Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The next day, Zhang Yang woke up early in the morning and directly logged in to the game, he was being summoned urgently by Wei Yan Er. So, he quickly used a [Teleportation scroll] to teleport to Thunderstorm Castle and arrived at the entrance of the castle as instructed by her.
The little girl was on top of an extremely colorful Chocobo, joy all over her face, giddy with joy.
Zhang Yang had something that was a mix between a glare and a smile, and he asked, "Little girl, did you rush me here just to see ‘Birdie’?"
"Of course not!" Wei Yan Er quickly shook her head, but her smile only grew wider, and she eagerly asked, "What say you? Isn’t my Little Flower very pretty?"
Giving names such as Little White and Little Flower, this little girl could only seem to throw out one-dimensional names! It wasn’t as if Zhang Yang had exceptional naming sense himself, looking at Whitey...
"Hm, it’s definitely prettier compared to you!" Zhang Yang replied with a deadpan expression.
"I’m not talking to you anymore!" Wei Yan Er lifted her chin up with rage.
Zhang Yang could not help himself but smile, and he said, "Alright then, I’ll take my leave!"
"No! Stop! Cousin sister is still waiting for you to save her!" Wei Yan Er quickly caught up to Zhang Yang on her Chocobo and said, "I’m giving you a chance to save a damsel in distress! Cousin sister will definitely be grateful, you can have her body all to yourself!"
"Ha!" Zhang Yang guffawed, and he said, "That’s no damsel, that’s a bloody siren! Like, those ladies who drown you with voices! Why would I save a siren, that’s asking for death, one must be alert before doing so! Look at Xu Xian1 who saved the White Snake2, look at how miserable they turned out to be!"
"Pui! You must be a man with a sad love life!" Wei Yan Er sniffed.
"Yeah, yeah, what’s this all about then?" Zhang Yang did not see any signs of Han Ying Xue, the siren would usually be inseparable from this brat.
Do you still remember that guy we used to mention, Luo Yang Ming?"
"Yeah, the guy who stalked witchy Snow all the way to England, but got kicked out later on, what about him?"
"Yes! Yes! Yes!" Wei Yan Er nodded continuously, "That guy has a face thicker than the ancient civilization! Even when cousin sister has totally turned her back on him, he’s still sticking onto her like a piece of dog sh*t, he’s really starting to piss her off! Everyday, he would call and mutter some disgusting mushy words, she’s already smashed three of her phones to pieces! Hehe, that one did break her heart!"
While he was imagining Han Ying Xue smashing the phones with a look of instant regret, Zhang Yang could not help himself but laughed out loud.
"You really don’t have a conscience, do you!" Wei Yan Er quickly criticized him, but she had also started giggling.
"I thought your ass was on fire, from the way you called me over, but this is it?" Zhang Yang frowned disapprovingly at her, her mind seemed to work in a completely different manner from the average human!
"You’re the one who ran here like your ass was on fire!" Wei Yan Er was never one to back down from petty war of words, and she continued, "Of course not, do I look like I’m that boring? We don’t know how that Luo Ming Yang found out that cousin is playing {{God’s Miracle}}, or how he even found her game ID out. This morning, he came looking for her, and has been stuck on her since then! I will always boldly do what is right, so I purposely summoned you, the Panda Prince to save the princess!"
"What the hell, why don’t you just kill him off, what trouble would that be?!" Zhang Yang shook his head continuously.
"You are really stupid! The Luo has a face thicker than the walls of the city! Killing him won’t work at all, he’ll come back like an immortal nightmare! I have a great idea, why don’t you act as her boy friend to get rid of that Luo guy!"
Zhang Yang rolled both of his eyes backward ad said, "Little girl, are you trying to save witchy Snow, or are you trying to push me over into the burning furnace? Even if I just have to play act, I can still feel a chill running down my bones!"
"Hehehe, cousin has the same genetic inheritance like me, you should feel blessed to have her as your fake girlfriend!" Wei Yan Er pulled Zhang Yang by his arm and said, "Faster, faster! Cousin’s gonna blow anytime soon! I couldn’t care less if I wasn’t in the same house as her, but if this is going to affect my lunch hour, my life would be miserable!"
"Holy god, and here I was thinking that you were just looking out for her!"
"Hehe!"
The walked through the alleyways. They saw Han Ying Xue in a corner, with a male warrior kneeling by her side, both his hands holding up a bunch of black roses, offering it up to her!
Holy sh*t, those flowers required real money!
In ‘God’s Miracle’, there are numerous shops that sells items that are purely cosmetic. A variety of rings, necklaces, accessories, were purchasable. They added no attributes to players, but they were all finely crafted and appealing to look at. Of course, that would make them extremely expensive.
For example, a platinum ring with the flavor text -- ‘Love her, then buy it for her!’, would cost 99999 gold pieces!
These were so called Luxurious Items, and flowers also fell under this category.
