Chapter 21 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

Due to his hasty departure, after he left the blacksmith’s location, Fatty suddenly remembered that he had actually forgotten to forge his staff!

This was truly a tragedy. At the time, many people had eyed him covetously, as he was the only person who could forge a Level 10 weapon. As a result, Fatty had spent the day-night transition helping to forge the dagger. Instead of disgracing himself, he had made a small name for himself. However, despite this good start, he hadn’t had a chance to forge his staff.

If he went back to forge his staff now, he supposed the group of players at the blacksmith’s location would kill him with their sorrowful gazes. Fatty eventually decided to put that off.

It was hard to obtain a Weapon Crafting Blueprint above Level 10 now. Since the staff was his weapon, he should forge a better one. Anyway, he could still make do with the novice staff. A Venomancer relied on their toxin effect skills, not magic attack power. He would forge the next night. During this period, he would complete quests and kill monsters to level up. At the same time, he would see if he could find a party to go to the novice-level dungeon with.

In the Chaotic Era, there were many occasions to clear dungeons, to the extent that even four years later, nobody would dare say that they had finished all the dungeons!

Due to the camps in the game, different camps would have different content in the dungeons. A player had calculated in the past that according to the map of the game so far, all the dungeons of the Holy Order Assembly and the Dark Council Camps added up to 2,416, excluding the high-level maps that players had yet to open up. The higher the level of the map, the more dungeons there were!

Yes. The maps in the Chaotic Era were shockingly a lot. The infinite possibilities were one of the points that attracted players to the game.

Because he had chosen the Holy Order Assembly Camp in the past, Fatty’s Berserker at the time had played several times to clear the dungeons. They had been too advanced and he had needed a combination of good equipment and good friends. He hadn’t acquired them, but he had still gone through the dungeons many times. Now that he had changed camp and chosen the Dark Council, the dungeon content would naturally be completely different as well. It could be said that these dungeons were still unknown, so Fatty was even more drawn to them.

After he exited the Demon City Ruins of Asgarod, Fatty’s main quest arrived. He had to find NPC Runtzel in Asgarod City. When Fatty had arrived in the city, he had gone to learn life skills. Thus, he had yet to complete that quest. Since he now planned to work hard to level up, after Fatty found Asgarod’s location on the map, he hurriedly went over through the teleportation portal.

After arriving, he suddenly realized that Runtzel’s location was actually at the core of the Dark Council Camp!

The Supreme Presbyterian Church was an incomparably lofty shrine at the spatial height of Fatty’s study. Surprisingly, the projector could not display it fully. However, the sight of it was still enough to make Fatty feel shocked.

The staircase had thousands of steps and was actually paved with countless black Shadow Stones. In the game, the Shadow Stone was a gem embedded in weapons to enhance their dark stat damage. It was also embedded in armor to enhance its dark magic resistance. It could be regarded as a very useful gem. Thousands of flights of steps were actually paved with this gem! Its extravagance shocked the world.

As he walked up these extravagant steps, Fatty was enveloped by the light refracted from the Shadow Stones under his feet. He realized that his character had surprisingly obtained 200% of the full stats enhancement. He knew that this was an exclusive bonus effect of the Presbyterian Discussion Shrine area. Once he left, this effect would be gone.

With every few steps he took up the staircase, he saw a gruesome gargoyle statue on each side. The gargoyles were always watching every player who went up the steps with their empty, cold eyes. Many players were going to the Presbyterian Shrine to accept quests, but watching these players whispering among themselves and pointing at the gargoyles, Fatty knew that they were definitely like him. They felt uncomfortable being stared at by these gargoyles.

After climbing up the steps with difficulty, he finally arrived at the main entrance of the shrine. Just like other players, Fatty was stopped by the NPC guard at the entrance.

These guards were all Death Knights above Level 140 and came from the Apostle Race. They were also twice as tall as the players. Therefore, the players who came here had to look up to see their faces. They were wearing thick black armor forged from an unknown material that was a pure black color. Sometimes, they could see black mist coming out of their armor, making them look really strange and fierce. The Death Knight guards had a huge heavy sword in front of them covered with a sawtooth sword blade that was embedded with a skull pattern. The empty eyes stared at the players, sending chills down their spines.

In front of the controller, Fatty watched the Death Knights guarding the Presbyterian Shrine tightly and couldn’t help but swallow.

Level 140! God, such a Death Knight could probably kill all the players of Asgarod many times over without sustaining any injuries…