Chapter 10

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

He was also a rich fellow. Su Mo shook hands with him; he liked nouveau riche people the most as they were all potential clients.

However, Smoke Wine And Flirtation somewhat looked down on him, and his attitude was quite indifferent.

Fortunately, Omnipresent Brightness, who was naturally friendly with everyone, was here to make conversation. Otherwise, the atmosphere would have been quite awkward.

With Smoke Wine And Flirtation leading the way, the three of them quickly came to the territory of Dryad Commander Ackerman. Most places in Eternal Gaze Forest were incredibly dense and lush with plantation, but it was deathly silent here.

The ground was jet black, as if it had been scorched. There were only some jet black plants left.

The plants looked like they were dead, but once anyone got close, they would rush up and attack them. When players’ swords cut into them, violet-black blood would flow out of them.

These were the so-called Dryads.

Powerful Dryads looked better and had some basic language abilities.

These abilities had to do with them devouring intelligent creatures, as they would obtain the memories and knowledge of the creatures they devoured. In the depths of Eternal Gaze Forest was Dryad King Alfred, who was incredibly handsome and knew all kinds of languages from the Gaia Continent. He even knew some that had already been forgotten in the passage of time.

Su Mo and the others could not afford to seek out Alfred; he was a Boss over Level 100.

Dryad Commander Ackerman, who they were going to face, was only Level 25.

However, it was not a weak creature at all. It was 2.5 meters tall and its body was wrapped with tree vines from top to bottom. Its arms made of vines were like whips, and it had humanoid legs that also had vines wrapped around them.

It had extremely high defense and its lifesteal attribute was ridiculous. Its main skills were Lash, Stab, and the crowd control skill Whirlwind Waltz.

This Boss had both physical attacks and magical attacks.

“Do you have any pets that can tank?” Smoke Wine and Flirtation asked Su Mo.

Su Mo shook his head and pointed at the wolf squatting by his feet with its tongue out. 

“That’s all I have. Its attack is decent, but it probably can’t tank a Boss like this.”

No matter which branch of Hunter, they could have an unlimited number of pets but only summon one to battle at a time.

The number of pets they could have was related to two things: The number of pet slots and taming scrolls they had. After Level 10, Hunters could do a quest to obtain their first pet slot and taming scroll. Afterwards, if they wanted to obtain these two things, they had to either throw money at the gacha, do hidden quests, or fight Bosses.

As such, Su Mo was once again looked down on by Smoke Wine And Flirtation.

Even though he was somewhat arrogant, Smoke Wine And Flirtation was indeed an expert.

He was the strongest Sorcerer that Su Mo had seen. Sorcerer was a profession that did not allow for much error, even less so than Magicians. Sorcerers had less range than Magicians and some skills even required them to get close to use. They also lacked the shields that Magicians had that could save their lives, so if they made mistakes, they would die horribly.

From start to finish, Smoke Wine And Flirtation did not lose any HP.

Omnipresent Brightness also didn’t lose any HP. He was a Bishop and could tank the Mini Boss while maintaining his DPS; it was not just because his equipment was good.

Su Mo decided to re-evaluate the experts of this game.

Of course, he was not lacking either. The reason why he could not compare to those two when it came to fighting Bosses was because of his equipment. However, if it was PVP, he had the confidence to defeat either of them.

“How did you get to know such a scrub Ranger? Don’t call me for things like this in the future. And you, get some better equipment and pets and buy a skin.”

Smoke Wine And Flirtation did not ask for payment, and he directly summoned his mount and left afterwards.

The mount he summoned was a rhinoceros, and Su Mo had seen people talk about it on the forums before. It was no cheaper than the Golden Elk, and the chance of pulling it in the gacha was incredibly low.

“The 25 Attack from the skin isn’t worth the money,” Su Mo bitterly laughed.

This game’s skins were mostly for cosmetics, and apart from having a certain chance to drop them from Bosses or hidden quests, they were mainly obtained from the gacha. It cost $20 to draw from the gacha once, and most of the items were trash. They were essentially for pay-to-win players.

Fortunately, the things in the gacha did not affect the balance of the game.

“Don’t listen to him, he never holds back with his words. However, if you ask him for help, he’ll never refuse.” Omnipresent Brightness had never thought that Smoke Wine And Flirtation would be so rude.

However, he was not someone who tried to be on good terms with everyone. He was not close enough with Su Mo to help him get good equipment or skins.

Su Mo bent down and searched the corpse, and he successfully obtained a Fatal Blood Vine. There was also a Level 25 Blue grade piece of equipment; Level 25 Blue grade equipment was worth the most during this period.

“This material is for a client, so I’ll take it; you can have this piece of equipment.”

“Guardian equipment? Why are you giving it to me?” 

Omnipresent Brightness felt quite confused before realizing it and said, “I’m helping you fight Bosses for a contracted price; I don’t need any items. If any good equipment for Bishops drop, I’ll buy them at market price.”

Since Omnipresent Brightness said this, Su Mo did not insist.

They had already killed the two Bosses he needed Omnipresent Brightness to help with, so he did not dally in helping Omnipresent Brightness obtain Blood-Stained Rub Iron.

According to Mutant Stone Golem Boyn’s information, Su Mo brought Omnipresent Brightness to a cave at Demon Blood Ridge and easily found Blood-Stained Rub Iron there.

What was difficult about this material was that Blood-Stained Rub Iron was an item with a time limit.

A Kobold stained by demon blood had to kill other Kobolds, whose blood had to stain nearby iron ore. Players only had two minutes to obtain Blood-Stained Iron Rub. After two minutes, it would become Stained Scrap Iron.

As such, it was impossible to buy this on the market.

Omnipresent Brightness had come to this area before based on the quest navigation guide, but he had not been able to find anything despite spending two days here.

“How did you know there was Blood-Stained Iron Rub here?” Shocked was not enough to describe how Omnipresent Brightness was feeling. He did not feel that the 50 gold coins and his help to kill two Bosses was not worth it, even though this quest now seemed simple.

“I have my sources.” Su Mo did not want to give away too much.

“I understand, I understand. Thank you, brother, otherwise this quest would have expired tomorrow.,” Omnipresent Brightness did not make things difficult for Su Mo and sincerely thanked him.

“No need to be so courteous, this is my job.” 

Su Mo paused before asking, “Are there many experts like you and Smoke Wine And Flirtation in this game?”

“Hm… how do I put it, I guess you could say that. Smoke Wine And Flirtation and I are ok, but we’re only ordinary experts; there are more powerful people than us.”

“Let’s spar sometime if we get the chance,” Su Mo said.

“Okay, but I need to complete this quest first; I can’t put it off any longer,” Omnipresent Brightness said as he transferred 50 gold coins.

This was the price they had agreed on, but Su Mo rejected the transfer.

“Let’s just call it even for the mount; I might not even be able to obtain this mount on the market for 500 gold coins. Since you said that you wanted to make a friend, just consider this the first 50 gold coins for the 500 gold coins.”

He indeed needed a mount; with the time he saved, he could earn more money. However, he could not accept it for free.

“Alright,” Omnipresent Brightness said as he bitterly smiled and shook his head. 

He summoned his mount and left, but he quickly returned and asked, “Brother, are you interested in joining Fight Club?”