That bundle of flowers that the male player was holding up was the most expensive variant in the florist shop, costing 9999 gold pieces each. Furthermore, one day later, the flowers will automatically wither and fall, it was the most money-burning item ever!
Although a platinum ring is more expensive, it would not deteriorate or disappear!
That player did not hide his personal information, the name ‘iLuvHanYingXue, level 10, male human, Berserker Warrior’ was floating right above his head. There was no doubt that this man is Luo Yang Ming.
"... little Snow, I truly love you, please just accept my tidal wave of love for you!" as they walked closer, they could hear the mush Luo Yang Ming was making.
Han Ying Xue was almost blue in the face, she was probably too annoyed to even say no.
"Luo Yang Ming, you really are thick faced! Cousin already told you to roll home a hundred times, why can’t you see that!" Wei Yan Er could not bear it anymore as she snarled at him.
"Cousin Yan Er, how could you speak like that to your cousin brother!" Luo Yang Ming straightened up upon seeing Wei Yan Er. He turned around and replied her in the strict tone of an elder.
"How can he be your cousin brother, if he and witchy Snow --- " Zhang Yang could not help but began to wonder.
"He is the son to the cousin sister of my father, and cousin sister is the daughter to the sister of my mother. So, the two of them are totally unrelated by blood!" Wei Yan Er waved her hand around.
Luo Yang Ming, however, stared at Zhang Yang warily, and said, "Cousin Yan Er, who is this man? Don’t forget our standing! Please do not mix with these mongrels!"
What the hell, that sentence would score him ten out of ten points in provoking people into beating him up!
Wei Yan Er snorted and said, "You who bear the surname Luo! What are you overweening for? If my father did not sponsor you, that factory of yours would not even be open! Cutting corners in production, taking advantage of your own people, your actions almost destroyed my mother and her sister’s blood and sweat!"
The face of Luo Yang Ming immediate turned pale, and he said, "Cousin Yan Er, don’t throw false accusations at innocent people!"
"Witchy Snow, let’s go, didn’t we agree earlier to go leveling up together?" Zhang Yang waved at Han Ying Xue.
Luo Yang Ming’s gaze on Zhang Yang instantly turned from wariness to outright scorn, so he turned around to Han Ying Xue and asked, "Little Snow, who is this?"
"Hey, I’ll only say it once!" Zhang Yang rode on his Whitey and shoved himself in between Luo Yang Ming and Han Ying Xue, looking down from his elevated position. As he reached his right hand out and lifted up his index finger, he said, "Witchy Snow is my woman, you better god damn stop harassing her!"
"Haha! Where did you wretched being come from, what right do you have to pursue my little Snow?" Luo Yang Ming shot back.
"You idiotic moron, she’s been my woman since forever! What rights are you talking about, are you really that f*cking idiotic?" Zhang Yang purposely cursed continuously, using his very best to land some solid hits into the heart of Luo Yang Ming.
Luo Yang Ming grew even paler, and his whole body trembled, but after a while, he suddenly smiled and said, "Little Snow, this is an actor you hired, right? You have never had a boyfriend till now even, your heart is filled with me!"
"God, Mr Luo, can you possibly get any more disgusting!" Wei Yan Er made a show of puking.
"My dear hubby, let’s go!" Han Ying Xue summoned her [Storm and Gale Direwolf], gazing at Zhang Yang seductively while speaking sweetly, and Zhang Yang felt a shiver down his spine. His heart was knocked off rhythm for a second, and in a bad way!
The three [Mounts] began to pick up speed, leaving Luo Yang Ming behind in one of the alleyways.
"You bastards, whether you are acting or not, Han Ying Xue is mine! Only mine!" Luo Yang Ming barked at the backs of the three figures that were rapidly disappearing. His face was almost goblin-like as he cried, "You f*cking b*tch, you humiliated me for so many years, just wait till I get my hands on ‘Silky Soft Holdings’ and make it mine, I will turn you into my toy till you die!"
...
"I realize that your relationships are a little messy!" After riding out for a distance, Zhang Yang began to talk.
"I guess it’s okay to tell you everything now!" Wei Yan Er looked at Han Ying Xue, and seeing no objection, she continued, "More than 20 years ago, when my mother and my aunt were still pursuing their studies in university, they took a loan and founded ‘Silky Soft Holdings’. The two of them were the best designers in the world! In just a short time, they already made ‘Silky Soft Holdings’ a major company!"
Zhang Yang was shocked for a moment, never once fathoming that ‘Silky Soft Holdings’ was founded by their mothers together.
"Then, about 17 years ago, my mother and my aunt went to Europe to take part in a Fashion Design Exhibition. Who would have guessed, on their way there, their plane crashed! My mother and aunt..." Wei Yan Er was solemn for once, her eyes genuinely beginning to tear.
Zhang Yang stared in shock and asked, "Southern Airlines, CA1077?"
