284 Chapter 284 - The Mountain Bandit Leader’s Item Drops (1/2)

Amid the surrounding players fuming at what had just happened, Gu Fei uncaringly rushed forward to pick up the monster loots as he kept on shouting, ”Excuse me! Excuse me, please!” And yet, all the players remained in their position as they stared fixedly at the circle within.

While the Boss's underlings were at level 30, Sotto himself was beyond that level. Why else would they be struggling to complete the 'Seizing the Mountain Bandit Leader Sooto' quest when they were at level 30 if Sooto were a level 30 Boss?

Following this logic, Sooto's drops should also be on par with his current level. Sooto had dropped a money pouch and two pieces of equipment on the ground upon his death, yet the players could only stare longingly at those items since the system was preventing them from picking the loots up. As such, they were possibly experiencing the most excruciating pain any gamer could ever feel.

”Hey! Can you two help me?” Gu Fei asked Oathless Sword and Youthful Reflection, the people in charge of the expedition, for help.

While the two looked serious on the surface, they were actually celebrating Gu Fei's misfortune inside. Still, they could no longer feign ignorance about Gu Fei's plight since he was directly asking them for help. Youthful Reflection showed him a troubled look. ”That is… As you can see, it's a little difficult to talk them off….”

Youthful Reflection was actually stalling for time. The system would only prevent items from being picked up by others for a short period of time. Once this time lapsed, anyone could pick the items up. Expecting people to hand over the drops to their owner was just pipe dream in a MMO.

Gu Fei was a straightforward person, though. Upon hearing Youthful Reflection's evasive response, he merely shook his head with a sigh, ”Guess it can't be helped.”

The two felt delighted when they heard this. This was when a thought flashed through Youthful Reflection's mind, This guy can't possibly be thinking of killing all these people, right? Although they were comrades, that was just for this expedition. In fact, he was holding himself back from moving against Gu Fei whom he considered to be capable of killing others without batting an eye. He would not even be surprised if Gu Fei really did kill the bunch of people before them. Just as he was about to say something, Youthful Reflection saw Gu Fei leap vertically from his current position while pointing toward the crowd, ”Translocation! Blink!”

Gu Fei disappeared.

Meanwhile, a bunch of players began to excitedly jostle with one another once they heard that the items' owner was barricaded from penetrating their ranks; all of them salivated at Sooto's corpse as they looked forward to snatching the Boss's item drops. Online games were probably the only places where it was acceptable for people to salivate over a grotesque corpse.

As these men eagerly counted down the seconds that they would be prevented from getting near the item drops and prepared themselves for the fight that was about to occur for the items, a figure blurred into existence before their eyes and instantly stepped onto Sooto's corpse triumphantly.

Many lost their composure in their shock, yet Gu Fei remained uncaring of all this. Laughing at everyone around him, he asked, ”What are you guys looking at?” Gu Fei then picked up the coin pouch and two pieces of equipment beside Sooto's corpse under the crowd's agonized gazes.

Sometimes, an in-game item would promptly drop once a monster was defeated; at other times, it would remain inside the monster's clothes for a player to search himself or herself. The Bosses' corpses would thus often meet quite the terrible fate of being undressed, flipped around, and closely inspected, turning every Boss players defeated into a highly X-rated scene. The players actually wished they could just rip the bodies apart in search of the loot, but the game designs regretfully did not allow such level of gore.

Gu Fei was fortunately not that extreme. Checking Sooto's pockets, he quickly got up after. He did not intend to conduct a thorough search of Sooto's corpse under the crowd's intense scrutiny. He felt the players would end up drowning him in their displeasure if he were to unceremoniously strip the Boss down until nothing was left for even the vultures to scrape at.

”Please let me through!” Gu Fei's smile was still affixed on his face.

The players had no interest in blocking his path this time around. Listlessly clearing a path for him, Gu Fei humbly made his way through the crowd. Halfway out, the system-designated time limit for looting Sooto's corpse expired and it instantly suffered inhumane treatment from the surrounding players. By the time the crowd scattered, the once fearsome Mountain Bandit Leader Sooto had been left sprawling on the ground dressed only in his undergarments with his face on the ground. Suffering such a fate, it was as if the corpse could not wait for the system's white light to collect it.

”What dropped?” many familiar faces immediately asked Gu Fei once he returned to his mercenary group.

Gu Fei tossed the coin pouch to Royal God Call, saying, ”Count the content.” He then took out the two pieces of equipment he had looted from the Boss.

[Bandit Leader's Ring (Purple Tier)

+ 12 Strength

+ 12 Agility]

From its name alone, the item could be said to not be meant for Mages. Royal God Call, Svelte Dancer, Sword Demon and even War Without Wounds salivated over this item, yet Gu Fei excitedly replaced the Ring of Flames – which increased additional fire attack proc rate by 7% – for it. He then dangled Ring of Flames to the crowd, ”Anyone interested in this?” When no one said a word, Gu Fei took out a similar-looking ring and raised both to them, ”They're a pair!”

”Go to hell!” everyone berated.

The other item he got was not equipment but a permanent skill scroll.

Since Mountain Bandit Leader Sooto was the one that dropped it, it was obviously a thief-related skill. Gu Fei regretfully showed it to everyone.

[Shadow Walk

Effect: Puts the user in an uninterruptible Stealth state that consumes 7% mana every second.

Skill cooldown: 2 minutes and 30 seconds

Job class requirement: Rogue]

”This…” All were in a daze when they saw it.

”Any Rogue around here?” Gu Fei cried out, already looking for a buyer.

”Give it to me!” Svelte Dancer pounced on Gu Fei.