Chapter 4

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Su Mo left the tavern and came to Hargins Town’s stall area. He took out some things from his bag and set up a stall and paid the management fee to the system. Even though he had just earned a large sum of money, that was settled with real life money, and he still needed more money in the game.

It was very difficult to earn money in New World, mainly because the expenses were quite great.

Equipment maintenance fees, potions, arrows, scrolls for fighting bosses—the money dropped from monsters could barely cover those basic costs.

Su Mo logged off his account and entered his pet’s account, and he once again saw the monsters chatting.

This was like a chat group with many monsters, and now, Su Mo was one of them. His name was Lafu, quite a pleasant and happy-sounding name, but he was often bullied.

Tiger King Angus: Those players aren’t actually very difficult to deal with; just kill their healers first.

Boar Commander Sam: I don’t agree, big brother tiger. Not everyone can ignore the rules of aggro. You should wash up and sleep, you elderly fellow.

Tiger King Angus: You really are a pig.

Boar Commander Sam: Exactly, I am a pig.

Black Bear Chief Dablin: I’ve decided to apply to Lord System for two minions. When the time comes, let’s see who still dares to attack me.

Boar Commander Sam: This can’t solve the problem in reality; with great power comes great responsibility. I know a brother, a Gnoll, who has eight minions. His own strength is quite strong, but his drops are very good. Every day, players line up waiting to kill him; he’s even more pitiful than me.

Savage Wolf Lafu: Damn players!

Boar Commander Sam: Exactly right, Lafu. Damn players indeed. Goddamit, just now I was killed by a bunch of players again. There were two parties that almost started fighting, and I thought I could reap the rewards. Who would have thought there was an insidious fellow who quickly killed the other party.

Black Bear Chief Dablin: This isn’t too bad actually. When we aren’t deployed, us brothers can chat and gossip together.

Savage Wolf Lafu: That’s right, chatting is pretty good too. Hey, big bros, does anyone know…

Su Mo perfectly acted as a monster, and soon, he was able to scam information on three materials, as well as some other things.

Of these three materials, the Pale White Bone came from Necromancer Lindberg, who was in a very secret location. If Zhou Xuanji had not obtained precise information, he would never have known that there was a Level 15 Mini Boss in that area. No wonder clients who had many people under them had given him this request.

It was just that its spawn time was quite special; one had to wait until it was dark.

The second material was the Festering Toe, and it was even more disgusting than the previous material. Su Mo guessed that it was a request from a Sorcerer—those fellows who hid their faces in hoods all the time always had to do with these disgusting things.

The Level 15 Lady Cathy Bary would drop this, and she was also very well-hidden.

The final material was Fatal Blood Vine. According to the information that Su Mo had obtained as Lafu, Fatal Blood Vine only dropped at the Kers Mountain Range, which was a high-level monster area. The Boss that dropped this material was the Level 25 Dryad Commander Ackerman, so this material was not common on the market yet.

The easiest to obtain was the Festering Toe; Su Mo needed to go to a Village called Purmo.

This Village was not very far from Hargins Town, and strictly speaking, it was a subsidiary village of Hargins Town. It was roughly in the same direction as Su Mo’s Newbie Village.

What was coincidental was that the hidden quest that he had heard about the first time he had joined the Boss monster chat group could also be triggered here. It was the hidden quest regarding Black Bear Chief Dablin, the bounty that the Gnome merchant Claude gave for Dablin’s bear paw.

There was some difficulty triggering the quest. The Earth Womb Flower was one of the main ingredients for a Basic Healing Potion, and no one would be willing to sell it to an NPC merchant.

Of course, this kind of difficulty to Su Mo was not much.

In order to be sure, Su Mo prepared ten Earth Womb Flowers worth four silver coins, while Claude only gave Su Mo eight copper coins in return. He was truly a black-hearted Gnome merchant.

Even an idiot would not sell Earth Womb Flowers to him!

“Awesome, my generous friend, I finally have the ingredients to make a pot of bear paw soup, and now I only lack the bear paw. Are you willing to help me?” 

Claude then added, “It must be Black Bear Chief Dablin’s bear paw; those ordinary bear paws are not good enough for me.”

“You’re a gourmand with great taste; leave it to me.” Su Mo did not hesitate to accept this hidden quest.

In actuality, the idea of a ‘hidden quest’ did not exist in New World. Instead, quests that were difficult to find and gave bounteous rewards were called hidden quests. Even the monsters in the Boss monster chat group had accepted this term.

Su Mo was not in a rush to complete this quest; he had primarily come for Festering Toe, that disgusting material.

According to the monsters, the Festering Toe came from Baron Bary’s daughter.

Lady Cathy Bary had left the city to live in a manor in the countryside half a year ago, and she rarely appeared before players. Many players who had hoped to obtain a hidden quest had returned in low spirits.

Many people did not understand. If she did not give any quests, why did she exist?

“I hope to see Lady Cathy Bary. I have brought news from Baron Bary,” Su Mo said to the elderly man at the gates. However, before the elderly man could respond, he stabbed a short sword into his throat.

Seeing Su Mo approach, the gatekeeper had been wary, but after hearing Su Mo state his business, he had let down his guard.

Only by waiting for this opportunity could Su Mo not alert anyone else and easily kill this gatekeeper monster.

In storyline mode, it was indeed possible to kill NPC monsters like this.

This verified Su Mo’s suspicions: Bary Manor was actually a dungeon.

Lady Cathy Bary had been infected with an Undead disease, and she needed to drink blood to maintain her body. Baron Bary could not bear to kill his own daughter, so he had sent her to this manor in the countryside, as well as some servants who did not know the truth.

These poor servants had all become Lady Cathy Bary’s food.

Only the gatekeeper knew the truth; he was used to chasing away the players who hoped to get a hidden quest.

Just as expected, after walking in, the entire manor was empty.

There were gravestones throughout the garden of the manor. These were all buried by the gatekeeper. Once Lady Cathy Bary summoned them, the dead servants in here would turn into monsters to attack the enemy.

Now that the gatekeeper had soundlessly died, there was no one to disrupt them, so these servants continued to sleep in their graves.