Chapter 36 – Butterfly Ridge (1/2)

“You told me not to team up with female players, not to get too close with female players, not to hook up with others, not to… Where the heck did you get all these “not to”s from? Why should I listen to you? Heh, you told me not to, but I will do exactly that,” Fatty muttered to himself as he walked into Butterfly Ridge by himself.

Before the trio had walked of the city gate, Darksnow called Liu Lan over to get help with a mission. When TheFugitive heard that was an invitation by a beauty as well, he immediately refused to go to Butterfly Ridge and shamelessly and repeatedly offered his aid to Liu Lan. In the end, Liu Lan caved in and allowed TheFugitive to follow them since she knew that TheFugitive was a rare expert as well. Thus, Fatty was left all alone.

Originally Fatty had asked whether they needed him to go as well. However, Liu Lan said that they can’t take up his time to farm, so told him no. Fatty was rather happy to see that as well.

Butterfly Ridge was filled with butterflies ranging from the teen levels all the way to before Level 100, which made the area rather suitable for players of various levels. What’s more, the colorful butterflies were extremely pretty, which attracted the attention of many female players. That subsequently attracted a lot of male players over as well.

The green grass waved in the air underneath the blue sky, and the butterflies danced, creating a beautiful scene of nature. If this happened in a real world, it would definitely be a famous tourist attraction that’s locked behind high ticket prices. Yet, Fatty wasn’t here for the scenery, he was basically there to ruin it.

Even the outer regions of Butterfly Ridge were filled with players. There were occasionally situations of players fighting over monsters, or even the right to escort a female player. Fatty twitched his mouth. Tsk, people are busy farming, and these guys are fighting each other? They really make it seem like they have nothing to do.

Fatty ventured deeper into the ridge. After a few hundred meters, the trees became denser, and the butterflies’ levels become higher, while there were fewer players.

Fatty had basically never used Rogue’s Eye after learning it, since Appraisal was far superior.

It was no different this time. When a palm-sized butterfly flew past him, he used Appraisal on it.

Colorful Butterfly

Level: 18

Attack: 88 – 95

Defense: 45

HP: 700

Skill: Poison Dust

The level’s not too bad. The stats are even worse than the Skeletal Lancers on the second floor of Mass Graves. Good, this is great for me to farm.

Poison Dust should be some sort of poison attack. I wonder how it is casted. Fatty thought to himself and got underneath the Colorful Butterfly before stabbing forth with his dagger.

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Not bad, it shouldn’t be too hard to deal with.

The monster was clearly enraged by Fatty’s attack. It flapped its wings and sent a stream of colorful dust, which surrounded Fatty.

Ding.

System Notification: You were hit by Colorful Butterfly’s Poison Dust. You are currently poisoned. -30 HP/second for 10 seconds.

This is the Poison Dust skill? Fatty rolled his eyes. No wonder TheFugitive said that the attack of the monsters here are mediocre. 30 damage per second means that only 300 damage over the 10 second duration. Even a squishy rogue like me has 200 something HP. A single health pot is enough to replenish all of the loss health after a few seconds.

Alright. I’m going to farm here. Fatty made up his mind. He drank a health potion, then activated Coil, followed by Combo.

Zing zing zing. The three strikes of Combo took down more than a third of Colorful Butterfly’s HP. Then, before the monster could react, Fatty used a basic attack, then started beating at it while it was still being bound by Coil. Thus, in less than 10 seconds, the Colorful Butterfly fell dead onto the floor.

It was a pitiful Colorful Butterfly. Although it was plenty capable, it was killed after scattering a little bit of poison.

Fatty looked at his EXP bar and saw that it had risen by 0.2%.

Ding.

The Colorful Butterfly dropped a pair of cloth boots. He picked it up and checked it into his inventory, then used Harvest onto the corpse, getting a green sac-like medical ingredient.

Poison Sac

Basic Medical Ingredient

Can be used to synthesize an antidote for poison.

The world was filled with all sorts of things. Although poison sacs were the source of the source of poison in different beings, it could also be an ingredient to synthesize cures for the antidote for poison. Sadly, Fatty has never trained neither of his secondary profession skills.

After killing the Colorful Butterfly, the poison effect on Fatty also wore off. His health had recovered to about a third of his health bar. Since killing a Colorful Butterfly could earn 0.2% of the EXP needed to reach the next level, and he only needed to consume two and a bit more potions to do it, it was quite worth it when one ignored the necessary fees needed for the potion.

However, since it cost money to buy potions… Fatty was troubled.

Yet, since it was quite worth it, he chose to continue with the butterfly killing.

Another Colorful Butterfly flew over. Ha, take this! And this! And this! And…

Four hours passed by very quickly. During the four hours, Fatty had killed countless butterflies, and if he was to take an average, he pretty much killed 4 per minute.

4 per minute with each filling up 0.2% of his EXP bar meant that Fatty was able to gain 0.8% of his EXP bar’s worth of EXP in a minute. An hour was 48%. That was why Fatty had managed to level up once during the four hours. At the end, he was sitting with 79% of his EXP bar filled at Level 12.

However, the getting from Level 12 to Level 13 would take him 4 hours of continuous farming, once again revealing just how difficult level farming was in Eternal.

The sky gradually turned dark. Due to all the intense farming, Fatty felt a bit tired, so he chose to stop a bit and look at the scenery.