"Huh? How did you know!" Wei Yan Er and Han Ying Xue whipped around to look at him, their eyes wide in shock.
Zhang Yang sighed painfully and said, "Both my parents were on that plane too!"
The three of them remained silent for a moment.
"Noob tank, to think we actually share the same fate!" Wei Yan Er patted Zhang Yang on his shoulder like an old friend. Perhaps in a way, their souls had that sort of bond.
Unpleasant memories quickly came flooding back, and he quickly said, "Please, carry on!"
"Yes!" Wei Yan Er nodded and said, "So my mother and my aunt left their shares of the company to me and my cousin here. However, before we hit the age of our adulthood, the company will be under the care of by my father and my uncle! A few years back, my uncle had cancer and passed away. For my sake, my cousin let my father look after the holdings on behalf of her. But, he’s not really doing it any good, he’s using our shares to sponsor dirtbags like Luo, helping them start up their own companies!"
She shrugged and said, "I’m fine with that, but they’re ruining our reputation! As they are considered subsidiary companies of Silky Soft Holdings, their actions reflect on us! They often use substandard goods to throw the market off, resulting in lots of rejected stocks, the company that my mom and aunt had put all their hearts and passion into is really shaky at the moment!"
"My father will always stand by his side of the family! Hmph! When I am 18 years old, it will be the time to place justice above filial piety! I’m not going to let the efforts of my mother and my aunt go to waste!"
TL Notes:
1. Xu Xian: Male character in ‘Legend of the White Snake’ novel, who fell in love with White Snake (disguised herself into a woman named Bai Suzhen)
2. White Snake: Female character in ‘Legend of the White Snake’ novel, who fell in love with Xu Xian.
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Territories, indeed, gave much convenience to the players, especially their proprietors.
If they had to travel by foot and rented flying Gryphons, the journey would take 3 hours! During that 3 hours of riding the Gryphon, players wouldn’t be able to perform any actions, other than to chat with each other. If players below level 60 intended to set off to their appropriately leveled maps from Thunderstorm Castle, they could easily force their way through the slightly over-leveled monsters if they worked in parties. It would only take them about 40 minutes to reach their own maps, saving a lot of time!
Therefore, a large number of players had linked their teleportation scroll to Thunderstorm Castle, and the fare of one gold piece could easily be earned back within an hour. It was both money and time-saving!
Three days had passed, Zhang Yang took a good look at the financial income of the territory. He could not help himself but to rub his eyes in amazement!
10,680,000 gold pieces!
Although he had anticipated some ridiculous amount, this far exceeded his expectations! Netting an average of 3,000,000 gold pieces on a daily basis, it quickly covered the cost of the [Power Source Crystal] in 3 days, with the remaining 4 days being nothing else but profit!
Furthermore, only 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 players were in the leveling bracket of 50 and up. What would happen when that number increases by tenfold?
However, since the first territory has appeared, more territories would be bound to follow in the near future! Whatever Zhang Yang planned to do, was to master the basics of setting a perfect territory, and perhaps add in the equipment repairing blacksmith to add to the appeal of his castle. Mechandize selling NPCs were not as heavily prioritized. Surely some players would have come up with the idea of selling such supplies in the Territory themselves.
The benefits were humongous, but Zhang Yang could not possibly keep it all to himself. He immediately gave an enormous raise to the salaries of the members in the management level of the guild, and every core player, so much so that even their very gait as they walked about had a noticeable spring to it! The career of a professional player was much scorned by the other members of society, and they would often live by a "don’t ask, don’t tell" basis, however, the players of the Lone Desert Smoke can now righteously proclaim that, "I am a professional player!"
Core players were earning up to 50,000 a month, on part with the income of executive white collars, so these players could carry themselves with the same amount of dignity, right?
At his command, Hundred Shots had led some members of the guild over to claim the Sacred Palace of Frozen Fractal as their own. There, he allowed players who possessed the Herb Picking profession to pick up some [Frozen Ice Weeding] once every two hours. However, there was no sign of the recipe for [Beginner Mobility Potion] dropping, so the [Frozen Ice Weeding] were stored in the warehouse at the moment, eating up its storage space!
As the territory now had an owner, NPCs who provided territory quests started appearing. However, the territory quests required players to be above level 60. Currently, only Zhang Yang alone qualified for the quests.
The forth day after owning the territory, Zhang Yang accepted a few territory quests, summoned his Whitey and sped away.
The territory quests were simple, it just involved killing a few bears, slaying a few wolves, clearing out some undeads, all to provide safety for the territory. The three quests that Zhang Yang took required the killing of 100 Red Flaming Tigers, 100 Bloody Scarlet Wolves, and 100 Flatland Chocobos.
He quickly completed the quests to kill the tigers and to kill the wolves. At the moment, he was on his way to the Northwest part of the forest in search of the Flatland Chocobos.
