Chapter 50

Despite this, Su Mo encountered two battles, and he finally arrived at the small forest in the midst of the marsh with great difficulty.

Most of the trees were submerged in water, and they looked quite sickly and had few leaves. The entire forest was gray, without any trace of green, and it gave off a foul, rotting smell.

The Dryads made treehouses on top of the trees and lived there.

Su Mo came closer to this forest, and even from a distance, he could see that some of the trees had people’s heads hanging on them. They were the heads of humans; it seemed that the Dark Dryads were the perpetrators of those slaughters.

The foul smell came from these people’s heads.

The Dryads were savage and bloodthirsty, but under Dryad King Alfred’s control, they made peace agreements with the Magic Assembly and Papacy. At the very least, they would not take the initiative to slaughter human villages.

However, these Dark Dryads did not have a bottom line.

They indeed deserved to die!

Right now, the most important thing for Su Mo to do was to check the terrain.

When fighting in a marsh, surveying the terrain was key. Su Mo would not just blindly charge to attack the Dark Dryads’ barracks; he planned to ambush them outside.

Waiting was a very boring process, but fortunately, Su Mo was quite experienced when it came to ambushes and assassinations.

After waiting ten or so minutes, a group of Dark Dryads came out of the barracks. Su Mo continued to hide, not moving at all, because there were at least ten or so of them and he could not beat them.

He watched this group of Dark Dryads leave until they left his field of vision.

The second group was a returning group of two Dark Dryads. Their footsteps trudged and they were covered with injuries.

This was what Su Mo was waiting for!

Su Mo blocked their way and attacked decisively, easily and cleanly killing the two Dark Dryads.

He was quite lucky; these were most likely the rumored ‘critically low monsters.’

The Dark Dryads would go down Masa River and counted as foreigners to Pawo Marsh. The local people would fight with them all the time.

The two monsters did not drop Orange Tree Hearts, but they dropped a piece of Blue grade equipment.

A Common monster dropping Blue grade equipment, and Level 30 at that. Su Mo could sell this piece of equipment for dozens of silver coins, and most players liked to use Blue grade equipment, as they had good value for money.

Apart from this, there was also called a material called Soul Wood. If Su Mo remembered correctly, these were quite valuable too and were worth 30 silver coins each.

Single Dark Dryads would also appear, and Su Mo did not let them off either.

After killing the Dark Dryads, Su Mo tried to cover up the traces of fighting and blood and dragged the corpses to one side. They would disappear after five minutes.

Su Mo plucked his first Orange Tree Heart out of a muddy ditch, feeling very excited. It was difficult for him to believe such an ugly thing was worth $2,000.

The profits were huge, but Su Mo was not bewitched.

He resolved himself not to attack groups of more than two monsters because he was clear that three monsters would be a fatal threat to him.

At the very least, against two monsters, he would not even have to bait them into his traps.

Su Mo farmed the Dark Dryads for the entire morning. By the time it was noon, Su Mo had waited for a while, but no more Dark Dryads appeared, and Dark Dryads started to patrol in large groups. The reduction of their numbers had made them wary.

Su Mo immediately teleported back to the city.

Over the course of the morning, he had killed roughly 100 Dark Dryads, and in terms of farming monsters, this was an incredibly low number.

However, he had 17 Orange Tree Hearts in his bag, which would make anyone who looked down on him feel incredible envy.

Based on the value of $2,000 per Orange Tree Heart, that was $30,000!

Just farming monsters for a whole morning was $30,000; no one in the game had set such a record before. Su Mo would surely receive a Money Making Machine Award on the forum if he posted about this.

It was a pity that things could not be calculated like that.

Firstly, there was the EXP Su Mo had gained. The EXP from 100 Dark Dryads barely bumped his Level 26 EXP bar higher.

Moreover, Su Mo could not sell all 17 Orange Tree Hearts.

If he dropped all 17 Orange Tree Hearts onto the market, it would affect the supply, resulting in the price decreasing.

Moreover, if 17 Orange Tree Hearts suddenly appeared, intelligent people would realize that there was another, easier way to farm them.

Su Mo decided to act extravagantly and clear all of his quests requiring Orange Tree Hearts.

If his level was too low, it would affect his battle power and stamina. It was very difficult for Su Mo to fight two ordinary monsters that were not even Level 30 in the marsh. Even if the Dark Dryads had not sent out patrol parties, he would not have much stamina to continue hunting them.

As for Rainbow Devil City’s City Lord’s bounty quest, he did not hand it in.

If he handed in the quest and Rainbow Devil City’s City Lord gave a bounty for all players to go to the marsh to kill these Dark Dryads, then everyone would know this secret.

Orange Tree Hearts were used for a quest from a Mage Apprentice called Harry in Lota City. It was said that he had the backing of a Magister from Snowy Plateau, or else he wouldn’t be able to give out a material quest with such high EXP rewards.

Snowy Plateau was not part of the Nosa Kingdom; it was the territory of the Magicians and Ice Plains Giants, and there were many magic towers there.

Mage Apprentice Harry was at the marketplace of the central square. He stood there by himself, and even though there were many people around him, there were few who were actually handing in the quest.

Su Mo walked around for a bit, collecting the other materials required for the quest.

Only afterwards did he walk towards Harry. There were too many people around, and Su Mo could not squeeze his way through.

This was the bad part of making the game too realistic; it was impossible to pass through people, and players had to line up when handing in quests or squeeze their way in. There was evidently no lining up going on here, and all of them were people with nothing to do, asking Harry if he wanted various kinds of materials.

Harry’s expression was cold as he continuously shook his head.

“Let me through, if you don’t let me through, I’m going to call the city management soldiers,” Su Mo could only shout.

The city management soldiers indeed would deal with this situation; after all, these people were not handing in a request and made it so that others could not interact properly with the quest-giver. Offenders would be fined one gold coin, then five gold coins if they repeated their actions. If they still did not change their ways, they could be chased out of the city and lose Reputation in the city.

“What are you shouting for? What does a poor Hunter like you want with Harry?”

Apart from his Silver grade pants, Su Mo looked like he only had Blue and Green grade equipment, as his weapons were in his bag. Most players used skins, even if they were not that great.

“What are you squeezing for, brother? Harry only takes high-grade materials; it’s not suitable for you.”

“That’s right, you don’t even have a skin and you want to talk to Harry; piss off and drink milk at home.”

“Don’t be like that, who wasn’t poor in the past? I remember a few years ago when I first started, I was only a bit better than this brother.”

“Big brother city management soldier, I want to make a report. These people aren’t letting me hand in my quest.”

Seeing that no one made way, Su Mo immediately activated the function to call over city management soldiers.

Two city management soldiers dressed in silver armor appeared out of nowhere and looked at Su Mo before waving their hands.

The people around Harry all found that they had been fined one gold coin.