Chapter 38: Initiation of the Plan (2/2)
A bunch of screaming 【Spike Fiends] charged at Fei, but they all turned into experience for Fei in a few seconds. Soon after, 【Zombies] followed in their steps; after about five minutes, all the monsters and demons were wiped out.
Fei found Cain locked up in a cage on a tree at the centre of Tristram.
“Save me! Young traveller, come and save me!”
After he saw Fei, Cain started screaming as if he had swallowed some Viagra and saw someone running around naked. His pitch was so high that his voice was more painful to listen to than the monsters. It sounded like someone was poking his butthole with a stick.
“Whoosh!”
Fei swung his axe and the rope that held the cage to the tree was cut in half.
The wooden cage fell to the ground and broke into pieces.
The ‘obscene’ old man rushed out of the cage. He didn’t even say thanks; he opened up a portal and ran into it like a mad dog.
“Damn this old man, he didn’t even say thanks!”
Fei stared at the portal that quickly closed. Fei had to give Cain some credit for his running speed; even Fei couldn’t run that fast as a strong barbarian.
Fei stuck up his middle finger at where the portal was to express his feelings. After that, Fei started cleaning up the battlefield. He threw all the items into his 【Item slot] and returned to 【Rogue Encampment] using the portal that he opened when he was fighting Griswald.
He didn’t know where Elena went; she wasn’t anywhere close to the portal. Fei decided to go to Akara to get his rewards for the quest.
The reward was simple. The cheap priestess gave Fei a VIP discount on everything she sold, and Cain who Fei had just rescued would identify items for him for free.
Compared to the complexity of the quest, the rewards were severely lacking, akin to something given to a beggar. “Akara and Cain are both cheap to the core!” Fei thought.
He started distributing his attributes and skill points after that. After he killed the fallen Paladin Griswald, Fei had become level 12. It exceeded Fei’s goal of level 10 when he entered the world. A portion of the experience was from the bonus of having Elena as his follower.
The 25 attributes points were distributed as ⅗ to 【Strength] and ⅖ to 【Vitality]. For the five precious skill points, Fei added one point to 【Taunt], which taunts a monster into fighting you, one point to 【Sword Mastery], one point to 【Polearm Mastery] and two points to 【Leap], which allows Fei to jump and knock back enemies where he lands.
After all of that, Fei took a look at his 【Character Status]-
Gamer: Fei
Class: Barbarian
Level: 12
Experience: 95414/112725
Strength: 66
Dexterity: 20
Intelligence: 10
Vitality: 44
Damage: 30-55
Accuracy: 169
Defence: 77
Endurance: 37
Health: 157
Resource (Fury): 19
Fire-Resistance: 10
Cold-Resistance: 10
Lightning-Resistance: 25
Poison-Resistance: 10
……
These stats comforted Fei. From past experience, a level 12 Barbarian was about a two star warrior in the real world; but with all of his additional skills, he could fight a three star warrior without a problem. Fei was confident that he could force Landes back without being injured the next time he fought him.
Of course, Fei could only force him back. If he want to defeat or even kill him, he need to be around level 20.
……
Fei went to the free labourer Cain to get all his items identified. Cain had a lot to say, but Fei’s time was tight. After all the identification was done, Fei quickly ran off before Cain could even stop him.
He went into an unoccupied tent to take a more detailed look at all the items.
The yellow rare item was a short bow. It looked simple, but was very classy. It was called 【Boreal Razor Bow]. It had great properties, but Fei couldn’t use it.
He thought that Elena could probably use it, so he decided to give the bow to her as a present the next time he saw her. “If she’s really touched……Eh……Could I make out with girls in the Diablo World?” Fei thought shamelessly.
The rest of the blue magic items were mediocre, so he sold all of them to the blacksmith Charsi. With an additional 20,000 gold coins, Fei now had a total of 40,080 gold coins.
After everything was set and done, he initiated his plan.
He went to Akara first and bought 5 bottles of 【Normal Healing Potions] which were more effective than 【Minor Healing Potions], and 2 bottles of 【Stamina Potions] at a 10% discount. He then went back to the unoccupied tent and tried to communicate with the cold, mysterious voice in his head.
“Are you there? I need to convert five bottles of 【Normal Healing Potions], 2 bottles of 【Stamina Potions] and 1 【Town Scroll Portal].”
Silence.
After five, six seconds, the voice responded –
“As you wish……Each bottle of 【Normal Healing Potion] costs 5,000 gold coins to convert with a success rate of 25%. Each bottle of 【Stamina Potion] costs 2,000 gold coins to convert with a success rate of 35%…… Your level is not high enough to convert 【Town Scroll Portals]……The total is 29,000 gold coins. Confirmation needed.”
The price was within the expectation of Fei. The only thing surprised him was that he couldn’t convert 【Town Scroll Portals] because of his level. “So there are other factors other than money and success rate… I just haven’t discovered them all yet.” Fei thought.
But from the voice’s response, Fei discovered some patterns –
The more valuable and complex an item was, the higher the cost, lower the success rate and more restrictions it had. Compared to 【Normal Healing Potion] which costed 5,000 gold coins to convert with the success rate of 25%, 【Stamina Potion] were less valuable, so it only costed 2,000 gold coins to convert and the success rate was 30%.
“Do you still want to convert?”
After not getting a response from Fei right away, the voice asked again. This time, it sounded a bit impatient.
“Yes, confirm!”
Fei answered quickly as the voice stopped his train of thought.
“Ding! Conversion calculating……Sufficient gold coins…… 5 bottles of 【Normal Healing Potions] with success rate of 25%……Calculating……2 bottles converted successfully, 3 bottles failed to convert……2 bottles of 【Stamina Potions] with success rate of 30%……Calculating……1 bottle converted successfully, 1 bottle failed to convert.”