"Gu---gu---gu---!" a strange, birdlike sound was uttered, and a bird that dwarfed even the ostrich appeared right in front of Zhang Yang. Its whole body was covered with colourful feathers, beneath it was a pair of thick legs that each ended in three razor-sharp claws. It had a wings, but appeared to be incapable of flight, along with two strangely large eyes that occupied two thirds of the surface area of its entire head.
[Forest of Tanila, Chocobo] (Normal, Beast)
Level: 63
HP: 6,300
Defense: 60
Zhang Yang rode up to it on his Whitey, and effortless dispatched the Chocobo. It dropped some feathers that were worth a few pieces of copper coins which he completely ignored.
Slaying them was no problem, but these birds were rather hard to come across, and Zhang Yang took more than one hour just to come across one of them. After slaying 90 of them, they appeared to have vanished altogether. No matter how hard he tried to find the remaining Chocobos, the numbers just could not be scraped to completion. He decided to venture on into the deeper part of the forest.
93... 96... 98, 99, only one left!
Hoof!
A shadow blurred with the myriad of five colors suddenly entered the edge of his vision, and Zhang Yang reacted almost instantly, instinctively activating {Block} and placing his shield before him.
{Block}!
A particularly large Chocobo collided right into Zhang Yang, the feathers of which had an iridescent quality, magnificently sparkling in the light! It was gorgeous!
[King of Fire Chocobo] (Gray-Silver, Beast)
Level: 65
HP: 1,000,000
Defense: 700
Zhang Yang smiled lightly, and with a tap on Whitey, he answered with a charge of his own.
With his current equipment, even a Gray-Silver boss that relied on physical attacks such as this was a pushover for him! And if it is a boss that had magical attacks, he would simply swap places with his mount, juggling the aggro between them, while using {Shadow of the Void} to disengage from battle while his mount occupied the enemy. He would still be able to single-handedly take such a boss down, only having to put in a little more effort!
Bosses that relied on physical attacks would be a total piece of cake!
In less than 6 to 7 minutes, this Gray-Silver boss crumpled to the ground in a beautiful heap, dropping a few pieces of Gray-Silver and Green-Copper equipment.
Zhang Yang leisurely grabbed the loots and placed them in his backpack. That boss was a good omen, as his counter now read that he has killed 100 Chocobo in total! He can finally head back! Just as he was taking out a teleportation scroll, Zhang Yang caught sight of something that laid at the trunk of a large tree. He uttered an ‘eh’ in surprise, quickly stepping out of the small circle that was beginning to form under his feet.
Just beneath the big tree facing him was a huge bird nest. The miniature head of a Chocobo had stuck it’s head out to look around, its little wings flapping, as it weakly cried out, ‘Gu--- gu--- gu---’. The whole body of the Chocobo was covered in fluffy, short feathers which were milky yellow in colour, a far cry from its adult brethren who were dazzlingly beautiful!
[Fire Chocobo Chick] (Rare Gray-Silver Battle Mount)
Level: 0
HP: 50
A [Battle Mount]! And it was a Gray-Silver grade!
It was no wonder why the King of Fire Chocobo initiated an attack on him, he was trespassing upon its nest!
Zhang Yang quickly activated his voice communication device and said, "Little girl, quickly! Call me brother!"
"Stupid noob tank, are you trying to take advantage of me, you are still 1,000 years too far from that!" Wei Yan Er snapped back.
Zhang Yang chuckled and replied, "I just came across a [Battle Mount]! Oh, did I forget to mention that it’s Gray-Silver?"
"Wow, where? Where is it?" her tone quickly changed, and she anxiously pressed him for answers.
"Call me brother!"
"Heck, I’ll call you brother-in-law!" Wei Yan Er was talking sweetly.
Han Ying Xue was definitely charming, but it was the type of deadly charm that only a siren would produce. A shiver ran down his spine and he quickly said, "No thank you, I cannot afford to have her, you can save that name for someone else! I’ll activate the [Lover's Charm: Yang], use the [Lover's Charm: Yin] to get over here now!"
"Aww, sister Sun snatched it back from me! She’s so stingy, she’s not letting up at all!" Wei Yan Er pouted.
"Fine, fine, stop grumbling already. Drop whatever you’re doing, I’m adding you to party. Better hurry, or I’ll catch it myself!"
"Don’t! Stupid noob tank! Wait for me! If you ever dare catch my baby, I’ll bite you to death!" Wei Yan Er was yelling at the top of her lungs while summoning her mount, swiftly traveling to his location.
Currently, Zhang Yang was the only player in the party who possessed a [Battle Mount], while Han Ying Xue and the others were still waiting bitterly for their turns, but if he was to offer anyone else a pet mount... she would probably burn holes through him with her eyes until he turned into ash!
Every single member of the party would definitely concede to the wiles of that brat. After all, this little girl knew her way around the minds of her elders, enjoying the attention and pampering that they showered upon her.
