Chapter 28: Let’s Meet! (1/2)

A Level 25 warrior clad in blue armor was standing beneath the icy walls and looking at me calmly. He wielded a shiny blade, and his equipment was clearly extraordinary. One might even say that it rivaled my own.

The ID floating above his head—Dominating Heaven Blade LV-25.

I was caught by surprise for a moment. This Dominating Heaven Blade was no ordinary player, and the people standing behind him—the Level 26 warrior, Dominating Warrior God and the Level 26 magic knight, Dominating Knight God—were listed on the Heavenly Ranking!

Are they from the Domination Clan?

I frowned. At this point, it was obvious who this Dominating Heaven Blade was. He was the boss of the Domination Clan and the future leader of the Domination Guild!

“Do you have business with me, brother?”

I asked while showing them a lazy smile. So what if they were a king who covered the sky, or a pro with absolute strength? It didn’t matter to me because... I was just a Glutinous Rice Ball seller.

Dominating Heaven Blade smiled apologetically at me and said, “Brother, you were selling Rank 2 Magic Consumables, Glutinous Rice Balls, weren’t you?”

“Yep. Would you like to buy them?” I asked.

“Of course!” Dominating Heaven Blade laughed. “I can see that you’re a candid person. That’s right, our clan may be planning an activity or two in the near future, and there are more buyers than there are players with Rank 2 Magic Cooking right now! How many Glutinous Rice Balls do you have, brother?”

“100, or 10 stacks. It should be enough for 10 Mages or Priests.”

“Ah? That many…”

Dominating Heaven Blade’s eyes lit up. “I’m willing to buy them all off you. Would you be willing to give me a discount?”

I nodded. “Sure. Does -10% discount sound alright to you?”

“Ah?!” Dominating Heaven Blade was clearly caught off-guard by my intent to slaughter his wallet. The Domination Clan planned to reign over Floating Ice City, so they would definitely become an obstacle in Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls’ path in the future. Therefore, any opportunity to weaken them was an opportunity not to be missed!

“-10%, huh…” Dominating Heaven Blade thought for a moment before replying, “Very well, -10% it is. Let’s trade right away!”

“Alright!”

I opened the trade window and selected 10 stacks of Glutinous Rice Balls. Dominating Heaven Blade placed his 11 gold coins. Tsk tsk, he’s definitely overflowing with riches!

Once our trade was complete, Dominating Heaven Blade asked, “So, brother, are you interested in cooperating with us?”

“No.”

I replied indifferently before walking away from Floating Ice City. I was sure that Rank 2 Cooking would become fairly common in a couple of days, not to mention that I wasn’t willing to supply high grade food to my competitors either.

By now I was outside of the city zone, and my name had turned red in color. I shot Dominating Knight God a look and asked in a cold tone, “What, you want to fight me?”

The knight looked hesitant, but Dominating Warrior God rushed me while shouting, “Less talking, more fighting! We’re not afraid of you!”

Dominating Warrior God raised his sword and attacked me. His footsteps were clean, and his movements were perfectly smooth. I didn’t think that a brawny man like him would be able to move this well.

Rustle rustle…

I spun on my feet and dodged Dominating Warrior God’s sword strike with inches to spare. Then, I raised my right hand slightly and hit him on the back of his head with a glowing red palm.

Slap!

118!

My barehanded attack completely broke through his defense!

Dominating Warrior God stared at me with wide-eyed astonishment. “You… you… h-how is this possible?”

It was at this moment Dominating Heaven Blade slowly walked over while chiding his subordinate, “What are you doing, Three? Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand is our friend! Calm yourself!”

“Boss? I…”

Dominating Warrior God couldn’t say anything. In fact, he looked rather ashamed. By now, some of the players around us had recognized us and started pointing fingers, chattering.

“Did you see them? They’re all players on the Heavenly Ranking! That one over there is Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand, the number two player of today’s Heavenly Ranking! And those three are the experts of the Domination Clan!”

“Haha, how interesting. Did you guys see how Dominating Warrior God was defeated by Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand in one hit?”

“Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand clearly thinks that the Dominating Warrior God is beneath his attention. He would’ve one-shot his opponent had he used a weapon!”

“Hah, the Domination Clan has finally met their match!”

The crowd’s comments caused Dominating Warrior God’s face to turn even uglier. Dominating Heaven Blade immediately let out a laugh and tried to smooth things over. “It’s just a small misunderstanding. Sometimes you make friends with your opponents, right? Your skills are very impressive, brother! You look like a master of the art!”

I nodded and smiled at him. “Thank you.”

I turned around and left after that. No one saw my face from the start until the end. The only identifiable feature on my person was my dark cyan cloak.

I sucked in a deep breath after I had left the danger zone and entered Frost Forest. Thank goodness no one tried to encourage the crowd to hunt me down, a red name, or I would’ve been in real danger.

It was time to return to Frost Mound and accept a quest or two from Sentinel Leader Fark. I wanted to reach Level 30 before anyone, get my second class promotion and catch a pet as soon as possible!

I didn’t even bother to kill the monsters on my way back to Frost Mound.

However, I noticed that something was wrong when I returned to the zone. Normally, a couple of skeletal soldiers or two would be patrolling around the area, but today everyone was gone. In fact… that idiot Gui Guzi was missing as well!

Rustle rustle rustle...

When I entered the blood pool zone, someone suddenly sent me a message—

Gui Guzi: “Watch out! Wind Fantasy is here…”

Surprised, I looked up and saw everything I needed to understand the situation. Gui Guzi’s lifeless corpse was on the ground, and Wind Fantasy was standing right next to him. The wanderer in white cloak was toying with a dark green dagger, looking like he was waiting for something.

Eh? I thought Wind Fantasy is a sword user?

I was surprised. Since when did he use a dagger?

If there was one thing I was sure of, it would be that Gui Guzi was having a hard time. His corpse was currently at Level 17. Just how many times was he killed to drop this low?

I was both impressed and exasperated by Gui Guzi’s stubbornness. He never even sent me a message until I came back.

Suddenly, Wind Fantasy noticed me and turned around to stare at me. I felt his gaze settling on my person from behind the white cloak, causing chills to appear all over my body.

Beep!

He brought out his sword and pointed it toward me. The gesture seemed to say “You’ve finally returned. I’ve been waiting for you.”

There was clearly no point in talking. Fight!

I pulled a skeleton out from the blood pool next to me and successfully activated Summon Undead. I then ordered the little skeleton to charge Wind Fantasy while I lurked around the sides.

“Keke!”