Chapter 215 – Unicorn Pack (1/2)

Truth be told, Fatty found HeadofGod’s invitation very intriguing. And while Fatty had agreed to it, he actually had no plans to enroll in the tournament, simply because he didn’t think his current strength was sufficient.

As rogues, Han Shen was an Underworld Assassin and HeadofGod was a Bloodshadow Assassin, both of which were hidden classes. Their reputation might fall short to that of Elementalist, but those two classes boasted a bunch of job-specific skills, unlike Fatty who only had a few Elemental Walks for fleeing. If he really wanted to participate in the competition, he at least needed to restore the Elemental Skill Book a bit more.

Upon reaching level 40, Fatty was notified that solely experience points wasn’t enough to rank up Elemental Equipment and Swords from Silver to Gold. They needed to be refined. The materials needed for refining weren’t many, only five inner cores for each piece of equipment. The requirement for Fatty wasn’t high either, he only needed to be an Intermediate Blacksmith.

Six pieces of equipment: helmet, breastplate, wristbands, cloak, greaves, and boots. Five inner cores each made it a total of thirty inner cores. Unless Fatty pressed his luck and went to farm them himself, the number of inner cores would bankrupt him if he wanted to buy them with gold coins.

Missions required materials, restoring the Elemental Skill Book required materials, and even refining gears required materials. The more he played, the more cost he seemed to incur. Fatty’s face crumpled into a deeply bitter expression.

“Let’s go, let’s go. Let’s get these damn misfortune and malediction curses dispelled first.” Fatty sighed after pondering for what seemed like half a day. Then, he set out for the Cloud Ocean.

Running on the ground surely couldn’t compare to flying. Moreover, Fatty had to walk a longer route to avoid the powerful monsters that he might come across. After spending thrice the time he used for the first trip, Fatty finally arrived at the Cloud Ocean once again. However, it had been much safer not traveling in the sky.

The Cloud Ocean was ever filled with hazy clouds and housed a dense distribution of monsters.

At present, there were very few people besides Fatty who could enter the Imperial Capital. It wasn’t that the players didn’t think of this, but rather that they were limited by the harsh requirements: ten thousand Reputation being the threshold and one thousand Reputation cost for each teleportation. Not just any player could have that much Reputation to spend. In case a person teleported over but couldn’t return due to Reputation shortage when something happened over at their home city, they’d die crying.

Therefore, those who had met the Reputation required still didn’t dare use it. After all, Reputation points in this game were too hard to get.

So until now, players were still in the dark about the area structure around the Imperial Capital. Even the All-Knowing Sect had only sent two rogues here to scout. At this stage of the game when the vicinity of the four main cities hadn’t been fully mapped yet, no one was in a hurry to explore the Imperial Capital.

However, Fatty carefully drew a map of all the areas he’d been to in this region. He could definitely sell it to the All-Knowing Sect for a good price later.

Fatty roamed around without a clear direction. Luckily for him, when Sallip announced the mission, the coordinates of the Unicorn pack’s location was displayed on the mission panel. Otherwise, Fatty would be unable to find them in this vast ocean of cloud.

What set a Holy Unicorn apart from a normal one was a pair of wings that allowed it to fly freely.

“Arrghh, why can’t I fly?!” lamented Fatty, upset as he looked at all the Holy Unicorns flying to and fro.

It was fortunate that Liu Lan told Fatty to keep the Zephyr Wings. Otherwise, he truly couldn’t think of any other way to pull the Holy Unicorns down to the ground.

Fatty equipped the Zephyr Wings and flew up. He shot an arrow at a Holy Unicorn to rouse its aggro, then slowly kited it down.

Holy Unicorn

Level: 55

Attack: 115 – 130

Defense: 120

HP: 6500

Notes: A Holy Messenger of Light who spreads the glory of the God of Light to the continent, bringing mankind peace and love.

“Peh! A Holy Messenger of Light? You? Why didn’t I see any peace and love when you attacked the players’ base as a boss?”

As Fatty landed, the Holy Unicorn also did so and retracted its wings. With a proudly raised head, it looked down at Fatty with contemptuous eyes.

“You despise me?” Fatty smirked humorously. You’d best not drop a mount egg, or Lord Fatty will ride you several dozen times a day as payback for looking down on me.

Whoosh! A white light shot out, the typical attack of a Holy Unicorn.

Bam! Before the attack reached Fatty, Wheat had already flipped the monster.

Wheat, who’d reached level 40 when Fatty did, had grown as big as a bull. As usual, the rodent bit on the Holy Unicorn’s hind leg, but it didn’t stop there. After gripping its jaw on the monster, Wheat flung its head with all its might, throwing the huge unicorn flying in a long arc.

While dodging the white light, Fatty got to witness the rat’s OP might and was instantly overjoyed. Casting Acceleration, he quickly approached the flailing unicorn and tried one of his new skills.

Critical Strike!

Critical Strike at the Novice rank could deal 130% damage. With one slash of Fatty’s sword, the Holy Unicorn’s health dropped by roughly a tenth.

Bzzz… A white halo swept out from the monster’s body and knocked Fatty back. Right after that, a white light whooshed up from its horn and transformed into a rain of light in mid-air. When the light sparkles poured down on the unicorn, the wound on its hindleg slowly mended.

These two skills were once used by the Holy Unicorn Boss back in the Ice Rose base siege. They were all very useful skills and Fatty didn’t expect for every Holy Unicorn to have both of those skills.

Virtually an instant after the rain of light fell, the Holy Unicorn’s health was fully restored. It got back on four hooves, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed again. The creature directly ignored Fatty and headed straight for Wheat with an angry glare.

“Squeak squeak.” Wheat wasn’t intimidated at all. With its chin up, the rodent squeaked provocatively at the holy creature and simultaneously stomped its forepaws. Stalagmites instantly erupted out from the underground.

Whoosh. The unicorn nimbly leaped and dodged Wheat’s skill. At the same time, its horn flashed, and in a blink of an eye, a bloody hole appeared on Wheat’s body.