As he was bored, Zhang Yang sat his ass on the ground and turned Whitey into his backrest while waiting for the arrival of Wei Yan Er. At the same time, he kept an eye on the little Chocobo just in case it slipped away. After all, this is a game, who knew if the little bird would wander off on its own, having lost its parent.
"Boss, there really is a [Mount] here, but there’s a bloody Gray-Silver boss guarding it. Ah Xi and myself were killed the moment it spotted us!"
"Oh I see it now, there really is a [mount] right there, a Gray-Silver one!"
"Boss, if you can subdue a Gray-Silver [Mount], surely your strength will increase by a notch. When that happens, whoever it is, Zhan Yu, One Sword Stroke, or Frost Night, they all will be beneath the dust before you, boss!"
"That’s right, the official site did mention it, the attack power of a Gray-Silver [Mount] is equivalent to the attack of a player equipped with a full set of Gray-Silver equipment! When a player is combined with his mount, he’ll gain huge boosts to his attack and HP!"
Five players stumbled out of a thick shrub together, one of them being Floating Fire Ball himself, who had been slaughtered several times by Zhang Yang in previous engagements!
When the five players saw Zhang Yang, they were shocked, for they never would thought that they would actually see someone in such a place! The weirdest part of it was that, this player was not even attempting to subdue the Battle mount!
"Hey kid! Get lost, this location is now booked by us, Pride!" one of the players with the name ‘Prideful Siye’ above his head took a step forward and began raising his fist while speaking to Zhang Yang.
Few had actually met Zhang Yang in person, and Prideful Siye was trying to butter up the ass of Floating Fire Ball, which was why he was making a show in front of his leader, raising his voice with his chest puffed out.
Zhang Yang smiled lightly, returning his gestures with a dismissive wave of his own, "I found this little fella first, you guys can go on ahead!"
"Hey kid, you dare to speak in such a tone? Who do you think you are? One Sword Stroke, or Frost Night, Drizzler or Zhan Yu?" Prideful Siye was unaware of his boss’ rapidly changing expression, as he continued clamoring arrogantly in front of Zhang Yang.
"Get lost already or I’ll just cut you down here and now!" Zhang Yang was beginning to lose his patience, that arrogant face was just asking for it.
As Prideful Siye was going to shout back at Zhang Yang, he was forcefully pulled back by his arm by Kindling Chest Hair. He could not comprehend the situation, but when he heard what Floating Fire Ball had to say, "Zhan Yu, today we will give the respect where it’s due, let’s leave!"
Zhan Yu? This kid is Zhan Yu?
Prideful Siye was shocked, almost gagging on the intended insults that he hastily forced back down his throat! Previously, the Lone Desert Smoke had made their name as a PvE Dungeon Clearing guild, but after the two major incidents, the Princess Serena quest and the Battle for Terra Nulius, every other guild had been left speechless by their combat strength and unity!
To insult Zhan Yu would be to insult Lone Desert Smoke itself, and nobody else seemed to be able to stand up to them at this point!
Kindling Chest Hair begrudgingly followed Floating Fire Ball back to where they came from, and finally blurted out, "Boss, are we really going to give up on this [Pet Mount]?"
It was a strong [Pet Mount] capable of greatly boosting the combat ability of a player!
Floating Fire Ball cracked an insidious grin, "Give up? Like hell! We’ve got over 20 members close by the area leveling up, let’s wait till everyone is gathered here...we’ll let him have a taste of our strength, Pride!"
"Little brat, how much longer are you gonna take??"
"I’m not a gazelle, you buffoon, take it easy, jeez!"
"Well, hurry up, Pride members are lurking about, they had their eyes on the [Pet Mount]! They’re probably gathering their men up as we speak! I’m not risking my neck for you, if there’s too many of them, I’m outta there!"
"Please, no! You are the ferocious and mighty noob tank, surely you can take on a hundred of them, I’ll even send you my cousin’s nudes," Wei Yan Er was genuinely frantic, even bringing up an ultimate ‘weapon’!
Zhang Yang chuckled, saying, "Faster!"
He had the {Shadow of the Void} on hand, which was why he was totally unafraid of being rounded up or ambushed! In a worst case scenario, he can still activate the [Lover's Charm] to be spirited away to Sun Xin Yu’s location. He already had many options planned.
As expected, Floating Fire Ball soon returned with an additional 20+ players behind him, making up a party of 25 players! Zhang Yang fanned his vision across them and saw that there were only five spellcasters. He smiled to himself confidently. Maybe running was no longer needed…!
"Zhan Yu, on second thought, perhaps you should bow to me this time!" Floating Fire Ball was brimming with confidence, as he folded his arms and flashed a cocky grin.
