Rebirth of the Thief Who Roamed The World - Chapter 482

Chapter 482: 482

Chapter 482 - Netherthunder Eagle Takes Flight

With cracking sounds, the egg started splintering open and out popped an eagle chick . It was still fairly small, but large enough to be held in Tang Yao’s arms .

Nie Yan gazed at the Netherthunder Eagle . It looked like an ordinary eagle, except for its glossy, jet black feathers .

The Netherworld Eagle spread its wings and started preening itself . Its sharp eyes were clear and limpid, sparkling with intelligence .  

“I’m already taking a liking to this little fellow . ” Tang Yao scratched the Netherthunder Eagle . It appeared to be enjoying the feeling as it affectionately rubbed its head against his hand .  

Tang Yao took out a slab of meat from his bag, something he normally fed to his Ghost Wolf, and held it out in front of the Netherthunder Eagle’s beak . It pecked at the meat curiously, then swallowed it whole .

“It’s still a chick right now . You’ll have to wait a while for it to be fully grown,” Nie Yan said . Since the Netherthunder Eagle was still quite small, it probably didn’t have any combat strength . Tang Yao would have to wait for it to slowly mature .

“No, it can turn bigger and become a flying mount right now!”

“Really?” Nie Yan was surprised . Did flying mounts not have growth periods?

“Hold on . Let me keep looking at its stats,” Tang Yao said . The amount of information in the Netherthunder Eagle’s stat page was massive . It would take him a while to go through all of it . “The stats of the Netherthunder Eagle are pretty balanced . Dexterity increases its flying speed, and Strength increases its attack power . Which stat should I add?”

“That depends on what you want . I think as a Mage you should have the Netherthunder Eagle focus on Dexterity,” Nie Yan advised . Tang Yao’s damage was already unrivalled . Add that to the lightning speed of the Netherthunder Eagle, and he would become a superb aerial turret .

“Hmm… not a bad idea . I’ll listen to you . Speed complimenting power . ”

“You should try experimenting yourself too . After all, I don’t have any experience with flying mounts either,” Nie Yan said . His knowledge of flying mounts in his past life was only in passing .

“Flying mounts are divided into nine ranks . Each rank will give an exponential boost in stats,” Tang Yao said . He opened up the page on the official website about flying mounts and compared the information with the Netherthunder Eagle’s stat page .

“What rank is the Netherthunder Eagle?” Nie Yan asked . He was completely clueless in this regard . Back when he assassinated Cao Xu, the flying mounts patch was still in its infancy . Very few players had them, and to the him of that time, they were unattainable existences .

“It’s Rank 1 . All recently hatched pets start out at Rank 1 . In the future, its rank will slowly start to rise . Apparently I can increase the size of this Netherthunder Eagle on command . Let’s head to the wilderness and see for ourselves,” Tang Yao said . His knowledge on flying mounts was still shallow . He would have to slowly learn and familiarize himself with them .

“Alright, in a bit . ” Nie Yan suddenly recalled there was also a leaderboard for flying mounts . Every flying mount would automatically be registered into it, but the name of their owners wouldn’t be shown . This leaderboard encompassed the whole Righteous Faction . He checked the leaderboard . Sure enough, Tang Yao’s Netherthunder Eagle was there .

At present, it was the only flying mount on the leaderboard!

“Summoning a flying mount takes five minutes . Recalling it also takes five minutes . If it dies, you can’t revive it unless you have a Revive Crystal,” Tang Yao muttered . This rule was a bit frightening . If a flying mount died during combat, it would be incredibly difficult to revive . It would also be hard to recall when encountering danger .

“It seems like flying mounts have Life Cores,” Nie Yan remarked after recalling something .

“Right, flying mounts have Life Cores . If you crack open their heads, you’ll obtain a life core . Flying mounts can only rank up by eating these things,” Tang Yao read from the information page . He understood the implications behind this . In the future, when flying mounts became more widespread, he would have to kill the flying mounts of other players to rank up his Netherthunder Eagle .

As Nie Yan and Tang Yao chatted, a group of 20 players rowdily entered the pet shop .

“Destroyer, I heard the pets here can go for tens of thousands of gold,” a Level 50 Thief said to a Warrior in silver white armour .

“Hmmm? It’s not that much! My team makes several gold a day running Golden City . Any good drop can sell for a few hundred to a thousand gold no problem,” Destroyer chuckled .

Destroyer was a Level 66 Warrior clad in a set of Level 65 Dark Gold-grade equipment . He was at the same caliber as Sesame Cake .

After Destroyer finished speaking, the eyes of the other players glimmered with admiration .

Destroyer had a smug look on his face . Since he was the most outstanding player by far out of this group, he couldn’t resist showing off .

