Chapter 8

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Su Mo instinctively caught it but immediately planned to throw it back. “It’s too valuable; I don’t have money to pay you with.”

“Don’t be like that, it’s a gift.”

“No, I don’t take anything if it’s not deserved.” Su Mo didn’t hesitate to toss it back, even though he indeed needed a mount. New World’s map was simply too big, and there were many places that could not be teleported to or flown to using flying mounts. Having a mount would save a lot of time.

“Aren’t you going to help me find Blood-Stained Rub Iron? That’s a big help.”

“Blood-Stained Rub Iron isn’t worth that much.”

“Haha, I just like making friends.” Omnipresent Brightness was still quite passionate.

“I’m not someone who likes making friends. Just then when there were all those newbies surrounding you, you did not pay them any attention at all.” Su Mo did not buy it. Even though he was still young, he had experienced many things, especially when his family’s company had gone bankrupt. The actions of many relatives and friends at the time could be described as a spectacular performance.

“Alright, do you know how long I’ve spent searching for Blood-Stained Rub Iron?” 

Without waiting for Su Mo to respond, Omnipresent Brightness continued to ramble, “Two whole weeks! I almost fell into despair. After hearing Old Luo say that you can find it, I wanted to fly over and kiss you…”

Su Mo shuddered and put some distance between them.

“It’s just some material, you could just give up on it. No need to be so obsessed about it.”

“Ai, you don’t understand, I have OCD. If I don’t complete this quest, I’d feel terrible. Also, this material is connected to a special quest. A special quest! It was so difficult to find a main quest, and I can soon obtain the second stage rewards. How could I just give up like that?”

‘Haha, so lucky,’ Su Mo inwardly grumbled. Why was an extravagant rich fellow like this able to trigger a special quest?

Hidden quests were difficult to trigger, but special tasks were even more difficult to trigger. Moreover, once someone triggered a special quest, no one else could trigger it, unless that person did not complete it in time.

“Still, let’s just forget about the mount…” Su Mo insisted.

If Omnipresent Brightness’s OCD was manifested in his golden and flashy appearance, including his mount, then Su Mo’s OCD was manifested in his stubbornness.

Even if I’m incredibly poor and dying of poverty, I won’t throw away my dignity. I don’t want to owe someone for no reason.

In this world, the thing that was hardest to pay was a favor.

“There’s still much left to do for the special quest, and there might be many more difficult things to find. I’ll be troubling you in the future as well. How about this, I’ll sell it to you at market price and you help me with requests in the future to pay me back?”

Alright, you have money, so you make the rules.

If he did not have the Boss monster chat group, Su Mo definitely would not accept this mount. The ranks of mounts were similar to equipment; they were just called different names. The pet egg that Omnipresent Brightness had given him was a Silver grade mount, and it was one of the best on the market. It would cost at least 500 gold coins at market price.

According to the price of 50 gold coins, he would have to help Omnipresent Brightness with at least ten requests.

With the Boss monster chat group, he could take on as many requests as he wanted and even the difficult ones as well. Now, the Boss monster chat group was incredibly precious.

Su Mo accepted the mount and confirmed to incubate it. After the egg shell cracked, a white warg appeared.

“Wow, top tier. It is a Snow Mountain Warg, which gives 30% Movement Speed and has two opportunities for growth in the future. It is only a bit inferior to my Golden Elk. My Golden Elk gives 35% Movement Speed and has a dash ability.”

Mounts did not have any battle power, and if one wanted to ride them, one would have to level them up.

The higher level the mount, the more stamina a mount would have and the faster it would be. As such, Su Mo needed to level it up a bit first.

After leaving Purmo Village, Su Mo killed any small monsters he came across. By the time they reached Black Bear Chief Dablin’s territory, the Snow Mountain Warg was nearly Level 9 and was nearly high enough level for him to ride.

Omnipresent Brightness was already Level 27, two levels higher than Su Mo. Su Mo wondered how he was able to level up so quickly.

Black Bear Chief Dablin was a Boss that Su Mo could slowly kite to death by himself, and now that he had a powerful Bishop who could heal and do DPS, it should be impossible to fail.

“We need to kill it within five minutes or it’ll go berserk.” Su Mo had already done his research.

The game had been released for two months and people had killed this kind of low-level Boss long ago. As such, the tactics for killing this Boss had long since been posted on the forums.

Of course, checking this kind of information required five silver coins; Su Mo was not stingy when it came to this.

“Alright, I’ll tank it and you kill it. It’s only a Level 20 or so Boss; we’ll be able to kill it within minutes.” Omnipresent Brightness seemed very confident. He slammed a Judgment skill on the black bear, immediately stunning it.

Bishop was a very popular profession right now, as it had high damage, crowd control, healing, and its skills and equipment all looked very cool.

Su Mo silently took out his large bow and nocked an arrow on it as he drew it, starting to attack Black Bear Chief Dablin.

If he was kiting it, he would use a crossbow so that he could continuously shoot very quickly and accurately. Since there was someone tanking it, he could choose to use a bow. Even though he had to nock an arrow each time, the damage he could deal was higher than ordinary Bishops or Puppeteers.

The reason he thought about ‘ordinary’ Bishops was because today he saw a very extraordinary Bishop.

He did not know what kind of equipment Omnipresent Brightness had, but his damage was explosive and his control was exquisite. Su Mo, who had always felt quite confident in his abilities, felt as if he had had his eyes opened. He could not help but think of how I Love Luo had described Omnipresent Brightness.

A real expert!

It seemed that he was mistaken; Omnipresent Brightness was not just a mediocre rich fellow.

The battle quickly concluded. With two high-damage professions, their efficiency was even higher than that of a small party’s.

The Boss only dropped a Level 20 Green grade equipment and its stats were all quite bad, which was quite lacking for a Level 20 Boss. Putting aside Omnipresent Brightness, even Su Mo was not interested in it.

Collect!

Su Mo obtained a bear paw.

“Eh, why can’t I collect it?”

“I received a hidden quest. If you want to do it, you can try after I’m done.”

By now, Su Mo could ride the warg; the EXP from Black Bear Chief Dablin had allowed it to reach Level 10, and it was many times bigger than when it had first been born.

Despite it being his first time riding a proper mount in the game, Su Mo did not experience any difficulty. He easily flipped himself onto his ‘horse’ and patted its head, and the warg rushed away.

“I can tell at a glance you’re used to riding horses in real life,” Omnipresent Brightness said out of appreciation.

“I rode horses for a period of time.” Su Mo did not plan to talk deeply. He had received horse riding training in the army, and since all of his missions in the Tugrik military campaign had been done in the plains, he had become incredibly proficient at riding horses.