Chapter 48 – Ginseng Earthworm (1/2)
Chapter 48 – Ginseng Earthworm
This chapter was sponsored by Verfurion and William Wang.
Rustle…
The freezing wind howled through the forest and pounded of the city walls of Dragon City, making a frozen whirlpool. Two people could be seen walking through it. One with a burly physique and carrying a heavy chain and another with a staff and a tiny bee.
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”Sir, what’s the main responsibility of a scavenger in Dragon City?”
Dalin dragged the chains behind him, and smiled, answering: “Our main responsibility is to clean up the surrounding area of Dragon City from anything that would either pose a threat towards Dragon City or the ordinary soldiers transporting goods to or from Dragon City.”
I nodded, thinking back to the time when Dalin killed the Cyclops with a single blow. If I had to hunt down such creatures, I’d probably die before scratching them.
“Moreover…” Beast Tamer Dalin looked into the distance with a cold look in his eyes: “There is another important duty.”
“What duty?”
“Come with me!”
“Okay!”
Dalin leaped forward, traveling more than a hundred yards in a single leap. I rushed after him with my staff, until I came to an earth slope which had large lumps of steaming hot excrement. Some were even giving off small sparks on the top while the others were frozen solid. The pile had a radius of around 1 meter from the top to the button.
“What is this?” I was quite startled.
Beast Tamer Dalin was looking in the sky, pretty curious, I looked as well: “Kid, what you see is the excrement of the phoenix. The phoenix’s main food is the fruit that grows in volcanoes. This causes the phoenix’s body to store lots of energy, which causes its excrement to be high quality and good for heating. Since the winters are unusually harsh in Dragon City, we must store lots of excrement to keep Dragon City warm in the winter.”
Suddenly Dalin’s chains danced in the air and compacted the excrement before he started dragging them towards Dragon City.
I was completely astonished, was this my duty?
“Kid, don’t just stand around. That side has lots of frozen Wild Boar excrement, carry it away.”
“Uhh.. Yeh…Yes….Yes sir!……”
I glanced towards a huge pile of excrement. Was this really poop? How big were these Wild Boars? When I entered the ranks of Dragon City, I expected to become a mighty Dragon warrior or Dragon knight. Instead my profession turned out to be an excrement mover..
Although there was a difference between the types of work, every job was vital, let’s work!
Paa!
I stuck my staff directly into the excrement and made an effort to pick up the frozen excrement to carry back to the camp. The camp was extremely simple only consisting of a tent that could barely contain Dalin. I had to stand outside by the bonfire!
Next to our camp was a huge pit where we threw the excrement. I flicked my staff through the air and the excrement looked magnificent as it entered the pit.
“Ding!”
System Notification: Congratulations, you have successfully cleaned up debris and obtained 900 points of experience.
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Very unexpectedly I also gained experience by doing this? I couldn’t help but laugh, the experience was almost as good as hunting monsters. The only downside was that there was no chance of dropping equipment or illustration cards.
I kept walking back and forth between the excrement and the pit together with Dalin. This area belonged to Dragon City’s territory and since it was more than an hour’s walk from any major city with extremely high-leveled monsters, normal players would never venture here. This meant that I was alone in doing these humiliating tasks.
As I continued to move the excrement, I quickly got to 27% experience. I was striving to reach level 30 today. Then I would be able to wield Jade City Sword and Silver Locked Battle Boots, which would dramatically increase my strength.
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Rustle….
On the way uphill, Dalin quickly raised his arm in sign for me to stop and quietly said: “Kid, stop.”
I narrowed my eyes as I looked around: “What’s going on?”
“A jackpot’s coming!”
“Oh?”
The soil suddenly parted and a chubby head emerged. It looked a lot like an insect and a moment later my theory was confirmed, as the entire insect climbed out of the hole. It looked and moved like a sea cucumber. Its status displayed “Ginseng Earthworm” and its rank was unclear, which meant it was at least level 35.
“I am truly lucky today.”