Chapter 280 – Lair Sweep (1/2)

Fatty, of course, had a reason to be happy for gaining such a powerful mount out of thin air. But what upset him was that the Brutal Saddle wasn’t taken off in time and thus was implicated.

In other words, if Fatty wanted to use the Brutal Saddle in the future, he must be prepared to give up on the Violent Ox King. But how could he be willing to let go of such a mighty mount?

The pros and cons were equally divided. While he couldn’t swap the Brutal Saddle as he pleased, but the Violent Ox King wouldn’t lose any levels when it still had the tool on and could be used as a pet, instead of being limited to just being a mount.

Considering the current levels of players, anyone with this kind of mount was practically invincible.

Thinking to this point, Fatty was pleased.

“Haha, hahaha!” West was overjoyed to help subdue the Violent Ox King in addition to gaining the Inferno Crystal that gave him a high hope of ranking up. He patted Fatty on the shoulder. “Lil’ bro, thank you, really.”

“It’s nothing. If it wasn’t for you, big bro, I would have been killed by this foolish ox,” said Fatty humbly.

“Hahaha, let’s go, let us see what kind of treasure this ox keeps in its lair.” West led Fatty to sweep the Violent Ox King’s lair.

Fatty turned to nod at SnowPhoenix, gesturing her to catch up. If anything, she still helped out a little. To him, it was the intention that counted.

Fatty felt delighted and happy as he rode the Violent Ox King. The flame on the latter’s body didn’t do him any harm and even acted as an effective protective layer.

“Go!” Fatty shouted, and the ox’s hooves blazed with fire. Its huge body slowly floated up and flew after West.

SnowPhoenix envied him for having such a powerful boss as his mount, however, only a little. She quickly followed up; these kinds of bosses generally had good things in their lair.

“Hahaha, Fire Crystal Stones!”

The Violent Ox King’s lair was a small valley with it as the only resident. West let out a long hearty laugh the instant he entered.

Fatty followed West’s sight to see the entire valley covered with light-red magic stones, within which faint fire energy flowed and formed a small spark.

“These stones can greatly boost the power of fire magic skills or also be used as a fire mana reserve,” West explained to Fatty. “The Fire Valley also had them, but not this many. I forged them all into armor.”

Saying so, a suit of fiery red armor appeared on West’s body. On the armor surface, fire clouds billowed and flames circulated. This was obviously very high-grade armor.

“I only need half of these to enhance my armor. The rest is yours.” West clawed at the air and the Fire Crystal Stones flew into his body. After taking half, West stopped and told Fatty to collect the rest.

Fatty didn’t act generous and pocketed the other half with Harvest, gaining roughly three thousand pieces. Pondering a little, he gave a third to SnowPhoenix.

“Thank you for your help earlier. While this doesn’t conform to your attribute, you can sell or exchange them.”

SnowPhoenix received the crystals and said thanks. Understanding that this was a guest-dismiss order from Fatty, she left on her own initiative.

As Fatty had finished collecting the Fire Crystal Stones, West flipped his hand and the entire valley rumbled. Flames rose and quickly melted the ground.

West had the molten liquid flow out of the valley. Within seconds, the ground level sank by more than ten meters, until it stopped and revealed a white crystalline layer.

“Hahaha, I knew it! This is why the old ox can advance so quickly. There really are magic stones below.” West was visibly joyous. He jumped into the air. Then, with a swing of his hand, the ground cracked and magic stones flew out in succession.

“Shit!” Fatty cursed as the melted lava surge nearly got to him. He also flew up using the Zephyr Wings.

SnowPhoenix turned around upon hearing the commotion. Seeing one huge magic stone after another flying to West’s hand, she was envious to know that the two had struck big again. However, one thousand Fire Crystal Stones was quite a harvest for her this time, it was worth it even if many of her companions had died.

“So many?” Seeing West turn the valley upside down and gathered over a thousand magic stones, Fatty was a bit startled.

Even the Central Dynasty only had very little of this kind of source that could provide magic in bulk, usually as war supplies. It was unexpected that the Violent Ox King had so much in its possession.

And it was only a high-rank Yao boss. What if he could slay a Celestial or even Divine beast? Fatty couldn’t even imagine.

“Haha, great, very good!” Stowing the very last magic stone, West couldn’t help but burst out into happy laughter. “With this, your old bro can go up another rank.”