Chapter 2 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Die!”

In the Abandoned Mining Area blanketed by messy rubble, with three Warrior players ganging up on it, a gray mole the size of a basketball fell to its demise.

“This mole’s experience is really good. We can at least reach Level 5 here before the other players arrive.”

“Torrent, skin the mole. Prosper and I’ll rest to heal up.”

“The chances of a non-humanoid monster dropping a piece of equipment is too low. I guess all we can do is skin it and sell it to the NPC for some copper coins.”

Although they were new in the game, the trio was almost certain that other than humanoid monsters, it was difficult for other types of monsters to drop equipment. All they could do was salvage it for some materials.

“Hey, speak of the devil! Look, Tempered, there are two more bandit goons!” Prosper was the Warrior who spoke first. The moment he sat down and concentrated his gaze, he shouted in excitement.

“We’re in luck! Torrent, stop skinning the mole! Heal up! We’ll wait for the two bandit goons to come over. They might even drop an iron sword for us!” Tempered’s eyes shone as he watched the bandit goons walk over.

Around ten minutes ago, the trio had killed two other bandit goons. Other than a sizable amount of XP, the bandit goons even dropped the first equipment in the game for them: a Level 5 Iron Sword.

Although it was a piece of common equipment, its Attack was still 11 points higher than that of the Rusty Iron Sword, which the system provided from the start. When they reached Level 5 and armed themselves with it, their Attack would surge!

However, the bandit goons were Level 5 monsters, so they had a decent amount of HP and Attack. The trio was only Level 3. Even though they outnumbered the bandit goons by one, killing the two bandit goons would not be an easy task, they had to maintain a healthy amount of HP and well-equipped, plus their techniques, to be able to kill the bandit goons.

The two bandit goons that walked over were obviously Mohai and bandit goon No. 6.

When the trio saw them, Mohai saw them too. The moment he lay eyes on the trio, he could not help but praise in his heart, ‘As expected of Guggenheim.’

These three warriors’ full names were TemperedSteel, TorrentialSea, and ProsperShadow. TemperedSteel was the guild master of the Iron Legion whereas TorrentialSea and ProsperShadow were famous experts that acted as the core members of the guild.

The Huaxia Area had a plethora of players and there were hundreds of thousands of guilds of various sizes. The Iron Legion once ranked as the top 10 guilds of the Huaxia Area.

Unlike other massive guilds, the Iron Legion was founded by TemperedSteel from the ground up. While they had basically no activation funds, they grew stronger step by step and there were a lot of legends around the Iron Legion in the game.

However, at a later stage, the Iron Legion somehow got on the bad side of the second guild, the Fortune Alliance. They were badly defeated by the Fortune Alliance’s human wave tactic, hired by their ridiculous amount of wealth. After that, in order to stop the pressure from the Fortune Alliance, the Iron Legion reduced their guild members drastically and lost their former glory.

Despite the defeat, TemperedSteel and the others were quite famous in the game. Even though Mohai did not particularly pay attention to all of this, he always heard about them.

He chuckled sinisterly in his heart when he saw the eager gazes from the trio. We have no beef in our past life, but if I don’t level up my template, I’ll be dead meat! It’s a matter of life or death. I guess it’s not your lucky day today!

“Go!”

TemperedSteel and the other two were not in the same aggro range as Mohai and bandit goon No. 6. Even though Mohai had already spotted them, he and No. 6 would not proactively attack them.

However, TemperedSteel did not plan to spare the two bandit goons. After the trio healed by meditation, they tore towards Mohai and No. 6. They were afraid that the two bandits goons would wander into the monster-infested core of the Abandoned Mining Area. Then, the trio would not be able to kill them.

“Prosper, stall the one on the right! Torrent and I will focus on the left one first!” TemperedSteel barked his commands as he raced towards his targets.

“Roger!” ProsperShadow nodded. After all, the trio had taken out the previous bandit goons with this tactic as well.

The three of them were only on level 3 and their occupation was Warriors. They barely had any equipment on them and had only a little over 100 HP. If the two bandit goons ganged up on any one of them at once, they would be killed with just a handful of hits.

Low-level humanoid monsters like the bandit goons were no smarter than the moles further away. Even though they had attributes, they did not care and acted like dunces.

When the trio entered No. 6’s aggro range, the latter’s gaze turned sharp and he dashed towards the trio furiously with Mohai following behind him.

Mohai knew what the trio was trying to do. He was originally on the left, but he swiftly and subtly switched to the right.

Soon enough, No. 6 engaged in a battle with TemperedSteel and TorrentialSea while ProsperShadow attacked Mohai and tried to lure him away.

A normal bandit goon would have surely been lured away by ProsperShadow, but Mohai did not follow. Instead, he helped No. 6 and seized the opportunity to attack TemperedSteel.

“Prosper! Lure this one away quickly!”

TemperedSteel was attacked by Mohai and lost 30 points of HP to a normal attack. Added together with a [Slash] skill from No. 6, he lost almost half of his HP. In another two to three more attacks, he would be done for.

He yelled nervously because he thought ProsperShadow did not provoke the bandit goon sufficiently. “This bandit goon isn’t following me! Maybe its personality is Timid!” ProsperShadow called out with sweat beading his forehead.

In Origin, all kinds of monsters were equipped with different personalities. Monsters with the Timid personality would flee or simply switch targets when it was singled out or when its allies were facing a disadvantageous situation.