Chapter 78 – Fire Valley (1/2)

Fire Valley was to the two hours north-east from Vermillion Bird City. When Fatty heard the news of Myriad Swords’s plans, he immediately contacted HeadofGod, then rushed over.

Fire Valley was a very unique place. Although it was called a valley, it actually contained several dozen kilometers with various geographical features there. There are monsters ranging from level twenty-something to the fifties and sixties. It was a rather famous farming spot near Vermillion Bird City, and there would often be battles there because guilds wanted to monopolize areas of it.

When Fatty reached the exterior of the Fire Valley, he felt a wave of heat surge forth towards him. There was a very clear pattern to the game of Eternal. Most of the monsters near Black Tortoise City were of the earth attribute, while those around Vermillion Bird City were of the fire attribute.

The God Familia already entered the valley. When HeadofGod heard Fatty’s reminder, he merely chuckled, “If numbers meant that they can come in at any time, then there was no need for RainRevelers to hire us.”

Ahh, HeadofGod was right. Even when Fatty stood outside Fire Valley, he could already see tons of monsters wandering around. The low-level ones were called Fire Golems according to the introduction on his newly purchased map. They were level 25 with magic attacks and high magical defense. What’s more, they are immune to fire damage, while possessing very high attacks and speed themselves. Additionally, they even had a chance to self-destruct upon death! Their only weaknesses were their low health and defense.

As Fatty walked closer, a Fire Golem leaped over with a roar. It was a humanoid creature made entirely of rocks and was covered in fire. Small balls of flame would fall down from its body as it walked, and explode like beautiful fireworks.

Fatty estimated the distance between them, then set up a simple trap. Then, he stood behind the trap and walked for the Fire Golem to come over.

These simple monsters didn’t have any real intelligence, so as it walked over to Fatty, stepped into the trap, causing it to lose its balance and fall onto the ground, sending a wave of dust flying up into the air.

The Fire Golem struggled to get up as it slammed its hands at the ground, causing balls of fire to fall down from its body and land onto Fatty, actually several dozen points of damage.

“Wheat, attack,” Fatty commanded. Wheat shot out from the ground, opened its mouth and sent a Howling Bullet at the monster.

It only dealt slightly over 40 damage. So it’s true, this Fire Golem does have a bit of resistance towards magic.

“Die!” Fatty called out softly, then went behind the Fire Golem and thrust his dagger.

-94

Good, it has a strong magical defense, but a weaker physical one.

Coil.

The huge python appeared, causing the Fire Golem to lie down in the trap without moving as “-30”s popped up above its head.

Combo Attack! Another series of numbers rose up.

The Fire Golem’s health quickly dropped to less than 10% with Fatty’s attacks when Coil’s duration as about to end. Then, the golem finally regained the ability to move. It smashed against the ground and let out a roar, causing balls of flames to appear on its body.

Self-destruct! Fatty immediately guessed what it was. He quickly ordered Wheat to retreat.

Just as Fatty took a few steps back, a small mushroom cloud rose up behind him. He felt the earth tremble and saw his health lower by a third.

Fatty turned back to look at the Fire Golem. It was already gone. All that was left was a huge pit around ten meters wide with a few burning pebbles at the bottom of the bit.

What a terrifying explosion. Fatty thought to himself. That took up a third of my health! If there was just a few more, then even I would die here. If there are enough numbers of these things, then they can probably fight any player!

Fatty walked over to check out the pit. Man, that self-destruct is amazing. Not only does it deal a lot of damage, it even destroyed all the drops! There was nothing aside from the pebbles in the pit.

Fatty lured another Fire Golem in displeasure. Then, he immediately retreated when its health was lowered to less than 10%. Just as he expected, the golem self-destructed as well.

After the explosion, Fatty went up to check it out again. Once again, there was nothing left. No wonder nobody’s fighting these things, not only do they not actually drop anything, fighting them would only incur losses.

“Man, they’re evil! They refuse to let anyone have a good time,” Fatty muttered. However, the golems did provide pretty decent experience despite not dropping anything. The two Fire Golems managed to provide Fatty with 0.3% of the EXP needed to get to the next level.

Since the God Familia was not worried about Myriad Swords, Fatty decided that he was in no worry to enter and could slowly enter as he farmed. He ordered Wheat to lure another Fire Golem over like before, he trapped the monster with a trap, then slowly sliced away at its health with his dagger. Then, when the golem’s health neared 10%, he had an idea. He activated Coil and snared the monster.

After limiting its actions, Fatty cut at it a few more times, taking away most of its health. Then, he stopped and took a few steps back, only to notice that more flames surfaced on this Fire Golem.

Seeing that Coil was unable to stop the self-destruction, Fatty finally gave up.

After the Fire Golem self-destructed, Fatty didn’t even go to check out it anymore, and merely moved on to the next monster.