Zhang Yang made an exaggerated show of climbing up his [Mount], and with a shake of his [Battle Axe], he said, "Well, we could have done this the easy way, but if you insist on being difficult….the hard way it is!"
"...K-Kill!"
All 25 members of the Pride roared in unity, as their long-ranged players started unleashing volley after volley. Zhang Yang calmly gazed up at the oncoming projectiles, and looked back down to see the melee players getting into formation. They started cutting off his routes of escape, and started their advancement.
Zhang Yang rode out on his bear like a Mack truck that bodily met the melee players, sending them flying. Pride was extremely far behind when it came to dungeon progression. Besides Floating Fire Ball who had a full set of Gray-Silver equipment, most of the players were barely past level 50, and had Green-Copper equipment at most. The melee-profession players could not even get past Zhang Yang’s defense value, causing absolutely no damage, and the only threat he faced was from the small bunch of Spellcasters at the back of the party!
Unfortunately, there were so few of them that they hardly made any difference!
Gong! Gong! Gong!
Zhang Yang smacked into a Thief, sending the player flying into a tree. At this point, his [Mount] had considerably slowed down, allowing the other players to round up on him.
{Blood Rage}, {Horizontal Sweep}!
A series of magnificent damage values appeared across the battlefield. The main purpose of this assault was not to hurt his enemies, but to reveal the Thieves who happened to be in {stealth}. To expose them would be to deny them the opportunity of using their {Ambush} skills! Even if they couldn’t hurt him, they would still afflict some annoying status effects!
{Sanction}!
Kindling Chest Hair threw his hammer at Zhang Yang, instantly stunning Zhang Yang for 5 seconds as golden start glimmered around his head!
Without hesitation, Zhang Yang activated {Warrior's Will}, and jumped right off Whitey. Floating Fire Ball had taken out his [Sealing Leash], ready to subdue the Fire Chocobo Chick!
He was definitely looking down on Zhang Yang if he believed that a single stun would buy him enough time!
Shoof! {Wild Charge}! At Zhang Yang’s mental command, Whitey had charged at Floating Fire Ball, as Zhang Yang forced his way through to the battle line of the ranged attackers.
‘-696!’
‘-742!’
‘-645!’
‘-821!’
The {Fireballs} and the {Frost Arrow} coming from the four spellcasters pounded into Zhang Yang, barely tickling him. With the level 50 Copper-Green equipment on them, their spell damages could not even exceed 700 points.. Even using their most powerful skills such as {Explosive Flame}, and {Frost Dragon Slayer}, which multiplied their base magic attacks by threefold, they simply could not hurt Zhang Yang!
Meanwhile, the Hunter-profession players might as well have been sprinkling Zhang Yang with soy-sauce, as their arrows bounced off uselessly, causing no more than zero damage!
What was the main purpose of playing online games? It was all about the equipment, wasn’t it? The differences between Copper-Green and Yellow-Gold were miles apart!
Shoof! Zhang Yang dashed forward towards a caster with {Charge}.
It had taken him less than eight seconds to reach the back row, and the critical attack of {Destructive Smash} which was boosted by the effect of {Warrior's Will} was still in effect!
‘-8,848!’ {Destructive Smash}, critical hit!
"Argh!" that caster only had a total of 5120 health points, there was no way he could have warded off the blow! He instantly turned into a flash of white light and crumpled to the ground!
‘-136!’
‘-158!’
‘-182!’
Both {Explosive Flame} and {Frost Dragon Slayer} had 10-second cool down periods. As a result, the Spellcasters had could only attack using their inferior {Fireballs} and {Frost Arrows} which only multiplied their magical attacks by two! If the previous volley had been pathetic, this one was even worse!
However, these ranged players had been stationed far away from each other under the rational directing of Floating Fire Ball, to prevent Zhang Yang from having the chance to catch them all in one draft.
The melee attackers of Pride had caught up, and surrounded him once again!
Although these players could not inflict much damage, their status effect skills, be it speed reduction, bind, or stun, were infuriatingly bothersome! Zhang Yang immediately summoned his [Servant - Clear Lotus], and commanded her enter {Stealth} while he charged at Kindling Chest Hair and the others.
{Concussion Shot}, {Speed Reduction Venom}, a bunch of status effect skills were thrown right onto Zhang Yang.
Zhang Yang plowed through it all, ignoring their effects. He would only have to ward off {Stun} statuses! It was not worth using up his skills on these status effects that only slowed him down, not stopping him completely in his tracks. The remaining three spellcasters could still fire their {Explosive Flame} and {Frost Dragon Slayer} without any cool down restrictions, and could possibly remove his HP in 20 seconds or so. In the meantime, he would have to kill the players around him!
He still had his {Berserker’s Heal} to be used when the time comes to return to full power in no time!
{Blast Wave}!
Zhang Yang took two steps back, angling himself before sending out the shockwave, stunning all the melee attackers of the Pride for 4 seconds!
{Thunder Strike}!
