Chapter 58 – The Shameless Mine Owner (1/2)
Ding.
System Notification: Congratulations. You have slain the silver ranked boss Demonized Bat King. +200 Reputation.
No experience? I guess it’s because I’m transformed.
A pile of items appeared in front of Fatty as the Demonized Bat King died.
Fatty panted heavily. He ran to the other side of the mining pit and called all the Wandering Miners and Grudgeful Zombies away with Wail, before returning to pick up the drops.
Since the Demonized Bat King was a silver ranked boss, it did drop plenty of things, tallying up to somewhere between twenty and thirty, covering over nearly a dozen squared meters on the ground.
The first thing Fatty did was pick up all the money as he has always felt like being wasteful was a sin. Hmmm 300 something gold coins, and a good pile of silver and bronze coins. That’s pretty good.
Then Fatty turned to the pile of equipment. Most of them were just normal bronze weapons, but there was a very eye-catching black dagger. It was shaped like a crescent moon, the blade itself was a dull black, while it felt rather cool to the touch.
Fatty used Appraisal on it a few times before the dagger’s attributes were finally displayed in front of his eyes.
Fang
Gold Dagger
Level Requirement: 30
Attack: 45 – 60
Dexterity: +7
Endurance: +3
Strength: +5
Passive Skill:
Lifesteal – Absorb 10% of the damage dealt as health with every attack.
Class Requirement: Rogue
As expected of a gold weapon. This dagger is truly splendid.
Finally, there was also a black fist-sized rock. The rock felt cold to the touch and was an actual transparent crystal cube like a top graded black gemstone. One could see a faint spiral of black smoke within the gemstone.
The moment Fatty touched it, the details of the stone appeared in front of him.
Demon Calling Stone
A strange stone from the Demon Realm. It seals a tremendous power. It had ended up in the Human Realm for some reason and was found by the Vampiric Bat King. While it was absorbing the sealed energy from within the stone, it was demonized and became one of the demonkindc. Ever since then, then Demonized Bat King had begun its carnage. Furthermore, in order to gain more power from the Demon Realm, it then led its tribe to attack the largest mine near Black Tortoise City and took over a mining pit with a crack leading to the Demon Realm.
Good, now my mission of finding out why the bats attacked is completed too.
“Fatty, how is it?” Liu Lan called once again while Fatty was checking the Demon Calling Stone out.
“It’s kay now. Prepare yourselves, when I light up the torches, I’ll go over to Black Tortoise City to lead the NPC army over. Make sure you come with me then,” Fatty put the Demon Calling Stone away and started to climb up the stone pillar.
The bats in the air had already ran away when the Demonized Bat King died. Fatty’s transformation also ended, so he quickly regained his health using potions. If not for his transformation having ended, everything might be very difficult if he had to use the Wandering Miner Leader’s huge body to climb the pillar.
The surface of the stone pillar was not smooth, but that made it very suitable for climbing. Fatty easily climbed up to the top, and like he expected, there was an extinguished torch up there.
That torch was far larger than all the other ones. It was around 1 meter tall and as thick as a barrel. Fatty took out his own handy torch, and leaned it over.
Ding.
System Notification: This torch can only be lit after the other 999 torches are lit.
“Damn,” Fatty angrily put his torch away and climb back down, and instead went over to the various mining pits to lit up the torches. This was already the third time he had to do all that.
As the torches were lit, the Bat Cave begun to light up. After Fatty lit all 999 torches, he returned to the largest mining pit, climbed up the pillar once more and took out his own torch with a solemn expression.
Vroom.
As the final torch was lit, the entire Bat Cave trembled, then lit up completely. Countless bats screeched, then flew away into the darkness where the light couldn’t reach.
Okay, done. Fatty nodded. He didn’t climb back down and simply used a Recall Scroll while still on top of the pillar.
When Fatty returned to town, he immediately ran towards the City Lord’s manor. It was at the utmost center of Black Tortoise City, and seemed like a city within city.
“Stop. Trespassing is strictly forbidden,” a guard immediately stopped Fatty the moment he was about to step onto the grounds.
“I have important matters to talk to the City Lord with. Please notify him,” Fatty replied.
“Ridiculous. Just who do you think the City Lord is? Do you think you can see him whenever you want? If you don’t leave, then I will immediately arrest you for breaking and entering the city lord manor, and throw you in jail,” the guard said justly.
“Uhm, bro, do me a favor please? It’s really important,” Fatty walked close to the guard and handed 100 gold coins over.