The crowd arrived to the Valley of the Ent and was greeted by a mountain full of ancient trees that soared up to the sky. In the mountain, there were many of those fore mentioned Quad-Winged Saber Tooth Tiger roaming freely. As their names suggested, they had wings sticking out of their backs, and razor-sharp fangs that could pierce even the toughest armor.
[Quad-Winged Saber Tooth Tiger] (Normal, Beast)
Level: 73
HP: 7,300
Defense: 70
"Let’s split up!" To have the team farm a total of 200 teeth would be troublesome. It would be for the best to have them split up and farm for their own parts. Han Ying Xue had quietly remained by Zhang Yang’s side as they started going their own paths. Naturally, Zhang Yang had to farm her parts too since she was a priest with low attacking power.
"Dummy. Did you really mean it, when you said that the Liu and Luo couple were planning to harm Yan Er and me?" said Han Ying Xue. No wonder she was so serious.
Zhang Yang shrugged. "I’m not too sure about that either. But, at least, now you know about it, and you can take some precautions."
With the bear under him, Zhang Yang kited 20 to 30 monster in one shot and killed them all. Though they may have wings sticking out from their backs, they could not fly. They could only hover in the air after running at great speed and attack Zhang Yang like levitating bulls.
Han Ying Xue bashfully asked. "I heard form that perverted fatty that you could fight, like, in real life?"
"But of course!" Zhang Yang thumped his chest and proudly gloated. "While I can’t possibly fight a hundred at a time, I could at least take on more than 10 men at the same time."
Han Ying Xue turned away and glared somewhere else. "Then…you should be our bodyguard!"
"…Woman, I’m sure there are plenty of such services out there. You could at least do yourself a favor and hire the professionals."
"I don’t trust strangers!"
Zhang Yang heart fluttered a little. Han Ying Xue had her full faith in him. Zhang Yang still shook his head. "That Luo might have some hidden plans that might exceed my calculations. I’m one man. If I were to be your bodyguard, that would mean that I would have to stay by your side for a good deal of time! We would probably end up annoying the shit out of each other, me before you!"
"You silly dummy! This lady here is a wonder of the world! If you were to take a picture of me, that picture would be a masterpiece! Why are you complaining when I’m allowing you to remain by my side!"
"Just shut up and do your job, will you?"
It was always harder to complete a collection quest. Unlike the regular killing quest, these quests required luck, since the drops were determine by random number generator! People like Sun Xin Yu were so lucky that she had collected 200 teeth on her own in just 30 minutes. On the far end of the scale, Lost Dream had rotten luck. He had already spent close to one hour and had yet to finish collecting. When everyone had already finished with their quests, they had to go assist him.
The luckiest of them all was Daffodil Daydream. She had managed to capture herself a Gray-Silver battle mount. It was a Quad-Winged Saber Tooth Tiger Cub. Her capture had brought the total number of battle mounts in the party to four.
Zhang Yang said, "As the difficulty of the map gets higher, so will the rate of appearance of battle mounts. However, the higher tiered battle mounts will get even harder to capture. Take the current standards as example. When players were carrying Yellow-Gold equipments, the Yellow-Gold mounts will be rare. Until players reach the point where Violet-Platinum equipment becomes a norm, they will try to make Violet-Platinum tier battle mounts the bare minimum, snuffing out the Gray-Silvers."
"That means, we don’t really have to rush for battle mounts at this stage?’
Zhang Yang nodded. "You are correct!"
The party returned to the elven camp and submitted their quests, one at a time.
‘Ding! You have completed the quest: Collect Tooth of the Quad-Winged Saber Tooth Tiger. Obtained 100,000 Experience Points!’
"Wonderful! Now, I trust you to collect the second ingredient!" said Thea to her free laborers. "The next ingredient that I require, would be the [Burning Amber] of the Ash Wonderer. Please make haste dear adventurers!"
Endless Starlight started to complaint, "D*mn. I haven’t even caught my breath yet and yet we have to run off again!"
"Stop whining and start running!"
[Burning Amber] (Difficulty Level: C)
Quest Description: Thea – Moon Glory requires you to collect 200 counts of [Burning Amber]. You can find Ash Wonderers at the Lava Pits, west of the Black Moss Wilderness.
Progress: Collect [Burning Amber] 0/200
The team took 20 minutes to reach the new farming ground and started killing their way to complete the quest.
The monsters called Ash Wonderers were just a new kind of Fire Elementals. All of them carried the {Burning Aura} even when they were only normal tier monsters. Still, the damage was unbelievably low. The problem was not the difficulty in killing the monsters, like all of other collection quest, the problem lay in their drop rates. The team spent a long time completing the quest. After returning to the camp ground and submitting the quest, they were only rewarded with a measly 300,000 Experience points.
"One last thing now! We are almost there!’ said Thea happily. "The last ingredient that I require to complete the Teleportation Device is the Dragon Crystal. I need you to visit the Dragon’s Slumber Temple and collect a Dragon Crystal!"
[Collect Dragon Crystal] (Difficulty Level: C)
Quest Description: Thea – Moon Glory had request you to collect a piece of [Dragon Crystal]. You may collect the [Dragon Crystal] from the corpse of a dragon in the Dragon’s Slumber Temple, north of the Black Moss Wilderness. Be caution, there are hidden dangers lurking on the area.
Progress: Collect Dragon Crystal: 0/1
No choice. They would have to run around again! The party made their way through the Black Moss Wilderness and towards the Dragon’s Slumber Temple. Half an hour later, they could already see their destination from a long distance. Standing there was an emerald blue tower, so huge, and it had actually scraped the dark, grayish sky. The team rode on and on. The tower made no sign of getting closer It was like traveling in a car, and not seeing the moon and mountains moving even after traveling a distance. The team had actually traveled for another 30 minutes before actually reaching their destination.
From afar, the building looked like a tower, however, when they stood at the bottom of the tower, it looked more like a huge stadium. The entire construct was oval in shape, with a diameter of more than 1,000 meters. Due to the mega towering structure and the weight it seemed to bear, its base somehow looked fragile in comparison. The temple had an entrance at every four points of the tower base floor. There were a total of 30 floors to the top, with each floor sharing the exact same design. Each floor measured at least hundreds of meters tall. The problem, was that the structure was extremely puzzling. There was a huge gap between them with no visible stairs or pathway to get to the next floor. That said, it would seem like players would have to have flying mounts to get across each floor.
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