Chapter 77: Shadow Dancer (1/2)

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Even at night, the city was bright. The enchanting sky above made for a beautiful blanket for an equally striking city.

This was what I saw on the bus.

I turned and asked Lin Yixin behind me, ”Why don't you drive?”

Lin Yixin said, ”I'm saving on gas, it's too expensive. I told you I was very poor. You don't believe me. If I wasn't poor, I wouldn't have come to be a model.”

I made a sound of acknowledgement and said, ”Come to the front, I have an empty seat next to me...”

”No!” Lin Yixin snorted and looked warily at me. ”I didn't eat dinner tonight or else I would've beaten you up. So embarra.s.sing. How many times did you go to the washroom in half an hour?”

I smiled awkwardly. ”Alcohol just flies through the stomach...”

”Hmph!”

Soon, a young child, six years old or so, sat next to Lin Yixin. The child looked up at Lin Yixin and said, ”Older sister, you are so beautiful!”

Lin Yixin was extremely happy. ”Thank you, little friend!”

I turned and said, ”Little friend, do you think that this older brother is handsome and a good match for this sister?”

The little friend said innocently, ”Uncle, you are not handsome at all...”

Lin Yixin burst into laughter. I could not suppress my anger. I lamented the present, reminiscing about the glorious past. ”I had once been called 'proud friend of all hooligans, two iron fists that beat up the old, weak, and sickly'!”

At this moment, we stopped at the traffic light. Beside the road, a golden retriever was humping a small white-haired dog happily right next to the Golden Eagle Mall.

The little friend asked, ”Older sister, what are those two dogs doing?”

Lin Yixin flushed, thought about it, and said, ”They are fighting!”

I glared at her speechlessly.

”What are you looking at, do you want to fight?” Lin Yixin demanded loudly.

I did not say a word, and just looked at her. Lin Yixin's face grew redder. She gritted her teeth as though she was thinking of a reason to kill me.

……

When I returned to the workshop, it was already 9 pm. Du Thirteen and Gui Guzi were already sleeping in their rooms. My head cleared on the trip with Lin Yixin, so I logged in instead. I will first use the night to reach Level 45 to wear my Silver-grade war boots!

Whoos.h.!.+

Even during the night, Floating Ice City was still prosperous and busy, many small stalls filling up the streets. I left the inn and strolled through the roads paved with white stone. The plaza by the eastern gate was a very busy business area with heaps of people selling materials and equipment. There were also some second-promotion tamers selling their pets as well.

The game had been developing for nearly half a month now, so pets were no longer items for n.o.bility. In fact, Wasps with BN between 15 and 20 sold for about 5 gold. With just a little bit of savings, ordinary players could buy pets to aid them. Of course, even more players decided to buy Sealing Cards and try to capture the pets themselves. Suns.h.i.+ne Forest where Green Praying Mantises sp.a.w.ned, as well as Venomous Wasp Forest and its Wasps became filled with swathes of people and teams hunting the Level 1 mobs.

After repairing my equipment, I bought potions. I took the Level 45 silver boots out of the warehouse and placed them in my bag. I had to reach Level 45 equipment with the next quest!

It was time to depart. My goal was the Violet Forest behind Frost Mound. The map was solid red. Typically, that meant the monsters there were of very high level. I was strong now, and I also had my Dark Wasp that was even stronger. Grinding there shouldn't be that big of a problem.

I opened the world map, and sprinted with the Dark Wasp. My crimson red name rippled over my head. My cloak flapped in the wind. As I moved past with my sword, the ground cracked. There was no doubt that I was devastatingly handsome in the game.

I pa.s.sed Frost Mound and talked a bit with Trainer Suren. I did not have any new skills to learn. There were few skills that could be learned from the trainers to begin with. As players increased in level, they had to get the higher-level skill drops from monsters or bosses. Therefore, one's strength couldn't be a.s.sociated with just level anymore. Players had to have strong skills too. For example, Lin Yixin. While she was only Level 46, she possessed the super skill Killer Wind Swordplay. This skill alone would let her reach Level 100 without a care.

Not a long time later, I stepped into Violet Forest. The surrounding scenery became exceptionally dark and lifeless.

Shasha...

The withered fallen leaves moved, and a rotten scent came with the ghostly wails in the wind. Everything seemed to tell me that this place was extremely dangerous.

I frowned and continued forward. I didn't make it far until a black shadow pounced at me It was an undead knight. However, its level seemed relatively low and its bone spear had been broken. It wore a crude, damaged leather armor that didn't help much with its defenses. Sitting on a white bony horse covered in rusty armor, its blood-red glistening eyes glared at me!

Undead knight. While it may be low tier mobs on this map, it was still very hard for me to defeat at my current level. I had to be careful. Otherwise, I would be easily defeated.