104 Chapter 104 - Ice Glaze the Mage (1/2)

Although Gu Fei had seen all the Amethyst Rebirth Guild's ladies, he could still not match their faces to their IGNs besides a handful of them. Hence, he was unsure which one was Ice Glaze among the ladies. At this moment, he arrived at the north gate and saw no one near the mailbox. Gu Fei promptly took a spot to stake out the mailbox's vicinity. Looking around, he did not see a familiar face from Amethyst Rebirth.

At this instant, Will-low sent him a private message asking if she could help him with anything.

”It's okay now. Someone's on the way to assist me with my need. I don't have the Appraisal skill, so I was looking for an assistant,” Gu Fei informed her.

”Oh. My Appraisal skill used to be pretty strong before, but its rank dropped when my levels got reduced,” Will-low said dejectedly. Technically, the penalty for dying would only reduce the player's level and hold the possibility of dropping his or her equipment. However, the causal relationship of skill and level meant that losing a level would corollary reduce a skill's rank. For example, a player's character had to reach level 30 first for his or her Appraisal skill to get to rank 10. If that player dropped a level, his or her Appraisal skill would drop down to the next highest rank possible for his or her level 29 character.

Putting the skill's rank aside, what Gu Fei needed right now was someone who could appraise his target, which meant he had a strict criterion for his helper: The player's Appraisal skill must be higher or equal to the target. If that were not the case, he would ask for Will-low's help already – with him being on closer terms to her than the other ladies – instead of asking for help on the guild channel.

When Gu Fei first entered Amethyst Rebirth, the guild's ladies had lower levels except for Xiaoyu who had already reached level 30. A few days had passed since then; Gu Fei was unsure if it was No Smile's incident that had incited them, but when Gu Fei looked through the guild members list anew, quite a few of them were at level 30. This included Ice Glaze.

”I'm near the mailbox,” Gu Fei sent Ice Glaze a message.

”I see you,” Ice Glaze replied.

Gu Fei looked around him once again and saw a familiar-looking lady walking down the paved road toward him.

”Hi!” Ice Glaze greeted Gu Fei when she was close enough. This was the first time that they had properly exchanged greetings with each other.

”What is it that you need me to appraise?” Ice Glaze took the initiative to ask Gu Fei.

”It's like this…” Gu Fei kept an eye on the city's entrance as he gave her a briefing of the matter at hand. ”I just need you to find that person. Leave the rest to me,” Gu Fei passed the relevant information Sword Demon had given him to Ice Glaze.

”So that's how it is. Hope I can be of help!” Ice Glaze said. Level 30 players could raise their Appraisal skill to rank 10. Hence, she was somewhat apprehensive if her rank 8 Appraisal skill could help Gu Fei in identifying his target.

”Sorry to trouble you,” Gu Fei said.

”No need to be formal with me. We're in the same guild, after all!” Ice Glaze tittered. Since she specially came here to assist him, Gu Fei believed her words to be sincere and not out of courtesy. He felt slightly touched by this fact.

”You're a Mage, too!” Gu Fei said after checking Ice Glaze's character window.

”Mhm-mhm. Same as you,” Ice Glaze nodded her head.

”May I look at your weapon?” Gu Fei asked.

”Oh…” Ice Glaze handed over her magic stave to Gu Fei without a second thought.

The trust being shown right now was something the newbie Gu Fei would not understand. Equipment in online games was much more valuable than life itself. Gu Fei asking Ice Glaze to hand over her equipment was akin to people in reality saying, ”May I borrow your life for a bit?” Someone who knew the decorum in online games would never make such a request no matter how close they were. Gu Fei was magnanimous at heart, yet he did not give his request much thought despite understanding the meaning of those words. He only wanted to gauge how much stronger Moonlit Nightfalls was in comparison to a level 30 Mage's magic staff. Reflexively asking to borrow the equipment, he easily got it in his hands. He inspected the item briefly and handed it back just as quickly.

Ice Glaze's magic staff was a white-tier weapon with average stats. Gu Fei thoughtlessly pulled out the staff July had previously given him and passed it over to her, ”Yours isn't as good as this one, right?”

Ice Glaze received it and took a look before nodding her head, ”Yeah. It's tons better than mine.”

”You should take and use it, then!” Gu Fei offered casually.

Players becoming fond of new equipment and getting tired of their old ones happened every day in online games. Ice Glaze was no exception. She did not stand on ceremony and promptly nodded her head, saying, ”I'll borrow this, then.” She really did not seem to consider Gu Fei as an outsider.

Gu Fei continued to lock his eyes on the city gate before him. Ice Glaze followed suit, appraising the players that passed by. A while later, a team of six men appeared on the road leading toward into city. Judging from their equipment, they were a group of one Thief, two Mages, two Archers, and one Priest. They matched the job class composition Sword Demon had described to them.