After two AoE attacks, the his targets were almost close to death. If not for the healers practically breaking their backs in healing their team mates, they would have already been wiped out!
"Sun of the beach, someone get this bear off me!" Floating Fire Ball was screaming at the top of his lungs.
The [Gold-Eared Bear King] is a Yellow-Gold [Pet Mount], capable of dishing out over 1,900 damage per second, while Floating Fire Ball was only dressed in thin cloth armor that hardly provided much defense. As Whitey basically smacked him around with its huge paws, the leader of Pride was dying on his feet already!
Floating Fire Ball quickly activated an {Ice Barrier}, entering an immobile, invincible state. He continued screaming for help.
Zhang Yang laughed out loud and said, "I’m truly sorry, they’re too busy saving their own asses!"
Although there were four healers of Pride backing them up, Zhang Yang’s repeated AoE attacks had left up to 13 melee attackers stumbling about. The healers could not possibly keep all of them alive at the same time, as Zhang Yang began targeting those who were closest to death!
{Force Strike}!
{Shield Bash}!
With each hit killing one player at a time, even the accompanying damage that came with {Cripple Defense} had reached up to 1000+! Zhang Yang gave a few quick slashes here and there for good measure.
Zhang Yang was 4 seconds away from being cleared of all the status effects, while Pride was left with only nine melee attackers!
{Kidney Shot}!
The Thieves could not afford to wait for the 5-star {Kidney Shot}, the first thief only managing to save up 2-stars before he used it anyway, forcing Zhang Yang into a 3-second stun status.
{Substitute} skill activated!
Zhang Yang went straight into a 5-second period invincibility, and as [Servant - Clear Lotus] was already in {Stealth} as per commanded earlier on, the other opponents could not even hit her as they could not even see her - if they even knew that she existed in the first place!
Slice, dice! Slash, hack!
By the time he was no longer invincible, another three players had fallen!
{Horizontal Sweep}!
{Thunder Strike}!
In the chaotic mess of horrified screams, more bodies fell! Zhang Yang swung his [Battle Axe] up and down, activating another {Destructive Smash} that swept across the battle field, and the last melee attacker crumpled to the ground!
"Mother of god, he’s wiped out our front line!"
"My god, he still has three quarters of his HP! How do we even fight him?!"
The gang of the Pride couldn’t help screaming out loud, faced with a monster of a player! What else could they do?
The difference between equipment grades have been made apparent here!
If Daffodil Daydream was the one who engaging him, she actually stood a chance of killing him in less than 20 seconds! Furthermore, Daffodil Daydream was only equipped with Level 50 equipment. If she got to level 60 while being fully decked out in Yellow-Gold, she would have forced Zhang Yang against the ropes, bringing out all his emergency skills!
Previously, Zhang Yang had slaughtered up to 30 players of Pride while equipped with an incomplete set of Gray-Silver grade equipment. Now that he surpassed his opponents by two grades of higher leveled equipment, it was a total bloodfest!
"F*cking hell! F*ck f*ck f*ck!" the {Ice Barrier} would only last for 10 seconds, and Floating Fire Ball would still find himself smacked around like a rag doll when Whitey resumed its attacks. Thanks to a knight healer busting his ass to heal Floating Fire Ball, he was not yet dead. However, could a Copper-Green grade healer possibly heal more than the damage values inflicted by a Yellow-Gold [Pet Mount]?
That would be a big no!
Zhang Yang was already rushing towards the ranged attackers who cowered in response.
"Boss, we are totally no match to him, we should retreat!" someone cried out. While the spellcasters were able to do some damage, the Hunters had totally given up, seeing how their own attacks inflicted zero damage on their opponent! Some of them even dropped their bows and fell to their knees in despair. The healers glumly stood at their positions as they mechanically healed their team mates. Everyone was shell shocked. Against the god-slayer Zhang Yang, their healing effects were just like fireworks being set off in the midst of actual explosions!
"Retreat! Retreat!" Floating Fire Ball shouted in embarrassment. Dying may not deduct their levels, but their experience points would still be removed. It requires approximately seven days to level up once at their levels, and that amount of time is no joke!
However, can he really get away?
What would be the first thing that comes to mind when you hear about [Pet Mount]s? Speed? To try outrunning a [Pet Mount] would be complete idiocy!
Floating Fire Ball only managed a few steps before he was flattened by Whitey’s paws!
Pak!
A glittering silver hat dropped right on the ground beside the dead bpdy of Floating Fire Ball. Zhang Yang immediately ran over to pick it up. Such equipment was already beneath him, but if he could do it to spite Floating Fire Ball, why not?
The others scattered. Zhang Yang quickly mounted Whitey and gave chase.
Another three of them were brutally killed, before the others managed to tear their teleportation scrolls up, vanishing into thin air.
