an instant and swallowed quite a few buns. “The last time all of you went for dinner, but I didn’t go, this time you have to treat me. Shop owner, give me a few more buns.”
Lin Jie glared at him. ‘This foodie!’
——
—’You have appeared within the City of Light.’
Looking at the name list which was still shining in the friend column, Lin Jie took a deep breath, pulled out the Brotherhood menu, and released three missions.
[Kill Wine God Youngster!]
[Kill Wine God Elder!]
[Kill Sky Provisions Shop Owner (Have already gotten specific information)]
Using his privilege, Lin Jie set a designated player to accept.
Within 40 minutes, a prompt message arrived, ‘Your mission has been accepted!’
Lin Jie nodded his head in satisfaction. Wine God Brothers were counted as the head Mercenaries in Brotherhood, their King of Mercenaries’ style in Lin Jie’s previous life could gradually be seen.
As to Lin Jie’s proposal of helping to “train his friends”, the two of them agreed forthright and took on all the responsibility of training them.
Old Wine God’s message was: “Don’t worry, I will train your friend until even your friend’s mother won’t be able to recognize! My nickname in the army then was the Iron Eagle! Isn’t just training a few small fries relaxing and pleasant?”
Wine God Youngster’s reply: “My concept of educating has always been practice based on theory. If students are too eager for quick success, I may not like them too much.”
Meanwhile, after providing the coordinates to them, Lin Jie left alone and then headed towards Dark Iron Mountain.
Dark Iron Mountain, also known as “Smithing Heaven”, spawned a huge number of Dark Iron Dwarves. Those Dwarves’ level reached as high as level 23, and after death, they would drop [Smithing Log], randomly increasing smithing proficiency points! If one had good luck, they could also obtain the materials for smithing or semi-finished products.
Such a superb map, naturally, attracted countless of players. Ten as a team or twenty as a team. Dark Iron Dwarves’ experience points were very rich, and would even drop Dwarf’s exclusive currency. This type of concentrated metal coins was like US dollars, they could be exchanged for more common currencies.
With extremely high experience and money to earn, if one was able to meet quite a good-looking girl that loved to chat, wouldn’t that be wonderful?
When Lin Jie reached Dark Iron Mountain, he suddenly realized that at the foot of the active volcano was packed like sardines — people were standing everywhere.
“Need an Ice Mage who doesn’t require materials! Immediately start entering the dungeon!”
“Need a Shield Specialist with over 150 defense and 700 Health Point, split 1/10th of coins, a 20 people team! The materials are already reserved.”
“Come a Holy Paladin, Holy Paladin! Priests, please stop applying, thanks!”
…
Dark Iron Dwarves might be normal monsters, but their levels were exceptionally high. Thus they currently overpowered the players. That made players with high stats to be very popular!
As long as one’s stats could manage oneself and fight alone, even if one took the share of five people’s coins, it was no problem at all!
As for [Smithing Log]? Sorry, there wasn’t any left!
Those who set up to form teams, all relied on themselves having some capability and planned to attract some normal players to create a team to kill monsters, whereas, on the other hand, they themselves took the diary to earn money.
Of course, there did not lack players who were friends in the real world to especially form a team to come and farm for the diary. Since if there was a Blacksmith to forge weapons, at least they would not fall behind the mainstream too much.
Currently, the equipment players wore mostly came from dungeons or smithing. Only an extremely little bit of equipment forged reached Silver, most of them were either Bronze or Blank Equipment.
When smithing level went up, being able to change into a whole body full of Silver equipment, was also counted as an awesome shining existence.
Once Lin Jie appeared, he immediately attracted many people’s attention. High level, gorgeous armor, and even his weapons were sparkling. His equipment was at least enhanced to +5!
“This brother, our team just nicely lacks a Warrior, each person takes 30% of coins, the team leader only takes the diary, do you want to come? The monsters at the bottom of the mountain have much experience points and coins.”
“Haha, 30%? With you and your little trash team? Forget it! Come to my team, you could take 50%! As long as you can tank the monsters at the bottom of the mountain, then that’s enough!”
The crowd squeezed up.
Lin Jie reluctantly shrugged his shoulders. “I am going halfway up the mountain.”
The crowd suddenly quietened down. At the halfway mark, most probably patrol teams would be respawned, the monsters would be in groups. With their strength, going there was only suicidal.
A Paladin with half of his equipment at Gold-grade said, “if you join our team, we’ll try to have a go at farming the monsters halfway up the mountain! You will take 20% of the coins gained, how’s that?”
Everyone was astonished, that person was a relatively well-known workshop member in Dark Iron Mountain! He was strong!
Lin Jie shook his head. “I’m farming alone.”
