Chapter 92: Chapter 91: Bait the Baiters, Part I (1/2)
Chapter 92: Chapter 91: Bait the Baiters, Part I
Translator: HunterW
Editor: RED
”Toh and Wanhu?” Naika asked.
”Yes.”
”Aren't they the rulers of Macao?”
”Yes, they are. Do you have any information on them?”
”We do, but it's not a lot. One second.” Thankfully, the Myth Guild had something on them. ”We really don't have much, especially since we were too busy with the Blood Prince…”
”No, this is perfect. Thank you.” I returned to my quarters with the report in hand.
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”Swap, eh…?” Most of the intel was on Toh and focused on his random skill that pretty much gave him control of Macao. ”That's right, now I remember. He had that skill, but I do remember that Wanhu had a random skill as well…”
I began to recall all the rumors I had heard about them in the past as I read through the report. I slapped my knee. I suddenly remembered Wanhu's random skill.
”Buddy!” Wanhu's random skill was discovered much later, as Toh was the more active one. ”They made anyone with lower Stats than them their buddy. It was one hell of a cheat skill.”
While random chests were the Hive's signature product, the highlight of the auction was Toh's Stat point swaps.
”It was basically a modern-day slave market.” Toh would gather the highest leveled devas, learn about their Stat points and begin auctioning them to the highest bidder.
It definitely wasn't normal for outside powers to not put an end to this, but it never happened.
”That was thanks to Wanhu.” No one ever stepped in to even so much as tell them it was bad. The reason being... most of those outside powers were clients!
I noticed an intelligence officer had added an advisory comment at the end of the report.
[Do not trust these two. If an interaction is required, only trust contracts pertaining to money and items.]
”Yup, definitely can't trust those two.” Anyone who stepped foot onto Macao would end up getting robbed blind of their golden rings and items. It was normal there. Sometimes, there were a few who struck gold, and so people still gathered like moths to the flame, dreaming of making it big.
”They invited me, did they?” The envelope held an invitation in gold lettering, inviting me to the 21st Hive auction as a VVIP.
”I wonder what's in the box.” I opened the chest the messenger gave me. ”Ha…” The chest was full of items. ”Item check.”
==[Hive Gold Coin (No Rank)
Gold Coins usable only at the Hive auction house.
One Coin is worth 10,000 golden rings.
Crafted item.]==
There were 10,000 of the coins in the chest. ”That's…100,000,000 golden rings…” The Coins were obviously worthless outside of the auction house, but right now, the auction house had to have some nice stuff. People hadn't figured out that the whole random chests business was a scam, yet. In other words, I could buy some nice stuff at the auction house!
”They spent 100,000,000 golden rings just to invite me?” I knew exactly who these people were and what they did. This was obviously a trap, and they used Gold Coins worth 100,000,000 golden rings as bait.
”So it's a question of ignoring the trap or springing it.” From what I could tell from the invitation, they were confident that they could turn me into a host. But I was pretty confident too; that I could probably resist Wanhu's Buddy skill.
”I've got fifteen days to decide. I'll make my decision after reaching 350.”
I didn't head straight to the dungeon, however. I had just gotten out. I decided to have a nice Korean dinner with Shin and Ebonene before turning for the night. I purposely left out the part about the invitation during the dinner.
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I had originally planned to take a few more days off, but I headed straight for the dungeon the next morning.
For the next thirteen days, I relentlessly slaughtered all monsters that were in my path until I finally reached my goal.
”Open Stats Menu!”
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[Name: Lee Jiwon
Level: 350 Death Count: 0
Title: Earth's First Deva
HP: 5,494,700/5,494,700 MP: 182,700/182,700
Strength: 8100+159 Agility: 5,100 Vitality: 7,409
Willpower: 1,767 Intelligence: 1,697
Unassigned Stat Points: 1000+156
Fatigue: 11
Special Effects: Luck Boost (X+ 1), immune to all Status effects, Dungeon Seeker 6 points
Physical Attack: 32,544 Physical Defense: 11,054
Magical Attack: 6,641 Magical Defense: 5,782]
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Shaman Ko's Roulette Wheel still did not fail to give me 3 stat points a day.
”I've got 1,156 unassigned points now…” Now that my HP were over 5 million, I didn't know where to assign all of my points.
”I'll keep adding Shaman Ko's points to STR. The rest…I'll put into STR as well.” My VIT and AGI were high enough, and I decided to get my STR closer to 10,000.
===[Level: 350 Death Count: 0
Title: Earth's First Deva
HP: 5,494,700/5,494,700 MP: 182,700/182,700
Strength: 8100+159 Agility: 5,100 Vitality: 7,409
Willpower: 1,767 Intelligence: 1,697]===
”...” My Stats were looking way overpowered for level 350. If I actually showed anyone my Stats, I probably would never hear the end of it. I giggled to myself.
”I've got 25,388 Stat points altogether…” It should be enough to not fall to Wanhu's Buddy skill. I was a little worried, sure, but I did have Shaman Ko's Stats to rely on.
Shaman Ko's Stats got me out of hot water when I first faced off against the Blood Prince, and while I wasn't absolutely sure they helped whenever I was in danger, they still provided a small sense of security.
”Well, since they cast their line…I suppose it's only fair to bite.” I definitely was not going for the Gold Coins. I was going to teach them a lesson for foolishly trying to trap me. I definitely had enough money to…ignore…100,000,000…
”I should still spend it all at Hive!” I happily left the dungeon and returned to base.
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”Huh?” As I headed for the base, I noticed a building next to Cairo's Store that was not there thirteen days ago.