Chapter 146 – Royal Winged Ant Poison; Petrification (1/2)

It was no wonder that men feared going shopping with a woman. Even with Fatty’s robust and stout body, he was beginning to get a backache after accompanying Liu Lan on a walk.

“You’re pretty strong,” Liu Lan was especially satisfied with Fatty’s performance.

“Oh,” Fatty responded weakly.

“Alright, let’s go back and rest,” said Liu Lan. She drove Fatty back to his home after they went out for dinner.

“Since you look so tired, I won’t stay and bother you. Goodbye! Don’t forget to find me when you’re online,” Liu Lan was full of smiles. After speaking to Fatty, she closed the car door and sped off.

“Lil’ Ye, who was that young miss? Your girlfriend? Not bad, she looks beautiful and seems rich as well. Young lad, I never knew you were this capable,” Fatty’s neighbor auntie unpredictably popped out from nowhere as usual.

“Alright auntie, don’t make fun of me,” Fatty made a pained smile and entered his house.

“Ahh, women are horrifying,” Fatty heaved a long sigh as he flung himself upon his bed.

Finally free! Put on the helmet. I must make haste and make it big. Uwaahhh, Lord Fatty wants his hidden class!

When Fatty returned to Black Tortoise City, the city had been restored to its usual bustling state. After the previous battle royale, the majority of players dropped levels while very few profited from it, which made sense. If everyone got to benefit, the game company might as well go bankrupt.

Alright, let’s not waste any time. My sole objective is to get the other three skill books and my hidden class enhancement after.

Fatty entered the bank and sorted out the equipment he recently acquired. In his inventory alone, the most valuable item was the Basic Elemental Earth Wood Walk, followed by the divine remnant Spatial Spoon. Next were the various Violet and Gold equipment he had acquired such as the Dryad Plate and the Sacrificer’s Staff. Of course, the two pet eggs of the Fire Cloud King and the Dark Sacrificer were extremely precious as well.

Fatty placed the items he didn’t require in the bank. As for the Earth Wood Walk, he decided to carry it with him after some serious consideration. Since he still had the usable Dark Sacrificer Soul Spark, he wouldn’t drop the Earth Wood Walk book if he died. Speaking of which, it was a shame that Fatty forgot to harvest the Phantom Messenger’s Soul Spark. Otherwise, he would have gained another powerful addition to his arsenal.

As his eyes happened to fall upon the Piranha Flower Poison, Fatty finally remembered his secondary profession. Pitifully, Fatty never once practiced his Blacksmithing and Alchemy skills.

“I require a formula to refine this poison. The question is, where do I get that formula, though?” Fatty pulled up the virtual forum and started to search through it. In it, he found one detailed description of the mob that dropped the recipe and another thread which listed the formula that the author had figured out themselves.

“It’s best to buy some poison first,” Fatty nodded to himself. He stroked his chin in thought and finished organizing his items, leaving the bank for the Auction Hall. Auctions became available ever since the update when Purple Bell reached level 30, but this was the first time Fatty tried it himself.

Many people were coming to and from the Auction Hall. Various screens listed the quantity, price, and current highest bid of the auctioned items. There were even screens which listed requests to buy certain things. The players only needed to touch what they wanted, and all of its information would be enlarged and displayed on the screen.

“Three Foulmouth Plants, starting price is 1000 gold coins each, and there is no maximum bid. Five strands of Sun Grass, starting price is 18,000 gold coins each, it also has no maximum bid. The heck, 18,000? You can sell a real sun for that price. What’s this? Buying news on hidden class enhancements and only requires verification to ensure that the information is true, I am willing to pay 30,000 gold coins. Thirty thousand gold coins for a hidden class? You really think that anyone is idiotic enough to get low-balled like that?”

Fatty rabmled as he walked around the Auction Hall, seeing all kinds of weird things, as well as inquiries for items. There was even a player looking to buy an Elven pet. Everyone could assess that the player posting the petition was a pervert.

“Oh, there’s one over here!” Finally seeing a formula, Fatty instantly zoomed in on it but was immediately disappointed.

Bruteforce Pill: STR +10 for 10 minutes. Cooldown: 60 minutes.

Cannot be stacked with the same type of medicine.

Ingredients: Earthen Wheatgrass, Great Bear Blood, Dried Ivy Vine.

Bidding Price: 8000 gold coins.

While the increased strength wasn’t bad, +10 STR was too low of a boost to be worth it. It would be another question entirely if the stacking limit didn’t exist.

Fatty continued to search for a recipe, and just as his patience was about to run out, after flipping through several hundred pages, his eyes shone brightly as he found something worthwhile.

Royal Winged Ant Poison: Causes paralysis. Can be smeared on a weapon.

Paralyzed target will lose all ability to act for ten seconds, during which the paralysis will not wear off even if the target is attacked.

Ingredients: Royal Winged Ant Venom, Gold Essence Orb, Flowing Moon Tung Fluid.

Bidding Price: Starting at 18,000 gold coins. Bidding ends in: 10 minutes.

The starting bid was 18,000 gold coins and had risen to 30,000 by the time Fatty had found it. It was probable that many bidders were gunning for its ability that allowed the paralysis to remain even if the one paralyzed was attacked.

After a period of short consideration, Fatty placed a bid of 35,000 gold coins.

Soon enough, Fatty was outbid when someone offered 38,000 gold coins.

Fatty made no move after his first bid. The real competition only occurred during the last few seconds of the bidding.

Ten minutes, nine minutes… Time slowly ticked away until there were only 60 seconds left until the bidding ended.