In his previous life, some high level players would occasionally block the main entrance of low leveled territories and initiate battles of one versus many. Zhang Yang had never understood the purpose of doing so. There was no fun in it at all.
In reality, even a highly trained operative of any renowned special forces would be unable to stand up to a hundred civilians in direct combat. But in a game, with good enough equipment and sufficient levels, such a fantasy could be realized! No wonder the Americans loved producing action heroes, it just felt great to watch a single person take out an army!
Firstly, it was torture for the newbies. It was just unfair and callous. If they had been similarly leveled and equipped, it would have been a different story!
Of course, Zhang Yang would never deliberately go around killing low level players just for the sake of fun and adrenaline, however, he was basically acting in self-defense here! It would be injustice to the entire set of equipment on his body if he did not exercise a display of his power over their bratty sentiments!
Almost twenty minutes later, Wei Yan Er finally arrived, looking more frantic than he had ever seen her, even during large scale battles.
Seeing Zhang Yang from afar, she screamed in her high pitched voice at Zhang Yang, "Noob tank, is my baby still there?"
Zhang Yang frowned a little and spoke softly the party channel, "Little girl, don’t you know there is something called the party channel?"
"I love to shout, why can’t I?" Wei Yan Er ran over to Zhang Yang, scanning his surroundings, and immediately spotted the nestling. Her face cracked into a joyful grin and she ran over to it, "Hey birdie, you’re going to be mine soon, wahahaha!"
"... You did not just watch some other series like ‘A Bride for a Ride1’, did you?"
"Hmph, I don’t have time for you now, leave me be!" Wei Yan Er took out her [Sealing Leash] from her backpack, but she held on to it, clasping it between her palms as the prayed, "To all the gods up there in the sky, please give me your blessings, let me get it in one attempt!"
She chanted those lines a few more times like some weird mantra before throwing out her [Sealing Leash] in excitement.
10%, 20%, 30%... Pak, failed!
"Sigh, this brat is such a pain to deal with, even those gods weren’t bothered about you!" Zhang Yang could not help himself but ridicule her.
"Hmph! They’re just lazy, I don’t believe in gods anyway!" Wei Yan Er took a 180 degree turn from her apparent polytheism, and she threw another [Sealing Leash], uttering a completely different line, "I believe in Chun Ge2, that there is a bird!"
Zhang Yang almost fell off his mount, choking on his own breath as he howled in laughter.
Pak, failed!
Wei Yan Er roared furiously, "Chun Ge is also unreliable!"
Zhang Yang collapsed in laughter and said, "Little girl, two [Sealing Leash]es are worth 200 gold pieces!"
Wei Yan Er bitterly glared at him, "Noob tank, you must compensate me!"
"Why?"
"You called me over for this! If you hadn’t called me over, how would I end up wasting two [Sealing Leash]? This is causality! Cause and effect, understand?"
Zhang Yang felt the familiar drip of cold sweat running down his head. This pair of sisters had a level of stinginess that could be categorized as a unique form of art by itself!
"Little girl, why do you two...save up so much?" Zhang Yang could not hold his urge to ask her anymore.
"If I don’t save up, not even 50,000 dollars will be enough for me!" Wei Yan Er told him poignantly.
Zhang Yang blinked stupidly for a moment, then he asked, "You spend over 50,000 dollars in a month?" From his point of view, these two could have stingily abstained from spending even a fraction of that in a month, it was very much like them!
"Sigh, perfumes, handbags, the money will be gone after a few simple purchases, and I have to ask anything more from cousin sister! Cousin sister used to only have 50,000 dollars as her pocket money, so she would scrape anything more than that from me, she caused me so much pain that I eventually I learned how to save up money myself!" Wei Yan Er pouted her mouth discontentedly, and continued, "Now that cousin sister has become rich, she’s become a total miser! Sigh... To eat a meal in her house, I would be required to do house chores! She used to have a maid in her house, but ever since I started going over for meals, the maid was discharged, my life is now bitter!"
... so much self-contradiction in such a twisted history!
"Yea! I got it! I got it!" Wei Yan Er jumped up in joy, as the fifth attempt was successful!
[Fire Chocobo] (Gray-Silver Battle Mount)
Level: 0
HP: 50
Little girl immediately summoned the nestling out, and due to the ‘Summoning Bond’, the nestling naturally behaved in a way that made her look like the surrogate parent. It continually nuzzled its little head against the ankle of Wei Yan Er, looking extremely cute while doing so!
"Noob tank, I’ve got a birdie now!"
TL Notes:
1. A Bride for a Ride: A comedy that revolves around Foolhardy Tiger Wong who is annoyed with his mother’s constant nagging for him to get married. He therefore snatches Chow Man-bun, a pretty man disguised as a girl, who later met his sister and turned into a bizarre triangle.
2. Chun Ge: The stage name of a female singer in China (Chris Lee) who dresses up androgynously, then the term was altered over the time and became a cultural spoof.
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