Chapter 43: Venomous Wasp Fores (1/2)
Wasps could be found at a place called Venomous Wasp Forest on the southern side of Floating Ice City. Venomous Wasp Forest was a scary name, and it didn’t take a genius to figure out that Wasps there were venomous. The reason I chose to capture one as a pet was because of its growth potential, and because a high-level grinding zone like that would help my level at the same time.
About 45 minutes later, I arrived at the edge of Venomous Wasp Forest. I was just about to enter when I heard a voice from inside the forest.
“Boss, are you sure a Level 1 Wasp will spawn at this location?”
“Of course. Just keep grinding and be patient. It will show up!”
“Okay…”
I pushed aside the leaves blocking my vision and saw a party of four killing mobs inside the forest. They were all above Level 30, and they had undergone their class promotions. Right now in Floating Ice City, the only group strong enough to gather such a powerful party was the Domination Clan!
I could see Dominating Heaven Blade standing at the forefront of the party. He swung his sword twice at a Level 34 Wasp and triggered a violent reaction from the mob. Together, the Wasp’s head and the wings were about as big as a soccer ball, and it buzzed very loudly when flying through the air. It had a venomous sting at its posterior, and when it attacked, it would curl to sting the enemy below. Dominating Heaven Blade’s face immediately turned a shade of poisonous green after being stung!
“Heal me, priest! Thank you!”
Dominating Heaven Blade swung his sword two more times and killed the Wasp. At the same time, a beam of holy light dropped down on his head and restored half of the HP he had lost immediately. The priest was Level 29. He was clearly bred and raised by the Domination Clan.
Crack crack!
The priest also healed Dominating Warrior God after he killed another Wasp. Unlike Dominating Heaven Blade, he couldn’t quite solo a Wasp yet, so the support was necessary.
“Have you heard what happened yesterday, boss?” Dominating Knight God asked.
“Maybe, what is it?” Dominating Heaven Blade asked.
Dominating Knight God withdrew his spear and said, “Yesterday, Mad Dragon gathered nearly a hundred players to defeat the ultimate boss in Greenstone Mountain Valley. However, their raid was destroyed by Wind Fantasy and Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand together.”
“Mn, I’ve heard of that…”
Dominating Heaven Blade smiled. “Roaming Dragon is such a clown. He actually believes he can fight us with his pitiful amount of possession. It’s almost like he’s trying to run himself down. Hmph, Wind Fantasy and Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand got lucky this time. Next time, we’ll wreck Mad Dragon ourselves!”
Dominating Knight God frowned a little before asking, “Boss, aren’t you worried about Wind Fantasy and Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand at all?”
Dominating Heaven Blade couldn’t hold back a snort. “It’s true that Wind Fantasy and Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand are both insanely talented, but neither of them is a leader fit to become a king. Unlike our guild, Gods of Destruction, their group is weak and powerless. How can they possibly hope to fight against us in a game the size of Heavenblessed? Our registered members alone number around 2000!”
Dominating Knight God smiled, glad at his leader’s confidence. “Your analysis is spot-on, boss. In this game, there is no hope for lone heroes to rise to power. Still, I wouldn’t mind recruiting both of them into our clan, especially Wind Fantasy. Tsk tsk, I just realized it last time, but Wind Fantasy is seriously beautiful!”
“Hmph!”
Dominating Heaven Blade couldn’t help but laugh at his brother. “You’re good at everything except this, brother. You would’ve achieved great things already if you weren’t so lustful all the time!”
I avoided the Domination Clan and chose another path. I wasn’t afraid of them, but my goal here was to capture a pet. I had no intentions of delaying my objective to engage in a completely pointless activity like PK.
I headed to the west side of Venomous Wasp Forest. The forest was quite big, and the Wasps there were pretty high-level. They also spawned in concentrated groups, meaning that I could encounter a Wasp for every 2 meters I traveled. A monster’s aggro was triggered when a player came within 4 yards, so aggro was a delicate task here. I couldn’t take action before estimating distance between me and the mob.
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I carefully aggroed a Level 35 Wasp toward me. It’s 3 levels higher than me, but I should be able to deal with it.
“Buzz…”
The Wasp was insanely fast. It flew toward me and stung me like lightning!
71!
The good news is, I have more than enough Defense to endure its attack!
I swung the Weeping Fire Blade once and “missed” my target. Then, I followed up with a lightning fast slash and executed a Pardon-empowered Slayer Slash!
Puchi!
I felt like I was hitting a ball as my blade slammed into the Wasp. A huge number popped into the air—1287!
It was a nice amount of damage. The reason it wasn’t killed immediately was because it had around 3000 HP. Its level was just too high.
I killed my very first Wasp a moment later. However, I was forced to chug a health potion to restore my HP. Thankfully, Regeneration of the Undead was an incredible skill. Soon I would reach Rank 3, and then it would restore 0.3% of my max HP every second, so it looked like it would restore 1% of my max HP at Rank 10. As a result, I would always regain full health in 100 seconds, and don’t even get me started on the amount of health potions I would be able to cut down on thanks to it! This skill was absolutely irreplaceable for any Undead Swordsman!
Over two hours passed in the blink of an eye. It was about 1 am, and I had killed countless Wasps during this time. However, I still hadn’t encountered the legendary Level 1 Wasp.
Beep!
It was at this moment I received a message from Wind Fantasy. The pretty girl asked: “What are you doing, Little Cheat?”
“Catching a pet!”
“Oh, I’m working on that as well! What are you trying to catch?”
“A Wasp. What about you?”
“A lil red hat, hehe…”
“What the hell’s a lil red hat?”
“You don’t know?”
“Nope. Do enlighten me…”
“It’ll cost you 1 gold!”
A long silence later, Lin Yixin gave up expecting a response from me and sent over an entry—
Fire Blade
Attack ★★★★
Defense ★★★☆
HP ★★★★☆