Chapter 551 - Talv City (1)

Slash... Groarrrr...

A huge ape shouted its last roar and fell down to the ground, not moving. Then, from the ape's corpse, a bunch of items popped out.

A team of two men looked at the ape's corpse. A white light surrounded these two men as both of them were leveled up.

This ape was one of the boss monsters around the area. It was quite surprising that a two-man team could kill this boss. Moreover, it was without a cleric's help.

One of the men approached the ape's corpse and bent down. He started to collect the items. This man was Auron. Actually, both of the men were Auron's character. 

It was already two weeks since Auron had upgraded his [Moss Sword]. During these two weeks, Auron had intensively hunt day and night. And, with his hard work, he managed to reach level 422. After killing the ape's boss, Auron gained another level to level 423.

Auron had managed to gain more than 100 levels in just two weeks. It was actually a fantastic feat to reach gain 100 levels. Although it was amazing, it was not impossible to achieve this feat.

Someone with enough backing and money could achieve this feat as well. Also, to accomplish this feat, it was not free. Auron had to spend hundreds of thousand potions. It was fortunate that when Auron came to Smite with this problem, the latter gave Auron much money. He also gave Auron a bunch of high-grade potions.

Auron was shocked and even rejected Smite's offer. He didn't want to be in such a huge debt. Surprisingly, Smite said that Auron didn't need to think about it, and he could give all of this to Auron for free as long as it helped Auron.

Smite's reason for doing this was that he didn't want any of his teammates to die in the Bridge World. So, he could spend this much as long as his goal was achieved.

Auron also didn't want to die in the Bridge World. Moreover, for his mage character to die would mean the end of his cheat. Furthermore, Auron was in dire need of money. In the end, Auron accepted the money. However, he promised to Smite that he would pay up this money in the future.

Smite only laughed and said, "Do what you want as long as you don't die."

With this much money and potions at hand, Auron became more daring in hunting, even without a cleric. Auron even didn't want to team up with others, including a cleric. He was afraid that it would slow his progress if he teamed up with the others. Moreover, it would also restrict his character to use both of the class's skills.

Actually, Auron's goal in this hunting was to reach level 450. Unfortunately, no matter how much he tried, that number seemed impossible to achieve in two weeks.

Although Auron failed to achieve his goal, he was satisfied with his achievement thus far. There were two reasons. The first one was Auron gained a lot of money from two weeks of hunting. Most of it was because of the fact that Auron hunted quite a lot of boss monsters. He even completed a 10 man dungeon with only two members.

All of the loots and equipment he gained, if all of them were converted to money, Auron could pay his debt to Smite. There was even some leftover money to be used. However, Auron didn't intend to pay his debt to Smite. It was because he knew that in the Bridge World, he would need more money to buy supplies.

The second and most important reason was his newly upgraded [Moss Sword]. This was also the reason why Auron could hunt a lot of boss monsters even without a cleric.

After upgrading the [Moss Sword] to the rare grade, the sword had a special ability besides the increase in attack power and attributes. It was a life steal ability.

Each time Auron managed to hit his enemies with the sword, he would get 0.5% of the damage to recover his health.

0.5% was actually a small amount compared to other weapons. There was a weapon with a 20% life steal ability.

Even though 0.5% was a small amount compared to the other weapon's life steal, combined with Auron's attack speed, it was enough to sustain his health. Moreover, that was not all.

The life steal ability of the [Moss Sword] was different from others. When Auron's health was full, then it would recover his mana.

The most unique ability about the sword's life steal was that it could share the recovery to the other on the same party at a certain distance. Auron could choose the recovery target. Then, when he attacks, that target would receive the recovery heal. Unfortunately, Auron could only choose one target, including himself. So, Auron had to decide whether to heal himself or the others at the same party as him.

However, this unique ability was enough to get Auron excited. Using this unique ability, Auron could save up his potions usage to 10%. Moreover, Auron could reduce when he needed to consume the potions in the middle of a battle. He believed if the others knew about this sword's ability, they would try to snatch it.

Although Auron's mage character could not use the sword, he could bring his swordsman character to the Bridge World. Like the previous expeditions to the Bridge World, the military had already announced the players' recruitment. And Auron had already applied to join. Moreover, this time, they could choose to go with a team of their choice. Of course, Auron's swordsman character's choice was the Absurd team.

In few more hours, the Absurd team would start to move to the Bridge World. Since there was still another long way to go to get another level, Auron decided to stop his hunting. Then, he went to the gathering point, which was located in Inverno City.