“People are coming . Let’s leave,” Nie Yan said . He put on his Shadow Walker Cloak .

“Mhm . . . ” Tang Yao nodded . It wasn’t suitable for the two of them to show themselves out in public . He also put on a cloak .

“Who’s that Warrior?” Nie Yan asked with a hint of curiosity .

“Seems like someone from Dark Hero, one of their team captains . A nobody,” Tang Yao replied . At their levels, they naturally wouldn’t put these kinds of people in their eyes .

Nie Yan and Tang Yao headed for the exit .

“Destroyer, what kind of pet are you planning to buy?” a player asked .

“Probably a Rhycorn . It synergizes pretty well with Warriors,” Destroyer laughed . Seeing two cloaked figures walking in his direction, he couldn’t help but sneer . What were these two hiding their appearances for? Did they think they were some kind of hotshots, acting all mysterious?

“Wow, a good Rhycorn costs at least 30,000 gold!”

“It’s just 30,000 gold, no big deal,” Destroyer smiled . As his gaze fell on the Netherthunder Eagle in Tang Yao’s arms, his eyes flashed with disdain .

“The palm sized bird, is it a pet? Does it even have any attack power?” the Thief mocked after noticing the Netherthunder Eagle too .

“I heard some bird pets can fly just high enough to peck at a person’s eyes,” an Arcane Mage chimed in .

“Haha, pecking eyes . It’s pretty funny . One time I bumped into a palm-sized bird pet . It tried attacking me, so I slapped it so hard it exploded into a cloud of feathers!” Destroyer heartily laughed . “These kinds of pets aren’t worth much gold . They’re definitely sold cheaply . ”

“Like 10 gold, right?’” the Thief laughed .

“10 gold really can’t get you anything good . Take, the Rhycorn, for example, it costs at least 30,000 gold!” Destroyer gazed at Nie Yan and Tang Yao in disdain . His voice was loud enough for everyone in the shop to hear . He enjoyed putting others down to make himself look good .

Tang Yao’s temper immediately flared . “God fucking dammit . These guys are really asking for it . ”

“Ignore them,” Nie Yan said in an indifferent manner . He had met countless people like this in his past life .

Tang Yao tried to restrain his anger . The two continued heading for the exit .

Seeing Nie Yand and Tang Yao ignoring him, the laughter of Destroyer and his group grew even more boisterous .

“They’ve probably never seen what a 30,000-gold pet looks like before, right?” Destroyer laughed .

“Can you ride Flying Mounts within the city?” Nie Yan whispered .  

“Yeah, I think so . ” Tang Yao was a bit taken aback but quickly understood the meaning behind Nie Yan’s words .  Fuck, what’s so amazing about a 30,000-gold pet? Open your eyes, I’ll let you guys see what a real amazing pet is!

When the two arrived at the exit, Tang Yao chanted out an incantation . All of a sudden the Netherthunder Eagle grew more than 20 times in size . As it stood in front of the pet shop, a powerful gust of wind blew into the pet shop and sent Destroyer and his group tumbling to the ground .

“What the hell is going on?” Destroyer could barely open his eyes . Looking towards the exit, he saw the Netherthunder Eagle in Tang Yao’s hands grow into a 3-meter tall beast . It looked magnificent and was overflowing with might .

Compared to the Netherthunder Eagle, every pet in the pet shop was basically trash! 

Everyone in the central square let out cries of alarm after seeing such a huge beast appear .

“It’s a flying mount!” the Thief cried out .

Destroyer was stupefied . He never expected that the Netherthunder Eagle he made fun of would actually be such a powerful flying mount . Then wouldn’t that mean . . .

Nie Yan and Tang Yao mounted the Netherthunder Eagle . Its back was big enough to fit five people, its giant wings kicking up powerful gusts of wind . It rose up in the air and took to the sky .

“Flying mount? Could it be that was Nirvana Flame?” the Thief said in fright . They didn’t think the person they were mocking just now was the figure they shouldn’t have provoked the most .

“Destroyer, what do we do? That person we just…” the players cried out in fear .

“I heard Nirvana Flame isn’t the type of guy you want to provoke . ” 

“Yeah, I heard there was a player called Liu Rui in Victorious Return who offended Nirvana Flame . He was hunted down until he dropped back to Level 0 . He hasn’t show his face since . ”

The more these people spoke, the more the fear in their hearts grew .

Destroyer never thought he would bring such a calamity upon himself . Listening to his lackeys, he also got scared . “Let’s head to the Asskickers United branch office and go apologize . If Nirvana Flame forgives us, everything should be fine . If he doesn’t, we’ll have no choice but to leave Calore . ” If Nie Yan wanted to make things difficult for him, there was nothing he and his team could do .